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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAI WEDNESDAY, JANUABY 5, 1887.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1887.

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be has to break them open with an ax. His experience in opening ballot-boxes will be useful to him in this new field. j - IIow does tho police force enjoy being called "inferiors" by "we superiors," Pendleton and IIoltT

Pendleton, solemnly acting the clown before the patrolmen, is a spectacle indeed. The Police Board has been bad enough at times but Pendelton and Holt!

question, both appear in a ridiculous light in view of the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court. Four Democrats and one Republican tell all this array of learned lawyers and constitutional expounders that they don't know even the abe's of the law.

We call the attention of our esteemed contemporary, the Sentinel, to the fact that the Journal again guessed it right, this time respecting the Supreme Court of the State.

It is rumored that the Democrats would

like to swap off a few of their important

statesmen and "workers" for a little of the

Republican harmony which they see all about

them.

The Police Commissioners should understand they are not a legislature to make laws,

nor a court to construe them. They should

take the law a3 they find it, and see that it 13

executed as it is.

When an honorable Senator rises in his

place and says that "the angel of death stalks

through the land,'' it is high time to adjourn.

An angel "stalking!" Such language is an

added horror to death.

Now that Mr. District Attorney Turpie

has probably got through with his client,

the Jennings county claimant, how would it

do to put his mighty intellect for a time upon

the duties of his oflice?

The Sentinel says there will be no trouble

unless the Republicans begin it. So! But

it isn't the Republicans who are planning to

make a man presiding officer of the Senate

who has no possible title to the place.

A PROJECT is on foot and likely to be con

summated soon to supply the city of Cleve

land and several of the larger towns in northern Ohio with natural gas, by piping it from

the gas-producing region. This city could be supplied in that way at a comparatively mod

erate outlay.

The cremating of people in railway acci

dents, caused by the criminal carelessness of

the train employes, is becoming altogether too common. The only way to stop it is to

severely punish the responsible parties. If it

were possible, a hanging would have a re

markable tendency to make these awful oc

currences lessfrequent.

MR. GEEEN SMITH OUT OF COURT, In the case of Mr. Green Smith, Democratic

claimant of the office of Lieutenant-governor,

the Supreme Court yesterday rendered a unanimous decision affirming the decision of the court below. The suit was a motion for a

writ of injunction to restrain the Secretary of State from delivering to the Speaker of the House the certified statement of the votes cast at the recent election for Lieutenant-governor,

which are now in hands. Judge Ayres decided that he had no jurisdiction in the case.

The claimant, by his attorneys, appealed to the Supreme Court, and that tribunal unanimously affirms the decision of Judge Ayres. The decision (opinion by Chief -justice Elliott) discusses the 'aw of injunction in principle and practice and, as the result of a very clear

and strong argument, concludes that the present case is not one that comes within the jurisdiction of the court. The court confines

itself strictly to the point of iurisdiction.

that being, as it says, "always one of con

trolling influence," and there is not

the slightest reference to the merits of the

case that is, the validity of the election.

The court simply declined to take any juris

diction of the case, leaving it where the Con

stitution and law place it. This decision is

conclusive as to the legal aspect of the case.

Mr. Smith and his Democratic advisers who have been trying to invoke the aid of the

courts to enable them to steal the office of Lieutenant-governor, have got to the end of

their rope in that direction. What they will

do or try to do next remains to be seen.

Under the decision of the Supreme Court

there is nothing left for Secretary Myers but

to perform his plain duty under the Constitu

tion. When the certified statements of the

votes are delivered to the Speaker of the

House it becomes his duty, under the Consti

tution, to "open and publish them in the presence of bothhousesof the General Assembly."

This ought to end the matter, and will unless the Democratic conspirators concoct some new scheme to nullify the election and defeat

the will of the people.

It is a significant sis;n of the times when newly-appointed police commissioners ' begin

to talk about their "policy." The only policy they have any right to think about is tho simple enforcement of the law. Anything

more or less than this shows a willingness to trifle with public interests and abuse a public

truat for partisan purposes,

A Washington dispatch says of Mr. Hoi-

man's reported departure for Indiana to enter the senatorial race, that the great objector

can be elected it he will present himself be

fore the clamoring statesmen. If Mr. Hol-

rnan thinks that all he has to do is to present

himself before the susceptible Democratic

legislators, ho must labor under the mis

taken idea that ho is a professional beauty.

Address: 1KDIAMP0LIS JOURNAL KEWSPAPER CO., Market and" Circlo Sts., Indianapolis. THE DAILY JOURNAL.

WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 5, 18S7.

Mayor Hewitt, of New York, is a man with an opportunity. He assumes the mayor

alty, an office ho did not seek nor desire, ab

solutely without pledges or entangling alli

ances of any kind. lie is known as a man of high character, strong convictions, and the courage of them. If he cannot break up the

rings and reform the abuses in the New York

city government, the public will conclude it

is a hopeless undertaking.

WASHINGTON OFFICE 313 Fourteenth St. I S. Heath. Correspondent. TI1K INDIANA I'O LIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange in Strand.

Europe, 449

The "able and unparalleled argument" of District Attorney Turpie, that has been

paraded as the most remarkable thing ever

heard in the Supreme Court, does not appear

to have been such an awful thing after all,

Simply as a matter of fact, we take occasion

to remark that, from a legal point of view,

Mr. Turpie's "argument," like that of the

"eloquent" Jason Bazoo Brown, was simply

an harangue so much rhodomontade and

"hog-wash."

THE GANG PROGRAMME.

It is given out that Mr. Green Smith wil

keep up his disreputable and infamous at

tempt to steal an office by maintaining his

seat as presiding officer of the Senate, in

which he will be backed by the whole gang of Democratic office-thieve3 and ringsters, aided

by the notorious Bazoo Brown, who is to be made Secretary of the Senate to carry out the

wishes of the larcenous crew. This

is the programme ot the democratic managers. It is thoroughly

dishonorable, scoundrelly aad revolutionary.

It is born of the spirit that conceived the

disfranchising gerrymander, and that has

controlled the Democratic policy since the

moment it was discovered that that infamy

was likely to fail of its purpose. Then the word went out to steal right and left; to

vitiate the result of the election, and to defeat the will of the people at all hazards. No crime, no infamy, no fraud, no forgery, noth

ing has been permitted to stand in the way of the Democratic purpose to steal what they could not obtain even under the forms of

their corrupt law. The question is whether the unscrupulous gangsters can control the entire Democratic party, and. if they can,

whether they can ride rough-shod over the rights of all the people. The people of Indiana are likely to have their eves

opened to the true character of the Democratic party. It is the same

party North and South. It is the party of the

bludgeon and the rifle, of the tissue ballot and the shotgun, of ballot-box smashing and

forged tally-sheets, of fraud and forgery, of corrupt gerrymandering and office-stealing, of

defiant law-breaking and avowed violence

Against sucn a party, actuated by sucn pur

poses and dominated by such a spirit, the peo

pie of Indiana are to defend their dearest

rights of self-government.

to be a rule unto themselves; and since their terminal points at each end connect with water transportation, they might, and no doubt would, be benefited by the provisions

of the proposed measure. This proposition,

however, is strenuously denied by the friends

of the bill, and judicial action would be re

quired to determine which opinion is the correct one. If the courts should hold that a main-line railroad, with both terminal points

in a single State, does not come under the

provisions of the bill, then the law would cer

tainly work a great hardship to the east and

west roads of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, such roads being, for the most part, if not

entirely, tinder long leases and part

nership contracts. For instance: the

Terre Haute road, being part of the Pennsylvania system, would be an interstate road and subject to the restrictions of this bill. There appears to be in the minds of those who have

investigated the provisions of the pending bill a very general apprehension that merchants, manufacturers, grain dealers, stockraisers and shippers generally in interior towns and cities, like Cincinnati, Louisville, Indian

apolis, Logansport, Richmond and Terre Haute would be placed at great disadvantage

when competing with lake points, like Chica

go, Cleveland, Detroit and Toledo. Thers is

no doubt whatever that this would be the effect upon goods and manufactured articles

that require rehandling for sale and distribution, and for articles of manufacture in

which raw material has to be worked in, in

whole or in part.

The bill prohibits all pooling. It is by no means clear that the pooling of freight and

traffic earnings is not more for the benefit of

the people than it is for the benefit of the rail

roads, or that it is not for the benefit of both

people and the roads. - It is not the pooling of

rate3 that works to the injury of the shipper,

but the methods and rates that may be estab

lished by the pool. The remedy for the evils of the pool is not by abolishing the pool, but by

regulating and controlling it in the interest of

the shipper, and with justice to the carriers.

As we have stated, there is no argreement amongst shippers looking from their stand

point, or of railroad men looking from theirs,

a3 to what the effect of the . proposed law will

be. This uncertainty is one of the greatest

evils to be feared from the passage of a law the construction of which depends upon a

commission appointed by politicians and from

politicians; for, no matter whether the commis

sion be Republican or Democratic and by the law the commission will consist of both the

members will be appointed for their political influence, rather than for their knowledge of

real or imaginary evils that exist, or because of their knowledge of the best and safest methods whereby to correct the one or to dis

sipate the other. . ' ,

Trade and commerce, and business of all

kinds, after a long period of -depression, are

beginning to look up; better times are in

sight, and everything should be done to

hasten the good times coming. It is the

worst policy possible to inject into business

methods any element that would create con-

usion, doubl or uncertainty. Congress has

begun at the wrong end of the business. It

would be very much better to create a commission to be composed and selected, at least in part, by and from the various business in-

be recommitted and action on it deferred until

the various boards of trade throughout the

country can investigate its provisions and

have a hearing.

grees in temperature between Florida and kota. At Jacksonville the thermometer marked .

sixty degrees above, and at Fort Buford forty one degrees below zero. Between these extreme every reasonable taste can be suited.

There are symptoms ot a post-mortem

medical war in regard to the treatment of

General Logan in his Isst illness. It is getting so that whenever a public man dies, nowadays, the doctors who did not attend him fall on those who did and charge them with kill

ing him. Whatover truth there may be in such charges, the public is tired of hearing them. No doubt General Logaa had good medical attendance, and his physicians did

the best they could. That is all physicians can do, and all that is expected. They cannot always save life any more than they can create it. The most they can do is to assist nature, and when nature declines their assist

ance they cannot do anything, The doctors who think they could have saved General Logan's life had better reserve their skill and wisdom for their own patients, who are likely to need it all soon or late. Meanwhile, spare us the infliction of a medical quarrel.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND TUISGS.

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The Indianapolis Board of Trade will hold a

public meeting at noon to-day for the consideration of the interstate commerce bill, and it

should be attended by such numbers of our representative business men and people interested in the proposed legislation, that its conclusions will be entitled to consideration by

Congress. The voice of Indianapolis should be heard. This is the largest exclusively railroad interior shipping point in the country,

and certainly has a relatively great interest in

the action of Congress upon this bilL Other

interior cities are expressing themselves, and

Indianapolis should not be behind. Let there

be a real, representative, earnest meeting and

let such an expression be adopted as wiil be

deemed wise and proper under the circum

stances.

Police Commissioner Pendleton repudi

ates the church, the newspapers and the saloons as elements to influence his action.

The church has cherished no hopes to the

contrary; the newspapers will scarcely dare to

approach these mogul3 in any but the most deferential manner; but in certain circles it is

confidently believed that the saloons will succeed in having something to say about the

"policy" of the board.

PARIS Aniaricau Exchange in Taris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK Oedney House and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO-r&lmor House. CIN?CIN'NATI-J. 1 HawToy & Co., 151 Vine street.

northwest corner

LOUISVILLE -C. T. Dearing, Third and Jefferson streets.

ST. LOUIS Union Xwj Company, Union and Southern Hotel.

Depot

WASHINGTON, D. House.

C Ris3 House and Ebbitt

Telephone Calls.

Business Office 233 Editorial Rooms 242 - Mimftrrt of tkt General Awmbly iraiitinj the Journal tvringthe regular $emio thould leave their tmbteriptiont, itith direction at to ichere thuy Jeaire to receive the. paper, St the Journal CvuHliug-room.

The Sentinel hopes that, now the holidays

are over, some member of Congress will return

to his labors sufficiently refreshed to try to

effect the repeal of the civil-service law. Mr.

Voorhees is here and within the reach of the

Democratic voice. Why not move him, prayerfully and tearfully, to come to the relief of his suffering constituents. Possibly, however, it is not believed that the Honorable Daniel will feel sufficiently refreshed for such

task after his present struggle with even knottier Hoosier problems.

TllE Sentinel failed to intimidate the Supreme Couit of the State. The Democratic circus beats Barnum all to ieces. It has five rings.

Pood ah Pendleton, with his jhould put his head in broken ice.

"policy,"

Mr. Smith may still bo Green when he tjots through with this business; but, for all liiat, he will know more.

Police Commissioner Holt evinces such n anxiety to be "liberal" that he may be expected to keep the saloons opea on Sunday if

The able lawyers who sneeringly observed that the Attorney-general had entirely "missed the point" in the Green Smith case would do well to rub their heads. The "eloquent" attorney, Jason Bazoo Brown, and the "able and unparalleled argument" of District Attorney Turpie seem to have counted for nothing against the clear, concise, cogent statement of the law and tho facts by tho Attorney-general, and the equally clear, judicial deliverance of Judge Ayres, of the Civil Circuit Court. Prof. Joseph E. McDonald, who has been delivering lectures on constitutional law every day for the past two months, bolstering the preposterous claim of the Jennings county yahoo, and United State Sena

tor Voorhees, the "great criminal" lawyer,

who has bent his lofty judicial mini to tho

INTERSTATE COMMERCE BILL.

The interstate commerce bill, now pending before Congress, is one in which the people of

the country are deeply interested. Rarely has a measure of such great importance to all

the people progressed so far toward final legislative action, with so little discussion, and

with the provisions of the proposed legislation

so little understood. The bill as now pend

ing is a compromise between the House bill known as the Reagan bill and the Senate bill known as the Cullom bill. If the proposed

law affected only the railroads and railroad stock jobbers and ppeculators, the people

could well afford to let them look out for

themselves; but the bill will work very radica'

changes in the rules and measures of trans

portation, and this will directly affect the manufacturers, merchants and shippers of

every kind of wares merchandise, grain

live stock and, in fact every man in the

country because every person b more or less

affected by commerce that crosses State lines.

As a matter of fact, railroad officials are no

agreed as to the propriety of the proposed leg

lsiaiion some iavor ana some oppose; nor

will all railroads be affected alike. Certain

main-line railroads, it is claimed by some,

would be greatly benefited, as, for instance

the New York Central and Illinois Central These being wholly within the territoria limits of a single State would not come un

der the restrictions of the bill, and would, so

far as their main lines wo concerned, be free.

The correspondent of the Louwviile CourierJournal, in yesterday's issue, says: "Senator Voorhees will remain here for a week or two, and his advice and assistance will be valuable to the Democrats. It is not likely that any definite plan of action will be agreed on until after the decision of the Supreme Court in the Smith-Robertson case. It is almost certain that decision will be rendered to-morrow. The Republicans profess to believe that the decision of Judge Ayres will be affirmed. Tho Democrats are very confident that the Supreme Court will decide tpe main question, and declare that Robertson has no right to the office of Lieutenantgovernor. That decision is, In a large sense, the key to the situation, if it affirms Judge Ayres's finding, the Republicans will be elated and the Democrats correspondingly depressed." Well, the decision is made, and how do the Democratic conspirators like it? If it is "the key to the situation" in a large sense, the situation seems to have been unlocked "in a large

sense.

terests of the country, consisting of a reas

onable number of members from the best-in

formed, most intelligent and fair-minded merchants, manufacturers, railroad managers, stock raisers and general shippers, to prepare and draft a bill to attain the end desired.

which shall be submitted to and bo passed upon by Congress after intelligent consideration, rather than to pass the pending bill and submit it to the interpretation and construc

tion of a commission appointed by and through

political methods. The country wants intel

ligent legislation on this subject, rather than

experimental attempts to control the com

mercial relations of the people with each other.

Colonel Clapp, manager of the Boston

Journal, says:

"Forty years' experience in the newspaper business tells me that whenever a newspaper has reduced its price it was not due to outside influence at all, but the financial injury was always self-inflicted. Deduction of price is a mistake. Elevate the tone of your paper so as to make it worth the money, and you will have no lack of patrons. Excepting white paper and telegraph tolls, everything that goes to make a paper is higher than ever before. ' We have ten reporters where we used to have one. The cry of to-day is for better and purer papers. The reduction of prices here and there will have no effect. The conscientious paper that puts out money and costs money is the paper that will succeed."

Colonel Clapp is correct in his facts and his

conclusions. A newspaper costs more to pro

auce to-aay tnan it ever ma. More money

and work are expended upon the Journal, for instance, than ever before in its history, and it is better worth five cents per copy now than

ever. A person who does not think a paper

like the Journal worth the price of a cheap

cigar or of a glass of beer is below the level

for which a good newspaper is printed, and

should patronize a cheap paper. There is no

paper in the country which, under the seem

ing pressuru of a craze, lowered its price that

has not been compelled to cheapen itself in

every way to lower its character and curtail

its proper salutary influence.

The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce has unanimously adopted a report declaring that the passage of the interstate commerce bill in

its present form "will be productive of incal

cuiaoie injury to Cincinnati ana every in

terior point in the West by the provision

known as the short and long-haul clause,"

that , this provision should therefore be en

Uiely stricken from the bill, aad the bill itself

Ik an alleged report of the proceedings of the

Republican legislative caucus on Monday night,

the Sentinel says:

"There was a long discussion and wrangle

over the temperance question. A great reluct

ance to take up the matter for legislation was manifest, a prominent member of the recently-

elected State ticket remarking tbat he believed

in taking up the temperance question just as

he bad taken it up in bis canvass on the wbisky

side. "

There is not the shadow of a shade of truth in

this statement No such remark was made, and no "member of the recently-elected State

ticket" uttered a syllable on the question.

Secretary Lamar has placed himself in a

vory embarrassing position. He allowed the

newspaper boys at Washington to understand

that he was going down to Mobile to marry a

wealthy widow and former sweetheart, though he was careful enough not to name the exact date of the event He went to Mobile, and is still hanging about there, but doesn't get mar

ried; and reports from that city indicate that there is no prospect that such an affair will occur soon. Mr. Lamar evidently reckoned without his widow, which is a bad thing for even a Cabinet officer to do.

This grave and monument of Oliver Goldsmith, in London, are in a condition of sad neglect Mmk. Ristori is visiting Paris with her daugfc ter Bianca, but will cot again appear on the stage in that city, though strongly invited to do so. Francis Murphy, when recently asked hit opinion about legislation against the liquot traffic said: "If legislation would save peoplf

Moses would have been the Christ" Ocb Quaker poet, Whittier, is said to bars lately finished a rather long poem of historical . interest which will be given to the public wiff a uew edition of his works revised by himself. Thkbk was an old woman of Gloucester, Whose husband invariably boucest her. One time she got mad And she told him she had A"good mind to skip, and be loucest her. " Tid-Biti. , More than one thousand congratulatory letters were sent to Mr. Gladstone on the seventy seventh anniversary of his birth, and the mails were overburdened with tritta of everv descrin-

tion from admirers in England, Ireland and Scotland. Frank R. Stockton, whose delightfully unique stories have given him fame, is a tall, slender man with a look of judicial solemnity. His wife, on the contrary, who is slightly gray and comfortably rounded, looks a woman whs thoroughly enjoys fun and who finds plenty of it in life. Mb. Hart, the publisher of Gen. Logan's book, "The Great Conspiracy," says that Mrs.j Logan's share ot the profits in the book will run somewhere from $30,000 to $30,000. It is expected that ' death of Gen. Logan will reawaken public iw .erest in this work, which was peculiarly his own. - Mrs. Miller, of Washington, is the apostle

of a new dispensation in the way of woman's dress. Her is waists instead ot corsets, layers of unr sthing fitted smoothly to the body, and the wers to match the crown, a sort of adaptation of Lady Habberton's "divided skirt," with slight differences. General Boulangeh, recently got into a perfectly awful state of mind at the. discovery that steel pens manufactured' in perfidious Albion were being used by the students in the military schools of France. He decreed at ones that only pens of French make should be used, under eeverest penalties. A man whose name would have been good on a check for $2,000,000 not long ago, spent two hours in the back office of a Wall-street broker one day last week waiting to get the

cbance to borrow $10 from one who usd to b

his clerk. Speculation had brought him povert;

and made the clerk a millionaire, all within year or two. The man who framed the original legal-tender act is Btill living. His name is E. G. Spauldiog, of Buffalo. He is nearly eighty years of age. At the breaking out of the war he was a leading member of the lower House of Congress. His famous bill, known as the legal-tender act, was slightly altered before its Introduction by Secretary Chase and Mr. Lincoln. ' The original bin is now in the possession of its author. Mf. Spanlding is a bank president, and is worth $10,000.000. A writer in the San Francisco Chronicle tells of a glass road-bed in the Yellowstone Park. In a certain part of the park volcanic glass, or ob

sidian, abounds, and to make a carriageway fires were built along the proposed route, and then when cold water was dashed upon the heated surface, t hus cooling it suddenly, the glass broke into fragments, which were easily removed, until thus a road was formed. The correspondent writes that the glass oozes from tho ..: . a

11 11- m I kH l' M in film m ir-waa it ik u i tti nw r. ninrr .

auite ooanue. and tbe eases of it. when chinned --.

on ai a proper angle, are as snarp as razors, ui it the Indians fashioned arrow heads, weapons and tools. Sardou, when he gets a play into his mind, moves out to his country residence, and neither sees nor speaks to anybody until he is through with it Attached to his chateau there is a library, which opens 90 one side into the hall, and on the other into the erarden. If he grows tired of writing he strolls out into the garden, and nobody in the house knows whether he is at work or not The only person allowed to enter the library is a waiting-maid, who brings Sardou his meals and places his letters on the table, all without saying a word. He writes almost continuously from 7 at night, and his penmanship looks as though it were executed with the point of a needle. A well at Yakutsk, in Siberia, has been a

standing puzzle to scientists for many vears.

It was begun in 1828, but given up at thirty feet because it was still in frozen earth. Then the Russjan Academy of Sciences continued for some months tbe work of deepening the well, but stopped when it had reached to the extent of som e three hundred and eighty-two feet, when the ground was still frozen as bard as a rock. In 1844 the academy bad tbe temperature of tbe excavation carefully taken at various depths.

and from the data thus obtained the ground was estimated to be frozen to a depth of six hundred and twelve feet As external cold could not freeze the earth to such a depth, even in, Siberia, geologists have concluded that the well has penetrated a frozen formation of the glacial period wbicb has never thawed out

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The Crawfordsville Journal says: "Miss Anna Nicholas will be a candidate be

fore the coming Legislature for the office of State Librarian Miss Nicholas has had large

experience in public affairs, having- been editorially connected with the Indianapolis Journal

for the last five years, and for four years was

deputy clerk or the supreme Court She is a lady of rare accomplishments and superior qual

ifications, and will discharge the duties of tbe

office in a most acceptable manner. The Journal

will be gratified to see her elected." At Richmond, Va., the baggage of some lady

members of the National Ideal Opera Company

was searched to see if any property belonging to

the company was secreted therein. Those Richmond people always were in favor of State's rights, and might have been expected to rate the National Ideal very low. In an allusion to the death of Bishop Potter, Rev. Morgan Dix eaid: "He was somewhat austere, as becomes an overseer of God's heritage. " After looking at the dictionary, werecall the fact that there was once "an overseer of God'B heritage" who said, "I am meek and lowly of heart" Don't condole with members of the General Assembly because they are so besieged by persistent and innumerable office-seekers. Sympathy in that direction is wasted. They like to be besieged, and wish there were more candidates. m Miss Annie Whitney's statue of Lief Ericsson is to be placed at the main entrance of the new Back Bay Park, Boston. It is pronounced by competent critics one of the best pieces of ideal work ever made in this country. To the Ed'tor of the lnJtnapolU Journal: To fettle a dispute, please answer the follow

ing: If 1 was born on Jan. 1, 1820. how old

would I be on Jan. 1. 1837

Farmland, Jan. 2. " Sixty-seven years.

Patron.

Fourth of July orators may find a new illustration of the extent of this great aad glorious country by the fact that ou New Year's morning there wm a U2ercace Qt over one hundred Ue-

COMMEXT AND OPINION. Mr. Henry George, in his opposition to the proposed income tax, shows a studious desire to guard the interests of the richest class at all hazards. St Louis Post-Dispatch. The arrogance of the liquor interest in Indiana 1 has made almost certain a high-license law, if the Legislature has time to attend to it after settling the senatorial question. Philadelphia Press. In the British Cabinet difficulty all eyes are turning aeain to Gladstone. It does not speak well for John Bull that, in all his dominion, he he has but one successful Cabinet-maker. Philadelphia Inquirer. A uniform divorce law throughout the whole country is a conceded necessity. And the duty of taking the necessary steps to that end is still another that the present Congress ought to perform. Detroit Tribune. President Cleveland has caught a glimpse of the large and luminous fact that there will be no mugwumps iu the next Democratic nominating convention. In practice his civil-service i policy will be regulated by this discovery. Milwaukee Sentinel. A Bridgeport woman has complained to the

l0iiP AclJ bfj Solvation Army husband was making Tito miserable around home by too much praying and singing, and assaults upon her and the children because they do not coincide with hi3 peculiar methods. Waterbury American. Persons who have got together a few hundred or a few thoneand dollars by hard work and patient savine should be very careful about letting it out of their reach without knowing all about who is getting it, and what is to be done with it . by those who are endeavoring to get it. New York Times. It is said that when a cigar-maker gots right malicious, and desires to do his employer great damage, he gets to work on tbe best brand and then puts a single hair from his head ic each cigar. This trick is exceedingly difficult to detect, and will destroy the flavor of every cicar it is applied to, with a far-reaching injury to the reputation of the brand. Tobacco. The people of this country demonstrated dur ing the first forty yearsf ihe Union that a par tisan possession and use of the offices is not essential to party government In England and France the same demonstration has gone on for years. An while it may be true that "no parties, no republic," it is not true that "uo offices, "no parties." Give ideas, principles and policies f chance. New York World,