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ffHE DAILY JOURNAL BY JNO. C. NRW * SON. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Hisath, Correspondent. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1886. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. TBUUS INVABIARLT IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE rBKPAID BY THE PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. •One rear, by mail $12.00 ■One year, by mail, including Sunday 14.00 (Six months, by mail 6.00 tfiix months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 'Three months, by mail 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 lOne month, by mail 1.00 Oue month, by mail, including Sunday 1.20 Per week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) 25 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. CPer eopy 5 cents One year, by mail $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL. (WEEKLY EDITION.) year SI.OO Leas than one year and over three months, 10c per finonth. No subscription taken for less than three •xnonths. In clubs of five or over, agents will take .yearly subscriptions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for (their work. Address JNO. C. NEW & SON, Publishers The Journal. Indianapolis, Ind.< THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: JUQNDON —American Exchango in Europe, 419 Strand, PARIS —American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. "MEW 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. *rr. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. The Sunday Journal for to-morrow, the 2d lost, will be a number worthy to begin the year with. For its chief attraction it will have the Arst installment of the new novelette from the pen of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, entitled ‘‘Much Ado," and which will be found no whit Inferior to the interesting and powerful works which have given fame to this distinguished Author. Miss Mary Dean will have a letter telling of the Indiana woman’s exhibit at the New Orleans exposition. “Woodward” writes a letter from Constantinople, giving unusually interesting facts and incidents of life with the Moslems. Hon. Rufus Magee, minister to Sweden and Norway, writes from Stockholm of the winter sun on the north Baltic. Besides these and other special articles, the regular miscellaneous and literary features will be fully maintained. All who love good literature of the best class should read the Sunday Journal, beginning the new year with Sira. Barnett’s story. It is time now that everybody be settled up for the old year and settled down for the new. There were 10,637 failures last year, not remarkable of all failures —the President’s pledge to enforce the civilservice rules.

The amenities of New Year’s having been attended to, it is about time to assassinate the character of some Republican official. “Reform” is necessary. It has been discovered that the Arabs of the Soudan all belong to a secret society. This probably accounts for the failure of the English to get a grip on them. A NEW presidential paiace will be urged upon Congress. The statement is made that President Arthur “talked” of something of the kind, but “nothing came of it.” Os courso. The Central Christian Advocate, one of the official organs of the Methodist Church, says: “For mauy years we have advocated local-op-tion, and expect to continue to do so, as the best practical measure.” It is reported that all day yesterday there were crowds visiting the remains of the dead burglar. One woman went so far as to clip a lock of hair and to kiss the remains. Some of the American people are as morbidly curious as any in the world, and quite as foolish. No topic Beems to have been touched on at the banquet given by the Boston Merchants’ Association to the visiting congressional delegation, on Wednesday, but the light and airy one of bankruptcy. What sort of a programme are the Boston merchants laying out for the coming year? The President’s reported desire to compromise on the silver question will probably be complied with by the refusal on the part of Congress to legislate upon the subject. As frequently remarked before, Mr. Cleveland may be a man of very sound views, but it is bis party, not he, which is in power. The New York Evening Post says of the National Academy exhibition of pictures now open in that city, that “out of seven hundred works there are only about twenty or thirty deserving notice, and they are mostly bad.” It is no wonder many American artists are in favor of continuing the 30 per cent, tax on foreign paintings. The American hog is holding his own in foreign lands, despite the retaliatory legislate attempted. In 1884, 172,139 ban-els of pork were exported; in 1885, 260,170 barrels. In the former year there was sold abroad 214,000,000 pounds of lard, and 322,000,000 pounds of meats. The corresponding figures for 1885 were 294,000,000 and 442,000,000. The Charleston News and Courier makes a flattering exhibit of the progress of South Carolina since 1880. There has been an increase of over $25,000,000 in the value of real and personal property, and the State debt has reduced by more than half a million dol-

• lan. Charleston has kept pace with the State at large, and reports an increase of about 20 percent, in population during the past five years. We felicitate both on the spirit of thrift and progress evinced. As they grow in wealth may they grow in grace, until it shall become apparent that business is more profitable than partisan politics, and that the interests of South Carolina are identical with those of the friendly North, and with the whole prosperous and homogeneous country. The British Cabinet has concluded to prepare a bill for Parliament, authorizing the imposition of duties on imports from countries imposing duties on British productions, as a retaliatory measure. It may or may not become law. But the movement proves that the Cabinet does not think that such an import duty would be harmful to the English people. In other words, the American policy of establishing a “robber tariff” is proposed. What will American free-traders say to it? The British Cabinet either do or do not believe that it will increase the price of articles on which this extra duty is to be levied. If it be shown that the cost price to the people there will be raised, it will be next to impossible to pass the measure, and it is reasonable to conclude that they do not think it will have that effect. The alternative is that such as want to sell in England will have to sell lower by the amount of the duty levied. In this way only could this measure be regarded as retributive upon the United States and such other countries as levy import duties upon goods of English manufacture. Allowing this, what becomes of the free-trade argument that the price of every imported manufactured article is increased by exactly the amount of the duty levied? Is the bill proposed for adoption by the British Parliament going to have the effect of taking the wind from free-trade sails in America? It looks like it; for it is morally certain that England will not pass a law whose only effect would be to increase the price of what it wants to buy. The argument used in support of the bill will be furnished by the report of Lord Iddesleigh’s commission on trade, which finds: * ‘First, that English depression is due primar ily to foreign competition.” The bill itself will knock one of the chief pillars from the free-trade temple, as shown above, and this report about finishes the airy structure. The American tariff was “robbery,” because it increased the cost of things that but for it could be imported more cheaply from abroad. It was a “Chinese wall,” because it shut us out of the markets of the world. If this hasn’t been the argument of advocates of free trade, it is bard to say how it should be stated. England now answers both arguments by threatening to establish a higher tariff, and complains because the United States—for it is the United States at which this proposed legislation is aimed—undersells British manufacturers in their home market. In other words, the American protective policy has resulted exactly as its friends predicted: It has fostered American enterprise until American manufacturers are able to cope with the whole world, and to undersell British mills under the shadow of their own smoke-stacks. The occupation of the professional and theoretical free-trader is gone.

It is said that the Democrats in the House of Representatives will antagonize the Hoar presidential succession bill, because it does not provide for an election by the people, as soon as practicable, in case of a vacancy in both the office of President and Vice-presi-dent. This was, in effect, the amendment offered by Senator Edmunds, antagonized by Senator Evarts, and defeated by a vote of 21 to 37, nearly all the Democratic senators voting for the bill as it stands. Os course, it is possible to conjecture all sorts of possible contingencies; but, as a matter of fact, never in the history of the country have the offices of President aud Vice-president been vacant simultaneously, and they probably never will be. Certainly some of the dreadful things conjured up could not and would not happen in a hundred thousand years. It is not possible to legislate so as to prevent the reductio ad absurdum, and that is what the objections are now urged by aDd on behalf of the Democrats of the House as pretexts for a possible antagonism of the Hoar bill. An orderly succession should be established, one that will continue the executive branch of the government within the control of the party placed in power by the will of the people, lawfully expressed at the last periodical election provided for taking the sense of the majority of the electors. It is evident that to plunge the country into the excitement of a special presidential election would not be wise; there are many arguments against that, both of a political and business nature, that suggest themselves to all minds. There are some features of the succession bili we do not like; we are not specially pleased with the idea of “Cabinet” government, and the magnifying of the importance of “Cabinet” offices, which is inseparable from the Hoar bill; but, all things considered, the plan seems to commend itself as the best and most prudent to secure an orderly and frictionless succession of the administration in the case of an event quite unlikely to happen, and against the occurrence of which the passage of the bill would be an additional safeguard. However, the responsibility is with the Democratic House, as it has been for years, both as to the succession and the counting of the electoral vote. The Republican Senate passed the Hoar bill at once, and will proceed to consider and pass the count bill at an early day. If the Democrats of the lower branch care to

continue their revolutionary and menacing attitude of opposition or indifference, the Republican party can well afford to allow the country to still further see the dangerous characteristics of a party which has attained to accidental and temporary power through crime, and deceit, and arrant hypocrisy. The action of Mr. Fry, of Union City, as reported by the Journal’s Washington correspondent, is very indiscreet, to say the least. Some months ago Mr. Fry sought an appointment, and, as a result of his efforts, was made assistant land register at Lamed, Elan. Now Mr. Fry is back in Washington demanding another office, on the ground that the one he got isn’t “good enough.” Just why it is not good enough, or what position the discontented assistant register regards as commensurate with his claims and abilities, is not stated, nor is the nature of the services on which he bases his demands for an increased reward set forth. It is possible that his efforts for the party were expended in behalf of the candidate—we forget his name—who unsuccessfully opposed Hon. Thos. M. Browne; but there is reason to fear that the administration, while not ungrateful, may not be willing to deal out its largest and ripest plums to the workers who have, so to speak, failed to bring in any sheaves. Asa general proposition, and estimating each applicant's merits at his own valuation, w© do not hesitate to affirm that no office in the gift of a Democratic administration is too good for an Indiana Democrat—if he can get it. Close observation, extending over a period of some nine months, has, however, forced the conclusion upon us that the Democratic Hoosier, when off his native heath—and, particularly, when in search of spoils—is not fully appreciated. Instead of being bidden to a feast of fat things, crumbs are thrown to him, and even the best of these are in danger of being snatched away, or, as in the case of Mr. Fry, are found incapable of filling the aching void. These crumbs, too, instead of being tossed out with some appearance of liberality, as was done at an earlier period, have now to be fought for, and some of the hungry contestants are every day being carried off the field sadly disfigured, and without so small a morsel in their clutches as an assistant laud register’s office. Under these circumstances it seems highly imprudent for Mr. Fry to risk the little he has, even though it be not “good enough,” in the attempt, w.uich is likely to prove vain, of securing something better. Fry may not be a small fry; but a laud register’s office is a long ways better than nothing, even for political big fish; and, holding toward him only the most friendly feelings, the Journal advises him to hang on to it with a death grip-

It is reported that Register Rosecrans, in a recent talk of the probability of his rejection by the Senate because of his abu of General Grant, flew off into a rage and grossly vilified the dead hero. Grant himself knew, he said, that he (Grant) was a humbug. “Grant and I were riding down the Tuscumbia, in 1863,” said Rosecrans, “and in the course of the conversation he admitted that the victory at Fort Donelson was won by a scratch. He confessed to me at the time that he was ignorant of military matters, but that he never knew he was licked.” The Register added that General Grant’s connection with Ferd Ward demonstrated to all thinking minds that Grant was either an idiot or a knave. “If the former, how absurd to worship him as a demigod,” he exclaimed; “if the latter, he deserved the execration of all honest men.” This should be thoroughly investigated, and if it be established that General Rosecrans used any 3uch expressions, he should be unceremoniously kicked out of the service by the Senate. His continued presence in public employment would be an insult to every patriotic and decent man in the country. There is no law more certain than that reaction follows fever. Indianapolis knows that to its sorrow, possibly, but also to its permanent good. Chicago is beginning to learn the lesson, and it is even impressing itself upon the Board of Trade, that colossal palace of gambling, by the side of which Monaco is a very ordinary club-room. Frenzied with its gains, poured into it from the pockets of all the gulls and scoundrels, the fools and embezzlers within its fatal influence, its eyes stood out with fatness, and it builded with the air and with the complacency of Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. But it seems that the tide has changed, and the balances are getting upon the wrong side of the book. The danger is that the attempt will be made to tide over the trouble by further levies upon the unsuspecting and the ignorantly avaricious. We sound a note of warning. Let no reprisals be made, but allow the Chicago sharks to suffer and, possibly, repent. The Cincinnati Enquirer is greatly interested in alleged frauds in the Seventh ward in that city, but fails to say a word about tbe undeniable fact that the Democratic election officers in the Fourth ward, in one preeinct added several hundred to the number of legal voters, and, not content with that stroke of enterprise, changed the figure “7” to a “9” in the totals, making them read “926” instead of “726.” Upon this palpable fraud tua Democratic candidates were counted in. If the Enquirer is honest in objecting to fraud, why not object to this? The Liquor League of Pennsylvania, alarmed at the movement in favor of high license, have announced their willingness to aid in the passage and enforcement of such a law; they profess, indeed, such anxiety to

restrict the sale of intoxicants, and to estabish the morality of the community on a firm footing, that their utterances might easily be mistaken for those of a law and order society. It will hardly do, however, for the older temperance bodies of the State to give the management of this matter entirely into the hands of their new and enthusiastic allies, as, in their zealous inexperience, restrictive legislation may be somewhat overdone. High license is undoubtedly a desirable and effective method of regulating the liquor traffic; but high license, regulated by a liquor league, may leave some things to be desired. If the Senate should inquire carefully into the character and fitness of nominations, as is reported to be its intention, it would do no more than its duty. But, with such an inquiry, party opinion has no concern, and, as the rejection of a nomination under such circumstances would necessarily leave a stigma upon the reputation of the rejected person, the Senate is morally bound to exercise the utmost care. —Harper’s Weekly. How about the stigma left upon the reputation of Republican officials removed for alleged cause? Is not the President, or Mr. Vilas, or Mr. Garland, or Mr. Lamar, as much “morally bound to exercise the utmost care” as the Senate? The tender solicitude of the Weekly for Democrats is very touching; but it does not seem to think of the reputations of scores, and hundreds, and thousands of men who have been stabbed in the back by the infamous sneak-thief methods adopted by the reform administration. The statement of the dismissed letter-car-rier, Henry Sterns, as made up for the considsideration of President Cleveland, and given to the public in yesterday’s Journal, calls attention again to one of the most scandalous incidents of a most scandalous administration. The dismissal of Mr. Sterns is a gross outrage, a violation of law, a travesty on decency, and a shame to the officer responsible for it. And yet we venture that neither the Postmaster-general nor the President will pay any attention to the matter, as they did not in the case of confessedbriber aud convicted liar Dowling. Nowhere is Democratic reform better exemplified than in the postal service as seen in Indianapolis. With that in plain sight, we should be treated to more heavy essays by the mugwump press upon the devotion of Mr. Cleveland to civilservice reform. Assistant Postmaster Dodd could acquire an access of information touching tho dismissal of Carrier Sterns by reading up on the case. The charge by Postmaster Jones was that he was “very jovial over tho death of Mr. Hendricks,” and the statement of larcenist Ash, the sneak and informer, was that “Sterns had been laughing and joking about it all the way up." The affidavits of Mr. Stewart aud Mr. Wishard directly contradict this statement, and properly characterize it as untrue and maliciously false. Captain Dodd could easily be in better business than in attempting to whitewash one of the most contemptible outrages ever perpetrated.

The New York World takes the unnecessary trouble to explain that Secretary Manning’s bond call “does not necessarily indicate any intention on tlxe part of the administration to return to the policy of a rapid payment of the debt as an excuse for high-pressure taxation.” Nor does it seem to be the intention of the administration to pay off the debt on any other “excuse.” The Democratic party has ever evinced a talent to pile up debts upon the people. The Republican party does the paying off. How will Attorney-general Garland appear when he brings suit against the Bell Telephone Company with a million and a half of Pan-electric telephone stock in his pockets? The subterfuge of obtaining the order of the Secretary of the Interior will not relieve him of the scandal of his conduct. And will the great and awfully honest President Cleveland shut his eyes to the attitude in which his At-torney-general is placed? Mr. Peter B. Sweeney returned from abroad just in time to make New Year’s calls on the families of his old associates. The fact that Mr. Sweeney retained possession of his share of the Tweed ring “swag” while the others lost theirs may or may not affect his welcome in these households; it will depend on the more or less charitable and philosophical way in which the various members look at the matter. Mr. Ripley is a very funny man; but almost anything could be expected of a man or a party who would employ the burglarious methods of Sterling R. Holt to steal a petty office. The publication in yesterday’s Journal is what turned the affair into a practical joke. The ballot-box smashers and conspirators found the possibilities of their game interfered with. What has our protectionist contemporary to say now as to the organized movement in England for a retaliatory tariff? And, by the way, what will American farmers have to say about it?—Louisville Courier-Journal. And what will the Courier-Journal say about it when it takes a look at it in all its phases? This is 1886, the year after the year of the untimely demise of Col. Henry Watterson’s fair but too enthusiastic Goddess of Reform. —St. Louis Republican. Alas, civil-aervice reform went also. In life they were united; in death they were not divided. The municipal laboratory of Paris having showed that only about 1 per cent of French brandies are made from grapes, what is Paris and France going to do about it? There is little satisfaction in knowing that the people

are swilling the distillation of rotten apples and potatoes unless something bo done to correct the wrong. For one thing, the United States can stop the importation of this adulterated stuff, and it should do it. France should not have a monopoly of putting embargoes on imports that don't happen to suit it. Brooklyn’s professional beauty is a Wallstreet broker, named Robert Hilliard. In order to give all the women of that city a chance to gaze their fill upon him, he has kindly consented to go upon the stage for a brief period, and will, with the support of a professional company, give a week's performance of "False Shame” in a local theater. A professional beauty who cannot shine in "false shame” must be absolutely de void of histrionic talent. Those wise newspaper managers who have not worn out their old wood-cuts of the Soudan campaign in illustrating American cyclones or corn and cotton belts, are finding them useful again for their original purpose. A good big map of Egypt is an economical investment for the illustrated press. The newest oil well in Pennsylvania is 2,500 feet deep and still going down. This looks like an underground attempt to trespass on the oil fields of Russia and China. There are 87,602 trees in the city of Parts, or 2,740 to the square mile. But this does not account for all the shady transactions brought to pass there. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The young ladies of the San Francisco Art League this year produced and sold 2,000 Christmas cards, at prices ranging from 25 cents to $2. Mr. Froude is about to publish a volume of reflections on a holiday trip through Australia and America under the title of "Oceana, or England Her Colonies.” In the basement of a Philadelphia auction store is an antique writing-desk said to have once been the property of William Penn, or at least of his immediate descendants. "Booze,” money and butter were among the answers of the congregation of New York newsboys to a clergymen who asked them: "What is the most powerful thing on earth!” The London Standard thinks Tennyson's new poems not only equal to anything he has written, but a distinct advance on his older work, although the poet is aged seventy four. Spooner, of Wisconsin, is the smallest senator, being shorter than Evarts but plumper, and looking, with his smooth, ruddy face, at least ten years less than the forty-three which the directory gives him. Mrs. Henry Adams, who died so tragically in Washington lately, and to whom the authorship of "Democracy” was generally ascribed, is also believed by many persons to have written the ‘ ‘Bread-Winners. ” Half a dozen Washington girls have undertaken to make the society belles of the national capital carry black canes with crooked heads of hammered silver, but it is not yet quite certain whether there is to be a craze or not. From the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum, copied from "Weather Proverbs:” * 'lf Christmas day on Friday be, The first of winter hard shall be; With frost and snow, and with great flood, But the end thereof it shall be good. It is stated on excellent authority that Dr. Schliemann, the archaologist, never heard of his illustrious countryman, Richard Wagner, until the summer of 1882, when the latter’s name was mentioned to him by a fellow-traveler who was going to Bayreuth to see "Parisfal.” The hymn in some of the books in the Presbyterian Church beginning “When through the torn sail the wild tempest is streaming,” is ascribed iu those books to Heber. It was written by Francis Key, author of "The Starspangled Benner.” The native who carried from the field the body of the Prince Imperial, when he lost his life fighting in South Africa, was presented with a diamond ring and pensioned by the Empress Eu-„ genie. He came to Massachusetts and was lost" sight of, but the ring was found last week in a Boston pawn-shop. It seems that the offense for which Li Fong Pao, lately Chinese embassador in Berlin, was degraded from his rank and declared unfit for the public service consisted iu his having violated the etiquette of Pekin by endeavoring to secure a position in the provinces before reporting himself at court On s of Thebaw’s last acts as King of Burmah was to receive a party of Parsee actors. After witnessing their playing he arranged on a table as many silver cocoanuts as there were actors, each nut containing a handful of precious stones, and invited each player to take one as a token o! royal appreciation. During the receut visit in Boston of the Rev. Mr. Haweis, a reception was given to him at a private house. One of the lions of literary Boston was among the persons introduced to him. la the conversation that ensued the English visitor natively remarked: "I am so sorry that I did not get to Boaton before your great men were all dead.” A St. Louis paper says that Jennie Flood, daughter of * the California millionaire, is extremely homely and has $2, 000,000 in her own right It is pretty hard to reconcile these two statements. There is not one young man in a thousand who could see anything homely in a young woman who is worth $2,000,000. She may not be a professional beauty, but she cau't bo ugly. High life in Philadelphia, as portrayed by an item: "As she passes out the door in long opera cloak and fleece-lined slipper covers, James, the footman, brings her, on a tiny silver salver, her bouquet and two lumps of sugar dipped in white rose cologne. These latter she munches in her carriage, to make her eyes lare and bright, for belladonna is dangerous.” Oh! de cologne. Do stopper! Dr. Winslow S. Pierce, the brother-in-law of the late Vioe-president Hendricks, has returned to New York city from the summer resort where he was staying with his wife on account of her feeble* health. She was not able to attend her brother's funeral. It is stated that a position in the foreign service of the government of some importance was recently offered to Dr. Pierce, but he was obliged to decline because of his wife's illness. Miss Florence Nightingale, it would appear, is as tender toward her feet as to humanity. She will have none of the modern instruments of torture made by fashionable boot makers, and is accustomed to plant hor stocking foot firmly on a piece of leather, draw the outline of its figure, and have her shoe made to correspond exactly with It. Her feet do not, like little mice, peep in and out, but they compensate for this by increased comfort Seth Green says that malformations frequently occur in hybridizing fish. The most common peculiarities are the possession of two heads and one tail. Young fry with all sorts of curvatures of the backbone are found, so that in attempting to swim they circle round and round. All of the deformed fish die 83 soon as the yolk sack, which is. attached to their bodies, is absorbed or nearly so, as they are unable to find food and die from starvation. The Duke of Connaught was originally chosen to represent the Queen at King Alfonso’s funeral. But when it was learned that other courts would not be royally represented, the Duke of Wellington was sent instead. This latter selection was a bappy one, for the Duke is a firstclass grandee of Spain, Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, Duke of Vittoria and Marquis of Torres Vedras. Ana he inherits the massive collar of

the Golden Fleece, once worn by Ferdinand V, which was given to his illustrious grandsire by the grandfather of Alfonso. A man was seized with an epileptic fit in iht street the other day, whereupon a kindly-dis-posed policeman darted into a neighboring grocery store and asked for a handful of salt, which he forced into the poor fellow’s month. The operation was approved by some of the spectators, who complimented the policeman upon his “i ngt what to do” in such cases. Os all popular remedies,” said a physician, who was questioned on the subject, "that of choking a man with salt just because he has a fit is the most senseless and barbarous. In some cases ik would do serious injury, and might cause death. Hystero-epileptics are troubled with a choking sensation and spasmodic contraction? in tho throat, which interfere greatly with breathing and swallowing. To crowd salt into it is a foot ish and ignorant proceeding.” HAPPINESS IS NOT FOR ALL. He’s aware who has studied its phasefl That life is a turbulent river, Or desert unblest with oases, To the man with an inactive liver. * Boston Courier. COMMENT AND OPINION. Not brains alone make the successful politician. It takes some cheek.—San Francisco Examiner. Senator Evarts should beware of silverplated statesmanship It doesn't wear well. —Philadelphia Press. A good deal of ridicule has been expended apoa Mr. Keilev that rightfully belonged to ou blue-blooded but absurd Secretary of State.— Detroit Tribune. If Mr. Parnell takes possession of Parliament as completely as he promises to, it may soon be necessary for the English to demand home-rule. —Pittsburg Dispatch. It is suggested that Mr. Bigelow did not find that his friends volunteered to go upon his bond, and that he was too high-toned to solicit their aid.—Boston Journal Governor Hill, of New York, is scheming for the Presidency in 1888. If the mugwumps were only alive, how this affair would make them squirm!—Philadelphia Press. The old year has brought good fortune to this country, and we Have nothing to fear from tha new year. The signs of the times are not ominous, but hopeful—New York Herald. A party without leaders is in as hopeless a conditiou as an army without generals. The Democratic party can never accomplish anything at Washington until it stops acting as a mob. —Boston Herald. Hosts of great speeches are now being prepared on the silver question. The congressman whe handles the subject the most wisely will be the one who burns up bis speech before he deliveca it. —New York Tribune. The people of Ireland greatly resemble tha Democratic party in the United States. Jnst as their prospects aro beginning to brighten they usually manage in some way or other to put their feet in it —Albany Express. The rink eraze was too widespread and absorbing to endure. The sentiment once satisfied, the sport began to pall, and then the reaction set in. The public nave enjoyed their sensation and paid for their experience—New York Tribune President Cleveland in his roll of civilservice reformer has, at least, discriminated in making his appointments, and the only pity if that he did not see his way clear to discriminate ascarefully in making removals.— Philadelphia Telegraph. The people who are deeply interested in this silver problem may bestow their support hereafter on the party that has sufficient courage te stand for honest money, whatever political consequences may betide in certain quarters of tha Union.—Boston Transcript. The people of the South are tired of moonshine politics, and tbe sticking in the bark of strict construction, whicu somehow always manages to eet the South left while the North' always gets there Eli with both feet, and don't you forget it —Memphis Avalanche. The victim of an evil habit knowsvecjr-*qJ4— what goal he is nearing and what consequences he is entailing upon himself and others. If hs will not turn over the new leaf, then the sooner he finishes the volume tbe better for Uimself nnd his. —Chicago Inter Ocean.

The soldiers and sailors who incurred disabilities of Any Kind while engaged in patting down the rebellion, are entitled to a pension. We de not think it is wise to tax the public to pay pensions to men who are entirely able and willing to take care of themselves.—New York Times. The silver fight is to be long and bitter, and the legislation which we hope for—the unconditional repeal of the Bland bill—may be impossible at present. But we can rest assured that further tampering with our currency will be prevented by the interposition of a wise and determined President—Frank Leslie’s Weekly. A person who avows his belief in polygamy and claims the right to practice it in defiance of the laws of the United States is sot to be regarded ,by the court as a man of good moral character nor one attached to the principles of the Constitution. Polygamy and good citizenship are incompatible.—New York Herald. It is very decidedly to the workingman’s interest to have bis dollar as good as possible, and 100 cents’ worth of gold makes a better dollar than 80 cents' worth of silver. It is, therefore, to his interest that the flood of silver dollars should not be permitted to rise any higher and further endanger the present real standard.—New York World. The “fair trade” theory, as now advocated in England, is bringing together antagonistic classes and enlisting a powerful support The chief attack will be made on the United States, on account of our nearly prohibitory taxes on British goods, and in all probability this country must soon learn that in levying tariffs there are blows to take as well as to give.—Chicago Tribune. Foreign cheap labor, while it remains foreign and cheap, will disturb the weaker elements of American labor, but can only seriously injure the least capable units in that ciass. The stronger will abandon unskilled labor and go up higher This is happening all the time. Promoted label constitutes the bulk of the American Nation and always must do so.—New York Tribune. If the owners of onr coal mines should demand the passage of a law compelling the public to accept 1,600 pounds as a ton of their product, they would be laughed to scorn; and yet that is just what we are doing for the owners of our silver mines, who produce only about onethird as much in money value per year as the annual coal output amounts to. —St. LouU Globe-Democrat. The Democrats in Congress must take their stand. If they are opposed to the division of Dakota then they mast pass an enabliug act for its admission as a wholeand abandon for all time the scheme for dividing Texas. If they are opposed to the admission of Dakota, divided or undivided, let them say so aud come before their constituents with this record of opposition to the development of the Northwest.—Chicago Tribune. We have no doubt that iu his own time and ia his own way. Colonel Ingersoll will refute the charge that he cares more for money than he does for Liberalism, and is as unscrupulous in getting it, as if he were a devout Christian. Bui the effects of such a controversy upon the organization must, nevertheless, be deplorable, and will give the ribald religionists a chance to scoff, of which they wiil not fail to avail themselves. —New York Times. In deference to the taste of its readers, the reputable press will continue to treat Mr. Cleveland personally with the respect due to his position while discussing his public official acts with the utmost freedom. If it be libelous to expose his sham pretensions as a reformer, and the utter failure to redeem his campaign pledges, he will have to make the most of it That he is not exposed to galling bat truthful assaults of another character is owing to the leniency and generosity of the Republican press in dealing with him, —Chicago Tribuue. The man who assassinates when intoxicated ia a murderer at heart at all times. Drunkenness does not create new sentiments and feelings; it simply liberates those already in existence. There are men who are dumb when without stimulant who become eloquent speakers when tinder the influence of wine. Does anyone suppose that the stimulus creates the ideas of tht speaker? Not at all; it simply liberates them. The same is true of intoxication. It does nos create the tendency to murder; it simply free*' it.—Chicago Timsa.