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THE DAILY JOURNAL BY JNO. C. NEWftSOS. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. IIKATH, Correspondent. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1886. r~~ • - ~ —~ —"■ RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION, TERMS INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID BY TUE PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. One year, by mail $12.00 One year, by mail, including Sunday 14.00 Fix months, by mail 6.00 Bix months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 months, by mail 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 One month, by mail 1.00 One month, by mail, ineluding Sunday 1.20 y®r week, by carrier {in Indianapolis) 25 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. Per copy , 5 cents JUne year, by mail $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL. (WEEKLY EDITION.) One year SI.OO Less than one year and over three months, 10c per 4&onth. No subscription taken for less than three -gnonths. In clubs of five or over, agents will take i early subscriptions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for heir work. Address JNO. C. NEW & SON, Publishers The Journal, Indianapolis, Ind. - . .. = THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: .LONDON —American Exchaugo in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Oapucines. •-NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. .CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 line street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. JBT, LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 Senator Teller evidently represents our old friend, Rev. Myron W. Reed, on the Mormon question. England will probably come to the conclusion soon that in the annexation of Burmah St'has come into possession of an uncommonly lively white elephant. Hon. John Sherman was, last night, unanimously nominated by acclamation for re-elec-tion to the United States Senate by the Republican members of the Ohio General Assembly. If President Cleveland were going to make a present to a newspaper —say the New York Bun, for instance —he would, perhaps, send it Austin Dobson’s new book, “At the Sign of the Lyre.” This being Saint Jackson's day, and the Democracy, in their mad hunt for spoils, seeming to have forgotten him, the Journal prints a sketch of the life and services of the hero of New Orleans. Speaker Carlisle has finally announced his committees. The Indiana delegation have ,jP#*ed very well—better than some other States —and in the chorus of j’ells that will go up the voice of the Hoosier will not be heard very loud. It is very unkind of Treasurer Jordan to hint that he is going to resign if he doesn’t mean it. So many other weary Democratic hearts must ache when he finally decides to hold on that liis conduct can only be regarded as a wanton trifling with sacred aspirations. The Philadelphia Presbytery have reconsidered the case of Dr. Leonard Bacon, and have decided that he is a good enough Presbyterian to last till next July. He will be allowed to remain in charge of Woodland Church until that time, when they will investigate him again. The statement that Civil-service Commissioner Trenholm has secured government positions in Washington for two of his sons is denied. One of the young men, it seems, is only a nephew, and the other is “not Col. Trenholm’s son.” If this doesn’t satisfy carping critics, what more would they have? AM Ende, the Hoboken druggist, through ■whose carelessness the lives of two young ladies were lost, has been acquitted. The question of punishing a man for an act that he •would not have done for any consideration, bad he known it, must remain one of the most puzzling that law-makers have to deal with. The report of the superintendent of the banking department shows ninety-two banks in active operation in the State of New York. This is the largest number in operation at any one time since the passage of the act of 1865 enabling the conversion of State into national banks. The resources of the New York national banks amount to $167,667,499, or over $10,000,000 more than a year ago. There is some talk among a few avowed free-traders of calling a convention in Washington for the purpose of organizing a freetrade party. But will what remains of the mugwump party have courage to throw off the civil-service mask behind which it has been gyrating and declare the true and original purpose of its being? Hitherto the freetraders have attempted to gain their ends by indirect means, and it will probably be regarded by the most of them as an injudicious move to honestly proclaim their intentions. Suit has been begun in the Des Moines, la., court to suppress the International distillery, located at that city. The distillery is largely owned by New York capitalists, and has, until now, defied the lowa law. Extensive preparation has been made, both by the prose-

cation and the defense, for a thorough testing of the questions involved, both in the State courts and in the federal courts. It will not reach its conclusion for several years, but when reached it will probably settle the right of the State to put the manufacture, as well as the sale, of intoxicants under legal disabilities. Evidently each side of the pending controversy between the liquor traffic and temperance workers intend to know what are and ,what are not its respective rights under both State and the national constitutions. There are three States in which the localoption method of treating the temperance problem has been conspicuously tried—Kentucky, Missouri and Georgia. There are three States in which so-called I 'prohibition” has been conspicuously tried—Maine, Kansas and lowa. In the first three States there is not, and never has been, any question about the result. In many localities the open traffic in intoxicants has been absolutely wiped out, and kept out by the force of dominant public sentiment that has not been coerced, but gradually and permanently educated and developed. The results have been such as are noticed in Breathitt county, Kentucky, and in Sumter county, Georgia. Besides this, the question has never been a partisan political one. Political parties have never been divided upon it, and there never has been a third party movement, which is at once the refuge of the impracticable, the tool of the dishonorable, and the asylum for the feeble, who, in their honest disgust, have wearied with the struggle for better eruditions and have gone into voluntary retirement in a political poor-house. In these three States parties have never been strictly divided on the lines of temperance legislation. It has not been Republicans on one side and Democrats on the other. But when the question of temperance legislation is to be decided, men of all parties are found on either side, and with the result that whatever the majority determines is not antagonized by the power and interest of a political organization. In the last three States, where the “prohibition” method has been, tried, there is and has been doubt and denial of the results. In Maine, where the law has been in operation for more than thirty years, there is not a unanimity of sentiment, while in lowa and Kansas, where the experiment is recent, the differences are more pronounced and aggressive. In each of these States, but particularly in the latter two, public opinion is coerced rather than educated, with the result of setting neighborhoods by the ears, turning one class into sneaks and informers, and another into evaders and tricksters. Besides, the great political parties have been and are divided on the line—one party favoring a fair trial of the method, and the other openly opposing it, thus arraying the power and interest of a political organization against the enforcement of the law, and against the creation and development of a public sentiment that would strongly indorse and sustain it. Every election that comes around the people of these States are compelled to face this question, to the exclusion of others upon which political organizations are founded, and upon which, in a healthy and normal condition*of affairs, the people should be aud would be politically divided. Now no one, not even a candid Prohibitionist, will attempt to deny that this is a fair setting forth of the facts respecting the results attending the two methods of treating the liquor problem in the States named. The question is, which is the more practicable, more sensible, more effective, more Democratic? What Georgia, and Kentucky, and Missouri have done for public morality and private sobriety under the operation of a wise local option law, W'ith high taxation for localities where the public sentiment declares in favor of the existence of the traffic, can be done in Indiana, if only the friends of temperance reform, and those who have the material and moral welfare of the State at heart, can be brought to unite on practical, sensible, advanced legislation. “Old Si,” the African editor of the Atlanta Constitution, discourses concerning the slowness of President Cleveland in making appointments, and excuses him on the ground thAt, with the Senate watching like a hawk, he is wise to move cautiously. “Si” thinks the Senate will give the old man in the White House a fair deal, but says: “At de same time, all kinds ob human natur* favors moughtily, wharebber you fin's hit—an’ I’se notis'd dat nebber-de-less er nigger kno’s dat dey got to gib 'im er fa’r trial 'fore dey chaingangs 'im, he’s pow’ful ettiket 'bout how he berhaves hisself w’ile de cote-house am in session.” The African’s reasoning is excellent from the premises before him; but he had evidently not heard that the President had shifted all responsibility for the appointments upon the Senate. This alters the case altogether, and leaves no cause for delay in making weary applicants happy. Alexander Gilchrist, a Union soldier of Pennsylvania, old, decrepit, blind, and for years an inmate of a poor-house in Indiana county, has just received an arrear of pension amounting to $12,151 —enough to maintain him comfortably as long as he lives. This is said to be the largest amount of back pay ever given to any pensioner, and for once a big arrear has gone where it was needed. Nobody will grumble at this poor, blind, helpless old soldier getting a comfortable support for the rest of his life from the Treasury. He is one of the kind for whom pensions were devised, and to whom they fairly belong. But one does not see so clearly the justice of making everybody else contribute to pay a big

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pension and arrear to some wealthy man or high official, whose salary or income will hardly feel the addition, and does not need it at all. A civil officer in the national government, a salary of five or six thousand dollars a year, and property enough to give him a competent income without a salary, gets a pension of eighty or a hundred dollars a month, and an arrear of probably five thousand, and feels that he has a right to it, takes it as complacently as his bank dividends, and repels indignantly any suggestion that he doesn’t need it, and had better leave it in the Treasury, to enable the government to increase the pensions of those who do need it He may be a very honorable and patriotic man, but he has a queer way of showing it. A man whose wealth or situation renders him independent of a pension shouldn’t have it, and the amount should swell the sum to be distributed to those who have no other support, or too little for comfort and health. The Atlanta liquor men are making a sturdy fight to defeat prohibition, though the vote has gone against them and two courts have pronounced adversely to their petitions for a restraining order. Their latest move is to take advantage of the law which provides that within twenty days from tho announcement of the result of the election by the ordinary one-tenth of the voters who voted can petition the Superior Court for a contest. If it is shown that there is cause to impeach the fairness of the election or the conduct of the ordinary the judge shall grant an order to three j ustices of the peace to recount the votes and report the results to the next term of court. Ten days’ notice must be given to the ordinary. The petition does not hold up the election, nor can the judge grant a supersedeas. The contest shall be tried and determined at the term to which the same is returnable. The requisite number of names have been secured, so the question is again opened for settlement by the court. The Prohibitionists are confident that their victory cannot be wrested from them, and will defend the returns as made by the proper official. The success of the movement in Georgia should be a lesson to such Prohibitionists as persist in forcing the question into partisan politics. As the campaign has been conducted in Georgia, the cause is not weakened by partisan fear of hurting this or that political organization. The Boston Record admits that President Cleveland is not given to non-partisan appointments, and says that of the nearly 10,000 persons appointed to office since the 4th of March probably not more than ten are Republicans or independents. The Record’s estimate is high. By mentioning five, or three, or even two genuine Republicans who have been appointed to lucrative offices by Mr. Cleveland, our Boston contemporary will confer a favor on a community anxious to do justice to the chief magistrate. As for any “independents” who may have been appointed, they do not count as non-partisan under a Democratic administration. The Boston Advertiser, for long years a sternly virtuous Republican sheet, was enticed by false gods, and, falling from its high estate, went mugwump last year, much to the subsequent distress and disarrangement of its financial department. Mugwump paths were found too hard a road to travel, and it has succumbed to the inevitable, having been turned over this week into the hands of prominent Republicans, who will proceed to make a speedy reform of its recent erratic methods. Like little Bopeep’s sheep, the mugwump papers come home again, one by one, leaving their tails in the shape of circulations far behind them. Our reform postmaster at Indianapolis refuses to cash a postoffice order of $lO, issued by the reform postmaster ai Marion, Ind., because the reformed postmaster at Marion either did not know how to fill up the order or neglected it through carelessness. The reform postmaster here had the proper notice that such an order had been sent from the reform postmaster at Marion, but because it failed to to have the word “Indianapolis” in it any place, it has to go back for correction, meanwhile causing delay and exponse. Long live reform! The ex-Union soldiers of the Eighth congressional district, who recently met and organized for the passage of certain pension legislation, based on service, have issued a circular containing their argument for such a law, and asking that a soldiers’ meeting be held at every county-seat in the State on Saturday, Jan. 16, for organization, raising funds and circulating petitions. A mass convention of ex-Union soldiers and sailors is called to meet in Indionapolis, Jan. 26, for such action as may be deemed advisable. A member of the Russian legation at Washington is said to have been blackballed, recently, by the Union Club, of New York, to which he had made application for membership. Judging from such of the proceedings of the Union Club as “creep” into the newspapers every now and then, it must be a bold, bad man, indeed, who is not good enough for admittance. That Russian diplomats must be an uncommonly black sheep. Fanny Davenport “indignantly denies” that she is the daughter of Mr. Gill, the first husband of Mrs. E. L. Davenport, and declares that she would prefer to “be robbed of all else but her just birthright and her father’s honored name.” It is all right for Fanny to stick up for her pa, but there is no need of incidentally slurring her respected ma’s first choice. Everything is so upside down on the other side of the world. There they are talking about the financial troubles of Turkey, while here it is the fellow who invests in turkey who is in danger of financial troubles.

COLD WEATHER IN THE WEST Heavy Fall of Snow in lowa and Kansas, Accompanied by Very High Winds. The Temperature from 12 to 20 Degrees Below Zero—Travel Greatly Impeded—The Cold Wave Will Reach Here To-morrow. WESTERN WEATHER. Heavy Snow, High Winds and Low Temperature in lowa and Kansas. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 7.—A cold wave, with blizzard accompaniment, struck this section tonight from the northwest Indications are that the temperature will reach 20 degrees below zero by daylight The storm is general throughout the Northwest Sioux City, Jan. 7.—A severe storm set in here last evening and continued throughout the day to-day, and this evening thb wind is still howling, and the themometer is about 12 degrees below zero. The Illinois Central road, which was blockaded by the previous storm, is now hopelessly closed until the weather settles and the track can be shoveled out No train was sent out on the Omaha road for St Paul. The Sioux City & Pacific line is open, but trains are somewat delayed. The Nebraska roads entering here abandoned their trains to-day. The roads in Southern Dakota are mostly open, but through trains are delayed by the cold. The storm is the most severe since that of October, 1880, and is general throughout the entire section as far as can be heard from. Kansas City, Jan. 7.—The storm which lias prevailed all day on the plains is one of the most severe ever known. No trains arrived or departed to-night on the Santa Fo, the Union Pacific, or the Burlington & Missouri River roads. Telegraphic communition with points west of here has been greatly interrupted and many railroad wires are down. The snow-fall has' been accompanied by strong winds and severe cold, and will undoubtedly cause much suffering among the cattle, probably entailing heavy losses. The weather here has been less severe, though to-night tho mercury is three degrees below zero, with keen northwest winds and a light drifting snow falling. A passenger who came in over the Santa Fe from Williams, New Mexico, states that there is an unbroken covering of snow on the ground for the entire distance of some 1,300 miles. Reports from Omaha say the weather there is so severe that linemen cannot go out to repair disabled telegraph wires in the open country. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 7.—A1l trains on the Santa Fo and Pacific railroads are abandoned. The mail which left Kansas City at 10 o’clock this morning on the Santa Fe road is at Osage City, thirty-five miles west of here. The train on the Union Pacific leaviilg Kansas City at the same time is at Wamego. A terrible wind and snow-storm prevails all over the State, but is most severe in the western part At Brookville, 140 miles west of here, on the Union Pacific, the thermometer ranged 13 degrees below zero at 4 p. M. There was not a heavy fall of snow here, but it is drifting badly. THE SIGNAL SERVICE. Local Snows anti Stationary Temperatnre— Cold Weather To-Morrow. War Department, ) Office of the Chief Signal, Officer > Washington, Jan. 8, la. m. ) Special Indications for Twenty four Hours from 7 a. si., for Indianapolis and Vicinity— Increasing cloudiness, followed by local snows, nearly stationary temperature, followed during Saturday by colder weather and a cold wave. For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee—Cloudy weather and local snows, decidedly colder, particularly in Tennessee, with a cold wave, variab'e w\nds, generally easterly, rising barometer in the western portion and falling barometer in the eastern portion, followed in Tennessee by rising barometer. For the Lower Lake Region—Cloudy weather and light local snows, winds generally northeasterly, falling barometer, slightly colder in the western portion, preceded by nearly stationary temperature, warmer in the eastern portion. For tho upper Lake Region—Cloudy weather and light local snows, winds generally northerly, colder weather, with a cold wave during the night and on Saturday. For the Upper Mississippi Valiev—Cloudy weather and light local snows, colder northerly winds, with a cold wave, rising barometer. For the Missouri Valley —Fair weather, preceded by local snows in southern portion, colder weather in southern portion, northerly winds. [Special Bulletin.] Washington, Jan. 8, 12:30 a. m.—The cold wave mentioned Wednesday night has now spread over the Missouri valley and West Gulf States, causing a fall in temperature of from 20 to 40 degrees. It will move eastward over the Mississippi valley to-day and to the eastern Gulf States, causing very severe frosts in the sugar regions of the South. It will be felt in the Ohio valley during the night, and on Saturday in the South Atlantic States. Severe frosts can be anticipated in Florida on Sunday morning, with light frosts in the northern portion on Saturday. Local Ooservations. Indianapolis. Jan. 7. Time. | Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. Weatherlßaiu. 6A. M..j30.11 16.7 £8 N’east Clear lOa. m..!30.14 20.0 70 N’east:(Hear 2p.M.. 30.04 25.0 64 East Clear 6P. m..|30.05 20.5 70 East Fair 10 P. M-.j30.02 18.6 87 East Clear Maximum temperature, 26.0; minimum temperature, 15.8. General Observations. War Department, t Washington, Jan. 7, 9 p. m. J Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. - - - - I S 00 S- S a 3 F“ P* 2, I o ’ g£. sr STATIONS. S' B • 3 1 ? : §■ : : 3 ; : * : : s* • .•• ' • • • • • ct* • New York City 29.96 13 Nwest Clear. Washington City— 30.00 29 Nwest Clear. Vicksburg, Miss 29.71 50lNwest .74 Lt. rain. New Orleans, La... 29.69 56 S’east Cloudy. Shreveport, La 30.00 19 Nwest Cloudy. Fort Smith, Ark... 30.14 4 Nwest .02;Ltsnow. Little Rock, Ark... 29.79 25 Nwest .05 Lt snow. Galveston, Tex 1 Memphis, Tenn.... 29.76 39N’east Cloudy. Nashville, Tenn.... 29.82 33 East Fair. ' Louisville. Ky 29.97 \ 26 N’east Clear. Indianapolis, Ind... 30.03 19 East Cloudy. Cincinnati, 0 130.04 17 East Clear. Pittsburg. Pa 130.08 16 North Clear. Oswego, N. Y. 30.08 11 North Lt snow. Toledo 0 30.15 16 N’east ,02‘Lt snow. Escanaba, Mich.... 130.33 5 N’east Cloudy. Marquette, Micli... 130.33 8 South Idoudy. Chicago, 111 130.11 24 East ! Cloudy. Milwaukee, Wis.... 30 16 20 East (Cloudy. Duluth, Minn 30.29 12‘S’east .02 Lt snow. St. Paul. Minn :30.30 —2‘West .05 Lt snow. LaCrosse, Wis i 30.20 15 North .01 Lt snow. Davenport, la !30.11 20 N’east .(Cloudy. Des Moines, la ;30.29 —7jNorth .OSjLt snow. Keokuk. Ia '30.05 22|N'east ‘Cloudy. Cairo, 111 29,82 —32 N’east jCloudy. Springfield. 11l 29.99 29;N’east j Clear. St. Louis, Mo 29.95 28|N’east ‘Cloudy. Lamar, Mo Leavenworth, Kan. 30.28 —7 North .03 Lt snow. Omaha, Neb 30.42 —lO North .021 Cloudy. Yankton, Dak 30.59 —lB Nwest (Fair. Moorehead. Minn... 30.58 —2O Nortli 'Cloudy. Bismarck. Dak 30.73 —27(Nwest .....iClear. Fort Buford, Dak.. 30.77 —2B W-st Clear. Ft. Assiniboine.M.T 30.60—19.Er5t Clear. Fort Ouster, Mont.. 30.58 —WjS’east . ... Clear. Deadwood, Dak ! North Platte, Neb.. 30.53 —l6 Nwest Clear. Denver, Col 30.36—16 South Clear. W. Las Animas, Col 30.41 —ll Nwest Clear. Dodge City, Kan Fort Elliott, Tex Fort Sill. Ind. Ter Fort Davis. Tex 30.16 10 N’east Clear. El Paso. Tex 30.20 33|Nwest 1 Clear. Salt Lake City, U. T;30.58 lON’easti [Clear. Another Indian Outbreak Feared. Nbw York, Jan. 7.—A Montreal special to the Postjsays that the government has received

urgent and earnest warnings from army officers and the best informed priests of the Northwest that another Indian outbreak was imminent, that the Blackfeet, Bloods and Recees are defiant; that they go about levying black-mail in the shape of provisions and supplies; that they believe Riel's rebellion only failed through lack of ammunition, with which*they are now plentifully supplied; that the Indians are chafing at being cooped on their reserves, and that unless the force there is largely augmented another and bloody outbreak is only a question of a short time. The special adds that the government now realizes the gravity of the situation, and is taking measures looking to an increase of the force in the Northwest. AN ANGRY SESSION. Chief Bushyhead and the Cherokee Senate Have an Exciting Dispute. Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 7.—A private letter from Tahlequah, Cherokee nation, says: “The national council of the Cherokees adjourned last week in the midst of a bitter quarrel between the Senate and Chief Busbyhead. It appears the Senate desired to name the two delegates whom the Cherokees send to Washington every winter, and that Chief Bushyhead claimed the selection of these men as his right Heretofore the chief has always appointed delegates with the advice and consent of the Senate, as provided by the Cherokee Constitution. The Senate, however, disputed tho right of the chief in the premises this time, and asserted that the selection must be made by itself. The chief refused to yteld, and a bitter struggle followed. The senators, after discussing the matter carefully, decided to hold their ground regardless of consequences. Chief Bushyhead sent in the nominations of two very able men, P. N. Blackstone and J. G. Scrirasher. The latter was, after a heated debate, confirmed, and the former rejected. The chief immediately nominated Samuel Smith, a Cherokee Indian, who was rejected. The nominations of Adam Feeling, Adam Lacy and George Downing, all prominent Cherokee statesmen, were rejected one after another. The Senate then sent a committee to tho chief, requesting him to name a man selected by that body. Chief Busyhead haughtily replied that he was exercising a constitutional right and would not forego it. He immediately sent in the names of Albion Spears and George Sanders, both of whom were rejected. Thoroughly aroused, the chief then sent a pointed message to the Senate, saying he had no further business for the body to transact, and an adjournment followed. The dead-lock is the talk of the nation, some blaming and others defending the chief.” Business Embarrassments. Baltimore, Jan. 7.—Painter, Tongue & Cos., dealers in fancy dress goods, made a deed of trust this afternoon for the benefit of their creditors. A member of the firm stated to-night that the failure was caused by tho defalcations of their book-keeper, William Rose, who confesses to having misappropriated $15,000. but they believe his defalcation will run mueh higher. The firm, having implicit confidence in Rose, intrusted him with the firm’s finances. Their liabilities are roughly estimated at $75,000, against which they have $30,000 or $40,000 worth of stock. Rose has not beeu arrested, and his friends are making an effort to make good the amount of his defalcations in order to save him from punishment by criminal proceedings. New York, Jan. 7.—Thomas F. Kaughran and Edward F. Barrett, composing the firm of Kaughran & Cos., retail dealers in dry goods, at 809 Broadway, made an assignment to-day to Miles O'Brien. No preferences were stated. Sidney A. Wood and Richard W. Frost, comprising the firm of Frost & Wood, furniture, at 875 Sixth avenue, have made an assignment to George G. Burns, without preferences. St. Paul. Minn., Jan. 7.—Jacob Morganstein, wholesale and retail jeweler, doing business on Sibley street, made a voluntary assignment today, precipitated by an execution of $113.26, issued in favor of Holmes, Booth & Hayden, of Connecticut. No schedule has been filed. Morganstein came from Pittsburg eight years ago. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 7.—Joseph Jonas, clothing dealer, has made an assignment, with' assets of $5,000 and liabilities of $15,000. He has creditors in New York, Chicago and Milwaukee. Richmond, Va., Jan. 7.—H. M. Smith <fc Cos., agricultural implements, have failed. Liabilities, $75,000. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. CAN CHEERFULLY COMMEND IT. Winchester Journal. The Indianapolis Journal, under its present management, is not only one of the very handsomest papers typographically in the country, but it is edited with great care and ability. Its enterprise in collecting and contlonsing the news of the day and carefully suppressing everything of an improper or indecent character, entitles it to a place in every business room, office, shop and family in the State. We cheerfully commend the Journal. THE EQUAL OF ANY IN THE WEST. Versailles Republican. The Journal is the best newspaper in Indiana, and the equal of any west of the Allegheny mountains. It is the paper that, citizens of this State ought to prefer to all others for general news, becanse it contains matters of interest to them that are not found in papers published in other States. The Journal ably advocates Republican principles, and on that account it well deserves the support of Republicans in all sections of Indiana. The Cheap Dollar. L ouisville Commercial. The objection to silver money is its great weight, making the handling of larce sums difficult. We have heard so much in defense of the cheap silver dollar, however, as to cause wonder why somebody doesn’t suggest ten-cent dollars. They would be convenient to handle, and ought to suit those people who claim that the stamp of the government gives money its value. A Rising Hope. Philadelphia Press. President Cleveland boldly announces that his shall be an administration “without secrets.” This encourages a hope that he will shortly publish that mysterious letter of John Bigelow’s declining the assistant treasurership at New York, A Heartless Suggestion. Philadelphia Inquirer. Congressman Foran’s idea that congressmen should be paid SIO,OOO a year might be a good one if it were amended so as to read that the salaries should be at that rate but payable only for tho time when Congress is not in session. A Winter’s Job. Philadelphia Inquirer. Congressman Hahn, of Louisiana, has taken up a big contract He is going to try to prevent the confirmation of every unfit person who has been appointed to office in that State. Woman in Politics. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. English ladies are forming Liberal and Conservative ladies’ clubs. This is not female suffrage; it is simply female supervision of male suffrage. His Deadly Enemies. Louisville Courier-Journal. It is understood that the friends of Riel endeavored to sneak a cold mince pie into the recent banquet to Sir John McDonald. Tontine Life Insurance. The letter of Colonel Green, president of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, which appears elsewhere in this issue, is a vigorous argument against tho whole Tontine system of life insurance, regardless of the various disguises it assumes. It will doubtless cause a sensation among the Tontine companies and open a wide field of discussion. He takes the ground that the system has in it a “wanton hazard” or “gambling element” whioh is not consistent with good morals, and he attacks it, under all its names, as a dangerous feature of life insurance. It is instructive reading to all who are interested in life insurance, and the number is growing every day.

THE SEVENTII PRESIDENT. The Story of the Life of the Hero of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson. Bom in Povertj\ ne Leads an Eventful Life, Ending in the Exalted Office of Chief Magistrate of the United States, Written by Frank Dildiue, Fort Wayne. More than a century ago, Andrew Jackson’* father came to this country and settled on a wild and lonely spot at the edge of a dense forest, ta the northern part of South Carolina, and had just raised his first meager, scanty crop, when he took sick and died, leaving his wife, with two little children, and just on the eve of again becoming a mother, in a state of almoafe abject poverty. After going to the grave and burying the body of her husband, such was the desolate and impoverished condition of her home that, instead of returning to it, she drove just across the border into North Carolina, to a Mrs. McKenney’s, and there, in a rude log hut, in the extreme of penury and want, with no one around her out a few friendly women, she, in a, few days thereafter, gave birth to the child Andrew Jackson, whose name to-day occupies so important a niche in the history of his country. This was on the 15th of March, 1767. His mother was scarcely, able to take care of herself, consequently Andrew, or “Andy,” as he was universally called, grew up a very rough, rude, and turbuleut boy, and as soon as he was old enough was placed out to work for hi* board, and during this time he attended school in an uninviting log hut, where he managed to learn to read and write tolerably well and gained some knowledge of arithmetic. He never could spell. In 1780 the victorious British army under Cornwallis sweDt through the State, and Andrew and his brother, who were endeavoring to protect some property of one of their neighbors, were taken prisoners, and the treatment they received from the British was so rough and brutal that his brother died and Andrew was taken with a violent fever, which lasted for some time after his release. About this time hi* mother died, and thus, at tho age of fourteen years, this boy was left alone in the world* without father, mother, brother or sister, and without a dollar that he could call his oWn. After he had recovered his health he entered a saddler shop and worked diligently at this trade for some time. He was a wild, reckless boy drank, gambled, swore, fought, and was about as rough a character a* cc.ld be found anywhere—and having in some way gained possession of a fine horse, he quits his position in the saddle shop, and rode to a city near by. He entered a gambline-bouse, and being challenged to put up his lioree against S2OO, he did so, and won, and after winning he was sensible enough to stop, put his money in his pocket, and started for home. Then he turned schoolmaster —this man who scarcely knew more than the multiplication table, certainly not long division or fractions (out ho knew how to flog the boys)—taught school, and after following this for awhile he determined to study law, and at eighteen years of age he set out for Salisbury. N. 0., and entered the law office of a Mr. McCay, where he remained for two years. He did not trouble the law books very mueh, for he 6pent more of his time in tho stables and tavern bar roooms than he did in the office over his books, and his record in that city was that of “the most roaring, rollicking, gamecock fighting, horse-racing, eard-loving, mischievous fellow that ever lived in Salisbury, and was regarded as the head of all the rowdies in that town.” Still he managed to finish his course of study, and, a short time after his admission to the bar, was appointed public prosecutor for the district of Nashville, and with a small party of other emigrants started across the c<yi*6ijr fqp his new , home. His office was one arbut little'tTonor, small salary and great peril, and but few men could be found who had the courage to accept it; but Jackson, who was afraid of nothing, “not even the devil,” ho used to say, was just the man for the position, and he took it, and for seven long years he filled the office and practiced his profession, bidding defiance to the rough element and the danger of those early times. While in Nashville he boarded with Mrs. Domelson, a widow lady, who had a gay and beautiful daughter, who had married a man named Lewis Robards, both of whom lived with their mother. There had been trouble between Mr. and Mrs. Robards, and after Jackson’s advent into the family they separated, and Mr. Robarda went to Virginia and commenced proceedings; for a divorce, and some time after it was an* nounced in Nashville that he had obtained one. Influenced by this belief, Jackson paid suit to Mrs. Robards, and in the fall of 1791 they were married. Two years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Jackson learned, to their ereat surprise, that Robards had just obtained a divorce in the courts of Kentuckv, his application in Virginia having been refused. To remedy this defect Jackson immediately obtained another license and the marriage ceremony was performed over again. Their married life proved to be one of rare felicity, and that man who would have dared question the parity of the intentions of their first marriage, would have done so at the risk of a bullet through his head. Mr. Jackson was now getting into a good practice, and this, with his dealings in real estate, brought him in a good revenue, and’ he was rapidly becoming rich. In 1796 Tennessee was admitted into the Union, and being entitled to but one representative in Congress, Andrew Jackson was chosen as that member, and, mounting his horse, he rode to Philadelphia, a distance of 890 miles, to take his seat Soon after this he was elected United States senator, and after filling this position for two years he resigned, to accept a position as one of the Supreme Court judges of Tennessee, which he held for a few years and resigned that, too, be--cause tho duties of the position were not congenial to his tastes. About this time Jackson became involved in a quarrel with Charles Dickenson, a lawyer of considerable prominence, and Jackson, who had already been engaged in three or four duels, challenged him to a duel, and insisted on an immediate fight. They met at 7 o’clock in the morning, on the 30th day of May, 1806. Dickon-* son got the first fire and sent a ball crashing through Jackson’s side, breaking a rib, and leaving a bad wound. Jackson then took deliberate aim, and Dickenson, staring death in the face, recoiled a step or two. “Back to the mark, sir!” shouted Jackson’s second, and he again took hi3 stand as Jackson raised his arm and pulled the trigger, but the pistol did not go off, and. readjusting it, he coolly and deliberately took aim and fired. Dickensou fell, the ball having passed through his bodv just above the hips, from the effects of which he died the same day. This for a time considerably injured Jackson's reputation, and it was the verdict then, as it is now, that Jackson was in the wrong. After his retirement from the Supreme bench he accepted the position of major-general tendered him by the government This was more in accordance with his tastes, and between the duties thus imposed upon him and attending to a large plantation that he owned, he passed the time up to 1812, when he had another altercation with: a man named Benton, whom he endeavored to , horsewhip. But Benton, knowing Mu reputation and fearing the man, inflicted two severe pistolshot wounds upon him—one in the shoulder and one in the arm. This prostrated him for some time upon a bed of suffering, and while he waa lying there, his wounds not yet healed, the Creek Indian war broke out General Jackson’s restless, impetuous spirit would not allow him to remain quiet, and weak in body though he was, he left his invalid bed and took up his cotnmaud. He threw all his zeal and remarkable generalship into the contest, broke the power of the Creek* forever, and General Jackson returned a hero. He now turned his attention to the British, who, with a large fleet and an enormous army were endeavoring to wrest Louisiana from us, and his celebrated defense of New Orleans will be remembered as long as the Nation exists. It was a fearful battle, shot and shell fell thick and fast, large cannons belched forth their thunder, and musketry their tempest of le*d, as recrimentt after regiment of the British forces disappeared? Amidst it all, General Jackson walked alowlr