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SPECIAL BARGAINS This Week AT THE MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. THE DAILY JOURNAL. IJT JN'O. C. NEW <ft sox. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1884. We are not yet ready to say morituri saluThomas! T iIF. “rebel yell” is heard in the land. The ■victorious confederates have not even the Bense to bottle their revolutionary exuberance. “The mercenary and brainless sneak from Kansas,” is the Globe-Democrat’s characterization of John P. St. John. The coat fits the man just like paper on the wall. Ip Henry Watterson is not awarded a fat place under Cleveland, if he be elected, it will not be because Henry failed to promptly and loudly put in his petition, nis Saturday night speech was a hear-mo-for-.ny-cause harangue from beginning to end.

The Springfield Republican tliinks Grover Cleveland's thick neck will be of great service in enabling him to withstand the attacks of office-seekers. The Republican is evidently of the opinion that the duties of a President are identical with those of a battering-ram. It is said that 4,000 citizens of Cleveland, Ohio, have signed a petition to the trustees of Adelbert College asking that women be admitted to the college course. Judging by the name of the college, one would naturally conclude that it was an institution for the education of women solely. Strange, isn't it, that Vanderbilt should contribute $150,000 to Cleveland's election and Jay Gould should be the first to congratulate him? It may yet dawn upon certain “reformers'* that the tool of the elevated railroad monopoly may also be the servant of such men as Gould and Vanderbilt. We will see. ___________ We hope the “good men” who assisted in putting the Democratic party into power, enjoyed the spectacle on Saturday night, when the horde of ratifying Democrats was headed by the Honorable Sim Coy, a law-defying, law-break-ing saloon-keeper, of whom the police board and the police authorities are afraid, because he is a Democratic “boss,” and the chairman of the Democratic county committee. It is believed that David Davis, of Bloomington, will become an independent candidate for United States senator from Illinois. But if the Democrats have control of the Legislature, by however small a majority, an out-and-out Democrat will be elected. Democrats never elect an “independent” when they are in the majority. It is only when they can unite with Republican bolters that they vote for any one but a dyed-in-the-wool mossback. Senator Butler, of South Carolina, thinks that “the solid South will now dissolve, and that there will be no more war in the land.” A consummation devoutly to be wished, but why dissolve? Is Democracy not worth sus taining? The idea that a party that murdered its way into power will not practice murder to keep in is too absurd for serious consideration. The Democratic party will be fired out in due time, but not by consent of the solid South. If tie official count of the votes of New York shows an honest plurality for Cleveland and Hendricks there will bo no further question of the result by anybody, much less by law-abiding Republicans. But if the Demoeratic ticket does not receive a legal plurality, legally returned, and Mr. Blaine does, Mr. Blaine will be the next President of the United States. The cannons of Mr. Bamum, the vaporings of “jollify in ""orators and the incendiaiy threats of fiery-headed fools, will not alter the matter an iota, TnE New York Times (Cleveland) has made (. analysis of the vote of New York, and finds that ‘ ‘Mr. Blaine’s vote was almost up to the full estimate of the party strength, and about 20,000 more than was cast for the popular candidates for judges on the Republican ticket.” This from the organ of the mugwumps is a very pretty testimonial to the overwhelming influence of Geo. William Curtis, Hirper’s Weekly, Carl Schurz, the New York Times, the New York Herald, the New York Evening Post, the Staats-Zeitung,

and the other “independent” influences. Os all the pitiable objects in the campaign the mugwump is at once the most pitiable and contemptible. THE NEW YORK COUNT. "* In New York the method adopted to secure a fair count and honest returns is good in theory, and ought to be so in practice. The votes for the electoral ticket are deposited in separate boxes. As soon as the poll is closed, the ballots are counted by the inspectors of election, who represent each party, and the total is compared with the number of votes cast for each elector. At the conclusion of this canvass the result is recorded in a document, which is duly certified by the inspectors, who hand it to the supervisors of the ward or town. A copy of this statement is also delivered to the town clerk within twentyfour hours. This pltfh precludes any possibility of holding back returns to learn how many votes may be needed to give a false plurality, and it secures the returns from alteration after they have been duly made. Os course, the inspectors might, by collusion, make a false return, but some check is afforded in that respect by the poll-books, in which the name of each voter is checked off when he casts his ballot. In order to alter the returns after they have been delivered, the inspectors would have to take the town clerk and supervisor into the conspiracy, and would thus run great risk of detection. The supervisors who received the original statements meet on the Tuesday after election day, except in Hamilton, where they meet on Friday, as a county board of canvassers, to determine the vote in each county. At this meeting the original statements are produced and a statement of the result is made. One copy of this result is delivered to the county clerk, and another is sent by mail to the Governor. The Secretary of State also receives a copy, both by mail and a messenger. The statement is also published by one or more newspapers of the county. The county returns are submitted on the Wednesday after the first Monday in November to the State Canvassing Board, which comprises the Secretary of State, the State Engineer, the Attorney-general, the Comptroller, and the State Treasurer. This board, which may assemble sooner than the date mentioned if all the returns are in, canvasses the county vote and makes a certificate of the result. The electors are then duly notified that they have been chosen by the people to cast their votes for President. According to this method, the vote of each polling place must have been recorded in writing on Tuesday night, and have been in the hands of the supervisor by Wednesday ovening. It ought to be possible to determine speedily from such records the full vote of the State in a manner that will be satisfactory to the people of New York, and of the whole country. Unfortunately, the stringent safe-guards on the statute book were set at naught successfully in 1808, by the Tammany ring, when it held back the Now York city returns until Tweed and the other conspirators had learned, by advices from the interior, how many votes were needed to “elect” Hoffman as Governor and the presidential ticket. This fraud was effected, in a great measure, by the collusion of nominal Republicans whom Tweed had appointed as inspectors. Let us hope that all the Republican inspectors have this time done their duty, since without vigilance on their part the legal precautions could not avail.

A “NEW” NORTH AND THE OLD SOUTH. In the speeches made at various Democratic jollifications on Saturday night some very peculiar ideas were advanced—ideas that may set even “independent” Republicans and Prohibitionists to wondering if it will pay them to let the Democratic camel into the official tent of this Nation. At the Now York meeting ex-United States Senator Gordon, of Georgia, said: “To you this triumph is anew North; to the South it is a resurrection.” These are remarkable words, and their significance must attract the attention of the Nation. What does the Senator mean by “anew North?” Os what sin of commission or of omission has the North been guilty? What has it done or failed to do, that it should be regenerated, and that, too, by no vote of its own, but by the solid South? Possibly the ex-senator, like many other Democrats, thinks there has been a grave mistake com mitted. The “North,” in distinction from the “South,” has done a few things, and but few. The “North," believing in national unity, compelled the “South” to forego secession. Is the “new” North to recant the dogma of an indissoluble Union? The North compelled the emancipation of slaves. Will the “new” North abandon the doctrine that all men should be free? The North conferred the right of suffrage upon the slaves it freed. Will the “new” North think of undoing this? The North —for it is the North that gave the Nation its executive during the past twenty-four years—has paid over a thousand millions of the public debt, heaped onto the country by the South, and has reduced the annual interest account from $150,000,000 to less than one-third of that sum. Will the “new” North change all these things—stop paying the debt, scatter the surplus, aud strangle the admirable system of national finance so laboriously built up? What is the significance of the “new” North in which the South sees so much good? And what does the “new" North see in itself, after reflecting that this “new” North is bom, if born at all, in the Ohio river counties of Indiana, and the slums of New York, aud

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the larger towns of New Jersey and Connecticut? Finally, is it an indication that we have a “new” North because of the fact that the thirty votes of Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut are given to Cleveland, while the remaining 152 are as solid for Republicanism as ever? New York may yet be counted for Cleveland, but by a very narrow plurality, the Democratic ticket in that State being in the minority by probably 35,000 votes. It ought to appear that the “North” is not yet as “new” as it might be, and ex-Senator Gordon will yet live to understand that the people of the North have not been divorced from detestation of all things to which the “South” has held with the tenacity of ignorance and prejudice. The North has no illfeeling toward the South as a people, but has had, and still has, an insurmountable antipathy for Southern “institutions” and Southern brutality. But the second clause of the sentence of the ex senator, quoted above, is even more remarkable than the first—“to the South it is a resurrection.” The utterance, as a whole, is uncomfortably like the Democratic war cry of 1861-’Cs—“the Union as it is, the Constitution as it was!” A Democratic victory means anew North and the old South. 'What is there of the old South that is now to be resurrected? What is there of it that good citizens North or South would call back to life? First and foremost, the old South was rotting in the thriftlessness of human slavery. Few, if any, would want that resurrected. The old South was saturated in State’s rights up to the eyes, and failed to distinguish the dividing line between those rights and rebellion against the majority. The error was pointed out on the field of battle. Is that heresy to be resurrected? The old South despised labor and held mechanics in contempt. The old South was notoriously boastful and phenomenally lazy, highly “aristocratic,” and cleverly ignorant and correspondingly arrogant. Are any or all of these things to be reproduced in the resurrected South? The not so old South has been brutally disregardful of the rights of citizens, white as well as colored, beating and shooting legitimate majorities out of existence. Is this feature to be perpetuated? Would it not have been better for this gentleman, enjoying in the past all the benefits of American citizenship, through the magnanimity of the “old" North, to have accepted the Democratic victory as an undeserved compliment, and to publicly pledge himself to a perfect consecration to the interest of all the people and to undo the wrong wrought by the South even in the election of 1884, and to help deliver the new South from the errors and crimes of the old? Despite the solid South, kept solid by a few determined scoundrels who have no love of country in their hearts nor respect for the rights of mankind, the people have been growing nearer together since the war than ever before. If the result of the late election means that all these things are to be revised, and that old-time prejudices are to be revived, then is the elevation of Democracy a calamity indeed, the magnitude of which can be measured only after the damage has been wrought.

THE REPUBLICAN ‘'LANE.” No less remarkable than ex-Senator Gordon’s observation is Henry Watterson’s, made in a speech at Louisville on the same evening. He said: “The adage says ‘it is a long lane that has no turning,' but twenty-four years of lane — twenty-four years of muddy lane, as straight as a ramrod, not a crook anywhere, and hardly any sunshine, fox-fire in front to lure us into pitfalls and ditches, the devil in the rear pickoff the hindmost—that is the sort of lane we have been traveling.” The lane that Mr. Watterson thinks is very muddy embraces that portion of our national history in which it achieved its greatest triumphs in war and in peace, in politics and in business. The Republican party that had charge of the Republic while that “lane” was traversed, has done more for the country, despite armed and hostile Democracy, than had been achieved in all the years from the days of Washington to those of Lincoln. In the first part of that “lane” the Republican party was confronted by a Democratic rebellion, intent on destroying the Union and on perpetuating human slavery. That rebellion was put down and slavery was strangled. If the “lane” was muddy at that place, it was from the blood of patriots mingling with the dust of forced marches and hard-fought battles, in the cause of liberty and Union. Next in that memorable “lane” the Republican party set about putting national finances on a solid foundation, and in this, as in all else, succeeded, despite the fact that the “mud” of Democratic wildcat currency and State banks was still clinging to and impeding the wheels of commercial progress. More “mud” was encountered in that lane when Southern Republicans, white and black, were murdered in order to make a solid South. Again there was “mud” in that lane when, in 1870, the electoral votes of certain States were sought to be bought like so much merchandise by Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic candidate for the presidency. And, finally, thore is “mud” at the end of that lane, if the end to be now reached is that the Democratic candidates will enjoy the benefits of not less than thirty-seven electoral votes to which their only title is the shotgun aud revolver. The Republican party comes out of the lane as clean as it went in, and looking back views with satisfaction the many things accomplished. At its chariot wheels it brought back rebellion conquered, four million human beings wxenchod from the thraldom of Democratic

slavery. It sees a worthless Democratic currency, that rotted in one’s hands and perished in a night, succeeded by one of the stablest and best systems ever devised. It sees the national credit re-established after the Democratic party, in a time of peace, had been obliged to sell the bonds of the Nation at a discount of 12 per cent.,so that the three-per-cents, now sell at a premium. It prides itself over the fact that it has so managed national finances that over a thousand million dollars of the debt entailed by the Democratic rebellion have been paid, and the annual interest account reduced from $150,000,000 to less than one-third that sum. It feels a just pride in the fact that the manufacturing interests of the country have made unexampled progress under the encouragement afforded. The “lane” from beginning to end embraces a history of which the Republican party is proud, and the machinery of government is to-day in better working order, with less friction and less loss of power than ever before. The Democratic party was trampled under foot in that lane, but the ear of progress never turned back nor even halted. The New York Secretary of State is General Joseph B. Can’, who led the “Jersey Brigade” at the Orchard and Malvern Hill; he had his horse shot under him at Bristow Station, and again at Gettysburg, where he was severely wounded by its fall; he figured heroically at Big Bethel, and bore a conspicuous part in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac, up to the surrender of Lee. In 1879 he was placed at the head of the Republican ticket in New York and was elected Secretary of State. He was re-elected in 1881, and again in 1883, being the only Republican on the State ticket who was successful. He is a member of the Board of State Canvassers, has the custody of the returns, and will be called upon to sign the certificates of the successful presidential electors, whoever they may happen to be. This is the man whom the Albany Argus says the Democrats would kill and attend to the .legal consequences of the murder afterward. The country may rely upon both the integrity and the courage of General Carr. He said: “There is no chance qf stealing this State [NewYork], not as long as I have charge of the affair. I don’t propose that anybody shall steal the State. If Mr. Cleveland has a plurality, large or small, he will get it. The same is true of the other candidate. I don’t propose to play any Southern game. No matter whether it is friend or foe with me, he has to have his justice.” This is the position of the entire Republican party. It is the position of every lawabiding citizen of the country. The threats now filling the air are the breathings of fools and traitors.

“For the first time since the hostile guns of the North and South ceased to thunder, I feel that I am your equal in our common country. I can stand before you to-night and salute your flag as my own. The same blood courses through your veins as mine. We love liberty; we love good government, and by tho God of the fathers we intend to stand with you in the future for it. To you this triumph is anew North—to the South itisaresurreetiou.”—ExSenator Gordon, of Georgia, in a speech at York. The “resurrection” seems to have dawned already. The “beautiful” sentiment expressed is exactly the same expressed in 1860, when the Democratic minority went into rebellion. Up to November of that year Democrats saluted “your flag” because that party was in power. The very moment its ousting was made apparent they lost all interest in the flag of the Nation and went off and made one of their own. Now, for the first time in twenty-four years, ex-Senator Gordon consents to recognize the flag of the Union as his flag, and why? except that there are indications that Democracy has succeeded again. Suppose that in 1888 the Democratic party be deposed, is it not a fair inference that Democracy, treacherous, revengeful, traitorous still, will again go into sulks and decline to salute “your flag”? Tho patriot salutes the Nation's flag at all times—it is the flag of the Union, and as such is the flag of every patriotic man in the Nation. The scheme of the Democrats of New York to pay no attention to the returns, but to rely on Mr. Manning’s “Democratic returning board” is proven by unnumbered circumstances and statements. Here is a dispatch sent out from New York by “O. O. 5.,” at 2 A. M. on the 7th of November, before the returns were received, but when it was known that the vote would be very close: “Utterly disregard all other dispatches to the contrary, and bet every dollar you have got on what I tell you. But make YOUR BETS that Cleveland will receive the electoral vote of the State of New York, AND WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE United States. o. o.s This lias been the Democratic cry from the first. But the presidency of the United States will be settled by the official returns, and not by campaign bluster and threats, or by the bets of desperate gamblers. Ex-Senator Gordon, of Georgia, says: “I can now salute your flag as my own.” Major John W. Daniel, of Virginia, says there must be “anew flag.” But whether the old or the new flag, the Southern ex-confederates are satisfied so long as the colors are in Democratic hands. With Cleveland in, the “solid South” is in the saddle. It is folly to talk about repressing the controlling influence of 153 electoral votes out of a possible 218. The tail oanaot wag the dog. The Southern dog will wag the Northern tail, as it always did. Reports of the shutting down of manufacturing establishments and of the curtailment of orders by business houses are Jieard on every hand. The uncertainty and unrest caused by the agitation of the tariff in the last Congress will be greatly intensified by

the possibility of a change of policy in the national administration. This is inevitable. How far it will go is the question of interest to every man, and particularly to every workingman. At the New York jollification meeting, Hon. Samuel J. Randall felt it to be necessary to say that the Democracy would not dare to bo very Democratic. But George William Curtis says “the Democracy is very hungry.” It is worthy of note that thus far nothing has been definitely asserted in the independent and Democratic “claims” which has not been found correct when brought to the test. They said that Connecticut was theirs, and it is. They said that New Jersey was theirs, and it is. They said that Indiana was theirs, and it is. And, lastly, they say that New York is theirs, and when the official vote is reached it is probable that in this instance, too, they will be found accurate.—Boston Advertiser. “It is worthy of note” that the Democracy claimed Michigan, and it is not theirs. They said Wisconsin was theirs, and it is not theirs. And lastly, they said Nevada was theirs, and it is not theirs. They claim New York, and in this instance, too, it may be found, they are inaccurate. The Boston Advertiser is one of the bolting Republican papers which had the decency and honesty not to profess any great admiration for the Democratic candidate during the campaign. Now that he is possibly elected the Advertiser is not very proud of what it has helped to bring about, but admits that Mr. Cleveland’s “slippery hold even upon his own State, and the inal*ility to control the narrowest majorities in others, show that he also has proved an essentially weak candidate before the people.” There are numerous signs that the mugwump is not altogether satisfied with his work. Daniel Doherty is another Democrat who threatens that “all hell will not prevent” the inauguration of Cleveland. The Democrats assume the election of their ticket, and then proceed to split the heavens with their yells and threats. We do not recall any remarkable feats of heroism performed by the valiant Doherty during the late war, on either side. He may have killed a number with the jaw bone of an ass, for Doherty is a “silver-tongued orator; ” but if he has any dead to his account, that is the only way they died. Doherty is merely braying. __________________ Some French savans took an alleged mad dog in hand, after his bite had killed a boy, and proved that the dog was not mad, and that death must have resulted from tartar on the dog’s teeth, the blood of the victim being in an unhealthy state. This result suggests that every boy should have a bottle of blood purifier handy, or dogs ought to be compelled to use tooth-brushes. A Prohibition minister, of Oberlin, 0., treated to a “serenade” of tin pans and horn3 because of his betrayal of the Republican party, opened out on the crowd with a revolver, wounding one. After all, that is about the only thing to be done in such a case. We are in favor of letting Cleveland trot right up to the White. House. A Brooklyn baker intends to prepare a monster pie made from a 160-pound pumpkin “for the next President.” If that doesn’t settle him he is pretty solid. Bedouin Arabs drink but once a day, from which one would imagine they were Republicans; but they give themselves away as Democrats from way back by not taking a bath once in a lifetime. A recipe is in circulation showing that a watermelon may be saved in good condition up to Christmas. That’s all right; but the man who doesn’t first eat his watermelon is not intelligent. The boiler that blew up and killed nine persons at New Orleans, last week, “was bought secondhand twenty years ago.” Who says the South is not up with the times ?

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What are Gould and Vanderbilt’s politics, and what are they supposed to have contributed to the campaign fund, and to which party? Williamsport, lud. I. B. Grandy. Vanderbilt is a Democrat, and contributed $150,000 to the campaign fund. Gould is understood to be Republican, but contributes to both parties. ABOUT TEOPLE AND THINGS. Robins, full-breasted aud fat, have made their appearance in tho New York market, and retail at $1 per dozen. The Prince of Wales is one of the finest lawn-tennis players in England. Ho is also a splendid shut, and killed seven stags out of nino, a few days ago, at Gienderry. Mmk. RiSTORl’s daughter, Bianca, is about thirtytwo years of age, and has to some extent the histrionic gifts of her mother, but will not adopt the stage as a profession. Recently in Paris, during the session of the congress of the Free-thinkers, one eminent thinker, striking an attitude, passionately exclaimed. “Gentlemen, I am au atheist—thank God!" A CLEAN and perfect copy of John Bunyan’s “Pilgram’s Progress," 1078, has just been added to the British Musuem library. Only three other copies are known, and but two of these are perfect. Lord Lytton has had to call in the assistance of the law in order to suppress the publication of the love-letters written by his father to the woman whom he afterwards treated so badly, aud he will, uo doubt, be successful in his application. The father of General Ouster lives in Michigan. He is described as being of very venerable appearance, with long white beard and hair. He is seventyeight years old, and may be often seen driving a that his gallant son rode in the Black Hills. Mrs. Julia and her daughter Maud usurp so much space in society columns that room is now craved for more mention of Mrs. Julia Ward's son. Mr. Henry Warren Howe, who, with his charming wife, is conspicuous iu the best Boston Beacon Hill society. New York society is worried over the fact that tho wedding of Mr. Paul Dana and Miss Duncan, aud of Mr. Ladenburg and Mias Steveus occur on the same day—Nov. 11. It will be impossible to attend both as Miss Stevens's will take place out of town aud Miss Duncau's on Staton Island. A CORRESPONDENT of \ Missouri paper says: “I was gi /eu a lesson in etiquette by a Mexican young lady I met on the train. ‘I saw you eating an orange on the dopot platform,' she said. ‘ln Mexico that would be considered as unmannerly. Thore it is unmannerly to oat anything outside of a house, oven candy. And I noticed when Mr. Romero gave you & Mexican match you throw it away after using but one

end of It. The other was still serviceable, and yon should have returned the match with your thanks. If you hand one a cigar or cigarette to light with, yon must take a whiff after it has been returned to you, though it may be so short as to burn your fingers.’ AH this I received with good grace, for my young lady was but ten years old.” Velfoeo, a parish in Oxfordshire, England, has a population of only eight persons. The value of the living is SD4O. It is the gift of Mr. Lenthall, the direct descendant of the famous Speaker Lenthall of Cromwell's time, who bought it, with the adjoining estate, from Warren Hastings’s ancestors. Herr Bjorn Bjornson, a son of the celebrated Norwegian poet, dramatist and patriot, has recently made a most unparalleled sensation in Christiania by hisperformhnee of Shakespeare's Richard 111, He studied his art in the Moiningen company, with whom lie appeared during their season at Drury Lane. It is said that when Sarah Bernhardt plays Lady Macbeth she so keeps to literal historical accuracy that she appears on the stage with her feet as heaven fashioned them. This is akin to the actor who. when he appeared in Othollo, so entered into the spirit of the part that he blacked himself all over. Carl Cauer, the sculptor of the Garfield memorial bust in St. Louis, is fifty-sir years old and has mads ’statues of nearly all the sovereigns of Europe as well as of other famous persons, those of Kaiser Wilhelms Francis Joseph, Metternich and Bismarck being perhaps the best known. He has a son, aged twenty-two, who has executed a go od statue of Count Moltke. A foreign correspondent writes that Thiers’s ha |M.shake was brusque and dry, but not unpleasant; that G-ambetta’s contrasted with his apparent openness and heartiness, and did not express character; that Clemenceau’s is nervous and rapid, and, with a - friend, very friendly; that Grevy scans your face in a good-humored way while holding your hand, and that Victor Hugo shakes hands after the manner of a grandiose statu© into which, as into Galatea, the breath of life has bee*. breathed. Being asked what a country reporter, who had n© special knowledge of art, ought to do if sent to an arfc exhibition, Mr. Ruskin replied: “Supposing—which I hope your question does suppose—the country reporter to be a man of natural sense and intelligence, the best thing he caD do is to describe carefully the subjects of the pictures he thinks likely to please simple people, if they are shown what is in them, and, as far as the editor will allow him, to take no notice of pictures attracting merely by their tricks of painting. I do not think the public value tho affectations of arfc knowledge in a newspaper reporter, but they would always be grateful to him for tho indication of elements of interest in a picture which they would have missed without his help.” Great orators are almost invariably nervous with apprehension when about to make an important speech. Luther, to his last years, trembled when he entered the pulpit; the same is true of Robert HalL Mr. Gough confesses that he is always in a tremor when coming before an audience. Senator Frye, of Maine, says ho never gets up to speak before aa audience without a tremor of fear. Many of tho leaders of the House of Commons have given similar testimony. Canning said he could always tell in advance when he was about to make one of the best speeches by a chill running through him, caused by a fear of failure. Lord Derby, father of the presout earl, when a young man was one of tho best speakers in Parliament. He was known as the “Prince Rupert of debate," and seemed so self-possessed as to be incapable of embarrassment. But he said: “When I am going to speak, my throat and lips are as dry as those of a man who is going to bo banged." The Japanese missions in Europe have just received information from their government of the creation by the Mikado of a national peerage. The list includes eleven princes, twenty-four marquesses, seventy-six counts, three hundred and twenty-four viscounts and seventy-four barons. This newlyhatched nobility will form the upper house in the future Japanese Parliament. All the members of the present government and a large number of the most trusted partisans of the Mikado have been admitted to a lower rank of nobility. The imperial decree founding the Japanese peerage is accompanied by a circular, signed by the minister of the Mikado's household, stating upon what basis the new aristocracy is established. It is to be hereditary in the liue of male descendants; tho rights of peeresses are defined, as well as those of the relative peers, and it Is stipulated that the latter shall obtain special permission from the Minister of the Imperial household in order to contract marriage or adopt children.

Politics in the Metropolis. New York Sun. A fine-looking gentleman was discussing politics near the Evening Post building, ard was explaining to a select circle that if Blaine was elected he’d die in a month, but that if Cleveland were beaten iie wouldn't eat or sleep any tho less. “No,” remarked another gentleman, “and neither would a hog at a fair if he didn’t get tho first prize.” The first gentleman stopped talking politics and the two had a fight. Their hats were ruined, and they rolled over on the sidewalk twice. Worse might have happened, but just then someone yelled: “Three cheers for Cleveland, our next President!” The first gentleman was electrified, and, springing to his feet, waved what was left of his hut and cheered as requested, while his opponent, equally sincere, pressed his elbows against his ribs, bent his stomach over, and groaned with his backers. That ended the fight The New York Scuatorsliip. “Gath’s" New York Special. The point is now being made about tho next United States senator from New York that the Legislature is decidedly Republican. Chester A Arthur wants the place. His distinguished services in this campaign are known all over the land. Whenever the party was in danger at any considerable point lie sat down and ate another hearty dinner. He did come and deposit his valuable vote. Governor Cornell is one aspirant for the Senate; Chauncey Depew is probably another. Possibly Mr. Platt is a candidate. Sherman Rogers would make a good senator, but I have my doubts whether he has the hand on politics availing for such matters. One Word from One Man. New York Sun. % Six days before election day a Silurian or early Paleozoic bigot, the Rev. Samuel D. Burchard by name, completed an alliteration that swelled in his foolish mouth by presenting Mr. Blaine as the enemy of “rum, Romanism, and rebellion.” Was there not enough in this one word Romanism to turn the votes of 2,000 or 3,000 men from Blaine to Cleveland? If Cleveland gets in, the political service rendered by this otherwise uninteresting theologian should entitlo the Rev. Samuel D. Burchard, D. D., of New York, to a firstclass consulate at least. Slandering the Memory of Judas. St. Louis Globe-Domocrat. There has been suddenly manifested, by the press of tho country, a disposition to slander the memory of Judas Iscariot. It is done by cowardly indirection, in calling St. John tho Judas Iscariot of American politics. Wo have not a very exalted opinion of Judas, but there wore some go#d points about him, and he was in every respect superior to the brainless and mercenary sneak from Kansas. The cause of prohibition is about as dear to the heart of St. John as the morals of Oliver Twist were to the heart of Fagin, the Jew. Another American Idea Ahead. Toronto Globe. Thanksgiving day bids fair to become one of our fixod Canadian institutions, if it has not already attained that position. And it is woll that it should. On the other side of tho line it is almost tho only universally recognized holiday, and the feating by which it is characterized does not in the slightest detract, wo should hope, from the heartiness and sincerity of the thanks from which it receives its name. Does It Please Them? National Republican. llow do tho Miss Nancies who didn't vote foi Blaine boenuso ho wasn't truly good like th. sourik of the rebel yoll that comes up from tht solid South?