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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JN’O. C. NEW & SOX. For Rates of Subscription. ere., see Sixth Paee. MONDAY, AUOUvr 18, 188*. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found nt the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, G 9 Strand. TARTS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard (leg Capucinee. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and W indsor Hotels. WASHINGTON. D. O.—Brent ano's 1,013 Penusylvania avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer Houe. CINCINNATI—J. C. Hawley* Cos., UH Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dearing. northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets, FT. I.OUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. It appears that informer Carey was really killed, as reported. The latest information is to the effect that he was shot when the vessel was yet twelve miles from port. It is a good thing to keep the front door closed against cholera, but California thinks the back door should be shut also. All vessels from Chinese and Japanese ports are to be quarantined, lest the epidemic should be introduced from that source. Wednesday of this week is set apart in the encampment programme as Grand Army day. The committee in charge of the encampment could do a graceful thing by tendering the veterans a lunch and the courtesies of the grounds, and it is hoped they will do so. It was horrible that the fratricide, Ostrander, hanged at New York on Friday, should go to the gallows cursing and die unrepentant, but it is no more blasphemous than the talk nearly all murderers indulge in who claim to have assurance that they are going directly from the scaffold to glory. Mr. Ostrander introduced an innovation that is nearly or quite as acceptable as the old-fash-ioned custom of stepping from prison to paradise. The feminine element and influence are slowly but surely making themselves felt in political circles. At the State convention of the National party of New Jersey, the other day, a platform was presented for adoption. Some strong objections being raised to the clause favoring woman suffrage, Mrs. Marie Howland, one of the delegates, arose as if to speak in its favor, but, with great sagacity and presence of mind, burst into tears and sat down. This powerful and unanswerable argument closed the discussion, and the suffrage plank was unanimously adopted. The civil service rules, even in their crudity, are beginning to have effect on appointments, and the days of favoritism over merit are past. At Philadelphia recently there were four applicants for a vacancy, among them a colored man. All had passed the civil service examination, and there seemed little or no choice on the ground of qualification. Here was a good opportunity for favoritism, but Postmaster Huidekoper cross-questioned them as to their habits, former employment, etc., and the result was that the colored man was awarded the place over his white competitors. It is said of Parnell that he has '.£jidjb influence in Irish politics that even the-ctiurch magnates have to acquiesce in his choice of candidates. Only recently Mr. Parnell recommended a Mr. Lynch as candidate from Sligo. Dr. Gilooley, the-bishop of the district, urged the people to take up bis candidate, but they refused, and he has been obliged to telegraph to Parnell that Lynch is entirely acceptable to him. This is as it should be. When Irish interests are in the hands of Irishmen instead of being canvassed in Rome there is some possibility of their being represented to the satisfaction of those more directly interested. Indications are that the city’s decorations will be very profuse. The work has been delayed, but thousands of flags have been sold,and will doubtless be unfurled during to-day and to-niorrow. There are particular reasons why Indianapolis should show the glory of her strength on this occasion. Nothing should be spared to prove the thrift and prosperity that have been and are being enjoyed in the capital city of Indiana. There are not a half dozen business men in the entire city who have any reasonable excuse for not decorating and taking part in the great parade. Our industries are all alive and pushing forward with the best for the trade of the West. Let this fact stand out boldly this week. Our merchants are doing a driving business, and should not fail to put out a visible sign. Our visitors should be given something like an adequate idea of the extent and character of our business interests. It will be sure to result in good, for the town is bound to be crowded this week. The Spanish army has a superfluity of young officers who believe a revolution is their only chance for promotion. They should take a lesson from American army officers who want advancenieut but huve no desire to risk their own necks in the effort to obtain it. A Washington special says a petition is being generally circulated in army circles asking for a retirement of lieutenants and captains at the age of fifty years. The petition, after stating the disabilities under which the younger officers labor by reason of the slowness of promotion, claims that while somo of the officers requested to be shelved are not so far disabled as to be eutitled to retirement under existing laws, they are, in fact, so much disabled by reason

of age and the hardships and exposures Incident to the service, that they can no longer discharge many of their military duties as company officers, in which physical activity and endurance are requisites, with that promptness and efficiency necessary for a company officers on the active list. The petition is to be submitted to the next Congress. The officers who do not regard themselves as superannuated at fifty will probably enter a protest. The Journal, in behalf of Indianapolis, extends a cordial welcome to every organization and every individual who shall claim the city’s hospitality during this gala week. The town will be gay with flags and decorations, and every day will be a holiday very similar to the fourth of July. The spirit of patriotism and military glory will penetrate and permeate everybody. It is a time for relaxation and exultation. Let everybody enjoy it to its fullest extent. Indianapolis expects every man to do his duty and have a good time. THE FINANCIAL SITUATION. A better evidence of the stability and healthy character of the business of Indianapolis could not be given than was developed last week, The failure of two such institutions as the First National Rank and the Indiana Ranking Company was enough to have created widespread disaster had not our business men, our banks, our manufacturers and capitalists been in the soundest condition. That these two banks, with deposits of about $4,000,000, closed their doors with scarcely a ripple beyond the curbstone in front of their houses, is a marvelous testimony of the solidity of the city’s business. It is a remarkable fact that their suspension created greater excitement abroad than here. Editorial comments were made all over the country, indulging speculations as to the probable effect upon this city and the country in general, and every metropolitan paper wa9 anxious to secure all the particulars. Contrary to what was reasonably expected, there apparently has been no house, aside from the two banks, at all affected, and, with these two exceptions, business moves on uninterruptedly. Indianapolis is enjoying a period of solid prosperity never surpassed in her history. During the past three years she has improved in a more substantial and thrifty manner than ever.before. Our manufactories, new and old, are all busy and all enjoying a wider patronage than ever. There has been but very little speculation of any kind, and none of magnitude. The rumors that a million was lost here through Chicago margins is by no means true. While large sums doubtless left this city to keep up margins at Chicago, it is altogether safe to say that a quarter of a million would be an extravagant estimate. Os this amount a very large per cent, was lost by citizens of other parts of the State who dealt through Indianapolis. Everybody in position to know is free to declare that losses in speculations had but little or nothing to do with the embarrassment of the First National Bank of this city. Without going into details, it is enough here to point out a few of the reasons why the suspension occurred. The First National Bank was top heavy, in the first place. Its capital was but $400,000 while its deposits were over $2,000,000. Evidently the greatest care should have been exercised in making loans and in keeping a sufficient reserve fund to meet any probable emergency. The character of a Very large per cent, of this vast sum was such ns to render it a source of danger, being made up of quite a number of large sums, deposited by country banks and by county officials throughout the State. At this season of the year there is always a heavy drain upon banks for money to move the wheat crop, while at the same time the banks are carrying merchants until they realize from their fall trade. It is a season when the very ablest management is required to meet the demands of trade, and anything like risks are dangerous. The wheat is now being threshed, and much of it goes directly to the country towns along the railroads, so that not only are city banks drawn upon for something like SIOO,000 a day, but the country’ banks are likewise drained. The First National Bank had its money in such shape that it could not meet this double drain. This was apparent for some duys, or w eeks, before the collapse. While its collaterals were good they were so disposed as not to be available at the critical moment, and the result was inevitable. In addition to these reasons was another that had almost as much to do with the disaster. It has been the habit of Indianapolis banks to pay higher rates of interest on deposits than are paid elsew here, and as a result money accumulated here that by right should have gone elsewhere. It is a difficult and dangerous thing to pay a high rate of interest on large deposits on demand. The large reserve kept to meet exigencies eats up the profits, and if it be not kept, failure is imminent, as resulted in this instance. These are the facts, as nearly as they can be obtained. The Indiana Banking Company went down, it is alleged, because it had a very large interest in the First National. There was no preconcerted “squeeze,” and little or no inconvenience from withdrawals to keep up margins. As to other banking houses, the assurance is giveu that they are in first-class condition. While they’ have been culled upon for large sums, such as is always the case at this season of the year, they profess to be able to hold their own, and have rendered assurance doubly sure by calling in from abroad vast sums to meet any run likely to result. Thus far they havesuffered nothing like a continued run, and there seems to be no probability of any. The only persons who have called for

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their money have been those who had but small sums, a large majority of them being women. Unless indications are at fault, the flurry is past. The almost certainty of the syndicate carrying on the business of the First National with a capital increased by a hundred per cent., has restored confidence. It is greatly to the credit of this community that the citizens acted with such rare good sense. They have not lost their reason, and as a result no bank not connected with the First National has suffered the least inconvenience. It is to be hoped that the same good sense w’iil still obtain. At this time the banks are practically carryiug the whole business of the country. Instead of being weakened by the public, they should be aueugihened. The connection between the business of the country and the batiks is so intimate that neither can be weakened without injury to the other, and the surest way of precipitating disaster would be to deplete the banks at a critical moment. Indianapolis has stood) like a rock thus far, and it depends upon the people whether it continues to so stand. InE numerous divorces and remarriages of New York citizens, particulars of which are being constantly made public, have given rise to an irapressiou that the average metropolitan heart Is an elastic, not to say a tough, organ. It is, therefore, gratifying and encouraging to read that a New Yorker has Just died cf a broken heart. That is to say, while the fact of the death of one so faithful and sensitive is of itself distressing, there is a sad satisfaction in the knowledge that the tender -emotions necessary to bring about such a result can exist iu so inteuse though fatal a degree iu the Now York breast. Mr. Bennett, an elderly and respectable resident of that city, died suddenly On Friday, that day being the anniversary of his wife's death. The physician in eburge declared that he died of heart disease, or, more properly, of a broken heart, brought about by grief over the loss of his wife. A Boston paper tells a little story of a summer boarder, a lad}*, who, while enjoying the rural delight of riding on a load of hay, had the misfortune to lose her pocket-book. Tho hay was looked over as it was unloaded, and later, when it was fed out to tho cattle, but the missing purse was not found. The loss occurred two years ago, and the other day a hen scratching near the barn turned up the pooket-book, a little out of repair, but with its contents iu goldaud greenbacks undisturbed. This story is a fresh proof of tho feebleness of the Eastern imagination. Ilad that pocket-book been lost in a Western hay-mow the owner would have found it in the butter when she visited her oountry cousins next year; or, if not iu the butter, a biddy, instead of scratching the treasure out of the ground, would have produced an egg containing the missing cash. Before a man of property undertakes to kill himself and his wife ho should take the precaution to make a will, ami then arrange to draw the last breath himself. A neglect of a Baltimore man to do this brought a curious question before the court. Mr. Schmidt, of that city, shot his wife, and the teslimouy was conflicting as to which died first; but upon tiiis poiut depended the administration of the estato, valued at several thousand dollars. The property would go legally to the relatives of the one proved to be the survivor of the other. After a careful investigation the oourt decided that the woman lived ten minutes longer thau the husband, and the money will therefore pass to her brothers. An adopted son. with no legal rights, is not taking much interest iu the matter. A pretty romance is told of Ernest Rathgsb and Ann Rich, who came to America from Germany two years ago. They wero betrothed iu the fatherland, but thought It best to bide a wee until soiuu money had beeu acquired. Ernest located at Philadelphia, while Anu landed by mistake at Plattsburg, Mo., instead of a town by that name in New York. She made the best of the mishap, however, and at length the lovers established a correspondence. The lady, last week, repaired to Philadelphia, and doubtless ere this they are married. It is all the more remarkable that the groom waited so long, since he might have married Rich tho first day he landed. Tiik Springfield Republican is of the opinion that the present session of the Concord School of Philosophy is the last which will be held. It thinks there is “not enough sentiment in the subjects of Concord to agree with summer heats,” whatever that may mean, and that the Chautauqua University, “with its pervading tinge of religiosity,” meets a inoro popular want. Tiie illustrloue champion of American working men, Deuis Kearney, is represented as making his way homeward from his humiliating reception In the East in a style at once princelv and imposing. Her reclines at his ease in a Pullman car clad in a manner at wide variance from hi 9 usual manner, wearing a white bat and most pronounced toothpick shoes. Washington papers hasten to correct their erroneous statements that the new four cent postage stamp will contain a bust picture of Andrew Johnson. Tho countenance, on a bust, is that of Andrew Jackson. Chicago was fifty years old on Friday last, the town having been organized Aug. 10, 1633. Tho city by the lake was too busy to celebrate. It is reported that some of the actors in New York have organized a divorced men’s club. It is the married men who need clubs. —— , .rs ABOUT PEOPIiK. Tiik friends of Mrs. Francesllo.lgson Burnett, tiie novelist, will bo glad to learn that she is slowly but surely recovering from her nervous prostration, at Lynn, Mass. It is stated that Alfred Tennyson has resolved to quit his lovely and secluded home iu the Isle of Wight upon tho completion of tiie railway now being completed to Yarmouth. Tiik rheumatism which has driven Princess Beatrice to the Continent. is said to have been caused by the low-necked and short-sleeved dresses which the make* her wear. Cornelius Vanderbilt lias a taste for book collecting, and paid SI,OOO for a copy of “Elliot’s Indian Bible,” which tho old Commodore would consider a ridiculous waste of money. There is to be a gathering of tho Danish royal family at Copenhagen at the end of next month, Including the Emperor and Empress of Russia, the Duke and Duchess of Cumherlund, the Princess of Wales and King George, of Greece. Tiik Princess Beatrice has greatly improved in health while In Germany. She will return next week. The Queen will afterward go to Scotland, but John Brown's death will agalu interfere with the customary but already limited gay e tie*. The Swedes and Norwegians “swaddle” their babes; that is. pin them up in a tight bandugo, because it keens them from kicking around uml males them easier to handle. They alwuya take them to church, but, iusfead of tuki’ <heru into tiie house of worship, they make a lade in the snow outside in tho churchyard and bury them in it, leaving a small aperture lor breath-

ing purposes. The babies are kept splendidly warm, while their friends within tho sacred building have their beards frozen to their fur coats by tho freezing of their own breath. The marriage of Cauutto Pecci, a nephew of Pope Leo XIII., and Miss Bueno, will take plaoe in Paris during the present month. Monseigneur De Rende will bless It. and Monseigneur Cataldi, the prefect of the pontifical ceremonies, will represent the Pope. Julian Hawthorne was the liveliest of the speakers who appeared before the Concord School of Philosophy. His talk was about novel* isie, but he touched upon the ngnostio saying that put into an epigram their definition of life is “the predioainent before death.” President Arthur, Secretaries Folger, Lincoln anditeller and Postmaster-general Gresham have accepted an invitation to visit Havemeyer’s Point, on Sept. 30. The arrangements were made by Secretary Lincoln, and the object of the trip is to afford President Arthur u few days’ fishing on the Great South boy. Arthur Sherburne Hardy, the author of “But Yet a Woman,” is a native of Andover, Mass., and is tlurty-six years of age. He entered West Point Academy, from which he was graduated iu 1869 with a mathematical reputation whioh secured him an election to a scientific professorship at Dartmouth College. Augustus Hoppin, the author and artist, lives in Providence, R. I. # and his pictures, with which he has illustrated the works of other aulflora and his own, are perfect reproductions of the faoesof his own family and friends. The originals of his feminine portraits especially are often to be met in social circles iu Providence. Os weeds, Hawthorne wrote as follows: “What hidden virtue is in these things that it is granted to sow themselves with the wind, and to grapple the earth with this unmitigable stubbornness, and to flourish in spite of obstacles, and never to blight beneath any sun or 6bude, but always to meet their enemies with their wicked luxuriance?” A lady in the neighborhood of Boston has an oil painting of Sir Walter Scott whioh is believed to be genuine. It was taken from a Bcotoh castle, and represents tho poet in earlv manhood. He wears no beard; his hair is brown; his shirt collar, in something like the Byronesque style, falls awny from his neck; the eyes are blue, and the features are evidently the same as in the more familiar portraits. It is a very ourious and Interesting memorial. Governor Cornell was formerly an operator in Cleveland, and Callahan, the veteran employe of the Western Uuion battery-room, worked under him in the same position he now tills. An old operator knowu as Van relates that Cornell was addicted to smoking Van’s pipe. Vau used to buy long-stemmed clay rthudeens, and would be thrown into a spasm of anguish every (lay when Cornell would throw the pipe ou the floor and break it. Van had procured an unusually good pipe one da}’, and at first refused to lend it to the Governor. The latter succeeded by a stroke of strategy in getting it, however, and then broke it to smithereens. The long-suffer-lug Van seized Cornell by the collar and threw him bodily out of the office. The AnnamiteTuduc, just deceased, was aourioaiiy among emperors. The two obief Institutions of his palace were his harem and his kitchen. He was an old man, and only allowed his sacred face to bo seen by mandarins of high rank. His principal meal consisted of never fewer than twenty courses, among which was his favorite delicacy of roa9t monkey. He frequently received a fatted ape from his subjects, as a present, and nothing was more acceptable. Among other strange food served up at his table were the humps of camels, the fins of sharks, varieties of snails, and a species of red worms. The latter were eaten alive. His manner of daily life was said to be more luxurious thau that of his over-lord, tho Emperor of China. A German professor, who does not think baldness of the head results froui bad health or much study, writes as follows; “The strongest men are often bareheaded, and German professors, who are nothing if not studious, are distinguished above all men for the profusion of their looks. On the other hand, soldiers and postillions, who wear heavy helmets and leather caps, and wear them a good deal, are frequently as bald as billiard balls. Therefore baldness comes chiefly of tho artificial determination of blood to the head, utid to the heat and perspiration thence arising. The result is a relaxed condition of tho scalp, and loss of hair. If the skin of the head be kept in a healthy state, the hair will not fall off. To keep it healthy, the head covering should be light and porous, the head kept olean by washing with water, and the hair cut short The nostrums vended as hair restorers, and on which a fabulous amount of money is wasted by the ignoraut for the benefit of quacks, ure worse than useless.” SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The coal-iuiner and dock-laborer system may be alt very well for coal miners and docklaborers. A trade union of bank cashiers would be absurd. Between t o dock-laborers and the bunk cashiers a line must be drawn somewhere. Let us draw it across the telegraph-operating biisim-s-. If we don’t the newspaper reporters ot tin* country and the traveling salesmen will try the trades union next. Compromise and go to work.—Chicago News. There is no demoralization of general trade in sinv department. There are abundant indications of material prosperity. There is no Oceanian for apprehension or alarm. But the situation calls for coolness, leve.l-beudeduess, forbearance and mutual supjmrr. With these prevailing through the business community it will bo but h short rime before we shall cease to feel the recent disturbances, and shall reach clear water and easy sailing.—Boston Journal. “Careful legislation” which undertakes to km p a man at work when his wages arc not satisfactory to him cannot possibly take any oilier shape than that fslaveryj And it is scarcely to he expected that the American people wtli take such a tremendous stride backward ns this, merely to oblige managers of corporations who find it more convenient, to treat the men In their employ as they treat inanimate tools tnan to treat them like freemen.—New York Times. Tiik policy of General Sheridan will commend itseli to all persons who are not sentimentalists, not onlv ms an absolute necessity for the opening up of these valuable minis to white settlement, but as absolutely just to the Indian himself. lie is paid for his land, he has tiie moans of support offered him, he is made amenable to law, and he becomes responsible as a citizen. As compared with this the policy of the Interior De purrmenc Is costly and aimless nonsense.—Chicago Trtuune. Tiik attendants upon tho modern camp-rueet-Ings are mostly pleasure-seeker*, all or whom can hear sermons at any time in the churches. It is not denied that good men and women seek to exert their influence at these meetings, and that fuHhful preachers exhort tiieir congregations to the best of their abiliry. But the surroundings of cump-meelings are no lougor attended with any snlt-iiiaity, undare unfavorable to attention to the preaching, or to any kind of reflection, by those woo are present.—Louisville Commercial. A PRIZE-FIGHTER is of no more use to any country than is tiie lowest thief, and the moral influence of his presence is much more dangerous to the pence of a community than is the thief’s. When, therefore, we find that America encourages the pmrilistic blackguard to *. greater extent than Australia—a country which is sup posed to contain a greater portion of the rough element than auy other—we begin to wonder what inanucr of people we are, what sort of laws we huve, and how they are enforced.—Mliiuoapolis Tribune. Tiiß public has right* which arc of infinitely more importance than anything that can be involved in a dispute about wages, and those rights, at least, should bb made secure by some means ueuiust infringement by corporations or strikers, or by both combined—and this without any reference to which side is right or which is wrong in h given strike, like the present one, for example. There is a question here of pervasive and imperative moment, and our statesmen cannot too soon set about the work of solving it.—3t. Louis Globe-Democrat. When b h er becomes the predominating moral in il:p rw)saury coin balances and the reserve against greenbacks, the greenbacks can be worth only as iuuuu as the silver dollar, or about

eighty-fout- cents. That is to say, the currency must become depreciated to that extent. All prices but that of labor will then rise, and therefore the full loss will be borne by the workingman. The rich man can protect himself against loss; the man who lives by his labor has no remedy. The coinage of the standard silver dollar ought to be stopped.--Now York Herald. In so far as Die telegraphers have legitimate grievances—iu so far as they ure underpaid or overworked—they will be sustained by the public, providd they do not some before that public with the chains of opprsssion to be applied unmercifully to others. It is a rule of law that the man who seeks equity must do equity.—CiuciDnati Commercial Gazotte. The time is coming whon the differences between capital and labor will be fewer, when arbitration will bo the recognized agency by which they will be composed, and when the folly and •acrifloe involved in strikes will be so clearly understood that the laborer will resent any proposal leading in that direction. But these things are not to be brought about by act of Congress. —Bt. Paul Pioneer Press. g=' ■■■.. ■ PRESIDENT JARRETT. Why He Left the Kuights of Labor—His Views on Protection. Interview in Philadelphia Press. President Jarrett, in conversation with a reporter, said: “I staid with the Knights of Labor as long as I could. I found, however, that the branch of the organization in the town iu which I then lived was drifting into the hands of certain ambitious parties who were converting it into a political agent. Then I got out. I want a federation of every trades-asscmbly or tradesunion iu the country, to combine together for m uiual protection for the common good of all. I have no objeotion to the Knights of Labor or the Independent Knights of Labor, or the present Federation of Labor, or any other labor league, but I waut a confederation that will embrace them all, into which each can come upon a ooiumou basis. The experiment of a labor party was tried in the Greenback-labor party, and I cannot consider it as having been successful. “I want a Bureau of Statistics, or a Bureau of Manufactures, as you may choose to call it, set up at Washing ton that shall bear such relation to the manufacturing industries of the country as thosjcs now existing between the Department of Agriculture and agriculture itself. The vastness of the manufactures of this country is not properly appreciated. Why, last year $5,000,000,000 worth of finished material was turned out. This Burea of Manufactures should gather complete statistics relating to manufacture*, such as prices of raw material, cost of production# of manufacture, rates of wages, value of finished products, and relation of wages to profit.” “But have not these functions been assumed by the Census Bureau?” “They have not. It is not enough that a dry collection of figures should be made and published Tor nobody to read. W'liat I want is a department to go into and thoroughly investigate the subject, so that when I desire to know what n certain class of goods cost for manufacturing, or the selling price, or the schedule of the employes’ wage*, I may have an authoritative lountain of information, and wages should be regulated more in conformity with some just schedule.” “1 presume this new department almost at the outset would come iu contact with the tariff laws as they now exist.” “Exactly; that’s the poiut. To make a proper tariff there must be the requisite knowledge regarding these matters of whioh I have spoken. It is impossible, for instance, to fix a just and proper tariff upon tin-plate until it shall be knowu and appreciated what it costs to make tin-plate and the other details connected with its production.” “You arc in favor of a protective tariff, are you not?” “Decidedly. What I want and what the workingmen of this country want is a tariff that shall do away ns far as possible with the importation of manufactures. It is the exports tliut should be stimulated. Everything that this nation needs, practically speaking, cau be manufactured within Its limlst. There is no need of going outside. In tins way the workingman cau be guaranteed liviug wages. The Bureau of Statistics, of which I nave spoken, would examine into this subject from beginning to end.” “What particular import duties In the revised tariff are distasteful to the association and to you?” asked tiie reporter. After studying a moment President Jarrett replied: “Those upon tiu plate, cotton ties aud wire rods.” “And why upon these?” pursued the reporter. “Because they cannot bo manufactured in this country under tho existing tariff other than at a loss, provided the workmen are given proper wages. Take, for instance, tin-plate. The wages of tin-plate workers should be about the same as those received by tho flue sheet-iron workers. Yet the plate cannot be manufactured here upon this basis. So if it is produced ai all the workman is made to suffer. This is where the protective tariff protects the workmen.” THE INDIANA ROOMLETS. Present Condition and Prospects of These Specimens of Political Bric-a-Brac. National Republican. Messrs. McDonald, Hendricks and Holman, of Indiana, are nourishing their sickly presidential noomlets with the tendorest solicitude. A mother watching at the bedside of a malformed child that is dying by inches could nor. show more genuine anxiety. Mr. Hendrioks has kept his boomlet alive by skillful nursing for many years, but a potato vine grown in a dark cellar could not be more limp, spindling and pallid. It is as destitute of blood and vitality its a fish’s ghost, but in the eyes of Mr. Hendricks is robust and healthy. The presence of another boomlet in tiie vicinity maddens him. He is in constant misery lest someone should slip up on him uml do his boomlet a wrong while he is asleep. The appearance of Mr. MoDonald’s boomlet has thrown Mr. Hendricks Into convulsions, and bis hysterical shrieks startle the peaceful neighbor*. Mr. McDonald's boomlet has been alternately very lively and very torpid siuoe its birth. Torpidity is its condition now, whereat Mr. Hendricks rejoices ostentatiously, and announces that iiis boomlet is the only one that can possibly grow up through the lower strata of malaria prevailing in ague-stricken Indiana. A council or political doctors has beeu called in to do for the McDonald booiulot, but they found it already done for. with Mr. Hendricks standing ready to kick it to piece* with his sore toe. A protection salve lias been prescribed as the only possible means of saving tho boomlet, but its constitution is too weak to stand heroic treatment. The intrusion of the Holman boomlet has added another feature to the interesting spectacle. Mr. Hendricks resented the uninvited appearance of the McDonald boomlet as hu unwarrantable attempt to jump bis claim, and the measures he has taken to drive the invader from the field have had at least the virtue of veliemenoe. Tho entry of the Holman boomlet is the straw that threatens to break Mr. Hendricks’s already lame back. It has exasperated him utmost beyond endurance. He insists with violence that he is the ouly Democrat in Indiana who lias any right to have a presidential boomlet, and that all other boomlets are bogus. The McDonald boomlet he characterizes as an illegitimate monstrosity—the offspring of a sham marriage of ingratitude and treason. The Holms n boomlet he regards as a bladder of wind which will swell up aud burst under the fervent rays ot an eastern sun. Nevertheless he is justly indignant at Mr. Holman’s audacity in daring to bring his boomlet into light, aud he is digging a grave for tho “Objector.” The proud possessors of the three Hoosier boomletsare hastening the disastrous end by taking braes bunds with them wherever they go to attract attention and advertise their show. They are iu blissful ignorance that the country is giving them what the street gaiuius call “the grand guy.” The people are having fun with them, and are mightily pleased with the exhibition , although it promises to become tiresome. 9o:neoody should take tho three gentlemen to ono side and tell them to give themselves a rest. They ure making themselves tiie laughing stock of 50,000,000 people. Come in out of the wet, uud briug your boomlets in with you. Unsuited to a .Self-Respecting Press. Albsny Jouruul. There has been received at this office to-day an extended telegraph fc summary of matter furnished tho New York Sun by that contemptible thief, liar, and sneak, Stephen W. Dorsey. We have to pay for this matter, blit we do not have to print it. We do not see how any self-respect-lug paper cau justify itself iu imposing upon Its readers such rot. Even if it contained any statements which had not been worn threadbare by iteration in tho partisan press, those statements would be rendered worse thau worthless by tho character of their source. It is pushing the license of a free pres* very close to the Hue of scurrility whon a branded thief is given the franchise of the Associated Press wherewith to spread heartless lies about a (lead President, and spit the venom of n scouudrol's Bate at a live ono. Mr. Shapeira’s Deuteronomy. Opinion of a ll:*brw Scholar. Tim whole thing is a fraud on the face of it, and is similar to several other schemes that have been palmed off <m the community. I will tell you the story of how the matter first originated, fu 1808 tiie Moabite stone, as it has been called, was discovered. It contained the inscription of King Media, being a prayer of thunks to his Uud, Cauuch, lor his safe Ueliverauce from bat-

tle, told of in the second book of Kings. Through t uts stone, the inscription of which was deciphered although it was badly broken, the older form of tho Hebrew alphabet b* become well known, so that auy ono with a limited knowledge or Hebrew and of the form of spelling in those days could easily counterfeit it. Six years ago a quantity of pottery was purchased by the Berliu Museum at an enormou*q>rieQ. it was afterward found that the inscriptions were tin meaning* and tiie whole tiling was a fraud to mane money. Suaneira, the owner of tiie new book, U a Galliotau Jew, who was converted to Chfistianity some years ago, and makes u profession of dealing in antiquities. He is also ono of the parties who perpetrated the fraud ou the Beriiu Museum. DORSEY IN INDIANA. An Inrereatlnjj Interview with a .Man who Participated iu tiie Campaign. St. Louis Special to Chicago Tribune There is m this city at present a gentleman at ono time very intimate with Senator Dorsey, and who was with him in Indianapolis during the campaign of October, 1880. After much persuasion he consented to talk to vour correspondent, and this is what lie said: ‘ “A great deal of money was used in Indiana—s4oo,ooo, as Dorsey says—but not $1 of ir went to purchase votes. It was all need for legitimate campaign expenses. Ed. Stephenson paid it out. He was selected by the New-Yorkers, who contributed the cash. Dorsey didn’t get a cent ot it. He even pawl h: hotel bills our of his own pocket. Stepiieusou kept the money in übureuit In his room for convenience, and paid it out ou orders signed by Dorsey. Gorham's signature was good also. There was a perfect organization in the State—by Congressional districts, counties and townships. Men from the counties appointed bv th ir own central committees came to Indianapolis and got funds, and the money was expended through the committees. The Democrats spent money the same way, and nearly as much as we (ltd. John C. New and Dudley were the men who really organized the State, but Dorsey’s rooms wero headquarters for everybody. He bad the general supervision of things, and worked so hard that Jie was sick in bod n goon deal of the time. Gorham gave ndvi. < , and Filley also did a goo.t deal. Porter defended the mechanics who were arrested during rue great, strike, and didn’t charge them anything, and they got up an organization and worked for him. Some of the $400,000 was spent to provide them with uniforms, and their expense* were paid on several excursions. Garfield set nil the Caiupbellite ministers to work for him. There were fifteen or eighteen of t hoiu. They traveled over the State on horseback, and received pay for their services. “And then Dorsey had about 150 or 200 detectives aud policemen from all the big oii.es to lookout for Democratic roughs and repeat eta. Billy McMullen, Randall’s tight-hand inau. was in Indianapolis wild sixty or Severn of bis crowd, and there w< re tune from Pltrubarg anil Cincinnati. The Chicago Democrats w r** in the north end of the State. Tltoso fallows had to ne watched. We would gel Idem.iiia bar, si’oh a gang was coming, aud the officer* w-uild wait for them, and arrest them or scud * hern back. Dorsey bad more nerve than any one else. He wanted 500 deputy marshals appointed, but Greshnu was afraid to do It. thinking the people wouldn’t like it. There was no repeating done iu Indiauopolis. That Democratic business was Knocked iu the head by (he sbooilug of Henry by a detective the night before the election. D took a good deal of money to pay those officers.” THE INDIANAPOLIS JOI’UWL. GROWING IN FAVOR EACH DAY. Bloomingtou Progress. The Lmliaunpoli* Daily Journal is growing tu favor each day, .lust, how the Journal could e made better we are uor competent to say. Ira value is best shown by the ill-nature anu diaap' poiuimeutovine.-d by It* patrons whon, from some cause, it fails to reach Bloomington. THE PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. O'rawfordsviHe News. The luiliauapolts Journal, the oldest and most reliable newspaper of ludiaiix, has a large and growing list of subscribers in this city. Tho Journal is the paper for the people. It prints what the people want to know, and what they should know. Its column* are always newsv, luteresting and highly profitable. Its utterances on all the gieat questions of the day are plainspoken aud unbiased. For ludiaua people the Journal is more adapted to general reading thau auy other newspaper in the country. Ownership of the New York World. Saratoga Letter in New York World. Editor Brown, of the Now York Daily New*, is spending a few’ days nt Saratoga ll#* says none of the newspaper men in New York be lieve Joe Pulitzer owns the Word, and that h<% la generally regarded as one of Mr. Gould's hired men. Pulitzer is horribly sensitive ou the subject, and never Joses an opportunity to assert his individual ownership. Not long ago he met Brown at the Manhattan club, of which both are mouibers. Pulitzer went up to Brown and said: “I understand you are saying that I do not own the World.” Brown said: “I do not know what you have heard reported as coming from me, but if you want my opinion I can give it to you.” Pulitzer—Web? Brown—l do not believe you own the World, or not even a small part of it. Pulitzer—Not if I should say so? Brown—l should be mcliued to the same opinion. At this the tw’o parted without auy more words, Publishing; the Pension List, Now York JUoralJ. The list of pensioners ought to he published. Undoubtedly there exist great frauds iu the procuring of the pensions, and agents have taken advantage of every opportunity to work a profitable field; but this is much the fault of Congress, which has passed wasteful pension laws What is needed is a different method of publinhing tiie lists. Issued in book form they have an extremely limited circulation, and what part does not tall iuto the hands of interested persons goes to the paper mills. Tiie Il*rs should be prepared in Washington, classifying uy Brutes and counties in which they reside those who receive pensions, and each separate list should he advertised every year in a leading newspaper in each county. What is required is a local knowledge, which'’cannot he obtained by Washington officials without great difficulty and expense. Serious Charge#; Against General Patrick. Dayton (O.) Special. General Pattick. governor of the Soldiers’ Home, near here, to-day had drawn up in line seventy-eight of the inmates, whom he denounced as criminals, scoundrels, and some ys able-bodied men, and notified them that if auy of them were caught in the institution after next Wednesday they would be put out. He gave th(-m til! then to prepare to leave. Thc.v were all disabled men suffering from the efteors of the war; some legless, others armless, all crippled, one way or another. Some wero dying com* snuiptives. Judge Foster’s son was among them. He came to the city at once, aud procured a situation in a grocery, but was so far gone with consumption that he could not lift a box of soap. It is reported that other men will lie likewise dealt with in tue future. The General is fast gaining tho reputation of a tyrant. A Great Country. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. It is an old man’s and sick man’s mistake to suppose this country is nut going ahead. H is rioh, productive, solvent, vast and mighty. Eye hath not seen nor ear heard tho gruudeur that is to come. The flurries will pass away. The dust will be blown from the road, so that it may even for a time obscure the fields of the -future, lutt tiie majestic march of the American people from one industrial and commercial conquest to another will go on, renewing incomparable illustrations in the time to come, as in the time that has been, that the victories of peace are not less renowned than those of war. Mr. Holman's Little Gesture. National Republican. Mr. Holman, as a presidential quantity, belongs to Mr. Dana by right of discovery. IN lien the great objector receives the nomination his favorite aud only gesture can be framed. It i* a comical little half-arm movement of the right arm, which poker players insist is the result of a life-long practice in picking white chips from a stack ono at a time and flipping them into the center of the table to make good his ante. Somebody Was Choated. Boston Pilot. Fifty dollars was the reward paid a man for saving tho lives of an ex-Oovernor of Vermont and two railroad superintendent*. How the three generous gentlemen settled tin with each other, we don’t know. Fifty cannot be divided by three without cheating somebody of*twotliirds or a cent, and those were not the kind of men to stand tnat. Out of Flint. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The Boston Advertiser advises business men to use the “Lexicon of Youth,” in winch there is no such word as •Tail.” But we guess that book must be out of print.