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THE DAILY JOURNAL. RT JNO. C. NEW * SOX. ~WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1885. THE INDIANA TO LIS JOURNAL Can 1> found >t the following plao**: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. I’ATITS— American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boulevard des Capucir.es. KEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer Houses CINCINNATI—,J. R Hawley & Co M 154 Vine Street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dearing. northwest eorne Third and Jefferson streets. ITT. LOUlS—Union New# Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. General Butlf.r “deniges of it.” He mys he is not writing a book, and has no immediate prospect or intention of so doing. This is disappointing. Doesn’t he want to give the country a chance to enjoy itself before the next campaign? Grover Cleveland yesterday resigned the office of Governor of New York. It is •worthy of note that James A. Garfield, the last-elected President of the United States, renounced the office of United States Senator, to which he had been chosen, before assuming the duties of the presidency. Secretary op. State Myers denies that he used any insulting taunt to Governor Porter respecting the action of the latter upon the vacant police commissionership. We are glad to give Mr. Myers the full benefit of the*denial. Will Mr. Myers, now that he has named the Democratic members of the board, accord the right and courtesy to Governor Porter to name and become responsible for the Republican member? By a blundering confusion of the report of the votes taken in the House of Representatives on Monday, the voto on the Lowell bankruptcy bill was made to appear as the vote on the Mexican pension bill. Tho vote on the pension bill was 129 ayes to 85 nays, wltereby its consideration was refused. The Indiana members, mentioned yesterday as having voted agafnst.it, voted for its consideration. They voted against taking up the bankrupt bill. Mr. Commissioner Frenzel says there is no impediment or obstacle in the way of Superintendent Lange’s enforcing the law for the regulation of the saloons. Is Mr. Lange ready to take the responsibility for the present disgraceful condition of affairs? Mr. Malott said, when ho resigned, that he “protested" against the policy of his colleagues on the board. Who tells the truth, Mr. Frenzel or Mr. Malott? We imagine most people will find no difficulty in answering.

In the face of its oft-repeated assertion that the white people of the South are not envious of the advancement of the colored race and their social progress, the Charleston, S. C., News complains because a fight between two negro women in that State was telegraphed over the country as a tragedy, in which “a prominent church lady killed the acknowledged belle of the town.” This disposition to allow only the rows between white ladies to be published to the world is a little too mean for anything. Tub Chicago News does not seem to understand why self-respecting Republicans hesitate to accept membership in the Metropolitan Police Board, when it is offered them by the Democratic State officers, in opposition to the wishes of Governor Porter, or at least without his concurrence, he being the only representative of the Republican party in the selecting authority. It is perfectly well understood here; indeed, it is not easy to see how any aelf-respecting Republican could do anything else than decline a place tendered under such circumstances. Mu. George Z. Erwin is the Speaker of the New York Assembly. In the preliminary canvass Mr. Erwin was regarded as the representative of Mr. Morton and against Mr. Evarts in the senatorial contest; but the fact that he was the unanimous choice of the Republicans may not give to Ids election the significance it might have had had there been a real division of forces. The New York Times, w hich is friendly to Mr. Evarts, was rery anxious for-the success of Mr. Ilubbell, and spoke in no very complimentary-terms of Mr. Erwin’s candidacy. It may be that the Republicans in the Assembly concluded to get along without any anti-Republican dictioD; at least for the present. Two or three ardent missionaries are chasing Abo Buzzard and his gang, who have pillaged and terrorized several Pennsylvania counties, with the hope ot cornering them in *>me mountain crorge and converting them to says of Christian usefulness. Mr. Buzzard has assured on the occasion of several jhanco encounters, during which the missiontries were constrained to throw up their bands, that lie and his followers were not only willing but anxious to be converted and leid a better life,“tumid they at the same time secure a definite promise that they would not he molester! by the minions of the law on account of past offenses. This assurance the evangelists were unable to give, but were encouraged by the discovery that they were not sowing seed on stony ground. Mr. Buzzard’s partner ? n crime, and who, like himself, waped from the penitentary three years •ince. was captured the other night, with a •nr;>et-bflg full of stolen watches in his possession, and is now in duraasg. A violent effort

is to be made by the authorities to take Mr. Buzzard also. When this is accomplished a considerable saving of missionary shoe-leather will result, but the bandits will probably refuse, under the unpropitious circumstances, to agree to a saving of their souls. It is altogether unnecessary for Mr. Frank Hurd to enter upon a verbose narration of alleged causes leading him to contest Jacob Romeis’s seat in Congress. The intelligent people of the country understand very clearly that the one paramount reason why Mr. Hurd contests Mr. Roiaeis's seat is the fact that the Congress-elect is Democratic, and will seat Mr. Hurd, whether it appears that he was or was not elected.—Chicago News. This would be regarded as a very remarkable utterance were not its truthfulness wellnigh universally conceded. But what must be thought of American politics when such impeachment shall pass unquestioned? What of our boasted popular institutions, and what of that colossal farce which has dubbed itself the party of honesty and reform, the Democratic party? Here we have what pretends to be an independent journal, with decided leanings toward the Democratic party, having lent it every energy in the last past campaign, unqualifiedly declaring that its representatives in Congress are without honor or official integrity. We do not challenge the conclusion arrived at by the News—nobody will, for nobody can without self-stultification. Anyone familiar enough with American politics to know the nature of the Democratic party, knows that of a certainty all Mr. Hurd has to do is to put forward some kind of claim —any kind, it * matters not what —and he will get tho seat to which his opponent was elected. It was so in this district, and to-day William E. English occupies the seat in Congress to which Stanton J. Peello was fairly elected. The Chicago News, if it be the friend of honesty in politics, may well reflect over the work it has assisted in accomplishing, and fair-minded men everywhere ought to speak out against such perfidy as will be consummated in the seating of Frank Hurd over his successful competitor. The country is now treated to the spectacle of a “reform” paity in power by virtue of the disfranchisement of a million voters, and a “reform” majority in the House increased by seats stolen in Ohio and Indiana, to sdy nothing of the bold attempt at Chicago to steal a a seat in the Senate. Four years of this kind of “reform” will, we think, be all the country will care to endure.

The attempted assassination of his wife and suicide of Dr. Tauszky, of New York city, was more than an insane freak, and the man will doubtless be held criminally responsible for his act. It appeal’s that he was inordinately jealous of his young—she twenty-two, he forty-four—anti pretty wife, and that he had frequently given public exhibition of his petty passion. Two years ago he made the mistake of taking a young and handsome girl for a companion, and their life since has been anything but pleasant. On the night of the attempted tragedy Mrs. Tauszky suffered untold torture in the momentary expectation of being murdered. Her husband had evinced a determination to kill her. She could hear him pacing the floor,' and occasionally he passed through her chamber, when she could see that llis face was livid with excitement and rage. Finally, at half past 4 in the morning he called her to come into his room. Not daring to cross his will, she went to him. Throwing his left arm about her neck, he kissed her forehead, and said: “Darling, I love you still." Mrs. Tauszky feared that there was treachery in those words, but as there was no chance of escape and no one at hand from whom to expect protection, she calmly awaited the end, whatever it might be. The Doctor toyed with his wife's hair with his left hand as he clasped her to hi3 bosom and caressed her lovingly. He expected that it would be the last embrace of husband and wife on earth, and Mrs. Tauszky thought so too. With his left hand Dr. Tauszky released hairpin after hairpin from his wife’s hair, and threw them on the floor. That done, ho raised his right hand, in which he held a five-shooter, thirtytwo calibre, and as the weapon pressed against Mrs. Tauszky’s neck, she remarked: “How cold that steel feels.” The Doctor made no answer, but continued raising his hand until he held tho weapon over his wife’s head. With the muzzle he moved aside tho tresses that ho had released by taking out the hairpins, and when, in tho darkness, he had reached the identical spot he desired, pulled the trigger. A flash and report instantly followed, and before the smoke had cleared, shot in the head, tho young wife Lay unconscious on the velvet carpet at her husband’s feet. Fortunately the aim was unsteady, and the ball made but a scalp wound. Turning tho weapon upon himself, he again fired, and fell to the floor, badly but not fatally wounded. Dr. Tauszky is one of those “insane" murderers and remarkable “lovers” of wives whom it would be but just to hang as soon as possible. Society is better off without such frenzied and devoted creatures. nov. George L. Converse, raeml>er of Congress from Ohio, claims to have received from the Librarian at Congress tho vote of all the States in the recent presidential election. The footings show that the total vote cast was 10,040,868, Cleveland receiving 4,010,975; Illaine, 4,845,022; St. John, 151,443; Butler, 133,428. Cleveland’s plurality over Blaine is 65.053. This, of course, makes no account of the fusion vote in lowa and Michigan, which would greatly lessen the alleged Cleveland plurality, even if it diN not entirely wipe it out. The Northern Democratic vote was 3,194,832; the Southern Democratic vote was 1,716,143. The total Republican vote in Republican

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States was 2,599,331; the total Republican vote in Democratic States was 2,246,091. The St. John vote in Republican States was 99,082; in Democratic States, 52,369. The Butler vote in Republican States was 93,127; in Democratic States, 40,301. The Democratic vote in Democratic States was 2,719,098; Democratic vote in Republican States was 2,191,777. The Northern Republican vote was 3,589,056. Forty years ago, in a lecture on “The Times,” Ralph. Waldo Emerson paid his respects to certain reforms and so-called reformers in language which could hardly nave been other than distasteful to the citizens then referred to, end would doubtless be equally unpleasant to some reformers of to-day, were the same utterances to be applied to them. In fact, it is difficult to believe that Mr. Emerson was not forecasting tho future, and, with the vision of a seer, was gazing upon a veritable mugwump of the year of our Lord 1884, when he drew this life-like portrait of men who delight to call themselves reformers. “They mix,” says he, “the fire of the moral sentiment with personal aud party heats, with measureless exaggerations and the blindness that prefers some darling measure to justice and truth. Those who are urging with most ardor what are called tho benefits of mankind are narrow, self-pleasing, conceited men, and affect us as tho insane do. They bite us, and we run mad, also. I think the work of the reformer as innocent as other work that is done around him, but when I have seen it near!—l do not like it better. It is done in the same way; it is done profanely, not piously; by management, by tactics, by clamor.” The mugwump may not be pleased by the picture drawn, though it be by the sage whom he and his class revere; but the candid observer cannot fail to be impressed by the exceeding faithfulness of the likeness. The French operations at Lang Son, and the British looking to the relief of Gen. Gordon, are proceeding with all the leisurely de liberation that characterized the American military gentleman whose daily message for months was, “All quiet on the Potomac.” In the language of the street, the French seem to have bitten off more than they can chew. They can hold what they have acquired—and precious little it is—but they can’t push things to that point that shall compel the concessions desired. To all appearances the desultory campaign in Tonquin will end in a draw, the disgrace of failure being avoided by the diplomatic employment of very diplomatic terms, supposed to be satisfactory to all parties concerned. As for the campaign in Egypt, it is a travesty on traditional British energy and valor. It is an expensive undertaking that the government would doubtless like to let. go of, if it dared. Periodically a great show is made of pushing things along the upper Nile, only to fall back into the old rut of delay. The glory of relieving Gordon will about equal the great victory at Tel el Kebir—a victory greater iu the telling than anywhere else. Thero is no doubt of the ultimate triumph of the British forces, but the expense will greatly surpass the benefits resulting. The same may be predicted of the French operations in the East, without waiting to know the outcome.

Mr. Carnegie says he was misquoted, and that he isn't as much of a Socialist as the newspapers have made him. He failed to get in his retraction, however, before the organized Pittsburg Socialists had repudiated him, and the nature of their remarks may have hastened the denial. Those amiable and cheerful persons laughed to scorn the idea that a division of property would be asked for when the time carne to strike. When that auspicious day arrives, declared the speakers at the Sunday meeting, “the laborer will take all and hang the capitalists." Under these circumstances it would hardly be worth while for Mr. Carnegie to offer to divide, and he is wise in deciding to enjoy his wealth while he may. Mu. Horace Waters, an impetuous New York Prohibitionist, offers to give SSOO for reasonable proof that Governor St. John either received or Agreed to accept from either the Republican or Democratic managers of the late campaign, or any one representing them or authorized by them, any money or .other material consideration, or any promise of political preferment whatever. Mr. Waters has zeal without knowledge. This is not his fight; it is Mr. St. John’s. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a perfectly responsible paper, makes a distinct charge, and says it can prove it. Why does not Mr. St. John. sue the Globe-Democrat for libel, and bring the whole matter to a speedy and legal determination? William L. Hale, of Chicago, publisher of a paper called the Illustrated Leisure Hours, has been arrested, on complaint of the manager of a certain watch company. Hall had extensively advertised that he would give a watch to each subscriber for three months who sent forty cents. Instead of a silver watch Hall forwarded in each instance a cheap aolargraph or compass. It is in the nature of a surprise that men can be found simple enough to expect a silver watch with each forty-cent subscription. No enterprising publisher nowadays thinks of offering less than a grand piano or house and lot for each subscription received. For a three months’ subscription such as Hall solicited, ho should have tendered a gold watch and SIOO tn money, with the privilege of renewing at tho end of three months on the same terms. I r a man meets you on the street and suddenly holds a clicking instrument before your face, it does not necessarily follow that he is a highwayman with a revolver who oceans to shoot the top of your head off. He may be a detective with a “pin-bole" camera, who is engaged in taking the photographs of suspected persons.

This contrivance consists of a small box with a camera at one side and a little hole at the other, and is worked wit h a spring by the finger. *With it a picture can be taken in an instant, and it is expected to become a powerful agent in the work of catching criminals. Tobogganing, which is Canadian for coasting, has been adopted by the fashionable people of New England towns, this season, with great success. Its popularity is enhanced by a Yankee contrivance for hoisting the toboggans and tobogganers to the top of the hill. People who thought their coasting days were past on account of the labor and loss of breath involved in taking the back track, are said to enter into the sport with all the enthusiasm of youth, under the encouragement of the elevator. An Indian princess named Pocahontas, who claims to be a direct descendant of John Smith’s Powhatan, was married on Tuesday to a candy merchant of Pittsburg, in which city the young woman was filling a dime museum engagement. If there is anything in belonging to an old and titled family, the taffy-puller’s wife has the advantage of most Pittsburgers, and the elite of that city should do her honor without delay. Reader, Kokomo: We have already pub lished a synopsis of the Mexican pension bill, together with the Senate amendments. It is dead now, however, for this Congress, at least ; J. S., Milligan, Ind.: Nothing like accurate data are at hand relative to losses of life and property by the Ohio flood. The Legislature meets biennially. Lady Reader, Whitlock, Ind.: You would better address P. C. Trusler, Indianapolis, rela tive to civil-service examinations at this city. To the Editor of tlio Indianapolis Journal.* First—ls the telegraph across the ocean in a pipe, or is there only a wire through the water? Second—Did the rebels ever slaughter colored soldiers.after they had been taken prisoners? W. D. J. First—The ocean cable is composed of a central wire, wrapped in others for protection, with gutta percha and other nonconducting material for the purpose of insulation and to protect the main wire from the action of sea-water and marine animals. Second—Such things were reported and currently believed during the war. The investigation into the Fort Pillow affair would seem to leave no doubt that there, at least, colored prisoners were massacred. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please state in your paper what was the “Magna Charts.” signed in 1215. w. f. s. Groveland, Ind. It was a charter granted by King John to the barons, and was intended to restrict royal prerogative by a series of provisions for the protections of the rights and obligations of the feudal proprietors. The provisions are too numerous to be recapitulated here, but it may briefly be stated that its most important reform was the establishment of tho supremacy of the law over the will of the monarch.

To tlio Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What per cent, of Indiana volunteers were Republican in politics? Mrs. O. Hancock, Ind. There are no accurate means of determining this question, Indiana soldiers not being allowed to vote in the field. We should say, however, that from 85 to 90 per cent, were Republicans. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: To settle a dispute, please state in the Journal whether Levy, the cornetist, denied marrying, not long ago. A Reaper. Not that we know of. He was married, recently, at Pittsburg, to the soprano singer who is now with his company under the name of Stella Costa. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. It is now said that the sale of Mr. Blaine's book is exceeding all expectations, orders for 500,000 copies of the first book having been filed with the publishers. Emperor William invariably says: “Do nothing: say nothing: time will put everything to rights," when one member of the family comes to complain of another. Mrs. Julia Ward llowe, head of the womens’s department of the New Orleans exposition, is said to contemplate resigning. She is being very harshly criticised, whether deserving of it or not. The mayor of Decorah, la., determined to enforce decorum in the streets of his town at night, and to that end dressed himself in the apparel of a girl, so as to entrap the bad mau who had habitually insulted those maidens who ventured out after dark. Colonel Daniel Lamont, private secretary to Governor Cleveland, received as a Christmas gift a gold locket containing a lock of Thomas Jefferson’s bair. It was presented by Henry S. Randall, whose father wrote the standard life of Jefferson. The nephews of the Paris cook, Durijot, who left testamentary directions that, in case recipos were not duly affixed to his tomb, his property was to pass from his relatives to charities, have decided to appeal to the courts, inasmuch as the cemetery people will not permit the will to be carried into effect. The following challenge is printed in the London Morning Advertiser: “Hearing so much boast of shaving in London, Paris, and other places. Julies, of Cable street, in St. George’s in the East, will back himself for from $25 to SSO to shave and lather six men while blindfolded without cutting thorn. Mau and money ready." To be greeted at her St. Petersburg debut by the Czar, Czarina and entire court, and an overflowing audience, and to bo called before the curtain thirty times amid applause surpassing anything ever before known—this, Mile. Van Zandt thinks, pretty well repaid her for the rascally blackguardislj with which she was treated in Paris. Behind the curtain of a barber-shop, in the secluded apartment sacred to the application of dye to gray hair, a sharp observer declares that ho saw the barl>er clipping the locks from a man’s head in order to make him nearly bald. The explanation is that he remarkably resembled the Prince of Wales, and was so proud of the likeness that he wished to perfect it by partially denuding his scalp. Bestwood, the Duke of St. Albans’s seat in Notts, was bought by Charles II for £5,000 and settled upon the first Duko, his son, by Nell Gwynne. The Beauclercs have never been as well to do as the other illegitimate offshoots of Charles. The late Duke got only a life annuity of £IO,OOO a year by marrying Mrs. Coutts, but the present Duke had a flue estate in Ireland with Miss Osborne. In Barbadoes, one Sunday, the captain of a vessel from New York saw a very important colored lady, gloved, ehoed and parasoled, walking to church with a barefooted colored servant, carrying her bag and prayer-book. He was astonished at the lady of color being able to keep up so much slate, but was told that the couple were sisters, and if he would wait until next Sunday he would see the situation reversed. The students of a Western theological seminary are reported to have discussed the question whether, in case of a prayer having been read from a printed slip, on a formal occasion, and thero having been a typographical error entirely reversing the meaning of a passage, the petition was received by Providence as uttered or as originally written. The debaters spent a whole evening over the point, aui then had a tie vote. New York Letter: It is rumored that John Russell Young will return to this city and journalism early in this year. He will be heartily welcomed. Men of brains and originality, with cluture aud wide experience among men, as well a among pot-house politicians, are greatly needed in the journalism of

th*s country. Recent letters from Mr. Young of him as in the enjoyment of excellent health, but lonesome and somewhat despondent-. Lord Brougham wrote a very illegible hand, as did also the late Walter Thornbnry. The current haud of George CruikshAnk was an atrocious scrawl, and Balzac wrote a hand nearly as execrable as that of Napoleon. The handwriting of Mr. T. 1L Escott, of the Fortnightly Review, looks lovely at a distance, but when you strive to decipher it. then comes the tug of words. In big writing of remarkable men. perhaps Fenelon’s hand was the finest. In small, the palm belongs to Thackeray. Lord Charles Hamilton, the only brother and heir to the dukedom of Hamiiton, married some years ago an obscure member of the foreign demimonde, and was refused a divorce, the judge saying that Lord Charles knew perfectly well what she was before he married her. She now lives with a relative of Lord Lonsdale, and it is said that Lord Charles has returned to a monastery. The Duke, meanwhile, lately had a daughter. He can dispose of his great estates precisely as he pleases. In Mrs. Garden’s “Memorials of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd," it is stated that Hogg's love for life ia London was not great. London impressed him; but in a letter written home the 10th of January, 1832, he thus describes the metropolis: “Notwithstanding of all the caressing I have met with, which is perfectly ridiculous, I hate London; and I do not think that either flattery or profit can ever make me love it. It is so boundless that I cannot for my life get out of it, nor can I find any one place that I want." WHKN Thaddeus Stevens used to be brought up to the House of Representatives he had to be carried by two messengers from his carriage to the members’ hall. Chauncey and a messenger by the name of Joe Reese were detailed to the task of carrying Mr. Stevens. Both were strong men, in the prime of life. One day, as Mr. Stevens was being carried by them. Reese complained of fatigue, and asked to stop and rest. While they were waiting, .the querulous invalid looked at his stout helpers as he said, with a melancholy sigh, “I wonder who will carry me when you two are dead and gone." Everett Farm ham died at Richmond, Summit county, 0., a few days ago, at the age of eighty-four years. He was the largest land-owner in the county. He was exceedingly eccentric. He called his lands his domains. On his farm was a largo tract of meadow land which he called “God's Heart," and of that he took especial care. He was a great admirer of England and British customs, and on a recent visit to London he undertook to lecture in the streets on the benefits of republicanism, and was arrested ayl fined. Four or five of his acres were inclosed as a park in which he kept deer, elk and buffalo. The force with which the gas issues from some of the gas wells in Pittsburg is tremendous, and in one instance a drilling machine weighing 3,000 pounds was thrown high in the air. The pressure is irregular, too, and therein lies the chief difficulty in utilizing the gas for household purposes, as the danger of leakage and explosion can hardly be overcome, though various contrivances are employed to lessen it. The gas-bearing stratum is here in a bed of soft, pebbly sand stone, at a depth of 1,000 feet, underneath solid rock. The rush of gas is weaker in the morning and stronger in the afternoon, and there is also a general fluctuation corresponding with the changes of the moon. In the current number of Science fresh interest is given to the subject of earthquakes, which have lately caused alarm in both hemispheres, by a statement of the number of noticeable shocks in this country during the twelve years from 1872 to 1883, inclusive. No less than 204 earthquakes are recorded as occurring in Canada and the United States, not in eluding Alaska, within the above period. Os these the Pacific slope had 151, the Atlantic coast 147, and the Mississippi valley 66. Thus it appears that an earthquake occurs about once in every twelve days somewhere in the United States or Canada, and about once a month on the Atlantic coast. These are exclusive of the lighter tremors which do not make an impression on observers, but which would be recorded by a properly constructed seismometer, au instrument designed to detect the slighter shocks.

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT, The unexpected discovery of a shortage in wheat in Europe came upon the markets of this country last week like the first shower after a long drought. This week we have the glad tidings that England is putting on a warlike front, and that its channel squadron is getting read}' for an unknown expedition. We should be sorry if there were any trouble in foreign lands, but we would have the consolation of thinking that the misfortunes of the wicked would assist the prosperity of the just.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Whenever an attempt lias been made to reduce the costliness of the machinery for paying the army by merging the pay corps in the quartermaster’s departmec.t, or requiring line officers to do many of its duties, an outcry has been raised against this project, on the ground that it would part with tho special ability and worth of the paymasters, and thus expose the public funds to great perils. The performances of such men as Wasson and Smyth are heavier blows at this theory than any that are dealt against it from other sources.—New York Sun. Men will treat their employes with kindly consideration. yet utterly fail of winning confidence in return. The workman wants more titan simple kindness, unused as he is to even that; ho wants confidence; he believes that the muscular work he does is a part and complement of the brain work which the employer contributes, and he wants to know that this fact is recognized; he wants, in short, to be treated, not as a hireling, but as a man and fellow laborer for a common purpose. So much, at least, ought to be possible. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. There are everywhere signs that the relations of the English and American stage are being reversed. Our managers have ceased to rely on London plays. Messrs. Harrignn and Hart, who, having been burned out of their theater on Broadway, mako their reappearance to-night, have risen from humble beginnings to the highest prosperity by pursuing a policy of illus trating the streets of New York and depicting the life with which their audiences are most familiar. Theatrical history in every country proves that this is the only sound policy to follow, and that any other policy must inevi.ably terminate in disaster.—New York Herald. Every explosion adds to the fright in London, and brings nearer the moment when a mob. driven mad by the dread of dynamite, will fall upon the Irishmen in London and servo them as the panic-stricken Protestants of fjord George Gordon's day served the Roman Catholics. Such an act would be brutal, unjust and cowardly, but it would be the natural result of the dynamite policy. To wave a red rag in the face of a bull is not half as dangerous as it is to explode dynamite among the people of London. Cannot sober Irishmen make the O'Donovan Rossa patriots understand that their threats are liable to put honest and peaceable Irishmen in peril of a Loudon mold—New York Times. The United States government has no money to give away to the Spanish government, and none to distribute among its own people by tne repeal of the whisky tax, or tobacco tax, as Sam Randall suggests, or in any other senseless gratuity. If the good faith of tho government bo maintained by keeping up the sinking fund B is the most that tho utmost economy can accomplish, and even that will bo out of the question if the proposed immense enlargement of the pension system be adopted. It is folly under these conditions to talk About one-sided reciprocity treaties entailing a sacrifice of revenue, or about the distribution of a surplus which will have no future existence. —Chicago Tribune, Iv these Republican clubs aro rightly conducted they will come to be permanent centers of interest anil sources of elevating social enjoyment in the towns in which they exist; they will br mg together the wives and mothers as well as the husbauas and fathers, the young women as well as the young men; they will culti\ate the faculty of intelligent discussion, and onlist the efforts of the most thoughtful and eloquent; they will organize hands of singers to lift political music above the level of old-time campaign songs, and to kindle feelings of true patriotism. Such clubs will have a power which cannot be measured. With them well planted all over tke North the Republican cause will be irresistible.—New York Tribune. Methohism seems to stand at the breadth of half a continent apart from the forces that are controlling our intellectual and spiritual life. Its activity is great, but seems to be exerted to bring people to a certain religious position rather than to build them up into the higher reaches of the spiritual life. It is here that, paradoxical as it may seem, loading Unitarians, untrammeled by an excess of theological baggage, have grasped the truths of unity, of central purpose, of the assimilation of religion with life, which to-day characterise the ripest spiritual thought in the land. Not that Unitarians are the only loaders here, hut they were pioneers where others have gladly followed in the diffusion of great ethical and spiritual truths. —Boston Herald. There is certainly room for the opinion that a judicious ami general policy of reduction in the coat of railway fares would stimulate railway travel. A reduction of freight in tho past twenty’years of from .50 to 75 per cent, has more than compensated for itself by the wuuderful increase of business it has pro*

duced. Passenger fares have remained nearer sta* tionarv during the same time. The example afforded by the freight reduction warrants the belief that * lowering of the charges for travel by about 50 peg cent, would more than double the volume of business done. Such a reform, however, must not be conducted upon the principle of giving all the advantage# to a few Favored points, and shutting other cities oul of the opportunity for cheap travel. When the railroad policy becomes enlightened, and literal enough t® eschew railway wars, and make general and permanent reductions, it will be a great advance on thq present style of doing business—Pittsburg Dispatch. NATIONAL TEMPERANCE LEAGUE. An Organization to Counteract tlio Loss from tiie St. Joint Campaign. Boston Special. A quiet movement of about five weeks ha© culminated here in the formation of a National Temperance League, to retrieve the injury don© to the temperance cause by the candidacy of Sit John and by the indignation of Blaine Republicans with the St. John men on account of their contribution to Blaine's defeat. The movement has beeu kept from the press until now. November 28 was the date of the first meeting. Tha Rev. Drs. Edward Everett Hale, Daniel Dorchester, and others were present, and it was decided to open correspondence widely over tha country to see what support could be obtained. A platform of principles and objects was prepared and circulated. Many favorable answer* came in, and many clergymen, members of Congress, judges, and women are committed to the support of tho movement Some of the names of these supporters are as follows: Massachusetts—Rev. Drs. Webb, F<>ljamb% Withrow, and Olmstead, ex-Govenior Long, Seuar tor D. B. Ingalls, and Councillor Greeley, of Clinton. Connecticut—Horn Oliver Hoyt, of Stamford; Rev. Dr. J. H. Vincent, and Rev. Dr. J. O. Peck, of Neif Haven. New York—. Judge G. C. Reynolds; of Brooklyn; Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckley, editor of the Christian Advocate; Professor William Wells, of Union College; Rev. Drs. Daniel Curry. J. M. Reed, and J. M. King, of Now York city; Prof. G. F. Comfort, of Syracus© University: Rev. Dr. B. I. Ives, of Auburn; Rev* Dr. O. H. Warren, of Syracuse, editor of the North ern Christian Advocate; Rev. Thomas B. Shepherd, of Watertown; H. K. Carroll, of the Independent; Rev. Dr. W. H. Olin, of Binghamton. New Jersey—Prof. S. F. Upham, of Drew Seminary. The next step was a meeting held on Thursday in the Wesleyan Building, on Bromfield street. The Rev. Dr. Dorchester presided, and explained, the origin and object of the movement, and speeches were made by Mrs. J. Ellen Foster and others. A constitution was adopted containing the following: Article I.—The name of this organization shall ba “The National League (non-partisan and n?m -sectarian) for the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic." Art. lll.—Objects: 1. The enforcement of law# against the liquor traffic. 2. The withdravvl of legal sanction from the liquor traffic. 3. The suppression of the liquor traffic. 4. Our ultimate purpose is, by constitutional and statutory provisions, to banish the liquor traffic from the land. Art. IV.—Methods: Discarding partisan entanglements, we announce our sole purpose to be tha suppression of the liquor traffic; and for this we propose: 1. To create and intensify public sentiment, by the pulpit, the platform, and the press. 2. To educata the young, in the public schools and elsewhere, as to the nature and effects of alcoholic liquors. 3. To us# all legitimate civil legislation, and to refer the question, for final decision, to the constitutional verdict of the people. We invite persons of all classes, creeds, parties and States to unite on this platform, and work and vote against the liquor traffic without exposing the cause with its varied interests to the schemes of personal politicians and the perils of party politics. ‘ A list of officers was elected who will hold till the first annual meeting, which will occur Janur tay 1, 1886, unless the time is changed by thft directors. The officers are: President. Rev. Dr* Dorchester, of Natic; general secretary, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster; recording secretary, Rev A. H. Plumb, of Boston; treasurer, Hon. Joseph D. Weeks, of Pittsburg; directors, the officers and Oliver Hoyt, of Connecticut; Lewis Miller, of Ohio; J. B. Farwell, of Illinois; Rev. Dr. E. E. Male, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, and Mrs. C. S. Prescott, of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Annia Wittenmyer, of Pennsylvania. A few vicapresiijents were chosen. Saturday afternoon a third meeting was held in the study of Dr. Hale’s church, and the officers and directors present filled out the list of vice-presidents, making about sixty in all. Cara was taken to distribute them as evenly as possible; but the Eastern States, particularly Massachusetts, got a larger proportion than the other States. The Methodist denomiuatiou is more numerously represented than any other, though the movement is wholly non-sectarian. It w.va decided to issue a brief statement to the publio in a few*days, showing the purpose and scope of the movement.

TIIE SUPREME BENCH. A Sensational Story About Chief-.! ustica Waite Exploded. Washington Special to Chicago Tribune. Chief-justice Waite, of the United States Supreme Court, was sitting in his sick-room this afternoon, when Clerk Kenney, of that court* brought him a copy of the New York Times, with a sensational dispatch purporting to corns from Washington, which stated that Mr. Wait® was dangerously ill and likely to die; that if he should have a lucid interval he would resign at once; that his family had abandoned all hope; that he had had paralysis last summer; that his end was hourly looked for, and that his sue cessor would be Secretary Frelinghuysen. AU this was news to the Washington public, and, most of all, to Mr. Waite himself; and Mr. Waite expressed to Mr. Kenney the greatest surprise that such a story should have been published. The regular correspondent in Washington of the Times was also greatly surprised, for he had never heard of the dispatch until it was printed, and the Times must have been imposed upon. It is true that Mr. Waite has been, very sick and that he is still far from well, but he is recovering, and has been constantly improving for several days. Ilis family are now making preparations to remove him to southern California, where it is hoped that the milder climate and change of air will restore him to health, and that ho will bo able to resume hid duties on the bench at least by the March term. Mr. Waite himself says that he hopes to be able to be back in time to administer tho oath of office to President Cleveland. One of the inaccuracies of tho sensational statement is the report that Mr. Waite was stricken with paralysis last summer. Miss Waite, after reading the dispatch to day, said that her father not only was not stricken with paralysis last summer, but that he never had been sick in bed a day in his life within her knowledge until he was taken ill here three weeks ago. He was still very feeble, but sat up teveral times yesterday an hour at a time and walked about his room a little. Mr. Waite's illness is due to overwork, inadequate exercise, and the strain upon the physical system caused by the social demands upon his position in connection with his official duties. His most serious trouble was erysipelas. Bo far as resigning when a lucid interval comes, as the dispatch says, there nover has been a moment during his illness which was not lucid, and Mr. Waite baa no thought of resigning. Tlie University of Virginia in Danger of a Shock. Washington Special, A Sunday paper has the following harrowing intelligence: The orthodox Democrats of Virginia, especially those who arc alumni of “The University,”are scandalized at the prospect that an miregenerate, rampant Keadjustcr is to be made a professor in the University of Virginia. The lie-adjuster who dare aspires so high is Congressman at-large John S. Y\ ise. The professorship is that in the law department recently vacated by I)r. Southall’s resignation. It is said that tho eight present members of the board of visitors, there being one vacancy in the board, are cquaily divided on the question of making Wise a professor. The Readjustees control the appointment of tho ninth member of tho board as they did the appointment ot four of the present members of the board, and it is not improbable that young Wise may become a professor in the University of Virgiuia. This is a life position at a good salary. Preaching at the Age of 101. Tallulah, Ga., Jan (J. —There is a blind Baptist preacher, in Reuben county, who has iust finished his one-hundre.l-and first year. He is unable to go out of his house, but his congregation gather around his bed every Sunday and lie nreaches to them. He is a strong believer iu the doctriuo “That what has to bo will be.” Negroes Leaving North Carolina, Rai.kiok, Jan. 6.—-Oma. hundred families of negroes left Richmond county, North Carolina, on Monday night, for Arkansas. Many of th best and most prosperous of the colored poopla of that county wore among the emigrants.