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The rumor that John L. Sullivan had been shot and killed at Denver unfortunately proves untrue. Paris is a very gay city and a delightful place to reside in, but, all the same, over four thousand people committed suicide within the walls last yean In this age of rapid transit and commercial interchange universal it becomes a matter of interest to know that the cotton crop of India is a very poor one this year. It is believed that Mr. Kdmunds will he continued as President pro tom. of the Senate, 'fhe country is vastly well pleased with the jdatus quo. Let it be maintained. “The whisky jug circulates lively," is the report from the Kentucky senatorial contest. In Ohio it was Standard Oil that circulated freely. Oil or whisky, it is all one to Democrats, so long as there is ‘‘free circulation." Mb. llewitt has been neatly caught while trying to carry water on both shoulders. Howling about the execution of O'Donnell, he rushed off and apologized to Minister West. Mr. Hewitt attempts to deny, hut Mr. West says he did. Hewitt is a Democratic statesman. We agree with the Chicago Inter Ocean that in the proposed retaliation on France and Germany we should be bold enough to put it upon the sole ground of retaliation, and not seek for any' pretext whatever. So long as they unfairly discriminate against our hog, we will prohibit their imports. Cot. A. J. Warner, who was in Columbus during the Payne-Pendleton contest, does not hesitate to say that the result was reached by bribery and corruption, and he advises a bolt. It would be worth much if enough self-respect-ing Democrats could be found to defeat the man whose nomination was notoriously bought. A PETITION asking the President to reappoint W. A. Newell Governor of Washington Territory, and signed by all the officials and a large number of the Territory's leading citizens, has been forwarded to Washington. This seems to indicate that the general demand that Mrs. Duniwav should occupy that position has been done away with. The purchase of a senatorship in the State of Ohio is more than an offense against the Democratic party. It is a crime against the institutions and the people of the entire country. It is but the natural sequel of the purchase of the Democratic nomination at St. Louis in 187 G, and the subsequent attempt to buy the electoral votes of Oregon and Florida. So far as the Democratic party is concerned tills business is a recognized principle in politics, and it only remains to establish political exchanges, where offices may be bought and sold liko merchandise.

A party without principles that it dares to enforce, with its foundation resting on the Jacksonian doctrine of spoils, it has no higher ambition than to reach the fields where spoils may be reaped, and to succeed in that it stands confessedly ready to sell a portion of its possessions in order to get more. It has barely enough conscience left to cry out against bargain and sale, but once sold it goes to the buyer as unresistingly as goes a hungry mule to a peck of oats. JUSTIFYING THE BLOODSHED. A writer in the News, of this city, who has traveled extensively in the South in the last few years, with good opportunities of observations, admits the general slaughter of negroes, hut justifies it by saying that the Almighty could no doubt have made a white race that would submit to be governed by negroes, hut He never has. This may be true; and the problem which perplexes the people of the South may be solved only at the end of decades of blood and violence. But does it follow that that particular portion of the white race should he put at the head of the national government? It may be that under our form of government the nation has no right to inquire into the methods of any particular State, and that rapine and blood may prevail without national interference, unless it be in Japan, or India, or Ireland. But should it be a passport to power in the nation, that the white race keep the colored people under subjection by shotguns and ropes? But that writer wholly overlooks an important factor in this matter of shooting. It is not negroes only that are maltreated. It is not even “carpet-baggers,” as they call all immigrants who dare to speak and vote against these men, but native-born citizens, white men, men who have never voted any other than the Democratic ticket; men who havo heretofore gone with the multitude on negro “huntings,” but who, for cause, have chosen to break away from them and encourage others to do the same, and true men, bom and educated on the soil, who have never been murderers, are shot as relentlessly as the negroes themselves, whenever they choose to break away from that type of Democracy which is in fraternal relations with what they are pleased to call the national Democracy—that Democracy which is now’ in the majority in the House of Representatives, wholly through these shotgun methods, and which is plotting to elect a President of their own faith and order, through this Democratic machinery. Who, in the light of past events, does not lay the responsibility of this alarming state of affairs largely at the door of the Democratic party? There would have been no war but for the encouragement the rebels received from the Democratic party in the North. That party boasted of its power in the solid South—made solid by this same species of terrorism. A Republican was not allowed to live in any Southern State then, as now. In the Indiana House of Representatives, in 1861, Horace Heffren declared that if any attempt was made to coerce the South it should be done over his dead body—a threat that lie attempted to make good in his connection with the Knights of the Golden Circle, and for which he was honored by the Democratic party of Indiana to the very day of his death. Every step taken by the government was opposed by the Democratic party until, at its national convention in 1864, it declared the war a failure and proposed terms of surrender to the rebels. But for such encouragement Fort Sumter would never havo been fired upon. Long after that, and throughout the whole course of the war, the backbone of the rebellion was in Democratic sympathy at the North. Just so to-day. If the bloody methods now used in the South did not find friends in the Democratic party in the North, they would cease immediately. It is wholly for the purpose of carrying a solid South for the Democratic candidate that they exist at all, and it is because by such a vote the Democratic party hopes to win that these things are encouraged by the pal ly here. Be it so. If the Almighty has in reserve some phial of wrath not yet poured out, this combination may have a temporary success; but we can conceive of no national sin yet unatoned for that should call down upon this nation such a calamity as the restoration of the Democratic party to power, with these bloody wretches the controlling spirits of the party.

The trial of young Nutt for the killing of Dukes, the assassin of Captain Nutt, begins at Pittsburg to-day. Unquestionably public sentiment is with the defendant, but public sentiment should not be allowed to stand in the way of a fair and impartial trial, and without making a farce of law, for worse men to take advantage of to shield themselves from the consequences of crimes that imperil society. When James Nutt made up his mind to kill Dukes, he should have counted the cost, and have made up liis mind to submit to a verdict based upon a deal - , manly, unflinching investigation of all the facts. What ho should now seek is the fullest investigation and completest vindication. He ought to be too honorable, too proud, to take advantage of legal quibbles or to accept any but the most honorable acquittal. If his deed closes tlie prison door behind him for a term of months or years, let him accept the judgment witli fortitude. The public can not afford to slur over Such grave offenses against the peace of society. Had a proper respect been accorded law and justice in the trial of Lyman S. Dukes, this second crime would not tiave added intensity, to the shame of Unioutown, and the hands of James Nutt would liave been unstained by the blood of the miserable creature he shot. The juiy tliutacquitted Dukes of liis infamous assaaiiuution of character and life

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is morally responsi bio for the crime for which James Nutt is held to-day. The jury in this case should do its whole duty, not to Nutt alone, but to society everywhere. Let justice be done, and no new shame will ensue. It is not argued that Nutt necessarily should be sent to prison. The plea is that the processes of justice shall not be made farcical. The defendant should rise to the occasion and disdain to enter a plea of “insanity.” It were more honorable for him to plead j ustification. There is little doubt that he will be acquitted, but it ought to be done decently and in order. The public can not go much further in disrespect for law without reaping inevitable shame and dishonor. A Pennsylvania jury has made a travesty of justice and incited new crime. The lesson should be heeded and the dignity of law respected. There is no great weeping and wailing over the coup d’etat in the city government on Friday night. The Republicans, or at least a majority of them, had parceled the boards out, not giving the minority a representation upon them, and in other respects affording a pretext for precisely what was done. As matters now stand the Council boards are made by Democratic votes, and the Democrats, of course, will be held responsible for what is done. The Republican minority in the Council have the experience and the ability to hold them to rigid scrutiny and accountability, while the Board of Aldermen is thoroughly Republican. The result of this, with a Republican mayor to watch and advise, and to exert his influence, may bo for good, after all. At least, the turning over and the readjustments, and the sore feelings, may eventuate iu what should be the object of all good citizens, and that is the total abolition of city government by boards. The system is vicious; it is irresponsible; it tends inevitably to inefficiency, if not to corruption. What is needed in city government is a concentrated executive head and responsibility, to which the people may look, and which must answer to the people, and of this board government is the very antipode. Tiie New York Sun has been heard from. When it nominated Mr. McDonald for the presidency the Louisville Courier Journal closed its fervid editorial with the sentence: “What say you, brethren?” Brother Dana answers as follows: “We say frankly that Mr. McDonald cannot cany the State of New York. Neither can he carry Connecticut; and with him as the candidate Now Jersev would be doubtful. Nevertheless, if the Democracy are to nominate a man for the purpose of being beaten, McDonald is as good as anybody else. “All the probabilities in favor of a Democratic President in 1884 have been knocked in the head by our friends the free-traders. With an impracticable issue respecting the tariff raised into the very highest importance, and with the war cry of a tariff for revenue only as the slogan of the canvass, nobody need ask for any better candidate than McDonald. “But if the Democrats are not bent on bidcide; if they have wisdom and resolution enough to repudiate an absurd and impracticable issue; if they mean to fight their battle on ground where success is übt only possible, but probable, whv. then, Mr. McDonald will not do at all. He can’t carry New York”

M. Simonin, in a sensible editorial in La France, points out the dangers threatening French commerce through the ill-advised proscription of American hog products. He shows that the imports of pork fell in the, last year from 50,000,000 francs to 150,000 francs, subjecting the polls of Havre, Bordeaux and Marseilles to a loss of at least that amount of trade, and depriving the poorer classes of cheap and nourishing food. M. Simonin views with alarm the proposition to retaliate by interdicting the importation into America of French wines. “In the event of such prohibition,” he says, “37,500,000 francs will be lost, thus making a total of nearly 100,000,000 francs, and thus paying dearly for the protection of a few pork-packers of Nantes.” The Sentinel called loudly and properly for a representation of the minority upon the several executive boards of the city. It would have had the earnest support of the Journal in this demand, as also for a fair and proper representation upon all tile committees of both the Board of Aldermen and the Common Council. No good reason can be given why this should not be done, yet the Democrats themselves unanimously voted for hoards the membership of which is exclusively Republican, thus perpetuating wliat we believe to be a thoroughly vicious principle. What the people and tax-payers want is a business and not a partisan administration of the city’s affairs, and anything looking in that direction will meet hearty approval. The oxercisos attendant upon the unveiling of the monument to the late Senator Morton will take place to-morrow. As has been heretofore announced all the railroads give reduced fare to Indianapolis, while to organized military bodies and Grand Army posts and to bands the rate is fixed at, one cent per mile for the round trip. If the weather is favorable there will be a street parade, the line moving promptly at 1 o’clock. The exercises proper will bo at English’s Opera-house, commencing at 2 o’clock p. M. The indications are that an immense concourse of people will bo in the city to-morrow, and if the weather be good, as is now promised, the event will be a memorable one. A Chicago doctor with more sense than dogma comes out unequivocally in favor of humanity breathing as it pleases—that is, naturally. He regards as unwise the injunction to breathe solely through the nose, and is of the opinio?! that the old way is the best. By breathing through both mouth and nose tlie warming surface is greatly increased, as is tlie

mucus-covered surface for tho arrest of dust particles. Tho truth is that there are too many health rules equally silly. The Washington Post, the national Democratic organ, says: “Mr. Pendleton’s defeat is also a notification to the Democratic party at large, that so far as its brethren in Oliio are concerned, their repeated declarations against the dangers and encroachments of vast moneyed corporations and powerful monopolies were but glittering generalities, and that it only needed the approach of the Standard Oil Company with a request for their votes to hand them over without a blush, and thus add to an already many-millionaired Senate another representative of all that is most odious in monopolistic consolidation. The Democrats of Ohio who have put on this collar are welcome to wear it; but it can never be put around the neck of a Democratic national convention.” A Columbus, lnd., man sends to this paper one of those old reliable jokes current during the building of the Pyramids, applying it, in an indelicate manner, to a member of one of the most estimable families of Bartholomew county. He says none of the local papers will print it, because they are afraid, but, he adds, “concele my name.” The Columbus man is a vulgar-minded sneak, who is badly in need of a lesson in decency. The lesson should be administered with a rawhide. The Plainfield Progress favors a constitutional convention. There has been a very general and favorable response to the suggestion by tho Journal. The next Legislature should be chosen with respect to the formation of anew Constitution, in which the changes demanded by the new conditions and circumstances, and the progress of events, can be provided for. It will not do to patch up an old government. New wine cannot be put into old bottles with safety. The Indianapolis Journal and other Republican journals are mourning and will not be comforted because Pendleton, the father of that Republican fraud, civil-service reform, has been defeated.—Hancock* Democrat. Don’t let a little thing like that worry you, friend Mitchell. The Indianapolis Journal is not wearing very deep mourning. Our grief can he easily mitigated. It was Bums w T ho wrote: “The best laid schemes o’ mice and men Gang aft aglev; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy.” Bums was a master poet, and had something of the prophet in him as well.

Some of Mr. White's “Lakeside Mnsings,” published in the Chicago Tribune, are very enjoyable, tlie denoeument being so absurd as to make the reader laugli in spite of himself. But his last cffoi-t in the funny line is too ghostly to be handled in that manner, and leaves the finer sensibilities outraged. There can be no fun made out of the death of a child. No man ever did or ever can raise a laugh over a little coffin. It is a serious mistake for a humorous writer to take such a subject. Too many fathers and mothers all over the land have just turned from the graves of little children. Death is never ludicrous. The death of Littlo Nells has always left a feeling of awe in tlie hearts of civilized humanity. No jest can dispel it, no humor break the solemn liush. The words of even the Great Comforter are well-nigh vain; the presence of the jester is a sacrilege. On account of his great services to humanity through his discoveries in gynecological surgery, whereby the health of tens of thousands of women has been restored, it is propsed to erect a suitable memorial in New York city to Dr. J. Marion Sims. The matter has been placed in tlie hands of a large and influential committee of physicians in various parts of the country, and subscriptions of one dollar and upward will be received, for tlie purpose named, by the Medical Record, of New York. It is thought that “tlie medical profession everywhere, tlie vast number of women wlio owe tlieir relief from suffering dii’ectly to him, and those who realize tlie benefits he first made possible, will gladly unite thus to honor the man through whose inventive genius such blessings have been conferred upon humanity. After the New York critics have dissected the play called “AnAmerican Wife,” which was supposed to have been written by Judge Barrett, of that city, and have learnedly discoursed about the evidences of a judicial mind which were apparent in the heavier paasages, it is rather amusing to learn that tlie play was the joint production of the Judge and liis wife, and that the latter wrote all the serious parts. Mrs. Barrett says in a letter which lias been made public, that “it is only just and fair that one should have tlio credit for what one does.” This proposition is very true, but tlie probabilities are that tlie able critics, when they come to think about the play carefully, you know, will fail to see any signs of the legal learning which they thought they detected. A famit.y In Erie, Pa., were roused from tlieir beds the other night by frantic appeals for ad mitance from a woman on the street, who was pursued by a satanic being wearing horns, hoofs and blood red garments. They took her into the house, and under the tinsel crown and gorgeous apparel recognized the servant girl, who had been to a masquerade ball, and was there so persecuted by the attentions of Mepliistophiles that she had tried to run away from him. After this experience of royalty and its accompaniments the young woman will go back to her pots and dish-rags with renewed interest and appreciation. Mr. Christian Pktkksen, now of New York, but late of Sweden, is not favorably impressed with this country. Mrs. Safstrom accused him of being her husband, and the father of her eight children, and brought all her friends and neighbors into court to swear that he was Safstrom. and no other. Petersen proved an alibi, with some difficulty, but visions of those eight children ready to pounce on him and ask to bo provided for haunt liis dreams, and he will take tlie next steamer for the old country. .Some wise man lias ascribed the red sunsets to the great volume of o! x-tricity generated by the hundred thousand locomotives andrailway trains in tlieir journeyiugs to and fro. A hundred thousand chinch bugs crawling over a pumpkin would have the same effect, proportionately, and would generate fully as much “electricity.” Qut West they tefl the truth, about some things at least, with an ingenuousness that would shame the father of lies, were he net so

astonished to find a truth loose in that region. Last Thursday a theater burned at Pueblo. An account says: “Messrs. Morris & Harris, managers of tho theater, lose everything. Their loss on stage properties, gambling fixtures, etc., is about $3,000.” Somebody has figured out that the averago ago reached by residents of Nantucket is twenty years above tho general average of the country. There are persons so blind to the delights of longevity that they would give twenty years of their lives rather than live in Nantucket The William Francis Bennett rose cost a Philadedphia florist $3,750. Ho procured it from England, ami has the exclusive right to propagate and sell plants and cuttings. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but will not cost tho purchaser half so much money. A new song is being advertised entitled “The Old Lock.” The publishers state also “four keys.” This is decidedly liberal; if one does not fit, another is almost certain to. —Keynote. What the averago citizen wants is an old lock not with four keys, but four key-holes. A delayed special from the wilds of Kentucky says “everyone complains of frozen ears, noses, feet, and hands.” The citizens of Kentucky will be badly disfigured when the January thaw comes along. The Charleston News and Courier recognizing the fact that the story of the war is not told until the women have been heard from, calls upon Southern women to contribute sketches of their experience during tho four eventful years. Lotta has suceeodcd after all. It takes about a week for an impression to make itself felt on an average Londoner.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND TUINGS. Mayor Cummings, of Bangor, Mo., has again vetoed standard time on tho ground that solar time is according to “one of the inevitable laws of God.” The deep bass of the organ ceasod suddenly in a church in Lewiston, Me., when a lady's voice was heard by the whole congregation distinctly to declare, “I don't care one bit; I do want a piano.” Rev. Dr. Henson, of Chicago, introduced his lecture on “fools” with the remark that his observations were made in Philadelphia. Philadelphia papers intimate that the lecturer's observations were confined to a looking-glass. A Philadelphia hotel-keeper seeks to scare the rural visitor into turning off the gas with notices thus: “The relatives and friends of guests who blow out the gas will have to pay for the amount of gas wasted before the body will bo delivered.” The old house selected by Dickens as the scene of many of the incidents recorded in the “Old Curiosity Shop,” is now about to bo demolished in consequence of its dangerous condition. The house is 14 Portsmouth street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, hi London. The new novel by Miss Dudn Fletcher, “Vistigia,” is soon to lie published simultaneously in Loudon and Boston. Miss Fletcher herself writes of it: “I hope you will like ray new book. It certainly contains my best work; and in going over the proof-sheets I have really found that I like it myself!” A part of tho “mystery” of Dickens’s uncompleted novel, “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” will l>e revealed in the February Century by Mrs. Alice Mevnell, in describing “How Edwin Drood was Illustrated.” Several of the unpublished studies made by Fields, the artist, for the story will accompany the paper, WASHINGTON letter: Major Butterworth is flourishing as Commissioner of Patents. He is proving one of the most popular and efficient officers ever at the head of that bureau. Tlie position requires both judicial and executive ability of a high order, and it turns out that the Major possesses both in such a degree as to eminently fit him for tho place. Mrs. Beecher is said to be rapidly failing. She has not been out of the house for months. Mi 1 . Beecher is seventy and looks sixty. Mrs. Beecher is not yet sixty and looks over eighty. Both of her daughters havo married well and ;ire living in Chicago. Mrs. Tilton is teaching music in Brooklyn. Mr. Tilton is living quiotly in Paris, busily employed at book-making. Hon. George H. Pendleton, who now retires from public life, is a compactly-built, well-poised, handsome man, who would l>o recognized as a polished gentleman in any society in the world. His manners are not far from perfect. No one can claim a. social position which is higher. Ho has lived like a prince ami entertained like a lord at his beautiful home in Clifton these many years. Nubar Pa.su a. the new Egyptian Premier, was born at Smyrna, in 1825. of an Armenian family. He was educated in France and served his country iu many important diplomatic positions. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs under Ismail and left Egypt when that leader was overthrown. He has been decorated with several orders, among them the Legion of Honor, in 18<>7. Henry B. Payne, of Cleveland, the new senator from Ohio, is a small, slender, refined-looking gentleman, some seventy-four years of age. He has what would be callod a highly nervous organization, and is quick in mental and physical action. He is alert, impressionable, and receptive. He is popular in the best- society in Cleveland, being an innate gentleman of great suavity of manner and ample fortune. “Our readers will remember,” the London Athenaeum says, “the amusing story told in Anthony Trollope's uutobiography about an old woman who came to the postoffice and usked him when he was going to marry her daughter. Several of Trollope’s early companions are still at St. Martiu’s-le-Grand, but nothing is known there of tho incident. But ihere is a tradition of a visit paid to the novelist of a less comic and even less agreeablo character. ” General Charles Gordon, generally known as “Chinese Gordon,” was only thirty years old when placed in command of a division of the Chinese army. He always went unarmed in battle, even when foremost in the broach, directing his troops by waviug a little cane. As ho was uniformly victorious in his engagements. his Chinese soldiers considered the cane to be a magic wand which insured his pi*otectiou and their triumph. The General is a lofty and adniuahlo type, honest as he is brave. In a letter to the London journals. Lord Wavoney bears strong tribute to the l>eauty and suitability of Irish poplin for wall decoratiou, for which it is now being used by tho Queen and iu the best English houses. He also proves that, it is economical, which is the most important item in tho question. Iu 1814 ho had the drawing-room of his London house hung with Irish tabaret, yellow, with white stripes. “The color and brilliancy.” he says, “remain undiminished in intensity after near forty years' wear in London. A ruby tabaret has lasted equally well.” Stephen A. Douglas, jr., is in Florida, visiting his uncle, Judge Thomas Settle, at whose home, in Rockingham county, North Carolina, ho lived for much of the time during several years following tho war, in company with his brother, Robert M. Douglas, now United States marshal for that district. Stephen was then studying law. and in 18(>0, when ho was only nineteen, he was made a member of Governor Holden’s staff, and appointed brigadier-general of militia during the campaign against the ku-klux klan. In person lie is short and stout, aud ho is popular as at public speaker. Margaret Brent, said John L. Thomas in a lecureboforethe Maryland Historical Society, was the first woman in Armorica to claim the right to vote. She landed in St. Mary’s City, on the St Mary’s river, in l(’t3B. She was t*ounected with Lord Baltimore either by blood or marriage. Leonard Calvert, Lord Baltimore’s brother, suddonly pl*i*traled on his death-bed, and not having time to make his said to Margaret Brent “Take all and pay all.” Then he asked for a private conference with her, and alio received his dying words. She took the Governor’s houso and lived in it. As Leonurd Calvert was agent of Lord Baltimore, she claimed control of all rents, Issue, and profits of Lord BuUimore. The court

confirmed her in this position. Sho claimed that shi had tho right to vote in the Assembly as tho smitative of Leonard Calvert, and also of Lord Baltimore. Sho claimed not one, hut two votes. On Jao. 21. 16 18. when the legislators assembled at Fort Si. Johu’s she demanded her right to vote as a member of the General Assembly of the State of Maryland. It was denied her. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. Mr. Payne's choice is a victory for monopoly and corruption, and a defeat for genuine, consistent, efficient reform. It is the most telling fact in recent politics as to' the value of the Democratic opposition to monopoly and its advocacy of reform.—New York Times. Ail that is or will be known is that the Standard Oil Company wanted a senator, and that even in a Btut# like Ohio, which boasts of its education aud independence. the representatives of the people wore tound willing slaves of the most grasping corporation isl America.—Chicago Journal. For a quarter of a century the Republican party has been in power. It had its origin in a desire to serve the many rather than the few. It has steadily labored for government of the people, by the people, a?ul for the people. Whatever may have been its sin* of omission or of commission, it has never been false to the doctrine of fair play for all men. —New York Tribune. Tins inarch of the monopoly on tho Supreme Court via the presidency and the Senate must bo stopped. If a fusion of the Republicans and the decent Demo crats in the Ohio Legislature will accomplish it. let, the Republicans not hesitate to vote for Pendleton. The advantage they will lose by not. having the Democrat* send their worst man to the Senate will he more than made good by the eclat they will gain by subordinating a minor partisanship to the welfare of their country. —Chicago Tribune. It is not a part of the • cience of political economy to define exactly to what exact limit taxation can be pushed without ruin to the citizen. Any intelligent government would lay its plans aud theories entirely out of sight of danger to tne citizen. That, to fail in granting this relief would throw upon the governments largest tax-payers an immense and injurious burden is evident. That this hardship is unnecessary is equally manifest. Only the tribe of Cypsolus will oppose it.—Louisville Courier-Journal. The most dangerous effect of tho lynching tendency is its destructive influence upon popular respect for the law. It is in fact a school of anarchy, in which men learn to avenge their own real or fancied wrongs, and in which they are taught to revert to thoroughly barbarous lines of thought ami action. If crime too often escapes punishment it is the duty of a civilized community to improve its means of detection. If the process of the law is uncertain and capricious, it should be amended.—New York Tribune. Mr. Pendleton's defeat is also a notification to the Democratic party at. large that so far a 4 its brethren in Ohio are concerned, their repeated declarations against the dangers and encroachments of vast moneved corporations and powerful monopolies were but glittering generalities, and that it only needed* the approach of the Standard Oil Company, with a request for their votes, to hand them over without a blush, aud thus add to an already many-millionaires Senate another representative of all that is most odious in monopolistic consolidation.—Washington Post (l>um.) In the cases of duties laid on foreign products, which compete in our markets with American products of like kind and quality, they affect both tho foreign and domestic producer, aiding the latter at the expense of tho former. Almost a unanimous preponderance, of American statesman have pronounced this to wise. Hence, this may fairly be inferred to be what the lowa Republicans meant, especially when they were all voting, under national platforms as well, which always distinctly defined protection to American industry ua beiiig the policy of the Republican party.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The liabilities of 1883 reached the enormous aggregate of $173,000,000, or upward of seventy million* more than those for the preceding year. The increase in both tho number of failures ami the amount of liabilities has been steady ami rapid since IHSO. There is now no uniform law regulating the distribution of the bankrupt's assets among his creditors. The matter is loosely left to the insolvent laws of the several States, which are uncertain, conflicting and pro* ductive of the most flagrant abuses in the way of preferred creditors. A good national bankrupt law i* urgently needed, aud it is the plain duty of Congress to make one. —Now York Herald. A CONSTITUTIONAL amendment empowering the Governor to veto items iu an appropriation bill while approving of the rest of the bill has been in force in some States for many years. It has been of great advantage to those States. New York adopted this provision eight years ago. It has kept objectionable items out <>f bills, and has exposed to the veto such as got in. It is regarded by the people as wise and salutary. Several State Legislatures are now in session. Some of them will not meet again in two years. It is highly important that Congress should pass th 6 amendment without delay, so that it can be submitted to the Legislatures in session this winter. The criminal judicature has been reduced to a ma<*4 of mystery and casuistry, giving infinite scope to art and adroitness in legal interpretation, and in the construction of precedents, and this juggling between crime and money on the one part, and legal sophistry aud chicanery on the other is the survival which we are now compelled to recognize as tho representative of the plain, stern, unmistakable code of criminal statutes, as plain and sharp in its outlines as a Doric column. One consequence of this is that tho wealthy murderer who can employ the most expert casuist in "instances and precedents’’ is always acquitted, and the man-killer of small means who cannot secure such aid sometimes hangs.—Louisville Courier-Journal. In the States and Territories west of the Mississippi river it is a common practice to inclose large bodies <£ public lands for use as stock ranges. Tho Commissioner of the General Land Office says, in his last report. that those ranges sometimes cover hundreds of thousands of acres. Legal settlements .are thus practically prohibited, travel is interrupted, and the mails have even been detained. Those abuses reached such a height, that nearly a year ago the government gave notice that it would make no objection to the destruction of fences which interfered with settlement, and it lias brought suits against persons unlawfully inclos.ing public lands. The barbed-wire fence is a problem which never worried pur fathers, but it is evident that modern wisdom must soon grapple with it seriously. —New York Tribune. The point to be remembered i.s that any legislative changes which may be made in the prison system of labor should be based upon some sound principle. There must be productive convict labor, and such production will necessarily compete with other production. This can not be avoided, and the legislature will remember that the abolition of the contract system was not sought at tho late election by intelligent friends of the prisons, but by demagogues, to pander to an ignorant feeling. The feeling invoked was that prisoners are merely reprobates to bo severely punished, and that their productive labor is a wrong to honest men. But that kind of feeling would easily do* mand that convicts should bo immured for their term, fed on bread an water, and then turned loose upon the community. It would enforce in prison* the system which has long been abandoned in insane asylums ns inhumanly cruel aud stupidly impolitic. —Harper’s Weekly.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. second TO NO PAPKE IN THE WEST. Pe*rn Republican. The Indianapolis Daily Journal had an elegant New Year's gift, consisting of a complete and fitting dress of clean-faced type. The Journal, in ability, tone, variety of news, methodical arrangement of matter, is second to no newspaper in the West. It has long been the best newspaper in the State and is growing better steadily as it grows older. It is a credit to proprietors, editors, reporters, and printers, and is also creditable to the capital city and the State. Every man who would ho thoroughly informed upou State and general news should read the Journal. WIDENED THE HATCHWAYS. Kontland Gazette. The Indianapolis Journal has announced anew departure. It proposes to widen its hatchways. That is, it does not propose to be a blindly partisan newspaper, but will insert the lance in either party it finds going wrong. It will maintain its republicanism, hut takes on the character of independent criticism, and wilUipply the trepan where the party skull presses too heavily on the party brain for its health and vigor. In a a word it proposes to criticise all parties when and where they deserve it. A FLAVOR OF OUR OWN. Delphi Journal. The Indianapolis Journal has just donned a new dress, and no finer looking paper is published anywhere. And its news and editorial departments are equal to its new dress. The Journal lias a special flavor not found in the Chicago dailies, and is one of the papers that is always read with increasing interest. THE BEST PAPER. Andrews Express. Os all tho magnificent daily papers in the West, none are more eagerly sought after by Indiauians than the Indianapolis Journal, it is able in every department, readable, reliable, and newsy. It is tho best paper. It grows in favor everywhere, and the business man who nelocts to take tho daily edition is behind the ago. OF MOST IMPROVE! 1 CHARACTER. nenanolaflv Republican. Tlio Indianapolis Journal boffins the T?uw ypaf with anew mechanical outfit of the moatioi-j proved character, and promises to be. as we wen believe it will, as good a paper in the future as it has iu the past, and, if possible, a littlo hotter*