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CHILDREN’S COLLARS. We would call special attention to our large lines of Children’s Percale Collars, 10c sack or three for 25c. Children’s French Percale Collars, 15c each or two for 25c. Children’s Embroidered Collars, 25c. MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Rotes of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1884. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Pan be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Oapucines. NEW YORK —St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO —Palmer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUISVILLE —C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. National Ticket. President—JAMES G. BLAINE, of Maine. Vice-president—JOHN A. LOGAN, of Hlinois. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. State at large—Milo S. Hascall, of Elkhart: John M. Butler, of Marion. First District—James C. Veatch. of Spencer. Second —William B. Roberts, of Sullivan. Third—John G. Berkshire, of Jennings. Fourth—William D. Ward, of Switzerland. Fifth—Marshall Hacker, of Bartholomew. Sixth—Josiah E. Mellette, of Delaware. Seventh—Tha<l. S. Rollins, of Marion. Eighth—Elias S. Holliday, of Clay. Ninth—.lames M. Reynolds, of Tippecanoe. Tenth—Trnraan F. Palmer, of White. Eleventh—James F. Elliott, of Howard. Twelfth—Joseph D. Ferrell, of Lagrange. Thirteenth—L. W. Royse, of Kosciusko. State Ticket. Governor—WlLLlAM H. CALKINS, of La Porte jounty. Lieutenant-governor—EUGENE H. BUNDY, of Henry county. Secretary of State—ROBERT MITCHELL, of EHbson county. Auditor of State—BßUCE CARR, of Orange lonnty. Treasurer of State—ROGEß R. SHIEL, of Marion county. Attorney-general—WlLLlAM C. WILSON, of fippecanoe county. Judge of the Supreme Court, Fifth District -EDWTN P. HAMMOND, of Jasper county. Reporter Supreme Court—WILLIAM M. HOGGATT, of Warrick county. Superintendent of Public Instruction— BARNABAS C. HOBBS, of Parke county.

We are confronted with the Democratic party, very hungry, and, as you may well believe, very thirsty; a party without a single definite principle; a party without any distinct national policy which it dares present to the country; a party which fell from power as’ a conspiracy against human rights, and now Attempts to sneak back to power as a conspiracy for plunder and spoils.—Geo. Wm. Bubtis, June 5, 1884. I have carefully observed the attitude and movements of the Democratic party for twenty rears. In ray judgmentlt has learned nothing i snd forgotten nothing. So far as lean perceive, It is not only swayed by the same principles, but, to a large extent, guided by the same paen.—Pbesiiiknt Capen. of Tuft’s College, Mass. “I killed Print Matthews. I told him not to vote, and he voted and I killed him. It was not me that killed him—it was the party If I had not been a Democrat I would not have killed him. It was not me, but the Democratic party; and uow if the party is a mind to throw me off, d—n such a party.—E. B. Whef.ler of Baxlehurst. Miss, afterwards elected Marshal by the Democratic party. “Is there any good reason why Hendricks thould be selected fro in forty-five millions of people to be the possible head of a Government which he did his best to destroy?"—Geo. nr. oubtiß in 1876. Mr. Blaine has what may be called the American instinct.—Geo. Wit. Curtis, in Harper's Weakly, Nov. 5.1881.

“I have just now received the atrocious libel of the Indianapolis Sentinel. The story Is utterly and abominably false in every statement and in every implication. Political ■landers Ido not atop to notice, but this editor assails the honor of my wife and children. I desire yon, without an hour’s delay, to employ proper attorneys and have tho responsible publisher of the Sentinel sned for libel in the United States Court of Indiana. It is my only remedy, and I am sore honorable Democrats, alike with honorable Republicans, will Justify me iiiOdefending the honor of my family, if need be, with my life."—Mb. Blaine's Telegram, Aug. 14. It won’t be long until the Democratic party Is ready to swear that it never did like the Irish, anyhow. I ■ Mr. Hendricks thinks it will not do to remove Cleveland from the ticket, but does not deny the Halpin story. 1 Mr. Hendricks’s idea of “an era of good will” is the pardon of cowardly and brutal assassins of Union soldiers. DZMOORATIO and independent papers having been forced to reluctantly admit that Maine will go Bepublic&n in September by a large majority, are now proving to their own istisfaction that the majority signifies

nothing. They say Mr. Blaine has personally directed and led the canvass in the State, and his magnetic presence has done much to create enthusiasm in the party. By his labors thoy concede that the Republican majority will be respeetabfe in size, and in the same breath allege that it “can not be regarded as an index of Blaine’s waning popularity, ” which they still affirm to be a fixed fact. If his popularity “wanes” to the same extent in other States, Mr. Blaine and his party have nothing further to desire. GOVERNOR WHITCOMB’S PAMPHLET. Hon. Joseph E. McDonald has resurrected from the grave, where it has quietly slept for forty years and more, a pamphlet written by Governor Whitcomb in favor of free trade. This pamphlet has been reprinted by the Democratic central committee, and is ' now being widely circulated as a Democratic campaign document, at the instance and request of Mr. McDonald. The pamphlet is a verbose argument, designed to show that Indiana people should all engage in farming, and live, and grow rich, by exchanging their corn, wheat and bacon for the “cheap” manufactures of England. The following extract will show the drift of the Governor’s argument: ‘ ‘They [the Whigs] exclude, by a high tariff, an immense amount. of cheap necessaries we could get from abroad in exchange for our provisions.” (See p. 20.) Suppose we get the cheap necessaries from abroad, what is to become of our own mechanics, artisans and laborers! It is urged that we could get clothing cheaper from England than we can get it from our home manufacturers. But suppose we get it from the English manufacturers, what is to become of those who earn their living in this country by making clothing! We have, scattered all over this country, poor women whose busy sewing machines rattle away from morning till night, earning a livelihood for helpless children. What is to become of these women and children when American farmers exchange their provisions for the “cheap” clothing of England, as urged by the Whitcomb pamphlet! Is the Democratic party ready to get “cheap” clothing at the fearful price of the further degradation and sorrow of these manufacturers of clothing in this country! Os course, it is perfectly plain to every one that if we supply ourselves with “cheap” clothing from other countries the business of making clothes in this country must cease. Mr. who is a gen-erous-hearted man, must himself revolt at the idea of getting “cheap” clothing from abroad at the expense of helpless women and children in this country. In another place in this pamphlet, so much lauded by Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, late candidate for presidential honors, is this paragraph:

“‘ln the next place the true policy is to have low 1 duties so as to encourage a free exchange of the farmer’s provisions and other products, for cheap necessaries, in return, from abroad.” Governor Whitcomb seems to have had a mania for “cheap necessaries from abroad.” He never stopped to think once what effect the bringing of all our supplies of “necessaries from abroad” would have on our laboring people of this country who have no other employment than making the necessaries of life here. {Again, says Governor Whitcomb: “The foreigner cannot buy our produce unless we buy the cheap products of liis skill in return.” It is strange that it never once occurred to this eminent man that the people in this country who manufacture “necessaries,” could consume the farmer’s produce just as well as those who make “necessaries” in England. Did the Governor suppose that the working people of England were the only laboring people who consumed farmer’s products! Will not a hundred men and women who manufacture “necessaries" in this country eat just as much bread and meat as an equal number of men and women who make “necessaries” in England! What is the Indiana farmer to gain by selling his produce to English laborers instead of American laborers! Our own laborers are quite as able to pay the farmer for his products as the English laborer, and wo venture that a given number of prosperous American laborers would oonsume even more of the farmer’s products than an equal number of half-paid English laborers. But it is the cheap products of the Englishman’s skill that seems to draw the Governor and Hon. J. E. McDonald with hooks of steel • toward the doMfcrine of free trade. Our own laboring people are all to be turned out of employment, and their work given to foreign laborers, because the foreign laborer is cheaper, and makes cheaper product. The resurrection and circulation of this long-buried document ought to make ten thousand votes for the Republican party in Indiana this year, because it is clear, from the circulation of this pamphlet, that the purpose of the Democratic party is to break down as many as possible of the enterprises in this country which furnish neoessaries, in order that England may have a free market in which to sell her cheap commodities. But what will the laboring people of Indiana say to this proposition to abaiidos our own industries and import all our “necessaries” from England because the foreign manufacturer can furnish us “cheap” products in consequence of halfpaid labor! The action of the Plumbers’ Association of New York city is calculated to draw the attention of two classes to the injustice proposed. When the journeymen plumbers struck last year many qf them secured contracts on their own account, the builders

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furnishing the material and they doing the work. The discovery was made that by so doing the men got good wages and the work cost less, often paying full prices to the dealers in plumbers’ materials. The master plumbers then organized and compelled dealers in plumbers’ materials to agree to sell to none but master plumbers provided with certificate of membership of the association. By this means the wages of journeyman plumbers are at the mercy of members of the association, and prices may arbitrarily be fixed without regard to the rights of the workingmen or those who have work of that kind to do. It were well if the people took the matter into their own hands, hired the men at good prices, bought the materials and broke the back of this impudent monopoly of middlemen. Department clerks are overworked, as everybody knows; but it really seems as if an extra force should be put on in the Indian office, or that the employes be required, even at the risk of their lives, to work as much as seven hours a day until they catch up with contemporaneous history, so to speak. The accounts of W. A. Gorman, who was Indian agent in Minnesota thirty years ago, have just been audited, and show a deficit of several hundred dollars. As Gorman and all his sureties went to the happy hunting grounds years ago there is not much chance for the recovery of the money, even through the conscience fund. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Democratic), in an editorial upon the Blaine-Sentinel libel, says: “For their conjugal life, at least, Mr. and Mrs. Blaine are entitled to honor and reverence, not reproach. No matter what may be proved or disproved in the Indianapolis Sentinel suit, and no matter what the legal decision of the libel question may be, we feel sure that the whole truth about the matter will not only strengthen the hold of Mr. Blaine upon the hearts of his supporters, but will also soften the feelings of his bitterest opponents toward him. They may sternly censur4 and distrust him in all the other relations of life, but must admit that he has repaid the love of Harriet Stanwood with honorable fidelity and life-long devotion.” The Rhinelanders, of New York city, have very exalted ideas of their majesty and worth. When William C. Rhinelander talked of marrying a beautiful Irish serving-girl, a family council was held, and it was decided that such a thing would be “worse than forgery or embezzlement,” and that while the family would come to his aid in case he became a thief they could never so far condone a mesalliance of the kind mentioned as to forgive him. Fortunately for the good of the country and of society our laws look at such matters differently.

The Democratic managers of Indiana have thrown off the mask. They are now circulating thousands of Governor Whitcomb’s freetrade pamphlet, and of the Freeman, a little weekly, which announces itself a free-trade paper, pure and simple. We are glad that so early in the canvass the Democratic party has shown its true colors. It is for free trade; that is what the success of the party would mean. The issue is between protection and free trade. Upon that the Republican party is anxious and glad to go to the people. Another sane person has just been rescued from an asylum for the insane after being incarcerated for two years by “friends” who wanted the use of her money. There is more crime of this kind than the public would credit. Not so much in State institutions, but in private asylums near New York city, which are convenient houses of permanent detention for persons of means who stand in the way of heirs impatient to gain possession of the same. A thorough examination of such establishments should be made. “England gets her raw material free, her numerous ships, going to all foreign ports, carry her goods to every market, ana the demand for her manufactures is constant, thus enabling her to give almost constant employment to her workmen.” This is a “free-trade” assertion, the absolute untruth of which, of course, is known to anybody who knows enough to know anything. The greatest strikes, and lockouts, and industrial depressions of history have occurred in free trade England, and are occurring there now. The St. Louis Republican waxes wroth at the uncomplimentary comments made on that eminent Democrat, Frank James, and’says: “There are doubtless some strangely constituted people who regard Frank James’without hafror. There are freaks of mental as of physical constitution which can be accounted for by no moral or material law. The old robber and murderer, John Brown, has been apotheosized by a great number of people whose normal understanding is not bad and whose general honesty is not questioned.” In the letter to his Dubuque friend Mr. Hendricks must have had Mr. Blaine in his mind. Certainly it was of Blaine, rather than to Cleveland, that he writes as to the President: “The public welfare requires that he be judged by his public record; by his capability and fitness for the discharge of responsible and important public duties, and not by old and exploded private slander.” Geo. W. Julian made a speech last night to a Democratic meeting. We oan not conceive of a more absolutely unimportant event. A corpse exuding its atrabilious “drool” over an audience of “Christless whelps” may be of gpme moment as a disgusting spectacle, but is of no other possible consequence. The country did not believe the HendricksDubuque letter genuine, and numerous telegrams of inquiry were sent asking as to its authenticity. It was not deemed probable

that Mr. Hendricks would give his chief such a left-hander as that letter, when he is already gasping in the hour and article of political death. But when finally run down, Mr. Hendricks was compelled to acknowledge that it was genuine. With his own hand he wrote it. The Carlisles, cowardly murderers of Union soldiers, were pardoned by Mr. Hendricks, to please rebels, in the interest of “an era of good will." Mr. Hendricks's explanation and apology are an insult to every Union soldier in the country who was exposed to the murderous assaults of bushwhackers and confederate assassins. In an article in Monday’s issue the Journal stated that D. C. Stover was a nephew of ex-Senator McDonald. The Journal was mis informed. Mr. Stover was no relative of Mr. McDonald. The latter, as Attorney-general, accompanied Governor Morton to New York and assisted in the unearthing of the State bond frauds. How many Governors issue pardons to convicts over the protest of the warden of the State prison! How many such did Mr. Hendricks issue when Governor! About the only one was to the murderers of Union soldiers, the purpose being, as he announces, to placate rebels The Democratic funeral directors held a meeting last night. There were probably ten or twelve hundred people present, spectators, directors and all, including the galvanized coipse, which was put on exhibition by Mr. Hendricks and his co-undertakers. Would it not be better for the Democratic national committee to put on the clamps, and compel their presidential and vice-presidential candidates to cease writing letters! Every time they take their pens in hand they add to the general wreck and ruin. Grover Cleveland will not thank Mr. Hendricks for the Dubuque letter, in which he confesses the scandal, but says it has been condoned by his election as sheriff, mayor and Governor. Governor Whitcomb’s free-trade pamphlet, written forty years ago, only shows how the Governor utterly failed to foresee the industrial greatness and development of his own country. Cleveland and the Democratic party will have to pray to be delivered from the funny men of Puck. They haven’t been in this country long enough to understand American politics. Mr. Hendricks's excuse for the pardon of the Carlisles, as given at last night’s meeting, is worse than the original offense. He pardoned them to make fair weather with rebels. The speech of Senator Harrison does not please the Freeman, the new “independent Republican free-trade” paper. This is in the nature of a public calamity. The American Pharmaceutical Association, now in session at Milwaukee, is struggling with the patent medicine problem. It has been discovered within the last year or two by proprie tors of “bazars’’ and mixed merchandise that they can liandle proprietary medicines as well as the regular druggists, and, not only this, can sell them at a greatly reduced rate and at least lose nothing. This discovery, when put into practice, created great consternation in the pharmaceutical world, and the question now is, what can be done about it! The president of the association points out the alternatives, neither of which seems to afford the relief desired. One course consists in the pharmacist maintaining his supremacy as purveyor of this class of medicines by furnishing them to the public as cheaply as can be done by any other branch of trade. This method necessarily involves a great decrease of profit. The other plan consists in the entire abandonment of the sale of these quack medicines. This would also eliminate a large percentage of the average druggist's income, and,as a consequence, neither horn of the dilemma is favorably regarded by the assembled drug merchants. They would like to have laws passed prohibiting, with severe penalties, the sale of the goods in question by any other than themselves; but this action not being feasible, the trouble remains with them. Until the matter is settled the foolish public will continue to buy its patent curables at the dollar stores, or wherever they are cheapest. Malaria did it Dr. Lockwood, of Norwalk, Conn., speculated injudiciously with other people’s money, and disappeared from home, to be heard from later in Italy. He has returned apd explains that he had suffered from malaria for years. He had also made frequent investments for friends, they understanding fully that they were liable to the chance of loss. In July he went to New York, expecting to obtain financial aid of a certain person from whom he had a right to expect it, but that person treated him in such a manner that he was completely demoralized. Owing to this demoralization, combined with his previous malaria, he was dazed and knew nothing of what followed until he awoke, in the course of a few days, to find himself on board a steamer bound for Genoa. As this explanation seems satisfactory to Mr. Lockwood’s friends, it can be noted for future reference by other speculators. There is a point at which even Democratic papers stop in their prying into a candidate’s private affairs. Some of them are refusing to publish communications from correspondents who “want to make a point,” stating the wages paid by General Butler to his domestic servants. But perhaps if the correspondents had succeeded in making their point all the world might have the pleasure of knowing what wages Mr. Butler's cook and housemaid receive each week. What is the world’s loss is probably his gain- because, with such publicity given them, the servants might have been induced to strike for higher p*yThe Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society has taken anew departure in the matter of ercouraging home industries by offering premiums j ranging from $lO to SIOO for the best home-made dresses exhibited at the coming lair. The committee of award will consider workmanship,

economy of material, and general effect, in arriving at a decision. The dresses will be exhibited on wire frames, and not on the figures which are destined to. wear them. This seems to be a mistake. Asa proof of the pudding is said to be in the eating, so the proof of a wellmade dress must be in the fitting; and how is any committee to judge of the merits of such garment when it is hung over a rude wire and buckram semblance of the form divine. Unless this point is taken into consideration the agricultural gentlemen will catch “fits” from the unlucky dress-makers who get no premiums. Down in North Carolina they hang burglars. A negro wno was guilty of the heinous offense of breaking into a grocery store at Charlotte, last winter, has just been sentenced to be hanged. Fortunately for the authorities the wretch did not kill or injure any one. Had he done so they might have been troubled to find a punishment commensurate with the crime. The latest New Jersey riddle is, “Who killed Etta Watson!” It will soon be filed away with the Jennie Cramer and Rose Ambler mysteries of Connecticut To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Was there a bill presented to the House of Representatives in 1877, 1879 or 1881 to prevent the farming-out of prison labor! If so, who introduced the bill, and where in the House or Senate journal can a record of the vote be found! Spencer, Aug. 26. E. C. Steele. No mention of any such bill oan be found in the Senate or House journals for the sessions of 1877, 1879 or 1881. To the Editor of tha Indianapolis Journal: When, through what paper, and under what circumstances was the scandalous story made known to the public about Mr. Grover Cleveland! Also Mr. James G. Blaine. South Whitley, Aug. 25. Wallik Combs. This has been answered a hundred times. The Buffalo Telegraph, an independent newspaper. POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. The Michigan Prohibitionists have nominated David Preston, of Detroit, for Governor. Bishop Spaulding says that not only are American politics immoral, but' that the evidence of general moral decadence stares us in the face. George W. Lampkins, of Monroe county, Indiana, who has been prominent as an earnest and consistent Democrat, has come out for Blaine and Logan. In the full reports of the bolters’ movements in Boston given in their organs no mention of Colonel Codman has been made since he wrote to a St Louis young man that, he would have to stop and find out where he stood. Hon. John D. White has positively declined to accept a Republican renominatiou for Congress in the Ninth Kentucky district The grand old party is having a run of luck this year, and its star is clearly in the ascendant In Mr. Hendrick's Dubuque letter, given publicity by the Associated Press, he is made to say: “Three times Governor Cleveland has stood the test of popular calumnies.” In his letter he wrote “popular canvasses," and not “popular calumnies.” Judge Devens, of Massachusetts, ex-Attor-ney-general, visited Mr. Blaine at Bar Harbor, on Wednesday. He says that his State will give a rousing majority for Blaino. He ridicules the independent movement, which, he says, has neither character nor strength. National Republican: Just after Grover Cleveland was nominated for Governor of New York, a gentleman residing in Buffalo wrote to a personal friend in this oity: “You will notice that Grover Cleveland has been nominated for Governor. He’s a d—d good fellow and I’ve been drunk with him many a time.” . There are in Buffalo, Grover Cleveland’s homo, two Young Voters' Clubs, whose membership is limited to those who give their first £ residential vote this year. The Blaine and ogan Young Voters’ Club has over 900 members, the Cleveland Club has only 206 This is one of the “straws” that are significant

Morgan L. Filkins, formerly postmaster at Albany, says that William Purcell, of Rochester, had stated in his (Filkins’s) hearing that Monroe county would give Blaine 7,000 majority, while he was confident of his knowledge that Erie, the home of the Governor, would be Republican by 4,000. He further says that Cleveland could'not carry a single ward in the city of Buffalo. At the Republican national headquarters a delegation of West Virginia men called yesterday. They were business men ot Wheeling, and their spokesman was Dr. Dickey, of that city. He said that the Republicans in nis section were hard at work, that'they were not making any ostentatious displays or indulging in political pyrotechnics, but nevertheless he fully expected that Blaine would carry the State. The Atlanta Constitution, one of the foremost of the Southern Democratic journals, says of the civil-service reform law: “It is natural to suppose that a Democratic interpretation will place only Democrats in office. If it does not there will be some serions kicking among the long suffering—some kicking in which the Constitution would most heartily join.* This is specially commended to the civil-service reformers who are among the independents. “Oh, pshaw," said a Boston capitalist, “don’t bother me about Mr. Blaine's railroad speculations. Half of the bank presidents in New England were engaged in the same traffic, and no one questioned their integrity or their right Mr. Blaine bought aud paid for his securities. So did the bank presidents. Mr. Blaine guaranteed the value of those he sold, and redeemed them. The bank presidents never did, and no one ever claimed that they ought to have done so.”

Os Governor Cleveland’s omission of all reference to the tariff question, the Buffalo Express remarks: “Those who ask Governor Cleveland to follow General Hancock into the tariff trap underestimate his care and caution. He doesn’t know very much about national politics, but he does know what hit Hancock, and where Hancock landed; and he has evidently determined, with all the strength of his robust nature, that, come weal or wo, come luck or wrack, he will neither touch, taste nor handle anything that has the semblance of tariff anywhere in its neighborhood.” Hon. Lewis F. Allen, an uncle of Grover Cleveland, in an interview denying certain statements attributed to him, says: “The fact is, Grove is a bright, capable, energetic fellow. He does not kuow as much as Blaine (my first choice) who is well versed in statesmanship; nor is he as brilliant in some other points. Why, Blaine is known all over this big land for his attainments, and Grove is only in public life about four years, yet he made a good mayor of Buffalo—the best mayor we ever had. I voted for him, the only time up to then I ever cast a Democratic ballot. He was elected Governor and made a good one, and there isn’t anythinorfif a national experience he has over had. It seems too sudden like to me, but 111 admit he knows more than Hendricks, and is better than Sam Tilden." Mr. Allen is eightyfour yqars old. Albion (Ind.) New Era: It is said that In a recent speech delivered at Ligonier, Johnß. Stoll, of South Bend, declared himself ready and willing to defend the vetoes of Gov. Cleveland against any who might assail them. This was doubtless throwing down the gauntlet to Harry Reynolds, who recently abandoned the Democratic party, and in his letter giving his reasons for deserting the sinking ship, laid great stress upon the vetoes of the Democratic candidate for the presidency. Mr. Reynolds evidently so con-

sidered the remarks of Mr. Stoll, and is out in a card accepting the challenge, and only stipulating that the discussion shall take place at Ligonier, where both the combatants are well known. These gentlemen are pretty evenly balanced, intellectually, and if they ever meet in joint debate it is safe to say that the “fur will tty” and no quarter be asked. It remains to be seen whether Mr. Stoll will back down, after making the challenge. New York special: It is a question still whether ex-Senator Conkling will take any Dart in the political campaign. Some of his New York friends think he will. All agree that if he ever intends to enter politics again that now is his opportunity. It is a significant fact that Alfred Conkling, the ex-Senator’s nephew, is an ardent Blaine man. He has been in B&r Harbor for several days of rest and recreation. During his stay here he repeatedly called upon Mr. Blaine, and assured him that he should speak for him in the State of New York. Alfred Conkling is a fine -German scholar. He intends to make soveral German speeches during the canvass. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is out with a plea for new divorce laws, in which the rights of father, mother and child shall be equitably guarded. Lieutenant Danenhowkr has been assigned to take charge of the departments of electricity, meteorology and natural philosophy at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. In London a man fell in a drunken fit and broke his neck. The jury found out that his grandfather had died of a broken neck, and brought in as their verdict, “Died by the hereditary visitation of God.” The Baroness Burdett-Coutts sits in proscenium boxes at London theaters, dressed without any affectation of juvenility, but in the fashion of an old woman. Her young husband is attentive to her. Much painful surprise has been excited at the Vatican by the discovery that King AJfonso belongs to the Masonic craft. Cardinal Jacoblni has written to tho nuncio at Madrid, in the Pope's name, asking for all details. Mr. Ruskin accuses the weather of having deteriorated shamefully since he was a young man, so that now he has to use a tent instead of sketching in the open air, as he did then—genius being no preventive of rheumatism. Miss Laura White, sister of Hon. J. D. White, of Kentucky, has been admitted to the Special School of Architecture in Paris. The Citoyenne says that several French women have already distinguished themselves as builders and house decorators. The neatest fraud in Saratoga is said to be a girl who is apt at making such very disingenuous remarks as this: “Deary me, Sophy, you have just the same perfume in your scent bottle that your brother Dolph puts on his mustache.” And then she wonders wideeyed what they are laughing at. William .Peake and wife, of tho once famous family of Swiss bell-ringers, are living in want atWaverly, N. Y. He is seventy-seven and sick, she Is seventy-four, and they appear to have been deserted by their children. Theatrical friends are now trying to secure for them admission to the Old Folks’ Home at Elmira. Victor Hugo declares that although he has spent nearly twenty of his eighty-two years in England he does not know a word of English. Frenchmen are said to adhere to their national peculiarities while abroad more than any other people, and Victor Hitgo'g confession is an indication of the correctness of the theory. A Georgia mad-stone, an heirloom in the Allred Eamily, of Pickens county, is to he exhibited at the New Orleans Exposition. The history of the stone is to be written and placed in the cabinet along with it at the exposition, and accompanying it, also, will be the certificates of physicians who have applied it with success in cases of snake poisoning and mad-dog bites.

A voUNO man was killed on a railroad track near Albany. His parents had separated, his father taking a daughter and he going with his mother. At the funeral, when the coffin was opened, the father stood on one side and the mother on the other. As they raised their eyes from the last look upon their dead son, they met each other's gaze, embraced each other impulsively, and were reconciled. When Hartmann, the Nihilist, was with Sophia Perovskaja (hanged in 1881) working at the mine, beneath a fine of railroad, with the view of killing the Czar while passing, he became in need of funds to finish the work, and Sophia suggested that he pawn liis watoh, which he did for eight roubles. This absence of his watch caused him subsequently to make an error in time of firing the match, and to this tjie Czar owed his fife. Miss May Twomblby describes two kinds of newspaper workers: The amateur news-gatherer is sure to be offensively 'personal; only tho trained professional hand can individualize by generalization. And there is always this essential difference between the newspaper amateur and the professional: The former is thinking only of himself and how he can keep from his associates the knowledge he is giving to the world; the genuine journalist is thinking only of the credit of the profession and the honor of the journal he represents. ' Prof. DOUGLAS'S, of the Michigan State University, produces amateur cyclones at will by suspending a large copper plate by silken cords. Tnis plate is charged heavily with electricity, which hangs down like a bag underneath, and is rendered visible by the use of orsenious acid gas, which gives it a green color. The formation is a miniature cyclone, as perfect as any started in the clouds. It is funnel-shaped, and whirls around rapidly. Passing this plate over a table, the cyclone snatches up copper cents, pith balls, and other objects, and scatters them on all sides. The word “fudge” has a positive personality underlying it. Such it is, at least, if Disraeli's account ba authentic. He quotes from a very old pamphlet, entitled "Remarks Upon the Navy,” wherein the author says: “There was in our time one‘Captain Fudge,' commander of a merchantman, who, upon his return from his voyage, how ill-fraught soever his ship was, always brought home to his owners a good crop of lies, so much that now, aboard ship, the sailors, when they hear a great lie told, cry out, ‘You Fudge it!' The ship was the Black Eagle, the time that of Charles H." The value and proper use of the title “Esquire” is as muoh in doubt now apparently in England as in the United States. London Truth says: “It is generally agreed that its use should not, if possible, be allowed to any gentleman worth, say, less than ten shillings a week, unless he be an office-boy, or otherwise 'professionally' engaged. It has, however, been reserved for the press to fix the exact worth of the title. A journal published in the town of Burnham, a small, but popular resort on the Somersetshire ooast, has the following at the head of its ‘List of Visitors: ’ ‘The word “Esq." charged 3d., prepaid.'" Carl Schurz recently chatted entertainingly, thus: “I was walking up Broadway when I saw a good-looking, massivoly-buiit man coming toward me. I knew who it was at once, though I had never been in his actual presence before. I could not help smiling at the excellence of this gentleman's likeness, aa portrayod by the caricaturists. But evidently ha recognized me from the many amusing piotures which have been drawn of me, for his faoe was like mine, on the full grin. We knew each other at once. We had been piotorially introduced. We both laughed, slmultanously touched our hats and passed on." The other man was John Kelly. The island of Mauritius is the home of witchcraft. The London Times asserts positively that yonng children are frequently tortured and killed for alleged magical purposes. One Picot was tried by the British authorities and condemned to death. He coolly told his judges that they could not hang him. Nor did they. The house of the chief judge was instantlyhaunted by spirits, who threw stones. Night after night the missiles rattled about the slates. No watches could discover the human bands of the flash and blood allies. Finally, “the judge's lady was nearly frightened to death,” says the Times, and the judge himself pleaded for Picot's fife with the executive oouuoiL <