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THE DAILY JOURNAL. RY .TXO. C. NEW & SON. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 185. TWELVE PAGEST" THE INDIANAPOLIS JOLUNAL Cun be found at the following nta^e*. LONDON—Atnoi .can Lxohsuge In Europe, 449 ki*ud. PARlS—American Exchange in Part*. 35 Boulevard 4ea Capucinov HEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor rfotela CHIT AGO—Palmer House. CINCINNATI—<I. R Hawley * © 0.. 134 Vine Street SJOV tfiVTLLE—c. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. FT. I<OUTS—Union New* Company. Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone CalK Business Office...... 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 The Snnday Journal has the largest and best circulation of any Sunday paper in Indiana. Price three cents. THE* SUNDAY JOURNAL The issue of the Sunday Journal to morrow will be of general as well as special interest. It will contain a comprehensive account of the ceremonies attendant upon the dedication of the Washington monument, embracing special and regular reports, and something of the orations of Robert C. Winthrop and Major John W. Daniel. The general news of the day from all parts of the world will be fully presented, with Washington, New York, and other special dispatches; a number of extracts from Mark Twain's new book, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn;'’ a collection of the best things In the March magazines; a number of gpeciul local features —one an article on the rinks of the city; and the usual weekly society, music, art and dramatic reviews. The Sunday Journal is growing in popularity. It3 editions have lately been exhausted at an early hour, and the demand steadily increases as the merits of the paper become known. Every line of matter printed in the Journal is fresh and new. No “plates” are palmed off upon the public, and we expend more money for news and miscellany for its columns than is expended on all the other papers of the State combined. As the spring trade will soon open, advertisers will find the columns of tbo Sunday Journal the best method to roach the buying public. An Albany dispatch says that Daniel Manning has accepted the definite tender of the Treasury Department from Mr. Cleveland. The Eastern illustrated papers print imrtriits of Mr. Manning as Secretary of the Treasury, which is suggestive of the public acceptance of the euessant rumen?, Rr.TRESF.NTATIVE B. WILRON* SMITH shows up i'hebt’qnitiesof the legislative reapporfionhill in a few figures elsewhere given. Mr. Sayre, of Wabash, also gave the bill a vigorous thrust, in a few words explaining his ▼ole. No such shameless and infamous measure was ever known in Indiana politics. Guizot, the great French historian, wrote: “Washington did the two greatest things Which, in politics, man can have the priviiege of attempting. He maintained, by peace, that independence of his country which he had acquired by war. He founded a free government, in tho name of the principles of Older, and by re establishing their sway.’*’ The Democratic members of the State Senate will not allow the children of the public le.hools to be taught the evil effects of stimulants and narcotics in the human system. This is a most pitiable and abject surrender of all manhood and self-respect to the liquor league. It emphasizes how completely the Democratic party of Indiana is in tho control of the whisky power. This is said to be Gordon’s last mossage to Wolseley: “I can hold on at Khartoum for years,” was preceded by the question: “Wlmt are you coining for? I have not asked for you.” If this he true it is only another evidence of the fatuous misconception nud underestimate of the work they attempted in Egypt by ail the English, from the Prime Minister 4own, including him who knew more of the Soudan than any other.

Mrs. Yseult Dudley’s surprise over what she regards as the excessive amount of bail required iu her case—“as much,"shesays, “as if I had shot a reputable citizen”—is a proof that she does not grasp the great American legal trut h that one man is as good as another, if not better, so long as he keops out of jail. When Mr. Bossa hears that she wants, when she gets out, to engage a room opposite his office, so she can keep an eye on him, he will probably petition that the bail bo made $300,000, instead of $3,000. * Enoland at last must realize the magnitude of its undertaking to subdue the rebels in the Soudan. At present it appears that the fall of Khartoum is likely to bo soon supplemented by the defeat of General Duller, with what disastrous results may be imagined. Nor is it plain that Wolseley himself is out of danger of being overwhelmed by the immense body of rebels now swarming down the Nile from the region about Khartoum. The situation is startlingly critical, and the most energetic work is necessary to save the scattered British forces from being annihilated, to say •nothing of the still more serious business. There can, of course, be but ono result ©f this war, in event England persists in its prosecution, as it is to be presumed will be the case; the sons of the desert will have to give way. But it is no child's play to overcome even barbarians; nor is it enough to send fidoit them an unarmed or inadequately

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supported Christian “prophet." The whole campaign seems to have been a series of 0 blunders from the outset, and at no time has the situation been as critical as now. The government will have a hard time in trying to satisfy the opposition that it is not incompetent, and should give way. The death of Gen. Stuart,, following that of Gordon, Earle, Burnaby and Col. Stuart, to say nothing of the loss of life in rank and file and of treasure, must produce the profoundest dissatisfaction throughout England. It is evident enough, we think, that General Wolseley, tho General McClellan of the Egyptian campaign, should at once bo superseded by some officer who will concentrate the now scattered forces and move forward to some purpose. • AMERICA'S FIEBT CITIZEN. The dedication, to-day, of the Washington monument naturally calls the world to a closer contemplation of the character of America's first and greatest citizen. This recurring duty has been a source of gratification and pride to every patriotic American, animated as he is by the belief that the character of Washington will ever bear the closest inspection. He was not only great in war, blit greater still in the modest appreciation of his achievements in the field. Ho was not only great in peace, as the Nation’s President, but greater still in being above the temptations of petty selfishness and personal ambition. He was great in all things; nor did the enjoymeut of the honors thrust upon make him for a moment forget himself, or seduce him from that high plane which he so signally graced. It is a mistake to say that he did not forget himself; for, in the better sense, he never thought of self, save to offer all to the prosecution of the work intrusted to him. The only times he seemed to think of self was when be felt himself inadequate or unworthy, one of the noblest traits of his greatness as a man. Unlike military chieftains of his age, he never schemed for or winked at plans for his own promotion. "Whatever fell to Washington came to him unsolicited, . the tribute of a people anxious to place their most sacred trusts in safe and clean hands. Nor were they disappointed. Washington was a clean man. A century’s closest inspection has failed to reveal a “blot on his escutcheon,” and at • his death he passed into history as a man who approached as near protection as humanity may. This is not tho verdict of his admiring countrymen only, but the civilized world, in all its"parts, has not failed to award him a place among the tallest and best of men.

It is needless here to recite the opportunities and temptations incident to tho position occupied by the colonial commander-in chief. To say that he did not recognize them as they arose, is .an insult to common sense; that he did not take advantage of them, is proof without argument that he was abo\*e the petty ambition that has wrecked so many aspiring men. The character of George Washington ia a lesson written for the edification of the ages. To imitate his virtues as a public man is to approach perfection. To follow his illustrious and unprecedented example—save that of the Son of God and man alike —in sinking self in his great appreciation of the obligations resting upon him, those present and those that bis discerning mind told him he owed the oncoming generations, must ever be to the making of good to mankind everywhere. The name of Washington is a priceless heirloom to all mankind. Patriot, soldier, statesman, citizen, husband, son—in each station ho allowed himself possessed of that ability, and dignity, and probity that probably no other man in the world's history possessed. Living, he enjoyed the world’s greatest esteem; dying, all peoples felt the loss. Let every lover of his country rejoice that after so many years a shaft has at last beon reared to his memory that overtops all the works of man; but rejoice even more that the name and fame of Washington are peculiarly ours, a pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night, to lead all the people in the path of patriotic duty aud national safety.

THE MORMON CANCER. Readers of Miss Kate Field’s articles on Mormon ism, the lust of which appears in today’s issue of the Journal, cannot have failed to receive new impressions of this West em evil, however strongly they may have been convinced of its enormity before. It is not, indeed, that any sentiment exists outside of Utah and the minds of a few scheming politicians at all fuvoruble to a perpetuation of the iniquity, very few citizens being willing to tolorate the doctrines of the Saints. The trouble, so far as the public is concerned, is an apathy and indifference, growing partly out of iguorance and misapprehension of the extent and direction of the Mormon power ami influence. It is the belief of many that, aside from their polygamous practices, the followers of Brigham Young are upon the same footing as auy other religious sect, and should be interfered with only so far as this offensive and immoral article of faith is con- % earned. Compel them to give up polygamy and then let them alone, is the conclusion commonly arrived at, as if nothing were so simple and easy as to carry out this decidedly comprehensive programme. It is altogether probable that Mormonistn would exist but a brief time after the elimination of polygamy; but in the maintenance of this so-called sacred right every power and nerve of the church is exerted to their utmost, until much more is involved than the enforcement of a single law. It is to the setting forth of the methods of the church ether than the distinctive one of plural marriage* that MUa Field calls attention. The

degradation of the women has* been so often dwelt upon that it loses some of its force by repetition, though the full horrors can never be told in words. To maintain this supremacy of licentiousness, the elders and rulers unite to form an organization which not only undertakes spiritual guidance, but temporal control of the ignorant hordes of believers as well. The laws of the United States are ignored or resisted when in conflict with their purposes. The government is looked upon as an enemy, and resistance is not only encouraged, but urged as a religious duty. That rebellion may not occur among the members, care is taken that they be kept ignorant, and also poor, a financial ring existing for the enrichment of the few at the expense of the many. Like the gigantic devil-fish of the southern seas, the Mormon Church stretches its arms in every direction, and whatsoever it reaches is touched with death. When its power is fully understood, many will, like Miss Field, be ready to pray that its hold on the state and the social fabric may be loosened without the shedding of blood. The infamous robbery of political rights from a majority of the people of the State should not l>e permitted, if the exhaustion of every possible means short of revolution will prevent it. The reapportionment schemes have been denounced by the fair-minded and honorable members of the Democratic party as outrageous and indecent. What obligation, therefore, is there upon the Republican members to quietly acquiesce? If redshirted night riders wore at work before election, and guns and clubs were in the hands of Democrats on the day of election to suppress the Republican vote in Indiana, there is no man anywhere, not a coward by nature and a poltroon by oonduct, who would doubt or question tho propriety of bloodshed if necessary to meet such a crime against jiolitical equality. Under the forms of law an unscrupulous majority which seeks to compass the same result by means equally as certain, the only difference being that the process is more cowardly and less dangerous, should be met with the sternest determination, and by every fair means which parliamentary practice and an indignant and aroused manhood can suggest. This is not child’s play. It is a bold and insolent attempt to introduce the Mississippi plan into Indiana. It is as dastard as anything the secession Legislature of 1803 attempted—is as destructive of political equality and political right as anything then suggested whereby Indiana could be made the tail of the “solid South.” The purpose is the same now, and it is being engineered by the representatives of the same political lickspittles. The Republicans of the Legislature are not responsible for the State government or the State administration. If the Democrats insist that this fool job shall be completed before the necessities of the State are provided for, the Republicans ought to flatly tell them—we will unite with you in the perfecting and passing of all needed and proper measures for the administration of the State. No public or private interest shall suffer by any act of ours; but these measures must be passed before your cowardly and infamous political steals, and the responsibility for the possible failure of important and indispensable measures, which you willfully imperil for purely partisan reasons, must rest with you. We believe light and justice demand the utmost firmness on the part of the Republicans, and the people of the State will sustain them in any means, less than revolution, to vindicate their political rights and equality.

The ring streaked and speckled legislation sought in the name of the metropolitan police system by the pending bill, is as gross a violation of the Constitution as can be. It is special legislation, pure and simple. The letter of the law that is “dodged” by the tortuous track of this bill as it wires in and wires out over the State, picking up cities here and there, but passing carefully around the Democratic pet, Fort Wayne, only brings into sharper relief the gross violation of the spirit of the Constitution which it is.—The News. The present bill is no more unconstitutional than the bill under which Indianapolis and Evansville were put under the metropolitan police system. The latter law was even more “special” than the one whioh now proposes to put three or four cities under the control of the State. The truth is, that all the “special” legislation is in defiance of the Constitution, drawn purposely to defeat the Constitution, passed with that full knowledge, and continued by the Supreme Court with the understanding that it is an evasion of the supreme law of the State. The whole business of special legislation shows the prostitution of the Legislature and courts to the persistent disregard for law.

Senator Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, casta vote a week ago to-day which challenges the condemnation of his constituency, regardless of party. It was to lay aside and, so, practically to kill the bill for the forfeiture of the Texas Pacific railroad land giants.—Sentinel. Oh, dear: the news columns of the Sentinel of yesterday destroyed all the force of this able editorial by giving the voto whereby the Texas Pacific railroad forfeiting bill was passed by the Senate. Senator Benjamin Harrison, Republican, voted for the bill; Senator Daniel W. Voorhees, Democrat, did not. Will the Sentinel unlimber its batteries on Mr. Voorhees! REFERRING to two eminent Catholics, Father Bessonics and Bishop Chaiard, it [the Journal] flippantly dubs them *‘0113” RsHsonies and “Silo'' Chatard. —Sentinel. No, it was not done “flippantly." At the time we used these nioknames, we apologized for the necessity which compelled us to adopt, for the moment, the disgraceful pot-house style

of the Sentinel, in order to show more clearly the pitiful pettifogging of the Democratic State organ. The New Jersey Legislature having heard that preacher Talmage had, in one of his lectures, charged that one of its members was a profane swearer, grew highly indignant. They resoived and whereased, and considered the propriety of proceeding against the Brooklyn preacher in a slander suit, but suddenly subsided on learning that the lecture was delivered a year ago. Aside from the difficulty of discovering who was slandered, no name having been mentioned, it was the unanimous conclusion that neither a year old oath nor a sermon would count in court At last there is a prospect that New York will secure Niagara Falls and the surrounding lands and islands for a State park. A commission appointed last year has examined and appraised* the property and presented its report. Claims from individual owners of the territory amounted to $4,000,000; the awards made, however, reaching only $1,400,000. It remains now to convince the Legislature of the material, moral and aesthetic value of the proposed reservation, and to persuade that body to make tho desired appropriation. As the New York Legislature is more amenable to reason than the Indiana Assembly, it is thought that the end will be attained. Becky Jones is still winning on the admiration of the public. She refuses to go to the skating rink. She is somewhat of a scoffer, if one may judge of her utterances. Speaking of a call made her by four Sunday-school teachers, she says: “They looked at me with long faces. I told them if they came to preach they might as well take themselves off. I could see them hunch each other. Religion is right enough in its place, but some kinds of religion I don’t take stock in. I don’t want any preaching or praying in my room. I can do all I want myself.” Miss Jones is evidently a lady of resources.

An Ohio young woman has eloped with an eighteen-year old law student, to the great consternation of her parents. The old folks are well aware that with a coachman or a skatingrink “professor” the case would not be so hopeless; such gentlemen are more or less qualified to provide for their wives, but a law student has no visible means of support until after many years. Nym Crinkle, next to Willie Winter the greatest of dude dramatic critics, thus speaks of the new play, “Impulse;” “The tableaux move in the wainscoted English hall with a dreamy and voluptuous inevitability.” It may also be remarked that a ninety-day note moves with a dreamy and voluptuous inevitability that is very discouraging to tho indorser. James Gordon Bennett has provided his yacht with an expensive machine, capable of producing a thousand pounds of ice in a day. Almost any citizen in this latitude would have sold him for a trifling sum a kitchen pump, warranted to produce nothing but ice—in some seasons. What i3 said to be the largest frieze in the world is now making in Boston, and will adorn the Army aud Navy Hall in Hartford, Conn. It is to be eighty seven and. a half feet in length, and six feet nine inches in height. That’s a big frieze, but won’t begin to compare with a blizzard. The New York Legislature has a standing “committee ou grievances.” It was addressed by the advocates of woman suffrage one day this week, and is now supposed to have been resolved into a committee of grief. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: To settle a dispute, please inform us what the salary of Vice-president of the United States is, as also, salary of United States senators? Arcadia, Ind. a. e. Vico-presidont, $8,000; senators, $5,000.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Lady Aylksyoud Is about to begin a suit to prove that her son is the son of his father. Joklj Chandler Harris’s new story, which will boon be completed, is called “The Boston Girl.” Mrs. Wendell Phillips is still living quietly in the house which was her husband's last homo, in the southern part of Boston. Governor Harrison, of Connecticut, has received as a gift from a citizen of New Haven, a cane made of wood taken from the Benedict Arnold house in that city. Gladstone's Tory brother long ago predicted that “William will ruin his country and his Queen, and die a madman," and tho prophecy is being recalled in England now. Ex-Hangman Binns, of London, deposed for drunkenness, and now among the have-beens, is succeeded by acting Hangman Berry, with whose victims bury is a dead sure thing every time. The “Father of Freemasonry” has just died in England, in the person of William Eliot, who attained the ripo old age of ninety-one years. He was the oldest Freemason in Europe, if not in the world. Major Carmichael, one of the English officers killed in the Soudan, lost his wife by death just before eaving England. He had spent $20,000 in purchasing his earlier promotion, and now his doubly orphaned child, aged but a few months, will have an income of only SIOO a year. As Messonier, the artist, was recently passing a street in Paris, an old beggar gravely bowed to him, by the way of soliciting alms. “I have no change,” said Meissonier, feeling in his pocket and about to pass on. “Then, at least, return me my bow," repliod the okl man, which was no sooner said than done.

The late Comte A. de Liesville was probably the most successful collector of relics of the first French Revolution. One of the most interesting was an accurate model of the Bastile, carved out of one of the stones of that edifice. He had 10,000 books and papers, and coins, medals, pottery, arms, eto., innumerable, connected with that revolution, and with those of 1830, 1348 and 1870. VICTOR Hugo is described as living in a curious state of expectancy regarding the Olympus in a future life, to which he believes he has already been admitted. His latest poem, says a correspondent, has for its burden these words: ‘ Maintenant, Seigneur, expliquons-nous ensemble,” and is apparently addressed to the Deity on the occasion of the poet's entrance into a higher sphere of life. The last of the prisoners taken during the FrancoGerman war have just left Germany. Some Turccs, who. during their imprisonment, had killed a keeper by whom they had been badly used, and who, in consequence, had been condemed to imprisonment in a fortress, reached Cologne the other day from Wesel. They were dressed in new uniforms, which had been sent to them by the French government. Pabis has lost one of its curiosities in the person of M. Bauer, who made it his habit every day to feed the sparrows in the gardens of the Tuileries. The birds knew him by sight, and, as soon as he appeared, would cluster round him as thickly as wasps in August round a barrel of moist sugar. They would perch upon him, allow him to catch and handle them, and would follow him from place to place. M. Bauer is the only sparrow lamer upon record. Emoby Spur, who has just been appointed by the President United States District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia, distinguished himself in his first oampaign for Congress by killing six horses. He hsd to canvass a large country diatriot where railroad

facilities were limited, and to keep his appointments he was often obliged to ride horseback day and night. The fame of his horsemanship spread over the district, and won him many votes from the hardy mountaineers. It is related of Danville’s (Ky.) late poet, William Marvin, that he used to say to hb patfont, long-suffer-ing wife: “Charlotte, lam going out. I shall probably be absent two hours. I shall be drunk when I return. arSi if I find yon in the house I shall flog you." It is probably in appreciation of this timely warning that the ladies of his native town are now interesting themselves in making up money to buy a monument to put over his grave. Few men are so thoughtful and considerate. It was hoped that ‘he papers of Wendell Phillips would be left in such condition that valuable memoirs of his life and times coaid be published, but this is doubtful; and there seems little prospect of any full edition of Phillips’s speeches and letters. The life of Garrison, which his sons are preparing, is understood to be so far advanced that portions of it will soon appoar in one of the magazines. It will be an extensive work, giving much of the anti-slavery history which Mr. Garrison helped to make, but did not live to write out. Or Mr. Conant, its missing editor, Harper's Weekly says: “We cannot abandon the hope of further intelligence, nor believe that we shall see him no more. Speculation is useless. There was nothing in his domestic relations, which were of pel feet confidence and tenderness, nor in his connection with this office, which was most agreeable and satisfactory, nor in the blameless conduct of his life, which oould explain the mental bewilderment which has befallen him and under which he has wandered away. We can only watch, and wait, and hope. CURRENT TRESS COMMENT. Whatever wo may think of the Irish land bill as a political emollient, it must be owned that it was a violation of the freedom of contract, and it mast be owned also that it was extorted by riot and crime. It is not to be wondered at that Englishmen who know that they are unhappy and thiuk that they are oppressed should imagine that by hooting Ministers and smashing windows they may prevail upon Parliament to make another exception in their favor to the rule that men must make their own bargains, and, having made them, must keep them.—New York Times. No one proposes to abolish silver as a standard in this country, but its use must be so adjusted as to remove the perpetual menace to our trade and finance which the existing law holds over us. It would be wise for the advocates of silver not to urge their extreme views, and so precipitate either a financial crisis or a political wrangle, for there is a scheme on foot to gain party advantage out of this question. Either the power to suspend should be left to the discretion of the President or of the Secretary of the Treasury, or Congress should itself take the initiative.—New York Herald. Advocacy of prohibition is weaker than it was two ysars ago, and opposition is much stronger. This is not because temperance sentiment is weakened, but is due largely to the course pursued by Prohibitionists during the late campaign, and to the confessed failure of prohibition in lowa and Kansas. Practical people, who care more for the substance of things than for names, seeing that prohibition cannot be enforced, and therefore that it does not prohibit, are unwilling that it shall occupy the place of laws which, if they do not altogether prohibit, at least regulate and lessen intemperance.—Kokomo Gazette-Tribune. The success of Cleveland’s administration must largely depend upon his Cabinet. He can accomplish nothing substantial, nothing really satisfactory, without sagacious and competent advisers, and a wise and honest distribution of the patronage belonging to heads of departments. No one realizes this better than Mr. Cleveland, and hence it is to be desired and expected that he will select the members of his Cabinet according to his best judgment, rather than according to political expediency. Public as’well as personal reasons will naturally compel him to adopt this course, which is ovidontly the wisest one.—St. Louis Republican. The poorer a man is, or the smaller his incomo is, the deeper is his interest in having the best possible currency. There is no profit for him in speculative ups and downs in Wall street. What he wants is a dollar which is worth a dollar the whole world over, and will be worth as much next week and next month as it is worth when ho receives it. The gold dollar alone is stable in value, or is more nearly Rtable than any other dollar. If the working people of the country understood their own interests, they would flood Congress with petitions for the repeal of the appropriations for continuing the coinage of the silver dollar.—Charleston News and Courier. As long as there continues to be an incrChso in the number of iron-making establishments which are resuming active operations the business outlook cannot be considered unpromising. Iron is an article of universal use in all the trades and occupations; an increasing demand for it is one of the sure evidences of reviving confidence and restored health in the financial condition of the country. As iron goes into use. the work of building and construction goes on, new machinery and new tools of handicraft are made and sold and used in the processes of production. The ups and downs of. the iron market are always coincident and coextensive with the fluctuations of trade.—Philadelphia Record. Knot,and went into the Soudan to rescue Gordon. She will remain to restore order. As all Europe desires peace instead of anarchy in Africa, no nation will seriously object to this, and even if objections were made they would count for little with England, aroused and sure of strong allies. The differences between England and Turkey as to the use of Turkish troops in the Soudan are matters of policy. The rebellion is a rebellion against Egyptian or Turkish authority, and in an effort to secure peace it was deemed impolitic to send to the Soudan troops representing either Egypt or Turkey. But now that a peace is to be conquered it may become policy to fight one class of Mohammedans with another.—Chicago Inter Ocean.

IF the Democratic party can lift the country out of the slough of despond into which it has been plunged by the dread of Democratic incompetence ana Democratic heresies we shall rejoice most heartily. If Mr. Cleveland has the wit to do this, or to call about him auy other men who have the wit, lie will deserve thanks. Even then the fact will remain, that the Democratic party averts national ruin by refusing to act upon Democratic ideas, by walking in Republican paths, by imitating as closely as it can the example of wise Republican administrations which have made the country prosperous in the past. But. in one way or another, if Air. Cleveland can give relief to the great multitude of people out of employment, let it be done. —New York Tribune. CLEVELAND was elected to redistribute government patronage. If he is not going to do that, and do it immediately, the Democratic office-brokers will insist •upon knowing why ho betrays the party which has elected him. To watch their spoils interests—the fundamental incentive to Democratic of/orts during the past twenty-four years—and to make the official life of the now President utterly wretched In case he neglects these interests, may be best worked out through an extra session of Congress; and if one be made necessary by tho notion of the Demoorats daring tho next few days the reason for it will be obvious to to the country. If Mr. Cleveland is in any doubt about the purpose in view he will discover what it is before he can fairly warm the Presidential chair. —Chicago Tribnne. It is about time the reform spread to the general Imblic. There aro thousands of clerks, book-keepers, aw students, and men engaged in other sedentary occupations who spend no end of money, and hours and days of valuable time in sitting on hard benches watching professional ball players taking the exercise they should tako themselves. Every professional boat race is witnessed by thousands of men who should handle the oars themselves, instead of splitting their throats hurrahing over tho skill and strength displayed by men who make a living by this means. If there was a more general practice of athletic sports by the public at large there would be less dyspepsia, and the {>rofessional sports would be compelled to got their iving at some more useful employment than that of displaying their own skill for money,—Philadelphia Times. Instead of maintaining that the function of the President is simply executive, that he must wait for what comes to aim and has nothing to do but to enforce the laws, he now recoghizes that the President ought to lead in public policy and ought to exercise a potent influence in shaping the course of legislation. He doesn’t bven wait till he assumes the office of President, but. in advance of his inauguration sends his representatives to Washington to impress his views upon Congress. The country will find no fault with this. It will rather congratulate Itself that he is right on this silver question, and that his views are so clear and emphatic as to lead to this positive action. And it will be glad also that he has gained a better conception of the rightful obligations of the President than he had when he wrote his letter of acceptance.—Philadelphia Press. It is not at all likely that in any period which can be reckoned in years infidelity will destroy religion. Mankind needs something to lean against, and relig. ion—of one faith aud another—answers the purpose. Scholars will reason, and, finding themselves unable to reconcile science and revelation, will relapse into agnosticism. But the rank and file of humanity will cling to the comforts of a faith which promises ete*nal life, which assutes the husband that he will meet his wife, the mother that she will meet her sou iu another and brighter world. This wiil go on in spite of all the Ingersolls who may plagiarize from Voltaire, and crack jokes about sacrea things. It will goon the longer if the olergy awaken to a sense of their real duty, which is not to embark in controversies in which they are generally worsted, bnt to inculcate sound morality in their discourses from the pulpit, to denounce the new sins which increasing civilization brings in its train, and to devote the rest of their time to visiting the sick, cheering the afflioted, aud soothing, with honest words of hope and consolation, the last boars of the dying.—Baa Fraaoisoo Chronicle.

SEBIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT • A Sleeping-Car on the 0. A* M. Falls Seventy-Five Feet Into a Creek. Three Passengers Killed and Tiro Other.! Dangerously Injured—Thursday Night’s Wreek on the Virginia Midland. fHROWN FROM A BRIDGE. A Sleeping-Car Falls Seventy-Five Feet lutlf the Muscatatuck* Special to the Indianapolis Journal. North Vernon, Ind., Feb. 20.—The Ohio & -Mississippi east-bound fast-mail and passenger train, due here at 4 o’clock a. m., met with a serious accident one-half mile east of here all 6:30 this morning. The mercury registered 10 degrees below zero, and the train did not arrive on time. When it pulled out from the depot the lundmost car, a Pullman sleeper, was thrown from the track by a broken rail. There were only six persons on this car, but in the car ahead fifty-two people were occupying berths. The porter of the sleeper which had been thrown from the track rushed to the forward car to pull the bell rope, which did not reach the hind car. By this time the train was on the bridge which spans the Muscatatuck river. He gave a leap to the forward coach just in time to save his own life, as just then the car behind him swung from the bridge and went crashing down below, a distance of nearly seventy five feet. The horrified porter was powerless to give the alarm, and it was not until his cries brought several of the passengers to him that, he told what had happened. The train was stopped, but the engineer, the conductor, nor any of the passengers had noticed anything wrong, the car which had been derailed and gone down in the river with such a terrible crash having run along smoothly over the ties, which were deeply covered with hard snow, until it reached the bridge, when it swung off. When the train was backed to the bridge, the missing car was standing perpendicular agaiust the rear abutment of the bridge. Between the abutment and the car a passenger was found, near the top of the bridge, mangled beyond recognition. Two others were found in the debris of the wreck, horribly mangled, and the two whoso lives had been spared were dug out from beneath a mass of timbers and rocks. The following is a list of the dead and wounded: N. M. Carroll, colored porter, of Baltimore, killed. E. P. Eldridge, agod twenty five, of Jefferson, Texas, killed. L. M. Pant, aged fifty, of St Louis, killed. James B. Moore, of Hartford, Conn., fracture of the head and arms, and internally injured, perhaps fatally. W. Taylob, conductor of Pullman car. from Connersville, N. Y., probably fatally injured in head aud back. Mr. Moore was started for Hartford this afternoon, and Mr. Taylor was removed to Connersville. L. M. Pant, of St. Louis, was on his way to Now York. He had *SO in tuoj.ey, and a check for $192 on the Chatham National Bank of New York, drawn in favor of Eur-.tin in & Brother, of that city. His remains were shipped to 6t. Louis this afternoon. Mr. Moore, .when ho was finally rescued from the wi ck, found himself in an extremely bad pcodicame it. He was not only seriously injured, but “hah ? mile from town, with bare feet and with no dethiifgvxcept his night garments. When warm finally secur ed for him. he was almost ch.lledr to death, His feet aud hands were horribly frozen, and for several hours he suffered terrible agony. OTLiKR ACCIDENTS. Five Trainmen Killed, uml a Largo Quantity of Mail Burned. To tho Western Associated Press. Washington, Feb. 20. —The latest report from the scene of the railroad accident at Four-mile makes it certain that five men were killed, all train bauds. All the passengers, seventy in number, escaped serious injury. The safe of the express car had been opened shortly before the accident, and tho flames made such headway that the express agent could not clos% it, and its contents were burned. On account of the accident, the way-bills having been burned, it cannot be told just how much money was In the safe, but the amount is variously estimated all the way from $75,000 to. $150,000. About a bushel of silver dollars were taken out of the wreck, badly burned, aud many more were melted into a solid chunk. The loss to the railroad company is estimated at $25,000. Postal officials say tho collision has caused the largest loss of mail matter of which there is any record in the department. The fire which resulted from the collision destroyed thirteen through registered mail pouches, coming from New Orleans, Mobile, and other points in the South, and destined for Washington, New York, and other Eastern cities. These pouches are known to have contained money and valuables, but to what amount cannot yet be ascertained. The fire also destroyed 100 sacks of ordinary mail matter, a heavy miscellaneous mail, and 180 registered letters, taken up for delivery along the lino, aud not inclosed in pouches. The ordinary mail lost is supposed to have come from Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and other Southern States. It. is impossible, as yet, to telL where the blame for tho disaster rests, as all who could throw any light upon tho matter are dead, or so badly injured that the facts cannot ( ho ascertained. Laborers Killed by a Train. Chicago, Feb. 20.—At the stockyards, tbit evening, a gang of laborers on tho Burlington track stepped aside to avoid an incoming engine. The smoke, noise and darkness prevented them seeing an outgoing Northwestern train. Michael Toomey and Jaa. Fleming were killed, and Frank Smith, John Salick, Daniel O’Day and an unknown man badly injured. Explosion of a Locomotive. Little Bock, Feb. 20. —At 5:30 this afternoon, fifteen miles below Poplar Bluffs, Mo., on the St Louis & Iron Monntain railroad, while a south-bound train was running at full speed, tho engine exploded, killing tho engineer, John Pitkin, and fatally injuring the fireman, Fred Smith. Fatal Accident ou the Wabash. Keokuk, Feb. 20. —An accident occurred on the Wabash railway, at Ashton, Mo., last night, and a sleeper and a coach loft the track, falling over a bridge. Jas. McLaughlin, of Centerville, la., was fatally injured. Several others were hurt, but not seriously. Attempted Wife Murder and Suicide. Boston. Feb. 20. Georgo Oliver, aged thirty, probably fatally stabbed his wife this morning and then cut his own throat A young woman living in the lower part of the house, on Winter street, hearing shrieks, ran to Oliver’s appartments. There she saw Oliver holding his wife to the floor by the hair of her head aud savagely plunging a jack knife into her neck. He then went to the rear kitchen door and cut his own throat from ear to ear. He fell down an entiro flight of stairs to the woodshed below, where he was found by the officers. Mrs. Oliver was removed to the hospital. She may recover. Oliver has been out of employment for six months, and is spoken of as a mild-mannered man, but given more or less to drink. He m sober to day when he committed the doable crime. The couple had been married twelve years and had two sons.