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THE DAILY JOURNAL. liT .rNO. c. NEW & SOX. For Ratfi of Subscription, ere., see Sixth Pace. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 11. 1sh:1. THE INDI.WAI’OLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following p ares: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe. 09 St rant. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boule.ard dee Capucines. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels, WASHINGTON. D. o. Brentano’s 1,015 Pennsylvania avenue. CHICAGO —Palmer nouse. CINCINNATI— I. < . llawlev S Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union DepotIt is a cold day when the price of October com goes up. The encouraging news is given that Wall street is dull, while the dry goods district in New York city never was busier. A reward will be paid for the first frost that nips Peck’s bad boy, and no questions asked. He is the tiredest boy on record. Should the cholera break out at one of the asylums would Dr. Harrison take to his heels and desert his post? An anxious public desires to know. Pendleton says Hoadly must go. McLean is down on Pe dleton; the News Journal excoriates McLean, and Bookwaiter is ferninst the whole caboodle. France, in her campaign against Tonquin, has a fleet of thirty vessels carrying 111 guns. The British are represented tnere bj' twelve vessels carrying seventy-eight guns. The Blind Asylum board has removed Dr. Charles E. Wright from the medical charge of that institution. Dr. Wright failed, last winter, to frequent the corridors of the court house and shout for Harrison; hence he had “to go.” The English Mechanic gives utterance to the opinion that the great comet of 1882 may now be seen again by the aid of a large telescope. It is very far away, however; about as far as is the Democratic hope of carrying Ohio next month. The removal of Dr. Charles E. Wright from the care of the sick at the Blind Asylum has caused great dissatisfaction among respectable Democrats. Dr. Wright, although a Democrat, is not a ward bummer, consequently he had “to go.” The Louisville Courier-Journal sent letters to 119 Democratic members of the Kentucky Legislature, asking views on the speakership and upon the United States SenatorBbip. Stamped envelopes were enclosed, but only seventy replies received. Tiie conclusion is that the average Kentucky legislator is very frugal or that he cannot read. Tiie Cincinnati News Journal declares that McLean’s Highland House ticket “was chosen by rascally methods,” but will support it all the same. It even intimates that the ticket chosen by the reformers is a better one, and yet it declines to indorse it. Democratic ideas of duty and honorable dealing with public interests are a little confused, it seems. It is a little early to declare the new postal notes a failure. It is not surprising that mistakes should occur while the system is yet new. but these in time will disappear, and the plan will be found to be an indispensable convenience. There are some improvements that might be made, and doubtless will he as experience suggests, but to declare the system a failure before it is fairly tried would be very foolish. Kentucky papers are coming to the support of the Journal relative to its charges of illiteracy against that State. Tiie Louisville Commercial say's: “The Greenville Echo attempts to make party capital by claiming that the illiteracy in Kentucky ‘is confined chiefly to the neg oes.’ Census Bulletin No. 303 reports 208.79 G native white persons over ten years of age unable to write their names, and only' 133,895 colored persons belonging to the same class. Which is the better authority?” The amenities of contemporary journalism areshown inan unmistakable mannerin Cincinnati just now. Os the Enquirer and its editor tiie News Journal says: "The Enquirer’s three-column assault upon Hon. George H. Pendleton was the inspiration of an idiot, if idiots may be inspired. The local Democratic ticket in Hamilton county will be overwhelmingly defeated if the venom of tliis nasty' little fellow McLean is permitted to poison the local contest.” The News Journal is not a Foraker organ, either. And now a schism of Cleveland Democrats are about to bolt the “regular” county ticket. It is alleged that Bookwalter’s money cooked Saturday’s convention, and that ail Hepresentative candidates and one candidate for tiie State Senate are for Bookwaiter for United States Senator. What is the matter with the leading Ohio Democrats? Hoadly charged with buying liis* nomination —price, $50,000; Pendleton inaugurating the bolt at Cincinnati, and Bookwaiter buying his way to the Senate. All this on Democratic evidence. The internecine use of “crisp twodollar bills” seems to be demoralizing the rank and file in Ohio. A special correspondent has figured out that the United States had expended the sum of $105,000,000 during the eighty y ears nding 1882 for the improvement'of rivers

and harbors. This sum includes appropriations for hydrographic surveys of the navigable rivers and lakes, as well as for improvements. It is next to impossible to show how it has been expended for each State, beeause some of the rivers divide several States, and the sums applied could not be accurately' apportioned. It appears, however, that New ■ York has received ihe lion’s share in getting the benefit of nearly $10,000,000. Michigan comes next, with $8,000,000. in round numbers. Illinois and Wisconsin tie for third place, with $6,000,000. Missouri ranks fourth, Ohio fifth, and so on. Indiana is charged with $2,061,737, and Kentucky with nearly half a million more. A DANGEROUS TECHNICALITYIt becomes more apparent, the more the question is studied, that the government is j frequently put at disadvantage by the constiI tutional limitations whereby it is barred in all criminal proceedings from the right of the change of venue. This principle is tne exclusive prerogative of the accused, a"'' is vested in him by the express terms o, the sixth article, wherein it is declared that “In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.” This rule is followed by a similar one in the State constitutions, except that in the latter the venue is confined to counties. The clauses in the fundamental laws of States and nation were inserted as barriers and safeguards against the tyrannical English practice of dragging subjects from their homes and friends and placing them on trial where the court and the entire legal machinery were simply the instruments of the crown. But in theory, at least, and almost wholly so in practice, it is impossible to carry an American citizen beyond the reach of those who would contend for the constitutional right of a fair and impartial trial for the accused. There is no court in the land to do the bidding of the executive authority' c-xcept also at the behest of justice. It is a matter of great moment to the people that the American judiciary has the true dignity' to stand aloof from the influences that control and dictate the legal steps in foreign countries. This fact, coupled with the conviction of the masses that every man shall be guaranteed in his legal rights in any- and every court and locality within the limits of the country, renders the constitutional provision cited less vital now than when adopted. Experience in this country has shown that the sentiments and passions of the surrounding people are more likely to influence our courts than any spirit of subserviency between the judiciary and executive. This state of things has prevailed to such an extent in the Southern States since the close of the rebellion that federal prosecutions for infractions of tiie law upon civil rights and elections have degenerated into mere farce, and have become the object of contempt of the law-breakers themselves. When a prosecution has been instituted against a bulldozer or a manipulator of tissue ballots, if the defendant and the community where he lives are unable to ridicule the case out of court they shoot it out. True, they do not alway’s fire upon the judge, but the assassination of witnesses is common. There is method in the work. Killing a judge would not destroy the case, but wiping out the witnesses, who are in possession of damaging evidence, does. In the recent case in Texas, wherein Judge Haughn lost his life, and in all similar cases, it would seem that the government should have the right to change the venue to such a locality where the rights of the public could also be impartially enforced. In such'strong exceptional cases the constitution ought to provide for a remedy. But there is none, and beeause there is not the wholesale butcheries of the ku-klux were made possible, and tiie perpetrators comparatively free from punishment. Relief from this ugly predicament was aimed at in a provision whereby’ certain causes could be transferred from the State to federal courts, but tiie purpose failed of its object. Thousands of bloody’ demonstrations are on record to show that the surrounding community can break the force of prosecutions in federal courts as readily almost as those under the State jurisdiction. In cases w’here the government prosecutes one of its citizens, in theory and in fact, the rigiits and welfare of the entire people are represented hy the government. And where trials are to be nad in localities where the prejudice, passion and s\ nip thy are against the prosecution it is little snort of a wicked farce to drag through the form of a judicial examination. Tiie history of such cases shows that the guilty usually’ escape, and that the innocent, especially' those who have been witnesses, or otherwise instrumental in the effort to enforce tiie law, are generally punished. Sometimes the penalty is one thing and sometimes another. It is always sufficiently severe to accomplish the end in view. If a witness is veYy damaging, liis lot is assassination. When ly'tiching and social ostracism will do, these milder methods are employed. But tne chief point to the whole business now is for the law’-abiding and order-loving people of the country' to decide whether a reign of terror ought to longer be permitted to run, when the removal of a mere technicality in the law of the land would stop it. The question is sufficiently serious to merit the attention of all good men in tiie country. The United States Olficial Postal Guide, for September, is at hand. When Post-master-general Gresham had occasion to inspect a former issue of this valuable periodical it occurred to him that it was unneces-

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sarily voluminous. So impressed was he with the idea that he immediately sat upon the volume, or its publishers, or the department clerks who furnished the copy, or, possibly, all three, the result being a reduction in the size of the book of one hundred pages. Tiie September Guide is a little pamphlet of forty-two pages, but it seems to contain all the postal information necessary to satisfy a waiting public. KEEP WITHIN THE LAWViolence and unlawful intimidation are certain to defeat themselves. That community which resorts to either of these before exhausting the resources of the law harms itself more than the person or persons against whom such force is exerted. The people of Schuyler county, 111., or some of them, have disgraced themselves by blowing up a church that had become obnoxious to the public. Briefly, it appears that one Caleb Anderson Obencbaiu, an eccentric evangelist, has seceded from, or rather was expelled from the Methodist Church, of which he was formerly a member and a minister. He afterward secured a following, and their chief tenet seems to he extreme holiness, or perfect exemption from sin. In the conduct of their meetings they have been very noisy', which has brought down on them the ill-will of others who did not believe in such “orgies,” as they were termed by outsiders. It was also charged that the new sect was guilty of practicing free-love, but of this there has been no proof adduced be.vond unfounded charges. The fact that Obenchain had parted from his wife gave slight color to the free-love charge, but no tangible evidence lias been given the public that any such thing existed among the fanatical followers of the erratic evangelist. It is quite probable that tiie prejudice evoked has been the cause of imagining greater excesses than in reality exist. It is evident enough to outsiders that the people of Schuy'ler county have done themselves infinitely’ more harm by their intolerance than they would have suffered through the simple-minded religious exercises of the followers of Obeiichain. It is morally certain that they will look upon this as an unwarranted persecution which must be endured for the sake of the cause, and the result will be that they will secure their allegiance and increase their devotion. The perpetrators of this outrage—for it is nothing less —have stultified themselves. Their resort to extra legal measures is proof that they had no case that would hold in court. Itis an unqualified admission that tiie ciiarge of adultery', fornication and free love had no foundation in fact, and “the cause” is sure to be Strengthened. The people at large have no synipathy for anybody who seeks to rid a community of any objectionable man or organization or institution by resorting to unlawful means. It doesn’t pay. The spirit that impels a man to blow up a saloon or a church is as fanatical and dangerous as any saloon or church can be. No law-abiding man will be guilty of such an unwarranted act, and no law-abiding community will suffer such an act to go unrebuked. The blowing up of a house or the w ylaving of any person never did and never will result in unmixed good. It does not reform any’ one against whom it is directed, but encourages defiance of law and order. If Obenchain’s followers are guilty' of immorality there are legal methods of punishing them. If they are not guilty, they' will not be driven out by unlawful violence. The New York correspondent of a Philadelphia paper thinks that to most people Henry Irving will not he the great English actor, but the actor who stopped at the Vanderbilts. An aetor who can be the guest of the wealthiest man In America, this newspaper luminary' thinks, will be the actor whom everybody will wantto see. This opinion puis the uioney-wor-shiping proclivities of New Yorkers in a strong light, for, of course, with the provincial ideas of most New York wri'ers, only residents of that otty are meant by “most people,” Out in mis section it is safe to say that no one will go to see Mr. Irving becau-e he has visited Vanderbilt. According to ancient authority a cat may iook at a king, and the frugal Westerner will hardly' he found willing to pay $2 for the privilege of seeing a man who has dined with a money king, and a common-place one at that. When Home prying: reporter talks with nn equally soulless druirgist, who knows nothing about the matter, and then tells yon that your favorite rose or violet, perfumery was not made from tiie blossom* of those plants, and that ull tne delicate p -rfumes are distilled from vile mixtures, do not believe him. A perfume factory is to in* established at. Jacksonvi le, Fla., the projector of which will obtain his supplies from ins own farm, known as the Vale of F.owera. This is an orange prove, which takes its name from the fact that between the trees, for twelve acres, it is rove red with tuberoses, rare geraniums, heliotrope, Arabian jasmine, cape jasmine and other odoriferous plants, from which essential oils, extracts and Hep ant perfumes are made Tiie owner now has 20,00 u tuberoses prowinp, and expects to huve 200,000 next year. The enterprising: Washington Post pives its Sunday readers seven columns of war news of 1861, including a description of th* battle of Fort Stevens and the fortifications of the national capital, with diagrams of tiie same. Hitherto it lias been almost as much as a Reonbliran editor’s life was worth to make even an incidental allusion to the late unpleasantness within hearing of the Post, but perhaps this sensitive feeing is wearing off. Germany appears tbe overcrowded. Prince Holienlohe sat s: “If every woman insists on having ten children, we have no place to put them and no work to give them all.” In free America it. is different. A woman can have as manv children as site wants. Tiie trouble is she doesn’t want any. Pacific coast people will smile sardonically as they see the way in which the Chinaman is moving Eastward. A bureau for the introduction of Chinese cheap labor has been opened at Kansas City, the manager of which is an agent of tiie “Six Companies” of San Francisco. He expects to tu#kc contracts with railroad companies for gang* of Chinamen for work on the roads, and claims to have uad several applica-

tions ot the kind. He offers to furnish laborers who will do as much and as pood work as white men for $1.25 per day and board themselves, where white laborers will not work tor less than $1.50 to $2.25 per day. At these rates, and with the trouble Western railroads are having on account of strikes, it will not be surprising if many Chinamen arc employed, at least as an experiment. Robert McCann, a well-known young railroader of Louisviile, is under arrest for stealing a box of toilet soap. Another Republican gone wrong. A Democrat never steals soap. Krasczkwskt, the Polish poet, imprisoned for political offeuces, has been released. The continued use of his name in conversation had cracked the prison walls. ABOUT PEOPLK, The widow and daughter of Stonewall Jackson are in Boston, the guests of Benjamin F. Butler. An original Rembrandt, representing Dr. Deymann demonstrating from a cadaver, bus been sold in London for $2,415. It is said that. Charles Reade, the famous English novelist, is engaged in writing a series of lives of the patriarchs of Scripture. M. Damala, Bernhardt’s husband, is disgusted with hi* soldiering in Tunis, has taken liis discharge and returns to the stage; but not with Bara. A New York landlady has been formally complained of to the New York board of health for keeping a katydid in her yard, whereby “hardworking people are sick aud weary for want of sleep.” The London papers curiously compute the net profit, of Mrs. Langtry’s season in this country to be five times Mr. Gladstone’s earnings as Prime Minister, and double the wages of the Archbisbop of Canterbury during the same period. A LADY appeared at the Casino ball at Newport a few evenings ago in a dress of yellow satin, over which was a robe made of no less than ten different kinds of white lace. It was a very unique costume, and afforded material for any amount of small talk. The widow of ex-Presblent Polk completed her eightieth year last Tuesday, and was pleasant \y surprised on that day ny a visit from many of the prominent citizens of Nashville, Tenn., where she lives, who brought some flue floral tokens of the ovent. Mr. John Wan a maker has added one more to his many bene factions to the Young Men’s Christian Association, by giving tiie Philadelphia association $50,000 to pay off its floating debt. The entire amount of the debt—s2oo,ooo—was made up by other subscribers. Mr. Vanderbilt’s oldest son, Cornelius, is a very pious loung man, sustains the branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association at the Grand Central Depot, and personally conducts its religious services twice a week. He is also superintendent of the Bunday-school. “Alas!” exclaimed Miss Culture, of Boston, on the eve of departing from the Isle of Shoals, “I deplore tue necessity of leaving thee, O sea! subiimest of the liquor bodies of celestial creation, but our classes in ancient literature begin next Tuesday, and besides, nia expects company from 8 dem.” I am told that Mrs. Burnett confesses that she is the author of “Democracy.” lam also told that Mrs. Dalilgren wrote “A Washington Winter” in order to make money enough to enable her to build anew house on Thomas circle, in the West End. I should want to be pretty well paid for writing a l*bel of that sort. Relatives of Martin Luther are being discovered in great numbers. Among tiie earliest found are a book-keeper In a|circulating library, a policeman and a registrar in the ministry of public works, all in Berlin. They are direct descendants of the reformer’s younger brother, Jacob. Some descendants of Martin Luther’s youngest daughter, Margare.tha, are iiviug in Denmark and bear the name of Wagner. The Marquis of Lansilowne, Canada’s new governor-general, will not receive a unanimous welcome in that country. The Toronto Advertiser says that the evidence is satisfactory that he is a harsh landlord and a narrow-minded, selfish man, and it is glad of it. The reason for this conclusion is that the appointment will be all the more calculated 4 to disgust Canadians with what it calls “the present rotten system,” and to strengthen the feeling in favor of independence. Mr. Lincoln, the Secretary of War. was forty years old upon the first of last August. He is a man slightly above the medium height. He fs well rounded, aud inrliued to be stout. He almost invariably dresses in black. His head is cMjUre and fuil. His luxuriant moustache and full short beard are light brown, several shades darker than bis thick, short-oropped hair. His complexion is dark and inclined to be sallow. He has a high, wide forehead; heavy, well-de-fined eyebrows; blue-graj’ eyes, and a straight, vigorously-developed nose. Mr. Joseph Jacobs, In his “Studies on Jewish Statistics,” disposes of the supposition tnat John Bright is of Jewish descent. He believes the statement that Mr. Bright’s great-great-g ran din other, Martha Jacob*, was a Jewess, is altogether erroneous. Tnat a farmer in a Wiltshire hamlet, a century and a half ago, should have courted and won a Jewish bride, is a wild improbability. Jacobs is a common name in South Wales, and Wiltshire is nor very far from the Welsh border. There can be little doubt that John Bright’s alleged Jewish hlood is really Welsh. Mrs. Julia P. Smith, the novelist, who was killed at her home in Hartford on Friday morning by a frightened horse, was a native of Connecticut, and was about fifty years old. Her aim in literary work was not long ago expressed as follows in a letter written by her to one of her critics: “It seems tome there can be no women in tiie world who have opportunities to accomplish and to enjoy as much as American women, because tnere live nowhere else such fathers, brothers and husbands as ours. If I can at all help any young girl to know what her life is worth, and to try to live out its truest value, I am content.” There is a very foolish man in Valley Furnace, W. Va. It is A. C. Bowman, “corresponding secretary of the Valley Furnace Library Association,” who recently wrote to Governor Butler, of Massachusetts: “Now, I write to you again to give us such aid ns you see fit, anil if you fail to answer in some manner, your silence will be construed into contempt, and we will try to bate you with all the bitterness of the past, and will do our best to believe all about the spoon story. In fact, you had better give us SI,OOO than to have our hatred, for we wi.l hate you with all the bitterness of vore and all the intensity of rebels.” In his reply the Governor saVs: “I never purchase love, and I never do anything under the threat of hate.” Ex-Mayor Bookrtavrh, of Syracuse, has a horse namud Dandelion and a dog named Juno that nre astonishingly fond of each other. Tiie ex-Mayoronce went driving with Dandelion and Juno. It was bis intention to have the norse draw him down to the Wieting Block and to have the dog follow the vehicle. Juno sauntered along in that busy idle way peculiar to dogs. Dandelion forgot, all about his responsibilities ar.d wanted logo back, with the wagon and the exMayor, to see w here Juno stopped. When the dog ran abend the horse followed her zigzag Tracks on the street and started to go upon the sidewalk. Juno went upstair* wirh her master to liis ofli'je in the Wieting Block, and Dandelion was left in the street at one end of a weighted baiter. He did not stay there long. His master, summoned by au alarm soon afterward,

rushed down stairs, not waiting for the elevator, to And Dandelion in the vestibule aud trying to drag the carriage up stairs. SPIRIT OF TUE PRESS. When honest Industry is not compelled to herd with vice, as it must do now, to some extent, then vice can be fought without risk of doing more harm than good.—Washington Post. The prohibition sentiment of the West is not to be wondered At. Drink is the cause of more evil to this country and of more crime among our people than all other causes put together. In fact, the over-ready revolver and ever-ready drink Between them furnish the temptation and the occasion for nearly all crime that is committed.—New York World. The exposure and punishment of thieves is a good thing, but the promotion of sound administration is equally necessary. Just as surely as relorm brings less taxes, lower expenditures, cleaner streets, bet ter water and cheaper gas, just so surely will the plain taxpayer believe lu the value and good faith of reformers: but if reform does nor work this be will doubt reform aud reformers.—Philadelphia Press. Mixed schools, even if it were possible to sustain them, would work an injury to tiie colored children, bj r bringing them under subjection to the children of the dominating race. Neither race at the South is so far a way from the old habits and traditions of slavery that any theories of equality can prevent this practical subjection of the weaker raee when its members are brought into close relations with the stronger. —Atlanta Constitution. The Southern States ore poor to-day, not because of tiie war, and not because of anj’thine except that they fail to hold out to the only kind of settlers that are worth having the one inducement which is all-potential. Missouri is suffering from the same conditions, and with an ev**n less prospect of finding relief, unless some serious effort is u ade to assert the majesty of the law and to cultivate some of the prime essentials of civilization.—Philadelphia Telegraph. Wiiat i* most important, and what should be done with the least possible delay, is to stop manufacturing silver dollars. We have now enough to supply any legitimate demand for at least fifty years, and to goon multinb ing them is deliberately to invite the precipitation of our entire currency system to the level of silver, and tne total banishment of gold ex cpt as an article of merchandise. It is high time to stop this folly and worse than folly.—Chicago Times. The absorptiou of ptibllo laud by private owners is one of the chief grievances of tiie agitators. They seem to think none is left for them. But the truth is, there is, and will be for many years, an abundance ot fertile land to be bad for the asking The trouble with these chronic fault-finders with American institutions is this: They prefer to live by their wits as professional agitators in New York ro living by tiie sweat of their faces as farmers at the West.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. There are many tilings good in Themselves, like popular education, that it seems at times might be done better by the’feueral government than by the individual States. But nearly all these things would be fatal, if at first only slight, departures from our system. They would open the door to greater departures, until we got to look to tiie federal government for everything, and to rheßtates for nothing. That is the inevitable road to a centralized despotism. —Hartford Courant. Tiie future of the colored race is indissolubly joined wirh that, of tin white race. There is no question that they suffer from injustice and offensive discriminations in the South, and that they do not enjoy the rights which have been guaranteed them, as was contemplated in the constitutional amendment. But their condition is not as bad as it was ten years ago. Slowly, to be sure, but steadily, they are gaining their rights, and as time goes on their condition will improve.—Chicago Tribune. How M. Ferry and liis ministers can he so bliim as not to’see that in persisting in their wild schemes of colonial conquest they are playing into the hands of France’s most bitter foe, Bi marck, it is hard to understand. If they are not able to frame a wise foreign policy for France, based on knowledge and experience, they might at least be acute enough to refrain from doing just what Germany wants them to do. Napoleon once said that, che greatest need of France was good mothers. That day has passed. What. France needs now seems to be statesmen with brains. —New York Tribune. The acquittal of Frank James raises the inquiry whether after all the administration of justice could not be done by contract for several of our States better than by the State authorities. if Hie Btnte of Missouri would let out the contract of administering justice in that State to the Pinkernßf agency for a very moderate com mission that concern would furnish detectives, witnesses, sheriffs, judges, lawyers, hangmen, jailers, and, if necessary, governors, who wouul make the name of criminal justice a terror to all such innocent gentlemeu ae Frank James.—Chicago Inter Ocean. THE OLD TICKET. Will Mr. Tilden Retaliate on Hendricks by Declining to Run? New York World. Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, is understood to be in favor of the renomination of the old Presidential ticket of 1876, pure and simple. That is to say, Governor Hendricks is now ready and willing to take the second place on tiie next Democratic Presidential ticket, with Mr. Tilden at its head. In 1876 Governor Hendricks was a candidate for the Presidency, stoutly backed by the Tammany Democracy. He refused to accept tiie VicePresidential nomination, yielding only a reluctant consent at the last moment. In 1880 Governor Hendricks's stubborn refusal to again become the nominee for Vice-Presi-dent mainly prevented the nomination of the old ticket, which was then in order. What Governor Hendricks first declined and then unwillingly accepted eight years ago—wiiat he doggedly refused four years ago—he is now well satisfied to take. Perhaps the change in Governor Hendricks’s position is a provident one. It is not at all improbable that the vice-presidency in 1884 would be at least as likely as an uncertain convention to lead to the fulfillment of Governor Hendricks’s original dream of ambition. Indeed, some person’s believe that Mr. John Kelly’s patriotic sanction of the nomination of the old ticket, if the Democratic national convention should decide on its expediency, is prompted by his original and earnest desire in 1876 to place Governor Hendricks in the presidency. It would, indeed, be the irony of fate if Mr. Tilden should now destroy the renomination programme in 1884 by refusing to go on the ticket with Governor Hendricks, a* the latter destroyed renoniination in 1880 by refusing to go on the ticket with Mr. Tilden. ENGLISH AND RARNUM. Further Light About Democratic Campaign Funds in 1880. National Republican. Tiie presence in the city of Hon. William 11. English has started the tongues of politicians of both parties to wagging, and tiie air is full of reminiscences of 1880. A Democrat of prominence in Indiana politics, who was in the city about three weeks ago, told about ati occurrence that has been frequently alluded to in campaign literature, but always in a vague, uncertain or guarded and unsatisfactory fashion. He pictured the scene as follows: “Senator Barnum, Mr. English, and two or three members of the campaign committee were sitting around a table in the council chamber. They were talking business. That is what Mr. Barnum caiueon from New York for. It was three or four weeks before the October election, I think, though possibly not more than two weeks. There was a free expression of opinion. “ ‘What do you think about it, Stealey?’ the chairman of the national committee asked, addressing a member from southern Indiana. “ *1 think the State will be lost to us unless we have SIOO,OOO in cash to put out at once. The tide lias set in against us, and nothing but money will turn it.’ “ ‘You hear what Mr. Stealey says,’ remarked Barnum, turning to the vice-presi-dential candidate. ‘“I don’t care what he says,* angrily retorted English; ‘he does not kriQW what he is talking about. 1 know the Democrats will carry the State, and you might just as well burn up SIOO,OOO or throw it into the street as to spend it in the campaign. Tiie result will not be changed.’ “Bt*aley adhered to his opinion, and while disclaiming any desire to get into a controversy with Mr. English, or questioning the honesty of his belief, he insisted that the

gentleman hafl entirely misjudged the temper of the people, artd formed a grossly exaggerated iaea of the weight of his own issue in the canvass. He added further that if SIOO,OOO was contributed, the money must be put in the nands of somebody besides Mr. English, whom he did not think knew how to place money for election purposes. “Mr. Barnum listened attentively, and when Stealey had finished his reply to English he said, with an air of decision: “ ‘We can settle this matter very quickly. Mr. English, you have promised to contribute SIOO,OOO, or more if more is required, to carry Indiana. You have refused to contribute SIOO,OOO. I have in my hands a check for $50,000, and here it is (laying a bit of paper on the table in front of him.) lam directed to turn it over to the Indiana com mi lie e if you will give your check for the same amount. Will you do it?’ “‘No, sir; I will not,’ answered Mr. English, decisively. ‘I will not give a dollar more than SIO,OOO, which I have agreed to put into the campaign before the October election. I may add something to that amount between the October and November elections, but it will not be much.’ “Very well,* said Mr. Barnum, ‘I will keep the $50,000 I brought, with me from New York. Ido not feel authorized to contribute it unless you put up a like amount.’ “He returned his check to his pocketbook and arose to leave. The others got up out of their chairs for the same purpose. Mr. Barnum turned as he put his band on the door knob, and, looking Mr. English straight in the eyes, said: “ ‘Will you give $25,000, Mr. English, if I put up $25,000, and we will make the best fight we can with $50,000?’ “‘I will not give another and —d dollar above the $10,000,’ was the profane response; and he kept his word.’* MRS. GARFIELD. now She Regards the Attacks on Her Husband's Memory. New York Special. I asked an intimate friend of Mrs. Garfield at Saratoga, where she bad been this summer, bow she regarded the recent attacks on the President’s memory. “She pays no attention to them whatever,” was the reply. ‘Mrs. Garfield is a close reader of the newspapers, anti has been for many years, but she is never in the least disturbed by attacks on the General. She remembers those who make them, and has lived to see a good many maligners of her husband brought to repentence. But she never allows these things to disturb her.” “Did Mrs. Garfield entertain a belief in the President’s recovery during alibis sickness?” 1 queried. “Yes; Mrs. Garfield has a woman’s tenacious hold on hope. She never could have kept up during that long summer of trial, except for her faith in the President’s ultimate recovery. I have heard Mrs. Garfield say that she never admitted a possibility of the President’s dying, except once, and then only for a night. After she went to Long Branch, Mrs. Garfield’s hope revived, until within the last few days, when the terrible rigors came. Not until then did her heart fail her. She prepared herself thenceforward for the worst.” “Do you know wiiat the President’s own views of his case were?” “Mrs. Garfield thinks the President all along had a very much better idea of bis case than most of those about him. He decided from the first that there was one chance of recovery. He determined to take that chance, and any surgeon who knows how much depends upon the patient knows how much General Garfield did toward winning that prolonged and terrible struggle against a gunshot wound and five surgeons,” “Did Mrs. Garfield remain long in Saratoga this summer?” “Not a great while. She seemed to enjoy it here very much, however, having her family about her, as she did; but Mrs. Garfield is happier at home than anywhere else.” In the Lodge-Room. Boston Transcript. Most Supremely Utter Grand Khedive—“The Entirely Supreme Grand Navigator will proceed, according to tiie ritual ot our Intensely Obsolete Order, to inform the Intensely Sublime Grand Usher that the conclave is assembled for the purpose of initiating novices in the dread mysteries of our work.” Entirely Supreme Grand Navigator to tiie Intensely Sublime Grand Usher, in the ante-room —“Come on, Jim, with the kids. They are ready for you in there.” Market Price of Water. Boston Herald. Jay Gould proposed his willingness to sell the Western Union to the government for a “fair price.” When pressed for an approximate idea of what he considered a fair price lie named $100,000,000. We knew that a terrible drought prevails, but we had no idea that water had become so dear. lenient Army Authorities. Philadelphia Press. # Major Nickerson has remained nn officer in the United States army a full six months after all the world has known that he had ceased to be a gentleman and a man of honor; but our army authorities seem above taking a mean advantage of a little thing iike that. Must P ease the ‘'General Reader,” Kansas City Journal. One of the curiosities of modern civilization is shown in the space devoted to a notice in the newspapers of the deaths of Marwood, tne hangman, and Tourgeneft*, tne great novelist. The former was noticed in columns where the latter received lines. The Ohio Candidate. Philadelphia Press. The wife of one of the Ohio candidates keeps a scrap-book of all the newspaper clippings about her husband. If she takes ail the papers she will probably be surprised to learn what an abandoned wretch she baa been living with all these years. Must Re the Secret of It. Boston Herald. Prof. Fiske’s attempt to defeat the bequest of his late lamented and very rich wife suggests the question with which the cynical old king greeted any unusual masculine performance: “Who is she?” Is there a No. 2 in prospect? Doesn't Like the Name. The Graphic. Bismarck is a nice man to call an American State capital after. Bismarck believes in driving pressand people in double harness to a king’s carriage and bouncing the American hog out of Germany. News for New York Journals. Pittsburg Dispatch. In the present mania for reproducing old political documents, we would suggest J*> the New York press that there is some very interesting and spicy reading in the “Letters of Junius.” A MomiuiHit of Grace. The Graphic. Jav Gould tells how he wept and prayed. It was because he was hungry and had not where to get his dinner. A few words from him regarding the efficacy of prayer would be valuable. Mr Dana's Kecipe. Philadelphia Record. I attribute my health, vigor and well-pre-served manhood to the habitual use of tiie word “begin,” instead of “commence.”— Charles A. Dana. The Effect on the Boys. Tile Graphic. Frank James having been acquitted, a thousand boys in various parts of the country will now decide to become bandits.