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Tim EYF-XING. CXANB C>PERA-HOCBE-“Tho Romany llye.” TSULISH’S OTEItA -H O U SR- “ The Danitcs.” PA KK THEATEIi—The **Two Jolius” comedy company. THE DAILY JOURNAL UY JNO. C. NEW & SON. Fi>r Fates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pare. MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1883. TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LOMDON—American Exchange in Europe. 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 boulevard dee Capucines. • NEW .^i{K-Fifth Avenue and Windsor Ilotels, WASHINGTON. D. o.—lirentauo's 1,015 l’ennsylvania avenue. CHIC AGO—Palmer House. CINCINNATI—J. C. Hawley* Cos.. 151 Vino street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Onion News Company, Onion Hepot. The Journal will publish on Monday next the usual list of open houses for New Year’s calls, both in this city and in other towns and citicv In which the Journal circulates. For the guidance of persons sending the lists to this office we give a sample of how they should be prepared: ‘•Doe, Mrs. John. No. street; assisted by the Misses Doe, Miss Mary Roe and Miss Auua Smith. From —A.M. to —p. M.” The negroes of Skipwitb, Miss., have lynched a colored man for killing a white man. Now if white nten would reciprocate by allowing white assassins to be punished for murdering negroes something like justice would be done. Things are not going the way Americans would like in England. Tennyson was made a lord, much to the disgust of folks on this side of the Atlantic, and now Mary Anderson threatens to marry an English duke instead of an American nobleman. Considerate Washington correspondents in chorus: "The agony of the country over the delay in announcing House committees will be at an end on Monday.” Thanks, awfully; the country will now draw its ,’jrcalh and begin to get ready for Christmas. St. Louis having experimented with wood, asphalt, granite and other paving materials, has come to the conclusion, after trial, that fire brick make the best streets for all purnoses, enduring as long as granite, even Ir,'•■and affording better foothold for i .-Senator Thurman has blown a blast upon liis bugle born with that red bandanna, and has bounded into the senatorial arena in Ohio. The noble old Roman, as his admirers delight to call him, affords by odds the most eligible man around whom the opponents of Mr. Fendleton may rally.

The Inter Ocean still stands by the gamblers and sharks of Chicago, and makes sport of their victims. We expected nothing else; hut we inform our contemporary that a way will be found by Which to curtail the disreputable business which makes the very name of Chicago a byword and a hissing with respectable people. Gambling must go. A rßisoKEitat the county jail in Cincinnati has been allowed to become loathsome from scurvy induced by improper food. This is simply revolting; but when the Siberian bloodhound, kept in our jail, tears and mangles some prisoner to death, Marion county will be able to laugh Hamilton county to scorn. It’s not every jail that can boast a full-blooded bloodhound. A national convention, composed of itapracticables of all descriptions, is to be field at Washington about the Ist of May, and it is intended that this assemblage shall nominate General Butler for President. Colonel Lee Crandall is in charge of the movement, and it is expected that Butler's caudidacy will carry dismay into the ranks of both the Republican and Democratic parties. Much indignation is said to be expressed over the collapse of the Jones banking-house, at Green Bay, Wis„ which occurred last week, with large liabilities and $3,000 as assets. Large numbers of poor people bad their earnings deposited there, but the banker speculated a little in margins, and the poor people can go to work and save more money if they expect to have any in time of need. John M. Barker, a manufacturer of Millbury, Mass., but residing in Worcester, brought suit against the latter city to recover damages for injuries received by falling on an icy sidewalk in 1882. The accident occurred on a Sunday, and the judge ruled that the plaintiff bad no case, inasmuch as he was violating the public statutes by traveling on the Lord’s day. Mr. Barker is not satisfied with this decision, aud will appeal to the Supreme Court, Bishop Stiarp. of the Mormon Church, heartily agrees with Senator Edmunds that the proposed commission for the government of Utah is unconstitutional. The g-md Bishop seems to be in perfect accord with Mr. Edmunds on a number of points. He favors a law making civil marriages Compulsory and will endeavor to secure the presage of such a law by the territorial Legmature before Congress Cab act. He has no ol ection to the repeal of woman suffrage. ti ehe says: “It will save our women from contact with many disreputable characters. Forcale suffrage was advocated by ‘gentiles’ themselves, because It is thought the Mormon women would take advantage of it to gain todenendencc from their husbands’ control.

But they did not feel disposed to vote themselves outcasts of society. As the gentiles favored the measure, it is quite in order that they should get it repealed, now that it does not answer their purpose, or indeed any purpose of value,” The Bishop says that, counting out polygamists and women, ‘‘we shall still have all the voters we need.” It is very evident that the leading Mormons are in no special fear of anything really effective being accomplished by the present Congress against their peculiar institutions. “Peculiar institutions” find their natural haven under the wings of the Democratic party. The Democratic House of Representatives is the palladium of polygamy. A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. The propriety of early providing for a convention to revise the State constitution is becoming more and more apparent every day. It is now a third of a century since the present one was formed, as measured by the sun’s movements, but it is more than a century as measured by events. It was not possible for the wisest men of a third of a century ago to foresee the necessities of today. In almost every material thing changes have been wrought that amount to a revolution, and we are yet living, or trying to live, under the regime of the last century. So manifest is that demand for a revised constitution that none are more free to speak of it than the judiciary of the State, from the Supreme to the lowest court, and we take occasion to say that in no particular is reform needed more than in the judiciary. While, as a rule, we have secured a fair order of talent in every department of the judiciary, it must be conceded that in many instances the opinions of the courts have not been without plausible criticism as being influenced by personal or party considerations. While not fully prepared to demand such changes as would make the judiciary a life appointment, we must allow that there is force in thcarguments which demand that the judiciary, including the prosecuting attorneyship, should be further removed from the arena of popular strife. What else gives the United States’ coum more respect as judicial tribunals than local courts? But we shall not specify the items that need new regulations. We join in the opinion that an early convention should be called. Let it be composed of fifty good men, and let them take ample time to thoroughly overhaul the present constitution, or make anew one adapted to the age we live in.

A HOLIDAY INCIDENT. A pretty but pathetic incident is reported from the village of Concord, Staten Island. Anna Bowald, q_black ejrnd country girl of fourteen years, found twenty cents, recently, a matter of little moment to most people, but to her an episode. She had beard so much about the grand things in the great city near which she lived, about the innumerable beautiful presents and toys that were displayed for the holiday season, that an irresistible desire possessed her to take a look at them. As may be imagined, she was not able to purchase any of value, but she felt that she would be happy even looking at the beautiful preparations for the delectation of girls more richly favored. When she found the twenty cents it seemed as though a providential way bad been opened up to gratify her consuming desire. In the morning she was sent to deliver some milk at a neighbor’s, which she did, and then disappeared. She took the tin pail with her, and no trace of girl or pail could be found all day long. At 11 o’clock that night the girl’s grandfather was awakened by the dog’s barking in the yard. He looked out and saw a milk pail on the front gate. When he took the pail off the gate he discovered a child’s footprints in the snow. Following them, he came' upon Annie, nestled in a fence corner. Her face and hands were purple and swollen from the cold. He carried her home. She would not talk about her absence, and would hardly speak at all. She sat two days with a dejected face, kuitting on a pair of wristlets. When she became weary of her needles she would play with the house cat and dog. Afterwards, to a reporter she artlessly said: “I found twenty cents. I wanted so much to see the pretty Christmas things in New York that I couldn’t help running away to town. I looked in the windows all day. I had my pail on my arm. I left it on the gate at night, and went away because I felt wicked. I was almost asleep on the snow when grandpa found me.” How tempting the rich bright show in the great showwindows must have been to her hungry eyes. One can almost see her open-eyed wonder as she walked from one display to another, edging her way through the crowded streets, and elbowing hundreds and thousands intent on possessing themselves of some of the marvelous articles so temptingly displayed. Poor little hun-gry-hearted, wistful-eyed girl, self-accused because she even dared wish to only see what she could never have. But there is room for rejoicing that she came back to her own as pure and simple as she left. It may be that some day good fortune will smile upon the rustic maiden and fill her lap with all that heart could wish. She will be rich without the baubles if she but keep unspotted from the great whirling world that entranced her for one long day, aud left her with an unfulfilled wish in her simple, trusting heart. William Conroy, the New York ex-po-liceman, has been sentenced to be hanged, in the Tombs prison, on February 8, next. If the sentence is executed it will be but a fitting thing. But might not this extremity have been avoided and the murdered man’s life have been preserved had justice been more prompt to deal with the brutal offenses

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of other New York policemen in the near past? Encouraged by the immunity accorded his fellows on the force who beat and mangled as they chose, Conroy felt a degree of assurance when he beat and shot his victim to death. Laws enforced in minor offeDses would act as a preventive to greater crimes, and the latter would be measurably checked. The contempt engendered by the slight put upon laws governing minor assaults is but an incentive to greater license and graver crimes. The murder done by Conroy was but the natural outcome of the license so long allowed to brutal and conscienceless men clothed with the authority of law and led to believe, that they would be held accountable for no violence they might commit while iu the line of “duty.” . KLEPTOMANIA. The defense in the case of the State vs. Mrs. Bradley for grand larceny is making vigorous effort to prove that she is insane and a victim of that dreadful disease known as kleptomania—a mania for stealing. Some good citizens are confident that the plea can be successfully maintained. That Mrs. Bradley has a mania for stealing can be abundantly proven, not only by Mrs. Bates, on whose affidavit she was arrested, but by the family in whose house she was when detected, and by others anterior to her experience with Mrs. Bates, and it appears that her husband has been long aware of this insanity. That in many cases she has developed method in her madness is not to be counted against the theory; for finding the goods in her possession, it would hardly militate against the theory of insanity that she should alter dresses and bonnets and wear them, and work her own initials on towels and other articles. If, in her fits of insanity, the goods came into her possession, she might well appropriate them to use in her lucid moments without prejudice to her plea. At least this is the theory of the defense. Certain studious gentlemen believe that she may be cured by proper medical and moral treatment, and we understand they are respectively wrestling with the proposition made by Mrs. Bates, that one of them take the family into his own house during the period of treatment. The facts in this case evidently show a propensity to steal. But so do facts in many cases. Only last Monday Judge Norton sent a man to the institution at Michigan City for treatment for two years, whom he had sent, less than thirteen months ago, for one year’s treatment, the medical and moral appliances of the institution not having cured him of his insanity in that period. For the same reason he returned Jack Trainer, a confirmed kleptomaniac, for a skill longer period, the short period not having fully restored the unfortunate man. The truth is, this disease is becoming alarmingly prevalent, and it is a serious question what is to be done with it. The penitentiary does not cure it, and it is not cured by letting it alone. Not the least alarming feature is that it is propagated in the offspring. And this is not in the low trash exclusively; for genteel ladies who have escaped medical and moral treatment in the public institutions are known to have borne children who take to stealing almost with their natal breath. Would not this question be a very fit one for discussion in the Social Science Association? Meanwhile is there any better way of dealing with it than that adopted by Judge Norton? It will at least prevent the transmission of the disease to children by preventing the bearing of children. The late law of Illinois, now in force, seems to look in this direction. It sends for a longer periodall who are not cured by the shorter, and it calls the institution a penitentiary.

"GATn,” in a recent special, says; “Steel rails have, during the past week, sold at S3O, which is $10.50 below the lowest price reached after the panic of 1873, and it is within $5 of the price at which foreign steel can be sold in this country; or, in other words, at which any protection whatever would be necessary to the American manufacturer. The price will go up again, but probably not very much. It has occurred under a heavy protective tariff, and in the twenty-third year of the greatest protectionist experiment.” If this doesn’t prove the theory of protection, it proves nothing. Under the operation of a “thieving protective tariff” the price of steel rails has declined to within $5 of the price at which foreign steel can be sold in this country. The competition encouraged between American mills through the protection afforded by the tariff is now so great that the price is nearly as low as that offered by foreign competitors, and everything goes to show that the time is not far distant when American mills can compete in open market with the world. This is the object of protection: To afford aid to Americans until they shall so perfect their processes as to equal those of countries that have had the experience of centuries and have command of armies of cheap and ignorant labor. Americans have little idea of land monopoly as it is understood in England. Recently an entire town, every inch of the streets, lots, houses, gardens, wharves and rents of every property and privilege was offered at public sale. It appears that Lord Llysmen owns the town of Aberayron, Cardiganshire, Wales. The inhabitants of the place have no voice in the matter, but must accept whatever may come from the transfer to anew landlord. Twenty-four thousand pounds was bid, but the sale was not effected. ____________ It is said of the late Professor Sophocles that in the simplicity of his nature he had no faith in the modern methods of transmitting money, and used, every few years, to cross the ocean for the purpose of carrying tc his mother such of his savings as she

needed. It is not shown that the noted scholar had but one object in view in personally presenting the gift to his mother. An offering, to he acceptable in its best sense, should be laid on the altar by the one making it. A thank-offering to a mother is a very ungracious thing if sent by mail or express. The presence of the son, the presence of the hand, the sound of the voice are more than all the money ho could give. It were better if all gifts to one’s mother were tendered in person. The Hon. James N. Tyner has been talking to a New York reporter about political affairs in general and the presidency in particular. Mr. Tyner says that either Senator Harrison or Postmaster-general Gresham would be acceptable to Indiana Republicans, but thinks the latter will not perpiit the use of his name while -he remains a member of President Arthur's cabinet. The selection of Mr. Carlisle as Speaker, says Mr. Tyner, is regarded in the Northwest as a grave mistake by the Democracy, and nowhere did he hear a doubt expressed of Republican success next yean Hon. William D. Bynum will deliver the address of welcome on the occasion of the meeting of the Democratic State editors, Jan. 3, at Masonic Temple.—Sentinel. We trust Mr. Bynum will tell the editors how he killed the general appropriation bill on the last legislative day of the last General Assembly, at the bidding of the bummers and buccaneers, w r hile Democrats like Senators Bell and Magee, Representative Jewett, Hon. John H. Stotzenberg and others were doing all they could to save the party from the disgrace and infamy of the Speaker’s action. It lias been demonstrated that time 1s money: in fact, a great deal of money. Mr. Bonner has offered $20,000 for Anteeo, the California trotter, if he can be pat over a mile of track iu 2:17% or better at the age of four years. He now does it in 2:20%. As Bonner would not give twenty cents for the horse with his present record, it appears that the gentleman values a difference of three seconds at $20,000, or $6,G 66.6623 per second. Time is indeed everything. It Is said that money makes the mare go. The owners of Anteeo will see if $20,000 won’t make him go. TnE invisible telegraph from Washington states that Mr. Mahone has evidently become persuaded that he is a presidential candidate just about the time the Sun has stopped altogether talking about him. The Sun ought to be gratilied. Here Is one person, at last, who takes it seriously.—New York Tribune. Mr. Holman will undoubtedly ‘‘object’’ to the accidental substitution of Mr. Mahone’s name for his own, even though it may have been the work of the intelligent compositor. . Jersey justice nodded when it lined a man SSOO last week for having killed his wife with a croquet mallet because she didn’t play fair, hut it is awake and hitting the mark ouce more. A Jersey City man of forty-seven who coaxed a fourteen-year-old girl away from home and pretended to marry her, hss been sentenced to five years imprisonment ans a fine of SI,OOO. A New York judgq has released a man arrested for stealing pool tickets, on the ground that pool tickets are not property, and, having no value in law, it is legally no crime to steal them. Perhaps that New York justice has learned by personal experience and unofficially that whoso steals his pool tickets steals trash. A Michigan man is experimenting with a telephone with which he expects to open communication by cable across the ocean. When the machine is perfected we can have the story of Sarah Bernhardt’s horse-whipping fracases by word of mouth, and not be left in such awful uncertainty as to the rights of the affairs. A correspondent writes to ask which is proper, “A dll s-ck-n-ng th-d, or a s-ck-n-ng d-ll th-d.” We do not know: the Chicago papej-s have been delayed by the snow. This phrase belongs to the sui k ng p-st-l category, which has boeu copyrighted by the dallies of the windy city.

The Enoch Arden busiuess is getting to be just a tittle overworked. A sailor who left Cleveland in November for a trip on the lakes returned last week to tind that his wife had married another man in his absence, and now they are calling the unlucky man Enuch Arden. In some of the towns In the Russian oil district, streets are sprinkled with crude petroleum instead of water. Sour cabbage and onions being the chief diet of tile inhabitants, tbe odor of petroleum, probably, rises as sweet incense to their nostrils. It is told of the late Professor Sophocles that he was fond of chickens, in the better sense. He would, it is averred, almost as soon have eaten a child as tile llesh of a chicken. He probably referred to the traditional spring chicken. Ye solid men of Boston, what are ye going to do about iti The New York Graphic profanely speaks of yonr classic city as “bonny Boston.” Bonny Boston, forsooth! Next we shall hoar.of the versatile and sprightly Emerson. It is said that a few drops of the Mexican plant, “toloachl,” acting on the brain, produces first violent insanity and then hopeless idiocy. The secondary effects of toloachi are visible in New York anglomaniacs. The role played by Barak Bernhardt In the new drama at Port St. Martin is called Djarnma. She probably coined the word during the matinee with Mile. Colombier. TnE latest is a Christmas treo that folds up like an umbrella. It could be stolen like an umbrella, too. Mem. for Mary: Duke and dude are nearly the same sometimes. ABOUT PEOPLE. Cable never smokes, and he turns down his wine glass at the dinner table. Mr, Howells and Mr. Henschnl aro at work together on a comic opera in two acts. Alluding to Aslimend-Bartlett, the Pall Mall Gazette says that “even an encyclopedia In breeches can sometimes boa bit of a bore.” Ex-Senator CHristiancy is said to have taken tbe news of his wife’s death very calmly, though it Is apparent that her demise has deeply affected him. The winnings of Haulan, the oarsman, daring tlio last live years amount to $70,000. Os this sum be lias managed to save about $40,000, of which $30,000 is invested in a hotel ou Toronto island. He has a wife and two children. Mr. Henry Villari>, notwithstanding his dash and energy, retains a very peculiar superstition. When he leaves ills house in the morning he is careful to avoid, for the first five minutes, all cross eyed persons. If he meets a man with an obliquity of vision within that time, he goes back to the house, under pretense of having forgotten something. The greatest disaster

of his life hefolilim on the day that he fonnd a cock-eyed man standing on the steps of his boarding-house when hostsrted to business. The Americans tn Paris are arranging for a reception and dinner to he given to ex-Qovernor Headricks, who is expected to arrive iu that city within a few days. Dion BoitciCault says, in a letter just published, that there are 227 travelragcoinpanies in this country, with 4,086 metuoers, whose expenses he puts at $12,981.000—0ne-third for traveling expenses and two thirds on salaries, scenery, royalties, etc. Dr. John Hall says churches require educated men for ministers—men of social standing as indicated by dress, hospitality, money contributions, etc., and yet in a majority oi cases pay them salaries smaller than are received by postmen and polioemen. A lady was reproaching William Warren, at a recent reception, for going Into soctety so little. “You ought to let us lionize you a little,” she said. "1 never heard of but one man,” replied the veteran actor, “who was not spoiled by being lionized.” “And who was lit!” "Daniel.” Dr. Peabody, in liis article in the Atlantic Monthly on the “Study of Greek,” gives Charles Francis Adams, jr., a queer jab iu the ribs. Mr. Peabody holds that the only “failure” that can he conceived of in the history of the Adams family “is their failure to become a race of hereditary uiouarehs.” When Beaconsfleld was yonng the Duke of Rutland sneered at him. Disraeli had a long memory. Returning from Berlin in triumph, after many years, somebody said he would be made a duke. “I, a duke!" he exclaimed with feigned resentment. “Make me a duke! Why, Rutland’s a duke ” When Weston started, the other day, from Westminster bridge, London, to walk fifty miles a day for one lmudreq days, to illustrate the physical advantages of temperance, a crowd of distinguished doctors and eminent clergymen and benevolent barons and fair ladies gathered to see him off, and he started to the strains of a temperance hymn. The veteran tramp is iu clover again. New York letter: One of the handsomest turnouts on the road, yesterday, was that of Mr. U. 8. Grant, jr. It was a Russian dhrosky. The driver’s seat was high above the maiu body of the sleigh, which sits on low, solid runners. Three white Arabian stallions were harnessed abreast, in true Russian style, and they, as well as the dash-board of the sleigh, were decorated with flowing plumes of blue and gold. Josiaii Perham, deceased, of Boston, is credited with being the father of the Northern Paoifie railroad. The initial movement towards that enterprise was Mr. Perham’s securing from the Maine Legislature, iu 1860, the charter for the People’s Pacific Railroad Company, and organizing the company in Boston. This led to the organization of the Northern Pacific Railioad Company in 1864. Mr. Perham died in 1868. There still exists In Germany, on the banks of the Elbe, a colony of Flemings, which was founded in the year 1300. The colonists from the very first kept to themselves, and have never intermarried with the Germans, in the midst of whom they live. All their old customs have been preserved; they still speak the aneicut Flemish; they wear the Flemish costume of five centuries ago, aud primogeniture is still iu force among them. According to Belgium papers, the health of the ex-Emnress Charlotte, widow of Maximilian, has so much improved within the last live months that her physicians entertain hopes of her recovery. The ex-Empress is now In her forty-third year, but looks much older, her hair being very gray. She has become thin and wrinkled, hut her eyes stilt retain their old animated expression, The King and Queen of the Belgians often visit her at the caslie of Boucbonte, where she resides. Bishop Walker, of north Dakota, is a native of New York, and graduated from the General Theological Beminary in 1862. He was at once appointed assistant rector of Calvary Church, New York city, and has until now been identified with it. Through his efforts Calvary Chapel was founded and built at a cost of $60,000. He has served as its missionary pastor since its erection. He leaves for liis new field of labor very soon, and ttieie remain behind many friends in his parish by whom he was much loved. At a recent meeting of the Industrial Home, of Boston, Mr. Robert Swan expressed the hope that industrial education for girls might he carried one step further, by the introduction of classes in cooking. A central bifpheu could be established, to which the girls of the public schools might go on certain days. One, aud perhaps tile chief, reason why young women choose to work for a men pittance in stores when they could earn large wages at cooking, is that they actually do not know auythiug about cooking, and have no opportunity, nor in the years which they have now readied, time, to learn the art. The concluding sentence of Mr. Darwin’s posthumous paper on "Instinct,” read before the Ltnnman Society In England, the other day, is: “It may not be logical, hut to my mind it is far more satisfactory, to look at the young cuckoo ejeettug its foster brothers, ants making slaves, the larvie of the ichneuniouidiu feeding within the live bodies of their prey, oats playing with mice, otters and cormorants witli living fish, not as instincts specially given by the Creator, but as very small parts of one general law leading to the advancement of organio bodies—multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.” Os Mr. O’Hara, the colored representative in Congress from North Carolina, the Rochester Herald relates that nor long ago, in North Carolina, lie had introduced to him a couple of late-ly-landed Hiberniaus who also bore the name of O’Hara. Having in him a vein of humor, and good powers of mimicry, he indulged in some fun at their expense. “Pbat did Oi understand that yer names rnoight be, gentlemen!” he asked. “O’Hara, is it! Not O'Hara av Killnaiuoek!” “Tho same,’’ replied they in amazement: "an’who the devil are yon!” “Ol’m yer kinsman, begorra,” said he; “an’ be the same token the oloimat av this country has been bad for me complexion, as ye may notice ” The two "sons of the sod” have not been seen in North Carolina since.

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. When we come down to details there are but two parlies—those who wish lo reduce taxation and those who do not; those who will do all to formulate legislation looking to that end, and those who will do nil to block it. This wns the division last year in Congress; it will be tiie same this year, and the protectiouists among tne Democrats will be driven from oovey.—Louisville Courier-Journal. IF the Democratic free-traders in the House should take a decisive position upon the question at tills session they would divide their own party, and take a step toward tlio reconstruction of parties. If, however, thev should pursue the usual Democratic course of shirking and dodging, the urosidentlal oontest would turn upon the comparative merits of the two parties and the public confitlsuco In them—an ordeal from which Republicans do nS ehriuk.—Harper's Weekly. There aro doubtless many communities in this oountry—not South, not North, but iu America—which need to cultivate the public sentiment of law and order and abhorrence of blood; there are others which require as much, perhaps, to cultivate the active executive senliment to the operative point liy which to put to work the agencies for making tills noble sentiment of hatred of violence and blood effective. This is an era in which American communities will tind it greatly to tbetr advantage, mutually, to cultivate a large spirit, of attention to one’s own business, to Introspection, to growing a wholesome sentiment of humility. There Is a vast lack of communities in this country entitled, by virtuous supererogation or superabundance of graco

moving thereto, to cast the first stone at any Other erring and aocused communities.—Ciuolu* uati News Journal. 6 he question is really a very simple one when looked at squarely and cand'idiv. If an American citizen desires to promote Britisn interests at tile expense of thoso of his own country, lie should act with the “tariff-for-reveuue-oulv” people, and with the London Times; otherwise, he should give Ids favor and assistance to a party which is iu favor of encouraging American enterprise and protecting American labor against unfair and degrading competition.—SC. Louis Globe-Democrat. The New York Herald repeats the observation that the mission of the Republican party is ended. By no means. Not until every qualified voter, black or wliitp, in the South as in the North, is permitted to go to the polls and vote whatever ticket he prefers, as unmolested as he would bo in Ohio or Massachusetts, will the mission oi ilie party he accomplished. As long as the South is terrorized by tho shotgun, so long will the Republican party continue to exist as a logical necessity,—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. It is not a pleasant thing for the American who stops to think what the Senate is meaut to be, aud wlnit it might be, to see the majority of them accepting, without apparent annoyance, the proof that they hold their professed prineloles on any subject subordinate to their partisan interests. And tho time is surely coming when the people will not tolerate the practices now indulged in. The tendency of public opinion is toward geiting rid of all sorts of patronage, and confining changes to important elective positions, which will usually be tilled with reference to the character of candidates and the policy they represent.—New York Times. The Irish “patriots” who are disposed to regard the American republic as a “poltroon” because it does not espouse the cause of tho Invincibles and declare war against Great Britain should imitate the excellent example of Mr. John Ryan, in New York—surrender their naturalization papers and repudiate their aliogiance to the American government. As this would involve a resignation from Congress In some eases, and of fat offices in many others, ami abnegation in voting early and often at election times, it is to he feared that Mr. Ryan's example will not spread with the rapidity and Impetuosity which could be desired.—Chicago Tribune. The cases of ill-treatment of heathen by missionaries which have occurred of late suggest the question whether the character of the class of men who engage in mission work has not deteriorated of late years, No nobler and better men than the early missionaries to the North American Lillians and to the heathen of Airies and India ever lived, and to whatever church or sect they may have belonged, they were alik# incapable of flogging men and woiueu. It is s; range that Judson and Moffatt and the French Jesuits oi North America should have imiuhoreil among their successors men capable of tlia brutal crimes perpetrated in South Africa and tho ruffianism reported from Alaska.—New Yoilt Times. Mr. Edmunds opposes President Arthur'* plan for the government of Utah Teriitory by a commission, and does not believe that either tlia word of the Lord or the sword of Gideon is essential to suppress polygamy. That job, he u confident, can bo done if Congress will pass a little bill that lie has just introduced, suspending female suffrage in Utuh, ordering the publicity of every speoiesof matrimonial ceremony and giving additional powers to tile courts in respect to compelling evidence. We remember that Mr. Edmunds was just as confident of tho. wonderful efficacy of another little hill upon tlia Bame subject that lie drew and got Congress to pass a year ago. But it proved' to be an utter failure.—New York Herald. Senator Edmonds stated both the law and tlia practice and the common sense of tills question when he said the other day that a senator designated in this way to preside could never claim to lie in the line of presidential succession, for the reason that such a designated senator has never exercised any of the important functions of the President pro torn. He has never, so far as the records of the Senate show, signed a hill or a joint resolution, or done anything more than to act us a stop-gap.iu the chair. Thia is tlie practice, and the law and conimuu sense coincide with it. The real President pro tom. ia the man whom the Senate elects to that place, and it is only reasonable to suppose that he continues to hold the place so long as he is able or willing to do so, or until the Senate ohooses hla successor.—Now York Tribune. The blatant, loud-mouthed socialists hut indicate the existence oi a real, in one sense conservative, sentiment and movement. They mean what they say, destruction; they say what they mean in words borrowed from tlie jacobins of a past age, or irorn the Internationale, or Nihilists or Communists of this age; but they only seek to fasten themselves onto a reality. That reality despises them and their help. That reality recognizes iu them only a clog and a prevenrivo scarecrow, deterriuir good men from going with their own interests while itdrives them to alliance with tholr own worst enemies. That, reality is nine-tenths of all tile capital, brains, labor, business enterprise, and real solid business interests of America against the railway wreckers and stock waterers, lobbyists, log-rollers, and privileged interests of all kinds. That reality recognizes lu every occupation the legitimate part of it and proposes to draw the line there, confining all men as nearly as may lie possible to legitimate opportunities and profits.— CinoiauaiiNews Journal.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. THE STATE NEVER HAD A BETTER PAPER. Warren Republican. The Indianapolis Journal with commendable enterprise last Monday morning had a full report of the hanging of O’Donnell in London that morning at 8:30. The Journal goes to press at 4 o’clock A. M. , three and. a half hours before the hour of hanging, but the difference in time between London and Indianapolis is about six hours. We know of other dailies that failed to say anything about the hanging wdien their facilities for getting the news were just as good* as the Journal’s. The men at the head of the Journal understand their business, and this is daily shown in the paper. The State has never had a better paper nor the Republican party a more worthy advocate. The Journal deserves well of the people, and we believe it grows daily in popularity. A PAPER TO BE PROUD OP. Andrews Express. The Indianapolis Journal has no equal in the State, and is a paper which every lloosier may well feel pride in. It already lias quite a large number of subscribers for its daily here, but if citizens would consult their own interest its club would be double what it now is. In the stirring times of the coming year no Republican cau keep posted who does not take the Journal. THE DAILY OF ALL DAILIES. Colfax Chronicle. The daily of all dailies and the paper that meets with the most hearty reception at our sanctum is the Indianapolis Journal. 1 Any man of ordinary intelligence may peruse its columns during tlie spare moments of each day and keep posted and be educated to a fair degree in the general intelligence of the world in its most interesting phases to mankind. PURE IN TONE AND ON TnE RIGHT SIDE. Ligonier Leader. The Journal is a paper that can safely ba admitted into any family. It is pure in tone, and It is on tbe right side of politics. Its news columns embrace alt the current events of the day, while itseditorial columns fairiy teem witli gems from the pens of able writers. The Journal is one of the best State papers we know of. AN ENTERPRISING NEWSPAPER. Bnshviilo Graphic. O'Donnell was hung at London on Monday morning at 8:02 o’clock, and atG o’clock, standard time, the same morning, the Indianapolis Journal had over half a column telegraphic account of the hanging. For enterprise nothing cau equal aii enterprising newspaper. THE JOURNAL’S SUPPLEMENT. Michigan City Dispatch ('Dein .) The supplement issued by the Indianapolis Journal on Saturday is a model literary production in every sense of the word—iu fact, tiie Journal is an excellent newspaper, and well worthy of the excellent patronage which is accorded it. A GOOD GENERAL NEWSPAPER. Winnaraac Republican. We advise ail our readers who want a good general newspaper during the present session of Congress and the coming presidential campaign to take the Indianapolis Journal. ONE OF THE BEST METROPOLITAN PAPERS. Bedford Journal. The Journal is considered one of the best metropolitan papers now published. It is Republican in politics and sound ou all questions of nationality.