Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1883 — Page 4

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AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. GRAND OPERA-HOUSE—Mme. Modiceka—Matinee, “Frou-Frou;” evening, “As You Like It.” ENGLISH'S OPERA-HOUSE—Robert Me Wade aa “Rip Van Winkle/’ matinee and evening. PARK THEATER—Baylies & Kennedy's “Bright Lights" Specialty Company. THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C NEW & SOS. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3,1883. TWELVE PAGES. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard ties Capucinea. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON. D. C.—Brentano’s 1,015 Pennsylvania avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. C. Hawley & Co.,. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS—Union News Company, Union DepotPROHIBITION AS A PARTISAN HELP. There is room in the world for all classes of men, and for men of all beliefs. Uncle Toby found room sufficient for himself and the fly, and it will be well if we can recognize the fact that all wisdom does not center in us, neither will the sun, moon and stars die cut when our earthly careers are closed. It must be recognized, especially in governmental affairs, that it is not the ideal best, but the practical best, that must be had, and that the real foundation of popular government is the greatest good to the greatest number. In the discussion of the several phases of the temperance question, particularly, the greatest charity is needful, and the wisest apprehension of the truth that while we may not be able to attain to precisely what we wish, because the majority' of our fellow-citizens may' not agree with us to the fullest extent, it is still the part of wisdom to meet upon some common plane, if it can be found, for present and practical work, abating nothing of individual judgment, and compromising not a whit of individual' conscience. The Journal has no wards of unkindness for Prohibitionists, even for those extremists who openly' announce that they' prefer unlimited and unrestricted traffic in intoxicants to regulated and restricted sale. But we do have decided objection to the practical working of that Prohibitionist who, a Republican in all that distinguishes the Republican from the Democratic parties on the issues upon which the parties are at present divided, will shut his eyes to conceded facts, and force an alien question into partisanship, to the detriment not only of real temperance reform, but to the sacrifice of every other thing the Republican party stands for. Let us not be misunderstood. The Journal has repeatedlyi said that the political parties are not now divided upon the line of prohibition. No one doubts this. It is conceded that 100,000 Democrats in Ohio voted for the prohibition amendment, but did not vote the Republican State ticket. In our own campaign in 1882 the naked question of submission, as shown by the legislative vote, received a popular majority', and in the Legislature which resulted, the proposition had a clear majority in the House, and was only defeated in the Senate by the adverse vote of a member who was not before the people in the canvass. but held over by virtue of a previous election; yet the Republican State ticket w'as defeated. These facts show that the issues upon which the political parties are rationally divided are stronger than prohibition even with Prohibitionists themselves. Until tb : s shall be different we hold it to be the extreme of folly to try and force prohibition into partisan politics. This the Journal said during the last campaign; this it says now, and, as it seems to us in all candor, no man is a wise friend of real temperance reform who would make it a partisan question and arraign the full, active, bitter opposition of either one of the two great parties against his theory. It certainly cannot be possible that any man will believe that a prohibitory amendment, forced into the constitution in the face of a partisan opposition only a little less than a majority of the whole people, could be anything than a dead letter, except that it would be active in inaugurating in certain localities an era of free and unlimited liquor trafficking, such as Las been enjoyed (?) in Ohio for thirty years under a “prohibition” constitution. But we are told that the Republican party took a firm stand oil the prohibition question in lowa and in Kansas, and won, while it did not in Indiana and Ohio, and lost. By ar. easy syllogism the conclusion is reached that all that is necessary to Republican success in the latter State is for the party to follow the lowa and Kansas examples. Without stopping to note the differences between the conditions in the States named, it may be set down as an indisputable proposition that if the Republican party is to succeed in Ohio and in Indiana it must make advances in its vote. Has the Republican party made advancement in lowa and Kansas, with all the aid that better conditions give it over Republicanism in the evenly-balanced States of Ohio and Indiana? Let us look at the figures: In lowa, in 1879, Governor Gear had 72,515 plurality; in 1880, General Garfield had 78,406 plurality; in 1881, Governor Sherman had 69,928 plurality, and a majority over all of 51, 872. In 1882 the Republican plurality Was 37,871, and in 1883 Governor Sherman has a plurality of less than 25,000, and a majority of less than 5,500. A decline in the plurality on the same man, in two years,

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from 59,928 to less than 25,000, and in the majority from 31,872 to less than 5,500, may appear to indicate the value of prohibition in Indiana and Ohio to some Republicans as a party principle, but it does not so seem to us In Kansas, in 1880, Governor St. John received 99,282 votes, and the Democratic candidate 60,471 votes. In 1882, as the special champion of prohibition, Governor St. John received 75,158 votes, and Governor Click, a Democrat, 83,237 votes, the latter being elected. In the House of Representatives, the popular body, the Republicans decreased their numbers from 112 to 86, while the Democrats increased from 9to 26. We submit that the Kansas experiment will not bear an interpretation favorable to the strengthening quality of prohibition as a party shibboleth. It may also be added that in the lowa House of Representatives a Republican majority of forty-two in the last Legislature has been reduced to barely four. We are attempting no argument upon the merits of prohibition, but examining it simply upon thecold, critical grounds—on which it has recently been presented—as an advantageous and strong battle cry for the Republican party in Ohio and Indiana. The Journal is a Republican newspaper, devoted with all its zeal and ability to the advocacy of the best and purest Republicanism. It is not a prohibition paper, or any other kind of a paper than a Republican paper; and it is in the interests of the Republican party, as it conceives them, and in the best interests of society and the country, which we believe, religiously, to be advanced by keeping the Republican party in power and the Democratic party out of power, that we have advocated and shall continue to advocate that prohibition cannot be made a partisan political question, at present certainly, without the most serious detriment to the country and to the party. There are otherSpbases of this question which we shall examine at another time, but content ourselves to-day with a discussion on the side of what may be called “practical politics.”

THE FAILURE OF APPROPRIATIONSWith a fatuity as stupid as it is mendacious the Sentinel continues in its effort to remove from the Democratic party the stigma of defeating the general appropriation bill in the last Legislature. It is hard to understand why the Sentinel should do this since that paper conspicuously stated in its editorial columns that “the, Democracy determined to withhold the appropriations in order to bring the Governor to a sense of his position.” The Sentinel gloried in the fact that “(he Democrats determined to withhold the appropriations,” and that is the record of history. In order to show’ the absolute truth of the Sentinel’s statement that it was the Democracy which “withheld the appropriations,” we give a condensed statement of the successive steps taken in the Legislature with the appropriation bill, and with the metropolitan police bill, to force which through the General Assembly before its constitutional time the Democratic party deliberately and purposely left the State government without the necessary appropriations. The metropolitan police bill was presented to the Governor when a large number of other bills were in his hands for consideration, and when most of his time was engrossed with the business of distributing the State relief fund for the benefit of the flood sufferers on the Ohio river. He was chairman of the committee appointed to distribute that fund. The constitution gave him three days for considering the police bill. If he should not return it within three days (Sunday excepted) it would become a law without his signature. He returned it on the last of the three days (Sunday excepted) with his objections. Before he returned it <the general appropriation bill had been passed through both houses of the Legislature. But, on the second day after the metropolitan police bill had been presented to him, the House of Representatives reconsidered the vote by which the general appropriation bill had passed that body. This was done with the avowed purpose of compelling the Governor to return the metropolitan police bill on the second day after it had been presented to him or of causing a defeat of the general appropriation bill. This object was openly avowed and confessed by the Sentinel in the language we have quoted. The Governor would not yield to a menace. On the third day (Sunday excepted), as we have said, he returned the police bill with his objections, and it became a law without further delay. The Legislature deliberately refused to pass the appropriation bill on the last day of the session for the passage of any bill, except bills vetoed by the Governor. Only two more days of the session remained after the adjournment on Saturday night, and the constitution orduins that “no bill shall be presented to the* Governor within two days next previous to the final adjournment of the General Assembly.” The last two days of the session are set apart by the constitution for receiving bills previously presented to the Governor and returned by him If he returns a bill with his objections within these two days, which was presented to him more than two days before the end of the session, the Legislature may pass it, notwithstanding his objections; but it can pass no bill within those two days which has not been thus returned. The non-passage of the general appropriation bill was discovered by the Democrats to have been a great blunder, and they were appalled by it. They did not know what course to pursue. Finally, the desperate res-

olution was taken of going through the form of passing the bill after the constitutional time had expired. It was accordingly “passed” by each house by a party vote, and the enrolled bill was signed by the Speaker of the House. But the Lieutenant-governor, as President of the Senate, refused to sign it. He maintained that the time within which it could have been passed had expired before this vote w ? as taken. The bill was never presented to the Governor. The general appropriation bill was defeated by the Democratic Legislature in order to compel the Governor to call an extra session. There was no need whatever for an extra session if that bill had passed. The specific appropriation bill had been disposed of; it had been defeated. It only remained to pass the general appropriation bill and to adjourn. But the Democratic plug-uglies and ward bummers, whose puppet aud exponent Mr. Speaker Bynum seemed to be proud to be, would not permit it, despite the efforts of a number of leading Democrats, including the chairman of the ways and means committee. The Legislature disappointed nearly everybody. Democrats denounced it not IeRS loudly than Republicans; and we know that Governor Porter was importuned by prominent Democrats, not less than by Republicans, not to call an extra session. He yielded to what he believed was the will of the people. He is not a hot-headed partisan or a man addicted to resentments. He is now, we know, determined not to call an extra session unless it becomes entirely impossible to conduct the State government without one, or an overwhelming and irresistible expression of the people demands one. He hopes that the permanent appropriations, together with such provisions as he can make without any breach of law, will enable him to carry on the government until the Legislature shall again regularly assemble.

The Indianapolis Journal is not responsible for the views of its correspondents. It is somewhat remarkable that in this day of intelligence a statement of this fact should be at all necessary. What the Journal believes and is responsible for is to be found in its editorial columns. But the day has passed when a newspaper, worthy the name, can bar from its pages any other expression on public and current questions than w T hat may be in harmony with its own views. The Journal seeks to be the paper aud the organ of all intelligent and high-minded people, and is always glad to print letters from its friends, unJer the simple restrictions that they shall be brief, pertinent, respectable in tone, and upon topics of general interest and importance. We cannot open our columns to the vagaries of or to essays upon class questions, which can better be sent to journals published for special interests. Not one intelligent man will expect this paper, or any other paper of character or liberality, to close its columns to a free discussion of important public questions. The Journal will endeavor to maintain the faith, as it has been delivered to it, in its best judgment in the editorial columns, but with candor and a proper consideration for those who may differ from it, and it is not afraid to u&e the most liberal wisdom in the admission of communications from all the people. __________ Mu. Matthew Arnold has been accorded a very flattering reception in this country. This despite the fact that it was he who, some years a go'/ indbrsed flbfe opinion that not one American in one hundred thousand had either the manners or cultivation of a gentleman, or changed his shirt more than once a week, or ate with a fork. The utterance of such a though t was contemptible, and proof only of the narrow views of the man who could entertain it. No man of broad views, of liberal culture, would be guilty of such a breach of politeness, to say nothing of the untruthfulness of the charge. His explanation now is even meaner than the original offense, for he now tenders a gratuitous insult to his own people when he declares that he “inferred what was true in America by what he knew to be in England.” Mr. Arnold is a great man in his own esteem. But it will take broad charity for the public to think well of a man who gratuitously insults an intelligent people and then atones for it by slandering his own. The International Blble-lessou Committee, composed of the Rev. J. H. Vincent and the Rev. John Hall, D. D., of New York; B. F. Jacobs, of Chicago; the Rev. Warren Randolph, D. D., of Newport; Prof. P. G. Gillett, LL. D., Jacksonville; the Rev. Richard Newton, D. D,,of Philadelphia; the Rev. B. M. Palmer, D. D., of New Orleans; the Rev. W. G. E. Cunningham, D. D., of Nashville; the Hon. Franklin Fairbanks, of St. Johnsbury; the Rev. John A. Broartus, D. D. t of Louisville; the Rev. Prof. Henry L. Baugher, D. IJ„ of Gettysburg; the Rev. James A. Warden, D. D., of Princeton; the Rev. D. 11. MacVickar, D. I)., of Montreal, and the Rev. John Potts, D. D., of Montreal, are in session at Nashville, Tenn., preparing the series of lessons for the year 1885. After they complete their work it Is then seut to England for revision and agreement. Senator James F. Wilson, of lowa, says that the Republicans of his State favor Arthur for President. “Logan and others have some strength in lowa, but I think the majority of the people prefer Arthur. They think he should have a chance, as he has done so well already.” Mr. Allisou will have no opposition. A great many reflections have been cast on the generio name of Smith, but there are now two w'omon in New York who claim to bo the wives of one and the same Smith. It is becoming daily more and more apparent that marrying men are getting very scarce. Unless the Courier-Journal’s cuts are libelous, the dog-show at the Exposition has collected a lot of curs that seem surprised to And their tails free from the humble, but inspiring, tomato-can. Indianapolis is in the “ninetieth parallel” of the new r standard time, which is to be adopted on all railways from aud after tho lSth of No- • veiuber instant. Ail trains will theu run by a

time sixteen minutes slower than tho present local time of Indianapolis. It will be vastly more convenient for our local time to be advanced to standard time. Death of Hon. Cyrus HI. Allen. Hon, Cyrus M. Allen died at his residence in Vincennes, on Nov. 2, 1883, His funeral will take place on Monday afternoon, Nov. 5. Col. Allen was the son of Thomas Allen, a respectable farmer of Clark county, Ky„ where he was born on April 22, 1817, He was reared on the farm and grew up to vigorous manhood familiar with all its labors and requirements. It was his boast in later life that he was in his youth thoroughly instructed in all the mysteries of farm life. He received a good English education; and, having chosen the law for his profession, he studied it, and graduated at the Transylvania Law School, at Lexington, Ky., in 1840, at the age of twenty-three years. He remained in Kentucky until 1841, when he emigrated to Indiana, and settled at Petersburg, Pike county, where he followed his profession with success until March, 1844, when he removed to Viuoennes and remained there until he died. His general manners and upright, sterling character soon gained him many friends, aud those whom he thus won he “grappled to his soul with hooks of steel” forever afterward. His genuine talents and sound learning secured him a large aud profitable practice, which he retained for many years. Ho was a Whig, aud, in 1848, was elected to the House of Representatives In the General Assembly of the State. He was a capable and faithful member, devoted to the interests of his constituents and of the people at large. In his canvass for the position he was opposed by John B. Irving, an independent Whig, whom he defeated by a handsome majority. He did not, however, like many young men, lose his head by reason of this successful debut in politics, but at the close of the session resumed his law practice, and followed it with success and satisfaction until again called to the front by the Republicans in the great contest of 1860. His county was regarded as strongly Democratic, and when he accepted the nomination of the party for a seat in the House of Representatives he was held by many to be accepting defeat with his eyes wide open. But he was triumphantly elected after a spirited contest, in which he was opposed by Israel J. Peck. In that great political year honor was showered upon him. He was chosen delegate by the State convention to the Chicago national convention, and in that body distinguished himself throughout as the warm and unfaltering friend of Abraham Lincoln, and after his nomination gave his time, talents and means freely to secure the ratification of his choice by the people. H was elected elector for his congressional district, and cast his vote for the great President. When the General Assembly met in January, 1861, he had become so well known, and his merits so well established in the public opinion of the State, that no other man was seriously thought of by his party for Speaker, and he was accordingly nominated and elected. In that position he was both capable and popular, and held the reins of authority with an even hand during two sessions of one of the stormiest General Assemblies tho State had ever known. At the close of his term as Speaker, the country was deeply involved in the horrors of tho great civil war. His heart was all aflame with love for the Union and its government. He greatly desired a place in the army, and, at one time, all supposed he would get it, as he was placed in such relation to the raising of one of our regiments as, according to precedent, promised to make him its colonel. But the promise in his case was broken. The disappointment was one of the sorest of his life; and it may be doubted whether he ever forgave it. No public explanation has ever been made, and the pubic will most probably rest forever in ignorance of the causes which withheld so brave and gallant a man from a position that needed him for its honor quite as much as he needed it for his. He was an independent man, of strong conviotions, incapable of surrendering what he believed to be right or essential to an honorable self-respect for any position on earth. He was an abiding friend, and had the qualities in him that make an enemy worthy of the respect of the bravest and greatest foe. He was twice married—first in October, 1838, to Miss Mary Lander, daughter of Captain Richard Lander, of Clark county, Ky. She died in March, 1848; and in May, 1856, he married her sister, Miss Bailie Lauder, who survives him. He had a son by his first wife who graduated at West Point, and is now a civil engineer, and a lovely daughter by his last, who is still at home. Since the war of the rebellion, he took part in the construction of the Indianapolis & Vincennes railroad, as contractor, and lost heavily in the venture. His losses swept from him the accumulations of his entire life and involved him far beyond them. His proud spirit wrestled long and nobly with his misfortunes, and only succumbed to them at last when talent, courage, conscience and effort all seemed unable to cope with them. He was a truly great aud noble man, whom it would be unjust to Judge by the last few years of his life. There are crises in human affairs that no activity and virtue can mould to what the world calls success. In such calamities the man who triumphs or who falls may be equally great in the eye of Him “who sees all things at one view;” and we who do not know all that maj* bo essential to a right judgment can yet say: “Who noble ends by noble means attains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains. Like good Aurelius let him reign or bleed. Like feocrates, that man is great Indeed.” And such wert thou, dear friend, whom T loved in life, loved alike in prosperity and adversityloved ever and forever, and mourn, even as a brother, but not without hope that the light of eternity has already saluted thy abiding peace.

RANDOM NOTES. Miss Phelps found that there was both marrying and giving in marriage when she got “Be yond the Gates.” A husband and wife, who had lived harmoniously here, were reunited in the abode of bliss. The scene between herself and the lover whom she had not met for twenty years, and who had married “another,” is very like real life before the bonds of flesh are burst. She met him in the fields elysian unexpectedly, and the first question from her lips was, “Where is she?” Having explained that “she” was on earth and had found comfort long since; having shown that no barriers remained between them, and reasoned away her scruples, tho lover asked, “Then do you trust me? Come!” “I trust you as I do the angels of God.” “And I love you as his angels may. Come!” “For how long am I to come?” “Are we not in eternity? I claim you as I have loved you, without limit and without end. Boul of my immortal soul! Life of my eternal life! All, come!” Miss Phelps is liable to make heaven a very popular place. A Tabernacle “seceder” wants to know why the committee appointed to sample pulpit candidates for the Second Presbyterian Church have negleoted to give a tabulated statement as to the qualifications of the minister finally chosen? The Tabernacle man has no doubt that the gentleman in question is qualified for some pulpits, but is in the dark as to how he is rated on the eight points of fitness laid down some time since as necessary for the happiness of this particular flock. What is his percentage as to intellectuality? How high does his magnetism rate? The Tabernacle man thinks of going back to this fold, but unless the coming pastor is marked at least 93 per cent, in spirituality he must deny himself the pleasure. Trollope’s elaborate apology for having introduced a fallen woman into one of his stones, puts tbe eminently respectable public, for whom he wrote, in a Pecksnitlian light. If a novel is a transcript of real life, these very improper creatures moat enter now and then. They do figure rather too much in the novels of the day, bur, iuasmuch as only one got into Trollope's fifty volumes no apology seems necessary. Speaking about art, what does Indianapolis need of an art exhibition? Why do the audacious individuals who assume that the natives ore ignorant of pictures not read the city papers, in which are advertised the arrival of

“another car-load of those elegant, 86 paintings?” W r ith “old roasters” pouring in by the car load, what more could the most ardent art missionary ask? Asa special favor, too, we are told that these gems can be had “on time,” and for $3.50 each—fifty cents for the picture and $3 for the frame, perhaps. At this rate they are cheaper than calciminlng, and no one need be without a comfortable winter supply. About this time of year women who “never speak as they pass by” look at each other up and down and back over their shoulders. They are out on the shopping war-path, aud are not a6 dangerous as the glare in their eyes would seem to indicate. What they want is not gore—not many goreß any way—but ideas as to bonnets and the “set” of the new cloaks. A little later, when their investments in this line have been prayerfully and carefully made, the anxious, reaching- for - something - they - can’ttouch expression will give way to a look of serene satisfaction with themselves and a lofty indifference to the “duds” other women have on. Young people anxious to become writers of novels can find the recipe in Anthony Trollope’s autobiography. Thrc:e hours a day, he thinks, will produce as much as a man ought to write. He accordingly devoted that time to hla literary labors, and wrote with his watch before him, requiring of himself 250 words every quarter of an hour. The 250 words he claims to have found forthcoming as regularly as the watch went. The mechanical part of the art is very fully set out, and a literary aspirant who follows the advice cannot fail of success, provided he has any ideas to make his industry worth while. If one may judge from the look of serene selfsatisfaction worn by members of rural brass bands, bound in blue and gold, there is a joy in fine raiment which no plain citizen can hope to share. “If I could feel as delighted with myself for an hour as that drum-major does with himself, I would trade places with him and give him my day’s profits,” said a staid business man the other day. But he did not make any overtures to the drum-major, realizing perhaps that something more than clothes was needed for the transformation. Not every man has within himself the germs of this gorgeous human blossom. A Paris letter informs the aesthetic world that any woman who submits herself to tho li ands of one of those artists in dress, Worth, Pingat orßuget, this season, will be transformed into a study or a harmony in gray. If gray be the fashion of oourse every woman will proceed to array herself in that sad color, regardless of the depressing effect on her fellow-creatures. A woman in gray on a November day may be a “study” but Id a gray petticoat “and a red nose,” like little Nan Nettlooat, can hardly be a “harmony” nor yet a symphony.

BREAKFAST CHAT. It is said in Washington that John Sherman made $200,000 last year in Washington real estate. Pictures of Mary Anderson taken in London represent the young actress in profile, with an excessively diaphanous raiment over her bust. It should not be forgotten just now that Oscar Wilde once remarked of Henry Irving’s legs that one was “a symphony aud the other a beautiful poem.” It was Ensign George C. Fonlk, of the navy, who taught the Corean embassy how to play poker. He is the only man in the United States who speaks their language, and will be sent home with them a%a sort of general guardian of the party. Perhaps Mr. George Gould, who is said to be courting Miss Astor will, in case of blue-blood obstacles, remind the family that this is the centennial of John Jacob’s arrival in this country with $25 in his pocket and some old flutes in his carpot-bag. Jules Verne is fond of yachting, but does not know how to fish. At fifty years of age he is fleshier than ho was, and his hair and beard aro almost white. In a blue pea-jacket and leather sou’wester he has all the appearance of a genuine sailor. The Turkish post officials at Constantinople aro said to be perfect models of politeness. They answer all questions most folly, addressing the inquirer as “My lamb” and “My soul,” and solemnly assuring him that the letter intrusted to them shall be safely delivered. Benator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, who is eccentric, received a letter asking ior his assistance in the building of a Baptist church. He replied that he could not leave the Benate long enough to be of much service, and that he was uot a good stonemason, anyway. Tiik poet Whittier has an unshaken faith in the future of Quakerism. In a recent letter to a friend he says; “That central dootrineof ours, the divine inwardness and universal light, will yet be found the stronghold of Christendom, the snre, safe place from superstition on the one hand and scientific doubt on the other.” William H. Vanderbilt, tho millionaire, is remembered by au old-timer who lived years ago near the “Raritan House, C. Vanderbilt, Proprietor,” as a chubby-faced iittle boy who used to deliver to customers the shad his father bought the “city,” Young William never carried a basket, but always strung bis fish ou a willow or hickory “withe.” Mr. Benjamin, the American lawyer, to whose popularity in England among people in his own profession there have been few parallels, in writing from Paris to a friend here, announces a great improvement in his health. He says ho hopes to be able to visit America at some early time. The proposed portrait of him by M. Millais has been fully subscribed for. The Cologne Gazette tells how it came to puss that King Alfonso became honorary colonel or tho Uhlans stationed at Strasburg. There were two regiments of Uhlans available, and the uniforms of both were submitted to tbe King, who preferred tho oue with yellow cuffs to that with white cuffs, and the one he preferred happened to he quartered at Strasburg. Prince Edward, the sou of the Prince of Wales, has been entered as a student of Trinity College, Cambridge. It is stated that he is not to attend the ordinary lectures, and special tuition will be provided for him, but lie is to keep chapels and halls. lu the chapel the master’s pew, ou the right of the master’s stall, has been given up for the use of the Prince and his suite. In hall he will dine at tho high table, sitting ou the riglit of the president, aud he is to wear a silk gown instead of the ordinary blue stuff worn by the Trinity undergraduate. A distinguished physician of this city, whose habit is to smoke five or six cigars every evening, but none at all duriug the day, has long pursued the plan or not smoking during tho month of October. Ilis idea is. he says, to allow his system to recuperate thirty days annually. The effect of tobacco, in his ease, is a slight acceleration of the movement of the heart. This acceleration becomes clearly defined by the end of every September, but ceases entirely at the beginning of November, after his period of abstinence, leaving him in good condition for another year’s wrestle with the weed. A gentleman who penetrated into the unsettled regions of Florida recently met there Spotted Tail, the chief of the remnant of the Semi notes, who still inhabit that region, aud Leaping Panther, the old chief’s son. The royal pair were dressed in all the pomp of the traditional Indian, witli leggings and moccasins of buckskin, adorned with a great profusion of glass beads and striugs of wampum. They wore coronets of feathers, aud had mantles of dressed

deer’s hide thrown over their shoulders. Spot ted Tail wanted to sell some slaves to his visitor. When told that slavery had ceased to exist. and that he had no right to keep any human being in bondage, Bpotted Tail replied that he did not know anything about that. He bad slaves, and intended to keep them uuless he could get a good price for them. “My dear Jones,” said a Boston literary man to a bore who called on him every day, “I want to tell you something in confidence. I am frightfully troubled by people dropping in on me whom I don’t wish to see, and I am going to arrange a private signal with those whom I shall always be glad to admit to my room, aud I want you, when you come, to knocl' thus, two slow raps and three quick ones—see?—and theu I shall know who is there.” Jones commended the idea as peculiarly ingenious, and has since faitnfully acted upon it, but was heard the other day to remark, very innocently, that it was deuced odd, but of late it was very seldom that he could find his literary frieud at homo. Mr. Martin F. Tupper, whose exploits on the back of the winged horse Pegasus have given him so peculiar a place in literature, has been lecturing on “Flying.” He is reported a9 expressing the belief that “some condensed form of tame dynamite” might be utilized for tho benefit of those who fain would fly. Os course. “Poetry,” Mr. Tupper well knows, can he made tame enough. But the trouble would Beeui to be, Mr. Tupper, that dynamite, like the tongue, cannot be tamed. Even a small and unobtrusive case of it has been known to tame several able-bodied men in one round. But where is tho dynamite-tamer? Who is he that can so work upon its disposition as to render it gentle and harmless? af, Mr. Tupper the art of breaking dynamite, like “poetry,” to harness?

RARITIES Culled and Cool id Down from the Wilderness of Trade Journalism. Texas has $1,000,000 cash balance in her State treasury.—Trade Journal. The Hebrew population of the United States is 250,000.—Trade Journal. MATTRESSES made of needles from South Carolina pine boughs are said to cure lung and rheumatic complaints, and an active trade in them is established.—Southern Trade Journal. A canal fifty miles long and estimated to cost $7,000,000 is proposed to drain the city of Mexico. Sewers are to be made which can be flooded by waters from an adjacent lake, the sewage is then carried away by the canal and is afterward to be used for fertilization.—Mechanics. The ship canal through the Isthmus of Corinth is advancing rapidly. The Greeks used to wish they had this canal in the days when the lost arts were not yet lost. Julius Caesar was going to begin the work when he was staboed by Brurus. Our time does the work which they only dreamed of.—Engineering News. Anew canal, to compete with the Suez cap a V is projected by the English, who expect to run their new canal through the Jordan valley from sea to sea. Jerusalem will be within ten miles of the channel, nut 2,000 feet above it. This canal will bury forever, under 500 feet of Water, many of the historic scenes of Palestine, a fate which was foretold by the prophets Ezekiel and Zacharlah.—Engineering. There are many narrow streets in Philadelphia. Bread street is one of them. The manufacturers in the street wish more width. They have employed a contractor to widen the streets by simply curtailing the pavement on each side —in other words, robbing Peter to pay Paul. This proceeding is received in a belligerent fashion by the householders, the stroer being only eighteen feet wide from house to house, and war rages in Bread street.—Contract Journal. A miller In Red Wing recently met a handsome young man who wanted to sell flour for him. The kind miller invited the young uian to dinner, After dinner: “Do you think yon can sell my flour?” asked the miller. The yonng man took from his pocketbook the photographs of a beautiful lady and two exquisite children, and laid them before the miller, saying: “There are my wife and children. If Ido not sell your flour somebody will be hungry.” The miller, much touched, gave the young man samples of fris flour, with instructions for selling it, and $l5O. The yonng man left and never came back any more. He was a swindler.—Milling Journal. Since the opening of the East-river bridge in New York 3,000,000 persons have crossed it. Its police force comprises 89 men. There have been 77 arrests, and 5 accidents on the britfge; 9 runaways have occurred; there were 2 attempted suicides; 8 persons have become sick on the bridge, 2 lost children have been recovered, 1 person has dropped dead there, 3 persons have been overcome by heat, $63 have been found, and $960 worth of stolen property recovered. There was one slight Are. The earnings of the bridge have been SIB,OOO more than its expenses, which were s69,ooo.—Contract Jonrnal. Orders are issued to the effect that all employes of the Northern Pacific railroad, on trains or at stations, must appear in uniform. A tailor is now going over the road taking measurements of the employes for their new suits, who, in order to expedite matters, sends forward the following disnatch to alPagents: “Take off everything but pants and shirt, and be on, tho platform when the train arrives, to be measured for uniform.” Arriving at one of the new stations he jumped from the train, shouting, “Now, then, are you all ready?” and was met by a pretty young lady and her six-foot brother. Tno young lady said she was the agent, and tha brother wanted to know what he meant by that dispatch.— Contract Journal. Last May a party of engineers, thirteen in number, set out to locate the new railroad from Blue Spring, Kan., to Santa Fe. For three months they worked successfully. On the morning of Aug. 12 they were at work on the plain of New Mexico, near Buako river, with a baud of Crow Indians and a band of Cheyenne Indians, both friendly, in their vicinity. They believed that a band of hostile Apache Indians weie lurking in the neighborhood. At II o’clock on that morning the first engineer. Mr. BurchiU, captain of the party, came running from a clump of hills, where he had been at work fixing the course of the railroad line. H called out hs he ran: “I have been shot at! Tho Apuones are around us! Keep coo), boys! Keep together and retreat to the camp!” Ashe spoke a band of fifty Apache Indians in full war paint appeared on the clumps of hills. The engineers, in obedience to a signal, assembled together aud began their retreat, fighting aa they went and keeping near each other. The Apaches, who were on horseback, galloped warily round the whiles, and us the country abounds in littie knolls the ground was favorable to an escape. After eh&siog the whites a mile the Indians gave up the pursuit. Two whites were killed during the retreat. The closest watch was now maintained day and night. At midnight on Aug. 16 the members of the parry were asleep with the exception of the picket and three mm, the topographer, the transit engineer, aud the rodmat), who sat by the fire talking. Suddenly a fusillade rang on the stillness of the air, nud the three men by the fire fell forward into the flro, dead. Mr. BurchiU ordered hUmen to lie on their stomachs and fire in that; position. Tlius they could see the enemy agaiust the moon lit sky without being seen themselves. They fired with deadly aim, and kept tho Apaches at bay until all at once brilliant flames lit up the scene. The tents of the engineer* had been fired by the Indians. During the burning of the tents the Indians were able to see tha whites and shoot with fatal effect. All was not lost. But as the tents sank into embers the war cry of the friendly Crows was heard. They had heard the tiring and came to the rescue. A terrible light ensued between the Crows and tho Apaches. The Apaches were driven off. It was too late. Only three of the engineers were left alive. These three were taken to the camp of tho Crows, were carefully attended to, and were then guarded to the nearest settlement.—Engineering News. Sophomores and Freshm n Suspended. Troy, N. Y., Nov. 2.—Tho sophomore and freshman classes at Ren seal ear Polytechnic Institute have been suspended. They had a struggle to-day for the class banner. Institute property was damaged to the extent of S3OO. Two students were seriously injured and others slightly. Fell from the Fourth Story. Cincinnati, Nov. 2.—Mrs. L. Wolfateln, well known Ip Jewish circles, went to a window in the fourth story of her residence, this morning, to call a coachman. She fell to tho ground below and was shockingly crushed, but lived ti’* 6 i*. m. _*n who