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Pol. rodman. and of all others who entertain like belief with him. If the Republican party hp attempted to prove any one thing during tie past quarter of a century, despite armed Democratic opposition, it is that this nation of ours is a nation. That is what the Republican party fought for, and in the same unalterable belief it enters upon the campaign of 1884. It is not so very strange that Col. Codman cannot support men like Blaine and Logan. THE PASSING OF A GREAT REFORMER, "We are very sorry that Mr. Tilden wrote that letter which seems to withdraw his name from the candidacy for the presidency, though we are not without hope that the convention may yet read enough between the lines to nominate him by acclamation, and that he may yet be their candidate. In the first place, the doings of that Democratic electoral commission should be vindicated or condemned by the people; otherwise the cry of fraud will be heard through the ages to come as the chief claim the Democrats have for recognition. It does look hard that their own bantling should turn against its father as soon as it was able to speak its own mind. That it was Democratic in its paternity is shown, not only by the hostility of such Republicans as Senator Morton during the debates which preceded the vote, but by the vote itself. The Democrats to-day, whose chief stock in politics is the fraud of that commission, are very anxious to forget that only one Democrat in the Senate voted against it on its final passage, while sixteen of the chiefest of the Republicans opposed it at every stage. In the House every stage marked it as a Democratic measure, and it passed by a vote of 159 Democrats and 32 Republicans — five times as many Democrats as Republicans voting for it. That a commission thus created by the Democrats in Congress, and at the instance of Mr. Tilden, should find that Mr. Hayes was clearly elected .shows that there was unmistakable fraud attempted, too bald to be indorsed or approved by men of such high standing as that commission. Let us appeal from that Democratic commission to the people, if the Democracy is still dissatsatisfied, and let us have the old ticket. Then, again, we need a “reformer” at the head of affairs, and such is Mr. Tilden. A few years ago the Republicans of New York, under the leadership of that prince of Republicans, Boss Tweed, had been running the municipal affairs of the city in true Republican style. They had had things their own way for a quarter of a century or more when those staunch Democratic papers, the Times, and the Tribune and Harper's Weekly, unearthed their methods, and so exposed their Republican villainies that, as a paid attorney for the people, Mr. Tilden took hold of the affair and had the chiefest Republican, Boss Tweed, shut up in jail of nights, though permitted to visit his home, and to enjoy most of the ordinary luxuries of life. Mr. Tilden does well to plume himself on this great “reform,” and to attribute it wholly to his great ability as an attorney. Perhaps no attorney in New York could have managed the cases better, if as well, even with the material facts furnished him, as they were to Mr. Tilden. It is to be regretted, howevei 1 , that since those Democratic papers ceased to be constantly ding-donging at the Republican city authorities, things have gone nearly as bad as ever right under Mr. Tilden’s nose. Perhaps the fees have ceased. No reformer can afford to be all the time reforming when the money that is in it gives out. Then, again, we need a man of unquestionable integrity at the head of this government; especially when the platform calls for a full vote and a fair count. Mr. Tilden demonstrated his ability in this line in 1868. He set out to carry the State of New York for Seymour, and he carried it by “reform” tactics. No report could be received from certain wards in the city until all the out-townships were heard from, when these wards reported Seymour majorities enough to overbalance all the Grant majorities in the country, though in several cases the Seymour majorities were greater than the entire population of the wards, men, women and children put together; and thus the State was earned for Seymour, the only Northern State that was earned for him except New Jersey, its nearest neighbor. However, Mr. Tilden “reformed” all this at the next election, under the benign and persuasive influence of a little congressional legislation, which attached a bit of penitentiary hospitality to Democratic methods such as obtained in New York under Tilden in 1868, and under which several Democrats took up quartern in the Ohio penitentiary, just to test the constitutionality of such interference with Democratic “reform” measures. \Ve are very sorry to lose from the canvass such a reformer. But will not his mantle fall on some worthy successor? May we not yet hope for a “reform” campaign after the pure Tilden type, mules, cipher dispatches, and all? What else can they sing? They have no policy on tariff, or currency, or taxation, not even on wool or Mormonism, that we have not pre-empted; hence the song must be, “give us reform or give us death.” A Georgia subscriber of the Now York Times writes to that paper to indorse its independent course, and then adds: “I fear the Democrats will heat this year. •All the Southern States, in my judgment, will go Democratic. The Southern landlords threaten to control the negroes for the Democratic party either by bribery or intimidation. They will not hesitate at murder, even. The Democrats own three-fourths of the land.” By his own confession there is still need for the Republican party to save the country from a desperate minority, “who will not hesitate at murder, even,” to cany elections. The men who have been so quick to threaten

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a holt will yet grow calm enough to see the situation as it is. and to realize that behind Blaine and Logan is the great army of patriotism, representing the best interests of the nation, while the men to be named by the enemy, be they never so pure personally, will he hacked and manipulated and swayed by a party whose very existence is a threat against all that is desirable in government. The best elements of the nation are already with the Republican nominees, there to stay until the election in November next shall determine whether the men who did gallant service for the country may not yet be trusted to tako care of it. “Two extraordinary types of men were chosen at the Chicago convention. They blend, in a still more remarkable degree and type, the very essence of unconquerable and not over-scrupulous Americanism. Here is found a most important element of political strength before the people. A wonderful American faith and pride exist in and for the wonderful American. In wiliness, in strategy, in endurance, in consistency of persistency, in physical vigor, in enormous mental energy, in all gifts and qualities—save some which the Current does wish and could name— James G. Blaine and John A. Logan are surpassing men. Blended as an entity of leadership, it is not easy to discover negative qualities. They are regal in positivism. They represent the arrogant opulence of all the opulent arrogance of victories innumerable by arms and ballot and measures in a nation without peer.” We suppose the person who penned the above in the Chicago Current rested from his labor with the belief that it was fine writing. It is not, my son; it is pure and unadulterated hog-wash; just such stuff as will be poured out by the barrel on every “commencement” stage from the inner Consciousness of veally young men, and which will be smiled at by the audience and by the venerable professors. The Current is old enough by this time to have got over the most ordinary chicken-pox stage of amateur publications. “A farmers’ club” met at Marietta, Pa., last week, at which were present a large number of horny-handed agriculturists. Among them. President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania railroad, Geoi'ge W. Childs, Charles A. Dana, Senators Cameron, Bayard, Hampton, Hale, Beck, Edmunds and Pendleton, Representative Randall and several members of the Supreme Court. Farmer Vanderbilt was expected to be present, but was unavoidably detained at home. Reports of the meeting do not indicate what intricate agricultural problems were solved at the meeting, but the time seems to have been largely devoted to a discussion of dinners spread by friendly rural residents. The benefit of farmers’ clubs is shown by the early adjournment of this one. A longer session would probably have wit nessed a famine in the neighborhood. The best method of watering stock w r ould have been a congenial topic. The Atlanta Constitution, whose fealty to the cause of the Democratic party has never been questioned, has this to say of Mr. Blaine: “Should he be elected, we believe his administration would be a liberal one. He is the ablest and most experienced public man to be found in the Republican party, and if the country is to have another Republican President, we believe Mr. Blaine’s administration will give more general satisfaction than that of any other Republican. He will, at least, fly the American flag over the White House and State Department, and there will be some consolation in that.” The Colorado (Texas) Clipper, a stanch and uncompromising Democratic paper, says of the Chicago nominations and platform: “It will be admitted that the Republicans have done the best work of nominations that they have done since the nomination of Lincoln and Johnson. They have had the fortune to place before the country the very strongest ticket that could possibly be selected from their ranks. Even barring the wonderful magnetism of Mr. Blaine, and the many personal attractions that make him the idol of his party, the platform upon which he is placed is so sound that it is doubtful if Democratic statesmanship can formulate one more comprehensive or of sounder policy.” Prof. Wiggins, of meteorological notoriety, attempts to explain the occurrence of phenomenally high tides, the occasion of atmospheric disturbances and earthquakes by the presence of a ‘ ‘dark’’ moon, invisible to earth, that, coming into conjunction with our familiar satellite, exerts a double influence on mundane phenomena. He urges scientific attention to this point, believing that the movements of this mysterious body may be measured, if “the sudden quenching of stars” be noted and recorded. Prof. Wiggins is of the opinion that the moon and this dark satellite were in conjunction with the sun, or nearly so, on March 9, 1883, which produced the great Java volcano and caused the greatest storm of the present century’. In confirmation of his belief, the Professor says he has just received letters from Michigan saying that a solar eclipse was visible in that State on May 16, 1884, at 7 o’clock in the evening, when fully one-third of the solar disc was in darkness. As the moon at that moment was twelve degrees south of the celestial equator, and the sun was as many' degrees north of it, this phenomena could not have been caused by our visible satellite. Doubtless it was the passing of this dark planet across the sun’s disk. There is enough in the idea to warrant the consideration of the world of science, and if there he such a planet it is desirable that the inhabitants of the earth know it The republic of France is not as Democratic as it might be. A grand ball was given in Paris on Tuesday night by La Duchesse de le Rochefoucauld Bisaccia, in honor of Monsieur la Comte de Paris and Madame le Comtesse de Paris. There were twenty footmen in red and gold livery, and forty waiters in chocolate livery and silk knee-breeches. Among the guests, composed of “the prettiest women of Paris and the most glorious names of France,” were named Monsieur le Comte de Paris, Madame le Comtesse de Paris, and their Royal Highnesses Prim cesso Auiclie, the Due and Duchesse de Chartres, Princess Marie and the Due de Nemours, the Duchesse de Magenta, the Duchesse d’Ayen, the Duchesse d’Avaray, the Duchesse de Mirepoix,

the Duchesse de Grammont. the Duchesse Decazes, the Duehesse de Fitz James, the Duchesse de Castries, the Duchesse de Maille, the Princesse Metternich, the Prin-esse d’Arenberg, the Priucesse de Sagan, the Marquise de Charette, the Marquise de Castellane, the Comtesse de la Ferronays, the Comtesse de Montesquieu, and many others. In view of the fact that the government of France as now constituted takes no cognizance of titles, it must be confessed that these relies of a dead monarchy are a trifle selfinflated to thus parade titles not worth the paper on which they are printed. The Harvard overseers are either a trifle ashamed of themselves or the wily Benjamin has been using his influence. From time out of mind it has been the custom for that institution to confer the degree of LL. D. on each Governor of the State, but last year the honor was petulantly withheld from Butler, not because he was not learned enough to merit it, but because of Tewksbury’. It was supposed that the slight and rebuke would be emphasized this year by’ bestowing the degree upon Governor Robinson, but the overseers have decided not to confer it upon him, and get out of the difficulty by saying that ft; will only be given hereafter in recognition of superlative legal attainments. A well-known citizen of Baltimore, who was thoughtless enough to attempt suicide by cutting his throat and wrists while on his brother-in-law’s premises, was rebuked by that gentleman for scattering blood about, and was ordered off the place. Suicides are getting to show such a disregard for other people's convenience in little matters like these, that it is time tlieir attention was called. This one finished the job by walking down to the river and jumping off the embankment, his brother-in-law standing at the gate meanwhile to see that he did not return. A popular young society man in New Haven, Conn., created a sensation last week by going to court and confessing to having stolen silver used for plating purposes from the house where he was employed as book-keeper. He received a sentence of six months in jail. He was shortly to have been married to a charming young woman, but this circumstance is not mentioned as a sufficient reason for his voluntary confession. Mrs. Mansfield, of Cleveland, 0., who has been bent 'iko a bow for seven yeiyi's, lias had all the kinks taken out of her spine by the faith cure, and now walks about as erect as any one. She says the Lord can straighten any’ crooked back, which is probably true. Mr. Vanderbilt is being criticised for having come back from England with the same old silk hat which he wore away. But a man can't be expected to spend all his money on clothes. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Who are the members of the board of arbitration that adjusted the “Alabama claims,” and who represented the cause of the two governments. Zach. Stewart. Pine Village, Ind. Mr. Charles Francis Adams, United States: Sir Alexander Cockburn, Great Britain: Count Frederic Sclopis, Italy’; Mr. Jaco„ Staempfli, Switzerland; Baron De Itajuba, Brazil. Mr. J. Bancroft Davis was the agent of the United States, and Lord Tenterden, agent of Great Britain. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Can a man hold a postmastership in a fourthclass office, and bo justice of the peace at the same time? Lena, Ind., June 14. It would be doubtful. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Upward of five thousand persons slept on Epsom Downs on the night preceding the recent Derby race. Father Beckx has definitely retired from the generalship of the Society of Jesus, and Father Anderledy has entered upon the duties of the office as his successor. Father Beckx is now ninety years old. The newly-elected Methodist bishop. Dr. Mall alien, of Massachusetts, said at the reception given him in Boston this week, that he started preaching twentysix years ago on a salary of $250 a year, all of which was paid. John Pruett White, of Pittsylvania county, lost his wife by death on the 20th of April last. Just two weeks afterward he married again, and one week after that event he had the funeral sermon of his first wife preached, his second wife acting ae one of the principal mourners. * General Nathaniel P. Banks, ex-Govern or and ex-Speaker, now nearly seventy years of age, is living with his family on his plesant estate in Waltham, Mass., and taking an active part in town and social affairs. It is said to be likely, as the town is about to adopt a city charter, that he will be its first mayor. The Earl of Wilton has just had his tongue cut out. He bore the operation well, and it has been successful, at least in saving his life. Hitherto cancer in the tongue has been deemed fatal. The elder Placide, Henry, died of it, and his brother Thomas committed suicide under the suffering which attends it. Mrs. Almira Lincoln Phelps, the well-known writer and teacher, will on July 15 celebrate the completion of her ninety-first year. She is in capital health and full enjoyment of all her faculties, with the exception that her hearing is slightly impaired. She still keeps up her diary, which she began at the age of sixteen. A Philadelphia girl who has lived in Europe since she was a child (she is now nineteen) will create a sensation at Long Branch, where sho will pass the summer, by the extraordinary beauty of her complexion. She owes it all to the old receipt of sleeping every night with a piece of raw beef on each cheek. This she has done for eight years. It is said that only one small herd of buffaloes remains in Texas. This has been feeding on the Pecos river, in the Staked Plains region, but a band of hunters is hovering about it continually, killing the animals as fast as the meat can be cared for, and its days are numbered. This is the remant of what was known a few years ago as “the great Southern herd.” Sitting Bull visited Fort Suelling the other day. Writing to the Boston Journal, a correspondent thus describes an amusing episode: “Ho was regaled at the commander’s table with canned peaches. He sat up to the table like a gentleman and helped himself with his silver fork, but no one could make him smile. Finally Mrs. Colonel Andrews came into the room, and the moment he saw her he jumped to his feet, clasped hor hands and beamed all over with delight. Is this not the way to treat Indians?” The Altai estates of the Emperor of Russia cover an area of over 170,000 square miles, being about three times the size of England and Wales. The Nertchirisk estates, in Eastern Siberia, are estimated at neariy that area. In the Altai states are situated the gold and siver mines of Barnaul. Paulov, Smijov, anc Loktjepp; the copper foundry at Sassoum, and the great iron works at Gavritofsk, in the Salagirov district. The receipts from these enormous estates in 1882, however, were only $495,000, and in 1883 the revenue was only half this sum. M. Delaunay, of Paris, has been making extensive investigations upon the subject of postures in sitting as regards the extremities. He finds that the Chinese cross the left arm over the right, while Europeans cross the right over the left. Robust children cross the right over the left. Those who can not work or are idiotic do the contrary. A great many women cross the left leg over the right. Among opera dancers some always cross the right, leg over the left, but not one crosses the left over the right habitually. Infants under three years cross the left ana over the right.

and when older reverse the position. The Professor finds that men generally cross the right leg over the left, and cites the statements of tailors that trousers are always more worn on the left side, which bears most of the weight. Many conclusions are drawn from these facts, the most important one being that the left brain develops before the right, but finally the right predominates. CHEVALIER DE BRUIDIB is mentioned as the Cuban Ole Bull. Not long ago he played before Kaiser William at Berlin. The violinist is coal black, and at the soiree his coat front glittered with more decorations than were exhibited by any of his audience. His appearance created a sensation. The Kaiser turned to a gentleman and exclaimed with a smile: “The fellow has even more orders than I.” It was learned subsequently that, the chevalier had been annoyed by two of the imperial lackeys in the ante-room. Their treatment of himself was not sufficiently deferential, and he wrath fully requested them to recollect that he was a marquis in his own country and not Prince Karl's moor from Potsdam. A Southern army surgeon tells the following story of the battle of Chickamauga: “The hottest part of the fight was on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday night we were expecting to renew the fight the next day. I turned to Mr. M . Says I: ‘Andrew, look in that ambulance and you will find a two gallon jug. Take it down in yonder ravine and bring it full of water. If any of the boys get hurt to-morrow they might suffer for water.’ He took the jug and went off, and I neither heard nor saw any more of Andrew till Tuesday morning after the fight was over. He came up almost breathless with the jug of water. ‘Doctor,’ says he, ‘I have found the water at last; I would have brought it if it had taken mo three weeks to find it!’ ” Meissonier’s models receive princely wages, though they earn their money hardly enough. They are liable to six hours at a stretch, almost without a change of position, and in attitudes which often are the reverse of comfortable. “The Quarrel” contains five figures; each of which is a marvel of anatomical draughtsmanship. Meissoniertook seventeen sketches of it before he put brush to canvas. Fancy a dispute in which the would-be combatants try to get at each other, while two friends on one side and one on the other endeavor to separate them. And the five models stood in this attitude for three hours each day for sixty consecutive days. ‘ ‘They were better off still than the fellow who shammed death beneath a real dead horse on a winter’s day when the snow lay a foot deep in my garden,” said M. Meissonier. No doubt they were. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. Blaine, after his defeats in 1876 and 1880, went into the fight with his hosts behind him; and now that he has been nominated the memory ot his conduct in those campaigns ought to send every anti-Blaine mau to the front for muster in the Blaine ranks.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. Any one can see that the only time that remains to us to arrange the means of settling the dispute about the counting of the votes for President that may arise is now. Now, while each side believes that it will carry the day, before a vote has been cast, before any difficulties or the situation have become embodied in visible form, revealing to partisan rancor and lust for office its opportunity to snatch the prizes of the polls by refusing to compromise.—Chicago Tribune. The Republican party can well spare these seceders. who are neither formidable in numbers nor genuine Republicans. With the settlement of the war issues, protection has become the corner-stone of Republican doctrine, and those who are not with the party on this platform are against it. The real Republicans in New England, New York, Pennsylvania and California will work and vote for Blaine and Logan. The party will be stronger and its record more consistent tor having purged itself of the free-trade element, who were with it, but not of it.—Philadelphia Press. It is the business of the criminal lawyer to break the law, to rob it of its power and dignity, and in that view he is as bad in some respects as the scoundrel who pays him for doing it. It ought to be beyond the power of a guilty man to escape; but it so happens if he have the funds necessary to secure a good defense he is far more likely, though he may have stolen the funds, to be acaaitted than held or convicted. This is not right, and there will be further trouble like that at Cincinnati unless it is remedied. A full and fair trial is the right of every citizen: but the rascal must not always be protected at the expense of the community whom it is his business to outrage.—New York Graphic. The Democrats have frankly denounced civil-serv-ice reform as a vagary of puritanical cranks; they have set every principle of it at defiance wherever they have bad the power; they have defeated one of their most distinguished leaders with insults and ridicule because he had the courage to frame a reform bill; and they never go into a campaign without avowing, with a leer ami a smacking of lips, that they mean to ‘ ‘take the boys in out of the cold and warm their toes.” It seems to us that a practical reformer will not hesitate to support the only party which has hitherto given him any encouragement or held out any promise of adopting his principles. The country is going to be ruled by the Republican masses or the Democratic masses, and the choice lies between them. —New York Tribune. And vet here, as in England and in Ireland, money is found for drink, and for other indulgences less harmful, but still not really essential, which would, in the course of time covered by the productive years, aggregate enough to prevent suffering in times of need. Among our native poor, money enough is wasted on the table, or in keeping up a miserable show of “appearances,” to provide against want when the earning capacity weakens or fails. There is, in spite of the creditable aggregate showing of our savings institutions, too much living from hand to mouth in this country in all classes below those having independent fortunes. A man who earns $5,000 a year and spends it all is really no richer and no better prepared to meet reverses than the man who earns $1 a day and does the same thing.—Boston Herald. Every man has more or less the desire to become rich. And when, in an age of trade-gaming, it seems so easy for some to quickly become so, it is difficult for others to resist the temptation of taking a hand in “the deal,” even with other people’s money, when their sole idea of trade is that it is a lottery the prizes of which are gained by smartness, if it be only backed by a sufficient amount of personal daring. In the meantime, thoughtful people see that the only remedy for the present abounding thievery in business is either a growth in public opinion which will suppress reckless speculation, or a steady severity in dealing with mercantile criminals which will make it altogether unsafe for them to resort to thievery in order to obtain the means of becoming partners in the present big gamble in trade. —Chicago News. The Rank and File Versus The Leaders. Emery A. Storr’s Speech. The rank and file dictate the platform and the candidates to its conventions. Gentlemen, how splendidly lias that been illustrated in our political history. In 1872 scores and scores of leaders went overboard —Governors, senators, congressmen—the woods were full of thorn. Governor Palmer, Lyman Trumbull, Senator Doolittle, George W. "Julian, all overboard, and how tho splendid old ship righted itself up after it had been relieved of that cargo. And now look along the shore, Mr. Chairman, and you will see it dotted with the whitened and bleached skeletons of the leaders who went overboard and were washed ashore in 1872. Don’t Take Auy Chances on Tilden. Hartford Oourant. Asa matter of fact, we are inclined to believe that he is quite as old and feeble as he describes himself; that his acceptance would indeed be a suicide, that he does not now intend to accept, that it has never been a part of the plan of the Tilden boomers that he should accept, and that they are only waiting the proper moment to produce the already selected political heir. All tho same, however, a sound prudence would counsel the Democratic national convention, if it doesn’t want Mr. Tilden for its candidate, not to offer him the nomination. Contrasting Candidates ami Parties. Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. The situation seems to be this: There is now a contest between Blaine and the men whose candidates were not nominated at Chicago. But Plain© is not running against the men who were pot nominated. By and by the Democratic convention will nominate a man who will be running against Blaine. The men whose candidates were not nominated will begin to contrast these two candidates, and from contrasting the men they will finally get to contrasting the parties, and then Blaine will get them all. A Job Lot. Milwaukee Sentinel. They are a sort of a job lot, and now that their most intellectual leader lias voluntarily retired from the field, on account of his ago and physical infirmities, if Messrs. Bayard, Cleveland, Flower, Thurman, Hendricks Pendleton, Carlisle, Randall, Payne, Morrison et al., were locked in a room and a committee of one sent in blindfold to select a candidate, it would make mighty little difference to the party or the country which one he selected.

THE STATE PRES? Pungent Words on Political Topics—“ Disgruntled” Independents Excoriated. A Wet Blanket. Columbus Republican. There is no disguising the fact that Til den’s letter has carried dismay into the ranks of tho faithful. They had fully made up their minds to nominate the old ticket and were arranging their plans accordingly. His declination, coming on the eve of the convention, falls like a wet blanket. There is a feeling that lie had no hone of Democratic success or he would not have declined, and, at auy rate, it deprives them of what they regarded as their strongest man and greatest organizer, disarranging all their plans without giving time to form others. Perfectly Satisfactory. Michigan City Enterprise. The reports being circulated by Democrats that Republican Germans are going to bolt the Blaine and Logan ticket is all bosh, and the wish is father of tho thought. We have taken pains to talk with several of the Republican Germans of this city, and none of them hesitate to pronounce the ticket as perfectly satisfactory to them, and say, further, that they know of no reason why auy German Republican should not support it. Take to the Woods. Terre Ilauto Mail. Charles Francis Adams in his letter to the Massachusetts Reform (?) Club, concludes by saying: “If we fail at the Democratic convention, then, as the Italian forestieri, we must meet together in the sylvan shade and name our own men.” That is the very best thing Charles Francis and his reform* gang can do; let them take to the woods. Mud-Slingers. Crawfordsville Journal. The mud-slinging against James G. Blaine has already commenced. The Democracy cannot throw meaner, dirtier, filthier, stinkinger or slimier mud against Blaine than they shoveled against the lamented Garfield. Slander and vituperation will only tend to make his friends adhere more closely to him. The Old .Sexton Gathers Them In. Ft. Wayne Gazette. Now that Old Usufruct is out of the way Butler is the coming man. Silver spoons will be at a premium during the next six months. Butler is not saying much, but ho is gathering in the political cranks as fast as they meet. A Strong Ticket. Mishawaka Enterprise. The more sensible Democratic papers unite in saying that tho Republican ticket is an exceedingly strong one. and that their party will be obliged to strain every nerve to stand even the ghost of a chance for success. A Terrestrial Angel. Locansport Journal. We have somewhere in an old scrap-book a collection of cipher dispatches that would be of peculiar interest to those Democrats who are just now engaged in holding Mr. Tilden up as a terrestrial angel. _ Dodged the Cyclone. Lafayette Journal. If Tilden seriously contemplates the withdrawal from public life, it is most probably because he did not like the shape of the cloud, and gets out of the way of the cyclone in time. Not Popular and Yet • Vincennes Commercial. We learn to our surprise that Blaine is not popular in the East, yet he got more votes from the Eastern States among tho delegates than all the other candidates besides. Not Likely To Bea Candidate. Evansville Journal. It is hardly probable that Judge Gresham will conclude to dabble further in the pool of politics, his experience in that line having been far from pleasant or encouraging. Tlieir Relative Importance. Columbus Republican. Mr. Tilden's letter has a word for the country, two for tlie part# and five for himself. In his estimation this represents the relative importance of the subjects named. Cold-Tea Reformers. Torre Haute Mail. If the angel Gabriel were nominated he would not be acceptable to the “reformers.” They would object to his taking his horn. Tlie Tewksbury Terror. Anderson Herald. Tilden is out of the way, and after him, Butler is the ablest, most adroit and unscrupulous poltician in the Democratic party. We Spoke of tlie Republican Party. Peoria Transcript. Tlie Indianapolis Journal says: “No man is greater than his party. ” Beg pardon; you must have forgotten Mr. Tilden. Every Minister Takes It. Vincennes Sun. The Acton Camp-meeting Association should hasten to renew its subscription to the Indianapolis Journal. Only a Rumor. Vincennes Sun. It is rumored that Governor Hendricks -will present McDonald’s name to the Chicago convention. _ Deserters Which Can Be Spared. Milwaukee Sentinel. Will the Evening Post, which chronicles the desertion of the New York Herald, the Evening Telegram, the Philadelphia Times and the Chicago Times, mention when these papers ever did support a Republican candidate? They have claimed to be independent journals, but they understand independence to mean abuse of both sides, with most abuse of the Republican party. _ Indiana To Be Depended On. National Republican. Indiana may be classed as almost certain to give Blaine and Logan 10,000 or 15,000 majority this fall. The protection sentiment is growing. It is stronger and deeper than in 1880, when the State gave Garfield and Arthur a majority of about 7,000. _ True to Their Old Commander. Philadelphia Record.The generous enthusiasm with which the Society of the Army of tho Potomac chose General Grant for its President during the coming year shows that the veterans have lost none of tlieir confidence in their old commander. A Great Ornithological Work, Hartford Currant. Geerge William Curtis is understood to be preparing for the Harpers a long-needed work on the origin, habits and destiny of the American crow. [Flocking by Himself. Minneapolis Tribune. Mr. G. William Curtis seems to have finally drifted out into a little political party all by himself. It is the general feeling that this is where Mr. Curtis has belonged for the past eight years. Another Reformer. Milwaukee Sentinel. Tnere is an awful suspicion that Fitz John Porter, too, will decline to support the Republican ticket, and paticularly tho vice-president part. Why He Declined. Atlanta Constitution. , , , ~ ~ Mr. Tilden’s health is good, but he couldn’t stand the caperings and vaporings of Editor Hennery Watterson. A Ticket. National Republican. , Why not “Old Bill English and “Young Bill” English? That ticket would sweep the country. He Does Owe. Kansas City Times. Garfield’s dying words were “Oh, Swaim! It is Swaim who appears to do the owing nowadays.