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Is it to be understood that the last four Republicans discharged from the Indianapolis postoffice were dismissed without cause, or ■will it develop later that some ex-convict has been called upon for evidence? COMPLAINTS are fciade that the mail service of the Indianapolis postoffice is not as efficient as it was six months ago. Another ex-convict should be delegated by the Street Railway Company to assail the reputation of more Republican subordinates. • Free-trade England now complains that ■English millers have gone to the continent to 111 vest their money. The manufactured prodmet of the mills in Germany and elsewhere is llien shipped to England. The “robber tariff’ moes not do such an ill service for America. The total losses by fire in the United States last year are estimated at $94,200,000, of which $9,200,000 is credited to the month of Deoember. This is $15,000,000 less than the loss incurred by fires in 1884, but is still a severe drain upon the wealth of the country. It has been shown that the elder Mrs. Knock, of Detroit, was not murdered at all, but that hor skull was fractured by the county physician when ho removed the top of the head to examine the brain. Tho woman died of pneumonia. Some Cincinnati detectives should be sent up there to fasten the guilt on someone. The proposition to divide Dakota on a north *rid south lino into two States and admit them both may be favored, the eastern State to be called Dakota and tho western Lincoln. That is not so bad; but the idea of naming any State in honor of the Emancipator that is likely to be Democratic is incongruous enough to make anybody hesitate. The enemies of Amerioan industry are now asserting that the trouble with tho Dolphin, on its first trial trip, was because John Roach did not know how to sail her. It having been forced upon the naval assassins that the Dolphin is a stanch, well-built and thoroughly acceptable vessel, they are compelled to find some excuse to keep John Roach under blame. Judge Clark, of Atlanta, before whom the liquor mon prayed for an injunction against announcing the result of the election on the prohibition question, has decided that they had not sufficient reasons for the contest set forth in their bill. The Prohibitionists have won at every point, and are confident that they will be sustained by the Supreme Court. The movement on the part of the govern inent looking to the rescue of the whaling bark Amethyst takes the appearance of a farce. Neither of the vessels, the Richard Rush nor the Corwin, is deemed stanch enough to weather an arctic sea, nor is either large enough to undertake such a hazardous trip, especially now in the midst of an arctic winter. I? one-half or a tithe of the charges alleged against Judge Pollard, of Delphi, the man appointed to succeed Hon. John Coburn on the bench of the Montana court, are true, he is a disgrace to the State, and his appointment shcxiM be promptly rejected by the Senate. It Is amazing how such a man could have remained a practitioner at the Delphi bar. In a

Democratic circuit, Pollard was defeated by Judge Gould, Republican, by over 600 majority. This shows the estimate bis neighbors put upon him. Pollard is from Alabama, was an officer in the confederate army, and this ia said to be the reason why Attorney-general Garland took him up and removed a gallant Union soldier, in order to give him a place in the federal service. “Reform is necessary." The method pursued by Cincinnati detectives to ferret out murderers will hardly commend itself to the public. It partakes too much of the nature of an inquisition. Last week a grocer was murdered early one morning in that city. The detectives finally settled on a negro as the guilty man. The evidence against him was so slight that, while he was placed under arrest, no formal charge was entered against him. But, on Monday morning, evidently with the connivance of the authorities, he was taken to the scene of the murder to undergo a “test.” The store was arranged as nearly as possible as it was at the time the murder was committed. In the early air of the morning the prisoner very naturally felt chilly, after being immured several days in a warm cell, and said he felt so. This furnished occasion for his attendant to get in some of his shrewd detective work, and he said: “Just such a morning as that of the murder, isn’t it?” asked Sergeant McDevitt. “i don’t think it was quite so cool as this. I feel it after being in the warm cell so long,” the prisoner replied. “Why do you tremble? Are you nervous or frightened?” was asked of him. “No, I’m chilly, I told you.” “Have j r ou any relatives here?” “No, but I sent for my brother-in-law, W r ayue Bender, in McHenry, Ky., and expect him here to-day. I hope he’ll come,” with a deep sigh. It is not stated whether the detective thought the prisoner convicted himself, but it is supposed he must have thought so. Proceeding with his man, he entered the room where the tragedy was committed. Pausing where there was a great splotch of blood on the floor, the detective said to the negro, “stop where you are, and look at that blood.” This he did for some moments without betraying any sign of uneasiness. The evident purpose of this “test” was to try the prisoner’s nerve, and it must be confessed it was as brutal and unwarranted an act as can be conceived. A man wholly innocent of the offense might have quailed under such an ordeal, and especially one without money or friends, as this one seems to be. To complete the inquisition, the negro was made to assume various positions in which witnesses claimed to have seen him on the morning of tho murder. In short, he was made to appear like the man supposed to be guilty of the murder, and all this without the form of law and without order of court. They have cut the pattern, and are determined that he shall fit it. It is about time the authorities allow this man to have legal advice, that his rights may be insisted upon.

lu it takes twenty-five years for the Democratic party in power to become as corrupt as the Republican party was when it stepped down and out, there is hope for the country. —New Orleans Picayune. Twenty-five years are not so many in the history of a-people. Perhaps the Republican party was not so bad as Democrats would like to make it appear. As for progress toward corruption the Democratic party has not been slow. Wo have already an Attorney-general with $1,500,000 of gift telephone stock in his pocket; a Democrat has been discovered by Democrats selling offices at Washington; a Democrat has bought his way into the United States Senate, according to the general belief and declaration of another prominent Democrat; a Democratic postal clerk has been discovered rifling the mails in Texas, and another has been caught at it in Indianapolis; a confessed briber aud convicted liar has been commissioned to the railway postal service from this city; a Democrat stole the ballot-boxes at Chicago for tho purpose of sending a Democrat to the United States Senate in defiance of the expressed will of the majority; a Democrat smashed a ballot-box in Indianapolis in defiance of the order of court, and the court (Democratic) made no attempt to vindicate its honor; Democrats at Cincinnati broke open the ballot-boxes and changed the totals so as to make it appear that the Democratic candidates had been elected; a Democratic Supreme Court indorsed the outrage, and ordered certificates of election issued to Democrats by reason of this fraud, and the same was done at Columbus by Democrats, the fraud in both instances being so glaring that they were instantaneously recognizable,though this did not prevent Democrats attempting to profit by them. These are a few evidences of the corruption practiced in the first ten months of Democratic rule. The belief is that it won’t take long to beat the infamous record made by the party before the war. The plan of boycotting unpopular postmasters is a vicious one, and in direct opposition to the perfect success of the postal service. Under the law postmasters of a certain grade receive compensation according to the amount of business done. The law is intended to afford fair wages for certain services, and it is presumed that no postmaster of the fourth class but earns every dollar he receives. To attempt to curtail these receipts is a blow at the efficiency of the service, something that cannot be tolerated. The idea of boycotting a federal official is a now one, born with the accession of tho Democratic party to power. It never was thought of under former administrations, and is practiced almost wholly by Democrats, who take this method of expressing their disapproval of appointment* made by Mr. Cleveland, too many

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of which have been very distasteful to the best men of that party. This method of expressing resentment is indefensible. If the President makes bad selections, and Democracy itself thus confesses that he does, it only remains to hold his administration responsible. This, of course, cannot be used by Democrats, because they will vote for the nominee of their party; it may be under protest, but they will vote for the man nominated every time. They may feel that boycotting is the only way they can get even, but, as has been indicated, this cannot be allowed to proceed. But this much is certain, a very large per cent, of Democrats are disgusted with appointments made, over 300 complaints having already been sent in to the department. It is a remarkable evidence of the President’s unpopularity with his own party. On, yes, these Republicans are great civilservice reformers. The only branch of the government they now control is the Senate, and they no sooner elected a President of that body than they turned all of Mr. Hendricks’s appointments out, bag and baggage.—Louisville Courier-J ournal. Senator Sherman could not very well retain Hughes East, Mr. Hendricks’s private secretary. It was well understood, however, that he would be provided for, and if he is not, it must be laid to- the fault of his own party. Just at this time Republicans haven’t many offices at their disposal, while Democracy has 100,000 or more. There is a marked difference in the way the Republican party gets rid of men whose places are wanted from the manner pursued by the present administration. Such men as lost their positions in the Senate were not traduced nor assailed by procured assassins of character. Ex,-convicta were not dragged in to furnish “evidence” against them, and when they quitted their places there was no mud flung at them by their political opponents, no attempt to send them adrift under the shadow of unmerited disgrace. They were deposed, not assaulted. If Democrats will be as honorable in their treatment of federal officials they want to get out of the way, it will be much to their credit, and will be greatly appreciated. The New York Graphic says that in order to accept General Pope’s conclusions it is necessary to believe that he, an interested party to the controversy, knows more about the whole subject than General Grant did. Having been on the ground, and having given the orders which were disobeyed, it is not difficult to believe that he did know more about the matter than General Grant, who formed his final opinion on the subject at a much later day, when the situation could not have been so clearly understood by him as it was by Pope and other officers who took part in the battle.

Mr. Beecher having inadvertently remarked in a recent sermon that the word “religion” was not in the Bible, has been overwhelmed with letters from North, East, South and West telling him that he was mistaken, and goodrhumoredly appeals to the newspapers to help stop Hio flood of mail by circulating his apology and acknowledgement of error. If Mr. Beecher had been like Mr. Cleveland he would have said that the newspapers lied when they reported his sormon. In tho respect, however, of having his eye-teeth cut, as regards newspapers, Mr. Beecher is not like Mr. Cleveland. The gymnasium instructor at Cornell has “surpassed the record" by swinging Indian clubs four hours and fifty minutes without stopping to rest Not one of the ambitions students who are seeking to emulate their teacher in this athletic pdstime but would think he had struck awfully hard times if he were compelled daily to wield ax or saw in the paternal wood-shed for half the time mentioned. An actress, soon to be married at Cincinnati, is “one of the most charming, of girls,” and “easily puts her pedal extremities into a No. 12 child’s shoe.” It goes for nothing that she may have a brain that could easily wear an oldfashioned ink bottle for a Tam OShanter cap. Henry James’s “Bostonians” are dying of old age. As there is considerable disparity in years, however, among these interesting personages, the dropping off which has begun among the most elderly does not encourage readers to hope for an early conclusion of the tale. One of the best of Louisville’s magazine poets does not put his name to any of his verses, because he thinks the reputation of a poet would injure him in his business. —Courier-Journal. Few men would have the temerity to face history a3 a Louisville magazine poet A New York undertaker complains because he is being boycotted. He need expect no sympathy. There is not a man on top of ground but will agree to boycott an undertaker a3 long as he breathes the breath of life. Please give address and name of fish commissioner in next issue. G. D. Wanks. Lewisville, Ind., Jan. 4, 1886. Enos B. Reed, Indianapolis. Because a Presbyterian pastor at Harrisburg, Pa., preached one of Talmage's sermons his congregation has asked him to resign. A Harrisburg congregation can't stand everything. A New York dog upset a lamp and caused a fire loss of $250,000. The dog is among man’s most faithful friends. ABOUT PEOPLE AND TILINGS. Sir John Millais, the painter, is a devoted angler also, and has invented a “fly." Life is authority for the statement that the pavement of hades is relaid the Ist of every January. The London Times is valued at $25,000,000; Standard, $10,000,000; News, $6,000,000; Telegraph, $3,000,000. They have it in a calendar in England. Miss Helen Blackburn, of Bristol, England, is the compiler of “A Woman’s Suffrage Calendar for 1886.” The ladies at Oberlin recently debated the question: “Resolved, That the extreme development of the intellect chills and destroys the affections.” General Grant once remarked, while expressing no donbt of Sorter’s loyal sentiments, that the man so charged and condemned should have shown his loyalty by enlistment as a common soldier, rather than to retire from the pub-

lie gaze, and to wait unti) a favorable opportunity to appeal to a friendly President and to a non military Congress. A Massachusetts man has invented a machine which he says will tie a sqnare knot, hitherto regarded by inventors as beyond the power of machinery. Mrs. Thomas A. Scott and Mrs. Edgar Thomson, with othGr rich ladies of Philadelphia, are subscribing liberally to the fund for a free public library now being raised in that eity. The Japanese government has lately sent to Yassar College a pair of bronze vases handsome ly ornamented with inlaid decorations in gold and silver, in appreciation of the education given to two Japanese girls. Edward Slocum, of New Richmond, Allegan county, Michigan, owns the first greenback issued. It is a dollar bill, bears the date Aug. 1, 1862, is marked series A, No. 1, and was paid to him as a Union soldier. Lily Devereux Blake: “Many Women, unfortunately, imagine they improve their figure by tight lacing. This is the worst feature of the dress of the present day. Any woman who is Dot natural in this respect will lose her health in a very short time.” A Gloucester fisherman who had been cruelly disabled in an open boat on the banks was given SSOO two years ago by his fellow-citizens. He opened a shop with this money, and prospered so well that on Christmas ho returned the SSOO to the city, for the poor. Theodore Roosevelt is making hay while the sun shines. He is writing twelve articles for “Outing,” on big game hunting in America. Moreover, he has begun to study the smooth and mellifluous Spanish tongue, and is getting ready to go aud live a while in Mexico. Felix Remo, a continental critic of the Max o‘Reil type, is enabling John Bull’s children to see themselves as others see 'em. M. Remo ungallantly declares that “young ladies in England habitually disdain the uses of the door-mat, and enter no matter what drawing-room with dirty feet.” Joseph Barnbv, one of the foremost of English musicians, began as a church chorister. He was with Sir Arthur Sullivan, in 1854, a member of the Royal Academy of Music. Mr. Barnby is the leading conductor and organizer of oratorios, and is himself a composer of fine music. D. G. Doaxe gives a beautiful, simple experiment, which may interest amateurs with the microscope. Upon a slip of glass put a drop of liquid auric chloride or argentic nitrate, with half a grain of metallic zinc in the auric chloride and copper in the silver. A growth of exquisite gold and silver ferns will form beneath the eye.

British widowers with eligible deceased wives’ sisters need not despair. The Marriage Law Reform Association is in a position to state that its majority in the new House of Commons is larger than in the last, in which their supporters practically numbered two to one. They are coing to introduce their bill in each house in the coming session. The great Burmese river, the Irrawaddy, is much like our upper Missouri in respect to its sand bars. These often accumulate, or shift across the channel in a single night, and steamers caught on them have sometimes to stay there a month. Anew pilot is needed about every ten miles, which is all the space he can keep himself informed upon from day to day. M. Clemenceau’s handwriting is to be had for four francß, M. Rochefort and M. de Freycinet rank together at five, Louise Michel is down at eight francs, and ex Premier Ferry’s is still worth ten. Mr. Gladstone’s autograph costs twenty fruncs. Prince Bismarck's twenty francs for a signature alone, and 100 for a letter all in his handwriting. So reports a French dealer in autographs. The people of Atlanta have sunk $20,000 in digging an artesian well 2.000 feet deep. No stream having been found that would come to the surface. Professor White, of the State University, was called in, and he decided that as Atlanta stood on granite rock —the bed-rock of the continent—the only way to get an artesian well would be to start on the surface and bore up into the atmosphere. One of the officers of the British force in Burmah concludes that stomachache is a widely prevalent malady in that region. At Koonlah he found an idol which effects miraculous cure when a sufferer plasters a flake of gold leaf upon the part corresponding to the seat of his own disorder; and the abdomen of this idol had been caused to protrude in a most extraordinary de gree by the plastered offerings of health-seekers. When you enter the rooms of a Japanese shop in Pari3 you find the head of the establishment and his clerks lying flat on the floor surrounded by screens. What are they doing? They nave just discovered that the Japanese sit on mats and not on chairs, and that consequently Japanese painting is executed in such a manner that it must be looked at from below, and not from above, or even horizontally, like a European picture. This is high art with a vengeance. President Gkevy takes his good fortune quietly. His habits are simple to a fault He rises regularly at 8 o'clock every morning, and sips bis coffee or chocolate in his bedroom. At 9 he begins to read his letters and papers, and at 10 he eoes down to his study and receives visitors, who come and go usually till mid-day. The French President eats heartily, and with an excellent appetite, ending his meal with a cigar or a pipe and coffee. Four o’clock finds him playing choss, or discussing art or politics with his guests. M. Grevy enjoys unmerited reputation as a billiard-player. He really is a poor cue, though an admirable chess-player. He has a holy horror of bombast and display. M. Charles Monselet relates that Richard Wagner received his visitors in mediaeval costumes, such as he always wore when composing. Alexandre Dumas, the elder, calling on him one day, was highly amused at the masquerade. ‘‘You are all dressed up to play Gessler,” said Dumas, with his good natured laugh, which rather hurt the feelings of the author of “Tannhaußer,” who, nevertheless, returned M. Dumas’s visit when next he was at Paris. After some considerable delay 3L Dumas appeared at last, dressed magniflcentlyTn a dressing-gown with a large flower pattern, a helmet with flying plumes, a life-belt round his waist, and enormous ridingboots. “Pardon me,” he said majestically, for appearing in my working costume. I can do nothing without being dressed in this manner; half of my ideas live in this helmet, and the other half are lodged in my hoots, which are indispensable to me when I write my love scenes.” COMMENT AND OPINION. Poles evidently belong to the church militant. —Pittsburg Chronicle. The will of the people may be law if the people themselves only take pains to make it so. —Washington Post The Dolphin has answered at least ten thousand columns of Democratic calumny. —National Republican. Thebe are times when one’s feelings cannot he more frequently expressed than by the single word “Rats.’’—Minneapolis Tribune. There will soon he a pretty agitation for a United States of Britain, which will make the old peers’ bones rattle.—Philadelphia Daily News. A few more bond calls would he duly appreciated. Caution is a good thing, but too much of it in this matter of redemption is expensive. —Atlanta Constitution. Georoe Bancroft is now eighty-throe years old. It is thought he will die when he tries to embalm the mysterious and elusive mugwump in bis history.—St, Louis Post-Dispatch. Governor Knott represents in his message that the financial condition of Kentucky is deplorable. More coin and fewer colonels will have to be the State watchword.—Boston Record The Philadelphia Times wants to hang all the jobbers on a sour apple tree. This is a very fine programme, but isn’t it necessary to have a quorum in Congress?—Atlanta Constitution. It should be the aim of the government te make the Indians industrious, intelligent and self-supporting. It should not deprive'them es

their lands without just compensation. Surely this policy should not be enforced among Indians who can make no use of a farm. —New York Times. The theory that all women wonld necessarily vote a prohibition ticket is as false as the assumption that all anti-prohibitionists are drunkards or drinking men is unwarranted. —Inter Ocean. The thing that is "wrong at bottom” in this country is that wealth, is commonly used too selfishly. What is needed to ease the friction is an application of the socialism of the Golden rale.—Boston Herald. Along with the significant advance in iron and geueral improvement in industry there is a notable and significant lack of the speculative and “boom" features which signalized the “boom" of 1879. Memphis Avalanche. A contemporary protests against the destruction of newspapers. It claims that a reliable newspaper is as fairly entitled to a place on the shelves as the histories and other works that fill our libraries.—Baltimore Times. The first duty of the Ohio House of Representatives is the expulsion of the nine Democrats from Hamilton county, who have no more right in the General Assembly than burglars have in an honest man's house at midnight—Cleveland Leader. If the church filled the full measure of its pretensions and purposes, would their be labor organizations, or strikes, or boycotts, or other startling symptoms of social unrest? And is the existence of these things not an indication of its shortcomings?—Brooklyn Union. The growth of the conviction that the pracj tical needs of the age are in the direction of scientific rather than classical education coaid be scarcely emphasized more clearly than by the announcement that the curriculum at Rugby is to be supplemented by a "modern side.” —Providence Journal. The anger which sulks, and pouts, and frets and makes sour faces and utters mean and sarcastic replies i3 worse than ten thousand eruptive explosions. A rattlesorre bit of scolding now and then can be endured, provided it does not como too often. But the depressing influence of a person who is given to sulking is worse than a prolonged blast of the northwest wind. —New York Star. The Sun is not lying at all when it says that the President is not keeping his civil-service reform pledges to the people; it is only recording history. It may be unpleasant history, hat it is true all the same, and the Sun in publishing it is not lying, only doing a very disagreeable thing. Stiil, the President should not get angry and accuse the World and Sun of lying because thoy do not say what he wants them to say.—Philadelphia Inquirer. The President’s views respecting the civilservice question are not the views of the Democratic party; and, however much ingenious expositors may endeavor to show that the Democratic platform justifies his course in thi3 regard, the attempt is certainly a failure. The Democracy are not for the competitive examinations and non-partisan appointments, and Mr. Cleveland is for them; and that is the whole of it.—New York Sun. W. S. Rosecrans occupies the office of Register of the Treasury by the grace of a President whom he vainly importuned, day in and day out, for a better place. His appointment has yet to be passed upon by tbe Senate. It should not he taken up until the accusations against Rosecrans have been fully investigated. If they are true, and Rosecrans is found guilty of the infamous slanders charged up to him, his appointment should be rejected as an insult to every patriotic citizen of the country.—Philadelphia Press. The Hon. William Steele Holman will henceforth be one watch-dog among many, and will not bo so conspicuous as of yore. His facilities as an obstructionist being largely curtailed, he will have to advocate his two-penny economy on its merits. Instead of saying that his record is good enough, such as it is, we shall be enabled for the future to refer to it as being not so bad, what there is of it. All of which will be a blessed and wholesome change to everybody but Mr. William Steele Holman.—Washington Post (Dem.) The most charitable construction to be put upon the presidential attack on the press is that the President did not know what he was saying. Wholesale and indiscriminate slanders of any class of men usually represent the foolish rage of those who utter them, rather than their sobe* judgment, but we do not know whether this explanation will help President Cleveland at all. He has wantonly gone out of his way to insult and defy the newspaper press of the country, and if the consequences are unpleasant he must be left to shoulder them without assistance, as he invoked them without provocation. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

OBSTRUCTING THE MAILS. Holding Railroad Trains at Bay at the Nozzle of a Hot-Water Pump. Chicago Times. Marcus 31. Towle, a wealthy business man and land-owner at Hammond, Ind., was arrested yesterday morning by a deputy United States marshal from Indianapolis, on the charge of obstructing the United States mails and hindering traffic upon a railway. When the Louisville, New Albany <fc Chicago railroad was constructed that corporation, through Mr. Crawford, its attorney, purchased of Mr. Towle the width of sixty-six feet through his land for the length of a half mile or more, paying therefor at the rate of SI,OOO per acre. This land is upou both sides of the Calumet river, and the connection of the road is maintained by a draw-bridge across tho stream. The right of way of the New Albany line for some distance near Hammond runs parallel with the Nickel-plate, and between tho two roads there is a triangular neck of land containing one and seven-tenths acre, which Mr. Towle insists should have been used by the railroad for its road-bed instead of the ground now in use, which is platted in its name and which the railroad authorities claim was deeded to it regularly by Mr. Towle. That gentleman has been anxious that the company should purchase the little strip between the two railroads named and pay him $1,700 for the land. The company claims that it has no use for this property, and hence has refused to negotiate with him. Mr. Towle is a determined gentleman, aud he resolved to get even with the railroad company. He owns a tug or two and several scows. On Sunday morning he determined upon his coup d'etat. He came down the river in a tog and whistled for the draw to open. After the bridge was swung the tug was placed at one end of the draw and a scow was placed at the other, so that the bridge could not be swung back in place. Then Mr. Towle gathered together a large force of his employes, and, attaching a hose to the hot-water pump on the tug, he was ready for war if the railroad officials showed any desire to remove the obstructions. About 11:30 o'clock the mail train, er. route for the south, with its two fast-mail cars, baggage cars and several coaches laden with passengers, came thundering along. It was flagged and warned that it could not cross the river because the bridge was swung and would not he turned to allow the passage of trains. In the meantime several freight trains had also come as far as the bridge, but the force under Mr. Towle warned the attaohes not to attempt to turn the bridge. The conductor of the mail train held a brief consultation with Mr. Towle, but that gentleman insisted that the river bed belonged to him, and that the railroad company trespassed upon his land when it swung the bridge, and that, therefore, it should never be turned again over his land. Mr. W. R. Woodard, the general superintendent of the Louisville railway, was telegraphed to, and he telegraphed the situation to Mr. Parsons, of the Chicago & Atlantic line, and connection with this road was made, and the trains were run in on it Mr. Woodard departed himself for the scene of the trouble, and arrived there early on Sunday evening. He found the draw in possession of a mob of several hundred men. He called on Mr. Towle, who was on hoard of tho tug, to remove his obstructions and allow the bridge to he closed, as he was committing a very serious offense in impeding the United States mails in this way. Mr. Towle was obdurate, aud advised Mr. Woodard aud the railway company to go to sheol. Instead of going there, however, the attorneys of the corporation were consulted, and the proper affidavits drawn up and the necessary information made before a United States commissioner at Indianapolis. Upon this a warrant was issued, and at midnight. when the train came through, a deputy United States marshal was taken on board. The train arrived at Hammond at 6:30 o’clock yesterday morning. The draw was still open, and Mr. Towle bad his obstructions there, and stood on gnard with his men. Tho train was stopped and the marshal jumped off. Mr. To Ale stood beside the loco-

motive on the railroad track. *'l order thl# bridge closed at once, and the oWtructions re-' moved," said the marshal. "By what authority?” asked Mr. Towle, coolly. “By the same authority that arrests yon," responded the United States officer. "Show mo your papers,” said Mr. Towle again, coolly. deputy marshal showed the warrant for Mr. Towle s arrest, and that gentleman at once submitted, without further trouble. The deputy marshal then ordered the tug and scow to he removed at once, and by 7 o’clock the bridge was closed and traffic was resumed as usual. The offense which Mr. Towle'is charged with is aa exceedingly serious one, and is puuishable with imprisonment in the. penitentiary. Mr. Towle claims, in defense of his action, that in swinging the bridge it trespassed upon his laud. Me. Woodard, the general superintendent of the railroad, says that the company will also commence a civil action for damages against Mr Towle for obstructing its traffic, and thus caueing the corporation and its patrons mnch loss. WHERE EVART9 STANDS. An Advocate of Protection—The Senator's Belief that tbe Bloody Shirt Is Still an Issue. Washington Special, Jan. 2. The friends of Senator Evarts say that that gentleman’s disinclination to allow his name to he used as a candidate for nomination on the Republican ticket for Governor of New York in, the last campaign was largely owing to the fact that the Senate afforded better opportunities for putting the Republican party on a footing, in which he desired to take part, for the next national campaign. The Republican party, he thinks, is right on every vital issue before the people, hut the adaptation of those issues to the broader and more eulightened scope of publie sentiment at this time has been overlooked. In other words, the Republican party has been running of late years in a rut. and in the last two successful campaigns its success was more due to its prestige and the want of confidence of the people in the Democratic party than to any new and strengthened claims for popular support," It is evident that Senator Evarts looks at the situation in public affairs very ranch in the light of a case in court, the Senate, so to speak, being the court and the people the jury. In his case against the Democrat!# party ho will undertake to present two main points of argument, the first on the tariff and the second gu the solid South. The silver question he regale a side issue in a ereat measure, as the pecufiar views and interests of individuals or localities have more to do with shaping public sentiment than any very defined doctrines of finance. As has already been announced, he will speak on the silver question at the proper lime, but it is a mistake to suppose that he will support the extreme silver side. His purpose will he to present this perplexing question in a light above the mercenary interests of what is known as the "silver ring" and at the same time free from the radical notions of tbe extremists on either side of the question. The Senator says that there i a view of the silver question which has been over looked and as the greatest precious metal-pro-ducing country on the globe and a country in all its economic aspects independent of the rest of the nations of the world he believes in an American policy concerning silver which will have ia view the interests of our own people and their industries. On the tariff question he proposes to make an elaborate speech, not only to show that protection is the true economic doctrine of nations, but that it is a system quite as much if not more di* rectly in the interests of labor than of manufactures. He resolves the whole matter into one very simple proposition, and that is whether thfl Congress of the United States proposes to legislate in the interests of foreign or American labor. The Senator says: "There has always been a great deal of party capital made at the expense of labor. It might he just as well to have the wage-morkers of the country look into the matter a little for themselves, and a few self-evident propositions may be of advantage. It is a mistake for the workingman or mechanic to think that his redress lias in strikes and disorders. Capital employed in industry can only afford to pay a certain proportion of its gross earnings for labor, and whon it goes beyond that maximum point it is playing a losing game and the day of reckoning will soon come, when labor will find itself without employment, which means distress. Demand regulates trade and prices, and when our home markets are stocked with merchandise manufactured by under paid foreign labor the demand for our own products and the labor to make them is proportionately reduced.” The proposed speech on the solid South, as representing a condition of things reongnant to the principles of free government, will present a vivid picture of a very dangerous element in American politics. Judging from the scope of the Senator’s view of this question the speech will present some interesting opinions and arguments for popular consumption. The Senator thinks that many good Republicans are too prone to listen to Democratic clamor against "bloody shirt” issues, hut it will be an issue as long as these same senators and representatives sit in Congress by virtue of a restrained and not a free ballot PRESIDENT AND PRESS. Air. Cleveland Defends His Assertion that the Newspapers Are Liars from Way Back, Washington Special. The President was asked whether the letter he wrote to Mr. Keppier, the editor of Pack, was intended for publication. The President, in reply, said: "I write no letter which may not be published. There was no understanding about the letter to Mr. Keppier, either that it should or should not he published. I expressed my opinion upon the subject of certain newspaper publications. I have no desiro to modify or defend those opinions.” He then went on to say that he had been perhaps influenced to say what he had by persistent •and continued misrepresentations. "These misrepresentations,” said he, "are gratuitous and needless. My private secretarv, Colonel Laniont, is an old newspaper man. He has full liberty to give to all newspaper correspondents every possible advantage in the way of information. If there ever was an administration that has no secrets, this is one. I want the business of this administration to be dona behind glass doors. There is no reason why any newspaper should bo without correct information regarding wb&t they are doing if it will only take the trouble to send and ask.” He then gave an illustration of the most cruel of the recent misrepresentations. He cited it because the paragraph in question was one that might have led to loss of life. "Out in Arizona,” he said, a dozen Apaches had been defying the authorities and the army for some time. The fact that their number was small was used for criticisms directed against the army. These men were similar in character and skill to the James band of outlaws, who. although few in number, so long defied the authorities. The Apaches are very skillful mountaineers; they go where no horseman can follow them, and they can outstrip in fleetness of foot the swiftest of the infantry. They hide in these, mountain nooks, where they can study the country for a great stretch about them. They descend only when the coast is clear and at night. They commit their depredations and return swiftly to their hiding places. Yet it was recently telegraphed to Ban Francisco that the War Department was Bonding out troops for the protection of tbe Indians of the San Carlos reservation, from whom the mountain outlaws had mads their recruits. The alleged fact that the War Department was sending out troops to protect the Indians, instead of the suffering whites of that locality, stirred up snch a feeling that if tho report had not been promptly contradicted through official channels, a general attack upon the Indians might have been made by the outraged white settlers in that neighborhood, and many innocent lives would have been lost A simple inquiry would have disproved this paragraph, because there has been at no time any secrecy about what the War Department was doing.” The Doss “Reformer's” Little Guit.fi. Bocton Record. It is vaguely hinted that Mr. Cleveland has been saving up a considerable batch of offices in order to have some capital on which to trade for support of administration measures in Congress. Spell It with a "J.” Warsaw Times. President Cleveland called tho spoils system "an odious yoke.” He should have spelled it with a “j.” and applied the remark to Democratic civil-service reform.