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THE DAILY JOURNAL. nv .7NO, C. NEW * SOX. JANUARY 24, 1885. PAGEST '4 tit. INDIANA I’OLIS .lUIKNAL rr l> a* tv** fofloxrinjj n’acos. LONDON—.aißeii-:au F.xtuumge in Europe, 449 •StiamL PARlS—Amfrcin Exchange in Paris. 35 Booierard de Capueinni. KRiV YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotel*. CHirAGO—Palmer llou*. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vine Street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest eorne Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS —Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL Telephone Calls. Easiness Office 238 | Editorial R00m5.... 242 The Sunday Journal has the largest and fcwt circulation of any Sunday paper in Indiana. Price tli ree cents. The Sunday Journal. Tho issue of the Sunday Journal for to morrow will contain a number of special articles, among tho writers being Mrs. Emma Carleton, Ida May Davis. Lee O. Harris, and others who are more or less regular in their contributions to Us columns. The Sunday Journal, sellin ; at three mats, continues to advance in popular favor, and its value to readers aud advertisers steadily appreciates. Ti?k Senate has concluded to investigate the State Treasury. What will the House of Representatives do? The status quo is maintained in Illinois. The Legislature has adjourned until Monday without electing a Speaker. The Standard Oil Company in Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet would be a signal of ‘‘reform" that would paralyze the country. Why not elect Hon. Simeon Coy to the vacant police commissionership? He entertains the views maintained by Mr. Frenzel. Ttte American farmer has no desire for Buropean powers to get into a fight, but he would like to see the price of wheat and meat g° U P- _____ Wait until the Mahdi tells his side of the atory of the fight. It may differ somewhat from that sent out under the censorship of Wolseley. Americans may not always, know what they want, hut they are quite certain that they do not want a British landed aristocracy in the United States. Fruit growers about Madison report all the peaches killed during the recent cold. This is very encouraging. There will he a bigger crop of fruit than usual. Will the rural Democratic members of the Legislature consent to vote for Senator Bailey’s all -night bill? If they do they may as well take final leave of Indianapolis. At least they will not bo sent back another time as legislators.

It is oruiuous tliat correspondents of the London pres* have not been heard from reading the fight in the desert. They would he likely to {jive the correct account, though, naturally enough, national pride would cause them to put on the couleur de rose on British valor and strategy. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler is riot profoundly impressed with the diplomacy of the United States as displayed in all the treaties that have ever been concluded betweeti this and other countries. If there is anything in America with which the strabismic general is favorably impressed, lie would add to public obligation by kindly naming it. Os’ general principles, long since pushed beyond the domain of controversy, the Indian is ®o good. But if by treaty the government agreed to feed him, he should be fed according to contract, and the Indian agent that would steal rations should be turned over to the Indian, the latter being allowed at once to go into executive session with closed doors. Col. Oliver H. Payne, son of the Ohio Senator-elect, has resigned the treasurership of the Standard Oil Company. Some time since it was stated that Colonel Payne would resign that office and be called to a place in Mr. Cleveland’s cabinet. The taking of the first step iu the programme has set all the quid Danes agog, and the country will be deluged with another overflow of cabinet speculations. High license, with a possible local-option feature is the law that should be fassed by the State Legislature. The Journal favors high license ami local option; but, at least, let high license be unitedly urged, and pressed through the General Assembly. As in Illinois, there should be no license for spirituous liquors less than SSOO, and each muncipal or local corporation should be permitted to fix the price to suit itself. Let all the friends of public morals and good order unite for a nigh license law. The New York Suu prints a good word for Levi P. Morton, who has been unjustly charged with having been the representative of improper and corrupt influences in the recent senatorial canvass. The Sun very properly and truthfully says that Mr. Morton’s public services have been spotless, and his abilities and judgment have won for him a well deserved prominence in the Republican •ouncils. He bos slso served as minister to '’ranee during a period of great interest in the

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history of- that country. In the recent presidential contest he was on the side of his party, giving a loyal support to Mr. Blaine, and the Sun says there is no reason to believe, or evidence to show, that Mr. Morton would have countenanced anything hut the fairest and most honorablo efforts to secure a position to which he had a perfect right to aspire, and which he would have worthily filled had he been elected to it. JOINING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. The Now York World intimates that if Jefferson Da via had joined the Republican party at the close of the war he would not to-day he regarded as a traitor. The admission speaks volumes for the World’s appreciation of the value of that party as a means of grace.—New York Tribune. From the sarcasm and repartee involved in the above paragraph may be drawn enough truth to establish the fact that had Jefferson Davis allied him.self with the Republicau party he would not he regarded as the unrepentant traitor that he is. It means something to ally one’s self to a political party. The. Republican party is founded on certain principles, prominent among them that this is a Nation. and not a confederation that can be dissolved at the will of few or many men bent on self-aggrandizement or so blinded by prejudice and passion as to mistake party fealty for patriotism. A man cannot consistently ally himself to the Republican party without abandoning the dangerous heresy of State sovereignty to the extremity of secession. The ex-confederates who have come into the Republican party since the war have come with that understanding. No less zealous than others with them in tho war against the Union, they came to realize that it was a stupendous mistake, ft repetition of which would be an unpardonable crime. It means something to he a Republican. Its chief feature is a patriotic belief in the indestructibility of the Union. The Democratic party, on the contrary, does uot insist on such “concession.” It dare not, for the reason that so great a proportion of it do not believe that secession was wrong, and concede the permanency of the Union only because compelled to. Some of the “best" Democrats in the country—those of the solid South—are proud to declare that they have been guilty of nothing of which they have repented. The rebellion was right in their judgment, and was abandoned only because of superior force brought against it. Southern Democratic papers proclaim that the South fought for “indestructible principles." Nobody holding such views can he a Republican. Theie is no taint of the leprosy of secession in tho veins of the party of the Union. If Jefferson Davis would affiliate with it, he must first go through the pool of cleansing. There is no room in the Republican ranks for men unrepentant of the crime of treasou and murder against the government.

UNREPENTANT TRAITORSBill Arp,' writing for the Atlanta Constitution, in the interest of peace and harmony, says: “Os course the country will still be cursed, with a few malicious idiots here and there — men like the Kansas senator. In-galls of bitterness and bonds of iniquity, and they will keep on waving the bloody shirt and talk about treason until they die, but with the sober masses of the people the past differences will be buried, and we will shake hands across the gulf that has so long separated us." This is all very pretty, but at the moment the masses are about to rush into the arms of Arp and his fellow-Johnnies, he spoils it all by continuing in the following fashion: “General Sherman has made a sweet roes:? of it. lie has asserted a falsehood and Mr. Davis nailed tt to the wall, and now he is wriggling under it and has not got the manliness to apologize and retract. Ho couldn’t look Mr. Davis straight in the face if he was to meet him, but Mr. Davis could stand up and look at him with scorn and oontempt. Now, let Mr. Ingalls and all his sort, understand once for all, that the Southern people are not ashamed neither of themselves nor their leaders. For twenty years wo have submitted to everything and every humiliation for peace and good will, but we have never repented of auything nor felt ashamed." Tho spectacle of Jeff Davis looking with scorn and contempt is not calculated to win sympathy iu any section of the country whero loyalty to the Union is honored. Nor is the assertion that “we have never repented of anything" likely to be accepted with a hearty amen among men who Lor four yearn were in the army, because Mr. Arp and others went into civil war. The Democratic party and the solid South are not yet enough out of the political woods to begin to shbut. The narrow majority of 1,000 in a State like New York is all that saved you. The change of one vote in 2,000 will reverse the situation. The North is ready, and has for years been ready, to fuse with the South into one indissoluble Union. But the North does not and cannot forget that the thing of which you are not ashamed cost* it hundreds of thousands of lives, to say nothing of thousands of millions of expense and debt. The man who is not ashamed of such causeless slaughter is not above engaging in it anew, and the man who does not realize that tho pro slavery rebellion was the giguntic crime of the age is inimical to the peace and perpetuity of the Union. Those are facts that cannot be sweetened by fine words that do not reach the vital question. It is enough to forgive the South for the wounds of war, and in view of the magnanimity of the North it is contemptible to boast of unrepentance. IT will dawn soon on the minds of many more Germans than the very large number who now resent it, that tho foulest insult that could be offered them xb to gauge their political principles and citizenship by a glass of i>eer. Whenever the supposed right to Lav© free and unrestrained traffic m liquors is questioned, the Democratic party, and some oih-

ers, immediately and offensively class all Germans on the side of free whisky and disorder. We believe this to be a gross injustice, as we know it to be a contemptible and miserable insult to their manhood. BT. JOHN AND LEGATEThe Voice, the national Prohibition organ, publishes columns of alleged evidence to show Mr. St. John innocent of the charges brought against him by Mr. Clarkson, and snpported by the letters, published and unpublished, of Mr. James F. Legate, whose close personal and political relations with St. John are not disputed. The New York Evening Post, after a review of the Voice's testimony, says that “what is still lacking is a proper expression of indignation from Mr. St. John himself against Legate, who was bargaining to sell St. John and the Prohibition party to the Republicans, and against Senator Plumb, who introduced Legate to Clarkson as a party able to deliver the goods if the payments were satisfactory." But, as the St. Louis Globe-Democrat has already said, Mr. St. John touches Mr. Legate in the softest possible manner. The Post, which, as all know, is an anti-Republican paper, concludes: “The evidence proves beyond a doubt that Legate was offering to sell St. John, and that after the campaign in Ohio was ended, he stated in writing that a fair bargain had been made with St. John, and that it had fallen through only because tho money was not paid. The person who performs such offices for another without due authorization is the most deadly of all enemies. Legate, aud not Clarkson, is the real assailant of St. John and should be so treated by St. John. While Legato and St. John continue to be on ap. arently friendly terms with each other St. John’s defense will fail to carry complete conviction." And we are moved to ask again, for the twentieth time, why does not Mr. St. John sue the Globe-Democrat for libel? That would bring the controversy to a judicial termina tion, and do away with all these voluminous and inconsequential “statements." And, also, we feel like jigain asking sincere and earnest prohibitionists, if it is absolutely necessary to tie up their cause with St. John? Do they propose to stick by St. John and go down with him, damned to everlasting fame, which is that gentleman's certain and inevitable future?

OUBAN EMANCIPATION. Colonel John W. Foster, iu a talk upon the Spanish treaty, alludes to the success of the graduated emancipation system introduced by the Spanish system into Cuba and Porto Rico, The work of Cuban emancipation began in Cuba in 1870. The work was advanced under Castelar in tho time of the republic, and in 1880 the Canovas government passed a bill for the complete abolition of slavery. Under that law a large number of those still held in servitude were fully emancipated and the remainder were made apprentices, were granted certain political rights, and were placed under the special protection of the government. Their former masters became employers and were required to pay them monthly wages, fixed by the government; they were required to feed, clothe and cai'e for them in sickness, and to educate the children and teach them a trade. A failure to pay the stipulated wages or any neglect of the other con* ditions of tho law, gave the apprentices the right to their immediate freedom. Colonel Foster says this law has been enforced with a fair degree of impartiality and success, and it is supported in Spain by men of both parties. Besides the emancipation at the age fixed by the law, there occur annually drawings, when a certain number whose apprenticeship may not have expired are released from further service. The law also proyides for the purchase of the remaining term of the apprentice at a small sum, and in this way the number has been very rapidly decreased. The latest statistics published show that thore are not more than 80,000 apprentices remaining, and that of these only 30,000 are employod on the sugar plantations. The lav* fixes the year 1888 as the period when the apprenticeship must cease altogether, but at the present rate of decrease it is estimated that it will come to an end *ln 1886. Colonel Foster says that emancipation has been brought about without any serious disturbances of the labor problem, the emancipated slaves proving themselves good and faithful workmen in their new relation. It has induced quite a change in the methods of sugar culture, the work being done chiefly by small farmers and renters, who grow tho cane and soil it to the nearest estate. Colonel Foster says that too much credit cannot be given to the public men of Spain, as well as to the planters of the island, for this silent, peaceful and successful work of emancipation carried out without any remuneration to the masters, without any disturbance of public'order, and with little derangement to the industries of the country. It is in many respects almost without parallel in the world’s history. Titk late plenary council at Baltimore addressed a letter of sympathy and exhortation to the Catholics of north Germany, the publication of whic h has been delayed until now, because of a fear that the transmission of the original copy would be stopped by the German government. Its publication has already been prohibited in Germany. The letter rehearses the oonflicts of the church in its struggles with Bismarck's government, and exhorts to continued fidelity, assuring the faithful of the earnest prayers of American Catholics and of the certainty of final and complete victory over all persecutions. Section 2099 of the statutes imposes a (Lift to which may l>e added imprisonment in the oounty jail, for violations of the liquor law. Suppose Mayor McMastor commits tho next

man convicted before him of willfully violating the ele^’en-o’clock law to jail for thirty days. We think a little of this sort of treatment would soon break up the present pastime of violating the law just for fun, and to see how much of a farce can be made of it. It is a pity the saloon proprietors cannot be reached in all cases, hut if * the bar-tenders will break the law in sport let them he punished in dead earnest. A great reputation is ahead for any mayor with the necessary dignity and back-hone to stop the defiant violation of law. Thirty days in jail would have a wonderful effect in stopping the present disgraceful condition of affairs—disgraceful alike to the saloon men and to the authoiities who handle the law-breakers so gingerly. The New York Sun warns the Democratic party that the election of Mr. Evartsas United States senator is evidence that “defeat has already begun to reinvigorate the forces that last November, in the teeth of treachery and mutiny, fought what was almost a drawn battle.” According to the Sun Mr. Evarts’s election “means that four years hence Republicans will fall back upon the masterly tactics that snatched victory from an overwhelming adverse majority in 1800; that they will send unlucky generals,suspected file leaders, and the whole mob of waverers and camp followers to the rear; and under the inspiring summons of their wisest and their strongest reform their lines for a fresh charge." The Sun advises Democrats to talk a little less exultantlv; “to beat the drums, call in stragglers, close up the ranks, and get ready to resist cavalry." During a cross-examination in some court proceedings in New York, C. P. Huntington, of Southern and Central Pacific road fame, testified that ten business enterprises was the smallest number he had been engaged in at any one time within the past fifteen years. “I do not," he explained, “look into all the details. My theory of a business is to trust a man in all, or not at all.” This is an excellent sentiment, which not only does credit to the speaker, but might be followed to advantage by other business men. Is Mr. Huntington quite sure, however, that his theory is always earned out, and that, for instance, such a thing as a “spotter” is unknown on his various railroads?

The Boston Herald thinks that if Mr. Randall and his protectionist followers will take themselves out of the Democratic party, “where they do not belong/' free-trade Republicans wiil immediately proceed to cross over and fill the hole. The Herald flatters its independent friends. If the mugwumps were as weighty and numerous as they think they are, they could fill the hole and have a force iu reserve; but unfortunately for themselves, goods of the bogus reform brand “pack down” umazingly, and Mr. Randall’s depaiture from his party would leave a large sized va cancy. A recent item from New York says: “A prominent Wall-street bank has sold $500,000 worth of the new silver certificates at a discount of 1-32 per cent. The reason given for the sale is that the Clearing-house declined to receive the certificates in the regular coui'seof business.” Is this the beginning of a movement against the silver glut? If there should be a concerted attack upon the silver certificates, based on a silver dollar many cents below the world’s par, there might boa sudden awakening to the necessity of stopping the piling up of these dollars in the Treasury vaults. “General Edward S. Bragg, of Fond du Lac, was nominated last even in" by the Democratic legislative caucus, at Madison, Wis., for United States senator from that State.” General Bragg is the statesman who said at the Chicago convention: “D —n the Irish, let them go.*” Mr. Holman, our own Mr. Holman, came near having a personal encounter with a fellowmember on the floor of the House one day this week, and he may yet meet him with pistols and coffee outside. Mr. Holman, in criticizing a certain paragraph in the Indian appropriation bill, gave offense to the fiery Southerner,Congressman Ellis, of Louisiana. Several sharp speeches passed between them, in one of which the gentleman from Indiana reflected upon the truthfulness of the gentleman from Louisiana. This fired the Southern heart, and Mr. Ellis angrily retorted that he would permit no man to impugn his truthfulness, but would hold him responsible. To this ominous speech Mr. Holman replied that ho had hearcksuch language before, and that it was the language of timidity. Mr. Ellis thereupon. leaned over his desk and remarked with suppressed excitement, but with great emphasis, that he desired the gentleman from Indiana to understand that he was responsible there as well as elsewhere for his utterances. Other whispered and hissing speeches passed between the two that the eager-eared reporters could not catch, but it is suspected that they were of a belligerent nature, and that the end is not yet. Mr. Holman is not a warlike man, nor, in spite of the Sun’s portrait, is he a bold, bad man, but there is no room for doubt that, if he is called to the field of honor, he will do credit to bis State. It may be that he is a little rusty as to the provisions of the code and needs some brushing up in that direction, but Indiana will pit her own objector against the representative from the Louisiana bogs. It is suggested that Mr. Holman might well indulge in a little preliminary pistol practice; but this is unnecessary, since, as is well known, the modern duelist does not shoot to hit Further information in regard to the affair is looked for with interest _ There is nothing about Dr. Buchanan, of Philadelphia, at least in his own estimation. He is the roan who was brought into prominence some time since by the discovery that he issued medical diplomas to any applicant who should furnish the necessary $25 in return for the same. The “college” named in the diplomas having fallen into disrepute by the painful fpblicity, the “Doctor” established another in .his office, and opened correspondence with the eleven thousand owners of the original diplomas

offering to supply them with substitute parchments at reduced figures. This scheme was working finely, and the enterprising “Doctor" was not only satisfying his conscience by aiding his customers to make good any losses incurred through him, but wa3 also reaping a neat profit, when the officers of the law swooped down on him and shut up the “medical institution." Mr. Patr, one of the numerous Louisville citizens lately reported to have fled from horns to avoid angry creditors, is back again, armed with virtuous indignation and a certificate of character from his wife. Mr. Pate says he was ill, that he went to the Hot Springs solely on account of his health, and that he had no intention of defrauding any one. As corroborative evidence that he is all right, he publishes the following card from Mrs. Pate: “This is to certify that my husband, W. S. Pate, went to Hot Springs for his health with my full consent, and I have received two letters from him while there, and all this talk about him running away is an outrage. “Sallib C. Pate." It is not known whether this unique document will be accepted by suspicios Louisvillians as complete vindication of a misused fellow citizen, but it certainly should be. It isn't every man, as they very well know, who could get his wife's consent to go to Hot Springs, much loss a certificate to that effect, and full weight should be given to this fact It is generally conceded that a woman is, as a general thing, better acquainted with her husband’s weaknesses than any one else, and it naturally follows that when she comes forward to testify to his goodness he must be very, very good. Public confidence in Mr. Pate can hardly fail to be immediately restored. In the hurry and worry of “moving," the feminine mind is generally considerably wrought up. What with looking after the furniture, that it doesn't get scratched; the mirror, that it does not get broken, and the thousand and one articles of household economy, that they do not get lost, she is in a state bordering on insanity. But, as a general thing, no desirable live stock is left behind. The horse is transferred to his new quarters, the dog is introduced to the new premises, and the family cat is prevailed upon to loaf around another hearthstone. It remained for a New York woman to forget three articles: a flat-iron, a wash tub, and—of all things—a baby. What is the world coming to? Only the other day a Chicago woman sold a brand-new baby to a Chinese washerman for sl2. If babies are worth anything, they are worth more than that. The attention of the New York mother was called to her oversight, and the infant was restored too her, only to bo “lost” agqin that same day—this time for good. Mr. Chacb, of Rhode Island, conducted the Anthony eulogy business in the House on Wednesday. Asa member from that State, this duty was properly assumed by him, and no one could say that he failed in any expression of fitting emotion or of regret and sorrow over the death of the distinguished gentleman. As Mr. Chace had, however, but just received notice of his appointment by the Rhode Island Legislature as Mr. Anthony’s successor, it was shrewdly suspected by his hearers that he mourned as a member of the House only, which was all he was called upon to do, and that as Senator elect, he was not really so sorry. The “liberty bell," which started yesterday on its journey to New Orleans, has taken two other journeys in its long and brilliant career. One was across the ocean, when it was brought from the maker, Robert Charles, of Loudon, in 1752, and another was when, in 1777, it was taken to Bethlehem? to preserve it from the hands of the British troops, who were expected to occupy tho city. It has been more than one hundred years since it was brought back from Bethlehem. The whalers of East Hampton, L. L, enjoyed the rare sport the other day of a chase right at their own doors, so to speak. A whale was sighted off shore, when pursuit was made and after a lively fight, the fellow was captured. He was seventy-flve feet.long, and valued at $3,000. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please give the number of votes cast in Ohio for Newman in October, and tho number cast for Cleveland in November. w. F. Huntington, Ind., Jan. 20. Newman, 380,355; Cleveland, 368,280.

■ ABOUT PEOPLE AND THING3. Mr. Moncurs D. Conway’s “Thomas Carlyle” has been translated into German by Madame Rappard. Martin Farquhar Tuppbr says that Talmage is “a son of thunder.” This relieves Mr. Talmage’* parents of a great responsibility. At Leipsic a musical critio has been sentenced to five days’ imprisonment for describing the leader of an orchestra as a “violin scraper.” Prop. Alexander Agassiz ate dinner with the Harvard Club, of San Francisco, last week. He Is now on tho Pacific, bound for Honolulu. A Corean woman has no name. She is always somebody’s daughter, sister, wife, mother. Their individual existence is not recognized even by name. Louis XIV only took one bath in his life. He eschewed soap and water, and when he washed his face and hands, did it with cotton steeped in spirits of wine. W. C. Hendricks, of Rut,to county, Cal., a cousin of the Vice-president elect, will be an applicant for the position of superintendent of the San Franoisoo mint. The famous Dr. Tlelmbold, once the best advertised man in the country, has for some time pvst been an inmate of the Norristown Insane Asylum. He now claims to be of sound mind, and asks to bo released. The town of Charlestown, W. Va., is the only American city paved with bricks in the middle of the streets, bricks turned endwise and set on wood. They last well, and bavo been known 200 years in Holland. On hearing of Mr. Colfax’s death, General Grant expressed the nighost esteem for the ex-Vice-president, and added that this esteem extended to his professional career and hia personal character. No public man in this country has a keener sense of loyalty to friends than General Grant. The following wretched doggerel was written by Mr. Georgo Augusta Sala, in tho album of a young woman who asked for his autograph, at the Continental Hotel, the other day: “At the good old Continental. Penn., Where I have often been before, And where I hope to bo again, Next year. G. A. Sala.” An appeal for clergymen to go thoro is published in a Houston, Idaho, paper, which says: “Among our people are many who desire an opportunity to attend religious services, and they are already making arrangements for tho construction of suitablo edifices in which to hold them. First come best served; therefore, Gospel men should not delay, for ‘now is tho accepted tlmo.'" Josh Billings, who hail abandoned housekeeping, and removed from Sixty-third street to the Windsor Hotel, New York, Is uow about sixty-fivo years old, and begins to feel the burden of life, irrespective of its probabilities, lie has been lecturing twenty-four seasons, and has furnished a Now York weekly a half or quarter column miscellaneous contributions every week for the last nineteen years. The San Franciscans are very proud of what they term their Golden Gate Park of over a thousand acres. Os all tho great parks of the world they assert that there is none so picturesque, and none having so many resources for variety of aboriculture. Nearly all semiUopioal trees will thrive in it. For

ten roars the work of tree-plan ting has been going on, and the park is rapidiy becoming a most attractive spot One of the best features of the place is the ocean view, tho park being located on the shore of the bay, with a driveway along the beach. A very small word often makes a vreat difference either by being omitted or superadded. Tlius the Butte (Montana) Inter-Mountain publishes a supplementary wedding notice in which, speaking oi* one that had already appeared, it says: “Tho statement should have read that they were ‘married a few days ago,’ instead of ‘married a few days,’ as tho wedding contract was doubtless intended to be permanent. ” Two of Mr. Gladstone's particular friends and sociates in the Peers are Scotch flarls, Rosebery and Alxsrdoon, who are of the standing of his own eldest son. Lord Aberdeon has a clever managing wife, who has had a large shore in pushing him into prominence. His father was a shy, timid person, dreadfully snubbed by his father, tho Prime Minister, and his own elder brother preferred sailing as mat# on an American vessel to assuming the earldom. Compared with those of the British Islos," weites Miss Constance Fonimore Woolson, meditatively, “all the skies of the United States are blue. In the North this blue is clear, strong, bright; in the South a sof* ness mingles with the brilliancy, and tempers it to a beauty which is not surpassed. The sky over the cotton lands of South Carolina is as soft as that of Tuscany; the blue over the silver beaches of Florida melts as languorously as that above Capri's enchanted) shore." A DECISION was made in the Chancery Court ak Nashville the other day that the business of building associations, as conducted in Tennessee, is usurious. The decision created quite a sensation, says the Savannah News, as these associations have been of immense benefit in building up the oity and othetf places in that State, and in enabling poor meu to obtain homes. An appeal has been taken to the Supreme Court, and hopes are entertained that the judgment of the Chancery Court will be reversed. William M. Evarts fell in love with his wife when she was sixteen and he a green boy at college. She was the daughter of Governor Warduor, of Vermont, and was as pretty as young Ev&rts was homely. They became engaged at her home in Vermont, Mid Evarts went away to New York, promising to return when he had made enough to warrant his At twenty-five he had made a name for himself as ft lawyer, was a member of one of the chief New* York law firms, of one making, it is said, a total of $60,000 a year. At tliis time he married, and hi# wife, after bearing him thirteen children, is still well and happy. Dr. Holmes’s desription of Emerson: “His face was thin, his nose somewhat accipitrine, casting ft broad shadow; his mouth rather wide, well-formed, and well-closed, carrying a question and an assertion In its finely-finished curves; tho lower lip a little prominent, the chin shapely and firm, as becomes the cor ner-sfcone of the countenance. His expression waa calm, sedate, kindly, with that look of refinomenk centering about the lips which is rarely found in the male New Englander, unless the family features have been for two or three cultivated generations the bat-tle-field and tho play-ground of varied thoughts and oomplex emotions, as well as the sensuous aud nutritive port of entry." M. Edmond About was rejected by the French. Academy fifteen years ago through the influenoe of some envious rivals; aud just such forces often control the conduct of that august body. For instance, when Dumas, fils, brought out bis unsuccessful “Princess de Bagdad," Francois Coppee criticised it, sharply but justly, in La Patrie. That angered Dumas so much that he tried to have Coppee turned out of his place as librarian of the Comodio Fransaise. Failing in that, he waited until Coppee’s name came up in the academy as a candidate for admission, when he delivered a most violent diatribe against him —am violent, indeed, that several Academicians say they voted for Coppee “precisely because of tho calurunia# of M. Dumas."

TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. A CLEAN AND HONORABLE PAPER Bloomington Republican Progress. The Indianapolis Journal has Improved steadily, in the past five years, till it has reached a point of excellence beyond which it can not go without involving an expense that might work financial ruin. At present there is nothing more to be desired in this reliable paper. One of the most popular newspapers printed in the West was the Cincinnati Gazette—its old patrons never deserted it, but clung to the paper till the last, of till it was consolidated with the Commercial, and the Gazette features had disappeared —then its patrons no longer cared for it. The Gazette was never sensational—it told truths in a plain modest way that pleased honest people. In this particular the Journal comes as near filling the nicho vacated by the Gazette as is possible, and many of the old patrons of the Gazette transferred their affeotions to the Journal. So far their confidence has not been abused, and we feel safe in promising that it will not be —at least under the present management. The dislike of sensationalism is marked and emphatic upon the part of the Journal’s managers, and they are right, for the most heartless malicious, and cold blooded reptile that has been developed by latter day journalism, is tho sensational writer—a creature that has a consuming desire for sensations and makos the most out of the least. Such papers have neither reverence nor respect for human kind, and having no other object in life than the sale of the newspaper, will pounce upow young or old—the gray haired man, the wife, the trusting maiden —(it matters not that they be those who have befriended or given needed assistance) laying bare to the public gaze weaknesses that affect only their families or immediate relations, and that should be known to no others. These ghouls place their glaring headlines upon their bulletin-boards for tho gratification of brutal appetites, and in order that more nickels may be added to their hoards of blood-monev. Many people buy these papers inwardly wondering: “Who is being abused uowj” not that they admire this style of journalism, for there is no more to admire about such reptiles than there is about “the viper that lays in wait to dash its fangs into the unguarded heel.” So long as the Journal steers clear of. this phase of “enterprise” it will do well, as it deserves to. In making up your paper list for 1885, you should include the Indianapolis Journal. A REPUBLICAN EDUCATOR Washington Gazette. The Indianapolis Journal is one of the leading newspapers of the West. Its telegraphic mattes is complete, its editorials arc models of political economy and literary ability, and its general reading matter makes it the best paper published in the State. The paper is beautiful typographically, and exhibits masterful art in its make-up. It is unquestionably one of the best educators of Republicanism that it is our good fortune to read. We hope every Republican in the State will read the Journal, and bo postod for the campaign of ’B6. HAS BECOME PROVERBIAL. Marlon Republican. That the Indianapolis Journal is the best paper in the State has beon so generally conceded as to become proverbial. For ability and versatility in the editorial department it has few superiors in the country; it gives all the important news from all parts of the world, and yet It is not given to sensationalism; it is an excellent specimen of printing, and in every particular just such a paper as the reading public should appreciate. For the Indianian it is the best paper published. ENTERPRISING AND THOROUGH, Ligonior Leader. The Indianapolis Journal is ono of the roost enterprising and thorough newspapers in the V r est. It is pure in tone, sound in principle, and will not pervert facts for party gain. In reality it is one of tho best family papers published, and the weekly should flud a placo in every home ia tho State. E, ACCURATE, RELIABLE. Rockville blican. The h .polis Journal stands at the head of all th ily papers that come to Rockville. There is ao better paper published anywhere* It is safe, accurate and reliable, and spares uo pains or expense to obtain the news. ABLE AND NEWSY. DeKalb Republican. The Indianapolis Journal has no peer as ably edited and newsy paper.