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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. Fr Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth PageTHURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1888. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 4l9Strnnd. TARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard ties Capucines. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON. D. O.—Brentano’fl 1,015 Pennsylvania avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. C. Hawley A Cos.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dearies. northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot. Mayor White, of Baltimore, indicted with other good Democrats for malfeasance in office, spells his name with a “y.” “Turn the rascals out.” With a new locomotive-works at Lexington, Ky., with a capital of half a million, Mr. Watterson’s peculiar views on the tariff will receive a serious backset in that region. Tiie Journal hopes that any apparent inattention to the merits of the People’s railway may be overlooked. A good share of gratuitous advertising will be given it indue time. If Mr. Fred. L. Horton, of the People’s railway scheme, or any other man, says that the Indianapolis Journal ever, under any circumstances, published flattering notices of that undertaking, he states that which has not the slightest foundation in fact. The Journal never did and does not expect to say anything that may be construed into commending it, even to the remotest degree, to the confidence of the people. The People’s railway solicitors might try to get in their work on the veterans now assembled in Indianapolis. But it would hardly pay. The boys are up to a few' of the tricks resorted to in order to obtain money. The versatile Mr. Horton might “talk them fall of it,” and if he should succeed in finding one who had more money than he knew how to throw away, he might prevail upon him to subscribe a dollar or two. Soldtep boys who have any Confederate ,oney left might invest it in People’s railway stock. That is, if they don’t care to see it again. For a good permanent investment there is nothing like stock in the People’s railway. You couldn’t conscientiously give it away for fear of cheating the recipient, •nd you would be afraid to throw it away lest your credit should be ruined by somebody discovering that you had been fool enough to invest in it. The custom of using the American flag for mercantile signs of late years has become so common that the question is attracting public attention. The practice is not commendsble. It puts the national emblem to a use so entirely foreign to the design in the premises that the matter falls little short of ridicule, although not intended to be so. The stars andstripes have a single, exclusive and important significance. They represent the genius, power and majesty of the nation, and should never be degraded to any lower purpose. The public will be gratified to learn that arrangements are now’ about completed for turning over the First National Bank of Indianapolis to a syndicate composed of some *f the best and strongest financiers and capitalists in this country, such men as W. H. English, W. C. DePauw, John Reynolds, E. F. Claypool, Simon Y'andes, Jesse J. Brown, and others. The capital stock has been increased to SBOO,OOO, and will be further increased to $1,000,000 at an early day. The transfer is expected to be made to-day, and it is thought the bank will be in full operation under the new organization before the close of the present w’eek. A telegram from New York, if trustworthy, indicates the beginning of the end of the telegraphers’ strike. It is reported that six of the striking operators soughtaud secured an interview’ with General Eckert, representing themselves as a committee from the Morse operators, the Wheatstone operators and linemen lately in the service ot the Western Union. They wistied to know on what terms they would be taken back, and were referred to their respective superintendents. If this report be true, it indicates a weakening on the part of the operators that can have but one result, and a •peedy resumption of efficient telegraphic lervice may be expected. Tiie Grand Army boys were out in full force yesterday, and captured the city without the loss of a man. The air was stimulating, hinting of the days of tw’enty years ago. The old “boys” grew young again, and the young ones younger still. The old campaigns were traveled over, and every hardfought battle was again reviewed by those Who were fortunate enough to escape with their lives. Patriotism w f as at a premium, and pride 6f country w’as felt anew In every heart. Such gatherings, while mimicking war, are but assurances that war wail not come. With a people united and patriotic as they were in Indianapolis yesterday, there need be no fear of dissensions within or invasions from without. The day’s work was crowned with an imposing industrial parade at night, a fit supplement to the military reviews that preceded it. American prosperity was assured by the men who marched In the morning, and it w*as pleasing iO turn from simulated conflicts to evidences

of genuine thrift and progress. The country has grown into a commercial giant since the war. Our trade is extending all over the world, and our vast territory is being settled up by people from all parts of the civilized world, preferring free America to any other country on the globe. It is a grand thing to beau equal partner in this republic, and a glorious thing to be one of the preservers. The Grand Army men have a right to be proud of the part they played in making American history. Never w’as a cause more patriotic and never victory more gloriously achieved. Indianapolis says hail and farewell to one and all. But as the years roll away a cordial invitation w’ill always be extended by Indiana’s capital city to her heroic citizen soldiery. They are always welcome. PROTECTION. PRICES. AND WAGES The Cincinnati News Journal points out as a sophism Judge Foraker’s claim that under a protective tariff American manufacturers have been able, in many instances, to reduce the price of their products fully 50 per cent., while at the same time maintaining the rate of wages paid employes. When any person or paper becomes so determined not to believe the truth as to discard and deny established facts by declaring them impossible, it in no longer enough to simply prove them true, but to demonstrate that they are likewise possible, a process never resorted to except to convert premeditated stupidity. The News Journal probably knows that the price of manufactured articles in America has greatly declined during the past ten or twelve years, and that, too, while protected to “a ruinous degree,” according to the opposition. It has been maintained by good, bad and indifferent Democratic authority that the American system of protective tariff has fostered monopolies, and that these monopolies are grown so powerful as to do as they please; can realize whatever profits they wish, ranging from 10 to 150 per cent. A rolling-mill, according to this authority, is scarcely worth attention, that does not annually realize to its ow’ners a full 100 per cent, on every dollar invested. A million dollar plant should realize a million dollars profit neat. That some of them do not, and some of them occasionally fail to make any profit whatever, goes for naught. It is the fault of the owners il they do not make all they want to, for they have it all in their own hands, can fix prices to suit themselves, and regulate profits according to their needs. A few figures from trustworthy sources will suffice to answ’er these reckless and false statements. The salt monopoly lias repeatedly been cited as one of the most conscienceless of all. It has hud everything according to its wish. It could put prices up or down whenever and to whatever degree it chose. Certainly, if this be true, it would hardly voluntarily reduce the price of its products. In 18G6 the average price per barrel was SI.BO, and the following show’s the average price per barrel every other year from that time up to the present: 1868, $1.85; 1870, $1.32; 1872, $1.46; 1874, $1 19, 1876, $1.05; 1878, 85 cents; 1880, 75 cents; 1882, 74 cents. In other words, twelve years ago salt cost, by the barrel, just 150 per cent, more than it did last year. So much for the salt monopoly. Plate glass has enjoyed a protective tariff' of about 50 per cent. During the past ten years the cost has been reduced frqm $2.50 to $1 per square foot, a decrease of just 60 per cent. In 1873 glass cost 150 per cent, more than it doe3 now'. In the matter of steel rail manufacturers, a “monopoly” that “enjoys 100 per cent, profit on investment” (?) and one that has come in for a generous share of abuse at the hands of tree-traders. The same features are observable in the market price of their products. Bessemer steel rails were first made in this country in 1807, but not largely until 1870. Up to that time the English controlled our market and prices, and we had to pay them $l5O in gold per ton. After the opening of the first steel-rail mill here they were compelled to reduce their prices, and in 1870 they were sold in England for $50.37 gold, equal to $57.93 in our currency. At that price they could be sent to New York and freight paid at a cost of $63 per ton, w'ith no duty. Since then our American mills have furnished our railroads with over 3,000,000 tons, at an average cost of SSO per ton in currency. This great business employs over 20,000 American workmen, pays over $7,500,000 yearly in wages, and has furnished us steel rails for ten years at an average price a little less than the English price in 1870. In the matter of cast steel, the English make had been sold here for twenty years at sixteen to eighteen cents per pound, and none was made here. Under a higher tariff, our steel makers began work about 1862 ou a large scale, at Pittsburg and elsewhere, and the same quality came down to thirteen and fifteen cents. During the war, our cast steel was sold at thirty-two cents, while British steel was held at forty-five cents, thus saving the government large sums in its war consumption, and relieving us from a dangerous dependence upon a foreign power. The British steel manufacturers now r sell their products in Paris and other European markets for twelve and a half cents, while in New’ York they seil the same at ten and a half cents, the difference being made for the obvious purpose of breaking dow’n American steel enterprises. The same features are as potent in other manufactured articles, formerly imported, but now made almost wholly at home. Enough lias been cited to sustain the claim made by protectionists and denied by free-traders. Now as to the impossibility of protected Americau manufacturers paying relatively

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the same wages now that they did and yet reducing by a large per cent, the market price of their products. The protective tariff was established for a dual purpose. First, to produce a revenue demanded by tbe exigencies of the war and for the scarcely less imperative purpose of building up American industries. Behind this bulwark it was the aim of government to encourage manufacturing, so that we might in a measure free ourselves from the dangers of having to depend upon unfriendly foreign powers, and for the further purpose of giving employment to American labor. There can be no possible doubt that the cost of our civil war would have been doubled had not this measure been taken, and had we placed ourselves wholly at the mercy of foreign producers. But to build up these new industries —these woolen, and cotton, and iron and steel mills—was a gigantic undertaking. Each enterprise on anything like an adequate scale required the immediate investment of i hundreds of thousands of dollars, backed up by other thousands to carry the experiment to a successful issue. Everything had to be done at a fearful expense. The plant of each mill consumed very large amounts of capital, and frequently had to be removed or rebuilt as they w’ere found defective or inefficient. It is said that the first steel rail made in Chicago cost the mill owners not less than $500,000. Besides the enormous cost of the plants necessary to begin w’ork, there was the running expense of reducing the manufacture of wares to such exactitude that it would be most economical. 11l addition to this, also, was the expense of putting the product of the mills on tbe market, and to find a market for it in face of prejudice in favor of long-used foreign product. All these reasons compelled a high-selling price at first. With longer experience, prejudice overcome, and a steady market secured, it was possible to sell for less, although the wages paid may not have been materially reduced. Improved methods and machinery rendered production easier, and growing competition, resulting from the advantages offered by the tariff, compelled a reduction of the selling price. The same thing that fosters monopolies in this case encourages competition, and the inevitable result of the latter is to bring prices down to an equable basis with other products in other lines. It seems plain enough, therefore, that American manufacturers may have steadily maintained wages and at the same time very largely reduced the prices of their wares. This is not only theoretically correct, but is also practically true, and easily demonstrable from statistics. Judge Foraker’s arguments may be sophisms to Democratic politicians, but they are acceptable alike to American workmen and American manufacturers. It cannot be truthfully denied that prices, even under protection, have greatly declined during the past ten years, and that we buy articles protected by a tariff cheaper now than we could before the tariff was put on. It is said that one gang of workmen on the Union Pacific railway is composed of Winnebago Indians, and that in some respects they are superior as workmen to those of any other nationality. This discovery should be utilized at once r and the Indian question will be solved. If the noble red man can work on a railway, he can work on a farm. He should therefore be given a farm and compelled to support himself in the same laborious way that a white man does. The present policy of setting aside more than a square mile of arable land for the support of every Indian, big and little, is indefensible. It is a monstrous idea that the lazy, good-for-nothing Indian should receive better treatment at the hands of the government than do the veteran soldiers who saved it. Give the Indian a quarter seotion of land and a hoe, and compel him to support himself. The people are tired of squandering hard-earned money on him. The West comes modestly but oonfldeutly forward with the following contribution to polite literature and current ilotlon. According to the Omaha Bee, a queer family lives near that city. The father and mother liavo dwelt in one house for the pust ten years, and during all that time ueither they nor their children have ever come out of the house except at night. They deal with only one tradesman, who furnishes them with the necessaries of life at night, through a window, and his bills are always promptly paid, without Question. A coffin is kept Id the house for every member of the family. As the children grow and the coffius become too small, larger ones are procured. When anew member is added to the family a coffin is at once ordered. The physician who has been called to attend this singular household says that he has never yet seen the face of any member of it. The moral of this fable is not apparent, but it is a beautiful evidence of the handiwork of Western journals when they set about to build a really artistic narration. The failure of Edmund C. Stedman & Cos. Is reported. Stedman is the poet-broker. Not that he sells poets ou a margin, nor that he sells straddlos, puts and calls on poets. Nor does be do a brokerage business with poets only. Edluund has dabbled in poetry, at intervals, and, to his credit be it said, he succeeded in a way very flattering to himself and to the same degree satisfactory to his friends. The literary worJJ will rnuoh regret to hear of his financial embarrassment, and will wish him a speedy aud complete recovery therefrom. It is gratifying to know that the failure in no wise resulted from Mr. Sled man's mismanagement. . —-• AT Lawrence, Mass., au intoxieated man fell on a large belt in motion and was crushed to death. Investigation showed that he had on his person “$20.30, a loaded revolver, seven barrels, and a Jack-knife.” If the seven barrels contained vyhisk.v, it Is not to be woudered at that he was slightly elevated. The D'jvon Inn, at Bryn Mawn, Pa., was a great family resort aud among the guests were many little children. One of the most touching episodes of the fire was the search of a little girl of about six years of age for her lost baby aud its tiny oarriage. Finally, after a weary walk

around the burned lawns with her mother, she discovered the small carriage standing near a number of scorched oane-bottomed chairs and protected from the flames by au upturned din-ing-table. Darting away from her mother, she seized the carriage aud pulled out the wax-doll that lay within, oxclaimiug joyfully: “Mamma, I believe she slept all through it!” A tocng man in Williamsport, Pa., tried to coax his pretty sister to stay away from the soldiers who were in camp there, but words having no effect, he slapped her ears. Nearly a hundred soldiers of different regiments, who happened to see this little performance, chased the youth through tbe streets with cries of “Lynch him!” “Hang him!” and only desisted because he ran faster and escaped. This inoideut is mentioned as a warning to any youug men of this city who may see similar symptoms develop in their own sisters this week. Owners of museums and proprietors of sideshows are on a strike. They have formed a combination against skeletons, fat women, giants, two-beaded women and other living curiosities and refuse longer to submit to their extortionate demands in regard to salaries. The showmen think the curiosities have been making too much money. It is too early for the result to be learned, but the chances are that if the double-headed woman’s heads are level she will hold her own, whatever the rest may do. Monsignor Capel—pronounced Cay-pie—is not pleased with the American pronunciation of the word “can’t," but much prefers the English “cahn’t.” The Monsiguor has evidently been associating with spurious Americans or those who have not profited by their early training. One of the chief duties of the sclioolma’am in this great and glorious country is to teach the infant native, by precept and discipline, that he must never, no, never, say can’t, either with or without the flat “a.” In writing of the Paris dog-pound, Mrs. Lucy Hooper describes the laws in regard to these animals as very strict, every stray cur found withont tbe proper check being promptly impounded and aftor twenty-four hours as mercilessly killed. In extenuation of the rigor of these laws the authorities point to statistics, which show that in 1878 tweDty-four deaths lrom hydrophobia oocurred iu Paris; in 1879 the number was twelve, and in 1880 fell to four. There is no nonsense about Lawyer Barney, of New Bedford, Conn. He was retained by a total abstiuenee sooiety, and promised to close every illegal groggery in the place. To show himself in earnest he has begun by causing the arrest of a deacon in his own church for renting a building to a liquor dealer. Such zeal is regarded by some of the brethren as intemperate and misplaced. Tiie noting solicitor of the Treasury has given an opinion that the use of miniature and fullsized imprints of a postal card as a label for a brand of cigiys sold by a Philadelphia firm is a violation of sections 5,413 and 5,416, Revised Statutes, and the persons encaged in their manufacture and use are liable to prosecution. Paris has an omnibus propelled by electricity, aud its operation is said to be a complete success. The motive power is furnished by Faure accumulators weighing 2,500 kilogrammes and glviug out a force of seventy-two horse power. It is said that Bullivan’s next knock-out will take place at Vinita, I. T. The dusky sons of the plains will thus De afforded au opportunity to absorb some of Boston’s culture as typified in the most notAd son. A Long Island woman makes English sparrow pies, thirty birds to the pie. Thirty sparrows must be equal to about four-and-twenty blackbirds. ABOUT PEOPLE. Edwin Arnold is said to have been gveroome by the reception in ibis country of his “Light ol Asia,” the manuscript of which has just been presented to Mr. Andrew Carnegie. The cause of woman’s rights progresses in India swimmingly. Miss Kadumbluee Bose has been admitted as a student to the Calcutta Medical College, and Mrs. Ethirajulu, of Madras, is permitted to plead as a lawyer in the magisterial courts. A man in StonlngtoD, Conn., now eighty-four years of age, deposited SIOO in a savings bank 04 his twenty-first birthday, and has never withdrawn a dollar of tbe principal or Interest since. If he takes joy in accumulation he has derived some pleasure from it. Dr T. R. Allison, a believer in the worth of vegetable food, says that diet is the philosopher’s stone. “Allow me to diet a man,” lie declares, “and I will make him lively or sad, good or bad tempered, lazy or studious, long or short lived, or give him almost any known disease.” Making )ain is one of the favorite holiday recreations of President Grevy, according to the Paris Figaro, which tells us that the head of the French republic may frequently be seen iu his kitchen at Montsous Vaudrey enveloped in a large blue apron anu skimming preserves over the fire. M. de Lesskps calls his infant son iu private “Jack.” The true appellation of the newcomer is Benjamin, but as the papa associates it with the tiual birth in Jacob’s family, be only half likes this name. That of Jack was chosen out of defereuoe for John Bull, when M. de Lesscps returned from England enchanted with Gladstone, Granville and tbe left wing of tho governmental party’ at Westminster. A London letter says of the English actor who Is to be one of the leading features of the coming dramatic season in the United Btates: “Irving is a wonderfully overrated man. His mannerisms are simply frightful, aud he is a true specimen of the English snob. Eye-glasses, and inflection and affected languor are all au they should be in the true dude. But his stage-set-ting, sceuery, etc., are simply superb.” It is suggested that the eurthquake at Ischia will prohubly give a long lease of life tooertain local superstitions. Among the impending warnings of disaster whiob preceded the earthquake, it is stated that au Italian official complained of the ominous behavior of an English gentleman, who insisted upon playing a fuueral march on the hotel piano. The corpse of this Euglisman was foutid among the others. The Bishop of Monaco harangued his flock the other day upon the doings at Monte Carlo and delivered himself of this pregnant remark; “We live in a pagan locality which it is frightful to contemplate; our pontiff’s are croupiers, our gods gold and silver, our vestal virgins the oocottes from all the slums of Europe, our visitors the scrapings of the world’s tripots.” The Bishop of Monaco has his opiuions and is not afraid to expieas them. Charles P. Chouteau, a prominent merchant of St. Louis, of French descent, has offered to erect a statue of Pierre Menard, the first Lieu-tenant-Governor of the State of Illinois. He has get aside the sum of SIO,OOO to carry out this purpose, and has requested Mr. E. B. Washburne, of Chicago, to associate with himself some prominent citizens of Illinois to take charge of tho projeot. He designs to ereot tho statue iu tho city of Springfield. Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, is tall, Ills large-boned frame is well padded with human clay, and Ills rosy cheeks are the picture of health. lie has a long, narrow face, a full beard of saud and silver, and dark auburn hair, which he combs straight back from the forebead. He has an intellectual brow, a straight nose aud sparkling biack eyes. Blair reminds one of a country lawyer of utoro thau ordinary merit, or

the great man of a town ot ten thousand, ne dresses plainly, wears blaok broadcloth and a standing oolar. Mr. Frank Bird, of Massachusetts, is recovering from a severe attack of rheumatism, which has recently been troubling him. Fifteen years ago this sturdy iuvalid was told by Us physician that he must either die or give up the two daily luxuries of his life—strong coffee and cigars. Mr. Bird meditated awhile and then repiled: “Well, if I’ve got to give up all the pleasures of life I might as well die at onoe.” And he has continued to smoke cigars and drink ooffee ever since. The Rev. Dr. John Cornell, the rector of the Episcopal Church iu Nice, is spending the summer in Saratoga, Ho is credited with a neat bit of pleasantry, which hits off the alleged rapaciousness of the landlords of Nice. Being asked if he lived at the famous Nice where the Nlcene council was held which formulated the creed of that name, he replied: “Oh no. If that had been the place the 318 bishops who composed theeouncil oould never have found the money to pay their hotel bills.” SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The ballot in Utah simply enables the church to put on the livery of democracy to serve despotism In. And so long as It is feasible to do this, so long would it be proper for the national government to rule Utah on its own responsibility.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. If our regular army is ro retain its bold upon the confidence and respect : f * country something has got to be done, and that speedily, to check the progress of that demoralization which has recently manifested itself iu so many ways and ou so a scale.—Minneapolis Tribune. Never before did the business community so fully realize the nuoessity of a federal bankrupt law 1 as it does at the present time. Indeed, ever since the repeal of the last aoc, which was defective. there has been a growing sentiment that the business of the country is of a nature lhat the subject of bankruptcy should le in the hands of the federal government.—Boston Journal. So far as individual success is concerned, a labor strike benefits only those engaged in It whose abilities are below the average. There is no service, corporate or private, iu which marked ability and aplication will not secure advancement. The leading men in the Western Union Telegrapn Company and In railroad and manufacturing pursuits are, almost, without an exeeption, those who have been promoted from the ranks.—Boston Herald. We have iu use more currenoy than can possibly be employed iu healthy and legitimate business,’ and a part of it has, therefore, been employed in speculation. Tho consequences of excessive speculation may be read in tiie daily reports of failures. Meanwhile, tlie distrust as to the future may be seen in the abundance of money to loan on call, and in the scarcity of money for investment or for ordinary commercial loans.—New York Tribune. It is time that a determined effort should be made against- the expenditure of money in elections, before the faith of the people in their ability to make an uubouglit choice is entirely destroyed. Tnere must be restraint exercised by the good meu in both parties ou the unscrupulous zeal of party managers, or the very highest election of the country will become a question not of votes or of principles, but of dollars and campaigo fund—Springfield Republican. The same work [reform of the civil service] which has enlisted the sympathy aud active cooperation of so many of the host men of the nation needs also to be done for most States and municipalities. The evils attendant upon the distribution of tbe State patronage are less than those against which the power of Congress lias been iuvoked only in as far as they affect a smaller number of persons and have a less pow erful effect upon parties and politics.—St. Paul Pioneer-Press. Capital, of course, is interested in a protective tariff’, but there is no class so deeply concerned as the workingmen. Under free trade many things would be cheaper in this country than they are The people would have cheaper dollies. Fanners could buy iron at lower rates. But where would the workingmen find money to buy cheap clothes, and if manufactures were driven out, where would the farmers fiud a home market for tlieir produce!—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. It is high time for the telegraph operators as a class to ascertain whethorthey have been honestly dealt with by their own leaders. If they have been persuaded to throw up employment and undergo distress in the vain hope of achieving by this means what the companies would have ooueeded to them in fair time and upon proper representation and consultation, then they have suffered a much greater grievance at the hands of the little clique of meu who run the brotherhood in New York than they have at the hands of the telegraph companies. Chicago Tribune. __________ A NIGHT OF HORROR. Experiences of a Cincinnati Woman During the Earthquake at Casamicciola* Cincinnati Special. A private letter received from tho immediate relatives of Mrs. Charles 8. Schmidlapp, of this city, gives some interesting particulars of the lady’s experience during the late terrible earthquake in the island of Isclita. The letter is dated July 30, and was mailed from the city of Naples. Mrs. Schmidlapp says: “Theearthquake began on Saturday evening about 9:20. I was sitting in the center of a room near a table, upon which stood a lamp. All at once, without any previous warning, the table begun shaking and the lamp feli. I ran to the door, and before I reached it tho whole roof and celling fell on the very spot where I lately sat. Ida was in the diningroom. She rushed toward me, screaming, and fell to the ground.” Mr. Charles Schmidlapp was, at the time of the beginning of the terrible disaster, lying on a bed in an adjacent apartment. His wife found that it was impossible to open the door, and continues in her letter; “I removed the fulleu stones and heavy pieces of plasters as best I eouid. AU around me was the burning oil from the overturned lamp. The door still resisted, it was fastened at tiie top and was immovable. Charles (Mr. Schmidlapp) found a large piece of timber lhat had fallen in his room. With this, exerting all his strength, he succeeded In breaking out tue lower panel of the door. Through this ho crawled In his nightclothes. I seized his coat and pants and we all rushed from the house. In the yard lay two dead bodies, those of a mother and daughter. In the. yard we passed the dreadful night. It waH indeed a night of horror, and one tliat I shall never forget. The crying and moaning around during those terrible hours were heart-rending.” Mrs. Schmidlapp, with other details, further states that three towns were destroyed, Cassainiociola among them, and that about 1,000 bodies had been found when tbe letter was written. Os fifty-three people in one hotel only seven were saved, aud in tho hospital nearly all were killed, and at the time of the earthquake the town of Cassamiooiola was thronged with strangers. The lady states, also, that they arrived at Naples without their trunks. The house in which they were stopping wus very solidly built ami was the only one iu the town in which the sidewalls were not tumbled. The bed upon which Mr. Schmidlapp was resting was Touud to be filled with heavy stone®, aud had the earthquake occurrod one hour later, when all would have been in bed, escape with life would have been impossible to any one of the family. Mount Vesuvius has not been very active lately, and to this fact is attributed the late earthquake by the inhabitants. Mrs. Schmidlapp says that they are recovering from the terrible shock, but all are extremely nervous. Many soldiers are now occupying the island of Ischia. A Girl’s Death from Hydrophobia. West Chester, Pa., Special. Yesterday morning Mary, an clevon-ycar-old daughter of John Ortlip, residing in West Bradford township, Chester couuty, died of hydrophobia after enduring agonies of a distressing character for over twenty-four hours. The child was bitten by a strange dog some five years ago, but at the time nothing serious was feared, though the dog was discovered to ho mad a little while afterward and was killed. Ou Saturday morning last the child, while at breakfast, was suddenly taken with spasms while endeavoring to drink coffee, and though the best of tnedioul skill was brought to hear upon tho case she continued to suffer until Sunday morning, when death came to her relief. The bite was over tho right eye and was a very trilling one. The Democratic Cry-Baby Custom. New York Tribune. The Democrats are merely making themselves ridiculous about tiie Indiana campaign of 1880. They used all the money that they could extort from Mr. English, who was selected os candidate for Vice-president for tho express purpose of commanding a large sum of mouey for use iu Indiana. They used all the money that they could get from any other quarter, as Mr. “Seven Mule” Burnum can testify. The did not carry the State, because its majority of voters did uot want to put the free-trade Democracy into power, and because the Republicans had as good or better arrangements for bringing out a full vote. Thereupon, ucoordiug to their ery-baby custom, the Democrats complaiu of fraud.

THE NEWSPAPER STATESMEN. A Correspondent Busily Engaged in Annexing British Columbia. Yellowstono Park Correspondence Chicago Tribune. The Tribune has already chronicled one important political object of the presidential tour relating to the Indian question. There is another significant object of the journey, which the correspondent has learned since arrival here from a man iu the best position to know, that there has beeu some agitation of late looking to the annexation of the State of Chihuahua, Mexioo. While there are certain railways interested in suoh annexation, tbe powers that be, comprising the executive, together with the army and most prominet politicians, are opposed to tho movement. General Sherman recently said that the United States ought to have another war with Mexico. When n*ked why, he replied: “To make ’em take hack this country wo bought of ’em.” The administration is uot looking south, but north, toward British Columbia with its vast grain fields, its exhaustless supplies of coal, pine, gold, silver, and minerals. It is whispered hero that Mr. Arthur is interested in this acquisition, and before long British Columbia will quietly fall into our possession. Botli the powers of tbe Canadian ana Northern Pacific are straiuing every nerve for such a resuit. It is claimed that Americans are financially interested in rlie former road, and that the Englishmen associated with them are so greedy to inwke money that they are willing to see the British flag cease to float over the Dominion so that its productions may pass freely into our market without the impositions of customs and delay. Further, it is claimed that tiie Englishmen are quietl}' working up a sentiment at home for sucli a minster of tiie Dominion, impressing the idea that Great Britain cun ouly afford to foster the grain fields of luriia. These two roads, it is claimed, will pull together aud construct a groat harbor at Puget’s Sound, with a Pacific lino of steamships to China. Japan, the Pacific Americau coast, and the Oceauica Isles. There tbev will have the finest harbors in the world, and will make Chicago the head-center for the receipt of the productions on the one side and of supply of exports on tiie other. This grand scheme of annexation is said to have been already under cabinet discussion, and, while the President is silent, as usual, vet his visit in this part of tho country will enable him to quietly look over the ground, to substantiate somewhat the brilliant future already pictured to him in glowing terms. In tips great railway scheme San Francisco is to bo thrown iu tiie shade, and Portland is to be pushed for the metropolis of the Pacific coast. Portland is to be made the great Northwestern city tributary to Chicago to coded the products of North Columbia, since the prefix “British’' is to be dispensed with, Oregon, and Washiiigten Territory. * Wheu the Cnnadiau Pacific is completed it will be given its share of the patmuago. The Central Pacific has already token into the scheme, conditionally. It will not bo permitted to dictate any terms, but it lias been allowed to build one line of road from San Francisco to Portlaud, of which the Oregon Central is the completed half. It, therefore, gets a shaft) of the business which i6 to be developed from Portland, in consideration of agreeing not todisturb tbe connections of the Upper Pacific lines. It is now conceded on all sides, by tne politicians and capitalists so plentifully swarming this part of the country, that British Columbia will bo the richest acquisition to the United States yet made. Tue Southern acquisitions are maligned as the most expensive and useless luxuries a country ever indulged in. What return, it is asked, have New Mexico and Arizona ever made on their cash cost, except bloodshed, murder, Indian masssercs, pillage, cow boys, lynching, crime and all manner of terrorism! The President is said to have a level head in this matter, aud his deaf ear toward the south and his open eye toward the north ure regarded with approval. IN THE OIL REGIONS. A Little Romance of the Deserted Town of Garfield. Letter iu Philadelphia Times. I hadn’t the heart to visit the town of Farnsworth, for down in the woods a mile away it was lying as cold and still and silent as though its deserted buildings had never resounded to the tramp of hurrying feet or cohoed back the clang of tho hummer and anvil. Alter a while tiie oil will become exhausted, ilie wind will blow down the unused buildings, the grass will grow over the ruin, and the bear and the deer will wander over the places as of old. “Why don’t you get away from this deserted place!” I asked the man beside lue. A shadow as of pain crossed his face, and for a few moments lie wus sileut. “I could do better away,” at length ho said, “but I can’t go. She wants uie te stay,” “And ’she’—your wife?” “Oil, uo; my wife has beeu under the daisies down at. Oakland for years. Tom’s widow, I mean.” “Aud Tom?” “My partner, sir; that is, he was my partuor until—until—but he’s dead now, stranger, an 1 I’m taking oare of his widow and one child. I promised him I’d do it, and I will. He was a city chap, you see, an’ he came here with a hothouse flower of a wire, an little money. Ho struck up a partnership with me, for I knew ail about the oil business, an’ he didn’t. He got killed at the well, iu the saddest way, aud as he was dying I promised to do tiie square thing by his widow. She wants to stay here because they lived here the first days of their married life. When she gets over it we’ll go away; but what she wants l want, an’ so we stay. If you wuut to hear the story, come over to-morrow aud I’ll tell you. Over by the blasted pine is your way out.” Garfield! What a strange fatality clings about the name; what hopes aud fears and tragedies lie buried there! Able to Stand the Shock. New York Times. The general tone of trade, while not active, is healthy, exoept in one or two branches in whioli evident over production has brought embarrassment and disaster. A period of financial distress, should it conic now, would find tho country very well prepared to stand it and to make a quick recovery But the “panic,” If tnere is any. will probably bo confined to speculators wiio have had the misfortune to over-estimate their atrougth. The Lessou of the Failures. Boston Journal. Here as in New York and elsewhere thero appears to be but one opinion regarding the subject. and that is that a sound, practical aud effective bankrupt law is a pressing necessity! It is needed to give assurance to business, protection to creditors and prompt justice to embarrassed debtors. It should be taken up ns soon at Congress meets as a measure designed to promote conlidcuoe in business. A Texas Bear Story, Nan Antonio Express. A gentleman who was out hunting on the Nueces saw a bear go into a hollow tree. He madu him come our, shooting Win as lie did so. Thereupon, in rapid succession, six other large bears on me out of tho same tree, all of whom the mighty hunter laid low. it is supposed that tha hollow in the tree communicated with a subterranean ouve, in which a colony of hears dwelt. A Call for the 01(1 Ticket. Michigan City Dispatuh (Dem.) The Demoornoy of the State arc not a unit foi McDonald, but. on the other hand, tho party, in the main, is for the old ticket. McDonald is an able, and wortliv statesman, and his time may vet come, but in 1884 tho people will demand that Tildeu and Hendricks shall be vindicated from the fraud and infamy of ’76. The Only Honest Democrats. National Republican. Mr. Jefferson Davis and Robert Toombs have been the only men in ali this land, for elghroeu years, who have beeu courageous enough to write and speak good, sound Democratic doctrine. The other members of the party are artful dodgers. An Advantage of Protection. Washington Post. Protection is not so very bad a thing after all. It Mr. DePauw had not been stupendously protected in his plate-glass industry ho might not have beeu ablo to step promptly to the front with relief for a lame oank in ludianapolis. t Where Is the State’s Money? Terre Haute Ex proas. Where Js tho money, over $1,000,000, sup posed to De in the vaults of the State treasury' We know where it was a week ago, but the pub lie doesn’t want to learn of its whereabouts on such occasions as the suspension of a bank. An Undoubted Success. Philadelphia Times. Whatever Mr. English may be in politics It 1* clear t hat be is a success in banking. A quarantine examination has disproved tin story that there is leprosy among t lie royal Ha waiian band, which has arrived in San Frauciacc to participate iu the Conclave festivities. At Ruoknor, Mo., m a circus, Samuel Btriok, land, colored, flourished a revolver. A constable attempted to arrest him, and woundod tue tiegro mortally.