Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1884 — Page 5

POINTS FROM THE STATE PRESS. What tlie Outlook Is for Chicago—A Tariff for Protection Indorsed and Defended. General Harrison at Chicago, Lafayette Journal. Next to Arthur and Blaine the person most talked of as likelv to succeed at Chicago is Lincoln or Ben Harrison.' Good, quiet work is being done for Harrison. and he may show up at Chicago with a strength that will surprise many people.—-Washington Corre* Bpondonce Chicago News. General Harrison, we believe, will show remarkable strength in the Chicago convention. In 1880 ho was the sincere, consistent friend of Mr. Blaine, as all know who recall the history of the Indiana delegation that year. His manly and generous defense of President Arthur on the death of President Garfield was creditable to his heart no less than his head. Mr. Harrison has not antagonized any of the friends of other candidates, and should he receive the nomination there will be no bitterness or heartburnings among the friends of other candidates. He is in a position to command their cordial support should he be placed at the head of the national ticket. _ Facts Better than Theories. Terre HAute Express. We, here in Terre Haute, have realized the benefits of the protective policy, and can cheerfully bear witness to the good it has done us when we count the number of workingmen who are prosperous through the good wages paid in our various mills. It is easy to trace the growth of these manufactories, and to place the credit where it. belongs. What is true of Terre Haute is true elsewhere, and consequently the Republican party, wherever it holds a convention, announces in clear terms for that policy which has, during the past twenty years, given this country such an ora of development and industrial pros perity as is not recorded in the history of any other country in the world. Two Years of Democratic Rule. Lafayette Journal. Two years of Democratic administration in this city has sufficed to deplete a full treasury and reduce it to a condition bordering very closely upon bankruptcy. It has taken but two years to do this, and that, too, despite largely increased taxation, levied by the Democratic council. There is in this fact something that should give the tax-pay-ing citizens not a little concern. Into what a financial muddle have these Democratic incompetents, who control affairs, plunged the city. Think of it, tax-payor. You have paid more taxes for general purposes, by 40 on the SIOO valuation, during the past two years, than you did during any two years of Repuolicau rule in the city. Make Criminals Work for Their Living. Washington Gazette. The State law favors it, and the city ordinance is to the effect that criminals should work out their time in jail. Why not get a stone-pile and put the jail-birds to breaking it up, and then put the broken stones on our streets? It would be an easy and cheap way of macadamizing those streets that need it so badly. What is the use of the county paying their board, and keeping them in idleness? Let them earn their living, and give some re turn to the tax payers for heavy taxes imposed upon them. Any other course is poor financiering. There is business in this stone-pile idea. Let us have a stone-pile.

Why Not Publish the Figures. Columbus Republican. Free-traders are continually talking about the great increase of prices on account of the tariff, yet there is scarcely an article in the tariff schedule that is not cheaper now than it was in 1860, under the low tariff. Why do not some of the Democratic papers that are forever harping ou this subject make out a table showing the comparative prices under the two systems to enforce their argument? We venture to say that there is not a Democratic paper in Indiana that could be induced to publish such a statement Selfish Men Must Stand Back. Mtwcie News. One of the causes for the universal veneration of the rank and file of the party for the lamented Garfield was the noble stand he took against the power of designing men who plotted for selfish gains, regardless or the best interests of the party and the country. No man or set of men can expect the favor and support of the party who are actuated by an v but the best and purest motives. The knell or the party will be sounded as soon as it becomes the plaything and football of unscrupulous men. Success Demands Harmony. Richmond Palladium. We are just entering upon a campaign in which the supremacy of the Republican party, at least for a time, is at stake. It may and probably will be a closely fought contest. Success demands harmonious and united action, and no man, bo he who he may, should he permitted to thrust himself between theDarty and its success. Only those distinctly and voluntarily called should be placed in command. If this spirit prevails success is insured; any other will lead to defeat. Depression in Trade General. Elkhart Journal. The depression in trade in this country is not local; nil over tlio world the same effect is felt. There does not seem any one condition that can be charged with this result. The same industrial and commercial situation appears to day in countries where land is cheap, where it is dear; where it is owned by the farmer, and where he is a tenant; where more food is grown than is needed at home or less; where wages are high or where they are low, uuder free trade or protection. _ A Reaction that Should Come to Stay. Fort Wayne Gazette. There seems to be a decided reaction in public sentiment in the punishment of criminals all over the State. Wherever criminals have been brought before the jury on trial, as a rule, the jurors have made short work with the criminals. About seven-eighths of the whole number tried have been convicted, and one-eighth have been cleared. If this kind of stern justice would at all times overtake criminals there would be fewer crimes by one-half to chronicle. The True ludiaua Republicans. Lawrenceburg Press. It will be found before the convention ends that the people in Indiana who looked the whole field over and dispassionately estimated all the factors in the problem, were not unwise in trying to show that an Indiana man was in a position in his own State to be centered on by the nation. President-making in this country" has come to be a compromise upon an available man, and it would be the first step to demoralization to make our own man unavailable. Phelps. Edmunds, Blaine. Terre Haute Express. The correspondence between Senator Edmunds and William Walter Phelps grew out of the defense of Mr. Blaine, which it was thought to make stronger by accusing the senator of being interested in a certain railroad which was affected by legislation. The gist of the correspondence is that the accusation is shown to be unfounded, and the result will be to rebound to the injury of those overzealous friends of Mr. Blaine who gave it currency. Industrial Education. Lafayette Courier. An unanswerable argument in favor of industrial education is the fact that children who have passed successfully through all the school grades find themselves, at an age when it is necessary to qualify for something, at once out of sympathy witli the working trades, and too old to commence tho training of hand and eye with any chance of success in competition with those who commenced when younger. Smelling: in the Grave- Yard. Vernou Danner. . Nearly a score of able-bodied, active, aggressive Republicans are being pushed for the presidential nomination, while the Democrats are smelling around in the grave yards to see if they can galvanize some old corpse, like Tilden or Pavne, into running. They have no hopes of electing a living man for President Grazing Better than Grain-Growing. Richmond Fallal urn. Show us a farnrng community in which a large portion of the land in cultivation is devoted to gnuing, and wo will show you a community

that is above the average in point of comfort, thrift and money-making. In such a community you will find the people intelligent, the buildings and fences good, and a general appearance of thrift everywhere. We claim that the farmers of Wayne county are second to uo others in the State of Indiana in point of good sense, and one strong evidence of this is the fact that they are turning their attention more to grass-growing and less to the cultivation of cereals. The Letter-Writer Should Be Happy. Columbus Republican. Secretary Myers ought to be happy. He has found one county with little enough self-respect to share the disgrace of his prison reform letter with him. The Democracy of Delaware county, in convention assembled, indorsed the letter and demanded Myers’s renomination. Fortunately, there are not many Democrats in that county; but they make up in cussedness what they lack in numbers. Succumbs to the Old Bar’L Lewrenceburg Register (Dem.l There is no doubt that Joseph E. McDonald is the choice of the Democracy of Indiana for the presidency, but the Democracy of Indiana can do nothing toward turning aside the tide that has set in for Tilden and Hendricks. It is a flood tide carried forward with increased energy by the wind-storms of public sentiment. There is no power that can stay this tide but Tilden himself Get on Higher Ground. South Bend Times. Mr. I. D. G. Nelson, an authority on underdraining argues that the drainage of the great swamps of Indiana, the drainage made by railroad companies and pike roads, and tile drains and ditches, will insure great floods in the Ohio valley every year, and that the only safe course for the dwellers on the first bank is to remove to the higher plateau. Prohibition Will Defeat the Party. Worthington Times. The prohibition issue should not enter into the present campaign, and we do not believe any honest, earnest temperance man, who is no!: a fanatic, will urge it. If he does it will defeat the Republican party in Indiana by 20,000. The Same Old Story. Lawrenceburg Register. Blaine’s friends claim 306 delegates certain at Chicago, and hope he is second choice of enough to nominate. So they said eight and four years ago. Who Has Insulted You? Princeton Independent. Blaine as President would at once quiet the insults of foreign nations toward this government. The Question Settled. Terre Haute Courier. Neither Arthur nor Blaino will be nominated. Like the Kentucky Man's Horse. Rufthville Republican. Mr. Blaine's arm is always a little too shot. WHEN MRS. LESLIE WILL WED. The Event to Take Place Within a Few Months—How It. Will Affect Her Business. New York World. Mrs. Frank Leslie, the charming young widow of the great publisher whose name she bears and whose property she now controls, was visited yesterday, by a World reporter, at her office in Park Place, with a view to learning what arrangements she is making for her forthcoming marriage with the Marquis do Leuville. It will be remembered that the engagement was publicly announced some months ago in the columns of the World. When the reporter entered, Mrs. Leslie was sitting at her desk, which was piled up with papers, letters, proofs and general mercantile bric-a-brac. She was attired iu a close-fitting costume of black silk. Gems representing respectable fortunes glistened in her ears anaon her fingers. “I cannot tell just upon what date our marriage is to take place,” she said. “I must bide my time until the condition of my business here assumes such shape as to permit the changes which would naturally follow such a step.” “Do you propose, then, to make any alterations in the general government or policy of your house?” asked the scribe. “None whatever, so far as the system and conduct of affairs are concerned. But you know that in my new lifo 1 shall be compelled—not involuntarily, however—to divide my attention between my business and my husband. While I am not as yet decided as to the exact date of our marriage, I may say that it will occur within a very few months.” “Will the Marquis de Leuville assume any part in the control of your business?” “He will not Ho is not a business man and would probably make a bad mess of mercantile affaire. Ho is an artist and a poet. He Is author of works in three different languages, French, English and Italian. These he speaks so perfectly that you could not discover his nationality from his accent lie is, besides, a fine painter, and has sont some of his sketches to the Boston Art Exposition. He is also a good musician, but even with all these accomplishments he has no aptitude for business affaire.” “Are you contemplating an elaborate wedding reception?" the reporter asked. “Well, I presume we shall probably have a fine church wedding.” Mrs. Leslie handed to the World representative a letter which she liad received from Mgr. Capel, conveying his hearty good wishes for her future, and congratulating her upon her good fortune in securing so eligible a husband. Mgr. Capel and the Marquis de Leuville were intimate friends in Paris, and it whs there that Mrs. Leslie met the eminent divine last year through the introduction of the Marquis. She was asked by the reporter what her programme was with regard to the wedding tour. “I have made none.” she replied. “I shall probably take a house in this city and continue in control of my business. In the fall I shall go on a trip of combined business and pleasure to California. I shall take with me some of my artists and will, of course, be accompanied by the Marquis. In December Igo to New Orleans. During my travels I intend to make notes of what I see and hear, which I shall write out for publication upon ray return.” The reporter took occasion to inquire of Mrs. Leslie whether she knew anything of the conversion of Mrs. Hamersley. the publication of which in the World created so much excitement in society circles a week ago. She said that she was acquainted with Mrs. Hamersley, but knew of none of the details of the conversion. Referring to her congratulatory letter from Mgr. Capel, she said, laughing, “Just suppose this kind letter was the initiatory step in a movement on his part to convert me. Wouldn’t it be funny!”

CONVERTED TO ADVENTISM. That's the Report Respecting Ex-President R. B. Hayes. Washington Special to Courier-Journal. It is reported that the Seventh-day Adventists, a religious sect having their headquarters at Battle Creek, Mich., are expecting a convert shortly in no less a person than the Hon. Rutherford B. Hayes; that he will be followed by a number of other people of note, and that soon after the end of the present state of things will come to pass. If the report is true, Methodism must have lost its power to soothe Mr. Hayes. Something at loast must be weighing on his mind. The Seventh day Adventists observe Saturday for their Sabbath, and believe in the second coming of Christ. Rocently, as the report goes, Mr. Hayes wrote to Elder Cartright, who is at the head of the order, asking for books and pamphlets bearing on the belief. Elder Cartright set about complying with the request, and while engaged in gathering the literature together, came across the startling hit of information that Mr. Hayes has once been President of the United States. Tho discovery set the older to thinking, and then he and others remembered it was promised that a sign that the end was near would bo tho coming of many public men into their fold. They at once conceived that Mr. Hayes was the advance guard, and they posted to him right away every work they thought would he of interest to him. The Adventists have been in a high state of excitement ever since. The effect of the literature on Mr. Hays has not yet been ascertained. “MrsERY can be felt crawling away," said an intense sufferor, after using St. Jacobs Oil, the great pain-reliever.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, MAY 2, ISB4.

MR. KEENE’S FAILURE. The Enormous Sums He Has Lost—Previous Operations in New York and Chicago. New York Special. A well known Western man, who hold close relations with Keene when he first appeared as a Wall fetreet speculator, said this evening at the Windsor Hotel: “Mr. Keene came to Wall street in November, 1876, bringing with him $5,000,000 which he made in California, first in the great rise of mining stocks and afterward in their heavy drop. His first important adventure was with Gould in the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph combination against Western Union. In the summer of 1877 the two men quarreled, and Keene was hailed by Wall street as a rising power distinctly in opposition to Gould. At the time of the railroad riots in 1877 Keone was almost the only man who dared to buy stocks. He bought them by tlio ream in the face of the severest decline, and if it had not been for him the consequences to the market probably would have been terrible. Although he traded ou both sides of the market, most of his money was made in the rise of 1880. I believe that at one time his wealth was fully $12,000,000. The great grain corner with which his name is so popularly connected caused Mr. Keene a loss of about $5,000,000. Since 1881 he has been steadily losing money.” Keene’s American stable is at Sheepshead bay, and probably the best animal in it is Dutch Roller, who is not likely to win any great races. All his horses on both sides of the ocean would not probably now fetch at auction more than $50,000. though Foxhall might bring $20,000 of that. Keene made some attempts at breeding, buying the celebrated Derby winner, Blue Gown, for a big sum, although the horse was far advanced in years. The horse died on the voyage to America. In the days of his prosperity Keene bought Matthew's villa at Newport and spent his sum mers there. This was destroyed by fire and never rebuilt. Keene owned little real estate beside this Newport property, and this was heavily mortgaged. He at one time owned some costly paintings. Jay Gould took the best of them, a Rosa Bonlieur.* off his hands at a price much less than Keene paid for it. and it now adorns Gould’s parlor in his Fifth avenue residence, where it has often reminded Wallstreet visitors with a fanciful turn of mind of the Indian custom of exhibiting the scalp of a vanquished foe in the most conspicuous place in the wigwam. Mr. Keene has been a much less important operator in Wall street for two ov three years past than formerly, and it has long been the common belief that he has lost a largo part of his once great fortune. Mr. Keene is a native of England, but during the earlier years of his business life was a resident of San Francisco. He .vas there one of that group of speculators in mining stocks who attracted the attention of the world for a short period. He amassed an immense fortune in the bonanza stocks, selling out at about the highest prices to Flood. O’Brien and others, and then going short of the market. Aftor'the failure of the Comstock mines, the collapse of the miningstock market of San Francisco, and the adoption of the new Constitution of the State, thought to be so prejudicial to the interests of capitalists, there was a migration of rich men from California to the East, and Keene determined to try his luck on the Atlantic slope. It was given out—whether by Keene’s friends or his enemies does not appear —that he was going into Wall street “to lay out Gould.” He was successful in many of his earlier operations there, one of the first being a venture in Western Union, by which he is supposed to have made $l5O, 000. He was party to profitable deals in Erie, New Jersey Central and St. Paul, in 1879, and 1880, but generally has not boon identified with any particular stock or class of stocks. He was for a time a member of the executive committee of the Erie Railway, but on the whole his connection -with corporate properties has been very limited for a man of so great wealth and power. He was a speculator—little else. He has never shown any of the remarkable executive and organizing faculty that has given Jay Gould such an advantage over others. Indeed, Keene's chief weakness appears to have been that*he operated alone, ami did not use the hands and brains of other people to fill his pockets, as many great speculators nave. He is an exceedingly acute man, and has always succeeded in mystify ing observers as to his movements, but he worked single-handed. The Chicago grain interest has vivid recollections of Mr. Keene, and not alogether peasant ones. In the fall of 1879 ho began operations for a comer in wheat, and the deal lasted about eight months. Prices wero enormously advanced, and the usual collapse followed. It was a very disastrous affair for Mr. Keene, and is thought to have done the export business a great injury by making the price of the commodity so high that foreigners would not take it, and turning their attention to other countries as sources of supply. Mr. Keene has lived in very sumptuous style, owning a handsome establishment at Newport, some famous works of art, and a more famous stable of horses. The fact that some of his possessions have been sold and others mortgaged in the last year or two, is among the evidences that he has been losing money for a considerable period. Mr. Koone’s failure—if it shall prove such—is notable as the first failure of a great operator that has occurred since the present decline in stocks began. It has been frequently noted as a remarkable fact that there were so few failures among the stock speculators, considering the enormous shrinkage in values.

RECOLLECTIONS OF GREELEY. The Unhappy End of the Great Journalist's Life—His Confinement in an Asylum. Joe Howard, in Philadelphia Press. “Don’t send me away, Alvy,” “Please don’t, Alvy," “Please let me stay, won't you, Alvy?” These are not the baby prattle of a child, but the piteous wail of one of tho great intellects of the age; the best journalistic fighter known to the world. He founded the New York Tribune. He wrestled with giants. He was a presidential candidate of a great party, opposed to a greater, of which he was one of the originators. Health and strength, nerve and muscle failed him, and he died in a mad-house. Horace Greeley was a large man, with a big head, packed with strengths of unusual force, and weaknesses of unusual dimensions. Ho combined the cunning and craft of the f x with the courage of a lion and tho cowardice of a sheep. On occasions he planted himself upon immutable truth, whose foundations were like pillars of granite, and again allowed himself to float along the waters of expediency, with shadows aud bubbles for his companions. Two pictures presented themselves to me this morning, which brought the old-time Horace Greeley before my eye, and unrolled a panorama of tho past, with all its regretful memories, like a flash. One was Isaac England, publisher of the Sun newspaper, a friend whom I have known and tied to for a quarter of a century, a sterling, sturdy man of practical ability, a good typo, an intelligent editor, a far-seeing publisher. The other was a coffin, in which reposed the dead body of Alvin J. Johnson, formerly a publisher in this city, best known, however, to a large circle as Horace Greeley’s friend." England was brought up with Horace Greeley. He was a bright, ambitious, tow headed youth, and struggled with a long and portentous "name, Isaac Wilberforce Englaud. Precisely wiiat he originally did I do not know, but I think he was a boy in tho composing room, whence he was graduated as a reporter. In time he became city editor of the Tribune, and paid more attention to his business than to his appearance, so much so that the other boys made run of him: but while they wore making fun he was making money, and. parenthetically 1 may remark, some of them have been very glad of it in later years. England soon became one of the recognized forces of the Tribune, and until he loft its service, to share the fortunes of Mr. Dana, first in Chicago and subsequently here, he was a wheel horse whose judgment, tact and sagacity, and honest endeavor were re garded by his associates as a significant part of the Tribune plant. When England returned to this city, and the Sun was put> by his tremendous endeavor and tho sagacity of Amos Cummings, the two being Mr. Dana's chief assistants, upon its feet, Horace Greeley on one occasion visited the office, and England took groat pride and pleasure in showing his former employer the entire establishment, from tho press room, two stories under ground, to tho composing room in the mansard roof. Referring to this visit of Greeley’s to-day. Mr. England said: “Had I known then what I know now, how cheerfully I would have seen that the old gon tleman was given a chair in the Sun office, with an income equal to any ho ever enjoyed, for the

balance of his life, even if he didn’t write more than a line a year.” Some years preceding Mr. Greeley’s dicker with the Democratic party, he bad a severe attack of brain fever. Mr. Johnson was then, as subsequently, one of Horace's “friends.” but Tom Acton, then president of our metropolitan police, now chief of the assay office, iu this city, was closer. Acton took Greeley to his pleasant 1 farm in Connecticut, where, by careful nursing, sedulously avoiding politics and all exciting topics, with a comfortable room, well kept, and plenty to eat and drink, he brought hack to their original status the nerves and muscles, which, when in healthful condition, combined to make one of tho great mou of the century. Meantime the intimacy with Johnson grew.and grew, although keen-eyed observers regarded the affiliation as one of a class, for there never was a man who had more hangers-on than Horace Greeley, and, in later years, when the Tribune's course attracted the sorrowful notice of its best friends, Johnson stood close and firm by his side. You remember, of course. Mr, Greeley’s resignation was a temporary affair, th case of defeat. Had he been elected President he wouldn’t have resumed his position as editor-in chief of the Tribune. As it was, a different class succeeded him, headed by the present editor, Mr. Whitelaw Reid, who, while politically and pecuniarily ambitious, was, and always has been, an out and out partisan, with no taint of concealment or shadow of deceit, so far as his political course and writing are concerned. Greeley’s struggles and work in that campaign will never be forgotten. The task before him was tremendous. It was as though a tender child had endeavored to push an enormous load ud hill. Ho was sensitive to criticism, and took to heart every unkind and ungenerous word said by his old-time friends, and, having at no time a restful home, where real domesticity gave him what his used-up nature demanded and needed, he sought such aid and help as outside association could furnish. I remember he passed some time during tRe campaign in the house of a friend in Brooklyn. At times he went into the country, at others he went to Mr. Johnson's. Now it makes no difference how intimate you are with this, that, or the other person, there is no place liko home for a tired head and weary body. A man wants his own room, his own bed. his own pillows, his own hath, hi3 own night shirt, his own every thing, when he is utterly exhausted with mental or physical labor. These things Horace Greeley never had. I dare say there will be some people who will pop up and say he had a good home, af fectionate children, and all that. I don’t intend to be drawn into any argument; I simply make a statement—a bold assertion. All who knew Horace Greeley well will know* he never had in his lifetime that grand domestic rest which a man of his peculiarly nervous temperament absolutely demanded. As time rolled on it became perfectly clear to the entire country that Greeley would be defeated. lie was plunged into despondency so deep that no man can estimate it: but, with all that certainty of disaster before him, there was a glimmer of hope which made him think that perhaps and possibly there would come the unex pected, which, as we know, often happens. It didn’t happen on this occasion, and his defeat was one of the tremendous developments which seem, like an ocean tide, now and then to roll over this country, from Maine to Georgia, and from tho Atlantic to the Pacific shore. Then came the reaction. If ever a poor, tired head needed a soft and downy pillow, his did. If ever an exhausted and worn physique needed the calm seclusion of an affectionate home and tho tender care of those who loved him, his did. Whatdiahe get? He was hospitably welcomed in the house of Mr. Alvin Johnson, and there ho went for.the rest and calm hit- body needed. Without'presuming to follow the thread of mo tive which has been suggested by some of Mr. Greeley’s friends, without intending bv word or hint to traverse the good intention of Mr. Johnson, Mr. Reid, Mr. Sinclair, Mr. Anybody whose pecuniary interest perhaps was better served with Mr. Greeley out of the way than with him back in the Tribune, I am confronted by this one fact, that instead of tho gentle, loving, affectionate treatment given him by Mr. Acton, Mr. Greeley’s condition was judged by Mr. Johnson and his friends to be such as to demand the treatment of a lunatic asylum. We all know what that is. We all know wliat “seclusion” means. Wo all know what “precautions” signify. Every sensitive heart can tako in. with the aid of imagination, the ex perience of terror, of helplessness, of apprehension that this man suffered in common with all others confined. Meu of experience thought he was in no condition to attend to tho Tribune's affairs and that there was no need of him. The same hand, now resting firmly upon its rudder guided it then. One day, it is said, when Mr. Greeley's “eccentricities” had developed in rather extreme fashion, his hat was put upon his head, and his outer clothing given him, and he was told that it was necessary for him to go elsewhere. I can see the amazement with which tho old man. who, in spite of his worldly wisdom in certain directions, was as big a baby as ever was born, regarded his informant. The man who told me subsequently said it was positively pitiful to see tho child-like tenacity with which Greeley clung to railing, and beseeched his friends not to take him away, but to let him stay whore ho was. “Don’t send me away, Alvy; please don’t, Alvy; please let me stay: won’t you Alvy?” ho repeated. But, to make a long story short, he was bundled into the carriage, and off he went. I feel, and always have felt, a peculiar interest in this, U'eause of a great wrong that was at tempted upon me at that time. I knew perfectly well, no matter how, that Mr. Greeley had been taken from Johnson's house and was confined in a lunatic asylum. That fact I published, regarding it an outrage that a man who was not so violent as to preclude a possibility of his being carod for at his own expense and by his own friends and attendants, should bo put in a place Where, as I contend, no living person should be placed, until he has gone below the line which separates manhood from bestiality. One of my employes had printed and placed upon tho bulletin board in front of my office the startling announcement that Horace Greeley was in a lunatic asylum or madhouse. You can imagine the excitement occasioned in Printing House Square, and that evening the cheerful Mr. Simonton, then manager of the Associated Press, telegraphed all over the country, “upon authority,” that the story was only “another of Joe Howard's lies.” I was annoyed beyond measure, and embarassed beyong description, for, although I knew the fact to be precisely as I had given it, I had no right to discloso my source of information. The fates wero kinder to me than poor Greeley, for inside of forty-eight hours after Mr. Simonton's glowing dispatch, the country was in mourning, and obituary notices of the great departed filled the columns of every journal iu the land. It was believed then, and the belief is revived now, that had Horace Greeley been taken to a homo where gentle, loving, tender and accustomed hands might have administered to him, he could have been brought out of his brain trouble, precisely as he was brought out of a similar trouble by his old friend Tom Acton many years before. It is a singular coincidence that I should meet Eng land and Johnson’s coffin to day, for on the day I made the announcement that Greeley was in a madhouse, I met both England aiid Johnson, neither of them, fortunately, in a coffin, and England said to me as he lifted his hands, “My God, this cannot be true, this must be an exaggeration:” while Johnson and other intimates of Horace Greeley, whom I mot in the counting-room of my paper, where they had been to procure a copy of tne “lio" aforesaid, passed me without recognition and evidently in great disturbance of mind. In my judgment neither Horace Greeley nor Henry j. Raymond received the attention they needed. Had It been given them, two useful lives would have been spared, and journalism would have been saved something infinitely worse than “eccentricities."

The Supply of Saints. Kansas Pity Star. The objections to the prominent presidential candidates which find voice iu the proas present a curious and interesting variety. Mr. Blaine, for instance, has too much record, while Mr. Lincoln has too little. Mr. Arthur is opposed because he comes from a large State which has factions, and Mr. Edmunds because lie comes from a little one, which doesn’t amount to much. John Sherman, it is urged is too cold, while Gen. Logan, on the contrary, is too warm—rod hot, so to speak. Mr. Tilden is too feeble, and Mr. Bayne is too old. Mr. McDonald is too much of a free-trader, and Mr. Randall is too much of a protectionist, Mr. Bayard’s war record is not what it should bo. and Gen. Hancock’s tariff record suits nobody. Mr. Morrison comes from a hopelessly lie publican State, and Mr. Carlisle frome a hopelessly Democratic one. Gov. Hendricks has been under the feuco too long, and likewise David Da-

vis. General Sherman has a Catholic wife, and nobody knows what his politics is. Mr. Hewitt is too cranky, Mr. Cleveland too young and Mr. Flower too fresh. Mr. Pendleton is too much of a reformer. Mr. Field is too close to tho corporations ami Mr. Thurman not. close enough. The ideal candidate will not bo found by either party. General Washington was a great and good man, but he was not immaculate. Thomas Jefferson abounded in faults. Tho martyred Lincoln had bis weak spots, and the sainted Garfield was only an average specimen of frail humanity, morally speaking. It is all right to demand exceptional qualifications in a presidential candidate, but it is not well to idealize our favorites, and thus doom ourselves to disappointment when we find them acting very much like ordinary human beings. Au Outrage on a Murderer. Milwaukee Sentinel. An Indiana jury has convicted a man of murder, although there was no evidence to show tho ownership of the land on which the crime was committed. If it were not for the pardoning power there might be danger of the continued imprisonment of the murderer convicted under these dreadful circumstances. The title to the land had nothing to do with the case, but it is apparent to any Milwaukee juror that the criminal should Lave acquitted, all the same. A Room that Goes on Forever. Now York Sun. The McDonald boom, although it may vary from time to time in the amount of attention it receives from the public, will never die, for it is not founded on the changing and uncertain basis of contemporary politics, but rests on the firmer ground of enduring friendship. It will live as long as Mr. McDonald does, and may his years be many. Sounding the Alarm. Chicago Tribune. The Blaine men who are surrendering some delegates to Arthur and Edmunds through courtesy are likely to get fooled. The courtesy which the delegates thus surrendered are to extend to the Blaine meu is to vote against their candidates first, last, and all the time. Knows More than He Did. Philadelphia Record. Senator Edmunds does not propose to be called “another" in the interest of his good friend Blaine. Nobody but Mr. Phelps expected that the gruff gentleman from Vermont would stand any such nonsense. Mr. Phelps is now undeceived. In the Hands of His Friends. Philadelphia Times. Unless wiser heads than William Walter Phelps and Warner Miller can he found to direct the battle for the Maine statesman he not only can’t be nominated himself, but will be unable even to determine whonl the nominee shall be. The Useful Saloon-Keeper. Milwaukee Sentinel. A saloon-keeper is worth more to the ward politicians than a dozen citizens who pay high taxes. The saloon keeper will electioneer, but tho dozen good citizens will take no interest in tho aldermanic elections. His Mouth and Spine Both Weak. Chicago News. The truth about Mr. Phelps seem to be that he is either too apt to go off with his mouth or too limber in his spinal column. And in either case ho is a dangerous person to have on the premises. Not Too Much. Philadelphia Press. Indiana pays her school teachers better salaries than Pennsylvania nays here. Indiana doesn’t pay too much, understand, but Pennsylvania pays too everlastingly little.

Not Without Hope. Philadelphia Times. Tho Arthur people are viewing with calm ressignatiou the awful war now in progress between the Blaine folks and the Edmunds people. William Walter Has Had Enough, Philadelphia Record. It will be many a day before Mr. William Walter Phelps will fool with the business end of a Green mountain wasp again. The Champion Fool Letter-Writer. Chicago News. There is no longer any doubt that William Walter Phelps deserves the title of the fool letter writer of America. Has Done Himself No Credit. Indianapolis News. Mr. Phelps lias not done himself any credit, or his especial charge, Mr. Blaine, any good in this instance. A Job for Mr. Phelps. Atlanta Constitution. Forepaugh should engage the esteemed William Walter Phelps to whiten up one of his elephants. Has Quieted Down a Little. ltushville Republican. Mr. Blaine's boom is not so rampant this week as last. When you go East, stop at tho Grand Central Hotel, New York City. Good fare at reasonable prices; only $3 per day. Keefer & Cos., proprietors. Oily substances always aggravate skin diseases. Ointments are therefore rather hurtful than beneficial. Glenn’s Sulphur Soap, which opens, instead of clogging the pores with grease, has, as might have been expected, widely superseded oleaginous compounds as a remedy for scorbutic affections. Hill’s Instantaneous Hair Dye produces no metallic lustre. _ Bedbugs, flies, roaches, r aiits, rats, mice cleared out by “Rough on Rats.” 15 cents. Allcock’a Porous Plasters. Weak back, rheumatism and all local pains are relieved and cured by Allcock’s Porous Plasters. One trial will convince you, but see that you get the genuine, as all other so-called porous plasters, without a single exception, are worthless imitations. With Durkee's Salad Dressing there is no waste or disappointment. You are certain to produce a good salad. It costs less than home* made, and is, besides, a superb table sauce. Glean House. Enoch Morgan’s Son's SAPOLIO.

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