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DO NOT FAIL To examine the immense assortment of Light Weight, Medium Weight and Heavy Weight Overcoats at the MODEL. Our stock of these garments is larger than that of any other two houses in the city combined. MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY .TNO. C. NKW * SON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1884. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOtRNAL Can be found at tb following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe 449 strand. CADlS—American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boulevard dee Capueines. KF.W YORK—St. Nicholas snd Windsor rtotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley * Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOPISVIT.T.E—C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. T. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot and Southern Hotel. fOURCARDINA h REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES First—rcacA with the whole world. Becon<l—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. —,lamks G. Bi.aink. at Rochester N. Y., Sept, 25, 1884. If slander, and lying, and fraud, and corruption do not fail of their object Ohio will he Democratic. It is the same old Republican party that backed Lincoln, and Grant, and Garfield that is backing Blaine. LOOK out for a fresh supply of lies on Blaine between now and election day, and too late to be proved false. The Nation hasn’t yet forgotten the Morey letter. Mark the prediction: four years from now the Democratic majority in Georgia will be reduced one-half, apd Louisiana, Tennessee and Florida will be Republican. The solid. South will disappear in the election of Blaine. Democratic papers still maintain that Blaine is making votes for Cleveland in Ohio. His nature seems to have changed since he left Maine. Maybe it is to atone for that 23,000 majority against Cleveland that he now seeks to serve him in Ohio. “The issues of this campaign are moral,” declared the truly , irtuous independents some time since. This circumstance, however, has not prevented their indulgence in lying and forgery—two Democratic accomplishments in which they have attained great proficiency. Democrats arc taking in a big breath for a yell over Ohio next week. They earned that State last year and year before by majorities of 12,000 and 19,000. They carried Maine four years ago. too. Better wait till the votes arc counted before they prepare to jollify. The Prohibitionists will observe Oct. 29 as a day of fasting and humiliation. It Is no wonder they feel humiliated over being in such bad company: hut when their Democratic allies are defeated in November, and they reiJize’that they have thrown themselves away without sufficient cause, then will the need of self-abasement be even more keenly felt. Two years ago W. R. Myers, Secretary of State, did not “know what in the h—i Kilgore meant.” It is to he hoped he will have no difficulty in determining what the people of Indiana mean on the 4th of November next. No man on the Democratic State ticket should be buried under so largo a majority, expressive of the, personal contempt of the State, as well as of the lack of confidence in the party of which he is one of the representatives. OCR special report of the second joint debate between Messrs. Calkins and Gray at Grcensburg, yesterday, shows that the disparity between the two candidates was even more marked there than at Fort Wayne. Surrounded with his Democratic friends at the latter place, Colonel Gray had everything in liis favor; but it was evident that Major Calkins badly worsted him in that discussion. Yesterday the victory was more decided, and such ns to give the Republican cause a great impetus in that portion of the State. There •were but few Democrats, comparative! v, present, and it is surmised that the Democratic managers have given orders not to allow the members of thoir party to be in attendance at

these meetings. Certainly the Democrat who should see Calkins and Gray together could not fail to be impressed with the great superiority of the Republican nominee over his competitor. The debates thus farliave been of interest and well sustained; hut besides having the better cause, Mr. Calkins has the advantage of a better method, wider experience as a debater, and, above all, the enthusiasm that is born of the knowledge that he is on the side of right and reason. COLONEL GEAY AS A KNOW-NOTHING, It has finally got through the skin of Colonel Isaac P. Gray. Yesterday, at Greensburg, in answer to an interruption from a gentleman in the audience, who asked him about the Know-nothing matter, the doughty Colonel responded that the ebargo was a lie, and that any man who made it was a contemptible coward. The “Colonel,” who resigned his commission rather than go where there was any fighting to be done, is a very valiant man at long range; but it might be suggested, even to him, that the manner of his denial is such as to raise a well-grounded suspicion of its truthfulness were there no other proof of falsity at hand. But there is overwhelming evidence of the fact that Colonel Isaac P. Gray was a member of the Know-nothing order. The Journal has already published the affidavits of a number of reputable men, and, for the benefit of Colonel Gray, we republish one, particularly, made by Jacob Shriver, Colonel Gray's brother-in-law. It is as follows: State of Ohio, Darke County, ss.: Before me. A. L. Northrop, a notary public, in and for said county, personally appeared John B. Shriver. who. being by me first duly sworn, on his oath says that he is a resident of the town of New Madison, in said county, and has been a resident of said town ever since 1849: that he is well acquainted with Isaac P. Gray, who is the candidate of the Democratic party for Governor of the State of Indiana. Said Gray resided in Now Madison from the year 1849 until after the presidential election in 1856. Aftiant knew the said Gray before be resided in New Madison; affiant’s wife is a’sister of the said Isaac P. Gray; affiant says there was a lodge of Know-nothing3 in the town of New Madison in 1854. and Gray was an active and leading member of said lodge, and he (Gray) was president of the lodge, and performed the rights and ceremonies of the order. Affiant was present whem Elom Harter was initiated, and remembers that Gray initiated the said Ilarter into the order. William Brown was secretary of the lodge. Said Gray was an active worker in and supporter of the Kuow-nothing party, and a supporter of its nominees. J. B. Hhkivkr . Sworn to and subscribed to before me this 16th day of September, A. D. 1884. A. L. Northrop. Notary Public, D. 0., O. Affidavits to the same effect were also made by A. L. Northrop, Elom Harter (referred to by Mr. Shriver), Wallace Jones, George Bacon and Moses Calkins (no relative to the Republican candidate for Governor). These are affidavits subscribed and sworn to. They are worth more, in morals and in law, than the heated, bar-room language of Colonel Gray on the stump, when run into a corner by the-truth. But there is cumulative evidence of Colonel Gray’s untruthfulness. The Union City Eagle of yesterday fastens a most paltry falsehood upon him with respect to his notorious Richmond speech, delivered in 18G6, the sentiments of which he would now like to disown. The Eagle says: “Colonel Gray, in his speech at Fort Wayne, on Tuesday, said that the Richmond speech of March 12, 1860, was written by a man named Wood, four days after he (Grav) had left Richmond. He adds: ‘Some of the things in the speech 1 said, and some I did not say.’ That speech was published in the Eagle, at Gray’s home, and at his solicitation, on March 21, 186(i, copfcd entirely from the Telegram, in which it was originally published, and the Colonel at that time made no objection to the statement then published. Now is the first time that he has questioned the correctness of that speech. It is late in the day to go back upon such a record. ” We submit that the affidavit of his brother-in-law, supported by the sworn testimony of a number of reputable citizens of Darke county, Ohio, and the statement of the Union City Eagle, leave this Colonel Isaac P. Gray in about as pitiable an attitude'asho was when he laid down his commission in the army rather than go to the front. WHY THE PROSTRATION. The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette of yesterday has the following paragraph: “The Swift Iron and Steel Company, who employ one thousand men in their Newport mill and five hundred at Riverside, yesterday sent letters to both notifying the foremen to shut down to-night and to remain closed until after the election next Tuesday. If, says the letter, the October election shall go Republican, work will be resumed at once. If it should go Democratic, the mills will bo kept closed until the November election. If the latter shall result in the election of Blaine, operations will be at once resumed. If not, the suspension is to be indefinite. The firm take this course under conviction that the iron ifiterest will be ruined under a free-trade policy such as the Democracy advocate.” This notice will bear more investigation than a mere first glance. It is a formal notification to their workmen that the Swift Iron and Steel Company realize that a continuance of their business would no longer be profitable if the party of free trado is victorious and their policy is to be that of the government of the country. The Morrison bill—voted for by 152 Democrats—was a Democratic measure, and the very fact that the Democratic party was so fully committed to it so alarmed manufacturers that business has been practically paralyzed and will so continue until it is developed what is to be the result of the election—whether protection is to be continued, or “progressive free trade,” as the Democratic platform of 1856 put it, is to be the future policy of the country. The company simply did their duty toward the men. Better tell them now the danger of Democratic supremacy than to wait until after the election and then break the news to them by the suspension of business and the closing of the works. Under free trade and the threats of introducing it, the mills in question could not run profitably for ninety days. It is folly to expect owners of mills to run machinery and engage in manufacture without the assurance of profit, No profit, no business; no business,

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no work; no work, no wages. That’s the whole story. The men are left to do as they please. If they are wise, free-trade Democracy will receive a stunning rebuke. THE TREASURY SURPLUS. A few Democratic speakers are still repeating the silly twaddle, indulged in for a time by Mr. Hendricks and Colonel Gray about the treasury surplus, charging that $400,000,000 are kept locked up in the treasury, which should be in the hands of the people. Wo reproduce the letter of Hon. Albert U. Wyman, Treasurer of the United States, in which he disposes of this nonsense, and shows just what money there is in the treasury, and for what it is held. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: In accordance with your request, I have the honor to furnish you with the following statement, showing the condition of the Treasury at the close of business to-day: The total cash in the Treasury, exclusive of minor coin 11- -3 and 5-cenfc pieces), amounts to $450,975, Ji11.04. Os tots amount there is held: 1. For the redemption of bonds and payment ot interest past due, but not yet presented $15,000,915.11 2. For the redemption of gold certificates now in circulation. (Act July 12, 1882) 88,595,030.00 3. For the redemption of silver certificates in circulation. (Act Feb. 28, 1878) 95,640,531.00 4. For the redemption of certificates issued on deposits of United States notes. (Act June 8, 1872). 15,375,000.00 5. For disbursing officers, such as pension agents, paymasters, eto., subject to their checks 27,177,819.04 6. For drafts and c-heoks of the Treasurer, not yet presented for payment, many of whioh aro in transit 5,107,350,38 7. The 5 per cent, fuud for redemption of national-bank notes, which fund is made up by, and belongs to, the national banks. I Act .Tune 20,1874) 12,758,159.04 8. For the redemption of notes of national banks that have failed, gone into liquidation, or aro reducing circulation 38,467,922.60 9. Balance of Postoffic Department account 3,580,974.18 Making a total of money hold for Special purposes, and, therefore, not available for payments, other than as specified of $301,823,701.35 And leaving an available cash balance of 149.152.292.69 A call of bonds will* mature on Sept. 30, which will require, for their pavment, $lO,000,000. Os the amount of cash available, as above stated, $95,500,000 was obtained by the sale of bonds to create a fund for the resumption of specie pavment, under the aot of Jan. 14, 187.1 The amount of the reserve on account of resumption has, as a. matter of prudent administration, been maintained by the Secretary of the Treasury at about $138,000,000, or about 40 per cent, of the amount of United States notes outstanding, fixed by law at $346,681,016. A. U. Wyman, Treasurer United States. Washington, D. 0., Sept. 13. DANGER AHEAD TO THE CITY, It is an open secret that the Democracy, upon the meeting of the Legislature, will endeavor to include the fire department in the metropolitan system, and that a number of young Democrats are counting strongly upon a place in oonsequence of that fact. —News. There should be no mistaking this issue. The Republican candidates for the Legislature, if elected, should vote for the restoration of the right of the citizens and tax-payers of Indianapolis to control such important and necessary branches of their municipal government as the police and fire departments. The metropolitan police bill was passed at the behest of the blue-cheeked, red-nosed, scorbutic bummers and ward-workers of the Democratic party, uuder the lead of their chosen ohieftain, W. D. Bynum, now candidate for Congress in this district. It was the intention to have the police force of the city in the hands of such defiant law-breakers as the “Hon.” Sim Coy, present chuirman of the Democratic county central committee. But the more prudent “bosses," seeing the feeling that had been developed because of the highhanded, revolutionary, and almost murderous tactics pursued in the passage of the measure, concluded to appoint a board of respectable commissioners, under whose administration the principle of the bill might become popularized with the people, and so make the triumph of the “bummers”-tho more certain, although delayed for a time. This has been done, and with what result? Under the direction of three gentlemen of respectability and character, the police protection of the city has been reduced to the minimum. Never in the history of Indianapolis—not even under Mayor Mitchell's administration—has the police force been so conspicuously inefficient, have the laws in the interests of public morality and order been so flagrantly violated, with not even the faintest effort to enforce them by the police board. These facts are patent to everybody. What protection is there to the persons or property of citizens at this time? Is it not a farce? The Journal does not believe in government by boards. It opposed the old police board system under the City Council, because it lacked the elements of efficiency and responsibility. It opposes the present State board system as being infinitely worse than that, having less direct responsibility, and, therefore, less efficiency. Wliat the next Legislature must do is to give Indianapolis the right of self-govern-ment —a mayoralty with power, such as the late Republican Legislature has given to the city of New York, which has been cursed for years with board rule from Albany. Indianapolis is entering upon the road to ruin so long trodden by New York city. Tax-payers and property-owners who do not want a similar experience to that of the people of New York must arouse to repel and defeat the Pemocratic freebooters and looters. They mean mischief. l)own with board government, must be the demand of our citizens. A responsible executive head, with power to will and to do, is the present need of municipal government. Indianapolis is suffering now in almost every direction from the evils of board government and a practically powerless executive. Give us an executive directly re-

sponsible to the people, and then the people may have something to say about the conduct of their local affaire. One of the current bits of political information, published in the Sentinel, of thffi city, for the purpose of affecting the German-Amer-ican voters of the State, was this: “A club of 400 German Republicans at Galesburg. 111., has left the Republican party and come over to Cleveland and Hendricks. Harrison and Seiter. Thus it goes throughout Illinois.” W. F. Bechtel, of Lafayette, formerly resided in Galesburg, and he at once wrote Mr. Philip F. I’ost, chairman of the county Republican committee, as to the truth of the statement. In reply Mr. Post said: “Galesburg, 111., Oct. 6, 1884. ‘ W. F. Bechtel, JSeq., Lafayette, Ind.: “Dear Sir —The above squib is clean cut out of whole cloth. Inclosed is a full reply. Yours truly, Philip Sidney Post.” The inclosed reply referred to by Mr. Post is a clipping from the Republican-Register, of Galesburg, in which the statement contained in the Sentinel is answered as follows: “In reply we state as follows, our information being of the most reliable character: “1. The German voting population of Galesburg numbers one hundred and twelve. “2. There aro but two Germans here, who voted for Garfield in 1880, who will vote for Cleveland in November.” The Bloomington (111. ) Pantagraph has the following paragraph, referring to the German vote of that city: “The alleged defection of German Republicans that we hear so much about lias not broken out in this city. The German Republican club, which was organized less than two weeks agj with sixty members, have already increased their number to 217, and it is confidently expected to have 300 names on the roll before the election. Every name thus far secured is a qualified voter, who will support the whole Republican ticket.” The Germans can no longer be used as cat’s-paws by the Democratic party to pull chestnuts out of the fire, on a false issue. The Genuan-Americans of this country are largely business men and property-holders. They pay taxes and are interested in the thrift and prosperity of the country. They are almost unanimously for protection and sound money. Hence they will vote the Republican ticket. Captain W. R. Myers, candidate for reelection to the office of Secretary of State, a position he has disgraced as it never was disgraced by any one in the history of the State, in a recent speech at Muncie, said: “The stanch, old, and heretofore reliable Republican, Governor Conrad Baker, has been quiet this campaign. The Journal men and Republican central committee have been importuning him to come out and help the Republican cause, but, finally he said to them: ‘No; I cannot support Blaine.” Hon. R. S. Gregory wrote to ex-Governor Baker, inclosing the statement, to which the Governor replied: “In answer to your letter of yesterday, I beg leave to say that it is not true that ‘the Journal men’ or the Republican central committee have been importuning me to come out and help the Republican cause. It is not true that I said to them or to any one that I could not support Blaine. It is true that I have been quiet in this campaign, as I was in that of 1880. I was invited by the central committee to allow myself to be posted for some speeches and replied that I regretted that my engagements were such that I could not prepare for the performance of such service. An interview as to my political views aNd purposes was published in the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette of Sept. 18, 1884, of which I inclose a copy.” In the interview referred to, Govemor Baker said: “Ever since I attained the years of manhood 1 have continuously opposed the Democratic party, and in my judgment the party, its principles and aims, as well as its candidate for the presidency—now more than at any former period—merit continued opposition atul defeat.” Captain Myers, when he made the statement, knew it was a lie, a lie without warrant or excuso, a lie invented and used for an evil purpose. His use of the Journal in con nectiou with his lie was of a piece witli the shameful, brazen impudence displayed when he prostituted an office he holds for all the people of the State to contemptible, pusillanimous partisan malice. Should he be reelected it" will be an indellible stain upon tho fair name of Indiana. The contemptible nature of the taotics pursued against Hon. W. H. Calkins by the Democratic party and their annex aro only equaled, or excelled, .by the infamy of the measures resorted to to injure Mr. Blaine. The LaPorte Herald of yesterday says: “We have undoubted authority for stating that the Argus is running its presses night and day, working off 100,000 circulars containing mud-slingiug articles against Major Calkins. These circulars, we understand, are to be used so near the day of election that no time will be allowed in which to controvert the misstatements contained in them. Republicans everywhere are warned to be on their guard, not only against these circulars, but against everything of a similar nature which isliable to be sprung at the last moment on anv of our candidates. The Argus is being well paid for doing the dirty work of the Democratic party in its endeavor to injure one of our townsmen, at the same time well knowing that there is nothing in the charges which should affect the standing of any good citizen.” The sense of fairness among the people we believe to be strong enough to defeat the lies, frauds, libels and slanders of the Democratic campaign. Elsewhere we copy from the LaPorte Herald the truth as to the correspondence between Hon. W. H. Calkins and Will A. Martin, the latter then deputy and now candidate for county treasurer, as to the redemption of a loan made from the school fund. The LaPorte Argus and the Indianapolis Sentinel have published garbled extracts from this correspondence, attempting to create the impression that Mr. Calkins had importuned a relative to extricate him from trouble over the matter. The letters show for themselves,

and reveal the littleness and vileness of the effort to make it appear that Mr. Calkins has done anything other than an honorable gentleman should do in the matter. There never have been harder times in America since 1874 than we are experiencing at the present time. Never!—Cincinnati Enquirer. Without here disputing the statement made, we would like to say that it was but five months ago that 152 Democratic congressmen voted for a bill to reduce wages, and give the labor of American workingmen to the mills of England. The home of the horse thief is commonly supposed to be at some indefinite point in the West —sometimes near, and again more remote, but always is he to be sought for in the direction of the setting sun. When he is caught he is apt to come to grief in a hasty and tragic manner, even though he be guilty of having appropriated but a single animal to his own use. What would be done in the West with one who had stolen and disposed of two hundred horses is a question too stupendous for consideration. In Boston an individual accomplished to the extent named is regarded with admiration, and if captured will probably be treated with distinguished consideration, for it is a Boston man who has outdone all the common Western horse thieves. Foster is his name, and lie was a confidence man before — serving a term of five years in prison for extensive fraud. After his release his winning ways gained the friendship of a west-end millionaire. They formed a partnership and went into the livery-stable business, the millionaire furnishing the capital and Foster the experience. The former put entire faith in his working partner, paying little attention to the concern, except to honor all demands for further outlay. One method for inducing frequent payments of cash was Mr. Foster’s habit of borrowing a fine team from another stable, driving it to his patron for inspection, with the information that it was a bargain which should not be lost. With a check for a large amount in his pocket, Foster then returned the team without making a purchase. He also mortgaged the establishment for its full value, representing himself as its sole proprietor. A few days ago he sold the stables and their contents, receiving cash down, the purchaser believing the property to be without incumbrance. Before possession was given, the enterprising Mr. Foster proceeded to collect all outstanding bills, and then sold the entire moveable stock, horse by horse, and carriage by carriage, for what they would bring. This being accomplished, lie left the city, without taking the formality to mention his future address. Asa consequence of this eccentric way of doing business, several citizens, including a millionaire, are rampant. Dr. Bland, the red man's friend, will attend the great fair of the Five Nations in Indian Territory. Not as an agricultural product, a Washington paper finds it necessary to explain, but as an invited guest of Chief Bushyhead. The Doctor will do well to carry his tomahawk along this trip, to be ready in case Agent McGillicuddy should chance to wander down that way. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Will you be kind enough to publish the streetcar bill that Governor Cleveland vetoed? A Constant Reader. Greensboro, Ind., Oct. 8. We have published it heretofore. It was, in effect, declaring that drivers and conductors of street cars should not be required to work more than twelve hours a day. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Jonrnal: Does the interest on bonds cease when they become due, or called in, or does it continue until they are presented ! Reader of Daily Journal. Bicknell, Ind., Oct. 0. When the bonds are called in the interest ceases. _ To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Are we going to have Dolliver, of lowa, make any speeches for us in this campaign? KkklsviliaE, Ind. w. m. Purcell. He has been requested to come. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Jonrnal: W r hat number of votes do the Quakers cast in the State? Reader. Spiceland, Oct. 7. We have no estimate. POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. Philadelphia Record: That is a mighty unenterprising paper which, in these dark and trying hours, cannot nail at least two campaign lies daily and start three. Boston Herald (Dem.): The Democrats, as a rule, make poor use of their opportunities. Most of their speakers straddle or dodge the question on which they might make votes. Bklva on a tricycle, Blaine on a boom immense. G. Cleveland squirming on a rail, And Butler on the fence. —Burlington Hnwkeye. Hughes East told a St Louis- Chronicle reporter: “The (Ohio) State Democratic committee have been contributing money for the support of the miners in the Hocking vallev, but you had bettor not put that in. It might not look well.” Mr Begole. the Governor of Michigan, who is a candidate for re-election, discards the adjective “Democratic” and speaks of his “union 1 campaign, the “Union” speakers and the coming “union” victory. The catch phrase sounds better than “Democrat' to the ear of the woodchoppers. The Hon. Church Howe, member of the national committee in charge of the Southern Republican headquarters at Nashville, Teun., has received a letter from 200 sugar planters of Louisiana inviting him to confer with them in New Orleans with a view to conducting a vigorous campaign in the State on the tariff issue. Philadelphia Press: Carl Schurz refused to address a Democratic meeting in Ohio until he was paid $l5O in cash. He was offered a check but declined it —therein showing the extent of his faith in Democracy—he wouldn’t trust it even for a barrel of wind. The great statesman for revenue only doesn’t appear to bo getting left this year. In speaking of Mr. Blaine’s alleged connection with the Hocking Valley syndicates, Secretary Fessenden, of the Republican national committee says: “We concluded that It was a private business transaction of Mr. Blaine’s, and something we could take no official action upon. Wo don’t regard it as worth any answer anyhow, and shall look with contempt upon auy effort to make out of it party capital.” Thk Hon. Levi (). Wad©, of Nowtonvillo, MaSd., president of tho Mexican Central railway, and recently Speaker of the Legislature, and who signed a paper some time ago to form an anti-Blaine Club.comos out squarely now for Mr. Blaine. He made a speech Wednesday at a ReEublican demonstration in Malden, when he said e had made careful investigations of the charges against Mr. Blaino and was convinced of his rectitude, and that he had never been guilty of a disreputable act. This is the way the Richmond, Va., Whig looks at the Ohio factor in the situation: “The Bourbons are making a great affectation of giving

Ohio to the Republicans. In fact, they are insisting <hat. the State ought to go Republican by a tremendous majority. All the same they art trying every hook and crook to get it. No matter what they say, they know that a Republican victory in Ohio, next Tuesday, will assure tho election of Blaino, and also sound the knoll of the Bourbonisra and shotgun solidity of th# South. This is the last chance of the Democracy Defeated now (as it will be), it will utterly collapse, to be succeeded by some other, and, lei us hope, better organization.” PERSONAL NOTE AND MENTION. Mrs. Laboucherk and Mrs. Langtry are said have made up thoir quarrol. at Scarborough, whioh 4 surely the place for reconciliation. Anew tenor, named Marconi, whose fine sympa thetic voice is compared to that of Mario in his beat daysrhas been discovered at Aix les Bains. Henry Irving said, before he left London, tbaf some of the American newspaper men there were ing to ‘‘down” him. Henry is too conceited. Since he has attained his majority in 18G8 tho Duke of Norfolk has, in one way or another, giveo more than $2,500,000 to the Roman Catholic Churol* besides princely sums devoted to private charities. In the MSS. of the dramatized form of “Never To# Late to Mend," the late Charles Reade penned a map ginal note to one passage: “If tho audience fails te weep here the passage has not been properly acted.* Hugo Bartuol, a Hamburg clerk, has just con*pleted the longest bicyole journey on record. In top weeks and five days he covered 2.850 German including several long stretches across mouutaia ranges. Cornelius Vanderbilt and his wife, as a forolgo Grundy tells, recently bought for their six childre# high Russian boots bound with fur, which so delight* ed one of the little girls, aged ten, that she insisted o* wearing them in the warmest weather. Frank 8. Chanfrau was singularly handsom# when young, and his hair was black and glossy t the last. The dye which he employed to effect this result, seme of his acquaintances say, was the dlreol cause of the paralysis which killed him. While President Arthur has been assiduously courting Miss Frelinghuysen at her father’s house in New Jersey, Miss Frelinghuysen has been for several weeks past visiting friends in Lenox, Mass., and is there now, and proposes to remain there till cold weather. British Postmaster-general Fawcett considers hit blindness an advantage, since it has compelled him te cultivate his faculties, especially his memory, to ao extraordinary degree, and he tells his friends that while he may accept their sympathy, he does not need their commiseration. George W. Cable is preparing a little book of creolo songs. In company with Mark Twain he will start, on the day after election, upon a tour of ilia principal cities of the country, giving readings front his works. This venture will be Mark Twain's first appearance as a reader. The latest tiling in swell English weddings is tho employment of a page. At the marriage of Mr. Shipley with Colonel McDonald’s daughter in Loudon the other day the bridegroom’s nephew, Master Hugh Chafy, acted as page. He wore a costume of black velvet, with a large Irish point lace collar. Labouchere gives a marine touch to society. Tie says: “I own a feeling of refreshment when in the society of a person of originality. Modern society is like a shingly beach. One man or wompn is just like another. Everyone has smoothness, and nobody fixity. After a lot of human shingles, the clear, hold originality that stands out from the mass like a seaside rock, is delightful.” Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has accepted the position of chief of the woman’s department of the New Orleans ExpositiQn, and all work that lias beeu done io various parts of the country will be grouped, under her direction, in the government building at New Orleans. While the work that has been done represents all departments of industry, the exhibit that will go, from Massachusetts, particularly, will probably be devoted to art, science, and literature. Work begins at once, as Director-general Burke has planned for the department in an elaborate manner. Mr. Meyer, a noted archeologist, latelj* discovered on the island of Zapotera a rock which, judging from the figures it contained, served in remote times for astronomical observations. On this rock he found two stone tablets, one of which contained a representation of the world, part of Africa and Asia, united Europe, and this continent. A large continent was situated in the Atlantic ocean, which was believed to be the mythical lost Atlantis mentioned in some of the ancient authors. The other tablet contained inscriptions of which part is undoubtedly Phoenician. Naturalists say that tho feet of the common working bee exhibit the combination of a basket, a brush and a pair of pincers. The brush, the hairs of which are arranged in symmetrical rows, are only to be seen wdth tho mioroscope. With this brush of fairy delicacy the bee brushes the velvet robe to remove the pollen dust with which it becomes loaded while sucking up the nectar. Another article, hollowed like a spoon, receives all the gleanings which the insect carries to the hive. Finally, by opening them, one upon auother, by means of a hinge, these two pieces become a pair of pincers, which render important service in the construction of the combs. Prince Albert Victor and Prince George, of Wales, are about to try their hands at authorship. From the first day (September 17, 1870) of their cadetship on board the Bacchante, they started % journal and kept a daily note-book, wherein vrer# chronicled tho sights and strange things that they encountered during their trip in 1879-80 in the Mediterranean, back to Madeira, and on to the West Indies. The same idea was kept np during the little run to Bantry Bay in July, 1880, and again wheu the Bacchante loft Spit head on Tuesday, 14, 1880. for a long voyage, and reached home ;ifter a two years’ cruise op Aug. 7, 1882. The book is entitled “The Cruise of H. M. S. Bacchante,’ 1879-82). A I.BIPSIO journal has compiled a list of morganatio mamages which have taken place within a comparatively short period, with the object of showing that when tho Grand Duke of Hesse espoused Mme. de Kaloraino he did nothing at all exceptional; and it points out that the wrath of his relatives ha England and at Berlin is really very unreasonable, all along been the general opinion in Germany. There have been seventeen unions of this sort, and it is added that “they all turned out most happily.” The list includes one emperor, four kings, one doctor, two archdukes of Austria and nine royal princes. The indiguation of the English relatives is all the more absurd, as, according to German law, the marriage of Princess Louise with Lord Lome is a morganatic union. Put His Foot iu It Again. Pittsburg Chronicle. Gray, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana, has the happy faculty of “putting his foot in it” equally with all his fellows of hia political faith. In a speech at Fort Wayne yesterday he denounced tariff as a robbory, out sai<| the Democratic party was not in favor of free trade. If not for froo trade, they must favor tariff, and aro thus in favor of robbery. Go up head, Mr. GrayA Warm Welcome for Hendricks. Piqua (O.) Special. Hon. T. A. Hendricks, Democratic nomiueo for Vice-president, stopped off hero, this Dooming, on his way to St. Mary’s. Tho demonstration was simply grand boyond description. There was just one Democrat at the depot to meet him, and he happened to be there. The old man was ready with both hands to shake wrth tho populace, but the populace wasn’t thero. Why Editor McLean Married iu Haste. Pittsburg Times. Editor McLean did well to hasten his wedding, while Bo could still pose as tho future minister to France. After the 14th insfc. no Democratic politician’s prospects will be brigli'. enough to court a girl with. A Lust Look at the Corpse. Philadelphia Press. Yes, dear, it is truo, Mr. Blaiue is going to Illinois, and Michigan and Indiana before ho re, turns to the East. He is anxious to take a good view of the Bourbon party before it is buried.