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HOSIERY! In this branch of our business, as in all others, our prices are way below that of all competition. The Socks we sell at 5 cents a pair are sold elsewhere at 10 cents, our 10-cent Socks for 15 cents, and other goods in proportion. In the finer grades we carry a large assortment of Woolen, Cashmere, Lisle Thread, Balbriggan and Silk Hose. MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JN'O. C. SEW * SON. MONDAY. OCTOBER 13, 1834. Mr. Hendricks is vouched for to Ohio Democrats by the liquor leaguers of Indianapolis, Fort Wayne and Evansville. New York independent Republicans, who insist that this campaign is to be conducted on moral issues, will be pleased to learn that the saloon-keepers of Indiana indorse Mr. Hendricks as their champion. Charles E. Ferguson, who is talking on the tariff, is an out and out free-trader—one who believes in a reduction of wages, and is hand-in-glove with Mr. Lindley Vinton, who thinks oat meal and hominy good enough for workingmen. William 11. Rhinelander, the son of aristocratic, snobbish parents, is still kept in jail as an insane man because he dared love and marry the woman of his choice. It is outrageous that public indignation does not compel his immediate release. The brewers of the country—the brewers of Indiana and Ohio —should hesitate a long while before they turn over their business to the Democratic party. The Democratic party has not always been able to take care of business interests that have committed themselves to its political care. The brewers should think twice. WHEN Mr. Hendricks signed the Baxter local-option temperance bill, the most stringent liquor law Indiana ever passed, except that signed by Governor Wright, another Democrat, he hardly thought he would one day be indorsed by the liquor leaguers of Indiana as the unswerving friend of the liquor traffic.

Jacob Shrivek, his own brotlier-in-law, and a dozen other witnesses, under oath, say that Col. Isaac P. Gray was a member of the American order, commonly called Knownothings, and that they met him in the lodge room, and some of them were initiated by him. One of the last to make oath to these facts is a Democrat. The Journal expects favorable news from Ohio to-morrow night. The Democrats have become so desperate that they have dragooned Indiana to prove by the evidence of brewers that Hendricks never favored restrictive temperance, or sumptuary laws. This, despite the fact that it was Thomas A. Hendricks who * favored and signed the Baxter bill, shows to what desperate resort the party of “reform" is driven. Dr. F. J. Devlin, of New York, is the man Mr. Hendricks is looking for. In return for a small consideration he makes appointments to places in the Bellevue Hospital. The authorities of that institution do not recognize the appointments thus made, but Mr. Hendricks might utilize him to help get rid of the 50.000 Democrats to whom he has promised jobs. The fourth and last of the joint debates between Messrs. Calkins and Gray will be hail this afternoon, at Lafayette. The Democrats have prepared to plaster the town with the Widow Duncan lie and the school-fund mortgage lie, as they did at Terre Haute. Such tactics will only result in helping Major Calkins in his canvass. The desperation and dishonor of the Democratic party will defeat themselves. Col. Isaac P. Gray denies that he was a Jnember of the “Know-nothing’’ order. Col. Sray seeks to shelter himself behind a petty technicality. The order was not known as the “Know-nothing" order, but Col. Gray will Hot deny that he was a member of the American order. Will Col. Gray say that he never “hunted Sam’’ in the lodge room of the American order, the order commonly called the Know-nothings? The .Journal reproduces this morning the correspondence between Mr. Haskell, representing the Grand Army of the Republic, and Mr. B. F. Jones, chairman of the Republican national committee, concerning pensions for poldiers. and also the call for a mass convention of soldiers and sailors, to be held in this iity on the 24th of October. It is request! 1

that the county papers of Indiana give this correspondence and the accompanying call as wide circulation as possible. MR. BLAINE AND INDIANA SOLDIERB, The Journal has trustworthy information that the next, though scarcely the last, He to be brought out against Mr. Blaine is to be a garbled account, quoted from the record of the first session of the Forty-ninth Congress, of a delude between Senator Blaine and Senators McDonald and Yoorhees, in which the gentleman from Maine excoriated the Indiana senators in a manner that they have never forgotten nor forgiven. In the progress of the debate, reported on pages 2079 to 2122, the latter charged Mr. Blaine with having reflected upon the valor of Indiana troops at the battle of Buena Vista, in the Mexican war. Replying to the insinuation (page 2110), Mr. Blaiue said: “The senator was impatient at the slightest idea that somebody was reflecting upon the loyalty of Indiana and on the bravery and the character of Indiana’s troops. I certainly intended nothing of the sort. Ido not believe any State sent to the war a better clabs of troops than Indiana sent. They do not need my poor approval at this late day; their heroic deeds on the battle-field speak for them, and it was news to me that any person in the world was reflecting upon tliem until I got hold of a school-book from the South, one of those which we had the assurance from that side did not exist at all. I hold in my hand a school-book, in the form of a render, that is calculated and adapted entirely to Southern latitudes;- and to what it says, not of the late war, but of the war with Mexico, I beg the attention of the honorable senator from Indiana. I read this. It is the only arraignment of the gallantry of Indiana troops that I have ever read. This reader is published in Baltimore, and the authors are Mr. J. S. Blackburn, principal of a high-school in Virginia, and Mr. W. N. McDonald, principal of a high-school in Louisville, Ky. In giving the account of the Mexican war this school-book, which is intended to be put in the hands of the rising generation in the South, to cultivate a spirit of amity and respect for all the States, says, in describing tlxo battle of Buena Vista: “ ‘The Mexicans, knowing that they had nearly five men to one. fought- more bravely than they had ever done before. At one time they broke General Taylor's left dunk, completely routing the .Second Indiana Regiment. which never rallied during the progress of the battle. Colonel Jefferson Davis commanded a Mississippi regiment, just in rear of the Indiana regiment. When the latter broke and ded Davis ordered his men to open their ranks and let the runaways through, and then closed their line to meet the enemy.’ “That is the stuff, the miserable, slanderous stuff, that is taught to Southern children. Davis’s bold and untamable regiment from Mississippi opened their ranks to let the runaways from Indiana get off the field, and then they closed their ranks and behaved, of course, with the prowess that belongs to them. Just think of it! “I have here a modern school book which I got from the library, with the imprint of 1879. [The year in which the debate took place.] The honorable senator from North Carolina was good enough to assure me that an} - books of that character belonged to a past day and had faded out.’’ Again, in the couise of the same debate, as reported on page-2114, Mr. Voorhees said: “The senator from Maine has seen fit to resurrect an old, stale, and exploited charge against an Indiana regiment on the field of Buena Vista.” To this Mr. Blaine replied: “No, sir. One moment. I disclaim the charge. It was a scandal against the Indiana regiment, and I showed that the Southern friends of the senator from Indiana were perpetrating that and teaching it to their children.” And this is the basis for the next document to be issued by the independents and Demo orats to excite prejudice against the man whom they dare not face in a fair field and stand-up fight. Mr. Blaine, as usual struck hack harder than he was hit, and put it upon record that a school text-book had been issued that very year for use in the South, and traducing the valor of Indiana soldiers to eulogize Jeff Davis by contrast, for the purpose of pleasing Southern Democratic readers, the political friends and associates of Senator Voorhees. The attempt to use this lie, that Blaine ever reflected upon the soldiers of Indiana, will defeat its purpose, and harm only its authors and the Democratic party, in whose interests it is perpetrated.

DEMOCRATIC INSULT OF IRISHMEN. One of the means employed by Democratic spouters to still the universal revolt of intelligent Irish citizens against their party is to go back to Know-nothing times and trump up expressions that an orator of that day may have used against the Celtic nationality. But for real demagogism recommend us to a Democratic politician when he gets out in the backwoods where he thinks his remarks will not see the light of print. Thomas R. Cobb, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Second district, the other day spoke at a school-house in a remote part of his district, and the Mitchel Commercial thus quotes his language: “In explaining why Grover Cleveland hung two men while sheriff, Hon. Thomas R. Cobb used the following language at the Lee school-house on Friday last: ‘lt became necessary to hang two men; therefore, instead of getting a low-down Irishman to do the work, he took hold and did the work himself.” Cobb was an original Know-noth-ing, and unlike Gray he has the manliness not to deny it. But the old feeling will crop out when he is where he thinks the world will not hear of it. It must he a pleasure to the Irish citizens thus spoken of by Cobh as “low-down Irishmen” to walk up and vote for that individual. This remark of Cobh's is a fair sample of the treachery the Irish race has always met at the hands of the Democratic party. Is it not about time that independent citizens whom Democrats call “low-down Irishmen” should make the Democratic party fully understand that they don't propose to calmly bear abuse any longer from a party which has never done anything for them? An Indianapolis contributor to the New York Post is greatly shocked by the attitude of the Republican press of this city towards Cleveland, and says readers of these papers

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are led to infer that the Democratic candidate is outside of decent society in his own State. Well, isn't he? Even his friends have not had the audacity to say that he is received into the households of the best citizens on terms of social equality. He is Governor of the State, but this fact does not cause respectable parents to desire to introduce him to their daughters. LET US HAVE REFORM. Tha government needs reform, so Democrats declare. For twenty-four years the Republican party has been in power, and they say public affair's are not in the condition they should be. The Republican party began by putting down the rebellion. The Democratic party, the mother of treason, feels called upon to reform things. The Republican party abolished slavery. The Democratic party, born with a lash in its hands, feels called upon to reform things. The Republican party conferred civil rights and the right to vote upon the emancipated slaves. The Democratic party, educated in the belief. that negroes were no better than animals and fit only to he slaves, feels called upon to reform things. The Republican party has paid off over a thousand millions of the war debt. The Democratic party, that inaugurated the rebellion and stood by it from Sumter to Appomattox, and made that 'debt, feels called upon to reform things. The Republican party pays interest on the national bonds at the rate of 3 per cent., and can get all the money asked for at that rate. The Democratic party, that in a time of peace increased the public debt at the rate of $20,000,000 annually, and paid 12 per cent, interest, feels called upon to reform things. The Republican party resumed specie payments nearly six years ago, and made the Nation’s paper worth its face in gold. The Democratic party, that fought the resumption act, and predicted the direst results if it was attempted, feels called upon to reform things. The Republican party, believing in sound finances, has accumulated a surplus of $148,000,000 to keep up the credit of the government notes. Tho Democratic party, that contracted a debt of $65,000,000 in a time of peace, and paid an annual interest account of $17,000,000, feels called upon to reform things. The Republican party has nominated for the presidency a man of a score of years’ experience as the foremost legislator and statesman of his time. The Democratic party, having nominated an untried ex-sheriff, feels called upon to reform things. The Republican party went to one of the Nation’s best homes to find its candidate. The Democratic party, taking as its candidate a man who dishonors womanhood, feels called upon to reform things. The Republican party chose for the vicepresidency a loyal soldier, the greatest volunteer general of the age. The Democratic party, selecting an ex-rebel sympathizer, a friend of slavery and disunion, feels called upon to reform things. The Republican party hopes yet to perfect the civil service of the government. Tha Democratic party, under the leadership of the man who declared that not less than 50,000 federal officials must go to make room for partisan bummers, feels called upon to reform things. The absurdity of Democratic professions is apparent enough to any man who will but stop and compare its record with its professions, past and present. During the past quarter of a century it has never been right—never. It has doggedly opposed every measure that has been adopted as a part of the Nation’s polity and become recoguized as cardinal principles in our government. If the reader doubt it, the record is easy of access to prove what we assert. Yet the Democratic party feels called upon to reform things!

An incident illustrating the general feeling upon tho paramount issue of the day—protection to American labor—occurred at the mooting of the American Board of Foreign Missions, in Columbus, last week, and has thus far escaped notice in the public press. Dr. Green, missionary to Constantinople, one of the most oultured and able men in the field, was speaking to the point of self-support by mission churches. He spoke of the extreme aud, to the American people, the almost incomprehensible poverty of the Turkish Christians. “This condition,” he said, “has been aggravated by the Porte adopting the policy of free trade. Every Turk wears a red fez CAp. This has always been made at home, giving employment to a large number of people; but, under the operation of free trade, the Austrians have come in with a fez a little better than the Turks can make with their meager mechanical appliances, and sold a little cheaper, and the natives have been compelled to give up that industry. So with the manufacture of the Bruson towel, the use of which is general throughout the Sultan’s dominions. The British have usurped the trade in this article, completely paralyzing the industry at home. The classes employed in these two manufactures, for example, have been added to tho number who must be supported by the agricultural element, or become dependent upon charity.” At this point the several thousand people in the hall, comprising all classes of men—ministers, lawyers, merchants, manufacturers aud what not—broke out in applause. For a moment the good Doctor was nonplused, and could not account for tho demonstration. When the light broke in upon him he exclaimed: “Bless me! I didn’t intend to make any political reference in my remarks, but the facts are responsible for it. Free trade has

made it more difficult not only for our mission churohes to support themselves, but for the people of Turkey to eke out a livelihood.” The New York Evening Post printed a letter purporting to be one written to Frank A. Flower, of Madison, by Senator Edmunds, as follows: “Burlington, Vt., Sopt. 18, 1884. “Dear Sir—[Private:] —l have yours of the 15tli. As lam not in the letter-writing business, I mark this, as I have some similar ones, ‘private.’ I am sure that I never wrote or said that the gentleman you refer to ‘acts as the attorney of Jay Gould,’ for I am not conscious of ever having thought so. I presume it is true, although I can find no copy of the letter, that in 1880 I did write to some constituent adversely to the nomination of the gentleman named, and I believe it to bo true that he was on the side of the railroads in the struggle of 1878, and it is my belief that I said so. “As I have publicly stated, I expect to vote the Republican ticket. Yours, “George F. Edmunds. “Frank A. Flower. Esq., Madison, Wis.” Mr. Flower writes the Chicago News: “Mapison, Wis., Oct. 6. “To the Chicago News: “The letter published by you to-day as a pretended copy of one written by the Hon. George F. Edmunds, of Vermont, to myself is not a copy of any letter ever received by me from that gentleman. “Frank A. Flower.” This is the second fraud and forgery brought home to the New York Post, the first one be ing the Green B. Raum letter. But the Post prints another letter claiming it to be from Mr. Edmunds as follows: “Burlington, Sept. 20. “M. H. Cook, Castleton: “Yours of the 12th received. In reply would say lam out of politics this year. I hope the G. O. P. will pull through. Yours, etc. “G. F. Edmunds.” No man with brains enough to keep out of an idiot asylum would suppose Mr. Edmunds could or did write such a letter. Imagine the Vermont Senator writing the slang of the last sentence! The New York Evening Post is the organ of the “Independent” Perfectionists. What good will come to temperance men or the country at large by casting votes for St. John, and thus incurring the danger of putting the country into the hands of its ancient enemy? The New York State Temperance Assembly was wise in recommending the withdrawal of St. John. His candidacy is worse than a farce—it is a crime; for, while ho stands no earthly chance of receiving even a single electoral vote, his constituency, by their blindness, may give the country a Democratic administration. It is impracticable at this time to secure anything like prohibitory laws that will be effective on the Nation at large. The liquor traffic must be regulated by the police power of States. So, while the temperance people are chasing a chimera, a real danger threatens the people, the magnitude of which can scarcely be estimated. If those who believe in good government should unite, the danger would be averted and the country assured of a continuation of the blessings afforded by Republican national control.

The Chicago News is publishing the twaddle that General Logan is contemplating withdrawing from the Republican ticket in a certain contingency. The wish is father to the thought. General John A. Logan is not the sort of a man to withdraw —to retire in the face of the enemy. Did anybody hear of John Logan running from the field of battle? Whon he ran lie ran the other way—after the enemy. That is what he is doing now. The Democracy would be very glad if Logan would withdraw. But Logan is not only a fighter; he is a sticker. The Chicago News knows its publications are the veriest and silliest “rot.” A California correspondent of the New York Post complains that the partisan papers of that far Western State keep their readers in ignorance of the extent of the movement known as independent. Says the writer plaintively: “If I did not have the New York papers I should hardly know that there was such a thing as an independent.” Lots of people this side of California are in the same appalling state of darkness. If it was not for an occasional sight of one of those truly benevolent New York papers the whole independent party might die and be buried before the country could find it out. The farmers of New York know Mr. Cleveland as thoroughly, perhaps, as anybody outside of the Buffalo preachers. The State Farmers' Alliance of that State has issued “a communication to the farmers of the State of New York,” in which they say: “It becomes our painful duty to denounce Mr. Cleveland's candidacy as unworthy the support of the farmers and of the great body of independent voters who elected him two years ago.” With the farmer and dairymen against him and Tammany alienated, his chances of carrying his own State are not good. If Ohio keeps down the Republican majority next Tuesday to the Garfield figures we shall have strong hopes of seein" her electoral vote recorded with that of New York for Grover Cleveland; for the Prohibition vote in November will assuredly wipe out ar.v 20,000 Republican majority that may be given next week. —New York World. The absurdity of such logic is its best answer. If Ohio goes Republican to-morrow, it will increase the Republican majority by half in November, and the World knows that it will. Hedging is a wise thing, but can not be successfully done in the way the World undertakes it. The Prohibitionists talk much about voting for a principle, and that a vote for a principle was never thrown away. But prohibition is not a principle; it is only a method. If, by voting the Prohibition ticket, you fail to have the influence of your ballot count to promote

temperance, then vour vote is worse than lost, for you vote against the prinoiplo you seek. A vote, therefore, cast for a third ticket, if it defeats a temperance Republican and elects a no-sumptuary-law Democrat, is worse than thrown away. The awful murder of the HenAerstiot woman in this State by her husband and son. as recounted in the Journal, was oue of tlio most sickening crimes yet written in the criminal calendar. But. a family dispute resulting in a scarcely iess revolting occurrence lias taken place at Baltimore. In brief, the circumstances are as follows: James Everi6t and wife were the parentsof a bright-haired, three-year old girl, but were living apart on account of incompatibility. When Mrs. Everist left her husband she took her child and went to keep house for a widow named Maylan. In a short time her conduct became so scandalous that all the friends she had deserted her, and her husband brought suit for divorce. A few days ago, while tho suit was still pending, the child sickened and died. Everist thereupon wrote a touching appeal to his wife to let him provide for its burial. She acceded to the request, but when the undertaker went to the house Maylan refused to allow the coffin to be brought into the house, declaring that he had provided a casket. On the day of the funeral Everist stationed himself beside the grave, and when Maylan and Mrs. Everist came with the body he again begged that it might be interred in the casket he had bought Maylan escaped by scaling the cemetery wall, and the woman consented to the transfer of the body. But when Everist took it in his arms his wife seized it by the arm, and a desperate struggle ensued, in which the arm was pulled from its socket at the shoulder. Seeing what she had done, the wretched woman fainted. The horrified husband then proceeded with the burial, while the spectators rowed vengeance upon Maylan if he dared remain in the city, though he is a man of wealth, the owner of a hundred or more houses. Rev. J. C. Fletcher, writing from Naples, Italy, under date of September 25, says: “The number of persons attacked is 10,121. Our commerce is parlyzed, our small merchants are failing by the hundred, and the larger husi ness men will soon feel it Great commercial distress is beginning to be felt throughout the whole country, for all Italy has spent millions in quarantines on the seacoast and on the landfrontier which has spoiled business and has not kept out the cholera. Still, we are looking forward hopefully, when the deaths have fallen from 500 per diem to 137 per diem —which last, is from yesterday's bulletin. We are thankful that our part of the city has been spared. Will L. Visscher. an ex Kentucky journalist, has been nominated for the Colorado Legislature by the Democrats of Denver.-—Louisville Commercial. And it was not many months ago when Visschcr was respectable and honest, To tho Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: Was there an amendment to the Mexican pension bill to pension only those soldiers over sixty -two years of age. If so, give a full detail of the bill with amendments? North Salem, lnd. W. P. Stevrns. The Senate amendment on this point limited pensions to Mexican soldiers to those who had attained the age of sixty-two years, or who were now disabled or dependent. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please state the date of the introduction of the Brown constitutional convention bill, and the date of final action thereon. Also, the date of the introduction of the prohibition amendments. Noblesville, Oct. 7, 84. Inquirer. The Brown bill was introduced on Jan. 11, 1881, and the first action was on Feb. 11, 1881. Tho prohibition amendments were introduced by Mr. Huston on March 15, 1881. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please state to your patrons of this district how John E. Lamb did vote on the Mexican pension bill. M. P. Dennis. CUAWFORDSVILLE. Mr. Lamb voted for the bill as it passed the House. He voted twice in favor of its consideration after its return from the Senate. The third time he did not vote.

POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. Mr. Cleveland, it is said, keeps his collars in a cheese box. A poll of New York State by counties gives Butler a vote of 80,800. The Buffalo Times reports that Rosnoe Conkling will make a speech this week against the election of Mr. Blaine. When two Democratic candidates for Congress in Massachusetts decline in one day, the Democratic situation does not appear so cheery as it might bo. In a letter to a prominent lawyer in Boston, a Democratic official in Florida writes: “It; is possible that Blaine will carry Florida, * *>• and. 1 am afraid that Blaine will be electeifk r V^i^, “A sea of upturned faces” is conTOirriomdly correct, but “acres of people" is inexcusable hyperbole. Twenty five thousand men packed as in political meetings fill just about one acre. Lowell Citizen: A young woman has been found in New York who can sing baritone, tenor, soprano and contralto. To add to the horrors of of the presidential campaign, it is announced that she will soon appear in public. The Cincinnati correspondent of the Boston Herald telegraphs that “there is something refreshing in finding a fact, even if it is antagonistic," and adds: “There is no doubt that the Germans are returning to the Republican party.” Some of his party friends wan tod to run General Nathaniel P. Banks for Congress this fall, but he said to them: “I have had all of Congress I want. I have once been a leader there, and if I should go back what would it amount to for me?” One fourth of the voters who will cast ballots in November have come of age since General John F. Farnsworth, of Illinois, left the Republican party, but that does not deter the Demo cratic papers from parading him as a Cleveland Republican. The removal of the tax on matches has not, as predicted, started many new factories, but has brought into the American market the manufactures of England, Sweden, France, and Italy. Those are sold so cheap that further competition seems impossible. New York Tribune: It is curious, to say the least of it, how journals and men who contemptuously refused to believe Mr. Beecher’s sworn statements a few years ago, now rejoice to put implicit confidence in his recollection of the talk at a dinner table in 1877. Washington Critic: Secretary Michener, of the Republican State central committee of Indiana, writes that that State is more safely Republican now than at this stage of the canvass in 1880. He says the organization was never so perfect nor the enthusiasm so nearly boundless. This is Fred Douglass's message to colored men: “Go home, colored men, aud learn this political catechism: You are under the American flag to day* Who put you there? The Republican party. You are in the United States Constitution to-day. Who put you there? The Re publican party. You are American citizens to day. Who made you such? The Republican party. You are eligible to any office of honor or profit in the gift of the Nation. Who made you so? The Republican party. You have the constitutional right to vote to-day. Who gave you

that right? The Republican party. Millions of colored people have been emancipated and set free. By what party was this done? By the Republican party. Chairman Warren, of the New York Republican Stato committee, is informed that Cleveland men are traveling about tho western part of that Stato in the guise of Prohibitionists, urging Republicans to vote for St, John They are doubtless paid from the contributions of the liquor interest. Kalamazoo Telegraph: The cavalry general who is brought forward every campaign as a prominent instance of a leading Germaii who is a Democrat is again active In that cause. General Sigel's great specialty is in handling a retreat, in which he serves the Democratic armie3 very acceptably every four years. The Leavenworth Times has trustworthy advices from all sections of Kansas that many of those Republicans who have been “'Halting between two opinions, ” as between the mixed and the Republican tickets, aro beginning to see that their line of duty continues to run in the direction of the “grand old party." Milwaukee Sentinel: The game of bluff in regard to Ohio is ended—tho Democrats have quit claiming the State. But they are spending money freely, and aro making the best fight they have ever made in that State. The Ohio election is full of portent, so far as the Democratic party is concerned. If they fail to carry the State to-morrow, then there is no hope of Cleveland's election, and he will be withdrawn if a good man can be found to take his place. Hartford Oourant: The frequent statements that Mr. Tilden lias broken down, not only physically but mentally, are confirmed by the publication of a letter over his signature which could never have emanated from his mind or pen, a dozen years ago. It is charitable to Mr. Tildon to assume that, being too weak and too indifferent to public affairs to endeavor to reply personally to the “taffy” resolutions of the Democratic national convention, he has allowed some tyro to put forth a reply over his name. A Republican brewer thus writes to the New Y T ork Tribune: “The chances for the success of the Republican party are at least as good as those of the Democratic party. Let our association espouse the cause of Cleveland as proposed and what kind of treatment may we expect in tho event of Republican success? Again, can the brewers afford to have the people of this country understand that the organization is a tender vu the Democratic party? As one in interest, 1 protest against the brewers beiug placed in such a dangerous position.”

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. John MCCULLOUGH has earned over $1,000,000, and has SOO,OOO left. Pkofkssob Brinton advises patients with stiffened shoulders to bore twenty holes 2ha inches deep in a soft plank daily. Mr. Philip Armour, the- ChicaerD pork king, is credited with a fortune of $25,000,000. or enough to buy up the entire kingdom of Greece. Kossuth lives in a little attic appartment at Turin , having retired from his business as teacher of the English language, and is feeble in bis old ago. Mmk. Krapotkine, the wife of the imprisoned prince and exile, has not yet reached her thirtieth year. She is rather short in stature, though firmly built, and well shapen. The demand for opium as a nerve stimulant during the cholora scare in Europe is said to have advanced the price of the drug more than twenty-five per cent., even in British markets. Lord Rosse. son of the famous astronomer and owner of the largest telescope in the world, is in Philadelphia. He looks about forty years old, is ruddy, and has the appearance of a jolly farmer. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the widow of the Commodore, has returned from Dresden to London, and at last accounts was at the St. James Hotel for a few days, preparatory to sailing for hom*. Professor Ludwio Mauthnkr, the famous Vienna oculist, has just succeeded in restoring sight to a colleague aged ninety-six. In another case he restored sight to a patient of 102 years. The casos are said to be uniquo in eye surgery. John I. Blair, who was brought prominently into public, notice as manager of the Chicago corner in corn last month, is a Jersevman by birth, and was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New’ Jersey. His fortune is estimated at $20,000,000. The latest indignity offered to the memory of Carlyle is to credit him with having invented the word “dude.” In his journal on July 15, 1735, he wrote. “I seldom read any dude of a book, no veil or the like where the writing seems to flow along like talk, without a certain pain, a certain envy.” It is the little things in life that count. A couple in New York State lived happily together for two years. A few mornings ago a fly made a misstep on the brim of the cup and fell into the wife's coffee. The offender w’as picked out by the husband aud accidentally tossed upon the lady's plate. She became angry, packed up her belongings and wont home to her father. The separation is said to be final. Kaishkr Wilhelm having had five falls within the past two years, one of which was due to causes outside of himself, it is now believed that a species of epilepsy is their aourco. Despite this threatening symptom and the weight of his eighty-seven years, however, he rides before his soldiers at review with almost the vigor of youth, for, as Tissot said, he “is a Hohenzollern: that is. a warrior hatched from the eannon ball as.tjie eagle is hatched from the egg.” R. J. Bußi>fc*rt*F has written an epic on the baby, consisting of one stanza. Here it is: He's come where he’ll have to scratch for his grub, And reach out for everything he gets; He'll weep when they first douse him into the tub, And he’ll get shaken up when he frets. They’ll think he's smart when he first learns to crawl, And they’ll go into fits when ho talks; And he’ll have the most fun when he's vory, very small, For he'll have to go it alone when lie walks. Mr. Gladstone generally dresses plainly, but, liko the aloe, blooms once in a hundred years or so. When that event occurs the splendor of his blossoming calls for detailed record. On his first drive into Edinburg from Dalmenv—the morning was bright and sunny—he flashed upon the town like a ray of light, and sat among his sombre companions like a bird of paradise in an aviary of jackdaws, clothed, like Tennyson’s party in the pool, “in white samite,” or what might have been a coat of that material: his walscoat was also white, his trousers a lovely lavender, his tie the line of the pale primrose, while in his buttonhole he sported a rose larger than a cauliflower, but less In size than a drum-head cabbage. And to this a hat of veritable white, not tho dubious drab which is the common wear, but as white as whitewash, and you have the figure which showed in the Scotch capital as the sun in Turner’s sea piecos shows from surrounding clouds. There are a great number of anecdotes about General Skobcloff, which havo become legendary in the Russian army, and there are a much greater number about the Russian Jews which circulate through all classes of Russian society. The following story, which is of interest for the admirers of the “White General” and the haters of the Russian Jew. was revived when Prince Bismarck, as a sign of special distinction, received tho cross Pour le Merite. .Skobcleff, so goes the story, was working ono evening in his tent near the Danube, or near a pond, whon a Turkish bomb dropped at the threshold of the tent. Tho General had just, time to see the sentinel outside stoop down and phlegmatically throw the shell into the water. Skobeleff approached the soldier and said: "Do you know that you have saved my life?” “I have done my best, General.” “Very well; which would you rather have, the St. George’s Cross or one hundred roubles?” The sentinel was a Jew with a fine Semitic profile. He hesitated a moment aud then said: “What is the value of the St. George's cross, my General?” “What do you mean? The cross itself is of no value; it may bo worth five roubles perhaps,but it is an honor to possess it.” “Well, my General,” calmly said the soldier, “if it Is like that, give me ninety five rouble# aud tho cross of St. George!”* • —*