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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. KEff & SON, "WASHINGTON OFFICE-513 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent. MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 18S6. BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. TERMS INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE —POSTAGE PREPAID BY THE PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. One year, by mail $12.00 One year, by mail, including 5unday.......... 14.00 Six 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 One month, by maiL 1.00 One month, by mail, including Sunday 1.20 Per week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) 25 THE SUNDAYJOURNAL. Per eopy 5 cents One year, by mail $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL. (WEEKLY EDITION.) One year SI.OO Less than ono year and orer three months, 10c per month. No subscription taken for less than three months. In clubs of five or over, agents will take yearly subscriptions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for their work. Address JNO. C. NEW & SON, Publishers The Journal. Indianapolis, /nd. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strabd. PARlS!—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI-J. R. LOUISVILLE—O. T. Bearing, northwosk corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 The siyrest way to official preferment under this “reform” administration is to have a diploma of graduation from some prison. The President must have signed the Hon. Barney Conroy's commission soon after that “Jeffersonian simplicity" dinner of fourteen courses and seven kinds of wine. The heart and head are mellower under such conditions.

It is drawing the line pretty close to shut out ex-Governor Crittenden because of the suspicion that he was cognizant of the plot to assassinate Jesse James. In Indiana and elsewhere it is different, and ex-convicts are sought after and have offices thrust upon them. We have another illustration of this in this city. At the Norfolk navy-yard the inscriptions commemorating a Union triumph have been removed by order of the officer in charge, appointed by a patriotic reform President. In Indianapolis another Union veteran has been removed without cause, and an ex-convict, with two penitentiary diplomas, has been given his place. All this in the interest of reconciliation and good will. Another boy, this time at Portland, Me., has shot himself rather than go to school. Parents will yet find that a good stick is worth a dozen revolvers about the house. It is always loaded, but never goes off unexpectedly, and never misses what it is sent after. Few boys would try to beat their brains out with it, while in the hands of an honest-hearted parent it might be employed to inculcate lessons of patience and submisaion. „ The plan adopted by the Y. M. C. Association of presenting the necessity for anew building to the churches yesterday, was carried out very successfully. In fourteen churches representatives of the Association were welcomed, and given the courtesy of making a statement of its work and desires. We give this morning a somewhat extended report from the several churches visited, and commend a reading of it to all who may or should be interested. The purposes of the Association are pretty well outlined in these abstracts, aud our people can obtain an intelligent idea of its scope and hope from them. We are certain that when properly understood, the citizens of Indianapolis will cheerfully respond with the money needed to build the proposed new home, and which is imperatively needed. Indianapolis must be able to do something. The American public read of the Queen’s stately and ostentatious visit to “her" Parliament, on Thursday last, with mingled feelings of pity and contempt: ■lt was flummery from beginning; a senseless waste of money on a petty puppet show, wholly unworthy an educated and civilized people. The royal procession, the account says, included seven state carriages, and that occupied by her Majesty was drawn by eight cream-colored steeds, escorted by the Household Cavalry. Guards of honor and troops were stationed all along the line of march, and a salute of twenty-one guns was fired to announce her arrival at Westminster Palace. She was attended by pursuivants, heralds, knights-at-arms, yeomen, pages, grooms, etc., according to the custom of the media)val times. How much better the rigid simplicity of America’s democratic government. And the very day before this pompous display of royalty the President of the United States gave a formal ‘dinner to the diplomatic corps, which was austerely simple in all its appointments and in gratifying contrast with the Queen’s parade of pop and fizz and fustian. An account says that Colonel WUsod, in full uniform of hia rauk, presented the guests, who were received by the President in the East Room. Here the massive feature in decorations was carried oat in large plants grouped in the window recesses and niches everywhere. Tropical greens of palms and

ferus were relieved by the snowy bloom of the white azalea. Foliage plants of varied color and cut flowers on the mantels gave added beauty and perfume. The white and gold columns were wreathed with smilax, and this hung in drooping loops from the chandeliers, brilliant with flashing jets. The table was laid for thirty-nine, and the novelty in the decorations of the state diningroom was in the central floral piece. On the table, swinging in its orbit, was a large globe of carnations representing the world, each continent distinctive in its own color, and water of camellia leaves, whose overlapping edges were the waves. It was a triumph of the florist’s art, novel and in itself beautiful. Beneath this swinging globe was a cushion of roses, and at the ends light, airy, floral ships, freighted with clusters of violets. Stands of roses and flat baskets of mixed flowers, alternated with candelebra of wax lights and bouquets of roses, held by souvenir ribbons, similar to those at the Cabinet dinner last week, having the name and date, were placed at the plates of the ladies. The dinner was one of seven wines and fourteen courses, and the hour fixed at half-past 7. The Marine Band was in attendance and played throughout the evening. The President took in Viscountess Das Nagueras, wife of the Portuguese minister, who, in the absence of the minister from Hayti, is dean of the corps. Viscount Das Nagueras escorted Miss Cleveland, sitting on the opposite side of the table. This new evidence of the President’s abstemiousness and “Jeffersonian simplicity” must prove a source of genuine satisfaction to all Americans, and may serve as an example to the effete and dissipated'monarchies of the Old World.

THE IRISH VOTER. The attitude of the mass of Irish voters of this country is one of the anomalies of American politics. It cannot be explained on any other ground than deep-rooted, unreasoning prejudice, this in turn being based on willful ignorance in many cases. That Irish-Americans, professing love for the land of their nativity, and anxious to further everything looking to the political deliverance of Ireland, should commit their cause here to the keeping of one partj', and that, too, in such an offensive manner as to needlessly provoke the prejudice of all other parties, is one of the mast shortsighted things possible to patriotic men. It is a perilous thing to confide all one’s eggs to one basket, and that one of very uncertain strength. If Irishmen want to enlist practical sympathy and co-operation west of the Atlantic—and they doubtless do—it is worse than foolish to antagonize a great political organization like the Republican party. For a quarter of a century the Republican has been the only party of progress and liberty. It has stood up for and fought for the same principles so dear to tbe Irish heart, and has done more to emancipate the oppressed and to strengthen and embolden the weak, than all other political parties in this country from its foundation. It is to day the exponent of the same liberal principles, and can give safer promise of their development and enforcement than can any other party. In the great lesson of the war for the Union and for universal liberty this was demonstrated in a manner that admitted of no question. Many a patriotic Irishman came to understand this, and to ally himself with that grandest of all political organizations ever had in America. Many of them did valiant service for the Union and helped enforce on the Western continent the political rights for which the fight is now being made in Ireland. But the great bulk of Irishmen, for some reason unaccountable on any sound hypothesis, have blindly stuck to the Democratic party, and have even sought to make it very disagreeable to any who dared vote with any other organization. Through the most stupendous stupidity some Irishmen have insisted that no fellow-countryman could be a Republican and remain an Irish patriot, thus wantonly insulting the Republican party aud tempting its hostility at a time when its good will should have been cultivated. We are glad to feel that many Irishmen are arousing to this palpable fact, and thousands broke from the Democratic ranks in the last election to join their friends ou the other side. A break has been made in the hitherto impregnable mass. But somewhat of the old unreasoning prejudice remains, and there are a number of Irishmen who are narrow enough in their views to malign and denounce such of their fellow-countrymen as have the good sense and nerve to seek the good will of the Republican party. One of tbe meanest exhibitions of this petty prejudice was made hero within the past few days, when Patrick Egan, a wellknown Irish agitator, wrote a letter expressing a desire to do something toward a monument in honor of the late Vicepresident. In that letter the writer, though a Republican, said he greatly admired Mr. Hendricks and appreciated the good words he bad spoken in behalf of Ireland, The letter was a credit to him, and would have been creditable to any man in the world. It showed that while he was a Republican he was still an Irish patriot and quick to appreciate the good services of any man. With Irish Democrats it has been made to appear that the Democratic party stands first in their affections. Unless a man Is willing to be a Democrat they do not want him to be a friend of Ireland, nor will they allow that he can be. When Mr. Egan gave utterance to the patriotic sentiment that he did in the letter referred to, several Irish Democrats assailed him in print because,

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though a Republican, he was liberal enough to pay honor to the memory of a Democrat who, he thought, had done something in behalf of Ireland. No honorable defense can be made of this kind of business. No lover of Ireland can afford to shut out any friend of the cause of Irish liberty. It is folly to alienate any individual, and incomparably more foolish to persistently and stubbornly attempt to prevent an organized party of millions from rendering effective aid. The Republican party is the freest in the world, and the most liberal. It is the only party founded on the belief in universal liberty aud equality. If any intelligent and valuable aid is to be expected in America by the friends of Ireland, it must come through the Republican party. The Democratic party has no love for the poor and oppressed except to make uso of them. It has long traded on and-profited by the Irish vote, but what has it given in return? It encourages this unreasoning prejudice against the Republican party, expecting to profit by it at the expense of the Irish cause, which must by that much suffer by reason of alienating those who would be its friends. But now patriotic Irishmen are awakening to this fact and are delivering themselves and the cause they champion from such narrow bounds, so that it may be possible for an Irish Republican to say tha*, he is a friend of Ireland without bringing a pack of human wolves down upon him. The treatment accorded Mr. Egan is a discredit to the Irish sense of justice and to their intelligence.

TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES. The near approach of the time to nominate and elect township trustees suggests the importance of making wise selection of candidates. The people of Indiana, during the past year, have had an experience with many trustees that few will care to see repeated. Revelations of malfeasance and fraud were so frequent for a time that the distrust became general, and the State suffered severely by reason of impaired credit. For months the perfidy of Indiana township officers was a by-word all over the country, nor has it yet ceased. ludiana securities have suffered in consequence, and through this all the people have suffered. It has been made evident that too little care has been exercised in the selection of men for this important office. Only too frequently the “good fellow," with no other recommendation, has been so honored; the man who has “helped the party,” or the man with a large family and no particular means of support, has been given the trusteeship, as though it were a sinecure, easily filled by anybody, and of no particular importance to the public. Asa result of this careless and unbusinesslike way of filling this office, numerous townships have been run into debt, and have been placed under a heavy burden of taxation without the corresponding benefit that should follow. Extravagance,corruption aud incompetency have been about equally responsible. The good fellow has turned out to be an incompetent trustee; the politician has made an extravagant one, and either may have been persuaded to become a corrupt one. The township trustee, in point of fact, is the financial agent, and largely the business manager, of the people. Upon him devolves the business of levying taxes for several very important purposes, such as keeping up the roads and schools. He also acts as dispenser of important sums which he, in his official capacity, receives from the county treasurer. Annually hundreds of thousands of dollars are paid out by the township trustees for school-houses, school furniture, bridges, culverts, road-work-ing implements, the employment of teachers and the keeping of township property in repair. From this it is apparent that ordinary business sagacity on the part of the people would lead them to select only good business men, of unimpeachable integrity and of good fame, for this very important trust. The financial interest of every man who pays a dollar in tax is involved, and the credit of the township is likewise at stake. There cannot, therefore, be too much care used in selecting men for this position. The voters of the several townships should compel their respective parties to name competent aud trustworthy men, and if, by any trickery of party machinery, or the manipulation of any “ring," a candidate not fully qualified secures the party nomination, it will be the duty of the honest men of that organization to repudiate it and to express their condemnation of it by either abstaining from voting or by voting for the opposing condidate, if he be deemed more competent. The time to do good work in this important public matter is now, when the merits of prospective condidates are being canvassed. The claims of good men should receive hearty indorsement, and all who are intent on the nomination and election of the right kind of a man should take a personal interest in the preliminary work of selecting candidates. These should stand on their personal merits, and make the race without regard to what they have or what they have not done “for the party." The people have it easily within their power to compel the nomination of just such men. Mr. Frank Creelman says he didn’t know anything of Mr. Barney Conroy, and thinks that Congressman Bynum recommended t m in entire ignorance of his remarkable career. This may all be, but we don’t see how that helps Mr. Bynum any. The Journal heard of Mr. Conroy’s appointment on Saturday afternoon, and in less than thiee hours had the official records of his crimes aud punishments. Should a congressman recommend for appointment to

a responsible office a man with less inquiry into his character and fitness than can be made inside of an hour or two? The truth is, Mr. Barney Conroy was recommended and appointed for his supposed “pollytickle influence,” and in spite of his record. Certainly some Democrat in Indianapolis knew what that was. It is getting so it isn’t safe to have edged tools any where around, and men with pocket-knives will begin to think of getting rid of them. At Ashville, 0., on Friday last, John Powell was butchering hogs, and as he would shoot a hog he would stick it with a knife, and then place the knife horizontally between bis teeth at right angles to his face. The rifle held fire on the third hog, and he drew it down from his shoulder and looked into the barrel, when the eun discharged its contents, the ball striking the handle of the knife and whirled it in such a manner that tho sharp edge of it struck his throat and severed the jugular vein, from the effeots of which he died. Ex Senator George Swope, late member of the Kentucky Legislature, was killed in a drunken row at Cardsville on Saturday. He was once “a brilliant fellow,” and in addition to having been in the State Senate, had killed his man, and at the time of his death was under indictment for burglary. His trying to break into the house was evidence that he wanted to go back to the Legislature. His death is a great pity, sah. The pointer Donald 11, owned by Dr. Kane, of New York city, has died of pneumonia. He was valued at SI,OOO. Pretty big price; but “pointers” in Chicago often cost ten times that much. A human ear, detached, was found in the depot at Cincinnati, on Saturday. Those Cincinnati girls think nothing at all of talking a man’s ear off.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Celery when served in style in New York, now, is frozen hard. Sir Arthur Sullivan is writing anew opera and preparing for marriage at the same time. Kaiser Wilhelm and his sons, when traveling by rail, pay for their passage tho same as other people. Parnell is supposed to receive more letters and answer fewer than any other conspicuous politician now in public life. A Brooklyn girl stepped into a jeweler's, and asked for a pair of “consistency bracelets.” Somebody had told her that consistency was a jewel. The German Chancellor is suffering one of the penalties of greatness; a popular preparation for teething children is called “Bismarck’s Baby Powder.” Sir Andrew Walker, who has just been made a baronet, owns some 200 public houses in Liverpool. Nearly all the persons in England who deal in drinks are Tories. Lieut. Emory Taunt, one of the officers of the Greoly relief expedition, is on his way home from the Congo country, where he was sent by the government on a mission of investigation. It is reported that Messrs. Julian Hawthorne and George Parsons Lathrop have in collaboration written a three act comedv, founded on the story of the formers late novel, “Love; or, a Name.” “Now, sir, you are better,” said a Boston faith doctor to a patient he had been treating; “tell me just how you feel.” “Well, sir,” replied the victim, “I feel like a fool. How much is your bill?” Gin Fun, a San Francisco laundryman, has joined the Anti-Coolie League, and posts over the door of his washes housee the sign: “The Chinese must go. None but Meiican man employed here.” French satire once more. At a recent popular assembly in Paris a speaker parenthetically inquired: “Why don’t the great men of Paris bestir themselves? Why do they remaiu cold and unmoved at the calamities of our country?” “Because they are cast in bronze,” came from a sarcastic voice in the gallery. Sarah Bernhardt is to appear in a musical piece. In the first act a man comes on the stage with a small tuuing-fork, which he strikes. In the second act Bernhardt appears as the vibration—soo to the second American pitch—of the fork, and in the last act there is a great scene, in which she appears as a dying echo. Dr. J. P. Newman, who has not been specially conspicuous lately, is now in Washington, with a reasonable prospect of a recall to his old church there, which no doubt will be gratifying to the Doctor, as the fashionable hours at the capital will permit him to breakfast as late as he pleases. He is now attached to the household of his friend and patron. Senator Stanford. New York Tribune: Even editors are sometimes unreasonable. The editor of a Georgia paper said in a recent issue of his paper: “If the man who sold us five dozen rotten eggs just before Christmas day doesn’t come in and make them good we will teach him what the penalty is for cheating and swindling.” Just as if any one could make that kind of eggs good. Senators Beck and Voorhees are mentioned by the New York Post as prominent Western Democrats who were “under suspicion” of being Blaine men in the last campaign. This being said of two of the stanchest Bourbons is amusing. But a good deal must be forgiven to the New York Post Its hatred of Mr. Blaine is a disease, which long since deprived it of any moral responsibility, and has made frightful inroads upon its intellectual powers. The late Miss Katherine Bayard, the Phila delphia Press tells, had Oscar Wilde introduced to her when that young man was in Washington. It was in the afternoon, and two brilliant social events were to occur that evening. Said she: “Mr. Wilde, will you go to the reception to night?” “Well,” he replied, “if I am not too much fatigued nfter my lecture.” A short pause followed', and then he said: “Miss Bayard, of course you will be at the reception?” “Well,” came the answer, “if I am not too much fatigued after your lecture.” Miss Anne Whitney is much talked of in Boston now as a sculptor of marked power. She used to fancy herself a poet. One day, however, having overturned a not of sand in the greenhouse, which, from its dampness, readily took impressions, she began to model it, keeping at the work for hours, and returning to it next day with zest, till she had wrought out her idea. Her thought had taken visible form, and it gave her such satisfaction that she then and there decided to make sculpture the pursuit of her life, and began to work immediately and in earnest. Few men have left-more substantial traces of their existence, says the St James’s Gazette, than Christopher Columbus; yet it is not known for certain where he was born, nor even where he was buried, for both San Domingo and Havana claim the possession of his bonea. The Abbe Casanova has, however, made out a very strong case in favor of the right of Calvi, in Corsica, to be regarded as the natal place of the great discoverer, and the people of Calvi are accordingly making arrangements to celebrate the fourth centenary of their illustrious townsman on a grand scale. In the little Tillage of Mount Pleasant, in the potteries in Staffordshire, England, is to be found a child whose extraordinary growth excites great wonder. Little Alice, as she is humorously called, is but four years of age, yet turns tbe scale at 150 ponnds, the circumference of her waist being no less than five feet, while her height is four feet, so that literally she is broader than she is long. She is bright, intelligent and remarkably pretty, her head being

crowned with a mass of golden hair. Her size does not interfere in the least with her activity, as she may often be seen playing with the other children of the village or wandering in their company through the country lanes. Her appetite is enormous. It is not generally known that Mrs. Oliphant’s serial, “A House Divided Against Itself,” which has been running in Chambers’s Journal, is a continuation of “A Country Gentleman,” by the same author, which has been one of the attractions of the Atlantic for the past year. The names of the characters in the two novels are just enough unlike to avoid confusion, but the continuity of the story may be seen at a glance. Each book is, however, complete in itself. During Mr. Gladstone’s passage through Preston, on his way to Midlothian, a man named Holden fell from a truck and broke his lee. Mr. Gladstone wrote on Christmas day to Holden expressing extreme reeret for the accident, and on New Year’s day Holden received a letter from Mr. Allen Seaton, bailiff at Hawarden, as follows: “I have forwarded by the London & Northwestern railway two pieces of scantling from a tree felled by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, hoping you will find them suitable for your purpose. ” The timbers hare been con verted into crutches. The late Lady Rolle, of England, who was always hot-tempered, once gave her husband a slap in the face in the drawing-room at Bicton before several visitors, and the old man exclaimed: “By , madam, if you shan’t repent of this!” and he swore a furious oath. It used to be said that this outbreak cost her ladyship vast estates. After his death Lady Rolle manifested her wrath against her deceased lord by burning his clothes, hunting eear and favorite chair, and also his Bible and Prayer book in Bicton park, the whole making a bonfire which blazed for some hours. An Englishman in Madras has, by a lucky accident, made a photograph of a tiger in the act of seizing its prey. The camera was focused on a buffalo tied to a stake some thirty feet off, and had just received a dry plate when a tiger leaped from the jungle aud struck down the buffalo with a single 'blow. The operator kept his presence of mind and released his shutter before taking to his heels. The negative proved a poor one. but showed the relative attitudes of tiger and buffalo pretty well, and confirmed the generally-accepted, opinion that the tiger with his knock-down blow endeavors to dislocate the neck of his victim. General Nelson A. Miles, United States army, is the youngest man of his rank, and the only one who has come from civil life. He was a dry-goods clerk in Boston when the cival war began. Major-general Terry, also from civil life originally, was an editor in Connecticut. Miles is a man of ability aud an earnest student. He is about forty-three years of age, is tall, broadshouldered and deep-chested. His head is large, round and fall. His brown bair is thin, and curling over a very broad forehead. His nose is a soldierly hook. His eyes are clear and resolute in their expression, under very stronglydefined eve-brows. A heavy, curling brown mustache shades his firm-lined mouth. His square chin is clean shaven and blue in tint. He married a niece of General and John Sherman, a sister of Don Cameron. By that marriage he is connected with the Ewings, Camerons, MeCooks, Shermans, Blaines, Dahlgrens. McLeans, and several other political families. Scientific men have been preplexed for many years over the phenomenon of a certain well at Yakutsk, Siberia. A Russian merchant in 1828 began to dig the well, but he gave up the task three years later, when he had dug down thirty feet and was still in solidly frozen soil. Then the Russian Academy of Sciences dug away at the well for months, but stopped when it had reached a depth of 382 feet, when the ground was still frozen as hard as a rock. In 1844 the Academy had the temperature of the excavation carefully taken at various depths, and from these data it was estimated that the ground was frozen to a depth of Gl2 feet. Although the pole of the greatest cold is in this province of Yakutsk, not even the terrible severity of the Siberian winters could freeze the ground to a depth of GOO feet Geologists have decided that the frozen valley of the lower Lena is a formation of the glacial period. They believe, in short, that it froze solidly then, and has never since had a chance to thaw out

COMMENT AND OPINION. What the Republican party press needs is that Homely but admirable quality known as —sand.—Albany Express. The codfish controversy between England and the United States should create no uneasiness in aristocratic circles.—St Louis Post-Dispatch. The days when a labor strike of some sort is not reported from the Pittsburg district are scarcer than bam sandwiches at a picnic of trichiniasis doctors.—Buffalo Express. Thf. adoption of high-license laws would in all probability effect as much in the way of prohibition as the present laws do, and avoid the responsibility of the States for the property thus rendered of little or no value.—Philadelphia Times. Will lowa and Kansas modify thoir prohibitory laws or prepare to foot the bills? Is the enthusiasm of Prohibitionists so radical and cheerful that they will come down with the cash which the experiment requires?—Chicago Tribune. Is uot the gold coin honest and lawful money of the United States? Why, then, should a contract be declared unlawful which provides for future payment in this coin, and why should a citizen be punished for making such a contract? —Philadelphia Record. The trade-union’s weapon, with the exception of the boycott, is legitimate agitation, and when any movement toward violence is made it will throw the great body of workingmen of Chicago or ary other American city upon the side of law and order.—Springfield.Republican. “It is not a church you want,” wrote Mark Twain, as secretary to Senator Jim Nye, to the Nevada constituents who asked for a meetinghouse subscription; “what you need is a nice, new jail.” That is the substance of Victoria's message to Ireland.—Boston Record. Nobody has ever charged that Mr. Payne even knew that his seat was bought. His son and the Standard Oil Company and John McLean did the job. If there is corruption, these men and Dave Paige know when, where and how it was done. Mr. Payne’s “break” is worse than his silence.—Memphis Avalanche. It would be fine fun to see a champion wrestler tackle a buzz saw, catch-as-catcb-can, or a pugilist stand up to a steam hammer for a few rounds. Let some matches of this kind be arranged. that we may be able to form some judgment as to what advance has been made iu this branch of science.—Pittsburg Chronicle. The trouble with some of the trade-unions iu the past has been that they have been content to submit to the leadership of men whose mental range was insufficient to erasp the vast problems submitted to them, and who, however good their intentions may have been, were thus inadequately fitted for the trusts imposed upon them, —Boston Herald. A local-option system, which permits each city or town to decide for itself whether liquor shall be sold, and imposes a heavy license fee where the sale is permitted, would maintain prohibition in the villages of lowa and end the present reign of free rum in the cities, whiie the present state of things is a disgrace to the State. —New York Evemne Post. Under the pretense of “offensive partisanship,” the best and most useful Republicans are certain to he branded as “rascals” and turned out. It is reasonable, however, to believe, that the country will, when the opportunity is presented to it at the polls, punish the evasion of the law just as it would have punished its repeal.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Conscious that the American people are not such donkeys as to bo fooled in the long run by an eighty-cent dollar, Senator Van Wyek now asks for a law to fine every workingman or retail or wholesale merchant who may have sense enough to insist that he shall be paid in a hundred cent dollar for his services or his goods Is not this a pretty poor business, even for a silver man?--New York Herald. The silverites are playing their game of bluff in a manner worthy of the palmy days of that delectable game on the Mississippi river. What they are driving at is the prevention of any repeal or amendment of the Bland bill, and their idea is that if they make their demands big enough they will succeed in extorting sufficient

concessions from the other fellows. Meanwhile the daddy dollars are day by day dropping a little and dropping a little in value, instead of rising to the gold standard, as it was promised by Brother Bland and his followers that they would do.— Philadelphia Telegraph. We are sorry for Mr. Cleveland. He had a great opportunity by the coat tails, but his hold has slipped. He had the chance to take the people into his confidence, and he turns his back on them, and goes in with the political class. Poof Cleveland! By the way, what about this great reform re have heard so much of! “Where is this Moses who led us up out of the laud of Egypt?”—Now York Herald. SUCH bills as that introduced by Senator Van Wyck, proposing to forbid contracts payable in gold, are a confession of the untenable position occupied by the supporters of the Bland policy. It is like an attempt to overcome the laws of gravitation by statute. Values can not bo determined by legislation, and an act of Congress can not make things equal which are unequal by simply declaring vhat they shall be so regarded. —Milwaukee Sentinel. The times have changed wonderfully since the days when England could massacre and butcher with discretion. If Wolseley is sent over to Ireland at the head of the Soudanese veterans, who didn’t capture the Mahdi, for the purpose of quieting the popular uproar by murdering the women and children, the United States will not be strong enough to restrain the millions of young Irish-Americans who will go out gunning for vengeance.—Chicago Mail It wa3 once considered that women had characters to develop, good influoncee to exert, homes to make pleasant as wives, sisters or mothers, books to read, kindnesses to perform and duties to attend to. Unfortunately that is not so now. Society, and all that it implies, is what the representative women of New York and Washington seek and are devoted to to-dav. The old-fash-ioned type did not end in heart disease, absinthe and sudden death.—New York Hour. Party government, in any true meaning of the word, will never be known at Washington until the legislative and executive branches of the government shall be brought into closer accord, and shall work together for the accomplishment of a common purpose. A party without leaders is in as hopeless a condition as an army without generals. The Democratic party can never accomplish anything at Washington until it stops acting as a mob.—Boston Herald. The reproach of prostituting public office to purposes of private gain is shared by the entire administration. In view of these discreditable facts, it is idle to speak of the President’s sincerity and good intentions. The hard judgment of practical men will be that if it bad really been his purpose to conduct a clean, honest and reputable administration he would have expressed his disapproval of the Attorney-general’s public acta in unmistakable terms and dismissed him from the Cabinet —New York Tribune. If they [the negroes] had their political rights; if they were allowed to vote and express their opinions as freely as the whites; if the State lavs and business methods secured for them the same rights and the same opportunities to enjoy all the profits of their labors as they do the whites; if no unjust discriminations were made against them; if they had the same measure of justice in the courts as the whites—nothing would induce them to leave the South; and if they leave it is because they do not have these rightp.—Chicago Tiiboue. Mr Parnell pleaded for an admission that Ireland was entitled to home rule in some form, and for reasonable rents. He was firm, but moderate. He defended the Nationalists against the charges of violence. The Irish cause is safe in the hands of a man who is calm and dear under all circumstances. Ireland has at last found a Deak—she has had plenty of Kossuths—and in one way or another, from one party or the ether, he will wrest from England concession* tnat none of the orators and over-zealons patriots of the past could secure.—Atlanta Constitution. The silver question is not one for the bankers or the capitalists. The rich can defend themselves. It is a question for the millions; for all who have any earnings of labor, and. as well, for all who have any wages of labor. By a resolution which any bank can pass at a meeting of directors, it can write all its accounts up to date payable in gold, and open separate accom:tK hereafter for any person who may choose to pay in silver, or to borrow with the right to pay itt silver. All capitalists and financial institutions can swiftly adjust their loans and dealings to the same basis. But the institutions which hold the money of millions of poor people have no remedy. If government begins to pay stiver their losses will be disastrous.— New York Tribune.

LAW AND ORDER. Call for the Annual Meeting of the United States Citizens’ Law and Order League. The fourth annual convention of the Citizen®' Law and Order League of the 'United States will be held at Cincinnati, 0., on Monday, Feb, 22, 1886. The details of the arrangements will be in charge of a committee of the Cincinnati league, consisting of Rev. A. Ritchie, Rev. Josiah Strong, John Davis, M. D., Samuel Wells an 4 George P. Houston, and will be made known through the public press, as the time approaches. In addition to the annual address and reports, there will be addresses by eminent speakers from different parts of the country. All State and Ideal leagues, and kindred societies, are requested to send delegates, and all persons interested are invited to attend the meeting. All the State and local leagues are requested to hold meetings simultaneously with the meeting of the national league, and to interchange telegrams with the national meeting at Cincinnati. The Citizens’ Law and Order League, in its efforts to compel obedience to the laws restricting the liquor traffic, and to secure the enforc# ment of laws against gamoling, Sabbath desecra tion, etc., antagonizes the greatest enemy of tha church. We, therefore, feel that we may confidently rely upon the church for support and assistance in our work, and we therefore invite the clergymen of the land to address their con gresrations upon this all-important subject, on Sunday, Feb. 21, and if any cannot conveniently set apart that day for this service, then upon the Sunday following. The broad and all-embracing principle of the league is the enforcement of the laws; its specific and all-important work, to secure the enforcement of the laws for the prevention of pauperism, insanity and crime, produced by the sale of lutoxic&ting liquors. The growth of the league and its success have been extraordinary, and it seems destined to prove an important agency for the promotion of the national welfare. We call upon all good citizens who feel the evils and dangers which threaten our country through lawlessness to unite with us, in such manner as they best can, to make the 22<i of February Law and Order Day throughout the Republic. All who desire information about the purpose of the league, or more full information relating to the national meeting, are requested to addrea# the secretary, 28 School street, Boston, Mass. By order of the executive committee. Charles C Bonnky, President L. Edwin Dudley, Secretary. John G. Webster, Treasurer. A Soft Answer. Philadelphia Press. The able Indianapolis Sentinel asks the Press “what is meant by honest liquidation?” AH of which is excusable in a Democratic organ published in Indiana. By honest liquidation we mean the honest settlement of honest debts. W'.h equal justice to debtor and creditor, with no discrimination in favor of or against any party to the transaction. Ever hear of suck an arrangement out there? Accounting for It. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Chicago Socialists want to know why son** of the inhabitants of that city sleep in the tunnels. Perhaps it is to escape the variegated smells above ground which have given Chicago such extensive notoriety. Why He Is Sad. Boston Transcript. What makes Cornelius Vanderbilt cry is the newspaper calculation that he “cannot safety count oh making more than ¥160,000.000 iu this> ty-six years.”