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AMUSEMENTS TIIFS EVENING. (;R VXD OPERA-HOUSE—“Siberia.” rLV.iKWTII CIIURI'II—T.itIuio by Pri.f. W. C. Richards, Pb. D.: subject, "The Matter King; or, the Wonders of Oxygon. 11 THE DAILY JOURNAL 15V ,TNO. \KW & SON. For Rate* of Subscription, etc., Sixth Page. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1884. THE LNMANAPOL.IS JOl 11NAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 4IP St rand. PARTS—American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boulevard dcs Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Brentano’s, 1.015 Pennsylvania Avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. 0. Hawley & Cos., 154 Viue Street. IjOITTSVJTjDE—(\ T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOTTS—Union News Company. Union Depot and Southern Hotel. THE INDIANA SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT. The following contributions to the fund for (he Indiana soldiers 1 monument have been made public, through the columns of the Journal: ]j. M. OaraplMsU, Danville SIOO.OO Benjamin Harrison 100.00 The Indianapolis Journal 100.00 The Terre Haute Courier 50.00 C. L. Holstein 50-00 Dr. Hilaries D. Pearson 100.00 HcKain & Murray 50-00 Blanton -I. Penile 50.00 Moses 0. Mel .'lain 50.00 K. It. Raihbone 115.00 Other contributions, no matter what ttic amount, will be acknowledged. It is hoped the response will be prompt and general. Let it be a people’s monument to the soldiers and sailors of Indiana. Captain Myf.RS siill “droops” under the weight of that repudiation. Mr. Hunter’s election as receiver of taxes at Philadelphia will hardly be contested. He had a plurality of 66,422 votes. Colonel Maynard, editor of the Sentinel, denies that ho wrote the Hayes letter which Secretary of State Myers signed. Has anybody yet thought of starting a monument fund for Senator Voorhees? But perhaps it is a little early now. Give the Bartholdi statue to Indiana, and a suitable pedestal will be built and the whole dedicated as a monument to the Indiana soldiers. Mr. Woodard has come out in defense of Daniel W. Voorhees as an unfailing friend of the federal soldier. Nobody suspected it during the war. WifAT this country needs is n college so much larger tlian the boys who attend it that a whole class with hoodlumistic tendencies will be expelled. The spirit in which the investigation of the Keifor-Boynton matter is being conducted will make General Keifer friends where, otherwise, he might not have them. The Danville investigating committee got hold of a witness, yesterday, whose testimony is not at al! humorous to the Democrats. He knew things, and did not hesitate to tel! them. The latest “revolt” among students is the senior class of Hamilton College, at Clinton, Jv Y. Suppose they be allowed to stay in revolt. The institution would undoubtedly survive. While full of compliment to the “illustrious House of Kepresentalives," Bismarck insists that lie knows more of German polities than the House does. Such a horrible insult as this ought to be at once avenged. nmnMnaßK-.nai-ami ■ ■■ Judah P. Benjamin again denies the authorship of the letter published in Thurlow Weed's memoirs, in which the idea is ailvovocated that the Southern .States might, under certain circumstances, return to allegiance to England. The Lasker resolution passed by the House of Representatives does not state correctly the membership of the dead statesman in the Reichstag. No wonder Bismarck thinks he knows more of German politics than “the illustrious House of Representatives.” Commander Winfield S. Schley, the commander of the Greely relief expedition, is a light house inspector of Maryland, of twentyfive years constant service on sea and shore to about equal shares, ne is in the prime of Ife and enjoys unusually robust health. It does not seem so dreadful after all. Bismarck had the Lasker resolutions printed in full in the official Gazette, so that they were spread before the German people. What he declined to do was to give his official sanction, as an officer of the Emperor, to the eulogy of Herr Lasker’s political principles. The latest plan is for the Legislature to allow the Common Council of tie- city of New York to appropriate $5(1,0>)0 from thecity funds j in aid of the pedestal fund. The proposition should receive no attention. If the millionaires of N< w York can't pay for that pedestal J off-hand, let the statue ho handed over to some j city (hat will appreciate it. The Supreme Court of Indiana rendered an opinion last week in a case sent, down from Tippecanoe county, which is of unusual importance to tax-payers; as well ns purchasers of property at tux sales. In this case a number of questions are raised which have been variously decided by local courts throughout Hie State, this settlement of which will save 'great OimU of litigation and cause hereafter

care in looking after taxable property. This was a private sale for taxes by the county treasurer, the land having first been offered at the public tax sale and not sold for want of bidders. It was also a misdescription, having been erroneously advertised as lot two, when it should have been lot twelve; the taxes due had not hec-n placed on the tax duplicate. By this decision the interest on a tax sale is fixed at “the same rate as was allowed by law at the date of sale.” The personal property tax of a uiortgageor remains a lien against the land after foreclosure, and parties wishing to have the courts remove a cloud from title to property on account of tax sales, must first pay or tender the amount of tax due and the penalty thereon, else they have no standing in court. TEH BOY FATHER TO THE MAN. The babe born 152 years ago to-dav was hut a babe the same as others born before and since. He was probably subject to all the infantile disorders of the times, and had the same herculean task of learning to walk. Out of the gibberish of his gooing and puling he finally fashioned intelligible language, and was petted and punished as occasion required or the temper of father and mother varied. In boyhood he was a boy in ail that the name implies. He probably was fond of fishing and not averse to hunting. He would have been a good skater had the weather of Virginia furnished ice at sufficiently frequent intervals. The story of the cherry tree and hatchet may be true and may not. The incident was not impossible, and might have happened a thousand years earlier to some tan-colored lad in far Cathay. But whatever boyish traits George Washington had, it is safe to say that meanness was not one t)f them. A mean boy makes a mean and narrow man every time. It is impossible to he otherwise. Had that Virginia lad of a century and a half ago been a sneak, or cruel, or deceitful, he could never have reached the exalted place he did. It is well for the boy-s of to-day to think of the Father of his Country wlien he was a lad; to try to trace back the noble qualities of the man to the manly traits of the boy. It is possible to be a boy and still he manly; to laugh, shout, run, whistle, swim, hunt and fish, and still ho honorable and high-Spirited. The hoy who is above petty meanness is the best hoy for a friend and companion. Confident in his own honesty of purpose, he is inspired to go on to any undertaking that any other hoy or man ever accomplished. It will boa sad day for this country when the stock of George Washington hoys runs out. That day lias not yet come. There is much of wickedness in the world, but there are thousands of clear-eyed, clean-hearted boys scattered all over the land. To each and all of these it is a grand thing to think of Washington, not only as a leader of armies and President of the new republic, hut as a hoy, strong-limbed and animated by every decent boyish impulse that comes to young hearts in all times and in all lands. In the memorial services in the schools to-day it would be well to turn back the leaves of Washington’s life to the pages where the pictures are most frequent, and see his grand and patriotic ■ nature unfolding as the years pass over his youthful head. Someone put into the head and heart of the boy George Washington those things that gave his name and fame immortality, just as numberless mothers to-day are watching over and praying over hoys who may he as pure and good as Washington, though the exigencies of the times may not allow them to become as great. But great as Washington was as a soldier and leader, he was greater still in his unflinching integrity and perfect patriotism. He loved his country first; loved it so well and so ingenuously that when he declined the greatest honor a grateful people could offer, he did it so unostentatiously as to make the act a perpetual marvel for more ambitious and less conscientious men. From boyhood to manhood, from birth to death, Washington was tme to himself and to his l'ellow-nien. llis example is wholesome, and his virtues should he held up for emulation by the on-coming generation, so that those who follow in the conduct of this grand and growing republic may be too patriotic to wish for anything but the people’s welfare and the nation’s good.

The Sentinel has rather an unusual ease of j blind staggers. In reply to an item in the Kokomo Gazette, it says: “Mr. Brown is not [ the president of tlio school hoard, and Mr. i Brown never told anybody that the history of I the war should not be taught.” The Sentinel should acquire hu access of information before it essays to correct anyone or to deny anything. Austin 11. Brown is the president of | the school board, and Professor Mills publicly i asserts that Mr. Brown said it- would not be j wise to teach the part of history in question, j because teachers were not always judicious in | teaching matters upon which public sentiment is divided. This remark being repeated by Mr. Mills to Mr. Tarbell, it was accepted as conclusive, and the suppression of the history was continued. The Journal did not expect, when it. undertook the work that the publication of the orders paid to the county officers would be re gurded with favor by persons interested in the continuance of illegal and extravagant allowances. But. we knew that the information was of the greatest, value to the people arid to the tax payers of the city and county, and that to direct, attention to wrongs in local administration that should ho, and must o'n- and will ho corrected, would result in advantage to the Republican party, which is at present charged with the duty and responsibility

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of this administration. The time has passed when the Republican part) can ho benefited by covering up anything, or hy a failure to do what is palpably right. The strength of the Republican party rests solely in its power and disposition to give the people efficient and economical government. When it fails to do this it fails in its highest and best purpose. We know the party desires that its agents shall do this in this city and county. The Journal proposes to assist in the work by showing up weaknesses and wrongs of system and errors of administration, and by giving strong and effective backing to the commissioners in the most striagent measures to lop off all the excrescences, which have been permitted to grow upon a faulty and inefficient system under Republican and Democratic control alike. If there is nothing wrong in any of the allowances, no one can he hurt. At any rate the publication will go forward. VACCINATION. Previous to the introduction of vaccination 210,000 people died of smallpox annually in Europe; 45,000 in Great Britain and Ireland alone. Gatlin asserts that of 12,000,000 Indians one-half were destroyed by smallpox. From August, 1871 to August, 1872, 4,417 deaths occurred in Philadelphia, the mortality being one of every five cases. Inoculation was introduced into England from the East by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, in 1714, and into America by Dr. Bolyston, of Boston, in 1721. This process, which, by the mildness of the attack, was nearly always protective of the individual, at the same time propagated the disease by multiplying the amount of virus. Jennet's introduction into English practice of vaccination proper —that is by inoculation with the virus of cow-pox, known before his time among dairymen —has greatly abridged not only the destructiveness but the prevalence of smallpox. The theory of vaccinnation is, in brief, that the vaccine virus is merely the diluted virus of common smallpox or variola. A vaccinated person in whom the virus “takes,” has had a modified smallpox, and ordinarily is not susceptible to the malignant, or, indeed, any form of the disease. With most of the zymotic diseases—smallpox, scarlatina, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, etc.—one attack, even though not severe, usually secures immunity for life. No fact is better established in medicine tlian that most persons are, hy one good vaccination, protected for life; also, that varioloid—modified smallpox—occurring in the vaccinated is seldom fatal, and rarely product's pits. Nevertheless an unjustified distrust of vaccination has, within a few years, done harm in many localities. Mr. Henry Bergh, two yea it ago, in a widely-quoted article in the North American Review, called vaccination a “hideous monstrosity” and a “scientific deformity.” His diatribes, coining from a well-known humanitarian, rather than from the ordinary medicine cranks, who periodically burnt into popular serial literature, did much to bolster up the credulous class who believe in leaving everything to nature; and so, undoubtedly, Mr. Bergh’s brilliant and dogmatic, although totally unproven and unscientific, statements have caused the leas of many lives. In Paris, in 1870, a somewhat similar alarm about the “introduction of vtteoinal syphilis" was the cause of a very destructive variolous epidemic among those who refused vaccination. Probably by the enforcement of vaccination this foul disease might not only be controlled, but actually extirpated. This has been almost entirely effected in Ireland, where, on various accounts, smallpox might bo expected to abound. The statistics as to protection by vaccination derived from the medical records of both armies in the Franco-Prussian war are in themselves sufficiently convincing to any candid judgment. Experience shows that a number of persons, after several years, reacquire the susceptibility to smallpox. The highest authorities place the proportion liable to variolous infection after having been vaccinated at 2 1-3 per cent. Os 15,000 cases of smallpox in the London hospitals, in the epidemic of 1870-73, only four presented proof of having been rovaccinated. In 1880, in the same city, the deathrate per million in London from smallpox was ninety among the vaccinated against 3,350 among the unvaccinated. In the light of all the facts of medical experience and practice, it is safe and advisable on the occasion of epidemic smallpox to repeat, the vaccination. The operation is insignificant, without danger of any moment, and if followed by a genuine vesciele and sore arm, the brief discomfort may insure permanent immunity from the dreaded disease.

The Terre Haute Express has this paragraph of interest: “ ‘This being one of the largest manufacturing centers in Indiana,’ said a prominent manufacturer, yesterday, ‘any movement made in regard to the tariff is of interest not only to the manufacturers and laboring men, but to the merchants and business men generally. All those whom I have heard express | an opinion on the subject seem not to suppose the Morrison bill will become a law. But so long as the question is being agitated, just so long will trade be in an unsettled condition.’ The iron trade, he said, is in such a condition that if a reduction in the tariff is made a reduction in the wages of the laborers > will have to be made, or the mills in the j Western Nail Association will have to close. ! He also stated that they could not. afford to I do business if the profits were made lower than at present, and if a change was made in the tariff, as proposed in the Morrison bill, the laboring men would bo the greater stir ferers.” There should be a full and representative attendance of the Republicans of this city at the primaries in the various wards to-night. Tim nrimarics are the fountains of political power. It is in the primary that the people

touch directly upon government, and no election is so unimportant as to warrant any citizen remaining away "from his ward or precinct meeting. In this year, particularly, it is of the greatest necessity that a good start be made. The Republicans must make a township ticket of the election of which there can be no doubt, and to do this the whole body of the party must be fairly represented. Besides this the primaries to-niglit have the selection of other delegates whose duties will he of the most influential character upon the future of the party. It is stated that the reason actuating Bismarck in the return of the Lasker resolution is to solidify himself with his people at home by fomenting a bitterness between America and Germany, and thus distract attention from the unpopularity of the Bismarckian government with the liberty-loving Teutonic people. If this be the true motive, what a neat checkmate to the Chancellor it would be for the United States to maintain its dignity and manhood, refuse to pinch the eagle till its screams reach Berlin, or to execute a war dance in the two houses of Congress. The bitterest enemy of Bismarck could not wish for a more humiliating eventilation of this “incident,” out of which the wily but arrogant Prince hopes to make so much capital for himself and for the oppressive system of government he represents. Suppose Bismarck intended the return of the resolution as a snub and insult to this country, through “the illustrious House of Representatives.” Is the United States ready to back its opinion of the merits of Lasker, and the justice of the political principles he advocated and represented, by making the boorishness of Bismarck casus belli? The offending resolution is in the hands of the German minister, who will, doubtless, send it to the Secretary of State, who, in turn, may forward it to the House of Representatives for their action. We are content to await the orderly course of events—to keep both temper and powder dry—and if it be determined to teach Bismarck a lesson in good manners, as well as to give him an inkling of the power of the United States when “the illustrious House of Representatives” speaks, if it be that only six. out of the three hundred and twenty-five members cared enough for the matter to give it any attention originally, wo shall be heartily in favor of war to the knife and the knife to the liilt. But, even with this fearful possibility in the future, it is better to get mad slowly and clear through. Then the passion stays and amounts to something. The theatrical spasm, sudden, and ignorant, and blind, seldom amounts to much. It is soon done for, and the wonder only remains what, in the world it. was begun for.

There need be no alarm felt that the office of sheriff, or any other office in the city or county, will be left vacant in the event that illegal and extravagant allowances are stopped. We feel so sure that good men eqn be found to fill all these places, and be perfectly content with the legal and proper fees and allowances, that wo would be quite willing to give an indemnity bond to the commissioners, if they become in any wise fearful. The idea that a sheriff, or any other officer, declines to accept a second term because of inadequate compensation may do to tell the marines, but will not have any influence with the tax-payers, who see the wholesale way in which their money is spent. General Robert E. Lee’s statue will be unveiled at New Orleans to-day. It will be a shame if the Indiana soldier goes longer than another year without an enduring memorial in bronze. The people of the State will furnish the funds if tha enterprise is pushed now. Let it be pushed. Annie Pettit (the paradoxical name of a “fat woman" in New York city) has brought suit for $5,000 damages against the proprietor of a museum thorc oil the ground that she had laid out certain sums for show dresses and had thrown up a soft snap as a child's nurse at $4 a month and board. The item about dresses is reasonable enough, but how in the world is a “fat woman” to dress respectably on $4 a month? And what earthly good would she be as a child’s nurse? To say nothing of the imminent danger of the child being laid on and smashed out as flat as a postage stamp, how could a child hope to cope with a fat woman? Without plans and specifications, and. unless guide-boards 1* set up at intervals over the animated territory represented by the body of the fat woman, how would a child he enabled to make its way back from the out township in the region of the foot of such a nurse? Or, suppose such a nurse should try to ride a child upon her back, and tlie child should slip by reason of not being able to get a hold on tho nurse’s nock, who is to pay damages? This fat woman’s claim is chimerical; no one ever hired her as nurse, and $4 a month, besides tho expense to keep her, would bankrupt even a plumber. As for tho dresses, let tho manager of the museum sell them for circus tents, and let the court dismiss the case. Very fat women should not be ene ou raged. _ The sophomore class of Columbia College, New York city, gives every indication of having sprung from Five Points ancestry, if their brutality goes to prove ignoble origin. Tho class for some reason objected to the tutor in English literature, and proceeded to make life a burden to him. A short time ago a student from Brook lyn, named‘Morningstar. rose in the class and “fired” a package of potassic sulphide, an ex ceedingly obnoxious smelling substance, at tho head of the unpopular instructor, llis aim was sure, and the missile slruHc Professor Scott full in the face, besmearing it from forehead to chin. As the victim sneezed nnd coughed and applied Iris handkerchioi to remove the drug the class roared, yelled and stamped their feet with great delight, while rrie.s of•• Take it off, Scott.ie; that's a good boy," and “Scoop it in, old fol',” wont up from all sides. Tho faculty had the young man 4: hut the trouble still exists, and the victim of -hose half-educated hoodlums still suffofs at- tlieirhands ia ataaniKTiiolestibar*

barous and inhuman than that related above. It would be refreshing to discover an institution of learning with enough strength of character to expel an entire class when guilty of such outrages. The public would applaud the measure, and the college would bo the gainer in the way of discipline better on forced and a greater degree of respect on the part of students. Mr. William Skinner, of Knox county, a Democratic statesman of much local renown, has returned home after a somewhat prolonged absence, ready to resume his herculean efforts for the old party. Ho announces his platform as follows: “My platform still is— , 1. White husbans or nun. 2. Pussennel liberty er deth. 3. Revenue for tariff only. 4. Free trade for protection only. 5. Protection for revenue only. <. Tariff for free trade only. 7. Tarif only. 8. Revenue oidy. 0. Free trade only. 10. Protection only. 11. Office for Democrats only. 12. Turn the Republican rascals out only. 13. Civil-service reform to be applied to Republicans only. “it is the only platform that we al can unite onto. It is very comprehensive and excloods only Republicans and niggers. White men only need apply.” We are in favor of a short, sharp return of thoso resolutions when they shall l>e received, and a reply that Prince Yon Bismarck shall feel lias all the force of America behind it. —News. Let us try argument ami arbitration first. If these fail, the only course left open will be to send the Prince a copy of the News with red pencil marks ou the second page. Still, we are not in favor of such extreme measures, except .as a dernier resort. It is now told of John Hancock that he was once under indictment for smuggling $400,000 worth of liquor into the colonies. That's a pretty tough charge, but in view of the fact that ho signed the Declaration in characters that “could be read without glasses," wo move flint the indictment bo quashed. Ladies imagine that roller skating is a fine way to work off superfluous flesh. Tho belief seems well founded. One young lady dropped 127 pounds at the rink yesterday, and dropped it hard. Eli Perkins declares that when he dies he intends to will his property to the press clubs of the country. Press clubs will now know what not to roly on. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Can you give the origin ami meaning of the phrase. “A Daniel coino to judgment?’’ Cra w for ds ville. The expression is used in the “Merchant of Venice." A reading of the trial scene will read ily give the meaning of the phrase. POLITICAL NOTE IND GOSSIP. Mr. ITaves’s announcement that he is out of politics has provoked a mammoth smile. The Tildeu and Hendricks Club, of San Francisco, Cal., has refused, after a full discussion, to change its name to the Grand Central Democratic Club of California. The many friends of John M. Higgs, of the Connersville Examiner, are desirous that he make the race for Re{orter of tho Supreme Court before the coming Democratic State convention. In the report of the Hendricks county Republican mass meeting, John Morgan was named as a delegate to the State convention. The name of Milton Phillips should have been substituted for Morgan. The Hon. It. W. Thompson, of Terre Haute, and Judge Taylor, of Fort Wayne, are frequently mentioned as proper persons to elect as delegates from tho State at large to the national Republican convention. The chairman of the Michigan Greenback State committee says that Governor Begole must be renominated, for he is the only man they can elect, “as the Democrats seem to be well satisfied with his administration and with him as a man." S. B. Stubbs, of Fairbury, la., who was the Greenback candidate for Governor in that State in 1877, polling a larger vote than Weaver did a year ago. believes that if the Democrats nominate Butler for President they can carry lowa without any trouble. Dr. Emil Pretoiuus, editor of the St. Louis Westlichte Post, the leading German paper of the State, says that, in his opinion, the Repub lican nomination for President lies between Arthur and Edmunds, with the chances in favor of Edmunds, if he will become an active candidate. His preference is Edmunds. The Johnson county Republican convention lias indorsed Colonel S. P. Oyler as a candidate for Lieutenant governor. Tin- Franklin Jeffersonian says: “HU eminent fitness Is unquestioned, and he will enter tho canvass with a vigor if nominated, and add a strength and weight to tho ticket, that will prove of great advantage." The Mobile (Alabama) Register, one of the level headed business, as well as Democratic, papers in the South, to show that, coal lias always paid a duty, gives the duties under every tariff since tlie formation of the government. It shows that under the Walker revenue tariff of 184(1 the duty on coal was $1.30 a ton; now it is 75 cents per ton on soft coal. Henry Watterson says that Oliver Payne told him last week when lie was in Cleveland that his father would not under any circumstances be a candidate for. the presidency. He does not feel that ho lias the strength for the fight, and, in order to avoid being drawn into any possible com plication on the subject, intends to make a visit to Europe in the spring, and remain away until after the convention has decided tho matter.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mb. Robert Treat Paine, jr., is said to have, in his residence, the fluent private dining-room iu Boston. (’I.ELI A. the daughter of Garibaldi, is to be married to Prof, (fm/.iardcl, of the International College, at Turin. IT- hoped that marriage will lower I he temperature of Elia Wheeler’s poetry. Her prospective husband is engaged in the ice business. Mrs. Gaines, the famous’litigant., denies that she is rich. During fifty years of effort she has not recovered enough property to pay her lawyers, and she is now in straitened e iron instances. Mrs. Josephine Jonbs-Yorkh candidly writes to the Cincinnati Comnorcial Gazette that sho was born in 1853; that she is the daughter of a soap and candle-maker, and that she owes her musical success to Carl Rosa. An English judg** lately refused the expenses of throe tradesmen who prosecuted men for stealing goods from their shop doors, on the ground that hy expo. Jug their goods in the way montioned they held out a temptation to steal. One of the best Greek scholars in this country, dur ing a recent lecture on tho benefits of a classical education, stated that there docs not exist a graduate of an Vmerican college who can properly affix the accents to a pago of printed Greek. Mr. FrudSIHV AbuHKU, organist of the Church of the Incarnation, will not renew hit* Contract, and ro tiros from tho post on the first of May next, mainly on account of the greatly reduced salary that will in future bo paid. 110 will bo succeeded by a lady. “Ckkro Gorpo” Williams, wlio.se term in the Senate expires next year, is described as a tall, heavy, clumsy man, without any stylo below his wig which close observers say he changeso as to give his head

more the uppearance of having been trimmed at the beginning of tho month, after which it grows longer, week by Week, until the maximum length is readied, when a shift is made back to the wig with the shorter hairs. The people of Kingston, Out., who do not .approve of tho recent dismissal of the Rev. Dr. Wilson from the curacy of the cathedral in that city, on account of his connection with the Salvation Army, have given a reception in his honor ami presented him with a purse of s*oo. IN ILLIAM King, upon being converted in a Method* ist revival meeting at Caldwell. Kv.. arose aud corn fossed that ho had robbed a store is 18(53 of S3OO worth of goods. He went to the proprietor the next day and paid the amount, with twenty years’ interest* but was immediately arrested for the theft, and no# languishes in jail. A BIRMINGHAM. Eng., firm has recently made a cut* glass throne for an Indian potentate, which is one of the most showily beautiful objects in the world. Th# chair is a marvel of facet work. The canopy is of glass, supported by four graceful columns. The cost of the footstool alone is £B4O. so that the value of the t Krone is fabulous. The Vatican gardens in their greatest extent are only 350 yards by-100. less than thirty acres, and would be much smaller than that if reduced to a rectangular form. However, by doubling and twisting, the Pope can get a drive out of these gardens, hidden away under the northern walls of Bt. Peter's and th# western side of the Vatican Princess Marik, widow of Prince Henry, of tha Netherlands, it is said, feels that she has been slighted by the Dutch court, and will return immediately to Berlin. She will make Berlin h (termanent residences She is the daughter of Prince Frederick Charles, of Prussia, whos-* wife recently left him. She was the second wife of Prine<f Henry, to whom she was married in 187S about four months before his death. Thk exact numbers killed and wounded last year ia. the isle of Ischia calamity have now been obtained. On the island the total killed and wounded (not count* ing those who were badly bruised), amounted bo 3.075, of whom 2,312 were killed and 702 wert maimed—the most of the latter for life. About onehalf of the fatalities occurred at Casamicriola. This little town contained just 4.30(1 inhabitants, and of these 1.784 were killed and 413 were wounded —* tearful total. There were 072 houses at Cassamicciola. Os these, 537 were crushed and crumbled into ruins, 134 were damaged, and only one escaped intact! Os foreigners on the island there were fifty-four killed. The Quakers of l.ogan county. 0.. do not- worship with the quietude usual to their denomination, but urp holding revival meetings of an exceedingly demonstrative character. Noah McClain, tlie evangelist, wha has brought them into such a state of excitement, i a negro. He is described as a wonderfully magnetic orator. The daily exercises last, with brief in ter miI sions, from 10 o'clock in the morning until past midnight. The wildest of camp-meeting scenes are here exaggerated. Peculiar attacks of coma are common among the converts. One young man. an atheist, defiant and shockingly profane fell suddenly insensible, and lay so for two days. I)R. Jt'LHJS Rke, a Jewish banker, of Hamburg, who accumulated a large fortune in Hi** Janeiro, but j losing all of his children there by sickness, returned to Germany, has died, leaving a will which beqneatlwd four million marks for the erection of dwellings to !*e occupied free of rent by deserving poor families, and by aged persons without means. Plans aro to be devised for making these dwellings as far as possible na improvement upon any that have been constructed for the poor heretofore, in respect to combining comfort and healthfnines6 with cheapness. Much is left by the will to the discretion of the executor, but halls lor religious services are expressly prohibited, and so are all superfluous architectural devices aud adornments. Dr. Anton Roe, a brother of the deceased banker, is a member of the Prussian Parliament.

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. Virginia Democrats had better treat the negro with justice where he is. instead of proposing a reservation for the negro which he does not want, and whose creation would be unconstitutional. There is one short* simple remedy for the negro question—educate the negro and treat him like a mail. The South will know neither peace nor prosperity until it adopts it.—Philadelphia Prose. Thf. Republican party is now in perfect trim for battle with its opponents, come r,i whatever guise they may. It will nave no diflieuly in the nmtter of ]4 at form. Republicans are substantially a unit upon all the leading questions oi‘ the day. Indeed, the outlook is so favorable that a session of the Democrat.!* House will scarce!v be needed to give tho Republicans the advantage at the outset.—Kansas CHt.y Journal. If the saloon-keepers knew their own interests they would be the most ardent advocates of high license. If they want to bring the most fanatical of the pnhibitiou element into power, they will continue to oppose the reasonable wishes of decent people who demand that the .->aloons shall give a better guarantee for good order and obedience lo law t han can be secured by a idiean license fee. High license must come —or the saloons must go.—Milwaukee Sentinel. No longer arc the files of (’engross crowded with schemes for deluging the country with irredeemable paper currency and tor crippling “the corrupt power of the national bank monster," but the question which busies the minds of senators is how to persuade tha national banks to keep their notes in circulation. Tho l’oar is not of the encroachment of the bank ‘•monopoly," but lest the rapid redemption of government bonds undermine the busts of the bank system and cause a serious contraction of the currency.—Philadelphia Record. In the matter -4’controlling mtevoccuniv canals as in other matter* involving the iu:udi‘-‘>tM* ions of physical force, heaven is on the side of the heaviest artillery. A proper assertion of our rights in the event of war would be possible only through the jmssession of the ability to repulse any attack upon thoso rights. Belligerent powers have u bad habit of settling questions of right at the caunou’s mouth, and the powet with the greatest number of best served guns is apt. tc make tho “ussertiou" of its weaker adversary look ridiculous.—Brooklyn Eagle. THK real questions that, divide voters aud parties—the questions that the people have got to answer by their votes, whether they will or no—may as well l*e tersely and plainly stated. It i> no time for wordy evasions, or for diplomatic einumlocution. But it is no time to ignore the fact that a vote in November, whether so intended or not., in the nature of things must decide for four years the questions of public faith, honest m mey. a nonpu tisan .service,.protection f( j labor, and protection for voters. If it is wise not to wander off upon side issues, it is equally wise not t<> ignore those which the country i* compelled to decide.—New York Tribune. THE public sentiment of the country may at least be aroused and the forces of progress and civilization may receive cm impetus even iu ‘lie benighted communities of the interior of Mississippi. If the enlightened and order-loving North should insist that any political party which is capable of resorting to sm;h means ot establishing its power anywhere and under any circumstances, or which countenances and defends Hindi atrocities, is unfit to be trusted with the administration of national uffairs. the i*aponsibiltty for keeping alive the sectioual issue will lie wi*h those wh insist on di ’gracing the institutions of a free republic.—New York Times. England is tearfully opposed to slavery and all other sins as long as the sins interfere with her trade interests, but if to allow fetters to le replaced on the hands of a thousand slaves will keep the gateway off India open, nil England will wink at t in- shackling and suy it moans nothing at all. It simply menus that a despised fanatic in the darkened regions of Africa has had pluck and genius enough to bring the grantee* empire of modern t imes down from its high stilts to the plain admission that “business is business,'’whether done by Soudanese or British bondholders, and the Mahdi anil Gordon are simply settling the terms of this understanding.—Philadelphia Times. For many years it was the custom of Mr. Gladstone and hi.- satellites lo sneer at. tho late Lord Boaconsfield as a trickster and a charlatan. However vulpine and devious may have been his course in opposition, no man will now deny that by comparison with his successor he was straightforward, dauntless and leonine in office. Tho Prime Minister who bade the legions of triumphant Russia halt within eyeshot of the towers of Constantinople would never have stooped to placate by bribes and honors an Arab rogue, whose sole claim to respect from his own followers rests on tho boast that he has trapped and murdered a handful of British officers.—New York Sun. IE we will learn to treat timber as a crop and. allowing fifteen or twenty years for its growth, will cut it. by some process of rotation that will all the while provide foi and protect anew growth, we may roach an intelligent position. But, as it is now. with tho unregulated, rookies destruction of our trees, we can only look for floods and drouths as a result and can • mly blame ourselves for the distress and loss that follow. It ha.- become a question of endurance—an interesting struggle in which Ignorance ami shortsighted selfishness rebel against the inevitable working of n law of nature. When the trouble has reached a sufficient magnitude its cause will be recognized and the remedy—which ran only work slowly- will then be applied. Possibly the worse tho floods tiio sooner will c.< mo the attempt to apply thy true icu*u* dy.~ -Hartford Couraut.