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THE DAILY JOURNAL. ISY JNO. C. NEW & SON. ML j.'.-uzn;- 1--:. . SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 188.",. ’ TWELVE PAGES. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PAElß —American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—Paimer House. CINCINNATI—J. li. Hawley & Cos.. 151 Vine street. LOLTSYILLF.—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. IST. LOUTS—Union News Company. Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Call*. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 AffcUILLA Jones is the chip on Thomas A. Hendricks's shoulder. ?v the thennometer should go down to eighty-five it would pass as a cold wave. Lower than that would be a blizzard. Indiana needs an object-lesson in patriotism in the shape of a grand monument to the Indiana veteran. When will the people awake to a realization of this necessity? Secretary Whitney is represented as saying that, until he can go ahead intelligently, Jhe does not propose to go at all. Judging by the past, we should say that he will never get Anywhere .at the rate proposed. Women employed in the various postoffices throughout the country are being rapidly discharged and their places given to men. The and thirst of the Democratic party are such that politeness is out of the question. The Louisville liquor-dealers, in combining to boycott such citizens as believe that the traffic should be regulated, are digging its grave. It is wisdom on the part of saloonists to slide along with the least friction possible. A Democratic candidate for the Attica postoffico cards the Ledger protesting against the insult of being spoken of as anything but an offensive partisan from the days of Jackson. The woods are full of just such men in this State. The Boston Transcript refers to the Pension Commissioner as "General Black, of Indiana.” Os Illinois, if you please. Indiana has as many offensive Democratic partisans as she can manage without borrowing any from her neighbors. While New York subscribed $7,000 for a monument over the ashes of General Grant, Chicago raised $20,000 for a monument in Lincoln Park, and now has over $30,000 subabribed. This incident teaches what might 2iave been expected had the Bartholdi statue been given to a live Western town. The Philadelphia Record rises to remark that "a resident of Indianapolis has been removed from a tumor weighing sixty-five pounds, and is doing well.” This is not, as might be thought, the Record’s ueat and delicate way of alluding to Grandpa Jones and the mugwump party. Grandpa Jones has not yet been relieved from the annoying incumbrance. The people who flatter themselves that thej' got the gist of the news by reading the headlines in the papers are frequently mistaken. For instance, an article going the rounds of the press, entitled "India-rubber Tommy,” does not, as hasty mugwump readers might suppose. refer to our agile and irrepressible Vice-president. Newspaper headlines are often calculated to deceive. Secretary Lamar’s letter to Commissioner BHton has put new heart into the hungry Southern office-seekers. His remark that the best legal, literary and business talent of the North is diverted to other eliaunels than government service, while the highest talent of the South is disengaged, might be considered by some a humiliating confession; but it Seems not to have struck the haughty Southron this wa>. Thus encouraged by thtf Secretary they will walk up to the civil-service examinations with full confidence of going right to the head. The trouble will begin for Mr. L amar if, by any mishap, the inferior Northern competitors should secure a higher percentage than his gifted brethren. Although Governor Hill, of New York, is not a "reformer" after the manner of his predecessor in office, and is not in harmony with the administration, he is, it suddenly develops, a worker and wire-puller of high degree, and has with great shrewdness organized a strong following, which will be likely to pecure him the nomination for the governorship. He has seized every opportunity to bring all the dissatisfied factions of the party under his standard, and it is prophesied by knovring politicians that his strength will boa Burprise to Messrs. Cleveland and Manning when the day of reckoning arrives. The rank and file of the party in the State are greatly dissatisfied with the President, from whom they expected so much, and are even more deeply disappointed in ManSiing, who, it was believed, would be fully in Sympathy with the old system of distributing she offices, whatever cranky notions his chief might have of enforcing the law in letter and Spirit. They have not got the offices; even the little cross-roads postoffices are still held by Republicans, and the patience of the rural York Democrat, as well as of the more

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prominent workers, is so far gone that the assertion is freely made that no candidate favored by the administration will have any show at tho next Democratic convention. Altogether, the condition of the party in New York is not a promising one from a reform standpoint, and the truly righteous element is looking on with considerable alarm. THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. The Journal of to-morrow will contain, among other articles specially prepared for the Sunday issue, an additional chapter of Miss Braddon’s absorbing story, "Cut by the County;” an Egyptian letter from the pen of Rev. J. C. Fletcher; "The Value of Legs in War,” being an interesting narrative of one of the campaigns of Gen. P. M. Mitchell, by W. H. Smith; "A Pen-portrait, of John Roach,” in which the career of the great shipbuilder is told in attractive style; "Tho Wickedness of London,” by Joseph Hatton, an article in which the recent exposures of the Pall Mall Gazette are discussed; poems by Jame3 Whitcomb Riley; letters from New York end Washington; society gossip, and current news from all parts of the world. The Louisville Courier-Journal, as in duty bound, defends Secretary Whitney’s hostility toward John Roach & Son, and thinks it absurd that such hostility should force tho firm into bankruptcy, for tho reason that "Mr. Roach has already been paid for his work more than he was entitled to, &>d still has possession of tho vessel.” This is the stock argument of all papers hostile to American industries and in favor of free trade. The moment anybody dares express regret over the closing of tho largest ship-yard in the country, the apologists for Mr. Whitney roar out that ho has already been paid for tho work, and, therefore, there was no occasion for the failure. Tho only possible excuse for this plea, that of ignorance, can serve no longer, and the offense repeated becomes culpable mendacity. The Courier-Journal knows that there was more in Secretary Whitney’s rejection of the Dolphin, and in the Attorneygeneral's opinion, than a mere disapproval of the vessel. It knows, as every paper knows that makes the same dishonest argument, that the Attorney-general declared that the money paid on these vessels—tho Dolphin and those unfinished—could be recovered by the government, every dollar of it. Realizing the uncompromising hostility of the Secretary of the Navy, John Roach & Sou know that this meant a draft of $2,000,000, and tho leaving of tho vessels on their hands with the partisan stamp of condemnation upon them. Mr. Roach's detractors knew as well as anybody can that this would ruin his credit. However friendly capitalists might he, and, whatever their confidence in the firm’s integrity, they would realize that it could not possibly stand such a draft. There was absolutely nothing else to do than to close up and quit. It is impeaching Mr. Whitney’s common sense to claim that he did not perfectly understand this when he sought and obtained the hostile opinion from Mr. Garland. Let the Democratic press condemn the Dolphin, and criticise John Roach & Soil as it sees fit, but it is asking too much of the public to insist that it shall not understand why this firm was driven to the wall after being "already paid for the vessels.” This is not a campaign year, except in New York and one or two other States. Let the partisan papers of the West be honest and admit the hostility, if not the infamy, of a partisan Secretary of the Navy, who, to further his own political ambition, has killed one of the growing industries of the country. Senator Voouhees’s ex-post-facto love for the soldier lias been loud, if not deep. During the war he never found time nor occasion to speak or write a single word in Lis behalf or the great cause for which he fought. Not one. His loud mouthings were heard then just as frequently as now. In the heat of the conflict the Union soldier was to the Senator nothing but a "Lincoln hireling.” After the war succeeded, notwithstanding it was declared a failure b}- a Democratic national convention, be began to pose as the soldier's friend. But this was when the soldier was not in need of friends. Even in this, however, his insincerity is now manifest. He has had ample opportunity to practically show his love for the soldier by works instead of empty words. lie controls tho federal patronage in Indiana. How has he exercised his power? Upon his recommendation many soldiers have been removed from office, but in no instance has he recommended a Democratic soldier to succeed them. It looks as if iie was taking especial care to keep soldiers out of office. All the prominent federal officers removed in this State (including three collectors, the United States District Attorney and others) were soldiers. Not one of those appointed in their places was a soldier. No soldier need apply. Terre Haute is the Senator’s home. lie has just appointed a new postmaster there. The majority of the employes of that postoflice were soldiers. Nino of them were soldiers, and those nine soldiers have just been turned But and their places filled by men who were not soldiers. The soldier has got to go. Senator Yoorhees’s new collector there has appointed one soldier as a deputy, but he turns out to be, according to the Terre Haute Express, a deserter. According to the laws of the United States deserters cannot hold any office. Further, they are declared to be no longer citizens of the United States. They are men without a country. [Section 199 G, Revised Statutes.]

Iho Senator’s talk was cheap. His actions speak louder than his words. Now that he has power he has no use for the soldier. He is not an exception, however. It is so under Democratic administration everywhere. With the Democracy, having been a soldier for the Union is the worst kind of offensive partisanship. There is no help for a soldier in the Democratic party—confederates always excepted. Atlanta, Ga., has laid the corner-stone of a monument to commemorate the soldiers who fought and fell on either side in the civil war. It is to be 180 feet high, and will cost about SIOO,OOO. Near the base of the column will be niches for the statues of Grant and Lee, Johnston and Sherman. The monument is intended as a memorial of the restored fraternal feeling between the South and North, “for near the top will be seen the soldier in blue and the soldier in gray clasping hands, while on the summit of the column will stand the statue of Liberty, the goddess of the Union.” It is time that the South published such sentiment, which, it must be confessed, is creditable to her. The wounds of war have had ample time to heal, and it is well for the South to resume its place in the Union, in spirit as in fact. The North has long desired what now seems in fair way of realization—a I’eunion of feeling, a recrystallization into one perfect Union. General Grant, whose death tho Nation now mourns, was the foremost in every expression of the desire felt by all. Others, no less patriotic, were only less patient. All of the loyal North wanted a Union for all, equal rights for all, and peace for all. If now, as seems apparent, tho South is ready to more than resume her old place in the Nation, and to accord to others all that she expects for herself, the hope of the North in war has been realized and the fearful sacrifice has been compensated. The North fought for just this feeling; for a united people, freed from the curse of slavery and the ban of sectionalism founded upon that institution. If the South has grown tall enough to see over her prejudice, it is well. Certain it is that while the North has onh’ the greatest contempt for such Southerners as still believe in the heresy of secession—and there are such, unfortunately—only the heartiest sympathy will be extended to all who are manly enough and patriotic enough to acknowledge that the Union is excellent, and that those who fought for its preservation performed a noble and unselfish duty. • The blue and gray may shake hands as soldiers and brave men. They have already done that again and again. But one was right and one was wrong. Os this there can never be mistake, and the day will come when tins will he recognized in the South as in the North. It must come, or all ialk of a perfect and abiding LTnion is a farce. Lee, and Johnston, and Jackson were brave, honorable soldiers, entitled to the personal respect of all mankind. But in one great particular they were in error—an error that cost a fearful price to make good. That price was paid promptly and cheerfully by tho loyal North. There is no disposition in the North to perpetuate the bitterness of strife —only a patriotic desire that the principles fought for shall bo firmly established. These acknowledged unqualifiedly throughout the land, there will he fraternity everywhere, and the stability of the Union will be assured. Secretary Bayard has made very few changes in his department, for the reason, as alleged by disappointed applicants, that the State department clerks, who consider themselves a far higher grade of mortals than other government employes, have craftily cajoled and flattered Mr. Bayard until he is impressed with the same idea. If this be true it speaks better for the tact and diplomacy of the clerks than for Mr. Bayard’s freedom from vanity. A real live mugwump would be an entertaining eight to see.—Philadelphia Times. It might be entertaining, but it would be next to impossible. Indiana is a very poor •place for mugwumps. —New York Sun. The explanation is simple. A man cannot be a mugwump in Indiana without being pharisaicah Mr. Edward Ronvdon, a young English country gentleman, has been placed under heavy bonds by a London magistrate to keep the peace towards the Honorable Violet Fox, a young lady for whom he professed a devoted attachment So great was Mr. Rowdon’s affection that he followed Miss Violet and her mother from city to city, secured lodgings near them, and forced his company upon them on the street. Friends of the ladies begged him to cease what they termed his persecutions, but he refused to listen to them. One day he encountered the young woman and her mother in Hyde Park, and forthwith fejl upon his knees in tho dust, and in the presence of the crowd declared his love in loud and passionate tones. It was this evidence of infatuation which led to tho complaint before the magistrate and the lover’s temporary incarceration in jail. He is now at large, but the sympathies of youthful and enthusastic lovers will be with him in his enforced absence from the presence of his dear one. There was a time, immortalized in English verse and prose, when no lover could be too importunate, and an episode like the one in Hyde Parke would entitle him, in the estimation of a chivalrous public, to the young lady’s baud instead of a banishment from her sight Verily, times have changed, and if all the signs are true in regard to English society, not altogether for the better. The mountain fastnesses of Pennsylvania produce specimens of superstitious humanity that would shame a Georgia "Cracker.” The latest instance in proof of this comes from Lititz, that State, where a band of gypsies had camped. A certain man and his wife had their fortunes told, and the man was ordered to go through a lot of mummery with a small sack of salt and pepper, which ho was to suspend in the chimney.

Preparing it, of course he spilled some, and the wife, who knew nothing of his plan, coming across the spillings, imagined that ho was about to poison her. Accusing him of it, he gave her a good beating. The neighbors then became very indignaut, but, instead of reprimanding the brute of a husband, . took their spite out on the gypsies, whom they compelled to fly for their lives. This was a fit illustration of the uncertainties of ignorance and superstition. The Louisville Commercial is laying itself liable to be unanimously voted "real mean.’’ After noting the generous attendance of ladies at the base ball games, it wonders if there would be any falling off in their attendance if a small charge of admittance were asked. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. Some of our Democratic contemporaries, like the Boston Post, for example, take great pleasure in declaring that “the death of General Grant makes Arthur the only surviving ex-President.” We trust our contemporaries will get their fun out of this sort of thing without any loss of time. It kills old Mr. Tilden, according to the Democratic view, while it ignores Rutherford B. Hayes, whom history will recognize as a President, who, in his own way, caused the Bourbon Democracy about as much trouble as any man who ever occupied theoffice.—Philadelphia Press. It now remains for the Pres cient to accept the gauge of battle offered him through the official agent of Mr. Hendricks at Indianapolis, and either to tight the battle out on principle or succumb to the dictates of Hendricks and other Democratic partisans. Should he take the latter course he will be damned to all coming fame, and his administration will be swept from power with loathing and disgust. The fight is non on, and the Indianapolis postmaster is the “entering wedge which will either split the Democratic party into factions or the club which will knock the life out of the civil-service law under Cleveland’s administration.”—Cleveland Leader. It would be an immense satisfaction and an enormous gain to the people of this country to have a State department with just a little sense of the the dignity of American citizenship. If James G. Blaine, of Maine, were President, or Secretary of State even, Mr. Santos would not now be languishing in a prison of Ecuador, nor would our flag continue to be “a flaunting lie,” pretending to protect without doing it. When such a topsy-turvy nation as Ecuador insults the United States and imprisons its citizens without being brought to book, it is time for our State Department to put up its shutters and retire from business. Ecuador cannot possibly contemn its weakness as much as the people of this country do.—Philadelphia Inquirer, Whatever were the reasons which induced the Republican party to deny President Grant the nomination for a third term, they did not arise from a lack of respect or admiratiou for the man. This established. and there is no other feature of that controversy appropriate for consideration at the present time. As regards the feeling among the people of all parties toward him, it is too spontaneous and hearty to admit of question. It did not need his election to the presidency for a third term to make this apparent, and it is not likely that Grant’s fame or greatness would have been enhaneod had he attained that honor. As re gards the effects of this omission on one party or another, the discussion can easily and appropriately wait.—Boston Herald. In choosing the boycotting plan of dealing with their opponents, the Louisville, Kv., liquor-sellers have adopted a policy which observation and common sense should have taught them to avoid under aiiy circumstances. Experience has repeatedly and conclusively proved that the liquor business, of all forms of traffic in the world, can least afford to resort to such means for the protection of its interests. There is no community so well pleased with saloons and so solicitous to have them maintained that it will long submit to open and arbitrary dictation from them on questions affecting the general welfare of society; and when they attempt that sort of thing they simply increase the difficulty from which they wish to escape —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. WHEN Mr. Lamar talks of employing “the best literary, business and legal talent of the South” in the service of the government he merely promises that the defective education, the false notions of caste, the mania for politics, and the lazy, shiftless improvident habits which keep the South poor shall be utilized for filling government offices. This policy may be of advantage to the Southern people in supporting a class of men who would otherwise hang about cross-road groceries to talk politics, Dut there is small prospect that it will promote “the great work of reform in the department service,” which Mr. Lamar promises. Reform does not go backwards, and a return to the practices, and methods, and men of Buchanan’s and I’ierce's time is by no means reassuring.—Chicago Tribune. The Republican party feels that if suffrage were as free and elections as fair in the South as in the North it would now be in power and would have a majority in both Houses of Congress. It regards the suppression of the Republican party in States where it is generally admitted that it has had a majority of the voters any time during the past fifteeu years as a great injustice and a subversion of popular government. It has just the same feeling in regard to frauds upon suffrage elsewhere. Republican journals have denounced the late frauds in Chicago in the same language in which they have spoken of them in the South. It is the theory, not the locality. The sectional feeling is due to the fact that the evil is sectional. The feeling will cease to exist when the evil is eradicated. —Boston Journal. No good to the Indians can be expected from any plan devised by their avarieious enemies. The average frontiersman may find no fault with the maxim that it as right to shoot, rob and cheat tho Sioux as it was to cheat, rob and shoot the Mohawks and the Mohicans, and that the white man’s advantage is an ample justification. But this is no answer to the appeal of civilization and Christianity to deal honestly with the remnant of a once powerful people. We have granted them lands for hunting grounds, but the game has been destroyed by white hunters. If the lands arc now more extensive than the dwindling tribes need for cultivation, let the work of reducing the reservations be undertaken honorably, with just regard to the rights of tho Indian possessors, and with their free consent. This is the course to which the national honor is pledged.—Boston Advertiser. Certainly it cannot be said that the working people find that the dollar will buy less now than it would buy five years cr ten years ago. On the other hand it may be doubted whether, unless for a month or two at a time, the purchasing power of the dollar was ever greater than it is now. \"et there has been no such decrease in the general rate of wages paid within the last three years as there has been in the level of prices. Is this a time to be extreme and obstinate in demands for wages? In not a few cases the workingmen must be able to see that persistency in their demands will prostrate the industry upon which their employment depends. In better times, when employers are securing largo profits, and business is brisk and growing, the sympathy of the public is generally with the laborers, because it is felt that the employers can probably afford to pay more in such times than they had previously paid. But in times of unusual depression, is it strange if intelligent observers lean in most cases to an opposite judgment?—New York Tribune. JIR. CHANDLER AGAIN. He Renews His At-taek ou Mr. Wliitney, and Asks The Sun Some Ouestio3. To the Editor of the New York Sun: In reply to your inquiries in your paper of the 25th, I have to state; (1.) I first knew that Mr. Roach’s financial condition was critical in May, 1885. (2.) Mr. Roach would have stood against the rejection of the Dolphin and the nonpayment of tho $40,000 duo on her; ho might have faced the refusal to accept the Chicago, Boston, and Atlanta and the nonpayment of the $400,000 to become due upon them. But to be informed by the Attorney-general'and Secretary of the Navy that he would be sued for $2,000,000, and at the same time have $2,000,000 of his assets, namely, the ships, rendered valueless by rejection, was an absolutely fatal blow at his credit, ingeniously and wickedly contrived for that purpose by the two officials. (3.) Their motive was political, and also, iD Mr. Whitney, dishonest, because an unjustifiable attempt to disable Mr. Roach and deter all other Republican shipbuilders from bidding on the five additional ships which Mr. Whitney is authorized to build, and which will either be contracted for with Democratic syndicates or built in the navy yards to serve political ends. (4.) My motive for agreeing to the clause providing that the contractor should not be responsible for any given amount of horse power in the engines, if his materials and workmansnip were good, was that it would have been unreasonable to require and impossible to obtain from shipbuilders auy such guarantee concerning engines which they had nothing whatever to do with designing. Now. let me ask you a few questions: 1. Was this last decision ri ’ht, according to law and common sense in business? 2. Would you have guaranteed horse power if you had been a bidder? 3. Do you think Mr. Roach, the Dolphin, and tho other new cruisers have been treated fairly and justly by the Democratic press? 4. In what manner and by whom do you think the five ships should be designed? How should they be built—by contract or in the navy yards? Name any American shipbuilders who you think will bid on them. 5. Are you willing to see tho Republican press manifest the same disposition toward these additional ships which the Democratic press have shown toward thd Dolphin, Chicago, Boston, and Atlanta? Wm. E. Chandler.

DANVILLE NORMAL COLLEGE. Graduating Exercises of the Ninth Scientific Class —Oatlines of the Addresses. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Dan Vi LI e, Ind., July 31.—At 9 o'clock yesterday morning tbe ninth scientific class appeared upon the stage. It numbers twonty-threo members, six ladies and seventeen gentlemen, In age they are a younger class of students than usually graduate from this college, and possibly compare favorably with other classes in the breadth of their culture. The class 'Bi has been accorded the supremacy in mathematical ability and undoubtedly surpassed any other in general culture. More of the members have succeeded to positions of importance than of any of its predecessors. After the invocation by Eld. U. C. Brewer, the class was introduced by the person in charge, Miss Cedoro Liowellen. The first speaker, A. M. Wagoner, of Milton, Ind., discussed “The Dawning of Science.” Whether or not the theory of evolution is true, we cannot deny that mind and man have risen from a primitive state until they have reached their present state of supremacy over the surrounding world. The objects of nature's creation are tbe same as they were when first the world was swung into space, but with man and animal there has been a continuous growth. Man gains the knowledge he possesses through slow and steady work. Every myth must pass away and be superseded by realities. The sciences were bore, cradled and nurtured, as it w ere, in the wilds of Asia, and will only bo perfected with the advance of time. “The Lessons of Agassiz's Life” were carefully taught in a most pleasing manner by Miss Leo Fuqua, of Casey, 111. The early home and surrounding of the groat naturalist were such as to iuspire a man with tho idea of something wonderful in the world around him. The wonderful and picturesque scenery of tho Switzerland Aips awakened within him a desire to know something of the composition of the earth, the manner in which it assumed its present form, the ages at which different portions made their appearance, as well as learning the names and habits of the vast worlds of birds, beasts, reptiles ar.d minerals. Ills whole nature was imbued with the idea of giving the world of science a knowledge almost unquestionable in regard to the mysteries of nature. J. It Conrad, of Shamokin, Pa., took the audience on a trip to “Tho Sun;” told them of its wonderful composition, its effects upon the soiar system, and attempted to give them an idea of the chemical composition, it3 wonderful spots, rivers and lakes, hills and valleys. The spectroscope reveals to the world of science many familiar substances in the two gases surrounding it, and even in its composition we find many of the most familiar minerals and chemicals. Miss Lottie Doegy, of Danville, Ind., told that “Life in Nature,” is so broad, so wonderful, and so incomprehensible, the wonders and marvels are so great, that it has pleased many of the most intellectual men to spend their entire lives in solving tho mysteries of life. Nature is wonderful, but life is mysterious, and, though one has said that, on account of action, there is a physical and chemical change, accounting for how and why we grow, the shroud has never been lifted from the wonders of life, and we shall never know the real causes of how we come to exist, hew we grow, or our exact destiny until death shall have solved the problem for us. “The Ethics of the Legal Profession" were given by P. O. John, of Gun Grove, Ky. lie asserted that it is necessary for a lawyer to be in possession of a rich store of legal loro, and not depend upon his books, even though he knows the exact page and placo in which to find the subject under consideration. The lawyer was shown to be the defender of society, tho dis ponser of justice and the rewarder_ of both evildoers and the workers of good. W. M. Riley, Geneseo, 111., discussed “Wickedness in High Places.” The crimes of men in bygone ages are so conspicuous that they appall the student of history, and make him look upon his own age as one of untold rottenness among men in prominent positions. Were it not for public sentiment, and the restraint thrown around persons by political organization, the sceues of ancient Rome would be re enacted in our midst. The suppression of crime among men of official position is the one great subject of reform, and is receiving the attention of all lovers of good government. Miss Mollie Randebush, of Harrison, Ohio, gave reason for “Tho Best Wine Coming Last,” by showing that all look forward to happier days and more prosperous times. The fruit tree first puts forth its leaves,tj hen its blooms and lastely conies tho fruit. Our early lives are filled with little pleasures and few real happinesses, but as we grow older the real pleasures and earnest cares crowd upon us in rapid succession until finally we are called to enjoy tho sweets of heaven, clearly showing that the best wine was not intended to come first J. W. DudgeoD, Rushville, Indiana, told us that “Mon are Truly the Creatures of Circumstances.” They are endowed with faculties of mind and may make a different road from that which they would travel were it not for the power of development. “The Ordinary and Extraordinary’' were brought out in clear roview, and the great of our country were divided into these two classes. The “Phunny" man of the class, J. W. Webster, of llushville, Ind., displayed his humorous nature by talking on the subject of “Oats.” He first showed tho ludicrous side of the question in a happy and pleasing manner, eliciting much applause for his remarkable ideas and original way of puting them. Then the habit of sowing wild oats was carefully reviewed, showing the evil effects of bad habits and the hikeliliood of it leading to a life of unworthiness and failure. The subject of “Arbitration” has been discussed so mti' h, yet G. W. Leek, of Allendale, 111., presented it in an effective way. He showed that the advancement of the human race, both in morality aud civil affairs, woro reasons why we should no longer resort to arms to settle national difficulties. The good effect of the Geneva settlement of the Alabama trouble, and the Web-ster-Ash burton treaty, were cited as times when conflicts were avoided. The .inhuman practice of the strong suppressing the weak, when all trouble could be terminated by a more humane and sensible method, should become a relic of the ages when men knew no better; and now, when the intelluctal sun shines upou us, let brotherly bind all nations together. He asserted that the-time would come when all troubles between nations would be settled with out the aid of the sword, and a generous feeling exist between all powers. It is unnecessary for a young man, surrounded as he is by books and possessing an energy such as he does, to his time and money in gaining a knowledge of the dead languages. The education should Win a certain line, directly in the course of tho vocation he intends to pursue. Special schools are so prominent and doing such a grand work as to make it possible for all to gain an intellectual and physical training suffi cient to guide him successfully through life, were principles set forth by J. E. Carter, of Edinburg, Ind., in his remarks on “A Practical Education.” Miss Ella Hart, of Gosport, Ind., told us that politics, civilization and the world in general is greatly influenced by woman. She may not be a powerful dictator, but her silent influenced ever felt She weaves herself so closely around the soul of man as to almost sway the sceptre of power. She has shown herself capable to be the ruler of men, in the cases of sovereigns of England, and her ability cannot bo doubted, were ideas presented in her discussion of the question, “Is tho Sphere of Woman Restricted!” The second section of the class met at 2 o’clock. The first speaker was A: M. McCray, of Indianapolis, who discoursed on “The Moral Tendency of the Physical Sciences.” He showed that in all duties of life man is deeply influenced by the sciences, since they teach him more of the wondors of the universe and bring him into closer relation to the Divine author of all. They show him the beauties of life and the magnitude of a futurity that they cannot destroy. 11. A. Cooper, of Clarion, Pa., gave “The First Lessons of History.” The speaker said that the observation of man showed that calamity was one of tho first things taught in history, either sacred or profane. Crime has attended and made up a great part the of chronology of

every government. Ho believed a school of adversity to plainly show “tho good of evil," and bring men more nearly to a standard of right “Tho Old, Old Story was More Sweetly Told,” by M iss Lizzie Litsoy, of Springfield, Ky., in & highly pleas’ng wav. “A Reform in Journalism” was advocated very earnestly by A. J. Myott, of Greenville, 111. Among the prominent professions of the land stands journalism. It wields a far greater influence than any other profession or vocation. For this reason it should be filled with pure and elevating words and all that would in any way tend to tinge tiie mind with wrong thoughts should be expunged from its pages. He believes that there should be a complete reform in the matter printed, and that Sunday papers should be suppressed. “Helpers to Bind the Self Same Sheaf,” were earnestly asked for by Miss Mary Collins, of Putnamville. Ind. It was purely of a religious character. Man is to do his part and leave the remainder to God, and truth cannot be destroyed by tearing down superstition. c l^ru Ce T® ree,y °e den - Danville, Ind., spoko of Ihe Jingle of the Guinea” as the motive power that makes man attempt wonderful deeds and ever brook the brink of eternal ruin. It exerts a greater influence than ambition or the hope of future reward. He claimed that wealth, combined with ambition, ruled the world and set all else at defiance. “Moral Greatness" received the attention of Miss Lillie Garrett, of Farmland, Ind., in a forcible and logical way, and “Our Manifest Destiny” was traced through the mist of ages by C. E. Morris, Stockton, Ohio. It is difficult for us to realize our importance as a nation, as a people, as a race, but we can easily see that there is a future as there has been a past, and all must experience it G. A. McLuaron, of Brookfield, Ind., builded tho “Empire of Right" on a strong pedestal and high enough to withstand thq winds of centuries. He claimed that public opinion was too often adopted as the standard of right, and thus man can not be his own guide to destiny, which ho should be if he desires success. “Ho Who Grieves Over the Scattering of the Sibyl's Leaves Unwisely Mourns,” was beautifully told by Miss Rose G. Parker, of Danville, Ind. The story of the Sibyl’s leaves was interestingly rehearsed. Time is tar too precious to waste our moments in grieving, but with a manly heart battle bravely onward, only letting the little checks in life be hoips to mount to higher planes. Look well to the present, letting both past and future take care of themselves. “Man's Environments” were shown to be the darkness in which he walks. The light of truth must dawn upon him ere he succeeds in gatning a dear road to preferment. Religious superstition has always bound man's mind, but tbe light of science has severed these bands and let in the light of truth. Tho class poem, by John A. Webster, Russellville. Ind., was one full of thought and carefully prepared, yet hardly as strong, either in language or thought, as the one of the class of ’Bl. Miss Cedora Liewdlen conferred the diplomas in an encouraging speech, making remarks that deeply affected the class and audience, and then another scientific class passed from its alma mater to mingle with the world. Tho benediction was pronouncod by Rev. A. 11. Whatley, pastor of the C. P. Church. THE B. AND M. TELEGRAPH. The Company’s Lines Sold to Mr. Stokes— Outside Claims Against the Property. New York, July 31. — The property of the Bankers’ aud Merchants’ Telegraph Company was sold to day by public auction. It brought $500,009 and was purchased by Edward S. Stokes, on behalf of the reorganization committee. The sale took place under the order of Judge Davis in tho foreclosure suit brought by the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company. When the property to be disposed of had been described, a document was read, signed by Edward Harlan, receiver of the American Rapid Telegraph Company, which gave notice that the company claimed ownership in the larger part of the plant of the Bankers’ and Merchants’ company, as well as a lien upou all of its stock. The document further sets forth that the notes of the American Rapid Company mentioned in the schedule, were claimed to have been fraudulently made and issued. After this announcement Chas. M. Dutcher stated that tho lino of poles running from Auburn to Syracuse, having two wires, and being about twenty-fivo miles in length, and another line of about 170 miles, running from Syracuse to Ogdensburg, N. Y., via Oswego, Watertown and Clayton, which were among the property to be sold, did not belong to tho Bankers' and Merchants’ Company. He spoke on behalf of the International and Great Western company, which, he said, owned the lines. This he further stated, had claims of $175,000 against the corporation, advanced to its receivers, and which he said would be held as first liens against tbe proceeds of the sales. He also declared that a promissory note stated in the schedule to have beeu made March 29, 1884, to the order of the International Company, for $20,000, had no existence in fact. D. Frank Lloyd next made announcement that the certificate of 11. M. Alexander, trustee for 2.000 .shares of the United States Telephone Manufacturing Company, included in tho schedule as belonging to the Bankers' and Merchants' Company, was the property of the International CompanyTho auctioneer announced that 10 per cent would be required immediately after tho sale, and the residue of the purchase money must be paid on August 10, next, Mr. Stokes opened the bidding by offering $250,000. This figure was increased to $400,000 by one of the group surrounding the auctioneer, and then Mr. Stokes swelled the amount to $500,000, at which it hung for some time. H. Id. Eldridge, at this point shouted that he was ready and willing 1o pay $300,000 iu cash for a clear title to the property. Referee Whalen told him ho was aware of the terms of the sale and the announcements made, at which Mr. Eldridge said “it must not be subject to anything” and retired. The property was then knocked down to Mr. Stokes. It was announced by tbe auctioneer that the purchase was made on behalf of tho reorganization committee, but Mr. Stokes said ho bought it personally, just now, and that it might go to the reorganization committee later, when he gave his check for the necessary sums on deposit. A Buffalo Bank Defalcation. Buffalo, July 31.—Many rumors have been circulated tho past few days of a deficiency in the accounts of the late Henry Conover, assistant cashier of the Manufacturers’ and Traders’ Bank, of this city, who died suddenly on Friday last Tho officers of the bauk this afternoon furnished the following statement: “Mr. Conover had charge of a responsible department in the bank, in which department the error* appear. His death deprived the bank of his assistance la examining the books or reconciling the errors. The officers of the bank have been obliged to make an examination of tho books under very disadvantageous circumstances, but it developes the fact that abstraction of the bank’s property has been made from time to time, dating back several years, and aggregating $74,000, which is probably lost. The examination justifies us in saying the soundness of the bark is unaffected, and its capital, of $900,000. unimpaired. “Pascal P. Pratt, President. “Francis H. 11. Root* Vice president. “J. H. Madison, Cashier.” Pestering the President. Kans as City, July 31.—The City Council tonight adopted a resolution that the mayor appoint a committee of fifteen members to go to Washington and urge upon tho President an extension of time for removal of cattle from tho Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation. Mayor Moore selected committeemen from the prominent citizens, none of whom are identified with the cattle interests, and they will hold a meeting to morrow evening. An extension will be asked, on the ground that the order involves other than cattle interests in the States of Kansas, Missouri and Texas. Water Famine in Ashland, Pa. Ashland, Pa., July 31. —The water famine still prevails in this neighborhood, and is grows Ing worse every day. Tho dam which supplied Ashland with water will not last till Monday. There is much excitomeut here.