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'THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Paire. THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1883. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe. 419 Strand. rARIS— American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard dee Capucines. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels, WASHINGTON. D. C.—Brentano’s 1,015 Peuneylvania avenue. CHICAGO —Palmer House. CINCINNATI—J. t\ Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Penot The third ticket in Hamilton county does not meet with approval from high Democratic authority. Well, hardly. They are still turning* the rascals out in Kentucky. Governor Blackburn pardoned ight more Democrats on Tuesday. Oscar Wilde may be a crank, but it is not every crank who can sell a $4 play for $7,500. That is what he received for “Vera.” “Historic justice,’’ seeking a vindication in the household saturated with the dishonor and infamy developed in the cipher dispatches, would be a spectacle both rare and juicy. But the old ticket is booming. It is reported that the National Lancers have been ordered to escort Governor Butler at the opening of the world’s fair, September 3. Does anybody know of a world’s fair impending anywhere? This will be news to many. **-■ The scheme for the consolidation of New England companies has fallen through, and Appearances are that no agreement wiljl be reached between them. This is as it should be. There ought to be competition. Every time a prominent man dies in France the Imperialists post handbills in Paris, which are torn down by the police. This amusement furnishes business for the police, and is not a bad thing for the job printers—provided the bills are paid for. The Courier-Journal publishes a cut of the trophy that the De Molay Commandery captured at San Francisco. It appears to be a vugar-bowl. On the lid is a knight mounted and in full armor. At the base is a man holding what seems to be a lump of sugar. But perhaps, it is the cake. We believe that is what De Molay took. Dr. Edward Lasker, of Berlin, a lawyer and member of the Reichstag, is in Chicago. He expresses himself as a friend of the American hog, says that no trichinae were ever found in pork received from America, and that he is doing all in his power to remove the embargo put upon American pork. He thinks Germany is not able to raise enough pork for her own consumption. Among the alleged hazers in the Naval Academy are two Indiana lads, Dodd and Johnson. Their first smell of war is likely to come from a court-martial, and if found guilty they will be retired to the humdrum life of the civilian. How long will it take these charity striplings to learn that manliness would be a most clever substitute for the coarseness and brutality in vogue called hazing? The Keely motor is again pronounced a success, and the inventor will trot it out about the middle of next month. The motor is always an assured success at this season of the year. It i3 said in this connection that while applications have been received from all parts of the country for passage on the first motor train to New York, no passes have been issued. There is unnecessary cruelty in this refusal. There seems little need of fear on account of the foreign element in our population. The last census shows the total population of foreign-born people to be but $,679,943, while the native population is over six times as large, or 43,475,840. It is a fact not generally known that the colored population of the United States nearly equals the foreign, being 6,580,793. The apprehension that the colored race will ever control affairs seems not to have troubled anybody. The per cent, of our foreign-born population will steadily decrease as time passes. In keeping with the long list of fatalities for the current year, the earthquake in the island of Java is more serious than at first reported. The earthquake was soon supplemented by about half the forty-five volcanoes on the island suddenly becoiuingactive. The description of the scene is appalling, and the terrors of the situation can hardly be conceived. The loss of life appears to have been frightful, the total being placed at over twenty thousand. While this may be an exaggeration, there can be no doubt that the loss has been very heavy, and in all probability this new calamity will be greater than any that have preceded it during this year of horrors. There is imperative need of additional restrictions upon the possession and ownership Os deadly weapons. Their outright prohibition seems to be demanded, except as to the military and keepers of the peace. The gwarni of mad men and bad men mingled all throngh our society ought to be rendered as harmless as possible by completely disarming them and keeping them so. By a law requiring it, and a public sentimeut to back it

the police and constabulary of the country could in a very short time deprive all the dangerous classes of their chief means of murder and mischief. £be toning of sentiment and the strengthening of the statute upon this vital question ought not to be delayed longer than the earliest opportunity to accomplish the important end in view. The daily street-butcheries in American society have become a reproach upon our people, and must be stopped. THE OLD TICKER The movement looking to a boom for *he old ticket is still being pushed for all there ! is in it, and public sentiment is being coached to secure the nomination in 1884 of the ticket defeated in 1876. So far as Republicans are concerned there ought to be and probably is no opposition to the scheme. The Democratic party fought the campaign of 1880 on the fraud issue and made .11 out of it that it possibly could. It failed then, just as it will fail in the next campaign. It matters not now whether Hayes or Tiiden was elected in 1876. The Republicans believed then, and still believe, that elections were carried for Democracy by fraud in several Southern States. It was made quite plain that intimidation, ballot-box stuffing and fraud generally changed what would have been the popular verdict and honest sentiment of those States. Democrats, on the contrary, professed to believe—and we give them credit for sincerity—that their party had triumphed. Let it be admitted that there was an honest difference of opinion on this important issue. Recognizing this difference, and fully aware of the difficulty of arriving at a solution that would be conclusive, the people’s representatives in Congress decided to refer it to a special high court known as the Electoral Commission. This was done in the interest of peace and harmony, and was acceded to by both parties thereto. The Democratic party consented to it as unreservedly as did the Republicans. At that time the superficial advantage was on the side of the Democratic party, it having seven members of the commission beside David Davis, whose predilections were decidedly Democratic. They confidently expected that they would have a majority of one in all vital votes. It so happened, however, that Mr. Davis resigned afterward and was elected to the Senate. The vacancy thus caused was filled with a Republican, and the status of the two parties, as represented in the commission, was reversed. There is no probability that the Democratic party, bad it foreseen this change, would have entered into the plan. But they did enter, with every appearance of being guided wholly by its verdict. The commission was consented to by both parties, presumably in the interest of harmony, and as affording the best and easiest way out of a very perplexing dilemma. All honest and unprejudiced men greeted the electoral plan as a patriotic and wise one. That its verdict should be final was conceded by all. Beaten, by the resignation of Davis, out of what it regarded as a certainty, the Democratic party was loud in its cries of fraud. This was kept up for four long years, and its changes were rung on every platform and in every party paper. In season and out of season “the fraud of ’76’’ was kept before the public. Mr. Tiiden posed as a patriotic martyr and Mr. Hendricks himself was not averse to expressing himself as one who had been deprived of his own. This howl—for it was little else than a persistent and meaningless howl—was kept tin until the time for selecting anew ticket came round. It was then proposed that the old ticket should be nominated in order to its vindication by the people. It received so little favor, however, that the project was abandoned, and new men were chosen. But with the opening of the campaign the fraud cry wus again taken up. The party asked vindication. The campaign was fought on this issue more than any other. Every feature of the preceding campaign was reviewed from the day of the St. Louis convention up to the final vote of the commission in the early days of March, 1881. Every advantage was taken of the eight to seven verdict—every possible appeal was made. When the issue came to a vote the people defeated the fraud cry by an unmistakable and significant majority. Mr. Tiiden nor any other man is of sufficient importance to be made an issue in a national campaign. What he was or was not defrauded of in 1876 is of no importance in 1884. One man’s imagined grievances are not to be set up against the interests of 50,000,000. The representatives of all the people settled the dispute of 1876 in the best manner they could command. No other way would have been acceptable. No other way seemed possible. Republicans consented to it at a time when the chances were unfavorable to them. An accident in politics gave them a majority not prejudiced in favor of the Democratic party, and instead of eight votes being recorded with stubborn persistency against every proposition, whatever its merits, there were but seven. The Democratic party took an appeal to the people in the next national campaign, and the verdict of the commission was unqualifiedly sustained. There is a method in the madness of Democracy in recurring to dead issues. The party looks upon Mr. Tiiden as one of its shrewdest men, an energetic and vigilant manager of campaigns and a man of infinite resource in emergencies. This was proven in the campaign in which he was defeated, when his residence was the center of operations that had for their object the captnro of the necessary, but wanting, electoral vote. Telegrams in cipher were hourly transmitted from every strategic point, some

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of such a compromising nature as to seriously reflect upon the personal honor of Mr. , Tiiden. Evidence of attempts to buy one of the Oregon electors, and the dickering between him and Mr. Tilden’s confidential j agents, was produced in such a manner as to j be beyond the power of denial. The same scheme was attempted in Florida, and only ' failed because the price was too high. The points were developed in answer to the fraud | cry of 1880. The people believed the charges ! and voted accordingly. They have had no j reason to change the verdict rendered then, and the same issue would again be defeated, j The Democratic party makes the mistake of substituting a more than questionable personal grievance for a national issue. Mr. Tilden’s disappointment and defeat eight years ago are of little moment now. The millions of people that make up this republic have much of graver import to engage their attention. The tariff issue and the question of wages, in which three million laborers are directly and most intimately interested, are of vastly more importance than the personal political ambition of any one man in the country. Mr. Tiiden has had his day. He has been tried, and found to be a man very dangerous to the institutions of the country. He has done more than any other man to cripple the election machinery of the nation and to corrupt and defeat popular suffrage. He may be put up again by Democracy as their candidate for the high office of President, but he cannot be elected. His money may buy his party, but it cannot buy the people. His trickery in the election in which he was so narrowly defeated opened the eyes of the public to the true character of the man. The great mass of independent voters have no confidence in his integrity nor in his reputation as a reformer. The Republican party offers no objection to the old ticket. Let it be again put up. The platform on which it must stand was run over and wrecked three years ago, and it will be even less potent next year. The Republican party will be content to fight for living issues and to simply recall to public attention the many corrupt practices resorted to in 1876 by the intimate friends and relatives of Mr. Tiiden in the vain hope of capturing that which lie so nearly grasped but which did not belong to him, and will never come so near him again. The French commission to the Boston exposition called on Mayor Edson, of New’ York, on Tuesday, and announced that the great statue of Liberty would be ready for delivery any time after the first of January next. They also informally invited the Mayor and Americans in general to a celebration to be given in Paris in 1889, commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of republican independence in France. Six years is a long time in French history, and a good many things may occur between now and 1889. The wonder is whether any notice will be taken of the little hiatus in the republic, during which an empire seemed on top? It will be safe to answer, however, that some kind of a jubilee will be held there in 1889, and the occasion should make little difference. It begins to look as though even the Democratic party is bigger than any one man in it. This does not seem to have occurred to Mr. John McLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer. The men at the head of the bolt are evidently in earnest, and will undoubtedly nominate a second Democratic ticket for Hamilton county. It is now too late for a back-down on either side. At the meeting yesterday afternoon the committee reported in favor of nominating anew ticket, and a call was issued for a convention to be held Sept. 8. The title of the new ticket will be the Democratic Reform ticket, the regular Democratic State ticket to be supplemented by the names of candidates to be chosen when the convention meets. The national jealousy between France and Germany is so intense that a friendly visit by the King of Spain to the latter country is made the ground of indignation by the former. Things have come to a sad plight when the crowned heads dare not be turned to the right or left without precipitating serious complications with neighboring countries. But such a state of things can be view’ed with complacency from this side of the water as favorable omens for the people. The reform Legislature of Pennsylvania has pending before it a resolution requiring all the members to resign and go home, having fully demonstrated their inability to discharge the public duties entrusted to them. The measure could be improved by a provision whereby the members shall retire in pairs and take it time about in kicking each other all the way from the capital to their respective counties. Reform is necessary. The Hon. J. 0. S. Blackburn, of Kentucky, is no longer a candidate for the speakership of the next House, but announces his intention of making a race for the Senate. This statement possesses more interest for Hon. John S. Williams than any one .else. The Wooden School. The four classes in wood-work, at the htghschool, under Professor Goss, will meet at the benches to morrow for the last time. A side room shows the fruits of the summer's work, In a series of tool-chests, book-cases, paneled pedestals, frames for ottomans, artists’ easels and the like put together in a neat and workmanlike and workwomanly manner, for some of its best pieces have been made by Mattie Tarbell and Elizabeth Nicholson, of this city. About S7O worth of lumber, nearly 2,000 feet, have oe.en used by the youthful carpenters. A number have brought their own woods and have taken the. products of their eighty hours of labor under a competent insiructorto their homes. A series of the structures made will probably be

put on exhibition at the rooms of the school 1 board. A conversation with Professor Grant, to whose earnest efforts and constant attendance much of the good done is due, reveals the fact that such a school might be made self-supporting in the summer months if not throughout the year. It is a question whether such schools can be legally constituted ami supported out of public funds. Tne Gregg fuud of SIO,OOO, devoted to “general education,” has accumulated an interest fund of some $2,000, and yields annually S6OO. No court has as yet deoided the limits within which tuition must be eouflued in the public schools. The present work does not differ in scope or character from that done by pupils in chemical and physical laboratories, and such are common in all first-class high-schools. The school board bas not as yet committed itself to the teaching of the principles that underlie the mechanic arts—as the use of wood and iron and stone-working tools—as a regular part of the high-school course. The board hap, however, furnished a room and built the benches. The salary of Professor Goss, the cost of tools and material will be paid out of the $8 tuition fund collected from the forty-eight students. That, with the right Kind of a teacher, such schools may be successfully conducted is one of the facts established beyond a doubt. The attendance was prompt, the classes were full, ami several applicants turned away; the pupils enjoyed the work—they had paid for it in part—feit responsible for their work and not for their per cents., and went to it as cheerfully as to base ball. The question before the board and the people Is, now, what shall we do with it? Shall we open a fall class in one of the old buildings and teach the use of tools to those having the requisite strength desiring to do so, and willing to pay for tho use of tools and material, or shall we have simply a summer school like the present, or shall we let tho matter go by default) Prof. Goss says that by this summer’s work he has learned several things, or rather confirmed pre-existing views: That only boys of highschool age or strength can use all the bench-tools to advantage; the course has to be modified for the light-weights. Also that brain is necessary as well as brawn—in short that the sharpest and brightest boys do the best work. He nelieves that such work has a high educational value aside from ability; it trains the eye and hand; it is both mental and muscular exercise at once. Moreover, that the use of tools can he taught girls to the benefit of their health and general usefulness and Intelligence. Probably the greatest difficulty In operating such sohools will be in getting competent teachers; they should be graduates of technical schools, should be practical and natural mechanics, and should moreover be apt to teach. Prof. Goss has these requisites and his school was a success. Whether a competent teacher at a salary witnin the compass of the board can be secured, hereafter remains to be tested when the verdict of the people and tho school board is received. Any one wishing to see the work of the classes must call at the bigh-school between 8 and 6 o’clock to-day or Friday, as the hammer drops and the first successful effort in this city toward industrial traiuing in Bchool classes closes to-morrow with the close of the wooden school. The eleventh congress of women, wliloh me6ts in Chicago on October 17, is an association in which all who are indirectly concerned in what is known as tho “advancement of women” should take a deep interest. The congress has already done great good by a free discussion of subjects in which all the world is interested, but which have hitherto been treated only from a man’s stand-point. Its work, however, is only just begun, each year bringing new topics for consideration and showing a wider scope of ar gumnnr. The association has no connection with the suffrage movement proper, only touching that question incidentally, as one of the many levers which may be needful for women In their future progress. The programme for the coming congress erobraoes a wide field. Among the topics for discussion are: “Women and Land,” “Duty of the White Women of the North to the Black Women of the South,” “Women of Utah,” Historic Art,” “Mourning Garb,” and “Scientific Charity ” Papers on the above subjects will be read by women well qualified to treat of them, and cannot fail to be interesting. In addition to the above, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, president of the society, and who holds somewhat conservative ideas on the subject, will lecture upon the “Benefits of Suffrage to Women.” Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell will consider the subject of heredity, Mrs. Livermore “The Infringement of Personal Liberty by License,” and Miss Clara Bartou will tell of the “Work of the Red Cross.” The object of the association is to promote co-operation among women, not only for tneir own benefit, but for the advancement of the human race. With so generous au aim in view, no one can refuse to wisu them a successful session and happy results. They had a parade and a few fire-works in Washington the other night, and this is the way a National Republican reporter talks about it: “Rockets shot athwart the (lark sky with a swift and sinuous grace, clearing the darkness with a hissing trail of glitter. And now, looking down to tho rapidly approaching masses, the scene became one of lurid splendor. The roman candles threw their parti-colored balls across tbe street from either side, crossing each other’s path, and leaving behind a curving glow of light. Thestroutia flames deepened into gigantic flashes of crimson and emerald radismoe, lighting up the somber darkness with a glittering but ghastly brilliancy. Alladown the avenue the scene was one of superb and glowing brilliancy. It was a flnrj*, flashing, flaming forest of gleam and glitter, floating upon a sea of shining and shimmering splendor, over and around which swayed the waves of an atmosphere of weird, unearthly radiano*. In the orimsonglow of the strontia the pension- office and the old census building were lit up with a crimson glory, and then Willard's hotel and the Corcoran building grew opalescent In tbe shimmering blsze of a lurid green glory. Thousands of roinun caudles and revolving wheels poured out their sluices of sparkling flaiue in a cataract of flashing radiance. Sheaths of rockets writhed in and clove the air in a hundred diflerent directions, lightin g up the dark with glittering trails of ourving brilliancy, and suddenly dropping in showers of pearls and diamonds and rubies. As this spilth of flame and color began to fade, there slowly drew into clear sight, amid the fiery clouds, a magnificent pagoda of red. white and blue, iu whose center blazed with glittering brillanoy, written with letters of flame, upon a scroll of fire, “Welcome Home!” This reporter is evidently getting ready to “cut out” Michael Sheridan so that he can go on the next presidential tour himself as historian, A Minnesota Enooh Arden, known, however, to his friends by the more euphonious name of Bcanblossom, when he came home after years of absence aud found his wife married to another man, behaved according to the poetical rules made and provided, and gave up bis olaim to his successor. Subsequent reflection caused him to repent of this magnanimity, and he hied ldin to the residence of the second husband with adetuand that wife and child be given up to him. The unhappy number two wanted to keep the woman aud let tbe child go. This concession was probably what settled mutters, for the mother promptly took her son and departed with Beanbloesom, who uo longer blooms alone. Americans believe that the United Btates postoffice is a great institution, but are wont to complain of some of its unaccountably foolish rulings. The English postoffice, which is held up as a model, has, it appears, some regulations quite as mysterious and exasperating to patrons of the service as any of our own. Hie Loudon Graphic having lately bogun the publication of a continued story, was informed that it could no

longer be transmitted through the mails at newspaper rates. No proof could convince the officials that the sheet was still a newspaper, and the story was consequently abandoned. Another daily paper issued a supplement containing some important news received after tho regular edition had gone to press. On each copy with supplement, whioh was sent by post, six cents extra postage was charged, and all which the subscribers refused to receive were sent to tho dead-letter office. Any Englishman who seeks to investigate these rules meets with the same experience as our own citizens in like case. No official can be found who has the faintest idea why such regulations are made. When Ben Jonaou wrote: “Give, me a look, give me a face That makes simplicity a gruoe; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free, Such swefet uegleot more taketh me Than ull the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, hut not mine heart— Ben must have been thinking of the girl in the Mother Hubbard who comes down to breakfast without combing her hair. The poetry is very well, but the taste is depraved. an lowa judge has refused a divorce to a woman who asked to be freed from her husband because he was a drunkard. The judge said in substance to the complainant that she knew the man was a drunkard before she married him, and that, having elected to become his wife, she must abide by her choice. If other courts should follow this precedent the foolish young women who marry dissipated men, hoping to reform them afterward, would become less numerous. Madame Rive-King, the pianistc. has been driven from a desirable cottage at Yorkville because her musical next door neighbor practiced at the piano as assiduously as herself. The rest of the neighbors would probably regard this as a clear case of similia similibus curautur if the other woman had moved away too. Tiie tenth annual meeting of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections will he held at Louisville, Ky., beginning on the evening of Monday, Sept. 24. The object 0.. the organization is apparent in its title, and it is oomposed of leading citizens from all parts of the country. Clara Louise Kellogg is reported as saying that “after one has been to Paris one thinks more of art and less of dollars.” After learning the price of tickets to Clara’s concerts next season the publio will be able to judge whether her culture is real or assumed. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: To decide a dispute, please give the date of the coming oitv eleotiou. October 9—the second Tuesday. ABOUT PEOPLE. Georoe Eliot’s “Daniel Derouda” is said to be pretiy accurately represented In real life by a nephew of Mr. Beligman, the bauker. There are 30,000 Christian Indians in the United States, but the Boston Post thinks its safer to trade horses with Satan than with one of them. A young man in Lowell gave his intended an engagement ring on the inside of which was engraved the legend: “In time of peace prepare for war.” Boston Post: “Ruskin says no couple should marry until they have courted seven years. This would lead one to think that Buskin runs a soda fountain. Princess Beatrice is understood to have engaged to furnish some pencil sketches to an English monthly, and the price for her pictures has been agreed on. Mrs. Annie Louise Cary Raymosd has consented to sing once more in public, this time at Portland, at a complimentary concert tendered to her friend, Miss Bryant. Mr. Barnes, the “Mountain Evangelist,” of Kentucky, now in London, is promulgating a new notion, to wit, that the English-speaking people are descended from the lost tribes of Israel. Mr. Jefferson’s 6ister, Cornelia, a favorite in old times, but long since retired from the stage, will reappear this season iu her brother’s company, playing “Tilly Slowboy” in “The Cricket on the Hearth.” The late Montgomery Blair was the originator of uniform cheap postage, of the carrier delivery in large cities, and of the postoffice money order system, while under him the postoffice department became for the first time a paying institution. General Daniel E. Sickles, who has been fortunately forgotten of late, reappears in public view as the victim of dust from the roof of a boarding-house keeper, who seems to be perpetually shaking carpets thereon. The person guilty of the uulsunce, a Mrs. Hall, up to date defies the General, his luudlady, the health department, aud the courts. Rev. Roiikrt Collyer is one of the American preachers who have occupied London pulpits this summer. Mr. Collyer, who is an American by adoption, and was a blacksmith in his native England, preached also iu Ilkley parish this summer in a church, tbe gates of which are proudly pointed out as the work of his owu hands when he was employed in the forge. When Mr. Irving reaches this country lie will have in his party Clement Soott and Joe Hatton, two well-known London Journalists, to do the “spontaneous literary tribute” business and to keep off interviewers. Mr. Irving’s impressions of America are to be published simultaneously in England and in America in the form of a diary, and these two journalists are to “lick it into shape” for him. A current report that tbe late Governor Swann took an oath of ulleglance to the Confederacy, and, as mayor of Baltimore, invited the rouglits to assault the Union troops passing through that city, is indignantly denied by his friends. He was known through the State as an uncompromising Union man from the first, and, moreover, his term of mayor expired before the election of Lincoln. Certain scientific journals of Europe have been giving tbeir attention of late to the history of Jonah. One of them has pointed out that, if the fish swallowed the prophet in the Mediterranean and threw him out again near Nineveh, he must have been carried through the Straits of Gibraltar, round the Cape of Good Hope, up the Persiau Gulf, and into tho Tigris. This is a frightfully prosaic digression. With advauoing years Bancroft, tho historian, seems to be losing much of that silly social sentimentalism which was formerly so characteristic of the man. He used to be quite a beau at the watering-places, and long after his hair turned white he courted the society of women, particularly debutantes. “Why do you call me Mr. Bancroft!” he is reported to have asked a Newport belle; “why don’t you call me George!” A bkqf.nt visitor to the office of the Louisville Courser Journal says that the Hon. Harvey M. Wattersou—who, by the way, was Id Congress with the late Judgo Black’s father—is very proud of his son Henry, editor of that paper, and relates many anecdotes to show how precocious the boy was, long years ago, when watermelon season came, and how dexterous he was in climbing picket-fences when the farmers let loose the <|pgs of war. The old manse still stands at Concord, Mass., as when Hawthorne wrote thirty years ago. It is old, gray and nnpainted. Insido it Is snug, cozy and attractive. On one of the tiny window frames is a legend in Hawthorne’s handwriting, telling how Una Hawthorne looked out of that window on that winter’s day, aud seeing the snow and the trees like snow-chandeliers, was mnoli pleased, though she was only ten months

old at th 6 time. From the old garret to the cellar, spirits of antiquity rustle or sigh, and the ghosts es persons and wrtiers seem to start at levity. The present owners are descendants of the original possessors. Mme. Modjeska and her husband and son are now American citizens. Count Bozenta seoured his full naturalization pap # ers recently in San Francisco—taking with him when he went for them, he says, “both a Republican and a Democrat, so as to be sure of it.” When Caleb Cushing was on the Chinese Ministry his nephew had the misfortune one day to shoot an old Chinaman. The Chinee was swimming in the river, aud the young fellow mistook the black top-knot for a duck’s head aud shot him plump. When Cushing was told of the affair bv his terrified nephew' he ouieted his fears, took him down to tbe Chinaman’s family, and for a little lees than ten dollars settled up the whole affair. In fact, they seemed rather glad to get rid of the old grandfather. A i.ady who saw the ex-Empress Eugenie a few weeks ago deuiea the story that she has become worn and faded in her personal appearance. She says her figure is beautirul, and the deep mourning gives an added charm to its natural grace. Her hair is gray, but her eyes, always noted for their peculiarly sad and sweet expression, are as beautiful as ever. She stood on the pier at Calais, holding a bunch of pink roses lu her hand, and would have been singled out, even by those who were ignorant of her rank, as a very lovely and interesting vvoinau. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. In politics, as in war, there is such a thing as being to confident. The victors who sit down to divide the spoils before the battle Is fought commit a great error. The Ohio Deraooratlo champions have committed this irreparable blunder.—New York Times. Although the life of the Republican party is yet a brief one, its Presidential nominations have been free gifts. In the cases of Lincoln, Grant, Hayes and Gai field the office sought the men. Each possessed within himself a something which compelled party homage aud united public confidence.—Cleveland Herald. There is no reason why the rate of drop-let-ter postage should not follow regular postage in its descent. Congress cannot do a more just or more popular act than to consider the subject at an early day, without too much fear of the bugaboo of a possible deficit of a few hundreds ot thousands.—St. Paul Pioneer-Press. The greatest men of all the States have made mistakes. It Is the part of wisdom for this gemeration to profit by experience. The South will not return to Calhoun’s secession theory. Neither will she, after a political, social and economical revolution, subscribe fully to his free-trade programme.-Augusta (Ga.) Chroniole and Constitutionalist. A little timely protection for the agricultural interests of England would undoubtedly have saved it from the decay whioh has fallen upon it. It has been put iu jeopardy In order that} the British theory of underselling the world might be oarried inroeffeet. It suffers for lack of that protection which would foster a healthy competition at home.—Boston Journal. The fate of the lender is no Harder than that) of the borrower when disaster comes, and if the business has been honestly conducted the result should be borne with whatever equanimity can be commanded. But as all business is connected so largely with credit, to sustain that on a proper basis should be tbe special aim of all, for all are interested.—Boston Advertiser, It would be a curious sequel If the statesman who most powerfully opposed the occupation of Egypt should in good faith have taken the first 6te.ps toward the conquest of Egypt. His countrymen gave up the American colonies when force compelled that course. We believe they abandoned tbe lonian protectorate voluntarily. With these exceptions Britain has never raised her foot from where she planted it, nor will Englishmen readily yield Egypt.—Cincinnati News Journal. The act of the last Congress touching postal rates is not a finality. The American people wiil take great pleasure in sendiug their letters for two cents, hut Congress, in the near future, will have to increase the weight transmit table at two cents to one ounoe aud establish the rate of three cents for two ounces. That wiil save both the government and letter writers the current trouble about dues on fractionals. Then again, it will only be fair to reduce newspaper postage one-hair, and to establish the one-cenc rate for local letters.—Louisville Courier-Jour-nal. The investing public have “struck” against the Wall-street operators, aud will not take their securities, even at present low prices, because they suspect bad management and trickery on the part of those wdio have them to sell. The operators are meanwhile striving to “fix” a price for their stocks and bonds w hioh will induce the public to buy. Any seller can “fix” prices, but in order to be able to sell ho must: settle upon such a price as will satisfy the buvor. It is no different with the workingman; lie, too, must consult the wishes or necessiOiea of tho secoud party.—New York Herald. The faot is that the trades-unions have not iucreased the actual earnings of laborers, as thev pretend. This they have done, It is true: they have caused a nominal increase iu the wages paid per day or per ton. Bur, iu conseqencc, they have been employed fewer days in the year. Less iron has been mined aud smelted and manufactured than would have been if the wages *.f labor had been lower. Less coal has been taken from the mines; half time or total stoppage for months has left the miner less money for tho year thati he would have earned at lower wages With lull employment.—New York Tribuuo. THE OLD-TICKET SCHEMERS. Mr. Waiterson Denounces Their Efforts ns an Attempt to Make a Bilge-Water Campaign. Louisville Courier-Journal. The whirligig of time brings in some curious revenges. The very men who made the old ticket impossible in 1880 are at this moment demanding it. Time-servers then, timeservers now, sightless then, sightless now, cowards then, cowards now’, they have non the sagacity to anticipate, nor the courage to meet any real issue, and they think they sea in Mr. Tiiden an escape from “a tariff for revenue only.’’ To them tax reform is as sealed a book as seven years ago was administrative reform. To them politics seems a bundle of expedients, and “turn the rascals out’’ is a shibboleth whicli goes to the heart of every office-seeker in the land. In 1880 they made a rose-w’ater campaign and lost it. In iBB4 they want to make a bilge-water campaigu, and if they w’ere allowed to do tliis, they would lose that, They love Mr. Tiiden no better than they ever did, but it i? either him and the old issue they trod upon and stamped out, or a new’ issue which they dare not tackle, because it has the fire ol truth and the blood of life in it. Their hope is That, Mr. Tiiden being Mr. Hendricks’! senior, will die first, wherein, as is theii wont, they would probably encounter disap pointment, seeing that Mr* Tiiden is as blithe a philosopher as may be found, and good for many a year, while Mr. Hendricks totters upon the brink of the grave. In short, they beat about the bushes seeking a path wh>m a highway broadens directly before them. Indeed, do these short-sighted partisans reckon without their host whichever way they turn. If Mr. Tiiden should signify his willingness to accept a nomination, no candidate would ap* pear before the next national convention ta contest the field against him. He will nevei do this. * * * It is Mr. Hendricks who totters upon till brink of the grave. Yet those who surround him not only will not let him die in peace but seek to smirch the fame of his declining days by forcing him into an attitude of trea son and dishonor to his best friend, and pre ci pita ting him into a candidacy as impossible as it is absurd. AVe think w T e see our excellent Unde Sam* uel pulling anybody’s chestnuts out of tin fire. Such persons as this Heuderson imagine that there is no goal for an honest man’s ambition but office. That Mr. Tiiden would do dine the presidency is to his little mind in credible. The idea that life and health, thal honor nnd duty, that fame and fortune, thal self-respect and the comforts of home, thal books, pictures, music, the stars, tbe birds; the sunshine, the moonlight, peace, happl ness and plenty are anything but so raanj pawns to be put up in exchange for som< dirty preferment has never crossed his fancy. Well, let him go on; maybe after awhile hi will discover that the man who lost the pres ideticv without a murmur is able to declii,., it without a pang. i