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OUR LINE FALL OVERCOATS . IS NOW READY FOR INSPECTION. MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JKO. C. NEW A SON. For lUtes of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1884. . WITH SPPPEMENIT THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange In Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange In Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nichoiasand Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOTUS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. “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 now if the party is a mind to throw me ofT, d—n such a party.—E. B. Wheeler of Hazlehurst, Miss, afterwards elected Marshal by the Democratic party. I have carefully observed the attitude and movements of the Democratic party for twenty rears. Inray judgment it has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. So fkr as lean perceive, It Is not only swayed by 'the same principles, but, to a large extent, guided by the same men.—President Capen, of Tuft’s College, Mass. Mr. Blaine has what may be called the American instinct.—Gso. Wli. Curtis, in Harper's Weekly, Nov. 5.1881.

It is too late to take Cleveland off—see Hendricks—but the ticket might be turned upside down; Mr. Hendricks is perhaps the only man in the country who thinks decapitation would not result fatally. The Democratic party is praying to be delivered from its independent Republican .friends. But Mr. Hendricks thinks it is too late. The Cincinnati Commercial’ Gazette has adopted the Journal plan of instructing its correspondents to tell the exact truth about political meetings. The Northwest Indiana Conference, in unmistakable words, seconds the efforts of the Indianapolis Journal for the maintenance and proper observance of Sunday. Thirty thousand tons of steel rails have recently been sold at $26 and $27. A few years ago we had British labor do this work, and we paid $157 per ton for what American mills now sell at one-sixth that figure. The “robber tariff" did it. __________ “Samuel J. Randall writes a letter to say that he is for Cleveland first, last and all the time.” Such a letter from Thomas A. Hendricks would be in order. Don’t address it to Dubuque. With Germany siding with France in its evident ill-fieeling toward England, and the apparent readiness of all the great powers to try issues in war, the friends of Ireland in America may not have to wait long to see her ancient enemy in the toils. A continental combination against England would make a pretty fight. England’s arrogant encroachment upon Egypt and the Orient will be the casus belli. Vermont votes to-day for State officers. The campaign has not been a strong one, and there is a probability that the vote will be light and the Republican majority correspondingly less than what it will be in November. There are three tickets in the field, Republican, Democratic and Greenback. Lieuten-ant-governor Pingree is the Republican candidate for Governor. In 1880 the total vote was 70,684, of which the Republicans polled 47,848, Democrats 21,245, and Greenbackers 1,578. In 1882 the total vote was only 51,848, Republican 35,839, Democratic 14,466, Greenback 1,535. The New Tork Times has been badly sold. It publishes with great flourish the opinions of Prof. E. T. Cox about this State, whom it styles “the State Geologist of Indiana for the past ten years.” Prof. Coi is certain Indiana will go for Cleveland. The Times says: “Prof. Cox is so little of a politician that he lays he has not voted in four years, and his

opinions of the present situation in Indiana would, therefore, have the merit of being at least unbiased.” Asa matter of fact, Prof. Cox does not live in Indiana, and has not lived in Indiana for a long time, which is probably tbe reason he has not voted;' He knows as near nothing about the State politically as could be well imagined, and has always been a narrow little Democrat. Prof. Cox has not been State Geologist for years, and is in no way identified with the State except by former residence, and possibly by still retaining his property interests in the southern part of the State. PASTIES AND STEALINGS. The Hon. John C. New, ex-Treasurer of the United States, and ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, ought to be good authority in matters relating to national finances. Mr. New, in his Blaine organ, states that “the Republican party has paid over a thousand millions of the war debt.” We did not know that either of tbe political parties had paid any part of the public debt. We had supposed that the people's servants had gathered taxes from the people irrespective of party, and that all payments on the public debt had been made out of the proceeds of such *_ * * Thanks to Sir. New, we can now dismiss all these heresies and do full justice to the G. O. P. Even though it has stolen the public lands, stolen public money on a magnificent scale, and squandered as much as it has stolen, it has paid “more than a thousand millions of the national debt. Still there are Democrats who will not believe Mr. New, and will insist that they have been helping to pay it.—Washington Post (Dem.) By exactly the same course of reasoning—remarkable enough, it must be confessed — that makes Democrats sharers in the credit of the payment of the more than one thousand millions of debt, put on us, it may be remarked, by the Democratic party, now constituting the solid South, the same Democrats are sharers in the shame that “many millions” have been squandered and stolen, if we may believe the Post. Let us see, however, how the stealings compare now with the* good old days of Democratic honesty. During the administration of Polk $4.08 were stolen out of every SI,OOO collected and disbursed. Under Taylor and Fillmore it ran to $4.19. Under Pierce it was $3.56, and under Buchanan $3.81. When Buchannan left the executive chair and handed over the affairs of government, the Democratic party had already inaugurated civil war. With an increased opportunity for official rascality and dishonesty, the immense sums involved were handled with such consummate skill and scrupulous honesty that but seventy-six cents out of each SI,OOO was lost during Lincoln’s administration. The Republican machinery continued to run so smoothly under Johnson that the loss on each SI,OOO was brought down to fifty cents. Grant brought the average down more than 50 per cent., showing a loss of but twenty-four cents. During the first two years of tbe administration of President Eayes—tbe latest data at hand—the finances of the government were so admirably managed, the collections and disbursements were so conscientiously made, that, incredible as it may seem, the loss on each SI,OOO was but bighttenths of a mill! This is equivalent to a loss of one cent in $12,500. Do you understand? And what does this exhibit show for Republican ways of “squandering and stealing” the public funds? The difference between Republican honesty, under Hayes, and Democratic honesty, under Buchanan, is in favor of the former by tbe loss of less than a cent in each SIO,OOO to nearly S4O under the former. Reduced to a mathematical demonstration, Republican * honesty is 400,000 per cent, better than the Democratic article.- The Democratic paper that undertakes a discussion of finances makes a great mistake.

“0. 0. 5.,” the political correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal, reviews the presidential situation comprehensively, and figures out the solid South, Indiana, New Jersey and Wisconsin certain for Cleveland, with an even chance for the Democracy in New York, Connecticut, Ohio, Michigan and California. This is tantamount to giving up the fight. With respect to Indiana he says: ‘ “Mr. Rice claims that the State will give Cleveland and Hendricks between 13,000 and 15,000 majority, and he is not far from being correct. He is generally reliable, although we all missed it in 1880, not because we were ignorant of the situation, but for the reason that it was a case of ‘hold out,’ or we were gone elsewhere." Passing by the claim of this State now, we call attention to the fact that Mr. Stealey, who was then a member of the Democratic State executive committee, confesses that in 1880 they knew Indiana could not be carried for the Democracy, but claimed the State because “it was a case of hold out.” This confession from such a source should forever stop the mouths of the idiots who are “clacking" about the fraud iu Indiana in 1880. The Democrats knew the State was dead against them long before the election established the fact. It is very likely to be the same way in 1.884. ___________ As the reports continue to be received of the opening of the campaign on Saturday, it is evident that never before in the State of Indiana was there a more auspicious commencement of a presidential cainvass. Great crowds of people are everywhere spoken of, all animated with a spirit of enthusiasm and confidence that expressed itself in parades,' torch-lights, music and cheering from one end of the State to the other. In Lafayette, for instance, there was a procession of over one thousand torch-bearers, while the audience that attempted to listen to Hon. Thomas H. Nelson numbered multiplied thousands. Col. Nelson had prepared himself for a thorough discussion of the vital questions, including the tariff; but the enthusiasm was so strong that, catching the infection, he talked

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to the people with an impromptu zeal and fire bom of the occasion, and the whole meeting took on the air of a monster love-feast. And as in Lafayette, so elsewhere and everywhere. “Blaine is marching on.” ME. OLEVELAND AND LABOR. But, says the Sun, we do not know what measures Mr. Cleveland will recommend to Congress, nor do we know what bills he will veto. To know this one has only to read the Democratic platform and then read Mr. Cleveland’s letter. The platform is long enough to make a short letter acceptable. Mr. Cleveland is a Democrat, a Democrat by profession and practice, loyal to party traditions and obedient to the unpurchased, expressions of its national conventions.—Louisville CourierJournal. The Courier-Journal goes on at length, declaring what Cleveland would and would not do. Among other great things he would do, according to that paper, “he would guard by his advice and veto the rights of the people against the encroachments of despotic men or organizations,” and “he would protect labor from theencroaohment of capital in control of legislation.” Passing over the insult that discriminates between legislation “controlled” by capital, it is but fair to ask what apology Mr. Cleveland has to offer for killing the legislation protecting the people of New York city from the encroachment of the capitalized millions represented by the elevated railway companies. What but capital controlled him when he vetoed the five-cent-fare bill? And what but capital controlled him in vetoing’the bill making twelve hours a day’s work for conductors on the surface street railways of that city? What but capital and the fear of its influence controlled him when he vetoed the mechanics’ lien bill, by which laborers were secured against loss through dishonest bosses? And what reason have we for hoping that’ he would not be similarly controlled by capital in event of his election to the presidency? The man weak enough to be manipulated by corporations, .as Mr. Cleveland has proved himself to be, would be as putty in the hands of the world’s diplomatists, and would be, no more able to “guard the rights of American citizenship the world over” than a ten-year-old boy could throttle a cyclone. Such bombastic slush as is being uttered in behalf of the ex-sheriff of Erie county—the servant of New York monopolists—is calculated to make sensible readers sick.

DEMOCRATS STARVING INDIANS. The desperate and starving condition of the Piegan Indians challenge the sympathy of the people of this great country. Governor Crosby, of Montana Territory, has appealed for help to Secretary Teller, representing that he has efiused an investigation to be made, I and that it is shown that these Indians have been slowly wasting away and dying for a year for want of food, and the present ration of two pounds of beef and three of flour is l insufficient to sustain life. Agent Allen’s in structions from Commissioner Price forbid a larger issue. The deaths average one daily out. of a total of 2,000. Game has disappeared, ! and only ten acres of land are cultivated, and this small ration is the only means of subsistence. The appropriation is inadequate for the supply of the daily wants of the Piegans for the fiscal year. In view of these deplorable he urges the of full rations until Congress meets in Decamber. The secret of this distress lies in the fact that the last Democratic House was; too busy trying to tear the tariff to pieces to look after the welfare of these wards of the Nation. The mean policy of “saving” at the expense of a proper administration of government has ever characterized that party. But this, perhaps, is the most deplorable result of that party’s attempt to make political capital. This wrong should be promptly righted, and our obligations to these Indians faithfully carried out. The Chicago Times treats the Dubuque letter of Mr. Hendricks in a leading and elaborate editorial. It says: “It is such a letter as might have been written very deliberately, and with a very clear view on a perfectly distinct object, by a man who, having taken a seat in the Chicago, conventicle as a trusted friend of Mr. McDon- : aid, lent himself to a feeble and ridiculous intrigue to capture the nomination for himself,, and upon the miserable failure of that virtu- j ous undertaking accepted the ‘second; place,’ was still capable of nourishing a hope that the first place was; not even yet beyond his reach. * * *' The opinion has been more than hinted that i ‘the tail of the ticket’ wrote that letter for a ! purpose, knowing that it would be published. What is certain is that he wrote it knowing that the person who would receive it was hop- ’ tile to tlie candidacy of Cleveland, and, therefore, would have a motive to publish a letter which contained anything to encourage that hostility. In that knowledge he Wrote a letter which the enemy of Cleveland immediately gave to the public. Can anyone who reads the letter imagine that the motive of its publication was to benefit, or doubt that it was to damage, the candidacy of Cleveland? If he cannot, let the thought be pursued one step further, and what will reason say of the motive which inspired that reinarkable missive? “It has been the persisteut misfortune of Mr. Hendricks’s career of politician that his ambition to be President has transcended his fidelity to the principles of morality that ought to guide even professional politicians in their relations of mutual confidence and trust." It need scarcely be said that the Chicago Times, strong Democratic newspaper as it is, voices a sentiment on this question which is very prevalent here at home. A THOUSAND mechanics of Milwaukee have signed and issued an address to their fellowcraftsmen giving convincing reasons why no laboring man should support Cleveland and why they will vote for Blaine. The signers of this document, at least one-third of whom have hitherto voted the Democratic ticket, are not politicians, and neither seek nor e±pect office, but are honest, thinking men who work for their bread and who understand that the Democratio tendency to free trade means'

a reduction of whges for themselves. Movements such as this have far more significance than the defection of disappointed politicians like ex-Congressman Pound, of Wisconsin, over whose capture the Eastern independents rejoice as over the recovery of the one hundredth sheep. This rejoicing is regarded with great hilarity by Republicans where Mr. Pound is well known. They describe him as weighing but twelve ounces. THE deeps of contemptible arrogance were fully reached by George William Curtis when he issued a warning circular to government employes, telling them that “the national Republican committee is composed in part of federal office-holders, and hence to pay money to them or their agents would be a violation of the civil-service act, and expose to the severest penalties all who respond to its request for contributions." Asa matter of fact Mr. Curtis lied, and lied knowingly and willfully, in saying that any federal officer is a member of the national Republican committee. The matter was discussed in his presence and hearing at the Chicago convention, Senator Hoar explained the civil-service law in its bearings upon the point, and the committee was specially constituted to comply with the letter and spirit of the statute. This Mr. Curtis well knows. No man in the country has sunk so low, has shown himself so utterly without honor, has exhibited such shameless impertinence and mendacity, as George William Curtis. His name will be a hissing and reproach wherever common honesty is regarded. In the third session of the Forty-sixth Congress, in December, 1880, at a time when Charles Stewart Parnell, as the leader of the Irish 'party in the English Parliament, was making a strong and gallant fight for improvement in the terms of the land bill being pushed by the Gladstone government, Hon. W. H. Calkins presented a resolution of warm sympathy for Ireland in its struggle for justice at the hands of England. The resolution passed Congress, and the moral effect was to greatly strengthen the hearts and the hands of the Parnell contingent in the British House of Commons. On the 4th of January, 1881, a large and enthusiastic meeting of Irishmen was held in this city, addressed by Rev. Myron W. Reed and Rev. Father O’Donoghue. This meeting unanimously passed a resolution of thanks to Congress and to Major Calkins for the resolution introduced by him and passed at so opportune a time.

The speech of Hon. John M. Butler, delivered at tfonnersville, on Saturday, to an immense Republican meeting, the attendance upon* which is estimated as high as 4,000 people, is an able and exhaustive discussion of the issues involved in the present campaign. It omits no topic of importance, nor does it skip over any in an unsatisfactory manner. It is at once a comprehensive and thorough document, which will prove a storehouse of fact and argument. We commend it to careful reading. It is’a speech to be taken by the voter and conscientiously studied at his fireside, where, with leisure and judgment, he is making up his opinion upon the vital questions at issue between the parties. The Pall Mall Gazette, one of the British official journals, exponent of aristocratic cockneyism, thinks that the campaign caricatures of Blaine are excellent, and regards them stronger than any originated' against the other candidates. It probably did not occur to the Pall Mall Gazette that Mr. Cleveland’s life, for obvious reasons, could not be caricatured. It were manifestly improper to attempt it. The secret of the Gazette’s satisfaction probably lies in the fact that the same illustrated papers that caricature Blaiue are hostile to the Irish. Anybody down on the Irish and in favor of free trade is popular in the club-rooms of Piccadilly. A political campaign without its humorous phases would be utterly unbearable. Hence it is that the appearance of that apostle of purity, Mr. Beecher, and the spotless, unselfish Scliurz as indorsers of the high morality of Mr. Cleveland comes in as a relief to the dull monotony of argument; hence the enjoyment every one finds in a well-executed caricature, even though bis own party may be the victim. The people of Indianapolis enjoyed a side-splitter last Sat-, urday on the appearance of what purported to be an “address” of the local independent Republicans, signed by half a dozen recent graduates of our excellent high-school. They are amiable young men, reputably connected, and if they tarry at Jericho until their beards are grown they will make quite a presentable appearance in society. Os course everybody here understands that the whole thing was intended for a joke, and was probably engineered by some long-headed old politician of the Republican school who wished to show how extremely ridiculous the address of Beecher, Curtis & Cos. was. The old politician found the young men quite willing, and put into their “address” many things so supremely ridic)ous that it most beautifully shows up the pretensions of Beecher, Curtis & Cos. The only thing to be regretted is that they did not affix a legend saying “this is a joack,” or “this is intended as sourkafm,” for those who do not know the infinite wit of the paper may do the young men injustice by supposing that they dou’t know any better. But they do, young as they are. When an Albany girl sent her best young man a check for the amount which she supposed he had spent on ice-cream, candy and carriage hire white courting her, he bought a yacht, built an opera-house, purchased a controlling interest in a trmik-lme railway, founded a university, and still had enough ready cash left to win a plumber’s daughter to marry him. In Brooklyn, the City of Churches, it is regarded as a criminal offense foT citizens to engage in prayer outside of those sanctuaries. At all events, “a blonde young man, with tisgo blue

eyes,” who walked into the court-house, and kneeling before the door of the Court of Sessions, prayed for some minutes, was arrested and taken to jaiL And it is not denied that the people inside the court-room needed praying for, either. According to the school census, just completed, Chicago has a population of 613,323. The totals of nationalities make some remarkable showings. For instance, there are 209,631 ) Ger mans and Only 143,000 Americans; there are 114,005 Irish and only 20,142 English. But it ought to be said in explanation that In cases where the heads of the family were German or Irish the entire family of unmarried children were counted under that nationality, though all but the parents may have been born in America. In the zoological gardens at Dublin a lioness has been seized with an inexplicable desire to eat itself up, and succeeded in gnawing her tail off before she could be restrained. In America the thing is reversed. The tail of the Democratic ticket has almost succeeded in eating the head off. Col. Gillespie, United gfates engineer, declares that neither New YBrk nor Brooklyn is in danger from any hostile fleet lying off Coney Island. What does the Colonel think of Pogue's run? Could a torpedo boat be floated down to blow up the Union Depot? If not, why not? The oyster season having begun, Philadelphia dealers hasten to remark that never have the bivalves been so fine or so plenty; also, that they will be correspondingly cheap. The proof of this will lie not only in the eating, but in the paying of your MB’s. Mrs. Cleveland, who has been chosen class poet of the Chautauqua class of 1886, is not the wife of the notorious Buffalo citizen of that name. Her husband is a respectable gentleman and a Baptist minister. Mrs. Southwobth's latest novel is announced to be “Self-raised, or From the Depths.” Whether she uses baking powder or self-rising flour, there is no doubt that the book is very light reading. Patti does not refuse to sing in Paris from spite. French law awards her undivorced husband a share in her income. She doesn’t want the box-office receipts attached. Julian Hawthorne describes Emerson as being “like light—the presence of the general at the particular.” What this oouutry needs is more asylums for the weak-minded. —i Mrs. Langtry ingenuously admits that she has been imprudent. The American public will generously coincide with this view, and even improve on it if necessary. David Davis, ■ the noble old Spartan, stands out against the pernicious habit of smoking cigars. He prefers a pipe. The Trne Measure of Prosperity. German Tribune, Baturday. The Sentinel tries to make fun of Mr. Calkins because he said there should be such a division of labor as that this country could consume the entire product of the farm And field, and says Mr. Calkins has blundered. If the Sentinel were not entirely ignorant in matters of political economy, it would know that Mr.; Calkins has not blundered. The prosperity of a nation is not to he measured by what it exports, but rather by what it consumes. The power of; consumption is a pretty safe criterion of the prosperity of the people. The Sentinel will not be able to name a single country which to a great exthiit fexpbrts 1 the products of its fields and whioh prospers at the same time. Ireland and India feed England; Russia, Turkey, Hungary export the products of the land; so does Egypt, and yet there - lb 1 hardly a country to be found upon the globe, the people of which are poorer than those of the countries named. We should think that fifty millions of people, the boundries of which stretch almost from the arctic to the tropic zone are able to produce within their own country all that they need; were numerous enough to have perfectly developed diversified industries to effect exchanges among themselves, and may themselves consume the products of their labor. We do not want to become an Ireland, nor India, nor an Egypt.

POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. It is said that Schurz will make ten speeches in Ohio. It is predicted that Butler will receive as many Democratic votes in Rhode Island as Cleveland. The Albany Evening Journal says that there is no proof that Governor Cleveland ever requested an inquiring friend to “Tell the truth." One by one the roses fade. A writer in the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette recalls the text read by an old colored Baptist minister of Kentucky—“And he fleeth to the mountains of Hepsidam, where the lion roareth and the whang-doodle mourneth its first born," and thinks it specially applicable to the case of Grower Cleveland. The Montpelier Argus (Dem.) solemnly warns Senator Edmunds that he has “forfeited Lis reputation” because he has advocated, by his presidency of a Republican meeting, the election of Mr. Blaine. No doubt Mr. Edmunds lias disappointed the Democrats, but he has never made it his business to please them. New York Special: The New York Times has not followed the example of the Independent and announced with vehemence that it is against the Democratic candidate for sufficient reasons, but it has become painfully impartial in the news reports, and for some days the name of Cleveland has not appeared on its editorial page. The last week of the canvass in Maine promises to be about as lively as it is possible to make it, on both sides. The Republicans will hold 400 meetings, and their opponents have arranged fora great number. The Democratic “bar’l" has been also opened: but it looks as if the Cleveland managers would find that the people of Maine cannot be bought. According to the American Celt, at the recent temperance convention in Chicago eight of the Catholic Bishops present expressed, in conversation, their preference for Mr. BTaine. The Celt thinks it significant that the majority of the ablest and most patriotic of the Catholic priesthood are against Cleveland. It is largely due, doubtless, to a knowledge of his immoraliities. Washington special: I have a letter from an earnest Blaine admirer, who is something of a political observer, and who has been recreating in New York city for a fortnight. He says: “I do not see anything over here tp change my mind politically. Ido not think Cleveland can carry New York. The fight must be made in Ohio. Cleveland can be elected by carrying Ohio, and in no other way.” The Webster (La.) Tribune does not hesitate to talk right out in meeting about the political situation in that State. It Says: “It is useless longer to disguise the fnct that a great revolution is now going on in the Democratic ranks of this State. By tho presence of many leading men in our town from all parts of the State this week, and through conversation with them, we get an idea of what is transpiring in this State. We can say nothing good for our State party. The side that is in power keeps up a little music, hut

it is without soul and without effect. Whea people catch the fever of revolt it becomes contagious. Let ns be Democrats in principle, act from principle, vote bv principle, and we will yet And enough good Democrats in the htate who will work in the right way and save the party in this State.” The Rev. Dr. Henson in his sermon in the First Baptist Church, of Chicago, on Sunday, exr pressed regret at the exposure of defilement, debauchery, and scandal which characterized the present campaign. It was satisfactory, however, to know that no man morallv defiled can run for tlm presidency of the foremost Christian nation with any chance of duccess.' The way in which Christian men acted would make a mighty difference as to the policy to be adopted and the men to be elected. The Boston Herald makes a feeble attempt to explain Governor Cleveland's lapse, in speaking of the “laboring classes.” The Herald isobliged to say that “the separation of the voters into ‘classes,' in appeals from the press or the stump, is a thoroughly unrepublican and pernicious habit, which should be stopped by those who do it thoughtlessly, and pointedly rebuked in those who do it purposely for selfish and unworthy ends,” but the Herald thinks that Mr. Cleveland must have done it ‘ ‘unconsciously. ” New York special to the Cincinnati Enquirer; After all, it looks from this point of observation as if Ohio must be the Cassius of the national Democracy, or otherwise it will again siqji. I give my views more in sorrow than in anger, and in the sincere hope that they may prove profitable for reproof, for instruction, and for correction in righteousness, to the end that the Democracy may make its fight in Ohio, where it has the chances to win, and thus leaven up New York, which is now in a bad way. Gayly the Candidate. Gayly the candidate Seeketh the bar, Where thirsty citizens Throng from afar. Singing: “In search of thee Hither we come, Candidate, candidate, Set up the rum.” Hark! 'tis the candidate Calls them by name, Up to the parapet Swiftly they come. Ands till his song’s heard, All through the din—“Thizz times it’s zon me, Se'mm muppagin!” —Burlington Hawkeys. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The Indian name of Chicago means skunk or polecat. Bishop Brondel, of Montana, personally excommunicated John Magensie, a theatrical manager, foe bringing Robert G. Ingersoll into the Territory to lecture. Henrv George is spending the summer at Jamaica, L. 1., rewriting the manuscript, which was accidentally destroyed, of a book on the freedom of trade. A little girl residing on the outskirts of Saratoga has netted SSO from the sale of sweet pea blossoms, which she raised and peddled in nosegays about the hotels.

A perceptible mitigation of black in the matter of mourning dress, says the Hour, has been lately attempted. The Princess of Wales wears gray instead of black. According to the annual police report of England, just issued, 12,411 children under ten years of age were lost in that country last year. Only six werf recovered. Queen Victoria has never fully renovered from the accident to her knee. She is not able to walk as much,as she used to do, and the enforced lack of exercise has a bad effact upon her health. The monument placed on the spot where General Custer’s command was massacred, near the Big Horn river, jn Montana, is reported to be rapidly disintegrating under the influence of the weather. OUT of the twenty-two Boston ladies counted on the piazza of an Isle of Shoals hotel, eighteen wore eyeglasses or spectacles, and ten had scientific books Intnetr hands. Ae intellectuality of the place is consequently most pronounced. An illustrated edition of Mr. Edwin Arnold’s poem, “The Light of Asia, will probably be published iu November. The illustrations, numbering about thirtysix in ail, will be fine wood engravings after photographs of Buddhist sculptures found in ancient ruins in India. The religions press have Elizabeth Cady Stanton by the-ears, with the demand that she expose, for the benefit of Christian scholars, the evidence for her statement that it was at a Jewish polygamous wedding that Jesus performed his first miracle, and that polygamy was practiced by Christians for centuries. Arnold W. Pierce, an eccentric justice of the peace at New Troy, Mich., has the following printed on his business cards: “Marriage ceremonies performed at all hours of the day or night. Especial attention given to claims of soldiers who were frightened or discouraged during the war. Office hours from 1 o'clock in the morning to midnight, standard time.” The late (second) Duke of Wellington used to relate many capital stories about his illustrious father, and his friends often begged him to allow them to be taken down in shorthand for publication. “No,” he replied, “they shall die with me.” Neither would he consent to have his father’s correspondence examined, although he had a great mass of interesting letters written or received by the Iron Duke. Henry Villard left for Europe on the 20th of August, by no means the poor man that is generally supposed. He goes back to Bavaria with a clear half million dollars. That, to be sure, is not the eight millions with whioh he could turn the Seales a few months ago, but in the hands of a man of Villard’s brains and energy, may be expected to prove tbe seed of another fortune. His age is forty-eight, and no one who knows him supposes that he will long remain in the background. Wife—“ Did you meet Mrs. Smythe at the party last evening? She has been abroad a long time, youknow.” Husband —“Yes, I had quite a ohat with her, and, judging from her manner, I am very much afraid I offended her." Wile—" Offended her? And how, pray?" Husband —“By paying her a very pretty compliment.” Wife—“ Nonsense. A woman is never offended by a pretty compliment. What did yon say to her?" Husband—“l told her she was growing old gracefully." Wife—“ Well, you are a fooL” M. Andrikux, the French political leader, is described as a sort of human cat, a stealthy, vengeful Grimalkin, with his elaw against every man. He ascends the tribunal sideways, with the movement of a cat on a garden wall. He is a smooth, finished, epigrammatic speaker, with a lawyer’s brain and tongue, and rich in wily compassion more offensive that hatred to his foes. Moreover, he has the reputation of being one of tbe three ipost dangerous swordsmen in the Chamber, the others being Paul de Cassagnao and Clemenceau. The area of China proper measures 1,348,870square miles, being about half the size of Europe, seven times that of France, mid fifteen times that of Great Britian. Each of tbe eighteen provinces, therefore, is on an average almost as large as England. Though not so densely peopled as at one time supposed—mistaken estimates having been circulated by travelers who had not penetrated the country away from seaboard or river—lt is yet thickly populated The population of China probably exceeds 200,000,000 of “Celestials." Mr. W. MAttibu Williams once witnessed a display of drunkenness srqong 300 pigs, which had beenj given a barrel of spoiled elderberry wine all at onee with hheir swill- "Their behavior," he says, “was intenselytouman, exhibiting all the usual manifestation* of jolly good-fellowship, including that advanced stage where a group were rolling over each other, and grunting affectionately in tones that were very dis tinetly impressive of swearing good-fellowship al around. Their reeling and staggering, and the expression of their features, all indicated that aleoho had the same effect on pigs as on men; that under its influence both stood precisely on the same zoological level"