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It is a severe strain which the Democratic free-trade organs are now undergoing between the wish to remain loyal to the party saint, Tilden, and the desire to express disapprobation of bis message. It was too bad of tbe old a test. The formal announcement of the death of Mr. Hendricks was made in the Senate, yesterday, by Mr. Voorhees, and, on motion of Mr. Harrisop, an adjournment was taken until to-day. In the House, Mr. Holman made the announcement, and moved that an adjournment bo taken until to-day, which was carried. The sympathy felt for ex-Governor Porter in *the loss of hia wife, who died yesterday afternoon, after an illness of some weeks, will be [general. She was a highly-cultivated lady, and in addition to possessing those qualities that shone in polite society, she was, also, of great assistance to her distinguished husband because of her mental qualities and literary attainments. Mr. Tilden has heretofore been regarded, even by the administration organs, as the power behind the throne, but when tariff reformers insinuate that the fine protective hand of Mr. Raulall is visible in the Sage’s letter to the country, it really looks as if confidence in the Democratic idol was weakening. When it comes to be asked, “Who is managing Tilden?” then are the mighty fallen. WHEN the star-eyed Goddess of Reform read the following sentence from Mr. Tilden’s advance message to Congress, she bent double over her throne, and wept bitterly. It was the worst blow Kentucky ever suffered: “To leave our vast interest defenseless in order to reduce the cost of whisky to its consumers would boa solecism.” If Mr. Tilden had said dog-leg tobacco instead of whisky, an army of 100,000 Kentuckians would have marcbod to Grey stone and poisoned his dog. Louisville is happy over the prospect of a revival under the leadership of “Rev.” Sam Jones, the protean evangelist. It will yet become apparent to educated people that “salvation” worth having can be found anywhere, except, perhaps, Louisville, and without the interposition of itinerant mountebanks and reverend blasphemers. It is a reflection upon religion to so act as to carry the impression that one man can “bring down a blessing” any easier than another. The professional evangelists are bringing the church into disrepute. JUVENILE depravity does not always take to eels-destruction, but often finds vent in murder as well-defined and vicious as though the work of an adult. Jimmy White, aged ten, is in the Louisville jail for the murder of Eddie Schubert, another small boy. A witness of the shooting says they quarreled over a bit of candy, and White deliberately loaded the pistol, pointed it at his victim and fired, though called to not to do so. It is said that both boys were saturated with the madness of a flashy play “The Boy Scout," which they had witnessed at a museum, and were re-en-

acting It when Ibe dispute arose. Bail has been refused the child. At Cincinnati, on Friday night, a sixteen-year-old boy fatally stabbed a boy friend aged but thirteen. They bad been to tbe theater together, and had stopped in a saloon on the way home. It may be stated, as a rule, with few if any exceptions, that boys of that age have no business at cheap theaters, especially at night. The stage is rotten with silly and vicious plays calculated to teach wicked things, and putting the glow of the heroic upon rascality. FANATICISM RUN MAD, To read the Chicago Times one might bo excused for believing that the people were in the heat of an exciting campaign. If anybody dares suggest that elections might be fairer in the South, and that a more liberal sentiment might prevail there, the Times is thrown into a frenzy, and barely avoiding billingsgate, it seethes in vituperation and abuse. All is lovely in the South, suppression of votes is unknown, and the negroes, such as care to vote, cheerfully vote the Democratic ticket from choice, only regretting that they are powerless to do moro for Democracy. The Republican party is vicious and corrupt in all its parts. The five million people who vote with it are deliberate abettors of political thieves, and so on, ad nauseam. The Times is bloody shirt from margin to margin. It eternally snarls, and apparently wants to fight. It is very, very “ugly” toward all who do not agree with and knuckle to the Southern bulldozers and assassins, the men of tbe old South who are determined that, as long as they live, it shall never be delivered from the thralldom of ignorance and prejudice. So, when it becomes necessary for a Republican Senate to select a presiding officer, the Times proceeds to lash itself into an unreasonable fury, and to pour out from the vials of wrath it ever has in store. Referring to the action of the Republican caucus, the Times says: “Logan was the first choice, mainly, it would appear, because be is less liked by the Democrats than any other man, and on his refusal the choice fell on Sherman. Probably there is no man in the Republican party who is less fitted for the place than Sherman. He is a chronic office-seeker, an aristocrat, a demagogue, a fanatic, an aspirant for the presidency, and a man who hesitates at nothing to carry his ends when a political purpose is to be served. His late sanguinary outbreak against the South, and his presentation of that abominable Republican rag, tho bloody shirt, prove that he is not an advancing statesman, but a cheap politician who is familiar with the dirtier processes of politics, and quite willing to use them as be fancies occcasion may demand. He is not a man from whom may be expected even the fairness of a presiding officer; ho is in no sense a statesman, but a politician, and as such will use liis place for party ends—that is, such ends as may be desired by John Sherman. He will prostitute his position, so far as he may be able, to further his aspirations for the presidency; the head of the Senate will be a mere wire puller, anxious in no sense to make his place one to serve the interests of legislation, but simply as one to aid him in the acquisition of a higher office.”

This is fanaticism gone mad. Its very vehemence goes far toward defeating its purpose. It is palpably absurd to say that the Republicans voted for General Logan “because he is less liked by the Democrats than any other man.” It is a pretty safe rule for Republicans to honor men thus distinguished; but General Logan was nominated, first, because it had been but a few months when every thoroughly honest Republican in the land, to the number of 5,000,000, had voted for him for that place. As for tho Times’s abuse of Senator Sherman, it is not saving too much to say that it knew that it was dishonest when it allowed such a tirade to go into print. The editor of the Times, nor any other sensible man, believes that John Sherman is a demagogue, or that he is familiar with the “dirtier processes of politics,” and “quite willing to use them.” It is quite true that John Sherman has ever made a bold stand against fraud in elections, and has to do so to-day in his own Slate because of the conspiracy to steal the Legislature to compass his defeat. This angers the Times and its allies, and they fall to cursing him and charging him with the very crimes that he bus ever stood out against. We believe that he will make an able and impartial presiding officer. For years he has served the people of this country with marked ability, and has, by his wisdom and firmness in the management of the country’s finances, done inestimable service. His personal integrity is beyond reproach, and his great knowledge of national finances added to this has for years made him a conspicuous candidate for the presidency. Inordinate abuse like the above adds to his fame. IMWUI HI I I |IIW I'M mmi I ■■ la INI TnE New York Post’s editorial on Logan’s nomination bears evidence of having been prepared in advance. Bo much heavy brainwork, however, to say nothing of type-setting, could not be allowed to go to waste on account of tbe trifling fact that the General upset their preconceived ideas by declining the honor, and thus took the point out of the abuse which they had heaped on him. It was •an easy matter to change the tense of tho article, and what was originally meant to appear in the present tense as an outrage on tho American people is now a “would have been.” It is by such simple devices as this that a great mugwump organ is enabled to preserve its superiority over the common herd of newspapers. Mr. Cleveland has been looked upon as rather the reverse of a religious man, but if Gen. Clinton B. Fiske is to be believed, great injustice has been done to a real nice, pious President. The General called at tbe White House to present the cause of the Indian, and, as he narrates the story, the President’s eyes filled with tears in the course of the interview, and he remarked, with unction, that

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“there is nothing to uplift a race like the gospel of Christ.” He also added, according to Fiske: “I would rather make a record by a wise administration of Indian affairs, though I should fail in all else, than to fail there and succeed in all else.” Holding these excellent sentiments, tbe President can scarcely do otherwise than to recall General Crook, and detail a missionary in his place. Indian lovers will anxiously scan the message to-morrow for some recommendation of this nature. The last and largest of the war vessels built by John Roach, the Chicago, was successfully launched on Saturday at the great ship-yards at Chester. The government “finished” the vessel—that is, holystoned the deck and oiled the spanker-boom—so it is reasonable to expect that it will be accepted. Already it has been pronounced a fine war-ship, and it is predicted that it will perform all that could reasonably be asked. John Roach was one of the spectators. Just what his feelings were would be hard to say. It is reported that tears came into his eyes as ho watched the stately mass glide into the rising tide and majestically float away. He doubtless reflected on bow he had been bunted to bankruptcy by an unfriendly official, who now seeks to appropriate the honor of building this fine vessel. Republics may not be ungrateful, but individuals and political parties are, and few have any charity for an opponent even when he is down. The driving of John Roach into bankruptcy was a contemptible, unpatriotic, partisan trick. It ought to hurt its perpetiators more than its victim. The very knowing newspapers that a few days ago professed to see the hand of Mr. Blaine in the proposed election of General Logan to the presidency of the Senate, and moralized solemnly over the evils of “one-man-power,” are tho ones which now claim to have discovered that Logan is unfriendly to Blaine. To such organs the idea that a man who has retired from public life may spend his time in attending strictly to his own business, or that a political move may be made from honorable promptings and open reasons, is beyond comprehension. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company claims to have proved, by remeasurements of certain sections of tbe road, that it has overpaid the contractors $1,200,000. If the claim is correct it is the first time on record where a railway company has paid out good money without value received. It is hardly worth while, however, to make such a fuss as the Canadian managers are doing over the attempt to recover the money when they can so easily make up the deficit in a few days off of local freight owners.

Mr. Logan having declined the presidency of the Senate, our Bourbon friends must take back a tew of the mean things they have been saying about him lately.—Minneapolis Tribune. Oh, dear; no. They merely revise tho remarks a little and apply them to Sherman. In 1833 tho British House of Commons was made up of 652 members, distributed as follows: England and Wales—members 489 Sco tlan d— members 60 Ireland—members 103 Total 652 The redistribution bill added eighteen members, giving the several political districts the following representation: England and Wales 495 Scotland 72 Ireland 103 Total 670 It will be seen from these figures that 336 votes constitute a bare majority of the House. South Abington, Mass., is threatened with an epedemio of smallpox through being spread at a “Copenhagen” party. The hostess was ill at the time, and her face was already broken out. This did not prevent tho enjoyment of the usual kissing game3, and the next day genepal consternation prevailed when tho doctors said she had varioloid. A town that is weak enough to encourage “Copenhagen” and “forfeits’ cant hope to escape the peualtv, A young woman living at Oneonta, N. Y., attempted to kill herself because the young man to whom sho claimed to be married declared that it wa3 “a no such thing.” Had she died, of course it would have been evidence that a ceremony had been performed. As it is, sho will be obliged to prove it by means a little more practical and prosaic. Scranton, Pa., peon'.a want legal measures taken to prevent Joe Emmet from giving a performance in that town when he is drunk. A moro direct way to save their feelings is to remain away from such a disgraceful exhibition; but that thought doesn’t seem to have occurred to the good citizens. If the circulation of tho New York World is as big as Mr. Pulilzer says it is he should not mind a libel suit for a little matter of $50,000. He could sell enough “extrys” on the street in a morning or two to make up the amount Mayor Grace wants—that is, if the circulation is what is claimed. Joe Emmet disappointed another audience, at Paterson, Saturday night. He was to play “Fritz in Irelaud.” He substituted Fritz intoxicated. The audience demanded and received back their money. Getting drunk will not repair Joe Emmet's waning popularity. Out in Denver the papers refer to the noble Apache as “the Arizona pest” The editors should be more considerate. Such language is likely to hurt the feelings of people away off in tho safe, snug East, who love the precious red man. Arrangements are under way to secure excursion rates for such as wish to leave the citv until Friday morning. Strangely enough, it does not seem to have occurred to anybody to have a law passed against dramatic criticisms. New York city hopes soon to have received enough money to give the Grant monument a coat of paraffine. A pruning of it on the monument fund might reassure tho public. To change one’s name in Franco, an application has to be made to the government. It has been of late inundated by such demands from persons who have

inherited patronymics which are the French equivalents of “scoundrel," “rogue," “dirty fellow," “robber” and “brigand." A London hotel-keeper complains that his American guests don’t drink enough. lie should advertise in the Kentucky papers. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A STATISTICIAN avers that the average man spends sl9 a year more for dress than the average woman. An engineer, recently employed in Burmah, says the women were the best laborers to be found there. Tiie Severn tunnel was completed Sep. 5, 18S5, after thirteen years of hard work. It is 22,992 feet long. Minister S. S. Cox still enjoys his little joke. He mails newspapers containing personal allusions, and printed in Arabic, to his transatlantic friends.” Fashionable girls in Philadelphia are just now enthusiastically engaged in knitting dainty silk stockings marked with extraordinary clocks. Knitting circles are all the rago. John L. Mitchell, of Tioga county, Pa., is a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. John 11. Mitchell, the new Senator from Oregon, was also a native of Tioga county, Pa. According to Dr. Carl Seiler, some'persons have a defect of smell analogous to colcfr-blindnes3. One person finds that to him violets smell like garlic, everything else smelling normally'. One of the largest items of expense in running the express steamships across the Atlantic is that of coal. The Cunarders Etruria, Umbria and Oregon burn between 300 and 350 tons each, daily. Among the questions offered at the Chicago faithcure convention for serious discussion was this: “Is it proper for a broken bone to be set by a surgeon before relying on the strength of prayer?" More than $500,000 a veai Is received by- Queen Victoria from the estates of persons who dio intestate and without heirs, all such property belonging to her Majesty in right of her royal prerogative. In Professor Angeli’s nearly-completed portrait of the Queen, her Majesty is represented in her royal robe3 and wearing the crown, standing on a throne, while the rich folds of the purple train fall gracetully down the steps, and wearing the Garter. St Fright into the parlor and make yourself at home, “said the nine-year-old son of the editor to his sistor’s best young man. “Take the rocking-chair and help yourself to the album. Helen Louise is up stairs and won’t be down for some time yet—has to make up her form, you know, before going to press.” Ex-Surgeon-general Hammond has perhaps written liis last novel. He is sixty, and is going to lead to the altar a blooming bride of twenty seven. If that doesn’t, take the romance out of him, he will, in the language of the lamented Mrs. Partington, be "the greatest ipecac" in the profession. King Milan, of Servta, is a great reader of French liter ature, and his favorite book—indeed, his inseperable companion—is what? “The life of Ca?sar,” by Napoleon III! By the way, one might draw a fair parallel between Milan’s outrageous invasion of Bulgaria and Napoleon’s fatal aggression of 1870. Tho campaigns differ in magnitude rather than in character. Gen. George H. Sheridan, formorly of Louisiana, is preparing an address on General Grant, to be delivered before the Grand Army posts of the country, under tho auspices of the Grant monument, committee, for the benefit of their fund. It will first be delivered early in January. By a similar plan General Sherida* raised a large sum for the monument erected to tho memory' of the late ex-Governor Morton, of Indiana. Peter Donahue, who died recently in San Francisco, was worth $10,000,000. lie began life as a blacksmith, and was never ashamed of his humble calling. When he came to build a $25,000 tomb or vault in Calvary Cemetery, ho placed upon the front a huge bronze medallion, representing in bas-relief a tremendous arm, with a heavy hammer in the fist, and underneath tie words, “Labor Omnia Vincit," while over it was the si: gle name, “Donahue.” Ills daughter is the wife of Baron von Schrooder, of Germany', and lives in Stuttgart. Among the New Yorkers who went to the funeral of John McCullough was Bob Pritchard, for many years the dresser for the lamented actor. He wore a suit of clothes given him by McCullough and carried ono of his play-hooks. Mr. Pritchard sometimes becomes mixed in his figures of speech, especially when he has been to a place where mixing is a regular business. He was tolling an interested group of some of his personal reminisconses, when he broke out as follows: “Ah, a fine man he was. Ho gave me this suit of clothes. He was ono of nature’s noblemen. Many’s tho time he’s wiped up the dressing-room floor with me."

Thk Empress of Austria received on her wedding day, in 185-1, a present in tha form of an album containing oil and water color paintings, many of them by the foremost living artists. The other day a man named Drhowsky, one of the imperial body-guard, committed suicide, and it was subsequently ascertained that he had at intervals stolen twenty-four of these pictures, and sold them as having been given to him on commission by officers &ho wished to have the matter kept secret. Many of those pictures had been sold again by the dealers, some to foreign countries; but the police, aided by the newspapers, succeeded in recovering all of them but one. In Chili and Pei-u the men and women in the churches sit in different parts of the congregation, as was formerly the custom in the Methodist churches of this country. Pho women far outnumber the men. Each lady worshiper brings a little carnet on which she kneels or sits during the celebration of the mass. The women are specially devout, the men not as much so. The women wear in church the manta, which has long been the favorite dress of the Chilian and Peruvian women. A peculiar custom prevails in the churches of these countries as to the bell ringing. The bells from the towers announce to those who are without as well as to the congregation within the elevation of the host and other portions of the mass where the devout Catholic is expected to kneel and to cross himself. Jui>GK Albion W. Tourgee relates this story in the Pittsburg Dispatch: “It was in Cleveland, and Henry Ward Beecher and I wore stopping at the Kennard House. He was to lecture there the next night, and chanced to room right across the hall from me. Sam Tayne was a reporter on the Press. He was a greenlooking country boy, who hadn’t been on the paper long, and about as rough and uncouth-looking a citizen as you could well find. Sam went up to interview Beecher. My door rvas partly open and I saw him go up to Beecher’s door and knock. When the reverend gentleman opened the door Payne presented his card. Henry Ward glanced at it and said querulously: ‘Nc>, I can’t be interviewed. lam tired and busy, and can’t be annoyed with any interviewing.’ The reporter looked at him a moment, and replied with dignity, ‘Well, Mr. Beecher, I didn’t want to interview you. I heard that you were in town, and knew that you would feel hurt if a gentleman of my prominence didn’t call, as a matter of courtesy.’ Then, with an elaborate bow, he walked away. Beecher didn’t say a word, but stood and watched him until he went out of sight." COMMENT ANO OPINION. Georgia will go Republican in a few years more if there is any virtue in local option laws.—Minneapolis Tribune. " The Democratic congressmen arriving in Washington are not looking entirely happy. The civil-service law is a fly in the Democratic coffee. —National Republican. If, as Mr. Tilden suggests, the surplus revenue is to be expended on the coast defenses, what is to become of Uncle Watterson’s freetrade movement?—Atlanta Constitution. The election of a “wet” board of alderman in Atlanta, Ga., is only another verification of the fact that, pass what prohibition laws you will, the “wet” alderman always gets there.—Albany Express. It has been discovered that the real reason why President Cleveland did not attend the funeral of Vice-president Hendricks was because he was afraid someone of the hundreds of greedy

Democrats tramming around Washington would steal an office while he waa gone—Denver Republican. Now that the Sago of Greystone has spoken, the Democratic party knows just what to do with the surplus. The chances are that by 1888 there won’t be any surplus.—New York Mail and Express. When Michigan Democrats vote to lower tho duties on salt and lumber out of regard for the “principles” of their party, Sara Randall may be looked to fora weakening in defense of pig-iron. But not before.—Boston Record. The suspicion of the New York Times that Mr. Blaine has been taking a hand in making General Logan President of tho Senate must amount to positive conviction after Senator Edmunds moved the nomination of the Illinois Senator.—Boston Journal. If the surplus In tho Treasury can be wisely used for such a good purpose as he [Tilden] suggests. any attempt to cut off tho source from which that surplus is derived, by reducing the tariff, or aboiisbintr internal revenue taxes, would be wicked.—New York Tribune. The Czar of Russia will miss a hoap of good reading in the next two weeks. His press censor will be sure to suppress his Majesty’s copies of the American papers, which are commenting so freely on his bad guess as to how tho Balkan campaign would ond.—Philadelphia Inquirer. The old German custom of providing a home before procuring a wife, if generally adopted, would materially diminish the number of divorce trials, and relieve the papers of a large number of the scandals which uow so frequently occupy their columns, tp the material injury of the homes in which they circulate. —Portland News. There should be no delay in removing the line of succession to the executive chair from the officers of Congress to officers of the United States, where the Constitution intended it to be, and where it would preserve, in any possible contingency, the political character of the administration created by the choice of the people. —New York Times. The fact is that the disorder and rowdyism attending political contests in England are unknown hero, at least outside of the States where bulldozing has prevailed in times past, and they would be regarded among us with disgust and indignation. Yet, curiously enough, it is in England that our country is looked upon as one where lawlessness prevails in a high degree, and that especially in connection with politics.—New York Times. The majority of the senators are Republicans. Should the plurality of 1,047 overcome them so that they should be very submissive to the Democrats? Is that the way Democrats who have a majority in a legislative body do? It is said the Republicans are going to pass a law giving the presidential succession into the hands of the President himself. Is that a thing Democrats would do, under the circumstances?—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. While all confess the moral, social and business evils resulting from the liquor traffic, we have yet to see good practical results from prohibition. If prohibition prohibited the use of liquor, tho issue would be relieved of one of its most serious complications; but it is a notorious fact that prohibition has not prohibited in any of the cities or chief towns of prohibition States, and the same is true of most rural sections. —Philadelphia Times. It is every man’s duty, as well as his advantage, to cultivate the faculty of bearing such suffering as may fall to hi3 share with bravery and self-reliance. Absurd as it may seem at first glance, there is in fact a direct connection between a man’s ability to sustain himself under an attack of toothache and that wider, higher influence of courage and perseverance which biings things to pass that constitute national greatness and glory.—St. Lonis Glode-Deraocrat. For the defeated party to make use of a calamity to elevate them to the driver’s seat would be a great misfortune for them as well as for tho people who expressed their wishes at the polling booths. For both parties, on the other hand, to agree upon some such measure as that represented by the Hoar bill would go far to prove that patriotism is superior to mere partisanship, and that the welfare of the country is preferred to patronage and the perquisites of office.—New York Herald. The Republicans of the House couldn’t make a mistake in a candidate for Speaker with two such strong men as Mr. Reed and Mr. Hiscock to choose from; and in nominating Mr. Reed they have honored one of the brightest and keenest leaders who has appeared in the House during the last ten years, lie is wittier than Sunset Cox, more acute than Ben Butior, and has a readier intellectual play than Mr. Carlisle. The Democrats have no man to match him in debate.—Philadelphia Press. Why should a child be prepared for a classical course when he has no purpose of taking such a course—even to the neglect of the very things which would strengthen him for the very work he will have to do? Mental discipline, we are answered. But can we not now aumit that the discipline which frees the mind of one child deadens that of another, and that what one would pass by with instinctive neglect would bo the very light of the world to another? —Louis ville Courier-Journal.

NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING. A Department that Will Bear Inspection and Yield Fruitful Suggestions. Louisville Commercial. Rightly considered there is no department of a newspaper which will better bear inspection and which is more fruitful of suggestion than its advertising columns. If one wished to form a conception of a town ho had never visited, of its business, its wealth, its stability, he would be greatly aided by a close survey of the advertisements in a local paper. These tell the story of the trades and industries of the place, the character of the goods offered.and indicate in a measure the taste of the inhabitants. A small community, with crude wants, exhibits itself in the advertising pages of the paper, and the varied necessities or luxuries incident to a city are also vividly reflected in these paces. They are daily records of the elaborate civilization of the times. A newspaper of the revolutionary era in this country, when editorials played a very subordinate part, is chiefly eloquent in its advertisements. and through them one can transport himself to the days of Otis, Franklin, Jay and Washington. In this time of competition, when commerce,trade, manufactures and the mechanic arts constantly enlist the energies and claim the attention of our citizens, it is absolutely essential to read the advertisements to be rapport with the real life of the times, and to avail one’s self of the best information relative to these current purchases which make up the staple ot personal and domestic economy. Just now it is decidedly good sense to make the advertisements a special study and profit by their intimations. The Two Republicans Who Are Hohorcd. Philadelphia Press. The emphatic selection first of Logan and then of Sherman possesses a distinct political significance. It shows where the Republican senators stand on the living issues and the Republican thought of the day. Neither Logan nor Sherman holds any doubtful or equivocal attitude. Both arc unqualified Republicans; both are earnest protectionists; both are resolute and outspoken champions of free and honest elections. In the battle of 1884 Mr. Blaine himself led the Republican column with his brilliant dash not merely as the candidate, but as the commanding chieftain in the field. In the battle of 1885, Logan and Sherman were the two figures who loomed up as the foremost leaders of the Republican hosts, and they unquestionably made the strong impression of the year. They clarified ar.d crystallized the Republican thought, and did not hesitate to placo the party on the most positive Republican ground, or to denounce the crime against its life, To mince the sin, And mollify damnation with a praise. Mr. Sherman led off in Ohio, and then carried the Republican flag into Virginia. General Loean pave a bugle blast in Philadelphia, and then went 1o New York, where more of his sturdy aud straightforward Republicanism wonld have roused the Republicans to greater action. Both of them planted the Republican standard squarely on the platform of an honest bailot-box everywhere. Both of them demanded Republican rights in the South, and a Republican awakening in the North; and the Republicans of the Senate indorse and stand by them. Why Vest aud Voorhees Were “Perfectly * v Satisfied.**. New York Graphic. The Senate restaurant at Washington will be the helm! 6 ° p * aD ' a * thou £k a Maine man is at

THE FIELD OF LITERATURE, Holiday llooka. Among the many books now being crowd* upon the market those distinctly for the holidi attract most attention, largely, of course cause they are dressed so elegantly, as well for better reasons in the way of literary merit Many of them are old friends, tricked out in n and elegant trappings, with gilt and bevel c !y ers, cream paper, and engravings that would have made a former generation vow some supernatural agency had helped in the delicate a n | beautiful work. Among this class of books may be classed twi from the well-known house of Estes & Lauriat Boston. Tho first is Edgar Allan Poe’s “Lenore,” with illustrations by Hy. Sandham, A. R. A., drawn and engraved under the sup r . vision of George T. Andrew. It is faultiest beautiful from cover to cover. The cotnpanioa volume is “The Eve of St. Agnes,*’ John Iveata’i poem, with illustrations by Edmund 11. Garrett, the same engraver in charge of tho execution. If Poe and Keats could see the beautiful area* thrown about these poems they would fall in love with them anew. Funk & Wagnalls have issaed an elegant brochure, “Adelaide Neilson; a Souvenir.” Itij a biographical sketch by Laura C. Holloway, ani 13 embellished with photographs in various characters. Price, $2. Parents of babies, and first babies in particular, will welcome a volume prepared by Robert Ciarke & Cos.. Cincinnati It consists of ninetyeight pages, illustrated and arranged especially for a record of the baby's life in those particulars that are always so dear to every mother’s heart Containing apt quotations and suggestions on the all-important periods in the baby’s existence, it combines a beautiful parlor or library ornament with a record, which will always be interesting. Price, $1.25. _ History, Travel, Etc. D. Apppleton & Cos. have published the late Charles C. F. Greville’s “Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852,” in two volumes. It is edited by Henry Iteeve, and presents a comprehensive view of the subject, being very voluminous, and entering with evident familiarity upon the discussion and exposition of subjects intimately connected with British affair* of government The “Peace of Utrecht” is tho title of a fine volume issued from the publishing house of G. P. Putnam’s Sons, at,d written by James W. Gerard. The subject-matter treats on this great treaty in an exhaustive and scholarly stylo, and the events leading up to it, and all the incidents involved are carefully recounted. A valuable addition to the world’s specific histories. Price, gilt top, $3. Cassell & Cos. have published Lieut. Frederick Schwatka's “Along Alaska’s Great River,” being a popular account of the travels of the Alaska exploring expedition of 1883 aloDg the great Yukon river, from its source to its mouth, in the British Northwest Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska. It is said of this mighty stream in the northland that in volume it is larger than the Mississippi, discharging about one-third more water., The account of its exploration, here detailed, which is supplemented by numerous engravings, will render this work of peculiai interest to the reading public. The incidents ol the laborious undertaking make it as engaging as a work of fiction. A comprehensive map accompanies the work. Gilt top, bevel edge, $3. Anew number of the Story of tho Nations, now in course of publication by G. P. Putnam'* Sons, has been issued—* Tho Story of Rome,” by Arthur Gilman, M. A. It is produced in substantial form, and will prove valuable to young students of ancient history and interesting to readers of all ages. Price, $1.50.

“The Silent South,” first published In the Contury, is now issued in book form by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Price, sl. Fiction, Sketcho*. Etc, In the way of novels the week’s book receipts present some desirable stories. Charles Scribner’s Sons have republished in good form Frank R. Stockton’s popular story, “Rudder Grange," which had such a run a few years ago, after having been published as a serial in the Century. Bound in cloth and fully illustrated it sells at $2. William A. Hammond, author of “Lai,” has written a sequel to that story, entitled “A Strong-Minded Woman; or, Two Years After." (D. Appleton & Cos., Now York.) This is not as good as the work that preceded it, being dull and labored in places, as if the work of writing it were forced. “Wakulla,” by Kirk Munroe, is a story foi young people in particular, made up of incidents that befell a family removing from th North to take up residence in Florida. Its action is lively, and the attention of the reader is pleasingly engaged throughout, Harper & Brothers, New York. Cassell & Cos. have published a story by Alice Wellington Rollins, ontitled “The Story of A Ranch.” With a pardonable disregard of impossibilities, or at least of improbabilities, the writer has prepared a story of the experience of a New York family with youngfoikson a Kansas cattle ranch. It is adapted for use by all mem* bers of the family. Price, sl. S. A. Maxwell & €k>., Chicago, have published a story involving legal complications, written by “a lawyer,” and entitled “Foiled.” Tho plot i* laid in Chicago, and involves the inevitable and ever to-be-desired love-story, while the uncertainty is woven about the action of a beautifal but scheming young woman who married aa aged man for his money, and at his death made a bold attempt to come into possession of all his wealth, in which she was “foiled by a lawyer." Price, $1.25. One of the handsomest books of travel and sketches issued this season comes from the J. B. Lippincott Cos., Philadelphia, entitled “Through Spain,” by S. P. Scott. Gotten up *n elegant octavo form, on the finest heavy pW er i and rich in illustration, it is ornamental in every feature. Tne land of grapes and guitars is faith* fully sketched, and its agreeable features P° r ' trayed in a manner calculated to win the attention of the most travel-worn. It is bound in tl' luminated covers and gilt top. Price, $5. In paper covers, William S. Gottsbergcr, No* York, has published “Elizabeth; or, The Exdo* of Siberia,” from the French of Madame Soph** Co.tin; D. Appleton & Cos., “The Rabbi's by Stuart C. Cumberland; G. P. Putnam’s Son* “Cuban Sketches,” by James W. Steele. The above-mentioned are on sale by *• Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. Poetry. | Julia C. R. Dorr’s “Afternoon Soups," lished by Charles Scribner's Sons, is a very * | come addition to current verse. She ie J happy in choosing theme and motor, ** | result, the felicitous thoughts she seeks to .m vey to her readers are in ebarmi form—in short, are poetio in conception an | dress. The longer poems are ‘Waldomar, story of a sculptor's struggle fok pre eiW®*