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A NICKEL for each resident of the State would make an ample fund for a magnificent soldiers’ monument. The G. A. R. should have charge of the monument fund. Tliat would inspire confidence and enthusiasm. Everybody can help. Strikes and financial panics are not without compensation. A circus agent says tliat the big shows make it a point to avoid towns that have suffered either recently. Rev. R. Heber Newton explains why he jtopped so suddenly in liis heterodox career. When the contiuunity sees a man set. down on in the way he was, no explanations are called for. A BILL is before the Connecticut Legislature to compel the weekly payment of wages to employs* in factories and of corporations. Thero is good reason why they should receive their pay regularly and at short intervals. The evils of tho credit system would thereby be greatly abated. A mass agree of Christians In the Soudan would be horrible, not because they are Christians, hut because they are limn an beings. In fact, they may not be Christians at all in the strict sense of the term, but simply are not Mussulmans; just as all who were not Greeks were barbarians. The Louisville Courier-Journal proposes this innovation: “The platform of 1884 must not be open to misconstruction; it must be clearly understood; it must leave no one in doubt as to the purposes of the Democratic party.” If this suggestion is complied with, it will be the first time in the history of the party. The Rev. Florence McCarthy, of New York city, who was recently found guilty of assaulting the young . lady organist of his church, has been fined for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. He was caught in company with a painted Jezebel. It should nottake long for the church to dispose of his case. Home foreign countries, notably France, raise funds for their monuments not only by subscriptions, but by lotteries and every possible device tliat will produce monoy-. We do not take kindly to such an idea, but prefer the slower but more honorable way of depending Upon voluntary contributions. Tli£ subscription for the soldiers’ monument should be made popular. Let the sum asked from each individual be small and the aggregate will be ample. Give everybody, from bishop to babe, a chance to do something toward this patriotic enterprise. The Inter Ocean says the 19,000,000 bushels of grain in store in Chicago ought to go. With manufacturing establishments discharging their men or cutting down their wages, the prospect for disposing of this grain at home is daily diminishing, while its foreign market is being circumscribed by the competition of pauper labor, against which it is not protected. The tariff was certainly to furnish a home market for our agricultural products. But with 00,000,000 bushels of grain in sight in tho country this promise has turned out to bo cTelusive iu the extreme.—Chicago Herald. Would it improve the situation to so reduce

the tariff as to increase the sales of foreign manufactures at the exponso of our own? If so, free trade would be even a better thing to adopt, for then the mills of Europe could furnish all we need and we could turn our own mechanics into farmers. Just how this would improve the situation is not apparent, as we already have a surplus lai'gely above the demand, domestic and foreign. Those so anxious to adopt free trade, or to approximate it so closely that Americans can and will buy abroad, should endeavor to make plain this matter that so vexes most people. “LONG" WHEAT. The steady and marked decline in the price of wheat has rightly caused considerable discussion. It is evident enough that no “corner” nor clique of “bears" has been the cause of this remarkable fall. The price has gone down steadily all along the line, until now May wheat is lower than it was even in 1878, which was lower than the price in any later year. February options are now lower than the yearly average of cash price has been in ten years. There must he some reason for this state of the wheat market, since no one seems willing to attempt to take hold and hold up the market. Looking back to last summer it will be recalled that the universal verdict was that there would be a very pronounced falling off in the wheat product of the country for the year. Those in position to formulate returns were of the opinion that the deficit iu the world's supply would he 80,000,000 bushels, the crop of the United States falling considerably below 400,000,000 bushels, and on this basis a mild boom was undertaken, and European dealers at once began “hedging” by contracting for wheat along the Black Sea and in India. At the time of wheat harvest last year there was loft over from 1882 probably 50,000,000 bushels, and the harvest of 1883, instead of falling short of 400,000,000 bushels, turned out 420,000,000 bushels. Our surplus on hand and the increase over what was expected last year put us in condition to sell largely, and unless a strong demand was realized a heavy decline in pric ; was inevitable. Owing to the scare prodpwrt by the cry of,.short crop, British and western European dealers'-' gbberally had stocked up from the Orfeiitj Wvihg'tflf to hold tile sAi-k, a full sack, blit tilled with that for ttiAA al3 (tint ij>ni which .there was ho active , transatlantic deluUlidl '• rt gqfiriJi .Jabmand... Tlie conditions Were such that even with a liealthytEurppean demand we should still have been left, with a very huge supply on hand. Our exports, however, from Sept. 1 to Jan. 5 were only 3,099,626 barrels of flour and 17,228,547 bushels of wheat from the Atlantic ports, against 3,779,375 barrels and 37,168,512 bushels during the corresponding period of the previous year. There was also a decrease of three million bushels in the exports of wheat from Ban Francisco. Unless some genera! depression should occur in the industries of this country, the demand for home consumption will be only a fair average. Everything goes to indicate that we shall have cheap bread for a year to come. As lias been shown, this does not result in any way from the effect of a protective tariff, nor would a modification of the tariff have any influence in making the prices of breadstuff's higher. American farmers are brought face to face with the fact that, they have formidablb rivals in the" East,’ and that to America they must look for the consumers whd Will buy their products. Everything that tends to increase, the number of Americans profitably engaged in occupations other than farming must be encouraged, while any influence hostile to the welfare of American manufactories and the men employed therein must be counteracted by proper and prompt legislation. The present situation is an object-les-son whose significance cannot be misunderstood by any but those who are determined on self-deceit.

The Chicago Times, unmindful, apparently, that its argument defeats itself, has the following to say concerning the tariff on wool: “The whole outcry for tariff on wool comes from the States where land is becoming too valuable to use for sheep-pastures. But why should everybody who wears a woolen coat or flannel shirt, or who sleeps under a woolen blanket, be made to pay two prices in order to keep lands out of their most profitable use, and protect Ohio and Michigan shepherds against those of California and Texas? The following table, showing the loss per cent, in the number of sheep in some of the older States and the gain per cent, in the newer States and Territories from 1870 to 1880, will show why the sheep farmers of the older States are howling for protection: Tjoss! Gain State. per ct. | State. per ct. New York 21|Texas 208 Pennsylvania ijKansas 358 Tennessee 19;Oreipm 2-10 Ohio 11California 50 Indiana 32! Utah 291 Illinois 34[Colorado 517 lowa 17 New Mexico 237 Accepting the above figures as correct, it may with reason be asked who would receive the greater benefit from a tariff on wool—the Ohio and Michigan shepherds, or those of Colorado and Kansas? The tariff will not in any degree protect the former from the latter, and since the latter are rapidly increasing their flocks, while the former are losing ground, it ought to be plain enough to the Times which is being more largely benefited. The census of 1880 makes a very unfavorable showing for doctors. Not that they have killed too many patients, or even killed any, as the figures on this point are not given. But it is quite apparent that in some sections at least the crop is too large for the demand, and in the Indianapolis market in particular there seems to be a glut. Illinois, with a population of 3,077,871, has 5,899 doctor's, or one in 521. Indiana has 4,993, or one in 396 of population. The average for the Western

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States and Territories is one doctor for each 524 of population, a proportion not equaled anywhere in the world. The following table of population and number of doctors in the various Western cities shows that this city, with the single exception of Denver, makes the worst showing of the list, having an average of one doctor to each 313 of population: Population. Doctors. Ito Chicago 503,185 918 548 Denvev *. 35,629 137 260 Detroit 116.310 248 469 Indianapolis 75.056 240 313 Kansas City 55.785 167 332 Milwaukee .... 115,587 141 819 Minneapolis 46,887 121 387 St. i nuis 350,518 738 475 St. Paul. 41,473 75 553 This unfavorable showing may be accounted for in part by the fact that Indianapolis lias some five or six medical colleges, from which hundreds are graduated annually. The health of the city is probably as good as that of any other named above. The outlook is not very encouraging to the medical student. YOUTHFUL CRIMINALS. The criminal precocity evinced by the youth of this country is a matter of gravest importance. Some remedy must be found for this feature of young America’s disposition to “he a man.” The almost weekly instances of mere boys stealing money and starting off heavily armed to make their way West to hunt Indians, the organization of youthful incendiaries, as was the case at Milwaukee, and similar criminal manifestations by youth in all parts of the country have some significance. These minor crimes are startling as the work of schoolboys who ought to be busy with books instead of studying to imitate the deeds of men like the James brothers and their ilk. But the development of crime in youthful minds seems to be as progressive as in the brain of older men. Arson and robbery and deeds of daring naturally lead to the finale of crime’s diapason, and murder is done by these fellows of tender years. On New Year’s, Stanley Griffith, aged seventeen, of Salem, 0., shot and killed his father because of some trivial misunderstanding about some work that Mr. Griffith wished his boy to do. The lad objected, because it was a holiday, and when the father attempted to exercise his natural authority, the'hoy, after warning him to stand back, deliberately shot and killed him. He theta went; to the house, told his mother what he had done, Went to summon a physician, and then’ fled, He was apprehended the next day, • but made no sign. of rciflorse, 1 ' but complacently smoked a cigar; and to all outward appearances was a disinterested spectator, characteristics seldom possessed by the most hardened criminals. On Friday, at Chicago, Andrew Sender, aged nineteen, shot and seriously wounded his father, because the latter presumed to criticise him for not being more cleanly in his personal habits. The wound is not necessarily fatal, but may prove so. Meanwhile the young desperado boldly declares that lie is not insane, as some proposed to claim for him. This abnormal tendency to high crime on the part of the youth of the land is in a measure largely the result of education and .example. The revolver is as familiar to the youth of 1884 as was the Bible and Psalm-book to the youthful Pilgrim. It is preseut everywhere, not only in the hip pocket, within easy, reach for street and saloon brawls, but in fiction and in the drama. Its use is exalted and its user lionized everywhere. “Date-devil * 'H! • Dick” and “Tbe Texas Kid,” ofi the ten-cent novel, arc elaborately equipped with this arm and are praised for the rfcaditiess with which they draw and fire in “defense of honor." The simpering idiot of the play becomes the envy of the gallery gods when he rescues the heroine by presenting a revolver and easily driving back the “low browed scoundrel” who would harm her. The dress-ing-case tliat. has not a revolver iu one of its drawers in these later days is the exception and not the rule. The phrases of bar-room bullies have become the language of more polite society. The threat to “shoot one full of holes,” or to “le.t daylight through a fellow,” are heard too frequently. The horror of the crime has last its restraining influence through the frequency with which the crime is apparently contemplated. The tendency of the street is all wrong. Men with no diameter worth having earn the reputation of bullies and desperadoes in order to keep their false claims to respectability from being questioned. Among the.se the American youth get their first lessons in active life. Long before they are of age they spurn parental restraint, and leaving the home roof to itself after nightfall, spend their evenings in the saloons. The ways of the world are open to them on every hand, and the ways of the world are wrong. With text-books but a few hours in five days of the week, and with revolvers every hour of the twenty-four in each day of seven, and from the cradle to the grave, there is little wonder that the boys go wrong and becomo desperadoes before they come to man’s estate. Too many of the youth of the present are a hundred fold more familiar with the *‘lives” of Jesse James and other “avengers,” than they are with those of Garfield and Lincoln. The tendency of the times is wrong. The glorification of revolver heroes on the stage, in the novel and in active life should cease. Parental authority should be respected, and to make it respected the father of a family should lose no opportunity to discountenance these evils, the example of which lias such a baleful effect upon the susceptible mind of youth. The young man is largely what he has been made. If the influences about him are evil, ho will be wicked almost beyond question. One of the great duties upon soci-

ety is to rigidly discountenance the employment of blood-thirsty slang and to make the useless bearing of arms a disgrace. Edouard Remenyi, writing for the Current, under the stilted Loading of “Thoughts, Aphorisms, and Studies,” gives vent to the following, which, had it appeared in any issue of the country press, would have met universal and unqualified condemnation as the veriest nonsense and twaddle: “I was once in Colorado, and saw the Garden of the Gods—that- marvelous spot to be found among the innumerable marvels of this continent. After contemplating this miracle of nature, 1 visited the house ot General , at Glen Eyrie (Eagle’s Nest), outside of the Garden of the Gods. The General was not at home, but I found his affable, spirited, and lovely wife and a large assemblage of ladies and gentlemen from the East. After lunch, I strolled about tho garden with the hostess. We reached a wonderful spot where fantastically-shaped rocks stood in splendid groups, as if giant sentinels of the garden. I involuntarily exclaimed, in unbounded enthusiasm: “ ‘What a pleasure it must bo when one can say, “Those mighty rocks belong to me!” ’ “ ‘You are mistaken,’ replied the fair hostess. ‘They do not belong to me. I belong to them!’ “I stood speechless, in admiration, before the lady. Finally, collecting my thoughts, I soliloquized half aloud thus. “ ‘That is right. Still, the rocks must feel proud at havingsucli a fair janitress at their command” Whereupon peace was immediately restored between us. “The flight of the human mind is incommensurable—the idea of belonging to rocks! Such an idea, too. spoken by a lady. “It is all the more lofty.” It is a marvel how such stuff is tolerated. The man is ovideutly so thoroughly drowned in the sea of egotism as to be unconscious of how ridiculous a writer may make himself. In his own imagination lie is lifted to a higher intellectual piano, where psychic emotions supplant tho more groveling operations of the mind. To the prosaic beholder of this outburst of verbal pyrotechnics it is asinine and unworthy of serious consideration. If Mr. Remenyi has correctly represented his “affable, spirited, and lovely” hostess, they should have been yoked together and drowned in the interest of common sense and coherency just after, or before, the idiotic dialogue above quoted. The world to-day needs sense, not gush. Mrs. Christina Upfert, of Trenton, N. J., has been rudely awakened from a pleasing dream by the rough hand of the law. For several years she was the wife of Edward H. Uffert, and two children were the result of the union. From some cause they separated some months ago, and Christina concluded that sho was as good as siqgle and acted accordingly. The husband had the bad taste to keep an eye, on hor and was not long in finding that a musician named Zimmerman had hugged and kissed his wife. It was held that. Zimmerman had the right to kiss and lmg the defendant and that sho had tho right to lie kissed and hugged. The court,, however, was not sentimental and declared that it was all wrong for anybody but young folksJikq those in Flatbush', to act in that manner, and granted tho husband an absolute divorce. An appeal will bo taken and will be watched with interest by a breathless community. Unless the telegraph editor is uncommonly well versed in the geography of tho Northwest the result is likely to bo confusion of mind to the intelligent reader. When a dispatch comes along in the middle of the night saying that tho thermometer at Smithtown. W. TANARUS., registers 39 degrees below zero, or that a mine with millions in it has been opened near JonesviUe, W. TANARUS., the telegraph editor who does not know whether Smithtown and JJhesville are in Washington or Wyoming Territory, lias no time to get down the postoffice directory and maps for investigation. W. T. properly stands for Washington Territory, but nine times out of ten Wyoming is meant, and mistaken paragraphs are the consequence—wo have seen them frequently in our esteemod exchanges. The time will yet come when all the relatives, near and remote, of a man who lias committed murder will rise in their might and demand, for i their own self-protection, that the ground of his defense shall not be emotional or any other kind of insanity. The list of uncles and aunts of young Nutt who have been held up to the gaze of tho world as feeble-minded or downright crazy is appallingly long, but there is -nothing tp show that these imbecile kinfolk are not of equal intelligence and respectability with their neighbors. No one possessed of a relative likely to shoot somebody can too carefully curb any little eccentricity he may have of his own.

Navy and army officers enjoy much leisure which they frequently employ in the cultivation of the fine arts. This privilege has often been noted half enviously by men less favored as to time. These persons will bo more envious than ever when they hear about a young naval officer in Washington who spends his spare hours in making fancy work. He is an adept at macrame lace and crazy quilts, and makes elaborate pieces for charity fail's, besides little gifts for his young lady friends at Christmas. He can perhaps bo induced to make a quilt to cover up tho navy and keep the frost out. The latest suit for damages is that of a fat girl who wants $5,000 from a dime museum man ager who failed to keep his contract with her. Sho says she was promised $lO per week for life, instead of which she was turned out into a cold world at the end of three weeks’ time. The museum man says he made no such contract, because how was lie to know but sho would shrink away into an insignificant two-hundred pounder before a year. She was not very fat, anyway, he said, not weighing over 400, and he did not want a fat woman so thin. Mrs. A9TOr’s ball was to celebrate the ono hundredth anniversary of the departure of the original Astor from Holland. In order to give tho affair an old-fashioned air it was arranged to have log fires built in the various fire-places of the house. The suggestion comes a little late, hut in order to make the thing more realistic a peddler’s pack of skins should hang by the chimney jamb. Minnie ll auk’s maid raised a rumpus with her mistress because sho was compelled to eat with the servants at tho hotel, and Minnie’s husband slapped tho girl and put her out of the room. The prima donna, who was engaged at the time in taking her breakfast in bed, could have rqtorted with truth that sho did not oat at the first table herself. _ John Callaghan, of New York, wanted to .go to the theater, hut, having no money, took his revolver and leveling it at the head of a boy who ho knew possessed a ticket, ordered him to give up the treasure. Before it was handed over, a policeman struck John with a club, and now he is not .to stage-struck as he was. Jersey justice is adequate to all demands that may be put upon it. Elizabeth Murgesser, aged sixty, has been granted a divorce because her husband made her lioo corn and drive oxen in

her bare foot. The custom in Jersey is to allow ladies to wear plow-shoes after their fiftieth year. Margesser is a procrastinator. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Will you please inform me what per cent, of the crime of our State is caused by strong drink? Anderson, Ind. A Reader. There are no absolute statistics. Those who have made a study of the question express the opinion that possibly 80 per cent, is attributable, directly and indirectly, to intoxicating drink. Subscriber: The Home for Friendless Women is not under any particular denomination, and is only for the friendless and unfortunate of our own city. Only exceptional cases from abroad are admitted. ABOUT PEOPLE AM) THINGS. Such is fame. The English Churchman devotes a detailed article to the consideration of the writings of “Mr. Gail Hamilton.” Two of Brigham Young’s sons have died drunkards, two of his daughters are married to tho same husband, and another son writes poetry. Mr. Abbey denies that he has lost money in Italian opera this year, but he looks tired when he is asked if prima donna rates are to go on increasing. Four hundred women of ward twenty, Boston, have signed remonstrances to be sent to the Legislature against granting further suffrage to women. General Grant has not yet recovered from the accident which occurred to him on Christmas eve. Os late he has complained of a severe attack of rheumatism. • Mrs. Julia A. Moore, better known as “the Sweet Singer of Michigan,” has given up poetry and gone into the grist-mill business. Everything points to a prosperous year in this country. Speaking at the Clover Club banquet, in Philadelphia, General Sherman said that for the remainder of his life he hoped to see no more war, no more shooting, no more maiming or giving pain, even to feelings. The lectures of Joseph Cook suggest a story to the San Francisco Bulletin: “Sandy, what is the state of religion in your town?” “Bad, sir; very bad. There are no Christians exoept Davie and myself, and I have many doubts about Davie.” COUNT Melikoff will superintend the education of the children of the Princess Dolgorouki, who has taken a house in Belgravia for next season. The Count, however, is now seriously ill. He commanded the Russian troops at the captur of Kars in 1877. “Madame, you’ve destroyed $5 worth of merchandise,” augrily remarked a dude to a lady, as sho seated herself in a chair in which he had deposited anew Derby hat. “.Serves you right,” she replied, slowly rising from the ruin; “you had no right to buy ass hat for a 50 cent head.” Colonel Boudinot, the long-haired Cherokee brave, has been an interested spectator at the Nutt trial every day. He accompanied Senator Voorhees to Pittsburg. He was on the staff of the confederate General - Price during the war, and a member of the last confederate Congress. LiJfUTENANT Rhodes, of the revenue marine service, who distinguished himself so at the scene of the Columbus disaster, on the Massachusetts coast on Friday, is a Connecticut man, thirty-three years of age. He has been in the service eleven yeivrs and is sail to be a quiet and faithful officer. An English officer, complaining of coachmen, says that no gentleman would wish his team driven over foot passengers. To which a London editor replies tliat there is no knowing what some persons may do to display their pomp and grandeur unless they fear the pedestrian’s bones might scratch the wheels. O’Hara, the colored member of Congress from North Carolina, who has been placed on tho congressional campaign committee, has a complexion like a Cuban's. He is well educated, and is an earnest and fluent speaker, and a hard worker. Always straightforward and honest, he is respected by all classes. Younq Cornelius Vanderbilt, who “does the religion” for his family, has been elected a director of the Young Men’s Christ ian Association. He is also a vestryman of tho Church of the Holy Trinity ami trustee of half u dozen benevolent associations. It tickles ■*‘tho old man,” his father, and Cornelius enjoys the distinction it gives him. There are three Grand Dukes Nicholas in the- Muscovite imperial family—tho young brother of the late Czar, commander-in-chief of the Russian forces in Europe during the Russo-Turkish war, familiarly known as “Old Nick;” his eldest son, who was his father’s aid-de-camp in that war, “Young Nick,” and a cousin, whose nick name iu St. Petersburg is “Crazy Nick.” Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, whose gentle voice and pleasant manners are worshiped by the poor people of Gloucester, is a slender, graceful woman of thirty-nine years. She has dark-brown hair, sympathetic blue eyes, a rather long, thin nose, and a facile mouth, which, is never at rest. She is in delicate hen brought about by her labors among the poor. • OhARLEB Diokknk once received a check for X I,OOO from Iloilo way. the pill man', which was placed at the disposal of the author on condition that one line 'of complimentary reference to Holloway’s-cures should appear in the hook which Dickens was then publishing in monthly numbers. Dickens sent the check back by the messenger who brought it without any answer at all.

At the establishment of the famous dog modiste of Paris, Mme. Ledouble, are small mats and rugs on which the animals repose while waiting their turn to try on their garments. There are dresses for different hours and temperatures of the day. Blue is morning wear, with a hunch of violets at the left shoulder. Sealskin paletots are for cold days, the fur collars being mounted in silver. Governor-general Anoutchtre, of eastern Siberia, is of the knout knouty. His uame is synonymous in Russia with the utmost harshness. Last month he bitterly upbraided oue Neoustroiff, a schoolteacher, alleged to have disseminated seditious doctrines, and his exasperated victim struck him. Anoutchire, who may be fittingly described as a Nihilist manufacturer, had him shot in twenty-four hours. The Duchess of Edinburgh is considered the best talker in the English royal family. 81ie is said to be very strong willed, the only person who dares oppose Victoria, or ever say “I won’t” to her, and to care nothing for popularity. Furthermore, she is very plain, a linguist, and is said to be at the mot of her husband's quarrel with the Duke of Saxe-Ooburg and Gotha, whose heir he is. Her lmshaud is mado to do pretty nmefi as she likes. It would more than repay a day’s sojourn at Jonkoping to visit the factory whence proceeds not a small part of the light of the world. Tho latest novelty, only at work for about a month, is an enormous engine, which daily produces 1,000,000 boxes of Swedish matches. This wonderful machine receives the givw material, namely, blocks of wood at oiio end, and, after a while, gives up at the other the matches neatly arranged in their boxes, ready to be dispatched to the uttermost ends of tho world. The wood which in the course of last summer was brought over to Jonkoping to be made into matches filled twenty steamers and eight sailing vessels. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. Wf. make the necessity for small notes by our clumsy gold coinage, our absurd vanity in affecting distress over silver and copper, and our insufficient postal system. We are glad to hear that tho postal notes are becoming popular. It is well to have large specie reserves in the banks and the sub-treasuries, ami better still to have the people at large abundantly supplied with the money that rings true when it is tried and that endures forages.—CineuitiAt-i Commercial Gazette. People are beginning to ask themselves whether the jiifiildUM they annually give for public education, a >um which is all the time increasing, are so expended that they produce the best results; ami the question is becoming a loading one in other cities besides New York. The conclusions reached are everywhere staTltially the same. They are that in trying to do too much wo pre marring the effect of tho whole; and that wo should produce better results at much less expeuse if the instruction given by the State was rudimentary only, but thorough so far astt gpes.—New York Sun. If a two-cent stamp encourages epistolary hand-shak-ing ami helps to bring tho distant sections of the country into nearer neighborhood, it may be that the penny postage, which Is the logical terrainuAof Jhe present movement, will enable us to know am 1 under-

stand each other so well that possible disaster may be averted. We possess an immense territory, and our people are far oeyoud each other’s horizon, and never come into personal contact. If the government can shorten distances by increasing facilities for constant interchange of thought, we can afford to sink any temporary financial loss in postal carriage in the fact that wo are doing the greatest good to the greatest number.—Now York Herald. Tns Ohio idea, as presented by Mr. Payne, is thoroughly undemocratic. It antagonizes the history, principles and traditions of the party; it harmonizes with all that is weak ami wicked in the policy of the Republicans. If adopted it will not only cost us Ohio, but it will destroy all faith and confidence in the wisdom and courage of our leaders; will detach from us the young men of the country; will lead to disintegration and dissolution. In this disorganization it would be impossible to count on any result in auv State. —Louisville Courier-Journal. There seems to he a great deal of unnecessary personal feeling aroused by this Porter case. There is really no occasion for any at all. Such men as Generals Grant. Logan, Cox, Rosecrans, and Slocum may differ in their conclusions as to the guilt or innocence of Porter without giving the slightest occasion for bitterness. Looking back through the vista of more than a decade of time, no one not personally interested should get excited about it. The matter is not very important anyway. It is certainly not important enough for the old officers of the Union army to quarrel about.—Chicago Inter Ocean. After the tariff issue is decided the money question comes up. As matters are progressing this will be a matter of more public importance next summer than it is now. It is all but impossible for Congress, as at present constituted, to provide for the needs o£ *vbe situation. The pile of silver dollars will increase and the national bank currency will continue to decrease as the 3 per cents, are steadily called in through the necessity of disposing of the surplus. The party which goes before the country without evincing some recognition of the financial situation under these pressing circumstances will labor under a disastrous confession of weakness.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. If the precedent [ voting money for levees] is followed not less than ijG 00.000,0()0 will be spent on the lower Mississippi to reclaim and protect private property. In course of time this mud-wall policy will result in a permanent inundation of vast tracts of the reclaimed ground, and then, as a fitting sequel, the government will be invited to appropriate public money to compensate the owners. By pursuing the same line of policy for tho benefit of private individuals in other sections of tho country, Congress can easily dispose of the surplus revenue, and relieve itself from the disagreeable necessity of relieving tax-payert of some of their heavier burdens.—Chicago Times. One satisfaction, at least, we mean to have. NoW that we know that it is in the Senate that the monopolists of high and low degree intend to make their stand against all the measures demanded bv public opinion, the public will keep its eyes on that house of refuge for the grabbers. Every move for delay, every needless spinning of debate into the warp and woof of procrastination, everv demonstration in committee or on the floor against the consummation of the wishes of the public will be noted, reported, and explained so that every voter in the United States will know to whom he and the monopolists are indebted for their respective blanks ami prizes iu the senatorial lottery. —Chicago Tribune. The conduct, of those belonging to the City of Columbus at the time of tho accident will also bear investigation. Among the saved is a suggestively large number of the officers and men. In the boat tliat came off to the wreck from Gayhead five employes of the vessel and only one passenger were saved, and om board the life-raft , which was launched soon after the vessel struck, wore seven men, only one of whom waC a passenger. It. is possible that the passengers were swept overboard or died in the rigging because they possessed less endurance than the steamer's people, but we need to know nreeiaoly how it happened that, all the women and children were lost, while so many officers, engineers, stewards, and sailors were saved. It will surprise no one if it is shown that there was the usual panic on the steamer after the accident, and tliat the failure to successfully launch a boat was n'ofc wholly due to tho state of the weather.—New York Times.

LOGAN Mi) THE PRKBIDKNO*. An Admirer Who Thinks He Can Take It if He Will. W. A. Croflfiit, in St. Paul PioDeeV-fresg. I wonder whether John Logan is going to be onr next President. Tilings a heap worse might easily happen to us. I don’t know whether he has made up his mind on the subject or not; that is all that makes me hesitate. When he concludes to be President, everybody had better stand from under. 1 speak by the book, for I recollect how he walked into the Senate. It was, I should say. some fourteen years ago now. I was managing editor •of the Chicago Evening Post, and the editor-in-chief and owner, Mr. Blakely, had gone to Europe and left me iu full charge. One morning General Logan came in, sat down by my desk and said: ‘T have come in to do you a favor.* “Yes?" I answered, with that slight rising inflection that denotes the inquisitive mind and -K generously added: “What can you do for usT “I can give you a point. You want to be on the winning side, don’t you?” “Why, certainly,” I replied, “that’s what we always have been and are and mean to be.” “Very well: now I am going to be the next senator from Illinois.” I was surprised. The other Republican papers were for the incumbent, Oglesby, or had not yet announced their preference. It seemed impossible that. Logan could succeed, but it didn't seem polite to say so. “I am going to win. No Chicago paper has nominated me. Perhaps they won’t. You have always treated me square, and I have come in to tell you the news and give you the chance.” He laid before me some figures that justified his confidence. They satisfied me, and i nominated Logan ths same afternoon in formal fashion. I went down to Springfield and witnessed his Canvass If was unique. 1I& headquarters wore in one suite of rooms, and those of his handsome and spirited wife were at the other eud/ pf the hall. Both were crowded all day and till laio at night. Mrs. Logan was something more than an agreeable entertainer. She was. where her husband’s interests Wore concernod, a politician. She knew which party the various counties belonged t,o and who were the Influential men in the different localities: and she Seemed to understand tho status of her visitors intuitively. It was a short, sharp campaign, and Logan was elected. So lam anxious to know whether ho has made up his mind about the next step. If he has —as I said before. A GOOD EXAMPLE. Democratic Commendation of Republican Work in Indiana. WuHhlngton Pot(l>oin.) The Republicans are profoundly impressed with tho conviction that, in order to have any chance of success in the presidential contest, they must carry Indiana. Their arithmeticians make up no slate in which the electoral votes of that State are classed as “Democratic,” or “doubtful.” In order to bring Indiana into such proximity to the Republican line that it can be bought in again next November, a most thorough work of organization and drill is already in progress. A system as carefully elaborated in all its details as the organization of an army has been in vogue there since John Foster was chairman of the Republican committee in 1H72. After each presidential election there is, of course, some relaxation of discipline, as is the case with an army after a hard campaign. But a year before the great quadrennial event, the note of preparation is sounded and the work of tho canvass is begun in real earnest. Months ago there was a collection of funds for the Indiana Republican campaign of IHB4. This was not to buy votes, the time for that, had not and has not yet arrived. Another collection is now in progress. Tho proceeds will be used in perfecting the organization. Agents will be employed to visit every precinct and confer with leading Republicans iu every school district. There will be unity of purpose and harmony of action throughout tin*, entire organization, and the means most likely to be successful in changing votes will be employed iu every case. Tho example of the Indiana Republicans, so fat as relates to untiring effort and unflagging zeal, so far as pertains to early work and careful supervision of details, so far as they rely on work rather than corruption, is commended to Democrats in all close or doubtful States. The People Will Make the Selection. St. Lolliß Globe-Democrat. Indiana seems to be determine?! that tliera shall be no room for doubt, as to how she wishes to be represented in the Republican national convention. A State convention lias been called for April .17 to select four delegates for the State atlarge, and district conventions are called for April’ 10 to select district delegates. This is tho first instance, we bolieve, of district conventions being called by the State committee. A Democratic View of It. Michigan (-ity Dtupatch. While Pendleton represented the purest element of Democracy in Ohio, Payne represented the worst,. Ho bought his nomination outright with gold, and the Infernal Democratic scoundrels who sold out for filthy lucro ought to be is the penitentiary for life.