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AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ENGLISH'S OPERA-HOUSE—Colonel Wood's Dime Show. BASE-BALL PARK—lndianapolis vs. Foit Wayne, 3:30 P. M. THE DAILY JOUKNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. ~~ Friday, April 25, is&l THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 419 Strand. PARTS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON, D. C.— Breutano's, 1,015 Pennsylvania Avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. C. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUISVILLE- -C. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Hon. Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan, has declined the office of Solicitor of the Treasury. Sometime this country of ours will need a navy, and need it as had as the stranger in Texas needed a revolver. A SPECIAL from Monroe, Ga., relates the killing of Willis Gunn by his son J esse. The old man didn’t kuow that the boy was loaded. Thf, atmosphere is becoming so surcharged in Washington that statesmen cannot preserve their tempera. It will be better after the two Chicago conventions have met. The British government is asked by the steamship companies to make a harbor of Valencia, Ireland, in order to shorten the timo between London and New York. It is .estimated that six hours would thus be saved over the Queenstown route. The Democratic House of Representatives will have a heavy load to carry among the business interests of the country if Congress adjourns without putting a stop to the senseless and dangerous folly of the peremptory coinage of silver dollars. Another cashier has gene off witli $1,500 of his employer’s money. His case is remarked s curious, in that he was not a member of any church, did not belong to a choir nor conduct a Sunday-school. It is not remarkable, however, iu another respect. lie lost the moneyin wheat margins. It is interesting to learn that Professor Mashero, who lias been prospecting for ancient relics near Thebes, has struck a lead which has already yielded upwards of 6,000 mummies. The Democratic party should make haste to secure this job lot. In it they may possibly find one mummy who will not decline their candidate for to he. Once it was the Ahkhoond of Swat who fixed the public gaze, but where, oh, where is the Ahkhoond now? He made way—in the papers—for the Mudir of Berber, and the Mudir. it seems likely, is by this time impaled upon El Mahdi’s sword. Thus passeth the glory of tiie world—all but the Greystone will o' the wisp, which will flicker until November.

Mr. F. H. Snyder, general manager of the Dynamite Projectile Company, has succeeded in so fashioning a shell and loading an ordinary cannon sis to fire a dynamite cartridge from it An experiment conducted at Greenville, N. J , resulted in throwing a twentypound projectile, containing five pounds of dynamite a distance of 1,276 paces. The gun recoiled three feet. A convention of the officials of expositions has been called to meet in the city of St. Louis on Tuesday, June 3, next. The purpose of the convention is to confer upon such matters as may be suggested by official experience and the expressed wishes and requirements of exhibitors and the public generally. Each association in the country which holds fairs or expositions is entitled to send two delegates and two alternates. Woman suffrage is being agitated in Great Britain. The ladies have now raised the warcry, ''No taxation without representation," and have boldly declared that they will steadily refuse to pay any taxes until their sex is enfranchised, and are organizing societies of female tax-payers to resist, by every device known to the law, the collection of taxes by forfeiture and sale. The leader of the agitation in the Commons is Mr. William Woodall, member for Stoke-on-Trent. There may yet be a few of the faithful who would take interest in the prophecies of Professor Wiggins. He believes that the forces which caused the disastrous storm of last month will again unite on Saturday evening next, and earthquakes will probably occur on Friday and Monday, while there is a serious probability that the earthquake in England will return with increased violence about the 20th of May. In the meantime, the unbeliever will continue business at the old stand. The Blaine men in Ohio determined to push the fighting, and the result is they were decisively defeated in the selection of delegates at large by the Cleveland convention. Those Selected are Judge Foraker, Hon. William McKinley and M. A. Hanna, the latter of Cleveland, president of the Herald Printing Company, and Hon. W. H. West,

who was the candidate for Governor previous to Foster’s candidature. The first three are foi ! Mr. Sherman and the latter for Mr. Blaine. At the Utica convention, Mr. Blaine’s forces were outgeneraled, the delegation being divided between Edmunds and Arthur. The candidacy of Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, begins to assume proportions. He has, so far, almost the solid strength of Massachusetts, a strong support in New York, and his own Slate, of course, is enthusiastic for him. NATIONAL CONVENTION TICKETS. From some statements that have been published misapprehensions have arisen as to the method of the distribution of tickets to the Republican national convention. In order to correct these, and to inform those desiring to attend how they are to be obtained, as well as to save the several committees time and labor in answering requests for them, we will state just what will be done so far as at present determined by the several committees. The tickets are being prepared under the supervision of the sub committee of the national committee. They will be engraved, and with coupons for each probable session of the convention. The tickets will be numbered aud allotted to particular seats, as is done in theaters and ojiera-houses. The owner will retain liis ticket, and as the coupon will be for the successive sessions of the convention, this will prevent more than one person obtaining admittance at any one session on the same ticket. A limited number of tickets have been set apart for those who subscribe to the fund for defraying the expenses incident to the holding of the convention. These tickets will be distributed by the local committees of Chicago only. Owing to the vast number of weekly newspapers, it lias not been found possible to make any provision for them. Ample arrangements will be made for the accommodation of the several press associations, and also for as large a number of reporters for the daily newspapers as may be possible, with a proper regard for the business of the convention and the convenience of the delegates. It has been suggested by several newspaper men that such daily papers as desire to make special reports should make early application for the number of seats they require, so that w-hen the sub-committee meet again they will have a correct idea of the wants of the press, and they can then deter mine what is best to be done. Such applications as are sent to John C. New-, chairman of the sub committee, he will list and file, and present to that committee at the proper time for their consideration. All the other tickets—being those for delegates, alternates, aud for general admission to the convention—will he carefully arranged and turned over by the sub-committee to the full national committee at its next session, to be held in Chicago on the 31st day of May. The member of the national committee from each State and Territory will have charge of the tickets for his State or Territory, and will at that time distribute the same to the delegates according to number and in just proportion. Thus the delegates from each State and Territory will have the distribution of the tickets assigned thereto, and they are, therefore, the proper and only persons to whom applications should be made.

WHEAT-GEOWING, Sooner or later the people of the United States will fully awaken to the unpleasant fact that they have formidable rivals in the wheat-growers of India and Australia. To couuteract the influence of such knowledge it has been circulated that the wheat of those countries is ‘'hard,’’ that it will not produce so good nor so much flour. This has been gratuitously assumed by parties who used it for the sake of defending their position. As to Australian wheat, that is the highest-priced of all wheats, not excepting Californian. Mr. George Watson, a competent wheat inspector, examined samples of Australian wheat at the Philadelphia centennial exhibition, and pronounced them among the veiy finest he had ever seen, and far superior to our best winter product. In 1879, Dr. Forbes Watson, in a report to the British Paidiament on the subject of wheat-growing in India, declared that that country could supply almost the entire British supplementary demand. Since then Messrs. McDougall Brothel's, at the request of the British India office, examined into the commercial, milling and baking properties of Indian and other wheats. The report was to the effect that all the samples examined were of a superior character; that, in fact, they were hardly equaled for that which is deficient and wanting in English wheats; that their yield of flour was unprecedented, ranging, by ordinary grinding, from 77.46 to 80.52 per cent., against English 65.2, and American spring 72.2; that, finally, their greatest merit was that a larger percentage of bread may be obtained from them than from any other of the flours examined, which included English, Australian, New Zealand, California and American red winter and spring wheats, together with specimens of Kussian and Egyptian. The Journal has already pointed out the wonderful and significant increase in the wheat export of India since 1875, in which year it aggregated but 1,500,000 bushels. Six years later it exceeded 37,000,000 bushels. Mr. Matteson, the United States consul-gen-eral at Calcutta, in his last report to the State Department, says that the contest between India and the United States in the matter of wheat supply will be very much keener in the future than it has been hitherto; that India can now supply England with 40,000,000 bushels annually, and possesses almost unlimited

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facilities for increasing tiie supply. If this country is to continue as the wheat-growing region of the world it can only succeed by reducing the cost of cultivation to the minimum, a process that will find little favor among the laboring classes. Free trade would only increase the trouble. The country lias too many wheat-growers now. By maintaining a healthy diversity of industrial enterprises on this continent, we may at least maintain an excellent home market, which now requires over half of the vast quantity of wheat raised by American farmers. But if we are to adopt free trade in order to buy more abroad and less at home, wo will by that much deprive the laboring classes of shop employment and compel them to become farmers. There may be good sense in such a position, but the common people will scarcely see it. Os course, Judge Walker’s decision does not overthrow the insurance compact, but it puts it in such shape that its iron-bound rules cannot be enforced at law. If the compact is to continue, it must be by general consent and because its workings can be made satisfactory to both companies and parties. When this matter first assumed a shape likely to go into the courts, the Journal gave reasous why the ‘ ‘public-be-blanked” plan of Mr. Vanderbilt would not make the compact popular. “Pools” and “compact” are not popular per se, and when they are arbitrarily enforced are very liable to fall to pieces of their own weight. Hon. John Jay Knox has resigned the office of Comptroller of the Currency, to accept the presidency of the National Bank of the Republic, of New York city. Mr. Knox’s labom in connection with the currency bureau have been in the highest degree honorable to himself, and of the greatest possible value to the country. His retirement takes an honored and competent official from the public service, whose place may not easily be filled, but whose services have been such as to render it comparatively easy for his successor, whoever he may be, to administer the duties of the office satisfactorily and safely. It is to be presumed now, since Senator Malione and his followers have declared themselves in harmony with the national Republican party, while the Funder Democrats, who prated about financial honor, have adopted the Riddlebergor readjuster bill as the only basis upon which they will treat concerning the State debt, that there will be a cessation of the canting cries about Senator Mahone acting with the Republicans. The Republican party is very glad to join hands with General Mahone, or any one else in the South, to break the solidity of the Bourbon Democracy in that section.

MICHIGAN sends as delegates to Chicago Congressman Horr, Messrs. Swift and Watson, the latter a colored man, and Hon. J. C. Burrows. They go uninstructed, and their preferences are unknown. The district delegates are divided between Blaine and Edmunds, a majority being for Mr. Blaine. In the convention of 1880 Michigan cast t wenty-o.je of its twenty-two votes for Mr. Blaine, and Mr. Joy, of that State, placed the distinguished Maine statesman in nomination. The American woman is rapidly enlarging her “sphere.” Only a few weeks ago Mrs. Miller became a steamboat captain, and now, before tho wonderment fairly ceases, two Reading women signalize their defiance of straight-laced rules of propriety by undertaking to break stone for the streets of that Pennsylvania town. Thoir names are given as Shultz and Fries, two very respectable women. With hammers they have been at work all week in the open air breaking stones. They receive thirty-five cents a ton for their work, and each can break a ton and a half a day. They sit on small stools on the edge of the quarry, and swing their hammers lustily, hot caring for the gaze of the hundreds who stop to view the work of two native-born women. They work eight hours a day. The women are widows with children, and say they prefer that sort of work to washing or other household drudgery. It was only last week that two Indianapolis school girls ran off and accepted places as domestics to escape the discipline of school, and it has been but a few months since Miss Churchill, of St.. Louis, quitted her home and entered a laundry to free herself from the torture of daily practice on the piano. Another young woman has been appointed deputy sheriff, and so it goes. At this rate it won’t be long until the girls run off and join the reeular army to escape getting marrled. Thirteen (fatal number) of the largest patent medicine manufacturers in the United States have united to maintain tho price of proprietary medicines. Not that anybody has succeeded in beating down the prices asked by them, but that certain merchants in other lines of business have seen fit to undertake the sale of such medicines under the schedule price. That is, certain gen eral merchants have added patent medicines to their stock and sell them at less profit than has been realized heretofore. A cut in the retail price would result in a larger demand, and a larger demand would increase the sales and profits of the manufacturers. It seems paradoxical, therefore, for them to make the fight undertaken. Still it is natural that they should hesitate to abandon their customers of years. The idea of dry goods and notions dealers selling patent medicines, perfumes and toilet articles generally originated in Paris, where the same fight was made, resulting in the success of the innovation. Trov has long enjoyed the reputation of furnishing the typical man of the world, but now Syracuse comes forward with both men and women that are demanding consideration. On the 19th of March, Louis Haas, of that city, married what he took to be a plump and vivacious little widow. She was plump and vivacious to a degree, though not a widow, after several fine chances to become one. They lived togetlieruntil last Sunday, when Mrs. Haas packed up the household effects belonging to her and left. Mr Haas took her departure very philosophically, and made no effort to detain her or to ascertain her intentions. It now develops that she had been married three times before meeting Mr.

Haas. Her first was disposed of in the regular way—he died. The second lived with her two weeks, at the end of which time they “gave each other scribblins” and parted without the formality of divorce. Husband No. 2 went on in the marrying line and scored another. The lady lie left married again and lived with her third husband two years, when they parted. No. 3 then got another, making a record of three, with no div ; orces and no deaths. Haas then became her No. 4, with the result above named. This matter is respectfully referred to Mr. Talmage. It has been said that no man can be accounted happy until he is dead. But how are we to know when a man is dead? Four years ago a man named Heinbridge mysteriously disappeared from Cleveland, leaving his effects. In a few days a body was found in the river, identified as his, wept over and buried. His friends —for he had some—strewed flowers on his grave and mourned him as lost. On Sunday he alarmed the natives by reappearing, as well and hearty as he ever was in his life. He explained that when he left his boarding-house four years ago he got a little full, fell in with some friends and went to New Orleans, where he has been employed over since. His friends will probably insist on cropping an ear to make sure of the remains next time. Because one rose is sweet it does not necessarily follow that a dozen of the blossoms together are twelve times as delightful. Whatever sentiment may attach to a gift of flowers is not enhanced by the bulk of the collection, and when they are measurod by the ton all the usual feelings in regard to them must vanish entirely. Mr. Abbey, at his benefit in New York, on Monday evening, received over two tons of “floral tributes,” but it is not to be supposed for a moment that the operatic manager experienced half the pleasure over these riches that a girl or boy graduate feels over the one little bouquet tossed at their feet. A “busybody” in Philadelphia has a mirror so arranged outside a second story window as to show the walks and steps below and the person who is at the door. It is a question in society now whether or not it is consistent with true gentility and propriety to use these mirrors. The opinion prevails that they are not unobjectionable, but that they are so convenient as a means of detecting book agents and disagreeable callers, as well as for keeping an eye on the neighbors, that it can not likely go out of use. Just before the funeral of Mrs. Stilson Hutchins. yesterday, Agent Key, of the Humane Society, appeared on the scene. He observed that the horses attached to the hearse were compelled to hold their heads erect by means of tightly drawn . check reins. The agent at once made the driver remove the reins with the remark. “I do this as a tribute of respect to Mrs. Hutchins. She was a vice-president of our society, and would never ride behind a horse whose head was pained by such a barbarous contrivance.” People who are fond of mustard as a condiment stand a chance of being mustered out. The New York Board of Health, after investigating the article as prepared by manufacturers there, find it to be largely adulterated with flour which is given the proper color by a mixture of napthol, a yellow, violent irritant poison Napthol is also highly explosive, aud a salad mixer is liable to have the top of his head blown off if he stir too vigorously.

The first day's sales for tlie Cincinnati opera festival of 1878 netted $28,099.50. In 1880 the amount so received was $25,810.23. Two years ago the receipts declined to $16,332.35, while this year the total amount realized from the first day’s sales was but $11,004.55, or less than onethird of six years ago. At this rate of educating the popular taste for music, Cincinnati is nearly ready to take up with the custard-pie picnic again. Pittsburgers have been eating the product of a soap factory under the supposition that it was butter. Everyone is aware that Pittsburg is shrouded in darkness, but few would have supposed that the natives were so benighted as not to know that noithor side of their bread should be buttered with soap. About 2,000 pictures have been admitted to the Paris salon. More than 3,000 have been refused. —Exchange. The latter number is significant, and accounts for the frequent discovery of ‘ ‘old masters" stowed away in lumber galleries. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal; 1. What is the amount of the annual expenses of our government? 2. What is the amount of revenue annually collected? 3. What amount of taxes is paid annually by the citizens of Indiana? A Young Reader. Danville, Ind. 1. For the year ending June 30, 1882, the expenses amounted to $257,981,439.57. 2. The receipts were $403,525,250.28. 3. For the year 1880, the State taxes proper amounted to $2,493,903; county, $4,031,029; city and town, $4,318,638; total, $10,843,630. This does not include tho taxes of townships, estimated at $1,500,000. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal1. How much was Indiana in debt at the close of the war? 2. How much will the State house cost? 3. How many more females than males has your State? 4. Is the Union League in working order in your State? Isaac Sharp. Carrollton, Mo. 1. The total State debt May 1, 1865, was $3,990,765.33. 2. About $2,000,000. 3. The last census showed that Indiana contained 42,421 more males than females. 4. We know of no such order in Indiana. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Is there a chicken farm in tlie State where chickens are hatched by an incubator. Hazleton, Ind. Paul H. Curtner. We know of no farm in Indiana devoted to tlie raising of chickens, though it is probable that incubators are employed in this State. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Donald G-. Mitchell, the New Haven farmer and dairyman, better known as “Ik Marvel,” the author of “Reveries of a Bachelor,’’ “Dream Life" and other picturesque publications, is seriously talked of as successor to the chair of belles-lettres in Yale College, about to be vacated by Prof. Northrup. A FEW days after the fall of Sedan, Bismarck received from his countess a letter from which he read: “I fear that you will not find any Bibles hi France, and therefore shall send you the Psalm Book, so that you may read the prophecy against tho French—'l say to you the godless shall be exterminated.' ’’ Mb. Blaine was so greatly hurt by the cartoon in Puck which represented him as a tattooed man that ho has seriously considered the propriety of bringing an action against the paper. He was stung to the quick by tho cartoon, especially as it has been reported to him that its publication lias been a great injury to him. It is said that au eleotric hand lamp has been invented, the illuminating principle of which is generated by some simple chemicals which are ridiculously cheap and easily manipulated. A little sliding drawer at the bottom of the lamp holds theolecti-ie spark in solution,

while, by simply touching a button, a magnificent light is developed or extinguished, as the case may be. This lamp does not specially differ in appearance from the ordinary kerosene affair, and can be used in the same way, but with a complete absence of trouble, odor or danger. A lady who was a companion to Mme. Patti for about sixteen years in the early part of her career is about to give the world the experiences and reminiscences of that part of her life. The book is to be published in Vienna. Arrangements are in progress, however, for its issue almost simultaneously in several languages. M. Clemenceau, the distinguished leader of the Left in the French Assembly, acquired a good knowledge of English as a school-boy in London, and later by three years' residence in New York city and in Connecticut. He tersely defines a snob as “one absolutely incapable of valuing mental or moral greatness unless it is first admitted by big people.” Daniel C. French, the Concord sculptor, is just finishing a statue of John Harvard, the founder of Harvard College, which is to bo placed in the delta near Memorial Hall, at Cambridge. The figure, which is of heroic size, represents the young divine in a sitting posture, with an academic gown falling loosely from his shoulders, and a book in his hand. A tomato canner of fifteen years' experience has discovered the secret of the poisoning cases reported from eating canned tomatoes. Ho says when the can is opened and only a portion of the contents removed, the air acts in some way upon the tin and develops the poison. The can should be empted all at once, and such portion of the contents as is not used should be put into an earthen dish. A correspondent writes that since their return to England Mr. Matthew Arnold aud his family have repeatedly expressed great delight and gratification at the reception accorded them in America. Indeed, Mrs. Arnold and her daughters scarcely talk of anything else, and often declare that they do not know how they shall settle down to their quiet home life again after being “made so much of’ in this country. It is understood that this season the Concord School of Philosophy will issue pamphlets bearing such titles as will make them read even by the young, aud in spite of the abstruse subjects discussed. To catch the restless eye of the youthful lover of yellow literature these new works will probably be entitled “Patsy, the Pretty Protoplasm," or “Mad Mike, the Avenging Molecule of Massachusetts,” or “Bully Bill, the Bacteria." Occasionally a man dies who shows that he had full and complete faith in his wife, even to the extent of leaving her the control of his estate. Such a one was John Parrot, the pioneer banker of San Francisco. By his will his wife is made trustee of the five millions bequeathed to her and her children. The profits of a large ranch are given to one son, who is of age. only on condition that “his conduct meets with his mother’s approval." There is more than one way to make a son walk in the way he should go. The story that Lieut. Emory, of the ship Bear, has been offered SIOO,OOO by his wife—a wealthy woman in her own right—to abandon the Greely relief expedition and resign his position in the navy is apparently without foundation. An intimate brother officer tells a Washington Star reporter that when Lieut. Emory was offered the place in the search party he accepted it and went home and told*his wife about it, asking her if she had anything to say against it. “Not a word," she replied, aud she has never said a word against it since. London Truth: It was certainly a singular coincidence that on the day of the Duke of Albany's death the approaching marriage of Miss Baring was announced. About four years ago the Duke proposed to Lady Ashburton's daughter, with the full approbation of the Queen, but was rejected, to his very great disappointment. He was not, however, the only one of the Queen’s sons whoso early wooings were unfortunate, as the Duke of Connaught was twice refused by Princess Marie, of Hanover, before he went to Berlin in search of a bride.

Modjeska said to an interviewer: **l felt so lonely when I first came to this country, but Mr. Longfellow was so good to me. Once, it was the first time 1 played Juliet in Boston, Mr. Longfellow did go to all the newspaper offices and asked them to say good words of my playing.” “Oh, no, pardon,’’ interposed Count Bozenta, her husband, “but you make a little mistake. Mr. Longfellow went to some of the offices and thanked the critics for their notices of it.” “Ah, well, it was all the same,” insisted Madame;” “it was something good. Ido not see much difference.” Two high-bred women—one from New York, the other from Boston—happened to meet in what is ironically called a “social” circle. Both were rich and accomplished, and both claimed to have ancestors. Boston, in the course of a little conversation between the two, alluded, in the most seemingly unpretentious way, to the trivial circumstance that her ancestors came over in the Mayflower. “Ah!” replied New York, with a little lift of her eyebrows expressive of innocent surprise, “I did not know before that the Mayflower brought over any steerage passengers.” Here is an example of the conscientious study which the best Parisian actors give to parts in the most extravagant Palais Royal farces. Daubray, who takes the role of a butcher in the new piece, “Le Train de Plaisir,” has been in the habit for the last few weeks of paying an early visit to his butcher to learn practically the way to cut up and dress meat. “Oh, woe is me!" the poor man cried; * ‘ln some near graveyard give me room; I am a poor, lorn candidate IVho in the rush has lost his boom.” —Merchant Traveler. Bismarck has administered a characteristic snub to the Scientific Society of Berlin, which, on his recent sixty-ninth birthday, offered him honorary membership, a distinction not declined by the great Von Moltke. Bismarck, like Wagner, Liszt, and a few other eminent Germans, disapproves, it appears, of vivisection. “Nothing on earth,” he replied, on receiving the Scientific Society's invitation, “would induce me to become in any way whatever the colleague of Virchow or of Mommsen. lam a Doctor of Law of Gottingen, and an honorary citizen of BerlinI am satisfied.” Mme. Octave Feuillet has been the victim of an unpleasant adventure. The wife of the celebrated French author is known to have a passion for objects of virtu. Some days ago, entering a house in the Rue des Martyrs, she addressed the porter: “Have you not a curiosity merchant living here?” The porter replied “No!” in a surly tone. “Yet, I was directed to this house. Are you quite sure?” The porter looked sharply at his questioner, and, suddenly jumping up, he rushed on her and seized her by the throat. “Ah, it’s you that come stealing the door mats! I’ve got hold of you at last! I know you again! Now, you shall not escape!” CURRENT PRESS COMMENT, The Bank of England destroys every note it redeems; the United States Treasury immediately pays out every note it redeems without reference to the amount of coin in store. The treasurer has not even the discretionary power to retain the canceled note. The law compels him to pay it out, though he knows itmay be used a thousand times over to exhaust the gold. Comment is superfluous.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The fact is that the Democratic party is desperately endeavoring these days to have its cake and oat it, to run with the hare and halt with the hounds, so far as the tariff is concerned. In the same breath it solemnly declares that it will never condone protection, but is not to be understood as standing for free trade. Just as soon, however, as an attempt is made to induce it to formulate its distinct and positive tariff convictions, it shuts its mouth aud declines to be interviewed. Apart from all other considerations, the exhibition it is making of itself on the tariff issue ought to secure the defeat of the Democratic party in November.—New York Tribune. As it is not expected that the average congressman will be guided by auy motive higher than that of seeking how he may secure the most votes for his l-e-elee-tion, it will be well for him to remember that thero is a limit to the public patience on tho subject of pensions. The most of those who are oither legally or morally entitled to pensions have pensions already and the people know it. The man who is for still further burdening the tax-payers in order that_ the pension bars may be further thrown down is likely to be treated by his constituents as a demagogue aud remanded to the retirement he justly deserves.—Philadelphia Times. We need what Mr. Dorsholmer, in the navy debate, spoke, of as necessary—a “email, compact and very offectivt- navy,” a few good ships armed with the host guus. It is this that Mr. Randall asks the Democrats

of the House to refuse to the country. The Senate bill proposes to give the country within three years se\’en steel cruisers, effectively armed, and four harbor defense monitors of a class so good that at least one European power is now' building several of their kind. Mr. Randall's bill proposes to deprive us of harbor defense and to limit us to the three steel cruisers now completing, but to which he refuses guns. Is that statesmanship? Is it common prudence? Is it common sense? Will the country bo satisfied with that? —New York Herald. The enterprise [the New Orleans exposition] deserves the of citizens. It will hasten the development of a rich country ami tend to establish a good feeling between the people of the North and the people of the far South. It must not be forgotten, however, that the tax-payers of the whole country are asked to support it by a loan of $1,000.000, which the directors may be unable to repay. It the loan is to be made at all, and especially if it is to be, in fact, a gift, it should be conclusively shown that the exhibition will be national in its scope, like the exhibition of 1870, and that it will be of service to all who pay national taxes.—Now York Times. The Democratic party had its cradle rocked by Andrew Jackson, and Thomas Jefferson was not only not its father, but he never belonged to it. Think of comparing the men who founded this great republic and who managed it up to Jackson's time witn the crowd of old copperheads, secessionists. State-rights Bourbons and ex-Confedorates that have the management of the Democratic party to-day! Think of the author of the Declaration of Independence “going out with his State" and joining in an armed revolt to destrov the Union! Mr. Tildon’s history of the origin of the Democratic party is merely a tradition that has no more foundation in fact than an old woman’s fable. —Chicago Journal. So long as representatives can be elected and re-elected without doing anything for Ireland but to execrate England and to annoy the legislature of which they form a part, so long it is unlikely that they will at> tempt to secure any more solid good for their country. An Irishman who wishes now to earn the gratitude of bis countrymen should be able to discern that the period “ oes “?t call for agitation at all, but for conciliation. a he thing for such a man to do is to take advantage of the present temper of the English legislature to wipe out the relics of the unequal law’s which have sown enmity between England and Ireland, and to do all that he can to destroy the enmity himself instead of doing all that he can to keep it alive.—New York Times. Reform of the [English] land laws, is certainly in order. But Mr. George does not propose reform, but revolution based on robbery. Naturally this doctrine has not been cordially received by the English people. It has, it appears, been approved by a few' of the landless and by certain advocates (in theory) of commuuism. But there js no evidence that it has made the faintest impression upon the English as a nation, and it is indeed perfectlv clear that it could not do so unless the English had changed their character essentially. Mr. George’s doctrine is alike immoral and impossible.. It is incompatible with the maintenance of progressive and orderly society under any form of government. It is a wild vision, founded on false assumptions, and defended by a logic as crooked as it is reckless.—New' York Tribune. “Os course we are,” is the frank headline w'hich the New York World places over an extract from a Republican paper suggesting that “the New York World appears to be exceedingly anxious that Mr. Blaine should receive the Republican nomination." If other Ijipmcratic journals were equally candid they would make a similar confession. The reason is perfectly obvious. The Democratic papers want Mr. Blaine nominated, because a long list of Republican papers, of the highest character aud influence, have declared in the most emphatic terras that he cannot be elected. The support which the Democratic press generally gives the Blaine movement, on account of the weakness of his candidacy, is a sign of the times which will not be lost upon Republicans who want to see their luan elected as well as nominated.—Brooklyn Union. Tilden himself is in such a condition of physical and mental decrepitude lhat he lives only in the past, and his feeble mind naturally reverts to the old order of things in the days of Pierce and Buchanan. He ignores the work of the war, which created a nation out of disjointed parts. He revels iu the original Bourbon theory of our government in utter disregard of the effect which a revival of that theory would have on the prospects of his party. He w’ould arouse anew political antagonism to the spirit of nationalism. It is easy to understand how his infirmity of body and mind should Itotray him into the advocacy of an obsolete policy, but it is strange that live and active men, whoso chief interest in the election of this year is for the success of their party, should be willing to adopt his senile and unpatriotic utterances as a guide for their political campaign.—Chicago Tribune. All remember the Little Rock & Fort Smith railway bond investigation; how, after reading a certain portion of the Mulligan letters, he stopped and defied the committee: how, when the investigation was being pressed, ho was stricken down by a sunstroke; how, when the committee was about to resume its labors, it was announced that absolute quiet was necessary to save his life; how the investigation was postponed, and before it could lie resumed Blaine had passed into the Senate and beyond the jurisdiction of the House; how his life was saved, but he was forever rendered ineligible as a candidate for the presidency. It is because the people remember all this that they are not deceived by Blaine's aggressiveness, wfiicn cannot conceal the rottenness of his past. There i; no other Republican mentioned in connection with the presidency whose record will not come unscathed through a fire that would leave nothing of Janies G. Blaine’s but an unsavory odor.—Chicago News.

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