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THE DAILY JOURNAL. IIY JXO. C. NFW A SOX. WASHINGTON OFFICK—SIS Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1885. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Items invariably in advance— postage prepaid BY THE PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. One year, by mail SI 2.00 One year, by mail, including Sunday 14.00 Six months, by mail .... 0.00 Fix 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 800 One month, by mail, including Sunday 1.20 Per week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) 25 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. Per copy 5 cents One year, by mail $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL. (WKSKLY EDITION.) One year SI.OO I/ess than one year and over three months, 10c per months. No subscription taken for less than three months. Jn clubs of live or over, agents will take yearly subscriptions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for their work. Address JNO. 0. NEW & SON, Publishers The Journal, Indianapolis, Ind. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Cu be found at the following places: lAlNDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 fctraau. PARTS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des C&nucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office. 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 Hon. John M. Palmer is “mentioned'’ for tbe Austrian misson. And to think of it. Less than a year ago Democrats spelled reform with a big R. A GOOD many Democrats are wondering how the President would look with a black eye. Dr. llip.e, of Louisiana, is the last man under indictment to be appointed under this reform administration. wmmm >-■ ux ■ i !■■■!■■' * Is Sir. Cleveland trying to see how despicable lie can make Democracy appear? If he is, his success is phenomenal. —n——W——Ml The quickest way to dispose of John Sherman’s speech is to say it is all “bloody shirt,” and make no attempt to answer it. Had Kciley been accepted abroad every loyal man in the Nation would have been insulted As it is they are only humiliated. STRANGE how that good word “junketing" Las fallen into disfavor among Democrats. It never was called for so loudly as now. It's a mixed metaphor to say that a warm wave is on the road, but it is a very comforting bit of intelligence to all interested in the immatured corn crop. Is thero a mugwump an3'where, from Androscoggin to Becrsheba, who thinks that had Mr. Blaine been elected one-tentli of the mischief would have beeti done the civil service that has been since March last? A Nebraska man has constructed a microscope powerful enough to detect the immortal soul as it leaves its tenement of clay. Somebody ought to get him to turn it on the present administration and see where civil-service reform comes in. NSmMnHNHjaaPHMM On Sunday, Sept. G, the Socialists of Chicago will parade, the intention being, if possible, to overshadow the labor pai’ade of the succeeding day. Let a fair test be made, and let no honest workingman be caught with tho Sunday bummers and idlers. How docs it happen that the first news of an apocryphal army of one hundred thousand natives was marching through African Georgia, and that a flood in China, destroying ten thouaand lives, should first find publicity through the department at Washington? Asa foreign news gatherer the departments have never been a conspicuous success. Col. C. Ciiaille Long, formerly a member of General Gordon’s staff, expresses the belief that Gordon is not dead, but that he escaped with as many of his followers from Khartoum as could be saved. He gives no other foundation for his theory than his knowlege of the man, who, he thinks, could readily have become converts! to Islamism, and made of himself a religious chief only sccond in superstitious devotion to the Malidi himself. Had Mr. Blaino been elected there would have been no McLean scandal, no Keiley scandal, no Meiere scandal, no Judd scandal, no Dowling scandal, no Dunton scandal, no Higgins scandal, no Dr. Hire scandal, no borrowing of gold, no transhipping of gold at great expense and for no known reason, no war on manufactures, no dismissal faithful and efficient public sonants to make places for thieves and bribers. But possibly that would not have been “civil service reform” a la mugwumpery. Keiley is filling the air with his plaints. Keiley is an ass, and more than an ass. Appointed minister to Rome, he signalized his ©ppreciation of the honor by making a speech In which he coarsely vilified the father of the present King of Italy, and also expressed his treasonable hatred of his own government.

Austria rejected him, very properly after Italy had, became to receive him would have been a discourtesy to a friendly power. All Europe having spewed the man out, there should bo manhood enough in the American government and people to kick the fellow into merited obscurity for the insult he gave to every loyal man in the Nation. DEPOT IMPROVEMENT. The commendable and enterprising spirit of the Union Railway Company of this city calls for the gratitude of the people, who should extend every encouragement to the company in the undertaking now so happily begun, with every indication of speedy completion. For years the depot facilities at this point have been totally inadequate to the demands made upon them. The old depot has long been too small for the amount of passenger traffic done. The structure, as everybody knows, was a low, piratical-looking thing, ill ventilated and scarcely lighted at all. Too narrow by half, and not long enough by thrice its length, trains were literally stuffed into it, the ends extending outside in either direction, reminding one of an attempt to cram a step-ladder into a valise. The citizens of Indianapolis were humiliated to a most trying degree, and did the best they could in apologizing for such a shabby old crib. They sought to bolster up the city’s pride by saying that the depot, cramped as it was, was noted from the fact that more trains came into and departed from it than into a*y similar structure in the world. Two other cities have a greater number of railways, but no other one depot attempts to accommodate so many. Knowing this and realizing the inadequacy of the shabby old pile to the duties expected of it, the last Legislature was appealed to to grant certain privileges asked for by the Union Railway Company, and Indianapolis stood by the bill and secured its passage. Early action was asked in order that the work of building anew structure might be undertaken in time to have it under roof before tho unfavorable fall weather should set in. A general feeling of rejoicing took possession of the people, and congratulations were frequent and hearty. After years of waiting and discomfort a structure was to be provided that would not only be large enough to do the business of the roads using it but would be an architectural ornament to the town. After the passage of the bill, and when all seemed propitious—for labor and material were at the lowest notch—the enterprise seemed to languish, and fears were entertained that it would be allowed to fail. But the Journal did not share these fears, confident in the trust imposed in such members of the Union Railway Company as had the interests of Indianapolis at heart. It was impossible to think that these enterprising and pushing gentlemen would fail to do their duty as citizens interested in the upbuilding of the city. Wo are now glad to bo able to say that this confidence was not misplaced; for while it is barely possible that a new depot will not be built for a generation or two to come, tho company shows every disposition to liberally spend its money to make our depot the peer in some respects of some other depots in somo other cities. A few weeks ago eighty-five cents’ worth of paint was purchased, and every drop of it .spread upon tho inside walls of the depot. It was a daring undertaking, but was carried out with the characteristic boldness and dash of tho company. Many thought that the improvements would stop at that, but the Journal thought that it knew the gentlemen too well to believe that they would give up short of something really worthy of them. Wo are glad to say that this confidence was not abused, and now the traveling public and the people of this city can have the proud satisfaction of knowing that at last something is being done. At this very moment a transformation is taking place in the old structure, it having been decided that anew floor should be laid. The boards—planks, we may say—are of the very best material procurable, being of seasoned oak and two inches in thickness. Those will be laid throughout, only such pc-rtions of the old floor being used as are not entirely worn out. When this improvement shall have been completed—and it is proceeding as rapidly as an entire section gang can and Indianapolis Union Depot will have one of the best floors in the country. Os course there will be some little disappointment in the fact that cherry or mahogany flooring was not used to match the encaustic tile dado and terracotta wall trimmings. It should be borne in mind, however, that either of these woods would be too dark, and would have a bad effect upon tho frescoes of the ceiling. The company, we think, has used rare taste in selecting oak. There is a richness and simplicity about oak that will become our depot; and when it is duly oiled and stained, and the Turkish rugs are laid between the tracks, we don't see bow anybody can compiaiu. lie was a mean man who compared the depot to a livery stable, and besides he was guilty of plagiarizing a very ancient chestnut. No, the company, considering the difficulty they had in securing the necessary legislation, are doing a noble work, and are entitled to unstinted praise for the faithfulness and persistence with which they have answered the needs and wishes of this people. One of the latest sensational rumors is that Postmaster-general Vilas is to he sent as minister to Austria, and that Postmaster Pearson, of New York, is to be made Postmaster-gen-eral. We can readily understand how tho President wants to relieve himself of Vilas, who is tho most conspicuous fraud and failure

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in prominent public office, the possible exception of General John C. Black; but the imagination staggers aghast at tho idea of Pearson as Postmaster-general. He is an upstart of tbe thirty-third degree, whose administration of the postoffice of New York is the most mediocre. There were a half-dozen postmasters in the country better officers than he, but, for some reason or other, he became the little tin god of ihe mugwumps. We do not believe there is the slightest truth in the report that he is to be taken into the Cabinet. IIIE passing of Arthur was bardly a circumstance to the passing of J. Lancelot Sullivan, on his way down from Boston to punch the head of the haughty McCaffrey. From the classic shades of Boston, from under the walls of Harvard, he passed to the historic fields of Massachusetts. Speeding still, he and his train crossed the domain of Rhode Island and Connecticut. By the beautiful Hudson he passed, yet stopped not nor staid. Nor city, nor town, nor hamlet, nor quiet country place; nor bleating of sheep nor lowing of kino tempted him. The wide-reaching meadow marshes of New Jersey and the rugered hills of Pennsylvania passed on either side, but he heeded not, nor did he raise his kingly head when his retainers came and told him how the multitude pi-essed about his car. Only at Pittsburg did he deign to notice the slavish homage paid him. There he graciously condescended to appear and to favor them with the sound of his voice. Great was the enthusiasm among tne honest people, and they fain would have ’kissed his hand but that he would not so humiliate himself. And the news of his coming spread afar, so that his advent into town was made among swarming masses of admiring humanity. And so it was that Sullivan, the mighty, went down to meet the champion of the Philistines. And tomorrow will he smite him and lay him low, and thousands will clap their hands and lift up their voices in great acclaim at the matchless prowess and glory of this man. But others still will stand afar eff and sullenly wag their heads and smite their breasts and say: ‘‘ls this American? Is this our boasted civilization?” But such as these shall not prevail against the will of tho multitude. The balm of Gilead, administered by non. John Sherman, is a nauseous dose to those superfine and sensitive souls who cannot bear to be told that there was any principle involved in the late war, and who rush with eager haste, hat in hand, to welcome to power the men who sing the praises of Jefferson Davis in the United States Senate. We feared this would be the case. One of our esteemed contemporaries is puzzled in its little heart to know whether Mr. Sherman or the Repub lican party is going to seed, while still another mournfully l-emarks that “those who looked for a statesmanlike utterance from Senator Sherman will have to turn away from his Mount Gilead speech with the reflection that there is no balm for tho people, no physician for the party.” This is intensely sad; yet the fact is that Mr. Sherman made his speech for full-gi’own men to read —men w r ho have backbone, and who are not afraid to say that the spirit that eulogizes Jefferson Davis in the United States Senate, and which lowers the national flag to half-mast over public buildings at the death of a traitor and scoundrel like Jacob Thompson, is not one to be encouraged if the future of free government is to be conserved. Mr. Slierman appeals to the men of the country, not to the manikins. In a lengthy article upon prohibition, Rev. Daniel Curry, the veteran Methodist editor-, writes of one phase of the movement in a manner that will evoke hearty approval from a gieat many earnest and sincere friends of prohibition. He says: “It need not be called in question that there are some able, earnest and honest workers in the cause among the professional and generally recognized leaders, but it is equally certain that there are enough among them of a different kind, who do not command the public confidence, and under whoso leadership not much good can be accomplished. For lack of the needed organization and the requisite oversight of tho work of temperance propagandism, there is a constant liability that it may be made to suffer from the presence and superserviceableness of a whole swarm of hangers-on—some of them simply cranks seeking notoriety, and some charlatans axid mountebanks, with their own selfish and often disreputable purposes to serve. No doubt that fact has tended more than it should have done to deter those who must lead in this work, if it shall succeed, from engaging in it. It may be both a delicate and a difficult work to weed out these tares, as here suggested; but it is indispensable to the success of the cause. The interests of both personal temperance—that is, total abstinence —and of prohibition require vei*y considerable modifications of the methods chiefly in use, and especially of the recognized leadership of the tvholo movement. This somebody must attend to, if success is to be achieved.” The Washington correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal sends tidings of great joy to his Democratic readers. He tells them of many extraordinary things the aduxinistration is about to do, among others, “You will also learn w r bere your money has gone to.” This will cause extreme pleasure to those patriots who were told by Mr. Hendricks and Mr. Voorhees, during the last campaign, that thero was a surplus of $400,000,000 in the Lnited States Treasury lying idle, and which should be distributed among the people, giving them about $8 a head. What has become of this money? It has suddenly vanished since the Democrats got control of the Treasury, and we do not now hear a word about a surplus. "Where is that money? should be the demand of every man simple enough to suppose that Messrs. Hendricks and Voorhees were telling the*

truth. If they are to he told "where your money has gone to,” it will be a real service to them. The Central Christian Advocate has the following paragraph, of more or less interest: <4 \Ve shall have no lack of imitators of Sam Jones, and it is the duty of our pastors not to give them the least encouragement. Persons write to us to get information about evangelists and lecturers of whom we have never heard. They have no clmrch relations, are without the least authority, and the only gift they possess is boldness and conceit. Have nothing to do with these tramps.” It will be a great day for the Christian church, and a greater day for the Christian religion, when churches sit down hard on all sorts of mountebankery carried on in the name of religion. Such travesties as have filled the land lately have done more to bring religion into contempt, and to make scoffers and infidels than all else put together. M—M)■>—lll—l I I T ■ 11 ■ The reform administration is involved in another scandal. We don’t refer to those that came to light last week, nor those of the week before, nor those of July, June, May, April and March, but a real nice fresh one of this week. General Black, who has tried to earn his salary by blacking the name of Miss Ada Sweet, pension agent at Chicago, has appointed Dr. nire examining surgeon for the Pension Office. Dr. Hire is a Louisiana gentleman now under indictment for prosecuting false claims against the government, and secured his appointment by forging names to bis petition. This country needs reform a great deal worse than it did March 4, 1885. Tite Philadelphia Press says: "A report in relation to the leather trade, just issued from the State Department, is likely to bring out the shocking results of the return to protection in Germany. Under the malignant influence £f this system, born, as it were, of ignorance of economic laws, the German manufacturer has distanced all his competitors in the leather industry, excepting only the other example of this pernicious system, the United States. He has founded large factories, he spent money introducing the best machinery, and has elevated production to the very highest degree of perfection. In doing this the German did not go to free-trade England for his machinery and suggestion, but to the protective United States, llow sad these facts must make freetraders, emanating, as they do, from the freetrade shop of the administration.” The lowa Republicans do not seem to be prevented .from telling the truth and talking like men by the petty taunts of the bloody shirt in the mouths of political invertebi'ates. The platform upon which Colonel Larrabee is nominated for Governor speaks with no uncertain sound. If Mrs. Walkup, arrested at Emporia,' Kan., for the murder of her husband, looks like her picture in the Cincinnati Enquirer, she is ugly enough to scare horses. Yet it has been said that she is a beauty. It is said that the Empress of Austria is suffering from toothache. It is all a lie, then, about Francis Joseph having slapped her for wanting to go to the skating-rink. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. General Von Moltke’s health is in a critical condition, and his death, it is feared, is near at hand. John Jaruett, the labor leader, is now at the head of a Pennsylvania temperance movement in the churches. It is said that Beacousfield had Sir Charles Dilke in his eye when ho drew the character of Waldershare in “Endvmion.” The ex-Eznprees of Mexico is forty-five. The doctors note an extraordinary improvement in her, and anticipate a complete recovery. Is it true that, when washing their faces, men always rub up and down and snort, while women apply the water and then stroke gently downward? The Supremo Court of British Columbia is the only place in America where the judges and lawyers wear the wigs and gowns of English usage. William Glynne Charles Gladstone is the full namo of the heir of Hawarden, the ex-Premier’s grandson, christened in London a few days ago. Dr. E. L. Nichols has demonstrated to his own satisfaction that men’s eyes are more sensitive than those of women to the colors red, yellow and green. The Crown Princess Stephanie, of Austria, contributed some original drawings for a picture book, and accepted pay at the rate given to other artists, though she presented the money to a charity. M. Althonse Daudet will soon finish a humoristic novel entitled “Tartarin au dela des Alpes,” which's a sequel to ‘Ties Aventures de Taratin de Tarascon.” The book will be published at the same times at Paris and Dresden. In Siam the cats have thoir tails banged and are dyed bright yellow; the forests abound with pink and white albino monkeys; the python and boa attain to gigantic proportions, and the people are singularly temperate. One of the most marked differences between English and Americans is their relative use of tea and coffee. The English now drink five times as much tea as coffee while the Americans drink eight times a3 much coffee as tea. The cutaneous exhalation of Alexander the Groat, according to Plutarch, had an odor of violets. A smell of prussic acid is said to be given off by darkcomplexioned individuals, while blondes are said to smell slightly of musk. Baltimore American: Nearly every day a leading citii.cn is shot in Kentucky, but the stock of leading citizens shows no signs of depletion. Every man in Kentucky, it seems, is a leading citizen, and he is never so leading as when he is shot by auother leading citizen. General Butler refused to speak on general political topics, but added: “I want you to disabuse your mind of the impression that there is any coyness or shyness in my refusing to talk. I simply am giving no study or attention whatever to politics, and am immersed entirely in my law business.” W. Mattiku Williams, in aseries of articles on the philosophy of clothing, attempts to demonstrate that women who have imbibed the Parisian notion that soap and water spoil the complexion, and who therefore only smear their skin with toi’.et vinegar or cosmetics, have dirtier faces than the blacksmith. The attractive young woman serves best as a clerk where men customers are in the majority. A small and pretty hand is the last thing desirable at a woman's glove counter, the buyers disliking, proprietors say, to buy of hands that can don gloves so much smaller and more shapely than their own. The New York Times announces the discovery that there are in the metropolis a number of young men who make a living by acting as escorts to married women who have acquired the taste for betting on turf events, and who visit the tracks without the company, and generally without the consent or knowledge of their husbands. MME. Patti paid the Marquis De Caux $.10,000 for her release, and it is reported that the diva is now negotiating with Mme Nicolina for the release of her husband, that she and the tenor may marry. Mine.

Nicolini asks $50,000 for her recreant husband, which is a big price for a tenor who can do nothing but play billiards. A TALL man sat with his wide-brimmed hat on at a Texan concert, and when commanded to remove it he said: “It’ll be worse if I do;” but those behind him insisted that he should uncover. He did so, and a mass of bristling hair stood stiffly out from his head in all directions, like the starched locks of imitation Circassian girls in museums. “I told you it’d bo worse if I did,” he remarked. Two great social leaders and polite and friendly rivals at Newport are Mrs. Belmont and Mrs. Kernochan. They have each cottages near together, and they each receive on Sunday afternoons. If one has a foreign minister, the other is sure to have an English beauty. One allows smoking and the other does not. There is also much rivalry in dress and in the introduction of novelties in decoration and entertainment. / Savages when pleased smilo and make gestures indicative of the pleasure of eating. Potherick says the natives on the upper Nile rubbed their bellies when he showed them beads. The Australians, says Leichhardt, smacked their lips and clacked their tongues when they saw his horses and kangaroo-dogs, while the Greenlanders, according to Cranz, when they affirm anything with pleasure suck down the air with a queer sound. . The white heather, of which Princess Beatrice’s bridal bouquet was made, does not differ, except in color, from that which covers the Highland hills, but initsvitgin whiteness it stands out among great clumps of purple liko a tiny spray of snow. They say in the far north that when the sheep, hardy devourera of the tender stem of the heather, come across it in their grazing, they avoid harming it, and that grouso have never been known to crush it with their wings. A GENTLEMAN just from Europe says that ex-At-torney-General Brewster has purchased some marvelous old china to add to the fabulous stores which used to make his dinner tables ‘‘a thing of beauty,” the same plates never reappearing after b.ing used for one courso. Among the treasures is a set of Sevres dessert plates that formerly belonged to Louis Philippe, and other bits of historic ware appear on his table. All of the silver bears the Brewster crest, and and much of the heavy old plate is of ancieut designs that tell a history by themselves. Anthing like his old Venetian and Bohemian glassware israrolymet with on dinner tables, and into his qnaiut old glasses there are poured some remarkable wines. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. If the olaborate enforcement of the necessity of protecting the citizen in his exercise of the right of suffrage, and that not only from personal violence, but from fraud in the count is waving the bloody shirt, then let it be unfurled until the end in view has been accomplished. The doctrine of forgiveness for rebels is sound, but it must not serve as a pretext for surrender of any principle of national justice, and Republicanism which the war secured. —Chicago Inter Ocean. What with vast tracts of the richest soil yet unoccupied, the revelation of unexpected fertility in what was once considered tfdesert” land, and the possibilities of doveloping what still seem to be arid regions, it is evident that thero is no occasion for getting worried over the notion that the country is filled up. It is the opinion of experts who have made a careful study of tho subject, including, we believe, General Francis A. Walker, late chief of the Census Bureau, that the area of land which invites settlement is still so large that it would not be exhausted inside of thirty years at the usual rate at which land has been taken up. —New York Evening Post. The amount of misery and wrong still caused by drink is very great. The selfishness and heartlessness of men render tho work of reform doubly difficult. But notwithstanding ail this, a dispassionate review of the situation discloses cause for hope. On the whole, temperance is gaining ground. On the whole, intemperance is being Pushed back. The work of the devoted souls who have toiled so faithfully is not without its tangible good effects. And it should not be forgotten that one of the consequences of an increasing sensibility is a tendency to exaggerate tho evil of the time, and to underestimate the changes for tha better which are taking placo.—New York Tribune. By a singular coincidence an example which affords a sharp contrast with the state of manufactures in Great Britain is at this precise moment presented in the United States. Amid general evidences of a revival of business in the East, a large Pennsylvania iron establishment has increased the wages of all its emEloyes, in some cases by as much as 20 per cent. It as not done this out of pure philanthropy, probably, but because of a rapidly growing demand for its product. We shall not be surprised to learn of a similar moverrent in nearlyr.il of our protected industries, and as England is driven more and more to confess the insufficiency of free trade as a preservative of her commercial greatness, the United States will reap increasing benefits from their wise traditional policy of fostering Amorican labor and enterprise.—San Francisco Chronicle. A Republican victory in Ohio this fall means an earnest effort to settle the liquor question decently and satisfaetorily. A Democratic victory means the continuanco of tho free-liquor regime. Respectable Democrats—there are some such in Ohio—ought for once to rise above their hide-bound devotion to party and vote the Republican ticket in order to get the perennial liquor question disposed of. There are national issues which will play a part in the Ohio campaign; but there can be no successful evading of the paramount local issue. The Republicans had hotter not trim or dodge; and it is not likely that they will attempt any equivocation. They represent the respectable public opinion of the State. The Prohibitionists will, of courso, be in close league with the Democrats, as usual, intent upon the disgrace of tho State.—Minneapolis Tribune. THE GRANT FUNERAL. Undertaker Merritt Denies that Excessive Charges Will lie MadeNew York Special. Undertake Stephen Merritt, who had tho funeral of General Grant in chargo, is making up his hill for the entire expenses of the funeral. There has been put in circulation stories to tho effect that when the cost of the ex-President’s burial should be made known the people would be shocked at the exorbitant rates charged. Mi. William Merritt says: "Tho statements that wo intended to charge excessively for General Grant's funeral are erroneous. That tho bill will be of an unusual amount, in comparison with any ordinary burial, of course any one with an ounce of common sense can understand. But so far a? its coming up to $30,000, because it may have to be paid by tho government, is concerned, that is nothing but a stretch of imagination for sensational purposes. When our bill is put in there will not bo one item that cannot stand full investigation or comparison. We have not yet completed the whole making out of the bill, and as to whether the expense will all be borne by the government, even that I cannot now state as a certainty. In the first place, when tho General died we received a telegraphic dispatch from Col. Fred Grant, at Mount McGregor, ordering us to come up that night and take charge of the body and funeral arrangements. Then, after that, we received a verbal order from Colonel Hodgos, of the Quartermaster’s Department, to have carriages and attendants on hand for the President, Vice president and General Hancock and staff, and the other military and official dignitaries. Then came the verbal order from tho War Department a3 to the canopy, or funeral car and other details. Well, the bill to the quartermaster we sent down today. To supply the carriages, we secured them all by contract for the day. They cost $lO each, there being 500 in all. while the carriages of the President, Vice president, and General Hancock and staff, will foot that expense up to something like $5,000. The hill for the War Department we will now send in, but the expense relating to the arrangements at Mount McGregor, and the casket, case and more private details, we will hold to receive further orders about. But we expect the government may take the wholo expense on its shoulders, as tho General was one of the country’s great men. The steel case which was made for the casket was furnished to us at cost price, and so it will go on the bill.” • Boycotting by Trades Unions. Boston Advertiser, It is impossible, in any occupation in which large numbers are employed, to maintain the trade union theory that none but its members shall be hired, and that they shall fix the price paid. This can he done only when all the avail able men suitable for that employment are members of the union. In other cases it will be, as it has been in the collieries of Pennsylvania, the Hocking Valley and the great iron mills of Pittsburg and Cleveland, that new labor, cheaper in every sense, will be brought from abroad, driving out the old. The experience in the past few years in thff way of strikes, and the riot which frequently follows, has pretty effectually persuaded both employers and employed that quarrels do not pay. Under the improved state of feeling thus produced, no labor reformer will deny that arbi

tration is effecting much in removing and adjusting causes of complaint on the part of organized labor. This is as it should be. Nothing lasting is accomplished by the "boycotting” system, which i3 vicious in theory. Here and there submission is compelled, but it is simply a temporary triumph of force. It is not right that a man should be driven outof a community, or deprived of a living, because he does not see fit to join a certain society, nor should his patrons or employers be proscribed. This is too much of a violation of fairness to be long sustained, and in the end it will bring to trades unions vastly more harm than good, t iv. ° ia,, ° rir }S men will have the full sympathy of the public in their efforts to live, they must b® omiged to “let live. *' The right of independent action is certainly as sacred as the right of associated action, and w ill bo sustained by publio sentiment and by law. A Civil-Service Examination. Albany Argus. "What is a well deserved holiday?” "Our administration enjoys a month in th* mountains fishing.” "Correct. Next boy. What is junketing?” "Any member of the opposite administrate# attending the funeral of his old father.” "That's right. Now, what is a statesman?” "The gentleman who runs our caucus in ward Four.” "Yes. And what is a pot-hou3e politician?” "The heeler nominated for President by th® other party.” “Right you are. What is a prnan of victory?* "Three cheers for our candidate. ‘•And what is a hideous hewl from a score of drunken throats?” "Three cheers for the other candidate.” "What is meant by the millions of free hearts and honest hands upon which rest tho hopes and destinies of tho Republic?” "Us.” “Aud to whom does ‘the groveling horde of blatant demagogues that, wallow in a foetid cesspool of festering corruption’ refer?” "Them.” • “Correct all around. To morrow bring your Blue Book to school with you, and we'll pick out what is good for you. Remember, on the way home, the opposition members all live on th® shady side of the street. The pupils will find a basketful of stones in tho front area as they pass out. Now, be good boys, and don’t creat® any disturbance. The class is dismissed.” Interviewing Mr. Tilden. Brooklyn Union. Mr. Tilden’s big house in Gramercy Park if kept in order by the servants. Mr. Tilden himself is never a conspicuous object about ik V* hen living in it he is seen only in passing t® and from his carriage. His big .mastiff, which he bought at the dog show a couple of years ago, is not as retiring. The stout, shaggy fellow rushes from the house to the stable around tho corner in Irving place, and he makes the cat® climb for dear life. He is at Greystoue, Mr. Tilden’s country place, now. Reporters have a hard time of it interviewing Mr. Tilden. On® went up to Greystone by direction of the chief editor of his paper. Mr. Tilden came into the parlor and the reporter stated that he was commissioned by the "chief” to put a few questions to him. Mr. Tilden bowed and the reporter proceeded. Ha asked questions until he sto>>ped of his own accord. He paused, too. after each one for soma time, but he did not receive a single reply. Mr. Tilden simply looked at him in a benevolent sort of way. Finally the reporter arose, and saying good day, for which a bow was returned, doparted. The reporter had a good sense of humor, aud ho wanted to write the interview up as it occurred, but his chief did not deem it advisable. Mr. Tilden seemed to eujoy it very much, th® reporter said. His unimpaired eye twinkled, although his features did not relax, and he treated it, outwardly, as the most serious thing in the world. Not Frostbitten. Boston Transcript. We have yet to read an advertisement lik® this: "The proprietor of the Bucolic Hotel informs his former patrons that the late frost in tho mountain regions has had no effect upon hi# supply of "fresh vegetables, which he had take® the precaution to keed in cans, and consequently his table is as well supplied as heretofore with all the delicacies of the season.” The Best Cholera Preventive. Chicago Tribune. The thorough cooking of food and the scrupulous boiling of all the water that comes in contact with the body, either externally or {internally, are the best possible safeguards against th® cholera, especially when they are superadded t® a wholesome scrutiny of the material used and an avoidance of all that is reasonably open to suspicion. Mr. Vilas’s Infamous Library, National Republican. There is one reform measure that should b# promptly attended to—the total destruction of large masses of defamatory matter filed in th® Postoffice Department. It was got up and sent here under the inspiration of the "offensiv® partisan” circular. It is a disgrace to the country to have such papers preserved in any department. Peculiarity of Mugwump Hunting. New York Sun. It is a peculiarity of mugwump hunting that when you think you’ve got one you havou’t. Capricious, agile minded, volatilo, vexatious, tha mugwump is the pulex irritans of politics. Th Democrats will save themselves a good deal oj; trouble by leaving to tho Republicans th# pleasures of this chase. Popular Kentucky Theology. New York Tribune. "Next to a pretty woman,” says the Rev. San Jones, "I love a fast horse.” He has only t® make a trinity of the objects of his affection by including a sample of the best at ten cents a glass to make his theology as popular in Kontucky as Brother Watterson’s ill starred goddes# of reform. Liquor in Maine. Watervillo (Mo.) Sentinel. There isn’t a place in the State of Maine larg# enough to contain three stores where liquor can* not be obtained by those who want it and use it. Them's our sentiments, notwithstanding all th® law and the sentiment in the State to-day. He Is Turning the Rascals Out. New York Sun. Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois, Asaistanl Postmaster-general, is pre eminently the right man in the right place. What if the people, appreciating his merits, should say to him ig due time, "Adlai, go up higher!” A Hopeless Experiment. Philadelphia Press. The proprietors of the Current ought to hav# known that any effort to establish a literary magazine in Chicago was bound to fail. They might just as well have tried to graft a violet on a basswood tree. To Whom? Brooklyn Union. An exchange is of the opinion that the reason a certain acrobatic clergyman has his life insured for SOO,OOO, is that he is apprehensive h may break his neck while preaching some day. A Pennsylvania Day. Pittsburg Chronicle, Conrad B. Day, the Democratic nominee foe Stato Treasurer, is described as a man of calm, cool demeanor. He is no doubt tho cold Day when the Democracy gets lett. Why They Want Eaton’s Place. Philadelphia Pross. The spoilsmen are clamoring for tho dismissal of Civil servieo Commissioner Eaton. We suspect they want to give his place to Aquilla Jone% of Indianapolis. A Very Natural Feeling. Milwaukee Sentinel. "My God! what crime can I be suspected of?" exclaimed a man with a hitherto unclouded reputation, when ho received his commission a® postmaster. Hide Before Taking. Pit tuburg Commercial Gazette. The Prohibition cure for dyspepsia is stock ale and dry toast. The medicine must be take® cither "in the bushes” or "behind the door.*