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THE RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Key. Israel H. McConnell’s Interesting Discourse on “Faith and Patience.” Key. H. B. Hunter on “Sabbatb Observances.” and Rev. A. Marine’s Discussion of ‘‘The Two Conventions." FAITH AND PATIENCE. Rot. Israel H. McConnell's Morning Sermon at Roberts Park Church. Rev. Israel H. McConnell, of the North Ohio Conference, preached at Roberts Park Church yesterday, morning and evening. The lesson of the morning was the first thirty verses of the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, on the nature of faith, and the text of the sermon was taken from the first verse and part of the second, of the twelfth chapter of Hebrews, being an exhortation to faith and patience: “Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” Mr. McConnell spoke without notes. His voice is clear, full and pleasant, his manner fervent and his gestures frequent, bnt easy, graceful and suited to the phrase which it emphasises, and to the idea the meaning of which it is intended to shade. He said the phrase “ft great cloud of witnesses” has a primary reference to those whose names were given in the reading lesson. Paul refers to those ancient worthies named in that chapter, as ft cloud of witnesses, not in the sense of spectators merely, but as illustrating in their persons their faith in God. The imagery is that of a race course lined with specators. Abram, Isaac and Jacob are there, bach representing God’s faithfulness in keeping his covenants With the the people. It means with these Witnesses We have a duty. It is a duty to every one of us to lay aside'every weight and sin, and when we get ready we are to run. The sihs that encircle us are those we indulged in before we became Christains. They are the besetting sins. If a man has had an appetite for strong drink, if he has had an evil temper, that is the sin that still hovers about him ana that he is to guard against. There are many things not sinful in themselves that are yet hindrances to us in the development of our spiritual lives, and as such they ought to be laid aside. John Wesley was an ardent student and lover of the science of geometry, but he gave it up because he found it was absorbing more of his time than he believed he could spare from the mission to which he had given himself, and he laid it aside. There is much in literature that is fascinating, and we may become so much absorbed in it as to hinder the development of our spiritual life. So we Anay find it necessary to give it up. What is hindering you, what Weight are you carrying as you run this spiritual race? that your Spiritual life, instead of growing brighter and more radiant, is growing weaker and weaker? There were some things that could not be laid aside by the runners in the ancient games: so there are some things you can not lay aside. There are peculiarities of temperament from Which we can never be free. Some of these, not sinful in themselves, we can not get rid of. Grafts are cut from the pear and from the pippin and grafted into the Rambeau tree and have life and fruit-bearing power. But they never change then’ fruit, the pear graft will always bear pears and the pippin graft, pippins. Engrafted into Jesus Christ we have life and fruit-bearing powers, and yet each hold our different temperaments and individualities. The best God does for us while we are here in the flesh is to let our characters take their coloring from our temperaments, as the light shining through the window here takes its color from the pane of glass through which it comes. There are some whose religious life is bright and joyous, and others in whom it is melancholy and gloomy. We learn that life is one thing to a man of one temperament; and a greatly different thing to another of a different temperament Life is one thing to a man in health, and another thing to an invalid spending weary days and nights in lingering pain. It is one thing to a man with his means in bonds and bank stocks, and a very different thing to a man who has to strive from day to day for bread for his family. It is one thing when the happy family circle is unbroken, and another when that circle lias been broken by death. We should be very charitable in our criticism of others, as we seldom know their life circumstances. Each or us must run the race set before him by divine appointment. It takes some of us into one work or profession, and some into another, but to each of us it brings similar joys, and struggles and sorrows. We only need to do our duty, and look forward, as the people in the wilderness were not responsible for the pillar of cloud by day, or the pillar of fire by night, but only responsible for the following of it. They were not to heed the nodding plumes of Pharaoh’s host behind them, the rattle of the annor or the neighing of the horses; they were to look forward. God opened the Red sea when they came to it. When a man or woman has anything to do for God let him or her do it baldly and grandly, in the fear of God. A traveler in London once went to a policeman and inquired the way to the Crystal Palace. “There are two ways,” said the policeman, “a high level and a low level; the hign level brings you even with the palace, and by the low level you will have to climb stairs. ” The traveler rightly took the high level. There are people in Indianapolis, as there are everywhere, going to heaven beneath their privilege; they are going by the low level when they might go by the high level with joy and songs. The Methodist Church was not projected upon a low level, and now in its hundred years in America it has come to be first in membership in twenty-two of the States, second in eleven, and third in three others. Christianity is rapidly capturing the world. Jesus Christ has captured the press of this country, and we now see the ocean cable bringing the report of Spurgeon's sermon, while Beecher's sermons are telegraphed from New York and Swing’s from Chicago. Thus Christ is ever in the daily press, bringing inspiration and hope to the heart. We see Christ to-day the inspiration off song. The songs, that thrill are the Christian songs.

SABBATH OBSERVANCE. Sermon Delivered by Rev. H. V. Hunter, of the Seventh Presbyterian Church. The following is the substance of a sermon preached by B. V. Hunter, In the Seventh Presbyterian Church, Sabbath morning, July 27, 1884: Prov. xx; i: “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy .” It can easily bo shown that the origWArf the Sabbath NWS at the dose of creation, and that Jehovah was its suthpp. ht em alo be shown to at the Christian Sabbath embodies the true religion, as carried over from tbs old dispensation to the new, ad sanctioned by tfce apostle* and the early church. There is no question about tho origin of the Babbath totJS whTbelieves hi the inspirrfton of the Bible, and is familiar with its history. The design of the Babbath is to turns the soul at man God ward, ia order that it may be ele rated to a higher spiritual manhood, and to afford man a day of rest The civil Sabbath has a two fold purpose: it is to he observed ns a day of rest frpfla tpi) toe yooidtori of the week; also, by the proper observance of the day, wo are to honor Almighty Grid. The history of the day from “the beginning,”' through its Jewish cycle, over into the Christian centuries, arid dowta to the present, teaches that it embodies the Christian system, marking the advancing stages of the religions predominant in this country to-day. That thn day is a physical necessity has been proven a multitude of times, both by scientific observation a*ul the general experience of those who have given the Hfo*t oaralul and ooneciatious attention to thia master. It is a well-estab-lised fact that butfi mind aqd mi Irtkr require relaxation from their accustqtnwl toil^

hovah, for the good of man, and is universally binding upon him. He needs it both as a day of rest and as a day upon which he may worship God. The worship required of man is adapted to his nature, and is intended to influence the character of every institution of man. This nation was established by a Sabbath respecting community, and a large per cent, of the people yet believe in the binding force of our text. We are essentially a Christian Nation, and all subjects ought to be loyal to onr principles. lam aware this is denied by many who would revolutionize existing institutions, turn the dial of civilization back to the midnight of the middle ages, and throw contempt upon our history and traditions. “It is urged that as there is In the United States an entire separation o£ ohoreh and state, it is contrary to the genius of our institutions to enforce the observance of the Sabbath by the civil law. The State has nothing to do with religion.” “It is furthermore urged that all men have equal rights” and that the state has no right to require one man to conform to the religious beliefs of another. This may be answered by saying the state must have some religion. It is in man’s nature. The history of the past and the facts of the present prove this proposition. Fundamental to justice there must be standards of right and wrong. Religion of some sort gives us these standards, and no government is stable without them. The better, the trqpr the religion the better the standards of right and wrong. This government has acted wisely in embodying the moral principles of the Christian religion into its Constitution, institutions and organic law. Our government may not teach religious principles, but it must respect them just as it respects the rights of private property, leaving each individual to accumulate that property according to his own liking, provided it is gotten lawfully. A civil government can not ignore religion any more than physiology. It was not constituted to teaeh either the one or the other, but it must, by a like necessity, conform its action to the laws of both. . The opposers of Sabbath observance have nothing to offer this Nation to insure its stability in place of that which it now has. There is nothiug that elevates and reconstructs a people like Christianity. It leads to virtue, prosperity and’safety, while the opposite course leads to vice and destruction. To claim the protection of our flag and yet break the established laws of a fundamental principle which upholds those laws, is to do veiy much as the viper which poisdhed tke man Who Warmed it in his bosom. The state owes the civil Sabbath to God; hence the duty Is enjoined upon every one claiming the protection of the state. The design of the day foreshadows the manner in which it shall be observed. Man must cease from all the ordinary occupations of the week. If he cares nothing for this holy day, he must abstain from such vocations as will interfere with those who do. If there is any body of people, native-born or naturalized, who do not respect the law of the land and the traditions of the people, let them seek places more agreeable to tneir tastes. The thief might possibly object to the law which hinders him in nis business; so might the pirate or the counterfeiter. The American communist must learn that law is gaored, and that the hypocritical cry of “liberity” is rightfully interpreted to mean "license.” I wish to call attention to some practical opposition to the proper observance of the Sabbatb. 1. The first direct violation of this commandment is very common in this city. I refer to the custom of our saloon-keepers keeping open doors when the law requires them to be closed. (See acts 1877-82.) This has been affirmed by the courts. (See Carey vs. The State, May term, 1882.) Yet the doors are open, and men patronize them with reckless bravado, while our esteemed Metropolitan police are unable to control them. It appears to me that either the baser elements of society are about to assume control of American institutions, or else the moral and law-abiding citizens aresleeping while the vicious play. Civil and divine law sere powerless in this progressive age and civilized Nation. There is a spirit coming into our midst, brought from continental Europe, which would secularize the Sabbath, debauch the people and doubt God. We are gathering the people of every nation under our flag, but like the ancient Hebrews who bowed down to the gods of the heathen who came among them, we are adopting their habits and atheism. Shall we go over to them, or shall we bring them to onr ways of thinking? We are allowing ourselves to be enslaved with customs and crimes which will require Wood and the sword to break. 2. Another specter has arisen and defied the law. I refer to the national game of “base ball.” It was not enough that an invigorating game should marry the strumpet gambling, and tarry with wine bibbers, but it must desecrate the Sabbath day. I am fond of the game; but I must protest against the prostitution of a good thing. No excuse can be offered for this shame less crime of profaning a holy day. Base ball has taken up its abode with the brothel, the gambler, the law-breaker, and the commune. Some of the commandments are: “Thou shalt not kill;” “thou shalt not Bteal;” “thou shalt not commit adultry;” “remember the , Sabbath day to keep it holy." It is'sin to break anyone of these commandments. Decency has been outraged. There is law against this high-handed crime wherever there is a public sentiment to back it up. In Columbus, Ohio, they make it interesting far these law breakers. Indianapolis lifted up a feeble protest the first Sabbath the day was desecrated, but the officials churned that it was not their business to look after these men. For what purpose do you elect a sheriff, I wonder? Does he imagine the people elect him for ornamental purposes? Or for use? I understand nine of the youßg men were arrested who played ball that day, and that the case has lodged in court. The papers have called a number of times for a report, but no report has yet been given. That court doubtless understands its business. In a few months the qomniunity will have forgotten about it The games will go on meanwhile and nothing more will be said. I wonder if the base ball clubs have friends, and whether they distribute complimentary tickets? The people of this city have a right to a decision in this matter. We want to know whether we have any law that men are bound to obey, or not. I think the American people are fast realizing that justice sleepeth, where crime can command gold and influence. 3. I rejoice that certain of our journals have taken a manly stand against all such religious fiascos as the “Acton camp meeting.” They have no more right to break the Sabbath, and to outrage public sentiment, than base ball. I understand trains are to run to and from that meeting on the Sabbath—special trains, and that the “meeting” divides the proceeds with . the railways. It is a bold and shameless piece of speculation in the name of religion. It is business desecration and demoralization. Bnt, thank God, theministersoftheM.E. churches of this city have denounced itj one of the Indiana conferences has denounced it, and I hope all good men ahd women will denounce it, as giving an argument to all that class of men who are determined to destroy the day that God has given as a day of rest, and as a day when men shall turn their thoughts to that which is purest in manhood and honoring to the God of heaven. All good citizens will “remember the Babbath day to keep it holy.”

THE TWO CONVENTIONS. Why U I* fiawin ta Emm on Independent Prohibition Party at This Time. Eev. J)r. Marine delivered the following discourse at Ceotral avenue Church last night, to a large audience, the subject being the two temperance conventions held in this city last week: “f will s*y that I dri not deliver this discourse In the interest of any political party, nor for the purpose of antagonizing any party whatever; nor do I deliver it by the request or at the suggestion of any party or person. lam prompted entirely by my own personal convictions as to toe utility and propriety of expressing in the pulpit my views about the ‘Two Conventions.’ In the first place, it is in view of the foot that I have been an uncompromising advocate of temperance and constitutional prohibition in this State for many years, and as I did not attend the convention that organized a party and placed in nominutUm ft ticket, but gave niy support to the other-. 1 desire to publicly give my reasons fo* doing so; end I take this opportunity to announce them from my pulpit, because some of the asdent supporters of this new Prohibition party are members of my charge and congrega™db?who£ot^^ Hnu in wovoC vtiusiiQii ty 1 ntiv© tlic roost perfect confidence. Although I may net now per ieetty agree with these brethren as to tho

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course they are pursuing, I nevertheless believe that they are actuated by the purest motives. And, in the second place, I desire to make prominent the essential unity of this notale cause, that must not, that cannot be divided by differences of opinion ns to the longest or shorest route to constitutional prohibition. It is well known by you and the public generally, and the temperance people in particular, have had, during the last week, their attention called to the proceedings of two conventions which assembled in this city on the same day, and at the same hour. Both of these conventions were called and converted in behalf of the temperance reform, and especially that feature of the reform called “constitutionalprohibition.” They differed only, or chiefly, as to the best methods to be employed or the wisest means to be adopted for the accomplishment of the same end. The original call was not. for two, but one convention, or more strictly speaking, mass meeting, for the purpose of consultation and such action as might determine a line of policy under existing circumstances. A committee composed of well-known tern-' peranee advocates and workers, in whom the friends of the cause had implicit confidence, issued the call for the aforesaid convention. While I deplore the division which occurred in this committee, I apprehend very readily the causes which led to this open Tupturo. While the entire committee were disposed to carry out, so far as practicable, the expressed wishes of the temperance “Grand Council,” there were a certain number, a majority of the committeen, who deemed it wise and for the best- interests of the cause to extend this call beyond the limitations of any temperance organization, to the people of the State, to all who are in principle and ru fact prohibitionists. The judgment and action of the majority of this committee I most heartily indorsed, and to their call I responded, because 1 knew that there were many good and true friends of prohibition who were not bound by the action of the “Grand Council," or any temperance organization, so far as the political feature of the question is concerned. I knew, also, that there was a division of sentiment among honest and candid men as to the organization of a Prohibition party at this time, or at any time. Therefore, I could not go into a convention the action Os which had been predetermined by a conclave known as the “Grand Council,” which in no sense, or by any authority whatever, represented my views, as to the organization of a political party. Neither could I consent to go into a convention that was called and organized on the basis of the previous question. After the convention had assembled it was the unanimous voice of the convention of free discussion, that the best thing to do under the existing circumstances was, if possible, to harmonize and unite tho separate fences, and that to this end a conference should be held between the two conventions looking toward this result; hence an overture, setting forth the unity of the conventions as to principle and asking for a joint session at an early hour, when the question of methods might be discussed, leaving each convention to act independently at the close of the interview. This overture was summarily and positively rejected by a vote of the other convention. As neither convention was, according to established precedent, in the true sense, a representative convention, it is my opinion that this whole question of organizing a Prohibition party should have been relegated to tlm temperance people of the State of Indiana. Let each county in the State hold a convention and appoint delegates to the State convention, where final and definite action could be taken as to the organization of a party, and the nomination of a State ticket.

As it is now, the Prohibition party will have but a meagre support. It is my judgment that not more than one-third of the Prohibitionists of the State will support the nominations. In this I may be mistaken. But it is sheer nonsense, and the worst kind of fanaticism to call in question the consistency and honesty of those who do not vote the ticket. Ido not call in question the honesty and sincerity of those who do support the ticket. Some of these men will break old party ties, and give up old party associations to do so, and for doing so they will be severely criticised. For my part, I honor such devotion to principle. But, nevertheless, lam convinced, and so are the greatest number of the Prohibitionists of the State, that the organization of a political party by this convention was premature and ill-advised, and will result in temporary if not permanent injury to the cause. lam profoundly convinced that this question of prohibition should go to the people to be voted upon at a special election, outside of all parties and party measures. There aTe Prohibitionists in all parties who will vote for prohibition at a special election, but who will not forsake their party for the single idea. Hence; I believe that with the opportunity pending to reach the people, it is premature to organize a party that must necessarily postpone this final verdict of the people for many years. The organization of this party was ill advised, because it was consummated at the dictation of the Grand Council and under the rule of the previous question, which cut off all discussion, and all conference with many of the oldest and truest friends of the cause. I, therefore, am fully in accord with the purpose, deliberations and resolutions of the convention of free discussion, which leaves me free from party dictation and partisan motives to carry forward my argument for prohibition in and out of the pulpit, until we reach the verdict of the people. I do not believe that the Prohibition party was organized and the ticket nominated by this convention, in the interests of the Democratic party. Neither do I believe that there was any intention on the part of the convention of free discussion, to capture the Prohibitionists in the interest of the Republican party. And yet these charges were made in the conventions one toward another in spirit and in language unbecoming to the friends of this great reform movement. It was evident, to the casual observer, that old political antagonists were present with their tricks and chicanery, fighting for the child before it was horn. Yet this scramble for the spoils was, after all, largely imaginary, and did not, in my judgement, in any sense control or determine the action at either convention. And yet I am compelled to say that the present Prohibition party in the State of Indiana is unquestionably in the interests of the Democratic party, so far as immediate results are concerned. I have no doubt in-my mind but that nine-tenths of all who support the Prohibition ticket will be Republicans. Prohibition in the Democratic party is a sporadic thing, while it has swept through the Republican party like a contagion. How this convention which organized anew party could, in its platform of principles, make an indiscriminate onslaught on the existing parties is a mystery to me, with the history and records of the two dominant parties spread out before them. The one always and uniformly declaring its opposition to all “sumptnary legislation," making “personal liberty” the watchword of the party, and openly and avowedly defending the commercial interests erf the liquor traffic, denouncing all temperance workers as inflammatory fools, hypocrites and fanatics, and always giving to the whisky league its unqualified support; while the other has not only given tho advocates of this reform room for the individual, social, and Christian expression of themost radical sentiments upon this question, but has, more than once, championed- the cause of temperance, and made gallant battle for “local option” and “submissisekm. ” And yet this prohibition party makes no discrimination. It seems to me like burying ignorance and intelligence, loyalty and disloyalty, treason and patriotism, in one common grave. It is. in my judgment, the mistake of this convention, and the result may be the supremacy of this instinctive, historic, sworn foe of prohibition. On the other hand, the convention of free discussion aims a well-directed blow at the “Liquor League,” this lurking, law-defying, boycotting, defiant foe of the church, the school, the home—this foe of our common humanity—and calls iron all lovars of law and order, intelligence and virtue, religion and liberty, tp join in one unbroken phalanx in a battle of extermination. The other convention asks for the support of a State ticket, which will, in all probability, be defeated, but which, if sleeted, can do nothing practically for prohibition. The convention of tree discussion asks for the union of effort to control the Legislature where there is to be found immediate and practical results. It seems to me that while the one restricts and circumscribes Its agencies the other multiplies and broadens them. Bnt there is anothep view of the two conventions that we must take before we veachourfinal conclusion —qatnely, their make up. The convention of free discussion was made up of genuine Prohibitionists, men and women wolfadvanaed in years, thoughtful, earnest, umtoviating ad, vptlttl-eonservative, I, observed mwty veterans in the cause-a body of men ami women

excitement. I saw men at whoso feet I sat when a boy, and heard from their lips wisdom concerning the value of good habits formed in early life, men who have always given greater emphasis to the idea of governing yourself than to the idea of being governed. Having been appointed on the committee of conference, to visit the other convention-, and during my short stay in that convention, I was impressed that while there was very great apprehension that the convention might be captured at any moment, there was, nevertheless, a manifest determination to “hold the fort.” But I very soon felt at home in the convention, and, had I not been tabled so promptly, 1 should have asked, as a question of privilege, the opportunity of making my bow to many old friends and fellow-soldiers with whom I had stood on many hotlv-contested fields. I saw in that convention old weatherbeaten crusaders, who stood hour after hour amid pelting storms and hooting mobs, singing: ‘ 'Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee!” I saw the honored representatives of that, the grandest and most effective temperance organization on the continent, whose banner bearing the incription “God, Home, and Native Land” will be ultimately planted on the battle-field of this Nation final’s victory over the rum power—The Woman’s Cliristain Temperance Union. I saw faces on which the tooth of slander had left its mark of grief and agony, all for the sake of the cause; and I said we are one. this separation to day is but a ripple on the surface of the mighty current that bears this united and undivided stream of public sentiment on toward the goal of constitutional prohibition. On the one hand, I observed the excessive life of this great reform that can never go backwards; a life eager for the fray and the sound of battle. On the other, that conservatism and caution that shall ever prove a check on the rashness and impetuosity of the more radical and inexperienced, so that, despite the mistakes and bluuders of its friends, and the combined hostility of its foes, prohibition will live, and grow, and conquer. Reforms are evolved by tho correlative forces of education and religion. Reforms move slowly, because their formative forces are silent and persuasive. In time they mold public sentiment, reconstruct the social fabric, and are incorporated into the platforms of great political parties, and are ultimately crystallized into law, and the constitutional provisions of government. This is the path of progress blazed out in this country by the anti-slavery reform, and to-day the great temperance reform is marching ing on this well-worn path to victory. The results are inevitable. Christianity and education are tho wheels of this movement. These wheels were not made to be reversed, and can not be reversed. The time will come when the present position of the schools and churches on this temperance question will call to its support some great party, or organization, that shall put this noble reform, by the side of freedom and equal suffrage, into the organic law of the Nation." Bnt we are not there to-day, and, in my judgment, it is unwise to transfer this great moral reform to the arena of politics. Confessedly party politics is corrupt,! so corrupt that it is an open question, in my mind, as to whether the temperance reform can purify politics, or politics will degrade and pollute the temperance reform. I am inclined to the opinion that there is a great work to do in the direction of reforming politics before we can safely trust prohibition as a party issuo in its bonds. I am quite certain that we can, at this time, exert a wider and more salutary influence by the agencies of the schools, and churches, and temperance organizations, than we can by the agency of any political party, even though it should be called a Prohibition party.

PROBABLY A MURDER. Isaac Cover Fatally Stabbed by John Whitsett While Drank. Cyrus Kunkle, a young man who works at Hawn’s brick-yard, a few miles northwest of the city, on the Lafayette road, came to the police station shortly before 2 o’clock this morning, and reported that near where he lived, John Whitsett had fatally stabbed Isaac Cover, who boarded with him. Kunkle knew nothiug more about the affray further than that Whitsett. who had been drinking during tile day, at a picnic at Meyer's grove, came home ic the evening, and was quarrelsome and abusive. Ho got in a fuss with Cover and a man named James Whitford, and stabbed Cover four times in the left sido with a large knife. His family and one or two neighbors then interfered, and the injured man was carried to Hawn’s house and Kunkle was sent into the city after a physician and officers. He said that when he left Cover was growing very weak and was not able to talk, and he thought that he could live but a few minutes. Dr. Hodges, Sergeant Quigley, and another officer, started for the place at once, but owing to the lateness of the hour it was useless for the reporters to go. Whitsett is a married man, about twenty-eight years old, and has several children. He is a brother of A1 Whitsett, who robbed a train on the Vincennes road about two years ago. Cover is about thir-ty-five years old and unmarried. Evil Influence of Cincinnati Newspapers. Interview with Archbishop Elder. “One of the meet fruitful sources of immorality and lawlessness in our community is the practice of the daily papers to occupy so much of their space with detailed accounts of crimes and scandals, set out with graphic descriptions and embellishments, to attract the uotiee and impress the imaginations, particularly of young boys and girls. For the love of all that makes a family or a country worth living for, you newspaper men ought to reflect oa what you are doing, and desist from this shameful practice. And there is no reason for its oontinuanoe ” Then the Archbishop gave the following dab at the Cincinnati press; "In other cities that I have visited, I have not found that papers ranking as respectable had anything approaching the excesses that we find in Cincinnati.” The Independents and Chairman Barman. Nw fork Commercial Advertiser. Os course this distresses tho Purists. They wanted a chairman who would conduct the campaign in such a way that the most delicate sensibilities of the finely organized dudes among them would not be ruffled. They wanted politics “made cleaner," “lifted to a higher plane," etc., and to accomplish that they were not solicitous about such a little thing as victory in November. They are battling for an idea, and therefore are not deeply concerned in practical results. If they were, they would not be the pretty and snowy creatures that they are, and if they were to lose their frigid beauty all would be lost The Unfortunate AmmMu. Philadelphia Press. The New York Civil-service Reform Association has had a most unfortunate experience. A few weeks ago its treasurer robbed the bank of which he was cashier and fled to Crfnada. Now its president, George W-illiana Curtis, has gone over to the Democrats and is assisting Mr. Hendricks to turn all of the office-holders who have gained experience out of their places, in order to make room for those celebrated "120,000.” The association may console itself, however, by remembering that tho Republican party has never failed yet in any of the reforms it has undertaken, and, though men may falter, the cause Is safe. General Logan’s Age. Washington hatter. John A. Logan got 160 acres of land for his services in the Mexican war. The papers were drawn up while Logan was a county clerk at Murphysboro, 111., and they are signed by Logan as such. Accompanying them is a certificate of ! his honorable discharge at tho close of the Mexican war. It is dated Oct. 10, 1818, and shows that he was second lieutenant of Company H, of tite First Regiment of Illinois foot volunteers, and thgt ha was enrolled an the 29th day of May, 1847. In this certificate the place for his ago and date of birth is not filled out, and I

and certain encyclopaedias put him down as being born in 1828. On finding that his birth was not given in this certificate I asked for the muster rolls of his company, and here I find him to be twenty-four years old when he enlisted in 1847, and he consequently must be at the present time sixty-one, and tho year of his birth must have been 1823, instead of 1826. Tile Same as in 1872. San Francisco Chronicle. The independents have not in the present canvas as yet given the slightest evidence of strength. They have not on their side a Republican who deserves the name of statesman. The aggregate influence of their newspapers is infinitely inferior to that of the dissatisfied newspapers of 1872. There were then the same purists in doctrine, the same Pharisees in practice, in fact all the eruptive symptoms that characterize the present movement. If there was nothing thou accomplished, what can these malcontents hope, with their weak and demoralized forces, to accomplish now? The Party Grows. Now York Evening Post. The Prohibition party is a growing party, but it is still too small to count for much" in a national election. In 1872 they polled 5,608 votes in the whole country. In 1876 they numbered 9,322, and in 1880 10,305. The only States in which they counted more than 1,000 votes in 1880 were New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. In Michigan they had 942, in Massachusetts 682, and in lowa 592. The Greenbackers in 1880 polled 307,740 votes in tho whole country; that is. they were about thirty times as numerous as the Prohibitionists, although their “principles 1 ’ were far Jess meritorious, arid, in fact, positively baneful. Whom St. John Resembles. Pittsburg Dißpatch. St. John, not the St. John of Patmos, but he of Kansas, can stand in with Jack Haverly, the famouß minstrel manager, in getting lithograph portraits. If the oil painting which was thrown to the breeze yesterday, when the result of the ballot was announced, is a fair likeness of the man, he and Haverly would make a great hit as "The Two Dromios." John also resembles Buffalo Bill to a oartain extent. Tho resemblance is more in the snap and dash than in form, although they are not dissimilar in this,* both being lithe, quick, and full of energy. A Merited Rebnke. Cincinnati Special. To a reporter who visited him, Archbishop Elder took occasion to speak at length on the publication in Cincinnati papers, of extended accounts of crimes and scandals, which he said was one of the most fruitful sources of the immorality prevailing here. Said, he: “In other cities that I have visited I havp not found that papers ranking as respectable had anything approaching the excesses that we find in Cincinnati. Since the riot people have set to studying the causes why crime and lawlessness have prevailed among us, and I hope our editors will look into their own works.” A New Cure for Cholera. Marseille* Correspondence. In Toulon, though with more reason, tho panic continues, as it does here. It is diversified, however, by some amusing incidents. Thus, a friend writes to me that he was sitting in a case, when some men passed with a cholera patient on a shutter. Apparently, they were thirsty, for they put down the shutter and went into a neighboring liquor shop. Meanwhile, the patient recovered, got up, looked around, and then took to his heels. The men gave chase, hut the sick man redoubled his efforts and soon disappeared. Not a Matter of Wonder—in Buffalo. Cleveland Leader. Many people wonder how it is that so grossly immoral a man as Grover Cleveland has been honored by his own city of Buffalo as he unquestionably has been. This does seem a little strange, but Cleveland is not the only man of his stamp who has achieved political success in Buffalo. Tho present Democratic mayor of that city, Jonathan Scoville has outraged the moral sense of the community for many years, and he is far stronger to-day than the best men of his party.

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