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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 440 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St Nicholas and Windsor Hotel*. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 It is said that the Afghans are disgusted •with England’s action. The Afghans are very unreasonable. England hasn’t done anything. The Commercial is again stirring up the Louisville gamblers. The Commercial scattered them once, and evidently intends to do 80 again. * A MAN with two pairs of ears has lately been seen in the streets of San Francisco. If he was waiting to hear himself called to the Chinese mission the echo from Indiana must have been deafening. Since the Agricultural Bureau has taken to •ating locusts, its usefulness need no longer be doubted. If it will only agree to dispose of potato-bugs in the same manner, farmers will rise up and call it blessed.

Though it lias not been so announced, it is supposed, on the principle that birds of a feather, etc., that Mr. Joe Mackiri, of Chicago, who is spending a few days in Washington, is visiting his political affinity, Mr. “Gene*' Higgins. Postmaster-general Vilas has appointed his uncle, Mr. Noyes, of Vermont, to be chief of the division of supplies in the postoffice, but the Democrats who had so much to to say about Republican nepotism are making no noise about it. Democratic organs are endeavoring to show that Dr. J. Ernest Meiere, the recentlyappointed consul to Nagasaki, is not so black as he has been painted, by denying that his wife is divorced from him. The lady's suit for divorce is still pending. The statement made in connection with the killing of officers Gardner and Cox, at Jasper, Ind., that nothing has been . done by the authorities and “the officers remain inactive, simply because no reward has been offered," is proof enough that such officers should at once be compelled to resign or be ousted. The collector of internal revenue for New Hampshire recently sent in his resignation, stating that he was a red-hot Blaine man, and could never become a Democrat. He thought that to the victor belong the spoils. The President evidently thought the same way, and proceeded to give that modicum of the spoils to a Democrat. It, according to Senator McDonald, there ftre only two parties in Indiana, the Republican and Democratic, and all the members of each are offensive partisans, who are to have the offices? Not the mugwumps, certainly; for, excepting the two or three who already hold office, they are not out of school, and their mothers cannot spare them.

There appears to be a falling off of over $13,500,000 in customs receipts for the eleven months of the current fiscal year, and over $8,500,000 in internal revenue receipts, while the expenses of government have increased by $18,000,000. Some people think that customs should be done away with altogether—that the true theory of government in this respect is free trade. Mr. Joseph Mackin, of Chicago, who is making a brief visit to Philadelphia and Washington, assures a reporter of the latter city that he “will not do anything particularly" while there. Friends of reform and honest politics owe Mr. Mackin a vote of thanks for this virtuous refusal to tamper with the administration. It will be remembered that Mr. Mackin is out of the penitentiary by the grace simply of Judge Gresham. He has been convicted and sentenced. . In an article published in the Journal of Nov. 3, 1882, relating to the candidacy of ■John M. McGee for clerk of Monroe county, Ind., written by Private Dakell, and used by J£r. MgGee’s political opponents to defeat him,

ho was charged with resisting the draft in Ohio, in 1863, and mobbing and attempting to kill a Republican editor, etc. Mr. McGee at once instituted a libel suit in the Marion Civil Circuit Court against the proprietors of this paper, Wm. F. Browning and D. W. Browning, the latter being McGee’s opponent. Upon investigation we have been convinced that the charges made in this article were entirely untrae. In behalf of the defendants in the above suit, wo therefore desire to frankly vindicate Mr. McGee in this matter. The article was published by the Journal under explicit assurance of its truth, but we are now convinced of its entire falsity.

THE “OFFENSIVE PARTISAN” FARCE. The Democratic press is making great pretense of believing that Republicans are greatly distressed over the manner in which Republicans have been turned out to make room for Democrats. The Louisville Courier-Journal, a representative Democratic paper, says that “while such is nothing more than they could expect from a Democratic President, they can not refrain from crying out in their wrath, and it seems that all they can cry is that the administration is stultifying its promises of civil-service reform by turning Republican 'offensive partisans' out and filling their places with Democratic‘offensive partisans.’” This is exactly what the Republicans do complain of. During and even after the campaign, and at the time of the inauguration, Mr. Cleveland and his champions, notably the mugwumps, claimed that his campaign was not for the spoils of office, but for the betterment of the civil-service. The public was given to understand that the millennium of politics had been reached, and that, with the beginning of President Cleveland’s administration, the country would witness such an exaltation of merit as had never been known. Men who had been honest and efficient in the public service were to be retained, and only such discharged as had failed in their duties as officials. Public affairs were to go back to the arcadian simplicity of the fathers. The phlegmatic Cleveland had been shrewd enough, however, to put in a modest proviso, and it is the wonderful and erratic working of this proviso, in utter defiance of every pledge and profession, that has caused Republicans to call attention to it. Republicans were not simple enough to expect anything else. When the ballots were finally canvassed in New York State, in November last, there was not a Republican in any federal office anywhere but did not know that he would have to “go.” The specious promises of “reform” deceived nobody, not even Democrats. Immediately succeeding and even prior to the inauguration of Democracy’s great “reform” President, Washington was thronged with hundreds and thousands of very importunate Democrats. From the 4th of March to to-day, the situation there has remained practically unchanged, as the news columns of the Courier-Journal testify. A special Washington dispatch to that paper, published yesterday, says; “There is no talk here now about tariff, or anything else much but office. Wherever you go you will meet a man who wants an office, either for himself or friends. There are men here at present seeking for office that came soon after the inauguration, and they publicly declare here that they intend to remain until they get a place.”

Not one of all these hundreds of representative Democrats believes in the professions mad:j by and in behalf of Democracy. The same dispatch says that the rush for diplomatic places is wonderful, and that New York alone has 783 applicants, Pennsylvania 641, Ohio 479, Indiana 384, and far-awa\ Jalifornia 376. All these men are representative Democrats, and not one but is indorsed by Democratic senators and congressmen, the latter with the former placing no confidence in the reform pledge signed and promulgated for effect. The farce is rapidly playing to an end. It has been spit upon repeatedly by the President himself. The only pretense of retaining a Republican official under the new order of things was in the case of Postmaster Pearson, of New York, the retention of whom was but the payment of a partisan obligation to as inconsistent a body of renegades as ever disgraced American politics. They understand, and the President understands, that Pearson was the mugwumps’ portion of the spoils of victory. It is puerile and idle to plead superior virtue in the business of filling offices and to remove men because “offensive partisans, * only to supply the places vacated with men even deeper in the business of active politics. If reform credit is to be taken for the retention of Pearson, what must be said of the removal of Palmer, of Chicago, who was superseded by S. Corning Judd, one of the most active partisans in Chicago, a man who, after his appointment, took an active part in the scheming to elect a Democratic senator from Illinois. The removal of an efficient postmaster like Palmer is only one of the scores of the kind.

The only point that Republicans wish to make in this issue is that Democracy of to-day is the Democracy of old. Its promises are as lightly regarded, its political honor an *idle boast, its consistency existing only in being persistently inconsistent and dishonest. Republicans are going, and having prepared for it since it became apparent that Democracy had carried the election, they are quite ready to “go.” But in going they cannot resist the temptation to snatch the reform mask from Democracy’s canting, hypocritical face. It is this that stirs up the ire of papers like the Courier-Journal. A man caught in the commission of a mean act is never in an amiable mood. The stolen livery of reform has already slipped from the shoulders of the Democratic party, and it stands exposed.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1885.

Democracy means the same to-day that it ever meant. When tho devil was sick the devil a monk would be, but now in power there is no longer need of attempting to keep any of its promisee, and none are kept. A Washington special to the New York Herald says: “It is understood here to be now fortunately certain that the Treasury will go on, at least until Congress meets, without embarrassment for gold. It is an open secret that tho banks of the three great cities, which are stronger in gold than they have ever been, and which, as Secretary McCulloch used sometimes to complain, have been for a long time strengthening themselves at the expense of the Treasury by absorbing gold, will come to the help of the Treasury if it shall need help. It has been desired to keep this arrangement a secret, but where so many persons are necessarily taken into council a matter of this importance cannot .bo kept from the public knowledge. Now, is there any good reason for doing so? If it is known to the public that the Treasury is managed prudently and is wisely preparing against possible difficulties, public confidence will remain firm. Now, it is a fact that Secretary Manning foresees the danger ahead, and has in several ways adopted necessary precautions. He has made no bond calls; he has for the first time in the history of the Treasury obtained accurate returns of the kinds of money received into the Treasury; he has so shaped his payments that the rapid outflow of gold from the Treasury has at last been checked. And he is encouraged by seeing that the country generally and the leading silver men are awakening to the danger which lies in the continued coinage of the silver dollar, beyond, as everybody now acknowledges, the demand of the country for them. The speeches made by Messrs. Trenholm and Horton at the Atlanta convention, and the vote of that body against a continuance at this time of the silver coinage, show that there is good reason to hope for wise legislation on this subject when Congress assembles. And until Congress meets it is now made sure that nothing serious will happen to embarrass the Treasury in the matter of its payments.”

President Cleveland has made no better appointment than that of Charles Denby, of Indiana, to be Minister to China. He is honest, h is capable, he is faithful to the Constitutio . —New York Sun. This item appears innocent enough, and is innocent enough, but is remarkable in its last clause. Colonel Denby must be taking anew departure. The last cry of the Democratic party involving the organic law of this nation was heard during the war: “The Union as it is, the Constitution as it was." Colonel Denby may have profited by Jeff Davis’s admonition and lament, that the Constitution was not respected and venerated as it was before the war. Nearly a score of years have passed since Democrats have professed faith in the Constitution. Little Lucille Yseult Dudley, who had dropped out of sight, bobs up again to demand trial. She is tired of imprisonment. She scorns the idea of pleading insanity, and says: “The defense of insanity has been raised entirely against my wishes, as I consider it, even if a true one, as savoring strongly of moral cowardice; therefore I am perfectly willing to be tried before the return of the commission, the contents of which Mr. Oakey Hall appears to be digesting very much at his leisure." A special to the Chicago Times (growling Democrat) says that the only other appointment than the postmaster at Indianapolis secured by Mr. Hendricks is that of a man named Schell as a watchman at the Treasury, at a salary of perhaps S6OO a year. The Times ungraciously places in opposition to this meagre list the appointment of George W. Julian, the last of McDonald’s plums, secured despite the fact that Mr. Hendricks had set his heart on another man for the same place.

St. Louis endeavored to make itself agreeable to Secretary of State Bayard for a few hours yesterday, while that distinguished gentleman was in the city, en route for Columbia, where he delivers the address before the State University. Among other attentions paid him, was the one no man who visits St. Louis can escape—and that is being driven to Shaw’s garden, the droariest, fearfullest spot on what may be called God’s green earth. Uhrig’s cavern is a paradise beside it. The proposition to establish a royal residence in Ireland should meet with every encouragement there. If Prince Albert Victor should become an Irish resident, he will be much more liable to appreciate Ireland's wrongs and to eventually move for their amelioration. The objection of expense cannot hold, since the expense of maintaining loyalty would be the same in any event. General Logan is expected to reach Washington to-day or to-morrow. A grand reception has been prepared for him by the Republicans of the District. Permission has been reluctantly granted by the local authorim ties for a salute of twenty-one guns, and the President will be compelled to listen to the reverberating echoes or stuff cotton in his ears. G. O. P. IS now understood to mean, “Git, offensive partisans."—Louisville CourierJournal.

That is the way the President understands it; but while bellowing “Git, offensive partisans!" he whispers to his friends, “Get offensive partisans." And they are produced at once. * Mr. John H. Rea, who has been appointed auditor of the Chicago postoffice, was formerly a resident of Indianapolis, and connected with the office of Clerk of the United States Courts. He is an “offensive partisan," and was recommended for the place by Vicepresident Hendricks. It is now asserted that the appointment of Colonel Denby to the Chinese mission is due to tho efforts of Representative Townshend, of Illinois, It is said that the President ex-

pressed surprise that Indiana Democrats had so absolutely overlooked Colonel Denby’s merits. New York papers affect great hilarity over what they call the absurd stories occasionally told by “irresponsible correspondents of far Western journals” concerning the various forms of vice to which society ladies of the metropolis are addicted. No one, say the New York editors, save ignorant and credulous persons, remote from city civilization, will believe such slanderous tales. On this ground, then, it may be supposed that no libel suits will be brought against the responsible Brooklyn paper which, in a recent issue, describes the women of respectable and fashionable families in New York as being given to reckless gambling, “horse-talk,” poker playing, cigarette smoking and geueral “loudness” of style. Brooklyn isn’t exactly in the rowdy West, but possibly no one of consequence, save exchange editors, read her papers. The Harrisburg Patriot announces that it will hereafter divide half the profits of the paper among its employes instead of paying them wages. Evidently the Patriot has been having trouble with its hands, and it is playing a deep game in order to conciliate them. Presently they will be meekly asking for regular, if small, wages in order to have the wherewithal to pay their grocery bills. Actors whose homes are in large cities are, it is said, making terms with managers of dime museums for next season, thinking it will pay better than going on the road with traveling combinations. A sympathetic public, which may thus be spared the sight of many atrocious combinations, will add its wishes to those of the actors, that their anticipations may be realized. The latest thing in rinks at New York city is the metamorphosis of the mammoth excursion steamer Plymouth Rock injo a rink. It will make trips daily on the river, and at night will be moored at one of the docks and used as a rink. It will be found that people fall just as hard on a deck as elsewhere. The Ameer of Afghanistan, who presents to every general going to war a sword and an inkstand, has just ordered fifteen golden inkstands of a Cabul jeweler for this purpose. The Ameer has doubtless heard that the pen is mightier than tho sword, and means to provide for the taking of every trick. Sallie M. Balliet, alias Quirs, alias Hoffman, nee Smucker, aged eighteen, is now suing for a third divorce. She is the daughter of Rev. Samuel M. Smucker, of Allentown, Pa., and is possessed of SBO,OOO in her own name, whatever that may be by this time. At a catamaran raee in Long Island Sound on Monday, the boats made several miles at the rate of a mile in two minutes. Owners of fast horses might well dispose of their high-steppers and invest in catamarans. Only catamarans scratch. A Brooklyn mathematician estimates that Odium struck the water with a force equal to 16,375 pounds, ten ounces. Notwithstanding all this, the “professor” was knocked out in the first round. _ According to Prof. Riley you can take your locusts stewed in milk or as a plain fry. You catches your bugs and takes your choice.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. “Camp Meeting” John Allen —the grandfather, by the way, of Mrs. Lilian Norton Gower—has lately recovered from a serious illness. .. Verdi says he never intended to compose an opera entitled “Othello,” and that he will write no more. “My career is ended,” he says “let now the younger men have their turn.” Lawn chairs and settees, and similar articles of furniture, are no longer painted by hand, but dipped into vats of paint, and then set to drip in troughs. The varnishing is done in the same way. It was Willis who said that there are so few invalids untemptable by sweetmeats, pastry and gravies, that the usual dinner table civilities are very like offerings of polite assistance to the grave. “On account of the anniversary of the death of my mother-in-law, I will take pictures at half-price today,” was the notice posted on the door of a Greenwich, Conn., photograph gallery last week. Colonel R. W. Pope, of Boston, fixes the price of all bicycles sold in the United States, and receives a royalty on each machine. His business is enormous, his profits large, and his wealth among the millions. A beekeepers' association has presented to Princess Beatrice as a wedding present a “bee” set in diamonds and precious stones. The Princess returns her warmest thanks for the “charming and appropriate” present. The German and Dutch books printed in dark-blue, on a pale-green paper, have not given a satisfactory result, ft was confidently expected that the combination would prove restful to the eye, and diminish short-sightedness. Victor Hugo used to eipress a desire that Iris grave might be made in the little village churchyard of \ Ulequier, on the Seine, half way between Rouen and Havre, where his wife and his daughter and her husband were buried. Mark Twain’s wealth is stated thus: From the publication of his books, $200,000, the amount of the sum being due to the fact that he has always been practically his own publisher, and thereby made all the profit for himself; lecturing, $100,000; scrapbook, $50,000; fortune, $75,000; total, $425,000. That is about the sum he now possesses. A PARIS drapery-house is selling “bath bags,” by the use of which “refined people” may obtain a sort of velvety, oatmeal soap complexion ablution, for the moderate sum of eight cents. These queer articles consist of a bag containing half a pound of bian, some meal, and a little powdered soap. On wetting and pressing the bag a lather is produced, and, at the same time, a soft pad for rubbing purposes. Senator Edmunds says, in a letter addressed to an Indian graduate of the Carlisle school: “I shall be glad at the next session to do anything in my power to make a general provision that an Indian who chooses voluntarily and in some formal way to renounce his allegiance to his tribe and assert his desire to become a citizen of the United States, with all its rights and responsibilities, may do so.”

They get ready for camp meetings in a businesslike way down in Texas. It will be notice i that in the following extract from the Bastrop Advertiser, nothing is said about the preaching, but this was probably an oversight: “Immense preparations are being made for Major Penn’s camp-meeting, which begins in Hill’s prairie on the Ist day of July. August Albrecht will run a restaurant, ice cream, lemonade and soda fountain on the grounds—a building now being erected for that purpose forty feet in width by seventy in depth.” ‘‘Our theory of the newspaper," says Charles Dudley Warner, the editor of the Hartford Couraat, “is that it is very much what the public want it and make it, and we believe that, as a rule, the tone of a newspaper is higher than that of a majority of its readers. The editor feels inevitably the responsibility of his position, and, no doubt, would often like to make a better newspaper than he does make. But editors (and especially publishers) are human, and many of them have a notion that they must live somehow, and that a little of tone is profitable.” In the bride’s room at Mt. Vernon, so callod from having been set apart for Martha Washington when she came to her husband's home, the superintendent points out a dressing-case. “You will observe,” he says, “that there are glass knobs on the drawers and

the net in not complete. When that case was sent here by the rice-regent, who has this room in charge, the knobs were of mahogany. They were too tempting, so I took them off and put in glass ones, such as you see. These latter‘cost five cents apiece. I buy them in Alexandria by the gross. They go at the rate of about one a day. Three went yesterday. They make very good relics.” Thk cure of one actress-smitten man is reported, He had for many years been an inmate of an insane asylum. He became a furious lover of Ristori M Mary Stuart, and immediately went daft. Os late years the one mania of love for the mimic Queen was all that ailed him. Seeing that Ristori, on her recent farewell tour, had become a middle-aged woman, with none of her personal beauty left, the physician decided to take his patient to see her. The result was astonishingly successful. There was enough of the former Ristori to convince the man that she was the same individual; but he was so thoroughly disenchanted that recovery was almost instantaneous. Superintendent Brown, of the Philadelphia Zo ological Garden, said he was called upon by a man from Nebraska, recently, who offered a high price for a Buffalo. Mr. Brown adds: “I became curious to know what he wanted it for. ‘lt is a serious matter,' he said, in a solemn manner, ‘and I must get some kind of a buffalo to take back to Nebraska with me, for there is a whole tribe of Indians waiting to celebrate their national medicine-dance around him. There isn't a buffalo to be got in the West, and I have come East especially to get one.' That little conversation boomed buffaloes with me," concluded the superintendent, “and you couldn’t get pne of our herd now for love or money.”

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. The Boston Advertiser complains that the Republicans are “taking ground with the infidels, instead of against them”—in other words, opposing civil-servico reform. This is not true. The Republicans applaud any Democrat who comes out honestly for a clean sweep and all that implies, because they admire honesty and are disgusted with the hypocrisy of the mugwumps. It is a fact that the Republican party has the reform of the civil service more at heart than the professional reformers who have imper led the reform in order to gratify personal spite.—Milwaukee Sentinel, Thk old doctrine that things will come right if they are only let severely enough alone, is obsolete; and the new doctrine of active intervention is gaining foothold. The modifying effects of these moral forces will show themselves in the conduct of capitalists and employers, in the methods of organized labor, and especially in the legislation of the state. It cannot be affirmed that the church will prescribe the social programme of the future; but only that the church now shows a disposition to take the lead in that educational and moral movement which is going to improve the basis' of social organization.—Minneapolis Tribune.

In booming times the country may furnish work for the myriads of Europoau emigrants attracted here by the hope of high wages for short work, but at such a time as this their coming only aggravates a situation that is already bad enough. It is no anomalous state of affairs when the mass of the people are getting along fairly well, although stock gamblers stagger under their burdens of watered stock, capitalists are unable to invest their idle money, and there is actual distress among the pooier and cheaper class of laborers, most of whom come from abroad. The evils of such a situation are not owing to any lack of currency. There is abundance of money; the only trouble is to find some profitable way of using it. When this is done capital will he quickly invested and all kinds of labor given active employment.—Chicago Tribune. Certain it is that until the government comes to a more realizing sense of the fact that the same policy which may answer well enough for the peaceful Kickapoos will not avail in dealing with the irreclaimable Apaches the pioneers of New Mexico and Arizona will remain subject to the same frightful visitations that are now desolating their defenseless settlements. Savages that know no law, that respect no treaties, that recognize the binding force of no obligations and are strangers to every sense of gratitude and honor cannot be held in check by civil agencies* or on Sun-day-school principles. The military arm of the government is alone potential for the public safety in holding these barbarians in check, ana there should be no lack of soldiers within easy call for any emergency that may threaten.—Washington Post. It is gratifying to observe that Miss Cleveland’s daring excursions into some of the mose difficult regions of thought and speculation are regarded with almost universal respect. Many writers who cannot quite agree with her opinions, compliment the literary style of the essays. Some passionately attempt to refute her arguments, Nearly all admire the courage with which she attacks great problems of life and faith that have been for centuries the despair of some of the wisest men the world has seen. A few critics —we are glad to say a very few—ridicule Miss Cleveland s literary ventures, and affect to regard her earnest brain work as a fit subject for jests of the cheapest description. This is outrageous. Miss Cleveland's essays should be studied in tho spirit of candor and sincerity which originally led her to write them, and which now impels her to give them tp the world, —New York Sun.

The civil-service law ‘originated in the Republican Senate, was passed by Republican votes and was approved by a Republican President. Why should they pass laws and not respect; them? It, of course, is not creditable that the Republican majority of the Senate would seek to embarrass or annoy the President by refusing to approve a removal made for any just cause, or reject an appointment made for merit, or that it would show any factious or party spirit in con - nection with the executive removals or appointments, but it should be wholly creditable that tne civil service law, which the Senate itself made, shall • not be set aside and treated as a dead letter by the Senate. If the President should attempt to ignore or nullify the provisions of that law in making removals or appointments tho Senate should, of course, prevent him doing it. Certainly the Senate of the United States cannot be supposed to unite in any efforts to arbitrarily and illegally destroy its own deliberate acts. —Philadelphia Inquirer. In view of its probable effect in that direction, the Indian's friends must all the more keenly regret the well meant leniency that gave these Chiricahuas their liberty and their arms. These men who have escaped are the bad men of the reservation; there are thousands remaining peacefully within its limits who do not sympathize with Geronimo, and who know that Geronimo’s deeds only deepen the settler’s hate for every being that has a copper-colored skin. Since the depravity of these Chiricahuas was to well-known they should nave been guarded with the greatest care, for the sake of the other Indians of Arizona, as well as £o insure the safety of settlers. The troops may not be able to catch these wretches, who are worse than wild beast*. If they do not overtake them, and if any of the Indians shall escape the soldier's rifles, we do not see why those who may survive should not be hanged. They should be punished for their horrible crimes, and their put ishment should be either execution or imprisonment for life. Not one of them should ever be allowed to go again upon a reservation.—New York Times.

The great commons of Christianity, in distinction from the lords, have been slowly pressing the fact into notice, that theology.is quite another thing from religion; that the one is a creed, a philosophy, and the other a work, a life. The good Samaritan lias been quite a help lately. Os the three men who passed the wounded traveler between Jerusalem and Jericho, he proved to be the best man because he did something. And yet he was not sound in his doctrine, for, of all the Old Testament, he accepted only the first five books, and the New Testament was not then out. Men, however, who wish to inherit eternal life must do as he did. Living, more than believing, is coming into demand with Samaritan hotels and the paying of the bills of the needy. Theoretic, scholarly and denominational distinctions are being remitted to the schools, where they delight to “posse the impossible and scrute the ‘inscrutable,’" as at Concord or in Germany. Pjasticjil workers in a good life, who go about with oil and wine and a spare horse, a little loose change and a large credit, are coming to the front.—Boston Advertiser.

Democratic Literary Fellers. Springfield Republican. Literary people hare been looking for the name of Richard Henry Stoddard among President Cleveland’s foreign apDointments. The Democratic party have not many firstrate men of letters, and ought to hasten to honor such as the> have. Mr Stoddard is one of the principal American poets, and would grace an English consulate as well as Bret Harto, for instance. A Different matter. Philadelphia Record. Senator Vest, of Missouri, is undergoing a severe excoriation because the other day he remarked, “D—n the newspapers!” Perhaps, though, he meant the Missouri newspapers. Suspected of Being: a Joke. Pittsburg Chronicle. It ia Mid ex-Presidont Arthur is coin? on a tri P to Pel.o M.ud. If it is a boelno g Polee £ “ So He Would. Philadelphia Press. funeral made a Paris holiday. The old Where Missing Letters Go. Ban Francisco Post. 80m ® on railway au cor No. 10 at Sacramento last week, tixty-

seven letters addressed to Montana were found between N the letter case, where they had served. They ranged in date fmm nf n>h_l to March 10, 1885. and have b e , n 21 • 18fo K Superintendent Wilder with BAYLESSUHANNA’S HCIIEHE I His Attempt to Sell HU Infl„e nee w .,_ President—Where the Money Wa* p *” Louisville Commercial. 1 A mild mannered man of middle , lobby of the Louisville hotel yeJeJ* 4 ,n noon, dividing time between the reading* ington telegrams in a morning new/ 01 1 contemplating the same through lu *! puffs of cigar smoke. He was ** v^or o\u 9 Democrat of Crawfordsville, Ind and business favor his inclination ?***■ much of his time to politics. To a aey °!*l said: he I “I seo that tho Democratic fellows it, ington are looking into that office-Wu**"! scheme of Bayless W. Hanna, who von from the town where I live. A pararr* in this Washington dispatch says thatfk <r *l still a great deal of gossip there abo.u I Ilanna and his connection with severs’ 1 seekers as a broker, and then itisaddo/c 1 the general impression is t v at Mr. HannJa 1 not been guilty of the indiscretion charged > 1 that nothing serious to him will result from/i stories afloat. m I ‘‘Now/’ continued the speaker “I am. sonal friend of Mr. Hanna’s, but the truth is wholly known that it will cJ 1 * 1 the old gentleman a little trouble. Bari 1 Hanna came to our town fro m Haute, where he had a meager law practi? I and after he had.been badly beaten for ConeS I Two sisters of his, both spinsters, live on a fam a short distance from Crawfordsville Hari* 1 1 "some money they concluded to help Baylesa ont 1 by buying the Crawfordsville Review, a w f otl I paper on a solid foundation and the Democratic I organ of the county, and giving him the editor 1 ship. He edited the paper, more or less, durinr I the presidential campaign, and when Cleveland was elected the editor’s innocent soul convinced 1 him that he had contributed as much to the sue-1 cess of the party as the best of them, and be at I once wanted to let go of the paper and go to 1 Washington to be recognized. He didn’t even I wait for the inauguration to free himself. Ho 1 said he was tired anyhow of his arduous labor* 1 as an editor, and would really enjov thoj two weeks’ idleness which would 1 probably be thrust upon him 1 the interim of the President’s taking the chair and givine him a mission. This idea of his having worked hard as an editor was funny to ut who knew that he wrote no more than two columns per week in his little paper, and then ho so grossly neglected the county ticket that a faction of the Democratic party grew up against him, and it is that faction which has put tho President in possession of the damaging chargo which is now lodged against him. “Well, you know how the old man had to struggle there in Washington; how he began away up, fretted and growled and had to finally accept the Persian mission. Senator Voorheea felt just enough pity for Bayless to urge the Persian appointment for him. You know Voorhees is not the warm friend of Mr, Hanna that some Democrats claim. They were neighbors for a while ia Terre Haute, and Hanna at om time imagined kitpself a rival of Senator Dan, and when the latter distanced him Hanna fell back against ex-Congressman John E. Lamb, who is Voorhees’ heriditary henchman. And so Bayless, being politically and otherwise destitute, found a little sympathy in Voorhees and finally caught on to that lonesome post away over in Persia. Then, after he finally captured this appointment another difficulty met him. It would cost him $2,200 to get himself, wife and three young children to Teheran, and he had neither ready cash nor anything to turn into money. You understand he had no proprietary interest in that paper he edited, and when he left it his sisters put it into the hands of a young man whom they had taken when very young and an orphan and adopted. “Now, here is where Bayless Hanna set his sight stakes to steer onto some money. He induced another newspaper man, Thomas B. Collins, who was idle at the time, to put. some money into the p. p;r along with his adopted nephew, and assured him that the postoffice would be given to tbs newspaper. The young man, the om adopted by the Hannas, was to be the postmaster, and he and Collins were to share the salary, while the latter ran the newspaper side of tbs partnership. Collins was agreed to this, but wag unwilling to pay the money until the appointment had been placed on the partner. He said that the time of the Republican postmaster had not expired by two years, and as the administration woiiiu go that ther? whJ# telling when the change would be made. Sort was finally agreed that SI,OOO would be placed by Collins in certain hands, to be paid to Bayless Hanna as soon as the adopted Hanna had been appointed postmaster. “Now mind, this SI,OOO was not to be paid to the owners of the Review, but to Hanna, in consideration of his securing the postnuustershipfor the paper. In addition, Collins was to pay a sum to the Misses Hanna for a part ownership in the printing establishment This SI,OOO, te be paid to Mr. Hanna for this peculiar semce, was put in the hands of A. P. Ramsey, president of the Citizens' National Bank, of Crawfordsville, and is still awaiting developments/ “And how has Mr. Hanna succeeded in this brokerage 1 ?” was asked. “So far there have been few developments Hanna became weary of the slowness of President Cleveland in removing the Republican postmaster, and he began a movement to hasten it He lodged with the Postmaster-general a complaint that the Crawfordsville postmaster had held various packages of the Review during the campaign, and that they had never reached their destination. An inspector of the department came on and gave a thorough investigation, ana the charge was not sustained, though the inspector found grounds of offensive partisan snip against the postmaster to carry home with w®Still, nothing has yot developed from that in is the inside of Bay less W. Hanna’s brokerag with an office-seeker. ” “Is this faction of the Democrats at Crawfordsville, opposed to Mr. Hanna, conveying this ll i^ynation to Washington, or are Republican* doingTtT’" , ,t s . “Democrat* are doing it, and they are led oy nephew of ex-Senator McDonald, who is o deputy clerk of the county. This nP“ e w _ Mr. Hanna’s city editor, and a few daft 1 . election was‘fired’from his position* ana a ley of unpleasant charges rolled after himyoung man made no objection to Hannas mj to Teheran, but as soon as he began to P l *! * a change to the Argentine Confederation, some show of success, the young nephew o Donald, claiming that he had the his ‘uncle Joe/ pulled the trigger which , this bomb in Hanna’s camp at Washington■ . now it looks as if Bayless, in case heeeta n sion to Persia, will lose that SI,OOO, _ t gets the money he will fail of the ®PP?l n _ I’ll tell you Bayless Hanna is in the old his ill-luck."

The Winnebago Reservation. Minneapolis Tribune. , Governor Gilbert A. Pierce, of Dakota, the city last evening on his way horn Flandreau, where he addressed the P 6O ?, mor *l southwestern part of the territory 5 day. He is stopping at the West, and w the city until Wednesday. 9° Winnebago reservation, he -Jjfii reporter; “The letter of the President . by me ten days ago plainly indicates settlers must go, and I hayo ea f n^ s f/ v them to obey the order without aeiayarrived here this evening, I have rec from Senator Harrison intorming 0# sub-committee of the Senate c . joly Indian affairs will come to Dakota ott t of to investigate the matter. I hope mUJl <}r*r the investigation will come a proi tion of the settlers.” Saloon-Keepers Not UngratefulStreator fill.) Special to Chicago Tr ‘ lu0 ® v g to rf Governor St John spoke hert saloon in the city closed during number.****? the saloon-keepers, thirty-two i j 0 h n *s £***( Democrats ana they recognised preside o^ services to the party m the late pr campaign. How to Keep Hendrick* * li# P °* Chicago Inter Ocean. mmdrksk* !? The way to keep v [ co 0 ? the SegJWashington during the pro is to elect U>ha A- B eate* er y W 11 Hendricks would be in his seat hour before the time for bu^eaa.