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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. er ,*r~ 1 ■— WASHINGTON OFFICE-513 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1885. RATES OF SUBSCR" TION. M<i IXVARIABLT TV ADVANCE —* OSTAGE PREPAID BY THE PUBLISHED THE DAILY JOURSAL One .veer, by mail $12.00 One year, by mail, including Sunday 14.00 fit* months, by mail .. 0.00 R* months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 Three months, by mail. 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 On month, by mail 1.00 On* month, by mail, including Sunday 1.20 Per week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) 25 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL Prrcopr 5 cents Ofce year, by mail $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL (WEEKLY EDITION.) One year SI.OO lies* than one year and ovor throe months. 10c per aaonths. No subscription taken for less than three jßoaths. in clubs of five 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 Cab be found at the following places: LONDON —American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. TARTS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. MXW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. It Hawley Sc Cos., 154 Vine street IjOTJTSVTLLTJ —C. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOTTS—Union News Company. Union Depot •nd Southern Hotel r Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 The New York Sun says General Wallace’s presence in Turkey is to offer to the Porte a new torpedo. The Mikado of Japan has just celebrated his thirty-eighth birthday. It will be remembered that he played in Indianapolis a few weeks ago. He’s younger than he looks. Governor Hill is described as having a violent antipathy to everything feminine. Perhaps this is the real reason why the Misses Mugwump were so bitterly opposed to him. It might have been better had the Panelectric Telephone Company given a part of that million and a half of stock to Secretary Lamar, for it is before him that the Bell patents are being argued. It is possible, however, that Mr. Garland has divided. Will Judge Ayres quietly rest under the contempt put upon his court by “Sim’' Coy and his gang? Coy said, “Damn Ayres; he isn't our kind.” Up to date there is nothing to show that the Judge is not as complacent a man as the great Democratic "boss” could desire. TilE New York Times is vying with Puck E 8 a comic paper. It opens a leading article with the sentence: ‘ ‘lt is clear that the number of the independents in the State of New York has been greatly underestimated, even by the independents themselves.” If this be true, it starts the inquiry, how many the independents estimated themselves to be? We havo always understood they claimed to number more than one thousand.

Tits. Washington Post, official organ of the administration, comes to the defense of Tammany against the Republican charges that it is and has been a corrupt and vile political organization. There is no longer any room for doubt that the President is a Democrat in all the word implies. The New York election was rather a cold bath; but it washed off all the '‘reform*’ hypocrisy, and shows him a3 he is, to all who are not willfully blinded. Jones, of Binghamton, Lieutenant-gov-ernor elect of New York, was assessed $2,000 for campaign expenses. Now that the election 4s over he sees no reason why he should pay it, and he doesn’t pay it, but smiles sardonically when the bill is presented. The convention thought it was doing Jones an honor, but that individual evidently belioves the honor of having him on the ticket was enough, and that he owes them nothing after giving the use of his name. TnE Democrats of Ohio are looking to the Supreme Court of the State to help them in their attempt to steal the Legislature. The Sun says: ‘ The proceedings of the next few days will be awaited with great interest, and if this last desperate effort to steal a State Senate is seriously pushed, half the population of Ohio will wait with serious faces to learn what lengths a partisan Democratic court may go to in helping to establish fraud and forgery in elections.” After having devoted itself for somo months to a di&tant and unavailing contemplation of the government loaves and fishes the Atlanta Constitution returns to its now somewhat stale mutton, and again urges Northern capitalists to make investments in the South. For reasons which it would really be unkind to repeat to the Constitution, Northern capital seems little more inclined to flow Southward than formerly, notwithstanding the fact that the advent of a Democratic administration has, in the words of the organs, given assurance of peace and prosperity in all the States. Rev. J. D. Barbee, D. D., pastor of a ikurch at Nashville, Teun., is a hard-headed raan of practical ideas, who takes no stock in t&e faith-cure craze now prevailing in certain •actions of the country. In spite of the fact that quite an interest has been shown in that

city in the subject, and that meetings of the believers have been held there for a year past, and claims made that miraculous cures have been effected, Dr. Barbee is still obstinate, and in a sermon on Sunday night offered to raise SIO,OOO to give to any believer or practicer of faith cure who will, in an hour, week, month or year, cure by faith a case that a number of reliable physicians would pronounce incurable. lie was severe in his remarks, and the sermon is the talk of the town. This is an opportunity that should not be lost. The sum of SIO,OOO is enough to endow a faith-cure chair in some coilege, or to build a church for that faith. THE PROHIBITION MOVEMENT IN THE SOUTH The question of prohibition, which has cut such a figare in politics in Northern States, to the cost of the Republican party, will soon appear to trouble the Democratic camp. From present indications Georgia is about to become involved in political prohibition, as has been lowa and Kansas, and with the same result, though with the factors reversed. In lowa the Republican majority has been greatly re duced by so many of the party voting for a third ticket, or even going so far as to unite with the Democratic anti-prohibition party. Georgia is now treated to a like experience, and the overwhelming Democratic majority there is threatened. A special dispatch to the Louisville Courier-Journal represents Atlanta in a blaze of excitement over the prohibition question, which has become the subject of conversation at public places, almost to the exclusion of all others. “The streets are nightly paraded by processions, headed by brass bands; Democrats salute fellow-workers of color as ‘brother;’ women are holding prayer-meetings for the success of prohibition, and all distinction between Democrat and Republican lias been for the moment forgotten.” So runs the account. For several years the interest in the question of prohibition has been growing, until now of Georgia’s 137 counfes eighty-five are committed to total prohibition, thirty to partial prohibition, and but twenty remain as before the agitation began. Under a localoption law Georgia is practically as much a prohibition State as lowa is. But the prohibitionists are not satisfied, and are moving to capture the remaining towns and counties. The immediate cause of the excitement at Atlanta is an election to be held on the 251 h inst., on a proposition to prohibit the sale of liquors in that city. To secure the election a petition was prepared, bearing the names of 2,800 registered voters, requesting the same. It is apparent from this that the saloon men will have to make a desperate fight to hold their own. The temperance men and Prohibitionists of Georgia have been wiser in their day and generation than have been their brethren in the slorth. Instead of starting a third party and puttiug up a ticket made up of old hacks hungry for notoriety and office, they held aloof from politics and made friends in both parties. They had but one object in view, and made no raid upon offices nor questioned a man’s politics. Under the leadership of able, and prominent, and respected men they moved slowly and carefully. As they were interested in churches and schools, they took care that new institutions were judiciously located, so as to make prohibition territory a3 contiguous as possible, under a law forbidding the sale of liquors within so many miles of rural schools and churches. Then a step further Avas taken. Johnson county, far removed from railroads and civilization, asked that her citizens be permitted to vote upon the exclusion of liquor. The request was granted, and so remote was the county that when it “went dry,” in local parlance, the outside world never heard of it. Then militia districts here and there asked for the privilege of local option, as they called it, and occasionally another backwoods county would come in. This was kept up until, as shown above, nearly the entire State has been captured without the firing of a gun. General local option thus emboldened, a movement was made to pass a general local-option law, providing for elections anywhere upon petition of a certain per cent, of the voting population, and this law was passed only a few months ago. Just before the Legislature assembled the prohibition people held a State convention in Atlanta for the purpose of advancing their cause. “There was presented upon the stage a scene never before witnessed in a Southern city—the most hated of Republicans and the most ultra of Democrats shook hands in common cause. White people did not scorn to sit upon a stage where sat negroes as invited and honored guests. The contest over the bill in the Legislature was long and bitter, but finally local option won the day.” Thus writes a Democratic correspondent of a leading Democratic paper. The same writer details how the interest awakened involved all classes and races of people. He says that white Democrats suddenly began to affiliate with negroes, and their own churches were neglected to afford encouragement to colored congregations by attendance there. The white preachers were not idle, and together the fight was made and won. But the writer shrewdly sees trouble ahead for the Democratic party; not that there is any “politics” in the present movement, but for other reasons, quite apparent. In closing he says: “But students of life see beyond all this. Here are the prejudices of race swept aw#v; tho barriers of party broken; Republicans and Democrats, white and blacks, all thrown together and mixed up in such a way that it would seem impossible even to get them untangled. In the breaking-up of the party and the color line, trouble for the future is seen. the alliaacos thus formed, and the

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animosities thus engendered, extend into general politics, not only of Georgia, but of the South, and eventually play havoc with Democratic supremacy? The prohibitionists have made the soliciting of negro votes respectable, and the encouragement to vote, so given the negroes, will not be without its effect hereafter.” _______ At the annual meeting of the Evangelical Alliance of Cincinnati, held on Monday, a number of papers were read upon the existing condition of public and political affairs in that city. Among others was one by Rev. Dr. Heckman, of Avondale, formerly of Indianapolis, in which the causes of the prevailing demoralization were boldly and clearly set forth. Among other things, the Doctor said: “With the government of the city in the hands of thieves, the majority of municipal officers without patriotism, and even sinking the pride and vanity of office in the mad lust for money, secured by spoiling industry, enterprise, even philanthropy and benevolence, what can you expect? All legitimate business is enormously tasked by these political thugs, the protectors of the peace are openly appointed from the criminal classes, aDd every enterprise and improvement which needs civil authorization must be abandoned or sucowmb to the bribery of the men in power. Democratic rights and republican institutions are a farce in the eyes of these strangers, who scorn our American traditions and civilization. What is the political remedy? The throwing aside, as weak, and unpatriotic, and unchristian, partisan prejudices, and the combination of all the better elements and permanent interests of the city, native and foreign, in the overthrow of their vile and oppressive government.” These are strong and stai'tling words, and yet no one will say that they are not amply justified. If things continue to go oil from bad to worse in Indianapolis, no one shall bo able to tell when tho like statements may not be true of our own city. If ballot thieves and ballot-box smashers can commit their crimes and outrages with impunity; if “Sim” Coy and his gang continue to control; if the Liquor League shall be allowed to persist in its offensive and arrogant domination; if partisan scoundrels can violate law and order to secure the control of the Council boards; if any or all of these things can be done with absolute immunity from punishment, or even popular indignation, it is not hard to see that in the near future Indianapolis will rank side by side with Cincinnati in its most abject degradation. Every interest of society, every consideration of business, demands that the law shall be enforced, crime punished, outrage rebuked, and justice and decency enthroned in the conduct of our municipal affairs. The failure of the grand jury to indict the alleged ballot tliieves and ballot-box smashers is a serious blow to tho welfare of Indianapolis.

Our city columns record the fact that the three Democratic members of the grand jury voted against returning an indictment in the cases of Sterling R. Holt, the ballot-box smasher, and of Smith, the Eighteenth ward judge, who, it is alleged, had something to do with the mysterious disappearance of the ballots in one of the precincts of Mr. “Sim” Coy’s private bailiwick. One of these men is a Democrat and the other i's a nominal Republican; yet the Republican members of the jury favored indicting both of them for violations of the election law, while the Democratic members voted in the negative. It cannot be presumed that the Democrats voted to shield the Republican, Smith, from high and holy nonpartisan motives, when his own party friends were favorable to his arraignment. There is but one of two explanations that seem at all reasonable. One is that the Democrats were determined that Ilolt should not be indicted, and, therefore, wero willing to let Smith go, too, to escape the charge of partisanship in their action; or else the trial of Smith in a court of justice would uncover some Democratic rascality that had better be kept from the public gaze. We incline to the latter supposition, from all the circumstances surrounding the case. We believe the Democrats do not dare bring Smith to trial. This result is shameful and disheartening. One ballot-box lias been stolen in this city; the court-house has been broken open by burglars and the ballots scattered and stolen; the ballots of a whole precinct have been made away with; and, finally, a ballot-box has been smashed in with a hatchet, in defiance of law and in contempt of the authority of the court. None of these scouudrelisms has been punished. Is it to be expected that crimes and outrages like these can be perpetrated, and no one punished for them, without the gravest danger? The Democratic members of the grand jury have not measured up to their duty, nor to the importance of the charge given to them by Judge Norton when theyconvened on the Ist of the month. It is to be hoped that the next jury may be composed of men who will not gauge their duty by their partisan feelings.

The cohorts of “advancing women” have never made a serious onslaught upon the doors of Yale Collego, evidently regarding that institution as impregnably fortified by ancient prejudice. Asa consequence of this immunity from attack the dignitaries of the college have rested in calm security, and have looked on the encroachments of young women upon other halls of learning once sacred to man with more or less horror but without personal fear. This security, however, has been dissipated by the aetjof one young “female,” as she is described by an official, who executed a flank movement and, without blowing any preliminary trumpets, obtained admission into the law department before the rest of the faculty knew what was going on. President Porter is said to have been exceedingly angry when he discovered what had been done, and to have demanded the new pupil’s expulsion. The law school professors, however, having committed thom-

selves to the young lady, declined to give way. She had passed a good examipation, had received a certificate of admission, the law of the school did not forbid the entrance of a woman, and they could not consistently forbid her to come. A stormy debate finally ended by a compromise, which permits the daring "female” to remain but does not allow her name to appear in the catalogue. There is also an understanding that no other girls need apply, but it is more than likely that the first one to enter the fordidden doors will not be the last. The Boston Herald remarks, with great seriousness, for the seven hundredth time or so, that the mugwumps do not want office. This announcement, under existing circumstances, is superfluous, inasmuch as the mugwumps are no longer likely to get office if they do want it. What the curious public would like to have explained, however, is what now appeal's to boa singular inconsistency in the advertised policy of these self-constituted guardians of their country. If, as they intimate, all political wisdom is concentrated within their ranks, and is likely to die with them, by what argument do they persuade themselves that they should not seek for office? Why should the country be left to offensive partisans and deprived of their eminent services? Why, since they know so well how the government affairs should be conducted, do they not demand that they be allowed to administer as well as to advise? These are mysteries which no mugwump has yet cleared up, but now that there is a slight lull in politics, perhaps they will kindly do so. Human nature is much the same the world over. After the Germans evacuated Paris, and the people settled the little dispute with the Communists, the citv at once went back to its wonted gayeties. When the yellow fever had finished its dreadful work at Memphis, the people laid aside their mourning habits and donned the livery and masque of Mardi Gras. And now Montreal is beginning to deplore the fact that the prevalence of smallpox there may interfere with the carnival this winter. Thou sands of people have perished miserably by reason of a loathsome plague, but the survivors turn again to pleasure as naturally and promptly as though a dreadful epidemic were an every-day experience. It was a beneficent providence that enabled humanity to recover from the awful grief attendant upon the death of loved ones; but humanity has improved on this, as in many other things, and don’t allow wholesale death to interfere with business or pleasure.

The Louisiana Board of Pardons has refused to grant a commutation of the death sentence pronounced upon Pat Ford and John Murphy, murderers of Captain Murphy in the streets of New Orleans in broad day. A petition in their behalf bearing 2,800 names was presented, but its influence was counteracted by a similar petition, prepared by a committee of one hundred interested in the enforcement of law and the preservation of order. Unless the Governor interferes, which is not probable, they wifi be hanged on Friday next. The three other murderers of Murphy, Judge Ford, W. 11. Buckley and W. E. Caulfield, aie serving twenty years in the penitentiary. Their crime is readily recalled as a brutal and unwarranted assassination, and was committed in the belief that their influence would be sufficient to clear them. Their conviction has broken up hoodlumism in that city. Harry Bell, whose case was mentioned in the Journal, has succeeded in securing his release on a plea of kleptomania. Insane murderers go to the hospital to keep them from repeating the crime. Men naturally inclined to appropriate articles not their own should be treated the same way. It is a dreadful thing to be a kleptomaniac, being likely to lead one into the commission of acts that will set people to talking. Out West kleptomaniacs do not live to die of old age. PROBABLY the next Republican ticket in New York will have a man or two upon it who isn’t worth a million.—Philadelphia Times. Probably the next time the New York Democrats put a rich man on the ticket to help them out they will collect his campaign assessment in advance. Jones, he is a deadhead after all. A Rondeau. When Love and I Canoodling wont, The summer sky With joy was 'sprent. But not content, She stuck to I To the last cent. She hove a sigh When that was spent, When Love and I Canoodling went. Strange and contradictory pleas come before the courts of this fair land. At Louisville a man has just been cleared from theft on a plea that he had been accustomed to stealing from his earliest recollection. It was simply kleptomania: a thiug rather unpleasant to his neighbors, but only kleptomania. In New York it is different A Miss Morgan there is about to be tried to prove her of unsound mind because she religiously refuses to go to bed each night until she is sure that she owes no one a cent. Tho chances are that she will be proven a lunatic. So, you 6ee it doesn’t always pay to be honest and conscientious. Good Baltimore peopfe are scandalized over the discovery that they once and for some months cherished in their bosoms the reverend viper Ross, who fled from the Y. M. C. A. platform at Plymouth, England, last week, after having been charged by Mr. Joy with eloping with his (Joy’s) wife. What makes the Baltimore folks feel worse over the matter is the suspicion that

the woman who accompanied Mr. Rom, and was supposed to bo his wife, was no other thnn Mrs. Joy herself. The excellent people who made much of their supposed godly pastor and his compauion feel quito contaminated when they think of it. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Canon Farrar is of the opinion that Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter’’ is tho ablest novel ever written by an American. Dr. Reuben Dailey, of Jeffersonville, has dropped theological promblems. and will hereafter lecture upon the secret ingredients of Indian war-paint. A Boston man was taken ill out West. When asked if he wanted anything he said: “Oh, give me anything made of beans." So the attending physician gave him castor oil. Mr. Spurgeon is in better health than usual, and hopes, by observing moderation in the use of tobacco and in his diet, to avod the necessity of going to the south of Europe this winter. An English traveler maintains that there are five other peaks of the Himalaya range of mountains higher than Mount Everett (29,002 feet), heretofore thought to bo one of the highest elevations in the world. It is a remarkable circumstance, in connection with the recent taking of the census in British Burmah, that although the whole population is devoted to cock-fighting, only one man was returned as a cockfighter. P. M. Arthur, grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of Amorica, is a Scotchman by birth and a locomotive engineer on the New York Central railroad by adoption. He is fifty-six years of age. “Mince Pie as My Mother Made It," is tho title of the Hon. Edward Wiggin’s lecture in Tremont Temple It is a witty production, and the subject gives him an opportunity to treat of the vital topics of the day.—Boston Traveller. Mrs. General Lander has sold her great stone house in Lynn, Mass., with two acres of land, but there is other land belonging to the Landers in that summer seaside resort, and she will retain for her own use a cottage on King street. Mrs. Bancroft, tho actress, known as Marie Wilton in tho records of the stage, has been received into the Roman Catholic Church, and has joined the corps of devout practical followers of that faith, to which Miss Mary Anderson and Lotta also belong. The wife of the Marquis de Mores is a handsome little brunette, who is one of the best rifle-shots in the West, and who rides as well as she shoots. She is the daughter of Banker Von Hoffman, of New York city, and while her husband was in jail for murder kept him company. Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, is the oldest ex-senator living. He was a sonator when Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Cass, Benton and Silas Wright were there, and though he has passed his eighty-sixth birthday, is quite vigorous, with eyes undimmed and his natural forces unabated. Mlle. Benoit, a young Vendean lady, who lately took her medical degree, is now appointed medical examiner of girls throughout the municipal schools of Paris. It is the business of Mlle. Benoit to see that girls are not overworked, and that they got through their studies under sanitary conditions. The name of Solyman the Magnificent marks the greatest extension of the power of the Ottoman Turks. He captured Belgrade in 1521 and Buda in 1529. Tho tenth ruler from the Prophet, and living in the tenth century after the Hegira, he was called the Perfects of the Perfect Number.

A strip of Arabian paper dating from the ninth century, and containing a wood-cut, with ornaments and initials, has just been found among the papers of the Austrian Archduke Rainer. This relic shows that the art of wood-cutting was probably of Arabian origin, or that it was, at all events, known to the Arabs in tho ninth century. A recent address by Mr. Moody to the students of Northfield consisted of these two words: “Consecrate and Concentrate,” and he added a motto that he saw iu England: “Do all the good you can, To all the people you can, In all the ways you can, As long as ever you can." The body servants of the Queen in Sweden are called lopare, or state attendants, and the}’ wait solely on the Queen and daughter. These glorified footmen wear a very quaint uniform, consisting of a tunic, petticoat and breeches edged with gold laco. But the most surprising part of their attire is a wonderful head-dress, consisting of a kind of embroidered skullcap, from which rise three ostrich feathers, none of which is less than tree feet high. T. V. Powderly, general master workman of the Knights of Labor, is an Irishman by birth, but has lived since childhood in this country. He is a machinist by trade, but looks a college professor of tho city type—a. pale, handsome face, high forehead, rather dark hair, studious look, a heavy black mustache, middle stature, well-knit frame, refined ffook and a low voice make up the sxterior- of a strong man, with a brave spirit, radical in thought, but conservative in methods and action. He is trusted, and deserves to bo. \\ illiam Morris, the poet, posing a3 a Socialist leader, is thus described: “His clothes were of blue serge, frayed at tho cuffs and greasy at tho seams. He wore a dirty, blue linen shirt, without collar or necktie, his iron-gray beard, ragged and untrimmed, barely concealing their absence. His fat, clumsylooking fingers grasped a walking-stick with a handle of horn. No watch-chain, sleeve-links or personal adornment of any kind relieved his shabbinoss. His voice was harsh, his language unpolished, and his sentiments highly socialistic.” Speaiung of a Newfoundland dog in San Francisco, which, on being scolded by a mother for snapoing at her child, slunk away, but soon returned with a rose, and. with very extravagant capers, laid it at the feet of the child, tho Macon (Ga.) Telegraph remarks: “This, however, will not discourage the dogs of this section. We believe that right hero about Macon are dogs that are just as intelligent. Indeed, wo are free to admit that, had this feat been attempted by cither Col. Bill Parker's, Dr. Mottauor’s. or Mr. Alf Clietf’s celebrated intellectual dog, ho would not only haye brought the rose, but would have pinned it on for tho little boy, after first carefully removing the thorns.” NEVER, probably since tho Guards left London for Culloden. and Hogarth sketched them as they inarched under Highgate arch to Finchley, have they had in England a scene of military disorder to match the exhibition made by the city of Loudon militia on their departure from Aldershot the other day. The regiment was a thousand strong, and of that total over GOO mc-n, including m ny non-commissioned officers, had deserted Mars for Bacchus and were in a condi tion of more or loss decided drunkenness. By all accounts the spectacle was very extraordinary. The valiant auxiliaries moved at will, and halted of their own accord whenever a liquor store was encountered. The Duke of Abercorn, just deceased, is the Duke of Brenthara of Disraeli's “Lothair,” and was a man of very handsome presence. All his children (there were five sons and six daughters) made what is styled in England “great matches.” One of the girls isDuchess of Buceleach, and auother would have heen Duchess of Marlborough, had not the marriage been dissolved in 1883, while Marchioness of Blandford. One is Marchioness of Lansdowne. and three became Countesses Durham, Litchfield and Wintorton. The youngest, Maud, Lady Lansdowne. was the Corisande of “Lothair.” An engagement existed between her and the Marquis of Bute, which religious differences interrupted. A duel between a lady aud a gentleman recently occurred at \\ arsaw. The latter had offered the lady his hand, which she refused, whereupon he spread abroad reports injurious to her good name. Several gentleman came forward in knightly manner and volunteered to avenge her by challenging her calumniator to a duel. Sho replied that if a duel was required in order to vindicate her honor she conceived that she hail a right and title to be one of the principals. The strong minded damsel prided herself upon being a good shot, and resolved to punish her traducer, but not to injure him mortally. She sent him a challenge; he accepted it; and the duelists met in a place outside Warsaw. Happily, both missed their aim. The lady

wanted to fire a second time, but her second assareft her that full reparation had been made. Her advar* sary was so moved by her masculine gallantry that h 0 made her a formal apology, which she accepted. COMMENT AND OPINION. The Boston pulpit should turn its face to tht morning.—Boston Herald. A prosperous condition of our foreign coat* merce is ereatly to be desired, but wo seem destined to have a good home trade in any event* and the other will follow in the course of time. —Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Jones, of Binehamton, sneers such a deep, scornful sneer at the poor mugwumps that the wind blows through his whiskers madly. Jones, of Binghamton, will hereafter register himself as “Jones, of the Earth.”—Philadelpnia Press. If it once be established that robbing, maltreating, or killing a Chinaman renders the pel*petrator liable to be sent to the penitentiary o* legally strangled, the sport of hunting the Chinese will at once be stopped.—Chicago Times. David B. Hill is doing well so far. He baa climbed tho first two rungs of the ladder. lie has been mayor of Elmira, and he is Governor of New \ ork. Now let’s all watch and see him spring for the third rung.—Hartford Courant Tammany is a good enough Democratic organ* ization now, bnt when it tries to run the national convention in 1888 will tho man it opposes b% loved, as Cleveland's friends claimed he was, for the enemies he has made?—Louisville Commercial. We want no Westminister in tho English sense. The national character of our people ia separated from that of England by a line clearly demaikingthe two, though not interfering with complete friendliness between the two governments. —Troy Times. The Chinamen should keep away, however much it may hurt our Eastern trade or balk the selfishness of capital in its constaut endeavors to subjugate labor. They are not wanted here as citizens or laborers; and what is more to the purpose they will not be tolerated here.—Louisville Courier Journal. The New York Sun discourses eloquently in a column editorial on “The Hold in Round Dancing.’’ Tho general impression about that matter is that the closer the bettor: and there are those who believe that, the “hold” once properly taken, it is wiser to suspend the dancing aud sit down on the sofa.—Cincinnati Sun. The Prohibitionists, as a rule, vote side tickets on sentiment, regardless of results; but the liquor interests are now organizing, not to fool their votes away on sentimental issues, but to vote in the most direct way to benefit their cause, by throwing their presumed balance of power for or against regular party candidates.—Philadelphia Times. The apparent prejudice of society against an ex convict is not a mere fanciful idea without foundation in reason, but is the crystallization of an opinion that when a man is so far gone in crime as to have undergone one term of imprisonment, for that man there is no hope; and, in tho main, the judgment of society is corroct, and its treatment of ex convicts is just.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The idea of circumscribing and getting rid of an evil which Gladstone declares has wrought more harm to the world than pestilence, famine and war is “a noble one, an idea that fills aud expands all generous souls.” It is a moral idea, and so was the anti slavery idea. .History repeats itself. There were croakers and blind men in the fifties, and we have them in the eighties —New York Voice.

Fixed, uniform and remunerative charges are as essential to the success of trade as to the prosperity of railroad stock and bondholders. The only trouble about this agreement is the impossibility of compelling the companies to stick to it. It can be made only a moral obligation. and that i3 one which seems to have little binding force upon its adopters if it prove unprofitable. —Philadelphia Inquirer. The Irish question is assuming large proportions. It is the question of the future, without doubt. Ireland is becoming concentrated, compacted, sqlidified. She talks less and does more than formerly. Gladstone is •afraid to wrestle with the problem for fear of a fall, and the Tories are waiting for “something to turn up” which will give them tho cue. Ireland is getting ready, but England cannot quite believe it. —New York Herald. We know that “the folks on Bitter creek are bad.” and Henry Watterson has repeatedly told us that he is from the headwaters of that noble stream. Perhaps the poetical perpetrators in that locality are not amenable to the discipline ordinarily administered. But for the sake of the dear public, and in the interests of literature, the Colonel will be called blessed if he will cause the poetical crank to cease turning.—Albany Express. Let the treasury continue to pay out the silver. Let it retire the ones and twos. Those which are ioft in circulation are an abomination. They are ragged, filthy, illegible, and their foul odor* contaminate the clothes of those who carry them. These vile, disease-breeding rags should all be called in and destroyed, and in their place the Treasury should send forth the beautiful silver dollars, with the goddess on one side and the daring eagle on the other.—New York Star. When France suspended the free coinage of silver the value of the silver had fallen below 88 per cent, of tho legal value. A year ago it was 85 per cent. In July it was 82per cent. To-day it is hut 79 per cent The gold Napoleon, which was formerly worth twenty francs, ia now worth twenty-five francs. The old ratio has become a false one. Not only that, there is not and has not been 6ince the suspension any ratio that was, or promised to he, or could be made, stable. That is the naked fact that stares everyone in the face who starts to consider the feasibility of unlimited coinage at a fixed ratio. It is an insuperable obstacle to any agreement.—New York Times.

Jidgertou’s Trouble. Philadelphia Press. Those Indiana papers will speak so plainly. Hon. A. P. Edeerton, Mr. Cleveland’s new head for the Civil-service Commission, is denominated “That mossy old fossil,” “A rusty old huuker,” “An ancient muscle shell,” “An exhumed trilobite,” and, last of all, “Something left over and evidently forgotten.” And he an honorable, too. Poor old man; at the age of seventy to ninety his trouble is beginning The Crash Coming. Oath’s Special. Having given away but little of his patronage, he can now strip the Republicans and restore himself to Democratic favor. Washington City will soon be crowded with patriots, come to congratulate the President on having returned to the Democratic fold- each anxious for his little dividend in the President’s convalescence. Loots That Way. Pittsburg Dispatch. fliay not the appointment of a relative of the Indianapolis Sentinel man to a good office be construed by the offensive partisans to mean that the publication of campaign scandals against the opposing candidate’s wife is not without its usufruct after many days? A Tremendous “If.” Memphis Avalanche <T>em.) If the Ohio Democracy ran purge itself of its rule of foul elements, punish its scoundrels and thieves, and find among its younger men practical but thoroughly honest and intensely zealous leadership, next year’s congressional elections will show an Ohio redeemed. A Word to the Wise, Atlanta Constitution. Private .Secretary Lament says that fewer removals of federal officeholders have been made in New York than in any other Siate. The verdict of last Tuesday, however, is in favor of removal. The privato secretary should bear this in mind. Laying Down the Law to the Administration. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It is about time for the administration to quit “monkeying” with the St. Louis offices. If it means to retain the Republican office-holders, let it say so, and be done with it. If it means to make a change let it make it. A Reasonable Inference. Philadelphia Press. The new Civil-service Commissioners are ceptable to the great majority of spoilsmen. W® infer from this that they have no disposition tO f spell reform with a big ii.