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THE JOURNAL— 1885 THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL is recognized everywhere as the leading newspaper of Indiana. No proper expense will spared in the future to maintain this undisputed excellence and to increase llie value and interest of the paper. THE JOURNAL was never so well equipped to serve the public. Our arrangements for the collection of the news of the day are more complete than ever, and we are adding some special features for 1885 which must enhance the popularity of the paper. THE JOURNAL is the only paper in Indiana that prints regularly the full reports of the Western Associated Press, which are now more comprehensive than ever, covering the whole world. These dispatches are supplemented by the work of special correspondents at all the principal cities and towns, of the State and of the country at large. We have a special resident representative at Washington City, who looks after the news of the national capital with vigilance, paying particular attention to that which most nearly concerns THE JOURNAL'S constituency. The national administration will soon pass into the control of the Democratic party, and the fullest and most reliable intelligence from Washington will be presented in our news columns, free from party bias, impartially, and without restraint. The new State administration takes eharee of affairs with the beginning of the new year. The Democratic Legislature will be in The Journal will pay unusual attention to the daily presentation of such a report of its doings that any citizen of the. State may know all that is going ou affecting the public interests, accompanied with such comment as may be needed to explain the possible political, social and economic effects of the proposed legislation. Editorially THE JOURNAL is a Republican paper, believing in the principles and general policy of the Republican party; but it recognizes that the day of blind party organ ship has passed, and it proposes to be perfectly free to criticise and condemn, but in a spirit and with a purpose for good, having a proper regard for personal rights and reputations. The citizen, whatever hispolitical faith, can be assured of seeing in the columns of THE JOURNAL the fullest and fairest presentation of the news, and. in its editorial columns such comment, and strictures as will command his rothey do not meet his approval. It may also be said that THE JOURNAL is published as a FAMILY NEWSPAPER. If recognizes that the women and the children are to be instructed and entertained. They will always find in its columns matter specially prepared for them, while the paper will be so conducted as to prove a welcome visitor in the household. The news will be presented in such shape as to minimize the evil, and its editorial and local columns will be kept free from moral taint. The Railroad News of THE-JOURNAL is admittedly the freshest, fullest and most accurate printed by any newspaper in the country. SPECIAL FEATURES. By a special arrangement with the authors, the INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL will begin with the new year the publication of a series of original stories from the pens of the most noted writers in the country, such as W. D. Howells, J T. Trowbridge, E. P. Roe, T. B. Aldrich, Frank K. Stockton, Mrs. Helen Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, and others of equal celebrity. The first story will be entitled “A Symphony in Minor." and is by Hjalmer H. Boyesen, the distinguished Norwegian novelist. In order to reach all our readers, these stories will be printed in the Saturday edition of the Journal. THE SUNDAY JOURNAL is a pronounced success. Its circulation is the largest and best of any Sunday paper printed in Indiana, and at its price of three cents has made itself the People’s Paper. The SUNDAY JOURNALiswithout competitor in the State in the character and variety of matter its presents its readers. The best writers in the State and the country freely contribute to its columns. The JOURNAL OF MONDAY of each week prints a special report of the sermon of Rev. Dr. Talmage, of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, preached th*- previous day—which sermon is not published in other papers of the State until the following Sunday. This is only one feature showing the excellence of the Journal’s arrangements for tin proinpl publication of news.

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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. FRIDAY. JANUARY 2, 1835. THE INDIAN Al'OLla JOURNAL __________ Car. b* found at the following place* LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARTS—American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boulevard eta Ciipuciiios. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer Bouse. CINCINNATI—J. R Ilawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Bearing, northwest come Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel An open winter, we believe. It is only ton bundled and ninety-four days until leap-year. Two weeks before the election Democratic papers would have published Cleveland's letter, to the mugwumps at the top of the column, double-leaded. Why don’t they do so now? WHEN the skies fall we shall all catch larks. And the millennium will come on silver wings when the Democratic party is suddenly transformed into the apostle of purity and civilservice reform. After all that has been said, Mr. Tilden will uot attend Cleveland’s inauguration. He probably reflects that the scene would revive too gad recollections of what might have been —if he had only had votes* enough. Hon. C. B. Harwell, of Chicago, declares that he must not be considered a candidate for the senatorshin, and, further, that he favors tho re-election of General Logan. Mr. Harwell has struck the key-note of the party, and will win in its esteem. The Sentinel says that what the Journal has printed with respect to the Metropolitan Police Board is “infamous.” The -word is correct, but iU use improper. It is not the Journal’s language, but the fact demanding such language, that is “infamous.”

Beginning with midnight-, Wednesday, the scientists at Greenwich made the astronomical day consist with the civil. The former had, theretofore, begun at noon. Both will now begin at midnight. The twenty-four-hour day experiment also began then. The men who have pledged themselves to raise the $100,000 to relieve General Grant from his financial difficulties deserve all praise. What is everybody’s business is nobody's business, and it would have taken a long time to raise such a sum by popular subscription. Several observatories are about to take observations to determine the center of gravity of the earth, with a view, by a succession of experiments, to discover if it varies in time. At present the center is on North Tennessee street, Indianapolis. After March 4 next it will not be there. Let us enter the new year with malice toward none and with charity for all; with a proper and commendable belief in the honesty of motive and purpose of those we differ from. But for mercy’s sake do not let us part with every bit of common sense we ever had, become milk-eeps, and go out to gather grapes of thorns and figs of thistles, as happy and guileless as the snipe-hunter with his bag. We trust the Chicago News speaks ex cathedra when it says: ‘’No amount of squirming will save the ballot-box stuffers from the penitentiary.” The American people cannot afford to wink at fraud in elections. The scoundrels who attempted to steal the United States senatorship from Illinois ought to be sent to the penitentiary, as should those who stole the ballots from the Indianapolis courthouse. The Baltimore & Ohio’s cut in telegraph rates is startling enough to provoke the wonder if it will not result in “a pool” sooner or later. But even if it should, it is hardly probable that old rates would be restored. The time has come for reduction in telegraph tolls. The $00,000,000 of “water” in Western Union’s $80,000,000 capital is paying too heavy dividends. The public will weloome any company that offers l'elief in this matter. It is not a pleasing thing to turn from the gayeties of the holidays to the contemplation of a probable visitation of cholera next summer, but that is exactly what we must do. The disease, instead of sleeping duiing the winter season, is still alive in Spain, fresh cases being reported at Toledo this week. A good many Americans will not sit down to another Christmas feast unless every sanitary precaution is taken to ward off this scourge, and even then it is probable that we shall not entirely escape. Eleven years ago the men of Boston elected four women as members of the school board, and kept them there until female suffrage was granted, six years later. The right of suffrage was limited to the voting for school officers only, and, though the privilege was not at first extensively used, enough women availed themselves of it to defeat the candidate of their own sex at that time upon the ticket. At any rate, whether they voted against her or not, she was not elected; and as each year followed another female member dropped out, until the last election, which shows & larger vote from women than ever before, leaves the

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school Ward without a representative from among the mothers of the children. This is a curious commentary on the practical and reformatory results of woman suffrage. The revolution claimed as Inevitable by its advocates seems to have worked the wrong way in this instance. . In its notice of the resignation of Mr. Malott, the Sentinel of yesterday says: “Speaking of his’connection with the board, Mr. Malott said that its members had gotten along very pleasantly together, and that no disagreement between himself on the one part and Messrs. Murphy and Frenzel on the other had arisen, and he spoke in tho .highest terms of the two gentlemen with whom he had served as a police commissioner.” The News of Wednesday is authority for the statement in effect, that—“lt has been known for several months that he was not in accord with the Democratic members, owing to their determined policy to ignore the laws relating to the saloon business, for the reason that it was feared that their strict enforcement would have an adverse effect politically. His protest against the course which has been pursued has been on file in the records of the Police Commission for some time, and over a year ago he declared that if the other commissioners persisted in refusing to enforce the laws, he would resign. He was induced, however, to continue in the position, but no disj>osition to alter their course having been manifested by the commissioners since the close of the campaign, he determined to withdraw from the board.” We know* personally that the News has the authority of Mr. Malott for what it said with regard to his relations to the police board, and Mr. Malott, himself, to a reporter of the Journal, expressed sentiments similar to those attributed to him in the News. There seems to be a lack of consistency in these statements. If Mr. Malott found it necessary to present a protest against the policy of the board in ignoring the enforcement of the law against saloons, it can hardly be said that “no disagreement had arisen between himself and Messrs. Murphy and Frenzel.” A protest, recorded on the records of the board, would seem to be in the nature of “a disagreement.” Men do not “protest” unless there is something to “disagree" about. Wo are glad that Mr. Malott has resigned; glad for his own sake; glad for tho sake of the city; glad for the precedent it establishes that the Republican member of tho beard can let it be known that ho is not in sympathy with tho shameful policy, that has dominated the police system of the city since the precious metropolitan system was fastened upon Indianapolis by the beetle-browed bummers under the lead of Mr. Speaker Bynum and the empty-headed Moody, of DeKalb comity. The Journal respects the motives that have kept Mr. Malott quiet for more than a year and a half, but wo think his judgment was at fault. However, it is all over now, and Mr. Malott’s resignation' furnishes tho amplest proof for all the Journal has. said. It is to be hoped the next Republican member of the board will allow it to be understood that he is in favor of tho proper enforcement of law, and will make himself emphatically felt in opposition to tho “infamous” policy, whereby the police board and tho police power are mad© the slaves of defiant and persistent lawbreakers.

The year which closed yesterday will always be historical for the wreckage of capital and the depreciation of merchandise and labor. About 12,000 mercantile failures, with liabilities approaching $250,000,000, upward of half a million artisan workers thrown out of employment, a reduction of 10 to 30 per cent, in the wages of artisan employes in most branches, a decline averaging 30 per cent, in the value of corporate in vestments, a shrinkage of 25 per cent, in the aggregate of bank clearings, a decline of 10 to 25 per cent, in the value of merchandise—such are the more comprehensive facts which this revolutionary year has left to remember itself by, and to form the texts of endless comment and explanation. —Louisville Courier-Journal. The explanation is simple enough. Business aud wages are seeking the low level of free-trade England; that is all. The vote, in May last, of 152 Democrats in favor of “progressive free trade,” left manufacture and trade no alternative. The work of grinding everything down to the hard-pan of British methods had to be begun. This could be accomplished in several ways. First, by the reduction of wages to the British level. But this could not be accomplished off-hand with out forcing starvation upon workingmen. Another way was to close up factory and mill, in anticipation of the inevitable decline in values. We have seen how tho Democratic idoa has influenced business, and nobody likes it. Governor Cleveland announces that there are persons in the government service who “have forfeited all just claim to retention because they have used their places for party purposes, in disregard of their duty to the jK.-ople." —New York World. We mourn for Thoman—Thoman, member of the Civil-service Commission. He abandoned his business, and made speeches for the Democratic candidates, and devoted himself most conspicuously and offensively to the work of local political management. Os course, this furious civil-service reformer will make an example of Mr. Thoman, and not expend all his fierce wrath and high virtue in chopping off the heads of clerks and subordinates, who did little more than send a dollar or two to the aid of the party in whose principles they believed, and possibly went home to vote. Off with Tboraan’s head; so much for civil-service reform. There is said to be a scheme on foot among the mugwumps of tho country to organize formally, and to make their first public appearance as representatives of a party at the inauguration of Cleveland. The [dan is to have auoh a large turnout that consternation and terror will strike to the hearts of Republicans who have been inclined to jeer at the movement. The movement is a secret one, a great part of the effect to be produced do-

pending upon the element of surprise caused by their imposing appearffneo on the eventful occasion. The secret leaked out through the unfortunate mistake of seuding confidential circulars from the Washington headquarters to individuals throughout the jountry who were supposed to be, but were not, mugwumps. The untimely development of the plot need not, however, deter scattered independents from rallying and hilling in with the "procession. ’ General Browne points out the startling fact that of the >,242,474 voters of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, but 623,187 cast votes, or had their votes counted. Statistics show that in the States named there are 623,392 white and 619,038 colored voters. The total vote cast for all presidential candidates in the last election was less than the white vote alone by some 200 votes. What does it mean? And what became of the over half-million votes that made no showing? Is it possible that the colored vote of the States named has been suppressed? The election returns ought to show. With a total vote of over 600,000, and reinforced by white Republicans, someone or more of these States should have chosen m presidential electors that would represent such voters. The result indicates that not one was chosen or returned elected. Is there any mart, North, South, East or West, simple enough to believe that such result could coma from anything but violence or fraud? Had the 6u0,000 colored voters of those States, reinforced by the white Republicans residing there—and there are thousands such —been allowed to vote as they pleased, and had their votes counted as cast, there is no doubt in the world but tha. James G. Blaine would to-day be President-elect. In other words, the administration of this countiy has been stolen by wholesale fraud and brutal violence. The manner in which the Republican majority of 10,000 in the Fourth congressional district of Alabama was wiped out is undoubtedly a fair example of how like results were brought about generally throughout the States in question. A half,million votes cannot be suppressed or bo unaccounted for without crime against popular suffrage. Nor can sixty townships be thrown out on frivolous pretexts without somebody earning a term in the penitentiary. Yet, with all these palpable frauds, nobody ever heard of anybody being held accountable in the South. It is hard to prophesy the end of systematic outrages upon popular suffrage. That retribution will come, in time, there can bo no doubt, and that it will fall upon the heads of tho perpetrators of these gross wrongs is quite certain. The solution may come peaceably, through a revolution in favor of legitimate business over ballot-box stuffing and bulldozing. It will be this, or the scoundrels responsible for it will fall out among themselves in their fight over the spoils of stolen triumphs, when the right will at last come cut victorious, os come it must.

Mr. Beecher's manly justification of liis oonduct during the campaign ought to and probably will secure him the renewed faith and confidence of his friends and communicants. —Mugwump Exchange. Mr. Beecher says the reason he declared in his campaign speech that the majoiity of the men in New York State had broken the seventh commandment was because he wanted to make votes. “If I had been making a speech to you (his church congregation), I should have made it with Attic purity. I should have endeavored to square everything, but when I went out to counteract Ben Butler, 1 made the speech that I thought the common people would understand, and that would win them to the cause o.f truth and righteousness; so you must not, therefore, put your Attic sealo of measurement upon my speeches too severely. ” Where is the manly justification or apology claimed by tho Plymouth pastor's adherents to be in this speech? Only a confirmed mugwump and a Beecherworshipper can detect, in it aught but dishonesty, insincerity, and the principles of a demagogue. And so it seems that Grover Cleveland is president of a free-trade club, and has been for many years. The utter insignificance of the man, his inability to impress himself upon the public, even though that public be the most circumscribed, is evidenced by the fact that this reminiscence of his history did not occur to anyone* during the campaign, not even to a siugle resident of the city of Buffalo, of which Mr. Cleveland is a citizen and was the mayor. But Mr. Cloveland himself knew it, and so did the other free-traders associated with him; yet, for their own purpose, they concealed the truth during a compaign in which the question of free trade or protection was a leading one, if not the dominant one. The concealing of his views on the subject of the tariff shows Mr. Cleveland to be very far from the blunt, honest man he is represented. Tite Philadelphia Record says: “ \ Democratic member of Congress is reas saying that the House will not pass the bill to put General Grant on the retired list in this session, but that it will be held back and passed under a Democratic administration. In this way it is proposed to show that the Democrats can take as good care of the “old commander" as the Republicans. This is a poor reason. As long as the Senate is Republican the two parties must divide the credit and responsibility of all legislation. If the Democrats of the House desire to pass this bill in behalf of General Grant, the best time is now.” To obtain a foreign market for our surplus products, we have only to make them cheap enough, and enable our manufacturers to offer their goods as cheaply as their European com-petitors.—Courier-Journal. This is certainly frank enough. From 7f> to 90 per cent, of the cost of any production :s the labor that goes into it. The roduction

so as to make manufactured goods cheap enough to competo with European competitors cannot be in the material; it must be in the price of labor. The fact and the effect are both, possibly unwittingly, acknowleged by the great apostle of free trade, or fair trade, or revenue reform, or commercial freedom, or whatever the name tho British scheme of free trade may masquerade under. JOHN B. Finch, chairman of the Prohibition national committee, cards the press to the effect that neither the Republican nor Democratic committees made any dishonorable overtures to his committee relative to the withdrawal of St. John or his retention as a candidate. Very likely, for probably not a single member of either committee was foolish enough to attempt to buy an entire committee. The charge is that St. John personally received encouragement from Democratic sources to remain in the field, to the evident hurt of the Republican candidates. Any Prohibitionist in the ranks has a3 much right to deny as has Mr. Finch, but, after all, Mr. St. John himself knows more of his own experience than all his party together. Tiie editor of the St. Louis Globe-Demo-crat gives, with circumstantiality, alleged facts in connection with Mr. St. John’s dishonorable mercenariness. Thus far St. John has contented himself with sayi>- g that Mr. McCullagh is a blanked liar. The Globe-Dem-ocrat is responsible. Why does not Mr. St. John sue it for libel, and bring the question to a legal and judicial determination? Here is the direct and distinct charge of the GlobeDemocrat: “St. John may deny, but in spite of his denial we can prove, that ho offered to get a sore throat and retire from the Ohio campaign for $25,000." What will “the brainless and mercenary sneak" do? Whether there are vaults or not in tho two-million-dollar court-house elephant has nothing to do with the question of trying to find outand punish thescoundrels who rifled tho ballots. The only persons who could, profit by such a crime were Democrats. Judge Norton, * of the Criminal C’-ourt, is a Democrat. lie controls the grand jury. He has not lifted a finger. Until he does, it is not becoming in a Democratic newspaper to say anything about the crime.

Pennsylvania is so full of romance that it sometimes extends over the borders. In the lumber regions, near Coaltou, that State, are situated the extensive mills of the Clarion Lumber Company. The superintendent of the mills, a Mr. Glancy, had in his emnioy two young men recently from Maine. After their arrival, the daughter of Glancy returned from school in New York State, and both ax-swingers began to shiue up to her, evidently deeply smitten. The man who reports the events th.;.t followed is honest enough to say that “she seemed pleased with their attentions to her,” which wo do not feel disposed to dispute. Neither seemed to have any advantage—they were neck and ne<A, and imagined they were trotting down the home stretch in fine style. But they had been life-long friends, and refused to let a little thing, like a pretty girl, break their long-established friendship, which goes to show how sensible they were. Two weeks ago there there was a “grand” shooting match near the place, and both Nicholson and Brant—those were their names—being excellent shots, they were in attendance. Realizing the absolute goneness of each other on Miss.Qlaticy, and, further, that only one could have her, they arranged to shoot a “rubber." Well, they were so evenly matched that they fired twenty times each, and each time tioing. On the twenty-first shot' Nicholson missed, and, in accordance with the agreement, he gave up his “claims" on the auorod one. Brant thon approached the shrine in confidence, explained the agreement and tho result of the match, only to be informed that she was sorry for him, but really, she had mortgaged her heart and hand back in York State. Mr. Brant—a brant is a kind of wild goose—thereupon gave over and fled to the woods of Maine, refusing to be comforted. Mr. Nicholson, beaten at shooting, was a trifle more wise, and continued his suit in the absence of the Now York chap. Tho result may bo guessed—he won. But the father was inexorably in favor of his daughter’s first choice. So the couple eloped, got married, and the old man blessed them. It pays to persevere. Benevolently patriotic persons, who, having heard that Sergeant Bates was in a state of destitution, have thought of diverting their proposed Barthnldi-pedestal contributions to the flag-carrier’s benefit, may now adhere to their original purpose of patronizing Liberty. A wealthy citizen of Philadelphia has died and left the Sergeant $13,000, which, if he does not spend it for flags, should be sufficient to keep him from the alms house. The Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier is making its annual boast over the fact that the laws of that State prohibit divorce, and that no legal separations have ever been granted within its borders The paper is silent as to the number of “grass" widows and deserted husbands among the inhabitants: but statistics would probably show no great difference from other States in that class of citizens. The abduction of Mrs. McChesney from the New Orleans exposition grounds, and her concealment for over a week, after being carried several miles from the city, is enough to alarm tho visiting public, and should move tho police authorities of that city to increase their vigilance. Every assurance of safety and comfort should be guaranteed the thousands who may visit the exposition. ATRichpond, Ky., on Tuesday night, Everett Carson was put out of a dance hall for misconduct He secured an ax, and threatened to “clear the whole platter," when Bill Walker drew a pistol and shot him dead. Kentuckians never would submit to the reckless use of slang. WriAT earthly sense is there in horn-blowing, hallooing and raising Cain generally at 12 o’clock on the night of Dec. 3D The year passes just as surely at any other hour and on any other day. J. C. Talbert, Os Murfreesboro, Tenn., is very fond of tho fair sex, if one may judge of his conduct Six weeks ago ho married at Murfreesboro. Not content with that, or reasoning that if one girl was good, several would be better, he

abducted two othor girls from Canon connty, and had another in tow from Coffee county, when he was arrested in his mad career. Leapyear, too! Walt Whitman, the poet, emerges from his lair long enough to remark that Governor Cleveland is the man for the times, or words to that effect The author of “Leaves of Grass" must naturally be in sympathy with the writer of the letter to Mrs. Beecher, the perpetrator of the crime which he “does not deny.” The greetings of the year to our reader*. —Chicago Inter-Ocean. There are several greetings of the year-Tespe-cially of the new year. One is, “Here's looking at you," another, not quite so enjoyable, is, “Can you settle that little account to-day?” Comparatively a small mumber of Indianapolis ladies kept open house this year—probably on tho principle that it is more blessed to giv* than to “receive.” The Louisville Courier-Journal has started the heartless canard that “Several young ladies and gentlemen havo resolved to write no poetry this year.” _ In Louisville, last year, 238 couples were divorced. It is hard to live in Louisville, married or single.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mr. Thomas Hughes, better known as “Tom Brown," has agreed to write a life of Peter Cooper. For the past twenty-five years tho chief cartoon ia Punch lias, with a single exception, been drawn by Mr. John Tennial. It sometimes has to be changed a very short time before publication. A Western patent medicine man sends out a circular which concludes after this shocking fashions “Praise God from whom all blessings flow: large bottles, $1; small bottles, 50 cents. Beware of counterfeits." Nearly 4,000,000 Christmas cards were sent and received through the London, Liverpool and Manchester postoffices alone this year. This cheap and handy way of expressing Christmas greeting is immensely popular with the sons and daughters of John Bull. Miss Edith, daughter of Minister Foster, was a favorite with the royal family at Madrid, and boasts the possession, in her album, of the autograph* of the King and Queen, the ex-Queen Isabella, and*a whole page of good wishes from the Infanta Eulalia. A crank from the interior of Pennsylvania, who claims to be “a seventh son,” etc., has offered, for a valuable money consideration, to predict for the inauguration committee what kiud of weather there will be during inauguration week. Tho offer will probably not be accepted. The announcement that Wales’s boy, Albert Victor, is not only coming to this country, but that already he is notified that it is timo for him to look out for a wife, is a combination calculated to create a flutter of excitement among the many admirers of marquise* and such things. All the ice that is used in Mexico comes from the top of Popocatepel, is brought down tho mountain on the backs of the natives and then sixty miles on the cars to the city, where it is sold at wholesale for ten cents a pound. At the bar rooms iced drinks are very expensive, and ice is seldom seen auywhero else. A Kansas editor makes the following announcement in his paper: “Last week, when we were coming home from Topeka, we were held up by two road agents, who took all the money we had lelt. We hope, therefore, that our delinquent subscribers will pay up their subscriptions promptly, as we are mighty hard up.” The venerable Thomas Harrison, anciently known as the “boy preacher,’’ has been in Toronto ten weeks. In that time he has “converted" just 1,000 souls, and the collections have aggregated $l,lOO. Those figures are exclusive of the closing meeting, al which “quite a sum" was collected, and ono woman went crazy. Charles Fletcher, owner of a big Providence woolen-mill, invariably hires anew boy for a term of three years, at wages of $3, $5 and $0 progressively per week; but at the end of each year he makes a gift of SSO to every lad who has mode satisfactory advancement in the trade. He thinks this is the best form of an apprentice system. IN Piedmont, Ga., there is a forty-eont man. If h* hires any one ho only pays him forty cents per day; if he hires himself to any one he only asks forty* cents; if he makes a bid or an offer for anything it is onlyforty cents; if he swaps horsos. cows or anything h either asks or pays forty cents difference, There &r* forty-ceut men in othor towns than Piedmont. Lord Coleridge's only daughter wears spectacle*, and is not a beauty. But she is exceedingly clover and learned in classics. Her best friends have always deemed her a “very odd" person. Wheu she lefthom* she advertised for pupils. Her brother, Bernard, is not generally liked, and his father has t ried to push his son’s interest at the bar in a manner which has excited very unfavorable comment. The late President Peck, of the Terre Haute Sf Indianapolis railroad, used twice a year to walk th* entire distance between Indianapolis and Terre Haute, carrying cn his arm a pock bucket in which he put 1 any piece of iron he saw lying near the track, piece* of spikes, coupling-pins or shackles. When his basket; became weighty he Would dump the content* neap the track for the section men to gather. A correspondent writes: “There is no prettier girl in New York State than Miss Mary TalxUage, eldest daughter of the Brookly divine. She is of a pale, classic, blonde type of beauty, petite in very vivacious in manner and stylish in dress and appearrnce, besides being a finished scholar and a great favorite in young society. It is also alleged sh* possesses all the literary tastes of her father. At night the Mexican policeman brings a lantern and a blanket, lie sets the lantern in tho middle of the street, and all carriages are compelled to keep ta the right of the row of lanterns which can be see* glimmering from one end of the street to the other. As long as people are passing he stands at the cornor, - but when things quiet down he retires to a neighboring doorway, wraps his blanket around him and lie* down to pleasant dreams. Professional prejudices have been stirred to their depths among the male doctors of Washington, by the fact that Chief-justice Waite has been attended by a woman physician during the rocent serious ill ness from which he is just recovering. Mrs. Dr. Win* low ie the family physician of the Waites. A strong pressure was brought to bear upon Mrs. Waite t< “induce her to call in some other physician; As thi* was on the scoro of gender and not of ability or experi-ence,-that lady positively declined. When both parents have eyes of the same color 88 per cent, of the children follow their parents in this feature, and of the 12 per cent, born with eyes other than the parental color a part must, bo attributed to intermittent hereditary. Moie females than males have black or brown eyes in the proportion of 41) to 45. With the different colorer eyes in the two parents 53 per cent, of the children follow the father* in being dark-eyed and 60 per cent, follow their mother in being d-rk-oyod. Miss Kate Chase Sprague, atone time tho bell* of Washington, is now quietly secluded at Fontain bleau, in France, directing the education of her lovely children. She is yet a magnificent woman, beautiful in face, erect in stature, aud as exquisitely refined and fascinating in manner as ever Her hair ha* become almost white, but it is intensely becoming to hej classic visage. A correspondent writes that “doubtless sho wi’i be iu Washington for the inaugural ceremonies attired in ail her old-time splendor, and th* honored guest, of one of her distinguished father's former friends." - When Lord Seborne. the present. Chancellor, rc*d the letter Miss Fortcscue wrote to Lord Garm< vie beggiug him to buy her no more jewels, and written is such a tender, womauly, sensible wav, he used, it la said, some unusually strong expressions. The exChancellor, Lord Cairns, would have been very un happy if ho luwl heard them. “If 1 bail a sou,” said