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THE DAILY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 18S6. 'WASHINGTON OFFICE—S.I3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath. Correspondent THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, Can bo found at tbe following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 440 Strand. PARTS—American Exchange in Paris, 33 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. P. Hawley <fc Cos., 134 Vine street LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. C Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 23S | Editorial Rooms 242 What ba3 become of Envoy Sedgwick? He hasn’t been beard of since the earthquake. It is given out that the Bulgarian National Assembly will re-elect Prince Alexander. The best advice in tbe world is, “Don’t." Earthquake insurance will be the next thing. They have it in Italy. Agents of such companies would do a rushing business in Charleston and Evansville. Editor Cutting says he wants to go to Michigan but hasn’t money enough to pay his fare. This is sad, but if he must get to Michigan, what’s the matter with the walking? The Democratic party can make up its mind that it has a defensive campaign on hand. There will be enough suggested to keep it busy during the remainder of the time between now and election without seeking to go out of its way to find material for discussion. Reports from Hon. William R. Morrison’s district indicate that his renomination td Congress was not accomplished without considerable opposition from members of the party in his own county. It is not stated whether the objections were to Bill Morrison personally, or to Morrison’s bill. Speaking of Alexander, late of Bulgaria, an exchange suggests that, as a means of precaution, crowns should be worn with their strings knotted under the wearers’ cliius. This differs from the general opinion, which is that this species of headgear should be so adjusted as to be easily removed without carrying tho head with it.

It is said that Rhea, tbe Kentucky Democrat who had the temerity to decline to accept a challenge, is making fine progress in his canvass, and stands a first-class chance of being nominated. It is hoped that he may be. Kentucky should encourage men of his stamp, so far as his attitude toward the code is concerned, and further we say not. Russia’s magnanimity to Bulgaria in allowing that country to retain its autonomy after the forced abdication of Prince Alexander, is much as though it had said to a man that all it required was his head, after which he could do as he pleased. Tbe trouble is that autonomy will not be worth half as much after Alexander is gone. It is a glorious thing for a free people to have a splendid man at the head of its affairs. A WASHINGTON dispatch has it that Secretaries Lamar and Whitney have gone to Boston, where they will be joined by ex-Senator McDonald, and, after a brief visit at tbe Hub, will proceed to the Auirondacks to call upon the President. The next thing the papers will be saying that Mr. McDonald is to be appointed to a Cabinet position, and everybody knows he doesn’t like that sort of gossip. If “Old Saddlebags,’’ as the New Y r ork Sun affectionately calls him, doesn’t want to get bimseif talked about he should stay at home and keep out of bad company. Mr. WILLIS, who for ten years has acceptably represented the Democrats of the Louisville district in Congress, is now discovered to be anything but what his constituents, or the “bosses” among them, want. Ho is now being blackguarded and maligned by his former friends in the worst way possible, and all because he made a mistake in judgment when he secured the reappointment of Mrs. Thompson as postmaster at Louisville, under the opinion that the influence wielded by the appointment of a daughter of Alexander Campbell would be greater than were any of the fegion of hungry Democrats inducted into the office she has so well filled. There are two Democratic congressional fights in Kentucky, one in Wisconsin, three in Indiana, and not less than one in Ohio. George William Ourtis was right in his description of the * Democratic party. It is indeed very hungry and very thirsty. The Cincinnati Enquirer’s envoy to Toledo makes much the same kind of report that the one searching through this Btate does. He says, writing from Toledo: “The evidences of Democratic harmony are however, mighty few and far between. The simple facts in the case are that the old Hurd and anti-Hurd fight is on in all its bitterness, r.nd there will be no let-up until the Congressional convention at Clyde—if then.” The compassion of every tender-heavted reader must be aroused by the painful struggles of the Sentinel to understand plain English—not “Bill” English, whom it can never hope to see through, but the pellucid, elegant vernacular, samples of which are to be

found in the Republican platform. Its archaeological essays are admirable and its expositions of “the original Greek” show the rare scholarship of its editors; but there is reason to believe that less classical research and more attention to the rudiments of its native language would result in making the Sentinel a “cynosuro” of more eyes than now scan its pages. The Journal offors tho suggestion timidly, but with all kindness of heart. A DI3GBACEFUL SPEECH. Governor Gray, in his speech at Logansport, discharged tho opening gun of tho fall campagn. He announced himself as the chief executive of tho great State of Indiana, and that he would rather lose au arm than mislead his audience (his exact expression was “than lie”.) After making this declaration he proceeded to state that when inaugurated, in 1885, he found every office, even down to the Board of Health, filled by Republicans, and congratulated himself upon substituting two Democratic doctors for Republicans upon this board. Now, it is a fact that no ono can gainsay that tbe supervisory board of our benevolent institutions, tho State-house Commission and the commission to build the insane hospitals, and the State Board of Education are all non-partisan, and were divided by Governor Porter and his predecessors between Democrats and Republicans. Mr. Gray made this statement as Governor, and invoked the authority of his office to substantiate what he must know was false. Another of his statements was that the Republicans had borrowed tho school funds, and executed a non-negotiable bond drawing 6 per cent, interest, whereas the Democrats, under bis administration, had borrowed money at 3 1-2 per cent. He suppressed the fact that that G per cent, interest was to sustain our common schools, and left the distinct impression upon his audience that it was a disgrace to the Republican party to pay that amount of interest upon tbe school debt. One of his dignified remarks was that “he would vote for tho devil if ho could thereby secure the election of a United States Senator this fall.” Another of his illustrations was punctuated by the words “damn you.” In 1884 Gray denied that he was connected with the “grave-yard” insurance companies, and that in 1872 ho made the Richmond speech against the Democrats, which was at the time printed in the newspapers. Those who heard his speech last Saturday night will put their own constructions on these denials.

Os his argument it is sufficient to say that it was Democratic in every respect. Everyone expected that. But no one supposed that tho Governor of a great State would use language and utter sentiments, in the presence of ladies and gentlemen, that would disgrace a cross-roads orator, or would have the hardihood to utter, upou the authority of his office, open falsehoods. The people of Logansport have for the three years been brought into intimate and very pleasant personal relations with at least one board appointed by Governor Porter —the commission to build the insane hospitals, composed of Joseph R. Gray, William Grose, Republicans, and John C. Robinson and Dr. F. Skinner, Democrats—and they know very well that the State-house was built by a commission equally non-partisan. What a statement to emanate from the Governor of Indiana! “Vote for the devil if you can secure your end.” Tho sontiment is characteristic of the man, and is au outrage upon morality and decency. ■a——n— ■arjcw-nitwnrm.-n There is Democratic harmony in Missouri as well as in other States, and the excitement is kept at white heat nearly all the time. Says the St. Louis Republican, the Democratic organ of the State: “If it is entirely agreeable to all concerned, we will venture to hope that the rest of the campaign in the Ninth district will be conducted with as few murders and assaults to kill as possible.” The essence of this observation is in the fact that there has been oue murder in the course of tbe discussions between tho Democratic champions of the several candidates for the nomination. In another paragraph the Republican observes that: “Yesterday was a proud day for Tom Kelley, the Kinchin Kid, the Paradise Aliev Pet, Kit the Koniacker, tbe Biddle-street boy, and other statesmen who kindly take the trouble of arranging nominations for the voters of tho Ninth district.” There is Democratic “harmdhy” in huge chunks floating around the country all the time. The belief that women would vote almost as a uuit in favor of temperance measures has gained more adherents-for the equal suffrage cause than all other arguments combined. So firmly fixed was this idea that Prohibitionists in many places, particularly in the Eastern States, have adopted a suffrage plank as a part of their creed. The reports from the late election In Washington Territory, showing that women both voted and electioneered for the whisky candidates, have, however, given this favorite theory a cruel blow,-and, as a result, the third party managers are preparing to conduct their conventions without the assistance of their suffrage allies. It is to be feared that the women will decline to be disposed of in this manner, and that the unhappy public will be treated to much loud talk on the subject. The New York court has made a righteous decision in the case of tho “wife” of Charles L. Davis, better known as Alvin Joslin, an actor. She brought suit against him as his wife, although acknowledging they were never formally married. Her plea was that it was sufficient that he bad acknowledged her as his wife, which has Deen held as sufficient in some States. The court rules against her, and decides that she, by her own consent, has been

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nothing more to him than a concubine. Tho purpose of the rulings that acknowledgment was enough to constitute marriage was doubtless to stand between innocent parties and designing men who might attempt to ‘deceive them into the belief that they were really married, eo that the innocence of the woman in such a case should work her salvation. It is quite another thing when a woman deliberately elects to live with a man as his paramour and without any idea of complying with the law, so as to V worthy of his protection. The woman in that case is but one remove, and a narrow ono, from her sister in the bawdy house, and has no reason to complain if things do not go as she would have them in tho corrupt and sinful bargain she lias entered into. As for the man, the less said the better. The earthquake theories now being evolved by the scientists are of about as much interest to tho peoplo whoso houses have toppled down about their ears as ore speculations concerning the causes of cyclones to tho unfortunates who have been blown into the next county. A young man in New York declares that he is the devil and caused the earthquake at Charleston. He has not been arrested. It is nothing new for tli6 devil to be at large in New York. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mr. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, receives $15,000 a year lor editing that paper. Miss Maud Banks is ttaid to be very woll satisfied with her entrance upon [the dramatic stage, and confident of future success. Maurice Bernhardt, who calls the wonderful Saralr “Mademoiselle, ma mere,” telegraphs to the Paris Figaro from Buenos Ayres an absolute contraction of tho stories from Rio Janeiro about his mother’s fight with one of her company and consequent lyght in the lock-up. Here is an authentic instance. A playwright, with a manuscript in his pocket, went through the Bolfast riot, and was shot at but not hurt, the ball being unable to go through the manuscript. His tragedy saved him. The missile had not strength enough left to go beyond tho fourth act. A Nova Scotia farmer, hunting for his cows at dusk, came upon a big black bear that at once showed fight. The farmer was about to seok 'safety in flight, when his three cows, bellowing loudly, with tails eroct and fire in their usually placid eyes, charged the bear so fiercely that he turned tail and fled. When Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, who had been visiting Mr. Charles Morley, at Chislehurst, were leaving that place for London a woman cided out, “There goes a Parnellite.” Mr. Gladstone turned round, and was about to say something, when the woman began to hiss. Mr. Gladstone smiled and passed on. They tell in Brattleboro, Vt., of a clergyman who refused to take meat of his butcher because it had been killed on Sunday. A few days later the preacher told tho butcher that he wanted some meat. “I haven’t any to sell you,” said that conscientious man. “I have stopped receiving money that is earned on Sunday.” Judge Charles L. Woodbury, of Boston, i3 noted for his oddity of speech, and recently when asked who was to be the Democratic candidate for the Massachusetts governo-ship this fall he replied: “Wo take sticks to small boys, we throw brickbats at cats, and shoot skunks." Then he walked rapidly away, leaving his questioner ponder over the somewhat generalised information he had gathered. The palatial residence of Mrs. Mark Hopkins, in process of erection at Great Barrington, Mass., has a state dining-room, forty by sixty feet, two stories in height, with a roof of glass. The walls of this room are finished in ail varieties of Italian marble. There are two breakfast-rooms, one capable of accommodating a largo number of guests. The residence has several beautiful towers, and a lawn of over one hundred acres. The place will cost nearly $3,000,000. His Majesty, King Humbert, of Italy, has had published, under his own supervision, anew edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy for his son. The dedication is in Latin, and reads: “Humbert, King of Italy, in publishing this ancient commentary of Dante, dedicates it to liia befoved son. Victor Emmanuel, as a reward for his love of study and in order that this divine poem may strengthen his mind and dispose his heart toward the cultivation of the literature of his country.” “In Honduras,” say3 Col. Pat Donan, “you bear of a man sitting down so hard as to rip his pantaloons because he lias stepped on a banana skin. Then the oranges! Why, they’re so large and juicy that they burst opea on the branches like baked apples. In the forest it is a common thing to find the ground under an orange tree as damp as though it had been moistened by a lawn sprinkler, just from the juice that drops from the bursted fruit. I tell you that’s a great country. Honduras grows more oranges wild than aro cultivated in the groves of California and Florida combined, and other fruits in proportion." To a visitor at her hotel in the English lake country, Miss Mary Anderson recently remarked: “The season just completed was a most laborious one. I have been interviewed for the past year on an average of four times weekly. You will, therefore, readily understand how distasteful it has become to me. I am greatly Dleased with this part of the country. I think the scenery some of the finest I have ever seen.” Concerning her future programme Miss Anderson said: “I do not propose acting for a year, as my health is at present not good. The hard work of the past few seasons has been too much for me. I shall go on the continent at the termination of my visit to the lakes.”

COMMENT AND OPINION. One glance at politics proves that all are not geysers that spout. —Philadelphia Times. Alexander has really abdicated. Now then, Mr. Garland, brace up!—Minneapolis Tribune. Geronimo has been captured again, but that won’t hurt him; he’s used to it.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Should Henry George become Mayor of New York, he will no doubt give every man a city lot. —Louisville Courier-Journal. The Kansas City Times asks “What is an earthquake?” In Kansas City parlance it would be called a “real estate boom.”—St. Louis Chronicle. The Greenback vote will hardly have much effect on the result at the polls, but then look at the fun the leaders will have.—Pittsburg Chronicle. Mr. Powderi.y’s programme of last March was conspicuously sound, and had the Knights adopted it, the order would to-day bo in better shape than it is.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Adexander of Bulgaria marched up the hill and then marched down again with a degree of artistic neatness and dispatch which completely out-Bayards Bayard.—Philadelphia Press. The people who are going to take the saloon out of politics should not forget to take the drug store along with it while they are in the good work of purification.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Dear Sedgwick: Cutting has been released, the earthquake is over, the sea serpent hr.s grown tame and the President has killed a bnck. Come home. Yours truly.—Atlanta Constitution. The law, or the interpretation of it by the courts, hedges about the liquor-dealer with, safe guards as if he were an innocent party subject to persecution, instead of protecting the community against him as the natural enemy of the public peace.—Springfield Republican, The German clergy are the foremost theolo fiiaus in the woi.d, and the poorest preachers

and pastors. The works of tbe gseat theologians of Germany have been translated* into all" languages, but their churches have ceased to lead, inspire and warm the people. Springfield Republican. The gold value of the “standard” silver dollar yesterday was nearly seventy two cents. If a silver dollar doesn’t have to be worth a dollar, the government is very extravagant to put so much metal into it A “dollar” made of ten cents’ worth of silver ought to do just as well. —Louisville Commercial. There are so few distinctions in dress in this country that if a platoon of lawyers, or of merchants, or insurance men were put next to a platoon of carpenters, it would not be easy to distinguish the one from the other. And ail this is a matter of no little significance and interest just now, when the various social and economic questions are absorbing so much attention.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Thus far Charleston seems to have received from the administration one hundred tents and two chattering earthquake experts to annoy men, dazed with their misfortunes, with tho density of their expert Ignorance. If these alleged scientists had taken down the tents which the Geological Survey owns, and distributed them, the record of the administration could have been materially improved. In such an emergency imbeci’ity is a crime.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Men who will coolly plan the murder of their highest officer —a man in whom they are supposed to have the utmost confidence, and who, on the other hand, must necessarily entertain the same sentiment toward them—would hardly hesitate to assassinate persons whom, rightly or wrongly, they considered the foes of themselves or their order. Will the Knights of Labor investigate the attempt to murder Mr. Powderly, or would they prefer the District Attorney to undertake the work for them? —New Y'ork Times. CHEAP MONEY. The Heavy Loss Which, Sooner or Later, It Entails Upon the Workers. Speech by Galusha A. Grow. The views of a majority of the Democratic party on currency is little, if any, better than their theories on the tariff. Their policy is to take the gold dollar of one hundred cents commercial value, and with it buy silver bullion to be coined into silver dollars of seventy to seven-ty-three cents commercial value, with which labor is to be paid for its toi', and in which industry is to receive its reward. These choap dollars are all bought with gold. If the gold was paid oirectly to labor, or a silver dollar of equal commercial value, what harm could possibly come to the country? The harm that may fall upon it will come when the cheap dollar is so far discredited in commerce that dealers refuse to accept it for their commodities, without enhancing the selling price or by an equivalent discounting of the dollar. In such case the heaviest loss will fall upon labor; for it is a creditor, not a, debtor class, and it always holds comparatively the largest amount of floating currency. Law can fix tho debt-paying value of money or currency, but cannot fix its value for commerce. Law makes the unit of value but not the value of the unit. That is made by the dealers in the commodities for which it is exchanged. Supposing a law was passed declaring that every two-year-old steer is worth SSO and shall pay a debt of SSO. The steer might then be worth SSO to pay a debt, but the butcher would pay for it only what it would sell for as meat in the market. Tho advocates of legal power to make values might say that every steer would then be worth SSO for meat. That might be, if there were no steers outside of the jurisdiction of the law and there were only enough within its jurisdiction to pay dobts. Currency or money of cheap commercial vaiue always entails, soon or late, heavy losses upon labor and the industries of the country. Persons of large means have their investments in lands, in securities of long promises, and are in position to foresee and guard against money depreciations. Tho great need of labor is to have a home market for its products guarded against the importation of the products of cheaply paid labor; and the great need of all our industries is a currency convertible at wiil into the dollar of one hundred cents commercial value, as recognized by tho commercial nations of the world.

A Society Divorce Case. New York Special. The report prevailed to-night that Mrs. Frederick Neilson, through her attorneys, had servod papers on her husband in a suit for divorce, alleging desertion, non support and cruelty. It has been known for sometime amone the friends of both husband and wife that the lady desired to find cause for such a suit. She assumed residence in Newport for a timo with that purpoee, following the example of Mrs. Trumbull, Mrs. Stevens and Mrs. Fosdick; but just before expiration of the period in which she might claim the legal time of residence, a change in the Rhode Island law rendered her effort of no avail. Mrs. Neilson is a sister of Fred. Gebhardt, and is said to have an income in her own right of $-10,000. She is tall, dark and a beauty. Frederick Noilson is one of the bost known men about town He belongs to one of the oldest New York families, is handsome, and a member of the Union, Knickerbocker and Manhattan clubs. Grasps the Significance. Boston Advertiser. The following expression [in the platform] has interest for the Republican party everywhere, because it is significant.of the intentions of the Indiana Republicans with regard to the national election of 1S88: “Hon. Benjamin Harrison, United States Senator for Indiana, has worthily won a front rank among the trusted and honorable statesmen of the Nation, and by his signal abilities and devotion to the highest public interest, has broueht credit upon the State and the country. His course in the Senate of the United States meets with our warmest approval, and we commend bira to the esteem and confidence of all the people.” The Civil-Service Plank. Boston Journal. Not even the most exacting mugwump paper questions the sincerity or the thoroughness of the declaration of the Indiana Republicans on the civil service: “We favor a thorough and honest enforcement of the civil service law, and the extension of its principles to the State administration - wherever it can be made practicable, to the end that the corruption and flagrant abuses that exist in the management of our public institutions may be done away with, and they be liberated from partisan control.” No Democratic convention has given expression to any sentiments like these. Sedgwick Did Get Drunk. Washington Star. As at first represented, the reported conduct of the special representative of the State Department was certainly disgraceful in the extreme, both to himself and the country, and it was very properly commented upon in severe terms, and with equal severity by the leading journals of both political parlies, as well as by those independent of all party obligations—each justly jealous of the good reputation of our government and its official servants at home and abroad. Cleveland and the Colored Sian. Chicago Tribune. Mr. Grover Cleveland, in the woods, says: “I have great respect for the colored people. Again and again I have told the delegations which bavevißited me that they must have convictions of their own and act on them.” Appointments of colored men by the Cleveland administration, one. Removals of colored men by the same, in the Treasury Department alone, sixty-two. A Nice Alternative. Louisville Courier-Journal. For one hundred years the inhabitants of the coral and volcanic island of Bermuda have feared that an earthqunke shook would plunge them into the sea. They cannot reasonably complain, therefore, that they have not hail ample leisure in which to move. Everybody m Bermuda might by this time have been settled in the the United States and blown away by a cyclone. o Don't Want It -But Then— San Francisco Chronicle. There is no burning desire anywhere in this country for the extension of one territory on the south. There is no wish to dilute our population with the Mexican element. There is no rush of people to Mexico, as there was forty odd

years ago to Texas. But after all, the Rio Grande is a conventional frontier; we might push the border hne down to the twenty-second parallel without injuring Mexico materially; and the transfer of a dozen Mexican States to the American flag would certainly inure to their benefit, and to the benefit of land-owners therein. It might be made pleasant all round if the transfer were conditioned upon the payment to Mexico of a score or two of those millions of which she stands in such sore need. • Democratic “Economy." Boston Journal. The Democratic campaign committee may be short of funds, and probably is, but this is no reason why it should be allowed to send a pamphlet of 104 pages through the mails in envelopes labeled “Public Document U. S. Senate, Part of Congressional Record, Free ” There is a penalty for this kind of thing, and it should be enforced. Easy Insurance. Philadelphia Press. Daniel Webster Voorhees declares that under no circumstances would he give up a senatorshin to become Vice president. The country is full of people who, for and in consideration of the sum of thirty or forty cents, would insure Voorhees against being called upon to do so. An Unkind Remark. Philadelphia Record. The furious and long-continued dispute in the Seventh Indiana congressional district has finally been brought to a close by the renomination of Mr. Bynum as the Democratic candidate. Such prolonged cackling would have justified the laying of a larger egg. Business Better Than Money. Charleston News and Courier. By giving business to Charleston, when there is no loss by so doing: by giving tho preference to Charleston, when the commercial conditions are about equal, the public can soon put the city in position to “pluck this flower, safety, out of this nettle, danger.” An Editor’s Discovery. Nashville Union. Tho New York Commercial Advertiser remarks: “The silver in a Bland dollar is to day worth 72. G cents.” But the C. A. man can buy just as much beer with it as he can with an in-significant-looking gold dollar. A Cincinnati Attraction. Philadelphia Pros*. The Cincinnati Exposition is a great success. Nothing in the show attracts more attention than the large three quart bottle containing a sample of the harmony which prevails among the journalists of that great city. Precept and Practice. San Francisco Alta. Henry Georg# writes many books to prove that property should be held in common, but we notice that he copyrights his books 60 as to retain their ownership. Henry ia strong in precept, but weak in example. Reform in Utah. Chicago Journal. The Mormon polygamists who haro been hiding in tho woods are returning to their homes and numerous wives. Under the new Democratic officials in Utah, prosecutions for polygamy have entirely ceased. Get Ready for Business. Chicago Inter Ocean. This fall promises to boa bad season forcroakers .arid grumblers. People generally are getting ready to take their coats off and push business. The country was never in better condition for a good season’s work. <|r e Impending Crisis in Missouri. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. If absolute and effectual prohibition should ever be established in Missouri, what would become of the Colonels? Th ; .3 solemn and portentious question should engage the atteutiou of all State conventions. —iQ There’s tho Rub. Chicaco Times. An Indiana paper says: “There is enough honest and competent Democrats to fill the offices.” It is plain, however, that all of them could not pass tho civil.-service examination on grammar.

Accounting; for It. Philadelphia Press. Land Commissioner Sparks hasn't made one of his life-size spectacular blunders for fully ten days. This may be explaiued by the fact that Sparks has been off on vacation for a couple of weeks. ■<>- A Complete Outfit. Springfield Union. Colonel Overall, of Missouri, wants to go to Congress. If he gets there ho can parade with Mr. Vest, of the Senate, making a complete specimen of the Missouri style of costume. Hard to Please. Philadelphia Times. Before his deposition Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, was objectionable to Russia because he was too arrogant. Now he is objectionable because he is too humble. A Sign of the Times. Boston Record. The general increase in railroad earnings is an encouraging feature of the times. It means that there is more business doing outside of the railroads. Strikes Versus earthquakes. Atlanta Constitution. There is more suffering in Augusta among laboring people on account of the strike than there is in Charleston on account of the earthquake. A Question for Scientists. Atlanta Constitution. Savannah people are asking if the recent shake-up is the result of a devotion to base ball. Will some scientist investigate this matter? A King Without a Throne. Philadelphia Press. Poor ex King Alex., of Bulgaria, is open for engagements to present his unique tragio drama entitled ‘’A Man Without a Country." The Latest Tragedy. Pittsburg Chronicle. Mrs. Oliphant’s latest work is entitled “A House Divided Against Itself." A history of the Democratic party, probably. A Good Shot. National Republican. If the President bad not been a pretty fair shot he might have winged one of the two boys who were holding that deer. Red Sunsets Possible. St. Louis Republican. If Alexander, of Bulgaria, and our Mr. Sedgwick ever happen to meet there will be carmine to spare in the vicinity. Expert Testimony, Philadelphia Record. A steady-going, all-the-season liar is not as dangerous as is the liar who has moments of intermittent veracity. When They Waut Protection. Philadelphia Times. Every free-trader favors without reserve protectiou from earthquakes and cyclones. It Will, It Will. Philadelphia Inquirer. After the thermometer lets up politics will keep things warm clear into November. "" - mmmm Very Likely. Pittsburg Clironcicle. A Minnesota politician is named Lonely. A Green backer, probably. To Stop the Shakes. Philadelphia Times. Quinine in twenty ton doses is what Mother Earth appears to noed.

INDIANA POLITICS. The Ontlook In the Eighth District—Reasons for Thinking Lamb Will Be Beaten, Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Terre Haute, Sept. B. —lt has now been a month since John E. Lamb was nominated for Congress in this district, and the Democratic disaffection has had time to show whether it is likely to endanger his election in a district made especially for him and which on the presidential vote of 1884 shows a Democratic plurality of 7G4. In the best judgment of those capable of forming an impartial estimate, Mr. Lamb will be defeated. Were the election to take place this week Mr. Johnston, his opponent, would nave a plurality of from 1.200 to 1,500, and this statement is made with due respect to the probabilities as regards the action of the Greenback - ers. Whatever offort may be made to secure for Mr. Lamb this support, which so materially increased his vote two years ago, it is safe to say that he will not receive over 10 per cent, of the vote then given for him. The result in this district is mostly dependent on tho opposition to him in his ovrn party. That opposition is growing, both in numerical strength and intensity of feeling. While it is true that much of the work done by the leaders in the movement is of a secret nature, yet I am aware of enough of its details to ffpeak advisedly. During the month past there has been an addition to tho ranks of the “kickers.” as they are called, which is owing to man.'jf causes, and altogether forms an interesting and amusing study of kaleidoscopic politics. Tho leaders are at work day and night, and are working with more energy and to better effect than before Mr. Lamb was nominated. They are getting many signers to their pledges, and I believe it to bo true as claimed, that three hundred Democrats in this city have affixed their names to the little cards which pledge the signers to vote against Mr. Lamb. I know of fifteen Democrats in an out township who voluntarily came to the city yesterday to sign these cards. In Sullivan county, which is the county fastened on to this district, and which gave Cleveland 1,556 plurality, there is an active opposition that bide fair to surpass this, Vigo county, in the number of Democratic votes withheld from Mr. Lamb. Several years ago this county led in the bolt against the Democratic candidate for judge for the circuit then comprising these two counties, and so serious was this bolt that a change of over one thousand votes wa3 made and the Republican c** date elected. Many of the same men, mostly . .embers of the Christian church, who Are proverbially clannish in political matters, are now engaged in tho anti-Lamb scheme. Republicans had hardly looked for than 1,300 or I,4°'' plurality for Mr. Lamb in that coun out I am satisfied after careful inqt oat to-day ho would not get over 700 or 800 , .i.-ality there. Clay county is the next important field. In Montgomery county the dissatisfaction is less serious, but, like that in the other counties, it is growing rather than disaopearing, and is encouraged and augmented by the untiring efforts of the leading spirits here, in Sullivan and in Clay. This opposition can no longer be treated as n doubtful quantity, or as an element which the Republicans must regard with the solicitude that would advise a “still hunt.” Indeed, it i9 a stampede, and the Republicans are alive to the fact that from now on the race is to be made with a rush. And why not? On oven terms, that is the policy suggested by the issues. Mr. Lamb ought to be and could be defeated on a square, strong and enthusiastic appeal to the people on his public record as compared with that of Mr. Johnston. Mr. Lamb was given a seat in Congress in 1882 by reason of a Republican split in the old district. By much clamor of hia friends, ho ‘hen obtained a reputation for exceeding popularity, and made the race again in 1884, when, although he captured the indorsement of the Greenback convention and received 1,500 Greenback votes, he was defeated. He was then given the position of United States District Attorney, and in the ensuing winter, at the dictation of Mr. Voorheos, a Democratic congressional district was carved out for him. It will thus be seen that everything baa been handed to him, so to speak. He has built nothing for himself. He had an opportunity to do so in his term in Conereas, but there he was a failure. He missed 109 roll-calls. He voted for Randall, and then voted for Morrison’s horizontal bill, that is, for its consideration, which is considered a test vote on the bill itself. In the campaign two years aeo. in defending his record, he reiterated, at every opportunity, the fact that he had reported from the foreign affaira committee a Chinese restriction bill. That measure was unopposed, and passed by a practically unanimous vote. Yet, such a record was tho best he had to offer. Mr. Johnston, on the other hand, has been a constant attendant in tha House, participating in the debates, and in the committee-room was a studious and industrious legislator. All these considerations make tho road to Re publican victory plain, and the people of th Eighth district may expect to see one of the liveliest campaigns in many years.

Thirteenth District Democrats. Special to tht> lpdiananolis JournaL Warsaw, Sept. B.— The Democrats of the Thirteenth district met here, to-day, to nominate a candidate for Congress. There were seven candidates in the field—George Ford, Benjamin F. Shively and David Leeper, of St. Joseph county; LaPorte Heefner, of Elkhart county; Mortimer Nye and H. H. Francis, of LaPorte county, and Andrew G. Wood. Mr. Ford, the present Representative, and Messrs. Shively, Heefner, Nye and Wood, have made the most active canvass, the names of Leeper and Francis being sprung after the convention was organized. Benjamin F. Shively, of St. Joseph county, received the non ination on the third ballot by a bare majority. The St. Joseph county delegation are considerably discomfited at the result, as they camo down with brass bands and banners flying, solid to a man for Ford. Shively, the nominee, is a young man, but very popular Among a certain class of voters in the district. Two years ago he was elected by a coalition of Democrats and Greenbackers to fill’ tho vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. W. H, Calkins, and served the remainder of the unexpired term. Shively's name baa already been placed on the Greenback and K. of L. tickets for Congress. The fact that his supporters in these two parties numbered about fifteen hundred, gave him tbo place on the Democratic ticket to-day. Shively was formerly a Republican. and many Democrats hero and elsewliera in the district are furious over the fact that he was chosen in preference to an old-line party man, and hnrmony does not prevail to any alarming extent in tho ranks of the Democracy of this section. Anti-Saloon Republicans. Tho followmg are the delegates from Indians to the Republican anti-saloon convention which meets in Chicago on Sept. 15: Hon. J. B. Conner, J. J. Todd, Z. nunt, lsnara Sedgewick, Hon. M. L. De Mott, W. F. Barbour, Hon. E. B. Reynolds, I. I*. Watts, C. G. Bartholomew, Rev. T. H. Ford. Hon. I. F. Compton, Hon. B. Hobbs, Hon. H. B. Saylor, I. N. Stout, S. A. Chambers, Isaac Grimes, lion. C. C’owgill, Hon. D. R. Best, M. W. Pershing, Dr. I. A. Hauser, Hon. T. A. Rice, Hon. Peter Kennedy, Hon. T. Redding, Rev. A. Marine, I. B. Chcadle, E. W. Halford, Dr. T. Johnson, Dr. I. D. Mitchell, Rov. R. V. Hunter. Sad Death of a Promising Actress. San Francisco, Sept. 8. — Sarah L. Lawson, a brunette of fine appearance, twenty years of ago, well ki:own as likely to become one of the most popular actresses of this city, died yesterday under sad circumstances. Dr. James Ward who attended her in her illness, believed that she was 5 yjctinj of practice, £r.i rffpsed to sign a certificate of death from natural causes. Last evening he admitted that he possessed an ante mortem statement made by Miss Lawson. In it she accuses a well-known theatrical manager of this city, who ie also known in Chicago, of accomplishing her ruin on, July 12 last, at the theater where she was playing an engagement. A, coincidence is that about the hour of her death the alleged author of her misfortune attempted to shoot his wife. For this offense he was arrested, but was released ou bail.