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THE DAILY JOURNAL. r.Y JNO. C. NEW Jfc SON. SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1885. "twelve pages." Telephone Calls. Rnir.css Office. ‘J.'JS | Editorial Rooms 212 . . r IKDI ana seems to bo in tlio glanders belt. As everybody seems to bo in favor of the •nforcement of the laws, wo rise to ask why are they not enforced? wwirwaon him \irm\Lmm. ■ tm President Cleveland is in perfect health. The repot t that a physician had been sumrooned for him to his camp at Au Sable Forks is Mn. lloadly will need more ambulances this campaign than he used two years ago. He may have better physical health, but his political system is most dreadfully shattered. The smallpox at Montreal lias become epidemic almost, and from twenty-five to thirty new cases develop daily. The theaters and places of amusement have been closed on this account. —w—tom ii ■n i my> The. Democratic convention of Ohio declined. by an almost unanimous vote, to declare straitly against prohibition, but saddled tip old Sumptuary, and rode that venerable trick mule once more into the ring. mi- AMmJ S ——W—B—CTI A Oor.T'Mbus special says: '‘The convention wa3 universally admitted to be the coldest, the dreariest, the least interesting and the least enthusiastic State convention ever held by the Democratic party of Ohio.” sew - r jujirr.'x.'z u 'ms: > The absolute and unqualified success of the prohibitory law in lowa is demonstrated by the fact that in Cedar Rapids, where the Democratic State convention was heal, there 3 trv- more than one hundred saloons in full blast. The Washington special to the Louisville Courier-Journal says: ‘‘The nomination of Hon. George lloadly tor Governor of Ohio by ike Democrats creates no enthusiasm here. Tiio feeling Lore among Democrats was for Mr Thurman.” ■TX7. ;:mr!rna— jm jip A De mOC'RATIC exchange heads an article in its columns ‘‘How Postmasters May Steal jmd Escape.” This information is probably called out by vhe circumstance that so many recent appointees to office stoic and failed to tscape from j til.

A Wa stiingyon man declares that c-mmon table salt is a preventive of cholera. The formula is to take a teaspoonful morning, noon and night daily. This can be done oastlv, and if effective, is a very simple and available reme ly. n*t i me* -flUinocwr rreaawjn Mr. lloadly believes in “eternal principles,''and says that taxation i- not and should not be eternal when applied to the liquor saloons. Tile people generally do not imbibe Mr. lloadly*s prejudices against the taxation of the liquor traffic. Tiif next city campaign will not be conducted on personal likes or dislikes. Candidates will be named for their character and standing, and unless these arc at par they are very likely to find that a nomination does not mean an election, by any means. genr*. s "a* wr.i."srrc-m - ** m I lon. William Dorshometi has purchased the New York Star of John Kelly, and the paper will be run as an administration organ. That settles the paper. The days of "organs" are past forever in this country, while an administration that needs an "organ" is also settled. A WA v UfNOYOX special indicates that the administration is getting tired of appointing jail-birds on good recommendations. _ To remedy this it is proposed to publish the names of indorsers in every case that turns out to be scandalously unfit. Something of the kind is imperative. The Ohio Democratic platform is silent on the subject of the tariff, but it declares the Democracy to bo the friend of flic wool interest. Is it in favor of the restoration of the duty on wool or not? The convention was afraid to speak plainly upon the question. It dodged it in a most cowardly manner. r *. -<* ■ ■—BO m IT is not because State prohibitory laws are bad per se, that they fail, but because they are not based on the philosophical principle that ineffective law is, and must be, the outgrowth of an active public sentiment. This is what makes local option both philosophical and efficient in its ..pplication to the liquor traffic. Where is the American of seventy-five who ?an, like Mr. Gladstone, walk a distance of eighteen miles over a rough road for pleasure and “feel refreshed" after the exercise? The ex-Premier's "last legs” seem to boa very sturdy pair. But he has lost his voice, and the “grand old man” will probably never bo heard again on tho hustings. There is every opportunity for a commercial and industrial revival in Indianapolis. The only thing that can prevent it will bo tho dyspepsia of our business men. More pluck, more spirit, more energy; less growling, less complaining, le~s indifference—this ifc tho prescription that will bring health and Hnise up prostrate business. The success of the prohibitory law in lowa )i being constantly demonstrated. lowa ifcuggirts make monthly reports of liquor feles. Great numbers of invalids who doctor

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themselves seem to be under daily alcoholic treatment. For instance, a small dealer in Muscatine, whero all tho sanitary conditions are favorable, finds that it takes lifty-one feet’ of paper to enumerate his sales for a month. ITo sold as medicino 152 barrels of beer, eighty-nine gallons of whisky, nineteen of gin, seven of alcohol and three of brandy. THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. The Sunday Journal for to-morrow, (he 23d instant, will contain the first of the posthumous manuscripts of the late Hugh Conway. Tt is a powerful story, in one part, entitled "At What a Cost.” Besides this, the paper will contain a letter from Mr. Joseph Hatton, describing a holiday at Yarmouth, that old English seaport made classical by Charles Dickens, in David Copperfiold; a New York letter giving some interesting facts respecting youthful bread-winners in that great metropolis; the story of the Eighth Brigade, how it got the name of "Turchin’s Thieves,” by W. 11. Smith; a letter from Florida, by George W. Sears, "Nesmuck;” a paper on Thoreau's "Delightful Bit,” by Dr. A. W. Bray ton; "Other People and I,” by Garth Grafton; poems by I. Edgar Jones, Will Robert Williams, Will Wallar and other Indiana writers, besides the usual literary, local and miscellaneous features of our Sunday issue. The Sunday Journal can be had at qll places in the State where the regular daily is distributed and sold. If not to be procured, patrons will please inform tho publishers at once, and if possible arrangements will be at once made to supply the demand.

DR. LEONARD'S MISTAKE. Tho entrance of a man like Dr. Leonard into active partisan politics must be regarded as unfortunate, Loth for himself and for society. By the nature of his calling as a preacher ho has for long years been accustomed to dogmatic utterances, and the vestures of his office have interposed to save him from serious opposition and heated controversy. A minister of the gospel occupies a peculiar position. His wishes are seldom crossed, and his views,* even if not always accepted, are not often antagonized. lie lias his own way to a degree not vouchsafed a man in any other profession. The result is a man unfit to patiently engage in a heated fight like a political campaign, where there are blows to be taken as well as given. Tho bitterness, the acrimony of such a struggle, although well understood by old campaigners, arc often too much for the limited patience of the preacher. In the very first step of accepting a nomination Hie preacherpolitician is likely to make a very serious mis take, in not realizing how infallibly certain it will be that all of his weak points, his peccadilloes, will be laid bare during the canvass. Offenses that in others would bo no offense at all are quite certain to come to the surface, and he used against him for what they may be worth. A man familiar with the ins and outs of politics anticipates all this, and if his flaw’s are serious declines to attempt a canvass in his own behalf. But if they are trivial he accepts a nomination, confident, in the expectation of explaining them or of making them appear of no consequence. ]>r. Leonard’s mistake was in accepting a nomination bv the Prohibitionists when he should have known that his record as a strict temperance man was not water-tight. Had not past immunity made him careless, he would have known that the fact that he had once cured his dyspepsia by tho use of toast and ale would be almost certain to come up. Not realizing he accepted the nomination and entered the campaign, preaching with all the dogmatism characteristic of the man. Tlis vehemence in denouncing the Republican party for the benefit of the Democratic soon stirred up a feeling against him, as a man ungrateful for wliat the Republican party had done and attempted to do in Ohio in the way of temperance legislation, in every step of which it was opposed by Dr. Leonard’s present allies. It was this, as much as anything else, that brought forth tire story of his having once fallen back on beer as a remedy, an offense in itself that is no offense. 1 lore the reverend gentleman lost his head. Feeling that an honest admission would cause him to fall in tho respect of his special admirers and hurt him in his canvass, ho inconsiderately and heatedly declared tho story "au infamous lie.” It is doubtful if the issue would have been pressed, or, if pressed, that it would have done him harm, had he ignored it or honestly admitted its truth. But Lis peremptory denial compelled the gentleman who had innocently given currency to the story to vindicate himself, which he has done in a way that admits of no doubt of his sincerity, while Dr. Leonard now qualifies his denial by saying he has no recollection of using the "remedy” at camp-meet-ing. We have, them as a result of the preacher’s candidacy, au issue of veracity between him and a member of the same denomination, whose reputation for integrity is certainly as good as that of Dr. Leonard. Outsiders can easily understand how the Prohibitionist candidate could so far forget himself as to give the lie to an honest man. The impulse to deny a presumed harmful story was, wo may sav, natural. The heat of the occasion set this impulse into a sudden blaze, and it was done before ho realized. what he had done, and he was guilty of an offense fur more serious than that ol Laving used stock ale as remedy fur a distressing malady. His accuser is a member of the same denomina-

tion with himself, and was formerly a member of the church over which Dr. Leonard was pastor. It was during this intimate relationship that he called in his own plivaieian to prescribe for tho minister, and when ale was prescribed he kindly voluteered to pfctain a supply for him, which he did. All these facts are now supported by an affidavit, and a serious issue is raised between members of the same church. This is one of the unfortunate results of the pueaeher in party politics. But Dr. Leonard and his hot-headed followers are guilty of worse than that. A falsehood uttered in self-defense and in a moment of heat is not near so grave a matter as ungracious and persistent opposition to the best interests of society. The political prohibitionists of Ohio, whether they all realize it or not, are in league with the Democratic party of that State, which, as is well known, is unalterably opposed, not only to prohibition, but to any and all laws looking to the restriction of the liquor traffic, and for the encouragement of temperance among men. It is a reflection upon Dr. Leonard’s intelligence to say that ho does not know this. The Republican party has given Ohio the only temperance laws the State had. The Democratic party tore them to pieces, and in obedience to tho behest of the liquor dealers, a Democratic Supreme Court pronounced the latest enactments unconstitutional. Such is tho record. The candicacy of Dr. Leonard attempts to align the church on tho side of the breweries and bummers, the saloons and shoulder-hit-ters. Os course tho church, as a body, does not follow him into this ungrateful betrayal of the friends of temperance. But the Democratic party is giving the movement every aid and encouragement, and behind it tho saloons are doing tho same, in the confident hope that enough temperance votes may bo stolen from the Republican party to give the victory to the liquor interests. The nomination of a Prohibition ticket in Ohio this year is an anachronism, an exhibition .of ingratitude and absolute immorality without parallel. As it stands, Ohio hasn't even temperance legislation. The attempt to secure prohibition will simply perpetuate this state of affairs. Realizing this, the saloonists ask no better friends than Dr. Leonard and his ill-advised followers; and hence it is that tho Democratic party, the advocate and champion of the saloons, has nothing but encouragement for the political prohibition craze. Few intelligent men but understand 1 lie significance of such praise.

WESTERN METHODS IN THE EAST. It happens every now and then that the citizens of certain rural districts in Indiana, tired of the attempt to enforce law by legal means against liquor-sellers, take matters into their own hands, and burn or otherwise destroy the objectionable saloons ia the neighborhood. It is curious to note the instant condemnation which these lawless acts meet from newspapers and individuals never known to grow indignant over tho violations of law committed daily by the whisky dealers. It is also noticeable that in spite of tho stern reproofs administered to the perpetrators and would-be perpetrators of such "outrages” against tho honest, industrious and poor saloon-keepers, and the suggestion that they, the destructive citizens, be prosecuted and punished, prosecution seldom follows, and when it does, comes to nothing. The owner of the burned-out or drained-out saloon is usually only too glad to get away from such offensive partisan neighbors, and pence is apt to reign thereabouts for a considerable time after his departure. The people of Boston Lavo frequently been treated to moral dissertations upon the evil of enforcing the law according to the reprehensible Indiana method; but, being observant, have also noted tho other circumstance mentioned, without having their attention urgently called thereto either. In addition to being observant tho Bostonians are an imitative people, and it has occurred to some of them to test the Indiana plan right at home. Like tho young woman who was advised not to marry, they resolved to have a little experience with the evil thev were warned against. Possibly, too, like the rural Indianians who ruthlessly destroyed so much good whisky, these Bostonians had suffered untold sorrows from the destruction wrought by the beverage furnished in the saloons; fathers and husbands had perhaps gone down to death; sons were being lured along the slippery path, and there seemed no remedy. At all events, the Indiana plan has been tried in Boston. The "Elms/ which is described as a "well-known resort.” and seems to have been a "dive,” ha3 been entered by "vandals,” who left the establishment a total wreck. They did not burn, but they cut and slashed, not recklessly, but with system. 0:1 paintings were cut up by the midnight visitors, who seem to have had no souls for art; chairs to the number of 150 were broken into kindling wood; a !u v go quantity of bills, paid and unpaid, were torn to fragments; and, crowning infamy of ail, two thousand dollars' worth of fine liquors were "wasted” by being emptied into a puddle on the cellar floor. There is no clue to the perpetrators, the enormous dog left in charge of the premises declining to speak on the subject or to tell why he offeied no resistance to the intruders. It was all very wrong, of course; law which is not ignored by whisky sellers and the proprietors of dives should be respected by their victims at all co.-ts. Nevertheless, if the men and women who did the deed —doubtless there were women in the party—if they are discovered, some curiosity will be felt as to whether the punishment recommended by the righteous press of the city as

suitable for the Hoosier offenders will be meted out to them; or whether the sentiment against law-defying saloons is strong enough in Boston, as in tho rowdy West, to save them. When Colonel Snowden, superintendent of the Philadelphia mint, was removed a few weeks, since to make room for a Democrat, it was announced that his successor, Mr. Fox, Lad never been an active politician nor an ofensive partisan. For a man who had everything in this lino to learn Mr. Fox has shown remarkable ease and facility in becoming a shrewdand accomplished "worker.” if we may judge from the joy expressed by one of theso same administration papers over somo changes made in the mint. "Thirty solid men, all working Democrats/' were substituted in one day, we are told, for as many old employes, somo of whom were women. "Twenty-two wards given appointments, with nine wards left to be given their share in the next batch” shows that the inexperienced official has at least learned where to put men so they will do the most good. The further announcement that the good work of turning out Republicans is expected to proceed rapidly until there is not one left in the mint, indicates that Mr. Fox is a reformer after tho true party pattern. Mr. Fox’s was a purely civil-service reform appointment. The New York Sun says: "Tho most plausible explanation of the prevailing commercial depression in Great Britain and elsewhere is found in the recent rise in the value of gold. For five years or more prices of all kinds of comm/ lities, owing to this rise, have been steadily f/iling, and nobody can tell when the fall wVi stop. Consequently, nobody is willing to manufacture or buy more goods than are absolutely needed for immediate use, and nobody wants to invest in machinery for manufacturing more goods than can be manufactured with the machinery now in existence. Hence there is a two fold stagnation, one of the production of merchandise itself, and the other of the production of the machinery for producing it. The world has settled down to a dull jog trot of hand-to-mouth trade, and will not get out of it until there is a prospect of profit bv going faster. Protection in Great Britain, like the suspension of silver coinage here, will have no effect. Nothing but a rise in prices, or at least a cessation ot the fall in prices, wiil help the matter, and that, is much more likely to result from abandoning the gold standard than from obstinately maintaining it.”

The Philadelphia Press says: “It is now near]}’ a month since Professor Galdiiuvood made his assertion that the Prohibition campaigns in Ohio were paid for by the Democrats, lie gave specific facts to sustain ids charges, ami challenged both Prohibitionists and Democrats to deny bis statements. The latter have prudently said nothing, but the form<-r have tried to silence Mr. Caldervvood by heaping abuse upon him. He has borne it patiently for a time, but now he proposes to go to Ohio and meet his Prohibition accusers face to face. lie will make twelve speeches in the State during September. and will show conclusively that the Prohibition committee sold out. and that the Democratic committee was the purchaser. As he was present at the transaction, he says ho will give the names of the ‘three big-gun Prohibitionists connected with the scheme and challenge their denial.’ It is apparent that the Prohibitionists bitoff more than they can masticate when they attacked Professor C alder wood." “O. O. 5.,” in his Washington special, re marks: “Miss Sweet, however, it seems, is no more thoughtless than the other pension agents throughout the country, for none of them have evinced foresight sufficient to verify the rolls under their immediate control.” It is somewhat significant, in this connection, that Miss Sweet had just completed her own report to the bureau, showing 540 names on the rolls which should be erased, when General Black gave to the public his discoveiy of the wonderful mare’s nest. This was the result of Miss Sweet’s “foresight.” Os all the pinchbeck “reforms" of the present administration, this one of Commissioner Black’s seems to be the cheapest and paltriest. The Freeman proposes to standby President Cleveland until he “flunks” on the Grandpa Jones case. It says ho has not approved the report of the servile Civil-service Commission, and it affects to believe he will overrule it, and remove our postmaster. We can scarcely believo the expression of this hope to be genuine. When Mr. Cleveland overrides the report, removes Mr. Jones, and invites a contest with Mr. Hendricks and the anti-civil-service reform Democracy, the skies will fall and we shall all catch larks. When it is done tho Journal will inform its readers. When Rev. Dr. De La Matyr entered into party politics the bishop of his conference was very decided that he should take a “location," and he did. The Methodist Church does not look with much favor upon tho abandonment of tho work of the pulpit by its ministry. When Dr. Leonard comes before liis annual conference he may find the same sentiment confronting him that confronted Dr. De La Matyr. He may bo “located” until his party campaign is over, after which ho can attend to the work of a pastor. When the members of the Civil service Commission, or the President himself, initiate a war with Mr. Hendricks by the removal of Postmaster Jones, no one will bo quicker to give the proper credit than the Journal. But, in the meantime, we must be excused from holding any opinion of the civil-service board other than that they think more of their places than they do of the law; and of Mr. Cleveland that he is. and always has been, necessarily full of duplicity about the whole civil-service reform matter. The argument that a law increasing the age of consent from thirteen to sixteen years would work hardship to such girls as have already gone astray and have not reached the contemplated ago of immunity, should not be allowed to defeat it. There it little likelihood

of the new law being so rigidly enforced as that. Girls iu the swim of sin will hardly make complaint against those who have betrayed them simply because anew law makes it possible. The law would not apply to past offenses, anyhow. wmmx ■ ■ 9 m—mi iMMwtmsmmamxmzrmm One of the best commentaries upon human charity and love for the unfortunate is the New York Tribune's fresh-air fund, by which so many poor children have been enabled to visit the country for two weeks during tho summer. Tho total contributions to the enterprise this year already exceed SIB,OOO, and thousands of poverty-stricken boys and girls have thereby been made glad and given a new lease of life. It is a noble undertaking, and has been most nobly sustained. A CANAL is generally regarded as a slow, old-fashioned means of transportation. Yet during last year the Erie canal carried more grain to New York city by ten million bushels than dil all the railways combined. It was the canal that made New York a greater grain market than Philadelphia and Baltimore. The purpose now is to deepen it by a foot and to raise its banks by as much, so as to increase its carrying capacity. The most sincere Prohibitionist can but regret the division that has come into their ranks because of the supreme folly of a few restless spirits who were determined to be big men in an independent political party. What shall be said of the grief every loyal member of the Methodist Church must feel over such a state of affairs as has been precipitated by tho candidacy of Dr. Leonard? Suppose Dr. Leonard did take ale and toast for dyspepsia by prescription of his physician. There is no harm in that; the harm is in the heated denial of tho story, as though the charge were a heinous crime, and then being compelled to “crawfish.” It is conscious falsehood, and not the taking of ale and toast as medicine, for which Dr. Leonard is arraigned before the bar of public opinion. The twenty year old son of a wealthy real estate dealer of Washington has run away from home because his father whipped him for visiting the theater. Tho detectives are looking for the youth, and when they find him and bring him home, his father cannot punish him more severely, if lie is a boy of sound mind, than by taking him to the theater every night during the season. It will be a little rough on the parent, though, inasmuch as there are said to be sixtvseven new society and variety “dramas” in preparation for the road, in addition to tho large number left over from last year. The last man to see the great snake at Pierceville. this State, modestly says that he does not think it was more than ten inches in diameter. In view of tho fact that serpents even thirty feet long are seldom more than five or six inches in diameter, we think the Indiana man is certainly right in declaring that the Hoosier reptile is not more than twice that size. What this State has to fear about this thing is that Indiana whisky will fall into disfavor. The Chicago News is of opinion that the man of to day is doing too much “riding in chaises,” and is losing the ability to walk. Wo don’t know how it is about others, but Republicans have done more walking since March last than during all the time since they took that stroll through Dixie. William T. Carlton, the singer, wants it known that he is not the actor Carlton who committed suicide. Few men would want to be confounded with a crank who carried about with him the skull of a woman with original doggerel verse pasted on its forehead. The chief of police at Louisville, harassed by importunate creditors, has voluntarily sworn that ho does not own even the watch that he carries and the diamond lie sports. He might, somehow, struggle along without the jewels. Lyndon Center, Yt., is a hundred years old. and had its first fire on Thursday. Think of it! Tho first opportunity iu a century to holler “fire' loud enough to be heard in Rhode Island. The new Commissioner of Agriculture has received a box of strange seeds, wrapped carefully in silk, and is afraid to plant them. Perhaps he thinks infernal machines will come up. William Carlton, the actor, who committed suicide, was the author of “Fritz,” Jo Emmett's alleged play. The coroner need go no further in the investigation of the case.

AIiOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. General Joe Shei.by. the confederate raider, is now a dairyman in Bates county, Missouri. Tennyson boa -ts ti e ownership of a big deerhound which constantly follows him and which he calls his ‘‘faithful four-footed friend." The Town Council of Exeter, England, have just issued a circular, which has been sent round to the women of the city, instructing them liow to bring up babies. Miss Annie Janacschek, claiming to he own cousin to the groat German actress, is managing to keep her head above water by teaching swimming at the Newport natatorium. A Vienna physician has made a fortuue by selling “soul pills" to credulous people who believe that the nostrum will in some way or other improve the quality of their immortal souls. It is an odd fact that the women at the watering places written up by correspondents as the “be-t dressed" are the ones never heard of in “society" in New York or any other city. HawaRUKN, Mr. Gladstone's cmntrv-seat. in Flint shire, North Wales, is pronounced as if it were spelled Harden. It is a most delightful place, and is visited by many Americans as well as Englishmen. General Grant’s article on “The Siege of Vicksburg,” in the September Century, will be accompanied by the story of the other side, as contained in the dairy of a lady who was in the city during the siege. Two races of men are dying out—the Laplanders, who number 30,000, and the Maoris, of New Zealand, reduced from 100,000 to 45,000 since the days of Captain Cook, and likely to be extinct by the year 2000. It is repor ed by the Philadelphia Press that the novelist Crawford has a very flexible baritone voice, and justice also requires the statement that he is nbig man, Weighing 250 pounds or thereabouts, and good of course. The growth of tiie female population in the large cities is a remarkable feature of the census of the time. New York has a surplus of about 25,000 women, Boston of 18,000, Baltimore of 17,000, and 60 on through the whole list of cities in the East.

ft Fifty years ago the women stayed at home while the men came to the city to pur*no their careers. Now, both in Europe and in America, the women are crowding to the business centers. In Walla Walla valley may be seen eighty miles of continuous wheat fields along tho foot hills of the Blue mountains. The farmers continue to grow w heat, though they have to pay JO cent' per 100 pounds to get it to a market. Mu. George F. Watts, the English artist, has begun work or. a series of life-size paintings illustrating Iho life of Cain at three stages—as an enemy of heaven and a murderer, a* a fugitive from justice, and as a repentant old man. Ml siC-BOXEs wore invented about one hundrod year- ago. and are chietly made in Switzerland. Some oi them cost as lugh as $5,000, and are as large as a piano. J uis, perhaps, will give an idea how Highly they are thought of by some people. It is a curious fact, says the Ithaca Journal, that wasps nests often takcTire. as is snoposed, by tlio chemical action of the wax upon the material of which tho nest is composed. Many of the fires of unknown origin in hays, mks and farm buildings may thus be accounted for. Buenos Ayres is one of the mo t prosperous cities in the world, but we are so far removed from it that we hai dly realize its importance. It has a population of 400,009 people, and 150,000 emigrants arrive in it s harbor each year. There is no other city that can. show such rapid growth as this. Thomas Penrose, who has just died in Reading; Pa., at the age of ninety-four, had a theory as to long lite. He said with his last breach: ‘‘Tell the people not to take medicine, and not to be afraid of cold air or cold water.” When a young man lie made a vow never to swallow a uHfe. and he kept it. Ex-Senator sii ikon, of California, who recently entertained the English Sir Thomas and Lady Hesketh, his daughter, received from his lordship a bundle containing suits of seii ants’ livery. He sent them to his residence at Park, and when one of tho servants ventured out in the color and stockings of Europe he was mobbed in grand style by tho boye of the neighborhood. Beer is more dangerous than whisky. That is the verdict of the Scientific American, which sets forth that the use of beer is found to produce a species of degeneration of all -the organs; profound and deceptive fatty deposits; diminished circulation, conditions of congestion and perversion of functional activities, local inilamniations of both the liver and kidneys, are constantly present.. A slight injury, a severe cold, or a shock to the body or mind, will common ly provoke acute disease ending fatally in a beerdrinker. The Hank of England has been guarded every night since 1780 by a picked body of soldiery, which consists of two sergeants, two corporals, a drummer and twenty-nine privates, all under command of a chosen subaltern. The guard goes on duty between 5 and 7 o’clock in the evening, according to the season. Th® officer is given a dinner and a bottle of wine, each sergeant is given half a crown, each corporal 18 pence., and each private a shilling daily on going on duty. Besides the military guard there are many bank officials on duty through the night, most of them snoozing away tho hours comfortably iu enormous chairs provided for their use.

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. There is no use in any preliminary panic about cholera. It is not going to break out here. If it appearsjut all, it will come across the ocean like any other traveler. We shall know of its arrival in due season. Anterior to this announcement, all panics and scares arising from the condition of the Internal organs of a Detroit policeman or tlio eating of green apples by a woman in Toledo are premature and useless.—Chicago Times. Senator Edmunds, albeit a protectionist, is regarded with great favor by the free-trade doctrinaires as an ideal statesman. Possibly hi> plain and incisive comments upon the present condition of industrial England may induce reflection on their part. If overproduction has caused unexampled depression by glutting the English markets, it is not altogether safe to condemn protection in America as a-- a system tnai inevitably leads to the same result.—New York Tribune. >* .-ot .-o Rive the peasantry and the poorer classes of Ireland the opportunities to profit by their industry, their energy, their sobriety, and there will boa radical change in the industrial status of that country. To make the most of home resources it is necessary, first, that the workman shall know how to make the best use of liis own physical ana mental powers, ami second, that the moneyed classes co-operate with the laboring classes with tho purpose to dignity labor by paying for its best results.—Chicago Inter Ocean, Thus, ns ever before, there is a struggle between tho government <>f the United .States and an otganized rebellion in Utah against its authority. It is not the less a rebellion against the law because it is cloaked by pretended religious beliefs and obligations. What is really on trial is the existing law, and if that is not sufficiently effective to break up the authority of tlifi Mormon Church, and to put an end to its resistance, the enactment of some other law to that end will b® necessary, and will bo sustained by public opinion, —New York Tribune. If the Democratic House passes a bill reducing the tariff forty millions, and certain classes of manufacturers clamor for free raw materials, the Senate may be driven into a compromise, and duties be reduced to the extent of twenty or twenty-live millions. This will be the entering wedge for further reductions ia the future. It behooves tho friends of American labor to close up their ranks and prepare for a desperate st ruggle. There is no time to lose, and tariff organizations should be at once established all over tho country for the purpose of educating the people on a subject which affects their personal interests and tlio national prosperity.—Cleveland Leader. The intelligence that tho iron trade at Pittsburg has exnerieiiced a revival and has “a more favorable outlook than it ha- for many years,” is full of significance. As goes Pittsburg so goes the country in manufactures—that city is a very trade thermometer, not only in iron but in various other material interests as impoi taut. There have been other suggestions of the long-waited turn of affairs, but none as encouraging as this. Tilings are certainly on the mend, —the ‘ fall trade” feels it sensitjjy, a merchants remark on every side. At first the movement will b® slow; but there is a well-founded conviction upon those who have studied the signs that the cloud of de-, pression is about to be definitely lifted. The bear* luvvo had their day.—Philadelphia Telegraph. For the first time in the history of the country wa have an administration which refuses to let the people know what sentiments it holds upon issues wliicji pertain to their every-day*, material interests. They are told substantially that the one givat task and aim is to establish anew method of deciding between rival office-seekers, and preventing <>ne set of politicians fi <>m getting the advantage of another in that connection. To this object all else must be subordinated. That is what is meant when i is declared that the administration is solemnly dedicated to a policy of reform. The business of every section may languish, and traders lose heart, anil workingmen go unemployed; but all this is trivial to an administration that is nothing if not reformatory.—St. Louis Globe-Dem-ocrat. It was a part of the Democratic scheme to have th® Republican press antagonize the Methodist Church, the object lx ing to draw all the votes possible out of that boily to the Prohibition ticket. Dr. Leonard began his campaign by saying that no good Methodist could vote the Republican ticket, or words to that es feet. In opposing this pretension the Republican papers have not attacked the Methodist Church. They have taken pains to say that they attacked Dr. Leonard, and not the church which he is trying to drag into the political arena. Wo believe that this subject is clear enough to tho great mass of Methodists in Ohio. They can see very plainly the gome which Democratic managers and a few political Prohibitionists are trying to play, and there is no danger that any intelligent Methodist will fall into the trap. —Cleveland Leader. When the government buys the telegraph lines wa shall have the principle of monopoly firmly established instead of its being, as now, a transient phase of our industrial development; an evil inseparable from a period of transition, but an evil which carries in itself the seed- of its destruction. Had tho Western Union sought so faithfully to anticipate the nee sos the commercial community as it has to smother nil rivals, it might have been in a position today t o defy the shrewdest machinations of its enemies. Compared with any government telegraph, the Western Union has done well. Taking uito consideration the territory covered by its lines, and the sparse population to which it furnishes telegraph facilities, the service of this company is as good, ami its charges ar® as reasonable, as tho service and charges under th® English system. —Louisville Courier Journal. In their formal statement, the Knights of Labor striker* denounce certain judges of the United State* courts particularly Judres Treat, Brewer and Krekel, "for malfeasance in office and for high treason to th® American ixsoplc,” and demand their impeachment. These judges are men of tho highest standing ami character, and there are not many on the bench who have more fully deserved public confidence. But they have faithfully and itone.-My enforced laws enacted for the protection of citizens and companies in th® exercise of their lights. When strikeia have resorted to acts of violence, these judges have enforced t:.o law against them, precisely as t lyey would against other persons guilty of lawless violence, whether strikers or not. In effect, then, the strike is an organized resistance to the laws of certain States and 'f th® United States, and there will be not a little i bU® interest to sec how it results. —2ww dork Tribune*