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THE INDIANAPOLIS SUNDAY JOURNAL ENLARGED AND IMPROVED. Twelve Pages of Choice Reading for Five Cents. The Indianapolis SUNDAY JOURNAL, on March 1, was enlarged to TWELVE Pages, and te on sale in every town and city in the State. During the year it will contain new original Btories by the best English writers, including WILKIE COLLINS, WILLIAM BLACK, MISS BRADDON, RHODA BROUGHTON, “OUIDA,” THOMAS nARDY, JOSEPH HATTON And MRS. OLIPHANT. (Next Sunday, March 15, will bo printed the third and last installment of Ouida’s great story, “A Jtainy Juno’ ). Special Telegraphic Dispatches from Washinton, New York and all parts of Indiana and other States. The fullest news of the world by Western Associated Press. Special Literary and Miscellaneous Features. Original Articles of State and local interest. Its columns will be crowded with everything necessary to make A COMPLETE SUNDAY PAPER. The SUNDAY JOURNAL was started on the 24th of August last, and at once came to the front as the People’s Paper, on account of the excellence and variety of its contents, the completeness of its telegraphic reports, and the high character pervading its columns. The demand for the paper has been so steadily increasing that we have been compelled to enlarge its pages, and to make arrangements whereby it can hereafter be placed in every town and city of the State and surarounding territory. This at once doubled its already handsome circulation, and added to the value of it as an advertising medium. The SUNDAY JOURNAL will not be a cemetery of -dead matter, nor a repository for stupid stereotype •'‘plates.” Every line of it will bo new, fresh, and largely original matter. Read the Next Sunday Journal. •/

THE DAILY JOURNAL. r.Y JNO. C. NEW & SON. FRIDAY, MARCH .13, 1885. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at tba following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 •Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard dea Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vino Street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dealing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 6T. LOUTS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms.-..- 242 TUB SATURDAY JOURNAL, The Saturday edition Journal for March 14 will comprise twelve pages, and will contain the ■first patt of an original story called “Mrs. ThormlyUe’s Conscience,” By Edgar Fawcett, author of “An Ambitious Woman,” “A Gentleman of Leisure,” and other popular works. This is a story in two parts, the second part being printed on tho 21st inst. Besides this, there will be a number of original contributions, ono upon Margaret Fuller Ossoli, a woman whoso life and work liavo been called into renewed notice by reason of tho publication of Hawthorne’s severe judgment upon her character, and that of her husband. The high literary character of tho paper will bo fully maintained. The Saturday Journal has the largest circulation of any issue of the week, and is a favorite medium for advertising. '•What are we here fori" All is not quiet on the Potomac. There is Tnerry war there. No nominations yesterday. What does Mr. Cleveland mean? Georok li. Pendleton is tho Heidclborg Castle of tho Western World. TrtE suggestion is merely dropped now, to look out for the next Sunday Journal. There is a sound of loud lamentation carried on the sighing breezes from the Potomac. The Legislature costs at tho rato of about S6O an hour, day and night Adjournments are expensive. Indianapolis is going to make a record in tho way of public improvements this year, livery encouragement should be afforded. SIXTY dollars an hour; one dollar a minute, day and night—this is the cost of the Democratic special session of the Legislature. How do tho tax-payers like it! Election frauds will not bo so popular hereafter in Chicago. The righteous result of tho Mackin-Gallagher trial in the United States Court of that city will bo hailed with exceeding great joy by every friend of an honest suffrage. The passing ever cf Mr. Thuiman was natural enough; but how did it happen that an administration intent on civil-servico reform ahoulrt givo place to a friend of Boss Twcod tud slight Georgo H. Pendleton, the only

Democrat who has thus far evinced any real interest in civil-service reform? But for his unfortunate connection with this an-Demo-cratic idea Pendleton would be in the Senate to-day. For the first time we are now assailed with the cry that a majority reaching within two votes of a two-thirds in each house of the General Assembly are not responsible. The poor things are unable to do what they ought to because of wicked Republicans. It will take a month to play the Democratic overture, and then the performance in the ring will begin. Just wait a little before going into raptures over Mr. Cleveland’s excellence. It will require more than phlegmatic stolidity to make a good President. If the dispatches are carefully searched, it will be found that the Treasury Department is organized on a basis of strict civil-service roform. “Dan” Manning is at the head, and a tool of Gorman, chairman of the Democratic executive committee, is appointment clerk. President Barrios, of Guatemala, has bitten off more than he can masticate in his proposition for a Central American consolidation, with himself as chief. President Diaz begs to inform the ambitious Guatemalan that there are cases in which the tail cannot wag the dog. A DISPATCH from London says that the mental condition of Mr. Gladstone has been a matter of serious consideration, not only among hi& opponents, bu,t among his friends. The prophecy of his brother will recur: “William will ruin his Queen, and die in a mad-house.” Six ballots were taken in the Illinois Legis lature yesterday without definite result. General Logan reached 100 votes on one ballot, McMillan voting for him. Morrison received ninety-nine at the highest. A solution of the problem seems no nearer now than when the Legislature met. “Filitz,” the chronic drunkard, is a disgrace to the American stage; but this will not prevent managers from engaging him, nor fools in flocks from running after him. His teeth and his yard-wide smile make up the sum total of the abilities out of which he has coined a fortune. Tiif. Senate having deliberately thrown away two days, the House now takes it3 turn and adjourns until Monday. This means a loss to the State of about $.‘1,000. It takes not much less than $1,500 a day to run the Legislature. It should not be forgotten that the Legislature is Democratic.

The cost of tho special session of the Legislature will not be far from $1,500 a day. No work is being done now, to amount to anything, but tlio expense goes on. Tho taxpayers of the State can charge up every night $1,500 more to the debt side of their account with tho Democratic party. The Century publishers have confined all replies to Mr. Cable’s recent article on the negro to one representative Southerner, and have chosen editor Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution, to make that reply. Mr. Cable, who lately called upon Mr. Grady, says he will prepare an additional paper on the same subject when tho answer to the first has appeared. It is published that Jay Gould once gave W. C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy, $150,000 for a bit of information which, being withheld by Whituey for a proper time, enabled Gould to swindle a lot of innocent people and make much money lor himself. Mr. Whitnev is another “reformer” in Mr. •* Cleveland’s Cabinet. Lie is a fit companion to “Dan” Manning. A Baltimore paper which has interviewed Mr. John McLean, of Ohio, makes the statement that the young editor of the Enquirer does not desire a foreign mission, but that he “does mean to be elected United States senator to fill the next vacancy, which will be when Sherman’s term expires." It is distressing to see such careless misuse of language. The ambitious John may wish to succeed Senator Sherman, but every man in tho country —himself, perhaps, excepted—knows that he can never fill his place; a great vacancy will still remain when Mr. McLean gets there. General Rosecrans, who disgusted the people of San Francisco by what they very properly term his blackguardly speech on the Grant bill, has further aroused their indignation by his active opposition to their city postoffice bill. The postoffice is now in a tumbledown old church, which is a disgrace to the government, but though urged by his constituents to work for the passage of the bill to provide anew building, Rosecrans delayed it by every means in bis power.and voted against the measure when it tamo up. “It was," says the Post, “the spiteful act of a small, narrow-minded man, to get a |>etty revenge upon the people of this city for refusing to return him to Congress and reindorse his imbecility." A NEW terror was added to death when the fashion came in of publishing in the daily papers alleged portraits of distinguished and deceased citizens, but those whose memories were likely to suffer in that way put the dread aside, along with other unpleasant thoughts. Now that the evil has become so widespread that it is likely to strike the most harmless and most inoffensive member of society while ho is yet alive, people are beginning to question whether they have any rights which newspapers are bound to respect. The atrocious

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cuts which the illustrated dailies attempt to palm off on the community as likenesses of prominent persons need only to be exhibited to the least artistic of juries to be voted libelous in the highest degree. Ohly when individuals outraged in this manner boldly resolve to seek redress will the evil abate, and innocent citizens breathe freely once more. DEMOCRACY AND THE NEGRO. The Democratic party, through its orators and its press, has long presumed to censure the Republican party because it has not done more for the negro, the allegiance of the colored vote having been given unswervingly to the latter organization. It does not appear that the negro vote cut any figure in the last campaign, Democratic violence and intimidation having driven it out of existence. The negro vote would undoubtedly be with the Republican party, in free elections, but, as it is, it has no voice in public affairs, and only goes to swell the Democratic electoral vote and representative power, in direct opposition to the sentiment and interests of the colored population of the country. The Republican party feels that it has done somewhat for the negro. Briefly, it found him in Democratic slavery, without social or political rights. It drew him up out of slavery, and gave him every opportunity in the world, and his only enemy, since his emancipation and enfranchisement, has been the Democratic party. But now what will the Democratic party do for the negro? Since credit is not to be given to tho Republican party for allowing the South increased representation on account of the colored vote, it must be given somebody besides the Democratic party. By means of this increased vote in tho electoral college the country has to-day a Democratic administration, a thing that could not have been achieved except by the means indicated. The credit withheld from the Republican party must be given the negro, for not voting bis sentiments and insisting that the vote should bo honestly counted. The Democratic party - owes to the negro its accession to power. Either this, or it owes it to the murderers and assassins that for years have killed men for voting the Republican ticket. What is the Democratic party going to do for the colored voter? What positions of honor and trust are to be given to him? With 100,000 places to distribute, how many are to pass to the hands of tho negro? Can that party so far overcome its greed, its selfishness, its prejudice, its brutality and its murderous hatred of tho negro to give him anything like what he deserves? It is hardly possible, and few are foolish enough to expeot it.

A WORD TO “US.” “ ‘The Journal claims to bo tho party organ,’ said one of them to the News reporter, ‘but it hasn't given us any support this sessiwr*. and has frequently Liken occasiou to criticise what we do, and in fact has gone so far a3 to intimate that the Republicans and not the Democrats are responsible for the special session. If they don’t let up over at that office, they will hear somet) ing drop when Mr. McMullen’s bill to abolisn the insurance steal comes up, for we are liable to unite with some of tho Democrats and push it through. There are more ways than one of getting even with newspapers.’ " We find the above in the News of last night. It is possibly not worth notice; but we will dignify it enough to say, in the first place, that the Journal never claimed to he the “organ" of the Republican party. On tho contrary, it has time and again disclaimed “organship," and if this member of tho Legislature knew enough to represent an intelligent constituency, he would know that The Journal is a Republican paper, committed to the advocacy and the defense of Republican principles; but it is not a party “organ." It has seen in the past, as it doubtless will see in the future, the necessity to criticise, with kindness and fairness we trust, but with perfect frankness, some things that may be done through the agency of those who, for the time being, officially represent the party. So far as we know, the Republican party ha3 never made any newspaper its “organ;" it certainly never did so with the Indianapolis Journal, and we should respectfully decline tho duty were it sought to be imposed upon us. We are not able to understand wbat is meant, by the Journal not giving “us any support," during the legislative session. We are not conscious of conspicuous failure to defend the Republican party where defense was needful and proper, nor to expose the infamies and outrages perpetrated by the Democratic majority, including the one of forcing upon the people and tax payers the expense of an entirely unnecessary special session. We are left to imagine that there is someone, possibly—for surely there cannot bo more than one Republican member of the Legislature to father this interview—who may feel that the Journal’s columns have not as fully “supported” him as an inflamed sense of his importance suggests as his due. This may be the case; if it is we are sorry, but it cannot be helped. The Journal is printed for quite a large constituency, and not for the personal satisfaction of any one individual. So far as the remark about “hearing something drop” in tho Journal office is concerned, it would bo unbecoming to say a word, other than to observe that tho threat, if that be its purport, is too supremely silly to be worth notice. It only shows that there is one Republican in the Legislature—presuming the statement to be true upon which the paragraph is based —of small enough soul and weak enough head to take his place with Dave Gooding as an awful example of legislative possibilities. It might be well enough to say, however, tlmt the “insurance steal," so called, was found

on the statute books -when the present proprietors assumed*charge of the Journal, and, under the terms of the law, the Auditor of State has been compelled to publish the statements in this paper as one having the “largest general circulation.” If the Legislature at any time, in the discharge of its duty to the people of Indiana, thinks it will better subserve their interests to order the insurance statements published elsewhere, they are perfectly welcome to use their own pleasure. But neither the insurance advertising, nor any other, can be used as a threat or a bribe to silence or influenco the Journal in its editorial conduct. The Charleston News and Courier has come to the sad conclusion that the fact that an office-holder voted the Republican ticket at the last election will not he accepted by the new administration as proof that he is a rascal, “strong as the presumption is admitted to be in the case of an office-holder in such a State as South Carolina. ” The News, therefore, urges upon those of its readers who desire federal officers to be removed to prepare a bill of particulars, certificates of bad character, so to speak, and place them where they will do the most good. This extra trouble and delay entailed upon the hungry and thirsty when they expected to enter into their * reward at once, is harrowing to their souls; but there can be no doubt that they will enter into the work with vigor. If a Republican escapes with a shred of character to his back he may consider himself lucky. The Cleveland Herald has gone out of existence. There never was a timo when the law of the survival of the fittest was doing its deadly work among newspapers with greater certainty than the present. The newspaper field is overstocked and overworked, and the competition is sharp. Crape will be upon the knobs of many alleged newspapers before tho year closes. When the sifting has gone on until only the best are left, it will be infinitely better for the reading and business public, which is now imposed upon and pestered with all manner of cheap imitations of a newspaper. Unless most carefully handled, tho English language is very ambiguous. Tho Macon (Ga.) Telegraph tells of a watermelon seed that was “found in the inside of the handle of a knife carried by a man at tho time of his death, twentyeight years ago.” There is nothing very strange in that, for the seed may hare slipped into the knife only last week. It would have been interesting had a watermelon been found in the handle, with a vine several feet in length running along the blade. In the same careless way the Waterbary, (Conn.) Republican tells of a dog that “ran a fox into a tree twenty feet high.” A fox could probably run into a tree forty or even one hundred feet high. From the context it appears that the fox ran up the tree to a heighth of twenty feet, a performance quite surprising. These are Instances clipped from one paper, so that it does not appear so .absurd that a man should inadvertently advertise for sale “a piano belonging to a widow with carved logs.”

In a picture of a logging-camp recently published in Harper's Weekly, a single span of horses is represented as drawing a sled loaded with fifteen large logs. This was criticised bylumbermen as very inaccurate and impossible of performance. The criticisms having come to the ears of the artist, he publishes an outline engraving made from a photograph of just such a load. In return, the lumbermen point out that loads of this kind are only drawn upon smooth ice roads, which are very different from the rough sled tracks about the camp which he attempts to represent. The critics maintain that his picture is still open to the charge of inaccuracy, and have doubtlosss convinced the artist that considerable study is necessary in order to portray correctly the simplest scene. A female medical practitioner in Philadelphia, when charged with gulling the public by falsely professing to be a qualified doctor of medicine, swore in court that the “M. D.” following her name on the swinging tin sign and on her business cards, meant “money down" and nothing more. “It did not make any difference what people believed," said the woman, “nor am I responsible for the conclusions of the populace.” The populace, which secretly believes that a physician’s motto is “your money or your life," will probably feel no surprise at the disclosure of the real meaning of the cabalistic letters. A New York exchange contains an elaborate editorial plea for a more rational system of family government than that of force, and boldly advances the proposition that no human being has the right to control any other by the arbitrary exercise of will. As in nine American households out of ten the children “rulo the roost,” the article must be meant as an appeal for liberty to the old folks. Still, thcro are indications that children aro referred to as the oppressed beings, in which view of the c&so tho writer must be regarded by tho readers as a Rip Van Winkle or a newly-arrived foreigner. A Washington gossiper says tho general ver diet in regard to Miss Cleveland is favorable, ex cept as to her short hair. This offense against fashion and time-honored customs the women of tho capital will not forgive, which goes to show that the influence of St. Paul’s precepts is greater in some directions than these of his Muster _ A lady from Northern Massachusetts writes: “We have very much enjoyed the weekly arrival of your paper since Dec. 25, and can heart ily recommend it as a very enjoyable Christmas present, to others. I much prefer the Indianapolis Journal to any l have had for somo years." A wealthy New York farmor loaded his beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter down with diamonds, a gold watch, chaiu, rings, etc., and then expressed surprise that sho was waylaid and robbed by tramps on tho way homo from school. Mrs. Brown, tho woman who is discovered to be the only living heir of an English estate valued at forty millions, lives at Bagdad, N. Y. This circumstance gives an additional Arabian Nights flavor to tho tale. _ One of tho most Import.*! l *- as well as careless defaulters, is Egbort M. Carver, president of the DeSoto, Mo., bnnk. Seven years aero he stole some $30,000 at Oneonta, N. Y., where he was the cashier of a bank. He thou disappeared. Two years later he started a batik at Hicksvillo,

0. Traced there, he went to Garrott, Ind., whence he again fled to De Soto. At this latter place he was apprehonded, after running a bank two years, and marrying a handsome lady of tho place. Tho authorities do not seem to have wanted him badly. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal* When a national bank fails, by whom are its circulating bank bills redeemed? b. f. 8. MajeNlCa, Ind. The government requires United Statos’ bonds to be deposited at Washington as security for tho bills issued by national banks, so that when a national bank fails, the bills are redeemed by the government. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Professor Bain say® that “tho possession of a spot of land is the most powerful of all known motives to industry.” While elephant hunting recently in tlio Garrow Hills, in Bengal, Lords Arthur and Henry Grosvenor captured eighty-five elephants in threo drives. Mmk. iIODJESKA has taken a quaint little cottage on the coast of Cornwall, England, and means to live there until she comes to America in September. Flower weddings are to be all the rage in London this spring. They are termed thus because the bridesmaids at each wedding will be dressed to represent some spring flower. The late “Orion” Horne once said, in talking of novels: “I think ‘Withering Heights’ the greatest novel ever written, ‘Romola’ tho most beautiful, and ‘Vanity Fair' tho cleverest." Artists are now painting on common sack-cloth, with colors thinned with turpentine, mellow and pleasing imitations of old tapestry. Some of the mock Gobelin is very cleverly executed. A curious incident will happen in the Seig family, of Americus, lira., the 15th of this month. There will be three persons of the same family have birthdays on the same day. Mr. Seig will bo forty, his father eighty, and his daughter one year old. President Cleveland, it is said, is not pleased with tho way his church attendance has been made the basis for a fashionable boom, and he may yet decide to go to the unfashionable Presbyterian church of I>r. Wyucoop, in West Washington, or to hear Dr. Chester, on Capitol Hill. TiiKIR untrustworthy source would throw serious suspicion upon tho reports of Mr. Gladstone's eccentricities, such as buying hats by tho hundrol. etc., were it not for the fact that for a month or two back the question of his sanity or insanity has been seriously and anxiously discussed by his friends as well as his enemies, though for obvious reasons as little publicity as possible has been given t,q it. The Duchess of Norfolk claims the possession of the finest rubies in the United Kingdom. Any woman of reasonable means may wear diamonds, but only an imperial wealth ever permits her to number rubies among her jewels. The Duchess of Norfolk would undoubtedly givoall these priceless gems to obtain sight for her little son. whose future is shrouded iu mental as well as in physical darkness; but the oldest and richest dukedom in England cannot buy health for its sole heir.

Dr. William A. Rudimck, who died recently in Pennsylvania, had during the last years of his life been made miserable by the delusion that thirteen women were after him with matrimonial intentions. One of them, he said, wanted him to marry her and feed her on peacock's brains and diamonds. The Doctor once thought of purchasing a large farm and stocking it with his baker's dozen of admirers. One of his latest vegarics was to put on his clothes in an eccentric fashion, sticking his arms in the logs of his trousers, and wearing his socks on his hands. Nryeu boforo had a Bishop of London’s wife such an array of noble relatives as has Mrs. Temple. The story troes that at her wedding, after tho Bishop had been hobnobbing amid a very cluster of strawberry leaves, someone came forward ar.d said: “Bishop, I don't think you've been introduced to your now cousin, the Duke of “What,” quoth Dr. Temple, iu amazement, as ho was being conveyed away, “more dukes!” Mrs. Temple is niece to the Duke of Devonshire, first cousin to the Duke of Sutherland, and first cousin by marriage to the Duke of Leinster and Argyll. One of the tricks of a French prestidigitateur is a surprising illusion. A wedding-ring borrowed from a lady is hammered into a bar by some volunteer assistant among tho audience. The conjuror borrows a programme, rolls it Into a cornucopia-shaped receptacle for the ring, and without the use of the left hand crumples the pa]>er into a ball, which the volunteer holds tight, in full view of tho uudbr.ee. When he is directed to open it he tinds that the crumpled ball of paper consists of live sealed envelopes, one within the other, ami with the perfect wedding-ring in the smallest and innermost. The approaching visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Ireland calls to mind the fuel that royal visits to that island have been more frequent during the reign of Victoria than for a long time, if not over before. The Queen's first visit was in August, 18-10, when with tho Prince Consort and their children she he'd court at Dublin and made a tour of the country. She went again in August, 1850, to attend tho Dublin Exposition, and again iu August, ISGI. The Prince of Wales has already visited Ireland, in 1801, in 1865. when ho opened the Dublin Exposition, in 1808, when he was made a Knight of St. Patrick, and in 1871, whon ho o]>ened the Royal Agricultural Exhibition. Other members of the Queen's family have visited Ireland on various occasions. A DEACON in a Pennsylvania town holds the opin - ion that certain young men and maidens of his church do not attend prayer-meetings for tho glory of God, but for the love of each other. They do their courting, he thinks, while the services arc in progress, and, though they sing and even lead in prayer with great vigor they arc animated more by profane than holy motives. In fact, ho objects to their singing as too loud undvr the circumstances, and as calculated to disturb those devout souls who are accustomed to drone through hymn and prayer. Therefore, as the young people will not be saved according to the manner whioh tho deacon thinks proper, he has resolved to snatch them, not'only out of the burning, but out of the church, and to that end ho has procured their arrest on a charge of disorderly conduct. An Indian explorer, known as the Pundit A— K—, iu the employ of the Indian Survey, has just returned from four years' journey iiigs in Thibet, during which he spent a year in Lhasa, the capital of Thibet, and the Romo of Buddhism. Before this traveler, only four Europeans in this contury have visited Lhasa. Hue and Gabel, tho French missionaries, were driven from tho city forty years ago, after living thcro a few months. Moorcroft was killed after he left the city, and another traveler was permitted to remain there only a few days. lie says tho city is orowded with temples, and lias its Vatican in the monastery at Fotola, where the Dalai Lama lives, who is regarded as the incarnation of Buddha. This huilding is surmounted by five gilded cupolas, which when sparkling in the sunlight present a dazzling spectacle. It contains numerous images, one of which is seventy feet high. During the festivals iu the middle of February the Thibetans gathered to Lhasa from all ovor tho country, to pay homage, to all the gods and goddesses who are supposed to be present. These ceremonies last about a month, at the end of which all the citizen*, are considered to Lave become purified for another year. Apropos of the foreigners now in the ranks of El Mahdi, the Gazette do Franco relates the following anecdoto of the Greek war of independence: "An officer wearing the Creek uniform was capturad and led into the presence of the Turkish general, who was decked in the most picturesque trappings, and who stiffened up and scowled in a most threatening manner at the prisoner's approach. “My time has come,” thought the Greek in his own mind. ' But," he mueu, “isn’t- that face sort of familiar to me! It seems to mo I saw it before." With a commanding gesture, the victorious general waved attendants back, as he ordered thorn iu Turkish to withdraw*? 4 *!' a moment. The order is obeyed. The son of tho prouchos the Greek, looks him iu the eye and remarks iu French; "gay, Usbassier, don’t you know yon ewo

me ten francs? 1 ' Tho Turkish and Greek officers wore formerly two officers in the French army, who, having been put on half pay after the fall of Napoleon, enlisted on opposite sides in tho Graeco-Turkish war. One of them borrowed ten francs from the other Oil the retreat from Russia, and they didn’t meet till their rencontre in the Greek campaign. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. That such a man was not guarded, as he would nave been in other countries, against hardship and trial in his latter years, mast continue an unspeakable regret; but the fault, rests with the politicians and not the people. Through all changes and vexations the old commander has retained his hold on the affections of the people, and they learned with a thrill of joy that ti e long-delayed tribute of justice and gratitude wasat lastofferedto General Grant. That it may strengthen and sustain him in his days of trial will be their most earnest hope.—Chicago Tribune. , 1 idea that Grant's disease of the throat, super* induced, as it was. by excessive smoking, will lead to suy diminution in the nsc of tobacco, is absurd. Mon do not relinquish a habit because it has been shown to be detrimental to health. In fact, the cases where a habit firmly contracted has been abandoned are extremely few. which is one of the best argument* against tho formation of new lmbits. Tho man who can get along without whisky or tobacco is a fool to drink or smoke merely because bo thinks he is making himself a more social creature bv doing so.—t>an Francisco Chronicle. IHR campaign in the Soudan is over for the next five months. The Mahdi. whose hordes are well accustomed to the hardships incidental to tire solstice in ohe deserts of Upper Egypt, may force the fighting, but the British certainly will not assume tho aggrossive. As Lord \\ olseley would probably put. the case, the English troops will maintain a dignified at tit ml® of defensive reserve. In tho next place, ttio independent correspondents will, on their return to Eugland, dish up a good deal of gossip that could not l>* retailed from the Soudan, and they will, no doubt, make tho most of their impressions.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The courage, calmness and impartial 'spirit with which Governor l’ieree has withstood the Legislature in this affair mustcommeud itself to the good sense of the people of the Territory. President Cleveland should not act hastily in selecting his successor. Ho could not better commend himself to the people of lit* Northwest than by the retention ami reappointment of Gilbort A. Pierce as Governor of Dakota. Threofourths of the people of tho Territory are liepublicans. and the civil service reformer now aV the national helm could in no wise better exemplify his doctrines than by keeping in office so unusually good a territorial executive as Colonel Pierce.—Minneapolis Tribune. The country is greater and stronger than any party. The election of Mr. Cleveland proved that. if President Cleveland does that which is right, without fear or favor, he need not fear the loot hunters' r age. Lot him accept that which was intended as a title of dishonor that of “tho Republican-Democratic" President, and make it one of honor by making his administration one free fr< m all partisan subserviency and expediency—an administration of usefulness and helpfulness to the whole people. If the Democrats do not want an honest President the people do. It was rat,her difficult for them to get into power: ii will be easy to turn them out if their policy is to be busouupou broken pledges.—Philadelphia Telegraph. NEITHER of the two groat powers involved is desirous of war. and neither is in good shape for waging a contest. Russia is burdened with Nihilism and general dissatisfaction, and England has no army which she can put in the field, at least for months. England rarely dues all she says she will in tho matter of war-making; much of what is being said is talk, bluster, and is intended to have its effect at St. Petersburg. 'There may be some blows exchanged between the Russian and Afghan outposts, but this will be settled l>y tho exc-hai-ge of a few diplomatic notes. In flue, the reasons for thinking there will be no war axo to he found in the weighty fact that neither of tho contestants can allord it at tho present time.—Chicago Times.

When Hi© cat’s away the mice will play. Jay Gould has gone pleasuring on his yacht and the employes on his Western roads have gone ou a strike. Jay Gould has not confined his recent attentions altogether to stock-watering. As business has fallen off he has been watering wages as well. The lat ter operation has not proved as profitable as the former, and the trouble among the Missouri Pacific employes threatens to assume alarming proportions. The men have tr.nde a “corner" on the road not contemplated by the wily manipulator when he started for the Antilles. It is said Mr. Gould is going to Missouri. This is good. If he is on tho spot ho may learn the wisdom of treating the demands of the strikers, so far as they are just, with respect.—New Vork World. Where there are classes, in the trite sense of tha word, that is, where certain sections of the community are secured by the accident of birth in the possession of the good things of the eat th from which the rest of the community is by the same aocident excluded, Socialism, if not a logical or justifiabl-*, is an intelligible uttempl to rortove the inequality. But where no artificial inequality exists tho methods proposed by Socialists for its removal ar* not only inapplicable but unmeaning. The adult European Radical, who emigrates to this country, will continue to talk Socialism from force of habit, but his children will cease to talk it, and his nonsense will be quite harmless unless it is made 'mischievous by being taken seriously.—New York Times. There is not a thoroughgoing machine politician anywhere in the country, if Mr. Manning is not one. There is not a man anywhere in the country who could be expected to uso tho patronage of the Treasury Department with perfect shamelessness for the promotion of partisan ends, and particularly for tha personal interest of his chief, if Mr. Manning could not. When lie was selected bv President Cleveland for Secretary of the Treasury, the announcement was equivalent to a declaration that-civil service reform, under the new administration, was to be a cheat and a fraud, from beginning to end—that the people were to be deceived if possible with shallow pretenses, while the whole power of the administration was to be used without scruple for partisan and personal ends.—Now York Tribune. Secretary Bayard must act. promptly dr Barrios, of Guatemala, will take possession "i the three other Central American states, and subject them to a despotic rule which will not be easily shaken off. Such a corrupt and unscrupulous tyrant as Barrios should be met at once and confined to lus own territory. Tho United Btat.es cannot stand still a momeut and see the autonomy of Nicaragua destroyed. Tho vessels of our North Atlantic and Pacific squadrons should immediately be concentrated at the Isthmus, on both sitfcs.with orders to prevent revolution or any change of government in any one of the Central American states. A quick movement now w>ll save much expense and difficulty hereafter. This pew administration has a splendid opportunity to display it* energy and courage. President Cleveland, Secretary Bayard, let us hear from you.—New York World. Mr. Bynum Too i'reah. Washington Critic. Representative Bynum, of the Indianapolis district, seems to have ripened into a bigger man than Hendricks fast. From time immemorial and by courtesy. Presidents, Vice-presidents, and senators (of the party in power especially) have named the postmasters at their homes. They will continue to do it in the future in spite, of Bynum. A Little Consolation. Monticcllo Herald. The great effort of tho Democrats in flic Legislature to devise a scheme for keeping Democrats in office made it necessary for the Governor to call a special session. It is consoling to knot? that there will not be two special sessions. The People Pool tlie Hills. Huntington Herald. Tho extra session has been called for tho purpose of allowing the six-dollars a day men to feed on "pap.” and they are now supremely happy. The people foot tho bills. The Legislative Highwaymen. Colon City Kagl©. Political servitude is too galling to be endured by a free people. Jtwill not be long until tho highwaymen in tho Democratic Legislature rcalizo this fact. They Want the .Six Dollars a Day. Muncio New*. The Legislature has secured anew lease of life. Why do they not go to work, get through tho business as soon as possible, aid cut off expenses? _ Now Wo Seo It. Martinsville Republican. The hypocrisy of the protended reform Legislature has been made evident. Those who sa* through a glass darkly now see face to face to face. The Special Session. Delphi Journal. A forty thousand Democratic reform job. I’lif State debt will soon reach into vho iniiiiena Turn tho rascals out, and open tho books. It Is Unanimous* Corydon Republican. The people ought to unanimously petition the members of the Legislature to resign and com# home for tho public good. Why This i’artlculurixaiiuut Union City Ettglo. pf all the nsso3 found in the robber Legislature, Gooding, Haucock, is tho most asinine