Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1887 — Page 4

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THE IKDIAKAPOHiiS JOCTHTALi, THURSDAY, SEPTISAI BE R. 8, 1887.

THE DAILY JOURNAL. . THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1887.

WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. r. S. Heatii, CorresDondenU THE INDIANAPOLIS JO URN Alt vn be found -t the following place LONDON American Exchange in. Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 33 Boulevard des Capueinea. NEW YORK Gelney Ilouse and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street.' LOUISVILLE C. T. Dearlng, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON. D. C-RJggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 233 Editorial Rooms 242 Now we know why the postal service is so demoralized. The department at Washington has been occupied for months past with a controversy over changing the name of Paddy's Run, in Ohio, to Glendower. Evert Republican who ha3 been removed from office during this administration is branded by the President in so many word3 as a faithless public servant. Slander seems to be an essential element in Mr. Cleveland's ' reform policy. If members of the dramatic profession are as superstitious as they are said to be, the tinpropitious opening of the English amusetuent season will add apprehension and discouragement to the feelings of horror experienced by the players over the Exeter Theater fire. ' THE public schools of Cleveland have opened without arithmetics or readers. This interesting state of affairs is due to scheming and counter-scheming by the school board relative to a change of text books. The law ought to provide a way for the summary dismissal of such a board. It has been thought that the Gackwar of Baso, who is about to visit London, might come to occupy that place in the affections of the public once filled by the Ahkoond of Swat, but there is no certainty about this, since the Sirdar of the Jamshedis has been heard from. Popularity is a fickle dame. District Assembly No. 49, of the Knights of Labor in New York, has decided to give moral and financial support to the Chicago Anarchists. This is in direct violation of General Master Workman Powderly's instructions and will probably lead to the cuspension of that assembly. Their action is disgraceful. No surprise is expressed iu any quarter over the stories of disagreements among the "medicine men" assembled at "Washington; in fact, the public accepts the quarrels as a matter of course. A medical gathering without a row on hand would excite as much wondering comment as a harmonious church choir. TnE French newspapers are delighted with the recent mobilization of the army, and unite in saying that if Franca had been as well prepared for war in 1670 as she is now, Germany would have found her match. But in that case, perhaps, Germany would have increased her preparations in the same proportion, THE only female delegate at the medical congress in Washington calls herself "FanBy." This looks like favoritism on the part of the Doctors' Association, to which Fanny Belongs. The male physician who writes himself down as "Jack" or "Charley" or "Joe,'' was unanimously elected by his brethren to stay at home. A STRANGER with any money to invest who contemplates taking up his residence in Indiana, will naturally choose a Republican tounty as his place of abode, after studying the financial condition of theforty counties mentioned in the Journal yesterday. One who comes filled with a desire to do missionary work, cannot find a better field than a Democratic county. ' Eastern pagers are full of interesting information concerning the adventures and crimes of the Russian CountMitkiewicz, who negotiated the Chinese national bank franchise. If a very small part of the charges against him are true, he is a great scoundrel. In view of the disclosures it is not likely the grant will be confirmed until Mitkiewicz is out of the way. Oi' Mr. Samuel Spencer, the new president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, the Baltimore American says: "He is'a hard worker, without any particular brilliancy, but with a cool head and an exhaustless amount of push." Young men with their careers before them would do well to make a note of this. It is not "brilliancy" that wins, but plodding, hard work and steady energv. Sim Coy has determined on a still-hunt campaign in the city election, and has given orders to his lieutenants and henchmen accordingly. The idea is to draw as little attention as possible to the Coy gang. The kind of work they propose to do can be done with very little noise. It will not do for Republicans to underestimate the effectiveness of this kind of. a campaign. Mr. Cleveland says that petitions for the removal of a Republican from office now say nothing about his politics, but merely mention that he is unfit for the position he holds. The President believes that this indicates a great step toward civil-service reform; but if he would state whether or not the politics of the candidate who wants the vacant place is specified in his recommendations, the progress of reform could be more accurately measured. OCR Lafayette exchanges are highly excited over the astonishing bill presented by the county auditor for indexing. In the language of the street, the auditor seems to havo "played it very fine." About a year and a half ago the county commissioners

made a contract with him to index certain records and papers on file in the office, agreeing to pay him five cents per entry. His little bill amounts to $23,498.45. Tippecanoe is a wealthy county, but this' takes people's breath away. Judging from what the papers say, a very large part of the work done was unnecessary and worthless, and the Evening Call says one clerk, at a salary of $1,000 a year, could have done all the work in less than a year. It is plain the commissioners did not know what they were doing when they made the contract, or else they purposely gave the auditor a fat job. The whole business smacks of jobbery and ring rule.

STATISTICSThrough State Statistician Peelle we have received the report of the fifth national convention of the Bureaus of Statistics of Labor, held at Madison, Wis., last June 8 to 10. The report furnishes some interesting information as to the growth of what might be called the statistical idea in this country, or in other words the idea of collecting and tabulating statistics for practical use." New communities and unorganized societies have little use for statistics, and do not possess the machinery or disposition to collect them. Older States realize their importance as furnishing an insight into the inner workings of society, the data for legislation and general information of practical value. The number of statistical bureaus is steadily increasing. The first conventioiLof the kind was held at Columbus, O., in September, 1S83. At that time eleven States had established departments of this character. Each annual convention since that time has had an increased representation, the last one showing twenty State bureaus, an increase of nine in four years, besides the United States bureau. This increase can be attributed to no other cause than the popular demand for correct data on the labor question and a growing appreciation of the importance of such statistics. An interesting feature of the late convention was the brief statements of the different State superintendents as to the main subjects to be discussed in( their forthcoming reports. These reports show ti e practical direction taken by the inquiries now being pressed in different parts of the labor field. Mr. Carroll D. Wright, chief of the Massachusetts bureau, said their report this year would relate to the distribution of wealth and the total time lost by the closing up of industries and the non-employment of labor. In Ohio, the superintendent said the workingmen are turning their atten-1 tion to the arbitration of trade disputes. In New York they will give prominence to the condition of workingwomen and of boy labor, which is a prolific cause of trouble. The Michigan report will treat mainly of the land question; that is, whether the land is occupied by owner or tenant, the amount of land, number of acres improved and unimproved, number of acres owned not mortgaged, its assessed valuation, the number of acres mortgaged and its assessed valuation, the amount of the mortgage indebtedness, the rate of interest paid, etc. The "Wisconsin superin tendent said they would endeavor to show in their next report the profits, peculiarities, drawbacks, moral and physical dangers, and the opportunities for promotion in the leading trades, with a view to discovering which furnishes the most inviting field for young men. In Iowa the principal features will be convict labor and taxation, together with tables of wages, cost of living, etc. The Missouri report will relate to manufactures, transportation and mining, cost of plant, amount of insurance, number of employes, value of product, etc. In Kansas the subject of pauperism in cities and towns will be discussed, and in Minnesota the distribution of wealth. From the variety of these topics, all relating directly to the interests of labor but scarcely less to the interests of society at large, it is evident there is great activity among those who are prosecuting these inquiries and that the information thus obtained will be of great value. These topics relate to the work of only one year, and it is going on from year to year. Some of the papers read at the convention were very interesting and may be referred to hereafter. The following extract from the address of the chairman shows that in this a3 in other fields where the best results are desired, the intrusion of politics i3 deprecated. The chairman said: "I have often pointed out to the members of this convention the dangers which may arise should the bureaus become the objects of political contest; that is, should they be considered by the State governments under which they act as places for ordinary political service. iNotmng can be more detrimental to the permanent uses for which the bureaus have been established. Let it be granted, if you wish, that they have been established in accordance with the demand of labor alone; let it be granted, if you wish, that they have been organized for scientific purposes; or let it be granted that they have been organized that capital may learn all the conditions of labor; what has all this to do with the legiti mate work committed to our charge? it is our bounden duty to see to it that nothing goes to the people that is not absolute truth, so far as it lies in our power to give the truth. In this lies the key-note of the suc cess of the bureaus." The convention selected Indianapolis as it3 next place of meeting. Owing to the fact that theater buildings are too often insufficiently provided with means of exit for a crowd the world has been treated to a succession of horrors within the past few years. It might have been thought that after one such disaster public authorities, if not the owners of the buildings, would see to it that architectural defects were remedied and a repetition of such occurrences made impossible. That this was not the case is shown by the loss of life that almost invariably follows an alarm of fire or other sudden excitement in a crowded theater. That peo ple, under such circumstances, will lose their wits and become panic-stricken is, as experience has shown, a matter of course; but the consequences of their unreasoning and frantic efforts to escape what is often only a fancied danger could not be disastrous if a decent regard for public safety were entertained by the lessees of the houses, and broad stairways and more than one outer doorway provided. The law, in this country at least, requires that such things shall be done, but the enforcement of the law is unfortunately apt to be lax, and it is by no means 6afe to assume that a legal enactment which involves a

heavy cash outlay will be promptly obeyed, even when human life is risked by a failure

to comply. The theater-going public has in its own hands a more direct means of securing provision for its safety than by a dependence upon legislative enactments. A failure to patronize a theater which is not so provided with means of exit that an audience can vacate it iu haste and without danger of suffocation or of being trampled to death would soon bring about the necessary reform. The "pocket nerve" of the amusement purveyor may not respond to the .calls of humanity, but it is sensitive when touched through the box-office. The conscientious interviewer always improves on the language of the person interviewed. Thus the New York "World's interview with the President reports bim as saying concerning civil-service reform: "The fact is I am necessarily the person now to bring this reform about, and is there any better way to secure the accomplishment of the reform than by helping me now to accomplish it if he believes me honest in my purpose? The man who holds the reins is the one to whom those who are interested in a safe termination of the journey must of necessity trust." That reads very well, but probably this is nearer what the President did say: "Now see here, Mr. Smith, I am bossing this business, and the best thing you fellows can do, if you don't like my way, is to let me alone. I'm no fool; now mind what I tell you. The fellow that holds the reins must do the driving, and it ain't safe for passengers to be grabbing at the lines all the time." General Fairchild addressed a Grand Army encampment at Omaha on Tuesday. Speaking of the coming encampment at St. Louis, he said they expected 75,000 Grand Army men to be present, and he hoped no attempt would be made by the citizens of St. Louis to irritate or insult them. "The man who will attempt it is beneath your notice. We will insult no man nor set of men. All we ask of the citizens of St. Louis is that they, one and all, cease from attempting to insult the members of the Grand Army of the Republic." It is said the Democratic tariff-tinkers and revenue reformers at Washington have about agreed on an abolition of the tax on tobacco and fruit-brandy and a general reduction of customs duties. The abolition of the tax on tobacco will be a concession to the producers of the article, as that on fruit-brandy will be to the moonshiners. The tobacco tax yields a large annual revenue, is easily collected and scarcely felt. It ought not to be abolished. The proposed changes in the tariff law are not yet announced. Mr. Cleveland says he cannot understand ''how any man who has served one term as President could have a personal ambition in securing a second term, with all its solemn responsibilities, its harassing duties and its constant and grievous exactions upon his mental and physical strength." He solemnly declares that nothing but a sense of duty could induce him to accept the "office a second term. The man evidently thinks he is holding the country up by the tail. Suppose he should let go ! TnE President expresses himself as grieved and surprised that a paper calling itself Democratic, and professing to favor civil-service reform, would republish comments, some of them from Republican papers, criticising his efforts to establish the reform on a firm basis. The President's idea that the proper method of conducting a newspaper is to print but a small part of the news, is an ancient one, and i3 practiced only by the mugwump press and rabidly Democratic editors in remote country districts. As expedition is being organized in Louisville to explore the interior of central South America. It v ill consist of from twenty-five to fifty men, among; whom will be a mineralogist, a geologist, an engineer and a chemist. The object, says the Commercial, is to explore thoroughly the mineral region, which is so rich in gold, silver and precious stones; secure a grant from the government, and develop the property thus acquired. We incline to the belief that there are sections of Kentucky that it would pay better to develop. The book comm ittee of the M. E. church have elected Dr. George R. Crooks, of Madison, New Jersey, to the position of editor of the Methodist Review, made vacant by the recent death of Dr. Daniel Curry. Dr. Crooks is said to be a graceful, forcible writer, and well fitted for the position. The Review is one of the most influential religious publications in the country. Bob Gakrett does not seem to have been a young Napoleon of finance. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. General Butler thiDks Bacon wrote the plays attributed to Shakspeare. The 70,000 given to Queen Victoria on her jubilee will be devoted to the training of nurses. Mrs. Kate Chase, the ex-wife of Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island, has returned to Paris for the winter. Mary Anderson denies the rumor that she is to become a subject of Queen Victoria. "I shall always be a Blue-grass country girl," she says. Miss Hooper, the daughter of Vice-consul Hooper, of Paris, has been offered an engagement in Mrs. James Brown Potter's American company. Henry Labouchere calls the list of killed and wounded in the recent Burmah campaign the butcher s bill." Uhere were l.UOU dead and 2,500 wounded. Ms. Cornelius Vanderbilt has presented to his Christian Association railway employes a valuable club building and 10,000 books, the gift being worth $1U0,U0U. A friend of Mr. Morosini said the other day that Mrs. Victoria Morosini-Schilling-Hulskamp is cow in a convent in Italy, and will not return until the memory of her escapade shall have grown dim. Nat Goodwin returned from Europe on Sat urday, landing in Boston a little after noon. and being met at the wharf by upwards of sixty friends. "America is good enough for me," he said, whereat the spectators cheered. A new trade for women in Albany is that of a neighborhood darner." The woman who fol lows it has for her customers a dozen or twenty households, each of which she visits weekly, and spends a few hours in doing up the family darn ing aud mending. Andrew Carnegie is said to be greatly in censed at the actions of the Chicago reporter who is dogging Mr. Blaine through Europe and talks mniously of appealing to that court of last resort, the horsewhip, if the reporter turns up at Kilgraston again. , Assemblyman Charles Smith, of New York, is decorating his new saloon in Essex street, ia a most peculiar manner. The floor is covered with small marble blocks. On each slab a hole

has been bored, into which a silver dollar has

been firmly cemented. Seven hundred dollars were required to complete this decoration. Be sides this, the beer pumps, ens-fixtures, etc., are ornamented with silver dollars. General Kilpatrick's widow writes that she is on her way to America with the remains of her husband, and expects to arrive in this country about the middle of the present month. Arrangements will be made tohave them intarred in the family plot in the Clovft Cemetery, near Deckertown, N. J. O. P. Woodford, one of the wealthiest residents of Newton, N. Y., who was formerly a stationer and publisher, ana was the first president of the Young Men's Christian Association in New York City, committed suicide in the first named place on Saturday. He was suffering from softening of the brain. Mb. Nicolay's paper on Jefferson and Monticello, in the September Century, was written after a visit to the statesman's homestead, several years aero, for the entertainment of a literary club in Washington. Since he has been so actively engaged on the life of Lincoln, the writer has not had leisure for historical studies in other directions. S. V. French, the New York city politician, made a queer catch in Montauk Bay the other day. What he hauled up was a long black fish that weighed over four pounds. The peculiarity about it was that its head was flat, and corrugated like the sole of a tennis shoe.. It proved to be a specimen of the "remora." By means of this flat head it dabs itself against the Bide of a shark or other large fish and sticks there, and thus makes its voyages into the deep waters. Dr. Fanny Dickinson, of Chicago, is the first physician of the gentler sex to be admitted as a member of the International Medical Congress, now assembled at Washington. She is a slight, demure little woman, retiring in manner and extremely modest. Her specialty is disease of the eyes. She says that she knows of only two other oculists of her own sex in the country. One is Dr. Sargent, of San Francisco, a daughter of the late Senator Sargent, and the other is a Michigan woman. The discussion of the spirit monopoly has led to the disclosure of the fact that Prince Bis roarck is concerned in distilling on a large scale. He owns distilleries at Varzin, Misdov and Wendisch-Puddiger, the annual output of which is estimated at 600,000 litres. His interest in the monopoly led its projectors to ask him to join the directory, which he declined to do on account of his official position. The Progressists consider the failure of the scheme an indirect check on the economic plans of Prince Bismarck. On Thursday, Sept. 15, the first day of the great celebration to which the whole country is looking forward with interest, the Philadelphia North American will republish as part of its regular editiop a perfect fac-simile of the first printed copy of the Constitution of the United States, reproduced from the issue of that journal of Sept. 19, 1787. This interesting historical document, which was given to the public in this form on the second day after the adjournment of the convention, occupied the whole four pages and comprised the entire contents, without a single word of news, of comment, or of advertising, in the only daily newspaper of that date. Robert Bonner's enthusiasm over the fast time made by Maud S. in a road wagon last week knows no bounds. "I am positive," he says, "that she can trot faster than evf r, though I do not much fancy this continual trotting against her own time. Few people appreciate what a feat she accomplished in carrying me a mile in a road wagon on a three-quarter-mile track in 2:13J. No matter how well the three-quarters of a mile may be laid out, the turns are necessarily bad, and the friction caused in whirling four wheels around them is very great. Yes," he added, with a smile, "she can beat her best record at any time, and she is, without doubt, the easiest animal to drive." Mr. B. P. Hutchinson, the Chicago speculator, best known to contemporary fame as "Old Hutch," is decribed as considerably over six feet tali, rather slender, and wearing no beard nor mustache. His coat is always very long, his collars very, high and terminating just in front of bis ears. He wears a black slouch hat, decidedly out of shape. His face is thin, his nose long, his manner and speech rather bluff, and his capacity for good liquor proverbial. His oyes are bright, and his energy wonderful. No one meeting the old gentleman on the street .Would think he was a speculator, banker and "tnillioDaire, but nearly every stranger in the vi cinity of the Board of Trade terns around to look at him and wonder what that old farmer is doing around the marts of speculation. "Old Hutch" is a bold speculator, however, as many younger men know to their sorrow. Mr. Henry Villard is now fifty-four years old and is believed to be worth a million or more. He is a Bavarian by birth, and his real name is Heinrich Hilgard, although he has long since abandoned it for reasons of his own. Some say he dropped it as soon as hs landed in this country because, after various attempts to procure a situation, he was advised to "try under another name," and others say he did not think it euphonious enough and so discarded it after leaving home. To his personal friends he never mentions the subject, and if otherB are rash enough to question him about it they usually go off with the proverbial flea in their ear. Although a newspaper man in early life, he is now one of the most reticent of Wall street leaders, rivaling the little Wizard himself in the manner in which he forgets to tell his plans. At fiftyfour his health and appetite are good, and he is said to sleep like a conscience-clear boy of twelve. His friends believe in him thoroughly, and they are willing to bet that ten more years will see him in possession of all his former prestige, with considerably more added to it He married a daughter of William Lloyd Garrison in I860. Young Eddie Gould, the second son of the Wall street boss, recently turned his twentyfirst year. If there is any truth in Wall street gossip he turned the $500,000 profit mark about the same time on pointers given him by his father, making $50,000 ou the July "slump" in a single day. In person, he is short, like his father, though more inclined to stoutness, of dark complexion and compact build. He dresses finely but not in "flash" styles, holding to the rule of rich simplicity in general. He has studied pretty hard in the Columbia College School of Mines and is a civil engineer in the bargain. Several months ago Mr. Gould took him intohis office for the purpose of training him, as he has his elder son George. Among the first things he did was to have him made a director in one of the big coal companies, so that he should have a direct and vital interest in his studies. In company with engineers of experience he has inspected the new aqueduct construction very thoroughly and has examined numerous coal and mineral properties with the idea, of course, of becoming practically familiar with such things. Young Gould is a member of one of the New York cauoe clubs and is fond of all athletic snorts. Notwithstanding the daring spirit he has displayed in speculation the young man is timid and reserved in private. A youth took of laudanum an oz.. Because he'l been given the bz, By his prospective wife; But they saved his young life. Though his system received quite a jz. Tid-Bits. COMMENT AND 0PIMI0N. The Grand Army was not brought into being for the purpose of loving its enemies. All its traditions impel it to present a bold front to the foe. New York Tribune. From every public point of view "Labor Day" is objectionable, and one of the first acts of the next Legislature should be the repeal of the ill advised statute under which it was instituted. New York Times. The reimbursement of the Ouray Utes for their stock lost in battle from the surplus of their annuity fund is as original as it is unjust. It is like borrowing money from a man with which to replace bis umbrella which you have taken "by mistake." New York World. No Germans in this republic are obliged to preserve a toreign language in their church schools by any other power than a ridiculous fear that priests will procure their punishment in some future state of existence if they suffer their children to learn and habitually use the language of the country. Chicago Times. If this administration, stubborn and stupid as it has been, believes that the men who fought the battles of the Union can be scared by the taunt of the copperheads or the crack of the party whip, let it try the experiment. Certainly the Republican party will not quarrel with the Democrats over the inevitable result Chicago Inter Ocean. Undoubtedly there are many mugwumps who voted for Cleveland in 1884 who are not just now pointing with pride at that particular event' in their history. Some of them have evidently lost all faith in the President's pretensions in behalf of reform and wonld be very glad to pee him defeated in the next national Democratic convention, lhey dislike very much to confess their mistake and come back into the Republi can party, but some or them win be mamy enough to do so, and will do it, too, without

asking the privilege of dictating the conditions. We refer now to those mugwumps who have been doing the most thinking and the least talking. Detroit Tribune. Therk are not enough offices in America to go round among the hyphenated citizens we have now, without adding English-Americans, Scotch-Americans and Canadian-Americans to the scramble. Let these get naturalized by all means. -But let them become Americans first, and Republicans, Democrats, Prohibitionists, Laborites or Greenbackers, according to individual judgment, afterward. Chicago News. Fifteen thousand people denied the right of peaceably assembling and discussing public questions at Ball vcoree dispersed without disturbance or resistance. And yet it is said the Irish could not be trusted to govern themselves! Never did such a large assemblage of injured people so well govern themselves under such provocations to riot as did the people at Ballyxoree on Sunday. Philadelphia North Ameri-. ' can. Between the Higgins scandal and the shameful violation of the spirit of the civil-service law in the case of George A. Webster, the wounded Union veteran forced to resign by Collector Seeberger, of Chicago, the administration will have to fish or cut. bait in the matter of "reform'' professions. Its pretense of opposition to the 80oils system will be farcical, even in the eyes of the dullest, if the President does not strike soon and strike hard. Cleveland Leader.

All sensible Democrats recognize the importance of bringing the party together on some measure for the reform of the tariff in the next Congress. It is folly to suppose that harmony can be secured without concessions. Democrats differ in their views as to the best methods of tariff reduction. If tbay expect to accomplish anything for the good of the country or the party, they must meet in a spirit of conciliation, with a decent respect for the opinions of each other. Such a spirit would result in tariff legislation which would be satisfactory to ail elements in the party. Atlanta Constitution. For the reason that the federal officials who took advantage of their "vacations" to attend the late Democratic convention at Allentown "fully indorsed" President Cleveland, while they strove with might and main to prevent an indorsement of his policy, the President cannot afford to overlook the violation of bis orders. If he shall do so he will put himself in the position of condoning a disregard of the regulations of the civil service because of the pretense of personal devotion to his administration with which such disregard was accompanied. He cannot afford under such circumstances to overlook disgraceful political manipulation which in any event should not pass unpunished. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Cleveland, having the ambition to be his own successor, has shrewdly considered the situation, and has concluded that he has no further use for the mugmumps. He needed them in 1S84, he will not need them in 188S. He has been compelled to make his choice between them and the leaders and workers of the Democracy, and it is unfavorable to the mugwumps. That is all about it The solemn pledges, written and oral, made to the mugwumps as late as Christmas day. 18S4, have all been broken and flung to the winds; the cant, and sham, and pretense of being a civil service reformer are cast aside, and Mr. Cleveland stands confessed the chief exponent of the old partisan barbarism, "To the victors belong the spoils." Philadelphia Inquirer. SAVING MAXIMILIAN'S 110201?. All Mexico Excited Over the Recent Discussion Concerning: tlte Fall of Qaeretaro. Dallas (Tex.) Special. The sensation created in the City of Mexico, yesterday, by Gen. Escobedo's revelation as to the conduct of Emperor Maximilian in the surrender of the city of Queretaro, has called out the following from Gen. Rodolfo Gunner, High Chamberlain to Emperor Maximilian and commander of his palace: "I am really sick," said the General; "sick to think that one of the grandest men who ever lived should be followed beyond the grave by the treachery which caused his death. The valor and the honor of a Hapsburg have never been doubted from the time that that royal family distinguished themselves as Calon in the Crusades to the present Emperor of Austria, whose generosity and cbivalric nature are proverbial. This is a cowardly conspiracy, concocted by the Liberals to check the rising power of the Clerical party and to ward off a threatened defeat in the coming election. I eau prove that, and will to-day write to a party who will make my proof conclusive. In the nature of the case I do not see bow anybody can believe the infamy. Lopez was a very bad man, without a spark of gratitude in his heart. When unhorsed, with the enemy closing around him, a cavalryman dashed through a hail of bullets and rescued him. In the retreat Lopez murdered bis rescuer to quicken the horse's speed. The Emperor knew that he was a bad man but never suspected him of being a traitor. It is only bad men who suspect treason; and do you imagine that with that knowledge a Hapsburg would trust his honor to such .a manl Never! "The Emperor was asleep when the fort waa turned over to the enemy, and Col. Marques de Rincon, an honorable man, confessed that he found him undressed when he entered his room. It makes me sick to think that this scoundrel, Lopez, having taken the Emperor's life and having in the meantime been abandoned by bia wife, children and friends, should twenty years later try to take his honor." "Is it not true that the Emperor contemplated escape as a last resort?" "Yes, but not by dishonorable methods. Looking to escape, I went to England and pur chased the Duke of Sutherland's steam yacht undine, with which I was to cruise between the West Indies and the coast of Mexico, while the Austrian man-of-war Elizabeth, under command of Captain Groelder, lay at Vera Cruz watching events, She was to notify when and where the Emperor would be ready to embark." tit. Louis Special. A member of the engineer corps of the Mis souri river commission who was with the Em peror Maximilian in Mexico says that the story sent out from the city of Mexico recently, that Maximilian was guilty of treachery to his troops, has not the slightest foundation. "I was a captain in the Austrian army," said he, "wheu Maximilian entered Mexico. A short time afterwards 1 secured leave of absence for six months, and started for Mexico to see what the prospects for the Austrian partv were. I came to the conclusion that they were good, and resigned my position in the Austrian army and accepted a commission on the Emperor's staff as major. Lopez, the Mexican traitor, was at that time commander of the Emperor's guards. During the progress of hostilities I was stationed at the citadel of Pueblo, and was there when the Emperor's army was captured. He was hemmed in at San Queretaro, and the citadal of San Cruz, which commanded the position, was held by Lopez, who saw that capture or death was inevitable, and, knowing that he would be shot if captured, he formulated a plot to betray his friend, the Emperor. He was encouraged by Gen. Diaz, and the result was that he opened the gates and the Mexican arniv was soon in complete possession of the Dlace. The Mexicans captured were shot but Lopez was released, and at this late day a silly attempt is made to exonerate him. The story was current that he received $10,000 in gold. The citadel in which I was sta tioned at Pueolo was betrayed in the same manner. A Mexican and two Europeans conspired and opened the gates and at daybreak one morning we found ourselves in the hands of 6,000 Mexicans. It was treachery and blunders that caused the death of Maximiiian and the defeat of his cause, but the Emperor was never even suspected of any thing dishonorable by his sol diers." A Timely Statement. Denver Republican. ' The Rev. Myron Reed is candid enough to tell the truth about the reports that he is to go to Plymouth pulpit. He says that they were started by his friends on newspapers. If they were judicious friends they would have kept Mr. Reed's name out of their papers in this connection. It would have been time to indorse Mr. Reed's fitness to succeed Beecher after he should have been asked. It. has looked as though Mr. Reed himself were directing the boom, which we who know him are perfectly well aware is not the fact. But others have so regarded it and the Brooklyn Eagle of a recent date commented very unpleasantly upon it It is probably true that Reed would like to succeed Ueecher, out to say that he has attempted to force himseif upon Plymouth congregation is to do him a great in justice. What TUey Love Him For. hiladelchia Tress. The Democrats of Shelby ville, Ind., want to he has see Eugene Higgins for the enemies is what unuo. tuvi - rhey say". Yet there are people mean enough to that thev really want to see him for the appointments he has to make. Iramatlc Troubles. Philadelphia Press. Mrs. James Brown Potter has quarreled with her mauager and John L. Sullivan has quar reled with his. It beats all creation bow much trouble these dramatic folks have in their busi ness affairs. A Potter. IlArrisburg Telegraph. Which would you rather be. Prince Ferdi nand, of Bulgaria, or a base ball umpire?

WILDER'S FAMOUS BRIGADE

The Veterans Capture GrecDcastle and Are Now in Undisputed Possession. Auspicious Beginning of a Reunion That Promises to Swell to Proportions Greater thaa Those of Any Former Meeting:. Special to the Indianapolis JournsX .Greencastle, Ind., Sept 7. Wilder and his famous brigade have captured Greencastle. The stars and stripes float from every spire, and the majority of the business houses and dwellings of this city are gayly decorated iu honor of the fact that Greencastle is occupied by one of the bravest and most famous brigades that helped stamp treason and slavery from out this free country. Members of the brigade and other visitors began arriving yesterday, and by evening the hotels were filled". The camp in University Park was opened, and over five hundred veterans found accommodation there last night, bunking in tents in genuine army style. This morning opened bright, and gave promise of a glorious day. At 10 o'clock the various regiments formed in line on the square, and, beaded by Greencastle Post, No. 11, G. A. R., marched to the camp in University Park. On arriving at the camp the brigade broke ranks, and, after registering by regiments, went at the business of shaking hands and hunting up old comrades. A more jolly, good-natured crowd of men were sever assembled, and after a separation of twenty-two years, old acquaintanceships were renewed with a genuine affection. A great crowd, hot and dusty, but good-natured and ready to cheer every sentiment of loyalty, assembled in the camp this afternoon. After music by a splendid glee-club from Tuscola, 111., Hon. W. E. Starr, president of the day, introduced Mayor Jos. McCIary, who, on behalf of the citizens of Greencastle, delivered the address of welcome. In a short, forcible speech Mayor MeClary spoke of tb.e many obligations due the old veterans, and tendered General Wilder and his command the freedom of the city. The response to the address of welcome was made by Gen. John T. Wilder, '. of Chattanooga, Tenn., ex-commander of the brigade. General Wilder is a man of command- , ing appearance, and, though not especially gifted as an orator, every word he uttered was ' eagerly taken in by the members of his old command. After speaking of the . pleasure it gave him to once more meet his comrades, Gen. Wilder spoke of the many results the veterans had achieved. He said he lived in a place and time made possible for a loyal man and Republican to live by the sacrifice of many thousands of loyal lives. He spoke of the valor of his own command, which was always ready to go to the front, aud said he could muster more men for a fight than for pay day. He also spoke of the great change being wrought in the Southern people, and cf the respect they hold for outspoken, loyal men. Following General Wilder, Maj. Jno. G. Dunbar delivered an address of welcome on behalf of Greencastle Post, No. 11, G. A. R. Major Dunbar is an excellent orator, and his remarks were cheered repeatedly. Major Dunbar's speech was responded to by Maj. J. A. Connelly, of the One hundred-and-twenty-second Illinois regiment. Mr. Connelly- was interrupted during his sketch of war times by the arrival of 250 members of the brigade from the North, and for some time the enthusiasm of the veterans knew no bounds. Old army songs, such as "Marchiner Through Georgia," and "John Brown's Body,' seemed to be the order of the day. The programme to-night was an immense camp-fire, which is the main feature of the reunion. The old regimental flags, battle-scarred and aged, together with several captured confederate flags secured by General Wilder in Indianapolis on his way to the re-union, add greatly to the enjoyment of the occasion. Two large excursion trains from Illinois and one from southern Indiana are expected to swell the number of visitors to-morrow to about 12,000. Reunion at Sullivan, III. Special to the lodianaeolis Journal. Mattoon, I1L, Sept 7. The members of the Forty-first and One-hundred-and-twenty-sixth Illinois Volunteers commenced a two days' reunion at Sullivan, to-day, with a large attendance. Exercises of a local character took place to-day, with numerous speeches, and a camp-fire on the fair grounds at night A flag was presented to the Sullivan G. A R. Post by the ladies of the town. To-morrow the speakers from abroad are Col. Dan Munn, of Chicago; Judge J. W. Wilkin, of Danville, and General Sweetser, of Bloomiugton. Company C, Illinois National Guards, will participate in the parade. ENOCH ARDEN IN 0III0. The Old Storr Revived by a Similar Occurrence Which Happens at Columbus. Colttmbus, O., Sept 7. A case was developed here to-day that rivals the story of Enoch Arden. ' About seventeen years ago Frank Grove, a brother of Captain John IL Grove, ex-warden: of the Ohio penitentiary, married a young lady ' of West Jefferson, a little village in Madison, county, just over the Franklin line. After five years of wedded bliss and the addition of three interesting children to the family. Grove tired of his surroundings, and suddenly left for parts unknown. Two years' time elapsed, and he waa not heard from. Subsequent events showed that he had gone to Europe. He had been absent over two years when a letter came from Lgypt to his wife, announcing that her husband was dangerously ill. and would probably never recover. This was followed in a month by another. in which it was stated that Frank Grove had died. Mrs. Grove supposing herself a widow, and being left to do battle with the world alone, had a hard time in providing for her children. In the course of time she met Morris Thomas, a rolling-mill man, and they were married. Grove had been forgotten with the passing years, aod no one ever dreamed of his being alive. But such proved to be the case. The latter part of the week he arrived in the city, and learning the whereabouts of his wife, soon found himself in her presence. The woman was dumbfounded at the unexpected arrival. Husband No. 2 was in Pittsburg. He was telegraphed for and arrived home this morning. To-day both men met at the Thomas home and were introduced to each other by the woman. The men discussed the situation and finally decided to lay the matter before a justice of the peace. When iu the presence of the magistrate both men offered to relinquish all claims on the woman in favor of the other. They were perfectly willing that the family complication be settled in any way, as neither cared particularly about assuming the position of head of the family permanently. . The justice advised that a divorce be procured from tbe first husband, but the parties to the domestic mix do cot appear to be in a hurry to act, and the chances seem to be in favor of the) woman getting left entirely. G. A. K. Pleasantry. Finleyville, Sept 7. The bazaar and exposition of Gaston Post, 544. G. A. R, in the new opera-house, closed on Saturday evening; with a very amusing and successful entertain ment Two hundred and fifty people greeted the "comic expose of the secrets of the order with roars of laughter and thunderous applause. The ex-soldiers on the broad stage, in wierd, monkish costumes of black, red, blue and white, and terror-inspiring false faces, acted their parts welL The candidate who was initiated had to crawl through innumerable empty barrels, climb a greased pole and perform many other remarkable feats. He had also to swear to reveal all the secrets of tbe order and to take a drink every time he was asked. The entertainment closed with an exhibition of views of the battles of the civil war. The Illinois Supreme Court Ottawa, 111., Sept 7. -The Supreme Court met at 9 o'clock this morning with a full bench, present, with the exception of Justice Scott After making the announcements in six cases, and enteriug some motions, and without mentioning the Anarchist case, the court adjourned, until 9 o'clock to-morrow. The indications are that no opinion iu the bomb-throwers' case wul be filed this week. The Itailway Mall Service. Detroit. Sept. 7. Tbe railway mail service representatives concluded their business session this noon. Officers were elected as follows: President, W. B. McKee. Rah way. N. J. ; secretary and treasurer, "S. K. Barcbman, Camp Point, 111.: and a vice-president from each division. New Orleans was designated as the next place of meeting.