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GREAT SALE OF THIN GOODS FROM 5 TO 9 P. M.. TO-NIGHT! THIN COATS—10c WHITE VESTS—19c WHITE VESTS—90c WHITE VESTS—SI.97. Blue Creole Linen Suits #l. FROM 5 TO 9 P. M., TO-NIGHT, AT THE MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1884. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be fonnd at the following places; LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capuoines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dearing, northwest comer Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. TO OUR AGENTS. The Sunday Journal will be sent regularly to onr agents at all points reached by trains departing from this city on Sunday morning. On a few of the lines no trains are run on Sunday morning, and in towns located on these roads we shall be unable to supply OUT patrons. A so-called Sunday newspaper, printed in this city, is offered for sale in these towns, and onr agents desire to know why they are not served with the Journal. To do so, we should be compelled, as is the paper referred to above, to send the Journal to press about 9:30 o'clock Saturday evening, an hour at which the news of the day has barely begun to arrive, and our patrons would be served with a very incomplete and unsatisfactory paper. It is not possible to print a Sunday morning newspaper in time to send it out of the city on the 10:45 P. M. trains of Saturday, and the Journal declines to be a party to such an Imposition on the newspaper-reading public. In other words, we shall print a Sunday morning, and not a Saturday afternoon, newspaper. The Republican party has recently reduced the revenue by $20,000,000 a year. “Turn the rascals out.” The Chinese do not fight with “stink-pots” any more. That kind of warfare is now confined to Democrats. Readers and advertisers should keep the Sunday Journal in view. It is bound to be the Sunday newspaper of the State. In the Democratic estimates, showing how the electoral vote will go, Maine is placed in the Republican column. Thanks, awfully. The solid South wabbles. With anything like an honest election and fair count in that section, three Southern States would return majorities for Blaine electors. Missouri has extended an invitation to Prank James to publicly take part in the races at the Moberly fair, and has made up a purse for him. Missouri is Democratic. The Republican party has paid over a fliousand millions of Democratic war debt, •nd reduced the annual interest account from >150,000,000 to less than $50,000,000. “Turn the rascals out.” Irishmen with patriotism and independence enough to vote for Blaine can do so only at the expense of being dubbed dynamiters by the Democratic press. But they can stand it. Bulldozing is losing its force. Ip anybody has been of opinion that the cholera had disappeared, he will yet be compelled to acknowledge his error. It stops when it gets at the end of its journey. The wise thing to do is to prepare for its coming. The Republican papers have satisfactorily disposed of both campaign scandals. Cleveland is guilty because he’s a Democrat, and Blaine is innooent because he’s a Republican. There is no escape from this inexorable logic. —Chicago Times. But you are mistaken. Republicans are willing to regard each innocent of impure

acts in private life until proof to the contrary *• .ntablished. They now content themselves with contemplating the utterances of the men in reply to such charges. Mr. Blaine said: "1 have lived for many years as a husband, a father and a grandfather. I defy any living being to put a finger on an act of mine involving my domestic relations that I would not have proclaimed to the entire country. Thus far Mr. Cleveland has been able to deny nothing. _ LET US HAVE A CLEAN PRESIDENT. It matters little what Mr. St. John s private life may be, or what his character as a man is. It is little, if any, more important what General Butler's reputation is as a husband and gentleman in the nobler sense. But in the cases of Mr. Blaine and Mr. Cleveland the cii’cumstances are vastly different. St. John and Butler will float for a time in the tide of politics, only to be stranded finally and return to their own communities. It is evident, however, that Mr. Blaine or Mr. Cleveland will occupy the exalted office of President of this great and growing Republic, and, as such, will be its representative character before the world. It is, then, a question of moment to all moral men that these two candidates at least should be as nearly blameless as possible in their private lives. We, as a Nation, cannot afford to wink at social sin by ignoring flagrant breaches of morality in our public servants. There are many among our public men whose lives have been free from the sin of which we speak; men whose selfrespect, whose manly honor and whose family ties have held them blameless in this respect. These are they from whom selections should be made, and it is eminently proper that social purity should be demanded as one of the requisite qualifications of candidates for high honors before the people. Without knowing anything concerning the truth of the allegations made against the Democratic candidate, and without at this time venturing any opinion as to the trustworthiness of .the testimony offered, the Journal regrets that no unqualified denial has been made. Mr. Cleveland might have been spared personal consideration of the matter bad his friends seen fit to take it off his hands. An emphatic denial from them, while it might not have stopped the circulation of the scandal by unprincipled papers, would have practically killed its effect, and no reputable man or paper would have been found willing to aid in the propagation of the story. Even as it is, it is not probable that many votes will be lost to that party through the revelations made. Partisan prejudice is too strong and the desire of success too intense to allow such attacks to alienate the allegiance of many Democrats. It is folly to expect it It is within the bounds of reason to say that not less than 4,000,000 voters would cast their ballots for Mr. Cleveland even though the story of his immorality should be substantiated beyond question. The thoughtful citizen looks beyond the election to the time when Blaine or Cleveland shall become President. What would be our feelings, then, if such stories of private immorality be uncontradicted? What would be the effect upon our national pride after the prejudice of the campaign shall have spent its force? How will we stand before the world if it shall develop that we have chosen an unclean man as our chief executive, a man whose influence is hostile to home and to womanly punty? Aside from party sympathy we are glad that Mr. Blaine has been able to speak unequivocally concerning the infamous story sought to be started against him and the mother of his children. He instantly said of it: “The story is utterly and abominably false in every statement and in every implication.” Again, in conversation with a friend, he declared: “I defy any living being to put a finger on an act of mine involving my domestic relations that I would not have proclaimed to the entire country.” These words, uttered with evident sincerity, must be accepted as the truth in this matter. He puts the burden of proof where it belongs—on the slanderer—and no decent man need hesitate where to stand until the issue be settled. The respectable element of the country, Republicans and Democrats, would be glad to hear as hearty a denial from Mr. Cleveland, or his friends, and thus put an end to one of the most serious charges that could be brought against an honorable man. We want a decent campaign, and to that end must insist on clean, moral men being chosen as candidates. Recrimination will accomplish nothing, except to increase the disgrace that must be felt by all. A thousand false stories about Blaine’s private life will not change the fact that no one personally acquainted with the facts of the Buffalo story has yet denied its essential features. Let this be done now, if possible, not so much that we may have a clean campaign, but as an assurance that, in the remote contingency of Democratic success, we shall have a clean President, and one that the wives and mothers of the country would not feel scandalized in seeing at the head of national affairs. We need a clean President much more than a “clean” campaign* . DEMOCRATIC ward-workers, disheartened by the beliof that Cleveland is already beaten, are beginning to wonder why he was selected over such Democrats as Bayard and Thurman. They want to know what he has done for the party. Will somebody who knows please answer? * Workingmen will vote and work for Cleveland because on June 4, 1884, he signed the bill which abolishes ohild labor in all the institutions in this State.—New York Herald. This is the first instance, we believe, in which anybody eyer received praise and credit

THE IKDIAKAPOUIS jptJBNATj, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1884.

for not objecting to an admirable thing done by somebody. We submit that the idea is unique in American politics. By the same token, Mr. Cleveland should receive the support of workingmen because he killed other good bills passed by a Republican Legislature. It was Mr. Cleveland who vetoed the mechanics’ lien bill. What will the workingmen do about that? THE PEOPLE AND THE LAWS. Senator Voorhees made his opening speech of the canvass at Terre Haute on Wednesday evening, confining himself to a discussion of the prohibition question. The Indianapolis Journal criticises the speech, insisting that prohibition is not an issue in the canvass. Perhaps not, but will the Journal be kind enougn to tell us what the plank in the Republican platform favoring a constitutional convention means, and whether or not it was intended as a toss to the temperance element in the Republican party? No shuffling; but tell the truth!—Lafayette Times. There is no occasion for shuffling. The Republican party believes that the people have the right to vote on any and all questions of public policy, and to frame the laws under which they live, to alter and amend as they see fit. The Republican party in Indian a-has never made an issue on prohibition. When that question was up in the shape of an amendment to the Constitution, the Republican party insisted that the people be accorded the right to formally express an opinion on it. That was all. Thousands of Republicans who voted for submission would have opposed the adoption of a prohibitory clause in the Constitution. The Times is respectfully informed that the Republican party has an abiding faith in the people, and is willing to put the laws and the Constitution into their hands for revision just so often as they see fit. The masses can be trusted. Os the 470,000 voters in Indiana comparatively very few have any ax to grind, and when left to themselves to say what their laws shall be, will seldom make a mistake. The Republican party has held that the people have the right to make and unmake the written statutes at will, believing that they will be fully as conservative and judicious as are the average Legislatures that biennially, cat-haul the laws of Indiana. If to favor submission pleases the Prohibitionists, very good; they ought to attest their appreciation. It does not appear, however, that Prohibitionists are befuddled on this point. They seem to understand, somehow, that submission of the laws to revision by the people is not prohibition. It is remarkable that a paper as intelligent as the Times, and of such remarkable fairness —for l a Democratic paper—should be unable to discern a remarkably wide difference here. The Republican ‘ ‘tosses” this principle to the people, regardless of the issue of prohibition or any other. It pleases some and does not please others. The latter are probably afraid that the people would make obnoxious laws. And herein lies the difference between them and Republicans. The latter trust the masses; the former do not.

GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY. The thirteenth report of the head of this department, a review of which is found in another column, is in itself a proof that the people have ten times the worth of their money in the work done. That Prof. Collett, with an appropriation of but $5,000, keeps up and adds to the State museum, makes surveys of Posey, Morgan, Rush, Johnson and Grant counties, with specific and detailed reports upon our unequaled coal and stone areas, and issues a complete and accurate map of our geological formations—in itself a work of ycal’s, and a summary of the efforts of the department—is as much as in all reason the people could expect. The first part of the book, 150 pages, concerning the matters above detailed, would be a good showing for a less energetic and enthusiastic man than Dr. Collett. But certainly no one, unless imbued with an abounding love and knowledge of his native State, and thoroughly versed in geological history, could, out of the meagre appropriation, have ad<Ted to the report the 250 pages of ancient rock history, illustrated by the forty elegant plates that follow. Moreover, in this purely scientific work the State Geologist, by the magnetism and enthusiasm which attaches to him, has been enabled to enlist the most eminent naturalists and geologists in his interest. Certainly, such names as James Hall, of New York, most eminent of American stratagraphists; C. A. White, United States paleontologist; LeoLesquereux, most eminent of the world’s vegetable paleontologists, would never have done the work presented in these pages for the paltry sum of money set opposite their names in Prof. Collett’s financial statement. The work of Lesquereux on the “Principles of Vegetable Paleontology” is specially notable. He has been on the roster of the geological staffs of Ohio, Kentucky, Arkansas, Illinois and Pennsylvania, and for years in the United States geological survey. Friend and classmate of Agassiz and Guyot, at whose instance he came to this country, now in advanced age and feeble health, and for years deaf, this eminent fossil botanist, shutout from the sounds of the living world, has communed with the forms of the past until, more than any man living, he is their master. There is no tracery of fern or brake in the coal measures of the West but what this devotee of his science knows, and the results of his long studies he has poured out in so plain and simple a way that it' will be used as a text in ear colleges, as well ap a reference-book on the .flora of the Indiana coal measures. The aim of Professor White, too, has been to this, his third paper on the “Fossils of tlflWndiana Rocks,” plain to all intelligent

readers. Indeed, the educational significance of this report of Dr. Collett’s is as prominent as its scientific or economic features. In discussing the recent speech of Senator Voorhees the Indianapolis Journal makes the remarkable statement—very remarkable indeed for a Republican organ—that “if he succeed in his attempt to arraign the liquor interest against the Republican party, lie will have done it more harm than have all its enemies combined.” This is a confession that the Republican party is dependent on “the liquor interests,” despite the Prohibition tendencies of that party.—Washington Post. If the Post man had as much brains as a cracker, and as much conscience as a murderer of babes, he would appear less like a fool. The Journal is properly quoted, but the inference drawn is the work of an accomplished idiot. Let us re-read it: “If he [Voorhees] succeed in his attempt to arraign the liquor interest against the Republican party he will have done it [the liquor interest] more harm than have all its enemies combined.” Savez. The New York Sun, Democratic “from ‘way back,” mourns in this hopeless fashion: “Os what use is it to contend against such a decree? The case has been settled against us, the defeat of the Democracy in 1884 has been decided beforehand in the house of its friends, and the best that can now be do.ne is to protest against such a wrong and such a folly, and to save as much as possible from the ruins. In such a condition it is a great comfort that there is so good a Democrat as Butler for Democrats and reformers to vote for. There is even yet one way to redeem the error that has been committed, and to put the Democracy in the way of lasting victory. Let Grover Cleveland withdraw, and let Allen G. Thurman be nominated in his place. Then the Republican party will have to go, and the rascals will be turned out in earnest. It is not yet too late. But will it be done? We do not hope for it.” The Indianapolis Journal goes into hysterical eestacies over the “accession” of Captain A. A. Rice to the Republican party. When was Captain Rice, in fact, ever less a Republican than to-day? The Journal has been sold.—Lafayette Sunday Times. The Journal has not gone into “conniptions,” nor has the Journal been “sold.” The Journal simply congratulated the Republican party over the accession of Captain Rice. The writer hereof knows personally that for ten years past Captain Rice has been an ardent and consistent Greenbacker. Probably you think the grapes sour? It were well to bear in mind that in the reports of engagements between the French and Chinese the details will be colored by parties unfriendly to the latter. It will be remembered that in the British campaign in Egypt the reports always showed that the British loss was half a dozen, while the Egyptian loss was as many thousands. Record by record, Ben Butler has done a thousand-fold more for the Democratic party than Cleveland ever has, or ever can hope to do. With the exception of his services in helping the Republican party suppress the Democratic rebellion, he is the better Democrat of the two. Will Blaine withdraw? That is to say, will he withdrew his libel suit against the Indianapolis Sentinel after the election?—New York World. Will the Sentinel do its part toward hurrying up the case? Mr. Blaine has been ready from the beginning.

They were a queer lot of people who attended the universal peace convention at New London, Conn., last week. After the discussion of such important topics as international arbitration and the evils of war, the question of cruelty to animals was taken up, Mr, Angel, the happilynamed president of the anti-cruelty association of Massachusetts, upheld the views of Agassiz, who, he said, believed that animals have a life after death. A Philadelphia man said he belonged to a religious sect that for sixty years had not partaken of the flesh of animals for the reason that all creatures which have life are entitled to that life. Another speaker was so much interested in the Angels’ Bands of Mercy, whatever they may be, that he purchased membership for himself, wife and dead horse. He believed the horse was now in heaven, and that if his intelligent spirit was present on that occasion he would be delighted to know that he had been made a member of the society. Another man represented himself as taking such an interest in animals that he never cut a piece of meat without “a sort of compunction.” Altogether, it seems to have been a gathering which proved anew that it takes all kinds of people to make up even a small world. Ms. Morton, the missing assistant postmaster of Brooklyn, has been thought to be sojourning in Canada, but Its wife admits having received a letter from him written at Rotterdam. Like another Brooklyn man who was once solicitous lest other hearts should ache, Mr. Morton explains to his wife that he went away “to save others.” The average native of that city seems to be thoughtful and considerate of his neighbors; but it may be remarked that he incidentally keeps a weather eye out for his own safety. The curious theory is advanced by a Saratoga correspondent that, with the gradual decrease of gambling, the place is losing its attractiveness for many respectable people who have been accustomed to visit there. The belief is expressed that with the abolition of gambling, thousands, who never indulged in the vice themselves, would cease to go there. This supposition is based on the principle that the best of men relish a little wickedness in others, and, in missing it, lose a certain spice of life. The annual report of the Indiana State Board of Health, published not long since, showed a surprising number of deaths from whoopingcough. Last week fifteen deaths occurred in the city of Brooklyn from this disease. Are American children degenerating into such puny creatures that whooping-cough, once only a trifling ailment, can carry them off? If so, diphtheria, fevers, and other malignant diseases will And nothing worth pitting their strength against, and may take a rest Ex-Governor Gibbs, of Oregon, said, in addressing a recent temperance meeting at Brooklyn, that in the wine-making establishments of California the grapes were trodden by the dirty feet of Indians. The San Francisco Chronicle

thereupon rises to remark that ttnre are not enough' Indians in the State to picCTthe grapes, to say nothing of treading them, and that, moreover, the juice is obtained from the fruit by passing it through presses, hydraulic power being applied. The old-world method of treading grapes would be as absurd in a country filled with labor-saving machinery, as a process of cidermaking without a press. Arguments against the intemperate use of liquors are sufficiently numerous, and speakers should avoid weakening their cause by indulging in perversion of facts. The campaign liar is not to be allowed to have it all his own way. A rival has suddenly started up over at Canton, O. This individual reports having seen a two and-a half-pound snapping turtle fall from the skies during a heavy rainstorm last week. After striking the earth the turtle rebounded like a base-ball in the air, after which it fell again and was captured. This story will do to begin on. A relic of the war in Georgia is the ox-eye daisy which farmers declare was first brought there in the hay used to feed Sherman’s horses. It is, they say, worse than original sin, and they would be glad to bestow every bit of the weed upon the aesthetic Northern young women who are so fond of it The summer somnambulist, who walks out of third-story windows and falls off of roofs, to his great physical inconvenience, is now abroad in the land. In winter the disease by which he is affected, if not unheard of, is, at least, not known by the same name. The white-plug-hatted minstrels were mistaken yesterday for the remnants of the McDonald club. The latter, it will be remembered, were ambushed and massacred at Chicago. The weather service is hereby notified that rein is badly needed. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What was Henry S. Lane’s majority over Hendricks for Governor? r. b. j. Tipton, Ind. Henry S. Lane received 136,725 votes; Thomas A Hendricks, 126,968; Lane's majority, 9,757.

POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. New York Sun (Dem.): In whatever aspect we view him, Grover Cleveland is not a suitable man for President of the United States. New York Mail and Express: “A man good enough to be the head of Mr. Garfield's administration is good enough to have an administration of his own”—was one of the telling.epigrams that enlivened the short and brilliant speech of Judge Foraker, in Brooklyn, last night. “And so say we ail of us.” Prominent Southern Democrats who have arrived in Washington admit that they are greatly discouraged at the political prospects. They say that they cannot see how Cleveland can be elected. and acknowledge that the party managers made a mistake in nominating him and selecting Barnum for chairman of the national committee. Mr Alexander Sullivan, the ex-president of the Irish League, and the most influential man of his race in this country, is about to take the stump for Blaine. It was to secure this privilege that he declined the election, which was not only assured, but enthusiastically pressed upon him, to the presidency of the League. New York Tribune: About all there ever was of Grover Cleveland was 180,000 majority inflicted upon him, like molasses poured on a fly, by Republicans. The molasses has- now been poured off and the empty measure contains the fly and somo few dudes with their wings stuck together, unable to get out, unfit to be eaten, too sweet to separate. Boston Journal: Cleveland’s letter of acceptance recalls the following true story, here given in its authentic form: George Canning was walking from church with a friend, the young clergyman who had just preached. “Well, Legge,” said Canning, “you were not long.” “No,” replied L.; “I was afraid of being tediious.” “Oh! you were tedious,” replied C. Pittsburg Chronicle: A movement in favor of the Republican national ticket has been started among the Quakers and Dunkards, who in Ohio and Indiana represent ten thousand votes. The movement has its inspiration in the fact that Mr. Blaine, while Secretary of State, proposed the famous congress which should be a means of keeping the peace between the States of this continent Any measure in favor of peace is sure to elicit the applause of the Quakers and Dunkards. A Chicago man asks for a divorce because his wife is too smart. He wanted to open a saloon, his wife objected, and finally advised him to go lowa and try the business there. Tho man don’t read tho papers, and knew nothing of the prohibition; went to Davenport the day before the law took effect, found a saloon-keeper quite ready to sell, bought, and in three days telegraphed home: “Am in jail.” The wife telegraphed back: “I thought you would be about this time;” and the divorce suit followed. “Gath,” in New York Tribune: Mr. Nast’s cartoon of Blaine drinking from a well bucket of water only, with a bag at his feet labelled “twenty years a teetotaler," may well make the prohibition people stop and reflect at the unscrupulous means being used to excite the liquor interest against a man who has made temperance the companion of his life. For preserving his brain, nerves, habits and example he is Held up to scorn by a man who would have mocked Christ going to his crucifixion. There were cartooners in those days, too, saying. “If thou be the true Sen come down from that cross. ” More unscrupulous rascality an American journal long dependent on the moral and religious classes never undertook in its despairing attempt to use drunkenness and drunkards as'weapons to destroy a statesman. Mr. Blaine "must be beaten because he is not a saloon-haunter. Brewers and smugglers are the only allies left for the hypocrites to unite with.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mb. Hubert H. Bancroft, the historian of the Pacific States, is now in Salt Lake City, having removed there with his family to collect full data for his volume on Utah. An ancient oourt document of Salem begins thus: “To all Christian people, fishermen and Indians.” Fishermen are hardly truthful enough to claim the title of Christians. Mbs. Garfield registered as Mrs. Brown on her recent visit to Farmington, Gonn. .to place her daughter in Mrs. Porter’s school,. and explained that she did so in order to avoid any public demonstration. Bishop H. M. Turner, of the M. E. Church South, is said to he the first colored man who ever received the degrees of D. D. and LL. D. He educated himself at night among the cotton fields of Sonth Carolina, and was the first colored chaplain in the United States army, commissioned by President Lincoln. Rhea arrived on Sunday by the Alaska. While in Paris she was the guest of Victor Hugo aud his family. The great poet was so well pleased with her enthusiastic description of America that he expressed a desire to visit us and said: “Bo not bo surprised if you see my name among the arrivals on the next steamer." Hans Makart, the Austrian painter who has gone mad, was married early in life to a beautiful girl of Munich, who died a few years after of consumption. She was a devoted wife and humored him in every caprice, even dyeing her splendid black hair a bright rod because he was partial to the latter color. When her fatal illness set in she had to stop applying the dye, and her hair continued growing rapidly, and when she

was laid in her coffin half her hair was red and half black. A couple of yeaTs ago Makart was married again to a ballet-dancer—secretly, because he was afraid a public ceremony would be mobbed by the multitude of other women whom he had made love to. An English clergyman, dining one day with a poor family of his parish, asked the little five-year-old sou to say grace. He said the following, which was impromptu: “O Lord, be merciful, Aud keep us all alive: There's ten of us for dinner, And grub for only five.” Simon Cameron was once told by an acquaintance with whom there was a dispute, that he (the acquaintance) had the advantage, as Cameron would be sure to die first. The two old men met not long since, Cameron being eighty-six, and twenty years the senior. They shook hands and smiled, when the younger broke out with the remark: “By Jove, Cameron, 1 see that lam to be the first to go; you're a younger man than I am. ” Aud so, in all truth, is the ex-Sen* ator, who is about the halest specimen of an old man to be found on the continent. There is a tale about General Butjer in New Orleans which has never been told in the North. He placarded the city with bulletins, ordering this, that, and the other, and the people came to know that every order was certain to be enforced. A marketgardener of the suburbs drove in one morning with his little son beside him on his wagon seat. He saw a placard on a fence. “Johnny, read that to me,” the father said. “ ‘Buy Leighton’s shirts,’ ” the boy read. “You bet I will, first store we come to,” said the father. “I don’t want to have any trouble with the Yankees.” The late Julia 81-ace, of Bloomfield, Conn., was deaf, dumb and blind all her life, but her remaining. senses were so highly developed that she acquired a fair education, and was able to keep herself informed of all current events. It is related that when she was at school at the asylum, when the girl pupils were dressing in the morning, and took turns before the glass to put up their hair, she always insisted on having her turn, and would stand there to put up her hair, like any one else. No other place would answer the purpose, though it could, of course, make no difference whether she was before the glass or in the darkest oorner of a dark closet. A LADY visiting near Blois, in France, has just fallen a victim to her avarice and belief in supernatural agencies combined. She possessed a considerable fortune, bat wanted to increase her riches, and for this purpose consulted a sorceress. The latter went to her residence, conferred with some invisible assistants, by whose advice the lady was told to place all her money in a certain drawer, not to open it for a given time, or the charm would be broken, and before retiring to rest to throw a marvelous white powder into the fire. If these conditions were carried ont, the fortune, she was told, would be doubled. They were carried out, but the result was that while she abstained from opening the drawer the sorceress emptied it at leisure; and when she threw the white powder intothe fire a terrible explosion ensued, she was very severely injured, and the house wa3 set fire to. The Saratoga correspondent of the New York Graphic says: 1 ‘Lucky Baldwin and his young wife are quite the sensation at the Grand Union Hotel, though neither of them seeks to attract attention. She is only about four feet six inches high aud very slight in figure and childlike in manner, wearing her long hair in two braids down the back, tied together with ribbons. She dresses much less like a matron than many of the children here, who wear laces and satins, while Mrs. Baldwin at a hop will appear in a short, white embroidered muslin, with a broad pink ottoman ribbon sash, and pink ribbons on shoulders, and tying her hair as above described. Aoross the front of her head, above the curls on her forehead, she sometimes wears in the evening a wreath of natural flowers, maiden-hair fern, studded with small pink roses, and tuberoses. She looks the very embodiment -of the ideal, childish simplicity so seldom seen.”

THE CLAY CAMPAIGN. Enthusiasm of His Followers the Cause oi His Defeat. Atlanta Constitution. I asked Mr. Miller if the enthusiasm for Blaine at the Chicago convention equaled the feeling for Clay, to whom he has been compared. “No, he replied: “nothing, I think, will ever equal that. When Clay was beaten there were men who went crazy from grief, and many who died of grief. I remember one story that was very touching. A printer, who was a deaf-mute, was deeply interested in Clay’s election. He could not speak or hurrah, of conrse, but he attended every meeting. His earnestness was such that he was at length selected to carry the flag in all processions and parades. When it was fully settled that Clay was defeated this young fellow was missing. He was found some days afterward in the woods, dead, with his flag wrapped about his body. This incident it typical of the terrible, tragic earnestness of that campaign. ” “There is a curious piece of history," Mr. Miller went on to say, “that connects Clay’s defeat with New York'city politics. After his letter on the annexation of Texas, the opposition to Clay grew until the race became a doubtful ono. A well-known New York politician, now a leading Democrat, organized 5,000 voters together in New York city under the name of the Empire Club. It was proposed to throw these votes solidly for Clay if his campaign committee would pay $50,000. Sam Anderson, who committed suicide in this city some years ago, was interested in the negotiations, and told me the story. He said that General Toombs, who was on day's committee, was in favor of paying the money and securing the votes. Other committeeman demurred, however, and the matter was dismissed. The Empire Club voted against day; he lost New York by 5.000 votes, ana New York lost him the presidency. Many times since then a clique of voters in New York city have made just the same threats and offered practically the same terms.

Honorably Acquitted. New York Commercial Advortiser. The son of General Logan, whose alleged insubordination while doing guard duty as a cadet at West Point, aroused considerable Interest has been honorably acquitted by a court martial. Cadet Logan is not a youth of the goody goodv sort, but possibly that is not the stuff of which soldiers are made. Their Special Grief. New York Mall and Express. The one theme which the better-informed Democratic politicians and editors cannot bear to see discussed in Republican papers is the possible or probable retiring of Clevelaud. That is a subject which our Democratic friends regal’d as peculiarly belonging to the secret councils of their party and for private wailing and gnashing of teeth. A Venerable Wrulth. Chicago Nows (Inti. Bern.) We see by the papers that the Hon. George W. Julian has been prowling around the headquarters of the Indiana Democratic committee. This would seem to indicate that the rumor of Mr. Julian’s decease somewhere about the beginning of the present century is totally unfounded. Had No Choice. Boston Journal. Someone says that a recent issue of the Nation said that, the Boston Journal had gone down into the mire for political material. It is not our fault —we were obliged to go into the mire to And Grover Cleveland. He was there up to his neck. Should Have Had a Vacation. Hartford Courant. Nast should have been granted a vacation from campaign work this year. His best work is far below bis old average, and the chief trouble seems to be that his pencil is not working in sympathy with his brain. For Future Reference. Pittsburg Dispatch. It inay be useful to remember, with regard to future hot waves, that when the presidential candidates ceased hurling their letters at the country the weather cooled off.