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The baking-powder test, as applied to the Democratic presidential ticket—“place it top down on a hot stove, remove the lid and emelT’—loses none of its virtues with lapse of time. The latest from Mr. Beecher, up to the hour ©f going to press, is to the effect that, since hearing from Buffalo, he can no longer support Cleveland. Mr. Beeeher is having a veryunhappy time. Cromwell, chairman of the Democratic eentral committee of Maine, will be out of a job if he is not more loyal to his party. He has been indiscreet enough to concede the State to Blaine. Ip the Democratic managers of Indiana think there are any votes for Mr. Hendricks in attacking the memory and services of Governor Morton they are earnestly invited to go ahead with the business. The Courier-Journal is another of those brilliant financiers that argue that because the •wealth of the country increased 85 per cent, between 1850 and 1860, the same ratio should be maintained indefinitely. The Journal has already shown up the absurdity of such an idea. A ten-year-old school-boy knows better than to make such a preposterous claim. It is to be hoped that the “Oklahoma boomers” may be promptly and effectually ousted from the Indian Territory. They have no more right there than have the hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Kansans, who are content to observe the treaties made with the Indians by the government. To let Captain Payne and his freebooters remain there would be putting a premium on outlawry. The Alabama State election takes place today. Arkansas is next to follow, electing State officers and Legislature on Mondaj r , Sept. 1; Vermont on Tuesday, Sept. 2; Maine on Monday, Sept. 8, and Georgia on Wednesday, Oct. 1. West Virginia and Ohio hold their State elections on Oct. 14. The remaining States, except such as have already held elections, vote for State officers on Nov. 4, at the time of the national election. The Boston Advertiser “waives the suggestion that an effort to defeat Mr. Blaine is the same thing as an effort to defeat the Republican party.” The Advertiser wants to defeat Mr. Blaine, and also wants to he considered a Republican paper; but the point is too fine for a large number of its subscribers, who, according to other Boston papers, have “waived” all interest in the Advertiser, and are looking for journals which they can understand.

The Washington Post (Dem.) is evidently in a very unenviable frame of mind, and publishes a “black list” of Democratic congressmen, who must be read out of the party. The list contains forty-two names, including those of men like Eaton of Connecticut, Finerty of Illinois, Wise of Virginia, Nichols of Georgia, Converse of Ohio, Storm of Pennsylvania, and Snyder of West Virginia. Converse has already been disposed of, his party having failed to renominate him, and the others will probably have to go. In the address to the independents George William Curtis says, “He [Governor Cleveland] is a Democrat happily free from all asso- . oiation with the fierce party differences of the slavery contest, and whose financial views are in harmony with those of the best men in both parties.” What an invitation! Here te a man fifty years of age, who was “happily free from all association” with the great events of American history which were transpiring about him when he was between twentyfive and thirty years of age. We apprehend there are but few political eunuchs in the country who care to vote for any man who Tras “happily free from such associations." To stop the preachers and Democrats from attacking and exposing Cleveland’s personal character, it is seriously proposed to retaliate |by attacking Mr. Blaine in some such manK Ja other words, Republicans must

go to these preachers, and sucfi Democrats as are not satisfied with their candidate, and compel them to desist. A more ingenuous proposition probably was never conceived. The Republican party has given no encouragement to this dirty business, while Democratic papers have been quick to publish the disgusting revelations. If what has been related of Mr. Cleveland be true, he is a man unfit to serve the people in honorable office; but the Journal is content to beat him on his record as a public man and official, added to the record of his party. But let us not hear any more from Democrats about “calling off the dogs" in regard to Mr. Cleveland’s record. If there are any dogs, they are Democratic dogs. All that the country knows of the trouble has come from Democrats. It was the Cincinnati Enquirer, for instance, that imported the story into this locality. CLEVELAND’S STRENGTH AND ABILITY. A good deal is said about Grover Cleveland's strength as a candidate. In order to show what this strength is, we collate a number of paragraphs, all taken from the editorial columns of leading Democratic and independent newspapers, bearing upon this question, as well as expressions from leading members of the Democratic party. The coUection, taken together, makes a neat little political handbook. • The New York Sun, before the Chicago convention, said: “In 1884 it is again proposed to nominate a candidate for the purpose of securing what is now called the independent Republican vote, and Grover Cleveland, a man not qualified to be President, and himself an extreme independent, though a Democrat in name, has been picked out for this purpose. If Mr. Cleveland should finally come forth as the candidate of the Chicago convention, he will appear upon the stage bearing the mark of destiny, and that destiny will be defeat.” The Brooklyn Eagle said: “Our esteemed contemporary, the Herald, declares that twenty Democratic States that neve'-heard of the five-eent fare bill may -want Governor Cleveland for a candidate. That is not unprobable. * * * But the question is, would the twenty Democratic States want him for a candidate at the risk of losing the votes of 30,000 or 40,000 workingmen of New York city?”

The Rochester Union said: “The veto of the five-cent-fare bill was against and directly in the teeth of constitutional principle and public policy. * * There is not an Anti-monopolist—there is not a true Democrat in the United States who can approve of that veto and doctrine, or support for public office any man who approves of them.” The New York Sun further said: “Cleveland is deservedly a weak candidate among the Democrats, because he has followed his own selfish purposes by undertaking to rule without regard to the party which made him Governor; and all the Republican kickers in the world could not make up for the Democratic votes he might lose if he were a candidate.” The Albany Times said: “Though the independent, Republicans may prefer him, his nomination would be so distasteful to a large portion of his own party that he could not hold the entire Democratic vote, without which it would be hopeless to attempt to carry New York against so formidable a Republican candidate as Mr. Blaine.” What some of the leading Dish newspapers of the country think of him may be judged from the following expressions. The New York Irish World says: “Do the Democratic managers and wirepullers of New York suppose that Governor Cleveland's veto of the five-cent-fare bill is either forgotten or forgiven by the Democratic workingmen of New York city, whose votes will have to be relied on to carry the State of New York for the Democracy next November? Bad as the veto was in itself, the principle on which it was based was still worse.” The Boston Pilot says: “Cleveland represents the narrowest and most selfish class in American social and public life. He is of those who distrust the common people. He advises only with the weal Lhy and the conservers of wealth. * * * The workingmen of his own State dislike and distrust him, and will not vote for him. He knows nothing of important public life or men. He has not a single quality large enough to fit him for the presidency of the United States.” What some of the leading Democrats and representative Irishmen think of Governor Cleveland may be judged from the following collection of expressions: August Belmont: Cleveland's nomination means Blaine’s election. M. B. Gallagher, president Land League: I would cut off my right hand before I would vote for Cleveland. He will get few votes from among the Land Leaguers. He is an aristocrat, and a friend of monopolists and bondholders. The Irish people will prefer Blaine to Cleveland.

James Redpath: I voted for Cleveland for Governor two years ago. He is the first Democrat I ever voted for. He has acted in such a way since he has been Governor as to change the good opinion I had of him. He has totally disappointed me. I will not support or vote for him if he is nominated. I prefer Blaine to Cleveland a thousand times. The editor of the Tablet: As between Cleveland and Blaine, the majority of the Irish gsople I have recently met are outspoken fo* lame. Cleveland is looked .upon as a friend of big corporations and monopolies. The working people do not take much stock in him as a champion of the Irish. James A. McMaster, editor Freeman’s Journal: Governor Cleveland has not made a very good record. * * * He would be a disastrous candidate of the Democratic party for President. Mr. Cleveland favors a concentration of power, and thousands and thousands of Democrats will refuse to support him if nominated. He has no show of carrying this State against James G. Blaine. Dr. Munford, of Missouri: Hia veto of the five-cent railroad fare bill has turned the vote of thousands of workingmen against Cleveland. He is a hazardous man for the party to fool with. I don't think that he can carry New York city, or even Buffalo. John Kelly: I have had my say. The Democratic party goes into the presidential fight beaten. It is their own fault. Mr. Hobbs, secretary Washington Assembly, Knights of Labor: So far as I have been able to ascertain, the feeling among workingmen is “dead against Cleveland.” B. G. McDonald, Tailors’ Union: Cleveland will be boycotted from Maine to Texas,

THE INDIAXAPOT.IS JOURNAL, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1884.

as he is well known all over the United States as a monopolist and an antagonist to laboring people. George H. Lapham, a well-known Democrat of Penn Yan. N. Y.: The feeling against Cleveland seems to increase in bitterness daily. This county of Yates would certainly give 2,000 majority against him, and it is the judgment of our best-informed men here that he would lose us the State by 50,000. Mr. Cleveland's Ability. What was thought of Mr. Cleveland’s statesmanship and ability by certain papers which are now affecting to support him may be judged from the appended extracts: The Now York Times of Jan. 3, 1883, had this to say of Governor Cleveland’s message to the General Assembly: “On the whole, the impression produced by the message is one of disappointment. Independence of character and honesty of purpose are good things in any combination with other qualities and in any station in life, but they will not of themselves supply the place of a large capacity for dealing with public questions and peculiar fitness for executive duties." The New York Times, of the 7th of March, said: “There is no reason why this [repeal of the charter of the Metropolitan Railway Company] should not be done, but since Governor Cleveland has taken the side of the monopoly in its contest with the people, the repealing aot might be vetoed.” The New York Sun of Jan. 6, said: “The Governor of New York ought to be fit for his duties at the outset. The experiment of trying to develop a greenhorn into a competent Governor is anew thing in the history of this country.” The Sun, of the 7th, says: “What really has been questioned since his message is Grover Cleveland’s ability. iA feeling of disappointment a£ the manner in which he deals with public questions was manifested by the press generally, without reference to the party preferences of particular journals. Would it not be well to require that the next candidate nominated by a Democratic convention for Governor should be obliged to undergo a simple pass examination in the political history of the State and the rudiments of political economy before his nomination is to be deemed final?” And on the 9th of January, the Sun said: “We thought then, and we think now, that the standard thus announced was not such as should control a reform Governor in the administration of his office. We were disposed to think that we had elected a mere politician after all—a man who proposed to regard political claim rather than personal fitness. The idea was unpleasant, of course, but the facts forced it upon us.” The New York Herald, of March 3, 1883, said: “Governor Cleveland has made his choice as a lawyer, as a public officer, and as a politician. He lias oast his lot on the side of the great corporations and corporate manipulators, and staked his chances for future political preferment on their favor. * * * Monopolies of all kinds • * * * have many political theories in common, the servants of one are as a rule easy to become servants of the other, and it is quite touching to witness a hopeful presidential candidate choose his side in the coming struggle between them and the people for the control of tne powers of government.” On the Bth of March, 1883, the New York Herald said:

“It is claimed for the Governor in regard to his action on this bill [the five-ceut-fare bill] that he is at once a conscientious man and a great lawyer. It would be excellent if these claims could be reconciled —if it could be shown that the State has in the executive chair one who is at the same time a sound publicist and a conscientious man, and that our public policy is determined, so far as his anthoritv goes, by considerations of what is legal and what is right; but we cannot believe that we are so happy.” On the 14th of March, 1883, the New York Herald said: “It [this combination of horse-car and l h' road companies] has won over a Governor at the very beginning of a three years' term as an advocate of its extremest pretensions, and has thereby deprived the people of the protection of the executive power for that length of time." The Springfield Republican said: “Governor Cleveland’s veto of the five-cent-fare bill will not improve his reputation as a lawyer. * * His legal reasons are not very strong, as the Constitution expressly reserves to the Legislature the right to repeal, alter or amend all charters. * * Governor Cleveland has simply shown himself an illread and thick-witted lawyer in taking this attitude.” This collection of testimonials to the political strength and to the ability of Grover Cleveland as a public man is worth cutting out and pasting in your hat during the pending political canvass. New York papers are making considerable outcry against hanging as a punishment for murder, because the rope slipped and choked Alexander Jefferson to death instead of breaking his neck. It is to be regretted that such accidents will occasionally happen; but that such things do happen is no sufficient excuse for going into a fit of hysterics because of the suffering of the condemned. At the worst his sufferings do not last over two or three minutes, when unconsciousness mercifully comes to his relief. The twitchings and contortions, so horrible to witness, are simply muscular, and are not indicative of physical suffering after the first minute or two. The sympathy wasted on murderers would better be buried under desire for justice, even though reached at the expense of a little physical inconvenience to the condemned. It is too bad that accidents happen in hanging; but hanging is a wholesome regulation if “lived up to." But all hangings should be private. Mr. Cleveland continues to work about eighteen hours a day, in order, perhaps, to show that he is not “a friend to labor.”—Albany Argus. This is very sad. Perhaps this explains why he insisted that street-car employes should continue putting in seventeen hoars daily. The Governor probably gets a little better pay than the former. The Albany Times, the Democratic paper of the capital of New York, says of the Buffalo story: "The duty of setting Governor Cleveland aright in the minds of the public and the

press can no longer be shirked or delayed by his managers and friends. * * This duty, although painful, is urgently demanded in the present phase of the campaign, and should be taken up at once and in a thorough manner by Governor Cleveland’s friends in Buffalo." In the language of Mr. McCune, of the Buffalo Courier, the “time” seems to be “due” to meet these charges, not with simple denunciation, but with facts. When the suggestion was first made that the reason for the malignant opposition of the Harpers to Mr. Blaine was because they were not the publishers of Mr. Blaine’s hook, the Journal was quick to express its disbelief in the possibility of so low and contemptible a motive influencing the course of that firm. We could not conceive of men being actuated by such a reason. Yet, it seems that the Journal was wrong. In another column will be found the copy of a letter written by Joseph W. HarpSr, jr., which discloses beyond a doubt the animus of the present attitude of the Harpers toward Mr. Blaine. All we can say about the matter is, that this letter and the subsequent course of Mr. Harper show that he is a thoroughly dishonorable man—mean, malicious and rascally to the last degree. Mr. George William Curtis receives ten thousand dollars a year from the Harpers as their editor; but ten thousand dollars a year could he no temptation to an honorable man to do the dirty work for a miserable huckster, such as this letter of Mr. Harper's shows him t© be. Tennyson tells of the jingling of the guinea healing the hurt that honor feels; but the jingle of ten thousand guineas could not heal the hurt to the honor of George William Curtis in the estimation of those who have hitherto esteemed him a man of the highest character. Read the letter of Mr. Harper, elsewhere printed, and the whole shameful cause of the present attitude of Harper’s Weekly will be revealed to the most obtuse. After reading this letter we should like to see the “independent,” who is honest, and conscientious, and sincere, who does not feel belittled by being in the company and under the lead of such a man; for this same Joseph W. Harper, jr., is the president of the Independent Association, elected by the recent conference held in New York city. An entire Philadelphia family seems to have become non eompos simultaneously the other day. What is stranger still, a number of boarders with the family seemed stricken with the same imbecility. In a bantering mood the housekeeper threw a box of pills to a boarder, who said he was hungry, and told him to eat them. He was fool enough to commence on them, and got away with fourteen. His example was contagious, and the gifted housekeeper followed suit by swallowing ten. Sweet little Annie Kelley, aged sevteen, and with not enough sense to keep a goose from being a fool among its fellows, ate a score, Bridget Boyle took thirteen, and Daniel Gallaher, put an end to the sport by swallowing the remainder. When the hilarity of this unique sport had somewhat subsided, the aspect of the fun was changed, for all of them fell in convulsions. Miss Kelly soon died, and her mother is not expected to live. The pills contained one-twentieth grain strychnine each. It would be dangerous to leave rat poison around where Philadelphia hoarders could get their hands on it Rev. J. C. Fletcher writes from Naples under date of July 19: “As there are many citizens of Indianapolis who have visited Naples, and have had transactions with the house of Messrs. Wm. J. Turner & Cos., hankers, of thiscity (Naples), they will regret to learn that the senior partner, Mr. William Turner, died yesterday, July 18, at the age of eighty-two. Most of the recent visitors to Naples never met him, as, of late years, he has been feeble, aud his sons have attended to the business of the bank; hut those who have met him will never forget his kindness, geniality, and his most courteous manners. For more than sixty years he carried oM the banking business at the same place, 64 Santa Lucia, aud nine-tenths of the English and Americans had their letters of credit on the house of W. J. Turner & Cos. His recollections of eminent lite rary and political characters who have visited Naples were very interesting, and I hung over his quiet and unpretentious narratives of reminiscences connected with Sir Walter Scott, Lady Blessington, the Hon. Mrs. Norton, and others. He was the oldest English resident in Naples, and he was in the kingdom of the two Sicilies” under Murat, four Bourbon kings, the dictatorship of Garibaldi, King Victor Emmanuel and Humbert I.”

No one but a mother can conceive of the agony felt by Mrs. Gibbons, who, with three little children, occupied the fifth floor of a New York tenement house and suddenly found the stairwaps shut off by flames. The only way of escape was up one flight of stairs and a ladder to the roof, with not a moment to be lost. She could carry two of her little ones, but not three, and she must make a choice. Whether she chose the dearest ones, or whether her act was scarcely one of consciousness, perhaps the mother herself could not tell, but she took the baby and a boy of six in her arms, calling for a child of four years of age to follow. Through flame and smoke she fought her way to the roof and safety, but the child left to himself became blinded, groped his way back to his bed, and was afterwards found dead. The poor woman, thus called upon, without a moment’s warning, to give up one of her children, will, perhaps, be forever haunted by the thought that she might have saved all by making a different choice. The News is in error in saying the horse Jay-Eye-See beat the trotting record by fifteen seconds. Instead of a quarter of a minute, he beat the record of Maud S. by only a quarter of a second, a difference of little moment in most things. However, the new record has again been beaten, and Maud S. has gone a quarter of a second better than her only rival, trotting a mile at Cleveland on Saturday in the unprecedented time of 2:09}. Bair, the driver, got SIO,OOO for the feat, half for beating the mare’s record, and half for beating Jay-Eye-See. If Dr. O'Donnell is deprived of his two somewhat mythical Chinese lepers by a tyrannical board of health, he may, perhaps, be able to secure Editor Purcell’s “moral leper" from Albany as a substitute. As an awful warning to would-be Presides t-makers it would draw immensely. Mrs. Vanderbilt Alle:V- of New York, who asks to be divorced from her husband on the plea that he snores, also charges him ?th having whipped her young brother. That no mJ-o shall lay a hand upon his wife's mother save in the

way of kindness or self-defense, is a self-evident truth; but if he is to be liable to divoroe for threshing an objectionablebrother-in-law, then is marriage an oppressive bond and life not worth living. The colored race never had a more virulent opponent than Thomas A. Hendricks, the Democratic candidate for Vice-president.—Cleveland Leader Yes, they had. His name was John A Logan.—New York Sun. The Savior of mankind never had a more virulent opponent than Judas Iscariot Yes, he had. His name was St. Paul. Governor Cleveland is getting a deal of experience in hand-shaking, a tiresome exercise often forced on a. President to an extent beyond all sense of reason.—Washington Post. If Mr. Cleveland can worry along until November he will have no further trohble in that line. President Blaine will assume the entire pressure. Two death-bed marriages took place Friday—one in Massachusetts, with the groom in the last stages of consumption, and the other in Pennsylvania, with the bride similarly afflicted. It really seems as if an inscrutable Providence might have improved matters by allowing these two couples to swap partners. The manager of an American circus in Switzerland has killed himself on account of a disappointment in love. His circus is doubtless one of the greatest shows on earth; but as he has not taking it with him to the other world his suicidal act is probably not intended as an advertisement “Major” Prank North, one of Buffalo Bill’s men, met ©nth an accident the other day, in which he had six ribs broken. That seven were broken was a gross exaggeration. All things considered, it was a very unsatisfactory accident. There is something ineffably sad in the disbanding of the Washington base ball club. It leaves Indianapolis with nothing between it and the bottom. Tr the Editor of the Indianapolis Jon/'sV To settle a dispute: Has not ex-Presidont Grant an older brother, Orville by name? An old Subscriber. Bean Blossom, Ind. Aug. 3. He had a brother of that name, but he is dead.

POLITICAL NOTE ANI) GOSSIP. John Kelly is daily in receipt of letters dated at Baltimore, in which he is threatened with death if he does not support Cleveland. Miss Phcebe Couzins says the female suffragists are for Blaine. They cannot support Cleveland on account of his alleged immoralities. Philadelphia Press: “Is Carl Schurz sincere?” asks an esteemed contempoary of the doubting-Thomas order. Good heavens, man, do you imagine Mr. Schurz is doing this for the fun of the thing? You know his figure. Two Protestant clergymen of Erie, Pa,, the Rev. Mr. Westall and the Rev. Mr. Carstenson. who have hitherto voted the Democratic ticket, announce their intention to vote for Mr. Blaine. They do not like Mr. Cleveland’s moral record. A secret political society bearing the aesthetic title of “The White Camellia” has been organized in the South. Its aims and purposes are not yet known, but the colored Republicans will most likely learn all about them before the election. The bolting Republicans of Massachusetts base their claims of success upon the assertion that the men employed at their Headquarters “have more to do every day than they had the day before." This they call “snuffing victory in the air.” Mr. L. P. Nelson, editor of the Swedish workingmen's paper, the Svenske Arbeitaren, has resigned his position as clerk in the Chicago water office rather than suport the Democratic candidate for the presidency. His paper is for Blaine aud Logan. His own vote will be cast for them. Harry Reynolds, a leading National of Noble county, in an open letter gives his reasons why he shall support Blaine and Logan at this election. He vigorously denounces the Democratic convention for having insulted Butler, and nominated “a tool of monopolists," Grover Cleveland. All the presidential nominees have biblical names. The Republicans nominated James and John, the Democrats Stephen and Thomas, the Prohibitionists St. John and Daniel, the Greenbackers have Benjamin and the Nationals Jonathan. It is understood that Bob Ingersoll will not vote this year. James T. Davidson, now in Maine, writes to the Lafayette Courier: “Maine will give Governor Robie (Rep.) not less than fifteen thousand in October, and in November Blaine will carry the State by at- least thirty thousand majority. Massachusetts, will not fall short of her usual Republican majority." Ex-Governor Foster and Mr. M. A. Hanna, who will manage the Republican campaign in Ohio, are quite confident that the Democrats will be beaten in that State by from 15,000 to 30,000 majority. The campaign"will be opened the Ist of September, and will be conducted with zeal and energy on the part of the Republicans until election-day. Philadelphia Press: We do not observe that “Hod" White and “Larry" Godkin, of the Evening Post, have anything to say about “Jim” Blaine and “Steve” Elkins, since we pointed out the crushing character of this style of reasoning the other day. If they keep on in this way, they will soon he restored to the dignity of Horace White and E. L. Godkin. San Francisco Chronicle: No man in Cleveland’s position can afford to ignore a story given with the fullness of detail with which this was presented. If it had concerned his political career, it would not have influenced so many people as has this attack on his moral character. The reason is that the American people, despite all that has been said about their loose notions of the marriage relation, are at heart a moral people, with a strong feeling for the purity of family life. No man known to be a profligate has ever reached high political distinction here, nor could he do so, for it has been the unwritten law that the man who asks the vote of his fel-low-citizens must respect the sanctities of domestic life. New York Tribune: Mr. Hendricks is not the only conspicuous person of whom the New York Independent has radically changed its opinion within a few years. We reproduced the other day the Independent's damning picture, drawn in 1876, of the man whom that journal is now endeavoring to elect Vice-president. This is what the Independent, in an editorial referring to various candidates for the Republican nomination, said no longer ago than Jan."29,-1880, concerning the man whose election to the presi dency it is now endeavoring to defeat: “And we could heartily support Mr. Blaine, for we believe that no American statesman has ever shown greater executive ability. His administration would be very sure to be successful and brilliant.” Rev. Dr. Van Bokkelen, Episcopal clergymanof Buffalo, contributes a letter to the Express in which he enumerates six reasons why he will vote for Mr. Blaine for President The sixth one is sufficient, which is as follows: “Sixth and lastly. It is my intention to vote for Mr. Blaine because he is capable and worthy. He is a student, a man of intellect and culture. He understands our system of government in every department, both theoretically and practically. He has large experience as a statesman. Be has carefully studied the important questions of finance and revenue and their relation to capital and labor. He comprehends in its full extent and vast importance tne position

of the American republic to all the nations of the earth. He is a man of courage, a Christian man, a Republican. He is the right man and the best, man to fill the place of the honored and lamented Lincoln and Garfield.” In his speech to the business men's meeting in New York city, called to urge the nomination of Mr. Arthur, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said: “We are not met here, fellow-citizens, to dictate. * * * We are simply the voice suggesting to them [the delegates to the convention] what is the will of the Republicans of New York, together with as many Democrats as God has made rational and intelligent. Nor are we here to inveigh against any other prominent gentlemen whose names have been mentioned and canvassed for this high office. Nor are we here to make any threats that if the man of our choice is not nominated we won't play. We leave all those things to men who have no better business on hand. We do what every part of the community ought to do—express our wish; and then the minority submits to the majority.” But now Mr. Beecher “won’t play,” because his choice was not nominated. President Andrew D. White writes the Syracuse Journal: “For several weeks past, and especially since the publication of Mr. Blaine’a letter of acceptance, it has been well known to my friends who have cared to ask that I am fullydetermined to vote for the Republican nominee. 1 have never hesitated to express my respect for Governor Cleveland and for his administration of our State. Yet I cannot but regard him as merely a happy accident in his party, who will be as powerless against it, if he favors a reform of the civil service in the Nation’ as was Senator Pendleton. I dare not cast a vote to bring in the party which has opposed all the healthful and statesmanlike measures of the last thirtyyears, and which seemed to me sure, should it come into power, to vitiate and nullify the civilservice system which has been so happily carried thus far and which can only be fully developed by the Republican party, in accordance with the prinoiples laid down in its platform, and. the virtual pledges contained in Mr. Blaine's letter." ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A French almanac predicts that Emperor William and General Moltke will die before Dec. 31. 1884. “Ned Buntline” bas invited President Arthur to visit him at Eagle's Nest, his home near Stamford, N. Y. Dr. Vigouroux recommends a glass of lemonade, taken as hot as possible every hour or half hour, as not only an easy and agreeable but a most efficient cure for diarrhoea. Mr. GLADSTONE has been Prime Minister, altogether, nine years and a half—a longer service than any other since Liverpool and Pitt, who served eighteen and fourteen years. Buffalo Bill recently said to an audience;* at the conclusion of his exhibition: “You have seen more of life on the frontier this afternoon than you would in ten years living on the frontier." The novelist Crawford is spending the summer in Constantinople, in a house high up above the Bosphorus overlooking the mouth of the Black sea. This may serve as scenery for his next exotic novel. The Comte de Paris has just been removed, on account of his age (forty-six), from the list of colonels in the reserve or territorial French army. By law he could not bold the commission after forty, but he has teen inadvertently overlooked, and the discovery also is made and officially announced that he “never has been in active service at all.” General Todlkben, of .Sevastopol, who died recently at Wiesbaden, was a striking illustration of the extent to which, in the Russian army, promotion is open to merit. He began life as the son of a Riga shop-keeper; he ended it as count of the Russian empire, and in his last oampaign he was commauder-in-chief of the Russian army in Bulgaria There was a scene in the dining-room of a Saratoga hotel the other day not down on the bill of fare. A waiter, who probably had not been “tipped,” was impertinent to a lady dining, whereupon her son arose and laid tha son of Ham flat on his back on the floor. Ladies sereamed, children cried and old Mr. Moses took occasion to purloin his neighbor's piece of pie during the "oxcidemend.” The revision of the Old Testament, which it was hoped would be out this year, will probably not make its appearance before early in 1885. The eighty-fifth and last session of the English revision committee has been held, but months must intervene before the complete work can be given to the public. Nothing is positively known of any changes made in the old version, the revisers on both sides of the Atlsntic having kept their pledge of secrecy. Da. Thobold, bishop of Rochester, England, will reach this country next month, landing at Quebec and coming to New York for his eighth visit. He remarked when here last that he felt a peculiar attachment for America, as his grandfather was one of the seven men in the House of Commons who voted against the aggressions and war of the mother country upon the colonies. Ho comes hither this year in the interest of the Church Temperance Society. Moltke the Silent, as he is called, at eighty-four, is tall, slender, erect, with a sallow, beardless face, stony gray eyes, aud yellow hair, wearing a cap and a long military coat. Unattended by even a single servant he walks through the st reets of Berlin slowly and noiselessly. Saluted by every soldier he meets, he returns the courtesy, but apparently without noticing to whom, and everywhere he retains the oold, absorbed, mysterious manner which he did not allow to be broken even at Sedan.

A CHICAGO lady who was annoyed by the redness of her hands has, after years of experimenting, found a cnre. She has a pair of large hooks attached to the head -board of her bed, and to these her hands are tied with a slip-nofc of ribbon. She has a book-rest which holds a novel, and, stretched on her back with the book before her eyes and her hands hung up over her head, she spends five hours of each day. Bodily she is in perfect health; her hands are fat and large but beautifully white, and dearer to her than any of her children. An official return has just been published in France of the women who are members of the order of the Legion of Honor. There are sixteen in all, and just half the number are sisters of one religions order or another. One of the lay members, the wife of a provincial mayor, earned the cross by defending the mairie against an armed attack, under what circumstances is not stated; an episode of the war, doubtless. One name well known in the world of art figures on the list—that of Rosa Bonheur. < The only foreign female chevalier is Lady Pigott, who received the decoration from M. Thiers in 1872, in acknowledgement oj her services during the war. C. D. W. writes to the London Times concerning the expression, “a rope round the neck.” “The origin of this expression, as well as its meaning, has lately been variously explained. The practice, according to Demosthenes, prevailed in the popular assembly of the Greek State of Locri, in Italy. There, according to the constitution —framed, it is said, by Zaleucus—any citizen (who proposed anew law did so with a rope round his neck, and if the proposal failod to obtain a majority of the votes the proposer was at once strangled. This practice kept the constitution in its original purity for two hundred years." The London Inner Circle railroad is a marvelous fe at of engineering skill. It runs throughout the entire distance under the busiest center of the largest city in the world, and the operations attending the excavation and construction have proceeded without serious injury to or interruption of business or traffic. Quicksands have had to be passed through, bed* of old rivers spanned, lofty warehouses and massive buildings secured while their foundations have been undermined, and an intricate network of gas and water pipes sustained until supports had been applied to them from below. Added to this, the six main sewers had several times to be reconstructed. Day and night the work has been carried on for eighteen months, and now the engineers are able to aunounce that their tunnel is complete. The laying of the rails and the building of the stations are the only portions of the immense work that remain to be done, and In a very short time trains will be passing over the whole of this wonderful subterranean road.