Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1887 — Page 4

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28. 1887. TFASniJiGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth SU P. S. HZATH. Correspondent. NEW TORK OFFICE 101 Tempi Court, Corner Bee km an and Nassau streets. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following; place LONDON American Exchange la Europe, 449 elr and.' ; PARIS American Exchange in Taris, 33 Boulevard dee Gapueines. KEW YORK OeJney House and WindsorJIotels. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley Ss Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Dearing. northwest corner I bird and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. ' WASHINGTON, D. C. Klggs House and Eobitt xlonse. Telephone Call. Basfaesa Office 238 Editorial Rooms 242 It was an administration victory at Balti more. ' The current question: What do you know about natural gas? A NE"W paper-bag trust has been, formed. "We presume somebody will hold the bag. . Mr. ITiggins having done his best for the Administration will now naturally expect to be called up higher. The Macon ovation to Jeff Davis beat the Atlanta reception of the other Democratic President out of sight. United States Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, was conspicuous among thousands at Macon, who wore a badge marked "C. S. A. , .When Father McGlynn repents and is re stored to the bosom of the church, will he turn his share of the anti-poverty fund over to Henry George? ' The forthcoming report of the Second As sistant Postmaster-general, will, it is said, an nounce the excellent condition of therailway mail service. As a piece of news that will be 'a scoop. It not only takes a long pull, a strong pull, ana a pun aitogemer to reiurui ui uluuiu, uui . W 11 .11 A. 1 A. F . I J Iti I . ... . circumstances indicate that it takes more than one pull. The next time, perhaps, the law and order element can fetch her. .When President Cleveland reads of the performances at Macon he will regret that cir cumstances over which he had no control deprived the ex-rebels down there of some flags which they might have wept over. If that Carroll county grand jury can disre gard Judge Gould's charge, it will prove it self without conscience or a sense of official duty; but experience has shown that juries may be deficient in just those particulars. . FOR the sake of decency and humanity, and without regard to politics, Jeff Davis should be kept in retirement. The exhibitions of senility which have formed the feature .of his : present tour are distressing to contemplate. ' Having absorbed all the railroad and tele graph lines in sight, and fixed the markets so they will not fluctuate much for a while, Jay Gould thinks he will make a foreign tour. Perhaps the country will be able to get along without him. Some time it will have to. . BALTIMORE is a place after Mr. Coy's own heart. It is rumored that he would like to take up his residence there, and is only re strained from doing so by the probability that circumstances will soon require him to spend come years at a point in northern Indiana. The President and CoL Lamont have both sent liberal contributions to the New York Democratic central committee. Mr. Cleve land doesn't propo3e to let civil-service reform interfere with keeping up his fences. Public office is a publio trust, therefore pay as you go. - . Too enthusiastie reformers thought on Tuesday that they detected a look of gloom and dejection on Senator Gorman's brow, and jubilantly telegraphed their impression over the country. Later advices from Baltimore io not confirm the report; and it may therefore be considered err on ecus. The President desires the people on Thanksgiving day to give thanks for the generous return which the earth has yielded to the Tabor of the husbandman. If the President were doing his own family marketing these days, he would except from this duty those persons who lif under the shadow of the late drought. THE machine Democrats in New York are all torn up by the action of the Republicans In nominating Nicoll and Martine. The Republicans enjoy their confusion and the fortunate candidates are masters of the situation. As judge and prosecutor they will be all the stronger for running as non-partisan candidates.' Anarchist leaders have certainly lost their cunning when they can devise no better txcuse for the scarcity of petitions for commutation of sentence for the condemned men than the ancient one adopted by the man who forgets to write to his wife, namely, that the letter had been lost in the mails. Tho truth of the matter is not that the mails are tampered with, but that people decline to tamper with justice by signing the petitions. AN Indianapolis correspondent of the New York I'ost, after commenting on the recent city election here, calls attention to a fact which he thinks should have some weight with the superstitious, namely, "that, so far, the side upon which the mugwumps have voted has invariably won. Whether," he adds, "this is because they are so sagacious as to foresee the result, and so thrifty as to ally themselves with the prospective victors, or because they are so numerous as to really 'save come influence in deciding political bat

tles..! 6hall not attempt to decide. The fact

is as I- have stated." WTien the mugwumps first came into political existence in Indianap olis a careful polling of the party by the Journal showed that it contained five voters. Recent investigations indicate that there has been a falling off of one. As the majority for Grover Cleveland in Indiana was consid erably more than five, and as the Republican majority at the late city election largely ex ceeded that number, it seems to follow that it was "thrift" and not influence or strength of numbers which caused them to be on the winning side. Uuder this theory, however. the former assertion that they were animated solely by lofty moral principle is entirely knocked out. The change of base 6eems to call for some explanation. , , LTJi CHINOS AND LAW District Attorney Sellers thinks that "lynchings and other violent outbreaks are becoming altogether too common in this State, and something decisive should be done to prevent them." There is no doubt about this. We are not sure that the evil is confined to Indiana, or that the conditions are materi ally different in this State from those that exist in other Western States. Certainly our people, as a class, are not less law-abiding or more inclined to violence than are those of other States. Still the fact remains that lynchings have latterly been increasing i frequency. The evil is patent and notorious, and calls for careful consideration with a view to discovering the cause and a remedy. In the opinion of the Journal there is not a particle of doubt that the trouble has its origin in the non-enforcement of law, or its slow, lax and inefficient enforcement, and that the remedy is in establishing a different order of things. In other words, a vigorous enforcement of law will do away with lynch' ings, and by this we do not mean an enforce ment of law merely against lynchers' and mobs. That is demanded also, but that alone will not prevent lynchings. That is simply treating the disease aftsr it is developed. We must remove the causes that lead to the disease. Men take the law into their own hands in order to make sure of essential justice being done, and because they fear the courts will not do it. They have seen so many instances of defeated justice and unpunished crime, 60 many crim inals escape through the technicalities and delays of the law, or if convicted pardoned, perhaps, and turned loose again on society, that they have become disheartened and dis gusted, inis, to use a current phrase, is God's truth about the business. The fault is in the law and its administration. This is the condition of things for which we are to seek a remedy. Mr. Sellers says: "There are two things needful to bring about a better state of affairs. Our Constitution must be changed so as to allow the State to take changes of venue, in criminal cases, so that they mav be removed from local prejudices and influences, and adequate salaries should be provided for prosecuting attorneys, so that thoroughly competent men could be obtained to prosecute criminals." These suggestions . are good in their way, though they do not cover the case. Perhaps both of these changes should be made, but others should be added. A way should be found to "brace up" judges and make them realize that society has rights as well as criminals. a way snouid ue zound to prevent continuances, motions for now trials, appeals, writs of error and other dilatory proceedings except for very strong and obvious reasons. Prosecutions for crime should be short, sharp and decisive. Criminal lawyers should be handled without gloves. Sentence and punishment should follow swift after conviction. Judges should not only do their own duty, but compel juries to do theirs. If necessary to secure greater independence of the judiciary the term of office should be lengthened, and if necessary to secure better talent judges' salaries should be increased. These suggestions hint at a thorough reform of ourcriminal jurisprudence, and that is what is needed. If we have a bar association it couia not ao a oetter service than by taking this matter in hand and bring ing it before the Legislature. Meanwhile, we suggest to District Attorney Sellers that he show by his earnest prosecution of criminal cases, in the federal court that he is disposed to do his share toward the vigorous enforcement of law. The Republicans of New York city seem to have been remarkably fortunate in their nomination of a city ticket, or rather to have acted with remarkable wisdom. Discarding all factional and merely partisan considerations they nominated a ticket that commands the universal respect by reason of the individual character of the candidates and its consequent strength as a whole. This is illustrated by the nomination of the Hon. John Jay Knox for City Comptroller. Mr. Knox was for sev enteen years Comptroller or. the Currency at Washington, and is widely known as a man of the highest personal integrity and of large financial experience. He resigned his position in Washington about four years ago to take tho presidency of the Bank of the Republic in New York, which place he n ow holds. Mr. Knox is not in politics, and the nomination came to him unsought and because of his rec ognized ability and fitness. If elected he will make the best Comptroller New York ever had. The other nominations are almost equally happy, and the ticket as a whole is one with which the Republicans ought to be able to win. Mention has been made in these columns of the signing of a contract between the Peru vian government and a syndicate of London and New York capitalists relative to floating Peru's debt m bonds. The total debt of Peru, with accrued interest, is about $230,000,000, and by this contract all claims of every kind and description against Peru for this debt were to be absolutely canceled forever, and the sum of about $30,000,000 was to be expended by the syndicate in the development of Peruvian railroads and mineral resources, which were to be controlled by the syndicate. The contract had to be ratified by the Peru vian Congress, and there is where the trouble came in. .-The government of Chili, jealous : of the prestige which Peru might acquire by the arrangement, intrigued to defeat it, and brought such a pressure to bear on the Peru- 1

vian government as to prevent the ratification of the contract. New ork members of the syndicate, however, say that negotiations are going on which may lead to the withdrawal of Chili's objections, in 4 "which case the deal

will be o again. The ex-confederates "at Macon made fools of themselves over Jefferson Davis, actually fighting and climbing over one another to get near him. A touch of his hand set men wild, and a chance to kiss anything where his hand had rested was esteemed an inestimable privilege. A confederate tattle flag was passed over the heads of the crowd, and United States Senator Colquitt placed it in Jeff Davis's hands, while the crowd shouted to him to "wave it." He did so; then, bowing his head, kissed it, wfiile convenient tears streamed from his eyes. Mrs. Davis tore off a little piece and kissed it, whereat the crowd cheered again and again. One man got near enough to Davis to hold up r his Cane, when the latter shook the end of it. Then - men struggled for the privilege of kissing .it And so it went on through every phase of demonstrative disloyalty. ' These facts are reported by correspondents who witnessed the scene, and who confess themselves amazed at the demonstration. We mention them at the risk . '-of being charged with waving the bloody shirt. ' The Pope had a string to that bull of ex communication promulgated against the good Father McGlynn, and he now proposes to reel it back to the Vatican if the wayward priest will only do certain trifling things, among them to humbly apologize and say that he was wrong in resisting authority. Negotiations are now pending which may restore the rev erend father to the church, and if Henry George or any other friends have any influ- . ence with him they should advise him to accept the proffered advances, for he is out of a clerical job now and will soon be out of a secular one, with but slight chances for suecess in any walk of lifejin the future. The circumstance is a queer onej showing the waning power of ecclesiastical authority. It was not many years ago when the Pope would do more have thought of, treating with a recalcitrant priest who had. been , excommunicated than he would have thought of matrimony. But things are changing rapidly, and Popes are no longer considered infallible. Gen. Henry B. JACKSONinade "a glowing and grandiloquent speech at Macon, in which he pictured the processionof the future which should glorify the cause of human liberty and, progress, and said: "In that triumphal pro- " cession Abraham Lincoln snalf not move as the rightful President, but Jefferson Davij, the so-called 'traitor' leader of a so called 'lost' cause." Another speaker. Gen. Clement A., ' Evans, referred to Jeff Davis as the "grand' old man," and said: "Rightly is he reckoned", the sublimest of living men. No monarch on earth has such heartfelt tributes paid him by, his people as you give this day. No other living man could be accorded such dern-. onstraticrs without exciting suspicion. rJJut0 he receives them as the outpouring of the popular heart to a loved man who was . the only President of the Confederacy, a Presi dent once, and now, and forever." We should like to say something on this text, but it would be waving ,lhe bloody shirt. A New York special says that the Presi dent and Colonel Lamont each sent checks to the Democratic committee in New York . to be used in tbe campaign, and ' accompanied the contributions with letters expressing the hope that the Democrats would win the race.. This is "pernicious activity," and is a . bad example to set to the down-trodden ; govern ment clerk who comes under the civil-service law. Possibly it is a rebuke to Edgerton and a Oberly, who talk too-' much, the President says, oris intended to disgust tne whole commission so it will resign in a body. Then' men could be appointed who would be discreet enough not to open their mouths until after; the campaign next year. Who knows what those two great Democrats at the White House may be figuring on? - , The Pail Mall Gazette scores Mr. ChamberIain unmercifully for his 're'eent speech con cerning the relations of Canada and the mother country, and abusing Irish-Americans. It says Mr. Chamberlain lacks one essential qualification of a diplomatist, in that he can not hold 4iis tongue, and asks: "What is one to say of a diplomate who thinks it wise to celebrate his departure on a friendly mission by picking a quarrel with both parties to the dispute which he is sent to adjust?" It will be rather gratifying to Americans to learn that other diplomatists than our own are addicted to blunders. United States Senator Gordon in in troducing Jeff Davis at Macon said, among other eulogistic things: "It is his good fortune, after an eventful life filled with stormy scenes and vicissitudes, to look back upon a career without a blot or a stain a life that has been spent in the service of his country aud his country's liberty." Of course it was no blot or stain on Jeffs career to have been the leader of a conspiracy to destroy the Union. The country he served was the South, and the liberty he fought for was the liberty to hold slaves. But we must not wave the blood v shirt. . ' THE news from Paris foreshadows a Cabinet crisis and probable change of. Ministry. Indeed, the sensational events of the last few months and the feverish condition of the pub lic mind might -almost seem indicative of even greater changes, and a possible revolu tion. The Frencn people are not noted for stability, and republican government, is not as deeply rooted there as it might be. Under ordinary circumstances a change of Ministry ought not to be attended with any danger, but in the present-circumstances it may lead to unexpected results.. : The war correspondents in Montana com plain of the secrejiyeness of the army officers concerning their plans for the Indian campaign. The correspondents are neglecting their opportunities. ' As it invariably turns out in these wars that it is the white men who are surprised, the way to discover the

white men's plans is to interview the Indians. Col.' Wraps-Up-His-Tail, for instance, ought to be able to furnish valuable information.

Booth and Barrett played Othello under trying circumstances in Kansas City on Tuesday night last. They were to ojen the new Warder Grand Opera-house there, sad arrangements bad been made for a brilliant entertainment, but by various delays the interior of the theater was not completed as expected, and there was likely to be trouble with the '.patrons, who had paid from $3 to $10. for seats. Between 6 and 9 o'clock in the evening, however, all the scaffolding was removed from the auditorium, some chairs were carried in, and fires were built in a stove or two, and with a single set of scenes on tbe stage, tbe house was opened to the people. They Came in from the cold outside to the cold iosiue, men in overcoats and ' ping hats and women in cloaks and heavy1 wraps, and stood around the stoves or shivered.in the chairs, trying to fcet their money's worth listening to the eminent tragedians go throughtheir parts under the annoying circumstances. Before the play was half through the audience ha'd almost deserted them, but they went on to the end, so that it eould not be said of them that they bad not done their duty to the public. It was a dreary night for actors, manager and people. A New Yokk theatrical company, which went up to Wyandotte. Mich., to play the "Beginning of tbe End," so displeased the dramatic taste of the critical audience that a delegation of twentyfive young men jumped on thestaee, tore down the curtain and drove the - alarmed sixteenthcentury cavaliers into the streets. Tbe next time that drama is presented there the "end" will come before the 'beginning."; - The deceased wife's sister, is going to make trouble in England again this year. .' It ought to be a matter of taste instead of law; and if a deceased wife's sister has the bad taste to want to marry her brother-in-law she shoald certainly have the privilege of doing it in England, instead of being forced to the expense of a voyage to Canada for the purpose. , That thrilling story of a Southern mail carrier being devoured by sharks was probably invented ty the administration to account for the irregularity of the mails.' But how about the routes where there are no sharks? Pttlitzer is the Ignatius Donnelly of New York newspaperdom. He is constantly trying ciphers on the circulations of both the morning and evening editions of the World, the latter now claiming over 100,000 daily. : Life in Cuba has its drawbacks. Thirty-three earthquake shocks in one month, with an occasional tidal wave driving people from the coasts are not attractive features. AB0DT FE0FLE AND,TIIINGS. Mr. Langtry has received an appointment at Queenstownin the life-boat service of the English government. -r' i It is said that Colonel Cody's share of the profits of tbe American .Exposition in London consisted of 70,000 and a position in "society." John L. Sulliva has been presented with an umbrella worth $1,100. He is the only man in the world able to take care of so valuable, an article of this kind.. , . ., . - Golden trout are found in but one ' place in the world that is in the brooks of Mount Whitney, up near the . banks of everlasting ' snow. They have a golden stripe down each side, and are the most beautiful fishes that swim. : , The Elder Dumas was asked to give something toward tbe funeral expenses of a bailiff who had died in poverty. "How much do you want", he asked. "Twenty francs." "What? UOnly twenty francs to bary a bailiff? There, there! Take forty aud bury two!" ; M. Pavlqsky in his recollections of Turgueneff, relates that - once - at Victor Hugo's house some 'one remarked that their host's name should be given to that street. "ISot a street alone," cried another, "should be named for Victor Hugo, but all Paris should be named after him." H ago, who was present, heard these words, and replied, "That will come is time." ''There is no longer any sword-making industry in Damascus. What was once known as the sword trade is now .occupied with converting the blades of old saws and pieces of ordinary iron into daggers and cheap swords, and rifles of Soli n gen and Birmingham make are bought up, finished and decorated in Oriental style, and put upon the market as weapons of Arabian or Damascus origin. Senator Evaets has livedvin Windsor, Vt., for thirty years. Everybody 'in the neighborhood of that quiet place knows him, and in his slouch hat and ancient coat he does not awaken the antagonism from the farmers which a more elegant attire might provoke. On tbe whole, he is popular at Windsor. While he is there Senator Evarts finds his pleasure in his library, his guests, his forty horses, and the hills and valleys of his thousand-acre farm. Probably tbe oldest person in the world who is taking the Chautauqua literary course is Mrs. B. Needham, of Bristol, Vt. She is now ninetytwo years old and expects to receive her diploma certifying to the completion of the four years' course in 1S89. ! She seems to feel the weight of her many years but lightly, and id in Letter health than most people at sixty. .She lives all alone, and has for many years done her own work, including her own dress-making. Jennie Gibson, a "handsome girl of sixteen, living with her parents in Arkwright, N.Y., has never seen the world ;by daylight, though enabled by lamplight to sew and read just as clear as anybody. Uo to the age of four or live years she was believed to be totally blind. "The parents noticed that after the lamp was lighted she gave evidence of seeing: and gradually this power of sight grew Upon her, until the little one played with her 4011s and toys by artificial light as eagerly as other children by daylight. . A tall young man, far from stylish in appearance, recently registered at a Philadelphia ' hotel and asked to be called at half -past 6 in the morning. , He proved to be John Dubois, of Dubois, Minn., whose uncle died not lone ago and left him a fortune of $8,000,000. .Young Dubois is about twenty -six years of age, neither smokes nor drinks, is unmarried, - retires early and rises early, and has neither the habits nor appearance of a youthful millionaire whose wealth is almost inexhaustible. While Plymouth Church's new-found clerical pet, Rev. C. A. Berry; was preaching on Sunday morning, smoke that did not come from the inferno and the smell of earthly flame startled the congregation. Pastor Halliday left the pulpit and went outside. On bis return he said that the smote was caused by a newly-made fire, and that there was no reason to feel at all disturbed. Mr. Berry resumed his sermon, saying that he bad noticed the smoke, and that it got into his throat. "We will be all right if smoke does not get into our brains and hearts," he said. Miss Ethel Sprague, daughter of Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, who will soon begin her dramatic career, is a handsome woman just eighteen years of age1 She is above medium height, of dark complexion, with hair of a dark chestnut hue. Sh(has a broad, intellectual forehead, and brilliant hazel eyes. Her nose and mouth are large, but well shaped. Her teeth are strisioglv handsome. Her figure is well rounded and 6ymmetrial. She does not aim to become a star at ence, but will take a subordinate position in some standard company and work her way up. 'fetranee as it may seem, her great ambition is tejplay Lady Macbeth. Wayfarers on he old National road, of which the termini, are Wheeling, W. Vs., and Van d alia, 111., often marvel at the solidity of the massive stone'' culverts, large arches and bridge abutments This work was begun in 1832 and lasted nine years, and tbe man who supervised it, Maj. !W. CL Griffith,-of Sullivan county, Indianastill lives, at the age of nine'.y years. Major Griffith has voted at seventeen presidential electrons, and cast his first vote for James Monroe. He has always voted tbe Democratic ticket. The Major is nearly aix feet tall, erect as an Indian, and active as a boy of sixtaen. His memory is wonderfully , retentive. and he ean talk 'entertainingly on any subject. , . i ' . ' . . . ..i. A FAKTi ui lOHnsM Unas m journey lurouu some fire-brick, works recently and found one of the members of the firm tasting of bits of blue Jersey clay ia tbe big yard in the rear of the works, v "This is the only sure way to distinguish a first-class quality of clay, such ss we use in the manufacture of fire-brick," be said, as ut

nibbled at another piece of lighter-colored clay. "If the clay bas a salty taste I know that . it is

genuine and will answer onr purpose, aut : f it bas a flat and dull taste it is not genuine and will not answer. Fire-brick is made of a mixture of various qualities of clay, which is ground into a thick paste with small quantities of various kinds of sand. ? There is a movement in 1 England for an increase in the pension of John Divane, the private soldier who won the Victoria cross by leading the way to the capture of the Cashmeee gate at the storming of Delhi He lost , a leg on that occasion. "There was," ha says, "a hitch, and then a call for 'who'll storm the battery?'- And the bhoys raid, 'Johnny, you go oh and we'll be after ye.' And I said. 'Come on bhoys, death or glory! And we went on, and presently I fell down, and when I came to myself I found my leg was gone, and I said: 'Never mind, John Divane, my bhoy, here's a shilline a day for ye for loife.' And when I heard the list o? pensions read out and beard I'd only .tinpioce a day,. I croid." Divane did not get the "death" he challenged, but the tenpenny worth per day of "glory" which be did get does not seem much of a reward for the roan who started the , turning point of the capture of Delhi and therefore of the suppression of the mutiny. He is now sixtyfour years old and gets a living by peddling fish in a donkey-cart at Penzance, r Miss Sophie Dallas Markoe, the fiancee of Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard, was born in Washington, and is now nearly forty years of age, although looking younger. . Her father, Frank Markoe, was the first-secretary of, the Smithsonian Institution, and heid several important positions in Washington.. He fell into disrepute during nhe war because of his sym-"" pathies with the Sonth, in consequence of which he lost a fortune and died a poor man, leaving his family in destitute circumstances. Miss Markoe has bee employed in the State Department since 1879 or 1880, as has .also her sister Mary, who has charge of the translation of foreign letters. At the time Hon. James G. Blaiue was appointed Secrtery of State a law was passed forbidding two members of the same family holding positions - in the same department, and he expressed himself as determined that the law should be obeyed. The head clerk brought the Markoe case before the Secretary and asked which one of the sisters should be discharged. Mr. Blaine personally examined their work and informed the clerk that one of the youne: ladies was indispensable in view of her knowledge of the language, and the other kept the records in such a systematic order that he would discharge neither. COMMENT AND OPINION. As a rule the man who sets himself up as better than his party needs more watching than he can bear with safety to himself. Detroit Tribune. They say that Postmaster-general Vilas's vice-presidential boom has been returned to the dead-letter office. It was deficient in stamps. Pittsburg Chronicle. In the light of some recent business developments, there is something strange about tbe fact that neither Webster nor Worcester define "trust" as "conspiracy." Philadelphia North American. Probably the blunders of Democratic leaders in the North during the war. as well as the long continuance of the Republicans in power, contributed to make tbe growing generation distrustful of the Democratic party. New York World. The friends of the spoils system may take fresh hope. The system which they espouse is in no great danger, for while the civil-service commissioners are engaged in personal wrangling they will have no time for reform. Chicago Times. The Ohio Democratic convention went further in indorsing President Cleveland and supporting free trade., and it is further along on the road to defeat, which is before the Democratic party this autumn in almost every State where it is making a fight. Philadelphia Press. In 1868 such Democrats as General Roger A. - Pry or and Randolph Tucker adopted a platform to the effect that the reconstruction acts, including the fourteenth amendment, were "unconstitutional, revolutionary and void." They seem now to have a better opinion of the amendment in question. Milwaukee Sentinel. - We may denounce lynching and demand thepunishment of lynchers: and we ought, as lawabiding citizens to do so: but denunciation will not avail, much. Better criminal laws, better administered, can alone arcomplirih onr deliverance from this terrible curse of lynching a worse evil than the crimes against which it seeks vengeance. Minneapolis Tribune. ;, ' - The simple truth is, at last, the order of the Knights of Labor in America has no purpose big enough and strong enough to hold it together, and its resolution into its original ele ments, the local societies, ia a question of only a short time. To make the injury of one the concern of all, in a republic of sixty million people, is to try to make the governmental pyramid stand upon its apex instead of its base. which base is the greatest good of the greatest number. Charleston rue ws and Courier. They the condemned Anarchists committed a grave crime knowingly and deliberately. It stauds confessed, in a legal sense, that they were parties to tbe murder of a public officer in the performance of his duty, and when that is said nothing remains that can be fairly urged in their favor. If there were any errors committed in their trial, they were certainly not of such a character as to conceal the truth; and the truth is that they are unquestionably guilty, and should consequently pay the penalty which the law prescribes. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. BALTIMORE'S BONDAGE. The City Held In Subjection by Shameless t- Fraud and Intimidation. Baltimore American. Fraud is again triumphant in our city. The united and energetic work of Republicans and reformers was powerless yesterday against intrenched corruption. Tbe miserable election law which the Democratic managers cling to with the desperation of drowning men, afforded ample opportunities for the repetition of the pernicious practices which have so often made a farce of elections in this city and State, and again defeated the will of the people. Repeating in its most aggravated form prevailed in the Democratic strongholds. The result foreshadowed when it was made manifest that the courts, of justice, though they surrendered all their time to the herculean task, were unable to purge the registration list to any appreciable extent. With honest regis-; tration, the suppression of lawlessness and intimidation, and a fail count, Mr. Bartlett would undoubtedly have swept the city by 10,000 majority; but the register and the roughs stood as an impregnable barrier between tbe people and bouest efforts for their enfranchisement. The appointment of reputable supervisors and honest judges is a mockery as long as subservient registrars remain to obey the wishes of tho managers instead of the laws they are sworn to execute, and thus employ the tactics of bullying and intimidation so successfully inaugurated in 1875 and practiced since then. Brave men will not always quietly submit to the wholesale robbery of their rights as free men, and the bosses are piling np for themselves a debt which will some day or other be paid with compound interest. Among the tricks resorted to yesterday to defeat the will of the people, the most common and effective was the mis-spelling of the names of voters or the substitution of initials. Thousands were thus deliberately disfranchised who would have polled plumpers against the foul wrongs which are annually perpetrated on a long-suffering people. THE CHAMPION BIGAMIST. An Alleged Son of Victor Emmanuel and Ills Amorous Escapades.' ' Boston Special. Dr. Andrew Jackson Grant, tbe champion bigamist of the world, died suddenly last April in East Cambridge jail. "The world , ehall never know me as I was," were his last words, yet to day the world shall know him as the hero of more love escapades than "Don Juan" himself, as one of the most heartless villains that ever lived, as the shrewd conspirator against tbe throne of kings: nay, more, as a man himself of kingly blood, tbe son of no less a man than Victor Emmanuel, tbe dead King of Italy. It waa in tbe Parisian art gallery, nearly thirty years ago. that Dr. McSheehy, of East Boston, abroad on a pleasure tour, met the Doctor, even then a man of pleasing address and extraordinary accomplishments. A fascinating linguist of no ordinary brilliancy was Dr. Contri. Contritold McSheehy bis romantic story. He said he waa born in 1842, tbe son of Victor Emmanuel and Archduchess Adelbrid. of Austria . . Unfortunately this was two months., before their marriage, and so be waa a natural son. To get him out of the way he was sea to Switzerland, where, in an abbey, be was carefully schooled, bat kept ignorant of bis birth until he was Well along in boyhood. The story led him to go to Sardinia, where Victor had come to the throne. The King first " learned of his sop's presence through his being caught in a conspiracy, and he was at once exiled to Paris. Contri came with Mr. McSheehy to New York, where tbey parted. Tbe Prince, after deserting a wellmatured German girl of fourteen, whom be had married, enlisted in a New York regiment, got separated' from bis regiment, and drifted iuto Richmond. There be met 'Virginia Saunders, a

niece of Jeff Davis, .nardly had peace been de

clared before Contri married Miss Saunders, and fled with her to Canada. She soon died, and he returned at once to tbe Stat en, arriving at Boston when Fenianism was at its height. lis was among tbe first to enroll himself in tbe rank and file then preparing for a raid upon Canada. Returning from that disastrous affair, he settled in Boston, huntel up McSheehv and married his widowed sister, who had $20,000 in, the batik. After squandering this on banquets to Italian conspirators and other extravagances, he started out on a lecture tour, married in Poughkeepsie, was arrested and cent to Sing Sine for two years. He got out after three months and took: passage for Europe. That was the last of Dr. Contri. , Eleven years later Dr. Grant landed in New xork of tho same age that Contri would have been. The ntory of his working up the summer resorts with his alleged sister. Kate Ray, is too fresh for repetition. After fleecing many women, he met his match in one of his victims, Miss Luey Torrev' of Cambridce. and it waa h ere the ' detectives caught bim. Many people who knew Contri instantly recognized Grant's picture. One woman who knew Contri well and aaw Grant, says they were the same man. Descriptions of dress, looks, conversation every thingtally exactly. So a score of American widows, and heaven knows bow many abroad, can console themselves with the thooebt that they, are daughters in-law of a dead king. SCOTT COUNTI'S DEFAULTING CLERK. Newton Wilson Returns to Find His Crim a v .- Wiped Oat by Hasty Legislation. - - . ' j Louisville Commercial. Newton Wilson was deputy clerk in the office of his father in Scott county before he. attained his msjority, and the father dying, the young man was unable to give bond as bis successor because a minor cannot execute a valid instrument of that kind. The commissioners of the county were anxious to appoint him, and finally a friend was appointed as clerk, but turned over the work and the emoluments of the office entirely to Wilson. He proyed a popular officer, and when the time expired he received his party nomination and was elected for the term of four years, having in the meantime become of age. During his term he contracted disolute habits, and when again a candidate was defeated.. His sue cessor entered upon the duties of the office in 1881, and it soon became evident that Wilson could cot settle. Experts were appointed and an examination of the books proved that he was a defaulter to a large amount, and bis bondsmen were compelled to pay it alL. . Wilson still had many warm friends in the county, and their combined efforts for awhile prevented his arrest, but when the grand jury met soon after an inquiry was instituted and Wilson was indicted for embezzlement. He immediately received notice of the fact and left tbe county, a fugitive from justice. His gentlemanly address and liberal habits had made him a great many friends in different sections of the State, and these managed to give him notice of every effort to capture him. and in this way be was able to elude the officers for- more than a year after indictment, though he was often in Scott county and rarely more than fifty miles from its county-' seat. In fact, the officers themselves connived at bis escape by notifying men whom they knew -to be friends of the defaulter that they had received information of his presence in the place by a telegram from Scott county ordering his arrest. As was expected . the friend notified Wilson and be made his escape before the officers could apprehend bim. Through all this he was as jovial and companionable as ever and did not appear to. feel the disgrace of the situation till his wife, a refined and accomplished lady, applied for a divorce. This seemed to discourage bim entirely, and shortly after he went to Indianapolis and declared, his intention of leaving the State. "I am completely discouraged," he said to his friend, "and I am going to leave Indiana forever. I have directed my friends to inclose their letters in envelopes addressed to you and when I am located I will have you forward them to me." That night Wilson left on a south-bound train, and for years no word came- from tbe fugitive. In the meantime the friend in Indianapolis received a number of letters addressed to Wilson, but no postoffice was given, and it was clear that the writers were as ranch in the dark regarding his whereabouts as was the friend with whom he bad promised to communicate when he had become located. Inquiry of such personal friends at Scottsburg confirmed tbe belief that tbe fugitive had not vealed the place of his hiding td any one. .... ,rit was cVear ' that he would have run no rirk in so. doing, for they still regarded mm witn aueetiou, ana blatned the people of SfOtt county more for placing as young a man in office than the youth .hhffself for proving a def-' More than fiver years passed away. one morning last week the Indianapol ntleroau. who bad so often befriended the itive, was called to The door by a sharp, sudden jerk at the bell, . and standing upon the doorstep was a man whom he immediately recognized as Wilson. He was pale and haggard, and, instead of looking . like a man of thirty, he appeared to carry the weight of fifty years. After a warm greeting, and as tbe two men passed hand in hand into the house, Wilson declared his intention of returning at once to Scottsburg .and standing trial, saying that he had been in Missouri for five years, and had lived a life of constant fer sver since he left the State, and he rould stand it no longer. "I have been in hell for six rear, and would rather, be in th penitentiary than keen up this life another dav." The friend thus addressed is a lawyer and replied that he had been trying for two years past to get into communication with bim, but no one seemed cognizant of his whereabouts: and further, if he was indictftu under the law of 18S1. he had indeed been rr.nning from a shadow for four years past as the Legislature of 1883, by a piece of hasty legislation, bad wiped out tbe embezzlement statute of 81 and all offenses under it, and Wilson was practically a free man. as the ststute of limitation would bar another 1 indictment. It appears that the legislature of 1881 repealed the statute of 1852. defining embezzlement and fixing a punishment, and passed a sew law upon tbe subject, but enacted a clause excepting all proceedings begun under the law , 1852. Under this section proceedings begun I y indictment under the law of 1852 could still 1 9 carried on in the courts to conviction. In 3883 the Legislature repealed the law of 1881 . absolutely and enacted a new law on tbe subject f embezzlement, but failed to. enact a saving misuse with reference to prosecutions begun '3nder tbe law of 1881. The only question then. : was whether Wilson was indicted under the statute of 1852 and before tbe. law of 1881 went into effect and could still be held under that law for trial, or whether he was indicted under the law of 1881. which was repealed sbsolutely in 1883. If under the first, he would have to stand trial, and would, no doubt, suffer the consequences of bis crime, but if under the second his arraignment would be a mere formality, and his releaee would certainly follow. Upon this proposition there could be no mistake, for tbe Supreme Court had released a defaulting eounty treasurer in the northern part of Indiana on the ground that the Legislature. In repealing the law of 1881 absolutely, and under which the treasurer waa indicted, had left no law under which he could be legally tried and convicted. A telegram was immediately sent to a friend at Scottsburg ordering a copy of the indictment i bv mail. and. to insure its prompt delivery, tbe : friend waa requested to place a special delivery stamp upon the envelope. In tbe meantime Wilson was in an agony of suspense, pacing the . floor and apparently nearly crazed by excite-' meet. In vain he tried to remember whether tbe grand jury which indicted him convened after tbe passage of the law of 1881 or before it and this question, so necessary to his comfort, was the one which he labored in vain to solve. If after the law was passed, he would go home and surrender himself to the authorities, secure '. his release upon a writ of "habeas corpus, and make good every cnt of his shortage if he bad to earn the money aa a dav laborer. But. if indicted before the law of 1881, he would go home anyhow, and from home go "to prison, for a felon's garb and a felon's call are better than a life of constant fear. The mail train from Scottsburg reaches Indianapolis at 11 o'clock at night, and at 11:45 there was a ring at the door-bell of the residence in which Wilson waa so restlessly walking the ! floor. His friend had not retired, and. upon going to tbe door, he took from tbe hands of a bay a letter bearing a special delivery stamp. A ', moment Inter the envelop was torn open, and tbe l eyes of the two friends ran over the copy of the ' indictment which it contained. Wilson was so ' excited that his form trembled and the paper rattled in his bands, but bis emotion was suddenly ' changed and an exclamation of joy, a ' fervent "thank Gad." broke the silence aa he ' discovered that the statute of 1881 was set out i in full in the instrument as the law which be had violated and the act under which the indictment was returned. Wilson is still at Indianapolis, and will remain at tbe house of his friends until the Scott Cir- . cuit Court convenes next week. He will then ' go to Scottsburg. surrender himself to the sheriff and immediately apply for release under a writ of habeas corpus. The Supreme Court has interpreted the law so clearly that a mistake oannot possibly be made, and the defaulting clerk of Scott eounty is practically as free as any man who has never violated a trust reposed in him by the people. . .