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Willard’s Hotel which had been occupied by Presidents Lincoln and Grant on the eve of their first inaugurations. If there are any persons who believe that Mr. Hendricks suffers acutely from shrinking modesty, they will do well to revise their impressions. The rooms in question are occupied by a Tammany delegation, which is considerable of a desecration, but might have been worse. THE NfiW ADMINISTRATION. The inauguration of the first Democratic President for nearly thirty years was accomplished, yesterday, with all the pride, pomp and circumstance of a great Nation, Shved from disruption and lifted to a pinnacle of greatness through the efforts of the party which laid down the scepter of power, as against the persistent efforts of the one which took it up with such exuberant manifestations. It is to be noted, also, that the man yesterday inducted into tho office of President reached that place only because he was not actively and decisively identified with the party which shouted itself hoarse, and really believes that it has itself triumphed. It is our opinion that subsequent events will be likely to prove that it is the Democratic party that was placed in power rather than a man, unknown but a short time ago, but who was believed by a plurality of the people in the State of New York to bo so much better than the party he belonged to, as to warrant them in giving him their votes on personal and not on partisan grounds. Os this, however, we shall know more a few months hence than wo do now, and speculation would, therefore, be useless, and might be regarded, as ungracious. It is very plain, though, that the "independents,” enough of whom voted for Mr. Cleveland to give him his office, cannot lay hold of much, if any, of yesterday’s demonstration as their own. It was a demonstration of the Democratic party, whose brains always have been and are yet in the South, and which has never been, fyid never can be, in its present spirit and purpose, made dominant in the free, independent, sturdy and equality-loving North. The pageant yesterday was superb. All the talk of returning to the better and simpler days of the fathers, to "Jeffersonian simplicity,” and the like "rot” with which Democratic demagogues sought to bamboozle tho people, melted away in the extraordinary elaborateness and gorgeousness of the display. Our special and regular reports give the fullest and most graphic descriptions of the splendor of the occasion, descriptions that read like a mockery of the wonts uttered by the man, in whose honor the display was conceived, when he took the oath of office. The inaugural address sounds strangely put by the side of the story of the grand ball closing the festivities of the day, and the latter is a stinging commentary upon the empty words and meaningless phrases indulged in by the leaders of the Democratic party. The inaugural address of Mr. Cleveland is short, plain, sturdy in tone and sentiment, quite passionless, partaking of tho stolidity which is apparently of tho warp and woof of the nature of the new President. There certainly can be no serious objections urged against it, and it makes a platform upon which his party cannot stand and will not try to stand. It is significant that, while it was received with great applause, in parts, that portion regarding the civil service elicited but a faint response. Mr. Cleveland wa3 not talking to a civil-service-reform crowd or to a civil-service-reform party. The President has not yet announced his Cabinet, and, therefore, tho new administration is not fully launched. The composition of it, however, is pretty well known, and that it will be disappointing in somo important points goes with the saying. Such an appointment as that of "Dan” Manning to the Treasury Department cannot honestly be justified or defended by anyone. There is more in that appointment to determine the probable quality of the administration than in any other thing, inaugural address and all. A President scarcely ever rises above tho level of his "chum’,’ Cabinet, and when ho advances his chief "chum,” in the porson of a ward politician, to the principal place in his official household, it is indicative of a low tone, and a dullness in apprehending the plain proprieties and responsibilities of his position that does not argue well. But Mr. Cleveland enters upon his new responsibilities with an expectancy apd a disposition of fairness that give him such an opportunity as does not fall to the lot of many men. It is his to improve or to spoil. TARDY JUSTICE AT LAST. It has been said that Congress at tho last hour saved the country's honor by according General Grant his just reward. In one sense this is true, for it would have been an indelible stain upon the houor and gratitude of the American people; hut in another sense Congress has simply slid out of tho infamy it came near perpetuating. The oountry at large, the people, are all right, and it was public sentiment crying out against tho outrage of inaction that saved Congress from the odium of monstrous ingratitude. The well-nigh universal demand of patriotic citizens in all sections of tho countiy compelled tho action taken yesterday. It is no credit to Congress, save So far as it Is a credit to the discernment of a demand that could not be set aside without almost certain condemnation at the next election. Tho coup-de-theatre style with which it was done, after much disgraceful higgling over it, tho cheers and huas, will deceive nobody that is not anxious to bo deceived. The expiring Congress was rotten with tho disease of hostility, to the grandest oharaoter left to

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this people. Beaten by the conqueror of the world, laid low by what appears to be a fatal disorder, the great commander’s condition mutely yet eloquently appealed to the sympathy of every honest man, without regard to partisan predilections. He who is grateful that we have a united country, grateful that the patriotism of the people is so strong that the slender plurality of 1,200 votes in millions was accepted with the same resignation to the laws that govern elections as though it had been a majority of half a million, ought to feel the profounder gratitude to the hero of Donelson, Vicksburg and Appomattox,. though he may have been with Buckner, with Pemberton, or with Lee. It we are glad to have the Union as it is, we must express our gladness in a patriotic and practical way to those who made these things possible. The Journal rejoices with the people that justice has at last been done to General Grant, though opposed in such a mean spirit during the prolonged attempt to secure it. We, as a people, may now once more look the world in the face, nor fear to go into history with the record made; but the disgrace of the prolonged inaction and hostility of the majority will ever remain a stigma upon tho Democratic party. . COMPELLED TO TELL THE TRUTH. After spending all its years and energies in fighting against the inevitable, the Indianapolis Sentinel of yesterday was compelled to pay the following editorial tribute to the Republican party and to its administration of national affairs; "A RED LETTER DAY. "Never since the day on which the independence of the United States was conceded by Great Britian, has there been another so abounding in hope and promise as this 4th day of March, of the year of our Lord 1885. The calendar emphasizes many days celebrating events pregnant with importance to the Nation. That on which emancipation of African slavery in America was proclaimed was a momentous one, but it wasjm tbe midst of a heartrending war. That which announced the termination of the war between the States sent a thrill of rejoicing throughout the Union, into every home within it; but the land wore a badge of mourning as wide as between the oceans, there were so many vacant chairs about tbe firesides of tho countiy, and so many newly-made graves, and so many broad bands of charcoal and ashes, that hope was in a pall. There was turmoil and chaos in politics; confusion and uncertainty in the commercial world. "But this is our Nation's perfect day. Her dogs of war, though long sleeping in their kennels, show no signs of waking. Upon the neighboring seas no falcons are flying, but only white-winged carrier doves of peaceful commerce. Military barrack, arsenal and rendezvous are offered for sale for the uses of peaceful industry or education. The fortress of twenty years ago lias been leveled, the trench filled, the stockade thrown down and the soldiery on either side in that strife haves i long been gathering at the same board, quaffing good cheer to one another—their fortunes been blended, their children intermarried. "Our Nation's perfect clay! The cloud of human slavery which made imperfect nearly all the days of the first century, has been rolled back from our horizon. The ants of naked savages of African wilds aro being led by the handmaidens of liberty and learning up to intelligent citizenship. Regardless of race, color or previous condition, all the SPtates of the South have enacted, what all the States of the North will soon enact, equal civil rights to their citizens. * * £ “Our Nation’s perfect day! We are at peace within our holders and with every nation of the earth. Our population was never so great, our civilization never so advanced, inter-com-munication never so convenient, education never so universal, liberty protected by law never so complete, commerce, manufactures and agriculture never so extensive, human charity never so abounding. There is not an inter-State issue to brew internal discord in the Republic. There is not a threatening cloud, even the size of a man’s hand, over our political sky. We see statesmen of the North and the South once more called together around the Cabinet table—a token that the asperities of war are removed. “* * * Our national star is again in the ascendant, and from to-day we expect to date a healthful growth of prosperity and contentment —a grander glory than the Nation has ever known.” The Democrats in the State Senate attempted a little bit of cheap buncombe, yesterday, by an expression of congratulation over tho advent of Cleveland and Hendricks to power. Senator Youobe suggested an amendment, that it was the wish of the Indiana Democracy that Joseph E. McDonald should be appointed a member of tho Cabinet; but the Democratic Senate would not agree to it. Mr. McDonald seems to have no friends left in hi3 party. In order to produce harmony among Indiana Democrats, Hendricks and "Col.” Hughes East have gone to take charge of affairs in the Senate. McDonald and his kind are at home nursing another black eye, given by the bullies of the party. A decent man stands a poor chance in that organization, and this fact is beginning to dawn on the minds of some who have long piped while the schemers have enjoyed the dancing. It will bo generally conceded that the roseate picture of the condition of the countiy painted by the Indianapolis Sentinel, after twenty-four years of Republican rule, is not overdrawn. At the end of Democratic rule the country was rent with civil war, eleven States in actual rebellion, the treasury bankrupt, the credit of the country gone, and distrust, doubt, dismay all over the land. Note the oontraat. The bill retiriug General Grant was tho one prepared by Senator Edmunds so as to avoid the point upon which the President vetoed the Fitz Johu Porter bill. The cheap device; of riding the conqueror of the rebellion through tbe rebel Democratic House on tho shoulders of Fitz John Porter, who did such good service to the Confederacy, was net resorted to. Mr. Hendricks Is not more greatly beloved by the mugwumps than at the beginning. The Brooklyn Union impudently advises him

to curb the feeling that he is a bigger man than Cleveland, and not to "commit the blunder, which more than one Vice-president has perpetrated, of devoting his energies to intrigues against his chief.” These insinuations that our Thomas is aught but a guileless and candid man who venerates his "chief” can but be distressing to Indiana citizens. The family of Mr. Charles F. Russell, of Paddington, England, has gone round the world seven times—that is, the heads of the family have, while the children, nine in number, have mado the circuit from one to seven times each. Fourteen years ago Mr. Russell was married, and he agreed to take his wife around the world when an heir was born to them. Their hopes were realized in due time, and they set out on tho journey. Before they got around, however, another babe was born, and Mr. Russell promised to make the trip for each child. Nine have now been added to the family, and seven trips completed, leaving Mrs. Russell two “laps” ahead. We shall soon hear of Mr. Russell making the journey alone, we soar. Mr. Whistler has sent to Edward Yates, now in prison for libel, a note as follows; "You shall not take this occasion to forget us altogether, so I, for one, knowing from tradition that others, distinguished under the same conditions of isolation, made for themselves pet companions, in their retirement, of plants and inferior animals —notably, in the case of Picciola, where even a spider was his chosen—send you a butterfly, that you shall cherish as an emblem of > ope and joy. Drive it not from you, my dear Edmund, for it brings my best wishes and loyalty. ” It was very considerate to send Mr. Yates a butterfly, but how much more practical it would have been to have sent him the "grub” instead. One who says he has seen Gen. Grant's receipts for hi3 pay received' for his military articles in the Century, declares that ho writes at the rate of SSOO per article. This was tho rate paid Gen. McClellan and Gen. Joseph E. Johnston for their articles on the peninsular campaign. It appears, then, that Gen. Grant would receive $2,000 for his articles on Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga and the Wilderness. The Second Adventists of New Hampshire have decided that scripture, as well as temporal events, point with great certainty to the 19th day of May next as the day of the Lord’s coming. To be prepared for an error in calculation, the farmers will put iu their crops just the same as usual. Miss Anne Hooper, a daughter of the consulgeneral of the United States at Paris, made her debut at Daly’s Theater, on Saturday evening, in the character of Lucy, in tbe .“Countiy Girl.” The young lady's mother is. Lucy Hooper, the well known newspaper correspondent. It has been the custom for twenty-four years for tho children of each successive President to witness their father’s installation into- office. History did not repeat itself yesterday. To tbe Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What is tho ace of General Grant? Delphi, March 2. Subscriber. He was born April 27, 1822. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Queen Victoria has ordered a number of Irish poplins for the Princess Beatrice’s trousseau. Lord Lytton’s “novel in verse," to be published soon, is to be entitled “Glen Avril; or, tho Metamorphosis.” David Dudley Field thinks that when Now York and Brooklyn aro incorporated into one city they should drop tho old names and become “Manhattan.” Photographs of Mr. S. S. Couant, the missing editor of Harper's Weekly, have been prepared for distribution to the police of all the large cities, and also to tho postmasters of towns and villages. A YOUNG ladies' institute in North Carolina is represented at the New Orleans exhibition by specimens of stocking darning and refooting, the work of the pupils. Young gentlemen who are looking for good wives should not overlook tho old North State. Anew and exceedingly important use for hydrochlorate of cocaine is reported to have beon discovered by one Dr. Fleischl, of Vienna. Administered hypodermically in doses of from ono-twelfth to one-fourth of a grain it is said to cure alcoholism and morphinism within ten days. Boswell has been accepted as evidence in a London court of law. Sir James Hannen rejected the suggestion that a man who never passed a post opposite his house without meeting it with hb finger was so eccentric as to be incapable of making a will, on the ground that Dr. Johnson used to do tho same sort of thing. Love rules a kingdom of contrasts. Heine, dreaming of angels, married a grisette. Frcytag turned from courts to a kitchen, and espoused his housekeeper. Bacon, master of philosophy, was joined to a woman who had a loud voice aud dressed like a chambermaid out on a holiday. What is more piteous than poor Keats pouring out all the typical luxuriance of his soul to Fanny Brawn. He is a poet, feminine commonplace. Idolatry on the one side, a mingling of curiosity and vanity on the other. An ait writer says: “There are two excellent ways of discovering any weakness in a picture you have iu hand. One is to look at it through a magnifying glass, which enlarges and makes its shortcomings more noticeable; the other to reverse it in a mirror. The latter is an old and ever popular method, for the eye becomes so accustomed to looking at a thing in one way that it ceases to be critical. The moment the picture is reversed it becomes a fresh picture, and in nine cases out of ton errors hitherto unnoticed reveal themselves." One of the strangest peoples with whom the missionary has to do are tho Falashas of Ethiopia. They are black Hebrews, about 200,000 in number, living west of Jordan, who have as their holy writings the Old Testament ia an Ethiopic version, and who still rigidly adhere to the Mosaic ceremonies and laws. They are the children of Hebrew immigrants, who, iu the time of the great dispersion, settled in Abyssinia aud married wives of that nation—something not strange, as the Ethiopians aro Semitic in nationality and language. The sculptor Story has written a letter saying that Nathaniel Hawthorne's statements concerning the Marquis Ossoli, Margaret Fuller’s husband, are “totally false." Says Mr. Story: “I knew Ossoli well. He was not a man of special ability, but he was a thorough gentleman, of old and distinguished family, a patriot who fought for his country's independence, and a most amiable, modest and high-minded man. His uncle was a monsignor of tho chuioh; his two brothers Guardis Nobile in the Pope’s sorvice. There is not a word to be said against any of them." It is almost an assured fact that Mr. Arthur has never contemplated resuming the practice of law, and that his future life will be one of ease and retirement, unless, indeed, he should re-enter tho political arena. From the White Ht-w&e Mr. Arthur goe to the residence of his friend and premier, Mr. Freliughuysen, thence he fortress Monroe, thence to his New York home, thence to Canada on a fishing tour, and thence piobably back to New York to spend next winter. Mr. Arthur is fond of Washington, but has not yet decided to make it his future winter residence, although there are many circumstances tempting him to such a decision. “With respect," cynically observes the London Truth, “to the senseless habit of buying new clothes in order to mourn for a decased relative, an Australian writes to s>ay that both in Australia and New Zealand tho announcement of deaths in the press aro often followed by the words, ‘By tho wish of tho do-

ceased, hi* relative* will not wear mourning. 1 I have always myself admired the sense of the Paonlans, a nation described by Herodotus. When aPaeonian died, his friends and relatives met together to feast, in order to celebrate his having been transferred to another and better world, and to oonsole themselves for losing him.” Professor Trastoe, of Nantes, employs the vapor of glycerine with great advantage when a cough becomes distressing or fatiguing. Fifty or sixty grammes are placed in a porcelain capsule and evaporated over a spirit lamp. An enormous amount of vapor is disengaged. In phthisis and various other affections much relief is gained in this way. When flowers have been carried a long distance in close boxes or cases they often appear withered and worthless, but with proper treatment they may be revived and restored to their original beauty. Instead of at once being put into vases and exposed to the hot, dry air of the parlor, they should be either spread out on wet flannel or moss, and covered with a dish-cover or an inverted box, or elso put in pans containing moss and water or wet sand, in which they can be set upright, and then shut up in the dark for a few hours. If they do not regain their freshness under this nursing, there is no hope for them; but in all ordinary cases their recovery is certain. CURRENT TRESS COMMENT. The great achievements of the Republican party will compose one of the brightest pages of history. It was a party with a great mission, which may not bo ended. It was the rival of Democracy, endeared to the people by long and historio connection with early struggles, strong in prestige and sustained by traditional sentiment.—Louisville Commercial. The first step to solve the silver problem is to abolish all unlawful discriminations, and enforce the law' as it is; and the next step is to make common cause with the bimetallic nntions of Europe, and conjoin our great influence with theirs by adopting the policy of provisionally suspending all further coinage in aid of international negotiations to extend and strengthen the foundations of the double standard.—Louisville Courier Journal. Thf. fact respecting this Cabinet that will be particularly criticised is the presence in it of two New Yorkers, Messrs. Manning and Whitney; and the question which will be most dwelt upon is the influence of this fact upon the politics of New York and upon the next State election. What will that influence be? Wiil it strengthen the Democracy in the contest of next fall or not? We think it will tend to strength, and not to weakness; and for this reason wo are disposed to approve it.—New York Sun. If Lord Beaconsfiold were alive he would come much nearer realizing the British idea of the man for the hour than Mr. Gladstone comes. In fact, if Lord Beaconsfield were alive Mr. Gladstone would not have had even the narrow majority by which he escaped ft vote of censure, a majority which he owed to the votes of those who, although they thought him censurable, did not belicvo that Salisbury would manage affairs any better. Fortunate as Mr. Gladstone is at present in his rivals, it seems incredible that he should successfully appeal to be made ruler over many things in Afghanistan upon the ground that he has been conspicuously unsuccessful in managing a few things in the Soudan.—New York Times. The burden of a war with Russia would certainly, under existing circumstances, fall upon India. It is doubtful whether a single regiment could be sent from Europe. Certainly none could be withdrawn from Egypt or Ireland. And if the Indian army is to furnish all the troops required, the defense of the Indian Empire will be so impaired as to increase greatly the danger of a native insurrection. Russia can place ten thousand meu on the Afghan frontier in a few weeks. More than half that number are said to bo already at or near Penjdeh. From there to Herat is five days’ march. As the case stauds, therefore. Russia seems to hold all the winning cards, and unless some popular uprising should forco the English government to take all the heavy risks of a declaration of war, the rational presumption is that the delimitation question will be settled peaceably.—New York Tribune. ItaTjY now occupies Massowah on the Red Sea, about three hundred miles southeast from Suakim, and has there a considerable fleo:. and a force of 3,000 soldieis, which Italy offers to increase to 10,000 or 12,000. England proposes that Italy shall act as the cat in pulling chestnuts out of the lire by pushing its force from Massowah to Khartoum or to Sennaar, some way south of it, to prevent the Mahdi from making aggression northwards. This might h ave the English forces comparatively undisturbed while laying rails and water-pipes and gas.pipes and telegraph wires from Suakim to Berbor. The generous inducement held out by England to Italy is a slice of 6uch Soudanese territory as Italy might succeed in sparing for herself. Meanwhile Italy professes to he occupying Massowah for the purpose of holding a convenient commercial port on the Red Sea.—New York World. __________________ COULDN’T CASH ltlS CHECKS. A Country Office-Seeker Files Application With the Treasury Cashior, by Mistake. Washington Special. An amusing episode occurred at the Treasury to-day. A long lino of checkbolders stood in front of the teller's window in the cashroom, as usual, each awaiting his turn at the cash box. Among these a slick-looking village gentleman appeared, passing in his paper at the steelwired grating as he got to the front “What is this?” asked the cashier. “I don’t understand this; it's not a check. You have given me the wrong paper, I presume.” “No; that’s all right This is the place, ain’t it” “For filing applications for office? No.” The cashier laughed and handed back the document “Why. I thought these fellers were filing their applications, and I just came in and saw 'em at it, and there was sioli a rush I thought I might as well file mine.” He was steered for tho appointment clerk’s office, amid the laughter of the clerks and tho customers. ——■ ' ■ General Grant’s Condition. New York World, Tuesday. Dr. Douglas weut to tho house earlier than usual and remained last evening until nenrlv midnight, which was two hours later than his usual time. Tho General dressed about noon and insisted upon sitting up in spite of his exhausted condition. He is now sixty-three years old, but thinks himself as well able to bear up as when ho was forty. It is difficult for his family to persuade him differently, and the result of his persistent work is greater* fatigue than he can recover from in a night’s rest For that reason he lies abed till nearly noon almost every day. Dr. Douglas cleansed the cancer in tho General's mouth twice yesterday, and at 10 o’clock in the evening applied the local anncsthetic cocaine which he uses to deaden the pain and allow of better rest at uisrht. The doctor said to a World reporter at midnight: “General Grant was better this evening. He ate tho usual amount of food in liquid form and said ho did not suffer much from pain. I cannot say whether ho was cheerful or not, because the General is a man who says very little, and it would bo almost impossible for anyone to tell what mood he was in. I have not prescribed as to whether ho should seo callers or not, but suppose his family use their own discretion in that regard.” The Dollar-a-Day Men. Indianapolis Nows. If the effort to force a special session of the Legislature is not for tho purpose of getting forty days more “per diem,” what is it for? It is as plain as a pikestaff that, as a mere moneymaking enterprise, it pays to be a legislator, and to that end refusals to discharge tho duties of the office aro resorted to. in tho hope of lengthening the time in which the salary will continue. We should like to see a law which would prohibit compensation for legislative service. Smallminded dollar-seekers and spoil mongers would then see no attraction in tho place. It Dawned Yesterday, Warsaw Tinn*. On Thursday of this week it will begin to dawn on the mind of Mr. Hendricks—if Ins bns any perception on the subject—just how small a figure ha is destined to cut in the Democratic administration. If Cleveland lives, and by so doing prevents the Vice-president, from stepping into his shoes, we venture the prediction that tho flattest, most insignificant, immaterial man in tho Democratic ranks will bo Thomas A. Hendricks. Tho Beggar on Horseback. Lafayette Courier, Indiana is to get nothing in the first great Democratic deal —tho Cabinet. And now we aro informed that tlio State does not enter iuto Grover's calculations at all. Tho unterrified of Indiana will thereforo bo cast into outer darkness. to weep and wail aifd gnash their teeth at the ingratitude of the beggar they have set on horseback. The Satno Way with McDonald. Toledo Commercial Te*ejtram. It seems to bo tho fate of General Durbin Ward to be always, held by the Democracy for an emergency—and then tho emergency never emerges.

JUSTICE TO GENERAL GBANT. Tho Edmonds Retiring Bill Passed Both Houses of Congress. President Arthur at Once Sends In His Nomination to the Retired List, and It Is Immediately Confirmed. SHARP AND QUICK WORK. Tho BUI Passed and Grant Nominated and Confirmed. Special to 111# Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March 4.—The graceful act of placing General Grant upon the retired list was • accomplished between 11 and 12 o'clock to day. Mr. Randall moved a suspension of tho rules and the passage of the bill. Messrs. McMillan, Stockslager and Matson opposed the proposition, but the sentiment of the House was too strong for Grant to admit of any opposition at this time, and the bill was passed on a yea and nay vote by 198 to 78. The bill was called up, discussed, and passed on a viva voce vote, tho roll was called, the bill engrossed, signed by the President, returned to the Senate, Grant nominated and confirmed —all within forty minutes from the time Mr. Randall made his motion. It was the quickest work on record, and Grant himself never acted more promptly. Os course the narrow-minded partisans were to tho fore until the last moment. Someone asked unanimous consent that the Speaker be allowed to telegraph Gen. Grant the action of the House. Mr. Cobb, of Indiana, objected. The House and galleries set up a prolonged hiss, and one Pennsylvania member even’ threatened personal violence. Mr. Cobb saw that he had made a big mistake, and withdrew his objection. The telegram was sent, and Gen. Grant is now on the retired list as a general in the armv. * THE BILL IN THE HOUSE. Mr. Randall Calls Up the Measure and Secures Its Passage. Washington, March 4— ln tho House, after civil bill had been disposed of, Mr. Randall asked unanimous consont to take from, the Speaker's table and pass tho Grant retirement bill. [Applause.] Mr. Bennett, of North Carolina, and Mr. Weller of lowa, objected. Mr. Randall then moved to suspend the rules and place tho bill on its passage, but the Speaker ruled tho motion was not in order pending a decision of the election case. Mr. Randall then endeavored to secure , hia point by moving to suspend tho rules and lay the election case on the table, but the Speaker decided this was equally out of order. Tho confusion and excitement in the chamber was intense. Dozens of members were on their feet demanding recognition, but above the babel of voices, rang out Mr. Randall’s voice appealing to Mr Bennett, of North Carolina, to withdraw the election case. Finally, when he could be heard, Mr. Bennett said that if tho House would consont to a vote on the Frederick- Wilson case, all objections to Mr. Randall’s motion would be withdrawn. This declaration was greeted by a storm of consents from the Republican side, and the confusion was so great that it required five minutes’ diligent work by the sergeant-at-arms before comparative order was restored. Then Mr. Wilson, of the lowa contested election case, rose, and, amid a storm of cheers on the Republican side, said that if tho House would put General Grant on tho retired list he was willing to be sacrificed. Mr. Miller, of Pennsylvania, who has been leading tho filibustering against the election case, said that, if the House would permit a vote on Mr. Randall’s motion, the opposition to tho election case would be withdrawn. This was greeted with shouts of objections from the Democratic side, and Mr. Randall, rushing down to tho space in front of the Clerk’s desk, cried out: “Don’t let anything stand in tho way—agree to anything.” v “Then.” said Mr. Miller. ’-‘in order that there may be no excuse, I withdraw and permit a vote on the proposition of the gentleman from North Carolina, and 1 ask the House to treat us fairly on both votes.” After another scene of confusion. Mr. Bennett demanded the previous question on tho resolution of the committee on elections, declaring Frederick entitled to the seat. The resolution was adopted without any opposition from the Republican side, and instantly upon Mr. Frederick taking the oath of office, Mr. Randall was on his feet with his motion to suspend tho rules and pass tho Senate bill for retirement of General Grant without specifically natping him. Mr. McMillin demanded a second, whilo shout3 of “shame!” “oh, don’t go back on your word,” and “that’s fair,” went up. Nearly every member wa3 on his feet, adding to the tumult, and prominent among them were Messrs. Cassidy and Robertson, of Keutucky, demanding fair play. Again did tho services of the Sergeant-at-arms and his maco become necessary to seat tho members, and then, a second having been considered as ordered, Messrs. McMullen, Stockslager and Matson briefly opposed tho bill as inaugurating a system, of civil pensions. Mr. Randall, who, under tho rules, was entitled to fifteen minutes’ debate, waived the right, and tho yeasand nays were immediately taken on the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bilk As tho namo of Mr. Frederick, the newlyseated member, was called, and, as he rose and voted in the affirmative, the friends of the bill treated him to a round of applause. The motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill was agreed to —yeas 198, nays 78. The announcement of the result was hailed with three cheers, and with long and continued applause. Mr. Bkinner asked unanimous consent that tho Speaker be authorized to send a telegraphic dispatch to General Grant announcing to him tho result of the vote. At first, objection was mado by Mr. Cobb, but it was subsequently withdrawn and the Speaker was authorized as stated. Mr. Randall was warmly congi’atulatcd on his success by a number of members on both sides of tho House. IN THE SENATE. Tho General Nominated and Confirmed In Open Session. Washington, March 4.—At 11:35 a message from the House announced tho passage of tho bill authorizing the President to place ono person on the retired list of the army. [Applause.] Tho bill was read at length. Mr. Ingalls then said: “Mr.* President, tho Nation knows who thaF person is. I ask unanimous consent that reference of this bill to a committee be waived, and that it be now considered by the Senate.” The presiding officer (Mr. Garland) stated tho b ; il was a Senate bill, and nothing further was necessary to make it a law except the propersignatures. [Applause.] Mr. Edmunds, resuming the chair, stated that lie had received a communication which would now bo read. lie handed it to Chief Clerk Johusou, "ho read as follows: “To the Honorable Gen. T. Edmunds, President pro tempore of tho United Stutv# Senate; “The accompanying communication, although an executive message, may be read iu open session. Chester A Arthur.” Applause followed the reading. The President pro tern, of tho Sor.ate —Manifestations of applause are not in order. The clerk read as follows: “To the Senato of the United States: I nominate Ulysses & Grant, formorly general oouv