Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1887 — Page 4

THE DAILY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27. 1887.

tYASniJiGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. S. K EATH. Correspondenv HEW YORK OFFICE lOi Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Nassau streets. TOE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON American Excbange la Europe, 449 fttrabd. PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 35 Boulerard des Capueinea. SEW YORK Gedney House and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO ralmer House. , CICINNATI J. p. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. JjOUISVILLr; C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 6T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, J. C. Higgn Hons and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office -38 Editorial Rooms 242 If you are bunting for the coal outlook, look high. THIS is beautiful weather for some thingslaying of gas mains, for instance. Mr. Robert Gaurett holds the booby prize in the progressive euchre game in whic'a he and ilr. Gould lately took part. Richmond, Va.t is profusely decorated with confederate flags in honor of the unveiling and dedication of a statue to General Lee. THE amount of bric-a-brac bestowed upon the Davis family by admiring Southerners will enable Jefferson to set up a 99-cent store when he gets back to Beauvoir. SINCE his return the President is walking with a cane and limping with rheumatism, the result either of the Atlanta drenching or the heavy load of cyclopedic information he carried about. Master Workman Dovev, of District Assembly 3, Pittsburg, says the split in the Knights of Labor will not amount to much, and that the order ia in good shape and bound to increase in numbers. Dovey i3 evidently trying to live up to Lis name by fluttering his white wings in the interest of peace. AN old citizen of Peoria, III., who has just celebrated his ninetieth birthday was former ly a resident of Cummington, Mass., and was nce stoned there in coming from church be cause of his anti-slavery sentiments. A man who has passed through such an experience as that can testify that the world moves. COAL is high and prices rising, but not, it ia believed, on account of the late drought. This is the coal men's last harvest, and they are. industriously making the most of it, for next year we shall have gas. That is to say. may be we shall; it doesn't do to make rash assertions concerning so volatile a substance. Jefferson Davis is said to be failing rap idly. A Macon dispatch says "his sun is nearly set, and, strange to say, it is the wound he received fighting under his country's flag in Mexico which makes him the in valid he is to-day, arfd which is hastening him to the grave." Perhaps this touch of retribu tion is intended to remind him that he once had a country. If the story from the Baltimore News about the B. & O. telegraph deal is true, Mr. Gar rett seems to have been taken in and done for by Mr. Gould in a manner which, for neat ness and comprehensiveness, has not been excelled in modern times. It would be better, however, for Mr. Garrett to acknowedge frankly that Gould has the bigger head than to grow crazy over the affair. A Macon dispatch says: "The reunion brings out all the mementoes and keepakes. Confederate currency is for sale in a dozen places. Some of the veterans wear $oQ bills pinned to their coats. A picture of the first confederate flag hoisted at Savannah is on exhibition." Perhaps to keep peace in the family this should not be commented on. It . i. naughty for a Northern paper to wave the bloody 6hirt. Indianapolis Democrats rose above party when they voted for the Republican representatives of law andorJerat the late election; New York Republicans did the same thir.; when thev nominated for the offices of judge and district attorney two Demociats who had proved themselves enemies of corruption and ring rule. Non-partisanism and the best man for the place is a rule that works well iu city politics now and then. ' The Chineso residents of Los Angeles have just concluded one of their celebrations with a street parade, and as they are quite numer ous in that place it was an imposing affair. Gaudy and picturesque costumes were dis played and the dragon eDsIgn of China, borne by sturdy Chinese, was carried beside the American flag. Whatever may be said against ' the Chinese, they have not yet begun to make war against the institutions and the flag whose protection thev have sought. There ere no Anarchists among them. It is to be hoped that the alleged "inside information" concerning Governor Oglesby'a ' Intention to commute the sentence of four of the Chicago Anarchists to imprisonment for life is incorrect. He has the technical right to interfere with the finding of the court, but it ia, hardly likely that he will do so after the verdict has been affirmed by the highest tribunal in the land. The air will be full of rumors until the day of the execution, but the public will be slow to believe that the Sovernor means to destroy the moral effect of v,he trials by savins the murderers from suf fering a just penalty for their crimes. A RUMOR from Kansas City says the Missouri lelegates to the national Prohibition central jommittee meeting, to be held soon in Chicago, save received letters from Gen. Clinton B. Flirt of New Jersey, Dr. McGlynn, Henry George, ex Governor St. John, of Kansas, and General Master Workman Powderly, in which all wrote regarding a union of the Prohibition and Labor parties itt the next presidential

campaign. It is announced, also, that General

FUk has been selected as the consolidated parties' candidate for President, and Terence V. Powderly as the vice-presidential candi date. This is about the time of year when political combinations begin to crop out, and there might be something in this. If the Prohibitionists and workingmen could unite on a ticket they would throw a pretty good vote. Fisk and Powderly are representative men of the two movements. AS TO SECTIONALISM. Ex-Senator Alien G. Tburman, of Ohio, addressed a Democratic meeting in that State a few days ago, devoting himself largely to the evil of sectionalism, and of dividing politically on geographical lines. After deprecating this condition of things, he said: "What made the solid South? Don't Re publicans know that before the war there was no solid South? Kentucky and Ten nessee generally, Georgia almost always, and Florida and Louisiana irequentiy cast tneir electoral vote for Whig candidates and against L J 1 1 .1. V , V. tue jjemocrais. ieituer was me nuuu solid. State after State that is now Repub lican cast its vote against the Whigs, while New Hampshire and New Jersey were Democratic, and Pennsylvania was known as the Keystone State of Democracy, while Ubio voted the Democratic ticket nearly as otten as the Whkr. It was not until the" Republican party sprang into existence in 1856 that sec tional lines were drawn and tne people on one side fell into one partv, the people on the other fell into another, and their consolidation did not take place until after the war." This has a fine old Democratic flavor, and proves that Mr. Thurman is indeed an old Roman a very old one. The sectionalism of the Republican party has always been a favorite theme with Democratic statesmen. It was so before the war, when they rang the changes on it to nauseousness. The revival of the charge by Mr. Thurman shows that he has neither learned nor forgotten anything in the last generation. It is true, as he says, that there was a time when the South was not solid in respect to party lines, though it was always solid on the slavery question. In those days Southern Whigs and Democrats were a unit in defense and support of slavery. When that question became the great and allabsorbing one, old party lines disappeared, and the South became solidly Democratic, because Democracy represented slavery. The asgressions of the slave power brought into existence the Republican party, which represented the interests of freedom and free labor as distinctively as Democracy did those of slavery and slave labor, and because the Republican party opposed the extension of slavery it was stigmatized as a sectional party. Democracy was tolerated in the North but Republicanism was not tolerated in the South. Thus we had a solid South on the slavery question and Democratic doughfaceism in the North. According to 'Mr. Thurman, and that was the old Democratic idea, if the North had yielded to the slave power there would have been no sectionalism, and everything would have been lovely. The solid South is held to gether to-day by the hatred of the Republican party because it opposed slavery, and it adheres to the Democracy, because that party upheld slavery as long as possible and inaugurated a bloody war in its defense. Sec tionalism had its origin in the South and in the efforts of the Democratic party to make slavery national and freedom sectional. If Mr. Thurman undertakes to talk ancient his tory, he should tell the truth. Jeff Davis is receiving a regular ovation at Macon. A special to the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat ot yesterday says: "To an unpreiudiced observer it looks as if the Southern people were getting a good deal more satisfaction out of the ex-President s trin than thev did out of the President's. T he title of ex-President is applied to Mr. Davis in no heedless or sarcastic sense. It appears in the decorations. It is blazoned upon the badges. It is used in the speeches, and it is on the cards attached to floral offerings which ure Rent to Mr. Davis in waeron-loads. The cannoneers count off an ex-President's salute in his honor. The veterans arj rallied to be reviewed by ex-President Day's. He is an ex-President de facto, de jure, de everything else in the Southern mind. Mr. Davis is accompanied by his wife. Tuesday was called "Mrs. Davis's Day" at the fair, and was signalized by special ceremonies in her honor. Among other things she was presented with a silver service, Mr. Cleveland's postmaster at Macon making the pre sentation address. Mrs. Hayes, the married daughter of Jefferson Davis, also received a valuable present, after which there was an elaborate luncheon and other royal honors. Tho correspondent says: "At the close there was a little episode which was retold many times before the day ended. Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Haves were escorted to the carriage by Colonel Nesbit, a famous ex-coufederate soldier, and Air. iu. C Grier. secretary of the Georgia Agricultural Society. Rain had commenced to fall, and the driver of the carriage had taken off the flag decorations and had put them inside. As he opened the door Colonel Nesbit drew forth the flags, saying he would take care ot them. 'Give them to me,' said the driver, reach ing down, 'I want to put them on the carriage to-morrow.' "We recognize only the confederate flag,' said Colonel Nesbit, with a good deal of emnhasis. " '1 have one here,' remarked Mrs. Hayes, placing her hand upon her heart with some fervor. , I. too, wear one here,' exclaimed Secre tary Gner, witn a similar gesture. The air was full of secession. The city librarian of Macon, Herbert by name, visited the fair attired in a pair of butternut panta loons and a slouch hat with a confederate flag pinned on his breast. He bore a large confed erate flag which he wanted to hang in a conspicuous place. Yesterday "ex-President" Davis reviewed the ex-coDfederate veterans. In all this there i3 nothing alarming, but there is a good deal of significance. It shows that in the heart of the solid South, where the bulk of the strength of the Democratic party lies, and where Mr. Cleveland's administration gets its strongest backing and inspira tion, the sentiment of disloyalty still largely prevails. The nomination by the Republicans of New York city of Mr. Delancey Nicoli for district attorney, and Mr. Martine for judge of the Criminal Court is a triumph for the cause of law and order in that city, and good politics, besides. Both of these gentlemen are Democrats. Mr. Martine was the late district attorney, and Nicoli was one of his assistants, and distinguished himself by his able and successful prosecution of the boodle

cases. The Democracy nominated Martine for judge, but ignored the popular demand for

Nicoli as district attorney and nominated another man. The Republicans have nominated both, and they will be elected without doubt. In both cases it is a deserved recognition of a faithful and fearless discharge of duty. The Democrats did well in nominating Martine for judge, but their failure to nominate Nicoli was a concession to the lawless elements and a triumph for the bosses. His nomination by the Republicans places him. in the position of an independent, anti-ring candidate. His acceptance of the nomination puts him out of line with the Democracy, but iu line with the people. The indications are that the people, in locating the responsibility for. the Green lynching, do not forget to accord a due share to his attorneys. The finding in Green's pocket of a written contract by which his lawyers were to be paid $1,000 each for defending him, whom every man in the county knew to be an unmitigated scoundrel, was not calculated to put the lawyers in good favor, and when one of them appeared at the scene of the lynching and began to bluster he was bluntly informed that there was rope enough left to hang a lawyer, if necessary. A correspondent of the Journal, writing from Delphi, says: "The attorneys, in the opinion of a great many people, were the immediate cause for the tragic termination of the affair. They picked flaws in the indictment and had it set aside. Then, pending a new indictment, they asked for a change of venue," etc. This is the old story lawyers hired to defeat the ends of justice and assist a notorious criminal in escaping punishment. The common sense of the people is right in holding them to a share of the responsibility. It is getting so it is hard to tell which are the worst enemies of society, criminals or crimi nal lawyers. - ' Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, after lying awake for two nights carrying on a "terrible struggle within herself," has finally resolved to abandon the Republican party to its fate. Her reasons for doing this are that the party in Massachusetts has not taken that action in regard to woman suffrage and prohibition which she considers proper. "Mrs. Livermore rendered valuabl i public service during the war, and although since that time her labors have not been of material advantage to the party of progress and enlightenment, still it will regret the withdrawal of her sympathy and good wilL It will, however, gather what consolation it can from the factthat Mr. Livermore, the voting member of the family. stilL remains true to the Republican faith and will cast his ballot at the coming election as usual. It is reported from San Francisco that James C. Flood, the bonanza king, is a physi cal wreck, owing to the shock incident to the great wheat corner and the Nevada Bank troub les, and that his death may occur at any time. Robert Garrett is also a physical wreck, ac cording to his own friends' report, and is wandering about the country in the hands of "attendants" seeking health and strength. Jay Gould ia far from well and is going abroad to tour abcut in his yacht, which has already sailed. And so the list of rich men might be continued indefinitely all having more money than there is any need for, yet with broken constitutions and shriveled souls. It would seem, to paraphrase the old proverb, that when millions come in at the door health and happiness fly out at the window. THE appointment of a receiver for the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad calls attention to the fact that it does not take long to wreck a road when a real "Napoleon of finance" gets his hands on it. Only a few months ago there was not a better property in the West than this railroad, which now has nine millions more liabilities than assets. It had been for years the most profitable road running into Cincinnati, owing to its large local traffic, and its Indianapolis branch was an importact feeder to the main line; but the unfortunate complications arising out of the Ives & Stajnor deals have stranded it, and it is doubtful whether a conservative receiver can float it again. At any rate, it will be years before the road can attain anything like : the prominence it once had. The Right Rev. B. J. McQuaid, bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Rochester, N. Y., hit the nail on the head in his sermon last Sunday, when he referred to Dr. Mc Glynn as "an excommunicated Catholic priest who is running about turning the stone for the grinding of politicians' axes." The Bishop said McGlynn was a failure as a priest, "either incapablo or indifferent to his work, and ought to have been removed long before he was." When the Henry George foolishness plays out and leaves Dr. McGlynn without an occupation, he will probably wish he had re mained under the sheltering wings of the church. Perhaps, after due penance, he will be taken back. The report that the latest civil-service order to emanate from the White House is addressed to the commissioners, and warns them not to talk, is doubtless true. It is un questionably very embarrassing to a reformer like Mr. Cleveland to have his utterances construed literally, and this is what Mr. Oberly and Mr. Lyman have been so injudl cious as to do. It was never supposed when Mr. Oberly was appointed that he would ever take the law seriously, and his unexpected conversion to a belief in it has already proved very annoying to the administration. Should he prove to be like the grumbling old woman who would never keep quiet, Mr. Oberly may have to "go." . A London paper says so great is the exodus of British boys bound for the far West and Indian ! country that a special staff of detectives is em ployed on the landing stage at Liverpool to look out for runaway yon tbt and restore them to their parents. ... The boys stopped have from four to sixteen loaded revolvers concealed about them and lariats galore packed away in their trunks, This is the result of Buffalo Bill's show and of lionizing him and his cowboys. .." aa BBS St. Joseph. Mo., also has a street-railway war between an old monopoly and a new company. The latter having constructed a line-' under a grant from the City Council the old company has brought suit against the city for $100'. 000 damages.

claiming that it was lawfully entitled to the ex elusive use of the street by virtue of its franchise. It also asks thai a rental of $500 a month be assessed against the other eompauy for past use of the street. At this rate how long will it be before the street-railway companies own the earth? A Chicago business man advertises for a "fast young woman stenographer, with commission house; state speed and what machine you use; also, salary." " Think of the murdered English that man would put into the letters he would dictate to a fast young woman stenographer."

ABOUT PEOPLE AND TlllNGS. Perhaps it may be information ' to shareholders in silver mines that miners get about $4 a day. f Lilly Langtry's Chinese page having resigned to attend school, the Lilly now has a little Injun whom she is training for ornamental duty. A restaurant has been opened in London for exclusive patronage of people who ate troubled with corpulence, the food being en tirely anti-fat. i Mr, Washburn, of Minneapolis, one of the greatest millers in the United States, is a slender man with mutton-chop whiskers, who looks more like a professional man than a flour kins. Gladstone is a firm believer in the good of athletics, and bis son, Herbert Gladstone, is the president of a National Physical Rrecreation Society that has recently been organized in Liv erpool. M. W. Wright's old white hen in Lincolntown, Ga., shed her feathers recently, and the new coat which grew out in their place is jet black. The curious transformation is the talk ; of the town. It is to be presumed that the youngest wife on record in America is Mrs. Lulu Birch, who has iust deserted her husband at the mature age of twelve, somebody snoniu iase uor uumo buu give Lulu a good whipping. . Harriet Bkecher Stowe recently said tnat after seeing many of the finest cities both in the old world and the new, she has concluded that Hartford, conn., is me most oeauiuui un.jr place of residence on earth. Colonel Lamont gained considerable flesh while tiaveling with the President through the West. If Lamont keeps on growing fat he will soon lose the slender and elegant figure which has been so much aamirea-in me past. Mrs. Bloomfield Moore is going to India with a party at the bead of which is the nabob, Sir Salar Jung. One American newspaper men tions the fact that she is going witn "Mr tsaran .Tnrffft." while another announces that she will accompany "Sir Salad Bung." . While abroad during the past summer the Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks was afflicted with a malig nant felon which threatened to make amputa tion of the hand necessary. His general laealtn si mn.th a FfVf t ami h lost much flesh and Strength, which he is now gradually recovering. Major Black, of Sumter, Ga,, owned a guinea hen that wanted to set. Her nest was broken up several times, and -at length, with eveirv appearance of dejeetion, she walked to the well and with a rasping cry plunged head first into the water. When she was taken out she was dead. New York Graphic. The Rev. Hugh O. Pent.ecost, late Socialist candidate for Mayor of New ark. N. J., and general agitator and disturber, vi il o- hnuii that "whtn I want a drink I take it." Trora the general tone of his dissuasion some people might perhaps infer that ha wants one pretty often. innovation of a surpliced female choir intro duced to English notice at a recent harvest festival, replied: "It is difficult to say whether : .. .. . . j the spectacle ot laaios aressea in surpucea ana i Sn .Unmli ? mnr 1rrAVrnt than it is certainly grotepque." Grotesque is the word for tms mo8w aosnru noveny id leiuiume numuu. Mark Twain says that at fifty cents a week earned in a printing office at his home, Hanni bal, Mo., he saved enough in three years with which make a trio to New York and Philadelphia, returning home with a ten dollar bill sewed into bis coat sleeve untouched during the trip, lie earned enough in odd wavs after reaching New York to support himself and pay his way back to Hannibal. U .JU "' . 3 : a 1 T:t THE aiarquis ae ivxores, according w iub Bismarck Tribune, is far from being bankrupt, either in pure or in . family ties. He has a fixed income from sources inherited that are un impaired, and as stable as the j- rencn goremnient. His wiie nas sn annual inconje irm iu best American securities in her own name of $90,000. She wears a fur cloak which cost !? nnn Ratin the M&rauis and his wife "f " A there is the greatest affection. An Ohio preacher tried to quote the verse in Matthew about "not one jot or tittle," and said: "Not one tot or iittle." Then he saw that he had erred and tried again: "Not one jilt or tot- , ' - j ,.... 1 ..1.3 tie, said no, ana again smupea. out uum not givo uo and began: "Not one tit or joule," m A tVi,i wirh s. rd fflcn he pave it un and went on with his sermon, and there were not half a - . . 1 . A. dozen of bis bearers wno eouia reaiiy tea just what the two words were. Rear-Admiral Worden. hero of the Monitor and Merrimac fight, is living in Washington. He is seventy years of age, but looks younger. He has a full bionde beard and bis hair is not as kit aa hia c wnnM warrant. The wound he ....i n thd Monitor And Merrimac battle not only impaired hisr,sieht. but has left him always subject to revere headaches. He was retired from the navy in 188G on full pay, and is thus in receipt oi o,wu a year. Europe, outside of Russia, crowds 244,000,000 of people upon a surface much smaller than that held by our 60,000,000, says a writer in Frank Leslie's. In all Europe, exclusive of Russia, the ra?H of noDulation to the sauare mile is 100. and in the United States it is 19. For every loaf of bread that a man gets in Europe, there is ten times as much struggling as for a loaf in this TtpAnH ia Horvr f hrf nri and humani ty is cheap in Europe. Humanity is more highly rated Here, ana oreaa is cneapcr. A gentleman from this side, it was not said positively that he was an American, went some years ago to see Thomas Carlyle, determined, if need be. to speak back to him, as the gentleman in question was very well able to do. And noticing the sage's tendeacy to look at the worst side of thinz, tiring in short of his pessimism, he tried to chance the subject into a channel that would not eivo rise to controversy or doleful thought. "What a magnificent river the Thames is," he consequently remarked. "Yes," was the reply of Carlyle, "but did you see the dead dogs!" Pope Leo XIII derives his revenue from three sources. One is the interest of the vast sum left by Pius the IX in the pontifical treasury, invested chiefly in English consols. This interest amounts to about $623,000 a year. Another source is the Peter's penes contribution, which, in spite of very great reductions in late years, averaees about $415,000 annually. The third source is the Apostolic Chancery, tbe receipts of which includes sums recired for titles and decorations, privileges of the altar, private chapels, etc.. and aggregate about 8520.000 a year. The entire anr.tial income of Leo XIII, therefore, is about $1,560,000. Pooh-Bah actually exists. At Laberan, a British possession in North Borneo, the only English officials are Governor Leys and Lieutenant Hamilton. The latter gentleman combines in himself the offices of master attendant, postmaster, colonial secretary, treasury, magistrate, inspector of police, inspector of the prison, chief commissioner of woods and colonial engineer. In all these capacities he corresponds from himself to himself and carefully copies and registers his letters. In writing official letters from himself to himself he adopts a very dignified and stately style, and subscribes himself Your obedient servant." t A newspaper correspondent recently called at Secretary Bayard's house, and was told by the colored man-servant that Mr. Bayard was in. The caller was ushered Into a room adjoin ing the Secretary's library. Tell him I'm not in." presently resounded in tne ears of the astonished visitor. "I tol him you was in," answered the servant to his master, in a melancholy tone. "What did you do that fori" fielaimed Mr. Bayard. "How often have I told you to say to all callers, 'I'll ro and see. so as to give me a chance to be 'ont? Tell this man I'm busy, and can't see him."- The newspaper man left the bouse more amused than angry with his first ecntact with State Department diplomacy. The conspicuous presence in Irish politics of Sir Thomas "Henry G rattan Esmond, who is now visiting this country, mar be attributed to an ugly accident which befel him a few years ago. v He was a great lover of sport, and seemed to think of nothing more serioea than dogs, and guns, and horses. One day, while hunting in

Tipperary, he was accidentally shot in the rieht knee by one of his companions. This enforced his retirement from the field for some months, and be devoted that time largely to reading Irish history, and works on social aud political economy. The result" was that the "rebel- blood his ancestors waeed warfare against Elizabeth,

James I and Cromwell became aroused, and he emerged from his 6ick room an earnest, ardent and advanced Home-rule politician. His mother, it may b recalled, was a granddaughter of the famous Irish statesman. Urattan. Honor th p nmpVm vine! Long may its tendrils twine Over the land! Blessed be those who wear Crisp hay-seed in their hair Glorious band! ''.. Minneapolis Tr'buue. COMMENT AND OPINION. With the compliments of the season, Mr. Robert T. Lincoln still declines to rattle around in his father's shoes. Philadelphia Times. Wherever there is a State election this year the federal office-holders are contributine to campaign expenses. They are regularly assessed as if no civil-service law had ever been passed, and they all know that if assessments are not paid they will be removed in spite of laws to the contrary. Cleveland Leader. It is enlv by independence and discrimination in the exercise of the suffrage that there can be any hope of checking the arrocance of the 'bosses," defeating bad candidates, securing fit men in stations of trust and responsibility, and bringing abont those reforms which are recognized as of the highest importance New York Times. If one-third of the . blood should be taken from the body of a healthy man, iu what condition would be be left to transact business! The currency of the country bears the same relation to business that the blood does to the body. Onethird of all the currency the life-blood of commerce ia locked up in the treasury. How can the body-politic prosper? National Republican. The world is weary of his Jeff Davis's prolonged existence, and feels nothing but contempt for his opinions and recommendations. In no other way could the people who have suffered so severely on hie account do themselves a greater kindness than by resolutely sending him to the rear, and keeping him there under all circumstances for the rest of his days St. Louis Globe-Democrat. s i I nnrkin?men in a voluntary organization. the purpose of which is to reorganize industrial relations. fall into corruptions, ana tyranny, ana blundering, it is certainly uareasonable to expect that they can run society generally with n tnffaaa. 'it anv organization whose purpose js to release workingmen 'from the tyranny of capital, develops tyranny ana corruption throughout its management, the publio may be pardoned if it declines to place legislation in the hands of the organization. imiwauKee cseniinel. The remark is made among politicians that John Sherman's came has dropped out or prominence almost entirely as a candidate for the presidency. A disinterested observer expresses a belief that it will not appear in the next Re-n-Kiiftn rnnvnntian. It is all attributed to Mr. Shrman' own bad management. He should not have started the sectional question, or be should have stuck to it. But Mr. bherman naa never the ghost of a chance after he antagonized Mr. Blaine. He is the ablest man who has sought tbe presidency since Judge Chase, aud he has the least tact. Boston Heraia (uem.; ROBERT GARRETT. Another Installment of Stories Intended to Prove Hia Insanity. Baltimore Special. . When Mr. Garrett left New York, two weeks ago to-day. motors were circulated to the effect that he was insane. His friends in Baltimore ridiculed such an assertion, and especially so the members of the Maryland Club, of wbien Mr. Garrett is a member. Their opinion was changed, however, before twenty-four hours bad elapsed after his arrival here. The Monday following his arrival he drove in from his country residence and stopped for a short time at the club. Here he met a number of his associates, who attempted to congratulate him upon his safe voyage from Europe. Mr. Garrett, however, seemed to be at a loss to understand exactly what was going on around him. and appeared to care for nothing but telegraph talk; that is, the sale of the B. & O. telegraph to Jay Gould. As soon as he got fully started upon this subject, he became very much excited, so much so that it was deemed best by hia brother-in-law, J. Swan Frick, who was with him, to take him to bis carriage, which was waiting outside. He was then driven borne. This, of course, created considerable talk among club men, but no particular attention was paid to it. as it was thought he was undnly excited, owing to the terriole strain that had been put upon him during the last twelve months. It was only a few days after, though, that they were convinced that something was radically wrong. This impression was brought aoout in mis way: Un last innrscay iir. warren urovo iuw town early in the day. He visited the Maryland Club, tbe Merchants' Club and several other places. On the occasion oi nis nrst visit to io Maryland Club, on that day. none of the members were present, and he did not remain there long; but later in tne aay no caueu agaiu. a he walked into the reception-room, there were several gentlemen seaiea wk:iui ubiucdiuh the common events of the day. Mr. Garrett walked up to this coterie, and, in tbe roost ex cited manner imaginable, exclaimed: i on are all friends of Gould, and you are glad that I have been sold out to him. UU Uftn.") vuv v. men. "we are not rrienas ot uonia, ous your friends, ana we wore no tni&iUK auuu of the telegraph or anything pertaining to yoo t, or your anairs. . " oa mi, rnr." T0,U(n;vreDii8a ;ur. unrren. "I know you were, and you were saying how glad you were that I bad been eucnerea. xou are au iubi uiu,iu.luo. He was quieted down after a while, and began conversing as rationally as any of the other genin a ahnrt tims ha left the club, and was then driven down Charles street, wnen lAdMWU. " - ' i : n.a.U i.nii)til ' RaltimnrA me cirriaio uo uo.. . v street he hastily jumped out and went upon the sidewalK, wnere ne roaae very ww cuiwj before two 6t ranee ladies who were walning the street. The ladies seemed to pay no attention ri'i V, a Twrml I-a A An, intft (h middle of 1 1, yiXU. X UUU w " " " vm. - the street, and, standing still with his head low-, arai mnttered someimuK uniuieuiciuie Ahn,,t. Fi nViftck in tho evenine of the same j i- A An ,n ,V. a R .Vr O nntFAl bnild. ing. All the prominent officials had left, but be did not appear to want to see bbj ui mew. a he simply walked upstairs into his old quarters anu sat cowri, vriiiiuut bu caumi iufc tta T-minrl sittine but a few moments when 1 .3 ,4 n 1 . inm ra i, n anil VllfillAd t.O the WSSh ub euuucin.T j " . - stun And dinned his hands in water. This be .- timpa. Ha remained in the Kiiii.linc? abont a half hour, after which he enrd hia carriage and was driven home. While he was in town he was closely followed by Dr. Gorteer, his physician, who was in another ear- . . Kinea that dav Mr. Garrett has not appeared 1 Vx a nun wVlfltn ha f A TTl A III uA i.ein fnm fAmriAn Station, which is IU IftaO l- 4 " wa -Kmm - ' to carry him to Chicago. From there he will go to San Francisco. Cal., and thence to juexico, where be v ill remain the balance of the winter. He is accompanied by his wife. J. Swan Frick, v, , . v..n.v...in.Un ami hia wife, and Drs. W. T. Barnard and N. S.' Gontcer. While waiting tor the train to leave to-day Mr. Garrett was besieged by a nnruner of friends. He had not been i . v. . .1 . f K.fn.a ha hpr,n to PAt it. lonp gu i iif? pinnv. u v m cited. Efforts war made to induce him to get into bis private ear, but without avail. One of the first persons Mr. Garrett met upon l.:- ..ilrn.H riannt n vnnr correU19 ntlliai . ' , ; spondent, with whom he has been acquainted as a rauroau reporter iur a jut; mu?. jm. . - advanced hastily to meet him, and catching hold p hi. n . .nil., with Vint h hands stared at him , u a itv wt.. " " " " - - f - nut nf ves that were wild and glassy, and said, in a hurried nnd excited "Vsm, ara mv friand. I know. I think UiOIIUVI, AVI. r yon aro one of my best friends. They say that I am not goine to build a hotel. You just say that I am. and that it will be the crackingest hotel in the world. He was not allowed to sav anything more, on accouut ot one or nis insnus cumiuy up auu en gaging mm lu cuu,oiauuu. How the Knights Represent Labor." Philadelphia Press. The "Knights of Labor" represent one person in forty at work in this country, and now that a snlit has come in the organization as a result of the Minneapolis convention, this body, whose members too . of ten assume they represent all nf "labor " stand for not over one in sixty or seventy of those who work. A sixtieth of the Uhor in the land make a large and respectable body, but it Is just as well to remember that it is only a fraction, and a very small fraction of the prat armv of labor which makes itself useful and keeps its country great. The State Department's Veracity. New York World. a Waahineton r.ewsoaner correspondent re cently called at Secretary Bayard's bouse and was told bv the colored man servant mat mr. Barard was in. The caller was ushered into a room adjoining the S-cretary's library. "Tsll him I'm not in." presently resounded in the ears of the astonished visitor. "I tol' htm you waa

in," answered tbe servant to his master in melancholy tone. "What did you do that forf. exclaimed Mr. Bayard. "How of ten have I told yon to say to all callers, 'I'Ji go And see,' so as to

give me a chance to be 'out.' Tell this man 1 m busy and can't see him." The newspaper man left the house more amused than angry with his first contact with State Department diplomacy. GEN. K. . LEE'S MOXUMEXT. Confederate and Union Flags and Pictures of Lee and Jeff Davis Displayed. Richmond, Va., Oct. 26. Crowds hava beea coming into the city since early morning to see the laying of the corner-stone of the Lee monument. Thus far a majority of the early arrivals show faces that have been rarely teen in Rich mond since the war. There are old soldier from the interior counties.who have been savins up for months in order to be here to see the statue of "Ole Mara Bob," as they affection ately called their old commander. Another class is made up of those who, befera the war, com prised the landed gentry, and who have, since tbe termination or tne contest, been living in seclusion in accord witn the new era, or sadoened bv tbe loss of fortune. bo the city is filled wih Dew faces, although these visitors are Virginians. The work of decoration began in earnest to-day. Confederate Sags of various sizes are displayed from housetops, and large pictures of Lee and Jenerson Uavis are nnng out among the decorations. Tbe dealers who have Davis's pictures in stock complain that they do not sell as rapidly as was expected. One reason is that they . are so poorly executed that, no one recognizes Davis in them. General Lees former residence here is being elaborately draped. At the head of Franklvn street, near the monument site, is a colossal figure in plaster, of Fame crowning Lee. This is the work of the artitts, Elder aud Sheppard, and some of the country people have taken it for the statue itself. Not since the inauenratien of the Stonewall Jackson statue has such an array of confederate soldiers ben. in the citv. On all sides the best of humor prevails. It is an interesting fact that all the flags, whether confederate or Union, and tbe lithographs of Lee and Jefferson Davis, as well as the Lee medallions and Southern crosses which are being used, were made in New York or Pennsylvania. One ex-Union soldier was peddling Lee's medals. and Beemed to be selling a great many of them. An innovation startling to old Virginians, and one that is causing some unfavorable comment, is the proposed public marriage which is to take place on the Stats fair grounds. The names of tbe contracting parties are kept a pro found secret The bride-elect, by putting in the plea that her dead father was one of Governor Lee's favorite soldiers, induced him to aeree to give her away. As far as tbe "Jolly j Fitz," as be is called, is concerned, nobody seems to blame him, as they' do not see bow he could refuse the request, but the proposed publio marriage itself on the fair grounds seems to shock the old Virginians greatly. What makes the matter worse in the eyes of tbase complainants is the statement that not only is the bride-elect herself a member of one of the first families of Virginia, but that six leading society ladies of Richmond have consented to act as cbaperones on the occasion. Their names are also kept a secret until the day of the wed ding. ". At the inception of the proposed monument exercises it was intended that General Beauregard should be chief marshal, and that; Jeff Davis should deliver an oration. Mr. Davis did not decline until quite late, and Beauregard de ferred answering. It is understood that Beau regard was unwilling to be here with Davis, the feeling between tbe two not being eoraiai. Mahone, as an ex-confederate general, was invited, but he has not been beard from, all of his for roer fellow officers being his bitter political op ponents. v. JEFF DAVIS AT MACON. . He Kindly Refrains from Tat kin r, on b Ground that His Health Is Very Poor. Macon, Ga,, Oct. 26. At 2o'clock to-day the old veterans drew up in line in front of the Lancey House and marched to the Johnston mansion, where Jeff Davis is stopping during his stay in Macon, and from there be was escorted to the fair grounds, where he made a brief speech and reviewed the soldiers. In the course of bis address, he said: "Friends and Brethren I am like that flag. torn and tattered by storms and years. I love it for its own sake; I love it for yours; I love it as a memento of what your fathers did and hoped that you would do. There are a great many tbinss tbat-i would use to say. out my pnysicai condition will not admit it. I wish my arms were large and long enough to embrace j on all at once. God bless you!" At this juflcture Governor Gordon arose, amid wi'dest enthusiasm, and welcomed the exPresident to the State and on behalf of the peo ple to Maron. Brief speeches were made by senator Colquitt and others. : - The Confederacy's Swan Song. Macon (Ga.) Special to Atlanta Constitution. "It is the Swan-song of the old Confederacy, said an enthusiastic veteran in the Hotel Lanier to-night; "and we intend to make it as sweet one as we know how." The old soldier meant Georgia's reception to the grand old man who stands as the foremost representative of the principles for which he and his brethren fought. It is the last review (I ouote from the various advertisements of the - confederate veterans) bv the chieftain they all honor and love, and Macon feels bonorea that she should have been selected as the scene of so erand an event. The- central city has put on her "store clothes" in honor of the event, and she certainly presents a gay appearance. Al most every business house, and many or tns residences, are gayly decorated. Red, whit and blue bunting, and nags of various designs. can be seen everywhere, and many of the deco rations bear evidence of decided artistic taste. There are some confederate flags in Macon. I suppose those of my newspaoer friends who are paid to write political slush tor itepuoiican papers will make a great howl over this. There are probably three or four "stars and bars" on the principal streets. "It is the last chance we will - have to bring out the old flacs, and the last chance we want," said an old soldier . to-night, "and we can't aee anv harm in showing them, lhis is the lass celebration of its kind which will ever be held. probably, the last time Mr. Davis will ever appear before the public The Republican politicians may howl, but I am sure no sensible man will see anything in this to censure, mats tne way I feel, and the rest agreed with him. GRANT AND WASHBURNE. Senator Wilson's Story of How mr. Hm borne Became Secretary of State. Special to the Chicago News.' The death of Elihu B. Washburce suggests a page of history which the Sioux City Journal will print for the first time to-morrow, as follows: The Chicaeo Daily News, referring to Mr. Washbam' brief incumbency ot the Secretary of State's office, say his health compelled him toresign.' Mr. Washburne was appointed Secretary of State by Grant as a temporary expedient. The understanding was that he should hold tbe office but a few days. General Grant had difficulty in composing his . Cabinet. He bad . settled on James F. Wiison, now United States Senator from Iowa, then a member of the national House, for Secretary of State. A few days before tbe inauguration General Grant tendered the place to Mr. Wilson, who declined it because the customary expenses of the position would far exceed the salary, and he had no private fortune) to draw upon.. General Grant urged Mr. Wilson to accept the portfolio, as his declination would seriously interfere with the coming President's plans, and suggested that Mr. Washburn be apnoiuted for a few days, or until the way appeared clearer to Wilson. The tacit, if not expressed, understanding was that Mr. Washburne should occupy the Secretary of State's office and not undertake to definitely shape its policy. A few hours prior to the inauguration of General Grant Mr. Wilson assented to this proposition. "Mr. Washburne waa appointed, and. contrary to Mr. Wilson's expectations, began almost at once to effect a permanent organization of the office and to make foreign appointment Mr, Wilson thereupon declined to consider subject further. Secretary Washburne w..a soon sent to France and Hamilton Fish . cee-ted him in the Cabinet." This revelation of a secret of General Grant's first Cabinet came from Senator Wilson. Bennett Is at Tlume. Milwaukee Sentinel. Metropolitan journalism is making- great strides. The New York Herald takes half column to tell bow Mr. Ely got his "pants' muddy. ; " ' A Sign of Lunacy. 1 Chicago Journal. Robert Garrett, it has been discovered, contributed $60,000 to the West Virginia Demo- . cratic campaign fund in 1881. No wonder W .has been suspected of insanity. -