Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1883 — Page 4

4

AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ®NGLISH’B OPERA-HOUSE— Rice’s Surprise Tarty ! in “Pop.” FA it K THEATER— Mestayer’s “Tourists in a Palace (nr/' THE DAILY JOURNAL. lit JNO. C. NEW & SON. Tor States of Bub Sixth Pare. ■WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1883. THE INDIAXAPOjLfS" JOURNAL Can be found at the fallowing p*,acos: LON DON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange iu Paris, 35 boulevard ties C'apucines. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels, WASHINGTON. D. o.—Brentauo’s 1,015 Pennsylrauia avenue. CHICAGO —Palmer House. CINCINNATI— J. ('. liawlev A Cos.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. FT. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union DepotFIVE DOLLARS REWARD. The above sura will be paid for the detection and conviction of any person stealing copies of this paper from the premises of subscribers. The Journal has received many complaints from its patrons concerning stealing of papers, and the attention of police and other officers of the law is directed to the matter. What is it Attorney-general Brewster’s business, anyhow? A Catholic priest named Braun, of St. Agnes’s Church, New York, has joined Capel’s anti-Luther party. It now numbers three, if the tally has been correctly kept. The Rochester Union, a Democratic paper, states it upon good authority that the Republican State committee of New York spent less than $25,000 in the recent campaign in that State. The New York Times does not think Abram S. Hewitt on a ticket with Mr. McDonald could carry New York. Though able, he is by no means popular, and his conduct in the Morey letter forgery was not such as to commend him to the confidence of candid men. The decision that a man in a Pullman sleeper need not lie awake all night to watch his valuables, but may Sleep, if he can, is a good one. Porters are to do something else than take the last cent from the passengdrs at the end of the trip. They must earn thfiir money by watching. The nail industry has grown to vast proportions in this country during the past few years. There are now seventy-four mills, with 5,008 machines. Five new works are being built, and the total number of machines will soon be 5.599, with a capacity of 12,376,000 kegs annually. Anti-monopoly is still strong in Nebraska, The coalition elected two judges in distfifcts hitherto strongly Republican. The question of the regulation of corporate monopolies and the preservation of the public domain for actual settlers are two questions upon which the Republican party must take strong and Bnquestioned grounds. ====== : fv" The Chicago Tribune says “the wisest thing the lowans can do is to adopt the Illinois system of dealing with the liquor question, viz.: local option and high license.” That is the wisest thing Indianians can do, and it-offers a platform broad enough and practical enough for everybody to stand upon. The system is working well in many States, u •

Attorney-general Brewster decides that there can be no change of time; unless by an act of Congress. According to the principles of Justice Bradley’s decision, we decide that while Congress can control the time in the District and the Territories, it can have no control over the time in the States, and we hereby give notice that if Indianapolis wants to change its local time to standard time, we ehall do it, without the slightest regard for Congress or Attorney-general Brewster. Mr. Carlisle is confident that he will receive the nomination for Speaker on the second or third ballot, and thinks if there were but two candidates he would get it easily on the first ballot. Mr. Randall is precisely of the same opinion, while Mr. Cox is even more positive than either of his distinguished colleagues. It will be seen that there must be a mistake in the figures somewhere. We can tell better when the caucus is over, and so can the three gentlemen most interested. The business of illegal insurance must be broken up. The insurance law of this State is not passed in the interests of the companies. That is evident from the efforts made at every legislature to modify or repeal it. But it is in the interests of the people who carry insurance, and who are so easily made the prey of insurance sharks if all legal protection is removed. If the law can be evaded or transgressed without penalty the effect wili be the same as if it were repealed, and the ones to suffer finally will be the business men, manufacturers and policy-holders of all classes, who may have contributed in any way to its practical nullification. Besides this, the practices employed to evade the law are dangerous to the insured. If a policy is taken from a person not a regularly authorized agent of the company, the holder has no legal assurance or recourse. The company 'in easily plead that the broker who took insurance was the agent of the assured

and not its agent, and set up in defense any of a score of pleas that will bar recovery io case of loss. Business men and manufacturers who are carrying large insurance, are precisely the persons most interested in maintaining every legal security, and in seeing that punishment is visited upon those who may seek to overturn the law. If our people do not want to have another era of wild-cat insurance inaugurated, under one guise or another, they will universally and steadily refuse to countenance any scheme whereby the force and effect of the insurance law is in any degree weakened. The value and absolute necessity of the law to good insurance has been more than vindicated; neither the people nor the authorities can stand idly by and see anyone violate it at will. If insurance is to be kept good, it must be kept legal; and to that end snide insurance and snide insurance brokers “must go.”

THE CRIME IN VIRGINIAAs later advices come in, the evidence of a reign of terror in Virginia presents an irrefutable criaiu of proofs. It is more than plain that the D.tnville massacre was deliberately planned, and set for a date so late that, while its terrifying effects would be felt all over the State, there was no time left to correct them and to show up the outrage in its true light. A man in a Baltimore store, four days before the tragedy at Danville, was told that during his brief stay in the store seven orders for fire-arms had been received from Danville by that firm alone. The arrangements for disseminating information of “the colored uprising” at Danville were perfected in October, and circulars were mailed then with instructions not to put them out until the proper time. On election day dispatches were sent from Danville saying that the white men were standing in their doorways, with shotguns, protecting their wives from violence at the hands of the negroes; and they did not dare to leave their homes to go to the polls. These infamous roorbacks were printed, and fell as thick as snowflakes around the streets of the remote towns of the southwest. The Bourbons in these localities would take them and hold them up to conservative white Readjusters, and would say: "Are you a white man? Well, if you are, here is the evidence that the fight has come down between the white race and its enemies. Which side are you on?” In all portions of the State the policy of intimidation was practiced against colored men, and prejudice was appealed to among the whites. Shortly befcjrc the election a man in Madison coUijty. discharged two colored servants because they refused to vote the straight Democratic ticket. He afterwards followed them one dead. At Stanton a negro v the sidewalk, looking down to the ground, when a man came along with a shotgun and when within about ten feet of him exclaimed loudly, “I’ll kill any d—d nigger that insults me,” leveled his gun and discharged the contents of it into the negro’s abdomen. This murderous act was without provocation, for the assailant and he had never met before, and no word, look l or gesture passed between them before the sboptipg. ' {l i was simply an outbreak of mad rage because some men had been created black. A reliable man telegraphed from Floyd Comd-Koiistfen election day as follows: “I just arrived hero, and learn that the Bourbon-Funders introduced the Ku-klux shotgun policy in tins county to-day by sending some of tbeir clan to make raids upon innocent, law-abiding citizens. Mr. Alex. Nolen was shot twice this day, while out in his field, because lie was a Readjuster and would not agree to vote the BourbonFunder ticket. The tool selected to do this dirty deed was a man by the name of Prince ,E. Short.” An idea of the effect of the Danville massacre may be had from tlie following, showing tlie number of colored voters registered and the number of colored voters who went to the ballot-box: “Colored voters registered;!n Danville and present on Saturday morning, Nov. 3. 1883, 1,301; colored votes cast Nov. 6, 1883. 31; not at the polls, 1,270. Os these 1,270 not less than 300 are reported and believed to have left the town by Monday morning. The rest refused to go to the polls, when they saw on guard many of the men who were firing at negroes on Saturday. "North Danville and New Design precincts were terrorized as well as Danville. Colored Voters registered in North Danville and present Saturday. Nov. 3, 235. Colored votes cast (Democratic) 3. “Colored voters registered at New Design and present on Saturday, Nov. 3, 465. Colored vote cast (lleadjuster) i.” The infamy of the crime against popular suffrage at Danville will probably never be fully known. The men who shot down defenseless negroes to keep them from voting would not hesitate to cut throats in order to defeat testimony and save their own reputations. It is an insult to intelligence to ask that sensible men believe that the rnurdersat Danville were not the result of preconcerted devilishness on the part of the men and the party who are determined to rule or ruin, | and who have sworn that Virginia shall be “a white man’s government.” Where is there a real, true American citizen so pusillanimous as to prefer that this reign of intimidation and murder should be made perI manent rather than to give support to a movement that has the promise of a free suffrage in it, even if some of its supporters may have been given a bad name by these same bloody assassins? Poor Spain, straggling along with the rear guard of European nations, feels flattered and elated over the attention she is receiving from Germany. She is foolish enough to imagine that it arises from the increasing importance of Iter commerce. Germany would hardly miss it, perhaps, if this great commerce were annihilated. But Spanish soldiers are as good as any to stand up and be shot at, In case of a breach of the peace

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1883.

between Germany’on the one hand, and France and Russia on the other, it would be well enough to have an ally on the south of the Pyrenees. That is all there is in this specious sympathy. The slight put upon Alfonso at the Gare de Strasbourg in Paris furnished an excellent pretext for the ancient enemy of France to do a little diplomatic condolence business. The coming of the Spanish King from the raped city of Strasbourg, as the commissioned colonel of a regiment of uhlans, and his arrival in Paris at the depot bearing the name of the lost city, was enough to stir the stones to mutiny. Some allowance should be made. FREE TRADE AT HOME. The cotton trade of England is evidently embarrassed by something more than Rangor’s collapse. Business is stagnant and the profits of manufacturing are nil. The London Spectator of October 27 presents a very unfavorable exhibit of the condition of the cotton industry. “Lancashire men,” says the Spectator, “who are old enough to know, say that with the single exception of the time of the American war, the weaving branch of the cotton trade is just now in a worse condition than it has been since the repeal of the corn laws." A great many small employers have been forced out of business, and others who are still in operation have been held up privately in order to keep from prostrating the entire business of the country. The meanest economy has been practiced by all; “all have commenced to discharge their lesss efficient hands, and there is not a district in the cotton industry where hundreds of weavers are not idling in the streets and vainly asking for work. Mills have depreciated in consequence. Factories that cost $65,000 cannot be sold for $15,000, and mills that but two years ago would have brought SIOO,OOO will not now bring onefourth of that amount. The Spectator goes on at length to show the wretched condition of cotton weavers and the prostration that has taken possession of the industry. A number of reasons are cited, among them the fact that English employers are shut out from European countries by recently-established protective laws. It is probable that a reduction in the wages of operatives will be made, but this will do little good, as it is estimated that a reduction of 5 per cent in the wages of weavers would reduce the selling price of cotton fabrics but about one cent for forty yards, or onethird of a cent for each dress pattern, s Viewed from a purely English stand-point, there is evidently a crisis in the business. The difficulty may be tided over for a year or more, but, unless indications are at fault, the end of England’s commercial prosperity is drawing near. The enormous burden of expense necessary for the maintenance of colonial interests, the increasing capacity of foreign competitors and a consequent narrowing of. England’s field , ,(>( sales, all tend to depress / her borne industries, and when this is done her people must suffer at once and severely. It is to the interest of the United States to foster home industries. We do not waut to come directly into competition with the halfstarved weavers of England until we can do so successfully. In many lines we are already able to sell as cheap as the cheapest. All will follow in time, when this country will be the richest and most independent lit the world. ,

BATTLED DEMOCRACY. The Shelbyville Democrat is edited by W. Scott Ray. It assumes to be an “organ" of the Democratic party, and may, probably, be accepted as worth its professions in this regard. The soul of the Democrat is troubled, greatly perturbed, at (he prospect just ahead of the Democracy. Hear it in a doubleleaded shriek, which is the favorite method adopted bv your true Democratic editor whenever he has something particularly awful to launch at a defenseless world. The Democrat says: “The Democratic party’ is torn with internal strife, jealousy and dissension within its own ranks. If it fails to elect a President next year, it will be on account of the folly of which we speak.” This is very true. We have stated the same thing a number of times in all the becoming modesty of single leads, and it does not seem to have attracted the attention or even the assent of the Democrat heretofore. But tlie Democrat proceeds to say of the Republican party: "To-dav that party sits as the very queen of prudence. It counsels wisdom, harmony’, self-sacrifice and peace among its members. Tiiere are no warring factions fightirg for the ascendency. No bad blood courses the veins of its men. If jealousies exist, tlie poisonous fangs are extracted befbre tlie monster can do its deadly work. So determined is the party to prolong its lease of ; power that it makes no difference who is chosen next year to lead them to battle. Its press is not eagaged in building up and tearing down tlie reputations of men who have their eyes upon tlie presidency. After tlie nominations are made it will have no words to swallow or be handicapped in the campaign.” That is also true, and the very qualities the Democrat extols so highly and yet so justly are the very ones that commend the Republican party to the public whenever a test that means anything comes. When there is nothing at stake the capricious public tosses a bone to the Democratic party just for the fun of the thing, in order to see the party show its teeth and hear its hungry i growl. And this amusement the Democracy never fails in furnishing. Returning to the Democratic party, our Shelby ville friend goes on: “Indiana is no exception, as she is plunged tip to her neck in an angry sea which promises to engulf her public men and leave them stranded without compass and without hope j of safety. McDonald and Hendricks are two of the best men in the country and here- ; tofore have been warm and steadfast

friends, but political ambition has led them astray, and now, with glittering steel, each would sever the political jugular of tlie , other. Ambition attempting ,to overleap j itself in the one would, in order to be vie-! torious, break tlie friendship of a lifetime and hazard-tlie very existence of the party. ; Patriotism and the love of party must both | go down in order to gratify the desire to conquer.” Messrs. McDonald and Hendricks each with "a glittering steel” in his hand, reaching for the other’s midriff, is a finely drawn and spirited battle-piece, yet candor com- : pels us to say that this is not the first time an artist has drawn a pen-and-ink sketch of t the doughty warriors. There is a vast deal of truth, but a lameutable absence of news, in the Democrat’s double-leaded article; but after all we feel forced to ask our esteemed eon temporary, what he is going to do about it? Georoe B. Fielder, of Jersey City, has proved bnuself a thorough gentleman by decently apologizing for what he did in the heat of passion iu having assaulted Thomas V. Cutor, the defeated candidate. In his tetter he is manly enough to say: “I regret exceedingly that I lowered myself so much aud placed myself in the position of a loafer in your estimation and that of the public generally, and for this I ask your pardon and humbly apologize for the great injustice and injury done you. You and I have always been friends, and I have always entertained a high regard for you, and, were it not for my action on Wednesday night, I think you havehad a friendly interest iu me. Again let me ask your pardon, and I assure you I shall ever regret mv action and never freely forgive myself. If I can do more, I am willing to do so.” How much better this than to resort to weapons, kill one another, or, worse still, go through the farce of attempting to do so. The disgrace that attaches to a duelist is inevitable. If one’s antagonist be killed, the crime and shame will endure so long as life shall last. If neither be killed, the fiasco Is mure dtsgraoefnl still. Nine out of ten duels are oarrted out because the parties thereto are too cowardly to decline. Knowing this, the seconds are generally considerate enough to let the principals fire blank cartridges, and no blood is abed, while the “honor” of the participants is polished until it shines resplendent. - -• A fouuteen-ykar-old Cleveland boy lias disappeared from the aristocratic home of his wealthy parents. The aooountneglects to state whether he Is beantiful and accomplished or not, but that doesn’t matter. He lias disappeared, and not because he had to practice on the piano either. He has gone, it is supposed, on a secret mission connected with the ‘‘Society of the Bilver Skulls,” of which body he is the founder. That organization administers to its members a blood-curdling oath, beginning with “Cursed be friendship, cursed be futhors, mothers, sisters and brothers,” and closing with “Bo do I swear death to our enemies, life to the Skulls.” Hoys who were Invited but showed a disinclination to join the Skulls received billetdoux written In blood and decorated with skull and cross-bones, informing them that in oue month they would receive their death-warrant aud two days later their death. “By order of the Skulls.” It is safe to affirm that this interesting youth is not “seized with a mania to earn his own living,” but it is not unlikely that the neighbors will cheerfully contribute to his support if he will promise to stay away.

The minority, which, as Matthew Arnold says, represents the best thought, or words to that effect, is trying to make itself heard on the subject of the late lamented Luther, now that the din has subsided a little. A Pittsburg man steps to the front and says Luther Is guilty of heresy I and blasphemy, and oould not preaoh in any orthodox church to-day without absolute recantation. The chief reasou for the Pittsburg man’s animosity seems to lie In the fact that the Reformer denounced the "beautiful, absorbing and inspired story of Jonah aud the whale.” Luther was a great man, but because he couldn’t swallow the whale, it seems hard that a Pittsburg mini should refuse to countenauoe him. Miss Moli.ie Hawkins, of Reading, Pa„ is so full of fan that she could not find vent for it in any ordinary way. So she wrapped herself Id u sheet and luado a genuine spook of herself, appearing nightly on the railroad track. But the trainmen, instead of being frightened and giving up the business ot running trains after eon,town, laid for the spook, aud one of them came near shooting Mollie, but obanged his mind in time to save her life. Mollie should lie soundly spanked until she regains sanity, when slip will probably abandon her silly tricks. A curious custom has been revealed by the proclaimed intention of a Polish Jew to remarry after having obtained a ohnroh divorce. It appears that divorces are thus granted RussoPolish Jews, though, of course, their legality would probably be questioned. Such divorces are termed “gets,” and tnay be obtained on the testimony of the complainant alone. The custom Is borrowed from Chicago, probably. Euward Borkb, assistant at the New York morgue, is daugerously fit. During hia life lie has handled the bodies of 250,000 persons. His turn Is about to come at last. The irony of fate would be complete If ft should chance that his body should find its way to the dissecting table, to which he has sent so many. TnE claim is made that the burglar recently killed, while going through a residence in Brooklyn. was a gentleman. As he was neatly dressed and his hands gave no evidence of his having worked, lie doubtless waß “a geutleman”—God save the mark! ' Scanlan, the alleged Irish comedian, says that over 300,000 copies of his “Peek-a-boo’, song have been sold, and that bis royalty amounts to SIB,OOO. No wonder crime is so prevalent. Martin Luther's memory is not to tie lightly esteemed. A Lziuisville saloon-keeper kicked his bar-tender out doors for having torn the head from a cut of Luther in one of the local papers. ABOUT I* KOPEK. Jay Goulii paid $21,500 taxes in New York, and W. H. Vanderbilt $48,500. Bismarck is at the bottom of the autl-lsrael-ite agitation, according to the Hebrew Leader, of New York. The late J. P. Hale, of New York, left $lO,000,000, much of which sum goes to a cousin who can neither read nor write. Dolor Davis came over la 1635. Three of Ills descendants have been elected Governor of Massachusetts—John Davis, John Davis Long and George Davis Robinson. Mr. W. F. Wallf.TT, the Queen’s Jester—how many people knew that such a relte of the dark ages was still retained at the British court!— has just aelelirated ills seventy-sink birthday. Prop, Huxley’s son is attracting great attention by tlie exquisite quality ot tlie poetry lie Is producing. Tbe more enthusiastic of his admirers assert that if he lives he will he poet laureate of England. The Rev. Dr. James Houston Eecleston, of Jersey City, has been tendered the rectorship of Emanuel Protestant Episcopal Church, of Baltimore, made vacant by the election of the Rev. Dr. Randolph to tlie position of assistant Bishop of Virginia. It Is believed that Dr. Eecleston

will accept the call. The salary is $4,000 a year. Bishop Randolph will leave his charge about Dpo. 1. “Most Blissful” Nicodem, the new Patriarch of Jerusalem, caused n great stir in St. Petersburg by his recent visit to the Czar, whom, as | head of the Russian Church, he implored to send pecuniary aid to the Greek Eastern Church. The funeral wreaths covering Tourgueneff’s coffin were subjected to import duty ou crossing the Russian frontier, as the customs officers kept the coffin four days and rigidly scrutinized the wreaths, which they finally taxed to the amount of $lO. Two young ladlee, tlie Misses Phelps, went to Fargo from their claim a in Hickey county, D. T. t a few days ago. They went to the Territory three years ago without any inoan.% j and, by their unaided efforts, trading iu city lots and getting claims, they aro uow worth inuie than $12,000 each, and will, nq doubt, murii double that in the next three years. Sir Moses Montkfiork sustains nature entirely on milk and old port wine, of twhicb le drinks two or three glasses every day, varied with sour and a little bread and butter sometimes. In middle life be smoked, but he has given up tobacco for many years. Hj rises at 11 o’clock, having had his letters read to him in bed, and then drives out for some hours, and retires at 9. He has a likeness of Mr. Gladstone, of whom he is very loud, over his b*d. lie wears a blue coat, frilled shirt, aud goes about in tlie old-fashioned sedan chair. The Russian millionaire, Sibiriakoff, who lms repeatedly given large sums for the exploration of northern Siberia, has again fitted out an expedition, under the leadership of the engineer Runeberg, which is to ascertain the navigability of the Angara river. For the past few years small craft, aud even a steamboat, have proceeded up that river for some distance, but they found their progress stopped by its numerous waterfalls. It is the intention of Runeberg to follow' the course of the Aug.tra for 1,000 miiCß, aud, if possible, to establish on it regular steamboat traffic. “Roscoe Conk ling,” remarked the Hon. Hamilton Spencer, a prominent lawyer of Bloomington, 111., the other day, “read law in nay office in Utios, N Y. The firm was composed of my father, the late Joshua Spencer, Francis Keruan, ex-United States senator from New York, aud myself. Conkiiug entered our office in 1840, and was quite a young boy, but large and tall for his age. He was rather a good-natured, red faced, wholesomo-looklug sort of a fellow, possessing a very fine specimen of physical manhood, while there was everything else about the young student to Indicate good health and contentment with the world. Although quick to learn, and possessing the finest talents, young Coukling was not regarded as being what is called a very close student, but still his mind was capable of grasping eagerly the principles of the law, and his eloquence at the bar won for him many important suits.” The presence in this oouutry of the Chevalier Antoiue de Komski calls to mind an anecdote about him and Lbzt, for the preservation of which the world is Indebted to Hans von Bulovv. The Chevalier is a pianist somewhat of the Leopold de Meyer type, though, despite his idiosyncrasies, a really capable musician. He lias always had a hankering after court honors, and in his earlier days was wont to parade his brilliant uniforms on every possible occasion. In 1852 Liszt, then oapellmeister iu Weimar, received a call oue day from the Chevalier, who, decked out in all the glories of a Spanish uniform, came to make a ceremonious presentation of the first copy of his book of studies, “L’Tndispensable du riaulste.” “My dear friend,” said Liszt, “when next you feel incliued to praotice humbuggery, be at least a little less rococo. Hark you; I, for my part, who am not altogether inexperieuoed, know ouiy oue real ‘indispensable du pianiate,’ namely—a decent pair of trousers!” ___________

SPIRIT OP THE PRESS, Practical temperance reformers and the taxpayers eve.rvwhere will he better satisfied with the results of local option and high license than with the comparative failure which will await any attempt at absolute and universal prohibition; and certainly the prevailing sentiment of the State [lowa] will accept partial prohibition and universal restraint in preference to a grab for the whole loaf and getting no bread.—Chicago Tribune. THE presidents of a number of leading hanks have just given to the public their views on the subject of a bankrupt law’. Without exception they all agree that a national law of bankruptcy of some kind is necessary to the commercial welfare of tlie community. This opinion appears to be well-nigh universal among trade organizations and business men. Every member of Congress, which is now soon to meet, should make a note of tills fact.—New York Herald. Only a party whose offices are continually being tilled from the better classes of people, and which Ims the better classes behind it, can do what the Republican party has done and is doing in this n spect. The administration in the splendid work it is accomplishing is a true representative of Republicanism, and the continuance of its present course is the best possible electioneering work that can be furnished to the campaign capital next year—St. Louis Globe Democrat. One week ago to-day Ben. Butler was laid out. as unlovely a corpse as one could expect to behold. To day he is bright, ohipper and audacious, declaring, with a bunch of sweet violets in ids button-liole, that, he is very much alive and that ho will be a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts next year. Asa keen and everlasting thorn in the side of his political enemies, Benjamin is entitled to all the medals and an honorable mention thrown m for good measure. He Is like Tobe Gridei*e shows “so Owned bad That he is real good.” and with all his faults one loves him still.—Louisville CourierJournal. The laborer’s son is ashamed to do any manual labor. If the girl does anything for herself, she goes into a store, where the work is exhausting, and more pitfalls surround her. The boy top often spends his time in lounging on street corners, and travels the downward road of idlers. Boy and girl are unhappy, because they are between two worlds, belonging ■either to the one nor to the other. A good system of technical education and apprenticeship, by means of wldrh intelligent yotiug men and women may look forward to a high class of mechanical employment, respectable and well paid, would probably do much to cure a growing social evil.—New York Tribune. Poor preachers—that is, intellectually poorare worse than bad actors and indifferent, conceited writers. No one is required bv either business or moral obligations to go to the theater, or read everything they find in print. The man or woman wiio, however, attends church regularly from a sense ot moral duty, or for the sake of example to the rising generation, or for any other good purpose, has to listen to the preacher and is entitled to frequdnt ohatiges. The preachers ought to lie glad, too, to get new congregations. The troth Is, Hie pulpit is the moat trving place in the business of supplying the intellectual wants of tne people There is no dodging in it. There are few places in which a man is so quickly estimated at his worth.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Professor Parker’s “Prize Poem.” Now York Tribune. All the world knows who Professor Parker is, of course, but the world may not know that he has evolved a “$(J0,000 prize poem,” which “is worth the mon ey to any one who can sing it within a year.”’ The ‘‘poenv ,ff called “Germania; or, the Royal. Monument,” and at a glance this to be a liberal offer; but, on reading the production one is forced to the conclusion that it would be worth not only SUO,OOO, but a man’s life to dare to sing it in any number of years. A Strong Moral from Baltimore. National Republican. There are queer happenings in Baltimore. Mr. Wyman, the millionaire, who died last spring, left nothing but disjointed memoranda for a will. His wife, who had died some time before, had three proteges, unmarried ladies, whom she wished Mr. Wyman at his death to provide for. To two be gave SOO,OOO each. The other one had boxed his ears for trying to kiss her, and he ( only left her $40,000. Moral.

STATE EXCHANGE TABLE. The Motto for 1884 Is: Political Murder Must Go. Colored Men Cannot Be Shot. Down Like Hoffs —Hancock*!. Kenoio illation—Our Daisy Superintendent of Police. The Republican Party’s Mission. Kckorao Gazette. While the negro has been freed from physical bondage he is still in political bondage. Has not the Republican party a great mission to perform here, viz: to see that the negroes have full political privileges with the whith man? If the Democrats get control of the nation the colored people of the South will be put into abject, complete political servitude. The party will never interfere to prevent the shotgun from being freely used. For the future welfare and civilization of this government it is necessary that the solid Sould should be broken up. The Duty of Republicans. Itushville Graphic. The late elections would rather seem to indicate that the Democratic flood tide had reached its height and begun to recede. The Republican wave will follow next, and ’B4 will be a mighty good time for it to boom. Energy, integrity and wisdom on the part o' Republicans will insure their success. A partial Democratic victory nearly always makes prudent men sit down and think, and hardly ever fails to produce a reaction. The Difference Betweeu the Parties. Logansport Journal. The Republican party has beer, wise, farseeing and aggressive; the Democratic party foolishly negative and in innumerable instances silly in its opposition. With the two organizations standing side by side asking for tlie suffrage of patriotic voters, if the record and policy of each is studied carefully the Republican party need not stand in dread of the verdict that will be rendered in ’B4. The Blindness of Free-Traders. Richmond Palladium. England is a little country filled to the brim with manufactories, and these manufactories are languishing for want of foreign trade. If by some hook or crok their owners could manage to stop the development of the resources of the United States, it would be a bonanza for them. It is simply a matter of business, and in looking after it they are attending to their own interests. Don’t Want Pendleton Defeated. New Albany Ledger. Such a backward step as the defeat of Pendleton might and would be sufficient to determine tlie result in one or more,doubtful States, and so decide the issue of the coutest. Mr, Pendleton is as good a Democrat and as able a man as any of his opponents, and. in addition to equal claims, he stands as a representative of one of the issues in tha coming campaign. , United States Supervisors May Be on Hand. Lttfayette Journal. It is proposed by the method of the shotgun and fraud to keep the South solid for the Democracy. One thing, however, it will he well for the Bourbons to remember, and that is that the election in 1884 will be for national offices, and that the law permit.* the apointment of marshals and supervisors to look out for rioters and punish fraud doers. Indiana Will Save 1884. Ureensburg Review. By general consent of both parties New York and Indiana will be the battle-ground in the national campaign next year, just as they were in 1880. Indiana is prepared to do her duty. She saved the Republican ticket in 1880, and will do it again in 1884, if the ticket is worthy, thanks or no thanks.

A Daisy Superintendent. Richmond Palladium. The superintendent of the Indianapolis police force is a daisy, and he ought to be placed on wheels at once and set away under a shed. He allows the saloon-keepers to keep their back doors open and to do business on Sundays, provided they allow 116 games to be played. let the Mania Spread. Richmond Palladium. It strikes us that if Mary Churchill’s mania for making her own living were to become wide-spread among young ladies it would be a good thing. There is something else to do in this world besides pounding pianos and nursing sore-eyed dogs. . What the Colored Vote Must Do. Terre Haute Express. Unless the colored vote can be controlled by the Bourbon Democracy, it is plain to be seen that party intends tire colored man shall either leave the South or be held under the absolute control' of his former master. Political Murder Must Stop. Kokomo Tribune. There is one thing certain, and that is that political murder must be stopped. There is a way to stop these infernal Southern assassins front murdering colored voters, and that plan should be put into execution. The Rest State Rights. Wabash Plain Dealer. The best State rights is for the State to do right by its citizens, but when it fails, its citizens should have their rights protected by a “higher power," where there is any. That power is the general government. A Demand for Hancock. Logansnort Pharos fDern.) The Democrats would do well to put Hancock against Arthur. Hancock has the confidence and respect of tiie whole people regardless of party. He is 100,000 stronger today than in ISBO. 4 Gratifying to Republicans. Kenssolaer llopublican. The November contests have been decided more upon the merits of the two parties, and on the whole is a gratifying victory for Republicanism. The Old Guard Will Come. Wabash Plain Doaier. If tiie Supreme Court decision was the “lap of a drum,” tiie shooting In Virginia is a signal gun to call out the “old guard.” It will come. Has Awakcued tiie Nation. Frankfort Banner. Tiie disgraceful scenes at Danville, Va., will awaken the nation to a sense of itsduty, and will create a sentiment that will not down. Disagrees with Cupel. Milwaukee Sentinel. There is no reason why woman should obey. She is entitled to equal freedom with man, and there is no better result from the advance of the race within the last century than the release of woman from her dependence upon man, and the limiting of bis authority over her. The relations of men and women should be those of equals—not those of master and servant —and that philosophy which teaches otherwise is not only radically wrong, but it is immeasurably pernicious. Hurling Ink ut the Devil. New York World. Four centuries ago Luther burled an inkstand ut the devil, yet Saturt survives.—PliUadelnbia Tunes. Whole hogsheads of ink have been thrown at Den. Butler in this country during a period of forty years, ye, look at hinti