Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1884 — Page 4

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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1884. THE INI>IANAPOLIS JOIitNAL Tan be foynd at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 rftrand. PARTS—American Exchange in Taris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotel*. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos., 151 Vine StreetLOUrSVITjLE—C. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 6T. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot and Southern Hotel.

FOUR CARDINAL REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES First—Peace with the whole world. Second—Commercial extension in every practicable direction. Third—Encouragement of every form of American industry. .Fourth—Protection to every citizen, native or naturalized, at home or abroad. —James G. Blaise, at Rochester N. V., Sept. 25, 1384. __ Mr. Tildes says that in 1743 they had just eueh a fall as this. Os the Oth day of May last 152 Democratic congressmen voted in favor of a reduction of 20 per cent, in wages. The frost is now out of the ground, and the back bone of the winter is broken. Jever see such weather in October? Has Blaine bought the Sun? —New York truth. Has Cleveland seen his son? If the government did not need it * * for its expenses, I would be opposed to any tariff. —Joseph D. McDonald. Sept. 25, 1884. The last Democratic House of Congress, in July last, refused to pension loyal veterans of the Mexican war until ex-rebels were provided for. ONE week from to-morrow Ohio is going Republican, and one of the principal reasons is because the Republican party stands in favor of protecting American industries. Loyal Mexican war veterans would now be pensioned but for the action of the Democratic House, that refused to take action until ex-rebel soldiers were admited to the same assistance. The London Times says “the only time England could utilize the Celts is when they emigrated to the United States and voted for free trade.” How do the Irish-Americans like that from the chief organ of their oppressors? Widows of soldiers now receiving $8 a month would bo receiving sl2 a month but for the fact that Democratic congressmen insisted on first extending Mexican war pensions U> men who afterwards fought in the confederate army. Grover Ci.evei.and solemnly pledged him elf to make Maria Ilalpin his wife. Accomplishing her dishonor, he disowned her, and cast her child and his into an orphan asylum. And this is what R< v. James Freeman Clarke calls ‘'bringing forth fruits meet for repentance.” Governor Cleveland has at last found •no ministerial champion besides Beecher. The Rev. James Freeman Clarke is convinced that he is a good man, who has suffered deeply for his youthful indiscretions—committed at tlie age of forty—and should, therefore, be elected to the presidency. After the election Mr. Clarke will perhaps comfort himself with tin reflection that whom the Lord loveth He fchasteneth —by defeat at the polls. Mr. Hendricks is filling the air with (aments over the waste of the public domain in grants to railway corporations. Elsewhere jwe publish a leaf from the books of the Gen eral Land-office while Thomas A. Hendricks was Commissioner, which, for reckless and j profligate disregard of the public interest, and a servile subserviency to the interest of rail ray companies, is without a parallel in the tri-dory of the government, not even by Carl Schurz when he violated law and reversed Uie workings of the Interior Department to

help tbo Northern Pacific Railway Company, whoso president afterward bought the New York Evening Post, and made Schurz editor at a large salary. CONGRESS AND OOR INDUSTRIES, It is of vast importance to the manufacturing interests of Indiana that men representing those interests he returned to Congress. The industries of this State have sprung up almost wholly under the encouragement offered by protection; shops and mills have been built, plants put in, thousands of men employed, and wages fixed in accordance with the advantages offered by the tariff levied on imports. The great glass works at New Albany, the wagon and plow works at Mishawaka and South Bend, the nail works at Greoncastle and .Terre Haute, the car works at Indianapolis and Lafayette have sprung up and attained their present dimensions almost wholly under protection. The wages paid in each and all of them are from 30 to 100 per cent higher than those paid workmen in corresponding trades in England and in continental Europe. If they are reasonably busy and prosperous today, it is only because the wall of protection stands between them and the productions of pauper-paid labor in otaer lauds. The thousands of men who are employed in the mechanical industries of this State arc just that many good patrons of Indiana farmers. They eat bread made from wheat grown largely in Indiana. They pay taxes in Indiana, as do the mill owners .on all their possessions, and every dollar gained to employer and employe is a dollar added to the material wealth of the State. The interests of the Indiana farmer and Indiana mechanic are thoroughly interwoven. It is impossible to separate them. Shut up or cripple the manufactories of this State, and there is not a farmer from one end of it to the other but would immediately feel the effect. In 1880 there were 11,198 manufacturing establishments in Indiana, giving emyloyment to nearly 70,000 workmen. Os capital invested there was $65,740,962, the total amount of wages paid during the year being nearly $22,000,000, and the products of the mills were valued at $148,006,411. From these data it is safe to say that there is now invested in manufactures in this State not less than $75,000,000, giving employment to 85,000 people. It will be conceded that the maintenance of these enterprises is of vast importance to the State, adding, as they do, millions annually to the wealth of Indiana. In the district embracing the capital of the State the issue is squarely drawn in the congressional campaign. Mr. Peelle stands unqualifiedly pledged to do all in his power to serve the 12,000 workingmen employed here in manufacture, and to consistently and persistently cast his vote in opposition to all efforts to place the workingmen of the Indianapolis district on a level with those in countries from which a half million flee annually to find homos in America. Mr. Bynum, on the contrary, is known to he hostile to the idea of protection, and has placed his opposition on record by writing a pamphlet for free trade. Despite the fact that imports to the value of $625,000,000 were received in this country' last year, Mr. Bynum is of opinion that the facilities for buying of other than American manufacture should he extended. Had he been in Congress last May he would undoubtedly have voted for the Morrison bill, in company' with the 152 Democrats who put themselves on record as in favor of the British freetrade idea. If the voters of this district want to put a clog on the $11,000,000 invested in manufactures in the counties of Marion, Shelby and Hancock, with every probability of sending adrift the 12,000 workingmen employed in them, thoy can experiment with it by electing Mr. Bynum. If, on the contrary, they don’t -care to endauger the home market by ruthlessly and needlessly’ imperiling its stability and profitableness, they must make up their minds not only to vote for Mr. Peelle, but to see that he is elected. Mr. Bynum is thoroughly in sympathy with the Democratic party in its British free-trade belief, and would, undoubtedly, do All in his power to compel the workingmen of this country to come to the low level of English operatives, not one in a hundred of whom own property, and but few escape the misery of hunger and distress while laboring night and day. It was only last May that 152 Democrats put themselves on record as believing that American mechanics are receiving too big pay; that it must be reduced, and in order to compel such reduction the Morrison bill was drawn for the purpose of reducing the tariff by twenty per cent., a measure confessedly looking toward the speedy approach of absolute free trade. Mr. Peelle, true to his pledges and to flic spirit of the Republican party, put himself on record as opposing that measure in all its stages. He will be as firm in the defense of American interests when he returns to the seat which was stolen from him at the command of the boss Democrat of this district. All people of this district interested in the welfare of the mechanical industries that have made such a fine home market should see to it that the majority given Mr. Peelle in the November election is large enough to forbid a repetition of the rascality by which they were defrauded of a member representing their interests.

I !•' Cleveland were an honest, honorable man. and truly repentant, he would make the mother of his boy his wife. Before she met Cleveland the breath of scandal had never touched her name, and since he abandoned her her life has been above reproach. Grover Cleveland was the author of all her troubles,

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her seducer, and the father of her child. It would he a pitiful recompense for her to become the wife of a confessed libertine, but it would iu a measure take the stigma of shame from her and the innocent boy now imprisoned in an orphan asylum. WHY THEY VOTE FOR BLAINE. The Boston Traveller sent dispatches to more than two hundred prominent men in the country asking them for an expression upon the pending political canvass. Nearly all replied. From the published list we select a few that will be of interest to our readers and the public generally. The venerable Theodore Dwight Woolsey, ex president of Yale College, writes: “I have been, as time lias gone on, more and more inclined to accept of him [Blaine] as the candidate whom I can support. And as for the parties, I have no manner of question that the Republicans are far more deserving of the confidence of the country than their opponents. T. I). Woolsey.” John Greenleaf Whittier, the good Quaker poet, and lover of his race, writes: “For myself I shall esteem it a privilege as well as duty to cast my vote for the Republican candidates. I regret the action of the independents. They might simply withhold their votes, or cast them for some better representative of their views and principles than the Democratic candidate. “John G. Whittier.” Rev. Edward Everett Hale, the eminent clergyman and author, writes: “The country is to be governed by two oligarchies, the solid South and the combination which controls the city of New York. “I believe in the government of the people, for the people, by the people, and I therefore oppose the resuscitation of the Democratic party, whose real leaders in the last fifty years have never believed in any such thing. “Edward E. Hade." Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, the distinguished publicist of Massachusetts, writes: “I support the candidates of the Republican party, Mr. Blaine and General Logan, because j believe that Republican success is for the best interests of the country “H. C. Lodge.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes: ‘‘l am interested in the success of the Republican party, and as its success depends in a measure on the election of James G. Blaine, I sincerely hope he maybe victorious in November. ' Elizabeth Cady Stanton.” Hon. George S. Boutwell, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, writes: “Blaine is a statesman, and Cleveland is not. “Logan is a patriot, and Hc-ndricks is not. “The Republican ticket represents the statesmanship and patriotism of the country. The Democratic ticket represents neither statesmanship nor patriotism. ” Hon. Frederick Douglass, the most distinguished man of his race in the world, writes: “Because they represent the party of loyalty, liberty, justice, progress, equal rights, education, protection to American industry, equal suffrage, and a fair count, and composed of the best elements of American society; because I have reason to believe that the election of Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks would he the beginning of a dangerous reaction against the principles of liberty and equal rights, I give my voice and vote for them. Frederick Douglass.” Rev. E. B. Webb, D. D., of Boston, a Congregational clergyman, well known and honored for Iris ability and character, writes: “I shall vote for the Republican ticket, and heartily for Mr. Blaine, whom I have known in all the relations of life, personal, social, business and political, for more than twentyfive years.” After reading these tributes and reasons from men of the high character, the culture, the ability, the probity, the influence of those whose names are above given, it is sickeuing to turn to the cant of such a political turncoat and charlatan as Carl Schurz, and to the blah of sncli a man as George William Curtis, who proves himself a liar by his own words, and a shameless slanderer of a man whom he has frequently praised; and how deep tho disgust on turning from the words of men like ex-President Woolsey, Cabot Lodge and Edward Everett Hale to the triturated “wash” of the independent goslings in this city and State; from the words of a venerable and humble Friend Quaker like John Greenleaf Whittier to the cheap and malicious denunciations of the Pinkhams and Tatums, and their like, who are stumping the State in the interests of the Democratic party and free whisky.

There were sixteen gentlemen in the State of Maine who subscribed for the stock of tho Fort Smith & Arkansas railway, at the instance of Mr. Blaine. Os these but seven are now alive. The Chicago News sent a representative to interview all of them with reference to their business relations with Mr. Blaine. But one of the seven had a word to say of criticism of Mr. Blaine in any respect, while the most of them spoke in terms of highest praise of tho scrupulous integrity manifested by Mr. Blaine throughout the entire transaction. Among the subscribers was Governor Anson P. Morrill, now eighty years old, a man respected, venerated, loved by the people of Maine, and who is known the country over as a man of the highest character and honor. It had been reported that Mr. Morrill forced Mr. Blaine to a settlement when the investment in the stock turned out to be a had one. The News reporter, giving his conversation with ex-Governor Mon-ill, says: “He spoke of his relations with Mr. Biaine in Little Rock without reserve. ‘I went into the enterprise,' said he, ‘solely upon the strength of my belief in Mr. Blaine’s business shrewdness and his knowledge of the men in control of the road. These he professed to know and trust as thoroughly efficient and honorable men. I knew Mr. BJaiue to be a keen, wide-awake man, and accepted his representations of tiie bright prospect of the en terprise. When it turned out badly I calculated I should lose ail. When one day I met Mr. Blaine and spoke about the unfortunate result of our investment, and spoke of throwing away my stock and bonds, he told me not to do so. Ho said if I would accept what I had paid for them he would take them off ray hands. I jumped at the offer. He drew his check for something over SO,OOO, and gave me his note for the balance, and I surrendered all my papers. Ido not believe I have a bit of a memorandum of tho transaction left. I took

no account of tho matter, and have never mentioned it to Mr. Blaine from that day to this. His action was entirely voluntary on liis part. All reports of my having wrung a settlement out of him by threats are false. It was a perfectly amicable meeting, and he did more for mo than I ever expected. ’ ” This is the tribute of Anson P. Morrill to a man,whom,so far as Indiana is concerned, Mr. John T. Dye and a few lisping children, whose mothers should spank them and put them to bed, are trying to blacken and befoul over the very transaction which Mr. Morrill refers to. PROSTITUTED PREACHERS. Tho Rev. James Freeman Clarke, the Unitarian clergyman of Boston, has had an inter view with Grover Cleveland. He says, in a speech delivered in Boston: “I recently visited Governor Cleveland in Albany, and spent an hour with him alone in his private room. He talked with simplicity and freedom, with a manner which carried conviction of its truthfulness. He did not pretend that he had not done wrong. He did not wish me to think of him as better than ho was. But he thought he had a right to say that since he had been in public office, and for the last eight or ten years, no man could truthfully accuse him of having done anything to disgrace himself or to offend his friends. From what he said I was satisfied that no one had suffered more than himself from his past errors, and I was convinced that he had left them behind. But I gathered this not from any formal confession or profession, but from the depth of conviction with which he spoke. * * * Ho has shown his repentance in the true way, by doing works meet for repentance.”

Such words should have blistered the tongue of any man uttering them, much more of a professed Christian minister. What evidence is there that Grover Cleveland lias repented, or does now repent? The fact that Mr. Clarke says he has “repented” and suffered for his “past sins” may be accepted as proof positive that Mr. Cleveland committed a wrong demanding atonement. What atonement lias he made? On unimpeachable testimony he betrayed a humble, respected woman under promise of marriage. He then drove her to a condition of mind in which she was taken to an insane asylum by men in his employ, while their boy was forcibly wrested from his mother’s arms and taken to an orphan asylum, where he still remains, uncared for by his father, disowned and dishonored for life. The mother was paid SSOO by the “repentant” man, and that is the end of his reparation to her. At the time of his late visit to Buffalo he never thought of his boy, not enough at least to visit him in his prison home. And this is repentance! This is atonement, which a professed Christian minister stands up before the people and unblushingly says should be accepted as expiation for his “(last errors,” and the repentant man be elected to the presidency of the United States! Why is there not a word of sympathy for the poor, broken-hearted, disowned, dishonored woman? Why is there not a word of help for the nine-year old lad wiio is to bear his crown of shame through all the coming years?- The mother aud son are driven into enforced and disgraced retreat, while the libertine father is feasted, and honored, and elevated to public trust, made Governor of an empire State, and is a candidate for tho headship of a great Christian nation! Aud this work is abetted by men who call themselves Christian ministers, and who have taken vows to preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ! Public opinion should be a whip of scorpions to lash such preachers naked through the world. More reparation and atonement than this is demanded of the jailbird in a justice's court before he is even so much as let out from behind prison bars.

The statements published in the Journal this morning refuting the charges bearing upon the relation of R. R. Shiel, the Republican candidate for State Treasurer, to the telegraphers’ strike in 1883, show that he was not only in sympathy with the strikers but that he was a strong supporter of their cause in the meeting of business men, which was held in this city at the time, to take action in regai-d to the matter. John G. Blake, the secretary of the meeting, states that Mr. Shiel made the motion for the adoption of the resolution favoring “an aiuicablo settlement of tho differences between the company and telegraphers,” and that “during the discussion which followed Mr. Shiel vigorously and frequently expressed his earnest sympathy with the strikers, and urged upon the meeting to take a decided stand in favor of tho employes.” The statements from others bear testimony to the same facts, and by the affidavits of two workingmen it is shown that the false charges were instigated by Democrats. Asa wide circulation has been given to the misrepresentations against Mr. Shiel, it is but fair and just that the refutation of the false chaiges should be given publication throughout the State.

Grover Cleveland has never been elected as an out-and-out Democrat. When he was elected sheriff of Erie county it was-as an independent, and his elevation to the governorship of Now York was brought about by a series of political accidents that would not again occur in his favor for a hundred years. In the election of 1882 the Kepublican vote fell oft 213,080 votes. Cleveland's vote, notwithstanding the fact that several thousand free-trade Republicans must have voted for him, was 20,225 less than that received by Garfield. So far as the Democratic party is concerned, it is the Greeley experiment repeated. To catch the votes of Republican soreheads and free-trade© this unknown man was put up, and a hand was dapped over his mouth to keep him from the blunder committed by Hancock, and neither he nor Hendricks has been allowed to say any-

thing about the tariff. Greeley was defeated because of tho false pretenses of his campaign. Cleveland will suffer the same fall and for the same reason. The tariff question is at issue and the American public has the right to know what the Democratic candidates think of it. In July last the Democratic member of Congress refused to consider a bill to pension loyal Mexican veterans and to increase the pension of widows from $8 to sl2, because the claims of ex-rebels who might have served a few days in Mexico were not included. The Democratic party purposes using the exrcbel Mexican soldiers as an entering wedge to get all disabled confederates on the pension roll. Cleveland is going to be defeated. Not necessarily or even primarily on account of his proved and acknowledged libertinism; not because he is totally incompetent to discharge the duties of chief executive of the Nation, but because he is the candidate of that party which is the sworn enemy of American labor. General Sherman, because connected with the United States army, is disfranchised by the laws of Missouri. General Marmaduke, late of tho confederate army, is not only a voter, but is candidate for Governor of that State. Well, yes, it does look a little odd. The “blessed” Democratic Indiana Constitution would also disfranchise General Sherman were he a resident of this State. Some inflammatory Democratic papers are finding fault with Mr. Tilden because he is going to sail away on the ocean before casting his vote for Cleveland. But just suppose he should take a notion to remain and vote for Blaine, what then? Just such converts are being made every day, and, at auy rate, the Sage does not appear to be largely engaged in Democratic politics this year. ‘You will find precious few Democrats connected therewith.” This is what the Saturday People says with reference to tho Grand Army of the Republic. Tho assertion may, or may not, be true. If tiue, it raises the query, why? Why are there “precious few Democrats connected” with the Grand Army of the Republic?

A FEW WORDS TO A YOUNG MAN. The reception given by the Democrats of Marion county, on Saturday night, to Senator James H. Willard indicates that he is a popular favorite with the masses of his party. Willard's speech, while a most audacious piece of sophistry, was the most eloquent and forcible presentation of the pretended issues of the campaign, from the Democra tic point of view, which the people of Indianapolis have heard during this campaign. He surprised his hearers by his splendid delivery and eloquent language. The common verdict was that his speech entitled him to rank as the peer, if not the superior, of any Democratic speaker in the State. Voorhees in his palmiest days never surpassed young Willard as an orator, and we venture to say that not since the days of Governor Willard have the Democratic masses listened to a speech like that of Saturday night. Willard's adroit endeavor to lead the campaign argument away from the free-trade doctrine of his party into the question of a necessity for a change, shows how clearly he appreciates the humiliating position of the Democracy on the tariff question, and how skillful a master he is of false logic to make the worse appear the better cause. We wish to say a few words to the young man. What earthly interest can Willard have in upholding the present boss system in tho Democratic party of the State? He should know a few facts. He should know that Voorhees hates him because he fears a rival in his own line; Hendricks has nover forgivon him for a difference in regard to the policy of the party in the Legislature some years since; McDonald's cold heart has no place for recognition of any young man. Gray and Manson both hate Willard with all the bitterness of death, because the ono, in 1880. and the other, in 1884, robbed him in convention of a nomination which belonged to him, and steeped themselves in falsehood to do so. Has not Willard the sense to seo that, in common with every young and aspiring man in Indiana, he should rejoice in the overthrow of the Democratic bosses in the Slate? The triumph of the Republican party in November will give this assemblage of Old barnacles back seats, and let some new blood into Democratic leadership. What young man in the Democrat ic party has been accorded common courtesy by these old mossbacks during the last twenty years? No matter what their differences among themselves, they always unite to crush down every young aspirant to prominence. This fact, as much ns any other, probably, is driving the vast majority of the young voters in Indiana into the Republican party—the party of living issues, and the party which accords to young men a place in its councils. Young Willaid, who is so popular with the masses, had better go home, rest quietly, cease to prop the failing fortunes of a gang of insatiable officeholders, and see the Republican party, by its triumph in November, give the young men of the Democratic party a chance to overthrow the ring of bosses which has so long crushed them down. Then the young Democratic leaders like Willard, Menzieo, McCullough, Jewett, and Bell will have some chance for recognition, and not before. We invite the attention of the young voters of the State to this matter. Col. N. W. Fitzgerald, the somewhat notorious Washington claim agent, has come to the front again in rather a curious way. Ho was, it will •be remembered, temporarily suspended from business some months since by charges affecting his professional and official integrity. While resting under the cloud brought by these charges, and pending their investigation by the pension department. Mr. Fitzgerald disposed of his entire business, at what he now calls ruiuous figures to a man who stood ready to gather up the fragments of a somewhat demoralized concern. Later, when he discovered that all was not a total wreck, tho Colonel began to feel that he had thrown himself away without sufficient cause. Asa consequence he comes before tho court with a remarkable petition in which he asks that, tho salo be annulled on the ground that he was emotionally insane at the time of its making. The document is of a very pathetic and burning nature, and recites at great length how his mind was overcome by the storm which burst upon him in the shape of a libel “as fearful in its vindictiveness aud falsehood, as loathesomo in its hideousucss

as was ever placed before a people by the press of auy country." Even after Ins vindication by the court for which he had waited during a “long period of unrest and hopes blighted daily’’ the sting was not removed from his heart, and he went to Florida to recuperate and shot himself in the foot. The doctors then told him that he must give his brain a rest, and it was at this time when his eves wore too closely sealed to the light of reason to comprehend the falsity of the representations made to him or to feel suspicious of their truth that he accepted statements in regard to the downfall of his business and sold out for what he could get. Now, when, it is to be assumed. bis brain has had a rest, lie desires to do business again at the old stand and takes this truly original method of obtaining possession. Emotional insanity, which has retired from criminal practice, is evidently to be mado useful in other directions. Daniel Out, of New York city, had a mistress of whom ho became jealous. He fired at her and she dropped as though dead, though in reality she was unscathed. The man then blew his own brains out. The moral of this is that they both did ns they Ort to. People sweltering in this October midsummer weather and wishing they wore in Iceland, are reminded of the fact that that country has just suffered from a very destructive hurricane. Tc the Editor of the 1 ndieoapolifi Journal: Whose son is Cassius M. Olay, and did he serve as an officer in the rebel army? NoßLESviiA.fi, Ind. S. it. Perkins. He is the son of General Green Clay. In 1801 he was appointed minister to Russia by President Lincoln and afterwards served as Majorgeneral in the Union army. He never was in the rebel army. *

POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. Buffalo Courier: If Conkling intonds to vote for St. John it is safe to say that he does not vote as he drinks. The Irish Nation: James G. Blaine will receive the support of a majority of the intelligent and independent Irish voters —the men who own their own souls—from Maine to California. Mr. P. T. Barry. 8f Chicago, an Irish-Amer-ican speaker, who has been speaking in Connecticut and New Jersey, says there is no doubt about the Republicans carrying those States, on account of the disaffection of the Irish with Democratic principles. “Now, don't ask me about the tariff or anything else,” was the great speech Governor Cleveland made at Buffalo to an able reporter. When he talked to the people the Governor seemed to be glad that he had received .a reception, as it were. Ho said in the true manner of the solid South. “I love my State.” In the model Democratic State of Missouri General Sherman is disfranchised because he is an officer of the army of the United States. General Marmaduke. who resigned from the army of the United States in order to take part in the rebellion, is the Democratic candidate for Governor of Missouri, and will be elected. This is a great country. Con. John Hancock, an old and well-known resident of Oshkosh, Wis., and up to the present time a steadfast Democrat, has declared for Blaine and Logan. He was colonel of the Fourteenth Wisconsin Infantry at the close of the war, and is a lawyer bv profession. The Colonel lias grown wear.v of the solid South, and the truckling of the Democratic party to foreign interests. The Republicans count confidently upon electing three members of Congress from West Virginia this month, which will be a gain of two over their present representation from that State. They base their calculations on tho fact - that the Democrats were in a minority in three districts two years ago, and all the anti-Bourbon elements are united this year on tho Republican candidates. At Morrow, 0., at the Blaine reception, a premature discharge of a cannon blew George Hamilton's arms nearly off. When Mr, Blaine learned of the accident, at Columbus, he imm s-‘ diately drew his check for SIOO and gave it to Judge' O’Neail, chairman of the State executive committee, to be applied io (lie relief of the injured man. That is the kind of a man the Republicans are going to elect for President.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Jefferson Davis's nephew having died recently, none of his name of his family now survive except himself. He has been married twice, but- has no male descendant who bears his name, Ids only son having died a lit-tle while ago. Hk, James William DkFok, the great-groat-grandsou of Daniel DeFoe, is paralyzed, noarly blind, and in urgent need. An English paper suggests that all who have ever read Robinson C'ru3oe contribute a penny to the descendant of its author. Mrs. Mark Hopkins's building of a $500,000 palace at Great Barrington. Mass., and her permanent removal to that place will go far towards paying the taxes of the entire town. Heretofore the bulk of her property has been taxed in San Francisco. In Missouri there is a lake which is unique. It possesses a beach largely composed of lead sand. This has been produced by tho gradual breaking down of a bank containing veins of galena. The water is said to be poisonous, aud no fishes arc ever found near the beach. The Oinclnnat-i Graphic announces "upon private aud authoritative information, that President Arthur and Miss Tillie Frelinghuysen, daughter of Secretary Frelinghuyeen, are engaged to be married, and the wedding will take place during the secoud week of January next," Lord Rossk, son of the famous astronomer and owner of the largest telecope in the world, so far as space-penetrating capacity is concerned, arrived in New York a few days ago, and will remain there several days. The aperture of his telescope is six feet, which is higher than lie is himself, and it has a focus of fifty-three feet, or more feet than he is years of ago. He lookß about forty years old, is ruddy. ami has more the appearance of a jolly farmer than a stupendous earl. blit Atosks Montkfiobx has no intention of visiting Berlin, and the reports to the contrary are untrue. The truth is that, though bis general health continues good, his severe illness of last spring lias left him almost too ill to leave his room. His memory, however, is unimpaired, and lie manages a large correspondence and transacts a good deal of business evory day. The old Baronet will attain his one hundredth birthday on Oct. 24. and preparations are being made by his friends to make the celebration worthy of the occasion. Mr. Henry Coxwkll, the veteran English aeronaut, says: "Ballooning has saved my life. Can you be surprised when you think of the groat body of pure, unadulterated oxygon which you enter when you reach a height of, say, a mile! It imparts anew life to me every time I go up, and it is with reluctance 1 quit it. Whenever I fee! unwell I long to undertake an ascent, and X have no doubt that, if means could be devised for tlieir passing unscathed through the lower regions of fog. many invalids would benefit immeasurably from an ascent in a balloon.” In England there is a story current that Mrs. Langtry, when last ill New York, sent for a young American dramatist, who had been recommended as a good person to write a play for her. He called, and was asked to take a seat. Mrs. Langtry entered the room. Without a word of formality sho surveyed him with a cold English stare, and then walked clean around him, looking at him the whole time. It was, of course, eminently agreeable to be surveyed like a horse on sale. But he stood it. Having completed her survey sho asked almost contemptuously, "And do you think that you could write a play?” The author, who had made several successes, replied iu a civil tone: “Well, 1 don't know. I dare say I may he about as competent to write a plat- as your are to acf one.'' They did not come to tonus,