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THE DAILY JOURNAL. RY JNO. C. NEW A SOX. FianAY, DECEMBER 12. 1384. THE INm AN ATOMS JOURNAL Can be found at the following place* LONDON—Ainaiieaa Exchange in Europe, 440 Strand. PARTS—American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boulevard des Capucines. KEIV YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vine Street. LOT"tSVTr,T,E—C. T. Dealing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. T.OHS—Union News Company. Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Cleveland refused the grist of a pup. He ■wants a Siberian bloodhound. May we be there to see when Qeorfje H. Pendleton is made a member of Cleveland’s Cabinet. __________ The address of the Republican State central committee seems to have knocked the Sentinel silly. It was loaded. A Washington special to the Courier-Jour-nal says the pension commissionership will go to a State further west than Indiana. In the improbable event of a Democrat introducing a bill to place Gen. Grant on the retired list, it is safe to say that Fitz John Porter will be mentioned in the same bill. Is Kilgore at the bottom of this talk about Myers being made Commissioner of Patents? If so. we join Captain Myers in the demand to know what in the seething sulphur he means. Senator Bayard says he went to Albany merely for the purpose of imparting to Mr. Cleveland such information as might be serviceable. There is no doubt but the Pres-ident-elect will liavo vast quantities of useful information at his command before March, but it is barely possible that he will not he able to sort it out in such a way as to meet the approval of the patriots wlm gave it. TnE proposition of Senator Van Wyck for the discussion of the Spanish-American treaty in public should be agreed to. There are no oco-it questions of statecraft involved; the treaty has been published, and the world knows its terms. It is a commercial treaty; it involves business questions vitally affecting the whole country. Let tho solemn farce of secrecy—a farce in view of the publicity already given tho matter—be dropped.

The convention agreed upon with England by Reverdy Johnson and Earl Clarendon was rejected by the unanimous vote of the Senate, we believe, with the exception of Mc(Veery, of Kentucky. By a vote of the Senate the injunction of secrecy was removed, and the proceedings made public. As it now appears, the Spanish treaty is very likely to meet with a similar fate. So far as we have observed, it is almost unanimously condemned bv the press of the conntry. The conviction of lawyer Oorneilson, at Mt. Sterling, Ky., and the sentence of three years in jail, is the first step in the right direction —but only, the first. He will doubtless move for anew trial, and take advantage of every legal technicality to escape bis deserts. The people should see to it that the prosecution is sustained to the end. Oorneilson is the brute who attacked. Judge Reid with a whip, because of some offense given, the Judge's humiliation being so great that he committed suicide. As the eminent Democratic statesmen of the country go, one bv one, to call upon Mr. Cleveland, they report with great unanimity that they are much pleased with him, and the organs publish these opinions triumphantly as proofs that tbo President-elect is considerable of a man after ail. It is not the unsophisticated reader who reflects that these able and artful statesmen are not likely to go about proclaiming that their President-elect and their only hope is a poor stick, even if they think so. The Brand Leman election fraud at Chicago will yet be unraveled, those in position to assist in the swindle having begun to “squeal'' on each other, Arthur Gleason, chief deputy in County Clerk Ryan’s office, charges Henry Biold, one of the employes of the office, with having abstracted the envelope. It is not plain, however, that Gleason is altogother blameless. His haste to accuse others will probably result in the entile plot being laid bare. It is apparent that someone in the office is guilty. The Kansas City Times, Democratic, reiterates this stale innuendo: “Conkling’s hair has a beautiful curl, but there is no crookedness in his politics.” The Times knows, as does everybody, that had Colliding been uom inated by the Republicans, the Times, nor any other Democratic organ would have allowed his honesty, but would have been quick to charge him with some political trickeryno matter what—-only so that it he adhered to. With all that was attempted to be proved against Blaine, it was never shown that he profited one cent through his political action or influence on legislation. There is reported to be a movement among New York theatrical men towards reducing the prices of tickets to first-class eutertainiuents. Thiitis considered advisable in order to counteract the influence of skating rinks and dime museums, which !>fo gathering up tho shekels which under other circumstances

would go to support the legitimate and other species of drama. It causes tho managers of theaters much anguish to noto the immense profits reaped by tho exhibitors of Krao, the missing link; Chang, tho Chincso giant; tho talking walrus, and other like attractions, while their own brightest “stars” shine to beggarly houses. There is nothing for it but to cut down the prices.

Gen. Sherman is right in taking his own time to reply to Jeff. Davis’s denial of his treachery to the Confederacy, as charged by Sherman. Davis is beneath tho notice of any self-respecting Union man, and his indignation over what he pleases to regard a reflection on his honor (!) would be amusing in any ono less contemptible than Davis. General Sherman’s criticism, spoken without any idea of tho importance that might be attached to it, needs no vindication. With loyal, Unionloving men it will pass without question, however unqualifiedly Davis may deny it. A man like Jeff Davis, with enough of treachery in his nature to carry him into rebellion, and puerile enough to never accept the results of the war, is not and was not above treachery and treason to liis fellow-conspira-tors, or fellow-rebels, if you please. The man disloyal enough to attempt the ruin of a country that he and the coterie to which he belonged could not continue to rule, would not be above betraying any engaged with him in his treasonable undertaking. Not much faith can be placed in a Benedict Arnold. Few care whether General Sherman ha3 documentary evidence sufficient to convict Davis of lying in this instance. Os what possible advantage would it be to prove that a burglar had conceived the idea of defrauding his “pals” of their share of the plunder? It could not intensify the contempt already felt for Jeff Davis to prove beyond doubt that he would have sacrificed his friends. Jefferson Davis’s opinion of General Sherman, of himself, or of anybody else is not of the slightest interest to anybody. Buried in his own infamy, both during and since the war, let him remain there. The ex-President of the Confederacy is one of the very few men who have not accepted the results of the war. His co-conspirators, for the most part, are contented with tho Union “as it is,” and soothe their outraged feelings by murdering their way back into office. Davis, probably because not restored to the rights and privileges of citizenship, is not satisfied that the “lost cause” is really lost. He persists in nursing and coddling it, and his old-time admirers tickle him in his dotage by listening to and applauding his disloyal utterances. General Sherman is wise in not stooping to help Jeff. Davis out of the mire of his well-earned obscurity and contempt. The bestowal of even abuse is an honor he does not deserve. Let his physical death be preceded by a social and moral death, from which there can be no resurrection. For a quarter of a century, in the heat of war and in the calm of peace, this garrulous old man has persisted in perpetuating his moral and political infamy. He has written his own record. Let it stand as a warning for oncoming generations.

Bo far as wo know, no Republican has sought to question tho election of Grover Cleveland, although every man in the country knows it has been brought about by fraud, violence and murder. The Democrats themselves, as witness the Atlanta Constitution, confess that but for the thirty-seven or forty-two electoral votes given the South for a colored population not represented in the declared result of the ballot, Blaine would have been elected without the vote of New York spite. But, knowing this, and having the fact gloated over by those who profit from the crime, there has been no Republican who has oven so much as proposed to contest Mr. Cleveland’s legal right to his seat, nor will they impede his administration by senseless aud unpatriotic combinations. In 18715 the Democrats, too cowardly to hack up their presidential claims, aud remembering too well their recent punishment at the hands of the Republican party for rebellion, started the pitiable and contemptible howl of “fraud,” which they have kept up for eight years. Only yesterday was made public a bit of aucieut history, in which it was alleged that tho leaders of this party of treason and revolution proposed to Mr. Tilden to seat him, even if bloodshed were necessary: but the palsied sage of Cipher alley, whose brain and heart were just'eunning and strong enough for such frauds as distinguished that campaign, shrank from the forcible assertion of his shadowy “right,” and the blood-thirsty men who tried to bring about another civil war reluctantly abandoned their programme. The Democratic party, with its record of rebellion in 1860, and its record of fraud and revolution and premeditated bloodshed in 1876. is in no condition to utter a word against the Republican party, which accepts in a spirit of obedience to tiie forms of law a verdict the result of crimes against which the conscience of the country must cry out. The Methodist “centennial” celebration, now being held in Baltimore, is causing great confusion in the minds, not only of the average unregenerate citizen who reads of it, hat also of Presbyterian, Baptist ami other brethren who plod patiently along and never have a chance to join in such festivities in their own churches. Thev are entirely unable to keep up y.'h-h the Methodist procession, insisting with some firmness that Wesley’s followers in this country have been celebrating “centennials” at intervals for the past fifteen or sixteen

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years. In what manner the present gathering differs from previous ones of a similar character they are unablo to understand, but are slowly coming to tho belief that to Methodists a one-hundredth anniversary means a jubilee lasting one hundred years. Just to help along theconfuisou we will state that the real, actual, siraon pure, Jacob Townsend “centennial” will occur on the 24th instant., and as a measure of relief might add that all * -centennials” are barred after 188.1. Tt is observed in political circles that tho rascals aro getting ready to go.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Yes, a great many aro arranging to go to Washington to attend the inauguration. In behalf of the son of a wealthy Louisville citizen who was arrested for stealing, the plea is made in court that he is a kleptomaniac and was so developed owing to certain inherited traits, .and tho further circumstance that the colored woman who served him as wet nurse for the first year of his life was an incorrigible thief. This method of defense is not only novel, but comes just in time to take tho place of the worn-out theory of emotional insanity, onco so popular in such cases. It is capable, tco, of vast possibilties. If the infant whose maternal aucester has possessed some undesirable qualities, or whose nurse is “crooked,” may be excused for any deflections from the path of rectitude, the youth who was brought up by hand has also a way of escape. If the nourishment derived by tho infant from nature’s fount, when that fount belongs to a hireling, may transmit immoral and wicked tendencies, why should not an unfortunate criminal who was raised on the bottle bring ud the demoralizing effects of tho fluid which he absorbed as a defense. It can, for instance, easily be shown that a goat, even of the nanny variety, is a predatory and belligerent animal. Is it not reasonable to suppose that the lacteal food which she dispenses may as readily develop in the infant nourished (thereby inclination to forage in pastures not his own, to steal and to fight, in fact, as that the otherwise amiable babe should absorb wickedness and a propensity to thieving from his human foster-mother? It is a question with many sides, and one which needs the attention which the eminent legal mind is alone capable of giving. That the theory will be made tho most of, now that it is once propounded, there can be, however, no doubt.

Beia’a Lockwood escaped campaign scandals, but only becauso tho campaign was so short that her fame did not have time to penetrate into remote rural districts. It has been at last discovered by some local chronicler that Belva was not Belva at all when she was young, but was known as “TtUic;" further, that previous to her union with the now deceased Mr. Lockwood she was married and divorced from “a party named Craig.” Had these suspicious circumstances been disclosed at an earlier date, unscrupulous and desperate opponents who wished to compass her defeat might have endeavored to prove that she neglected aud failed to provide properly for her respective husbands; hence, divorce and death. It was a narrow escape. Benjamin Franklin Butler’s domestic record, it may be re marked, is still clear. Hebe is a voice from the tombs. Yennor, the Canadian weather prophet, who climbed the golden stair some months ago, with a view to a permanent change of climate, left the manuscript of an almanac for 1885 behind him. In it he predicts that the coming winter will beamed prate winter —neither too warm nor too cold. This prophecy may be received with some doubt, owing to a possibility of prejudice on the part of the maker. If Mr. Veuuor wa3 already contemplating departure, his wish for mild weather may have been father to the prediction. Let the name of Frank Ferrill, of Mahony City, Pa , be inscribed on the list of heroes and martyrs. When his house was burning a few nights ago he staggered to the window with a son in his arms, and, despite the cries of the crowd to save himself, lie turned back to save others, only to perish with them. To the K,liter of the Iml anapolia Journal: Will you please inform me, through the columns of the Journal, if theru is such a volume published as “Thomas A. Hendricks’s War Record;" and if so, where can I procure a copy of the samel Reader of the Joukxai,. Fortvu.de, Dec. 10. We do not think there is; hut it is probable Gen. Hendricks may follow the example of Sherman and Grant, and write out his Memoirs of the War. At present, the nearest to this we think of would ho the Indiana Treason Trials. To tlm Kiltnr of the I mliananoliH .lourr.;;!; Who is President of Prance; also of Switzerland? Student. Judson, Ind. Jules Grevy, France; Emil Welti, Switzer laud.

ABOUT PEOriiK AND THINGS. Experiments at certain school centres of London have proved that a penny is sufficient to pay all expenses for a substantial and nutritious dinner for school children. Albert Victor, son of the Prince of Wales, who is soon to visit this country, will celebrate his twentyfirst birthday on Jan. 8, the anniversary of General Jackson’s capture of New Orleans. General Albert Pike, though seventy-five years old. has just mado an extended tour through Texas, and was everywhere heartily received. The old man still persists in always appearing in confederate gray. The two young men who went all the way from Youngstown. 0., to New Orleans to buy an exclusive beer privilege at the exposition for $'2,000 were told they could have It for SIOO,OOO. They concluded not to buy. Mrs. Kate Chase (Sprague) has suddenly retired from tho Paris American colony, of which she was one of the conspicuously brilliant members, and has gono to mure economical housekeeping at Fontainebleau to devote herself to the education of her children. Mr. Blaine is going to Europe some time next year Ho will first writo a history of tho war of 1812, and give a sketch of tho politics of that period. lie will remain in Europe for a year or two for recreation and rest. His friends say he will never himself enter politics again. OWING to his wealth, business interests, influence, freedom from political entanglements, and, above all, to his valuable services in the late camnuign, Mr. Singerloy, of the Philadelphia Record, is said to be likely to stand closer to Mr. Cleveland during his administration than any other Pennsylvanian. Now that th ‘ cold weather is approaching, or with us, it ought to be remembered that a covering of felt nicely put on pipes prevents the water from f-eezing in them and all the train of evil consequences which frozen water pipes entail, unless tho cold is unusually severe or tho spell of frost unusually protracted. Mi UftVKTA, in a recent paper about snakes, relates that In Colombia their cliiof destroyers are two species of birds—the calabrero and guacabo—and the cats and hogs. The latter are suppose lto bo protected from the sting on account of their layers of adipo<ie tissue. Oats receive bad sores from the

venom, but do not die. Tho writer saw a cat eat tho heads and tails of two largo ones; its wounded places ulcerated, but soon healed. No young lady is quite made who doesn’t possess a tray fitted up with all the paraphernalia for sealing her letters. She must have a tray of beaten copnor. with a lamp such as tho old poets wrote by, with a unique holder tor matches and for her wax, and a seal with a crest upon it. The newest things in letter cases are of oriental leather, and tho little traveling inkstand attached to them across one end, making also a postage stamp and sealing-wax box. Concerning tho late Adams-Coleridge libel suit, and tho chapter it opens in the family life of tho English Chief-justice, it may be remembered that the following advertisement was to be seen in tho Morning Post (London), of May 1. 1834: “Daily Governess.—Tho lion. Mildred Coleridge, 83 Abingdon road, Kensington, gives instruction in music (theory and practice), German, Italian and French, and rudimentary Greek and Latin. Literature class on Wednesday afternoons.” Three eases arc reported to tho French Association for the Advancement of the Sciences of immediate cure of paralysis agitans by means of hypnotic suggestion. The patients had become unablo to write legibly, but when the affirmation was made to them emphatically during sleep that they could write as well as other peaple, they did so forthwith and retained the power after awaking. M. Liebault showed specimens of the handwriting as produced before, during and after the hypnotic sleep, and said he had obtained like results during several years of practice. A visitor to the queer little town of five hundred souls and a hundred houses standing on stilts on either side of a narrow and deep natural canal at the mouth of tho Mississippi, says that the men sit on their doorsteps and bring down wild fowl with their guns. The alligator paddles leisurely up tho main stre et, protected by law because tho muskrat, one of his articles of diet, was becoming a nuisance by burrowing in the levees. These sluggish and goodhumored pots open their immense mouths, sometimes, and look yearningly for a dead cat or dog or some like delicacy. Mr. Spurgeon, tho great English preacher, evidently does not think that smoking is incompatible with the Christian profession. He said in a sermon the other day that if anybody can show him in tho Bible the command, “Thou shalt not smoke,” he will keep it. “I find ten commandments,” he said, “and it’s as much as I can do to keep them; and I’ve no desire to make them into eleven or twelve. Why, a man may think it a sin to have his boots blacked. Well, then, let him give it up and have them whitewashed. I wish to say that I am not ashamed of anything whatever that I do; I don’t think smoking makes me ashamed, and therefore I mean to smoke.”

A well educated person who possesses a college shoepskin, reads his Biblo, his Shakspeare, and the daily papers, seldom uses more than 3,000 or 4,000 words in actual conversation. Accurate thinkers and close reasouers, who avoid vague and general expressions, and wait till they find a word that exactly fits their meaning, employ a larger stock; and eloquent speakers may rise to a command of 10,000. Shakspearo, who displayed a greater variety of expression than probably any writer in any language, produced all his plays with about 13,000 words. Milton’s works are built up with 8,000; and the Old Testament says all that it has to say with 5,402 words. In the English language there arc, all told, 70,000. “Even the ebony black aud obstinately persistent swallow-tailed coat threatents to pass,” says the Paris correspondent of the London World, “for the gentlemeu of leisure are gaining ground in their campaign in favor of color. Tho red coat and breeches were accepted last season in the ceremonial meetings of high society. This season variety is to be obtained by the introduction of the blue coat and brass buttons, white waistcoat and light gray trousers, and powdered hair, which latter detail will be considered extra-vlan; and by the brown coat and brass buttons, shawl-pat tern waistcoat, brown cloth breeches, garters fastened with a diamond buckle, and squaro-toed, high-heeled shoes. Tho black coat will be worn by the pschutteux only at the theatre, and in places where the uncalled-for remarks of the cads might mar the serenity of the spectacle of contemporary calves.” Goldberg, the magician, who lately died, had marvellous dexterity in the deceptive handling of cards, and his tricks with them were far better than those of any of the more celobrated showmen. Still he remained a mere card manipulator until his mental vagaries brought him to a lunatic asylum. A Long Branch gambler said to him: “What’s the use of running yourself as a pass-the-bat show when you could turn your talents to profitable account? Now, I’ll give you S2OO cash down if you'll teach tne to do that trick with the four aces.” “I couldn't.” was the sober reply, “if you gave me $2,000,000. I don’t know how I do it.” Tho truth was that the trick, which consisted in dealing four aces at will from an apparently wellshulllled pack, depended chiefly on that dexterous handling of the cards called palming; but the demented Goldberg was convinced that, being himself the personal devil, tt was purely supernatural. All the while that he was practicing tho most delicate and deceptive manipulation he whs unaware that the results were obtained by trickery and skill.

CURRENT PRKSS COMMENT. Doubtless the commercial policy of the country might be modified to advantage by commercial treaties, but there is quite as much danger of going too fast as of going too slow in this direction. The House should be held to the closest possible responsibility by the public, but the fact of its really uncontrolled discretion should be kept in mind in negotiatnig all tieatics to which its action will be necessary.—New York Times. One man may lawfully slay another when that other is trying to kill him, or even when ho has fair reason to believe that his life is in danger at that other’s hands: but if the two are about to perish of famine or other stress of buffering, and one preserves, his life by sacrificing the other, he must hang for it. The distinction is a very close and interesting one, and is calculated to emphasize tho boast so ofren made at bar dinners that the law is above everything else “an exact science.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Let Deljesscps go ahead with his canal. There is no immediate danger that the Nicaraguan project will be undertaken soon. If he makes a success of it. and throws tho canal open to the shipping of all nations upon equal and liberal terms, other projects will most likely be abandoned: but the United Statos will certainly never surrender its right to take advantage of tho Nicarauuan concession, no matter what outcry and protest may be made by those who have taken stock in Dc Lesacps's project.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The true policy of the Republican party toward the South is to divide the Southern vote; to enlist on the Republican side the members of the ruling class there, whoso opinions and interests in regard to the tariff, the currency, the civil service and other national questions are identical with those of the Republicans at the North. It is inevitable that the Democratic dissensions over the patronage, and the disagreement of members of that party in regard to economic and financial Questions, will shake its solidity at tho South. The Republican party should put itself in a position to profit by these divisions.—Boston Advertiser. It is understood that General Grant would not object to a restoration of his military rank aud pay. It would certainly te more becoming and more honorable to place him on the army roll as a retired general on full pay, than to put his name on the civil pension list. He should have tho status given him by the original act creating the military title of general of the armies of the United States, and appointing him to that rank. His acceptance of the presidency necessitated his resignation as general, but there can be no possible impropriety iu restoring him to the rank, and making him the senior retired general.—Minneapolis Tribune. THIS mattei [the admission of Dakota.] ought to l>e decided on its merits. Thorn is no danger that an agricultural State so rich in soil and resources will decrease in population. It is certain that it will rapidly increase. If Democrats in Congress exclude it for two years longer, they will arouse a strong feeling of indignation in tho adjoining agricultural States of the Northwest, a* well us in Dakota, which will operate against the party in all future elections. Sooner or later the new State will come into tho Union, and. if unreasonably delayed, with an intense feeling of hostility to the Democratic party which will make it another Kansas in political temper.—New York Tribune. Treaties are laws, and laws of a very high character. too. They arc beyond the reach of Congtess; that body cannot repeal nor even alter them. Yet these high obligations, binding the whole country and affecting its important interests, are made by tne executive and ratified by the Senate, without tho participation of the popular branch of tho national legislature. This is a provision of the Constitution, ami, of-course. It must bo respected as long as it remains; but the time

will come when tho people will demand that their representatives shall have a voice in the making of treaties; when these important compacts shall be submitted, not to the Senate only, but to Cougvess, for ratification. —St. Louis Republican. With Congo politics and Congo administration wo have no business to meddle. These matters must ever remain under the :egis of those political systems, radically different from our own, that prevail in the European hemisphere. By discussing them we have ventured on ground where we have much to lose and nothing to gain. Thanks to the “diplomacy” of our State Depat tment, tho doctrines of the Berlin conference are no longer limited to any continent or to any hemisphere. Some fine morning we shall wake up to find a Berlin, London, Paris or Madrid conference—to which wo may or may not bo invited as ono among fifteen—sitting in solemn conclave and settling the internal affairs and local administration of Mexico, Panama, or Nicaragua.—New York Herald. We want an extension of our trade, but the place to look for business is in markets where business is done. There is reason to suspect that a good deal of this reciprocity legislation is inspired by tne desire of special interests in this country to "get materials cheaper, not for the purpose of selling them cheaper, but to increase tho margin of their profits. The sugar monopoly, built up in California by the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty, would only need one or two treaties like that proposed by Spain to be able to extend itself over the entire country. The United States had better reduce its revenue, lighten taxation, and stimulate business by a general and well-considered movement of tariff reform, and not by a piecemeal process of treaty patchwork for the benefit of a few pushing syndicates.—Chicago Tribune. MISS MACKAT’S ENGAGEMENT. Ex-Minister Noyes’s Recollections of the Family in Paris. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Tho report of Miss Mackay’s engagement to be married to Ferdinand do Colonna. Prince of Galatro, it is announced, was confirmed by a cablegram from Mrs. Mackay herself to a friend in New York. Still there are those who doubt the veracity of this statement. Yesterday afternoon a reporter called upon Ex-Governor Noyes, late Minister to France, who, during his official sojourn in Pans and subsequently became intimately acquainted with the Bonanza King's family. He was shown by the reporter an article from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, wl i h gave some particulars in regard to tho proposed alliance and the parti* 3 interested. After perusing the same, the General said: “This article is full of errors, and I regret to see so many misstatements in the newspapers in regard to the Mackay family. In the first place, I do not believe a word about this sup posed engagement with an Italian prince, and it would be difficult for me to realize that Mrs. Mackay has sent a cablegram confirming the truth of the same. I know from Mrs. Mackay herself that she is opposed to such alliances. I saw her in Paris in duly last, had many a pleas ant conversation with her, and I am sure she would have spoken to me about this engagement if it had been made. However, since that time Miss Mackay may have made her choice. One thing is certain, Miss Mackay is far from being that ‘fragile form’ which she is represented to be in this newspaper article. She is not a stout girl, but she is well developed and of a lovely type of beauty. Neither is her mother ‘a strong, aggressive type of woman.’ She is a model of affability, kindness and goodness of heart Her charities are large and frequent, but given without any ostentation whatever. I have never been able to find a reason for the many misrepresentations which are from time to time published in regard to the Mackay family. “Miss Mackay has been in society about three years, and, I suppose, is nineteen years of age, 1 have seen her at balls and parties ami fashionable occasions, and she is most attractive. Then it is not truo that ‘Mrs. Mackay already has a daughter married to a titled Frenchman.’ but it is her sister, Miss Ada Hungcrford, who was married to tho Count Tel feu or. Miss Mackay has not been an invalid since the time of her childhood, ns alleged, but to my knowledge has enjoyed good health. Mrs. Mackay’s first husband may have been a druggist, but he was known as Dr. Bryant, and was the nephew of William Cullen Bryant, the poet. I have no knowledge of or acquaintance with Ferdinand do Colonna, to whom she is supposed to be engaged, but I know of the family as one of the best and noblest in Italy.”

Electricity’s Deadly Work. Mexico Two Republics. A shocking tragedy occurred on Sunday night in the Zocalo, where the beautiful concert pavil ion has been erected for the festival of All Saints' arid All Souls’ Days. One life was lost and three men were so seriously injured that life in their case was despaired of. It was a case of peculiar interest. A man known as Pantaleon Estrada, a worker in guitars, tying a stone to the end of an ordinary wire: threw it over the electric wire. Estrada immediately fell dead in his tracks. The contact of the two wires killed him. A policeman standing by and a street-car conductor had much of their clothing burned off, and were themselves so seriously injured that their lives tremble in tho balance. The electric current affected others also more or less. The scene succeeding the tragedy was demoralizing. For a moment the dumb terror of seeing strongmen totter and fall, as if struck by some invisible hand, held the crowd spellbound. Succeeding the terrorized apathy came a wild rush for life. Fortunately, exits w-re plentiful, and to that was duo tho fact that many were not stamped to death. John Herbert, of the electric light compary, mounted a ladder, with a silk handkerchief in hand, to remove the wire thrown by the unfortunate Estrada. Tho rain was falling heavily at the time, but he did not notice that the handkerchief was becoming damp. Ho applied it to the wire to remove it, and received himself a severe shock that threw him from the ladder. Falling to the stone pavement, his head was cut open. He will recover, however. The police believe that Estrada represents a gang or pickpockets and thieves; ana that his object in throwing the wire was to extinguish the electric lights and give his pals a chance to operate. Whether that was so or not is not known, for he who could have toid has had his lips burned to silence. .

Brother Bartlett’s Church. Ruharnah's Washington Letter. Church circles are already excitod over Governor Cleveland’s religious views, and the New York-avenue Presbyterian Church, which he will attend, is on this account receiving an influx of the multitude. Pews and sittings can not be bad now, and tho pastor will have to give up his own family pew to the new President. Some of the good blue Presbysterians of th© congregation deprecate the coming of the adminis tration into their midst and others rojoico. Dr. Bartlett, tho pastor, is an old friend of Governor Cleveland, and the coming of the President just offsets a split that was about to take place in his congregation. The discontented element was led by Justice Stanley Matthews, and that wing of tho congregation had about decided to withdraw and go off by themselves and build a church in the northwestern end of the city. Their secession would have drawn from the revenues of the church seriously, but with a President in the congregation, Dr. Bartlett's party have no financial fears. Tho crowds that blocked every door of St. John’s Church during the first years that President Arthur attended there are already falling away, and it is still remembered how the hundreds that suddenly thronged the Campbellite Church after Garfield's inauguration have suddenly disappeared. The New York avenue Church has been the court church here, and is best identified as the place where President Lincoln worshiped. Advice to Ingersoll-liaters. Atlanta (’orstltution. In an Indiana town, the other night, while Bob Ingersoll was assailing Christianity, a prom incut citizen rose in his seat and protested against the lecturer’s blasphemy. In reply In gursoll simply said: “Well, why don't you go?" Another pertinent question will suggest itself. The prominent citizen must have known in advance the tenor of Ingersoll’s discourse. Why did he go to hear him? If a man cannot stand blasphemy ho has no business at one of Ingersoli’s lectures. It will not excuse him in the slightest degree to sit through half of the lecture and then make a dramatic protest against it. lie has already done all the mischief of which he is capable by contributing his dollar to the notorious infidel and by making one of his audience. There is only one way to stop an infidel speaker, and that is to keep away from him. A Cahtle iu Spain. Washington Pi at. At the time of Miss Willard's elopement with Mr. Paxton, it was widely published that Mr. Simpson, the deserted groom-elect, had prepared for his bride a handsome home, worth SIOO,OOO, in Kansas City. Tho Times of that place Ims scoured the city for evidences of this maguifi-

cent present without avail, and humorously observes that “it is supposed that Mr. Simpson has arranged to lease the now court-house.” It i3 said that young Simpson, who has been in tho real estate business in Kansas City for about a year, has never made office rent. AN INSANE INVENTOR. Pitiable Condition of tlio Inventor of th* Wheeler & Wilson Sewing-Machine. Waterbury (Conn.) Special. The name of A. B. Wilson is known the whola world over as that of tho inventor of the Wheeler Wilson sewing machine. It was some forty years ago that, while a poor mechanic, this man made the invention which should place him ia the foremost rank of scientific men in this country. He is to-day little more than a driveling idiot. For some time his shambling figure, clad in uncouth garments, shod with runover lovr shoes and crowned with a slouched hat, has attracted much attention on the streets here. His magnificent cast of features was expressionless, and the marks of dissipation were completed by the neck of tho bottlo protruding from his pocket as ho came regularly after hi* daily allowance of bitters. With a wife and daughter, two most noble women, he has lived in a grand house surrounded by *j:£en*ive lands, but the property is alt in his wife’s name and he has been unable to take care of it for himself since the time that Nathaniel Wheeler got sol* possession of the patent and established the mammoth factory in Bridgeport, where thousands of the. machines are turned out weekly. At the moment of the highest success the great man fell. Removal from business did not seem to help him, and he has continued to go down until to day, when his long suffering, but patient wife and daughter, had him taken to th* Insane Asylum in. Hartford. Why Cleveland Returned tlio Pup. Now York Letter. The fact that President Cleveland returned * puppy with which ho had been presented ha* been treated solely as a question of propriety ia the matter of accepting gifts. But there are reasons for believing that Mr. Cleveland's act has been altogether misinterpreted by his political friends, and that it was at the same time both a hint and an appeal for proper and timely assistance. Think of it! In the name of universal Democracy, of what earthly use would a puppy be at the door of the White Houso whea the Huns and Goths begin to swarm up from the South and down from tne North for office? Lot two or three Siberian bloodhounds and an adult tiger or two be sent in. Mr. Cleveland would never return such useful presents as these, and the refusal of the puppy was doubtless a delicate way of conveying a hint to his party that in the hard times now falling on him useful thing* alone can be tolerated. If there be any Democrats who really believe in civil-servico reform, and desire to protect the new President from the human swarms who will come to overthrow it, let them make his Christmas a merry one by sending some full-grown Siberian protectors and tigers that have never been taught reverence for man.

Vetoing the General Grant Bill. Indianapolis News. We should like to see our accidental, button* hole-bouquet, club-house president veto a bill ro* tiring Grant to the offico and pay lie once held. What a picture it would be! On the one hand, the man who twenty years ago was needed worse in the life of his Nation than any man in it, excepting tho martyred Lincoln, now broken ia health and fortune, a gray and crippled old warrior, a simple private citizen; on the other tho sleek and well-fed ’‘General'’ who served his country on the gory field of Manhattan island in tho quartermaster’s department A Democratic Congress places the old warrior on the retired list. “Gonerel* Arthur, now President, vetoes the act because of some fine sense of alleged illegality. We should liko to see that thing. President Arthur has already insulted General Grant by trying to make him a civil pensioner of the government. Think of this Nation making a civil pensioner of its greatest general, along with Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Polk and Mrs. Tyler! Grant has strengthened himself by peremptorily refusing to be put in such a position. We should like now to see him retired as general and see Mr. Arthur wrestle with the result. If he should refuse to sanction it he would have an accession of a large aud valuable amount of information. Cleveland's Legacy. Pittsburg Times. The benevolence of Alexander Magill, the old gentleman who died and left a will bequeathing his entire estate to three ancient maiden aunt* in the old country, to go, in case of their death without issue, to the next Democratic President of the United States, to bo used in tho interest of the National Democratic party of the United States, unfortunately will benefit neither hi* relatives nor Presidentelect Cleveland. Me. Magill's estate was not as great as his magnanimity, and if he had known the true condition of his affairs he would have seen that hi* estate was in debt to the amount of almost $16,000 more than it was worth. Yesterday the final account of his executrix and sister, Mr*. Elizabeth Steele, was filed, showing that after the estate had been settled up, there was still unpaid a judgment obtained by Mrs. Steele against him several years ago, amounting with interest to $25,661.48, and not enough money left to pay even the interest. So the Irish aunts or Grover Cleveland, to whichever it falls, have for their share a legacy of debt.

Miss Terry’s Visitors. Philadelphia Press. ‘•Mr. Irving,” asked a reporter of the great English actor yesterday afternoon, “can you tell me if it is true, as reported in the papers, that Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Coleridge arc coming over here to visit Miss Ellen Terry?” “Yes,” replied Mr. Irving, “and why not? Mr. Coleridge is a son of Lord Chief justice Coleridge, and they are both very dear friends of hers. They are to sail from England on the 11th, and! hope they will reach here before wo leave Philadelphia. Then they will stay a month with her." ‘ Is it also true that this is your last visit to Philadelphia?” “As actors, yes; but as friends, no. Our duties at the Lyceum Theater, of which, as }*ou know, I am manager, and hope to be for many years more, will prevent us from coming over again, for, as I am to have the Lyceum in charge, I hope that Miss Terry will be one of us—‘For you take my house when you do tako th* prop that doth sustain my house.’ “Whenever we may have a holiday wo may run over here as visitors aud friends, but not to appear on the stago.” Prohibitionists to Defeat Republicanism. Interview with Governor Click iu St. Louis Globe* Democrat. “The Republicans of Kansas must feel sore over Blaine’s defeat?” * “They are badly broken up and discouraged.* “St. John has gotten himself very much disliked, eh?" “lie comes in for a good deal of abuse, but I think he is able to stand it. The Prohibitionist* made no fight in that State, which accounts for their small vote. St. John has enough followers in Kansas to make it permanently Democratic. One-third of the convention that snubbed St John were liis friends. They had previously decided to quietly submit to the snubbing, and then organized for future action. They will meet on the I6th or 18th and define their position. n “Do you think the Prohibitionists will maintain a separate organization?” “Most .assuredly, and they have a largo balance of power, which can be used to tho detriment of the Republican party. ” Notice to the Prince. Kansas City Times. The Times will inform Prince Galntro that after he has squandered Miss Eva Mackay’s fortune, and has come West to grow up with the country, he cannot open a peanut shop in Kansas City. The Italian prince business is much overdone in this region. We have the Italian climate and an Italian orchestra, and, to use a very vulgar but pardonably expressive phrase, “we are no hogs. We know when wo have had enough.” The Wrong Eml of the Elephant. Warsaw Times. All through the campaign Mr. Hendricks ha* conveyed the idea that he was the head and front of the Democratic ticket —tho main spok* in the Democratic wheel. The tail of an elephant is often mistaken by greenhorns for it* trunk, but it should be borne in mind that hay i* never led to the animal at that end.