Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1888 — Page 4

THE IXDIAXAPOL.I3 JOURNAL, THtJRSDAr, FEBUQASr 23, 183S.

THE DAILY JOURNAL. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 18S3.

WASULNGION OFFICE 5 13 Fourteenth St. P. 8. Uxatb. Correspondent. WEW YORK OFFICE 104 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Kaisau streets. IUE INDIANAPOLIS JUUU.SAL Cn be found t tT following places: LONDON Ameri ja Exehanse in Europe, 44.0 Strand. ; ' PARIS American Exchange in Paris, 33 Boulevard dea Capacities. JCEW YORK Gedney House and Windsor Hotel. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vina street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Peering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS Ut ion News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. .WASHINGTON, D. C Riggs Honse and Ebbltt House. Telephone) Calls. ' Business Office 233 Editorial Rooms 242 After a hard straggle the Journal has finally cleared its files of all "Letters from the People" remaining unpublished. The present pressure upon our columns is very heavy, and is likely to continue so from this time until after the November election. We very much wish to allow a fair representation to all .interests and all opinions upon current public questions, but to do so, must insist that letters shall be greatly curtailed in length. If our correspondents do not see their letters In print hereafter they may know it is because of their length, or that they are upon topies of minor importance. We cannot undertake to return unused manuscripts. THE local-option law in Dakota has been upheld, and eixty-four out of the eighty-fire counties of that Territory State are 'dry." No salute was fired by the arsenal cannon yesterday in honor of Washington. This administration cannot afford the ammunition. Having got out of jail, Miss Josie Holmes, cf the late Fidelity Bank, should henceforth conduct herself in such a way as to keep out of the newspapers also. Senator Edmunds will not be a candidate before the Chicago convention for President. This announcement is made on the authority of Governor Ormsbee, of Vermont. It is always an impressive sight that of old soldiers passing the Morton monument with uplifted hats ; and bowed heads. The Indiana veterans do not forget their chief. In answer to repeated inquiries, the Journal replies that General Harrison, while a member of the United States Senate, voted for the Chinese restriction bill, as it now.appears upon the statute book. It seems to be but a a nest ion of time, and a short time at that, with the Kaiser and the Crown Prince; but it may make a great difference to a good many German citizens which one goes first. If Mr. Curtiss, of Bartholomew; county, whose house has been burned because he was on the jury that convicted Coy and Bernhamer, had the thing to do over again he would probably vote in favor of hanging the conspirators. The Louisville Commercial suggests Hon. Wm. O. Bradley as a fitting name to be on the national Republican ticket for "Vice-president. It says: "The Republican party has been ga'ning ground rapidly in Kentucky in the last few years, and no one man in the State is more directly responsible for this result than ' the Hon. Wm. O. Bradley, of Garrard." THE Democratic national convention will be held on the 3d of July, but the committee has not been able to agree upon a place. San Francisco is in the lead, with Chicago and St. Louis competing. New Yoi;k received but ; two votes. The committee is obedient to the President. He named the date, and expressed the desire that the convention should not be held in his own State. The Republicans of West Virginia propose to make national aid to education an issue for that region of country. It requires faith bigger than the mustard seed to believe that education could be grafted on to this generation Hatfields and McCoys, but early passage :f the Blair bill may insure enlightment to the youth of such tribes. The native Southerner who is to be civilized muse be caught jjoung. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm In answer to the question, "What would be i tha effect of free-trade on the Pacific coast?" ( Senator Stanford said: "Labor in China is ' paid from 3 to 10 cents per day. As a race the Chinese are the most imitative and indusI trious people on earth. An enterprising man i ufacturer could go to China and manufacture American wares on American patterns at prices that would drive American labor out of the market. - The 26th day of April is the date when all the Odd-fellows of the State engage in their annual celebration, hence it is necessary to make a change in the time for holding the State convention for the selection of delegates at large to the Chicago convention. The district conventions will be held on the 19th of April, as agreed upon, but the State convention will be on the 3d of May, one week later than originally called. Republicans throughout the State will please take notice. The address of Bruno Schmitz to the Grand Army last night was a unique teature of the ramp-fire, and the address itself one of which the brilliant young artist may well be proud. He is a man of rare intelligence and capacity, impressing every one with whom he comes in contact, not only with his high character as a true gentleman, but his mental alertness and artistic spirit. Though but a few days in the United States, he seems to be thoroughly imbued with the American genius. The monument commissioners have been as happy in the person of their artist as in the design they so creditably and unanimously accepted. EVERT effort should be made by the authorities of Bartholomew county to detect and arrest the miscreants who set fire to the residence of Mr. Curtiss, a member of the late federal grand jury. Incendiarism is a crime,

the perpetrators of which deserve punishment under any circumstances, but if it is found that the act was committed in this case because Mr. Curtiss voted for the conviction of the tally-sheet forgers the severest penalty permitted by the law is not adequate to the offense. When it comes to such a pass that a juror cannot vote for the conviction of criminals save at his personal risk, it is time for public sentiment to make itself heard, and to demand that every effort shall be used for the detection and punishment of the wretches who dare to interfere with him. Unless this is done justice will be more difficult to secure than ever, since jury duty will be avoided by honest citizens who have no mind to lose their property, or, possibly, their lives. The trail of the Coy gang extends a long way, and only by unwearying vigilance can all its ramifications be followed.

A WOMAN'S VIEW OF ITAn argument against the free-trade system remarkable, iu that it comes from an unusual source is a paper lately read by one Mrs. Wolstenholme Elmy before an Enelish fair-trade lodge. "Fair trade" in England means protection for certain home industries, the term being used by the advocates of the idea as one less likely to arouse antagonism, just as free-traders in the United States attempt to disguise their real purpose by labeling themselves "tariff reformers." Mrs. Elmy, however, although denouncing the methods of the modern free-traders and their departure from the principles of the originators of the system, evidently clings to the theory that in some future millennial state untrammeled commerce will be the "winged messenger of love and. brotherhood" and universal prosperity result. In the meantime matters are all wrong. British industries languish, workingmen are out of employment, or are kept at starvation wages, and distress is widespread. The taxation of imports is not mentioned by this writer as a remedy for the evil; she appeals not to legislators and statesmen, but to the women of her country. The cause of all the difficulty lies, she argues most forcibly, in the free-trade doctrine that cheapness of products is the prime good. As an illustration of the falsity of this theory she takes the sugar trade and shows that the purchase of German beet sugar by English consumers, merely because it' is to be had at a less price than cane sugar, tends to the destruction of the colonial sugar industry. The purpose of the German manufacturers in underselling is, it is pointed out, to accomplish precisely this thing, and to increase the price of their own sugar. How far they have already succeeded is shown by ruined English sugar refiners and thirty thousand idle and starving workmen. As women control the collective expenditures of the country they have it in their power, this earnest theorist urges, to overcome this evil by refusing to buy the foreign products and by patronizing home industries, although the present market price of the former be less. The British matron is requested to consider that the cheapness in which she rejoices is factitious, and will last only while the now decaying sugar industries of England and the West Indies continue to exist, and i3 further asked "whether as a patriot she does not hold the ruin of one of our fairest dependencies and the destitution of so many British workmen somewhat too high a price to pay for the privilege of buying for a few yeara in a cheaper market?" Another example which comes even closer home is the silk trade "after longyears of depression, almost in its last agony, thanks to the unjust competition of foreign manufacturers." "Will any lady tell me," inquires Mrs. Elmy, "that she holds it a just bargain that in order to secure to her for the same money an extra silk gown or two a year, work shall cease in all our English silk centers and the workers be reduced to starvation and pauperism? Yet this again," she declares, "is the result of the strict observance of the freetrade doctrine of buying in the cheapest market, irrespective of the conditions under which such cheapness is attained." The condition of English agricultural industries is another illustration at her hand. "In 6pite of the inevitable and most serious fall of rents, farms everywhere, and especially in the midland counties, are empty and to let, whilst the impoverished tenants of such as are still in occupation are year by year spending their little savings, living on capital instead of income, in the vain hope of those better times which cannot come so long as one-third of our food supplies the actual fact at this present time are imported from abroad, chiefly from America." Other examples are not wanting; cotton-mills are working on short time and the iron and coal trades languish. "Are we," she asks, "to 'continue in ur present course till all our industries have perished? When every industry has decayed, where will be the fixed incomes of those who, themselves non-producers, do not at present feel the cruel grip under which almost every producer is suffering and fancy all ia well, because they themselves, for the moment, benefit from spurious and unjust cheapness." That Mrs. Elmy is visionary in her application of a remedy there is no question. It is not that her fellow-countrywomen cannot, but that they will not, as a body, practice the truer economy that consists in patronizing home industries. American women, who could give struggling home manufacturers a wonderful prosperity by giving their products the preference, choose to buy foreign goods for fashion's sake, and it is not probable that the English sister will be more patriotic and self denying, under the additional temptation of lower prices. But, although the proposed remedy is not likely to be effective, the paper is a strong and impressive showing of the actual workings of free trade, and of the falsity of the specious plea that cheapness of manufactured products means general prosperity. With the tariff on American imports removed, the price of the woolen shirt might be reduced, for instance; but the American workman forced to idlenoss and want, like the armies of his British brethren, might not have the wherewithal to purchase even the cheap shirt. The lesson of this woman's paper is that it is wiser and safer to retain the duties which give protection to home industries rather

than to cast all things adrift, and leave the producers at the. mercy of the patriotism which is apt to be weak and uncertain when opposed to present financial interest.

The Crawfordaville Journal very truly says: 'The paper that acts so indiscreetly as to precipitate a quarrel betweeu those who favor Gresham and those who favor Harrison is far from being a safe political adviser."" So says the Indianapolis Journal; and, therefore, it looks with disfavor upon the disposition exhibited in some quarters to immediately antagonize the candidacy of General Harrison whenever it is mentioned, and to assert that he cannot carry the State or the delegation to the Chicago convention. General Harrison's supposed candidacy is in opposition to no one; it is merely the expression of the confessedly overwhelming voice ' of the Repub lican party of Indiana. . Why can he not be put forward without an opposition being at once started behind the . name and in the alleged interest of General Gresham? The man or paper that acts so indiscreetly as to precipitate a quarrel is, indeed, very far from a safe political adviser. Let it be stopped at once. In the Chicago convention, 1884, while seconding the nomination of Mr. Edmunds as a candidate for the presidency, George William Curtis said: "We are confronted with the Democratic party, very hungry, and, as you may well believe, very thirsty; a party without a single definite principle; a party without any distinct national policy which it dares to present to the country; a party which fell from power as a conspiracy against human rights and now attempts to sneak back to power as a conspiracy for plunder and spoils." But Mr. Curtis went out from that convention, and from, that day to the present has exerted all his influence in favor of this party, and now announces, in effect, that no matter what the Republicans may do, he may be counted upon to continue as a backer of "the conspiracy." Ephraim is joined to his idols; let him alone. There is such a thing as being too amiable and popular for one's political good. Admirers of Mr. Chauncey M. Depew are saying that this favorite son can reconcile the half-breeds and stalwarts, is a friend of the capitalist and laboring man, and can bring Roscoe Conkling and George William Curtis into the same fold. A man with such abnormally engaging qualities as this statement indicates is evidently not long for this world, and as he would certainly be translated before his term was half over it is hardly worth while to nominate him. In order to work up a boom the Depewites should permit their candidate . to have a few faults. - , A womans' Cleveland club has been organized in Chicago, and its first official act was to pass a series of free-trade resolutions. The Chicago women probably believe that free trade means liberty to "shop" and bay dry goods to their hearts' content without money and without price. Nevertheless, the members of the club will not vote for Cleveland next falL Some Ohio men in Kansas have formed a club the motto of which is: "The sun of Ohio never shone on the face of an ngly man." The che'e,r-' f ul egotism and mendacity of the Ohio man is great, but, in face of the trial of the tally-sheet forgers, none of them has the nerve to declare that the sun never shone on a "tough" citizen of that State. Mr. Edgar M. Baldwin, the author of the letter on Harrison and Hawley, is the editor of: the Fairmount News, and the letter should have been dated from there instead of from Marion. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal Do the offices of General .and Lieutenantgeneral expire with the death of Gen. W. T. Sherman and General Sheridan? W. M. Byerly. Waveland, Ind., Feb. 21. Penn Hanna. They do. - POLITICAL NOTES P. T. Baknum comes forward and frankly asserts that he would gladly accept the Republican nomination for President. The P. T. of hi3 signature, he says, stands for presidential timber. J. H. Manley, the chairman of the Republican State' central committee, of Maine, has ordered 75,000 copies of President Cleveland's message for distribution as campaign documents. The Corydon Republican says: "Hon. John M. Butler, of Indianapolis, is mentioned as a Republican candidate for Governor. Mr. Butler is one of the ablest and cleanest men in the State." v; New York World: Two of our greatest and beat soldiers. General W. T. Sherman and General Phil. Sheridan, have placed the presidency behind them. Still there are old soldiers, no doubt, who would take the place if properly urged Private Dalzell, for instance. Washington Special: The Chicago headquarters are lively enough, though they are very dull compared with four years ago, when Joe Mackin, Alderman Van Pelt, Alderman McGarigle and other boodlers now in or on the way to the penitentiary, were the loading spirits of the delegation, and literally made Rome howl. The Philadelphia American (Rep.) considers the language of Mr. Blaine's declination "of the most conclusive nature." taking this view of it: "He says, tersely and distinctly, 'My name will not be presented to the national convention.' That is final. It forbids any one who does not wish to insult bim from attempting to present his name, and it debars any friend of hia from giving to such a presentation, if made, anything but a contemptuous and indienant rebuke." ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A new brand of high collars has been appropriately named "the purgatory." Senator Farwell, of Illinois, has an income of $700 a day. It is not many years since he was working in Chicago for $8 a month. . .. Detroit Free Press: The Emperor of Brazil wears a buckeye or horse-chestnat tied to his neck to keep oft evil spirits, and it has - been a great success. Dettioit Free Press: The gossip of a single sewing society in Ohio has broken up four families, and caused a suicide, and yet the good work for the heathen goes on. The Browning craze is dying out in Boston. An autograph letter of Robert Browning brought only $4 in that city last week, while a letter of Phoebe Cary brought a much higher price, Mme. Brumidi, the model of the figure of Freedom in the fresco adorning the dome of the Capitol, is the proprietor of a boarding-house in Washington, and is a handsome and stately woman. Spectacles were actually invented about the year 1280, A. D.. and certainly they were made previous to the year 1311. The man who conferred this great benefit on suffering humanity was Alexander Bpioa, a monk of Pisa, who died in 1313. While the Rev. Emery J. Haines was baptizing a couple of men in Tremont Temple, Boston, thieves slipped into the room where the men left their clothes when putting on the baptismal robes, and picked the pockets of the watches and money. , The New York local committee on Harvard examinations for women desire to raie a scholarship of $6,000, the tnterestof which shall be applied toward defraying the college expenses of whatever candidate the authorities of Har

vard College shall ficd to have passed the best examination amonc the women who presented themselves in that year in New York. . In the town of Woburu, Mass., the following resolution was unanimously passed in townmeeting in the year 1640: "No manner of person shall entertain another, either married or otberwie, for a longer period than three days without the consent of four of the selectmen." St. Pacl Globe: "Oh, I feel so bad," said a Hartford six-year-old. "I guess it must be my conscience." "Why, .my dear," queried her mother, "yoa haven't been telling any wrone stories, have you?" "Oh, dear, no. But I did eat too much dioner, and my eonscience aches right here," pressing hard on the most painful spot childhood carries. Charles Dickens says that he has noted one peculiar .thing in this country. , "Your people,." be recently remarked to an American, "are surprisingly familiar with Enelish history and literature, but I cannot say the name for their own. I was brought up on the works of Washington Irvin?, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and when I came to America I naturally began to talk about them. I soon found that many people with whom I conversed actually needed an introduction to these two authors." Texas is known as the Lone Star State, and the name originated in this way. When she was struggling to be admitted to the Union, the gentlemen who were interested in the movement prepared a document to be sent to the President. When the paper was. ready, one gentleman remarked. "This needs a seal, and we have. none." Another instantly replied, "We will use this for a seal,' at the same time catting one of the button from bis military coat. He then poured some melted wax on paper and stamped it with the button, which had the design of a single star, and thus furnished both a came and an emblem for Texas. Constjl-Genexal Reed Lewis, who is maintaining the dignity of the United States in Morocco, is the son of a wealthy Philadelphian who recently died after making a will which left his heir-apparent penniless. Young Lewis had fallen in love with a fair maiden employed in the Philadelphia mint. His father opposed the match, and when the marriage took place disinherited his son. - Young Lewis wen pluckily to work and became a station-master on the line of the Pennsylvania railroad. An influential friend finally gave Lewis a letter to Secretary Bayard, who made him consul at Tangier. The salary attached to the position is $2,000 a year. . ... , . r A venerable Englishman named Heaps, a maker of violins, had a patriotic desire to make a violin for Mr. Gladstone out of the wood from a tree chopped by the ex-Premier's own bands. After considerable effort Mr. Heaps was invited to Ha warden to select the tree for Mr. Gladstone to fell. A soyamore was chosen, and a log big enough to make a dozen instruments was forwarded to the maker's house. The old man at once began his labor of love, and a lot of wood was : cut and dried. But the aged, man was striken down before he could complete the preliminary work. His dying wish was that the last violin he had constructed should be cent to Mr. Gladstone, together with the "toughened out" parts of the sycamore. ..There was a young man in a corps ' .Whose feelings wero often made sorps By his comrades so gay, ; ' Who of him would say, , "Ob, Lord! he's a terrible borps." Boston Transcript. r , I'M sorely perplexed, . m Said Old Probs, what next f" To give out in weather for dinner. ' ." ' Of hail-soap they're tired; Though slash is admired, :. -Ti a dish for a mis'able sinner, vtt B. S. is played out. Jack Frost's up the spout. And rain is so much of a bummer. . s - .. . Here, Greely. suppose We give them a dose Of regular old-fashioned summer. New York Journal.

COMMENT AND OPINION. A protective policy in - this country was entered upon voluntarily by a nation of farmers, with a view to the enhancement of the general prosperity. The policy has Droved a wise one. Its chief beneficiary haa been the agricultural element. It remains, though not so entirely as in the past, a (farmers' question. Minneapolis Tribune. There is nothing either in the rewards or in t&e opportunities lor usefulness of the presidency to compensate a man in General Sheridan's position for the wear and tar of reputation, the strife, the bitterness, the disappointment, the alienations, the scandals which would go to make up the price he would have to pay for it. New Tcrk Tribune. It becomes less and less the mere question of whom the party shall nominate than it is that he shall represent the recognized fundamental principles of the party, and be able to unite all those people who consider themselves Republicans in bis support. If some one can be selected who can do this the chances of the party at the coming election are so good as to scarcely demand an insurance policy. New York Press. If the noble order of the Knights of Labor would let the telegraph business alone for the present and use its great influence in behalf of arbitration, it might confidently count upon the support of an overwhelming majority of the American people. It need only make the effort to succeed. It could confer no greater boom upon our toiling millions and in no better way promote the general welfare of our people. Minneapolis Tribune. rlT is a pity that Nasby could not have lived through the coming campaign. His pungent satire would have found ample material in the hypocrisy of the Democrats on the free-trade question a subject that offers as wide range for caricature as reconstruction, Northern copperheadism and the greenback heresy. Nasby's letters from the "Confederit X Roads" are as full of keen wit and satire as "The Bigelow Papers," and they served a useful purpose in exposing the pretenses of Democratic reformers. -San Francisco Chronicle. f. . Iet Harmony Prevail. Warsaw Times. - In our opinion the Fort Wayne Gazette is just now engaged in an unwise thing, in its comments in reference to the respective candidates for the presidency from Indiana Judge Walter Q. Gresham and Gen. Benjamin Harrison. It must have been obvious to the representative of the Gazette, while he was at I ndianapolis last week, that the feeling among the editors of the State, as well as of the promnent men from every part of Indiana, was of the roost harmonious character. That a sentiment pervades Republicans everywhere that Indiana was again about to pass under Republican control. How unwise, then, it is in anybody professing to belong to the Republican party, to do aught o r say aught that would have a tendency to disturb the splendid feeling now so plainly visible in the rank of the party. It is altogether probable that Indiana, when the time comes, will present the name of but one man to the Republican national convention aa a candidate for the presidency, and the name of that one will be Gen. Ben Harrison. This was so plainly evidenced during the gathering last week as to admit of no other construction, every editor that was present so expressing himself, save three. We certainly have no wish to do more than suggest to the Gazette that it would not only be unwise to enter into a heated discussion of the subject that is so entirely within the province of the delegates to the national eonvention in a manner calculated to promote discord in the ranks of the party; but it must be plain to everybody that Indiana must present only one candidate. These two facts are self-evident. It is plain, it seems to us, that with a proper presentation of the situation Indiana being conceded as a battle-ground State that the selection of the Republican candidate on the national ticket ia as likely to fall to it as to any other. This being so, the fomenting of a struggle between rival candidates can do no good, and may produce much harm. The Gazette is certainly entitled to its preferences on the subject, just as much as though its editor had lived within the borders of Indiana all his life; but what we desire to say is that in advocating the claims of its favorite there is great danger of doing a wrone and a grave one, too to the majority that prefers some one else. The Indiana delegation should go to Chicago with the expectation of presenting the name of one, and pnty one candidate. If this is so, the chances for securing his nomination in aa good as that any other State has for its special favorite. --. " ; - Endtcott and the Battle-Flaea. New York Press. "No confederate flags have been returned under this administration," says Secretary Endicott in reply to the Boutelle resolution. The Secretary's tone is aa plainly defiant as that of the small boy who found the farmer standing at the edge of the orchard with aft able-bodied club, and said, "I I I didn't steal none of your apples." How to Advertise the City. Trre Haute Express. . The Indianapolis Journal is trying to raiee a fund to adrtise the city in other newspapers. The people of Indianapolis coul l do nothing that would better advertise the citv than the wide distribution of that newspaper from day to day.

THE PRESIDENT IN FLORIDA

Mr. Cleveland and His Companions Arrive at Jacksonville Exactly on Time, After Spending an Hoar in Savannah and a Few Minnies at Waycross, Leaving the Latter Town in a State of Supreme Bliss. Savannah, Ga, Feb. 22. The presidential party arrived at Savannah at 8:15 this morning and left at 9.33 for Jacksonville, after one hour's drive through the city in the rain. The President rode in an open carriage, and was greeted with cheers wherever he appeared. The streets were thronged with people. The President responded to the reception by lifting hfs bat and bowing. He was met at the depot by the Mayor and the reception committee of citizens, who extended the hospitality of the city. The reception was wholly informal, and there was no speech-making or hand-shaking during the entire visit. How the Waycross People Were Affected. Waycross, Ga, Feb. 22. At 12:15 o'clock, to-day, the pilot en cine which preceded the presidential parry blew its whistle at the quartermile whistle post, and was quickly followed by the train upon which the head of the Nation rode. Holding the throttle was Supervising Engineer H. Prendergast. As the train halted at the crossing of the Brunswick & Western railway, the sua was struggling through the clouds that were scuddiug across its face and trying its best to smile a genuine sunny-South welcome as the President arose, and approaching the door. lifted his y hat to the ladies and gentlemen there assembled. There was but a brief halt and the train moved'into the depot of the Savannah, Florida & Western railroad, a quarter of a mile further on. There was assembled on ttie platform nearly the entire populace of the town, who were waiting an opportunity to greet the distinguished party. As the train came to a halt there was a rush for a closer view. The President and Mrs. Cleveland etepped out upon the platform of the Pollmun car Newport to greet the people in return for their enthusiasm. Many hands were extended, which the President warmly grasred and his beaver was doffed to the enthusiastic salutations of the people. Anxious mothers held up their precious babes that Mrs. Cleveland might lay hands in benediction upon them, but the coveted treat was denied, Mrs. Cleveland remarking, "I dare not begin." v She was presented with bunches of fraerant violets by the little misses of Capt. R. G. Fleming, who stood upon the lower step of the coach at the side of the President during a brief stop. Only a glimpse of Secretary and Mrs. Whitney and Colonel and Mrs. Lamont was caught by the crowd. The train, after a halt of about three minutes, sped on its way to the metropolis of Florida, taking with it a Godspeed and leaving behind it a people made happy by the honor of having greeted the Democratio President of this grand Republic Arrival and Reception at Jacksonville. Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 22. The Jpresidential train arrived here this afternoon, and was greete iwitha saluts of twenty-one" guns and the acclamations of an immense concourse of people. Tiie party was escorted to the St. James Hotel by the State military, the reception committee in carriages, and a band playing patriotic airs. Mayor Barbridge rode in the carriage with the President and Mrs. Cleveland, which was decorated with flowers and evergreens. At 1:30 o'clock, after the presidential party had taken lunch, the marshal of the day, Major Harkishimer, with twenty aids, formed a procession which paraded the principal streets, which were gay with decorations of all kinds, including eversreens, bunting, festoons of oranges and orange flowers. Masses of people in holiday att;re lined the route, and it is estimated that 100,000 citizens and visitors witnessed the procession, including thousands of Northern tourists. On the arrival of the procession at the Exposition buildine another salute of twentyone guns was fired. The President, Mrs. Cleveland, and their party and the visiting Congressmen were met at the north entrance by the reception committee of the Sub-tropical Exposition, with Director-eeneral Paine and the officers of the association, and were escorted to the platform in front of the north galleries. The other guests were escorted to the south gallery. The military then entered and stacked arms, except the guards on duty. Seats were provided on the platform for representatives of city. State and United States eovernments, distinguished citizens and committees. When the President, Mrs. Cleveland and the accompanying guests were seated, Col. J. J. Daniel delived an address in which he welcomed the President and Mrs. Cleveland to Florida, and in behalf of the Sub-tropical Exposition and its management; the city of Jacksonville, the Board of Trade, and the State of Florida and its people. Colonel Daniel's speech was warmly applauded. When quiet had been restored the President replied as follows: I am exceedingly gratified that I am able to see the wonders of your State and to meet its kindhearted people; and the sincerity of your welcome has made me already feel quite at my ease. 1 am sure that every person must be impressed with the extent of our country and the diversity of its climate and products, when he finds that by traveling twenty-four hours within its limits, winter and snow can be left behind and exchanged for the balmy air. and bloom and vendure of summer. The American citizen in search of health or pleasure and comfort in any variety of climate, or in almost any changed condition has no need to leave American soil, or to lose the benefit and freedom of American institutions and laws. 1 suppose the advantage, of foreign travel should be fully appreciated, but it seems to me that there is enough in our land to interest and instruct, oftentimes with the greatest advantage, many of our citizens who insist upon seeking the novelties and sights of foreign countries. There is, however, a satisfaction in the fact that none of these return without an increased appreciation of their home. While this proves that our citizenship and patriotism can be relied upon as against all blandishments of the old world, I have sometimes thought if a good share of the time thus spent in learniutr how much we loved our country was devoted to acquiring more intrinsic knowledge of its beauties and its advantages, both our citizenship and our patriotism might be improved. I expect my present occupation at the seat of onr government, where our country and its people and all their needs are constantly subjects of thought and care, makes it hard for me to omit reference to these things, and yet I would not have you think that on' this social visit the holiday which I have taken is to be spent in any other way than in the freest enjoyment which your kindness and the facilities of your State and your city afford. I want to see the exhibition of your products, the scenery of your rivers, and the growth and perfection of your fruits. I intend that, during my brief visit to yon, official cares shall give way to the freedom whieh you kindly invite, in the hope and expectation that with the enlarged conception of the greatness and beauty of my country which I shall here acquire, I shall return to my post of duty better able to serve you and my fellow-citizens. The Presidents's reply was greeted with the most voiciferoos and long continued applause. President Cleveland resumed his seat, but the applause and cheering continued to break out anew at short intervals, . and at length Mr. C. H. Jones stepped forward to the President and suggested that the people desired to see Mrs. Cleveland, lie acted at once on the suggestion, and, as Mrs. Cleveland rose, he took her by the hand and led her to the front. Then broke forth a'perfect tempest of cheering and a storm ofJiand-clap-ping. This ended the formal part of the ceremonies. The ladies and gentlemen on the platform came forward and were introduced to the President and Mrs. Cleveland, Secretary and Mrs. Whitney, and Colonel and Mrs. Lamont, and then the party returned to their carriages and were driven to the hotel. Their inspection of the exposition will be deferred until morning. The President's public reception was held tonight at the St. James Hotel, lastinz two hours. President Cleveland, escorted by Judee Settle, and Mrs. Cleveland, escorted by C. H. Jones, entered the parlors at 8:30 o'clock, and when the reception ended at 10:30, over eight thousand persons had passed in line and shaken hands. ' To-morrow the presidential party will go to St. Augustine, as guests of Mr. Flagler. At night they will go over to Palatka and to Sandford and Indian river, returning on Friday night. He Playfully Poiuted the Pistol. Chicago. Feb. 22 Charles Holten, son of the wealthy and prominent furniture dealer of Chicago, was shot and fatally wounded by bis brother, Ethan Allen Holten, this morning. Charles is nineteen yea.-s of age and Ethan sixteen. Since the Snell mnrder Charles Holten bought a dark- lantern and revolver, keeping the latter under bis pillow. Wnile the boys were dressing this morning. Ethan picked up the weapon and pointing it playfullv at Charlie exclaimed: "You're a dead man." The revolver happened to be at full cock, the hammer fell, and Charlie fell to the floor with a bullet in his breast. Physicians say he cannot live. Old 3Ian Charged with Wife Murder. Cleveland. O.. Feb. 22. Edmund Daniels, aged sixty ieht, ia in jail at Wooster, O., ehareed with the murder of his wife, aged seventy-eieht. The aged couple have lived about four miles from the town for many years. A ehort time since the old lady became so childUh that the couple went to live with a neighbor named Tanner. About a mouth since Daniels went home one day in a xage and engaged in a

quarrel with his wife, during which he struck her on the back of the head and in the fae with a shovel. On Tuesday morning Mrs. Daniels died from the effects of her injuries. These

are the facts as related by Mrs. Tanner, who tells a heartrending story of the old man's brutality. He refuted, she raid, to procure medical aid for the old lady or permit anybody to do anything for her. On the morning of her death, Mrs. Tanner says, he d rapped ber from bed and put ber in a chair. The corpse was found, later in the day, sitting bolt upright. A post-mortem examination, beid today, showed that Mrs. Daniels's body was literally covered with bruises, and tbat death had been caused by the inyet been held. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Restoration of the Telegraph Wires and Re appearance of the Brokers. Special to the Indlananolls Journal. Washington. Feb. 22. Everything eoea br extremes in Congresa It will be remembered that a couple of weeks or so ago the attention of the House, and especially the Speaker, was called to the fact tbat a number of special wire were run into the lobby for the use of stock-brokers, and the lobby at times swarmed with brokers and their cappers. Speaker Carlisle indignantly ordered out not only all the stock wires, but all of the commercial telegraph wires, and they were sent up on the floor above, next the reporters' gallery. Thie necessitated the ascension of a couple of flights of stairs by every member who wanted to send a telegram, and it required but a few days of this leg work to bring upon the Speaker an avalanche of disapproval and a demand that the wires be permitted to go back to their old stations, which are within thirty or forty feet of the north entrance to the ball of the House of Representatives. The Speaker acceded to the demand, and within forty-eight hours the wires were all back and many of the faces of the old stock-brokers were seen haneing round. One of the telegraph companies went so far in replacing their counters and screens. as to hoist a screen containing a pane of glass and a window, over the latter of which were the words, "Stock Indicator." For the first two or three days the manager of that telegraph company kept a large card hunc over these words, and brokers were not allowed to lean e gainst the counter and importune members and stranger for patronage ia an open way. But at the expiration of this time the crowd was back again, and now the corridor is as full of broker life as usual, and the signs are up for business, the same as they were before the attention of the couutry was called to the fact that the members ot the House are largely speculators. At present all kinds of intoxicating beverages are sold openly across the counters of the restaurants at either end of the Capitol. Men approach the bar and drink with the same nonr ehalance that characterizes the habitues of the schooner dens at d the all-night places. One of these times, it is expected, some one will raise a row about the matter in Congress, and then the thing will be shut down so closely that policemen may be stationed at the doors to examine everybody who enters, for the purpose of seeing that no intoxicating fluids are upon their person. , Discharged and lit red Again. Washington, Feb. 22. Yesterday afternoon' at 1 o'clock John B. Lynch, a watchman in the . money-order building of the Postoffice Depart ment, received notification of his dismissal. He went home, got his records and discharge papers as a private soldier, and carried them to Mr. Enright, the superintendent of the building. The records showed that he had serve d through? out the eivil war with distinction; had been wounded at Antietam. and, being disabled for field duty, had been appointed orderly to Secretary Stanton. After the battle of the Wilderness, when Grant had not been beard from for seven days. Lynch was intrusted by President Lincoln with the dangerous task of conveying: dispatcheB to Grant. Lvnch succeeded in his mission and brought back Grant's answer, which contained the famous sentence, "I will fight is out on this line if it takes all summer." Onlearning these facts. Mr. Enright promptly reInstated Lynch within an hour of bis receipt of the notification of dismissal. The Democratio Tariff Bill. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Feb. 22 If some of the RepubW.O W . ....W AAWUW - J and means, who are out of the city, return in time, the Democratic tariff bill will be laid before the full committee on Friday or Saturday. It is to be held by the committee for revision a week or ten days, reported to the House, and its consideration began at once. Democrats say it will not be discussed over a month, and will reach the Senate by April. General Notes. Special to the Indiananolis Journal. Washington, Feb. 22. J. E. Hawkins, of Kokomo, is here, and wants a land registership in Dakota. , . Hon. Jno. C. New left here for New York tonight. t . peaKer Carlisle leic wasnmgton last nigct, with Mrs. Carlise, for Wichita, Kan., whera their eon is ill. The Senate committee ou interstate commerce to day directed adverse reports to be' made on the bill to license railroad conductors, and the bill introduced by Senator Butler to fix a maximum passenger rate and to fix the hours of laoor for employes on passenger trains. The House committee on agriculture to-day gave a hearing to persons interested in the Butterwortb bill to regulate the manufacture and sale of counterfeit or compound lard. Speeches were made by Judge Jere Wilson, of this city, in favor of the bill, and by George H, Webster, representing Armour & Co.. and Messrs. Fox and Cromwell, representing Fairbanks Us Co., in opposition. The Second District Matter. Washington Gazette. The Sentinel and News of Indianapolis have published articles which create the impression that some dissatisfaction exists at Indianapolis because the late Second district Republican convention saw nt to cnoose delegates to uw national nominating convention. It is stated by these papers that Judge Gresham's friends are doing the kicking. When the convention was called The Gazette thought it illy-advised, in the belief tbat the attendance would be small o early in the year, but in this we were mistaken. The convention showed a better representation for the various counties of the district than we remember ever seeing at a similar meeting in the Second district. The feeling among most ot the delegates was that the work should be gone through with as arranged by Chairman ' bchreeder, and the proceedings of the convention were entirely harmonious and satisfactory. This being the case, no one outside of ths district has any reason to erumble, and we near of no Republican in this district who is dissatisfied with the convention'., at. ion. Besides, the convention's work has already been ratified by the new State central committee. There were no instructions given the delegate", and they did not express any preferences. However, we believe that they are for General Harrison, and the fellows at Indianapolis who think they know more about Second district politics than we who live in it do may at well understand now that the convention's work is indorsed by all . the Republicans here. Also, that if the delegates selected are not for General Harrison for President, tbev do not reflect the sentiment of their constituency. If forty conventions would be held the rerult would be the same. Delegates believed to be for General Harrison would be chosen. So far as Judee Gresham is concerned, he has the respect of the Republicans here, but he is not considered as a presidential quantity, at least while General Harrison is in the field. A Telling; Argument for Protection. At.'anta Constitution (Dem. ) It has not been a great while since the Constitution, which has the facilities for engaging in such enterprises, investigated the condition of the farmers in Georgia. There was hardlv a county in the State that our reports did not cover. They were complete in every respect, and they showed beyond all question that the farmers, instead of growing poorer, were aa progressive and as prosperous as any other class of workers. Our reports showed that in every instance where farming was made a business of instead of a mere means of gaining a livelihood the farmers were making money and growing rich. We suppose that there is not a county in the State in which may not be found instances where farmers, who began poor after the war and indeed all of them were poor at that time are now rich or growing rich and a'.i from the products of their farms. Nov, as our correspondent says, if the tariff is kee Ding our farmer poor and making him poorer, why doesn't it have that effect on all the farmers? If the tariff is keeping the Southern farmers poor and making them poorer, why doesn't it have that effect on the farmers of tha North and Eastl For a great many yeara the North has had iho benefit of the tariff, and the result Is shown in the prosperity of the farmers and in the increase in land values.