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THE DAILY JOURNAL. JIT JNO. C. XK\T Jfc SON. rSIDAY. JANUARY 9. 1885. Till, INDIANA I*ol*l3 JOtiiNAt On >) frmr.d at th#> fnPovrinp ohm IM>< >S— Amen<HD Kxrbange in Eui-op. 449 Ansi IPAFifs — in I’ikH?. 35 Boniev&rd 4m t'apueines. KKNV YORK—St. L’wh'Jc.* and Windsor iiote’.s, CHICAGO—PaImer Housa. CINCINNATI —J. R Hawley A Cos.. 154 Vine Street. !LOT'ISY7TJ>E— T. I *earir.;. northwest corn© Third and Jefferson street*. ST. TANARUS/H T TS—Union Now* Comr-anv. Union Depot and Sonthern Hotel Any ten-year old school ,boy submittirjg such “a coin position" as Mr. Hendricks’s reply to the toast “Indiana,” before the editorial banquet last night, would be marked down to the next grade. WiTn no intention of invidious comparison We would like to express the opinion that Joseph E. McDonald is the wholesomest Democrat in Indiana. McDonald was butchered to make a Hendricks holiday. The Democratic House of Representatives did not think enough of Saint Jackson to adjourn in honor of Lit- memory. Dave flooding was not in a frame of mind-to think of any Other dead man than hirn^el!. It would b* peculiarly graceful and fitting that Mr. Blaine be invited to deliver the address at the dedicatory services of the Washington monument. He is pre-eminently fitted for it in every particular, and it is safe to predict that his address would be a memorable one. Mk. ThomanV speech to the Democrats of Ohio is worth reading. He is a member of the Civil-service Commission, and he announces that, there is nothing in the law to prevent the removal of all the office-holders iu the country in one day. Mr. Thoman is * Civil-service Commissioner after Mr. Hendricks's own heart. The prosecution of General Swaitn begins to assume the appearance of persecution on the part of his enemies. Fearing that he may b* acquitted of the charge now trying, they Lave raked up another, to the effect that he drew pay for the feed of four horses, whereas be keeps but two. This is getting the business down to contemptible proportions.

It is claimed for Hon. \V. M. Evarts that. li-‘ has fifty-four votes pledged to him of the Republican members of the New York Legisialahire. The contest seems to have narrowed down to Mr. Evarts and Mr. Levi P. Morton. Mr. Evarts says he is in the race to beat or bo beaten, and that no compromise man can come in and carry.off the honor. The proposition to reward Kov. O. IT. P. Abbott for having been consistently and prominently out of harmony with the loyal sentiment of the people of Indiana, failed in the Senate yesterday. His great prayer before the Democratic State convention, which was .greeted with cheers by the "very hungry and very thirsty mob,” still remains uncompensated. (>£k of the members of the State Board of Agriculture is reported to have said, touching the Governors failure to appoint one of the mummies commissioner to New Orleans: "If the board stands so low as. not to be fit to be called upon at a time like that, it would be better to wipe it out of existence.” To this sentiment there will be a general chorus of assent from all over the State. • A Xb'.w Jersey court was suddenly adjourned yesterday, after a charge made by the counsel in a certaia important case that the jury had been tampered with bv the judge on the bench. Whether a duel or a commitment to jail for contempt w ill be the result is not known, but the public would like to inquire, meanwhile, if this judge is the celebrated "Jersey Justice” we hear so much about. A NT* so Sergeant Holtuorth, who tampered with Lieutenant GreelyV private paj*ers, has been dismissed from the service. Served him right. The discipline is a little severe, perhaps, but his example will serve as a warning to other ill regulated persons who havo never realized the sacredness of private correspondence. and undertake the role of detective or seek to gratify petty curiosity at the expense of gentlemanly honor. Thk Legislature organized, yesterday, in accordance with the results of the Democratic caucuses. In theSenat** some imj>ortant bills were introduced, but the work of legislation Will not be fairly begun until after the inaugural ion of the I Jovernor ami Lieutenant-gov-ernor. on Monday next. The message of Governor Porter will W read to the General Assembly in the House of Representatives this morning, at half-past 10o'clock. Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, inflicted a message ten columns long upon his helpless legislature, on Friday. A large portion of it, according to an irreverent correspondent, was made up of "sags’* to the legislature of last year for their shortcomings, and u-> most of the offending members of that session had not Wen returned by their constituent*, the reprimands fell somewhat flat. The duty of your tiue reformer is to blow and bloviate at the beginning, instead of the close of his official catver. By neglecting to W rave this great rule, Governor PaUison has

forfeited a right to the name with which he started out, and will retire to private life without having succeeded in turning the Common wealth of Pennsylvania upside down —a feat which his friends fondly prophesied would distinguish his career. Tite friends of Mr. Beecher, and notably his new found friends among mugwumps and Democrats, are overanxious to make it appear that the defection from his church, on account of his remarkable departure in indorsing Mr. Cleveland's published offense, is “not much of a shower after all.” They rushed forward to make a test of the matter, and advertised that the pew-letting would be the index of his popularity. The plan was a shrewd one to put the adherents of the Plymouth pastor, on their pride, and to incite them to that effort necessary to keep the receipts from showing any marked decline. This being accomjdished, tney could point to that fact as an evidence that there was no defection worth # consideration. The result shows that with all the drumming up and extra effort to maintain the record, the total receipts fell short of those of 1884 by nearly $7,000, being the lowest for eleven years past Ex-Alderman Griswold, speaking of the falling off of receipts, says: “The falling off of more than $7,000 in the revenue is very significant. It can only be interpreted as a rebuke to Mr. Beecher for his course in the last election. He is an old man, and cannot regain his influence. Many of the old members have dropped out, and others, like myself, bid low or not at all. I will remain here because 1 have nowhere else to go.” Mr. Griswold is right. Hard times ordinarily would have somewhat to do with the falling off, but this effect must have been more than discounted by the extra effort put forth by Beecher’s friends to bolster his falling fortunes. That is, but for the urgency of the occasion, the receipts would have been very markedly less, for the reason that by stringency of the times many bidders would have felt unable to give as much as in former yeiirs. The difference theu between the receipts this year and last must be taken as some measure of the defection from the church and the loss of popularity on the j>art of its pastor. But the true test of Mr. Beecher's ’ost prestige must be looked for outside Plymouth Church and beyond his i>ersonal influence, whieh iu former times was strong enough to hold to him men who, a little further removed, would have been quick to fly from him. In the eyes of the religious world, in the respect and confidence of the millions of moral men and women, Mr. Beecher has done himself irreparable harm. His offense was not in going to the aid of the Democratic party, but as a minister of the gospel voluntarily aligning himself with a confessed adulterer, and becoming, not an apologist, but advocate more on account of his offense than anything else. The pastor of Plymouth attempted to put the badge of respectability uj*on fornication and adultery. His action is without parallel, and it is to be hoped, in the interest of virtuous women and honorable men, that no other preacher will ever so far forget himself and provo so recreant to his holy mission as to repeat the offense. To say that Mr. Beecher has not suffered in the esteem of the great body of church men and women is to libel modern society and make a farce of the teachings of the Bible.

The American public will take cum grano the statement that English detectives have discovered a dyuamitQ society in Pennsylvania, whose ;wora purpose ia to furnish “large quantities” of that explosivo to blow up London. When English detectives shall have succeeded in capturing one of the men who are engaged in terrorizing Londoners, and who htand infinitely greater chance of detection than would any “organization" in Pennsylvania, we may then consent to accept the story that they have run down a coterie of conspirators on this side the Atlantic. Truth compels the assertion that the average British detective is even more stupid than his American brother, else the Scotland Yard men would long since have had more tangible evidence of the perpetrators of the outrages in London than the evidence of somo Tom, Dick or Harry, who saw “a man" with an “American bag,” or found the wheels of an “infernal machine,” evidently of “American make." the Matter always turning out to be nothing moi r e formidable than the running part of a clock or the mounting of a fishing-reel. There is no need of coming to America until Paris and Brussels have been searched, and no occasion to proceed even tliat far before sifting London. There are ten “conspirators” in Paris to where there Is one in America, a fact to which our pride aseriljes the email amount of damage done An American, we ne prone to believe, would have accomplished something by this time. The Pope's reply to the address of the “Young Men’s Catholic Societies," presented by a delegation on Tuesday, urges them to be on their guard, and to put the people on their guard “against insidious doctrines of socialism.” The unyielding conservatism of the {•apacy and of the Catholic Church, however it may obstruct healthy progress in some directions, is unquestionably the strongest and surest reliance of the rational world against the prevalence of the wild libertinism and destructive tendencies of such fanatics as the Communists and dynamite revolutionists. While the authority of the church isrecogtuzed, there la no 'Longer of sincere Catholics going oIT into any of these speculative tantrums. And it Is among thoso of the social •erudition of the great body of the Catholics in U.U country that such dangerous fallacies

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are most prevalent and dangerous. The wellto do citizen, whatever his theo;ies of government and political economy and Rousseau’s “Contrat Sociale” may be, is very unlikely to he found among those who are disposed to upset things and destroy the tenures of property by violence. We think the sternest Protestant must concede the good s<yvice of the old church and it’s hierarchy in this regard. The absolute worthlessness of '’pools” in the railway business is understood by most people who know their history, and acknowl edged by all except those who are interested in keeping up the agreements. ‘Tools” do not maintain rates, nor do they prevent favoritism and discrimination. When B. D. Brown, the grain dealer, failed a little while ago, it was discovered that he had due him about $20,000 in “rebates,” and within a day or two a suit has been entered by a leading shipping firm for SB,OOO rebate, churned to be due on a contract with an agent It is no secret that special terms are given to special shippers, the pool rates to the contrary notwithstanding. Another thing: whenever it is proposed in Congress or in a Legislature to enact any law for the control of railways, every railroad man in the country is up in arms Rgainst the idea of attempting to legislate against the great laws of business which control and must forever control transportation. Yet all “pools” are just sueh arbitrary and artificial interferences with those natural laws. _ Every effort to form a “pool,” or to enter into an iron-clad agreement, is in the teeth of the protestations made against the action of the State and Nation. The railway corporations of the country will have to make up their minds to the fact that the law is to take hold of them in some way or other, in the interests of the people, from whom they derive their rights and to serve whom they exist. * We should like to see a Congress with some sensibility as well as sense. If that body cannot comprehend the spectacle it is making of this Nation in the eyes of the world by leaving the great General and victor of the war for its salvation unnamed and unhonored by the military role of the Republic, while he in the meantime burdened with debt, broken in health, and crippled in body, hobbles about on crutches; if, we sav, our representatives have no realization of this situation the impulse of sense in the common people ought to find an expression that will result iu realization. —News. The difficulty is that the House is Democratic—the majority made up of men who were whipped in the rebellion, and of Northern sympathizers with them. Neither of these classes admires General Grant. The House of Representatives is eager and ready to pass a bill to put a man on the retired list of the army who Abraham Lincoln said should have been shot for his misconduct; but for General Grant, whose prowess saved the government, they have neither care, sympathy nor votes. The Republican Senate has passed a bill to put Gen. Grant on the retired list, but it was passed over Democratic opposition. Congress is not to blame; it is the Democratic House of Representatives, dominated by confederate brigadiers and Northern opponents of the war. It is these and these only who are belittling the Nation in the eyes of the world, and making a spectacle of their own pusillanimity.

Rumors are rife that the New Orleans exposition is likely to become a financial failure, the expenaos of running it exceeding receipts by SI,OOO a day. It is a little early yet to determine what the patronage will be. The country has known that the great exhibit is as yet incomplete, and not all in position. This has retarded visitors. Then, too, the unfavorable weather usually experienced in December and January has caused many to delay going until later. The managers may expect a large increase of business during the four months succeeding January. It is to be hoped the expo ? tion will prove the financial success it deserves to be. It is probably one of the greatest exhibitions of the kind in the world’s history, and will repay all the expense of going to see it. The city, the country adjacent, the great river, a sail on the gulf, the great display of the world’s products and the delightful trip through the sunny South combine to present numberless alluring pleasures to the Nortlvern visitor, and will leave pleasing recollections that years will not obliterate. We are anxious that the exposition shall be a success in every particular. The Journal makes a very funny break this morning in stating that the success of Jewett is a rebuke to the revolutionary, reeking crowd of bummers who, under the leadei-ship of Bynum and Moody, defeated the appropriation bill, etc. Mr. Jewett’s most earnest champion was Bynum, and Moody joined the procession in time to shout over his triumph.—News. Possibly you may not know all. It may be true that Bynum was an advocate of Jewett’s election now. If he was, it shows the versatii ity of the man. But two years ago Mr. Jewett was the leader of those few Democrats who tried to head off the party majority in their revolutionary proceedings against the appropriation bills? and the language he used openly in reference to the course of the Speaker and the feather head Moody, during the exciting hours of the last Saturday night session, was at once vigorous and uncomplimentary. Possibly, if the words uttered not in debate were made public, Mr. Jewett’s election would not be regarded as a vindication of Bynum. - To the disgraoe of the stage, that might with reason be lieliered to be already sufficiently under the shadow of obloquy, it is told in all seriousness that to enhance the dramatic prospects of Mine. Jauiach, a scandalous story has been invented at her expense, and

put in circulation in the hope that it would tend to swell the box receipts, whereas the lady in question is happy in the possession of an unblemished reputation. The shame of such a ruse ought to be more upon the public than the stage. The attempt is evidently suggested by a thorough study of the theatergoing public, more’s the shame. What has society come to, that it has to be baited with a scandal, and lured to the play-house as a buzzard to its disgusting feast? An “independent” criticism on the message of Mr. Cleveland's successor, Governor Hill, is that his utterances are not strong. Further: “It has no particular breadth of spirit, or decision of tone, and in all its parts it suggests too conspicuously the fact that there is an election close at hand, whereat Mr. Hill expects to be the Democratic candidate, and would like to have hia Tilden strength re-enforced by the Tammany vote.” This is sad; but as there was no good reason for suspecting Mr. Hill to be the possessor of mental or moral strength or decision of character, and every indication that he was a narrow-minded, scheming partisan, there is no occasion for surprise when such is found to be the fact. The mourning to be worn at the funeral of the hoped-for “reformer” might have been prepared long in advance. The contested election case from the Fourth Alabama district was settled yesterday, by ousting the Democrat, Shelley, and giving the seat to the Republican contestant This is the case so fully explained in the Washington special of the Journal recently, where more than ten thousand Republican votes were coolly thrown out. The outrageous feature of the affair is that the Democrat has been holding his seat, voting and misrepresenting his district for the entire term, with the exception of a paltry thirty days at the end of the last session. The offense of such crimes as this against the suffrage is rank and smells to heaven. It is folly to think that the counti’y will not have to make full expiation. The Reagan interstate commerce bill passed the House, yesterday, by such a decisive majority as indicates that the time has come when the law-making power of the country proposes to take hold of the monopoly question with a grip that means something. This particular bill may be very faulty, and we think it is; but there must be an end to the exactions, the extortions, the discriminations, the favoritisms, the abuses, the outrages, the crimes of the great railway corporations. The power of Congress must and will be exerted in some corrective way. Why can we not have the game laws enforced in Indiana as they are in New York? Two young men went out from the metropolis, last Sunday, and succeeded in killing the only wild duck they could get sight of. For this they were arrested, and fined s2o each. Worse still, the duck was confiscated. The game and fish laws of this State want to be enforced. At present they are as dead a3 the statutes for the regulation of the whisky business.

Thk New York World, a paper that on Tues day was careful to say ‘There are ‘said to be’ 1,189 chapters in the Bible," on Wednesday speaks up like an orator on a topic with which it evidently is more familiar. It informs A. W. that “a man who opens a jack-pot on less than jacks cannot win it under * any circumstances. He must put into the pot a fine equal at least to twice the ante." To another correspondent it vouchsafes the information that “it costs twice the ante to come in; if there is a blind, twice that and no more; if there is a straddle, twice that and no more. When the end comes, every player must have up the same amount" This jargon is all Greek to simple-minded Western people. A toung man of twenty-two, in Pennsylvania, has been disinherited by his wealthy uncle, whose only heir he was, simply for the reason that he has been married three times in two years. When the first wife died he married her sister, and she, also, soon departing this life, he persuaded their widowed young step-mother to console him by becoming number three. The elderly uncle might, it is supposed, have forgiven the third marriage had he not become enraged in trying to figure out what was the relationship by marriage between himself and his nephew’s wife and step mother-in-law. Onk game after another has been ruled by the Harvard faculty from the list of sports in which intercollegiate participation is allowed, until now, with the prohibition of foot ball, the hopes and ambitions of the students aro blasted. They may still play any of the athletic games among themselves, but henceforth there can be no contests with students of rival institutions in any sport, except it be marbles, which recreation somehow been overlooked. The disappointed Harvard boys now expect nothing else than the speedy decay of their college. Mr. Beecher’s hilarity over the result of the Plymouth Church pow letting must have been of the Mark Tapley sort. A2O percent reduction is not calculated to make a less cheerful man smile, whether his capital iuvested boos the mercantile, political or spiritual sort The pew letting seems to be of the Morrison horizontal reduction style. The wells at Port Byron, N. Y., after being d-y fur several weeks, are now giving forth an oleaginous subetance very much like castor oil. Is this an effort of nature to purify that State after electing Cleveland President? In one of the Indian languages the word “woman" is rendered “kew-kew-jaw-jaw." —Chicago Inter Ocean. What in the dickens have the first two syllables to do with it? To the Editor of the ImtanspolU Journal How is the total vote for President given officially, and by whom and when is it given? W. H. Butler. The total vote is not given, except by the States, and it cau be discovered only by taking the reports of the several States and adding. India has paid $205,000,000 for her existing railroad system, exclusive of interest, which

would amount to some $150,000,000 more. Nearly 20,000 miles of railroad will be required, it is stated, as a complete protection for the empire against famine. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mb. Frederic Harrison is writing his reminiscences of George Eliot. They will first be published in one of the monthlies, and possibly afterward in a pamphlet. Mr. James Anthony Froude and his son have sailed for Anstralia in the Aberdeen-line steamer Australasian. They intend to be absent from England for about fifteen months. Mrs. Frank Leslie is sick with pneumonia. Some people say that when announcement is made of the nuptials between hersolf and the Count De Leurille, the town will be surprised at the date. Mr. Rutiikrford B. Hayes, during a recent visit to New York, was condoling with a lady upon Blaine's defeat. “It only shows," she remarked vigorously “that no man of brains can be elected President of the United States." M. Jules Grevy seems to be a humorist. When a deputation of unemployed workmen approached, him, the other day, he exclaimed: “What grumblers you fellows are! Look at me. I haven’t a stroke of work to do, and do I complain!" Nevada’s Governor found some of his wife's diamonds, a few days since, in a tin-box among some rubbish. The jewels were supposed to have been stolen years ago. The Governor economized by placing the gems on a Christmas tree for his better half. Mr. Frelinghuysen has resolved, whether he remains in public life or retires, that he will retain his Washington house, and. like Mr. Blaine, pass his winters at the capital. Washington winters are destined, so say the “society" writers, to outshine in the future all the glories of the past. General Grant, in his article on “The Battle of Shiloh,” in the forthcoming number of the Century, relates how sentiments regarding Geueral Buell were attributed to him which were never expressed, and how he tried to correct the misunderstanding which grew up between him and Buell after the battle. Frau Materna has among her jewelry a representation of the “Holy Grail, ”to be used in “Parsifal." The cup is translucent. Back of this translucent cup is a small electric battery, and when the current is applied the effect dazzles. The jewel was a present to Frau Materna at Bayreuth during the Wagner festival. Frederick Douglass was asked in Washington the other day when he expected to resign the position of Recorder of Deeds. “Oh,” he replied, “I shall wait until my resignation is asked for.” “What will you do then!’’ he was asked “Oh, I shall retire on a competence,’’ho responded. “I have enough to keep the wolf from the door." Douglass is believed to be worth $150,000. To RID himself of a bore who was importuning him for an opinion on some passing subject, the late Henry Smith, of Albany, gave him some haphazard reply. Shortly afterward he was again approached by the individual, who said: “Mr. Smith, you have told me so and so, and nothing has come i of it.” “What did I charge you for my advice?" q and the counsel. “Nothing.” replied the client. “A I 6ee; my advice was equal to ray fee." Os Reinsdorf, the fanatic who endeavored to blow up Kaiser Wilhelm at Nlederyald, the London Spectator remarks: “The man is said to have been a singularly kindly one, especially towards women and children; he cross-examined witnesses with skill: he described himself as a martyr who ‘fulfilled the Scriptural command to be faithful even unto slaying,’ and he is evidently one of those strange modems who are filled with the passicn of piety till they forget alike righteousness and justice." A Paris jeweler has been prosecuted for illegally practicing surgery. He had pierced the ears of a child two years old for ear rings, for which he charged half a franc. The ear became inflamed, and the inflammation spread to the neck, and the child died, the doctor attributing death to the ear having been pierced too high up. The defense was that all jewelers pierced ears, and that the mother must have used some injurious lotion. The jeweler was fined fifty francs for homicide through imprudence, with 150 francs damages to the parents. A wedding coat made by Andrew Johnson, will bo' shown in the Tennessee exhibit at the New Orleans exhibition. The ooat was made in Johnson's little tailor-shop in Greenville, Tennessee, in 1838 or 1830, for Mr. H. T. Price, of that town. The garment is made of the best navy-blue cloth, cut in the old-fash-ioned “claw-hammer" style. The collar and lapels are very broad, and there are five large button-holes on each side. When the coat was made there were twelve large brass buttons, five on each side and two behind, besides the small ones on the cuffs of the sleeves. All the buttons are now missing except two on the right breast. With the exception of the loss of the buttons, the coat is Id a good state of preservation. None of the seams ever ripped, and there is not a hole worn in the cloth. Mrs. Black, the wife of the novelist, “Is a woman who must be pronounced the happiest possible choice for a distinguished man of letters. Her manner is at once genial and distinguished, and she is not only so well read, but so thoughtful and capable of expressing her ideas, that people who converse with her are a little surprised to learn that she does not write herself. But it is me of the convictions of this charming lady that a woman wedded to a worker in literature should not attempt to compote with him in ordinary cases. Mrs. Black, who is a fair and generous figure, with a soft and sympathetic voice and all the poise of a well-bred woman, thoroughly believes that it is her mission as a wife to attend to her household and make home a pleasant place—offorts whioh the celebrated and hard-working novelist unquestionably appreciates. A German physioian who has given much attention to the subject has come to the conclusion that the only way to preserve peace among the women of a household, when, as in weather-like the present, they are kept within doors, is to enforce absolute silence. When women are much thrown together, their tongues, he savs, should remain in a state of perfect quiescence. They may oouverse with each other, if necessary, by means of signs and symbols, but should on no account utter a word. He has found by experience that this regime, when strictly adhered to, produces the happiest results. In one or two oases he has actually known feelings of mutual regard and esteem to arise between women who oould not open their mouths previously without disagreeable consequences. Their appetites also improve in so marked a degree that they eould go on eating luncheon till tea time.

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. To DAT the man who achieved such a place In history proposes to earn his own living, and struggle under an immense debt, by writing liis reoollectious of the period of which he was the greatest figure. And Congress permits him to do it without tendering him a place on the retired list with his old rank of general on full pay. This is a poor lesson to teach the young men of the United States. There is nothing in Gen. Grant’s present condition to animate the American youth with a desire to serve an ungrateful country.- Lcujsvilie Commercial. Thk Democratic party acts as if it were ashamed of all its leaders in the past—a most pardonable feeling if it had any known and competent statesmen to put forward in their stead. But the anxious effort to put forward men who have never done anything, which led to the selection of Mr. Cleveland, and now leads to the search for Cabinet offieerc sufficiently unknown and inexperienced not to eclipse him, promises to give the country a sort of political lottery. Meu are to bo drawn, so to speak, out of a bag by ablindfold person, on the chance that one or two of them may turn out to be statesmen—-New York Tribune. W* do not need the help of Nicaragua to protect our own property, nor ought wo to up a dollar of the canal ii earnings to a country paid ten times over fur a mere light of way with the tremonduous stimulus imparted to her productive energies by the construction and operation of an interoceanic water-way. It is true that the Nicaraguan politicians, having been encouraged to count upon fat pickings and stealings, may look a little black at such a square proposition, but they will swallow it at last, for they know that without our int rill 1m left for many a year longer to i wn juloe.—New York Sun. Pvbi.io emus t which does not receive the attent se dementia. The desire for aoiiuea iversal. If the people

arposiUon they n itew in their o ament* Is a *ubj< ion its importan nt ij. mu

Mnnot get innocent and healthful amusement, thay will take what they can get If they are not benefited in gratifying this desire, they are apt to be injured. There is, then, here a wide field for the philanthropist and the Christian to do good—in providing elevating fublic amusements, which may draw the people away rora the vicious and the bad. Few of the social or moral questions of the times are of more real importance than that of providing the public amusements of the people.—Richmond Palladium. The question is not what shall be done to protect people against mismanagement of the banks of States of which the public credit is as unchallenged as that of the general government itself. The question is whether we shall have as many systems of currency as there are States, and as wide differences in the value of current money as now exist among th© securities of the several States. The whole business community, with the exception of men who imagine that they might make a profit by starting “wildcat banks" if the restrictions upon those institutions were removed, would put in an emphatic answer to this question in the negative. The only security for a currency of uniform value, which would pass current everywhere in the United States, must be looked for in a uniform system, and such a system can only be laid down by the national legislature.—New York Times. The business classes of the country are Inqnirir.g with some concern whether it is necessary or best that out of every four should be a period of fever* ish agitation over a presidential election, putting every one into a craze or excitement, unsettling trade by the uncertainty of the financial and other policy of a new administration, and creating a f eeliug of anxiety and suspense among business men which finds relief, independently of the result, when the long agony is ended, in such expressions as “Thank God! it is over at last," The inclination of the most important interests of the country to demand either the management of political campaigns by methods of a little more reason and sobriety or less frequent elections as the alternative, is a sign of Which political managers will scarcely fail to take notice; and in the persistence of this demand we think will bo found the correction of one of the worst evils of American politics.—Chicago News.

GRANT'S GALENA HOUSE. Fears that It, Too, Must Be Placed in the Hopper of the Mills of the Gods. Galena Letter in New York Telegram. Considerable anxiety is felt here lest General Grant’s residence in this city, presented to him by his Galena friends, be swallowed up in the nuelstrom into which his property is likely to be cast for the benefit of’ his creditors. The house, while not the finest in the city, is, however, a pretty one, built of brick, and stands upon the most sightly and beautiful spdt in town. It overlooks the entire country for miles around and can be seen, when the leaves are off thL trees, from almost every point of observa tion. The residence, furnished handsomely from top to bottom, was given to Grant when he was general of the army. It was occupied from time to time by the illustrious owner during his periodical sojourns in Galena and was last vacated by him when he removed to New York. It is now the home of Rev. Ambrose C. Smith, pastor of South Presbyterian Church of Galena, a warm friend of the General, who has it rent free Much of the original furniture remains in the houso, also many articles of bric-a-bric ana curio, which were presented to the General and Mrs. Grant before and during their trip around the world. The principal things of value, however, were forwarded to New York at their request. The residence is a groat object of. interest to tourists, hundreds from all parts of the world visiting and inspecting it annually. In this respect it divides honors equally with the more unpretending little brick house on the west side of the river, which was the General’s .first home in Galena when he was clerking iu his father's leather store at $-10 a month. Another Cheerful Romance. Albany Journal. The gossips have not withiu two weeks past annouuced the engagement of any young lady to Mr. Cleveland. In the absence of these unnoucements comes a romantic story with local coloring. It is said that a lady, once the object of Mr. Cleveland's love, has been living in this city within a stone's throw of the executive mansion. As the story goes, in years gone by this lady, then a resident of Buffalo was engaged to be married to Grover Cleveland. Her father objected to the union because he did not consider Mr. Cleveland a fit match for his daughter. The engagement was consequently broken off. Matters shaped themselves so that the lady finally became a teacher in ar> Albany educational institution. she at present holding the position of principal of its academic department and te;*>her of belles letters. Her parents would now probably be happy to have the President of th© United States for a son-in-law. “Betsy ami I Are Out." Washington Post. Since ex Governor Crosby, of Montana, has been appointed First Assistant Postmaster general, there has been considerable suppressed amusement and gossip in tho Postoffice Department His idiosyncrasies, among them an overdrawn fondness for the title of “Governor,"' have been such as not only to attract the attention of the clerks and officials, but have been made the subjects of paragraphs by correspondents wlio did not have the fear of the First Assistant Postmaster general and ex-Governor before their eyes. This has led to trouble. H© suspects that Chief Clerk Walker has caused these publications, and the two gentlemen have therefore ceased official intercourse. This is greatly to the detriment of the smooth tranaaotion of business boforo the Postoffice Department. A New Field for Womeu. Philadelphia Record. • At tho meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences, last evening, Miss Adele Field gave an exceedingly interesting account of her successful experiments in' separating worms into part# without destroying the life or checking th© growth of the worm. The result of her efforts is valuable in confirming the statements mad© by German naturalists. Hard Times for the Female Preachers. New York Commercial Advertiser. Female preachers seem to be having a rough time of it just now, both here and in England People obviously think that such discourses shut out any call for gallantry. Or perhaps they agree isuth Dr. Johnson, who said that a woman preaching reminded him of a dog walking on it© hind legs. It was not well done, but you were surprised that it should be done at aIL Only Goes So Far. Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Globe-Democrat is accused of calling Mr. John P. St. John a traitor to the Republicac party. We have not made any such accusation against Mr. St. John. We have said of him, is substance, that he is a mercenary wretch, and a conscienceless liar. Beyond this we have not yet gone. — Evidently the Man. Chicago News. The semi-official announcement that Mr. Cleveland intends to appoint as his Secretary of War somebody who knows nothing about was strikes us as an indirect intimation that Mr. Cleveland has fixed his eye upon George B. Mo Clelbin, of New Jersey. Must Have Been Favorably Impressed. Philadelphia Press. Lord Coleridge says that when in this country he was struck by the absence of childhood. Recent ovents incline us to believe that he must have also been struck by the same thing io hi* own house. Bitter-Sweet. Winchester Herald. Mr. Hendricks, twenty years ago, filled th© mouths of the freemen with wormwood, and made a wain attempt to force them to swallow it. Now he is on hand with a liberal supply of su gut to tpk© the taste away. Time for a Dental. Minneapolis Tribune. Colonel A. K McClure, of the Philadelphia Times, has interviewed Cleveland. Colonel McClure startles the political world with tho bold statement that Mr. Cleveland has blue eyes. . , ■■■.— For Sale Cheap. Pittsburg Time*. The Second Adventists have a lot of ascenalog robes on hand that they would dispose of at 4 bargain. Giving the DeVtX Hia Due. Atlanta Constitution. llowgate has one faot in his favor. H# refusal to sneak off to Canada.