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rHE DAILY JOURNAL. s*y JNO. C. XEW & SON. WASHINGTON OFFIC E—sls Fourteenth St. P. S. lISATII, Correspondent, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1883. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. mtU3 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE —POSTAGE PREPAID BY THE PUBLISHSSS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. One year, by mail $12.00 One jear, by mail, including Sunday 14.00 Fix months, by mail .... (1.00 Fix months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 Three mouths, 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 w eek, by carrier (in Indianapolis) .25 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. Per copy 5 cents One year, by mail $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL (WEEKLY EDITION.) Ore year SI.OO Less than one year and over three months. 10c per months. No subscription taken for less than three months. In clubs of five or over, atrents will take yearly sub.-criplions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for their work. Address JNO. C. NEW & SON, Publishers The Journal. Indianapolis. Ind. TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARTS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. liOrr.SVTLLE—O. T. Gearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. FT. LOUIS- Union News Company. Union Depot and Souther:: Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 23S | Editorial Rooms 212 Wren will tbo Civil-service Commission find timo to whitewash Mr. Dowling, the confessed briber? The two conspicuous examples of what Democratic civil-service reform has done for Indianapolis are Postmaster Jones and Mailclerk Dowling. llow do you like it? The prohibition movement in Ohio receives the most cordial approval of the liquor men. The church has not yet given its indorsement. Asa rule, the church does not favor anything that saloonists do in regard to their peculiar traffic. It is very certain that Dr. Leonard has done more harm to the cause of the church than he Ims good to that of prohibition. The belief has obtained hitherto that the former was as important as the latter. While attempting to save a stranger ho has dishonored bis home. The attractions of the post-office have proved too strong for the Toledo postmaster, and he has gone and announced that he can no longer be a wicked Republican but must become a real, reform Democrat. Colonel Dowling has shown himself to be an “offensive partisan,” and should be promptly removed.

According to the advices of Consul Lewis to the State Department, Rev. Mr. Samudu, a native Mohammedan, is carrying forward a Salvation Army movement in the interior of Africa that double discounts General Booth’s most brilliant achievements. Bishop Taylor should lose no time in uniting forces with this powerful new evangelist and missionary. John Kft.i.v, the beautiful, has given it as his opinion that a practical politician ought, first of all, to be a big, handsome fellow, with a genial manner and a frank expression of countenance. The only way an ugly man can succeed, is to have a head crammed with superior brains. Mr. Kelly is not arranging a graceful autobiography in this, but, it is thought, is simply giving Mr. Hill, who wants the Democratic nomination for Governor, a back-handed lick. It’ Mr. Ilill would learn New York politics he should sit at the feet of Gamaliel Kelly. BraDSTRF.F.t, for Saturday last, says that “the encouraging features of the general trade situation heretofore reported in this column have been repeated in special telegrams received by Ihadstreet’s this week." It specifies particularly an increasing business interest in Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Memphis and Burlington. It says the feeling of Activity in the iron market is quite noticeable and decided, .while the railway situation is improving, deterred, however, by the threatened Wabash troubles. With anything like a fair chance, and the bearance and forbearance of all classes, there is a good chance for a much-needed and reliable improvement in business and industry. A IJKCORD of the rascality of the defaulting postmaster at Lincolnville, Me., was, as it 2)<tw turns out, on file in the department at Washington, and luul been there for months, but had not reached tire hands of the First Assistant Postmaster-general when he reappointed the man. In order to prevent such annoying mistakes in future, tlio reports of defalcations and other unlawful acts on the part of officials will henceforth be placed by inspectors in envelopes of a distinctive color—a sickly yellow is the hue chosen —and will thus be sure of receiving immediato attention. This scheme may serve to protect the administration from the wicked men already in who want re-appointment; but how are the unhappy Mr. \ ilas and his assistants to judge of the probable degree of rascality in those applicants who have not previously held official position, and whose records there are no special inspectors to investigate? According to recent developments the careers of a couliderable number of these are of a sort to

figure in “distinctive” envelopes; but who shall be authorized to prepare and forward them. Ilappy thought! Let private detectives be appointed to look after the reputatiou and character of any man who aspires to office. This will relieve the perplexed heads of departments, give employment to a fresh installment of the hungry and thirsty, and, consequently, be satisfactory all round. The suggestion is purely philanthropic and disinterested, since truth compels the statement that the diflieulties of the reform administration with designing and wicked would-be postmasters are rather amusing than otherwise to hard-hearted Republicans in this dull season. ————Po— wmm THE SOUTH SIDE. In the approaching city election the South Side is especially interested in the nomination by both parties of the best attainable men. It is not a favored region in city legislation, and never has been, partly because it has been largely controlled in its primary meetings by Democratic party grubbers and ward bummers, through whom has come too often a class of councilmen who did little service and no credit, and partly because its separation by the frequently impassable barrier of the Union tracks from the larger section of the city has made it a sort of “no mans land,” to be appropriated by the railway companies pretty much as they pleased. So many of its residents aro engaged in one or the other of a few leading industries, railroading, pork-pack-ing, wood and metal working, that they are a sort of association of clans, and are thus more readily managed in the interest of some special industrial influence than they would be if their situation were changed. Thus it has come that city legislation has not done that section justice in the public improvements it needs, nor in the protection it pays for. It suffers from the sewage of the river that can't got to the water; from the sewage of Bay street that spreads. over the creek bod fora half a mile to the river: from the foul outflow of Sullivan’s poultry-house (whether he or the city is to blame, the South Side bears the burden); from the natural course of subterranean water streams that carry all the foulness that penetrate to them down by the southwest current to ruin wells and help disease; from the depredations of juvenile thieves who have made it impossible for any man to be sure of any crop of fruit or any stock of poultry; - from the increasing annoyance of steam whistles and howling hucksters, as abominable as they are useless. With men of character and brains from the lower wards in the Council many or all of these evils can be removed or alleviated. They can not be with men who are the agents of corruption, if not its recipients, or men whose heads are carried in the pockets of big corporations. No more men who will openly or secretly stand as the agents of monopoly, and no more of those who will boast of their own baseness in helping such interests, are wanted any where, and, least of all, in the §outh Side.

DEMOCRACY AND THE PROHIBITIONISTS. Dr. Leonard, the prohibition candidate for Governor, has been roundly abused by Re publican papers, and even charged with being a drinking man. The object of this abuse is supposed to be to convince the Prohibitionists that their interests lie with the Republican party. Now if the Prohibitionists should become convinced of this, and join the Republicans in the support of Judge Foraker, what will the liberal people have to say about it? —Cincinnati Enquirer. We do not remember of having seen the charge that Dr. Leonard is or has been “a drinking man,” and do not think that it has been made. The worst that was charged against him was that tipon one or two occasions he relieved himself of distressing maladies by the employment of intoxicants, which was not in exact harmony with the professions and assertions lie has made and is making as a political candidate. This, however, could not have worked him half the harm that his impetuous denial of the charge and subsequent retraction did. The fault with Dr. Leonard is not so much that he did or did not drink champagne for the cure of malaria and stock ale for dyspepsia; they were remedies regularly prescribed by a physician, and as such were “medicine" as much as quinine or rhubarb would have been. Nor do Republicans “abuse" him because he is a Prohibitionist. That is natural enough, for lie is a Methodist minister, and heart and soul opposed to the liquor traffic. Republicans find fault with Dr. Leonard because he and his followers are now in a line of work in which they reccdve the unqualified approval of every saloon-keeper and brewer in the State of Ohio. He is doing them a service for which they gladly contribute to defray the expense. The men behind the bar are very friendly to Dr. Leonard's candidacy. They will nut vote for him, but they will do all they can to induce Republicans to do so. They see an opportunity to perpetuate the liquor traffic, and not only that, but to make it absolutely free from bearing its just share of the public burden. The Democratic party guarantees that much, and it is all that can be asked. The Republican party has enacted laws regulating the traffic, and compelling it to pay a fair tax. The Democratic party undid all this, decided that the money was unlawfully paid, and gave saloon men their own way. For this the liquor-dealers are grateful to the Democratic party, and will do all they can to insure its success. This they can secure in no better way than to encourage men like Dr. Leonard in the fanatical attempt to reach the unattainable. The saloon-keepers of OLio know from experience that every vote diverted from the Republican party is by that much a guaranty of immunity from interference by law. They will not only continue the business, but will

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escape taxation, just a3 they do now, by action of a Democratic Supreme Court, which, obedience to party demands, killed the admirable temperance law passed by the Republican legislators of that State. The “liberal people,” that the Enquirer thinks would be lost to Foraker in event of the Prohibitionists laying aside their folly and voting the Republican ticket, are mostly with the Democratic party already. There -are very few Republicans in Ohio or elsewhere who think that the saloor s should escape their full share of the public expense. The solicitude of the Enquirer would he amusing if it were not insincere. The Prohibitionists are working in double harness this year, and their pulling mate is the very same “liberal people,” who can’t do too much to encourage impatient and hot-headed teraperf e men to defeat their own aims by betraying the only organized party that is formidable enough to cope with the Democratic party and its allies, the liquor interests of Ohio. BEATING TIME. The record has again been beaten on sea and on land. The trotting mare Maud S. has lowered her record by the fraction of a second, and many men have marveled, and the news was discussed all over the country. And now the great steamship Etruria has crossed the Atlantic from Fastnet Light to Sandy Ilook in less time by a few hours that ever vessel did. If it be a remarkable thing for a horse to travel a mile under the most favorable conditions, and draw a man that distance in two minutes and a few seconds, of how much more significance and worth is it for a fine ocean vessel to travel thousands of miles, and carry a thousand passengers more rapidly and more safely than ever vessel did before. The mile traveled by Maud S. in 2:09 1-4 is of very little practical use to any one. But one man could avail himself of it. and after he has got over the mile, wkafc of it, except tho “satisfaction” of owning a “flyer.” But when a steamship, with hundreds of souls on board, steadily draws them through the waves, and out of tho dangers that beset those who are obliged to go to sea, it means something to save days and hours. But a few years ago and it was considered an achievement to cross the Atlantic in but one direction in the time the Etruria now takes for a round trip. This means that the storms and dangers are lessened by half, since the passengers are exposed to them but half the time that they once were. It is a grand thing to be the builder of such a beat, and to be captain of it must boa source of honest pride. When speed means increased comfort and lessened danger to humanity, it contains all the elements of praiseworthiness. There is something majestic in the aspect of a flying floating palace on the Atlantic, and there is no cruelty in taxing its iron nerves, nor will its broad flanks show signs of evident distress when, by skill of builder, its graceful outlines lightly and easily cleave tho water.

The st. Louis Republican is a the straitest sect of the Pharisees. It refuses to be comforted, and will not strut in borrowed plumes. Referring to the resolutions of the Ohio Democrats congratulating the' President and his Cabinet on the present indication of revival to be discerned on the business horizon, the Republican remarks: “As the Republican policy continues just as the late Republican administration left it, one thing is certain, it is not the fruit of a Democratic policy.” The Republican recognises the fact that the Democratic administration has had no policy whatever, not even in the matter of civil-service reform, about which it has made so much fuss. No policy could be formulated that would embrace the appointment of Pearson, and of Higgins, or of many other of the contrary and antagonistic nominations that have been made. There is no financial or business policy. The “policy” of this administration is purely personal—for each member of it to do as he pleases, just as the temper of the day moves him. It is positively disgusting the way the “ladies" of St. Louis toady to Brooks, the murderer of Preller. It is said that on Saturday 200 “respectable ladies of culture and education" called on this man and presented him with bouquets, books and pretty trifles of various kinds, and evincing every pleasure at the honor of shaking hands with him. As a result he is naturally proud of his conquests and struts about his cell like a peacock. It would be interesting to publish a list of his cultured callers, not that that would deter them, but just to let the rest of St. Louis know how “respectable" and educated the ladies are. Brooks, instead of beiug the profligate Walter 11. Lennox Maxwell, is, as lias been shown, and as he himself admits, plain Mr. Brooks, a trifling dead beat, and, according to the evidence, a most despicable assassin. At the risk of making a slight mistake, we venture the opinion that not one really reputable woman has disgraced herself by calling upon the fellow. The Washington Post is, of the opinion that the Civil-service Commission has no business to go spying and prying about to discover whether or not Democratic office-holders are living up to the spirit as well as the letter of the law. The law is menaced, says the Post, bv such investigations as the one at Indianapolis, “where it barely escaped being rendered ludicrous and contemptible.” Incidentally, also, the Post is in favor of the resignation of Messrs. Eaton and Thoman as members of the commission, and the appointment of tvro good Democrats in their places, who will construe the law in strict

accordance with the principles of “reform,” which, as everybody knows, animate the party from Washington to Waukesha. The reconstructed commission will be warned in advance not to interfere with that interpretation of the “spirit" of the law which shall seem proper to each office-holder. Tho “letter” in that event can be depended upon to take care of itself. The proprietors and founders of tho Chicago Current, which has just died, are enterprising youmr men who personally deserved better success than they have attained in this unfortunate venture. It has not needed a very skillful reader of the future, however, to predict, at any time since the first appearance of the magazine, that its career would be brief. The Current was amateurish, and Lad too much of the scrap-book style in its make-up to be attractive to the average reader; but the main trouble, perhaps, was its mediocrity. Had it approached in literary quality the Eastern magazines, it might, eventually, have “caught on.” Had it been of tho sensational story-paper order, the managers might have achieved wealth if not fame. Having no distinctive strength in any department, but ail being of a moderate degree of literary respectability, it filled no field, and in spite of being advertised in the highest style of the art, and with an unusual disregard for facts, fell flat as its inevitable fate. There is a row in a Polish church in Chicago. An account of the trouble is published in a card signed by the officers of the organization including the names of Messrs, Binkowski, Bartcezezrcz, Nowak, Wojtalewron and Grayryk. Wo have not read the details, but, judging from the names, have no doubt that it must involve high treason, piracy and compound comminuted murder in the first degree. The Chicago Current seems to have struck a snag. This is too bad, in view of the “fact” that a fortnight ago it had a balance of $7,000 in its stroncr box at the end of a year's business. Its advertising rates certainly had nothing to do with its demise. The sum of “2,G00 francs par an” for a space no larger than a postage stamp was enough. If President Cleveland would take photographs of all his applicants and appointees, it might be of great service to detectives in tho future.—Chicago Inter Ocean. What s the use of duplicating the supply of photographs already in the hands of the police? When a New York daily devotes half a column to tho elopement of tho daughter of an Italian boot-black with a tailor's son, it may be asserted without fear of dispute that times are dull in the newspaper world. The American Base Ball Association has annulled the ten-day rule. We have all along been of the opinion that this was too light. The judge ought to make it SIOO and costs, and sixty days on tho stone pile.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Moody and Sankey are wanted in the South nest winter. SIR Michael Hicks-Beach says frankly that lie favors granting the right of suffrage to unmarried women. The Duke of Hamilton has refused to allow the United Presbyterians to crept a chapel on the island of Arran, on the plea that most of the inhabitants do not care for it. Her SciIALK: “How did you like the opera last night?’’ “I enjoyed it immensely; I tried my new antiphone [an instrument for deadening [sounds] for the tirst time.” Neal Dow has now reached his fourscore years, and Portland is in search of a professional philanthropist rvho wdll undertake to manage Maine morals when Neal Dow has gone. Mr. Howells is catching it again. A number of Boston women are rising up and saying that all his female characters are libels on the sex, and asking him what he means by such conduct. A bald-headed man in Louisville, about seventy years of age, was recently bitteu by a number of common house-flies and his blood so badly poisoned that some apprehension is felt as to his ultimate recovery. The young man named Blair who is accused of being too much of a busy-body as a member of the St. Louis Police Brard, is a son cf the famous Frank Blair. He appears to liavo inherited some of his father's strength of purpose. “Where a European takes his dog out for a walk," says the North China Mail, “a Chinaman carries a cage, imprisoned in which is a bird, and when lie sits down to rest he hangs the cage upon a tree in order that he may enjoy the flood of melody which is poured forth from the bird’s throat.” Princess Beatrice, upon the conclusion of the marriage ceremony, turned to the Queen and kissed her on both cheeks, afterwards kissing her hand. She then turned to Prince Alexander and the Princess of Battenberg and kissed them also. Her Majesty then kissed the bridegroom, who afterwards kissed the Queen’s hand. Bishop F. D. Huntington writes that a good Sunday issue of a newspaper keeps vast numbers of both sexes from church-going by a counter attraction. “It turns the scale adversely with multitudes who hesitate. It takes up agreeably the unoccupied hours. It is easier than church-going, and costs less.” This thq, Bishop regrets. A BASHFUL young Georgian, who was afraid to propose to his sweetheart, induced her to fire at him with a pistol, which he assured her was only loaded ■with powder, and after she had done so fell down and pretended to be dead. She threw herse f wildly upon tho body, calling him her darling and her beloved, whereupon he got up and married her. “THERE are women in this world,” says Rev. Sam Jones, “who haven’t struck a lick of work with their own hands for years. They board and lay round about: all they do is shop, shop, shop. Hell is full of such women as that. That sort cannot go to heaven.” The Rev. Sam would make a poor floor walker in a dry goods emporium. Ilis remarks w'ould hurt trade. Ex-Sf.nator McDonald, of Indiana, had a large audience the other day when he made an elaborate argument in some contested land cases before Secretary Lamar- Many prominent lawyers are engaged on both sides, and Senator McDonald created great amusement among them when he read from the Congressional Record to show that Mr. Lamar, when a senator, committed himself to McDonald’s side of the case by voting in the Senate in favor of McDonald's clients when the matter was before the body last winter. The distinguished president of Princeton College, Dr. McCosh, has two daughters, who are great walkers. They are in the habit ( f walking to Trenton and back, a distance of about twenty miles, where they do their shopping. One day a dude accosted Miss Bridget McCosh on the road and said, in the usual manner: “Beg pardon, but may I walk with you?” She replied, “Certainly,” and let herself out a ittle.- After the first half mile the masher began to gasp and then, as she passed tin with a smile-, he sat down panting on a mile stone and mopped the perspiration from his brow. Tourists used to go from St. Germain to see Monte Cristo the architectural folly of old Dumas, which he built at a cost of 700,000 francs, and sold, to get lid of an urgent, creditor, for 150.000 francs. It was an asylum in his time for all the masteriess dogs in the neighborhood, and the grounds were open to auybouy who felt tempted to use them as a promenade. The inhabitants of his menagerie, with whom he was on companionable terms, were almost human in th ir intelligence. Jugurtha, a vulture which he bought in

Algeria for 10 franco, and brought thence, iu anterailway timos, to Monte Cristo, at an expense of 50,000 francs, was the tyrant, and, to somo extent, tho scho hnaster, of Dumas’s private Zoo. All this is changed now. There is a high wall round the premises, W’ith broken ends of bottles stuck in tho mortar on tho summit. A ferocious dog menaces all those who try to peep in through the bars of tho gate. If the ghost of Dumas haunts the domain he created how ho must suffer in the presence of this Cerberus! LONDON Truth: I observe that the Rajah of Travaneore is dead. This, if I mistake not, is tho gentleman who was recently weighed against a mass of pme gold, in order that the gold might be distributed in charity—that is to say among the court officials. It is, of course, natural enough that these gentry should wish to have anew Rajah as often as possible, for the weighing process is undergone by every occupant of the throne. But if I were the next Rajah of Travailcore I should take good C3re not to be weighed until I had arrived at a period of existence when life was beginning to lose its charms. In speaking, at Chautauqua, of his thirty years’ intimate acquaintance with General Grant. General Clinton 15 Fiske said: “I knew him when he hauled cordwood that ho had cut to earn a living. I knew him through success and adversity, and never once heard him say a word that I should not repeat iu your presence. When he returned from Chautauqua I heard him say, ‘Here are two Bibles that were presented us; one for you, Julia, and one for me:’ and in a Bible which had been around the world, and iu which generals and crowned heads wrote their names over favorite verses, he was asked to write. Quickly he turned to the second chapter of Revelations and over the third verse wrote, ‘U. S. Grant.’ ” . CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. One of the mysteries of current politics is the continued existence of the Greenback faction in the West. It is easy to understand why certain leaders desire to keep themselves prominent, and. with all the experience that has been furnished, it is not difficult to appreciate that eraukish people may hold on to exploded views on any topic. The perplexity is in comprehending how intelligent American citizens can be got together in numbers sufficient for an organization on an issue which, if it ever had any reason in it. has long ceased to be applicable in public affairs, —Boston Herald. Constitutional amendments establishing prohibition have never been popular in the Southern States, and, whenever presented, they were mercilessly voted down: but in the South temperance legislation has taken the form of special onaetments prohibiting the sale of liquors in and about towns, and within a given distance of schools, asylums and churches. _ * * * No argument is needed to show the superiority of this over the Northern plan. Whether, as a result of it, there is less drinking in tho Southern States, is a matter that might be profitably investigated.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. REFORM ill politics and in the public service is the can^of the people, and the dissatisfaction of the politicians with the efforts to carry it out is no evidence of a popular dissatisfaction. Politicians themselves are forced to recognize this fact. When delegates come fresh from the people to give expression to party sentiment in conventions, T they have been freely anti fairly chosen they do not formulate into platforms the grumblings of office seekers, but the convictions of their constituents. Sagacious leaders themselves recognize the drift and force of popular sentiment, and yield to it, however reluctantly in some cases. Os this we have had some striking illustrations of late. and are in a fair way to have more as time passes.—New r York Times. Tiie experience of nations and of individuals has taught the world that certain principles of law and order are necessary to the existence of what we call civilization. It matters not what a man thinks, if he lives in peace in a community, he must come to the regulations adopted for the government of that community. A selfish man's object mav be to secure his own comfort and happiness at the expense of all others, but the object of government is to secure for the majority privileges and rights that will result in tho h .ppiness of the greatest numbers. The Anarchists, on tho other hand, say that all that religion has taught, or that legislation has wrought, or that experience has brought about, is wrong. It is w r rong not because tho people at large think so, but because a few individuals think so.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Why do the Prohibitionists want to have candidates of their own when they know they cannot be successful? There will be good men as well as bad men named for office this fall by both the great political parties. The temperance people can do much more in the interest of good government by supporting candidates who are worthy of public confidence and opposing those who arc not than by running n ticket of their own. There maybe a time when prohibition will become a political ‘ ‘issue.” but it certainly is not one now. Until it does become one the Prohibitionists can do much better service to the State, the county and the city by giving their hel > to jvorthy candidates than by putting a ticket of their own in the field without any chance of success.—Brooklyn Union. We are undoubtedly arriving at that point in our national progress when a sweeping reform is necessary in the matter of burying the dead. The scandal that all men are beginning to fear in connection with the expenses of the Grant funeral is only a larger illustration of smaller instances equal in demoralizing power. It is no secret anywhere that tho pomp and ceremony attendant upon the average burial cost twice or thrice what they are worth, and it is equally well known that, families who can but ill afford such display from false motives yet endeavor to imitate it. All over the country the same extravagances are apparent, and it is probably a fortunate thing for ail people that the Grant exercises made such extravagances particularly conspicuous.—Philadelphia Times. Thirty years ago there were not many people who looked for any practical outcome for Abolitionism. In the eyes of even such as sympathized with their object, the active Abolitionists were then generally -regarded as unpractical. Yet in the life of a single genoration so immense an advance has been m%de that it is difficult to-day to realize that slavery ever flourished with the consent and approval of the Nation. The abolition of war is indeed a much more onerous enterprise than that of slavery, and it does m>t appear at all probable that it could be brought about save through the most gradual processes. But if Christianity is really the religion of the highest races, and if the}' ever mean to endeavor to live up to it, it is obvious that war must be condemned totally in theory, and that a time must be looked forward to when practice can be harmonized with precept. The peace societies meantime ara facilitating the advent of that day to the best of their ability by educating the public conscience.—New York Tribune.

GOSSIP ABOUT BEECHER. Itumor that the Brooklyn Preacher Is About To Be Be tired on a Pension. New York better in Philadelphia Tunes. For somo weeks a rumor has been afloat in Brooklyn, and now it has crossed the East river, that the sermons or lectures Henry Ward Beecher has been delivering on Evolution—they will be concluded this autumn —will be the last regular discourses that will be heard from him in his capacity of pastor of Plymouth Church. He has frequently referred to them as the principal work of his clerical life, the work by which he would choose to be posthumously judged, as if he regarded them in some sort as the close of his long and distinguished ministerial career. For years the preacher’s congregation have, according to those in position to know, been more or less dissatisfied with what they call his vagaries, and would have invited him to resign if they had not thought it advisable, for manifest reasons. to sustain him, outwardly at least His energetic and vehement support of Cleveland last autumn deeply offended nearly two thirds of the members of his church, and this, in addition to all his other eccentricities, has. it is said, made them permanently indignant. They be lieve as he grows older that he gets queerer, and many of them are in constant apprehension of new and dangerous freaks on his part They were confident that he would retract his mugwumpism—he has been noted for his crustacean course—when they had informed him how heartily they disapproved it. and thev were all the angrier after they had discovered his oh stinacy. Their enduring patience has, it is said, been exhausted, and they intend to supers. de him after his seventy-second birthday, which will be next January. They do not. however, as I understand, propose to do this openly; they feel, after all that has occurred, that they cannot afford to. Just how they will manage is undetermined. They will probably eliminate him by degrees, bis successor, w hose name has not been mentioned, coming more and more to the front and he retiring more and more to the rear. It is altogether likely that his salary will be continued in whole or in part, and that tliejr determination to dispense with his services will be as adroitly concealed as possible. Persons have often speculated as to what Beecher would do if his salary were cut off. remembering that with it he is always financially behind. I do not suppose that it would make much difference with the erratic preacher whether he had $5,000 or $50,000 a year; he would surely be in debt in either case, as lie has been from tho start. Indeed bis in come from all sources is now, and has been for years, fully $.>0,000; but money seems to be of no benefit to him. His habit of getting what he cannot pay for rather increases, I am told, than diminishes with his years. If he sees anything he wants —and he wants everything that appeals to his fancy—he cannot resist tho temptation to

buy it on credit Hundreds of tradesmen of every kind know how hard, not to say impossible, it is to collect a bill of the Plymouth pastor. He must owo thousands and thousands of dollars to-day. much of which has been due for years, ‘ and will never be paid, in all probability. Beecher is incontestably a man of genius, a true orator, one of the most gifted of living preachers; but he is also, as many of his intimates ara obliged to admit, a man of grave mental and moral defects. Democratic Postofllco Intelligence. Clinton Argue. The latest and best joke on the new postoffic* administration is the one concerning the Indianapolis Sentinel. For some reason the Sentinel* failed to arrive. Complaints came in thick and fast from tho patrons. Correspondence and congratulations ensued. The clerks at Indianapolis were threatened with discharge. At last the pap?.rs were found in the postoffico her® addressed: Clinton. Ind., 1., B. & W., West. Meaning that they were intended for Clinton, Ind., and to come west by wav of the 1., B. &> W. railroad. They were unopened, aud held here for Mr. I. B. & W. West to come and get his mail. The boys ought to s<jt ’em up ou that. An Incident of Mr. Hendricks’s Boston Visit. Boston Special. An evening paptr says that one incident, and a very suggestive one, of Vice-president Hendricks’s recent visit to Boston, has remained untold in print. A prominent Democratic politician in whose composition the wit of his motherland is strongly represented was presented with, duo honor to the Vice president, who took his hand in cordial fashion, of course, and shook it heartily, whereupon the Boston Democratic statesman said: “Mr. Vice-presi-dent, I am very glad to have a shake from you, for it looks as though that is all we’re gc*ng to get from the present administration.” A Very Guarded Indorsement. Washington Post < Dem.) Looking at the matter fairly and impartially, recognizing the fact that Presidents aro human, and, therefore, like the rest of us, liable to err, and that there are honest differences of opinion between members of the same political party as between those of opposite politics, it is difficult to see how any Democrat can withhold his cordial indorsement of the present administration, though he may think some things have been done which ought to have been left undone, and though he reserve to himself the right, which every good citizen ought to exercise, of criticizing honestly and candidly its policy. Back Talk from a Mugwump to a Democrat. Boston Herald. The Brooklyn Eagle says: “Trying to enforce civil-service reform without turning the thieves out is like dosing a boy for tho green apple belly-ache while still keeping up his supply of unripe fruit.” Putting out spoilsmen of one party simply to make room for spoilsmen of the other very closely resembles the process indicated. A rascal is not less rascally because he happens to vote the right ticket. Will Dr. Leonard Do It? Cleveland Leader. Governor Hoadly is the attorney of the Saloonkeepers' Association, and we can see nothing in his character, or in the platform of his party, which should secure for him the friendly cooperation of tho Prohibition party. If I)r. Leonard wishes tho public to believe that he is not working in the interest of the Democratic party, he should at once challenge Iloadly to meet him in joint debate.

He Admires Full Dross. Cleveland Leader. Nothing could be more appropriate than that ♦he reception in honor of Hendricks and his wife, which was held at Waukesha, the Wisconsin watering place, on Thursday evening, should have been followed by a full dress ball. Hendricks is a great admirer of full dress, as he showed when he wore a broadcloth suit into the surf at Atlantic City. All Is Well. Chicago Nows. With Tom Hendricks dancing in a pigeontailed coat at Waukesha and old Bayliss Ilanna walking deck in a blue flannel shirt somewhere between here and .South America the affairs of the United States on both land and sea are comparatively safe. But that does not warrant us in taking our eye off Benjamin Franklin Butler tor ouo moment. News Away from Home. Charleston News and Courier. Now that Vice-president Hendricks has ranged himself alongside of the administration, and is going to puil lustily hereafter, it is expected that the car of reform will move forward with less friction, if not The Vice-president lias started ahead, by tho way, just iu the nick of time to keep from being run oVer. Meaner than Their Masters. Pittsburg Timos. The member of the Georgia Legislature v.ho objected to the Grant resolution turns out not to be a Georgia rebel, but a copperhead carpetbagger from Wisconsin. That’s always the way. It is the pup under the barn that keeps on barking long after the bulldog has gone to sleep. The Prohibition Farce. Now York Evening Post. Until tho friends of temperance master the elemental principle of popular government, that law is worthless, and worse than worthless, unless it has public sentiment behind it, th* prospect of their accomplishing much for the cause they have at heart is hopeless. The Democratic Situation. Minneapolis Tribune. The Democrats aro very sorry they Lave any fighting to do this fall. The question of “administration.” “anti-administration,” or “straddle” planks is a very perplexing one. Meanwhile the President is calmly fishing at the rate of about a quart a day. Need Assume No Responsibility. Chicago News. Mr. Hendricks says he is not responsible for errors committed by the President. Who in tho world said ho was? When Hendricks is appointed Cleveland’s guardian ad litem it will be time enough for him to define the limits of hi* responsibility. Fairly Well Kalsomined at Home. National Republican. Dilke should send an order to a United States Senate committee for a neat but not gaudy suit of whitewash. Our Senate can safely defy comp ‘tition in this line of work. A Call for an Interview. St Louis Globe-Democrat. An interview with Gen. Durbin Ward on th* political situation in Ohio would have considerable interest about this time; but not many papers would dare to print it until after the clos® of the camp meeting season. A Point Overlooked by the Lawyers. National Republican. One of the great afflictions of the age is the excessive cost of necessary litigation. We notic® iri the proceedings of the American Bar Association no proposition for the alleviation of this almost intolerable burden. Touching Faith in the Millionaires. New York Mail and Express. After the Grant monument fund has passed the $200,000 point, anew start can be made by raising the subscriptions of the customary liberal givers to a proper level. There Is Still Hope. Chicago Times. . It is believed at Washington that Mr. Manning will resign. However, the case is not so bad a* it might be; Mr. Higgins will not resign. Helping Him Out. Philadelphia Press. Wilde is puzzled to know what name t fasten upon his boy baby. If tho child is anything like his papa, we suggest “Sissy.” The Flirtatious Vice-President. Minneapolis Tribuue. Ex Congressman Calkins, of Indiana, say* Hendricks is “coquetting for 1358.” Why, th* tiidUy old thingl