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We would call the attention of BLAINE k LOGAN CLUBS TO THE "PLUMED KNIGHT" UNIFORM, The newest and handsomest Uniform brought out this campaign. Orders by mail will receive prompt attention. MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1884 THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL |an be found at the following places: jONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. fAßlS—American Exchange In Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. fEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. JHICAGO —Palmer House. ONCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street WyUISYILLE—G. T. Dealing, northwest comer Third and Jefferson streets. ST. 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 Hlinols. . presidential electors. State at large—Milo S. Hascall, of Elkhart; John M. Sutler, of Marion. First District—James C. Veatch, of Spencer, Second—William B. Roberts, of Sullivan. Third—Tohn G. Berkshire, of Jennings. Fourth—William D. Ward, of Switzerland. Fifth—Marshall Hacker, -of Bartholomew; Sixth—Josikh E. Mellette, of Delaware. Seventh—Thad. S. Rollins, of Marion. Eighth—Elias S. Holliday, of Clay. Ninth—James M. Reynolds, of Tippecanoe. Tenth—Truman F. Palmer, of White. Eleventh—James F. Elliott, of Howard. ' Twelfth—Joseph D. Ferrell, of Lagrange. Thirteenth—la W. Royse, of Kosciusko. State Ticket. Governor —WILLIAM H. CALKINS, of La Porte ounty. Lieutenant-governor—EUGENEH. BUNDY, of ffenry county. Secretary op State—ROBERT MITCHELL, of Hibson county. Auditor op State—BßUCE CARR, of Orange wunty. Treasurer op State—ROGEß R. SHIKL, of Marion county. Attorney-general—WlLLlAM C. WILSON, of Kppecanoe county. Judge of the Supreme Court, Fifth District —EDWIN P. HAMMOND, of Jasper county. Reporter Supreme Court—WILLIAM M. HOGGATT, of Warrick county. Superintendent op. Public Instruction— BARNABAS C. HOBBS, of Parke county.

We re 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 Ihe country; a party which fell from power as l conspiracy against human rights, and now tttempts to sneak back to power as a con■piracy for plunder and spoils.—Gio. Wm. Curtis, Junes, 1884. “Is there any good reason why Hendricks Ihould be selected from forty-five millions of people to be the possible head of a Government which he did his best to destroy?”—Geo. IP..CUBTIS IN 1876. ‘1 killed Frint Matthews. I told him not to vote, and be voted and I killed him. It was not me that killed him—it was (he party If I had not been a Democrat I would not have killed him. It was not me, hut the Democratic party; and now if the party is a mind to throw me off, d—n such a party.—E. B. Wheeler of Hazlehurst, Miss, afterwards sleeted Marshal by the Democratic party. I have carefully observed the attitude and movements of the Democratic party for twenty years. Inmy judgmentit has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. So far as I can 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. Hr. Blaine has Vrhat may be called the American Instinct.—Geo. Wm. Curtis, in Harper's Weekly, Nov. 5.1881. The Dubuque letter of Mr. Hendricks conJwues to attract attention. It is not definitely known that Mr. Cleveland has sent him a note of thanks for the “defense” it contained. The Chicago Times, now arguing that the Democratic party put down the rebellion, is the paper that can’t see why the invested capital of this country cannot be doubled every ten years. Blackstone said law is the perfection of reason. The kind of ‘law” which the attorneys for the Sentinel pleaded in the Blaine libel case yesterday is the perfection of idiocy and outrage. , Ohio’s wheat crop for 1884 will be nearly 44,000,000 bushels—with one exception the largest ever harvested in that State % Its quality is rated at 101. Ohio’s Republican majority ought to be correspondingly Increased. The news of the death of Mr. W. S. Lingle, the veteran editor of the Lafayette Courier, will be received with a shock all over the State. To his intimates Mr. Lingle has expressed for two years the belief that his health was being gradually undermined; but to Visual appearance he had lost none of the

freshness, and vigor, and bonhomie which made him at once a prominent figure ih business and social circles, and a most delightful companion and friend. M. C. Garber, T. C. Phillips, W. S. Lingle! They were the three old and honored editors to whom the younger men in the profession looked with respect and veneration. All are now dead. The funeral of Mr. Lingle will probably take place in Lafayette on Thursday. We assume the responsibility of asking all the editors of the State, who possibly can, to be present at the funeral services. FROM FOLLY TO CRIME. The versatility of General Butler easily enables him to pass from one role to another, and with him from Pantaloon to Guy Fawkes is but a step. A week ago he was amusing in his witty discussion of a humorous epigram. A little later he appealed to the prejudices of the fanners of the country. At Detroit, on Monday night, from a harmless clown he had turned to an inciter of insurrection. Men like Justus Schwab, and Dick Trevellick, and Denis Kearney may say what they please without doing material harm. Their influence is limited, because their abilities do not lift them noticeably above their fellows. • But in General Butler, a man prominent in the history of the country in war, in legislation and in business, and successful in each, as “success” is counted in the popular mind, such incendiary utterances as he made in his speech at Detroit are fraught with danger to law and order. With all respect due the services of General Butler and his character as a citizen, we feel that no honesty patriotic man, preferring the good of the country to the gratification cf personal ambition, would have so far forgotten himself as to even covertly recommend a resort to armed violence to redress the wrongs of any class of citizens. We are proud to give credit to the intelligence and patriotism of the laboring people of the United States. But, after all, they are but men, moved* by the same appeals that have moved men -in all times of the world’s history. It is a dangerous, dishonorable thing to throw the fire-brand of passion and revenge among them. There are wrongs under which they have long suffered and which remain to be redressed. But the general trend of legislation is toward greater justice to the lower and weak, and it is absurd to deny that their condition is better now than ever before in the world’s history. They live in better houses, they wear better clothes, are better educated, and enjoy more eomforts than ever before. The great body of American workingmen know this too well to be deceived by the sophistry of any man seeking to gratify his own ambition. But there are yet many who, while they may know all this, are not content—desperate men, who are quick to fall victims to unreasoning passion, and need but the word to inaugurate a campaign of bloodshed and destruction. They gave an exhibition of their folly at Pittsburg in 1877, when millions of dollars’ worth of property was wantonly destroyed without accomplishing a particle of good to those engaged. Examination showed that the work of destruction was done, not so much by the striking railway employes, as by the disreputable thugs and bummers who infested that city, and who are to be found in every larger town and city in the country. The great body of American workingmen are conservative and sensible. Any man who imputes danger of insurrection and anarchy to them tenders them a gratuitous insult, as false as it is uncalled for. Impassioned and

unfounded appeals are wasted upon them. The men who are so quick to respond to riotous calls when opportunity offers, if laboring men, are not the friends of their more sensible fellows. When the ball is set in motion these are reinforced by the desperate elements, the men who never work and whose manner of living will not bear scrutiny... To these, over the shoulders of honest mechanics, General Butler offers excuse for rioting, and bloodshed, and anarchy. Neither of these can long prevail in this country. The people in general are too enlightened, too sensible to be fooled into believing that good can be accomplished in that direction. Security in life, limb and property is the fundamental object in establishing government. This the workingman knows as well as anybody knows and is more interested in thau anybody else. A man who lives in a cottage is just as anxious to have it and its inmates protected as is he who lives in a villa. The government that guarantees the same measure of protection to the family of the man who earns a dollar a day as to that of him who is a millionaire, is not wholly bad. That it may be made better is conceded. A lawful way is provided, and in that way the vote of one man is worth that of any other—no more, no less. A combination of working men has no more right to burn property than has a mob of employers. General Butlers intimation that laboring men would soon resort to violence is an uncalledfor insult to their common sense and to their patriotism. His incendiary speech at Detroit ought to, and probably will, set them to wondering what General Butler has done for the laboring man. What has he done in Congress to ameliorate his condition—to formulate laws tending to obviate the direful things he pretends to forseet The aim of the Republican party has been and is to better the condition of the, entire country and of all the people; to afford the fullest protection to those who labor, and to make it possible for them to support home and family without the necessity of com-

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peting with men less favorably situated in foreign countries. Neither the sophistry, demagogy nor incendiari-in of General Butler will avail. He may succeed in inciting the foolish and desperate to undertake rash things; but the great mass of American workingmen will not be so easily led astray. The men who live by labor outnumber capitalists by a • hundred to one. If so disposed they could entirely reverse the legislation and policy of government. This they, as well as anybody, thoroughly understand. The laws of this country are within their legitimate and proper control. There is a lawful manner prescribed whereby the laws may be altered or repealed, and in this business the baUot of the dollar-a-day man is as potent as that of the millionaire. The future of this Republic is assured, for the reason that the political rights of no citizen are abridged. Men like Butler, with more ambition than conscience, may temporarily succeed in stirring up discontent and in inciting riots among the desperate undercrust. But, on the whole, the goverment will go successfully on its way to a still better condition of affairs for all concerned.

The Sentinel, as represented by its attorneys, seems disposed to regard its charges against Mrs. Blaine as a joke, a thing to be laughed at. The public and the court will hardly coincide. When the Sentinel attacked the good name of an honored wife it did that which no honest man can quietly submit to. In all lands and in all times this has been rightfuUy regarded as one of the most infamous crimes that can be committed against a wife and mother. It is vastly more dastard than personal assault and outrage. It is folly for the Sentinel, as the representative of the Democratic party, to attempt to laugh this matter out of court, and it will discover before it is through with it that the nature of its offending is too grave to be lightly considered. Its evasive course and its defiance of decent sentiment in endeavoring to show that its words were not libelous must bring down upon it general contempt. The assassin of a woman’s good name cannot hope to burlesque himself free from responsibility. The Sentinel may make up its mind to meet this thing on some better line of defense than attempting to belittle the significance of its attack upon an honored wife and mother. Neither it nor the Democratic party can afford to turn this most serious business into a farce.

It was Sancho Panza who honestly exclaimed: “Blessings on him who invented sleep. ” To-day four million grateful Republicans oall down blessings on the accident that made ‘ ‘independent” Republicans. When the Democratic party aUowed them to dictate its nomination for the first place on the ticket, they took advantage of the opportunity anfj did greater service to the Republican party than they ever did in all their lives before. When, in deference to them opinions, Mr. Cleveland omitted to declare himself on the tariff and other public questions of only less importance, the work so devoutly to be wished was consummated. In deferring to the independents the Democratic party slapped its Irish adherents in the face. In nominating Cleveland to please Curtis, Schurz, et al., the laboring people were alienated* and by his cowardly dodge of the tariff question the protection element was estranged, and even freetraders became lukewarm. Republicans, therefore, feel justified in congratulating themselves over the accident that made independents, and put it into the mind of the Democratic party to let them manage its campaign. “Jayhawker” defends Governor Hendricks in the pardon of the Carlisles, who were parties to the cowardly murder of Lieutenant Hampton. He says: “As told in the Journal and to be repeated as a campaign document, the Governor, out of sympathy, pardoned a oouple of rebels who had killed a Union soldier. If the facts sua-‘ tained the story, it would reflect upon the Governor; unfortunately, the facta are the other way." But that is precisely the excuse made for the pardon by Governor Hendricks in his speech last Thursday night We prefer to believe Mr. Hendricks on this matter than “Jayhawker.” Governor Hendricks says he pardoned them to please rebels, to help on “the era ol good feeling."

Os all the miserable demagogues, commend us to a Democratic Governor, or official of any kind, when confronted with th& imperative duty to exert his power in behalf of law and order against a mob. The conduct of Governor Hoadly is disgraceful iu the present emergency, as it was in the case*of the Cincinnati riots, when he dilly-dallied with the militia, keeping them .cooped up in the depot while murder, and arson, and pillage proceeded unchecked. The New York Sun continues to impale Mr. Hendricks upon its impartial and independent pen. It shows up his ill-concealed contempt for Grover Cleveland, and exposes the evident hope he entertains either of being pushed to the head of the ticket this year or gaining that honor in 1888 through the defeat of Cleveland, now. No one can fail to see that this is the bent of Mr. Hendricks’s mind. He has not been able to dissemble his ambition. Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, the “father” of the United States Senate, whose term of service antedated the war, died suddenly yesterday at his home in Providence. Mr. Anthony has been in bad health for some time, but his death was not presently anticipated, as he seemed to have ! gained

strength latterly. An honorable man in all relations, he will be mourned with deep sincerity by his friends. Rhode Island has lost a public servant whose work was well and faithfully done, and the country a senator who filled the high position with graceful distinction. It is a remarkable fact that, while the Patent Office is not only self-supporting but annually returns a balance to the Treasury, it is so far behind the business demands made upon it that it would take four or five months to catch up, were no new business to come to it. Congress should immediately remedy this matter by granting a larger clerical force to that branch of the public service. The Metropolitans, of New York city, the leading club in the American Association, will go out of existence at the end of the present season. The wind is going out of the base ball boom, and next year the sport will take its legitimate sphere, be legitimately conducted, and possibly regain the place in popular esteem it held last year. Mr. Hendricks, it is understood, is in favor of at least a part of the now well-known baking powder test being applied to the National Democratic ticket—turn it upside down. Whether he wants it put on a hot stove or not is questionable; but, as it is, the head is being well roasted on the public gridiron. Vermont fires the first gun, and, according to the report, it is charged with a Republican majority of about 20,000. That will do for a State which the independent assistant Democrats have almost had the impudence to claim as doubtful. IlePauw University, The forty-fifth-year book of DePauw University is a formidable volume, though bound in pamphlet style, containing, as it does, 308 pages. The title-page of the cover is handsomely designed, and presents a fine portrait of Mr. W. C. DePauw, the founder of the new university bearing his name. The body of the book contains an historical sketch of the institution from its inception; an outline of the organization; the triennial reeord of. the alumni; the catalogue of Btudents, and general miscellany. To anyone perusing the history of the university, and realizing the desperate financial straits to which it had come, through no fault of its founders and friends, it will appear that the friendship of Mr. DePauw was providential at a time when the very life of the institution was jeopardized, and that his secured munificence against his wish that the name Asbury should be forfeited was an act that

reflects honor upon him. Risen from the ashes of Asbury, the new and strengthened DePauw is a power in the educational world, an honor alike upon the man whose aid has redeemed it and upon all the State. Renewed vigor is apparent in all its veins. Every department has been strengthened and, broadened, the accommodations have been enlarged, the finances placed on a solid foundation, and the faculty enlarged. The real estate has been increased from two parks of thirteen acres in extent to five of 131 acres, on which are now in process of erection four new buildings, with others to follow next year. The working faculty has been increased from fifteen to thirty-six, with the venerable Bishop Bowman as chancellor. The endowment has been increased from $137,000 to $257,000, and Mr. DePauw has brought an additional fund of $240,000 to aid in erecting buildings, endowing professorships, so that the condition of the university is bettered four or fivefold, and the result is that Indiana is in possession of a university thoroughly equipped and the equal of apy in the country as affording every advantage to seeure a liberal education. The catalogue shows that 817 students have been graduated since the first class went out in 1840. During the last past college year 532 students have, been in attendance, and a class of thirty-one was graduated at the last commencement The attendance will doubtless be greatly increased next year, owing to the greatly superior advantages and accommodations provided. In the catalogue of alumni, a brief biography of each being given, appear the names of two Governors of States, three United States senators, one Justice of the United States Supreme Court, one member of the President’s Cabinet, several members of the lower house of Congress, while eighty-two appear as professors in colleges and universities, of whom no less than twenty-five have become president of the colleges and universities with which they were connected, a showing in itself sufficiently laudatory of the character of the work turned out The year-book contains all that is necessary to acquaint one’s self with the requirements of the university, while its historical part is invaluable to all who are interested in the university, past present and future. A sanitary officer in a little town in Northern Italy adopted heroic measures to avert the cholera. The villagers were dirty and would not wash, and the officer believing that the cleaning of the streets would avail nothing if the inhabitants continued filthy, had the most offensive among them seized by soldiers, stripped and thoroughly bathed in a convenient stream. While the scrubbing' was in progress, the clothes were gathered together and burned. When they came out of the water, the nude in nature so scandalized their wealthier residents that they hastily procured them new clothing, and the sanitary officer was satisfied. This bit of zeal on the part of the government official would doubtless have met with the approval of Thoreau, who tells, with great disgust, in his “Summer" ndte-book about one of his neighbors, a Concord farmer, who had not bathed for sixteen years. Thk returns are beginning to come in. A Philadelphia girl, “beautiful and accomplished” of course, has just run Uway from her palatial home to marry a poor and humble life guardsman, who rescued her from drowning at Atlantic City a few weeks ago. Knowing the inevitable results which come from such rescues wealthy fathers should, if possible, seoure impecunious foreign noblemen or others eligible as sens-in-law before sending their daughters to the dangerous precincts. Pkopli who attend the performances at the New York Theater, which has introduced the fashion of having wpmen ushers, profess to be pleased with the innovation, because they are conducted down the'aisles in a dignified, stately fashion Instead of being rushed at a break neck

pace. They say it makes them feel as if they were in church, though it may be presumed that the devotional feeling passes off when the first high kicker appears. The ushers are attired in a nurse-maid's uniform, consisting of black alpaca gown, long, white aprons and white Normandy caps. The nurse maid’s idea was perhaps suggested to the managers by the immature appearance of the nice young men who, do mostly frequent theaters, and the possibility of the ushers being in demand to administer soothing syrup A New York “widow lady,” according to the World, is remarkable in that she makes exquisite drawings by impulse. Passing over the fact that she would be a more valuable citizen if she made excellent biscuits from design, it may be said in support of her claims that she draws unheard-of beautiful designs, resembling, and yet not quite like anything in heaven or on earth, and “none of which are alike,” according to the World. She says she thinks she is under the guidance of an old Greek artist. If the old Greek artist can trot out good campaign caricatures, the lady’s future is assured. If not, she will have to go. Mr Bowser, of Pittsburg, is a philosopher, and shows his principles under adverse circumstances, which are their truest test Mr. Bowser, having been sentenced to jail for an offense against the laws of the land, remarked calmly to the sheriff: “I don't mind a thing like that It won’t amount to anything. No member of our family ever lived over the age of fifty-nine years. lam now fifty-eight; and I wont have long to stay.” If Mr. Bowser should prove to be a family exception and live till sixty, he will probably feel himself ill-served by fate. A private letter from Evansville says: “The eleventh victim of the Belmont disaster was found this evening. There are at least two more in the wreck, possibly more. It was a remarkable casualty. The boat was nearly new, very strong, Was low in the water, had heavy machinery and light upper works; yet, so great was the force of the wind that she turned completely over in water not deep enough to entirely cover her hull—say seventeen feet The action of Governor Porter in declining to speak here Saturday night and his sympathetic dispatch are very favorably commented on." Women are tender-hearted creatures. Rev. H. C. Moore, a young preacher of Nashville, stole $6,200 from an elderly widow who had befriended him. He was captured and the money r ecovered, but the widow subsequently gave him S2OO, and 'helped him to escape to other pastures. Such is the ingratitude of man that he probably felt ill-treated because she did not give him the $6,000 and keep the remainder for herself. Mr& Parnell says “women in America are of less account than the negro." Mrs. Parnell probably speaks in a political sense; but according to her view a white man in America is only of equal account with the negro because he can vote. The colored race should extend thanks to their good Irish friend. Lulu Hurst, the only genuine Georgia electric girl, should get a patent on herself, or adopt a trade mark or something. Another girl has assumed her name, and is going about the country performing her tricks and taking in what should be the only Lulu's shekels with considerable success.

The “American colony” in Paris are raising a fund of 100,000 fftmcs ($20,000) to provide a reduced copy of Bartholdi’s “Liberty," as a gift to the city of Paris. A good idea; but why not present the original? It will not be needed here for a generation or two. A market report from the Eastern peach center says peaches are gradually becoming higher priced. But with, the present dizzy financial altitude of the fruit, how can this be? Current report has it that the saloon freelunch business is falling into desuetude. The Democratic party is in hard lines this year for a fact Wilkie Collins must be a Republican. He has written a novel entitled “I Say No.” A Democrat never refuses anything. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please tell me where the Christian Intelligencer is published. M. m. s. Indianapolis, Sept 2. No. 6 New Church street. New York city. POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. Senator Plumb, of Kansas, who has returned from Maine, predicts that Governor Robie will be re-elected by about 12.000 majority. Congressman Reed, he thinks, will be able to pqll through. Troy Times: General Butler says the badge of the Anti-monopolist in this campaign will be a large American flag, made out of the best of bunting. The General enjoys a monopoly of the manufacture of bunting in this country. Evansville (Ind.) Argus: Will Mr. Blaine deny that once, when he was four years old, he slapped a little girl who was playing with him? No, he dare not Is this the kind of man we want for the office which is the highest gift of the Nation? Nix. Ex-Senator Pendleton and ex-Senator Henry G. Davis declared recently at Deer Park, Md., that they would not take any part in the present campaign. They are disgusted with the Democratic nomination. Ex-Senator McDonald, of Indiana, is not disposed to aid very materially either, nor is Mr. Thurman. The proverb “Yon can’t almost always tell what you sometimes least expect the most,” was recently verified at Madera, Cal. The Democrats formed a campaign olub, but when they came to name it,, the proposition to call it after Cleveland and Hendricks was voted down, and “Blaine and Logan” was substituted by a vote of 23 to 17. New York Tribune: Every time that Mr. Cleveland ran for office, as a Democrat merely, he fell below the party vote; first, when he wanted to be district-attorney and was defeated; and again when he was elected sheriff by about 200 votes. Even then he fell 1,191 votes behind the majority given to the other party candidates.! Is it any wonder that the Democratic managers are enraged at Mr. Hendricks’s stupid letter writing? New York Tribune: When Governor Cleveland emerged from the Adirondacks on Thursday, at Plattsburg, and while the guest of Smith M. Weed, he was given a serenade. In the speech he made on that occasion he said: “I find my ideas of the resources of the State much enlarged by having seen your iron-bearing mountains. and by baring enjoyed your pleasant climate. ” While the possibility that his ideas could be enlarged is not new to any one who has read his letter of acceptance, the discovery that it can be done by a “pioar.ant climate” is one that should be reported “ the British Association at Montreal A move'. v-h.'i.'i started iii Pittsburg to press Job,. general solicitor of the Pennsylvania Company, for the seat in the United SlS.ite now occupied by Senator Cameron, v AA " .a 'will be a candidate in case he receives tho unanimous support of the’Allegheny county members of the Legislature. Mr. Hampton is an intimate "personal; friend of Mr. Blajue. He was in college four years With him, and the friendship formed there has always been maintained. Mr. Hampton be-

conspicuous by breaking tha unit rule at the Cincinnati convention, in 1876, and voted for Blame when the vote of Pennsylvania was declared for Hartranft. It is understood that Mr. Cameron, on account of ill-health, does not dasire a re-election. Boston Pilot: We can assure Mr. Blaine, from our daily intercourse with the readers of the Pilot, that the man who has done him the deepest service in this campaign is General Bragg, of W isconsin, who said, at the Chicago convention: “Tho Irish may go, and be damned.” They are not going to he damned; and we hope they are not going to “go;” but they are likely to effectually damn Mr. Bragg's political possibilities. Mr. Bragg has an easy name to remember. Hon. H. G. Davis, president of the West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Railway Company, writes to the New York World, correcting misrepresentations in that paper concerning Mr. Blaine s connection with that company. Mr. Davis says: “Mr. Blaine has an interest in our company, and is one of its directors, but he has never had a word to say about the employment ‘or wages of men, or about managing the details of the company’s affairs. A large majority of the directors and officers controlling the company, including myself, are Democrats, and support Governor Cleveland. Among our directors are the Hon. William H. Barnum and the Hon. A. P. Gorham, the two gentlemen now at the head of the Democratic campaign. ” ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Bishop Georoe T. Pierce, senior bishop of tha Southern Methodist Church, is reported to be dying at his home near Sparta, Ga. Mlle. Theo,. just from Paris, declares that “chie,” “pschutt’’ and “tott" have all gone out of'fashion and “tres ha! ha!" is now the correct thing to say. Lord Byron sold his manor of Rochdale in Lancashire at a ludicrously low sum,in 1824, in order to get money for the Greek cause. It is now of immense value. „ It is now considered certain that Ferdinand Ward, the brilliant young financier who conjured with Grant s name, has several millions nicely stowed away for some rainy day. Colonel Dan Rice, the veteran circus clown, was recently presented with a SI,OOO ring by a prominent rabbi, of Baltimore, as an evidence of appreciation of Jewish people of his numerous donations. A correspondent says the king of Cambodia has sent to the Buddhist Pali College at Ceylon a brash made of his own hair, which is to be used only for sweeping the room in which the image of Buddha is kept. About six hundred German newspapers are published in the United States, of which seven are in the New England States, 208 in the Middle States, eightyfive in the Southern States, and 350 in the Western States. A Pabsian marchioness has taken service in a Marseilles hospital as a nurse for the cholera victims. She is pretty and young, dresses in plain calico, and has been very useful. She is fulfilling a vow made during the illness of one of her children. The first brewers of tea were often sorely perplexed with its preparation. It is related of a party to whom was sent as a present a pound of tea, that they boiled the whole at once in a kettle, and sat down to eat the leaves with butter and salt, and wondered how any* person could like such a diet. Legislators are pretty much the same the world over. During the recent session of the French Assembly the members drank 2,000 quarts of beer, 500 of brandy, and 3,000 quarts of “miscellaneous” drinks. It is a suggestive fact that the debates of the Assembly have recently been especially violent and acrimonious. Empress Eugene's long black oloak and black cane, on which she leans constantly, attract the deepest sympathy of the gay world at Carlsbad. She lives at the Chateau of Westmunster, near the Schlossbrunnen, and is accompanied by the wife of General Bonrbaki and M. Petrie, formerly prefect of the police under the empire. Japanese, magic mirrors are in the market. These are made of fine burnished metal, and when lightly breathed upon disclose geometrical patterns, landscapes, or faces. Their manufacture is a secret, but is believed to consist in welding the pattern in one kind of steel or iron upon a plate of a different kind. One which reproduced faces, sold at Philadelphia for sllo.*

Wood pavement is to be given up in London, and the old Macadam system restored. The former is said to have not only failed to realize the expected advantages, but has led, according to Prof. Tyndall’s report, to serious affections of the eyes and lungs; that is, by continual watering, the wood became saturated with street filth, and then, under the influence of the hot sun, gave forth a pernicious species of dust. The people of Genoa have already begun to discuss the proper method of celebrating the fourth centennial of the discovery of America. Some are in favor of sending over twelve Genoese sea captains, as typical both of Columbus and Garibaldi, to debark on the same spot that Columbus first trod. Others favor the shipping over for temporary exhibition in the new world, the fine statue of the great navigator which stands on the piazza di Colombo. Paris tradesmen begin to utilize science for advertising purposes. A late notice reads: “Tea and coffee contain tannic acid, the essential part of oak and hemlock; milk contains albumen and fibrin in the same manner as flesh and skin. Add milk to coffee and a turbidity ensues, of which each particle is a tannate of fibrin, U.an atom of leather. In a lifetime a man thus consumes a hundred pairs of loots, but no man could thus oonsume the elegant and footwear only to be found at 5 Rue de Alexandre Dumas, fils, spends very little time in writing down his dramas. After thinking deeply over his subject, studying it, elaborating the scenes and characters in his own mind, he sits down and writes the play straight off, frequently finishing it in two sittings, and in certain oases—in that of “Heloiso Palanquet,” for instance—he has been known to sit down and not stir till he had finished the play, a tour de force which brought on a severe attack of that special malady known as “the writer’s cramp.” A Fiji correspondent writes to an English paper; “Often, while sailing among the South Sea islands, I have passed flocks of birds, principally terns and whale birds, resting in vast numbers on the sea. It is remarkable that, however rough the sea may be at the time, yet where the birds rest there is not a ripple to disturb them. This must be caused by oil, but whether it is purposely deposited by the bird* with the intention of quieting the water, or whether they do so from natural causes is a question the answer to which I think would interest many of your readers.” A remedy which the writer has tested many times without a failure is published in the Popular Science Monthly, which says that it can always be nsed by someone else upon a person who has “the hiccoughs,” and generally by the sufferer himself. You say to your friend something like this: “See how close together you can hold the tips of your forefingers without their touching. Now keep your elbows out free from yqur sides. You can get your fingers closer than that. They are touching now. There—now hold them so; i Steady!" By this time yon can generally ask, “Now, why don't yon hiocoughf" The involuntary tendency to breath slowly and steadily when the attention is fixed on performing a delicate manipulation counteracts the convulsive action qf the diaphragm. The following is given as the real reason why Mrs. Prances Hodgson Burnett was dropped from the list of contributors to the Century Magazine; “It all grew out of the ending of ‘Through One Administration.’ The finale did not suit Mr. Watson Gilder, the editor of the magazine, who is very much afraid of offending the goody-goody folks, and therefore averse to anything appearing in the Century to which the objection of immortality might be raised by very nice people, i heard It said that Mrs. Burnett flatly refused to change It,-but that Gilder remained here so long and insisted so strenuously that she at last altered ihe finale of the stcyy, but disclaimed all responsibility for it to her friends. I fancy she has rewritten the dsneeument which she regards as the right one, and some day, perhaps, she will- bring ont an edition of the book, winding it up in her own fashion."