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by a man named Xdpphard, who assumes to represent a Protestant secret association, and who has been subsidized by Democratic managers, and is now engaged in a scheme to misrepresent Mr. Blaine, by charging him with affiliation with the Roman Catholic Church. Lipphard left Washington last night on a mission, under the auspices of the Democratic management, to members of the order which he assumes to represent in several of the'New England States, and in Troy, Albany, I'tica, Svracuso. Geneva. Now York, and certain localities in Pennsylvania. He is freighted with ail the exploded slanders the Democrats have coined to insure Mr. Blaine, and will use them unscrupulously. Mr. Lipphard hits “a hook of facts." as he calls it, nearly ready to he published and circulated among tho members of tho order of the American Union. If his claim does not miscarry, he proposes to distribute this book among tie? Protestant clergy of the United States about ten days before election. He claims that the order which lie professes to represent has a membership of one million and a quarter iu the United States. POLITICAL, NOTES., Tilden’s Dilatory Indorsement of Cleveland and Hendricks. Special to the Indianapolis Jonrual. Washington, Oct. 18.-—The letters from Tilden indorsing first the Democratic party and latterly Cleveland and Hendricks have given much encouragement to the representative Democrats congregated here. It took many weeks of solicitation to got the Sage of Gramercy Park to dictate a letter in the interest of the party, and when it was finally written it was found to contain not a single reference to the standard-bearers, Cleveland and Hendricks. Then came another season of solicitation, and finally the letter with the indorsement of the candidates. Mr. Tilden has not so many friends in the Democratic party as he had three months ago. I am told by a gentleman who stands very close to John Kelly, and Randall, and other leaders of the party, that Tilden has proven himself to be very selfish since tlio Cincinnati convention in 1880. It is claimed that he sold his best friend, Mr. Randall, and has proven himself destitute of any and all sense of gratitude. It is charged by leading Democrats here that Tilden has offered no aid in the present cam paign, and that he could scarcely be induced to write the brief letters that he did in the interest of Democratic success. The Next House of Representatives. Special to the Indianapolis Jonrnal. Washington, Oct. 18.—It is an old saw here that when an October election in Ohio gains Republican members of Congress, the next House of Representatives will bo Republican. So the figurers have a Republican majority for the Fortyninth Congress. When the Republicans have a majority of toe delegation from Ohio, they will have a good majority in the House: but when the Ohio delegation is closely balanced the majority may be so close in the House that it will require a coalition to organize. The computors of congressional organization matters are placing the majority of the next House at from fifteen to twenty Republican. The Modest Mrs. Lockwood. New York, Oct, 18.—Mrs. Belva Lockwood arrived in this city thi3 morning, stopping at the Fifth-avenue Hotel. A1 most immediately after enteringthc hotel she went out again and visited the gallery of a photographer. The operator was about to seat her in a small chair, when she espied the large chair,in which Blaine and Cleveland sat while having their photographs taken. “Why don't you place me in that chair"’ she asked. “That is the presidential chair," replied the operator. “Well, sir, I will sit in that chair." said Mrs. Lockwood; “I think I am able to fill it as wellas any who have occupied it.” Figures on West Virginia. Wheeling, Oct. 18.—Returns are still incomcomplete. Careful estimates place the Democratic majority at about 5,000, but it may be a little less. It will be two or three days before Hie remote counties can be heard from officially.

The Conscience of the Country. Philadelphia Telegraph. The twin mottoes, “Be Bold - ' and “Be Not Too Bold," are good thing? just now for Republicans to ponder. Overconfidence may ruin overythini_'. and so may indifference to the last phases of the struggle which Democratic vehemence and desperation arc certain to set forth. But it appears manifest to us that yesterday's work shows that an intense feeling of conscience pervades the country, that men strongly feel the importance of the issues presented, that such convictions override personal considerations or individual preferences in the matter of candidates, and that as the Republican party with all its faults was the salvation of the Republic, so the voters of such affiliations with practical unanimity are joined to defeat tho proposition to make over the government to the men who strained every nerve to destroy it, and are more than ever convinced that the Republican industrial theory is the only one to be depended on to assure lasting peace and prosperity. And so the tide of battle rolls into the still doubtful States—but with the Republicans the better armed and the most strongly entrenched. Wisconsin Sure for Republicans. Lafayette Courier. Hon. Joseph Brueker. of Wisconsin, who, with Prof. IL T. Detmar, of Illinois, spoke atl’ythian Hall last night, was interviewed by a Courier representative: “Some Democratic papers speak of Wisconsin as one of the doubtful states. Is there any reason for that?” asked the reporter. “None in tho least. Wisconsin is a certain Republican State by from Id,ooo to 20,000 majority. I guess you will find that no Democrat, who is candid will say that Wisconsin affords any consolation to the Democracy.” THE INDIANA CANVASS. Meetings in Sbelby County—Prohibitionists Returning to the Fold. Correspondence of tho Indianapolis Journal. Sjuelbyville, Oct 18.—lion. Alfred Potts, of Indianapolis, addressed a Republican meoting at Marion, last night, discussing the tariff as it affects the farmers of America. Mr. Potts is an able speaker, and created a very favorable impression on his audience. To-night a large Republican meeting wasfheld at Moscow, Rush county, delegations being present from the surrounding villages. Hon. Thomas B. Adams, of this city, and Dr. C. 0. Hcull, of Lebanon, delivered addresses. Two thousand persons attended tho Republican meeting in the court-house park, to-day, at 2 o'clock. Hon. William 11. Calkins, candidate for Governor, had been advertised to speak. Hon. Charles L. Holstein filled the appointment, speaking for two hours in an able manner. His speech was one that will do good with his hearers. most of whom were farmers. R. R. Shiel followed in a speech creating considerable applause. At night a large mass meeting was held in Sindlingei's Hall, which was densely packed, many ladies being present. John B. Elam was the orator of the evening speaking with great force and power. Isaac Keith, a prominent Prohibitionist of this •city, to-night publishes a card in the Shelbyville Republican, in which he says he proposes to stand by Die Republican paity, advises his temperance friends to do likewise, and calls upon ids soldier friends to stand by the Republican party. Several other Prohibitionists have, since the Ohio election, returned to the party of progress and honesty. Joint Discussion at Scottsburg, • CoiToipiimlenco of tho Indianapolis Journal. !■' OTTsnviir;, Oct. 18.—Eugene P. McCaslin mid William Ilice, both local speakers, held a joint discussion hero to day. Rice led off with i! regulation Democratic speech (principally read 1 t he Democratic text book and newspapers), io which he abused the administration, and deInnudelu change, without giving any reason

therefor; he shed crocodile tears when bewailing the impoverished condition of the country, and especially the laborer, all on account of tho robber tariff. McCaslin followed in a logical speech of an hour and a half, in which he fully met the position assumed by Rice, and clearly demonstrated that the Democracy only desired the offices and eared nothing for the people, and were again attempting to ride into power by presuming upon tlie ignorance of the neoplo. Rice's close was nothing but the wail of a badlywhipped man. It was a complete triumph for McCaslin. General Browne iu Delaware County. Coneepondence of the Indianapolis Journal. Muncik, Oct 17.—General Thomas M. Browne addressed a large and enthusiastic crowd of Republicans yesterday afternoon at Eaton, and this afternoon at New Corner, both of which towns are in tho northern part of this county. The people assembled at each place to the number of two thousand—very large gatherings for such small places. The General was in his best humor, and made a forcible speech, in which he discussed the pension, tariff and financial questions in the most telling way. and with remarkable effect. This is the section of the county over which Secretary of State Myers ran a week or so ago, and sought to make friends and votes by a discussion of local questions; but it seems that he has failed completely, for Delaware county throughout was never in better shape to give a solid support to the State and national tickets. General Browne's presence and speeches this week have contributed greatly to this result. General Many at Greenfield. Correspondence of tlie Indianapo is Journal. Greenfield, Oct. 18. —An enthusiastic meeting was hold here to-night. Captain R. A. Riley, the Butler elector for this district, was chosen as chairman, and, upon taking the chair, gave his reason, in a half-hour speech, why he Preferred Blaine and Logan to Cleveland and lendricks in suck a manner as to bring Mitehel, of the Hancock Democrat, to his feet on several occasions, but always to return to his seat vanquished. At the close of Captain Riley's remarks, General Many delivered an address, which was received with great enthusiasm. A STRANGE FREAK. A Thirteen-Year-Old Girl That Has Never Taken a Mouthful of Food. Bowling Green Ky .) Gazette. Mr. Finus Divine, of Allen county, informs us that he has a daughter thirteen years of age that has never taken a mouthful to eat. She is deaf and dumb, cannot walk, but seems to be healthy, weighs about seventy-five pounds, and crawls all about the premises and over any fence that eomes in her way. The child is feebleminded, and is a great care to tho family, having to be confined in a close room of nights to keep her from doing herself bodily harm and possibly damage to others. She is fed with milk all the time, and consumes from one and a half to two gallons per day, seldom accepting a drink of water. On one occasion her parents starved her for five days and nights to see if she would not relish other food than milk, but slie scornfully ejected all other bits of food placed in her mouth. Though she is feeble-minded, sho makes her wants for milk known by signs, and when her calls are not heeded she raises a terrible row and win have her wants gratified or break up the whole dairy department of tho household Mr. Divine has several other children that are as healthy and intellectual as any that can be found.

Racing at Brighton Reach. New Ygkk, Oct. 18.—The first race, for a purse of $250, for two-year-olds, three-quarters of a mile, was won by Myrtle by a head: Emmel second, Paul Keenan third. Time, 1:20J. Mutuals paid $147. The second race, for a purse of $250, weights ten pounds above the scaie, selling allowances, one mile and a furlong, was won by Tony Pastor: Charley B. second, Normal third. Time, 1:50k The third race, for a purse of S4OO, a handicap, one mile and a quarter, was won by Centennial by a head; Lizzie Mac second, Royal Arch third. Time, 2:12;. The fourth race, for a purse of $250, for threeyear olds and upward, Welter weights, seven furlongs, was won by Hazard; Sugar Plum second, Josie Carter third. Time, 1:38k The fifth race, for a purse of $250, a handicap, one mile and a quarter, over five hurdles, was won by Rochester by a head; Bally second. Time, 2:23. A Plunge Into Boiling Bard. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Columbus, Ind., Oct. 18.—To-day, about noon, a young man named George Kinsey was horribly burned by falling into a tank of boiling lard. Ho sank, all except his head, hut by a desperate effort got out, tore off his clothes, the skin coming with them and jumped into the river. Then in a frenzy he started for home in a nude state, but was intercepted, placed in a vehicle and taken to his home. The flesh over his whole body is literally cooked to a considerable depth, and the physicians think it almost impossible for him to recover. Faith Cure on Top. Watertown, Wis., Oct. 18. — W. H. Buckley, a harness-maker from Chicago, has opened a series of meetings in the Baptist Church for the healing of the halt and diseased. The afflicted appear before the altar and are addressed briefly by Mr. Buckley before the ceremony of laying on of hands takes place. The most remarkable case last night was that of Miss Ellen Bnehle, of Waterloo, who was so weak from consumption that she had to be helped to the place at the altar. When the ceremony was completed, however, she arose and walked with a Arm step around the pulpit to her seat, and declared she was entirely cured. Buckley will remain seme time, and will probably draw great crowds. Cow Rates Over the Central. New York, Oct. 18. — The Tribune says the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company announces that in order to afford its patrons as low rates as are offered by competing lines to the West, it will commence the sale, on Monday, at all offices in the city, of first and second class tickets at reduced rates to all points in tho West, the rates to Chicago being fixed at $1G.50 for first class, and sl4 for second; to Cincinnati, sls for first class and sl4 for second class; to St. Loais, sl9 for first class and $18.50 for second class, with corresponding redactions to other points, Death of Officer Gorman ami His Sister. Cincinnati. Oct. 18. —Policeman Michael Gorman died to-day. He was shot last Tuesday evening in a small riot among colored men. Gorman attempted to arrest a man and was shot in tire back by an unknown man. This was the beginning of the riot. Henry Brown a colored man, was also killed in the affray. Tuesday evening, on receipt of the news of the wounding of Gorman, Mrs. Rinear, a sister of Gormon. became ili, and this morning, upon hearing of his death, fell into a comatose state and died in a few hours. Indications. War Department, 1 Office of the Chief Sion a l Officer, > Washington, Oct. 10 la. m. > For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley—Fair weather, variable winds, becoming southerly, higher temperature, lower barometer. For tho Upper Lake Region—Generally fair weather, followed by increasing cloudiness, local rains, southerly winds, increasing to brisk, higher temperature, lower barometer. Deputy Sheriff Shot Dead. Caldwell, Kan., Oet. 18.—C. M. Hollister, deputy sheriff of this county, and deputy United States marshal, was shot and instantly killed about daylight, this morning, near Hannewell, by Bob Cross, a noted deperado, while attempting to arrest him. A large party is in puruit of Cross, and if caught he will be lynched. Steamship News. Liverpool, Oct. 18.'—Arrived: Nevada, from New York. New York, Oct. 18. —Arrived: Nederland, from Antwerp: Egypt, from Liverpool; Italy from Loudon.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1884.

THE FIRE EECORD. A Locomotive Spark Causes Damage to the Amount of $150,000. Barnekville, Ga., Oct, 18. —About 1 o'clock, yesterday, a spark from a passing engine on tho Central railroad set fire to 250 bales of cotton on the depot platform. The fire rapidly spread, and in two hours had destroyed four-fifths of the business part of the town, involving a loss of $150,000, on which there was very ligh t insurance. as the rate on one side of tho town was 0 per cent. The railroad depot, which was built of rock and covered with slate, was not burned. Large quantities of goods were piled in the public square, but the heat became so great that they were burned. The office of the Barnesville Gazette, the Odd-fellows' hall and the postoffice were among tire buildings burned. , The heaviest losers are W. R. Murphy & Cos., $30,000; insurance, SB,OOO. L. S. Summers and D. A. Stroud, buildings, $25,000. W. D. Marshborn, $11,000; insurance, SB,OOO. Rogers & Smith, $10,000; insurance, $2,500. R. J. Powell, building, $25,000; insurance light. Summers & Murphy, carriage factory, $20,000; insurance, $5,000. Tliirty-five buildings were consumed. A $30,000 lire was reported at Ackworth, last night, destroying the stores of L. H. Tanner, Litchfield & Putnam and S. M. Lemons & Cos. Insurance, $20,000, There was a serious fire also at Cochran. Stage Scenery Burned. New York, Oct. 18.—For some months the scenery used by Kiralfy Bros, in ‘ ‘Around the World" has been stored in an alley-way at Fourth street. This morning smoke was seen issuing from the place, and immediately after flames burst forth. The fire was extinguished before it spread to adjoining buildings, but the inflammable scenery was totally destroyed. It was brought to this country from Europe, and cannot readily be replaced. Estimates of the loss run from $3,000 to $20,000. Dwelling Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Grkensburg, Oct. 18.—The large frame farm residence of John F. McGee, two and a half miles west of town, burned at midnight, together with all the outbuildings. Cause, defective flue. Loss, $3,000. Nothing saved. Insured for $1,200 in tho MecHanicsburg Mutual, a local company. Business Section of Edgefield, Ga., Destroyed. Augusta, Ga., Oct 18.—Fire, to-day, destroyed the business portion of EdgefieldAmong the stores burned are those of W. B. Penn, Grace & Turner, C. S. B. Marsh, W. B. Brunson, AY. E. Lynch, AV. H. McCullough, J. M. Cable, AV. H. Brunson, G. S. Burnett & Cobb, the office of the Edgefield Chronicle and Express. Only throe stores remain. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Incendiary Fire at Easton. Easton, Pa., Oct 18. —An incendiary fire this morning destroyed AV. W. Stocker & Cos. 's sawmill, Bernard Coyle & Son's ice-house and stable, and Taylor & Cos. 's store, saw mill and ice-house. Stocker’s Io6S is $15,000; insurance, $2,000. Coyle & Son’s loss is $3,000; insuranco, SI,OOO. Twelve Stores Bnrned. Augusta, Ga., Oct. 18. —Twelves stores in Edgefield burned this morning at 4 o’clock. Last year a like conflagration occurred in the same part of town. Loss, SIOO,OOO, with very little insurance. Box Factory Burned. New Haven, Conn., Oct 18. —This morning Benton, Nichols & Co.’s patent folding box manufactory burned. Loss, $20,000: insurance, $12,000. _______ Elevator Burned. Lawrence, Kans., Oct 18.—Moak's elevator burned at half-past 10 to-night. Loss, $25,000; partially insured.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The exports of specie for the week were $192, - 000, making a total, since Jan. 1, of $48,093,000, against $12,805,000 last year. The President has appointed Stephen F. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, to be associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico. The imports at the port of New York for the week ended on Saturday were $8,007,000, of which $2,010,000 were dry goods and $5,996,000 general merchandise. Jacob Raber, a single man, and Thomas Jones, married, both of Locustdale, Pa.,were struck by a fall of coal, while working at Merriam colliery, on Saturday, and fatally injured. Willie Webster, a bootblack, fifteen years old, was arrested at St. Louis on Saturday. He says he was one of a party of six boys who lighted the fire which resulted in the great lumber-yard conflagration at Cleveland. The Oak Park dummy, in charge of a young boy, running between Chicago and the village of Oak Park, ran into a rapidly moving train on the Bolt-line railroad. A passenger named Dickey was killed, and others had narrow escapes. F. C. Bangs, agent for the Perkins-Lyons Company, liquor dealers, St. Paul, Minn., was arrested at Williamsport, Va., on Saturday, on a charge of embezzling $1,500 from his employers, and placed in jail to await a requisition from Minnesota. Michipicoton, on the north shore of Lake Superior, is reported to he in the posession of a gang of roughs and whiskey sellers. The respectable people of the place have received notice to quit the town. On Friday night last the Canadian Pacific railroad office was riddled with bullets by a band of masked men. At St. Louis, yesterday, Mrs. Zerelda Samuels, the mother, and Mrs. Jesse James, tiie widow of the famous outlaw, were awarded damages of $960 in a suit against the Chambers Publishing Company for violation of the contract under which royalty was to be paid them for the publication of tho “Life of Jesse James." On Saturday afternoon an engine on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad, in which Wm. M. Ke.tehner, superintendent of the signal towel’s of qhe company, was riding, ran into a mixed passenger and freight train near Exeter. Tho car and engine were partially wrecked and Ketchner instantly killed. Several personswere slightly hurt. When the steamer Faraday was starting rafts with the cable to shore, with two miles of cable coiled upon the rafts on Thursday night, at Manhattan Beach, the rafts, by the cables shifting, were capsized, and about a quarter of a mile of cable went overboard. The cable was grappled for but was not recovered. It is expected a landing will be made to-day. Young Korns, tho night operator of the Chicago & Northwestern at Winnebago, was knocked down by some unknown parties, a huge gash being cut in his head. It is believed lie cannot recover. Ho has been unconscious ever since. Friends think that a man whose discharge was obtained by Kerns for insulting a woman in that village committed the assault. The public health convention closod its session in St. Louis yesterday, after electing the following officers for the year: Dr. James E. Reves, Wheeling. W. Va.. president; Hon. Erastus Brooks, New York, first vice-president; Dr. Henry P. Baker, Michigan, second vicepresident; Dr. J. B. Lindsloy, Tennessee, treasurer, and Dr. H. P. Walcott, Massachusetts, secretary. The next meeting will be held in Washington, D. C., in 1885. The steamer San Marios, which arrived at New York, yesterday, from Galveston, reports that on Oet. 16, off tho capes of Virginia, sho was boarded by a boat from the steamer Rio Grande, hence for Galveston, which brought a young man named Franklin, taken from the sinking yacht Bonit, the same morning. Franklin was on board a half sunken boat from Wednesday morning, at which time the yacht capsized, until Thursday, when ho was taken off. Fist-Fight in a Court-Room. Louisville, Ky., Oct. 18.—A sensation was caused in thecourt house, this morning, by a light between Judge Hargis, until recently Chief Justice of the Or urt of Appeals, and Colonel Bennett H. Young, a well known lawyer, and president of the Southern Exposition. In his argu-

ment in an injunction case, Mi 1 . Hargis made a remark reflecting on Mr. Young, who immediately denounced the ex Chief Justice as an infamous liar. At this, Hargis hurled two lawbooks at Young. Tho two clinched and were having a regular mill when they were separated by friends. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. A Fropositidn That the Laws Regulating Them Be Internationally Regulated. Philadelphia Special to Pittsburg Dispatch. “The divorce laws of the civilized world should be fixed by international treaty," said H. Inderwick, Q C., momber of Parlirment from Sussex, at the Continental Hotel, yesterday afternoon. The distinguished counselor is tall anil shapely, with an almost Yanke face, steel blue eyes, that alternately glared and twinkled at his listener. “There are questions of great importance involved in knowing the exact status of parties divorced in tho United States where one is English and the other American. Many complications arise, and tho present condition of the law precludes their adjustment.” “Wliat are your personal suggestions on the subject!" was asked. “The remedy is clear,” rejoined the Queen’s counsel, straightening himseif.back in his chair. “The domicile of tile wife must be taken as the domicile of the husband. They can obviously have only one legal residence between them. (Obvious as this principle is, it is not recognized; but, if fixed, would utterly break up the bogus divorce business.) AVhen the bona fide domicile is in tho States divorce should be had here which will be valid throughout tho civilized world. The same principle would apply to Americans in England. I have had a great deal of trouble in England with divorces granted in this country. Many ot' them appear to be allowed on the flimsiest grounds and confirmed by judicial decree of the most primitive kind. ” “Give me an instance.” S|i“Perhaps the most striking case was that of a gentleman who formerly held a position as consular agent for this country at Teheran, Persia. His wife did not like tho climate, and, as her husband would not give up his post, she decided to get rid of him. She came home to America, and in one of the liberal States, 1 really forget which, applied to a judge for a divorce. It is possible she told him that her husband was at Teheran, but whether his honor knew where that city was or not cannot be established by the evidence, so far as I know. He ordered a notice to the husband advertised three weeks in a local paper, and then granted the divorce on tho ground of the respondent’s nonappearance. ' The woman remarried, and the husband, being an Englishman, went to London. He applied to me, and I advised him that American divorce was a nullity. He then instituted proceedings i!* the English courts, and eventually secured his freedom. ” “Please state the formalities required iu Great Britain.” “AVa have only had divorces by legal process since 1858,” was the reply. “Formerly they were only obtained under the old canon law and by act of Parliament. The petition must bo served personally on the parties. That having been dono, the subsequent notices can bo sent to the attorney. Tho judge, however, has power to dispense with the personal services, if, in his opinion, the party is evading such service, or cannot be found after reasonable search. In that case the petition would be advertised and also served upon a near relative. Everything must bear the stamp of good faith. A man can obtain a divorce from his wife on the ground of adultery, but tba woman cannot be fully released from him by proving such a charge. The charge must have coupled with it that of assault or neglect. She may, however, obtain judicial separation. This puts the pair in exactly tho same position as unmarried people, save that they cannot re-marry. They can bring action against one another. He can grant alimony, but there are cases in which the former husband can exact assistance from the former wife. English legal history shows many instances, though they are not so common now as formerly. The Marquis do Caux, for example, would bo entirely within the English law in demanding an allowance from Mme. Patti The judge has power to order such an allowance. It is reasonable enough, in my judgment, because the custody of the children is often awarded the father, and his duty is to provide for their future. Divorce does not set aside any contracts; it simply dissolves the relations of husband and wife." “A\ r hat is the prospect for the deceased wife’s sister?” was suggested. “She comes to the surface regularly. Our royal family stands sponsor for her; for what reason I can’t for the life of me see. She will eventually get her claims on her brother-in-law recognized. I doubt not. The bill only failed in the Lords tho last time by a mere accident. It passed the second reading by a good majority, and the friends of the bill, supposing that it was certain to go through the final ballot neglected to come and were beaten. The opposition were present to a man. The deceased husband’s brother may then get his rights. A divorced man can not marry his sister-in-law or a woman her brother-in-law. This is because of a clause in our divorces saying, ‘The same conditions as if your wife (or husband) were dead.’ ”

JAMES P. JOY. Tho .11 an Who Contradicts Beecher—Who He Is. Washington Letter, A Michigan statesman gives me the following gossip about him: “He is one of the most upright, men in Michigan, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a man whose bond is good for $1,000,600 almost any hour in the day. Ho is a self-made millionaire, and when he came to the West, from New England, he had nothing but a good education, pluck, and business ability. He had bean educated at Bowdoin College, in the same class, I am told, with the poet Longfellow, and ha began his career at Detroit as a law student. Shortly after this he became a partner of Mr. Porter, once Governor of Michigan, and the firm w*s known as Joy & Porter. It was at just about this time that the great era of railroad building commenced, and Michigan had gone into an extensive system of internal improvements, including railroads and canals. Within a few years these became mixed up with politics, and the State got disgusted, and wanted to get rid of its interest in them. Tho Lake Shore As Michigan Southern and the Michigan Central were sold, and James F. Joy had something to do with their sales. This was his first initiation in railroading, and from that time to this he has been one of the leading railroad men of the country. He made a special study of railroad law and was soon known as Die greatest railroad lawyer of tho West. He was a member of the company which built the first railroad west of Chicago, and he figures as one of the soven men who objjpined the first railroad land grant in the United States, which was for the Illinois Central, then running from Chicago to Cairo. Stephen A. Douglas helped Mr. Joy in the getting of this grant, and it proved very profitable indeed. By this time Mr. Joy had become the greatest railroad man of the West. The Eastern capitalists had unlimited confidence in him, and he could command any amount of money for any enterprise he wished to engage in. He built the first railroad to tho Mississippi, and was the first to bridge that river. All over the Northwest ho has laid his tracks, and he is now worth between five and six million dollars. He has been for years a leading Republican, and has done a great deal for the party. He was for years the intimate friend of Zach Chandler, and lie was wont to help Senator Chandler greatly while he lived. “Mr. Joy is now about seventy-four years old, and he is healthy enough when at home to walk up and down town to and from his office. He is at it, too, every day in tho week except Sunday, and he works from 8 till 4. He is very plain and simple in all his habits, and there is nothing of tho aristocrat or the snob about him. He lives in a fine house on Fort street, and, though it is finely furnished, he is prouder of its large private library than of any other part of it. Mr. Joy is a great reader, and he especially affects French books, which he reads in the original. He still keeps up his Latin, and is fond of Victor Hugo, ” Mr. Blaine’s Habits. Atlanta Constitution. Mr. Blaine not only takes care of his money, but he takes remarkably good care of himself. His tastes are very simple. During his long public life ho has given and attended many elaborate dinners, but he always passed over the rich dishes, and if he took any wine he never wentboyoud a single glass of champagne. At home ho retires as 9 o'clock, and in Washington

at 10 or 11. Ho always takes eight or nine hours' sleep. In tho matter of dress he suits himself. He does not dress in broadcloth, but wears business suits. He wears no jewelry except a pair of gold sleeve buttons; no ring, no studs, not even a watch and chain. It is well for Mr. Blaino that he takes so much sleep, and lives on a simple diet, because liis days are given to laborious work. He writes like a steam engine, and it is said that, for rapid writing, he has no equal in this country. He is a great reader of newspapers, history, the old classics and the old comedies. With such habits and tastes Mr. Blaine ought to enjoy good health, and it is probable that ha does as a general thing. MORAL REFORMS. The Trouble with Them When They Arc Put Into Partisan Politics. “Gath’s” New Yorlt Letter. The great trouble with the cold water question in the United States is its disproportion to the general purposes of a nation. Very few of the great reforms of this world have been accomplished through politics. AVe will suppose, for the sake of argument, that tho German Reformation of Luther was a benefit. I think that most of the tolerant Catholic historians now recognize tho fact that tho Protestant reformation was followed by greater attention to morals and public opinion in the older church. The politicians, for the main part, kept out of Luther’s reformation altogether. The German politicians were somewhat jealous of the Italian politicians, and for a little while encouraged the monks and theologians to raise a row. Luthur’s only suppart came from a comparatively weak German prince. When the politicians did take hold of this reformation they tore Europe all to pieces, and the thirty years’ war was their contribution to religious purity. The Protestant priuces, like Gustavus Adophus and tho King of Denmark and Elizabeth, invaded Germany, and by mutual exhaustion were these religious concessions made, which, had that subject been kept out of politics, might have happened long before. The English reformation of John AVesley, one of the most remarkable in all history, had no politicians whatever in it. He saw that tho English people were getting depraved in speech, in habits and in their thoughts. He never seceded from his own church, but resolved to produce a revival of morals in England, and the organization he put on foot was so far independent of politics that when the American Methodists took part in the American revolution, old AVesley thundered at them for bringing politics into their piety. So it is with temperance. It might be a sublime spectacle for the angels to see sixty millions of people suddenly stop the importation, exportation, manufacture and consumption of all kinds of fluids, but it would greatly derange the affairs of men. It would have to be followed by au inquisition into private habits, which would destroy liberty itself. The whole essence of this temperanequestion is that the next man to you shall not take a drink. Tho true way to have temperance is for each man who feels it necessary for himself to stop his liquor and be an example. But I maintain that he is not a temperance man who gets himself nominated for President on the ground that he is better than somebody else, and is the only correct example for his times. Temperance largely consists in toleration. Intemperance is the abuse of moderation. Os what avail would it be for this country to elect a President, for example, devoted to no idea but temporanco? He might be in office two weeks when we would have a foreign war. AVhat would become of his temperance the moment he called for troops? And suppose he had divided his country on this cold water question, so that it would not be aroused for the invasion of the country? The simple fact is that a regulation of private morals is not a largo enough subject for a great nation to handle. AVhen Martin Luther achieved his reform of worship and of church abuses he almost immediately found sueli fanatics as John of Leyden starting out on the question of baptism, followed by ten thousand women, most of whom he married, and in a short time asserted that lie was the Messiah. It was such a great scandal that nearly all the princes in Germany had about resolved to march back to Rome for safety. But they made a campaign against John or Leyden, put him in a wooden cage, hoisted him to' a prominent elevation and put him to death slowly. Ho was one of the earliest reformers who had cold water in his eye.

MAUD HOWE. Something About the Clever New Writer, Daughter of Julia Ward. Chicago Rambler. This new novelist, who has come upon the stage during the last year, is not going to disappear from our sight with her first two efforts. She is a very clever and determined young woman, and is the child of parents alike distinguished for high culture, generous ambitions and successful careers. Mr. Howe was the preux chevalier of his day, and lived a life of romantic adventure with Byron in Greece, and at home spent his days in untiring benevolence until his death. Julia Ward Howe still wields her quiet influence and speaks in her quiet, lady like voice above the turbulent meetings of Woman’s Congress, bringing good, let us trust, out oi it aIL Her elder daughters give their fragments of beautiful verse to the world, and now this youngest child is following tho example of her cousin, Mr. F. Marion Crawford, and is writing stories for us. To speak personally of her, she is endowed with a wonderful beauty of type and expression. She can hardly be called a blonde, although her brown hair shines gold in the clinging curves and curls in which it falls; and her eyes, although blue, are deep and dark, and sparkle with that clear, intellectual flash which illumines alone the windows of just such minds as hers. She is of medium heisrnt and has beautiful round hands and arms. Her portrait, painted by Porter, has been hung in the Corcoran art gallery in Washington for several years. The lines of her head and face are very classic, and remind one of old portraits and statutes. Her forehead is law and broad, and her lips have a little pathetic droop over the firm chin. She has traveled a great deal with Sirs. Howe and has seen and done everything. The house in Beacon street, in Bostcm, in which they live, is crowded with treasures from everywhere, and mementoes from everybody. The house was given to Mrs. Howe by hor brothor, the late well-kuown Sam Ward, and i3 built, as very man y of the Boston houses are, with a small reeep tion-room, dining-room and kitchen on the first floor, drawing-room and library on the second and bedrooms on the third. The room which they use for writing is square and sunny, and very interesting in its promiscuous disorder. There is a great square mahogany tablo in the m'ddle of the room, strewn with books,magazines and manuscripts. Among them is a book filled with poems written for Miss Howe, one of which is a charming little thing by W. W. Story. In one corner of the voom there is an old carved oak desk, littered with papers, and not far from it an Italian prie-dieu, with prayer-book and rosary. On the wails are hung small specimens of the present school of New York artists. A very bright rug in reds and yellows, with a fire in the old-fashioned grate, make the room warm. Miss Howe is a good deal touched with the usual theory of literary women to aim at the picturesque in dress without ntuchregard for the dressmaker. The result in her case is sometimes successful and somotimes not. Even such beauty as hers succumbs sometimes to her independence of the laws which rule her sex. She wears in the house long, clinging cashmeres, in odd colors, deepened here and there with velvet, and decorated at the open throat with old Italian lace. She wears ivy always on her head at balls, and dresses much in tulle and flowers. During the summer they live in their Newport house, by the soa. In the winter in Boston they receive every Thursday afternoon, and there may be found a mixture of artists, professors, literrtti and the haute monde. whom they receive and entertain with tho utmost tact. During tho past ten years in their travels they have seen and experienced much that is most interesting. They have been feted all over Europe. Miss llowo might tell you how she danced with tho King of Greece, and' went out to dinner with Robert Browning, who asked to sit next tho beautiful American. Shehas lived alone to her thirtieth year, and now devotes herself—beautiful woman as she is, with the warmest heart in all the world —to a life of hard literary labor. Some say there is a reason for the pathetic droop of her beautiful lips—but who 'shall say?

Like many another, the wealth of her sympathy is turned towards others, and tho strength of her nature goes out into her work. Porhaps after a while lien work will be better instead of worse, as is the general rule with modern novelists. She is a much clever and larger person than her books, and if it is true, as has been said, that a man cannot write a book which is higher and better than his own nature, the rulo should work both ways, and the stream should in time rise as high as tho fountain in this case. She has splendid health, youth, cleverness and a remarhably rich and varied experience and acquaintance to draw from, and besides she has what every true novek ist must have—a story to teil. She has the nar* rative and dramatic mind. She has somewhat erred in a tendency to clap-trap in those two novels—more in tho "San Rosario Ranch” than in tho “Mewport Aquarello,” which was really a clever sketch from life. Sho has also a touch of Bohemianism, of antinomianism in her books, giving to them a delicious flavor, and making us adrairo the wild, iree spirit in the young beauty giving up her life for nobody knows why, and pourirg her heart and soul and mind into her books. AVitness this in the romantic runaway marriage of the lovers in the “Newport Aquarelle,” and iu tho heroine's history in her story of AVestem’* life. Rrought up in Boston, and living there now in her mother's house—the centre of the literary culture of that literary place —she takes a plungi/ now and then into the New York Bohemian set, stays witli Miss Tillinghast in her little fiat and breathes the free air that only such clever independent people have a right to breathe. She has lately written a play; perhaps this is going to be her most successed field of work. She is a woman who is going to have more more success, and one always to be loved and admired. A FAMOUS POLICEMAN. Something About Captain Williams, New York’s AVidoly-Knowu Police Officer. Gath’s Letter. AVhilo we were talking there passed through the room the athletic proportions of Captain AVilliams, the man you so often see referred to in the New York papers. He commands the the district in the vicinity of the Fifth-avenue Hotel. Said Ito an adjoining friend very well postc-d: “There is a man about whose history I * know nothing. AA’ho is he?” “AVilliams," said my acquaintance, “is, I think, a native of Nova Scotia. lie came at an early age to this city, and was a calker in the navy-vard in Brooklyn, and then he went to sea, and I think was mate or something of that kind to China. He was in the Broadway squad of policemen many yeare ago. He is to-day the best police captain on this "continent. He is an absolute unrespecter of persons. Some years ago Jim Bennett went to a shebang here with his boon companions, and broke lookingglasses, smashed chandeliers, and otherwise behaved like a wild jackass. AVilliams not only took him to the station-house, but sent him down to tho prison in the common i an. He was threatened with the terrors of tho Herald. AVilliams said: “If lam afraid of newspapers I had better resign my badge.” Tho Herald for years pursued him with tho impotent idea that they could destroy him iu the estimation of his fellow-citizens. He is to-day the strongest name in the police influences of New York. He never sends an officer to do any- ' thing in a crisis, but goes himself. He is an athlete, has tho strength of one, nnd if there should boa row here on the sidewalk before the hotel now, and somebody should raise the cry, “Captain AVilliams is coming, you would sea them scatter as if a lion wa3 at hand. ' Above all men in this-.city he has proved his superiority of efficiency and character to mere manufactured clamor. The Herald has let him alone for years, for every timo they hit him they raised him a foot higher. He is a wonderful fellow under examination. Theodore Roosevelt, when he got up his investigation committee on New York city, questioned Williams closely about a street full of Cyprians. AVilliams asked him after a time, if lie had been through that street, considering that his questions were pretty sharp. “Yes,” said Roosevelt, “I went through it.” ’ ‘Did they beckon you in?" asked Williams. “Yes,” said Roosovclt. A “Wall," said Captain AVilliams, “I wonder you didn’t go in.” Asked whether ho had ever ordered the persons in a certain unreformable house to move, Williams said, “Yes, often." ‘ ‘Did they move?" “Yc.s, they moved next door.” Williams then explained that, according to his ideas of this social evil, it had better be kept within precincts where it had for years lived,, rather than allowed to spread its contagion through respectable streets. What he had to say was so experimental and practical that in a littlo while they listened to him with respect

BUTLER’S PALACE-CAR. How tlie Workingman’s Candidate Will Travel Like a Ring. Newark (N. J.) Times, General Butler will stump New York State tor himself until election day. Ho will start out to-morrow morning and will first speak on his workingman’s platform at Schenectady. Standing in the Grand Central station in New York, is the car that will carry him through tho country. On either end is tho word “Private,” and on either side is the name of the car, Etolka Gerster. The coach cost $32,000, and Mr. Butler will pay $l5O a day for the use of it. In short, Mr. Butler null travel in a style that will make William H. Vanderbilt and Jay Gould feel cheap and mean. Besides a regal dining-room, there are four sleeping-rooms, all of which can be used for other purposes. His own room is quite large, and mirrors of beveled glass are set in panels all around the room. The windows are also of beveled glass. Over them can be drawn shades of tapestry and over these still curtains of rich, heavy tapestry fall.' The walls and the arched ceiling are covered with heavily embossed leather, colored to look like beaten gold and silver and bronze. At one ond is a writing desk of carved Spanish walnut. The general will eat as well as sleep in the car. Tho kitchen is supplied with a range, ice chest, and every convenience, including a patent potato-parer and a high-priced pot in whicn to make Vienna coffee. The first supplies for the kitchen and the sideboard were brought to the car late yesterday afternoon. The groceries and other things for the table amounted to $116.14. The entire bill was $265.54, and tne difference was for liquors for the General, of which the following is a list: Two cases of champagne (pints), extra thy. One case of .Sherry wine. One case 8. O. P. brandy, 1825. One caso rye whisky (cabmetl, 1857. One case of claret (Chateau Laiitte). Six bottles port wine. 1859. Four dozen lager (Milwaukee). Four dozen Bass’s ale. Four dozen ginger alo. Fiftv quarts of Apolliiiaria The dining room is a gorgeous place. Around are easy seats, which can be converted into beds, and cane chairs. In the center is a table, which can be extended to accommodate fourteen. There are largo mirrors and windows on each side. Two of the windows comprise panes, the largest ever put in a car. They are over five feet by four, and are handsomely engraved. Completing all is a sideboard filled with decant ers, glasses for all kinds of liquors, and silverware. The three small sleeping-rooms contain two berths each, and are fitted up in the same elegant style. There is a library in tho car supplied with one hundred volumes of standard works of all kinds. How Gods are Made. Casting of bronze statutes of Buddha is carried, j on in Bangkok. Tho process, says a late official report, is of the kind known as "en cirs pordne,' and the alloy used consists of copper and lead, sometimes with tho admixture of a small quantity of zinc. A clay model is first made: upon this a coat of wax is modeled, and over this again is put another layer of clay. The whole is then baked, the wax running off through apertures left for that purpose, and tho central; core being kept in its place by iron pegs, the alloy is then run into the space previously occupied by the wax. The People’s Idol in Winter Quarters. Boston Transcript. Tho base ball catcher will shortly go into tirement to grow anew crop of fingers. A poultry raisor says that short eggs product lieu chickens and long eatrs produce cocl^*'