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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW A SON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 11 1885. BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. fnus INYA'itTABLY IX ADVANCK—POSTAGE PREPAID BY THE PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. One year. by mail SI 2.00 One year, by mail, including Sunday 14.00 81* months, by mail .... 6.00 Bi* months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 Three months, by mail 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 One month, by mail 1.00 One month, by mail, including Sunday 1.20 Per week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) -5 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. Per copy 5 cents One year, by mail $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL (WEEKLY EDITION.) One year SI.OO Less than one year nr.d over three months, 10c per months. No subscription taken for less than three months. Jn clubs of five or over, agents will take yearly subscriptions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for &eir work. Address JNO. C NEW & SON, Publishers The Journal, 0 Indianapolis. Ind. ii ii iii—i inmnw—n—■—Mir—i THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON —American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boulevard des C'apucines. NEW YORK—St- Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. K. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 3T. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot aud Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms-... 242 Tiie latest order of the justice’s court is: "Physician, heel thyself.” UNLESS Cleveland took his official guillotine with him when he went to the mountains, it • will be generously oiled and made to do double 4uty. ___ BRITISH politics and Briti sh morals are very bajlly mixed. An outbreak of the cholera might cause a little clearing up of the moral %tmosphere. It is said that the White House is in charge of Republican servants while the President is Absent. The White House, without the President in it, will possess no interest to Democrats. _____ British import and expert trade for the month of July shows a falling off of over *2O, 000,000, compared with July of last year. Dull times are not confined to America, after all. It is said that General Grant’s friends are indignant over the shameful treatment received by Rev. Newman, his chosen pastor. It was a shame the way he was twitted by a press hostile without reason. In comparing this year’s business w ith last, volume for volume, it should be borne in mind that prices have decreased, and the lame amount of money represents larger transactions. Where are the good times that Democracy promised? The public is excusable in beginning to wonder if the temporary vault at Riverside will not be Grant’s only monument for years. The apathy of New' York people gives coloi to sdie thought that nothing like a suitable memorial will be finished in a generation. The oldest Mason has died again. This time at Lynchburg, Ya. Unlike Washington’s colored servants and the men who fought under Napoleon, this class of citizens never becomes wholly extinct, though an extraordinary rate of mortality is steadily maintained. As might have been expected, Fort Erie, Ontario, protests against the appointment of an ex-Fenian raider. Let Mr. Nolan be recalled, and diplomatic relations with Canada be suspended. That seems to be the plan that will bo tried with Austria because of Keiley’s misfit. Maxwell, the alleged murderer of Preller, at St. Louis, has reached San Francisco, returning under charge of officers to submit to A trial. It has not yet been established that the body feund was not a "dummy.” The axplanation that the "murder'’ was simply a scheme to swindle life-insurance companies aeems plausible. The Pall Mall Gaz.ette is inclined to impeach its own honesty in making the nasty expose it did. It objects to the bill raising the age of consent from thirteen to eighteen, on the ground that such a measure will deprive a host of young girls of a means of livelihood. This is infamous, and well nigh dotroys all the good effect that the .loathesome revelations may have had. The Omaha Herald, one of the papers which, following in the lead of the New York Sun, has steadfastly refused to accept the finding of the celebiated electoral commission, now makes the solemn announcement that Grover Cleveland is the only man now living who was over elected to the presidency. Judging from this, the Herald seems to have private knowledge of the death of one S. J. Tilden. In the pressure of recent events in New York an svent of such minor importance might easily iscape the notice of the general public. Asa proof that the President recognizes the services of the mugwumps, the Washington Post refers to the time-worn case of Post master Pearson, and adds that "other instances in tho same direction could be mentioned, but are not necessary now.” Like the boy in school wLo is unable to answer the

pedagogue’s questions, the Post "knows, but can’t think." While the President is absent on his vacation the editor of this faithful organ might take a week off to study up the matter. When he finds a Republican, other than Pearson, who has been appointed to appease the mugwumps, let him make a note of it for the bonent of a skeptical public. The evil of boycotting, which has had its own way, though generally with indifferent results, will yet hang itself if given an opportunity. At best it is a mean game that two can play at—the victim and his friends can retaliate, and make the original boycotters equally uncomfortable. Boycotting, when confined to the individual immediately interested, is not so mean, for it is simply multiplied and organized individual resentment; but where it exceeds its proper functions, and lays its hands on those not interested in the matters in dispute, and attempts to compel co-operation, it becomes an unjustifiable act, and must foifeit the sympathy of all fairminded men. Because Jones does not like Smith is no reasonable excuse for Jones attempting to compel Robinson to join him in injuring Smith in person or business. This proposition is so reasonable that few honorable men can be persuaded, and no man of determination can be coerced into taking up a quarrel that is not his. If quarrel he must, he will take it out with the man who insisls on involving him. Boycotting never was, and never can be popular, except among men seeking revenge, and the feature that seeks to conscript allies never has and never can obtain in a free country inhabited by intelligent people. The practice has r.ow descended to saloonists, and if they don’t soon exhaust the little life that remains in this un-American scheme, human shame i3 a lost virtue. The saloonists of Louisville boycotted men who refused to vote for tho liquor men’3 candidates, openly threatening to withdraw all patronage from all such, and to break down their business if possible. This was contemptible enough; but the saloon men of Chicago went even a step further in the way of meanness, and boycotted a firm that made a business of manufacturing saloon fixtures because they Lad in their employ two men who did not drink, and had discharged thiee men who drank so much that they were not capablo of doing their work. There is nothing surprising in this. If boycotting is right, saloon-keepers have as much right as anybody to resort to it. The Chicago boycotters, unable to find fault with the firm’s way of doing business or the character of its wares, jumped onto it because it refused to allow other men to manage its affairs. The saloons should now take the final and inevitable step, and try to enlist outsiders in the crusade against the manufacturing firm that wants sober men for its mechanics. The meanness of this way of attempting to compel certain things is only more apparent in this instance because of tlie hateful reasons given. It is a manner of proceeding too hateful to find sympathy here, and should be abandoned. There is a lack of mutual understanding, not to say an absence of harmonj', between the mugwumps of the East aud their lonely but belligerent brethren of this vicinity, which is painful to note. Down East the gentlemen of the "higher altitude” insist upon it that the encounter between the Civil-service Commission and Jones resulted in the subjugation of the latter; that, in fact, it was a famous victory in which the bones of Jones were, figuratively speaking, scattered all over the State of Indiana. Jones, they say, was not guilty, but he is peniteut and will never do so any more, being intimidated by the majesty of the law as personified by Thoman, with four threatening mugwumps in the background. On the contrary, the four mugwumps themselves are by no means jubilant. as their despondent remarks to sympathetic reporters indicate. Jones may not have been guilty, but he put Republican employes out without cause, and placed incompetent Democrats in their places; he may be penitent. but this circumstance, singularly enough, does not convince the four mugwumps that he will not dismiss other subordinates and substitute others without that regard for civil-service laws so much to bo desired. They are by no means of the opinion that they have "downed ’ Jones, and though they propose to renew the attack, they have lost tho energy of expression and conqueringhero air which formerly distinguished them, and show no confidence in the favorable outcome of the second effort. They should, however, for their own sake, come to an understanding with distant members of their party, and thus escape comment by these mistaken brethren which can only be of a nature to harrow up their feelings. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has given a final and fatal stab to the timehonored wife's mother, deciding that the sou-in-law has no insurable iuterest in her, and hence cannot hope to come into a fortuuq through policies taken out on her life. The court makes the remarkable point that he is not legally liable for her support, and neither can inherit from the other. “The mere fact that ho mairied her daughter gives him no such pecuniary interest in the preservation of her life as to permit him to effect a valid insurance thereon for his benefit.” So rules the court, which further decides the policy of allowing insurance upon methers-in-law is against public morals. "As to the son-in-law,” the court remarks, "it is purely a gambling contract.” So much has been written on the relationship between the daughter's husband and her mother that it would seem superfluous

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to agair. go over the painful subject. Yet we cannot that the court should rule that about the only interest taken in the mother-in-law’s life on the part of the daughter's husband is purely a gambling contract. What is a young husband to do but work if he cannot put a ten-thousand-dollar policy on his wife’s mother and then remove the cistern cover and put a plug of soap on the top stair? The Brooklyn Union thinks it "pitiable enough that the Vice-president should be willing to talk about public affairs every time in his wanderings about the country he reaches a town where there are energetic reporters.” And pray, is there anything sacred about public affairs that they should not be talked about freely? Or, is there anything in the office of Vice-president which forbids the incumbent to discuss subjects which he may be supposed to know something about? Perhaps what the fastidious Brooklyn organ of the mugwumps objects to is that in talking politics the second official of the government is, perforce, talking "shop.” Mr. Hendricks, it must be admitted, is open to this criticism, but being a gentleman greatly given to observing the proprieties of life, he will doubtless desist from this infraction of the social laws now that the Brooklyn paper has called his attention to the matter. When Mr. St. John was burned in effigy by excitable and indignant citizens in sundry villages of the country after the late lamented election he laughed consumedly over the matter, but he seems, after all, to have been scorched by the indignation which those rather foolish flames represented. He now expresses the opinion that a party which will hang and burn in effigy an opposing candidate, in order to influence opinion, can never again be successful in this enlightened country. Mr. St. John will learn in the course of time that this is a selfish world, and will be grieved to find that few of the people whom he misled made a personal matter of the effigy business or took the indignity to himself so to heart that they failed to return to their old party allegianco and the ways of common sense. A GREAT deal of sport has been made of tho thousands who, inspired by the sufferings and death of General Grant, have rushed into verse. While it must be admitted that a vast deal of it was worthless, it is but just to say that in no past age of the world would it have been possible to have produced so much excellent verse. There has been no great poem among them, but that will come in time, as the subject assumes its true proportions. It is creditable alike to the affections of the people and to the memory of Grant, that so many sought expression in meter, and such a large per cent, did well. It would be very foolish for the doctors of this city to make a fight against paying the fines assessed against those delinquent in paying their license fees. It was a mean tiling to enter complaint against them, and tho object of the complainant and his coadjutors is easily understood; but tho doctors have for years been begging for some such law. Now let them honor it. Os a truth, all laws should be enforced, not as a source of revenue to somo impecunious or greedy citizen, but on general principles and for the public good. The eclipse of Sir Charles Dilko, now partial, threatens to become total and permanent. After all the stories of social shame that have come from London, it cannot be denied that a healthier public sentiment obtains there. It may bo that there, as in some other countries, the sin of being found out is greater than that of the offense itself. Still, it remains that British public sentiment is a little more exacting than elsewhere. The shadow that Baker Pasha cannot escape is an example of how such things blast a public mail’s life there. According to a cable dispatch Madame Patti has refused to accede to the request of the eccentric King of Bavaria, who desired her to give two operatic performances with himself as sole auditor. The priraa donna 6tates, as a reason for the refusal, that it would frighten her to sing on an empty stage. She suggests, however, that if he will fill the theater with soldiers it will be satisfactory to himself, and that she will give the performances for his benefit insured by tho sight of an audience against failure. This statement of the madame, with the polite fictions brushed away.means that she is simply afraid to be left alone with a crazy man, even though ho be a king, and that she doesn't want a large audience as a preventive of stage fright so much as to protect herself in case of emergency. O Kb:i LEY, dear Keiley, come home to us now, The clock iu the steeple strikes 'steen. ’Twas a gross and a bloody old war anyhow, Though you should not sav all that you moan. The mugwumps were after old Postmaster Jones— It looked like his scalp-lock must come; The Commission forg'ves him aud Cleveland condones; But, Keiley, you’d better come home. Come home! Come morne! Please Koiloy, dear Keiley, some homo. The sounds of wrangling among the theatrical fraternity, and the choice bits of scandal freshly put afloat iu which the same gentry figure, are signs sufficient to the wise roan that the dramatic season is getting ready to open. The Queen wore the famous Koh-i noor diamond when iu attendance upon Princess Beatrice's wedding. If Battenberg had the spirit of a man he would rush right off and buy a duplicate so * his bride. According to one of the New Y’ork papers the crowds at New York on Saturday, recognized President Cleveland through his resemblance to the caricatures of himself in the comic papers. Rev. Phillips Brooks, who talked at the rate of 213 words a minute in his sermon in Westminster Abbey, to the discomfiture of the stenographers, roust have left the braius of the Englishmen in his audieJee

in something of a whirl. The slow moving English mind is not so constituted as to be able to take in more than one hundred words in a minute with any degree of comfort ABOUT TEOPLE AND THINGS. The marriage is announced of Sophie Croizette, the French actress, to Jacques Stern, a Berlin banker. It is said thut W. I). Howells, tho novelist, has become embarrassed by the failure of James R. Osgood & Cos. Professor Maria Mitchell, of Vassar, has just been celebrating her sixty-seventh birthday anniversary at Lynn, Mass. Ex-Fresident Hates is getting thin. He keeps the lower part of his face hidden with his long beard, which is nearly gray. Only one respectable personal contribution has been made to the Grant fund in New York—that of Hamilton Fish for $2,500. Boston's famous lawyer, Sidney Bartlett, is eighty-six years old and estimated to be worth sl2-, 000,000, chiefly derived from excellent railroad speculations. This astute proverb comes from India: “It must always be the women who are in the wrong, and not the men, because men have reserved to themselves the right to decide what is right and what wrong.” Physicians in the Sandwich Islands have come to the conclusion that the only way to stop the alarming spread of leprosy is to begin vaccinating with leprosy microbes. They think the operation will be a success, but have found no one yet willing to submit to it. According to the Journal of Inebriety, of 202 Illinois physicians whose deaths are reported by the State Board of Health, six committed suicide, seven were poisoned by overdoses of chloral or morphine, and “over thirty were known to use spirits to excess.” A Manhattan (Kan.) citizen has in his possession the ticket he cast in voting for General Grant in 1808. It was printed on silk, and after it had been kept on file in the office of the clerk the time fixed by law, he obtained it, and will hand it down to his children as an heirloom. Emma Abbott's health has been improved by her season of rest. She is getting a trifle stout, and so has begun to walk six miles a day in tbe hope of keeping flesh down. She takes the matter coolly, however, and says pleasantly that it will never do for her to become any stouter than she is. Mrs. Vanderbilt, says a Saratoga correspondent, dresses in gauzy black toilettes, with her gray hair prettily crimped over the forehead and fine laces about her neck and hands. She wears very little jewelry—a tin}* diamond gin, a few rings and a watch. —and sits quietly on the piazza, reading, most of the day. The word consols is an abbreviation of the term consolidated annuities. The English consols differ from our national debt in this way: The principal may vary in amount, but the interest never. They constitute a perpetual obligation of the United Kingdom, bearing 3 per cent, interest, and representing aii irredeemable principal. Miss Hay, the daughter of the wealthy and letired merchant, John Hay, of Philadelphia, is noticeable at the New Jersey summer resort, Key West, on account of her diamonds. She wears a dog collar of diamonds outside of her walking dresses, a diamond buckle at her waist, large solitaire “headlight” earrings, and several rows of bracelets and rings. Encyclopaedia makiug is still the rage among the literati of Germany. Tho latest work of this kind is an “Allgemeine Naturkunde' —natural history in its broadest sense—which will fill seven or eight volumes, three being devoted to “The History of the Earth, ' two to “Plant Life and Man,” and three to “Ethnology.” The work will be issued by the Bibliograpliisches Institute of Leipzig. It cost £183,519,997 last year to keep the European armies in fighting trim. Russia is easily first with a total of more than <£40,000,000; France is second with more than .£33,500,000; Great Britain third with nearly £31,500,000 and, Germany fourth with over £22,500,000. Frauce is first with a national debt of over £960.000,000; Great Britain second with over £758,000,000; Russia third with £603,000,000, and Spain fourth with £501,000,000. A female office-seeker in Washington last week manoeuvred her way into the White House with six small children in tow, and made a most pathetic plea for an appointment which would enable nor to support her widowed brood. It was a neat bit of strategy, but it wofully miscarried when she was recoguized by one of the attendants. She was never married at all, and the squad of juveniles had been borrowed for the occasion. The author of so ingenious a device almost deserved success. London is a city of gardens. Even in the heart of the city proper yon are constantly stumblimr on verdant nooks bright with flowers. Comfortable benches abound, which are usually filled, more especially in such a summer as that with which England has this year been favored. Between 1 and 2 some of these haunts are full of young business men, who, after luncheon, seek their repose with a cigarette and newspaper for a precious half hour. The ground around St. Paul’s is now beautifully planted and bright with parterres. A writer in the Nineteenth Century asserts that the Tewiik Taslia, Khedive of Egypt, though stripped of power and given little opportunity to loam how to govern, has nevertheless addressed himself vigorously to the task of qualifying himself to rule; and in the years ho has passed as a puppet ou the throne of Egypt, has made a thorough study of the problem of self-government. There is an intimation that had he the unlimited power of his father he might turn out to be an energetic and sagacious prince. There is no probability, however, that he will be given a chance to show what is in him. When Riel’s counsel put in a plea of insanity in the prisoner’s behalf, says the Critic, the Canadian halfbreed sprang to his feet “completely thunderstruck.’. His protest was silenced. The man’s conduct in this emergency showed the justice of bis counsel’s plea. Situated as he was, n6 one but a madmau would have objected to an attempt to prove him insane. The defense failed, however. The jury found Riel guilty, but the foreman, with tears in his eyes, recommended him to the mercy of the crown. The crown, less impressionable than the juryman, sentenced him to be hangod. Whether he will be put to death or not is an open question. A friend in Canada says, in a private note: “You ask about Riel. He seems to me to be a Chinese Gordon sort of man—a crank in religion, and in other matters an odd compound of talent and folly? Ho has fine traits of character, and my impression is that he has meant well throughout.” CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. The loyal States all had to pay the direct war taxes, and many of them voluntarily paid more than the r proper share. Justice will not be strictly enforced among tho States until those in the South are compelled to bear their share of the direct taxes and refunds are made to the loyal States that paid more than was due.—Chicago Tribune. The Democratic party carried the election on certain promises of reform which it is bound to keep or else go to disgraceful and lasting defeat. The President, against the will of. as we believe, only a small part of the party, is honestly trying to redeem the party's promise. He and his Cabiuet remain faithful to the party’s engagements; and that is well for them. Nothing would be more fatal to the good fame of the President and his Cabinet than to succumb, under any pressure whatever, to the demands of the office-seeking brigade.—New York Herald. The country knows Grant's whole history by heart, and there is not a blurred or questionable page in it. No coming revelations can disturb the verdict that has been entered in his behalf as a soldier, a statesman and citizen. The more we learn of him the better reason we shall have for cherishing the recollection of his personality, and doing honor to his precious memory. His was the quality of greatness that time, and study, and comparison will tend to enlarge and exalt. He lived to know that his cotemporaries appreciated him in a just and generous way; but he died too soon to realize the full measure of praise and renown that he duly earned, and that will ultimately be awarded to him on a close and sufficent analysis of all that he did and all that he was.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The system of leased convict labor is as much behind the ago as noisome and unhealthy prisons. The just demand of an enlightened community is that criminals of every degree shall be treated as men, and not as brutes, and that vengence and torture shall not be the objects of punishment. It is stated that there is less feeling in the Southern States about the treatment of convicts, because so large a proportion of

them are colored. If this were true, the shame would be even greater. But the tone of many of the journals, and the hearty and generous indignation of the immediate community both in Georgia and South Carolina at tbe recent disclosures, shows the existence of a sound and vigorous public opinion which will oorrect so disgraceful aud inhuman a wrong.—Harper's Weekly. The spokesman of the Indianapolis mugwumps affirms that they are not going to give over the fight against Mr. Aquilla Jones. He observes that “the civil-service commission seems to interpret the law that there is absolutely no limit to a postmaster's power of removal, with or without cause, * and adds that this “is an evil and false interpretation of it.” If this young gentleman who thinks that he knows more about the law than the commission were not so extremely fresh, he would understand that the law does not touch at all the power of removal, and that Mr. Jones, in making removals without ciuse, has distinguished examples before him in the persons oi President Cleveland, the heads of departments and other Democratic functionaries of high and low degree. —Boston Journal. Whatever may be the desire of a faction of the Mexican people, it is not at all likely that the British government would undertake to bolster lip Mexico in any spirit of hostility to the United States, or would enter an alliance with that ropublic which would in the slightest degree imperil the pleasant relations now existing between England and this country. France, it will be remembered, attempted to effect a lodgment in Mexico, and the fate of poor M&ximilliau will be likely to prevent any other European power from making a similar venture. The Panama canal will probably not drift into British control, as is indicated by the Financier, nor is it likely that, if it is ever completed, England will do any, more than to prevent any other nation having exclusive control over it, aud that is in accord with the policy of the United States. —Washington Post. We have ip this country the finest system of public schools on the planet, and if young men can not or will not avail themselves oi tho advantages offered by these, it is idle folly to talk about educating them in the army. What the army needs now more than anything else is such a state of efficiency as will show that it is not the useless fixture it is repeesented to be. The privates are reported as deserting annually in great numbers because they are required to do the work of teamsters, harvesters, day laborers in officers' gardens, waiters at officers’ tables. Let the officers turn their attention in this direction, and if the allegations made are true, correct such abuses; make the soldier a soldier in reality, and not a day laborer or a servant in uniform, and the army will itself bo the best argument for its own usefulness, even in time of peace.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In relation to Keil^y—notwithstanding that the senators from Kentucky and Georgia can see no good reason why Austria should refuse to receive him —there are some excellent reasons why this country should be pleased rather than offended by Austria’s refusal, and the Times has no doubt that the bulk of Americans are pleased by it. Whether he is a proper diplomat for Austria to receive or not, he is not a proper diplomat for America to send to any power on earth. Tho citizen, who holds that the only foundation of our political unity is “a gross and bloody violation of public right” may be the most acceptable of men in the salons of kings, emperors and popes, but he is not a suitable representative of this nation there or anywhere. It is therefore gratifying to know that the surprising diplomatic career of Mr. Keiley is about to close sine die.—Chicago Times. A party reaching the control of tho government after a twenty-five years’ ticket of leave for treason, falls at once into a rending of its own intestines and its own President in a fight over the spoils of the country. It is as if anpll-aisciplined banditti had captured a diligence, and had turned upon their captain because of his deliberation in dividing tho o >oty. And what is the reason of tho complaint against Cleveland, and of that qualified praise which is real complaint, and of the sullen silence where there is neither expressed complaint nor distrustful praise, and of the general Democratic discontent? It is the charge or the apprehension that he will qualify his removals of Republicans from office by the principles of conduct of the civil service which lie professed when he was a candidate, and will treat honesty, capacity and fidelity in the officers and in the Democratic applicants as considerations. Only this and nothing more is the cause of all the Democratic discontent and distrust of Cl- veland.—The Ropublic. CAUTIOUS MINISTER DEN BY. He Knows Nothing About the Chinese, and Is Afraid to State llis Attitude. Interview in San Francisco Post. “All I want is to be fairly treated by tho press," said Col. Charles Denby, tho newlyappointed Miuister to China. Tho remark was addressed to a Post reporter, who was introduced to tho gentlemen in the smoking-room of tho Pullman palace car this morning at Sacramento. The Colonel had finished a battle with the wellknown sandwich of that benighted burg, aud its coffee, which is unequaled in the land. The reporter dropped into a proffered seat, and took a general survey of the now Minister. He was surrounded by passengers, who seemed to enjoy the situation, as he placidly puffed away at an imported Chinese cigar of the well-known Sacramento street braud, and prepared to stand off the interviewer. Colonel Denby is a man who would attract attention in almost any gathering, partly on account of his height, which is over six feet, but more on account of his bearing, which is quite commanding. Ho is broad-shouldered, has a large head, which is covered with close cropped iron gray hair, has a high beetling brow, deep sunk, clear, gray eyes, broad jaws and a massive chiu, which tells plainly that he is possessed of bulldog determination. His face is clean shaved, and his manner generally pleasant. He looked the reporter calmly in the eye, and continued: “Thus far, since my appointment, I have been misrepresented—misrepresented right along by the reporters, and I don’t think it is right. lam perfectly willing to talk, as 1 have nothing to conceal; but I want fair treatment.” “I wish to talk with you about tho subject that most concerns Californians, and that is the Chinese question. Are you in sympathy with the people of this State in their antagonism to tho Chinese?” ventured the reporter. “My dear sir, you are asking me to tell you something—to give an opinion of something about which I know little or nothing. I do not know the exact feeling of the Californians on the subject” “You certainly must have learned a great deal from the press about tho matter?” “Perhaps I could have done so, but I have had no incentive.” “Have you any idea what the evils of Chinese immigration are?” “I might say that I have not. What can you expect of one who has had his nose buried in law and law-books for the last thirty-three years, away off in the interior of Indiana? I suppose I know as much about them as the average citizen —just what I have gathered from the newspapers. I never saw a half dozen Chinese in my life before my appointment, and never spoke to but one in my life. How could I know anything about them or their customs?” “Would vou like to bo furnished with such information regarding the Mongols in this country as the authorities of San Francisco possess?” “Most certainly. That is just why I came here ten days before the steamer sails. I want to learn all I can—to hear all sides of tho question and post myself on the matter. I don’t want any formal reception, but I would like to meet your citizens and hear what they have to say. You see, I am, you might say, in the dark yet about thi3 mission. lam not informed on trade matters—don't know what I can do in that respect —but shall put forth my best efforts to encourage tho trade with that country. The Eastern papers, in published interviews with me, omitted the part where I spoke of Chinese immigration, and quoted only the remarks I made about international trade.” “Would you. like to meet the custom offkdal3 and discuss with them the Chinese cunninj'and duplicity in evading the restriction act?” ** “I expected to see them and obtain what information they had to give.” “To come to the point, what course do j*ou propose to pursue on this question of Chinese immigration?” “I shall administer the law, simply and to the letter. That is all I can do. lam an executive officer accredited to China, and all that devolves on me is to obey instructions. 1 have had those instructions from President Cleveland and Secretary Bayard. You know how they stand on the question. Bayard voted for the restriction bill, aud that tells where he is.” “What were President Cleveland’s instructions to you?” Colonel Denby smiled a cool, quizzical smilo, and showed that his training as a lawyer had not failed to make him a most adept dodger of questions. “Oh!" said he, “tho President is a queer man. I had several interviews with him. He told rue to administer the laws properly; that the laws were above me and above him, and that 1 had nothing to do but follow them. He’s a great man, 1 tell you; has more force about him, and is more up aud up than any other I ever saw." “Will you endeavor to induce tho Chinese government to co operate with tho American authorities in preventing infractions of the act?” “I shall perform my duty. It is not my busi ness to construe the law. If it does not suit the people of California, let them make a better one. I am a state’s rights Democrat, and you knew what that means," said he, in a very forcible

manner, taking a turn out into the aisle of thf car. “Do you think we are hoodlums here In California, or law-abiding, peaceable citizens, and do you think the people of California are noft able to judge of tho evils of which they complain?” “I have no prejudice either way. The people here ought certainly to know what they want; but as I have said before, I cannot express any prejudice pro nor con on this question, and the people ought to understand my position. Ik would not do for me to do so.” “I suppose you know that the people of thi* coast are prejudiced against you. having formed opinions of your position on the Chinese question from the speech you made at tho time you were serenaded shortly after your appointment. You, perhaps, remember that in that address yoa spoke very strongly in favor of the Chinese.” Oh, as regards that, if I had had any tie* that my remarks wore to be published, I never would have used such language. A man who i8 ca.ied out in the night that way cannot bo expected to lay out hi3 work and express himself as he otherwise would on mature reflection. I hat was merely an act of courtesy.” The Colonel was not aware of tho fact that th* people with whom he will com© in contact in Pekin are wholly different from the Cantonese or coolie* who come to this country, and in all his conversation showed that he is entirely ignorant of all matters pertaining to the Chinese and their customs. lie thought he might visit Chinatown while here, if some friend would conduct him through it Ho had calmly “stood” the reporter off on all leading questions, but tho latter let the gentleman breathe awhile, and then asked: “Do you believe that Chinese immigration is injurious to this couutrv and should be prohibited?” The question did not suit the Minister, and, after looking at it on all sides, he threw it over his shoulder by the remark: “Well, I don’t know. Yon see, I am in a peculiar position. If I criticise the law, I may offend the Senate, aud they might refuse to confirm mo. On the other hand, I might find myself in the samf fix that Keiley, the Minister to Austria, is in. The Austrian government refused to recoivo him on account of Lis avowed prejudices.” In the general conversation that followed, Colonel Denby strengthened his “peculiar position" to some extent by saying there was nothing in hi c career that would indicate that he is a sympathizer with the Chinese. He pointed to the fact that the people of his State knew “Tom Hendricks, the Vice president,” and that they ought to know how ho stood on the proposition. He cautiously indicated in a negative way his own views by saying that he had been a friend of Thomas H. for many years. GRANT AT VICKSBURG. How He Received Pemberton’s Tetter Announcing Ills Surrender. Springfield (Ohio) Special. Col. W. J. White, of this city, gives the following account of the reception of tho news of th* surrender of Vicksburg to General Grant: “I was tho bearer of three messages from Pemberton to Grant The first agreed to an armistice. The second, at 2 o'clock in the morning, contained certain stipulations of the surrender. The third, containing the communication of the surrender, I carried at 4 o'clock in the morning, and put it directly into the hands cf General Grant. I shall never forget the scene. General Grant was sitting under the trees, in the first gray dawn of a Southern morning. In his mouth was the inevitable cigar. Hie staff was up and dressed, aud stood around awaiting with feverish anxiety the tidings from the city. When I put the dispatch in General Grant’s hands he opened it with great deliberation. He read it carefully through without the least change of expression. Then, looking up, he exclaimed, witn half closed eyes, partly to himself and partly to his staff: “ ‘The thing is up. Tho dog is dead. Tha child is born, and they called him Anthony.’ “Where he got the expressions 1 do not know. This was all ho said. lie then read the text of the dispatch to his staff, and turned and dictated a reply to Adjutant Rawlins. He showed no emotion. Not a feature moved when he heard news which would have caused some commanders to shout with ioy. Ido not know where Grant g>t the above words, but they impressed me so that I copied them down. Grant was the only man I ever saw who did not dodge, or at least wink, when the minie-balJs rang past his head. I saw him stand at Vicksburg like a statue ten minutes at a time when the balls sang their ‘zip! zip!’ close to his ear, with tho frequency of tha ticking of a clock, but not an eyelid quivered.” TO WOOL-GROWERS. An Important Circular frou* the President of the National Association. To tho Wool-Growers of tho United Slates: It is now apparent that a determined effort to revise tho tariff lawo of tho United States will be made at the next session of Congress. It is understood that the object of those who will make this effort is a large reduction of revenue, an abandment of the principle of protection, but with such incidental protection as can be given to those industries and pursuits that obtain the attention and favor of Congress. The theory that all raw material should be oa > the free list, now urged by some who, in disguise are for free trade, and the neglect to adequately protect producers of wool, which has attended all past economic legislation, affords reason for profound apprehension by those who represent - this important agricultural pursuit. In order to keep such persons informed as to matters affecting their interests, aud to enable them hereafter to act harmoniously among themselves and unitedly with other industries that agree with their views, I desire to obtain the names and postofike address of each officer of all State and county wool-growing associations, aud also tho names and postoffice address of wool-growers in each State who desire information on this subject, tho object being to distribute, from time to time, among such persons, information calculated to keep wool-grower* informed as to the progress of all efforts affecting their interests. Tho aid of all officers of State and county associations, and all other friends of the cause, is respectfully and earnestly solicited in procuring the desired names. Letters couveying such names may be ad- * dressed to the uudersigned, care of Edward Young. No. 119 Maryland avenue, N. E., Washington, D. C. Yours truly, C. Delano, President National Wool-growors’ Association. “Funeral Obsequies” Is Correct. Tlio Republic. A well moaning friend criticises the phrase, “funeral obsequies,” used in last week’s Republic. A criticism to be worth anything should amount to something. “Funoral obsequies” i£ correct. Milton says: “Him I’ll solemnly attend t With silent obsequy and funeral train.” Obsequy has reference to the last duty performed to a deceased person, and funeral, used as an ad jective, means gloomy. Hence “funeral obsequies,” tho last gloomy "rites or duty performed at the grave or place of burial of any one. * Important If True. Report of Funeral. President Cleveland endured the long ride in an open carriage heroically. He was unable to get a favorable position around the tomb during tho ceremonies, as his right foot was asleep when he alighted from his carriage and be had difficulty in walking. Tho Situation as It Is. Pittsburg Dispatch. Mr. Hendricks will not antagonize the administration. The administration has the appoinVinent of postmasters in its control. Tho administration will not antagonize Mr. Hendricks. Mr. Hendricks has a largo number of Congressmen at his coat-tails. The Moonlight l’icuio. Pittsburg Dispatch. It is rather astonishing that the clergy should have fallen foul of roller skating and denounced it with such vigor, while they seotn to be wholly oblivious as to the more positive ovil of moonlight picnics and excursions. No Secret. Philadelphia Press. We betray no secret in stating that since th* ready made vindication of Postmaster Jones, o £ Indianapolis, Brother Hendricks regards him* self a bigger man than the administration.