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AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. GRAND OPERA-HOUSE—Tony Ik-uier’. “Hmnpty Duuipty” combination. ENGLISH'S OPERA-HOLSE-Jenule Teaman, in PARK THEATER—Winnett X Fuiron s Trinity company, “Tim Dauber s Luck. 1 ZOO THEATER— Variety. THE DAILY JOURNAL. lit JNO. C. NEW A SOX. For Rate* of Subscription. etc.. see Bixth Page. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER, 17, IHS3. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL rn be found at the following place*: LONDON—American Kxthangein Europe, 449 Strand. PA RlS—American Exchange in Paris, JS6 Boulevard de ('ajmeinee. NF.YV YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotdfc, WASHINGTON. D. o.—Brentano’s l'eunaylvaliia avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. C. Kawlev * Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Deariun, northweHt corner Third and JefTereon streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. O* her last trip the City of Rome, the largest of all transatlantic steamers, made the run from Queenstown to Sandy Hook in seven days, six hours and thirty minutes. Her passenger list numbered 1,122, of whom 453 were first cabin, 169 second cabin, and 600 steerage. Georgia seems to be leading its sister States in the matter of protecting her youth from the evil effects of pernicious literature. W. Montrose, of the New York Police Gazette. has been fined SI,OOO lor distributing that paper at Atlanta. He has choice of paying the fine or serving a year on the chaiu-gang. The sentence is held in abeyance pending an appeal to the Supreme Court. It is to be hoped that the verdict will be sustained. It is shameful to decency and civilization that such publications are allowed"to circulate. Colorado pioneers celebrated the twentyfifth anniversary of the discovery of gold in that State, on Thursday, at Denver. The enrly settlers of Western Territories are not long-lived, as a rule, and Green Russell, the original discoverer of the precious metal, or at all rates, whose discovery was first noised abroad, died long ago, and few of his companions in those exciting days survive. The pioneers are mostly men who came some years later, bnt when they contemplate the changes and improvements which have taken place in the region within their recollection, they feel that they are veterans indeed. Ir is gratifying to find that the State fair of this year gives promise of being more successful than for a few years past. The applications for space by exhibiters more than meet the expectations of the managers. It is to be hoped that the people of the State and of this city will wake up to the importance of making it worthy of the name of a State fair. State pride ami city pride should inspire the people to make it an exhibition that will he worthy of commendation as showing the products of the State. The agricultural, mechanical and natural products of Indiana, with a fair display of horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, and the articles that go to make up the comforts and conveniences of life, will make an exhibition that will compete well witli the great expositions now being held in the adjoining States. The State Board have labored under great disadvantages for some years, which, happily, there is promise they will .soon overcome. Success this year will guarantee success in the future. A lath number of the Observatory (an astronomical journal published in London), in referring to Professor Kirkwood's wellknown views as to the cause of certain gaps or vacant spaces in the zone of asteroids and also in the ring of Saturn, remarks: “Professor Kirkwood showed some twenty years ago that Jupiter exercised a peculiar influence over the minor planets, tending to produce well-marked gaps amongst them at certain well-defined distances. For, if the period of any minor planet were commensurable with that of Jupiter, the latter would exercise a perturbing influence upon it, which would eventually result in a complete change of orbit. Later on, in 1808, Professor Kirkwood employed the same principle to account for the great division (Cassini’s) in Saturn’s rings. Maxwell had shown that the rings must be formed of separate particles moving round the planet to a certain extent as independent satellites. But a body moving round Saturn at the distance of Cassini's division would have a period that was very closely commensurable witli those of each of the six inner satellites, and it would therefore be especially exposed to perturbation. Dr. Meyer has carried the principle yet further, and has investigated every possible combination of the conimensurabilities of the revolution periods of the satellites, end he finds that, including the division of Cassini, there are seven places where the satellites would unite to exercise a perturbing influence on the members of the ring system." After stating in detail the result of Dr. Meyer'a researches, the Observatory concludes that the correspondence between calculation and observation as to the divisions of Saturn's rings seems now to be complete. Professor Kirkwood, we are informed, has now ready for the press an extended treatise on the asteroids or minor planets, their discovery, magnitudes, motions, etc., together with a statement in popular form of his theory of the irregular distribution of the asteroids in space. Thr man who juggles with figures and proluces impossible and nnheard-of results is tgain at it. Asa usual thing, when one of these smart scientists tackles a subject, beginning with twice one is two, and at the nd of three lines winds up with a string of figures consisting of eighteen digits, tiie geniral public rolls up its eyes and marvels at Ms wisdom without investigating his pro-

cesses. This man has made a discovery. In an unlucky moment he speculated on the problem of how many ancestors each individual has. He argued that each person has a father and mother—two persons. Each of these has a father and mother —four more; each of these a father and mother—eight, and so on. Applying the rule of arithmetical progression, he figures out tbe vast number of ancestors each lias, counting back to the time of Christ, about fortysix generations. He gets 'he remarkable total of 139,245.017,489,531,970, as the number of ancestors necessary to the nineteenth century human being. This is so vast that the average reader is content to take it forgranted that it is true. A short calculation will reveal its absurdity. There are in round numbers 1,000,000,000 (one thousand miflion) people in the world. The average duration of human life is thirtythree years—a little more. The array of figures presented above represents, in round numbers. 139,000,000 times a thousand millions. Now, if the population of the earth died at the rate of one thousand millions a year the number of ancestors figured out by this wise man would suffice to keep this earth of ours fully populated for 139,000,000 years, or four million generations. But since the average human life is thirty-three years, but one-thirty-thiid die annually, so that the “ancestors” would people the earth for not less than 4.587.000,000 years. This conclusion is perhaps fully as astounding as was the original proposition The arithmetical progressional man has calculated more human beings than have ever peopled the earth or probably ever will, with a thousand more ; such worlds thrown in. LOST OPPORTUNITIES, The Democrats of the country are greatly torn up over the question as to who shall be their candidate in the presidential contest of next year. They go about crying, “Lo here and lo there," as the warnings of Antichrist in the Bible. The “old ticket” just now appears to have the call, but it will bo the least probable of several that have been named, after it shall have been discussed, and as the meeting of the convention approaches. The old ticket is one of the lost opportunities of which there have been so many in the history of the leaders of the great political parties of this country, The tide in the affairs of a political leader must be taken at the flood that rarely comes but once in the lifetime of a presidential aspirant. Successful presidential candidates have been '■e-elected because of the continuation of the same feelings, opinions and necessities through their administration that made the first nomination and election a possibility, together with the power the place gave, as with Washington, Jackson, Lincoln and Grant. Mr. Clay, the pride and almost the autocrat of the old Whig party, was not a possible President after his first defeat, which was the grave of his hopes. So with Webster in that grand old party; his candidacy ever developed antagonisms that made defeat inevitable. In the Republican party many bright and glorious morning suns have arisen only to set behind the storm clouds of opposition before their day was fairly done, as with Conlcling, Bristow and Blaine. The nomination of either of these gentlemen now by the Republicans would absolutely insure defeat. It wouid not be possible to unite the party upon either of them. The opposition would be too strong to be overcome at the polls, even should they succeed in a convention. The great Democratic leaders have been In the same condition. McClellan, although popular in and out of the army, could not succeed on a platform that declared his three years of military leadership a failure. Hancock soon demonstrated that he knew more of tactics than of tariffs. The feeling that fosters the call for the old ticket of '76, Tilden and Hendricks, is that they were cheated out of their offices by the count; but the added years to the physical infirmities of both Tilden and Hendricks have not added to their moral or physical courage, and the Democracy will hardly attempt to cross the river upon the bridge that broke when its foundations and timbers were sounder than now. This Democracy that set aside the old ticket for anew one in 1880 will hardly retrace its steps over eight years in 1884. The principle they discarded for expediency once will not prove a talisman upon a second trial. It has lost its virtue by neglect ami lapse of time. The hope of tiie Democracy lies in an untried leader. Whether he shall be McDonald, Bayard, Randall or Voorliees, no one can now say, but that it will be some such is certain. Tiie old ticket is a memory, not a hope. It appears that Secretary Teller entertains almost identically the same views about the Indian question that the Journal has long maintained. In a recent interview atChicago, upon bis return from a tour through the Indian country of the Northwest, he expressed himself as follows: “Speakitti of Indian matters, the Secretary said that the time had come when the Indian question must be handled without gloves. It was absurd that large tructs of valuable land should be given up to savages, when the public needed them. He had been much struck with this fact traveling over the Northern Pacific, where, at one point in Montana, for about 160 miles, the roatf ran through an apparently desert country, which seemed to be very line iatid. Noticing no cattle or any of the evidences of civilization, when he reached Billings tie inquired into the matter and found that the tract was tiie Crow reservation—B,oo6,ooo acres given up to about 2,51X1 Indians, who had no use for the land, and yet kept other people, who could utilize it, from doing so. lie had read the views by Dr. McOillicuddy in the Tribune, aud7*tiiey coincided witli his own. The Indian was sharp and cunning, and wanted all hepould get. If you offered

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him SSO an acre and then a congressional committee caine alone and asked him if he | was satisfied he would say no, that he had j been tricked, thinking to get better terms. “What the Senate committee would decide upon in regard to the Sioux reservation, Mr. Teller said he could not say, but he had no doubt that three-fourths of the adult Sioux could be persuaded to sign the agreement to cede that part of their reservation that the government desired. The rank and file were usually open to argument; it was the head chiefs who gave the trouble, because they hated to see their power diminish. One thing was certain, there was no use treating any longer with them; it would be better to simply legislate for them as for other American citizens. They should be paid for the lands taken from them, but the reservation must be cut down to rational limits and not be allowed to retard the advancement of civilization.” In referring to a remark by Senator Blair to the effect that the newspapers were opposed to the best interests of the laboring men, the Columbus Republican says: “There is scarcely an issue of any reputable paper that does not contain one or more articles defending the rights of the laborer against the encroachments of the monevnower, and it is the wholesome influence of the press that prevents monopolies assuming still greater authority, and corrects abuses where they become flagrant, and which otherwise would go on unrestrained until checked by force. If Senator Blair is as ignorant on all other subjects as tbis, he may well be seeking light to guide him in his legislative duties.” __________ Mr. Bruch, a New York farmer, had a great deal of faith in his fellow men, but his feeliugs have received a shock. Four years ago a stranger with cropprd hair and forbid^incr face applied to him for work. The man explained lrankly that he was just from Bmg Sing, where he had served a term for burglary, but wanted to lead an honest life. Mr. Bruce was pleased with this Hppearanee of true repeutance, and allowed him to remuiu oil the farm, where he proved to bo industrious and rave good satisfaction. After remaining three years he went Boutb. A few days ago Mr. Bruce received a letter from him, written from Texas, in which, after saying that he might never come North again, he instructed his old employer to look in a certain place in his chimney, where he would find a package of jewelry which he might dispose of as he thought best. It bad been taken from people on the streets, ho explaiued, and could not be restored to tbe owners as he did not know who they were. As the man had brought nothing with him from the prison, the horrified farmer oan only suppose that his once valued farm-hand amused himself by acting as pickpocket during his occasional trios to neighboring towns while in his employ. About SI,OOO worth of rings, washes and other Jewelry were found in the designated spot. Not wishing to have anything to do with the stolen property, Mr. Bruce hastened to ship it to tlio thief himself, and is now under the condemnation of his neighhois for having used bad judgment, to say the least, in thus disposing of what was not his o wu * Anew telephone has been invented by Mr. Arthur St. George, an Englishman who has received a patent upon it before Mr. Edison could get in his work. The Pall Mall Gazette, iu describing it, says that supplementary to the telephone itself is a contrivance which will not only record every description of conversation carried on through the instrument, but will produce the words at any future time. A circular plate of glass is coated with collodion and made sensitive as a photographic plate. This is placed m a dark box, in whioh is a slit to admit a ray of light. In front of the glass is the telephone diaphragm, which, by its vibrations, opens and closes a small shutter, through whica a beam of light is constantly passing and imprinting a dark line ou the glass. Vibrations of the shutter cause the dark line to vary in thickness according to the tones of the voice. Tiie glass plate revolves by clockwork, the conversation, as it leaves the telephone, is recorded on the sensitive plare, tiie words spokeu being fixed as Is doue in photography. The plate cau be brought forward afterward, and when replaced in the machine and connected with a distant telephone will, when set in motion, give back tlio original conversation. Barbara Miller, tbe colored woman who was hanged at Richmond, Va., last Friday, for the, murder of her husband, bad a vision the uight before telling her that three angels would appear in time to save her from the scaffold. Either the angels did not travel on Richmond/ time or they had made a mistake in dates, for they failed to arrive, much to the disappointment not only of Barbara but of many negroes, who waited, open-mouthed, for the expected rescue. Barbara, however, was not without consolation. After singing “Nearer, iny God, to Thee,” she said she was going direct to heaven and the angels, and was wafted into the unknown with a song of jubilee ou her lips. A LETT! u from Hon. W. D. Kelley has been received at Washington, in which he says the medicine most needed in his case is rest. Before leaving England Mr. Kelley proposes to visit the. leading industrial centers of the country. In conclusion, Mr Kelley snys; “I have achieved a complete victory in my fight with the tobacco appetite; have regained my normal nervous condition; eat and swell well; enjoy perfect digestion and rejoice in the fact that my cheek lias healed and that my jaws gradually relax. I walk übout four miles every day.” A young Lutheran minister of Minersville has Just died, death being caused, it is thought, more from the effects of a presentiment than from actual physical disease. While iu the theological school at Philadelphia he had three room-mates to whom he was deeply attached. All entered tiie ministry, and since their ordination all have died. Atter the death of the third friend, the remaining member of the quartet became impressed with tbe belief that his time was short, and, with this thought in his mind, sank into a deoline. Senator Ben. Harrison left for lowa at an early hour this morning. He is posted for speeches as follows: Waterloo, Tuesday, Sent. 18; Cedar Rapids, Bept. 10; Marshalltown, Sept. •20; lies Moines, Sept. 21; Chariton, Sept. 22. Upon his return the Senator goes to Ohio for five speeches—New Carlisle, 20th; Starke county, 27th; Youngstown, 28th; Cleveland, 29th, and Toledo, Oot. 1. _ “The present managers of the State fair have brass enough in their faces to supply the governmentwith her ordnance. They pay the Indianapolis papers liberally for their advertisements, but msu the country press to do the same for nothing “-Madison Courier. The State fair managers have not bankrupted themselves upon the Indianapolis newspapers that we are aware of. The late Hugh J. Hastings died in the Catholic faith. About a week before he died he sent for tlio Rev. T. J. J>uc:ey and said to him: “Father Dttory, I wish to be reconciled to my God through my oburoh. I regret I have been so j poor a Catholic, but I have never for an instant | doubted the teachings of the church.” Mr Frederick Gbiuiart is evidently deair- j ous of achieving a European reputation, fie | has joined Mrs Langtry in Pans, where the \ beauty is taking lessons under a professor of j “elocution and dramatic experience.” It is not 1

known whether Gebhart intends studying for the stage, but he is an object of much Interest to the newspaper people. ABOUT PEOPLE. Lord Coleridge is quoted as saying that “Governor Butler is one of the most oharmiug men I ever met.” The charge is made against Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, that when a boy holds his horse the boy gets no money. Rlv. Henry Ward Beech f.r has said a wicked thing to the San Franciscoanß. He speaks of California as “this little strip of country.” General G. T. Beauregard, who has been visiting Manitoba, is now sixty-live years old, is hearty and vigorous, and has a stern countenai.ee. A collect.on of the books by the women authors of Maine will be a feature of a woman’s exhibit in a New England fair shortly to be held in Boston. Dr. Mary Walker must find some compensation for the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in the $2,000 left her hv the will of an eccentric Massachusetts man who died the other day. While the Rev. Phccbe Hansford, of Jersey City, was enjoying her vacation, some graceless wretch entered her house and stole various articles of value, including a commuuiou service. Mr. John Guy Vassar has just added to his numerous benefactions to Vassar College by giving tbe institution the sum of $25,000, tho income of which shall be used for certain special purposes. The Empress Eugenio, once the model for tho fashions of society everywhere, is now at Carisbau, where she walks abroad in an ordinary black dress, attended as a rule by Dr. Evans, the dentist, formerly of Philadelphia. The Prince of Montenegro allows no man in his domain to be addressed by any higher title than “Mr.,” no matter what office the “Mr.” may hold. He is determined that no stranger shall discover anything American iu his part of the world. The Queen of Routnania, who is a gifted and most worthy wornau, is in trouble because her husband, Karl I, wants a divorce, she being childless and he desiring an heir to his throne. She has given her consent to a separation provided it can be obtained without injury to her reputation. A volume of poems by Maurice Thompson, entitled “Songs of Fair Weather,” is coining from the press of J. R. Osgood & Cos. It will be printed on imported, hand-made paper, and, the publishers promise “a dainty volume of charming verses, especially appealing to lovers of woodlands and woodcraft.” Tiie capture of Jefferson Davis w'lft bo fully treated by Mr Burton N. Harrison in a paper to be published in an early number of the Century. It is a narrative of personal experience, describing the retreat of Mr. Davis and party from Richmond at the close of the rebellion, and is said to be of decisive historical importance with regard to the event of which tbore has been so much dispute. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt and her husband. M. Da mala, have formally separated. M. Datnala ana his wife lived an apparently happy life for several months after their marriage. Some serious trouble suddenly arose between them. They separated, and he enlisted iu tbe military service in Tunis. There his health broke down and he was discharged. He returned, but whatever the domestic trouble was, it seems it was incurable. Mme. Bernhardt has stipulated to regularly pay M. Damala a handsome allowance. Mr. Alfred Austin In the National .Review (London) relates the following anecdote of the Earl of Beaconsfleld: “ ‘See what my gracious sovereign sent me as a present at Christmas,’ he said to me one day. It was a copy of the edition de luxe of ‘Romola;’ and iu it was written, in the beautiful flowing hand of the Queen, ‘To the Earl of Beaconsfleld, K. G. t from his affectionate and grateful friend, Victoria.* ‘Bur,* he added, T cannot read it.* I ventured to recommend him not to make that oonfession to everybody, tor it would not raise their esrimate of his literary acumen. ‘Well,’ he said, ‘it‘s no use. I can’t.* ” “I once asked General Grant,” said General Shenuan at a dinner given him in San Francisco the other day, “why he always started to talk horse when anyone tried to engage lum in a political conversation, an.* he replied; ‘Well, I don’t care about talking politics, and I have got tosay something, so I choose horse for a hobby and I stick to that. It does as well aa anything for the occasion. I advise you to get a hobby, too. It comes handy.’ I have ever since deliberated,” continued General Sherman, “what to choose for a hobby, that I might have, something to talk about. But I haven’t found it yet. I am a soldier, and have tried to he a lawyer, but neither profession has furnished mo with the desired hobby.” SPIRIT OF THE PRESS, IT will be an almost hopeless task, hut every effort should be made to rescue the ice-be-leaguered explorers. These arctic expeditions are almost invariably fatal, ana it is a question whether the additions to our geographical knowledge justify tho cost.—Chicago inter Ocean. By all means, the place for the Independents is in the Republican caucuses. Their own protensions and the invitation which they have received entitle them to a place there. They are welcome in the caucuses, and they will find lv co-operating there and at tiie poils with the Republican party they can do the most work for the principles which they have at heart.-Boston Journal. So far as Congress cau interfere with private rights ir. should rake what step** it oan to end the arctic mania. If it could declare cruising in the arctic seu a felony, or pass a law' characterizing any person who snail fit our an expedition hh insane and treat him as the Canadian Parliament proposes to treat any person who shall attempt to swim tiie Niagara rapids hereafter, it would be an act of mercy.—Chicago Tribune. It is to be hoped that there have been no bickerings between the army and naval officers, and that Lieutenant Garlington and the othe rs of the Yanticdid nor, venture north on their joint erraud to save Lieutenant Greely and his men without having a clear understanding as to what was to l>e done by either ship. The fate of Lieutenant Greely and his twenty-two associates becomes now a matter of national concern.—New York Tribune. It is not, ns many suppose, Gladstone that has made Liberalism, but Liberalism that has made Gladstone. His retirement—which now cannot lie far distant—will be a serious, but not irreparable, misfortune to ids party. Liberalism in England means political progress—a something which wa not born and will not die with any one man, however great and good. It will he liviug and growing when Gladstone is forgotteu. —St. Louis Republican. They [the negro voters] should be treated precisely as any other considerable body of voters, witli this single difference, that as they depend more upon leadership than any other class, and as t heir leaders will naturally be to a great extent the federal office-holders, who are to them The representatives of the Republican party, these office-holders, so long as the party is in power, should he men of the best character attainable.— New York Times. The newspaper press should be the promoter of morality end net nn agency for its debauohei v. When it descends to methods which please the coarse and the vicious it is no longer the dill valrir kulgiit m arms 'or tiie cause of fair virtue and Christian civitiz ifion, but a courtesan Felling its service for tiie gold of the infidel- And whatever the price realized, t iio barter cannot be accorded the approbation of friends of private and public virtue.—Sr. Louis Republican. It may be that the South lias not asked for aid for her schools. But If her population is not to le educated better by her own efforts the question aria* s whether it is not. the duty or the Federal government to attempt an improvement. The, Southern Staffs may b** content to allow tiie statistics of illiteracy in that seotion to make a worse Allowing from time to time, nut the. people of other seotions of tho country have a right to protest against such a menace to our iustituSioiiQ. —Louisville Commercial.

STATE EXCHANGE TABLE. Vigorous Discussion of Current Topics by the Press of the State. Indications of the Aggressive Spirit of the Republican Party—Mormonism, Woman’s Rights, “Old Ticket,” Etc. The Dangers of Stock Gambling. Crawfonlsvillb Review. Too much cau not be said about the dangers or stock gambling. It is felony from every wide it can be viewed—not in a statutory sense, hut iu reality, in good morals, iu sound reason, and in the bliuded presence of perfect justice. It has cast its blight over the whole land; it has brought grief and tears and hunger to more than a hundred happy homes in Montgomery county*, it has shaken public confidence and shattered the foundations of trade; it has polluted the fountains of official integrity, and shadowed the home of innocence with the dark linings of ciime. The church and the state must look the monster in the face. Men cannot buy and sell that which does not exist. It is against public policy that it should be attempted. Honest industry must not be plundered by combinations of men who produce nothing. Indolence must not be permitted to steal he fruits of labor. Such a s'jate of things, long coutiuued, would destroy society, and society is the hope of tho State. License Law Versus Prohibition. Steuben Republican. Liquors are now recognized in the commercial world as legitimate articles of trade, and the attempt to legislate them out of existence, or nearly so, will be met with determined opposition from the many million dollars invested in the traffic all over the country. It will be most natural for all those engaged in the trade to combine against a law which they deem arbitrary and unjust, and coupled with their efforts is the demand for liquor. As long as there is a demand for liquor it will be manufactured and sold, and ?hi9 demand cannot be controlled by legislation. We have, during the past few weeks, talked with many of our leading business men and farmers, and without an exception they were iu favor of high license as against prohibition. Tlieir reasons are, because they believe that a high license law is a practicable one, and that prohibition, from a variety or causes, must fall of its purpose. Turn Out tiie Democratic Rascals. Torro Haute Courier. % “Torn the rascals out.” has become a familiar household sentence in all families who read the papers. It means something beyond a doubt. We say turn them out in this State. They have used tlieir majority in the last Legislature to degrade and prostitute the, benevolent institutions of the State by wrongfully moving competent persons and appointing second hand cross-roads politicians to positions in these institutions, that they know no more about tilling than a hog does about grammar, yet they are placed there •at the expense of the State, sitnplv because they helped lobby that Infamous illegitimate Brown bill through the House and Senate, and now these l’ourth-rate second-class politicians have the care of the insane aud the deaf and dumb of our State. Undesirable Immigrants. Columbus Republican. Mormonisin would soon die out. were it not continually fed by foreign accessions. Sncti immigrants are more detrimental than either paupers or Chinese, and they should be kept out by law*. They consist of the most ignorant and degraded of the European population, those who can be charmed or gulled by the rose-colored pictures drawn by Mormon missionaries, and who can be lifted for their own vile purposes when they reach this country. It might he somew hat difficult to regulate this matter by law, but where they come as avowed members of an organization that, sets the law at defiance, it looks as if the combined wisdom of Congress could originate some measure that would reach the case and correct the evil. Political Rights of Women. Steuben County Journal. The giving of women their political rights, the privilege of elective franchise, will not. usher in the luilleniuiu, hut there are nor. a few who believe that it would be a grand stride toward it. Then would questions of State and national interest become familiar home topics. The mother thus stimulated would imbue the youthful mind with the fundamental principles or political economy; many political vagaries would be eradicated; some ot the greatest evils that now curse this people would be throttled; a pure Christian influence would be more widely exerted; the world would stand soon on a higher plane, and future generations would revere the generation that inaugurated such reforms. The Basis of American Prosperity. New Albany Ledger. Capital is pouring into this country. The balance of trade, another but not ati entirely safe barometer, is in our favor. From England and Germany, especially, are coming large investments in railroads, mines, Western and Southern lands. Railroads are purchasing additional cars and machinery to move the great grain crops and to develop the coiintrj’, into which is pouring vast populations. New railroads with solid foundations for future prosperity are being projected, and there is every reasou to be live that, the opening of spring will indicate a boom in railroad building equal to that of the spring of 1881. Questions That Are Settled. Wabash Plain Dealer. “There is no Southern question,” thanks to the Republican parry, which settled it once and forever. There is “nofinancial question,” because the Republican policy prevailed in suite of Democratic opposition, and is now accepted by all parties. There is no “foreign question” since the “silent man,” a Republican, suggested a solution aeceprnble to the nations of the earth. “No tariff question,” because half the Democrats are for the Republican policy of protection to home industries, though the practice of their party contradicts what they preach. Don’t you think the Republican party is a good one to keep in power? The James Jury, Peru Republican. The James boys are nothing more nor less than murderers for gain. Their example lias contaminated the minds of thousands of boys. They should have been hung years ago. The prolongation of their lives was a monument to the weakness of the law, and an evidence of the low grade of public morals which prevailed in the State of Missouri.' The same people who assisted in conoeallQg these robbers are their frieude yet and it seems succeeded in forming the Jury which went through the farce of trying Frank James. It is a sad day for justice when such juries go unhuug. The Old or Older Tickets. Kokomo Gazette. When mention is made or tho old ticket it is a little difficult to tell whether it refers to Tilden and Hendricks or Hancock and English. So far as the real merit of the two tickets is concerned, the latter ij much the better. Hancock is a much purer man than Tilden, and has not been mired in any of the great corruptions with which Tilden’s name has been so conspicuously associated. Euglis his also a much better statesman than Hendricks. He is much more brainy, and has decision of character, a thing which Hendricks docs not possess. Where Are the Rascals to Turn Oat. Hendricks County Union. The silly cry of “turn the rascals out” 1 no credit to the man who utters ir, or to the people who hear ir. We have the best system of government. in the world, and as a rule the best officers in the world, and out present high standard and prosperous condition has been reached through Republican efficiency and patriotism, and in deflance of Democratic opposition. When we flint a “ramwl” iu our servioe we “turn him out” ourselves, and he generally goes to the other party as a reformer. Where Is the State’s Money? Frankfort Banner. While the State Treasurer is violating the law with impunity by not keeping the State money where the law provides it shall be kept, and by withdrawing it from a bank so destroyed public confidence in Its solvency that it was wrecked. Wul he now srate where the State money is kept? The people have some rights In this matter that even a Democratic State Treasurer should respect. Mr. Cooper, as you do not keep tiie money where tiie law provides it shall be kept, where do you keep it? Abuses in tiie School System. Madison Star. The people will be patient until they become fully satisfied about the abuses that have sedulously been introduced into our school affairs, aud then they will turn upon the mismanagers of our schools and institute u day of reckoning aud accountability. Waiting for Tilden’s Bid. Terra Haute Express. Ex-Senators McDonald and Hendricks, rival candidates for the Democratic nomination for the

presidency, have returned from their pilgrim*c** to lowa, where they tiled their bids for the lowa delegation to next year’s Democratic convention. The lowa Democrats will not decide whom they shall serve until the msjefttic form of Uncle Batntny Tilden makes its appearance upon the stump In thut State. A Jury’s Sacrifice. Monti cello Herald. Had the courts decided against James, the Missouri Governor would have necessarily, in accordance with his custom, interposed to sava his neck and place him in the way of honorable preferment. After all it is not unlikely that tlm James jury has performed a Heroic net In thus sacrificing its own reputation for the good of their noble Governor, who has never yet shown himself wanting in the attributes essential to the welfare and comfort of tne banditti. No Use for the Democracy. Michigan City Enterprise. The country was never in a more prosperous condition than now, and there is not an evil of a political character in the land that needs correcting that cannot better be corrected by tho party in power than it, possibly can be by placing the government machinery into new and untried hands. This is a Uav of civil-service reform, and the idea of turning an experienced man out of office Just to put an inexperieuced one in is about played out. The Removal of Vandervoort, Michigan City Enterprise. Mr. Vandervoort was given frequent opportunity to reform his habits before he was dismissed, bur, believing himself “solid,” he failed to correct his wavs, to an extent amounting to insubordination, and lie was of course turned out, While the fact that a man lias been a soldier and has faithfully defended his country is an honor to him, and entitles nlin lo special respect, ir should never be sighted as a palliation for negligence in office. Rape of the Benevolent Institutions. Columbus Republican. Such a disgraceful abuse of power was never seen In tbis State before, and could not be found in ar.y other State in the Union. When the people of Indiana trust the professions of the Democratic party again they will deserve all the. obloquy that can be heaped upon them—but it will be long before that will happen. Twovears of Democratic control is as much ns a civilized Stare like Indiana cau stand out of a decade, at least. The Queen and Her Gillie. ludianapoliH Saturday People. There Is a great deal of rot, ana we might add hog wash being written in reference to Queen Victoria and her respect for the memory of John Browu, her most attentive servant for years, left to her as ir. were by her dead husbaud. Prince Albert. She should really be honored instead of censured for her desire to do honor to tbe dead gillie who was so attentive to her every want while liviug so far as he could administer to it. The Success of Advertising. Indianapolis Saturday Herald. The secret of the success of those who advertise in tho newspapers lies in tho fact that they do advertise. There is no better investment; than that made in judicious advertisiug. Tlio return will be a hundred fold. The merobunt who advertises will get the confidence of intending buyers because ho thinks his ware* aro worthy of the best menus of communicating with his patrous. We Will Find a Good Man. Delphi Journal. It is a notable fact that the Democrats ara very much agitated as to who shall be their standard hearer in 1884. Tho Renubltcrn party is so busy witli its business in msnagiug iho affairs of the country that it is paying but little attention to this question. When the fight is opened we will find a good man with no trouble, and will have, moreover, a fine record to back hltu. Mr. Hendricks as a Temperance Man. Bourbon Mirror. Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks haft been in lowa delivering anti-temperance speeches Let’s see: this is the same, gentleman who was elected Governor of Indiana in 1872 because he was such an exceedingly good temperance man. Mr. Hendricks doesn’t stick to one idea long nt a time, i hough, and no one is surprised to hear of his cuangiug his mind on uuypublto question. Major Calkius and “Submission.” Albion New Era. Major Calkins was present at the last State convention in this State, and, like hundreds of other Republicans who are not prohibitionists, was yet in favor of letting the people have a voice in saving whether they wanted prohibition or not. The Republican party never yet lias attempted to prevent the will of the majority from being the law on any question. Necessity f Cheap Food. New Albany Ledger. People who live in cities have come to a realizing sense that no article of food is cheap. Tho nine has come when cheap living is out of tho question. Even brown bread, baked beaus, corned beef and salt pork are dear. There U money to be made in producing old-fashioned crops, and the prospect Is that there will always be money iu producing them. Why Not Loan tlio State Funds? Porter County Vidette. We understand that Governor Porter tft devoting faithful care to tne construction of the new' State treasury, to have it made a safe placo of deposit, with h view to have the State funds kept therein, instead of being loaned out at the profit of the officer. Bur why should, not The law require it. to be loaned our, like the school fund, at a profit to the public? How Indiana Was Carried. Corydon Republican. “How Indiana was carried” seems to worry the Democrats It was done by hard, persistent work on the part of the Republicans, who thwarted the designs of the Democratic repeaters brought Into the State for tho purpose of outraging the ballot-boxes, and by the Republicans getting more honest ballots In the box than did the Democrats. A Nut for the Free-Traders. Martinsville Republican. We are told by free-traders that protection means higher prices at home than elsewhere. Now, if such is the case, why did our merchants last, year sell $17,571,1132 worth of Irou and steel manufactures in foreign markets? Tho very fact that they did that proves that prioea abroad were as good or better thau they weio at home. The Decadence of Boss ism. Greensburg Staiulurd. It has come to pass that bossisra even In tho Democratic ranks meets with its lust resentment. When there 1 a premium on honesty, when virtue is rewarded, when culture has a place in every household, and education marches forward witli sturdy stride, it isamole nine to call a halt ou fraud in politics. That time has arrived. Republican Harmony. Muncie Times. Never since 1860 has there been a more solid union of sentiment in the Republican party than now. All arc fighting for the continuance of a Just policy and the sound principles that liavo made our people not only free but prosperous. Preliminary to tho 1830 campaign wo present a solid front which cuunot be overcome by tho enemy. The Sweet Rest from Politics, Logansport Pharos. How fortunate it is that Indiana has no election mis year. Such seasons of political rest aro indeed enjoyable to those who have to beu* tho burden of a wearisome campaign. It would bo nil the bettor if we held State elections but once iu four years Instead of every other year. An Issue Republicans Accept. Lafayette Journal. Mr. McDonald says “freo trade is the basis upon which commerce should rest,” The Republicans are willing to accept the issue which the Democratic aspirant for the presidency raises. The Marion County Jail. Columbus Republican. There Is no dispute as to the had condition of the prison, and the Question Arises whether it is necessary ,or T,US commissioners to let it remain In this condition for years awaiting to be “officially notified.” __ A Charntcrlstlo of the Republican Party, Portland Commercial. Another characteristic which creates a strong confidence in its [the Republican parry] behalf, is that, knowing the needs of the people, both now and to come, it has the boldness to provld# for them. Cannot ‘Be Remise! tatod. NoblSftville Republican Ledger. We insist that the Democratic party k drowned, aud that rolllug it on Tildeu’g barrel will not save it.