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THE DAILY JOURNAL. KY .INO. C. SEW * SON. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1884. TIIK INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dealing, northwest comer Third and Jefferson streets. ST. liOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. The Sunday Journal. The edition of the Journal yesterday was ex hausted at an early hour. An additional supply has been printed and copies can be obtained at the Journal counting-room. THE JOURNAL’S CIRCULATION. As it seems to be the fashion, we give below a statement of the circulation of the Daily Journal for tho several days last past, from the 4th to the loth of November, inclusive. It is to be remembered that the Journal is not a cheap paper —it is a high-priced paper, 25 cents a week, 5 cents a copy. The figures show that our circulation has been tho largest ever known in the history of tho paper, as it now is regularly, from day to day. We take occasion again to say that there is not, and never has been, any secret as to the Journal’s circulation. Our press reports and mailing lists are always open to the inspection of the patrons of the paper. Tho figures below are taken from the press room reports: Tuesday, Nov. 4 10,075 Wednesday, Nov. a 24,175 Thursday, Nov. 6 21,100 Friday, Nov. 7 20,300 Saturday, Nov. 8 19,500 Monday, Nov. 10 14,450 Tuesday, Nov. 11 15,020 Wednesday, Nov, 12 —* 16,050 Thursday, Nov. 13 13.700 Friday, Nov. 14 11,925 Saturday, Nov. 15 12,500 Total 178,845 Average daily circulation 16.258 The actual circulation of the Sunday Journal was 7,300 copies. It is the same Cleveland who wrote the disgraceful letter to Mrs. Beecher. The mugwumps are greatly hurt because indignant Republicans have burned Stoolpigeon St. John in effigy. Too bad, that the mugwumps are not happy. Republicans could hardly do better than to nominate and elect John F. Finerty mayor of Chicago. He has proved himself a man of ability and grit—just the kind to make an excellent mayor. Although well aware of the fuct that the Democratic party has triumphed through the grossest fraud and most desperate violence in the South, the Republican party will not •whine about it for eight years, as did the Democratic party after iis failure to steal the presidency in 1.876. In the interest of decency and humanity Mayor Edson, of New York, has issued an order to the police to hereafter interfere with and prevent glove fights, they being essentially prize fights, and,as such,demoralizing to the young and tending to disrespect of law and order. Let the order be enforced on the human brutes to “box” there to-night. The mugwump who persists in masquerading as an independent Republican deceives nobody and only succeeds in establishing a reputation for hypocrisy. Not believing as they do concerning the great industrial questions of the times, the Republican party asks and expects no favors from them. If the Democratic party can get along with them', it is welcome to them, and no thanks expected. Captain James B. Eads, of St. Louis, the Mississippi jetty engineer, and the builder of the great bridge, has received an autograph letter from Dorn Pedro, of Brazil, requesting him to visit the port of Rio Grande do Sul

and give liis opinion as to the proper mode of improving that harbor. The Emperor tells Mr. Eads that an able Brazilian engineer and Mr. Hawkshaw, of Great Britain, have both prepared plans for the works, but that tho government is unwilling to proceed without first submitting the question to him. Mr. Rawkshaw is the most prominent engineer in England, and is now constructing the great tunnel under the river Severn. Tho Emperor of Brazil personally knows Captain Eads/ and wants his views upon the improvement of the port of Rio Grande before the work is undertaken. It is a great compliment to our American engineer. III THE PARTY IN OPPOSITION. The Democratic party is to enter upon its administration of public affaire representing a minority of the people. More than that, it is well understood that in a fair election it is in tho minority of its principal rival, elections in several of the Southern States being so palpably fraudulent as to permit of no denial. Waiving title to what is justly its own, the Republican party is about to stand aside and let the Democratic party take charge, the turning point being a plurality of some eleven hundred votes in a State casting 1,200,000 bal lots, of which about 42,000 are for minor parties. The serious duty of government is now before the Democratic party, and it ought to understand that it is simply on trial during good behavior, thousands and tens of thousands of voters having directly or indirectly made opportunity for the Democratic party to again show its mottle and to redeem itself from that odium which for a quarter of a century lias attached to it. The Democratic party in March next will come into possession of a vastly different country from what they controlled last under President Buchanan. The population has nearly doubled, while the wealth has vastly increased. Tho industrial enterprises, then principally confined to Massachusetts,Connecticut, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, have extended to and beyond the Mississippi on the west, and throughout the South. Since the days of ISOO Atlanta has bocoine tho rival of Lowell, and Chattanooga and Birmingham are now competing with Paterson and Philadelphia. The railways that then went to Wilmington and Altoona for their rolling-stock are now supplied in a score of cities, Indiana alone having some half dozen such establishments, while the Pullman Palace-car Company has built a city of its own in Illinois. Hundreds of millions of manufactures, then imported, are now produced at home, and the people altogether are wealthier and more prosperous than ever before. The Democratic party will miss some of the ancient land-marks. It will miss, first, the “sacred institution” of slavery. The Republican party was busy during its ascendency, and got rid of many heresies cherished under Democratic rule. The Democratic party will miss somewhat of the brag and bluster of the fiery Southron. The race of State’s rights bullies and braggarts —thanks to calmer thought and enforced meditation—is dying out. With tho extinction of slavery the South's plea for free trade was demolished. Free labor has awakened the South to the advantages of manufacture, and with the establishment of mills and factories has come tire natural demand that they shall be protected. All of the South is not yet thoroughly awake to the importance of a protective policy. because, under Republican rule, it has been so thoroughly assured of protection that it has scarcely given thought to the possibility and the effect of free trade, aud the introduction of the product of the pauperized labor of Europe. The Deruosratic party has now to settle for itself which faction shall rule it—the few theorists who favor free trade, or the great body of artisans and formers who depend on home manufactures for employment and a domestic market. The task before Mr. Cleveland and his advisers is one calling for the exercise of the greatest caution, and a most determined stand against the dangerous elements of the Democratic party, of which it is so largely composed. What with the “old South’’ demanding things that dare not be conceded, and the rampant free-trade Democrats, now reinforced by allies won from the Republican party, and the conduct of affairs with which it is wholly unfamiliar, the new administration will have all it can possibly do, with every chance of being called upon to surrender its trust at the end of four years. The duty of the Republican party is much less onerous. With a record of nearly a quarter of a century well rounded up, including the most stupendous achievements ever accomplished, it now for a time passes out of power. Twenty-four years ago next March, the last Democratic administration sullenly gave way to the new party of the people, but not until it had steeped itself in treachery and plotted treason. From the steps of the Capitol the Democratic party stepped to organized rebellion, and the Democratic war for secession, or, rather, for the extension aud perpetuation of slavery, wits begun. The fiist duty of the Republican administration was to grapple with this same party tliat has now again come to the front. On the issue of that struggle between the Democratic and the Republican parties depended the integrity of the Nation, and all the only less vital issues involved. History shows that the Republican party triumphed, and, ns a consequence, the Republic still lives, while slavery, tho corner-stone of rebellion and ancient Democracy, is forever dead. Passing from the open fields of war to the halls of legislation, the

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Republican party set about tho arduous task of bringing order out of chaos and of restoring the people to prosperity in peace. How well it succeeded in this is a matter of written history? The people who went into rebellion have long been restored to all their political rights; all the civil and political privileges held exclusively by white men under Democratic rule have been accorded the emancipated slaves; of the great debt entailed by the Democratic rebellion, over a thousand million dollars has been paid, and the annual interest account reduced from $150,000,000 to less than one-third that amount; the country has been given one of the best financial systems ever devised, and a currency that is an absolute guaranty against loss to the holder; manufactures have been encouraged, and the South delivered from many of the narrow and dan-gei-ous prejudices against labor. In each and all of these things the Republican party has been opposed by the Democratic party, and has triumphed despite its hostility to reform. The policy of the Republican party is apparent. Standing by its record, it has but to proclaim anew its fealty to all it has ever espoused. Its attitude in this campaign should be reaffirmed. The petty and spiteful minority, like Beecher, Curtis and others of lesser note, has gone to the Democratic party to stay. Proclaimed free-traders before the assembling of the great nominating conventions, they could not consistently give support to the Republican platform. This fact, and not Mr. Blaine’s character, was the secret of their apostasy. Any other candidate than Blaine would have been opposed by them just as he was. The field is now clear, the issue defined. Republicans have but to stand by their principles to win. The hundreds of thousands of voters who spitefully gave their support to men who stood no chance of election, had little idea or possibly less care, that the result would be the overthrow of the Republican and the installation of the Democratic party. There can be no kind of doubt that thousands of the 42,000 voter; in New York who thus trifled with the vital questions of the time would already like to undo what they have done. The shame that has been put upon the country by such a narrow plurality secured in New York city, and made available by fraudulent elections in the South, is enough in itself to bring about a revolution in publio sentiment. Let the Republican party stand film. The history of the Nation will ever perpetuate the glory of its achievements, and the same is a guarantee of good government at any time that the affaire of the Nation may be confided to it. Relieved from the dead-weight of theorists not in harmony with its principles, it is in excellent condition to go forward to new successes. It has done much to develop American enterprise; let it stand by the principles which did so inuch to make this development possible. The congregation of the South-street Baptist Church, last night, passed resolutions commendatory of Rev. I. N. Clark, who has severed his relations as pastor with them to assume the duties of a more responsible position in connection with the general Baptist denomination in the State. The committoe reporting the resolutions allude to the publication of certain reports affecting Mr. Clark, because of an alleged remark concerning Mrs. Blaine, disreputable, disgraceful, outrageous and unckristiun, credited to him, and afterwards denied in such a way as to leave the impression that there was some foundation for the original publication. The committee acknowledges that tho offensive remark was made, hut that Mr. Clark was not a party to the conversation in which it was used. This official explanation of the church makes certain what has been the only point in the controversy, and that is, that the denial and explanation were disingenuous and partial. Tho mi:'take Mr. Clark has made, and in which he seems to persist, is in thinking that the public has no right to a candid statement and explane.tion. There are plenty of reports in circulation as to the manner in which he has talked. lie cannot be ignorant of these reports, and he is not so blind that he does not know that these reports, unless explained thoroughly and fairly, will impair his usefulness in his new field of labor. The Journal certainly has no disposition to be unjust to Mr. Clark. We should not have said one word about tho matter hut for the spirit in which Mr. Clark himself replied to a proper and considerate inquiry from one of the leading and most honored Baptist clergymen in the State. However, the whole matter is with Mr. Clark himself. He can do as he thinks best, and as he thinks proper toward the church whose servant he is. In the meantime, we are very glad to publish tho commendatory resolutions of his late congregation. In spite of the fact that the independents seem to have got what they wanted after their persistent campaign of lying and slanders, certain of their number are not altogether happy. A leading Philadelphia mugwump feels confident that the rebuke “they” have administered to the country will prove salutary, but expresses the opinion that Cleveland's election will cause “a slight business depression,” which will, however, be a good rather than a bad sign, and a “healthy reaction.” This view is hardly consistent with the frantic assertions made previous to the election that times were hard on account of Republican rule, nor witli the further belief of the same able citizen that Blaine’s election would have resulted in an “unkui lUiy boom.” When the

“healthy depression” in business begins, mugwumps will probably find it convenient to sing small concerning their share in the matter. Our special from Boston gives an interesting interview had with Mr. Blaine concerning the recent election. No one is better able than Mr. Blaine himself to intelligently weigh the influences that were exerted both for and against him, and his statements of the strength as well as the woukness of his candidacy, will be eagerly read and accepted as expert testimony. When all the returns are in they will be an interesting study; but this much is now certain: that Mr. Blaine’s vote will show a wonderful increase in the vitality and strength of the Republican party since the elections of 1882, when the party was prostrated and torn into factions by the distressful events of the first year of the administration. The Republican States have given almost their old-time majorities, and that in the face of a combination of circumstances and an opposition, active and passive, the force and strength of which can scarcely be estimated. In the decisive State of New York, despite all the parade and circumstance of the independent revolt, with the Democratic candidate the Governor, the Demoei'atic party in control of all the State and city machinery, and having. the prestige of an enormous majority of nearly 200,000 only two years ago, Mr. Blaine is defeated by a plurality of a little over 1,000, while 42,000 votes were cast for third and fourth candidates, leaving the boasted “reform” Governor in a minority of at least 40,000 votes. With such a result Mr. Blaine can well afford to leave his candidacy to the impartial judgment of time. There is nothing in it, or in its defeat, that should cause him a moment's personal chagrin. Tiieri, was a very strange and suggestive proceeding in the Council of St. Louis, which, of course, is a Democratic body. Almond street is one of the notorious streets of that city— a city where the great majority of both residents and visitors are fitted, according to Mr. Beecher, to vote for Cleveland. The committee on renaming streets submitted a report changing Almond to Beecher street, and it was evidently intended as a compliment to the distinguished Democrat. We quote from the St. Louis Republican: “It appeared from the erasures in the report that the original desire was to name the thoroughfare Cleveland street. That name was struck out, however, and the word ‘ Oak’ inserted. This name was also struck out, and the word Beecher street substituted.” The proposition caused considerable debate. Judge Tenny, who made the report, said there were two reasons for the proposed el,ange in name: “The name of Beecher was indicative of purity, and it was thought that in purging the street of its old memories a more appropriate name than that of Beecher could not be selected. Then another influence was brought to bear, The committee happened to bo largely Democratic, and it was thought, as Mr. Beecher had become a Democrat, recently, and done a great service for the party, that they should honor him by giving his name to one of the streets of the city.” The proposition was defeated by a vote of 14 to 8. It is a thousand pities that tho notorious street was not designated by the name of the man who stood up before American people and said a vast majority of them were men of impure lives. It would have been a fitting reward. Ip Henry Ward Beecher is to be believed, the voters of the country who have elected Grover Cleveland are all violators of the seventh commandment. The virtuous Beecher estimated a majority of 200,000 adulterous citizens in New York alone. This calculation went ahead of the mark, but the actual showing is sufficiently discouraging to the respectable part of the community. How do the women of the country onjoy the Beecherian reflection that half the men in the United States are as despicable in their private characters as the Democratic President-elect? The same old story of death comes up from tbe works on the Panama canal. A Brooklyn man, touched by the fever, has just returned, and says that hundreds of the 40,000 men employed die monthly. As was said of the work on the railway, “every tie marks a grave,” so this man says of the canal, “every lineal foot marks a death.” The wages paid there—for skilled labor $5.50 a day, and for laborers $3 and $4 —is a great temptation, but few from this latitude can endure the climate and escape tbe fatal malaria of that region. A stuffed club is tho best medicine for those asinine editors who are talking about “the South in the saddle.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. What sort of a club should bo applied to men like ex-Governor Brown, of Tennessee, who, at St. Louis, in a public jollification speech, said: “The flag of tho South went down in war, but, thank God it diet not godown in dishonor. To-night we rejoice that the men who bore it have asserted their supremacy.” _______________ In the State of Kansas where “tho brainless and mercenary sneak” is best known, St. John received a total of 3,354 votes, and Mr. Blaine’s plurality is over 50,000. Kansas is one of tho States which was claimed as “doubtful” because of the presence of the Democratic annex. REPUBLICAN editors announce that they will acquiesce quietly if the count shows Mr. Cleveland to have been elected. Thanks, awfully!—Cincinnati Enquirer. The irony of your comment would be more effective wove it not a matter of history that the Democratic party went into rebellion be-

cause a Republican President was elected in 1860. The difference between the two parties is as marked in this as in other only 1e33 grave questions. The Republican party believes in popular government and in the rule of the majority, and patriotically acquiesces now, though fully advised that on a full vote and fair count in tho South the verdict would be a reversal of that finally announced on Saturday. The clergymen of Norwich, Conn., oomplain that their hostility to Blaine has brought upon them tho distrust of their congregations, and that they are being boycotted. In view of the fact that the only persons who can boycott preachers are church members, the Norwich ministers must be guilty of something that the best class of people oondemn. We are opposed to boycotting, but the preacher who supported Cleveland in preference to Blaine ought to be so thoroughly ashamed of it as never to confess it. “It is of rumor that Messrs. Whitsitt and Nichols will probably join with Wright and Smart in demanding a recount of the ballots cast in this county at the last election. These recounts seldom amount to anything. Witness the recount in New York of the vote of Cleveland and Blaine.” The Saturday People should know that there is no provision in New York for a recount, as the ballots are immediately' destroyed. There has been no “recount" in New York; it has been simply the canvass of the vote provided for by law. That was rather a mean Democratic trick played on Charley Baden, of the German Tribune, by Fred Kissel, jr. He knew Baden was a citizen, and that he had held the high office of constable, and yet he challenged his vote and sent him home after his naturalization papers. When Baden returned the polls were closed.—Saturday People. If this be true, Mr. Kissel should be arrested, and given a dose of the penitentiary under the United States law. It might not then bethought so much of a “trick.” The sanitary officers of New York city express confidence in the condition of the city to resist an invasion of cholera. It is to be hoped that their confidence is well-founded. New York is the great gateway to this country, and a foothold gained there means a general spread of the plague. A startling story of juvenile depravity comes from classic Boston. It appears that a gang of boys —boot-blacks for the most part—had taken possession of an abandoned graveyard which has not been in use, probably, during the present century. During the past half century a dense thicket had grown in and around it, so that but few, comparatively, knew anything of its existence. In this graveyard were several burial vaults. The boys in question, imbued with a desire to emulate tho deeds of Western outlaws, had taken possession of one of these vaults, and had gained entrance by breaking a hole through the brick wall. Onee in, they established regular quarters, and held high carnival among the decaying coffins and skeletons. Recently they inveigled a strange boy to the place, after having tinctured him with their wild desires to become notorious, if not famous. After introducing him to tho den, ho became frightened by his surroundings, which so angered his abductors that they compelled him to drink some kind of narcotic, after which he soon lost consciousness. Awakening, he was horrified to find that he was abandoned to a living death, for all his companions had fled and drawn up the ladder by which they made entrance, so that he had no way of escaping. By some means the secret “leaked,” aud a police officer visited the place, and, attracted by the cries of the lad, discovered him. The lad was so terrified that he was almost insane, and the officer rad difficulty in persuading him that he meant him no harm. When helped out and taken to tho highway he bounded off like a deer, so thoroughly frightened that he never looked back. Tho officer bad the hole securely bricked up, and it is thought the youthful gang will hardly resume their tricks. The November Century is again out of print, and a third edition will be at once put on the press, to be ready about Nov. 30. Tho demand for this number has been a surprise to the publishers, the continued sale so long after issue being wholly without precedent. The edition of tho December Century will be 160,000. Now that the result of the late election in New York has been determined, it seems quite apropos to reproduce the following plantation song: “De june-bug hab de golden wing, lie lightnin’-bug de flame; De bed-bug hab no wing at all, But he git uar all de same.” The healthy condition of the New York Tribune's circulation seems to be wormwood and gall to the Times and Post The Tribune has waxed fat at the oxpenso of the mugwump papers. To the Editor of tbe Indianapolis Journali In yesterday’s issue of your paper you state that the national banking currency is taxable, under the laws taxing other property, but of course a State cannot make a law conflicting with the laws of the United States. How does the following sound, taken from the “Revised Statutes of the United States relating to loans, tbe currency and coinage.” “Sec. 3701: All stocks, bonds, treasury notes, and other obligations of tho United States, shall be exempt from taxation, by or understate or municipal or local authority. Sec. 5413: The words 'obligations or other security of the United States’, shall bo held to mean all bonds, certificates of indebtedness, national bank currency, coupons, United States notes, certificates of deposit, bills, checks, or drafts for money, drawn by or upon authorized officers of the United States, stamps aud other representatives of value, of whatever denomination, which have been or may be issued under any act of Congress.” S. C. Reese. Paris, 111., Nov. 15. It does not sound very well, because section 5,413 of the Revised Statutes says no such thing. It says “national currency,” which is a vei-y different thing from “national bank currency.” It is remarkable thatany discussion should have arisen npon the taxability of national bank notes. To tho Editor of tho I ndiananolls Jou rnai: Please inform the readers of your paper whether or no, before tho late rebellion, any of the slaveholders of the South voted for their slaves? If so, please eXDlain how they did it? Cory, Ind. * Samuel Fields. Tbe slave population counted three-fifths in the basis of representation; tliat is, every five slaves counted three in apportioning members of Congress. In this sense, the slaveholders voted for their slaves. The same thing practically occurs now. Thirty seven members of Congress

are given the South for a colored population which are either not allowed to vote, or, if they vote, their votes are not counted. Tr the Editor of tho Indianapolis Jonr'a’.* Please inform me what majority Stockslage* had over AVill T. Walker, for Congress, two years ago. Arthur Mayer. Jeffersonville, Ind. Stockslager, 17,122: Walker, 12,538; Greene, 788. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Liszt is now in better health and doing more work than for several years past. Rev. Juiei-h Cook is going to spend the winter among tho Nova Scotia blue noses. A position in a Paris bank, although paying a salary of about $225 yearly, was recently applied for by 6,000 persons. Minister Lowell’s latest English success is hi* election to the vice-presidency of the Egyptian Exploration Society. New York Journal: American young ladies who have been abroad assert that it is dreadfully hard to And an honest count. The two daughters of John Beil, the presidential candidate of 1860, are keeping a young ladies’ academy on Chestnut Hill, Boston. Sir Erasmus Wilson, an eminent English physician who died recently, bequeathed $1,000,000 to tho Royal College of Surgeons, London. It was reported in New York, Thursday, according to the Boston Post, that Secretary Frelinghuysen and every male member of his family had voted sos Cleveland. • Stilson Hutchins, editor of the Washington Post, has been elected to the Now Hampshire Legislature from Laconia, in that State, whero he has a summer residence. Even George Washington Jones, the independent candidate for Governor of Texas, carried his owa county, although the Democracy has its usually large majority in the State. Queen Viotoria has almost a mapia for collecting relics of engagements in war. Among others she has, mounted in crystal and silver, the musket ball that ended the career of Nelson. Mr. George Dolbey, who was Charles Dickens's manager during his American tour, is writing personal Recollections of tho great novelist. These will be published early in Decomber. Thkv call Trevelyan’s promotion from the secretaryship of Ireland to Gladstone's Cabinet ‘ “kicking him up-stairs," from a salary of $22,500 to one of $10,000: but then tho honor is worth some shillings. Martin Farquhar Tupper is living in extrema poverty in London. Old in years, declining in health, the author of “Proverbial Philosophy" lives deprived of the luxuries aud uot a few of the necessities of this life. One-third of the newspapers published in Italy bear the title of “Gazette,” the name having been boen handed down from 1570, when the first gossipy little sheet saw daylight at Venice, aud was sold for fi, small coin, gazetta. MUS. Mackay’s palace at Florence has been entirely rearranged the past summer, and she will occupy it the coming winter. Her Paris house, in the Place de l'Arc de Triomphe, will be occupied during her absence by General Guzman Blanco. Prince Bismarck's audience ohamber at Friedrichsruhe is adorned with a superb chalk portrait of Beaconsfield, a painting of Theirs by Bonnat, a bronze laurel-crowned bust of Moltke, and a painting of the Cardinal Prince Hohenlohe. Dr. Ebers, the Egyptologist, is very ill and must submit to a very serious operation. His is now manfully “putting his house in order.” Before the important day comes he will have finished his biography of Sopsius and also his new historical romance. Ten thousand extra copies of the November Century, containing General Beauregard’s article on Bull Ruu, were called for by the public, and of the December number, containing General Lew Waliace's paper on Fort Douelson—the second of the War Series—--150,000 copies will bo printed. Leo XIII. evidently desires tbe most to be made, of the Vatican archives. He has reduced the length of vacations given to the employes who are working on them, and in various other ways indicated his appreciation of the urgent importance of issuing historical works based upon the genuine doonmeuts contained there. The Duke of Hamilton's library sale is declared to bo the greatest book sale on record. It oontinued over about forty days, and realized a total of $850,000. The Sunderland collection brought only a little more than one-fourth as much, and the Gosford only $45,000. The American demand for rare books la London is constantly increasing. There can be little question that the continued close covering of the lioad with hats and caps is one very constant cause of baldness, Women seldom lose then- hair except from sudden causes, and among those nations where the head is habitually left bare, or but slightly covered, baldness is practically unknown. The beard, which is of the same class of hair as that of the scalp, does not fall with ago. A reform in our style of licad-goar is very desirable, but it is not at all likely to bo accomplished. Americans may congratulate themselves that they have a hand in digging the De Lesseps canal, A contract has been let to one of our countrymen for dredging 30.000,000 cubic metros, nearly one quar. ter of the whole canal, and twelve hercules dredges, in addition to the three already in use, liavo been ordered. These machines are entirely manufactured in this country at a cost of more than SIOO,OOO each. M. de Lesseps, who is in his eightieth year, proposes to go to Panama in March to open the first section of the canal—about ten miles in length. In the autobiographical notes left by Dr. Humphrey Sandwith, an English physician, lie says Thackeray told him “that the mother of Pendennls was painted from his own mother, and that the rides of young Pendennis to and fro so soe his boyish love were his own youthful rides whon he lived in the neighborhood of Exeter. He told me that the original of Beeky Sharp lived in his neighborhood. He mentioned also the original of the romantic Miss Amory, and related how he once traveled with hor in a railway carriage and out his finger. She tore what was apparently a costly cambric pocket handkerchief aud exciaimod: '.See what I have sacrificed for youl’ but he detected her hiding the common rag which she had torn.” Laboring Under Difficulties. Clinton Argus. It lias been pretty difficult to edit a weeklynewspaper for the last two weeks. Oue was afraid to rejoice for fear the telegraph would knock his pins from under him. and yet it would not do to give up the presidency to the enemy. No Reward. Boston Journal. One of the most prominent Democrats of Boston remarked on Tuesday: “I wonder if those independents think they will get any favors from Cleveland? They won’t get so much as ‘th# crumbs which fall from the rich man's table.’” Grin and Rear It. Thorntown Argus. In the face of our boasted Christianity shame and disgrace should mantle the face of every American when ho knows that a majority of the people of this country, by their ballots, call for a confessed libertine to be their chief ruler. The Bitterest Thing. Columbus Republican. We hear old soldiers say evory T day that the bitterest thing with them is to see the sneak and rebel sympathizer, Hendricks, preferred to John A. Logan. Cranks as Assassins. Anderson Herald. Cranks can bo assassins of a great cause as well as assassins of great men. The Democratic party could not have won a victory singlehanded. _ A lieft Handed Mind. Philadelphia Press. Tho conduct of CarJ Sclmrz during the recent campaign is accountod for by the discovery that he is ambidextrous in hU conscience,