Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1884 — Page 4

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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SOX. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1884. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON, P. C\—Brentano’s, 1,015 Pennsyl vania Avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI--J. C. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUISVILLE—O. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets BT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. The Republican ticket earned Center township. The day is past when America can hope to get wealthy on grain growing alone. We must have grain eaters who are not grain growers. The exclusive returns from Gubser's Mill, as indicated by the monkey ballot-boxes in this city on Monday, are valuable indeed. Nearly 4,000 votes are accounted for out of 14,500. M atthkw Arnold told a few things in England about Chicago, and the papers of that city are boiling over with as much indignation as they do when their fast-mail farce is •xposed. A Republican majority- of 3,500 in Cleveland on Monday looks well for October and November. Ohio is as sure a Republican State this fall as Vermont. To talk of Ohio ►s a doubtful State is to talk political idiocy. That part of the Republican ticket which jaii upon its merits, and was not handicapped With the insane advocacy of the usual “organic"’ slumgnlHonery, was elected. Mr. De Buffer has reason to pray to be delivered from his friends. The Journal publishes another comprehensive list of township elections held last Monday, from our special correspondents. Like those given yesterday, the general average of the result is decidedly- in favor of the Republican party. The death of the principal witness in the trial that resulted in the conviction of Korner gives a chance to get in work for a new trial. Now, that Warapf is dead, it will not be hard to fix the murder upon him, though this does uot seem to have occurred to the defense until after his death. One of the lessons of the election is that the Republican voters of Center township cannot be dragooned by the cat-calls and “liewgag” business which belongs to the age immature journalism, but in which self-re-specting newspapers, and those who respect the intelligence and conscience of those to whom they- speak, have long since ceased to indulge. The entire Republican ticket was elected on Monday, excepting the township trustee and one constable. The majorities average about 275. Two years ago the Democrats elected all their officers by an average majority of 847. A Republican gain of 1,182 on a two-thirds vote is quite satisfactory. The Democrats should organize another parade, and employ a brass band. There is quite an element in the Democratic party which cannot be labeled and delivered at will. That element is growing larger year by y-enr. When the Democratic ringsters attempted to illegally redistrict the city hundreds and thousands of Democrats either remained at home or voted with the Republicans, and thus administered a signal rebuke to the evil men and methods of thenown party. At other times a large proportion of Democrats have refrained from voting when they could not consistently support the partyticket. It was so on Monday. Mr. Kits did not and could not poll the strength of his party. But, while this fact is both true and creditable as to the Democratic party, it is a (much larger fact ns to the Republican party, jd that whenever there is a light vote the

figures show a greater proportion of stay-at-liome Republicans than Democrats; and so the Democrats usually- profit iu what are called “off" elections. The problem is how to call out the largest possible vote at the minor elections and in the off years. It certainly- is not by tlie nomination of candidates against whom there is decided opposition, whether that opposition bo always well grounded or not; neither is it by the emphasis of methods which tend to degrade a political campaign into a pot-house squabble. FRIDAY NIGHT'S PRIMARIES. The primaries for the selection of delegates to the county convention will be held on Friday night. The C,OOO Republican voters, who were not represented in the ballot cast on Monday for township trustee should be represented in these primary meetings of the party, and they should be represented effectively. They should not permit themselves to be treated as ciphers, either because of nonattendance or by reason of failure to assex-t their legitimate influence. And it will not be wise for those in charge of the machinery of the party to endeavor to set up any soi-t of game by- which the proper influence of these voters will be nullified, or they made to feel that their attendance upon primaiies is nothing but a farce—so much valuable time thrown away. It has been demonstrated that the party cannot succeed without these votes; that a nomination secured after a heated contest in which these voters are practically ignored is not only worth nothing, but is costly and vexatious to the one who receives it. What worse than nonsense, therefore, it is for either party- managers or candidates to ignore this silent, self-respecting, independent Republican vote, which is the determining factor in cases of close and excited contests. Let the primaries be thrown -wide open, so that these voters can stand upon a pex-fect equality with those who make either a vocation or an avocation of “politics.” When these silent votei-s come to the priniaries, let them see that their voices are as potent and as respected as the voice of the one who is always found with his pockets stuffed full of written or printed “slates,” and who has spent his time “drumming” the precinct or ward in the interest of some particular aspirant. Let these voters be made to feel that it is the people’s primary, the people’s convention, the people's canvass, and not altogether a cut-and-dried affair of the candidates. Some may sneer at this; but the experience of the last two elections ought to silence the sneerers, whether they ax-e convinced or not. Let the people come out on Friday night, the people who care more for the party- than for any man, and let the succeeding convention and canvass be of the people, by the people, and for the people; so shall the Republican pai-ty merit and achieve a triumphant success in November.

LOW WHEAT. On April 9, 1883, April wheat sold in Chicago at 99c to sl. On the corresponding day of the week for this year, April wheat in Chicago brought but 75 3-8 c to 77 l-2c. In 1883, May wheat was worth $1.03 7-8 t 051.05 1-4. May wheat on Monday last sold at 82 l-Bc. This makes a decline of more than 20 cents from last year’s quotations. Avery, marked and very serious difference, representing millions of dollars. To many the secret is not understood. Superficially thepe seems no good reason why wheat .should not be worth nearly or quite as much now as a twelvemonth past. But there is a reason for this, and a good one. Had it been within the power of “bulls” to maintain prices they would have done so. A desperate effort was repeatedly made to do this, only to fail in every instance and to be followed by a further decline. At the time of the harvest, in 1883, there was still on hand from the crop of 1882 not less than 65,877,155 bushels of wheat, which, added to the yield of 1883, as estimated from official sources, made a total of 486,031,655 bushels. From this is to bo deducted 52,000,000 bushels for seed for the crop of 1884, leaving 434,000,000 bushels for export and home consumption. The mean population of the couutry for this crop year is 56,117,589, which, according to the average for eighteen yearn past, would consume 247,871,390 bushels per year. Two-thirds of the crop year has passed, so that up to date we may presume that 166,000,000 bushels have been disposed of in this way. Th ere then remains 268,000,000 bushels to be accounted for since the time of the last harvest. The net exports since then, up to March 1, were equivalent to 78,263,260 bushels, leaving, substantially, 190,000,000 bushels still on hand. During the remaining third of the crop year we shall consume 82,000,000 bushels, so that there will be 108,000,000 bushels left to carry over to add to the new crop. But during the four mouths bet ween March 1 and harvest we may export as much as we did during the same period last year, or about 28,000,000 bushels. This would leave still 80,000,000 bushels to be added to the new crop, or about 14,000,000 bushels more than was on hand at the same period in 1883. The export outlook is far from encouraging. To-day’s cable reports show that in London granaries alone there are 454,000 quarters more of wheat than at the same time last year. The London Standard, impressed by what must be patent to every observer, says: “It is obvious that the wheat trade is overdone, and it is consequently important for London and Liverpool money-lender's to know who holds this extraordinary mass of grain." The present outlook for a big yield is probably as good as was ever known. The acreage is large and the condition of growing wheat is

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very fine, taking the country over. This, combined with the fact that new wheat i-e----gions are rapidly developing, not in America alone, but, unfortunately, iu vast territories where labor costs next to nothing, so that prices cannot be held up, and more than ever the American wheat raisei-s must look to American consumption. Plainly enough, America lias more than enough wlieat-growei-3 at this time. What is lxeeded is wise legislation that will naturally restoi-e and maintain the balance of mamifactui-ing intex-ests. We cannot soli wheat to the Old World if the Old World has a mai-ket that offers lower figures than we can. It is not desii-able that we seek to underbid the semi-savage competitors if a better method can be discovered. It ought to be plain enough to any intelligent mind that we were altogether moi-e independent and more pi-ospei-ous were we able to sell nearly or quite all of our products at home. The embarrassment of the present time would uot be felt had we more men engaged in manufactux-ing and a less number in the business of wheat growing. Could we divei-t the millions we now seud abroad to the encouragement of American industiies, so that by that much the pressure would be raised from the over-competition between fai-mers, we would by that much be relieved from the low prices now prevailing. There would be propoi-tionately fewer fanners, and by that per cent, as many mox-e actively employed consuuxei-s. Suppose we buy not a yai-d of cloth woven abroad, but apply- the money- to building up American mills, -"-oxxld we not then have moi-e consumers at home and proportionately fewer farmers? And would not this naturally- and healthfully enhance the value of fann products? Any measure that tends to such a consummation is to be commended. It is a good plan to giv our patronage anti encouragement to the men who buy American bread and pay Amei-ican taxes.

REMARKABLE LOGIC. It is remarkable bow Mr. Frank 11. Hurd, who is regarded, and justly, as one of the ablest free-trade advocates in the country, overreached himself in his argument against the restoration of the duty on wool in the House on Monday. As reported in the debate Mil Hxu'd said “be opposed this motion because it px'oposed to restore the duty on wool, and thereby increase its price. * * * The question thus plainly psesented was, ought the price of wool to be inci’eased by legislation?"’ i That is to say, the higher the duty on wool tlie higher the price, and, as a converse, the lower the duty the lower the price. And Mr. Hurd said that in the lowering of the price of wool, which is to he accomplished by taking and keeping off the duty, or a portion of it, there are thi'ee classes interested—tlie consumer of woolen goods, the manufacturer's of woolen goods and the producer of law wool. Let all this he conceded. Mr. Hurd, however, proceeds to say in his ai'gument: “From 1847 to 1860, farmers got five cents per pound more than they did during the period of higher protective tariff. In England, when a proposition was made to take tlie duty off wool, it was antagonized by the wool-grow-ers, hut tlie result had been that the pi-ice of wool had steadily advanced. He believed if wool were put oil the free list to-day, with a corresponding reduction in tho duty on woolen goods, the result would be a large increase in manufacture, a large increase in the number of operatives employed, and at least 18 per cent, increase in tlie price paid tlie farmer.” Now, here we cannot follow Mr. Hurd. In the first place he asserts that the reduction of the duty on wool will reduce its price, aud then he asserts that, during the years of low tariff, the price was five cents higher than under a high tariff, and he believes that if wool were put on the free list the price would he 18 per cent, higher than it is now with a duty on it. We confess this sort of logic is staggering. The duty on wool should he lowered so as to reduce the price of wool, hut the effect of reducing the duty is to increase the price! If low-priced wool is the boon Mr. Hurd says it is, iu which the consumer and the manufacturer of woolen goods are so deeply aud vitally interested, why iu the world not keep on the tariff, since Mr. Hurd asserts that the effect of a low tariff between 1847 and 1860 was to make wool 5 cents more a pound than it was under the higher or war tariff, while to place it upon the free list entirely would enhance the price 18 per cent.! We have heard of and seen the magician’s bottle out of which could he poured various kinds of wine; hut this tariff scheme of Mr. Hurd, by which a reduction iu the duty is to give both a reduced price and nil advance of 18 per cent, is too much. Such logic will he confusion to the simple, straightforward sheep farmers of Ohio, Indiana, and other States. The Journal calls attention to the card of Mr. Woodard iu regard to the connection of Thomas C. Campbell with murder trials in Cincinnati. The Journal certainly has no desire to he unjust to Mr. Campbell or anyone else. The statements complained of wore made upon the authority of an alleged interview with Mr. Campbell, published in the Cleveland Leader and widely copied, and of which we had seen no denial. The Journal 15 glad to publish his repudiation of the interview as a matter of justice to Mr. Campbell. The annual report of the Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service for tlie year 1883 shows that in the Sixth (Chicago) division there are 799 men, and 300 examinations were held. In the Fifth (Indianapolis) division there are 659 men, and there were 719 examinations. That is, with 140 less men in the division, Mr. French imposed upon his subordinates 419 more examinations than were found necessary in the Sixth division by Captain White, who is an efficient officer, and who

has not only a good official record, but is well regarded by his men. And out of these 719 examinations 560 wei-e held in Indianapolis. Only 159 examinations were necessary for all the clex-ks who make their headquarters other than in this city. Possibly-, the “commission” could have foxind out the reason Indianapolis clerks were the principal complainers against Colonel French if they had cared to inquire, instead of being content to cast a slur upon the Indianapolis hoys. That these examinations were not inquired because of lack of competence is proved by the figures. The average of examinations in this division was 92.49—a very good relative grado. A “fire-proof” thirteen-story flat fcas bui'ned in New York city, not partially, but wholly to the earth, and the greater portion of the material of which it was made has gone back to the elements. L has been demonsti-ated that perfectly fire-proof structures cannot be built. At least, they ax-e not; and the conclusion is that it is a good deal safer to be nearer terra iirma than in any story above the third. A building thirteen stories high is a good deal more likely to take fire and bum than is one leas high, covering the same ground space, for the reason that there ai'e so many more chances of fire. It follows that it is correspondingly unsafe to live in such a building, and some kind of enactment should come in to protect giddy humanity from erecting and occupying such death ti"aps. The evil has not yet reached its limit, and structures of the kind ai'e now planned ill New Yoi'k city to be not less than eighteen stories high, provided with easy, noiseless elevators, incandescent electi-ic light, hot and cold water on eveiy floor, and all the conveniences calculated to tempt people to occupy the vaiious floors nearest the stars. The diffei'ence between a newspaper and something else which calls itself that was again demonstrated yesterday. The Journal planted xnoi - e than two columns of special dispatches giving the result of the township elections in about half the State. One of the other three English-speaking prints had partial reports from foui-teen counties, a little more than one-seventh of the State, and the other from sixteen counties, one-sixth of the State. Sending hand-bills by the thousands among the intelligent Republican votei-s of Indianapolis the day before the election, filled with organic ravings, is a method of political management the brilliance of which was proved by the result of the balloting. It would have been greatly better, and would have added to the material wealth of the country, if the waste paper had been dumped into the nearest paper mill.

Sunday base hall does not seem to thrive at Fort Wayne. The judge of the Criminal Court there has ordered the grand jury to bring indictments against the managers of the club that played a pay-game last Sunday, and to include in the indictment tlie financial hackers of the club. - The judge probably hasn't seen the picture of the statue of a baseballist on a pedestal. The latest base-ball lithograph used in advertising games represents the members of the club reclining, cum dignitate, in open landaus, while spirited horses draw them gaily to the scene of their triumphs. The many-storied businesshouses along tho way are duly labeled as dealing in base ball goods, a huge bill board announces a “game to-day,” and in the center of a fine square is reared a statue of a player. The Indianapolitan who contemplates all these things marvels only that the 25-eent express wagon and the cow-bell have, in some unaccountable manner, been omitted, without which no game in this city can be a success. The scoffer will be inclined to regard the bill as egotistical, especially since it incorporates a pretentious statue of some typical player. But why not? Did not Athens have in her public streets a bronze Discobolus? And did not Rome receive from her sculptors innumerable gladiators in stone? America's olympiad is found in the diamond field, and the plaudits of her fair citizens eomo from the grand stand What better wore the Isthurian games than the League games? Who ever heard of ail Athenian knocking the hall over the left field fence? And where does history relate that any Roman made a home run? Imperial Caesar never made a three-base hit in his life. True, the Roman umpire was mistress of the world for a time, but who ever heard of a nine who hunted leather all over Campus Martius? Let the record he produced, and let us examine the figures for the season of A. D. 75. Why are not the battiug and fielding records of that year published? Why, unless the people of that antiquated village fear comparison. Let us then assume what credit remains to us, and let us put up a monument or two to the banana fingered hero of today. One as he appears about to ‘ ‘hist" it over the left field fence; one as pitcher, a third as catcher, while a copy of the figure that surmounts the Vendome column will make a fair presentment of the humble, retiring umpire. One fruitful cause of the miscarriage of justice is the manner in which the dockets of our courts are crowded with cases of little moment. Take tlie case of Feigenspau vs. Morrow, on trial in the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Tlie plaintiff, Christian Feigenspau, alleges that Judge William H. Morrow, the defendant, li"beled him in declaring that he (Morrow) once saw a dead rat floating about in one of Feigensspau's vats of beer; and further, that Feigenspau had admitted that he intended selling the contents of that yat to country customers. Morrow also publicly charged that while in the brewery lie saw tbe men there employed wash their feet in tho water, afterwards used in browing beer. This man, Feigenspau, imagines that he has been injured, and has the temerity to come into court and demand SIO,OOO damages, ne should he uon-suited at onee. Who cares if a rat did drown in the beer? What is one rat to that much beer? And who is so over-fastidious as to ask that !>eer be thrown out simply Because an unfortunate rat has lost his life in it! Brewers can not be expected to insure tlie lives of rats. And what if the men eni

ployed about the promises did wash their feet in water afterwards used in brewing! Can the men be expected to go through life without performing their ablutious! A little calculation will show that, even admitting the facts as chai'ged, no harm could come fi-om them. Who knows what is the average of rats per vat, whether one or a dozen! Certainly, one must he regarded as a very low estimate and in no wise prejudicial to the particular brand made by Feigcnspau. Mr. Feigenspau could probably show that the rat was a small one, or, being a large one, that it had been in the vat some time, during which time several successive brewings had been made. As for washing feet in water, that signifies nothing as long as the men didn’t bathe in the beer itself. The question naturally arises: What would the public expect to find in its beer? It would b e unreasonable to look for a $lO pup or Italian gi-eyhound there. No brewer could afford it. Some might argue that cats could be used, but cats do not give a rich flavor, while cat fur is no longer regai'ded stylish. If Judge Morrow is anything like a good citizen he will pay the SIO,OOO demanded, and say no more about it. Feiganspau is doubtless doing the best he can, and will change from l’ats to something else as soon asbxxsiness allows. Chicago is wrought up over the strictui'es made by Mi'. Matthew Arnold The charge he made that a lady of that city had credited to him the authorship of “Tom Brown at Rugby” and “The Light of Asia,” is unquestionably an ancient libel, adapted for the occasion. Whatever criticisms the apostle of sweetness and light may have made on the people of Chicago may be taken for what they aie worth. His knowledge of them must of necessity be very superficial, as his stay there was of but a few hours' duration. That they did not turn out en masse to sit at his feet at a dollar a seat does not argue that they are without culture. The same phenomenon might have been witnessed in London or any of the provincial cities of England. The fact is, that the bland egotist is a trifle embittered because he did not get more of oar ducats. This is too bad; but kind friends did all they could for him, dead heading him everywhere he went. He may not have rexlizod much in door-receipts, but succeeded in getting away with eveiy shilling he took in. Mr. Samuei. Tu.iikn and Miss Mary Anderson ought to sympathize with each other. The firstnamed giddy coquette, having been betrayed into a “no,” in the feminine sense, which, as everybody ought to know, means yes, is humiliated to discover that his tactics are misunderstood by the party he is flirting with, and that lie is not likely to be asked again. Miss Mary, on the other hand, is obliged to “’fess up” that no noble Duke has ever asked her to be his’n, and that she has had no chance to say no. If the two could be brought to offer sweet consolation to each other a painful situation might be relieved and the country allowed to turn its mind to other matters. The Philadelphia Times is publishing a seines of “White House portraits.” They are so called because they are pen-pictures of men occupied in looking at the White House, with a thou-art-so-near-but-yet-so-far-and-getting-further-off expression. The list of these afflicted citizens is long enough to supply the Times with fillin’ for its columns right up to the day of the presidential conventions. Lenten devotees in New York have, for some inscrutable reason, discai’ded the. English violet and demand the genuine xvild violet, which is without fragrance, for decorative purposes during the penitential season. Asa consequence, florists have sent out into the woods and brought in tons of wild violet roots to be transplanted. The Central Labor Union, of New York city, has ordered a strike of painters all over the United States. A strike at this time would be disastrous to all who engage in it. The average citizen now insists in doing his own “painting,” and he is extremely slow who cannot paint the whole town between 9 p. M. aud daylight.

ABOUT PEOPLE AM) THINGS. The father of Judah P. Benjamin once kept a fruit store in Charleston, S. C. A “COWMAN" owns his own cattle. A "cowboy" is one who works for a “cowman." Hknrv Ward Beecher is going to “rough it" in the Rocky mouutaius during July and August. President McCosh , of Princeton, promises to make that institution to the Middle States all that Yale and Harvard are to the New England. Fred Douglass has been disowned by one of his cousins. This shows that an ethiopian can change his kin if he wishes to.—Boston Post. Mr. Evelyn Jerrold, son of the late Blanchard Jerrold and grandson of Douglas JerroM, has been appointed editor of Lloyd’s News, making the third generation of Jerrolds who have edited that paper. Mrs. Blaine is tall and not slim, and she is grave and dignified in manner. Born in Now England and well educated, she met Mr. Blaine in Kentucky, aud was his first love. Her companion and cousin is Miss Abigail Dodge, the “Gail Hamilton" of literature. Bishop Wilberforce, more remarkable generally for bitterness than sweetness of observation, once observed, iu speaking of the lovable nature of Dr. Jacobson, who has already retired from the see of Chester: “I have often heard of the milk of human kindness, but I never knew which was the cow until I met with Jacobson.” In Brazil, where the inhabitants take coffee many times a day, alcoholism is unknown. Immigrants gradually contract a fondness for coffee, and their children fall into the same habit, and never contract a love for liquors that are so fatal in other countries. The number of cases in the larger cities is enormous, while the drinking saloons are few. A New Haven reporter asked Isaac H. Bromley if he intended to start anew evening paper in that city, wheu he answered by asking, “Don't you know they sell papers for two cents now, and don’t you know you can go down below here and dig clams worth five cents apiece? I guess I won’t start a newspaper.” Here is a great clam-opening for two-cent editors. A RESIDENT of Macon, Ga., has purchased from a local confectioner, for sl2, the right to eat as much candy as he wishes in one mouth. He has gained five and a half pounds iu weight in the first week, and professes to be ready to bet from SIOO to SSOO that he can eat two and a half pounds of candy on the twentieth day. The confectioner is beginning to feel uneasy. Rebecca “Wright, then a young Quaker girl, gave Gen. Phil Sheridan the first information that induced him to attack and capture Winchester. Sheridan rewarded her first with “all the fresh beef she wanted," aud afterwards got her a place in the Treasury De parlment, which she subsequently resigned to marry a Quaker named llousall. Sheridan swore that she was entitled to a pension, and Simon Cameron expressed the opinion tiiat Gen. Sheridan should have married her. Laboucherk, writing two weeke ago, said: “Gen. Gordon has not yet proven a success at Khartoum. He may, but, if so, it will surprise me. Judging from the extracts from Ids works which the Pall Mall Gazette has published, bis mind upon many points is in such a condition that Dr. Forbes Winslow would have no compunction iu signing a certificate to confine him ill a lunatic asylum. He is brave, honest, and in many things admirable. But I suspect that he entirely overestimated his influence with tho Soudanese.

His suggestion to make Zebehr, tlie chief of the slavedealers, Governor of the Soudan, coupled with his proclamation legalizing slavery, commends itself to few, and his appointment of the Mahdi as Sultan of Kordofan is hardly in accordance with his approval of our attacking the Mahdi’s lieutenant, Osman Digma." The late Cardinal de Luca, when the Italian army entered Rome, in 1870, was much afraid that his jewels and other treasures would be confiscated. One of his servants proposed to trust them to a butcher, a rich and honest man, who would bury them in his vineyard, outside one of the gates. The Cardinal agreed, and all of his gemmed crosses, rings, splendid mitres and gold and silver table service were placed in a box and intrusted to the honest botcher. But they were never heard of more. Dr. Ai.ex. Dk Borra, of Crystal Springs, N. Y. 1 writes to the Scientific American that, after years of practical test of milk diet for Bright’s disease, he has a long list of cases in which he lias made perfect cures. Great care is taken to get absolutely pure skimmed milk, from healthy and well-fed cows, and no other food of any kind is given after the patient can bear five pints of milk a day. Up to this point, and until the stomach can take care of so much, is found to be the most trying period in this treatment, hut no other medicine is given, and hand and hairglove rubbing is daily administered. The Pall Mall Gazette tells a romantic story about Gustave Dore and the late Mr. Marwood, who for a time officiated as the English common hangman. When Dore was in England making his pictures for the hook for which Mr. Blanchaad Jerrold wrole the text, Marwood called on him one day and said that he would give £SO if the eminent French artist would make a sketch of him while he was in the exercise of hi s grisly profession. Dore at first refused, but finally consented, and attended an execution, making a picture, which was duly delivered up to Marwood, but the Frenchman told the executioner to seud the £SO to the French hospital. When Marwood was in financial trouble some years later he sold the strange sketch for £75. Some day it will very likely bring £7,500. The handsomest girl in Sylvania county, Georgia, became engaged, nearly forty years ago, to John Gross, the son of a wealthy planter. Shortly after the engagement was announced, Gross went to New Orleans on business, forgot his lady-lox-e, settled in Texas, and did not return home until two years later. Though the lady had not heard a word from him in all that time, she was still true. They renewed the engagement, then quarreled, and Gross went off again. He remained away until a few days ago, when he returned to the old homestead to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Ho found his fiancee still waiting, and promptly married her. She had refused many offers of marriage during his absence. Three men whom she had refused became, respectively, a congressman, a senator and a Governor.

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT, The same disposition which insists upon putting the governmental machinery in order at Washington insists also that it shall l>e put in order with respect to dealing with criminals. An energized public snirifc which will instill. some life anil vigor into our law makers and law interpreters and law executors is what we want. That will act both through the general and local governments.—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. The support that is being given to Mr. Blaine's candidacy is very obtrusive and very noisv. but its character is verv obvious, and if Mr. Blaine is nominated with the aid of the Pennsylvania vote, the nomination will be clearly understood to indicate that the ‘ old crowd" which has been somewhat under a cloud for several years past has gained its old-time ascendancy, and is preparing to run things in the old way.-—Phila-delphia Chronicle-Telegraph. The delegates should go to the national convention unhampered and nntrammeled by a pledge. It is vet nearly three months before it will he held, and there may be such changes in the political situation within that time as to make instructions exceedingly embarrassing, and thus probably be a source of discord. The fact that- public opinion has not crystalized with sufficient definiteness upon any one is a warning against binding the delegates by instructions.—Lafayette Journal. Among the political leaders of to day who have enjoyed the advantages of a full or partial course of college training may be mentioned Blaine, Conkling, Harlan, Hendricks. Kdmunds, Yoorhees. Butler, Chandler. Morrill and many others. With these farts in view, one may be comparatively safe in venturing the statement that so far from being a detriment to the young politician, the discipline of four years in college will be of immense practical value to him. —Minnesota Tribune. An immense and largely an Irreparable damage has been done to the trade of this country by the madness that has ruled the speculative markets. * This is made manifest by the dearness of bread at home, in the face of enormous supplies and the stagnation in the shipping business. We cannot make money by hoarding our produce aud shipping gold to pay our debts. The true policy is to sell our produce for what it will bring in fair competition with other countries, and hold on to our gold. We must come to this level if we would succeed.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. At present there is only a dim perception of the enormous influence which Congress exerts on the prosperity of the country. But it is plain that tlie trifling of that body with such questions as the tarirf and the currency is likely sooner or later to attract the attention and arouse the feelings of the people. Li the meantime the imperative duty of those whose voice has any weight is to do all that they can to bring the duty of the people home to them, and to remove all obstacles—such as patronage—to the clear and explicit expression of the popular judgment.—New York Times. The New York Times points to the significant, fact that while the number ot pounds of butter exported from New York in 1883 was multiplied by three, the quantity of oleomargarine openly exported as such deoreased by 200.000 pounds. Now, it is conceivable that foreign countries may be willing to buy American oleomargarine and butterine when offered under their genuine names, but when they are branded and sold as butter the inevitable result must be to deal a blow at the American butter trade which it will take a generation to recover.—Chicago Inter Ocean.

Ik President Arthur really meditates the assertion of a vigorous American policy on the isthmus in connection with the Lesseps canal, or a canal through Nicaragua, it is high tune he was making it known. Important changes are being prepared in that quarter which will tear the Monroe doctrine to tatters, unless we take steps for giving it vitality and force. When Mr. Blaine was Secretary of State, he desired to exhibit an aggressive and defiant American policy in Central and South America, ami it is probable he will signalize his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination by a plain and strong reassertion of his peculiar views on the subject.—St. Louis Republican. CERTAINLY there is nothing which appeals to sentiment in the custom itself of sealing up our dead to rot in their own gasses and dumping them in the damp ground to slowly decay in foulest pollution. The pi'oeess of cremation is an entirely purifying one. All that is corrupt is destroyed. The' appliances are such that even the smoke and odor are completely consumed. The remains are pure and clean, and. inclosed in tasteful can bo preserved and cherished in the household with no shudder of disgust, or they may be entomed in vaults, inunured in churches or buried in cemeteries, with all the solemn and tender ceremonies wdth which the. dead are now consigned to the grave.—Louisville Courier-Journal. TilE Pruden law prepares the way for average intelligence in the trials of crime.. Copies of marked papers will not hereafter be sufficient to drive from the court room all but the chosen few in the service of the cause of crime. Now when we reduce the c riminal challenges from twenty-three to six, and cut down the time it is necessaiy to keep a murderer after his sentence for the ministrations of the bouquet brigade, and put a hook in the nose of tlie Supreme Court, so that it shall not spend its lime in undoing all that the inferior courts accomplish, we shall he fdaced iu business relations with our courts; and periaps after a few years we may improve them and the bar also, so that reputable citizens may have fair play.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Why Mr. DeUuiter Was Rejected. Indianapolis Daily Nows. However dissatisfied with Mr. Kitz the voter might be, lie yet saw in Mr. Deßuiter a man who was supported by agencies under whoso direction tlie trustee’s office would have become merely a Republican political machine, or, it may perhaps be more proper to say, a personal political machine. For there is a tendency to separate the idea of Repiiblicanism from the personal agrandizement of a clique of city •politicians. The Journal has a few well considered words on this matter. It has come to be belie ved that there is a select coterie, which meets and parcels out things among themselves and their friends at, will, expecting tlie complacent voters at the primaries, the delegates at tho conventions and the voters again at tlie elections, merely to meet pro forma and ratify what has been don© for them ly tho estimable gentlemen, who polish official leather and have come to mistake themselves for the masters instead of the servants of the people. This fairly explains the indifferoiice of many. If it is a mere choice between one set who will take all that can be squeezed out of tho people and another, thousands of voters null not care which succeeds.