Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1883 — Page 5

STATE EXCHANGE TABLE. Principal Topics of Discussion in tho Press of the State. Wh.lt Mr. Carlisle - * Committees Mean—rolygamy Must He Throttled—Workiug--111 eu in the Campaign of 1884, Workingmen In the 1881 Campaign. Terra Haute Courier. Workingmen will play an important part in the political battle to fought in 1884. With all the gush about the Democratic party being the party of the people, it is strange that the leaders of this party should now be favoring a policy that will reduce the wages, and consequently the luxuries of every laboring man in the country. But one thing certain, tho mechanics,* artisans and skilled workmen of every description can not be hoodwinked. They read, they reason, they think. The intelligence ot this class of voters is a sufficient guarantee that they will remain true to the Republicau party in the future as they have been in the past. Where the Responsibility Keats. Union City Eagle. The general government lias no right to interfere with the internal affairs of a State, except when called upon by the proper State officers. Any such interference would be resented by every Democratic paper in the country. Then it is apparent that tbs sad condition of the negroes in the South is not the fault of the Republican party, but of the Southern Democrats who have full control in those States. If there is any bleody shirt, it has been made and flung to the breeze by the red-shirt and law defiers of the South, and it is upon their heads that the entire press of the North should pour its vials of wrath and indignation. Snubbiug the Irish. Michigan City Enterprise. Carlisle, the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, snubbed the Irish most unmercifully in making up his committee. Neither Finerty rior Cox were allowed a place on the committee on foreign affairs, because of their pronounced position in the interests of the Irish. The Irish people were never very popular with the Southern Democrats, and now that the South is. to all intents and purposes, the Democratic party, the Irish will be asked to take a seat further back than ever. L.ieutenaiit-Gr>vernur Hanna - * Strength. Brook.iile American. Mr. Hanna is now lieutenant-governor of our State. He is a good man, and altogether worthy of promotion. Tiie moral courage and fidelity to duty ami the interests of the Stare w hich he so distinctly manifested during the exciting scenes of the Inst session of the Legislature justly won for him tiie respect and admiration of the Republicans throughout the State. If he receives the nomination for Governor we can most cordially support him. Irish Bloodthirstiness. Edinburg Courier. There is little hope for suffering Ireland when such sentiments as were uttered at a meeting last week in New York come from those who are looked upon as representative Irishmen. The threat to assassinate the O'Donnell jury, to blow up towns and cities in England, and inaugurate a reign of blood and murder, is only characteristic of the professional revolutionist, not the patriot who seeks honestly to redress the grievances of his country.

A Pointer for the SufiVaglstf* Steubtn County '‘Journal. It is very evident that women could have the i ivilege of elective franchise in many J&-- k;, that t- 1 lajoritv of them really desired it. The prope thing for the woman suffragists to do is to create an enthusiasm among women on this subject. Husbands and sons are not likely to put forth much effort for the enactment of such laws when the wives and mothers express content with the present condition. Banishing Obscene Literature. Steuben Republican. The judges in all the northern circuits of the State have taken steps to stop the sale of the foul literature which has done so much to undermine the morajs Os the young people of both sexes. Their commendable example will doubtiess be generally followed, not only in Indiana, but'in all other States, and the time will soon come when the publiciuton of such papers willcease, because no longer profitable. Holman’s Gubernatorial Boom. Evansville Journal. Holman is one of the strongest men in the State amongst the people. His political record is as nearly invulnerable as any mail’s. Those papers that are endeavoring to belittle hint are wasting their time. Should he be nominated, our very strongest Republican will be required to defeat him, If lie is a demagogue, as some people charge, he is one of the smartest ones in the Union. The Fool and the 11 ise Ulan. Corydon Republican. ‘•The tool hath said in liis heart” lo! the great Republican party is a defunct institution and the Democrats will have a walkover at the next general election; but the man of wisdom, whether he be Democrat or Republican, knows well within himself that the Republican party is still full of vast vitality, and prepared for an energetic and probably successful campaign next year. The South Respects Only Force. Indianapolis Republican. The South never respected the North until it proved its superiority upon the field of battle, and its prejudiced hate is not vet prepared to yield to the slack touch and cowardly caresses of Northern honey-hearts. They mean well, but Southern prejudice cannot be soothed with syrup, nor can widows and orphans find solace in political cradle-songs and cowardly concessions. Wliat Does Mr. Carlisle's Election Mean? Ligonier header. If Mr. Carlisle’s election means what the free-traders claim it means the party will come out squarely and flat-footed for free trade. But if his election does not mean anything more than that the solid South is in the ascendency, they will dodge the issue or follow the Republicans in favor of a tariff for revenue with incidental protection. We shall see. The Teacher ami the Child. freshen Times. The teacher is entrusted with the rod, not to administer punishment per se, but to enforce discipline, order and obedience; and when he is angry and excited he not only disgraces his profession, but violates discipline and order as much as any one else, and cannot administer good school government. A Firm Grasp Needed on Polygamy. Muncie News. The more we read of the infamous doing? of the polygamous Mormons, the more are we convinced that the government should at once take hold of the matter with sucli vigor and earnestness as will lead in the shortest possible period to the entire and complete suppression of the whoie business. Probable Uses of Our Crematory. ConoersTille Times A crematory will be established before long in Indianapolis. It will probably be ased to burn the carcases of heretics, editors jnd other malefactors. This will at least

stop editors from turningover in theircoffins on The occasion of post-mortem lampoons or epitaphs. Responsibility for tiie Bloody Shirt. Logansport Journal. The “bloody shirt” is a banner extremely unpleasant to the Democracy, but as they spilled the blood that made it red they should not cwnpiain if its gory aspect haunts them. Whenever they will give it time to bleach the people will cease to flaunt it at them. The Meeting: of Republican Editors. Indianapolis Saturday Review, On vital questions affecting the people and the integrity of the Republican party in Indiana there should be a unanimity of sentiment, and such conventions as the one to be held next month is the proper way to attain such a result. All the Soldiers Will Be Peusioued, Marion Chronicle. The signs of the times point to the fact that the day is near when every man who served in the army in the dark days of the country will be pensioned, and that being the fact, now is as good a time as any to start. Democrats Must Have Some One to Shoot. Plymouth Republican. If negroes and Republicans will not participate in elections in the South for the purpose of allowing themselves shot, the peaceable Democrats will shoot each other, Tho Fate of All Old Tickets. Clay County Enterprise. It makes no difference which ticket the Democracy nominate, the old or thg new. Either will die of old age before it gets to Washington. Our Indiana Authors. Wabash Plain Dealer. With George W. Julian and Jap Turpen writing books and articles for the public prints this generation needs no Cervantes,

MRS. ASTOR’S BALL. A Coming Event Which Agitates New York Society People. New York Special. The favorite topic of conversation among society people is the number of private balls announced for the first month of tiie new year. While, several of these will, it is thought, be handsome affairs, it is generally expected that the ball to be given by Mrs. Wm. Astor, on January 21, will outshine them all. That all tiie arrangements of this grand ball will be perfect will be readily guessed by all those who know Mrs. Astor’s good taste. Preparations for it have even now been begun. That the house, corner Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street, is well fitted for a ball, all those who have enjoyed Mrs. Astor’s hospitality well know, and can easily form an idea of the beauty of the scene as it will appear when the lights of a myriad of gas-jets will fall through softly-shaded globes on the fair faces and gay drosses of ladies, for which the black coat will form an effective back ground as they wander about amid the tall palm trees in the richly-furnished apartments. The hall at Mrs. Astor's home is thought by many to be the finest in the country, and it certainly is one of the brightest and most pleasant, beingall in deepbluoand white. The floor is of white marble and is wide and spacious. On the right side a3 one enters is the delebrated fire-place in blue and whitechina finished in brasses. On either side of it are tall candelabras to correspond, and which attracted so much admiration at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Here, too, are oriental rugs and China stools of dark-nlue. The fine portrait of Mr. John Astor hangs further back on the other side just beyond the niche in wiiich a marble statne stands and where the marble stairway begins. The stairs will be ornamented with palms and gutta perc'ia trees, and the dark greetWj." their to!iage will form a striking cor' rag( . (o Vue Waits sw tie. tiie li'rst roottl v£ the left is the reception room, which is charmingly fitted up, and decorated with a profusion of dainty bric-a-brac, while on the wall are a number of fine paintings. The door opposite is seldom used, except in case of an entertainment, but the drawingroom, on which it opens, is really beautiful in decoration and coloring, all of which is in the lighter shades, even the tapestries partaking of the delicate coloring. The second room, which opens off this, is furnished in crimson and ebony. The mantel in this room, instead of being on one side, after tiie usual fashion, fills a corner. Beyond this is the room generally used by the family as a Sitting-room, and which is furnished in rich dark colors, while opening from it is the long dining-room, the walls of which are hung with tapestries, and from which wide folding doors lead to the picture gallery. This gallery is where the dancing will take place, and was built some time after the rest of the house. The beauty of the pictures that adorn the walls is well known, bnt on this occasion the spaces between them are to be filled with flowers and greens, while a screen of exotics will hide the musicians. Pinard is to serve the supper, but what the menu will be he cannot be induced to tell. The service to be used is made entirely of solid silver and gold and of beaten work, with repousse design of flowe. r and fruits. Even the platters are of these precious metals, the entire dinner set having been made by Kirk, of Baltimore. The invitations have not yet been issued, but it is thought that 700 of those society people of whom Mrs. Astor is an acknowledged leader, will be there, including most of those who appeared at the Patriarchs’ ball last week at Delmonico’s. Very Poor Ground for a Boom* Detroit Times. The story comes that the Fitz John Porter bill will pass both houses of Congress, and tliis action will give Robert Lincoln a chance to resign from the cabinet on the ground that Porter's reinstatement would be an insult to Abraham Lincoln, who approved Porter’s sentence. Tiie public feeling thus aroused will be relied on to boost Robert into the White House. The scheme is not promising. If Congress shall become convinced that a grave mistake was made concerning Porter, the discovery will place no stigma on tiie memory of the great-hearted Lincoln, any more than General Grant is now blamed for having once believed in Porter’s guilt. Political capital is difficult to manufacture in these days, and Robert has not started in well. Same Principle. Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. A strong element in the Democracy contend that “the only way to wipe out the blot on the escutcheon of the United States is to elect Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks.” This is on the principle that led a fellow to oil his coat all over to wipe out a grease spot. Fair Warning; Against Manitoba. Texas Siftings. Manitoba wants to come into the United States. If Uncle Sam is any way inclined to be mashed on her we can give him a pointer, Manitoba has cold feet Taking Time by the Forelock. Philadelphia Record. Manufacturers of fancy articles have already begun work in anticipation of the holiday trade of 1884. Bnt. Perhaps It la Not for Josopli. Philadelphia Times. To sum up: Mr. Carlisle has cut his coat of many colors to fit Joseph pretty well. Tom, Dick and Harry arc now appearing with tlieir grandfathers’ recipes for c,om:liß, do., and seeking a fortune through advertising, but the people know the value of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup and will tuke no other, price, 25 cents a bottle.

THE INDIANA POE IS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1883.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Tiie Distinct ion. To the Fdltnr of the Indianapolis Journal! At the risk of contributing farther to an “amusing failure,” etc., 1 desire to say that there would be a good deal “in the constitution of the United States to prevent the enactment of a prohibitory liquor law,” if such policy contravened human rights, or, as Dr. Lewis puts it, "personal liberty,” guaranteed in the organic law. The constitution itself calls it "blessing of liberty.” I said nothing about a law to prohibit men from drinking, for they have a physical and legal right and "liberty” to drink when and what they please, and no law ever did or ever can make that a crime. I spoke of tlie "drink traffic,” tiie selling of a tiling for a hurtful purpose, as all experience has shown it was, had been field by the highest courts to be a "crime,” and not alone “a vice.” I agree that a declaration by statute or otherwise does not make a tiling a crime. It was such, if at ! all, long before so defined. It is the con- j sensus of all civilization for the past centu- j ries which makes tiie liquor traffic for drink j (not drinking) a crime, and the declarations ! by edicts and statutes against it are simply j registrations of that fact, and not tiie fact J itseif. Dr. Lewis averred that selling for j drink, alike with drinking, was but a vice, and not a crime. I cited the court arguments in the celebrated license ca-es, which hold that license itself involves all the elements of prohibition, and is prohibition in a limited degree, to show not only the power to prohibit but also tiie distinction between tiie right to drink and sell, or, as Dr. Lewis would say, the difference between a vise and a crime. The failure, on the other hand, of the fugitive slave law lay in the fact that the concensus of all civilization was against tiie principles involved in it; an attempt to declare as true that which had been declared false by all save the few controlled by avarice. I agree that, all criminal laws are at times violated. But this fact is not proof that the thing denounced as crime by them is not crime. Liquor-dealing is a vice. Selling for drink is a crime. In Maine and other States it is defined to be a crime to sell at all for drink. In Indiana and other Stales it is defined to be a crime in special cases only. So license laws, as well as prohibitory laws, define liquor-selling for drink as a crime. It was so before these laws declared it was. It was not a crime to help the panting slave to freedom. The law to the contrary was a lie flaunted in the face of the very declaration which defined human rights at the threshold of our national existence. I still think I “grasp a distinction.” John B. Conner. Indianapolis, Dec. 27.

Some Phases of the Temperance Reform. To vne Editor oi tlio UnUanaooiis Journal; We all know that it is much easier to denounce an evil than it is to correct or remove it. Wisdom is defined to be the best means to the best end. As to the end to be reached all can be wise, but as to the best way to that end, all are not wise. It is by long experience that we find the wisest course to be pursued. All reforms move slowly, and perhaps this is well, because all reforms gather around them men who are actuated by selfish motives, wiio, in the end. ure an injuryl- - the cause; or men of hasty and precipiaction, who are like; _>•• society, in greater evils than the one sought to be removed, hence all reformatory movements must have time for the wisest and be9t men in society to recognize the real merits of the reform. It is my conviction that a majority’ of the wisest and best men and women of this nation have reached the conclusion that the cause of temperance is just and noble, and that it must not be abandoned, and that they will not desert it until the whisky power is dethroned and society’ made sober and free. It is an old aphorism that ‘‘vigilance is the price of liberty;” if so, agitation is the price of reform. I have within the last few months read with very great pleasure and profit the discussion of the many phases of the temperance question in the Journal. I have heard of a place called ‘‘Coward’s Castle.” It is defined to be ‘‘that pulpit or that platform from which a man surrounded by his friends, in the absence of his opponents, and secure of applause and safe from a reply’, denounces those who differ from him.” f must congratulate the Journal as being no “Coward’s Castle” on the question of temperance, and certainly’ this is the wisest course to be pursued. Let us have a free and full discussion of the many phases of this question from every possible stand-point. Let us transfer this perplexing social problem entirely from the narrow arena of prejudge, hatred, and partisan malignity onto the brC'd field of free thought, free speech, and free ballot. Let the people, all the people be beard from oti this subject. But there are some phases of the work to be done to which I may refer suggestively. This work is manifold and complex, giving room for a great y’ariety and versatility of agencies and talents, and yet it is very essential that the unity and continuity of the work should be maintained. Hitherto our work has been spasmodic and disjointed. At one time our educational work has in a measure given place to some great tidal wave of enthusiastic moral and religious fervor, and this in time has subsided, while all our energies have been devoted to prohibition, local option, or some legal phase of the question, whereas the educational, moral and legal forces should move abreast, and keep step throughout the wnole campaign. It is a grand work to reform the drunkard, but it is a grander work to so form the characters of the young men of our country’ as that they’ will never become drunkards. A great problem will be solved when this great social evil and national curse is controlled by’ law, but a greater and much more important problem will be solved when men control themselves, and wholly abstain from the use of intoxicants. This formation of character and supremacy of self-government are not attained by legal enactments, and yet law is indispensable for the protection, order and well-being of society. On this question of intemperance, almost any law is to be preferred to none. I should certainly prefer license to free whisky. I should, however, prefer local option to license, but it is my judgment that prohibition is greatly preferable to either. Tiie statement is made repeatedly that pro hibition is a failure, and with as much sense and equal propriety we may say thatany law that may be enacted is a failure, and that all laws that have ever been enacted for the purpose of controlling and regulating this evil are failures, and indeed all human laws are imperfect and to a certain extent failures. But tiie study of civil jurisprudence will lead inevitably to the conclusion that tiie laws of the peoples have, as a general thing, been the expression of their best intelligence and virtue, and indispensable to the weal of the State or nation. The great advantage and immediate effect of prohibition will be to outlaw the trade, to place it under the ban instead of the sanction of law, and thus law would become an auxiliary of tcniperperance, giving to the schools, churches and temperance organizations the vantage

ground, whereas the saloons have it under tiie sanction of law. A prohibitory law would not be the end, namely, universal sobriety, but a means to that end. Law is education. It teaches the young and rising generation what crime is, because it defines and punishes crime. For a man to make the unqualified statement that prohibition i is a failure comes with about as much force as would be found in a declaration made from the stand-point of the Demociatic party that the Republican party is a failure, or vice versa. No Prohibitionist of practical ; sense claims that a prohibitory law would absolutely and universally put a stop to tiie making, vending and drinking of ardent i spirits; but we do believe that it will be more effective than any other law as a means to the great end of sobriety, political economy, social purity, domestic felicity, and the material wealth of our country. In the meantime let the.work go on unitedly, comprehensively, grandly and effectually. M. A VANDERBILT MARRIAGE. The Widow of Horace F. Clark Gives ner llano and Fortune to an Old Family Attache New York Special. Among the death announcements in a New York paper several months ago was one of the death of Mrs. Robert J. Niven, who left several children. On Tuesday the following appeared among the marriage notices in a newspaper of this city: “Niven—Clark—At Frank fort-on-the-Main, Dec. 6, by [lie Kev, George William Mackenzie, British chaplain at that city, Robert J. Niven to Maria Louise Clark, nee Vanderbilt, both of New York City.”

Maria Louisa Vanderbilt was the fifth daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt. She married General Horace F. Clark, a lawyer, at one time a congressman from this State, amt at the time of his death, on June 19, 1873, president of the Lake Shore railroad. General Clark was a member of Congress for eight years, and at the expiration ot iiis last term, in 1801, declined a renomination. He was fifty-eight years of age when he died. During tiie residence of the Clark family in Washington they became acquainted with Robert J. Niven, who was attached to one of tiie departments of the government, and who became a member of their family and resided in die same house with them in Washington formally years. When General Clark returned from Washington with his family Mr. Niven accompanied them, and took up his residence with them at No. 10 West Twenty-second street, where he remained until some years ago. Both he and Mrs. Clark left the city and took up their residence in Paris. Mrs. Clark attended Dr. Huttin’s church, in West Washington Place, for some years. She finally changed to I)r. Adams’s church, now Dr. I’arklinrst’s, in Madison Square. A gentleman who was unknown to most of the members of tiie church was almost universally her companion in her visits to tliis place of worship, and those who became acquainted W'itli him learned that he was Mr. Niven. Mr. Niven prospered after his arrival in New York, and was associated with the Vanderbilts in prominent enterprises. In one of Trpw’s New York city directories bis name appears as the secretary of the New York & Harlem railroad. Cornelius Vanderbilt was president of the road, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., treasurer. It was known to a few that Mr. Niven had a family from which he had been separated during the years of his residence with the Clark family. On General Clark’s death Cornelius Vanderbilt took charge of the affairs of the Lake Shore railroad, which were somewhat complicated, and of his interests in the Union Trust Company, and made a handsome property for the widow. On the Commodore’s death Mrs. Clark be£/une he;r to half a million, which her brother, William H. Vanderbilt, increased to a million. M rs. Clark and Mr. Niven have lived for several years in Paris, where Mrs. Clark has recently built a magnificent residence, in one of the finest parts of the city. Many New Yorkers have met Mrs. Clark in Paris, and have dined with her. They invariably met Mr. Niven at ttiese dinners, and he was considered a member of the family. Mrs. Clark had one daughter, who married Mr. Collins, the son of a dry goods merchant in this city. Mrs. Collins was divorced from her husband, and married an Englishman, from whom, it is reported, she has since been separated. It is said that Mrs. Clark and her daughter have not been on speaking terms for several years. Many explanations have been given of the cause of Mr. Niven’s first taking up his residence with tiie Clarks in Washington. One was that be nursed General Clark through a sickness of smallpox, and that the General took Dim into his family through gratitude. Mr. Niven is said to be a lawyer by profession.

DYNAMITE IN A BOTTLE. Three Mysterious Strangers Who Were Supposed to Intend Mischief. Now York Sun, The wind was bitter cold on the bridge on Monday’night. At 11o’clock three men were grouped at the exact centre of the span on the deserted promenade engaged in deep conversation. Two were elderly and one of these was short, stout and ruddy and looked like a sea captain. The other man was tall and slim and looked like a soldier. Tiie third was not more than twenty’-one years old. He had little to say, while his elder companions conferred with each Qther. Presently the short, stout man said: "Our compact signed ten years ago is now to be fulfilled. Let us proceed.” The speaker drew from his overcoat pocket something about a foot in length, about four inches in diameter at one end, and tapering to about one inch at the other, with a silvery’ cap on the small end. Tiie three stepped toward the south side of the footpath. The stout man held the article he had taken from his pocket aloft, and was ill the act of bringing it down on the iron railing, when Bridge Policeman Hill, who had been watching seized liis arm. “No dynamite explosions here, gentlemen,” said he, sternly. The three men looked at Policemen Hill, then al each other, and then they laughed. Policeman Hill now looked closely at the supposed dynamite cartridge, and saw that it was a champagne boitle. Then the stout gentleman made tliis explanation: “Ten .years ago to-night," saul he, “at this very hour, three men were at the I’ierrepont House, in Brooklyn. Myself and the tall gentleman were of the party. The third man lias since died, but this young man is his son. Tiie subject of our discussion was the probability’ ol the completion of tiie bridge. One said it would be finished in three yearn. Another said five years. I then said that if the bridge were completed at the expiration of ten years so that we three could meet at itn center, I would break a bottle of wine there. Circumstances have prevented us from meeting before to-night.” ' Gentlemen,” replied Policeman Hill, “1 hope you will excuse my interruption. But von know the bridge must not be blown up with dynamite merely because it happened to be opened on Queeji Victoria's birthday.” A champagne bottle under an electric light has a very close resemblance to a dynamite cartridge. The stout gentleman then broke the neck of the champagne bottle. Glasses were taken from overcoat pockets, and the three strangers drank to the long life of the bridge. After the ceremony the three strangers departed. Policeman Hill went and made a report of the circumstance to Sergeant Smith. Horsford's Acid Phosphate, FOB ALCO!IOI,H>M. Dr. ,T. 3. Hullmun, Philadelphia, Pa., says: “It ia of coon servlet* in the troubles arising from alcoholism, ami gives satialaciioa in my practice, ”

A REIGN OF TERROR. Four Men Killed ami Ttreuty Eisht Wounded in ihe liiut at Harbor Grace—An Outbreak Probable at Catbonear. St. Johns, N. F., Dec. 27.—Advices from Harbor Grace state that the Orange proces- | sion yesterday, while passing Shipshead, was i fired upon by the crowd. At first theOrange- | men thought the tiring was from powder guns carried by their friends, until they saw | their men fall. Four men were killed, two | Orangemen and two Roman Catholics. Eight ! are reported mortally and eighteen to twenty ] slightly wounded. Head Constable Doyle is | among the wounded. There is a 1 till in tiie outbreak at Harbor Grace, but the neighboring town of Carbonear is in a state of the wildest frenzy. Over 1,000 men are parading the streets and preparing to march to Harbor Grace. Crowds are hurrying up from the whole extent of the north shore of Conception bay to the scene of tiie disturbance. All , business places are closed, “and most private dwellings protected by bars and bolts. I Police dispatched from St. Johns reached | Harbor Grace last night. If tho riot breaks out anew, the law officers will be powerless to protect life and property. It is rumored the government has cabled Halifax for troops and a war-ship. If the C'arbonear contingent marches to Harbor Grace the result will be terrible to contemplate. Confederate Anecdote of Sherman E. V. Smalley, in January Century. General Joseph E. Johnston, who commanded the confederate forces engaged in resisting the advance upon Atlanta, once narrate-! the following incident, w’hich weil illustrated the impression Sherman had made upon the minds of the Southern soldiery at that time as a commander of resources and ready expedients; Johnston stood on Kenesaw mountain watching witli his glass the movements of his enemy’s wagon-trains on the great plain to the northward. A staff officer came riding up with tiie news that tiie rebel cavalry had got in the rear of Sherman’s army and had burned a number of railroad bridges. The officer had been forced to make a detour of two days to get around the Union army-. ■Scarcely had lie finished speaking, when a whistle was heard, and a moving train appeared in tiie distance, showing that Sherman had already rebuilt the bridges and reopened his communications. Walking past a group of soldiers lounging in the shade, a few minutes later, the General overheard them discussing Sherman’s chances of success. Said one of them: “We’ll make it a Moscow campaign and destroy his whole ; army.” "How can you make it a Moscow campaign without any snow?” asked his less enthusiastic comrade. “I mean that we’ll cut his communications, destroy everything and starve him out. We’ll burn ail the bridges.” “Don’t you know he carries duplicate bridges along with Dim?” "Well, we'll blow op the big tunnel." “Oil, hell!” exclaimed tiie other man, with a look of disgust; “you don’t know old Tecumseh Sherman. He’s got a duplicate tunnel, too!”

An Inoperative Will. New York, Dec. 27.—Aiimiral Stephen D. Trencharil, of the United States navy, died on the loth of last November. He made a will on the 20th of January, 1850, appointing his wife sole executrix, legatee and devisee. She died five years before him, and, as he has never executed another will than that made in 1856, it became inoperative. Edward Trenchard, the only surviving son, applied to day for letters of administration on his father's estate. The decedents real estate is valupd at about $20,000, and his personalty at $2,000. The Louisiana Lottery Case. Nhw Orleans, Dec. 27.—The motion to dissolve the injunction obtained by the New Orleans National Bank, prohibiting interference with mail matter addressed to the bank for the lottery company, is still being argued in the United States Circuit Court. Messrs Chandler and Moulton made arguments for the bank and tiie lottery company, followed by Pro essor Maury in behalf of tiie government. The court took a recess until to-morrow. Attorney-general Brewster make3 the closing argument. Another Walking Match. New York, Dec. 27.—The Turf, Field and Farm says that the Madison-square Garden has been engaged for a six-Jay race, for which Charles Howell and Alderman Fitzgerald have already signed articles. The rent is $5,000. The start takes place at midnight on Feb. 24, stake SSOO a side. Pedestrians wishing to contest must have the amount in the hands of tiie Turf, Field and Farm on or before Feb. 4. Enjoined* Trenton, Dee. 27.—The Chancellor has granted an interlocutory injunction restraining the New Jersey Zinc ana Iron Corn pany from further working the mining property in Sussex county, the ownership of which is claimed by Charles \V. Trotter and others. The case has occupied the courts for several years. Tiie property is valued at several million dollars. A Sleighing Party Carried Over a Precipice. Ashland, Va.. Dec. 27.—The horses attached ro a sleigh containing four collides, from Roaring Creek, ran away last night, dragging the sleigh over a precipice. Janies Smith had a leg and arm broken. Henry Green an arm broken, and Mary Kbroner was internally injured. The others were slightly injured. Tax Frauds. Cincinnati, 0., Dec. 27. —County Auditor Brewster says he has discovered a million dollars’ fraudulent increase in the valuations of property for taxes on the books, made for tiie purpose of getting the fee for tirocuring the refunding of excessive taxes. He says it lias beeu done since 1880. The Frost-Bit ten Sailors. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 27.—Physicians state they will he unable* to tell for fortyeight hours whether amputation is necessary in the cases of the nine frost-bitten sailors. The bark Paragon, fifty-five days from Trapani, has arrived at Gloucester. The crew is badly frost-bitten. Murder and Suicide. Albany, N. Y., Dec. 27.—Private dispatches from Hanover. Germany, state that Col. Henry R. Rathbone killed his wife and committed suicide. They were ’connected with most prominent families here. She was the daughter of ex-United States Senator Harris. Wk cannot prevent misrepresentation and deception by others, but we positively assert that tiie automatic tension device, stitch indicator, with other valuable features, belong exclusively to the Wiltcox A Gibbs A aromatic Hewing Machine, notwithstanding any statement r<> the contrary, from an\ source, however respectable. 1)2 East New York street. BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS Are fast taking the place of all others m fan tones. Foundries, •Machine Hhops and Mills, parties having their own power can procure an Electric Generator and obtain much more light at much le-s cost than by any other mode. The itieaiplesccnt and storage system has beeu perfected. making small lights for houses and stores hung wherever needed, and lighten at will, dav or night. Parties desirin g Generators or to form tom panics for It i: titi nir cities and towns, can send to tne Brusti Electric To . (’leveland, 0., oi to the undersigned ab i nuian a noli a. J. CAYEN.

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