Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1887 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAI FHIDAY. JANUABY 7, 1887.

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FRIDAY. JANUARY 7. 1887. ' " 17ASII1KOTON OFFICII 513 Fourteenth St. I S. Heath. Correspondent. ' . - THE IMJLVNAI'OUS JOURNAL Can be found at the followm? places: LOM"OX American Exchange in Europe, ' 449 Strand. TARIS Americau Exchange iu Pahs, 'J5 Boulevard dos Capucwes. NEW YORK Gedney IIou.e and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO-Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. T. Hawley & Co., 151 Vine street. LOriSVILLK-C. T. Dearing, Third and Jefferson streets. northwest corner BT. 'LOUIS Union News and Southern Hotel. Company, Union Depot WASHINGTON, D. House. C-Rigss House and Ebbitt Telephone Calls. . Business O 'rice. .....23S Editorial Rooms.... --.242 Xlembertof the General A emb! wanting the Journal during the regular f union rhoiild leave their nbcriptiOnx, yith dilation auto where they desire to receive the paper. at the Journal Couiiting-ronui. Trtr duumnr'a message will be delivered this morning at half past 10 o clock. Will the neonle be content to have their 4 fc right of self-government stolen from them? The doors of the Senate chamber were yesterday guarded by Metropolitan police men. .WriEX a burglar breaks into your house you So not take down the Bible, read a chapter, and have family prapers with him. A RESOLUTION spread upon the records of the Senate, yesterday, refers to "Honorable" Alonzo G. Smith. Heaven save the mark! About one more general election in the State will settle the Democracy for good and all. The people onlv want another whack at them. It would have been quite as proper to have read prayers at a bear bait or in a rat pit as in the Senate yesterday, at a time when Green Smith was dancing upon the law in the mantier of o Comanche clown. TllL Democratic party in Indiana is laying up wrath against the day of wrath. The peo ple have been long suffering and slow to auger, but they are more than tired of the rascally doings of the Democracy. Ip John C. Nelson had been elected Lieu tenant-governor last November does anybody suppose Green Smith would have disputed his claim to the office? Of course not, nor would any other Democrat. Smith's claim is an afterthought Attorney-gexeeal Garland is going to retire and live a secluded lite, lhere is no need of haste, however, in sending congratu latory messages to the President. Mr. Gar land will retiro at the close of his present term of office so he says. TlIE talk about taking the lieutenant-gov ernorship question to the courts is folly. When a burglar breaks into your house and steals your property, he would be quite willing to make up an agreed case and submit it to the courts. The first dutv is to throw the thief neck and crop out of the house. THERE is not an houest Democrat in the State but will suv that the organization of tne fctenate vostoruav was illegal ana revolutionaiy. Yet every Democrat in the body participated in it, and all the Democrats on the floor and in the galleries applauded tho antics of the Jennings county buffoon. Auditor Rice has borne a high reputation ... , . ,. . j. , . at V careful, law abiding, efiicent officer; but his action yesterday wn3 utterly without war rant of law, and he suffered himself, foa supposed party necessity or advantage, to flagrantly violate the letter and spirit of the statute governing the organization of the State Senate, TnE House spent some time yesterday in determining the method of how their daily prayers should be conducted. This is an important matter. But the scriptural injunction is to "watch and pray." Watching comes first, and with such an unscrupulous and revolutionary enemy as the Democracy in front of them, the primal importance of watching is Intensified. But there should be praying as well. TlIE London alderman lying in tho hospital with a broken leg said he did not mind the fractura so much, but the idea of being run over by a night-cart hurt him. This faintly expresses the feeling of tho Republican Senators yesterday. They did not mind the fact of the organization of the body, for they expected that; but tho insolent, brutal, clownish manner of the chief tool of the political burglars and office-stealers was unbearable. Yesterday's brutality on the part of the Democratic majority in the Senate was entirely unnecessary. If the Senate had been organized lawfully by the Auditor of State, the Democrats could have elected Mr. Smith the presiding of3cer by regular ballot, as they finally concluded to do by resolution. This display of brute force was useless, but it was probably unavoidable; for tho Democratic tnajotity, wa presume, are built that way. Congressman Farquiiar, of New York, opposes thj eonf.rmation of Public Printer Benedict on the ground that he is disqualified for the posft!on by reason of not being a jkiZsd workman, as required by the statute.

Mr. Parquhar argued before the Senate com-

the average wages in a composing room he coul J . not be considered a practical printer. The only way by which- this, matter can be properly settled is for Mr. Benedict to test it by setting type in the "presence of " Senators. He might hire himself for a week to work on the Congressional Record, " and, for convemence, nave ins ' case moved into the committee-room. Civil-service examinations of this sort would certainly be practical, if the Public Printer is not. . " YESTEBDAY'S OUTBAQE. " " ; r' The opening and dedication of the new State-house yesterday witnessed an act of usurpation on the part of the Democrats which ought to consign the chief actors in it to the State prison., It is' not an auspicious omen that the beautiful structure erected by the people for the use of the State government should have been desecrated 'on the first day of its occupancy by a lawless and revolutionary proceeding, utterly at variance t with con stitutional government. Some persons may have honed that the old order of things had passed away, and that the surroundings of the new Senate chamber would have a civilizing influence on the Democracy, inclining them to legal and constitutional methods, a recog nition of law and order, and submission to the will of the people. If there were any such; they were doomed to disappointment. The Ethiopian has not changed his skin nor the leopard his spots. The Indiana Democracy are the same as ever the same unscrupulous, corrupt, law-defying, revolutionary party. Mr. A. Green Smith, the claimant, showed himself the willing tool of a corrupt gang in the performance of an act at once rascally and revolutionary, and those who aiJed and abetted hira in the lawless proceeding demonstrated their readiness to share his disgrace. Indi vidually and collectively, one and all, they stand before the people and the State a gang of political burglars and constitutional safeblowers, ravishers of the law and polluters of public morals. Men have been sent to prison for casting a single illegal vote or stealing a few paltry dollars; these political highwaymen have violated the suffrages of an entire State, and taken another step in the plot to steal the second highest office under it3 Constitution. In thi3 scoundrelism v Mr. Alonzo Green Smith, Democratic Senator from the counties of Jackson and Jennings, showed himself a willing leader. It cannot be said in the words of Byron: "He was the mildest-mannered man that ever scuttled ship or cut a throat,"' for there was nothing mild-mannered about him; he had the action and manners of a man who was set to do a piece of political burglary while his pals kept watch, and who did not propose to be balked in the job. Mr. Smith had no more right to call the Senate to order or preside in its organization than had any other member of the body in other words, no right at all. Ho was neither Lieutenantgovernor nor President of the Senate, and in assuming to be either he became simply a usurper. Mr. State Auditor Rice played into Smith's haui3 by surrendering o him the duty which the law, iu express terms, devolves upon the State Auditor the duty, iu the absence of the Lieutenant-governor, of presiding at the organization of the Senate. And the other members of the gang stood guard and voted on every point to sustain their leader. It was in vain that Republican Senators attempted to protest, raise points of order, questions of privilege, etc. The usurper in the chair either refused to recognize them or pounded them down with his gavel, and the outrage proceeded step by step to its consummation. The result is a temporary triumph for the T)flmAni"f ? 4Vlirre f n r TP 4-L T?n I . pnoncaas Know inmr ritmis, ana Knowing 1 A -, i , t T Tdare maintain, Colonel Robertson, Lieutenant-governor-elect by the people, will at the proper time take, hold and occupy the chair. Such a proceeding as that of yesterday, though seemingly a victory for the Democracy, is worse than a defeat. It is an added outrage and crime to tho long list piled up against them, and which is already greater than they will find themselves able to carry. fiEVOLUTION AND BEVOLUTIONISTS. No civilized community ever witnessed so disgraceful a proceeding as yesterday's revolutionary episode in the State Senate. In Mexico, or in some half-civilized state, such a coup de force might have been expected, and it might have been looked for to come in some such brutal and indecent manner. But nowhere where civilization has risen above that of the low-browed races could the scene have been paralleled. No otbu people but a body of Indiana Democrats could or would have perpetrated it. It was the work of men who are the fit colleagues and successors, if not them selves actual participants with them, of those who schemed and plotted in midnight lodges of Sons of Liberty and Knights ofthe Golden Circle, to overthrow the governmentjwho murdered enrolling officers, shot down federal soldiers engaged in high patriotic duty; who plotted to release rebel prisoners at Camp Morton, to assassinate the Governor of the State, to burn the houses of loyal men in Indianapolis, and to turn the State of Indiana over to the Southern Confederacy. Tho men who plotted the infamous gerrymander, whereby the people were to be disfranchised, were the men who plotted treason to the State and national governments, and who proposed to make Indiana a member of Jeff Davis's Southern Confederacy. The meu who plotted the revolutionary action in yesterday's Senate were the men who, in midnight ca,Hl, plotted to overturn the federal government, and to put the State of Indiana

under the flag ' of armed treason, . Some of

those who have been "damned to everlasting ' fame" by reason of their treasonable conduct in other years were present yesterday, and applauded the revolutionary performances of theirsuccessors with all the vehement glee that an arch-traitor might properly feel over the apt achievements of younger pupils in his school of infamy. " ' ; ; " Of course the man Green Smith had no ... . possible color of right to assume the chair and call the Senate to ' order. If he had been legally elected President pro tem. at the session of ,. 18&3 which he was not, as tne : journal,, of , the body clearly showshis office -could , not and did not continue. That the Democratic conspirators themselves knew that his claim was baseless and ' impudent, r wa3 shown by, the official attendance of the Auditor of State, who, by law, has no connection with the organization of the Senate, save to preside at the same when there is no presiding officer in existence, by reason of the absence of the Lieutenant-governor. The Lieutenant-governor, whose official term may extend over two terms of the Senate, is the only officer whose presidency continues; the title of any and every President pro tem.,( whenever elected, must, of necessity, be eitinguished at the close of the session. This is too plain a proposition for argument. It wasconeurred in and followed by Senator Yiehe, an honorable Democrat and good lawyer, in "the session of 1879, and was accepted and concurred in by all the Democrats in the Senate at that session. The claim of Green Smith is utterly without warrant of law or precedent, but is in violation of both, and is merely an incident in the revolutionary programme of the Democratic gang, whereby it is proposed to vitiate the late election, and to arbitrarily set at defiance the will of the people. Not only was this revolutionary claim put for ward yesterday, but it was asserted in the most insolent and brutal manner. Mr. Smith displayed the coarseness of a cowherd, as his brutality toward Senators was certainly the ignorant force of a conscious coward. No honorable, self-respecting man could, for a moment, consent to descend to the level he occupied with such indecent gusto and clownishness. It is well that the episode occurred just as it did, in manner and substance. Had the usurpation been committed to the hands of a man with even the veneering of gentlemanliness, it might have commended itself to some. But as it is, the revolutionary pro ceeding will go to the people with the added infamy of the coarseness and buffoonery of the Jennings county What-is-it. The people of the State will be aroused. They must and will see what the Democratic -rapists propose. Not only Senators, but Bern ocratic leaders of hitherto fair standing, chuckled in the lobbies as the disgracefu scene was being carried forward, and joined in loud applause at its consummation. But there is a court more powerful than a senatorial majority presided over by "jf-ullv drunken with the lust of power. The people read and the people think; people make up their miuds, and the people act There comes a time when such plottings and plotters as those of yesterday ringleaders, tools, puppets and clowns, one andall fall between tho upper and nether millstones and are ground to powder. SHEBMAN AND LOGAN. General Sherman has given out for publication a correspondence which occurred between him and General Logan in February, 1883, and which clears up some points in their personal relations. At a banquet given to Gei. Sherman on the 8th of that month in Washington, in anticipation of his retirement from the active command of the army, General Logan" responded to the toast of "The Volunteer Soldier." In his remarks he paid an eloquent tribute to Sherman, and spoke of him in terms not only of the highest admira tion, but of the warmest affection. Sherman wa3 touched by the tribute, and a few days afterward wrcte a long letter to Logan, in which, after thanking him for his speech at the banquet, he referred to a passage in his (Sherman's) memoirs, in which he gave the reasons for recommending General Howard as commander of the Army of the Tennessee, when, by the ordinary rules of the service, the choice should have fallen on Logan. Tho passage was always construed by General Logan and his friends as unjust to him, and placing him in the light of "a political general." The substance of General Sherman's explanation is that "it did trouble me to have my corps commanders serving two distinct causes, one military and the other civil, and this did influence me when I was forced to make choice of an army commander to succeed McPherson. This is all I record in my memoirs; it was so, and I cannot a.Jeud them." But he warmly disclaims any idea of disparaging Logan as a soldier. He says: "Throughout the war I know of no single man's career more complete than yours;" and again, "If you will point out to me a page or line where I can better portray your fighting qualities, your personal courage and magnificent example in actual combat, I will be most happy to add to or correct the 'Memoirs.'" Concluding, General Sherman said: "My course is run, ar..' for better or worse I cannot amend it, but it ever in your future you want a witness to your intense Zealand patriotism, your heroic personal qualities, you may safely call on me as long as I live. I surely have watched with pride and interest your career in the United States Senate, and wiil be your advocate if you aim at higher honors." General Logan's reply to this letter was couched in very friendly and gentle terms.

In it he explained his connection with politics during the war as follows:

'I refused a nomination in my own State for a very high position for the reason that I would not have anything , to do with parties while the war should last In 18G3, when I went home to canvass in Illinois, and to help in Ohio. General Grant was fully advised, and knows that, although I had to make applica tion lor leave of aosence, I did not do it of my own volition, but at the request of those high in authority. So, when I left on leave, after the Atlanta campaign, to canvass for Mr. Lincoln, I did it at the special and private re quest of the then President. This 1 kept to myself, and have never made it public, nor do I propose to do so now, but feel that I may in confidence say this to you, that you may see what prompted my action in the premises. 1 have borne, for' this reason, whatever I may have suffered by way of criticism, rather than turn criticism on the dead." This closed the correspondence, which, in temper and tone, was highly honorable to both parties. In conclusion General Sherman says: "I now, with reverence for his memory, admiration for his heroism in battie, and love for the man, hereby ratify and confirm every word of his letter of Feb. 18, 1883." He adds that after this corre spondence they maintained the warmest friendship until General Logan's death, and that for himself he had "always expressed a wish that Logan, the strongest type of the volunteer soldier, might become the President of the United States." WHI8KY DID IT. Whenever a railroad accident like that on the Baltimore & Ohio occurs, the rress of the country bewails the fact that the heating apparatus of trains is not better arranged, and calls for inventors to devise schemes whereby cars can be prevented from telescoping. The machinery of railroads is far from being per fect, and improvements in many of the me chanical appliances of trains are highly desirable; but the disaster near Tiffin waa not the result of defective brakes, or broken rails, or improper management of the cars containing the passengers who were killed. The lesson taught by this calamity is not one in mechanism, but in temperance, Accounts agree in saying that the engineer of the freight train wa3 intoxicated. This man is directly re sponsible for the horrible deaths of an un known number of people. Almost as guilty are the managers of the road who permit drinking men to remain in their employ, There is a growing sentiment among all classes of business men against retaining employes who are addicted to dissipation, and many refuse to do so on the ground that it is un profitable. When, as in the case of railway business, such men are a cause of danger to travelers their retention is positively criminal. A few roads have taken a firm stand against employing workmen who drink whisky, and it is time that all took the same grouud. If Green Smith had the legal right to cal the Senate to order yesterday, then Auditor Rice had no business there. Section 4961 of the Revised Statutes says; "In the absence of the Lieutenant-governor, the Auditor of State shall preside at the organization of' the Senate." Hrom one end of the Revised Statutes to the other the only possible connection the Auditor of State is given officially with the organization of the Senate is to "preside" in a certain contingency. Was such contingency present yesterday? If so, then Auditor of State Rice abandoned a duty imposed upon him by law. If the contingency was not present, then Auditor of State Rice had no official connection with the organization whatever, and his presence was an impertinent and unwarrantable intrusion. The chief burglar continually alluded to his voluntary artful dodger as "The Auditor, ' recognizing him officially. The action of the Auditor, as that of the clown and bully in the chair, was absolutely illegal, anda revolutionary usurpation. One of the most shameful incidents in connection with yesterday's revolutionary proceedings in the Senate was to introduce the holy offices of religion at a time when the effect was to trample upon the legal rights of men who were endeavoring to assert them against brute force. To ask prayer at such a time and under such circumstances was a blasphemous prostitution of worship. We cannot think for a moment that Bishop Knickerbacker would have consented to the role he enacted had he been acquainted with the facts.. Says the National Republican, in a moment of enthusiasm roused byreading EditorGrady's speech: "In the 'new South' one voter has as much influence in national affairs as two voters in the old-fogy North. That's progress. " If this is the case, it is an immense reform upon the old South of last year. In South Carolina, for instance, one vote counted for at least seven hundred of the honest ballots in the "old-fogy North.". The new South can't come upon the stage any too soon. Newspaper readers will perhaps recall the name of Mrs. James Brown Potter as one which has occasionally appeared in the columns of enterprising and wide-awake journals, not to say "Journals." The absence of any allusion to Mr. James Brown Potter gave rise to some comment, and doubt was expressed as .to whether he was not a male Mrs. Harris. The gentleman has been run down, however, by an affile reporter, ana appeared to mat individual arrayed in a marvelous costume, consisting of a red peaked cap, a blouse with short skirts, made out of red blanket, and 'big trouserU'-ons,' as baby called them, but which, to my untutored eyes, resem bled gigantic pantalettes, made out of blue blanketing, without lace at the bottom, and huge Indian moccasins. I could not help addressing him as 'What is itf and Fixman coming up just then, asked him where his cave was, and if he could get any trouserloons of the same kind there," It might be supposed from this that

Mr. Potter was a Comanche, or a Dipger, or a

dime-museum attraction, but such was not the casft. He was merely a tobogganer in costume, and was enjoying himself with other swells at Tuxedo, the winter resort of New York dudedom. The public, with this picture before them. will no longer wonder that Mrs. J. B. P. wants to go on the stage, where life is less spectacular. The Evansville Courier, at the close of a long article replying to the Sentinel's attack upon the Supreme Court, says: "Nothing is more certain than that the Demo crats will lose the Senator if the Sentinel's crazy counsel is followed. The contest about to be en tered upon is one in which the Democrats must employ skill, adroitness, address, sagacity, and, in tie last resort, cool audacity. If the Democratic members of the Senate and House go into the fight hot-headed and raving over grievances, real and imaginary, with frothing mouths and bullying threats, they will be beaten out of sight, and ought to be beaten, first, for losing their wits along with their temper, and second, for the silly assumption that iDdiana Ket.abhcans are any less courageous than Indiana Democrats. The Sentinel's advice, if followed, will not only bring sure defeat to the Democrats, but anord sufficient justification for the accomplishment of any retaliatory wrong the Republicans may have in contemplation. "The onlv power that either party has to fear in this case is public opinion. e go so far as to say tnat it is more desirable, from every point of view, to come out of this contest minus a Senator, with tha approval of the public con science, than to capture the senator at the sac rifice of popular approval. What the Democrat ic and Republican masses demand is, that the contest shall proceed decorously, and be decided justly, and anv plana or schemes of the 'politi cal managers' of either party requiring the violation of law, or the arbitrary exercise of power, that may be carried out, will result in the over whelming and deserved defeat at the next state election of the party in whose interest they were employed. ' "It is time for the rowdy and blackguard elements of both parties to step to the rear, where they would hurry fast enough if serious trouble should come. "Qentlemen and men of honor, to the front!" A Washington special to the Memphis Ava lanche says: ' The Indiana senatorial fight, which is watched here with considerable interest, seems to be growing very hot The possible result seems to hinge upon the eligibility of an ex-Tennessee voter, by name McKay. He voted for the can didate for the Representative to the Legislature in Shelby ville, Tenn., in 1884, although he insisted that he was not a citizen and had no right to do so, but by persuasion be cast the vote for personal reasons. On these grounds the Demo crats have attempted to prove his ineligibility to be the Representative of that State; but the evidence shows that while he cast this vote, which was accepted by the election officers, he did it under protest that he was a citizen of Indiana, and had no right to vote there." A Georgia college girl walked out upon the stage at an entertainment the other evening for the purpose of delivering a recitation, and al though she could see clearly and was apparently in good health, she stopped, put her hands to her eyes and was led away totally blind. No particulars are given as to the character of the recita tion the young woman meant to give, but there is reason to believe that it was either "Curfew Must Not Ring To-night" or "liineen on the Rhine." Only a visitation of Providence can suppress these elocutionary chestnuts. A young woman in Chicago has notified the public that she will eat two quails a day for thirty consecutive days on a wager of $3,000. She does not propose to put up any money her self, but will put up her mouth against that sum. If she should succeed in demonstrating that a woman can eat twice as many quails as a man in a given time, 6he will deserve the gratitude of her sex for discovering a new avenue of employment for women. Speaking of chicken shows, farmers' clubs in New York are uniting in an effort to have eggs i sold by weight instead of by count. The argu ment Is that the weight varies greatly, and that breeders have no incentive to raise the breeds of fowls which fcupply the heavy eggs, while smaller ones of poorer quality sell for the same price per dozen. It used to be said that "eggs is eggs," but now it -appears that one egg may be as good as two. A report on the system or cold-wave warn ings has just been made by the officer who con ducts that branch of the weather service at Washington. One of his conclusions is that cold waves are most numerous and most severe in the winter months. That is the general opininion in non-scientfic circles out this way. It is a "dead give-away" for those newspaper writers who are rejoicing over the prospect that the Andover theological controversy will be set tled so as to allow a second probation. These gentlemen can hardly forget that by the doc trine in question the second chance is afforded only to the most benighted heathen. Only one thing more is necessary to give Mrs. James Brown Potter a national reputation. Let her prove her authorship of "Oh, the s w, the b-t f 1 8 w." ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mr Labouchere says that Princess Beatrice's baby "is no more a prince than any little brat in the street. Pope Leo XIII has appointed Mgr. Racine, Bishop of Sberbrooke, Canada, as assistant at the pontifical throne. which he is to build near Cresson, Pa., will be simply a stone bouse with modern conveniences. Somebody has discovered that Oliver Gold smith's grave and monument are in a sad state of neglect. His fame, however, is very well pre 6ervea. William H. Rideinq, the editor of the Youth's Companion, is to be married to the daughter of E. C. Backus, financial editor of the Boston Iierald. The late John S. Newberry, of Detroit, re cently gave $10,000 to the Detroit Art Museum, and, with Jame3 McMillan. $100,000 for the 03 tablishment of a free homeopathic lioipltaL "I wish," said Col. Robert G. Ingereoll, "that somebody would invent a telephone over which you could administer a kick to a man. There ion In such an instruwould be great satisfaction ment General Sherman says that, from a military point of view, the sipgo and capture of Vickabure were probably of more importance than the battle of Gettysburg. This is contrary to general opinion on the subject MR3. George Sage, of Harlan, la, is reported to have traveled 14,000 miles in pursuit of her husband, who last fall ran off with the hired girl. She doesn't care oartienlarly for the man. but she has nothing else to do and is foad of travel. Mere accident has brought to light at Ratisbon a statue of a woman which is said to be in almost every dets.il a replica of the Venus de Medici in the Tribune of the Uffizi at Florence. It is of Carrara marble, and the head is unfortunately wanting. When the comedian Crane took his little son, Stuart Robson Crane, out for a walk, the other day, in Cincinnati, the youngster led the way to an apple stand near the hotel, and introduced Mr. Crane to the proprietor by saying: "Mister, zis is a father of mine." A Boston lady who sent a bouquet of beautiful roses to Dr. Holmes on Christmas received from him this characteristic note: "Many

thanks, dear Mrs. P for the beautiful roses; and if the cardens were as foil of flowers as youe

heart is of kind feelings, they would leave no room for sidewalks." v At the recent White House reception Senator Pugh, of Alabama, was accompanied by about twenty-five youngladies, evidently students from some local seminary. As the Senator entered the Bine Koom the u?her, in a loud voice, an nounced "Senator Pugh and family." At the recent White nouse reception Senator Pugh, of Alabama, was accompanied by about twenty-five young ladies, evidently students from soma l-cal seminary. As the Senator entered the Blue Room the usher, in a loud voice, announced "Senator Pugh and family." A statistical correspondent says that there are in an Francisco uuu unmarried young women each of whom is an heiress in her own rieht to the tune of $500,000. The advice, "Yonngroan, go West" would appear to be particularly timely under the circumstunces. The diet of a Wilton, N. Y., woman, who has reached the age of 105 years, is peculiar. For breakfast she eats buckwheat cakes, bread, cake and coffee; for dinner, boiled, potatoes, seasoned wth salt, pepper and plenty of vinegar, and a cup of tea; for supper, bread and butter and hard cider. The French daily newspaper is described as invariably a four-page sheet, set up in eoarss and uncomely type, studded with advertisements "displayed" with t.n eve to show, but without thought of symmetry or good taste, and printed with whity-brown ink on paper of good quality but poor appearance. ... It is said that the most beautiful woman ic diplomatic circles in Washington Is Miss Virginia West, the eldest daughter of the British minister. Gossips wonder why she does not marry, as she is by no means 'a bud. One of her sisters. Flora, made her debut two years ago, and the other, Amelia, will. formally enter so ciety at the annual ball at the . legation Wednes day eveninc. - .. The departure of Rev. Dr. Withrow for a new field of labor removes from our midst one of tha foremost of pulpit orators, whose ten years 1 eervice in Boston have added new life to that? stronchold of orthodoxy, Park -street Church, ' known to the irreverent as "Brimstone Corner," ; but loved and revered by thousands as the place ; and the cause of their entering into new and-, larger views of life.

It is very seldom that a United States Senator ? "

has public addresses upon his life and character' delivered in his lifetime, but Senator Morrill, of Vermont, is about to reach that distinction. The address has been prepared by James Barrett, ex-jndge of the Vermont Supreme Court.

and one of the ablest lawyers of the State, at d will be delivered at Rutland, Judge Barrett's , ., home, and elsewhere. T

The Senate of Hamburg has bestowed the honorary freedom of the city upon Mr. Gustav Christian Schwabe, of London, in acknowledgementot his gift of a collection of paintings by English artistp, which is said to have coat him . over 1,000,000 marks. Mr. Schwabe has farther - presented the citv with a sum of 120.000 marks towards the necessary alterations in the KunatA colored girl,"of Elberton, Ga., evidently has exalted ideaB of the value of education. As she could write, she was asked by several of hee friends, who were not so accomplished, to write . the names on presents to be placed upon the Sunday-school Christmas-tree. She improved tire opportunity to write her own name on the most valuable presents, which naturally reMiitod in a great deal of indignation when the presents were distributed. Iben the assembly went uahind the returns, and made a new distribution. M. Dauphin, Minister of Finance in the nsw French Ministry, owes his elevation to the facts that he was a townsman of M. Goblet, a nativs , of Amiens, and that he 6tands six feet six inches in his stockings, an imposing height for a Frenchman, lie marched to power by hit stentorian voice and great size. He was judge. -senator and first president of the Conrt of Amiens, which he bad to resign for his present position in the new Ministry, lie is fifty -eight years old, clean-shaven, with bright eyes, a modest demeanor and pleasant smile, and has an exquisite finesse when talking with women. General Logan's private papers are said to contain more definitely some of his ideas regard ing his cbtrished plan for establishing an institution for the education of the sons of vet erans of the late war. This idea was suggested to him about the time General Grant died, and he had a plan which he intended to present during this session of Congress. Funds wore to be solicited iu two ways for the support of the institution, the first by an assessment of 50 cents on every member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and second by. having scholarships endowed by those who thought well of the project. Gkn. Neal Dow and others have prepared a liquor bill for the Maine Legislature to pass. At present the prohibitory law imposes a fine of $100 and costs for the first offense. They wish to make the penalty one year's imprisonment, with a fine of $500 and costs, for the first offense. "We want to finish 'em at the first clip." says General Dow. The feeling of the prominent Republican members ou this subject was voiced by one of them, who remarked: "It thipk it is cheeky for Dow to ask us for anything after the way he cut up in the latt election." At the same time, the Republicans are afraid of Dow and this element they realize that. COMMENT AND OPINION. v: We fancy that Mr. Harrison will make it unnecessary for the Democratic leaders to settle their disputed claims this year. New York Mail and Express. , -- AMERICAN incenuiiv nnht rerUinlv in La goal to the task of inventing' some method of eating cars which would not put people in con stant danger of being roasted alive. Philadeb phia Press. The only paper in this broad land which approves of every act of the administration i the New York Star, which is edited br a gentleman who was once a quite prominent Republican and an office-holder. Boston Journal. . And is tho tariff of the United States to b horizontally reduced merely because a woniaq wants a new dress at a bargain? If cot, why should Mrs. Morrison urge her husband so per sistently to a new effort for the passage of hit bill? Philadelphia Inquirer. The purpose of civil-service reform is not te keep in office "the enemies of the government, but to keep in office experienced and competent persons, makicc fitness alone the consideratioq in appointments. The service is rendered not to the administration, but to the government Mil waukce Sentinel . There is nothing more natural than that the free-traders thstlili deny that thara is any pros penty in the senln. if there is even any hope of prosperity, under tho present condition of things, tEeir trfeorT (jets a black eve that will last 1' for eTeral Jf ner4i P" C0Utttl7- Atlanta Constitution. If the men who run engines and railroad traius were required to be examined, as steamboat officers are, and none but competent, sober men allowed to hold any position on a railroad, there would be fewer accidenta In these days of strikes and boycotts, ignorant men are given places which, if not properly filled, endanger the lives of hundreds of people. Louisville Commercial. What the laboring class, which has honestly endeavored to better its condition, should do? and do at once, ie plain. It must draw a deadlice and tell these Socialists to stand on one side while it stands on the other. Wage-earners and Socialists do not use the same methods to accomplish their purposes, for the first demand better legislation and the latter demand more dynamite. New York Herald. Not Built In That Way. Michigan City Dispatch. Sammy Perkins is said to be a great martyr. We know Sammy exceedingly well, but ho was never built for a martyr. Doesn't Reach. Boston Transcript. Charity, they say, covers a multitude of sins; bat there is not nearly euoaja cf it to go round

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