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AMUSEMENTS TINS EVENING. GRAND OPERA-HOUSE—“Tn the Ranks." ENGLISH’S OPERA-HOUSE—Maranerchor Carnival. THE DAILY JOURNAL. 15Y JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., sec Sixth Page. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1884. THE INDIANAI'OLIS -MH KNAL Can be fouml at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARTS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capuc’uies. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON, D. C.— Brentano’s, 1,015 Pennsylvania Avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. C. Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vine Street. LOUISVTLLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot and Southern Hotel. THE INDIANA SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT. The following contributions to the fund for the Indiana soldiers’ monument have been made public through the columns of the Journal: L. M. Campbell, Danville SIOO.OO Benjamin Harrison 100.00 The Indianapolis Journal 100.00 The Terre Haute Courier 50.00 0. L. Holstein 50.00 Dr. Charles D. Pearson 100.00 McKainA Murray 50.00 Blanton J. Peello 50.00 Moses G. McClain 50.00 E. G. Rathbone 25.00 Other contributions, no matter ivliat the 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 Indian;, Secretary op State Myers still appears to ‘•droop.” The clans are gathering. The air and the newspapers are filling up with political echoes. This country will not fight Germany over the Lasker resolution; but if the American hog is to be trifled with in the future Bismarck will hear from us. Mr. James K. Partridge, at one time American minister to South American countries, committed suicide in Spain, yesterday, where he was sojourning for the benefit of his health. Rev. “Father” Ritchie has concluded to abandon his “high church" fight in Chicago, and accept the call from New York to become Dr. Ewer's successor. What will the “Fiither” do when he falls into the hands of the Potter? Ip anybody labors under the impression that no import duty is collected on farm products, he should take measures to better inform himself. During the year 1883 there were importations of farm products to the value of S 67,446,763, on which $21,385,510 in duties was collected. To those jocular persons who profess to see no difference between the murder of the colored family at Cincinnati and that of Matthews, at Ilazlehurst, Miss., the Journal would say that the Cincinnati murderers will undoubtedly be hanged. The murderer ol' Matthews is known. He was elected to office by the Democratic party. Will anything else be done with him? Monsieur Tonson come again. It is now asserted from Buffalo that the recent conference with Chairman Warren, of the State central committee, was to arrange for the sudden springing of the name of Eliliu B. Washbume before the Chicago convention as a sort of deus ex maehina. There would be no objection to the deus, but the “maehina” part of the arrangement will be apt to injure Mr. Washbume’s chances. The North German Gazette accuses the German Secessionist party of getting up the Lasker resolutions and securing their adoption by the American Congress in order to spite Prince Bismarck. This very able view of the “incident” has now been promulgated at both ends of the line. In the meantime, the Deutsche-Tageblatt has reached the bottom fact, that the Americans themselves attributed no importance to the resolution of condolence, and only about a dozen members of the House of Representatives were acquainted with the tenor of the resolution. A preacher, while sermonizing over the Shree victims of the Avondale tragedy, near Cincinnati, who were murdered that their bodies might he sold for the price paid for subjects for dissection, has seen fit to declare: “Theirs was a crime which deserved summary punishment, without resort to courts, by the eitizens taking the law into their own hands.” The sentiment was greeted with shouts of approval. It is a recognized fact that courts of justice are very slow to move and very uncertain in the measure of justice meted out. In consequence, the opinion has obtained that this laxity and uncertainty are the cause of crime, or, lather, encourage desperate men in the commission of crime. Instead of remedying the evil as it exists in inefficient law and slow processes of our eourts, society, or a portion of it, is moved to take matters into its hands and administer justice with that promptitude that is a terror to evil-doers. Unfortunately for law and order, lynching parties seldom make mistakes in their conclusions, and this is used as an argument in favor of summary proceedings. But if regular irregularities are to obtain, some plan of action must bo adopted. It should be decided what measure of provocation tnay he given society, what degree of harm before extrajudicial proceedings shall be undertaken. This very attempt at systemization would result in law,

nothing else, for any system of punishments for certain offenses against the peace and well-being of society is but law. This course of reasoning brings us back to a contemplation of law, and suggests that our remedy must be found in the law as it is, or as it may he amended. There is good reason for accelerating the processes of courts, so that wrongs may be lighted more promptly and the wicked brougli to swift and deserved punishment. The self-confessed murderers of that inoffensive colored family richly deserve death. Nobody will deny it. Why needlessly defer the day of legal execution? ENGLAND AND RUSSIA, England has won many a game on the cliecker-board of the world, and the brain of the government has often been charged with many moves made simultaneously at widely removed points on the map. The inconsiderable islands constituting the United Kingdom of Great Britain are but the heart of a greater Britain, upon which it is a proud boast that the sun never sets. For a century almost England has played her great game of draughts alone so far as European countries were concerned, and her dismayed opponents have been peoples great in numbers only, and without that knowledge of scientific warfare that has made their formidable invader mistress of the world. But now anew player approaches the board, and is moving a “man” toward one of the squares long held b v England. For nearly a half century Russia has looked with covetous eyes upon the British possessions in India, and during the past eight years has been quietly preparing for a descent in that direction. Disraeli, when at the head of affairs, sought to anticipate just such a move by taking possession of Afghanistan, and making the Hindoo Koosh mountains the political as well as the natural northern boundary of India. The enterprise failed, and left the people of that country thoroughly alienated and friendly to any power hostile to their assailants. The government of Russia has witnessed all this, and has profited by the hint. Entering into a treaty with Persia, and agreeing upon the northern boundary of that ■country, Russia, -in 1878, began the no great work of subjugating the nomadic tribes inhabiting the country east of the Caspian sea, and, following subjection, has annexed their territory. Military garrisons have been established at the most important points and communication has been opened by means of a railway leading from Michaelovsk, on the Caspian, and now reaching as far as Askabad, with the evident purpose in view of extending it as far as may be necessary, the next objective point being the city of Sarakhs, on the Tejend river. Merv is now in the hands of Russia, and the Merv oasis has been formally annexed. This brings the Czar’s forces within 200 miles of Herat and almost as near Balkh. Thus far the country annexed is in itself of no value to Russia, hut as affording a highway to Afghanistan and the region of Delhi and Lahore is indispensable. The movement is opportune. England is occupied by diverse questions that call for men and means. The Irish question is still unsettled. The affairs in Egypt call for military adjustment, and the operations of the French in Tonquin must ho watched in order to protect British interests. The purpose of the trans-Caspian campaign cannot be disguised. There is nothing in the territory already occupied worth the trouble of accepting it as a gift. General Kaufmann expresses the purpose when he says “the cost of absorbing the Khanate is to be recouped in tho spoil of Delhi and Lahore. ” The two great power's are coming into imminent collision. The territory of Afghanistan, some 400 miles in width, alone intervenes. Dispatches indicate that British troops will proceed at once to occupy Khandalrar and Herat, as commanding the important mountain passes. What effect this will have upon the inhabitants of Afghanistan remains to be seen. The policy of Mr. Gladstone has been to placate them, after having been alienated by the jingo policy of his more aggressive predecessor. At best, it is but a choice of evils, as there can be little doubt that that country must soon lose its autonomy. What will be the outcome of the inevitable collision would be hard to predict. The grip of the British army and navy is a thing to be dreaded, while the hug of the Russian bear is not to be rushed into heedlessly. England cannot hold all she has picked up in distant parts of the world. Sooner or later a combination of adverse circumstances will arise that will make her relinquish some of her possessions. A fight between the powers now facing each other would be no child’s play, and it looks as though a fight must come, since neither can well recede. The wheat-fields of the Punjaub arc a rich prize, and worth a turn of the wheel in the lottery of war, while a line of ports on the Arabian sea and Indian ocean has been the dream of Russia for centuries. The eruption from the great northern volcano must find an outlet somewhere, and the way through India seems most feasible. Mr. Edwin Lee Brown, of Chicago, president of the American Humane Association, will speak in the First Presbyterian Church, on Sunday evening next, upon the subject of “cruelty to mi' V” There ought to be a crowded house. 1 Mr. Brown ought to be able to wake up an earnest feeling in this matter among the people of Indianapolis. Cruelty to dumb bens's is practiced on every hand, because of innate brutishnessand of careless indifference. The Bible says “the merciful man is merciful to his beast;” so that Mr. Brown’s address will boa “gospel” sermon, as that miserably-abused word means, and

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therefore may he listened to without compunction, even by those who think tho Sabbath a day for everything under the sun except the very thing that Jesus said it was for—for man, and for lifting asses out of pits, which may fairly include the teaching of the rights of animals. COST OF COUNTY GOVERNMENT. Tho expose of the enormous cost incident to the administration of county government, begun in the Journal, in the hope that a public sentiment would be developed that would result in retrenchment in method and reform in system, has already met with a hearty response from the people and tax-payers, who are deeply interested in the matter. Yesterday a gentleman engaged in making the canvass for one of the county offices before the next Republican convention, said that the Journal’s article and purpose were received with the greatest pleasure throughout the county by the people. We have already reprinted some expressions from the press of tho Slate. We give below a portion of a letter received from Hon. Warren G. Sayre, State senator from Wabash county, and now the attorney for that county. Mr. Sayre says: “Excuse me for writing to thank you for your expose of municipal extravagance. Onehalf the money collected for town, city, township and county purposes could be ami of right ought to be, without detriment to the public service, left in the pockets of the people. It is a good sign that the exposure has begun in your paper, for all the State papers and many of the people will see it, and it will be catching. The State papers ought to take up the same matter in tneir respective Aunties, and possibly the extravagance and corruption running riot therein may be checked. Last winter I had occasion to say in the Senate that the people of Indiana were paying to and through the county officers three-quarters of a million of dollars annually not contemplated or authorized by law, and in violation of law. Mine was not a hasty judgment, but was deliberate, after considerable investigation. I did my best in 1881 and 1883, in the Senate, to correct these abuses—an abler man with the same zeal would have done much more. ‘‘The county treasuries are not the only victims, but all the people who have business with the officers, and against whom fees and costs may be taxed, suffer with them. The people are plundered, extravagance is encouraged, the public service is corrupted, and in the end the recipients of this vast sum of money cannot and do not save it. I believe public officers should be generously paid, hut when generosity has been provided, 1 hate to see plunder added to it.” INTERVIEWS AND INTERVIEWERS. A Rev. John Snyder, a preacher, of St. Louis, during a recent visit to New York, met Hon. Roscoe Conkling at a dinner-table, and had a little conversation with him. He was so elated over the matter that he wrote an account of it to the extent of a column and a half for the Globe-Democrat, in which he made Mr. Conkling say a number of things that have attracted no little attention. If Mr. Conkling did say them, they were so clearly the confidential talk of a social hour that Mr. Snyder’s publication of them was a gross breach of courtesy, not to say of decency. The Post-Dispatch took Mr. Snyder severely to task for liis report, particularly as he had been somewhat prominent in the current cheap abuse of the “interviewer” for the press, in which some shallow people indulge. Mr. Snyder felt called upon to respond to the criticism, saying, among other things: “If any of my friends shall imagine for one moment that I have outgrown my horror of that miserable system of personal espionage, that reckless habit of personal misrepresentation which marks the trade of the modern interviewer, I shall be very sorry that l intrusted to your columns my impressions of a conversation, the spirit of which I strove faithfully to reproduce. lam quite sure that Mr. Conkling would not take exception to a single statement I make, nor to my publication of the impressions which those statements made upon one who had none of the customary reportorial motives for misrepresenting his views.” The editor of the Post-Dispatch telegraphed Mr. Conkling Mr. Snyder’s letter, and here is the answer: “New York. Feb. 23. 3 884. “Answering your telegram, I authorize you to say that a person, whose name I did not catch, was brought by a member to my table at the New York Club, where I was eating my dinner on a Sunday, and introduced as a clergyman who wished to make my acquaintance. Some casual talk took place, merely social, without a thought that the man talked to was a reporter or anybody but a clergyman witli a very favorable opinion of himself. The pretended interview must relate to this incident, and is erroneous and stupidly untrue in many respects. “Roscok Conkling.” We reprint Mr. Snyder’s card and Mr. Conkling’s telegram to point a moral. Here is this canting sniveler talking of his “horror” of the “miserable system” of interviewing, and of the “reckless habit of personal misrepresentation which marks the trade of the modern interviewer,” asserting that he had “none of the customary reportorial motives for misrepresenting;” and yet the very first time a man of supposed prominence talks to him over a lunch table he turns himself into a “miserable” interviewer, and succeeds in writing himself down both an ass and a tyro at tho business. He confesses he took no notes either long or short-hand, and without training for the work, proceeds to write out from memory a column and a half report of a conversation more than a week old, affecting to give the expressions of Mr. Conkling in haec verba. The incident is worth noting, both by the public and by the press. The “interviewer,” under proper restrictions and actuated hy proper motives, and obeying proper instructions, is not only a most valuable adjunct of a newspaper, but is a most reliable servant of the public. The “interviewer” who abuses his trust, betraying the paper upon which he is employed and the public whom he serves, is the rarest exception. The reporter has no motive for misrepresentation. On the contrary, he has every motive for fidelity, accuracy and honesty. On these traits his usefulness, his situation and his future depend. The “reporters” and the professional “interviewers” who abuse their trusts are speedily found out. the imr); of Cain is put upon them, and regarded, both inside and outside

of newspaper offices, as liar's and nuisances. But the honorable, upright reporters—and they are the class as a rule—are most industrious, truthful, exact and trustworthy. This necessarily, for reasons already explained, and so patent as to scarcely need stating. An “interview” is seldom, if ever, sought except of some gentleman who, it i6 assumed, can contribute either fact or judgment of value to the public upon some topic of vital importance, and it is an honor to any man to have the columns of a well-conducted newspaper opened to him for such expression. In seeking it the newspaper is endeavoring to make itself the agent for the exchange and interchange of the most useful and valuable “views” upon subjects of social, political, moral and educational moment, and in so far is making itself the friend and servant of the best thought of the community in which it is printed. Instead of the “interview” and the “interviewer” receiving the condemnation and the taunts of such fellows as this man Snyder, they should be highly regarded, honorably treated, made more of and better than they are. The “interview” is the pmilosophy of current history in newspaper clothing, and in his way the interviewer is.of value to society and to the world, as was Boswell and Macaulay. An esteemed friend in the northern part of the State prints in his able newspaper a remark to the effect that “a most beautiful fight is going on in Indianapolis” between the newspapers, the Journal being mentioned among them. If this be true the fact has escaped our attention. We are engaged in no “fight” with anybody that we know of. The only “fight” we are in is a daily struggle to make the Journal a newspaper of the people and for the people. In this fight we are enlisted for the war. But as to those sort of things which our esteemed friend calls “fights,” we venture to remark that they are the poorest possible investment for any paper. Tho general public cares nothing for that sort of petty newspaper conduct, except to despise it. Wo think the Journal is old enough to know that fact, and when anybody finds us engaged in that kind of a “fight,” they will be kind enough to call our attention to it. The Cincinnati papers are very strongly criticising the Ohio Medical College authorities in connection with the Avondale burking case. Nobody less than the college authorities dreamed of such a horrible thing. Had such a crime been committed recently in any part of the world, Dr. Cilly, who received and paid for the bodies, would probably have been careful enough to have detected the fact that tiie bodies delivered to him were not yet rigid in death. It is well to censure a person for criminal carelessness, but in such a well-nigh unprecedented case as this there is reason for hesitating to hastily condemn. The Boston Pilot republished the main portion of Rev. Mr. Reed’s sermon on the death of Wendell Phillips, with an introductory note like this: “In the city of Indianapolis there is a remarkable man, a Presbyterian minister, named Myron W. Reed, who is respected aud beloved by all classes and creeds, but especially by the poor. It was natural that from such a one should come the best oration yet delivered on our great orator and agitator.’ Bah! The following rot was cabled to a New York paper as part of a half-column description of a ten-cent farce brought out in a variety theater in Paris: “Last night, during the first act. a feature was introduced not contemplated by the authors. A little ‘cafe au lait,’ frizzly poodle belonging to Madame Grassot frisked upon the scene, much to the discomfiture of the actors and delight of the audience, and was only with great difficulty chased off the stage. The incident, however, in no way injured the action of the play, being, in fact, quite in keeping with its boisterous extravagance.” This is enterprise gone mad to the verge of imbecility. _ A Kingston, N. Y., jury, after fruitlessly wrangling over a verdict, was calmed and brought to a sense of its duty by one of its members dropping to his knees and offering a prayer for guidance Prayer is good; but if should he resorted to by the parties to the suit before going to court, and in nine cases out of ten they would not go there at all, would he money and happiness ahead, and the court, attorneys and jury could find some other employment of greater service to the country. A New York drug house has begun the commendable business of cutting rates in prices, selling at a reduction of about 25 per cent. The drug trade can come as near making a reduction of 100 per cent., and still enjoy a living profit, as any business in tho country. A girl at Schenectady ran in front of a locomotive to rescue her hat, despite the warning of her companions. The pilot of the locomotive threw her into the ditch, but she escaped without serious injury. The liat was worth more than the girl. Indianapolis is promised the Greenback convention, but is not saying much about it. Probably afraid that Chicago will slip in and steal it from them. —Cincinnati Commercial. Chicago would hardly descend to petty larceny. England’s exports to America during 1883 showed a falling off of $14,231,858 from those of 1882. In other words, we that much less money to England and paid that much more to our own mechanics. To tho Editor .-f the Indianapolis Journal: Would it be asking too much for ym to publish Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg in your Tuesday’s issue? A Constant Reader. Sheridan, Ind. Subjoined is a copy of the oration, which is indorsed by Edward McPherson as being strictly accurate: “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on ihis continent anew nation, conceited in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all in:*! created equal. “Now we ;.n e..gaged in a great civil war, testing whether that, nation, or any nation so conceived and so and dicated, can long endure. We art* met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to indicate a portion of that field as a final resting ;,.ucu for those who hero gave tlicir lives that that nation might live. It is al-

together fitting aud proper that we should do this. “But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate —we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here: but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have anew hirtli of freedom, and government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from tho earth.” To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: When is the election for school commissioners to succeed the present board. Subscriber. The second Saturday in June. POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. There are only fourteen aspirants for the Democratic nomination for Governor in Missouri. District Attorney Holstein, in relation to the talk about him being chosen as a delegate-at-large to the Republican national convention, states that he is not an aspirant for the position, nor would he be. The Michigan Republicans think that they can contribute to the election of a party majority in the next Congress by recovering at least three of the districts in that State now represented by Democrats. The Michigan delegation was for some years solidly Republican. Paterson Guardian: Some Democrats in western Pennsylvania are advocating as a presidential ticket Samuel J. Randall and General W. S. Rosecrans. They wish to raise the battlecry of Randall. Rosecrans and reform. That would be a sort of Rad way’s Ready Relief ticket. A correspondent of the Journal warmly indorses the suggestion of Col. Geo. W. Parker, now of Madison county, as a candidate for Treasurer of State upon the Republican ticket. Col. Parker was a gallant soldier in the old Seventy-ninth and a gentleman of the highest integrity and character. Somebody, indefinitely designated as a New York politician, is said to have remarked in Boston a day or two ago that he had heard many people talking up Hon. William Claflin for candidate for the Vice-presidency, and that he thought he “would be a good annex to some whooping Westerner from way back.” Vermont’s canvass will be of peculiar importance this year. Besides a Governor and a Legislature that will choose Senator Justin S. Morrill’s successor, a Secretary of State and an auditor will be elected, the last two offices being filled for the first time by the popular vote. There is no presidential boom for Edmunds in the State, there being no necessity for one, as the party is unanimously in his favor. One of the many rumors sent out from Washington and published in a Chicago paper is to the effect that ex-Congressnian Singleton, of Illinois, is quietly working up a Curtin presidential boom. Mr. Singleton is reported to be nominally for Morrison for the first place on the ticket, in order to get together as much strength as possible, and then turn it over to Curtin for President and tack Morrison on for Vice-president. Political affairs in Georgia are growing interesting. It is rumored that Governor Me Daniell, elected last year to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Governor Alexander H. Stephens, will not be a candidate this year. Governor Boynton, who was defeated by McDaniell, and who has been threatening to oppose Congressman Hammond in the Fifth district, now publishes a letter declining to run for Congress, and intends to again run for Governor. The Samuel J. Randall association, of Phila delphia, has already made arrangements to send sixty representatives to the Democratic national convention. They will wear full-dress suits and white silk hats and, as Squire McMullen, who presided at the meeting, said, “will do ail they can in the interest of Mr. Randall.” The Americus Club, of Philadelphia, lias also made arrangements to send representatives to Chicago, and it is expected that fully one hundred of its members will go. In answer to a circular letter sent out by the Lewiston (Me.) Journal to prominent Republicans in all parts of the State, asking for the first choice of the Republicans for candidates for President and Vice-president, and also for the second choice, sixty replies have been received, and out of that number fifty name James G. Blaine for first choice, and the rest are divided between Edmunds, Sherman, Arthur. Lincoln and Hawley. A majority seem to favor Edmunds for second choice. Lincoln is the general favorite for Vice-president. Blaine and Lincoln arc the most popular ticket. Mr. Frye and Mr. Dingley are frequently mentioned for Vice-presi-dent. Southwestern Indiana, or the section of the State known as the “Pocket,” will be represented among the candidates before the State Republican convention by William M. Hoggatt, who is being favorably spoken of in connection with the nomination for Reporter of tlie Supreme Court. He is one of the foremost lawyers in the First congressional district, and although he has been one of the most indefatigable workers in the party, lie has never been a candidate for office. He is a graduate of old Asbury University, was a soldier in the late war. and is a lawyer of recognized ability. Ho is strongly supported by Southern Indiana, and, if lie should be nominated, would make a good candidate j. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Detroit Times: Mary Anderson, it is said, will make England her permanent home. Wo had hoped thnt Mary would go to heaven some day. THOMAS Nast is said to haveliecome so thoroughly infatuated with Florida that he has gone back to New Jersey determined to return with his entire family. Miss Mary Anderson, in the “humble judgment” of Mr. Laboucbere. plays no better in “Comedy and Tragedy” than many an actress earning per week in a stock company. WHILE leading political economists of England and France are mainly free-traders, the majority of the foremost professors of political economy in German universities are protectionists. GKROME has temporarily laid down the pencil and taken up the chisel. But he is sixty years old, ar.d will haydly have time to approach tlie fame as a sculptor which he has been many long years achieving as a painter. The presidency of the State University of Minnesota has been tendered to and accepted by Prof. Cyrus Nortbrup, of the chair of history in Yale College. Prof. Northrup is about fifty years of age, a man of striking ability and excellent executive talent. “Sire, one word,” said a soldier one (lay to Frederick the Great, when presenting bo him a request for the brevet of lieutenant. “If you say two,” answered the King. “1 will have you hanged.” “Sign.” replied the soldier. The King stared, whistled and signed. Cable special: Mr. Buckle, the new editor of the Times, is only thirty-three. He owes his appointment to Oxford friendship with young Mr. Walter. The Times will be managed by Mr. Walter, sr., Mr. Walter, jr.. and Mr. Macdonald, with Mr. Buckle as a figurehead. Mr. A. J. Cassatt, the well-known railroad man. has just been re-elected road supervisor of Lower Morion township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. He has given his personal attention to the condition of the roads in his township, whicli have greatly im* prved under his supervision. Mrs. Cecilia Sherman, the people of Mansfield (O.) HH3 r , has been as industrious and attentive to the interests of her husband as himself, and some allege that sho can draw’ up a law paper and trnscribe it as accurately as a lawyer, and has often done so. She bear* the highest name for her modesty, prudence,

strength of nature, and singleness of fidelity. Not having children of her own, she has imitated the example of those who sheltered her husband’s brethren, and found posterity among the children of the needy. It is on the cards that Arabi will be back in Egypt }>efore long, the views held by him for tho permanent improvement of his country being identical with those of General Gordon. The latter thoroughly believes in Arabi, and never conceals his opinion. He subscribed to the fund raised for his defense. The most remarkable, if not the largest, collection of photographs in the United States is owned by Detective Henry Wcyl, of Philadelphia. It contain* tw’o thousand pictures of “crooks.” and with them are newspaper clippings describing them and their exploits, reports of trials and other memoranda. Sheridan’s solicitor, calling one day, found the wit’s wife alone, and walking about in a violent state of excitement. He asked her what was the matter. Her only reply was that “her husl>and was a villain.” Astor a time she added, with some hesitation. “Why, I have discovered that all the love-letters he sent me were the very same as he sent to his first wife.” A correspondent of the London Electrician give* the following as an instant remedy for toothache: With a small piece of zinc and a hit of silver (any silver coin will do), the zinc placed on one side of the afflicted gum and tlie silver on tho other, by bringing the edges together, the small current of electricity generated immediately and painlessly stops tho tooth" ache. The Bell telephone is probably the greatest final* c *al success of the age. It seems that everybody wh® has touched it in tlie way of proprietorship has I income rich. The poor school-teacher who invented il is worth millions. Tlie man who helped him in hi* poverty with a little ready money lives in splendor and luxury. It lias made fortunes for hundreds of stockholders in local companies in various towns. From the Northwest comes the story that when Wendell Phillips was there, some six or seven year* ago, he was so attracted to a bright little girl in a family with whom he spent a day or two that he laid hi* hand on her head and said: If I live twenty-tw years longer. I trust I shall hear of this little one a* the Governor of Minnesota.” The mother inquired: “Why, Mr. Phillips, would you approve of such a thing?” To which he replied: “Certainly; why not!” Mr. Eno, owner of the Fifth-avenue Hotel property, and one of the wealthiest men in New York, is the brother-in-law of Governor Phelps, of Missouri, wh® was the custodian of the body of Nathaniel Lyon. Miss Phelps married Mr. Montgomery, a native of Pennsylvania, who built, with Scotch capital, a railroad through the Willamette valley, in Oregou. and sold the road to Mr. Villard. Mrs. Montgomerv has almost a national reputation for her sweetness of nature, vivacity and beauty. The wife of Attorney-general Brewster is a plump and handsome brunette; she has been more or less in public life ever since her father. Robert J. Walker, was Secretary of the Treasury. Her first, marriage was unhappy and ended in a divorce. After her father’s death, and a season of work in the treasury, she married her father's friend, Mr. Brewster, who is twenty years her senior. She has one son by Mr. Brewster, and her husband legally adopted and gave bis name to her three other children. The formal separation between Priuce and Princes* Frederick Charles, of Hohenzollern, and the breaking up of their establishment is a grievous blow to Berlin “society.” The magnificent palace on the Wilholrnastrasse. famous for its rare and splendid collection <*C armor, which the Prince inherited a year ago from hi* father, Prince Karl, has lately been re decorated a a great expense, and has been refurnished in the m< >st costly manner. It was expected that it would become the scene of brilliant hospitalities, but now it is to ! entirely shut up. the Prince will retire to Glienicke, his residence near Potsdam. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. The pending bill known as the “Mexican war pension bill" which proposes to add thousands of men to the pension list who have already had all the bounty they are entitled to. and others who are not honestly entitled to any bounty, is. in its present state, a big steal in the interest of the ring of {tension agents and claim agents.—Chicago Journal. After being told by Ben Butler that its mission was ended and that it had belter lie down and die, and after only escaping through filibustering from being pronounced dead by its own national committee, the National Greenback-Labor party deserves considerable credit for still beingable to summon up strength enough to pipe.—Globe-Democrat. The case is that of a totally independent note, from the German government, said to he offensive in character. Now. every government is at liberty to consub its own dignity by refusing to receive an offensive communication; and if this note is offensive, as described, we presume our government will know what to do with it.—New York Herald. Asa regular thing, no man can bo nominated by either party who is not warmly supported by the delegation from the State where he lives. No matter how brilliant, the talents, how distinguished the patriotism, or how extraordinary the public services of a statesman, he cannot draw this great prize in the political lottery unless ho is backed by all tlie zeal and determination of his own .State.—New York Sun. IGNORANCE. more often than dishonesty, is the reason why ministers do not Speak the truth at funerals. A few passages from the Scriptures, a few words of prayer, with the view of commending the soul to its Maker and Judge, and of bearing comfort to those to whom death.has come as a thief—these are all that, are necessary, and what is more than these is most often a display of presumption and of ignorance.—Detroit Times. A few years have passed. The civil-rights bill has been overthrown; the whole colored population of the South lias been disfranchised: white Republicans are shot for daring to vote, and this liberty-loving worshiper of Charles Sumner (Carl Scliurz) utters no protest. but takes public occasion to proclaim his admiration for the shotgun policy. It is about, time that the Republican party was whipped out of its boots when it can haggle ami trade with such degenerate apostates as this.—Chicago News. The color line in the public schools of New Jersey has been wiped out by a decision of the Supreme Court in a case growing out of the refusal of the trustees of Burlington to admit four mulatto children to a school for white children in that town. There is no more mischievous exhibition of prejudice than that which excludes from the schools whose especial object it is to furnish educational privileges to tho poorer and more ignorant, some of the class which need them the most.—Philadelphia Dispatch. The Mormon rulers evidently see that they can only maintain their power by exercising almost absolute influence in political elections. It is said that in many of their towns a vote is rarely cast- against the slate fixed up by the elders. In short. Brigham Young’s theory that the church authorities must have full power to direct the temporal affairs of the people is still maintained, though the chiefs have not Brigham’s ability, and tlie indications of approaching dissolution are to be seen in the continual dissensions breaking out in the ranks.—St. Louis Republican. There is not simply the argument of justice against the free pass system. The argument or expediency is equally strong. It is notorious that the long sessions or the Legislaturo are fostered by the privilege which the members enjoy of going homo every Friday and returning on Monday or Tuesday without having to pay their way. If the average iegjslatoi had to buy his ticket every time he wanted to go home or to run down to the metropolis for an outing, he would not leave the capital one-quarter as often as he does nm®, and the length of tlie session might be reduced some weeks.—Brooklyn Union. The situation is like that of four years ago. Then Mr Tilden was so unsuccessful in his efforts to convince his most intimate friends that he was really not a candidate, that nobody knew when the convention met whether he wished a nomination or not. All w'ere agreed, however, that lie could name the candidate if he would,but though he wrote a letter which half of the convention took fur a declination, and the other half could not understand, he gave no indication of his preference for any other candidate, and the convention was obliged to proceed without his advice. —New York Evening Post. The most, difficult problem is that of the urban illiterate. and tliis can only be effectually solved by such measures as recognize the necessity of putting the body at ease before ministering to the uiind. To talk of education to people who cannot with all their efforts appease the pangs of hunger, must l>o a mockery. But if a perception of the breadth of this question leads to an admission that there are things move dangerous than inability to read and write, and things which much more urgently demand reform, the public discussion of the subject will have produced some good results.—New York Tribune. It is not torturing the figure too much to say that the statute that is good on the hilltop will be only a dead letter in the valley. Prohibition may lie enforced in the rural sections of tho State, bat, will certainly prove a failure in the larg>‘ towns; and tho places that boast of their great distilleries may vote prohibition, but they will never enforce it. No man nas yet explained how the sarno prohibitory law can work well on the hilltop and in the valley. It a great work to plant virtues on the hilltops and exterminate evil from t.he valleys, but acts or the 1 legislature can do this only when they have the earnest and practically unanimous support of public sentiment, Epigrams will not do it.—Chicago Tribune.