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THE DAILY JOURNAL ‘WASHINGTON OFFICE—BI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent. MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1886. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION, USMS INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID BY THE PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. One yew, by ma’l. $12.00 Ore by mail, including Sunday 14.00 Si* months, by mail 6.00 Six months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 Three months, by mail 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 Une month, by mail 1.00 One mouth, by mail, including Sunday 1.20 Per week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) 25 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. Per copy 5 cents by mail $2.00 INDIANA STATE JOURNAL. (WEEKLY EDITION.) One year Less than one year and over three months, 10c per month. No subscription taken for less than three months. In clubs of five or over, agents will take early subscriptions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for eir work. Address JXO. C. NEW & SON, Publishers Tho Journal, Indianapolis, Ind. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Car. be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 440 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucinos. NEW YORK—St, Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer Hou^T CINCINNATI— J. R. Hawley & Cos., 151 Wine street. LOUISVILLE—O. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. IST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 The Wechly Journal., The Weekly Journal comprises twelve pages of carefully selected reading matter, and has no superior as a paper for the farmer. It contains all the current news up to tho date of issue, and a vast quantity of the best literature of the time. The sermons of Dr. DeWitt C. Talmage are regiarly printed in the Weokly Journal. The Weekly Journal is furnished at the low price of $1 per year. The publishers of county weeklies who have printed the Journal’s prospectus in their papers v.ithout authority from this office are hereby informed that such publication does not entitle them to an exchange. The Jourbal is necessarily compelled to limit, its exchange list, and, therefore, reserves the right to solect the papers in which it- wishes its advertising done. Even when a Democratic organ alludes to the “Senator from Ohio,” nobody seems to think of Mr. Payne. If he wasn’t brought into matters of a financial nature now and then the country would forget all about him.

Dr. Thomas W. Keene, a member of the "Virginia Legislature, fell dead in the House immediately after making a speech on Saturday. Sudden deaths like this one and that of the late Vice-president and of Miss Bayard make the tenure of life seem very uncertain. De mortui3 nil, as a rule; but what is to be done in a case like that of John Heeseman, of Charleston, S. C., a merchant of forty years’ reputable standing? He died suddenly, on Jan. 4, and it was afterwards discovered that he had forged notes to the amount of SIO,OOO and was a defaulter to that amount. Isn’t it about time for New York papers to stop advertising pennyroyal doctors because of the mad-dog craze, and for those of Chicago to cease dragging dirty and cowardly loafers before the public because in moments of drunkenness they boast of being nihilists? A decent nihilist is a prince of royal blood compared with these bummers. The visit of “Rev.” Sam Jones and Evangelist Small to Cincinnati has not been without. promise of good. It has given tho political editors something else to talk about, and personal blackguardism will not be given so much prominence. If the thing works as expected, it is to be hoped that the two preachers will locate permanently at Cincinnati. BUCYRUS, 0., is in the hands of typical Democrats. By anew city charter the place was divided into four wards, and to make them nil Democratic, so as to give Republicans no Voice in municipal matters, they were gerrymandered, one having a population of over 2,200 while another has less than 700. If tho public affairs of that place don’t fall into the hands of jobbers, it will not be the fault of those who got in this “fine work.” The sheriff at Vincennes is bound by his official oath to protect any and all prisoners committed to his care until such time as they may be disposed of by the courts. He owes it to the people of Indiana to protect the miscreant Epps from the Green county mob. The original offense brought shame and crime upon no one but the murderer himself. The men who would take his life now, without ♦he observance of tho rules laid down in the s itutes, would disgrace not only themselves, but the entire State. A few madmen must not be allowed to do this. Tbe sheriff should let it be understood that it will be dangerous for any mob to make an assault upon the Vincennes jail, and he should then be prepared to defend it against all comers. It is a shameful thing for the press to repeat any idle rumors of suicide in connection with the sudden death of Miss Bayard, even to refute them. Before the intelligence of tho death could get into the morning papers the facts of the case were all in the hands of the reporters. It was made plain from these that her death was from heart disease, so that the most confirmed gossip and busy-body bas no •xcuse for giving breath to any hint of other

than a natural death. The fame of the deceased is unsullied by a doubt in this respect —her death was the result of heart trouble of long standing. But it must be a source of pain to her parents and friends that even tbe suspicion of self-inflicted death could find a place in the daily press, which should have been considerate enough to refuse to publish such a cruel bit of gossip.

A SOMEWHAT careful reading and study of the several reports of the recent sensational session of the School Board make it reasonably clear that the people and tax-payers of Indianapolis are indebted to the action of the finance committee for the saving of a considerable amount of money, while, at the same time, the proceedings cast a side light of no mean power upon the weakness, if not wickedness, of the existing treasury system, to which the Journal has heretofore alluded, and will continue to allude in the hope of arousing a public sentiment that-will force a readjustment of it at the bands of the next General Assembly. Briefly stated, the disagreement in the School Board grows out of the arrangement for a temporary loan. It is a rule of the board that the finance committee, “in connection with the treasurer,” shall make all permanent and temporary loans, and with this provision in mind, Mr. Frenzel claims that, as treasurer, ho ha3 been ignored by the committee. It should be borne in mind, however, that tho board subsequently passed a resolution devolving the duty of effecting a loan upon the finance committee, without mentioning the treasurer, so that the later action really superseded the former rule. The resolution also provided that tho committee should advertise for bids for the money; and this they did not do. Great stress is laid upon this neglect, and possibly with some degree of justice. It might have been better had the committee followed the suggestions of the board to the letter; but no one will say that the resolution was more than directory, and, if the committee has used good judgment and effected a good loan at a lower rate of interest, the board could readily have approved their action, and cured any technical defect in their proceedings. We concede that there is much strength in Mr. Bingham’s position that if good men can ignore the board’s directions, even in a good cause, a loop-hole is left for bad men, whereby the public may suffer. But, after all, the board has the whole matter in its own hands, and the corrective can be easily applied. There is something almost humorous in Mr. Frenzel’s complaint that he had not been consulted by the committee. Asa matter of fact, he himself confesses that he was consulted several different times, but his explanation is that each of those times he was consulted as president of a bank and not as a member of the School Board. By his own showing he seems to consider himself a sort of Lord'Poobah, and the committee did him an injustice because they did not profess to know just which character he may have been wearing at the time they happened to meet him. Seriously, this is the merest folly. Mr. Greenstreet and Mr. Vonnegut gave ample reasons for their conduct; and their negotiation for money at 5 per cent., to be loaned as needed, while the best terms otherwise offered them were at a higher rate of interest, and for a sum in bulk, is the best vindication of their sagacious management. It is very unfortunate that such a serious disagreement should break out in a body like the School Board. The work of the board should be conducted in the most open and candid manner. The board has committed an error, which should not be repeated, in the holding of secret sessions; but it will take more than Mr. Frenzel’s and Mr. Bingham's assertions, oven when backed up by Mr. August M. Kuhn, to convince the public that men like Mr. Merritt, Mr. Greenstreet, Mr. Vonnegut and Mr. Bamberger have done anything that requires a popular indignation meeting, or that public sentiment had becomo so perfectly overwhelming that these men were forced to make an exposure of their questionable practices. The worst they seem to have done is to have made an arrangement for money at 5 per cent, with a treasurer, who is really loaning to the board the funds that should belong to it by right, instead of borrowing from Mr. Frenzel, or someone else, at a higher rate, even, possibly 7 per cent. But, as we said, the row will have the effect to bring the School Board to the needed realization that it is in charge of a public trust and not a private property—something it has forgotten for years—and the public will be aroused to the beauties of a treasury system which permits a man to take their taxes and then loan the money back to them at a round premium.

A DISPATCH from Long Pond, Ga., gives the particulars of a killing there. A youug man named McNutt married a Miss Conner against the wishes of her family. The Conners, father and son, hunted up McNutt with the avowed intention of killing him; but he got the drop on one of them and did the killing himself. The account says that “all the parties are of the highest respectability.” Why, of course; and Brutus was an honorable man. The cigar-makers of New York, because of the strke and boycott started by workmen, threaten to close on Wednesday of this week. This would throw 17,000 men out of work. A calamity of this kind should be avoided, if possible. It would work a fearful hardship on many a family. Common sense and the spirit of fair play ought to be able to bring about an adjustment of the disagreement between the

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workmen and their employers. It will be a great day for the good of all concerned when employers and employed come to understand that their interests are mutual, and that one cannot suffer without harm to the other. Arbitration should be exhausted before any decisive action be taken in questions involving the interests of as many men as are interested in the strike now inaugurated. The attention of several townships has been directed to the fact that in the race for matrimonial favors the fair sex of Louisville have been anything but winners of late. In fact, a Louisville girl never feels safe until a day or two after the ceremony has been performed. The effect of this, naturally, has been to render the ladies of that city exceedingly cautious, not to say cynical. And now “Lily Curry,” of Louisville, without mentioning any names, but with a sinister earnestness that is simply appalling to all men who are not doing as they should, perpetrates a “triolet” on the Courier-Journal. We don’t know what a triolet is, and probably wouldn’t recognize one in a life time, unless it wore labeled. But she feels that nothing less than a triolet will meet the exigencies of Louisville’s desperate case. Here's what she says: Somewhere to-night I know you are lying, Just as of old you lied to me— Leaning to whisper, and suing and sighing— Somewnere, to someone, to-night you are lying, Somebody’s foolish lips are complying; Somebody's credulous eyes agree. Somewhere to-night I know you are lying, Just as of old you lied to me! This is tough; and all the tougher, because Lily says it before she is married. Some girls are so giddy that they can’t wait to tell what they think. We fear that Lily will live to learn, in life’s hard school, that it doesn’t pay to jump onto a man in that way, unless tho marriage ceremony has been performed. Then, of course—well, precedent has done much to ameliorate the condition of married women. People going to New Orleans never ask for a stop-over check at Louisville. A day or two ago, at Stanly, N. J., a mare and a bull-dog became engaged in a deadly conflict. The animals had been kept in the same stable, and the mare had always evinced a great dislike for the dog. On Friday, breaking the tether, she seized the dog and gave him a vicious shaking. Wriggling loose, tho later grabbed the mare by the nose, to which he held until tho mare, in her struggles caused by the awful agony, stumblf and and fell on the dog, killing it. It was found, however, that the mare had sustained such injuries that she had to be killed. The conflict is described in detail, the account saying that “a large crowd assembled to witness the fight, which lasted fifteen minutes.” If this is true, it is not hard to determine which were the more brutal, the animals that fought to the death or the human brutes who did not separate them. A negro, aged 107, froze to death near Barnesville, 6a., during the recent cold snap, and it is said that the negroes feel so indignant at the son of the deceased that they talk of vengeance. The son may be a man of, say eighty-soven. Now, it stands to reason that a boy of that age generally has enough to do to keep his own poor bones articulated and in working order, without snooping around to look after a father old enough to look after himself. The Waynesburg, 0., woman who, when her house took fire, stood bare footed afc the pump for twenty minutes and then ran a quarter of a mile through the snow with the thermometer twelve below zero, made a great mistake. The average woman’s feet are cold enough already to make matrimony a risky business to any hut the most stout-hearted. • / The report that Kentucky is fast becoming a temperance stronghold is hardly sustained by the story of Mr. Pollard’s water-bucket, narrated in yesterday’s Journal. A bucket which will deliberately and repeatedly empty itself of water is not the kind of domestic utensil which is found in the prohibition household. Waterloo, N. Y., knows what it is to be hoist with her own petard. The city building there has been burned by a firo communicated from the fire-engine heater.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Miss Kate Field is buying Washington real estate. There are firms in New York and Philadelphia that hire out clean cuffs and collars. The Princess of Wales started anew craze ju3t before her illness—that of Arab furniture. It is stated that 3,000 copies of Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s new novel were sold within three weeks from the day of publication. An Indian scholar at the Carlisle, Pa., school wrote home: ‘‘There should bo no Indians within the United States wrapped in blankets when other people are so busy working.” Lord Kenmare’s mansion in Killarney is under the constant surveillance of twonty police. The expense of this surveillance, over £2,000 annually, is defrayed by the tax-payers. Henry F. Keenan, novelist, has been rusticating at Scranton, Pa. He says he walks a good deal about the hills in that region, and the miners generally took him at first for a Pinker ton detective, and now think he is a harmless lunatic. Mrs. B.—Mrs. R. has changed her mind and is not going to the carnival as Martha Washington. Miss M.—Yes, she told me she was going to represent Mary Queen of Scots. Mrs. B. (very importantly)—No, she isn’t either; she's going as Mary Stuart.—Troy Times. It seems incredible that Harvard, with all its boasted service and its long array of alumni, really furnishes but one senator. Yaie does some better, having three senators to represent her, while Princeton and Hamilton have two each, and Bowdoin and Williams one each. The talk in England now is of a marriage an gagement between one of the Queen’s granddaughters and Prince Frederick Leopold, only son of the late “Red Prince” of Prussia. The young man is esteemed a desirable ‘‘catch.” inheriting his father’s great wealth as well as much of his spirit and mind. Senator Cullen, of the New York Legislature, draws bis salary daily. Last winter on one occasion he did not receive the amount asked for at the specified time, and now, to get even with the disbursing officer and insure himself aeainst financial embarrassment, he insists that his salary of sls be paid to him at the end of every day. The young Countess de la Rochefoucauld received for her wedding gitts the other day priceless jewelry enough to turn the head of a queen. Tho most extraordinary gifts were from the Rothschilds. The Baroness Alphonse gave her a crown of diamonds and rubies, and Mile, de Rothschild a parasol with the handle set with diamouds. Messrs. Evauts and McCulloch are both owners of fine farms. An irreverent correspondent describes the two gentlemen as meeting- at the residence of the Chief Justice, and discussing the merits of their respective domains. Mr. McCulloch insisted that he was never lonesome on his farm, and, though his family went off to Europe and left him this summer, he was always occupied and contented in bucolic scenes. He did all tho “chorus," for one thing, he insisted.

“Yes, I do all the ‘chores’ on my farm, too,” said Senator Evarts, emphatically, “and my heaviest ‘chores’ are to walk down to the pastures and watch the cattle.” Senator Stanford, who owns ranches galore, agreed that there was no greater pleasure than to lean on the rails and watch the stock feeding in the pastures. Says the New York Morning Journal: “The residonce of James G. Blaine is only one hundred yards from the river hank, and the Maine statesman is one of tho most persistent of iceyachters. Clad in a big fur overcoat and a fur cap, he always insists upon steering the yacht himself, and his ice-boat, the Kennehecker, i3 one of the fleetest crafts on tho river.” When Victorien Sardon was yet struggling in obscurity, his only friend was a cobbler, who made his hoots for him, on credit for six years, because he had faith in his genius. Crispin has ever since been a frequent and welcome guest at the dramatist's mansion, and is happy in saying: “I knew you were somebody, sir, and, at any rate, you achieved your success in my boots.” William Gorman Willis, the author of tho new version of “Fanst,” which* Henry Irving is now playing at the London Lyceum, is fiftyseveu years of age and a native of Kilicenny, Ireland. His first stage essay was “The Man o’ Airlie,” one of the best things in Lawrence Barrett’s repertoire. Mr. Willis is also a novelist of some note, and is in receipt of a snug income from his pen. T. V. Povvderly, General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, is a man of tact. In his recent statement about running for political office in Scranton, where ho now resides, he was careful not to express any hostility to office-hold-ing in general. It now appears that he is likely to remove to Philadelphia, where he will be more accessible; and if he does he is likely to he placed in nomination for Congress in one of the city districts. The editor of the New Amsterdam (N. Y.) Gazette has received the following special information from the Netherlands: “The Pope suffers from an affection of the kidneys. Dr. Mezger, from Amsterdam, a specialist, who has been called to Rome to be consulted on the health of his Holiness, has visited the Pope, and, after a thorough examination, has stated that no serious symptoms are perceivable, but that tranquillity is necessary to prolong the life of the sovereign of the Roman Catholic Church." The Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, represented in the cable dispatches as near seventy-five and completely prostrated, is fifty-four years of age, lithe and active, as is known to many New Yorkers who saw him two years ago, and is in full mental vigor, having delivered two or three long speeches daily during his recent tour through Ireland. It is doubtless equally untrue that he wears a mailed shirt, as he made boast in bis speeches of traveling all unarmed and all alono. He experienced an attack of rheumatism from exposure when traveling through Manitoba, which has clung to him ever since. The King of Bavaria has been much distressed because his manager, Herr Von Perfall, had failed to provide him with a real nightingale. In Wagner’s “Parsifal” the song of a nightingale plays a part in the story. This is usually produced by a skillful flute player behind the scenes. “This will not do,” said the exacting royal critic; “we ought to have a real nightingale.” Herr von Perfall promised to do what he could toward engaging a nightingale as one of the company. There is a man who sings in the public places in Munich who has a rare capacity for imitating the songs of different birds. He was diligently schooled, and conveyed to the King’s isolated theater. His Majesty believed that he was listening to a real nightingale at the next performance of “Parsifal,” and sent a most flattering letter of thanks to the director. It is fortunate that the King is not so expert and critical a naturalist as he is an artist, otherwise he would have inquired how Herr von Perfall contrived to persuade that nightingale to sing so vigorously in the end of October, when all other nightingales are dumb. John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the famous Oneida Community, in New York, who is dying at his recent residence near Clifton, on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, was born in Vermont, and is now about seventy-five years of age. Noyes has tried, though on a small scale, the greatest of social revolutions, by destroying the institution of the family, replacing it by a system of sexual relations in common and on a theory of stirpicutture. After great success in building up a thriving business community, the moral sense of the people of central New York revolted, and the experiment came to an end. The Oneida Community was turned into a joint stock corporation, and Mr. Noyes went to Canada. He has lately completed near his home a school bnilding and printing office, where he intended to educate children born in the Community, both his own and those of others. He has published very little for several years, but it has "been his pur pose to resume his propaganda. He has abandoned none of his perfectionist and socialistic ideas. The Oneida corporation, as a co operative business institution, is as successful as ever. ON THE SIDEWALK. A timid man, A sudden slip, A futile skip, A rocking reel, Aery Os “Oh!” A sigh O’ woe. Far deadlier than Bauana peel That lump of snow Beneath his heel! And that is why some men, you know, Dislike to see a fall of snow. New York Journal.

COMMENT AND OPINION. Tiie Republicans of Ohio have never chosen a weak naan to represent them in the Senate of the United States.—Boston Advertiser. Kin<3 Milan is now not as much of a European issue as the colored tiglits that Henry Irvin" wears in tne roile of Faust.—St. Louis Post-Dis-patch. The 80-cent dollar assumes a 100-cent physiognomy when a person starts out to collect one and misses the connection.—St. Louis Post-Dis-patch. The bright lexicon of youth may have no such word as “fail” in it; but it is henceforth to have the word “mugwump," and that is a good deal worse —Minneapolis Tribune. Silence and confession, Senator Payne will find, are interchangeable terms in the public mind, in the face of charges like those made against him.—Philadelphia Press. The administration should recommend the passage of a bankruptcy bill. The chances are that the Democratic party will soon need the advantages of such a law.—National Republican. Ms. Curtin vindicates his self-respect by declining to be a party to the arrangement under which he was turned down to make a large place for a not very large man.—National Republican. It is criminal to jeopardize every other interest in the country for the benefit of the silver interest and enough ancFmore than enough has been done for that interest already.—Charleston News. In the next Indian war Canada will have to contend with Three Bulls. When we remember the trouble we had with one Sitting Bull, we are sorry for the country that has to cope with three of them standing up.—Pittsburg Chronicle. Let Mr. Cleveland go ahead with his changes, but for the sake of his own good common senso let him stop pretending that he is doing it for the benefit of the country, and not for the benefit of the Democratic party.—Chicago Mail. It would probably be a good thing if a socialistic uprising should occur in some large city, such as has been threatened in Chicago lately. The lesson which the owners of homes would teach would be a most wholesome and beneficial one.—Cincinnati Sun. In case the Edmunds anti-polygamy bill gets through Congress, the President of the United States will, of course, become presiding elder of the Mormon church. The next thing in order will be to vote an appropriation for the completion of the big tabernacle at Salt Lake.—Washington Critic. It may be premature and unfair to make comparisons or to seek for the scholar in politics at home, as one naturally expects to meet him ayery where in England; but in mother genera-

tion, in the next eentury, it is probable that selfculture will scarcely meet the demands of progress, and that only the brightest minds, combined with the most highly trained faculties, will be called upou to direct the ship of state. —New York Star. “Does prohibition prohibit?’' Lot Maine answer. The total number of persons committed to jail in that State during 1885 was 3,31)5, of whom 188 were sentenced for seliing liquors (an increase of 38 over 1834), and 1,761 for drunkenness (an increase of 441 over 1884). —New York Evening Post. Ip Mr. Beck's notion of the right of petit! on is that it can only be exercised when the petitioners happen to agree with the senator to whom they send their prayers for presentation, he is a queer kina of Democrat. He would do well to look up some “Jeffersonian" authorities on the subject.—New York Times. At all events, before we clear the decks ai pipe to quarters by way of prelude to sweepir. the German flag from the Pacific, let us wait to get a little more explicit information. The English are much more deep’7 concerned than wo are in the business, because, unlike us, they have no Samoan harbor formally made over to their separate use.—New York Sun. We deny that anybody in the United States is opposed to the coinage of all the silver which can be kept in circulation without its being forced upon creditors. The statement that there is any class who work'to abolish all the silver currency we pronounce as untrue. We know of no person who is in favor of demonetizing a dollar of the silver already coined.—Milwaukee Sentinel. It is not easy to give a good reason for tho exclusion of the people from the fullest knowledge of the action of their servants; and every reader who has taken an interest in public affairs will recall cases where undoubtedly that was done by the Senate in secret which on the face of it was indefensible, and which presumably would not have been done had the Senate acted openly. —New York Herald. The effect of resumption is too recent not to have taught some men the silliness of all cheap money, fiat money and redundant currency the ories. It would require but little to topple down the precarious silver fabric. The best friends of silver are those who prevent the reduction-to-absurditv of extreme measures. Tho Eustis resolution would have brought the denouement. —Memphis Avalanche. * They are a queer lot, the old-time Bourbons, sturdily block-headed, as impervious to ideas as wooden Indians, and. unfortunately, with the power sometimes of transmitting their quailities to their offspring. That modern missionary, tho commercial traveler, finds them tough subjects. He cannot convert them, but he can make their qualities widely known. Ho can do a little good in his way.—Chicago Tribane. The tactical advantage given to the opponents of the President is immense. It was Mr. Carlisle's duty so to arrange his committees that the President’s policy would have the advantage of position in debate, and be sure of thorough discussion. But fruitless ambition has made Mr. Carlisle dislovai to his best self, and untrue to the best interests of his country and his party. —Charleston News and Courier. In matters which the President is authorized to direct it has been decided by the United States Supreme Court that every member of the Cabinet is subject to the President’s direction. Hence, to a request from the Senate for information touching removals made by the President the secretaries may reply that they have received from the President no instructions to furnish the information.—New York Herald. No partisanship could be more “offensive’’ than that which promises to sell out the party which has conferred honor and emolument, in order to curry favor with an incoming administration. The man who cares more for his office than for his self-respect and the respect of his neighbors is not fit to hold it. Wherever you find such men, President Cleveland, off with their heads; and the Republican party will say amen.—Albany Express. Where the qualities of the individual determine his place in the community and every man is a part of the body politic, it is absurd to talk upon an uprising against society. Society will not rise up against itself. The whole people are not likelv *o break out into promiscuous hostilities. There is no ruling class, no power to be overthrown except the power of the people, and nothing but the power of the people to overthrow it. —New York Times. The duty of selecting proper officers is intrusted, not to the President alone or to the Senate alone, but to both, ami it is to be presumed that both will strive in good faith 10 work together for the public good. If so, the President will not withhold from the Senate any information needful to the formation of a correct judgment as to the reasons for a change, and the Senate will not stand upon punctilio in demanding information where none is needed. —New York Tribune. Without considering the purpose of the Prohibitionists from a moral or financial point of view, the statistics of their numerical weakness is cause enough to rule them out of consideration when methods of reform are under discussion. The less heed paid to their misdirected zeal at Albany the better; for to postpone restrictive action on the plea that prohibitory action will thereby be delayed, is. even if prohibitory action be desired, parallel to postponing efforts to do good till the millenium. —Brooklyn Union. Did there exist an honest desire to do so, England could also long ago have given assurance to the Irish that amicable justice would be done by the approaching Parliament. Instead of this, it looks as if the British government were actually trying to provoke famine and anarchy in Ireland, in order to have fuil excuse for anew tyrannous assertion of overbearing power. So. between what England is doing for Ireland and what she might and ought to do, there is a vast open space filled with the indignation of mankind. —Philadelphia Times.

A Strange Defense of Coal Oil Corruption. Columbus (0.) Special. A peculiar defense has been set up by some of the accused to-night. It is held that the moneys received were not for votes iu the Legis lature, but for votes in the caucus, a body not recognized by law. There was no one charged with receiving a cent for voting for Payne for senator, but it was all for him as the Democratic nominee in the caucus, and was held two days after the Legislature assembled, and most of them, if not all, were seen before they qualified. There is also complaint that Donavin discriminates, in naming some and not others. He names only one of the three members from this county, and at least two of them, it is claimed, were fixed. There are many who wore in the deal who are not named. The money, it is alleged, was handled at the time by a prominent man from West Virginia who is connected with the Standard Oil Company, and no one in this State did anything but send in the orders that were cashed. Bankers here say they wero kept busy at the time cashing one hundred, five hundred and thousand dollar checks fresh from the press. The Rights of the Senate. Washington Critic. There is no doubt of the right of the Senate bv resolution to call upon the President for the reason why he makes a particular change. There are a number of precedents which sustain that right. The most recent, we believe, was the resolution passed by the Senate in executive session, upon the motion of Senator Conkling, asking Mr. Hayes his reasons for removing Chester A. Arthur from the position of collector of the port of New York and Alonzo B. Cornell from the position of naval officer of the same port. In that case Mr. Hayes, in answering the resolution, sent to the Senate all the official papers in connection with the subject, but did not make any general explanation. Such an expla nation was. however, made by Senator John Sherman, who was then Secretary of the Treas ury, and it accompanied Mr. Hayes’ communication. This is as far as the precedents go. Public Sentiment with the “Noble Old." South Bend Times (Dcm.) Governor Curtin acted wisely by abstaining from public criticism of the indienity offered him by Speaker Carlisle in placing young Perry Belmont at the head of the foreign affairs committee. The people at large understand the case pretty well, and the noble old war Governor of Pennsylvania may rest assured that public sentiment is overwhelmingly with him. Coal-Oil Inspector Donavin. Colfax Courier. That man Donavin is knocking in the heads of several coal-oil barrels in Ohio, judging from the way he goes for tne Standard oil senator.

THE FIELD OF LITERATURE, Magazines Received. Harper’s, for February, opens with a splendily, illustrated article on “The British Navy,” giving engravings of tho new men-of-war of that mighty marine power. The frontispiece is an engraving representing the battle of Trafalgar, where Nelson won imperishable fame eighty years ago. The formidable-looking vessels of that age could make no stand against the sea monsters of to-day, engravings of several of which appear in this article. At the present time, when the building of a navy by this country is oho of the leading questions of the hour, this article will be of peculiar interest. An ilustrated sketch of the Blue-grass region of Kentucky; an article on “Living Balls,” and “Mr. Wegg’s Party on the Kissimee,” are all full of interest. An illustrated short story by Kate Upson Clark, entitled “For Looly,” and an article on “Education as a Factor in Prison Reform," by Charles Dudley Warner, complete the leading features of this number of Harper’s. The color study in the Art Amateur for January is an admirablo figure by Henry Hosier, o£ an old Breton peasant lighting his pipe. This ia given as a copy for students in oil painting. Those who do not use it for this purpose will be glad to frame it as a picture. Another striking feature is a beautiful female head with floral background for plaque decoration. A page of dainty outline figure-designs by Edith Scannell, is also given, together with a page of monograms (in I), and numerous designs for church needlework, for church decoration, for repousao work, and for borders and friezes. A fine pop* trait of Val Prinsep, a leading English artist, a pleasing full-page picture—“ May I come in?”—■ after a painting by Jan Verhas, and some exquisite illustrations of church vestments are specially noteworthy. A pungent notice of the Academy fall exhibition; an instructive “Talk with Amanda” on “breadth" in painting; a valuable article on “Individual Tat ;e in American Homes;” some useful hints for framing pictures; the vigorous book reviews; the practical “Ari Hints,” and answers to correspondents—all combine to make the January issue of extraordinary attractiveness. Montague Mark.,, publisher, 23 Union Square, New York. The most attractive feature of the Decorator and Furnisher for January, No. 30 East Four* teenth street, New York, is a full page engraving of Albert Keller’s “Interior of the Temple of Muo, at Proeneste.” It represents a magnificent chamber or court, and through the columns of the portico may be had a glimpse of a wide stretch of countiy in the valley below. As usnal, this unrivaled magazine is replete with illustrations and suggestions of decorations and furnishings, to specify which would require too much, space. The Magazine of Art, Cassell & Cos., presents some fine interior views of Buckingham Palace, the throne room, the marble hall and the grand staircr.so. An article on the artist, David Neal, by John R. Tait, is illustrated with engravings of some of his mo3t noted works, such as his “Cromwell's Visit to Milton,” and “Tho Nuns at Prayer.” The quaint old Roman town of Cheater, in western England, is here portrayed in its most interesting features, and a more picturesque subject could not be found. Among the principal papers of The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, for January, a quarterly publication, are: “Modern Medicine of the English-Speaking Race,” by Sir Henry Acland, K. C. 8., F. R. S.; “The Mitral Cardiad Murmurs,” by Austin Flint, M. D.; “Mitral Stenosis,” by W. H. Broadbent, M. D., F. R. C. P.; “Primary Sarcoma of Right Kidney,” by Walter G. Smith, M. D., Dublin, F. K. Q. C. P. L, and others of little if any less interest to the profession. Lea Bros. & Cos., Philadelphia. The Quiver, Cassell & Cos., presents its customary spread of good things for a mental feast The Earlhamite, the organ of Earlham College, Richmond, besides the usual contents of peculiar interest to college boys and men, contains a meritorious poem, entitled, “The Laud of the Ideal,” by W. N. T. Literary Notes. Mr. George W. Cable’s new novel of Arcadian life in Louisiana will be called “Grande Point." The third volume of Roberts Brothers’ English translation of BalSac’s novels is devoted to “The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau.” Memorial tablets have been placed on tho bouses in Paris in which Francois Mignet. tho historian, and Diderot, the encyclopaedist, died. Mr. Mation Crawford’s new novel, which he is just now finishing at Naples,-will probably bo published by the Macmillans in the early spring. Miss Rhoda Broughton has finished anew novel which will find its way to the author’s American audience through the Harper’s “Handy Series.” Jomes Freeman Clarke’s work, “Ten Great Religions,” in two volumes, is to be issued today in anew edition at a reduced price by Houghton, Mifflin & Cos. Tho Magazine of American History for February will contain a notable historic paper ou “Tho City of Albany,” handsomely illustrated, showing the two hundred years of progress of this inr foresting old capital. “Canterbury Tales,” a book once widely read and still well known, by Sophia and Harriet Lee, is to be reissued shortly by Houghton, Mifflin & Cos. It was first published in 1797, and thero have been many subsequent editions, both in England aud America. The same house will shortly publish anew edition of “Macaulay’s Works,” in sixteen volumes. A short time before his death, Alexander B L Stephens dictated to his amanuensis a sketch of the late General Lee. The first article was unsatisfactory, and he began a second. This article, prepared with great care, Mr. Stephens was not able personally to revise, but, as it is, it will appear in the Southern Bivouac for February. A sketch of Lee by Stephens will have a very peculiar interest. Among the notable features of the February number of the Atlantic Monthly is a long poem by Whittier, called “The Homestead,” and an article by Mr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell on “Ministerial Responsibility and the Constitution.” A pleasant paper is contributed by Eleanor Putnam, entitled “Salem Cupboards." It gives a description of the coutents of some of the Salem cupboards of years ago. “Zeph,” a posthumous novel of life in Colorado, by Mrs. Jackson (H. H.), is shortly to be issued by Roberts Brothers. It was written at Los Angelos during the winter of 1884 -5, but the author, finding herself unable to finish it, sent the manuscript to her publisher, with a brief summary of the way in which she intended the book to close, and with a touching note of apology, written bat a tew weeks before her death. Among the announcements of papers to appear in the new Lippincott was one of an article on England, by Miss Mary Anderson. It seems, however, that the actress has not had time to prepare the paper, and its appearanoe ia indefinitely postponed. Following the example of Harper’s and the Century, the magazine will not hereafter contain a roeular literary department, making such periodicals as the Literary World all the more necessary. “New York’s Great Need,” according to the Critic of Jan. 16, is a free circulating library, like the Boston public, which has done so much for the “literary prestice of the Hub.” New York, with its Astor, Mercantile, Lenox, Apprentices' and SocietyjLibrary, still lags many leagues behind Boston in the matter of providing books for its swrarming population. The American opera, Wagner’s “Meistersinger" and Mme. Mo<i jeska as Marie Stuart, are treated in special articles in the same number of the Critic, whioh contains, also, an unusual number of booh reviews.