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THE DAILY JOURNAL. 15T JNO. C. NEW Jt SOX. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pasre. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, I**3. THE INDIANAPOLIS . JOUKSAL Can bo found at tho following places: LONDON —American Kxchangcin Europe, 449Btrsnrl. PABlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels, WASHINGTON. D. O.—Brentano’s 1,015 Pennsylvania avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI —J. C. Hawley* Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dearins, north” ** corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot. Aixpostage stamps are good for their face value in paying postage. Mr. Frederick G. Mather denies the authorship of “The Bread Winners.” It is Still an open question. The word has gone out from Washington that ‘‘the Democrats would not pin their faith to Ohio.” This is a confession of defeat in advance. The city election occurs on Tuesday next, October 9. It is the first election for city officers under the new law, and should call out every voter ‘‘On! that mine enemy would write a book!” said Job. With Candidate Sebmuck a book was not necessary; one small letter did the business for him. A report from a correspondent of the Copenhagen Journal says that Lieutenant Greely was murdered by a mutinous crew. The London Times discredits the rumor. The workingmen of the city are done with Schtnuck, the monopoly candidate for mayor. Jlis letter against any new street railway enterprise effectually killed liis candidacy. We print this morning the list of pensioners of the Sixth congressional district. Tomorrow we shall publish the list for the Fifth district, consisting of the counties of Hendricks, Putnam, Owen, Monroe, Morgan, Johnson, Brown and Bartholomew. The Sentinel cannot extricate candidate Schmuck from the awkward position in which his street railway letter placed him. Double-leaded shrieks from the organ will have no avail. The people are against monopolies and monopoly candidates. The people of Paris have done a good stroke of business for Alfonso. The little King was about played out with his own folks, but now they are just howling with loyal enthusiasm. He will be solid enough to have another escapade with a circus rider if he wants to.

The calling of the three-per-cent, bonds, a portion of which are held as security for circulation by national banks, it is believed, will have a tendency to restrict the currency, and Comptroller Knox thinks there will be a demand for more greenbacKs or silver certificates by the time Congress meets. Printing the letters of Messrs. McMaster and Schmuck in a garbled form may be an absolute necessity for the Democratic candidate; but it is none the less a disgraceful and dishonorable piece of work for the Sentinel. The simple, plain fact that Mr. McMaster is for new enterprises and that Mr. Schmuck is against them, has gone forth to the people. The Sentinel cannot change the record by mutilation. The New York Tribune has tried its hand in discovering the sentiment of the memberselect of the next House of Representatives. The only important result is to show the existence of a pretty decided feeling among bumptious Democrats to rip up the tariff question. This is, doubtless, the dish the Democratic party is preparing to set before the business and industrial interests of the country. That disreputable organization, the Salvation Army, has fallen out with itself in New Brunswick, N. J. At a late meeting lights were put out and everybody rushed for the door. Pistols were fired, men shouted, women screamed, and several persons were carried out of the hall fainting, unconscious and bruised. It is strange that any number of religious people, with common sense and common decency, can be found to countenance the presence and the disgraceful antics of this mob. Judge Hoadly made his promised speech in Cleveland on Monday night. He was by po means in good physical condition, and in opening his remarks said: “I don't stand here between quinine and morphine, but between the sick chamber and the Governor’s office. I hope lam much nearer the sick bed, however, than the Governor’s office, because I left it only last week." Every man will sympathize with the Democratic candidate, who felt it necessary to leave a sick bed to save his candidature from hopeless ruin. Judge Hoadly should not risk further public effort. It may be well for him that his canvass has thus hopelessly broken down. During the recent trip of Mr. Gladstone he was accompanied by Alfred Tennyson. At the town of Kirkwall both distinguished gentlemen received and accepted the freedom ©f the burg at the hands of the corporation. In his address, in acknowledgment of the honor, Mr. Gladstone said that Mr. Tennyson’s life and labor corresponded in point of time nearly to his own, but, lie remarked: “Mr. Teunvson’s exertions have been on a

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higher plane of action than my own. lie has worked in a higher field, and his work will be more durable. The work of Mr. Tennyson is of a higher order. I anticipate for him the immortality for which England and Scotland have supplied, in the course of their long national life, many claims. The poet laureate has written his own song in the ‘heartsof his countrymen.’" A QUESTION OF DOLLARS With what Shakspeare and the Democratic party may call “damnable iteration,” we take leave to again present the figures of the official record showing the difference in city administration between the Republican and the Democratic parties: THE CITY DEBT AND ASSESSMENT. May, 1874, when tile Demo, cratic party took control of the city government, the indebtedness of the city was $1,294,500.00 Cash balance in the tieasury... $259,670.00 Net debt #1,034,830.61 May, 1876. when the Republicans resumed control, the Democrats left the oity in debt.... $1,606,165.60 Cash in the treasury $-10,431.57 Net debt #1,561,734.03 Net increase olthe debt of the city under Democratic administration of two years #530,904.61 The Republican assessment of city property in 1874 was #61,344,311.00 Rate of assessment, #l.lO on the #IOO. The Democrats raised the assessment to #69,351,749.00 And The rate of assessment to #1.50 on the #IOO. The Republicans, when they resumed control, reduced the assessment to #55,367,345.00 And the levy to #1.13 on the #IOO. REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC EXPENSES. Democratic expenses for the two years they controlled the city government were #1,583,578 00 Republican expense for the following twenty-three months were #1,030,793.00 Difference in favor of Republicans at the date of the first election after having resumed control of affairs, was #553,785.00 Now, this] involves practically the whole question, certainly the most important one, at issue in the pending election. The citizens and tax-payers of Indianapolis are interested in a prudent and economical government. The Republican party may not give wiiat to each individual shall prove all he would like; there may be incidents and individuals in the government which A, Bor C might wish were different; but how paltry all that, even at the worst, by the side of the possibility of turning the revenues of the city and the power of taxation into the control of a parly which in two years bankrupted the treasury, reduced credit until orders were hawked about the streets at ninety cents on the dollar, increased the debt more than half a million dollars, raised the assessment of property nearly ten millions of dollars, increased the rate of taxation from $1.12 on the SIOO to $1.50, and then left the treasury with o deficit of $70,000. What taxpayer will allow a party like this to obtain control of the city government again, either by his direct vote or by his failure to vote for the Republican ticket? This is a plain, simple business question. Is it worth the doubling of your taxes to enjoy the felicity of the control of a party which made the last legislature infamous, which has raped the benevolent institutions of the State to the disgust of decent people the country over, and whose candidate for mayor, in a weak and bungling letter, advertises both his own ignorance and incompetence and the fact that he is the tool of an odious monopoly?

INTELLIGENT PROTECTIONThe Democratic demand for “a tariff for reveuue, with incidental protection," as that party expresses it, is demagogy’s specious plea for popular favor. It is as meaningless an utterance in Democracy’s mouth as could be framed. There is but one dividing line between protection and free trade. All on one side of that line is protection; all on the other is free trade. Just so soon as an import duty is laid on any article that is manufactured in the United States it is a protective tariff. The issue presented by the Democratic party simply is whether the protection to be accorded American industries shall be intelligently and discriminatingly adjusted by friends, or whether it shall be the possible hap-hazard of a system framed by those openly and avowedly hostile to the protective idea. There ought not to be much trouble for an honest and clear-headed man to determine with which party he should act upon this question. Protection conceded even by the Democracy, which party shall give it—the party' which has been the unswerving friend and champion of the principle, or that party which has been its bitter and unrelenting opponent? It is ano more difficult question to decide than which party should be given the duty of saving the government —the party which was friendly to the Union or the party whose principal strength was with its open and blatant enemies? It cannot be argued that the protection which has been accorded to American industries under Republican administration increases the price of American commodities abnormally above their value. Os breadstuffs the United States ships annually about $183,000,000 worth to all parts of Europe. Os agricultural implements it sells to the value of $3,000,000, coming in competition with free-trade England in forty-eight countries. Cotton goods are exported to the value of $13,223,000 annually. Os iron and steel we export each year to the amount of $17,500,000. It is enough answer to the charge of high prices of American products under protection to quote the fact that the total value of exports of protected articles

reaches the enormous aggregate of $702,800,000, and of these nearly or quite half are sold in the markets of free-trade England, The Democratic party, hungry for political ascendency and the spoils of office, lias laid down a planK in its platform which it hopes will catch the votes of all classes. In doing so it has been guilty of hypocrisy and deceit. Its plausible pretenses are the veriest nonsense. It could not possibly carry out its professions were it given absolute control, and in its efforts to do something as a show of accomplishing an imaginary reform it would be sure to do liaim that might be irreparable. Under Republican management every industry has been wisely protected, and the revenue realized in the year 1882 was $220,410,730.25, a sum greater than ever before, and so great that the universal demand was to have it reduced. What folly, then, to talkof a tariff for revenue! We have enough of it now. And as for “incidental protection,” the protection now afforded is vastly better than any other that the bungling Democratic party could possibly devise. With these facts at hand and easily accessible to all who would learn for themselves, the cry of tariff for revenue with incidental protection, as it is uttered by the Democratic party, is too shallow and absurd to deceive anybody not willing to be deceived. “AND SO THEY WERE MARRIED ” According to the popular novel the young man and woman who have passed through a more or less tortuous course of wooing and true love to the final climax of marriage are considered to have done their duty by the world. What may come after that happy event is a matter of no consequence. There is a tacitly accepted theory that being once married they live happily ever after. If there are any further trials and tribulations nobody wants to hear of them, and each fond pair is, in turn, dismissed with a “bless you, my children,” while the reader of romance follows the fortunes of other lovers. Thus in novels. In real life, if the cynics are to be believed, and cynics are painfully numerous, trouble begius with the wedding day. No sooner do the marriageable young persons show symptoms of a wish to unite their fortunes than they are overwhelmed with warnings and advice of a depressing character. Marriage is a lottery; better stay free and be happy; a few happy weeks and then misery, are tliy gist of the croakings. The shower of wedding cards fluttering about these October days indicate that croakings have little effect, and a desire on the part of many young people to test the matter for themselves, or rather to prove the dismal prophets to be the falsest of the false. Possibly they agree the novelists are not correct in bringing life practically to an end at such an interesting point; but neither are they right who foretell awfuL consequences in disappointment and a resulting disgust with existence. And thp young people have reason on their side. Because the old married man has made a matrimonial-mistake and expresses gloomy views thereon, it does not follow that others shall do likewise. The same married man will, as soon as he has opportunity, hasten to put his neck in what he calls “the noose” again. Indeed, it not unfrequently happens that he is so eager to try his luck again that the second noose encircles hint before the divorce court has cut the first. The woman who inveighs against married life the most vigorously is apt to be an inveterate matchmaker.

The cynical man should correct his unpleasant habit of sneering at marriage. He is either soured by actual disappointment, or he is not in earnest, and in neither case is his conversation agreeable. Why not keep his private dissatisfaction with his lot to himself, .and admit that the novelists are right? No warnings ever made young lovers wiser. It is “love that makes the world go round,” and lovers of to-day, though they may not go through three volumes of distressing adventures for each other’s sake, are yet quite as likely to live long and to love truly as in the halcyon days of some by-gone age. While the world stands there will be marrying and giving in marriage, and though there may be those who are glad that this is not so in heaven, let them, nevertheless, congratulate the young people who will from to-day walk together through this world. So far as the public is concerned, they have reached the end of the novel in which they have played a part. It is pleasant to believe that for themselves their romance is but just begun, and that they will live happily forever after. The great fisheries exhibition in Liverpool has been an event of the utmost importance, in calling attention to the food supply of the United Kingdom. The North sea is practically inexhaustible, and besides extending the scope of employment and bettering the condition of a portion of the population, there is the added advantage of cheapening the food of the people and adding to the variety of dishes upon the table. Sir Henry Thompson, in his address, did not hesitate to go to so apparently small a matter as the manner of cooking. He very highly extolled the cooking of fish by roasting in place of boiling or frying. This method is applicable to all varieties, and has the advantage of retaining all the nutrition and the juices and characteristic flavor of the fish. The mode of cooking is to place the fish in a tin a little deeper than its own thickness, so as to retain all the juices which by exposure to the heat will flow out, the surface to be lightly spread with butter, witli a morsel or two added; the dish to be then placed in a Dutch or American oven or in front of a clear fire. This, Sir Henry asserted, gives that peculiar appetiz-

ing flavor which is the charm of the “roast” and the “grill.” It should be served on the dish in which it is cooked. In its garbled and unfair repnblication of the answers of Messrs. MeMaster and Schmuck to the letter of theeditorof the Indiana Tribune respecting their positions upon the admission of the new street railway company, the Sentinel says: “The Journal, referring to Mr. Schmuck’s letter, says that gentleman 'cannot be said to have replied to the question so plainly put.” What question? The Journal does not print the question. Why? Simply because if it had done so, its comments would at once be pronounced mendacious and unjust. The Journal compliments Mr. McMaster’s ‘square’ talk upon the subject in controversy.” In order that the Sentinel may understand “wha* question,” we print in full Mr. Rappaport’s letter, as follows; “Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 28,1883. “Mr. Jobu L. McMaster: “Dear Sir—Oue of the most important questions which tlm people will have to deckle at the next city election is this: Whether a corporation shall nave the exclusive control of our streets, or whether the whole population shall exercise this right of property in the streets. The question for the City Council is the monopoly qneslion. “If elocted mayor of the city of Indianapolis, yon would have to decide the question in case of a tie vote. It Is therefore of importance to tlie people of this city to know how you w ould vote In such case, ami whether you are a friend of or an opponent of the new—that is, the Metropoli-tan-street railroad company. “We ask you, respectfully, to answer this question, and iu case of a refusal we consider you au opponent of the new company. “Most Respectfully, “The Editor of hie Indiana Tribune.” The same letter was sent to Mr. Schmuck, except with the change of name and that it was written in German. This is the question, plainly put by Mr. Rappaport: “In case of a tie vote will you, as mayor, favor or oppose the admission of the new street railway company?” This is not ambiguous. It is plain, direct, and could be answered, yes or no. How was it answered? The Sentinel cuts from the answers of the candidates the essential parts, but we give them again. Mr. Schmuck’s letter says: "I do not think it proper to answer the question whether lam in favor of the new or Metropolitan Street Railway Company or any other corporation, because in case of my election I would have, as an officer and representative of the people, to decide whether an application for certain privileges should be granted or not. It would be as improper as it would be fora candidate for a judgeship to say how he would decide a case if lie should be elected, so it would be just as improper for a candidate for mayor to decide such questions in advance.” Mr. McMaster’s answer says: “Your favor making inquiry as to my position on the new street railway is at hand. In answer thereto I can heartily say that I am in favor of admitting it. * * * If an opportunity offers, I shall vote in favor of the new company.” • We have given the “question” and the answers. Which candidate answered frankly to “the question so plainly put?” Does the Sentinel think the Journal’s comments “mendacious and unjust?”

The Evening News, in a review of the city campaign, says: “Mr. McMaster, from his frank and manly acceptance of the nomination to the present stage of progress, has shown himself to be in earnest for the welfare of the whole city and everybody in it. Mr. Schmuck is committed to the proposition that he will use the public interests for the benefit, exclusively, of one class of citizens. The dullest can see that this is a moral and legal wrong; and Mr. Schmuck has, in addition, displayed General Hancock’s unfortunate ability of showing his ignorance by pleading duties which do not belong to him as a cover for his position on the street railway question, which he is afraid to define. * * * There is therefore more involved in his defeat and Mr. MeMaster’s election than a mere man triumph. It is the principle of fairness in the conduct of the people’s business, and they should see to it that this principle prevails in Mr, MeMaster’s election.” Giiiffin, Ga., is one of the places where law is enforced without regard to race or previous condition of servitude. On Saturday the people of that town were treated to the edifying spectacle of a white woman sixty years of age dragged through the streets at the rear end of a cart to which she was chained by the waist, her hands and feet being shackled. The old woman had been drunk and disorderly, but had a remnant of pride left which led to a refusal to work out her fine on the streets as ordered—hence she was carted off to jail. We should have another book on the chivalry of the South. Instances of the enfranchisement of women appear in unexpected places. A Jewish synagogue in Philadelphia has taken anew departure in government by which women are allowed equal privileges with the male members, except the holding of official positions. Under the old regulations, which are the same that prevail in other Hebrew congregations, women had no voice in the election of rabbi or any of the business Os the church, but were compelled to take a hack seat. It is expected that other synagogues will follow in the footsteps of this progressive congregation. Episcopal Church circles of New York are gossiping over a rumor that a magnificent cathedral, even surpassing the new St. Patrick’s, will shortly begin to rise in that city. A wealthy maiden lady is spoken of as likely to volunteer almost the entire expense of such a work, her zeal being fired by the example of Mrs. A. T. Stewart in building the cathedral at Garden City. A corporation known as the Cathedral of St. John the Divine is already in existence, and preliminary steps have been taken for securing a desirable, location. Monopoly does not seem to be popular with the people in any shape. The railroad that is fighting its way into the city, against the efforts of those who imagine they own the streets, evidently has the sympathy of the public. The candidate who puts himself on the side of monopoly, as Mr. Schmuck has done, can never be elected to office. Asa private citizen Mr. Schmuck has the right to be the friend of the old street-car monopoly,

but that is very different from becoming their advocate in the office of mayor, Mr. Schmuck and monopoly must go. Drinkers who are married men—if such there be —will be interested in a judicial definition of wbat constitutes the habitual drunkard. In the divorce suit of Vincent vs. Vincent, recently tried at Washington, the judge held that becoming intoxicated three or tour times a year was sufficient to destroy a wife’s happiness. In this particular case the husband preferred the countercharge of drunkenness against the wife, but she established the fact that the husband set the example, and her prayer for a divorce was granted What is known as “standard time” is likely to be adopted on the entire railroad system of the country. The managers of 60,000 miles have already agreed to it, and there have been praotically no negative votes against the proposition. The whole country will he divided into five divisions—the Intercolonial, 60 degrees west from Greenwich; the Eastern. 75 degrees west from Greenwich; the Central. 00 degrees west from Greenwich; the Mountain, 105 degrees west from Ureenwioh, and the Puoiiio. 120 degrees west from Greenwioh. Each division, it will be observed, is fifteen degrees apart, which makes just one hour in time. At present there are fltty different standards of time In use on the various roads in this country, which causes much annoyance and trouble. By the new arrangement there will be but five standards, eaoli one hour apart, wliloli will greatly simplify mutters. Tue adoption of staudard time does not neoessarily mean the change of the clock dial from twelve hours to twenty-four. It iB thought that suggestion will meet with little favor. Rev. Dr. Houghton, the jack preacher of New York, who made himself notorious by preachiug a sermon on the Rose Ambler murder case, returned to his mutton last Sunday In the most vigorous style. Replying to his critics, Mr. Houghton thundered forth: “The spirit of the age demands a true, manly Independence at the sacred desk. It calls for men not afraid to express their convictions on any question of public interest. We want no blear-eyed preachers, who sit like owls on the rafters of the temple of Zion, hooting the wornout tables of by-gone days Into ttie ears of thoughtful men. We want tree, earnest, broadminded scholars who have convictions and the courage to express them.” Tho attention of the fool-killer Is respectfully oalled. The field is white to the harvest. He should thrust iu his pickle promptly. Ex-Rev. W. H. H. Murray, better known as “Adirondack,” is lecturing 111 Now York on “Christianity vs Theology,” He holds that reason us to reject the Christianity taught by theologians, hat that the Christianity taught by Christ himself is worthy of our acceptance. The public is perhaps not deeply Interested in Mr. Murray’s religious views, but It is possible that big creditors may be moved to languidly inquire whether he was practicing theology or au exclusive piety of hts own when he ran away from Boston without paying his debts.

A Philadelphia pastor rises to inquire if the church is honest. Six humired members of a Polisli congregation at Wilkesbarre are not prepared to say as to the church in general, but are convinced that their pastor is a thief. Last Sunday they met him at the door, anil accusing him of financial mismanagement, refused to allow him to enter and celebrate mass. , The central committee of Massachusetts have issued a campaign document, which is represented to he a very effective weapon. The mottoes on the title pages are: “I never knew what true happiness was until I lost my charsorer.”—Benjamin F. Butler. “You had better go down lo posterity as a Nero than a nobody.”—General B. F. Butler to General Baldy Smith. Elizabeth Dean, a New Jersey woman, has just died at the age of eighty-four from the effects of tight lacing. She hung herself by the neck witli a corset string until she. was dead, and If that is not tight lacing what tsl To the Editor of the Indlanapous Journal: p.ease s ale in the Journal who Generals File noun and Sheridan voted for for President at tiie last presidential election, to satisfy some Democrats. j. h. b. Sylvana, Ind. Generals Sherman and Sheridan doubtless know much better than we do, but, as they are both sensible men, we make no doubt they voted for James A. Garfield. But ask them. To tbe Editor ol the Indianapolis Journal: Please give the highest total indebtedness of tiie United States, and the present debt of tile United States. j. s. Tiie public debt reached its highest point in 1866, when it amounted to $2,773,236,173: on tbe Ist of October the total debt, less cash in tbe treasury, was $1,521,811,535. To the Editor a. the fndtauanolis Journal: Is there suv law prohibiting stock running at large on a nubile highway) Subscriber. Omega, Ind. Stock is not allowed to run at large in Indiana except on a permit issued by county sionersABOUT PEOPLE. Lord Houghton is going to India again, where he will be tile Viceroy’s guest all winter. The wnrd “Nihilist” is said lo be of American origin, having b- en first used in a book of travels by President Dwight over eighty years ago. The will of Junius Brutus B“oth lias been filed in the Probate Court ai Salem, Mass. It is understood that tiie entire estate is left to tbe widow, Mrs. Agnes Booth. Mrs. Cornwallis West, the English beauty who is coming to this country, is a widow. It is more than likely that Mrs. Cornwallis will soon surrender to some handsome American. IT is r.ot generally known that the Duke of Connaught, Queen Victoria's third eon, was refused by Princess Tliyra, of Denmark, who married tbe son of a German nobleman Instead Ex Senator David Davis now expects toremam in North Carolina until about the middle et November and then to return to Ills home In Bloomington, 111., for a stay extending through the greater portion of the winter. The Duke of D-vonsbire'e sale of short-horns was most succi ssful in point of attendance and in the prices realized. The I)nke of Manchester, Lord Skelinersdale, Sir Wilfred Lawson, Lord Latborn, Lord Middleton, the Earl of fiectivtl and many oilier distinguished breeders were there. Amongst the animals which brought big prices were file Countess Barrington, 1,005 guineas; Grand Duchess ot Oxford Forty-ninth, 565 guineas, and Kentucky, 520 guineas. Prinobßi i.makck, ns he gets old, delights in assuming tin- foibles and eccentricities of Frederick tbe Great. Now, Frederiok tbe Great never thoroughly enjoyed a friendly act unless be could make, it tiie means of barring tiie recipient. Frederick once presented Voltaire's friend, D’Argeus, with a house. When D'Argcus went to take possession he fouud the walls adorned with pictures of all the most indecent and humiliating episodes of his own life. The ages of the five oldest members of tile tbe Newton family, of Woodbridee, Conn., aggregnte 397 years, the oldest being eighty-four and tiie youngest sevruty five. Another living member of the family is sixty-four years of age.

Five of the family live within half a mile of one another; the sixth lives about a mile and a half from the others. The family .has always lived in Woodbridge, and the homestead, which is of the family’s founding, has been in its possession 140 years. Sir Henry Branii has definitely made up his mind to resign the Speaker’s chair, to which ho was elected in 1872, at the close of the present Parliament. It is the rule to bestow on the retiring Speaker a peerage and a pension of $20,000 per annum, tenable for two lives. But just as the last Speaker. Mr. Evelyn Dennison, declined the pension on relinquishing tne chair, so the present occupant will decline the peerage, preferring to hear the title of tlie ancient Barony of Dacre, to which he Is next In succession, rather than accept the style and dignity of a new creation. Beveral names continue to bo mentioned with the new speakership, but it may be ten years off, and the ohoioe remains open. sM One of the most curious customs of the provincial Italians of the lower classes is obserrod In connection with thc-lr marriages. The biido is dragged from her home liy main strength. The struggle begins iu her own little room, to which she must cling, beseeching her married women friends, who are appointed to bring her forth to tne ceremony, to permit her to remain there. She clutches the bed-post in despair and shrieks when she Is torn away from it, then alia catches hold of tlie door, then the staircase, tables chairs, anything In the way. till she is dragged to the outer door. If she does not do this she is accused of immodesty, and rhe more she struggles the more heroio is her virtue accounted to he. Bettina he Sortis, the dansetne who last year created sueu a furore in Venice, was named by the young Venetians “Bon-Bon.” On the night of her benefit a handsome satin box lined with bon-bons, and large enough to hold the little dancer also, was sent to tlie stage. At tha close of the ballet Mile. “Bon-Bon,” as a trilni:e to her admirers, stepped into iho box, which laid been placed conspicuously behind the footlights. The lid was closed over Bettina’s head, and tha house rang with cheers while the curtain fell. A scene of excitement ensued upon the stage, however, for the box shut with a spring, the secret of which nobody present understood, ad before “Bon-Bon” could be extricated from her place among the candies she was almost suffocated. She got out in time to be hired by Mr, Mapleson. The bust of Fielding wiiioh was recently unveiled at Taunton, England, was made by the artist from a sketch by Hogarth. The sketch , however, was not one of Fielding, but of Garrick, the celebrated actor, who, a short time after the death of the noted author-was lamenting the fact that Fielding had died without a single portrait of him having been taken, when he (Garrick) suddenly exclaimed: “I think that I could make his face,” and at once used all his skill as a contortionist to that end. Hogarth was thunderstruck with the effect, and cried: “For heaven’s sake hold, David; remain as you are for a few minutes.” Garrick did so, and Hogarth soon sketched the outlines of bis face, and the portrait was not only the original of Miss Thomas’s bust, but of every portrait of Fielding now extant.

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. That Mr. Carlisle Is an able man there is ro doubt, and that be would fill the Speaker's chair with grace aud dignity will be acknowledged by all who know him, but tbe fates have ordained differently, and Mr. Tllden will take bis little sponge and wipe out Mr. Wattersou’s oredictions whenever be finds it convenient and agreeable to do so.— Chicago Inter Ocean. The iron trade continues in good condition. Rumors about a drop in price of Southern pigirons are not corroborated by Teuneesee or Alabama furnace owners. AU makes of pig-irons, Eastern as well as Southern, are in reality selling about fifty cents less than one month ago. But this is uo new thing. Business then remains healthful, and theprospeot unimpaired.—Cinoinolnnati Enquirer. A good monarch the Spanish people will not respect. Hence they must not wonder that their monarch is not much respected by an unthinking rabble at Paris. If Alfonso were a worthy King, and tiie king of a worthy people, the trifling and proper act of receiving a little nominal compliment from the Prussian Emperor would not have provoked popular rudeness. The affair at Paris is not without significance.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The result will undoubtedly prove the wisdom of tills step. Tbe service performed by the postoffices is essentially a trading service, And it forms an exception to the general rule that such operations should be left to individual enterprise. But as the government should never work for a profit it is lint right that when the income from this branch exceeds the expenditure the excess should he remitted in favor of the people.—New York Herald. The relative jurisdiction and rights of nations are so well established that it is difficult to conceive of any action on the part of Great Britain which will drag the American government into either diplomatic or warlike demonstration over the Irish question, and certainly the selfish and reckless course of Irish agitators living in America and claiming citizenship In the United States should not be permitted to bring about so deplorable an event.—Chicago Tribune. And now the point of voting has been reached. There are few electors who have not decided upon the ballot they will cast, and only one duty remains, and that is to resolve to go to the polls. The Republican party has been beaten at times not by Democrats, but by stay-at-home Republicans. The same danger confronts the party this year. It may result from over-confidence, but whatever the cause it should he guarded against and overcome. Every Republican should arrange bis business ill advanoe in older that lie may vote himself and find time in . addition to prevail upon dilatory neighbors to do the same. —Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. As Mr. Rlaiue looks over the political field and sees it strewn with the carcases of Robeson and Wiudoui; ns lie reflects that their fate was the direct result of owning fine houses in Washington, and that lie owns a finer house than either, tt is not wonderful tout ho should meditate the Spanish proverb which sets forth that "when the bouse is finished the hearse Is at the door,” and hasten to make out a lease to a casual Chicago Ilian, to run until aftor the next Republican convention. When that body meets we may expect to learn that among the Blaine “exhibits" is a transparency of great size, representing a story-aud-a-half frame cottage, with a well-sweep, a tumble-down chimney, aud an old hat in the window, labeled, “Residence of James O. Blaine, tbe people's candidate.”—New York Times. The help for the temperance cause Ir to come, if at all, front the Republican party. The masses of tliai party are in sympathy with it, and whenever they see a chance to do anything pract cal they do it. At this moment they are supporting a prohibitory movement in Inwu; and in Obio, where public sentiment would not sustain prohibition, they are supporting the Scott law, which restricts tile sale of liquors and makes tiie dealers bear the principal burdens of taxation. Tiie way to strengthen the temperance cause here Is to strengthen tbe Republican party. Tile way to make temperance reform impossible is to put the Democrat parly in power. And one efficient agency to this latter end is tiie running of prohibitory tickets, drawing their sole support from tbe Republican ranks.—New York Tribune. Justice to llio working-olnsses and their employers demands that towns, cities, States, and to some extent the nation, Sit?!! ;* r ovide sehooif} in which special Instruction in technology" i““.y bc obtained. It is idiotic to speak of such schools us experimental or of doubtful value when tbe experience of all the great manufacturing nations of Europe long ago proved them practicable and valuaole. The mass of all common school instruction that is not merely elementary goes lor nothing, but it is impossible that special education for me life work tiiat a boy expects to do call lie of little or no effect. An elementary course in mechanical drawing consumes but a tew weeks, yet for tiie lack of such knowledge or fflhiilities for obtaining it a million mechanics are eaoii losing hundreds of dollars yearly and must continue to do so while they live.—New York Herald. Political Notes. The Hon. Josiali T. Walls, the negro ex-ct n, gressmau from Florida, lias published s let!if: favoring the nomination of Gov. Ben. F. Bulls* for tbe presidency. Tiie Massachusetts Republican State Conor's* tee announces a list of 130 speakers, residing a that State, who are to take an active part in > ha campaign. The committee also promises . itj services of distinguished men from other States