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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW A SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pare. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1883THK INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following pi area: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe. 449 Strand. PARTS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Oapucinei. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON. D. o.—Brentano's 1,015 Pennsylvania avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. C. Hawley Sc Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot. It is too early yet for the display of Buchanan's administration as a model of wisdom and patriotism. The country is too full of living witnesses to the contrary. A consolidation of the Postal, American Rapid and Bankers’ and Merchants’ Telegraph Companies is spoken of in New York as a probability if not a certainty. A review of the history of the Western Union Telegraph Company shows that It is composed of forty organizations, that number of companies having been swallowed. Joel Parker is to be the Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey. There is an ancient and fish-like smell about this candidacy. Joel Parker is aB. C. statesman. A candidate for office holding stock in a leading paper which he attempts to betray and sell out, is liable to try the next campaign with a hornet’s nest under his coat tail. _ The ring politician of Ohio continues to shout, '‘Hoadly will get there.” Viewed from this point, he seems to be there now—with an excellent prospect of staying where he is. __ Jerk. Black said “no man can be a good Democrat who believes in a tariff for protection.” Yet he favored Mr. Hendricks for President, and Mr. Hendricks believes in a tariff - for protection. All distinguished tourists who expect to see a great country and a live people come "West. True, there are many curiosities, old relics and Ben. Butler yet in the East, but the big attractions are all in the West. The powers of the rival springs of Saratoga and White Sulphur are now being put to an important and delicate test. Hendricks is drinking at one and McDonald at the other. The country can prepare for an interesting race. _______ The Cincinnati News Journal says “than the John McLean gang there is nothing meaner, lower, more despicable, or more vicious in American politics.’’ Yet it meekly eats its leek, and like a spaniel fawns at the feet of its master and humbly supports his ticket, _____ China sends S3OO for the Garfield hospital, the letter accompanying it saying that when the money was sent the donor knew the fact that citizens of China could not. under the laws of the United States, be admitted to the privilege of the hospital. It is time for iome more sand-lot statesmanship against she Chinese. ______________ It will be well to keep Ben. Butler in mind when looking forward to 1884. His prospects do not seem to look better now than his face; but there is a tremulous report ju9t floating that rare old Ben. is becoming more popular with the Democracy, and the widow is flirting her weeds very artfully in the direction of the South. Henry L. Pierce is liable to bo the Republican nominee for Governor of Massachusetts, and, of course, General Butler will stand for re-election on bis Tewksbury platform. Mr. Pierce is one of the Bay State’s most able and prominent men. He has figured in the front of the last two Republican national conventions. The; a estimated surplus in the Fostoffice Department for the past fiscal year is $2,500,000, or $1,100,000 more than the surplus for the preceding year. The same objection was raised to the introduction of postal cards as is now advanced against a two-cent postage. It is safe to say that the experiment of reduced postage will prove a success. There is a measure of nonsense in the assertion that facts ought not to be fixed in history until generations after they occur. It would be as well to have current events pass at once into permanent history, bearing the bias and prejudices of the times, as to delay the record until the facts themselves become obscure, entangled and uncertain. The elections as completed in France last Sunday show additional Republican pains, making in all about eighty members of the Assembly gained over the last election. There seems to be an abundant sentiment in that country to insure the maintenance ©f the republic, if it were judiciously tempered with more steadiness of nerve. French Republicanism needs a strong tincture of conservatism. There certainly can be, and would be, no possible objection to an old soldiers' reunion, where the honored veterans of the War could meet and “fight their battles o'er again.” If a movement toward such a reunion should be made, it can count upon the heartiest support of everybody, i*ot only >B the city of Indianapolis, but in the eutire

State. But it is the height of absurdity to confound the late encampment of militia with an old soldiers’ reunion. It was not that in any degree. By special arrangement, and at the request of a number of Grand Army men, the encampment managers agreed to set apart one day for the Grand Army posts, on which day all organized posts and persons wearing the authorized medal of the order should be admitted free. Where is the veteran, in any part of the State of Indiana, who will say that this was not more than fulfilled? Let us have the specifications of bad faith before there are any more ill-natured criticisms. To “kick” because the entire encampment was not changed from its original purpose into an old soldiers’ reunion is to indulge in a very childish and unfounded bit of gymnastics. EVIL PRINTS AND PAPERS A growing evil, and one that sometime must be checked by statute if public condemnation be not enough, is that of posting loud if not absolutely vulgar pictures of actresses along the public streets. Some of them are positively indelicate, and a very strong sentiment has been aroused against them on the part of citizens who have long endured the evil in silence. This condemnation does not come from a spirit of prudishness, but from a wholesome fear of the evil effects that seem inevitable. The worst specimens of these illuminated bills are generally to be found stuefe up in saloon windows, the more respectable tradesmen very properly declining to allow them space. The evil is not confined to variety shows, to actresses who have little character to suffer, but is now indulged in by “artistes” of all grades, with a very few honorable exceptions. The object of these flashy prints is to catch a certain kind of patronage, the character of which is obvious. But to do this the entire public is insulted. It matters not what one’s view’s and tastes in this direction may be, he cannot escape the impudent presence of realistic portraits of half-nude actresses, whose success depends more upon physical than mental excellence. When invitations of questionable decency are extended to certain classes of society, they should be conveyed privately, and without broadly insulting others, whose patronage is likewise, in most cases, desired. Aside from the adult patrons of theaters and shows of every degree of decency and indecency, there is a large population of youth whose morals are a matter of vital interest to society. The government that allows its youth to be corrupted without attempting to shield them can only expect trouble in restraining them when they grow older. Encouraged by the public display of vicious pictures, the tendency to licentiousness is the most natural thing in the world. The impropriety of allowing a public display to pictures that would be “loud” even in a bar-room ought to be apparent to all. It is undeniable that many of them are more .like the advertisement of houses of ill-repute than of theaters. But this evil has another feature but little less objectionable. In return for the privilege of putting these pictures in show’-windows, it is generally the custom to give the store-keeper or saloon keeper, a complimentary ticket. When not used by the proprietor or by the bar-keeper, it goes to some regular patron, and in either event a very undesirable person is frequently given a seat in the best portion of the house, much to the disgust of more respectable patrons. In some instances a comparatively respectable entertainment is advertised in an outre manner in order to attract a class of pepple that is easily pleased, the only requirement being that it shall border narrowly on indecency. Another evil, a twin of the above, is that of barber-shops providing loud illustrated papers for the entertainment of their patrons. This is an unqualified insult to every man who takes no pleasure in reading such abominable trash or even in looking over the atrocious illustrations, which, in nearly every instance, are libels on the subjects they pretend to represent. A man goes to a barber shop presumably to be shaved, not to read or look over a ten-cent picture gallery. It is to be greatly deplored that such publications are allowed to circulate at all, to sav nothing of having them thrust into your hands by obsequious brush boys as soon as you take a chair to wait your turn. Let it be denominated what it will, there is a large per cent, of those who are shaved by barbers who feel outraged whenever one of these scandalous sheets meets their eyes. Their feelings are entitled to some respect. There is no excuse for the proprietor of any kind of shop to thus gratuitously offer a standing insult to a large portion of his best patrons. Almost as well might a butcher or a baker keep these papers on their counters. It is time the better elements of society pronounced condemation of this custom. In some States law’s have been enacted prohibiting the sale and circulation of all such papers of evident immoral tendencies. Georgia has taken the right stand on this question, and the city of Atlanta has a section in one of its ordinances prohibiting the distribution for any consideration of obscene or immoral literature. Under its provisions a traveling agent of one of these notorious papers is now’ umler arrest for having distributed gratis copies of his papers there. The same measures should obtain elsewhere, and be enforced with such fidelity that the publication of that class of papers would be stopped. The reading of them is baneful to the hardest criminal in the land, and their influence over youthful minds is simply frightful. There is no art, truth, decency or virtue in them from one year’s end to the other. Their

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entire influence is for evil and evil ouly. They are the source of much crime, and should be incontinently suppressed. Dr. Norton Oref.n, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company, in a public interview, talks unctuously over the triumph of “a great principle” in the result of the late strike, and says: “I told General Eckert this afternoon the several hundreds of thousands of dollars which have been lost in the strike I regard to be the best financial investment made by the company. Hereafter, General Eckert tells me that he will get one-third more work out of a man for a day’s service, and the economy o? such a step will retrieve the loss in less than six months.” That statement ought to be blazoned everywhere. This company expects to make up its losses by forcing one-third more work out of their employes! A more heartless and brutal statement it would be hard to find in all monopolistic literature. It is not the amount of money spent by the Republicans in the campaign of 1880 that hurts the opposition, but the wise and legitimate use of what was spent The picket-line maintained along the borders shut out the gangs of repeaters and ballotbox stuffers who had been important factors in previous Democratic victories, and the State was lost. That made the sore place then, and is the inspiration now to all the bosh and slush upon the subject. The fusilade about campaign corruption doubtless lias another purpose in view—a kind of intimidation for future use. But the game of bully and intimidation can only be successfully played upon helpless blacks in the South, and would be a very disastrous undertaking upon Republican communities in the North. After the visitation of repeated calamities that have shocked the world, it would seem that the island of Ischia would be abandoned, but, instead, rebuilding the demolished towns has been commenced, even before the stench of bodies crushed and buried in the recent disaster has disappeared. A people who can live tranquilly at the foot of Vesuvius do not falter because the island upon which they spend their summers turns upside down and wrong side out occasionally. They seem to like it. Little Tommy Nichol bobs up again serenely, this time the central figure in a statement that, as an attache of the Sherman movement in 1880, he was engaged in writing letters to Wisconsin urging the nomination of Garfield. A letter he wrote to the treasurer of the State of Wisconsin, under date of April, 1880, favoring Garfield, lias been unearthed. That Nichol is about the worst tarnished piece of metal w r e know’ of. The sham anxiety in Democratic pirClcs for the education of the colored voter would be considerably toned down if pains wepe taken to find the true relative proportions Wl illiterate white and black voters. Taking into account the additional fact of the rapid progress of the colored race in educational matters, the outlook is not so gloomy as the bourbon would have it. If the statements made about the conduct of some of the diplomatic fellows in and around Washington be only half true, it is time the privilege from arrest was withdrawn in some way, or else the home governments notified to recall those representatives w’ho disgrace themselves aud outrage the law. Diplomatic privilege was intended for gentlemen and not for disreputable rowdies. The time is not far distant when earthquakes will be predicted with even greater exactitude than are atmospherical disturbances under the present system of meteorological observation in America. This will be rendered possible by the aid of microphones. __________________ The Japanese indies are not so ingenuous as their quaint, demure faces suggest. They drees to a purpose, and the object is attained by a coquettish way of doing up their beautiful black hair. That there was any meaning to the bizarre manner of making their coiffure will he news to many, but lr is true none the less. At the asre of nine a Japanese girl wears her hair tied up lu a red scarf bound around the back of her head; the forehead is left bare with ibd ex oeptiou of a couple of locks incipient bangs on either side. When she thinks she is of a marriageable age she combs her hair forward and makes it up in tho shape of a fan or butterfly, and at the same tune decorates it with a silver cord aud balls of varied oolors. Japanese young men are quick to understand tbts signal and act accordingly. The widow—coy but interesting the world over—is not without her devices in the greut island empire of the Occident. If she wishes to marry again, oris not averse to taking u second mate, she signifies it by sticking a tor-toise-shell pin horizontally at the back of her head and twisting her hair about it. But if she be inconsolable, she oangs her hair all ever, and is ugly enough to dismay any one who under ordinary circumstances might become a suitor. Thus, it will be seen, there is a system in hairdressing that simplifies greatly the business of wooing and wlnulng. In America, where tho business is better understood, there is no occasion to resort to such primitive devices. What “the poor man’s oow” is to American cities and rabbits are to Australian farmers is the goat to Cyprus. The supply of tomato cans and circus bills od the island being inadequate to the support of the innumerable goats there, the odorous pests are obliged to subsist on the bark of trees,and so far have their ravages spread that nearly all the trees have been killed. With characteristic doggednesa the oxmerof the goat refuses to give him up, ar.d as there are so many goat owners on the island, restrictive legislation is welt nigh impossible. The slant-eyed heathen Chinee promises to be the cause of u new race question in the South. The. Caucasian maids of Georgia are easily overcome by the fascinations of these children of the far East, nnd a number of marriages have occurred bet woen Chinamen and white women. Mr. Jordan, a member of the Legislature, is de termined the Georgia girl* shall have husbands that are white, aud has introduced a bill declar-

ing other marriages unlawful. This proposition had the effect of hurrying the wedding of Mr. Jim Chong and Miss Mary E. Jones, which took place at Augusta on Tuesday, The ceremony was performed by a magistrate, the mother of the bride belug present. After the nuptial knot was tied congratulations were given, and the bride received handsome presents, among them a SSO Chinese fan. A big dinner was spread. The groom runs a grooery store, does a good business and is making money. Tne courtship lasted bat two weeks. Mr. Jordan Is determined on pushing his bill through the Legislature speedily, in order that susceptible Georgia girls may be protected agaiust the wiles of the heathen. It would appear that convicts are not always the disgraceful creatures they have been pictured. A certain locality in Georgia recently decided that the building of a railroad was imperative. The Btate could offer no financial aid, but gave material assistance by allowing penitentiary convicts to be used. But opposition to the road arose, and to deter the euterpriee an effort was made to show that the builders were using the convicts cruelly. To disprove this malicious assertion the citizens along the liue got up an immeuse picnic, provided every luxury, and invited every convict on tne dump, mingling with them in the freest manner, and making their lives too enjoyable for any use. After that they were prepared to swear that their treatment was such that they would rather work on that, road than be elected to Congress. That settled it. The Modern Age, in an article upon women’s sphere of employment, suggests the practice of pharmacy as one well adapted to feminine abilities, but thinks it might be well to admit to such positions only those applicants whom a certain degree of age and unattractiveness precluded from probable disturbance of the affections. This plan it is believed would prevent the substitution of morphine for quinine in filling a prescription for a hated rival. If the Modern Age knows auy women so old and ugly that they are not susoeptible to tender sentiments it is especially favored. In this part of the country they are all dead. The Pennsylvania Legislature is still In session, the members performing the arduous labor of drawing ten dollars a day each for their services. The latest advice offered to the solons is that they resign and go home regardless of the leaders, and if the people indorse their records they will re-eleot them. The members regard the advice as incendiary.' Perhaps the people would not re-eleot them, and they prefer to sacrifice themselves while they can. They will never, no never, desert the Commonwealth. It is apparent that Louisville Is not a big enough town to support two popular amusements at the same time. The exposition is pegging along rather satisfactorily. But a circus—the first ot the season—pitched its tents there on Tuesday, and wus scooped in by a horde of constables, each armed with a writ of attachment in sums varying from $lO to SIOO. Evidently Louisville doesn't know a good thing when it sees it. A Wisconsin woman has Invented a laborsaving machine for the benefit of bees, and the little honey-makers of her acquaintance are enabled to improve the shlnlug hours to muoh greater advantage than bees less kindly favored. A sheet of wax run through the machine is indented in exact imitatmu of honeycomb, and when placed in the hives the little workers have nothing to do but to gather sweets euough to dll the ready-made receptacles. The Mother Hubbard dress is regarded by Oscar Wilde as a proper garment for tragedy. In his new play, the costums for which were designed by himself, the Nihllistio heroine kills the Czar of all the Russlas aud herself while olothed in a red, sleeveless garment of the species referred to. Whether this is iu the nature of a boom or a burial for the Mother Hubbard remains to be seen. A young man named A. Sydes killed his father at Plymouth, Va , for deserting and slandering his mother. Some of the bystanders condemned tbe murder as unjustifiable, but the sheriff took Sydes with him. [Diagram at this oftioe.J A Brooklyn man advertises that he will jump off the bridge with a life preserver in the shape of an open umbrella. No one has offered any objections, but the owner of the umbrella is yet to hear from. Joaquin Miller has anew play called “The Silent Man,’' aud the question naturally arises whether it is in the nature of an autobiography or a reappearance of me “Lone Fisherman.’’ To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: To decide an argument, will you please state tn your columns if there are now, or have been, any brick used iu tbe construction of the Statehouse. Subscriber. North Grove, Ind. There have been many thousands. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please explain what the letter “M“ means on tin* neck of Liberty on the new silver dollar. Pleasantvilld, lud. Joshua. It has the same significance that the letter docs in the how on the reverse side. ABOUT PEOPLE. Vanderbilt has had Maud 8. photographed at Saratoga. Ex-Senator Rollins, of New Hampshire, is going into the baukiug and brokerage business with Ilia son. The daughters of the Prince of Wales are becoming very graceful. They are no longer treated as children. Ex-Senator Conk ling wears a grayish coat und waistcoat anil black pantaloons, light gloves and gaiters, a simple bow lio and a soft black hat. Miss Pudu Fletcher, the author of “Kismet,’’ has such beautiful hands and arm* that they have sevoral limes been taken as models for marble statues. Princess Louise has been thoughtful enough to telegraph, “What day should pictures be at Boston for exhibition?” She is very grateful for the warmth with which she was received during her visit here. Lieutenant Leek nnd Dr. Anderson, of the British navy, were hunting hippopotami in tlie Myamhi river, recently, when a huge bull attacked the boat, demolished it, and caused both the officers to lose, their lives by drowning. Mr. William M. Bingeulkt, proprietor and editor of the Philadelphia Record, comes of one of that city’s oldest families, some of his ancestors having settled there a whole generation be fore Ihe landing of Penn. He is a farmer-editor, owning 600 acres of fertile land a few miles from the city, where he lives in the summer, und to the cultivation of which he pays considerable personal attention. His office in the handsome new Record building is luxuriously furnished, particulary with easy’ chairs, which are so much Mr. Singerley’a hobby that lie is reported to have said that he never could see anew style without buying it. Some months ago Queen Msrgtierita asked a little girl to kuit her a pair of silk stockiugs as a birth-day gift, and gave her twenty lire to buy tho material. The Queen forgot the circumstance till her birthday oame, when she was reminded of it by the arrival of a pair of well-knit stockings apd the maker’s best wishes. Not to be outdone. Queen Margherita sent a pair to her young friend as a return gift, one stocking being full of lieu pieces and the other of bonbons. They were accompanied by a 111 tie note; “Toll

me, my dear, which you liked best.” A reply readied the palace next day: “Dearest Queen —Both the stockings have made me shed many bitter tears. Papa took the one with tho money and my brother the other.” Mr. Bt. John, the ex-Governor of Kansas, is thought to be the worst fisherman In the country. He went trolling for pickerel at Silver Lake, N. Y., the other day, but talked with a companion constantly until their return to shore. He was leaving the lake when a boy said: “Look a here, Mister Man, there’s a piokerel on your line ye forgot to pull iu.” The pickerel weighed four pounds. The engagement of Edwina Booth to Mr. Downing Vaux, it is said, will have to be broken off. The history of the attachment of Edwin Booth’s daughter for the well-known architect Is very sad. She has insisted on clinging to him through thick and thin. Mr. Vaux has had a singularly unfortunate time within the past three years. He first had serious difficulty with his eyes, which imperiled his professional career, and after that was stricken down with an illness which deprived him of memory. He traveled abroad for a time and met Miss Booth in Berlin, and her influence over him worked quite a change for the better in his malady. But ou his return he became very ill again and his ill health has eontinued ever since. % SPIRIT OP THE PRESS. Common coinage by all the great financial powers is more remote than ever before. But we still goon increasing our stock of legal-tender silver, reducing our proportion of gold in the Treasury, and adding to the Incubus which sooner or later must, like the Old Man of the Bea, prove destructive if not thrown off.—New York Times. The Democracy has no principles whatever. It la an organized—perhaps only a disorganized —raid on the offices. What Democrats are “here for” is the offices, and there can no deeper hatred burn in the corroded heart o’ a crowd than the Democratic detestation of any reform that shall compel them to show any fitness for the offices.—Chicago Tribune. In sober reality, the people send fewer messages and consume lees iron than they did a .rear ago, and not only the lure strikers hut also their employers will have to accept the situation, whatever they may say about fighting for a principle, or about the abstract rights of oapital ami labor. Indeed, these recent labor movements have not settled anything, and as a precedent they are absolutely worthless.—Boston Advertiser. We shall have to get back the habit of living according to our means, rigorously, conscientiously, happily. It will require religious purpose aud divine support. It may notoome until another panic has swept the land like a tornado; but until it comes we shall lire in the midst of serious and appalling dangers to our hapoiness, our morals, our progress, and our religion. The new worldiiness is destroying the beauty and blessedness of our life.—Northwestern Christian Advocate. A majority of the oitlzens of the United States wanted General Garfield for President and did not want General Hancock. They cast 4,454,416 ballots to elect President Garfield; he was elected, and neither the coant nor the honesty of any of these ballots lu any particular election district or any particular box, has ever been disputed or questioned, or ever wiil be. Until these ballots are impeached, talk about “treaties,” conferences” or “bargains” is twaddle.—Philadelphia Press. The men who expect to become great by working hard with their mouths; those wageworking cranks who are never half so happy as when they are on a strike and r*eiving weekly contributions from men who have to work for a living; those professional workingmen who sep a rat* themselves from all other workingmen by forming close corporations and monopolies, called trade-unions, are playing themselves out very rapidly in this matter-of-faot country, and in these matter-of-faot times.—Chicago News. There is nothing—absolutely nothing—ln General Garfield’s acts as President which gives the least color to these assertions against a man now dead and unable to defend himself, aud for whom those who preteuded to bo his friends while he was alive and in power are making a very feeble defense. It seems to us that lionoruble mer have a right to regard these accusations of Garfield as infamous. If ay one lias proofs to offer of their truth he had better do it quickly. But If there was the least proof it would have been produced long ago.—New York Herald. Viewing the sucoess of the schools of applied mechanics, the question has arisen in the minds ot the promoters of public schools whether the money now expended in teaching Greek and Latin might not be more profitably used in practical Instruction. The plan has even been recommended to the consideration of the school boards in various cities. There is no doubt that if children are to be educated at the expense of the State, the State would be justified in insisting that, tho dead languages and abstruse ologies shall be put aside for something like useful edu-cation.--Philadelphia Record. Who will say, since the Land League began its career under great difficulties in 1879, that there Is not a remarkable progress toward the solution of the Irish problem? Certainly the effectuation of the Home-rule principle in Irelawkwiil enable tha* country to right Itself wirhln legitimate lines. The principle obtains in every colony of the British empire, while British statesmen have made it their fixed policy to withhold that principle from Ireland and to continue methods by which Ireland cau be characterized as the worst governed country under a civilized power in the world.—Louisville Courier Journal. THE agitation of the subject has led the Ohio voters to inquire not so much as to this particular issue of veracity as concerning the plain and simple question of fact whether Judge Hoadly did pay out $50,000 or any part of it for the purpose of influeuqing the Democratic nomination, aud if so, to whom he paid if, and with what result. Judge Hoadly was very slow in making bis denial of Woodard’s story in the first place, and even now he mukesir in such a vague and unsatisfactory way as to rather increase than allay the general suspicion that he bought the nomination.—New York Tribune. A controlling element among those voters of the country who represent the truest patriotism hold party allegiance in slighter regard now than for many years past. These people will vote next year with the party that puts forward the best men and shows the nest, spirit and declares the best purposes. When both parties stand about the same in these respects, they will stick to theD own, but the one that makes a mistake will be beaten, and no appeals to old memories or old party cries or the power of organization or money can save it. If both parties recognize this fact, the country will be all the better off for it-.—Louisville Commercial. The [emigrationJ policy is no doubt, a wise one in both cases. There is always a goodly proportion of persons In these districts of too much population who are willing to move, bur prefer to go abroad and take their chances rattier than to try their fortunes in another part of their own country. Both elements will be accommodated- by the present bill, and the principle of relieving local Iron ides by this method will be established. It is an advance over old methods, in that it shows a disposition to do something other than the enactment of coercion and repression laws, and its adoption even on a small scale will tend to show the people of Ireland that they may occasionally become objects of philanthropic movements, instead of the oldtime monotony of suspicion, misrule, distrust, aud severity.—Philadelphia Times. A COMMUNISTIC CIRCULAR. An Inflammatory Appeal to Workingmen— Congress Called at Pittsburg. Pittsburg Special. Circulars, emanating from the “Bureau of Information of-the American Federation of Socialists” were distributed to-day among the prominent labor leaders of the city. The following is the fiery emanation: To the Socialists>of North America: Comrades—The capitalistic class of this country nave exhausted the store of our patience. Not a day passes in winch there are not new links forged to the chain that holds the wageworking class in snbjeo’ion to the dictates of the bourgeois, tne propertied class. The wage-worker is looked upon as one who, by predestination, is condemned to disfranchisement ami resignation: is one whose object of existence is no or her than continuous servitude for tho comfort of his capitalistic masters. Tyrannical factory ordinances, lock-outs for the purpose of breaking up and preventing the organization of labor, reduction of wages, increase of the hours of labor, Incarceration and oven assassinations, are tho means which t.e oligarchy employ against the working people to render then; still more depondent, and degrade them to intellectual dullness, the result ot which is idiocracy and degeneration. What are, meantime, the Socialists doing, who should be the pioueers ot labor in the great social war? They seem to be only partially cognizant of their mission. Pome look indifferently upon the development of things, ami live in obscurity, instead of grasping every opportunity that is offered for the furtherance ami promulgation of our ideas and the formation of orgaulza*

tions to prepare that course which is destined to abolish the inrmnous institutions of oppression of to-aay and class rule In whatever form they may appear. What is the cause of this indifference? it is the deplorable dissension of the elements which are' all working for the same end. Let us put an end to this state of affairs. Let all those who have the cause of the oppressed class at heart, and who are siucere and earnest about it, meet in council and agree upon a uniform, practical aud effective organization. A congress has for this purpose been called to meet at Pittsburg, Pa., ou Sunday, Oct. 14, 1883, to which we ask you to send your delegates. Iu cities where the majorities should resolve to ignore this congress, let the minorities assemble and elect delegates. The names appended are: William Bluhni, secretary, 28 Keith street, and A. Spies, assistant secretary, 107 Fifth avenue, Chicago. The leading revolutionist here is Herr Johann Frick, ex-emigrant agent. Thomas A. Armstrong, editor of the National Labor Tribune and a leading Knight of Labor and representative of" a score of trades-unions, said to your correspondent: “None of the labor organizations of the country will pay the least attention to this inflammatory call. The Red Republicans have nothing for which we care in their views. There are not a dozen native Americans in their crowd, and no man, a representative of a labor organization, will be a delegate to their congress.” An official of a powerful organization, who refused the use of his name, also said: “I can't understand why the Socialists have chosen Pittsburg as the point at which lo hold! a called congress, for I am sure that the labor organizations of this region have always given them the cold shoulder. Some years ago we held a labor convention in this city, to which the Socialists sent delegates. Wo soon put them out, and they went to another hall, where they passed blood-and-thunder resolutions, embodying the sentiments of this circular. Sensible advocates of the rights of labor don’t train with this. Communist crowd.” THEY ARE DUDES. That Is the Charge Made by Knights oT Labor Against Telegraphers. Now York Times. “The trouble with the Knights of Labor wa9 this,” said a gentleman who is promt-, nently identified with one of the local assemblies. “The average working man, and. I refer now even to the best informed men in our ranks, men who ought to know better, will insist upon associating’ clothes with labor. They attended the meetings of the strikers, and found them to be a party of well-dressed young men and women, wearing clothes such, as a rule, neither they nor their families wore either on Sundays or holidays. They were characterized' as ‘dudes,’ and the operators are, so to speak, the dudes of the laboring classes. The young men smoked cigars or cigarettes instead of pipes, and looked much more like clerks in dry goods stores, or like bookkeepers. than they did like what some ot onr people thought should be the outward nnd visible signs of laborers. Then, too, the leaders constantly counseled moderation, hissed at speakers who argued for the adoption of more violent measures, and altogether were different from the class of people they were accustomed to meet in the assemblies of laboring men. They had no cenfidence in what a member of my own assembly called them, the ‘kid-gloved laborers,’ and thought that donations to them would be thrown away, because they wouldn’t hold out. They refused absolutely to believe that these ruen and women of entirely different social scale would make so brave a fight as they did. The linemen were all right, because they wore jumpers and overalls, and appeared in their shirt-sleeves occasionally. But the forty-five dollar suits, white neckties, ‘boiled’ shirts and stove-pive hats were too much for many of the laboring men here, who didn’t think such things consistent with people who called themselves laborers. That wa9 tiie real cause of the apathy among laboring men here who are consistent members of the Knights of Labor, and who have never before refused to contribute liberally in aid of a strike. One can’t blame the hod-Carriers or the ’iongshoremen, perhaps, for this feeling, but I was astonished to find its existence among the more intelligent bodies of laborers.” PRESIDENT JARRETT. A Man Who Proposes to Attend to His Business and Wants To Be Let Alone. Pittsburg Special “I don’t know that it is anybody’s bust* ness except iny own what I will do.” said Mr. John Jarrett, president of the Amalgamated Association, to-day. “If I can get more money by working outside of a mill I will do it, because, as you know well enough, a man who works for a living is going to work where he can make the most money; No, sir; I did not refuse a re-election to the presidency of the Amalgamated Association because I had outside offers that would bring me more money. I refused the re-electiou partly because the duties of the office are arduous, and my health has been poor for two years past; but the principal reason was because I think one man should not hold office all the time*** “It has been published, Mr. Jarrett, that you have had offers to take the management of big iron-mills at a large salary, and that you nropose to accept, one. Is it true?” “Well, whatever offers I may have had, or now have, are my own private business. I propose to attend to the duties of my office till my term expires. What I will do afterward will be as plain John Jarrett, and.l can’t see why the newspapers should bother about it at all.” Ds La Matyr in Denver. Correspondence Cincinnati News Journal. The Rev. Dr. De La Matyr,of Indiana,is here, in charge of a church, and they are making a great to-do over him. Gave him a kind of donotion party and a S2OO bill to begin with; and are making a lion of him very rapidly. These people here have big ways, ami very exuberant ideas, and when they do things don’t spare expense. So I think the great Greenback apostle has got a softer snap than he ever would have found in the feeding grounds of classic “Itijeana.” I wish him all manner of good luck, and as the ladies seem to naturally swarm around him, no doubt be will have it. Girls in the Diamond. New York Times. It is very doubtful if girls can be made efficient base-ball players. They can far surpass the inale “red stockings” and “White Stockings” in the splendor of their costumes, but in all probability the sacred cause of art would suffer less were they to display their glotbes on the stage instead of the btfll field. Grows Better Every Day. Kokomo Gazette. The Indiafiapolis Journal grows better everyday. It is edited with great ability, and gives by far more general news than any paper in the State. Its Republicanism is of the purest kind, and it deserves tho hearty support of the party throughout the State. Mr. Riley’s Curse of Reading. Louisville Courier-Journal. Heigh, ho, babyhood!” sings the Indiana poet, Mr. Riiev. It is evident that Mr. Riley has been reading the Courier-Journal’s recipe for baby colic. Not Hett Enough. New York Herald. Mr. Holman, of Indiana, is an excellent congressman and a verv good man, but bis weight is not —wall, enough. It Goes Marching On. St. Louis Republican (Bern.) Tildcn and Hendricks stock is still rising.