Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1889.

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Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street, LOUISVILLE C T. Deering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern IIoteL WASHINGTON, D. C.-Riffgs Honse and Ebbitt Hcitse. Telephone Call. Business Office 238 ! Editorial Rooms 212 Only sixty days more of G rover Cleveland, and no probability of another scolding message. Jt is understood that Joseph McAuliffe, the San Francisco pugilist, does not like the Australian system. The sun shone auspiciously on the first day of the jiew year. The eclipse diiumed but did not extinguish its brightness. Jason Brown is now figuring as the original Harrison man because he defeated him in the senatorial contest two years ago. Next! Half the secret of happiness in this world is having something to look forward to. At present we are favored with the 4th of March. One thing can be depended on: No confidence man or robber can coax an Indianapolis cashier from behind his desk on any pretext not this year. "Where were the police?'' is the heading of the Sentinel's account of the postoftice Tobbery. It would be more to the point to ask, "Where was the moneyorder clerkP WnEN Sim Coy returns from Michigan City, and resumes the control of affairs, the little Democrats who have been playing at politics in his absence will have to take back seats. It is said that all the five Democratic members-elect of the Legislature from this county signed the petition for the jardon of Sim Coy. Yet they profess to desire a better election law. The Sentinel begins the new year with the astonishing statement that, "Tho truth is, the postal service has sever been so well conducted as at present." Evidently the Sentinel has not sworn off. Jason Brown now claims the responsibility of the irregular and illegal proceedings of the last Legislature. Green Smith has been saying all along that ho did it. Is there to be trouble between these two small-caliber statesmen! We have no idea hat the next Legislature will pass a pa tisfactory election law, but the Republicans must use thebest efforts to that end. If a few Democrats can bp induced to disregard their party traditions and co-operate, so much the better. And so Gov. Isaac Pusey Gray means to have r-r-revenge on the brethren who rubbed him off the St. Louis slate last cummer with a bandanna. Daniel Webster Voorhees will find it necessary to wear high boots when he wades into Indiana grass from this time forth. Why don't the Methodist ministers of Indianapolis direct their attention to General Hovey first! A ball, and a big one at that, is to be a part of his inauguration ceremonies, and it would be more seemly if these social reformers would Btraighten out matters at their own home before undertaking 'to regulate the Kation. Dakota may prove to be the first State with female suffrage. The women of th8 Territory, who secured the passage of a suffrage bill 'four years ago only to have it vetoed by an unfriendly Governor, are working to have the law reenacted. If they succeed it may become a feature of the State Constitution. The Territories and new States are good experimental farms. No State except Indiana limits the raloon tax to $100 a year. The limitation acts as a protection of the liquor interest at the expense of all others. If it were removed, all the cities and most of the large towns would double or quadruple their tax on saloons, thus largely increasing their revenue, diminishing the evils of the liquor traffic and reducing the burdens of other taxpayers. ' At the last general assembly of the Northern and Southern Presbyterian churches fraternal greetings were exchanged and a committee was appointed on eacli side to confer relative to a basis of reunion. The committees have been holding daily sessions in New York for several days past, and while they have not yet reached an agreement, there is reason to believe they will report in favor of union. Heretofore we have had only one Eide of the Hnytian business, and that through administration channels. It represented the administration swift to .avenge an insult to the American Hag and assert the rights of Ame rican citizens, and the Navy Department as ready to spring to arms on short notice in defense of the national honor. It begins to be rumored in Washington that this

is all stuff, and that when the bottom facts come to be known our government will be placed -in a very bad light. It seems Mr. Calvin S. Brice, chairman of the Democratic national committee, was largely instrumental in shaping the action of the administration, and that the President acted with his usual haste on imperfect and ex parte information. Facts that are now coining to light indicate that the Haytian incident may prove the crowning disgrace of the administration.

CHARGES AGAINST COUNCILS. Our present City Council, like its predecessors for years past, is a corrupt and extravagant body, and the proposition to clothe it with the power to increase the burdens of taxation upon the people is not likely, we think, to meet with much favor from anybody who does not expect to derive some immediate personal benefit from the handling and expenditure of the municipal revenue. Sentinel. The above aud many other statements that have appeared from time to time in the Sentinel of like character, in reference to the City Council and Board of Aldermen, are unjust and gratuitous. The present Councils have administered the affairs of the city, in the main, with great prudence and economy; they have conducted the affairs of the city with less revenue than any of their predecessors for years. It comes with ill grace, and smacks strongly of pertness, for the present editors and managers of that paper, who have not been residents of the city twelve months, and whoso names have not yet appeared upon the tax duplicate, to charge fraud and corruption upon the representatives of the city, many of whom have been, for years, identified with Indianapolis and its development. The members of these bodies, Republicans and Democrats alike, have the confidence of their constituents. The only exception is the Democratic member from the Eighteenth ward, who was found to be corrupt by the United States Court, and whose enforced absence appears to be regretted by these critics of the other members. It is a fact, plain as a pikestaff, that the present revenues are inadequate to meet the increasing requirements of the city, and the charge that all who say so and who are seeking and suggesting methods to increase the revenues are schemers and plunderers, can only emanate from base minds, from men to whom greed is the mainspring of action, and who only lack the opportunity to avail themselves of methods they falsely charge upon others. THE WHITTAKEE LETTER. Every day, day after day, the Sentinel and other Democratic papers are howling about the Dudley letter. The English language has scarcely words abusive enough to convey their indignation at it, and of its purposes and intent as they construe the intent. So far as the Journal is advised, there has been no proof that Dudley ever sent the letter published, or, if he did, to whom it was sent, or through whom or by what agency it came into the hands of the paper publishing it. The Journal, however, has seen the circular of which the following is a copy: "strictly confidential. "Martinsville, Ind., Sept. 7, 1888. "Dear Sir I desire exact information in regard to your district. Morgan county is remarkably close, but, by proper organization and vigorous work it can be redeemed from the clutches of riug rule and the blight of excessive taxation. Much depends on your efforts. You should select men to assist you, but only such as you can trust should be chosen. Therefore, I request of you to make an exact list of all the voters m your precinct, for your own use, and report to me the exaet number of each, on the inclosed slip. Please report to mo not later than Monday, Sept. 10, and every two weeks thereafter. Make the doubtful list as small as possible, and mark every one who has to have money as a 'float.' Those who have to be bought are not 'doubtful but aro 'floats.' Look closely after every one. Let no one escape. Your prompt attention in this matter will aid materially in the efficiency of our efforts. Respectfully, "N. A. Wiiittaker, Chairman. "Report at A. II. Caldwell's store, Sept. 15, at 1:30 P. M." Mr. Whittaker was chairman of a Democratic committee in Morgan county. Mr. Caldwell, at whoso store the report was to be made, was secretary of a Democratic committee, and the person to whom it was addressed a Democrat. The language of this circular is suggestive: ."Mark every one who has to have money as a float;" "those who . have to be bought are not doubtful, but aro floats." Has to have money for doing what if not for voting the Democratic ticket? The ex-deputy district attorney has ransacked the State of Indiana, has subpoenaed members of Republican committees from almost every county in the State, to find some one who has received the alleged Dudley letter. Yet after weeks of inquiry no indictment has been found against any one for conspiracy in connection with that letter. If he will devote some of his surplus energy to finding the sender and the receiver of the above circular, and to investigating its purpose, he will doubtless be more successful. The original circular, the man who sent it, and the man who received it, can all be readily found. He will probably not have to inquire outside the limits of the grand jury-room to ascertain all the facts. This grand jury, or some other grand jury, will no doubt investigate this matter very fully. We are to have reform in job lots. The Democratic politicians of New Y'ork have long been noted for their zeal and earnestness in seeking to remedy the evils of the body politic, and Governor Hill does not intend that his name shall be omitted from the list of pure and unf.lfish Bourbons who have sought to furnish specifics for political ills. The Governor bids high, aud will doubtless take nnk with Tilden, the only man who ever sought to purchase the presidency of the United States. The New Y'ork Legislature assembled yesterday, ami the Governor in his message took occasion to lament the use of money in political campaigns, but carefully refrained from favoring the public with his views as to the effect of a political combination of thousands of liquor sellers a point on which there is reason to think the Governor is well informed. But the Governor does not confine his reform suggestions to State affairs. He proposes

that the tenure of the presidential office be extended to six jears, with a one-term limitation, and that ex-Presidents, including those now living, shall become members of the United States Senate. The Governor's scheme is broad and liberal, but the country is not 3'ct educated to the point of adopting it. The New Y'ork reformer will doubtless enter at once upon an educational campaign. .

Quoting the remark of the Chicago News that "what the Nation , wants in the way of investigation of Southern election frauds in the next Congress is not bloody-shirt ism but the truth, the Indianapolis News says: "An honest endeavor to find out whether a fair ballot and a fair count is had in the Southern States, and if not, why not, will never come from the ravings of the John J. Ingalls-Anna Dickinson agitators." Nevertheless, John J. Ingalls and Anna Dickinson spoke the truth, call it bloody-shirtism or not. Agitation must come before investigation, and had it not been for what lAugwiunpish softness calls "ravings," congressional inquiry into Southern election outrages might be j et a long way in the future. The openingof missions "on the Murphy plan" is an encouraging sign of the times. Not all workers can be as successful as the Murphys, but honest and earnest agitation of the temperance question and direct efforts at reform aro what is needed and will bring their reward in due time. The fact is just dawning upon a good many well-meaning people that the political prohibition talk of which so . much has been heard has effected absolutely nothing in the way of promoting temperance, and they are now turning in a direction from which material results must come. If the stories of Democratic newspapers concerning the "demands" ofleading Republicans of several States for recognition by the coming administration had any foundation in fact, the easiest way out of the difficulty would be to make enough new States out of these Commonwealths to give each "leader" a chance. Ohio and New Y'ork, for instance, would cut up handsomely. However the Democratic papers aro having tbeir own fun with the Republican "boj s," and the extreme measures suggested will hardly be necessary. The annual review of Southern industrial progress, published by the Manufacturers' Record, of Baltimore, shows that the new mining and manufacturing enterprises organized during the year 1888 in fourteen Southern States represented an aggregate capital of $103,800,000. If the Democratic free-trade policy had succeeded, this splendid tide of prosperity would have be?n arrested and reversed. General Longstreet was right when he said, "The approval of Cleveland's policy would have been a calamity, notably to our section." A Pittsburg paper, in its issue of yesterday, published autograph letters from fourteen Governors of States and Terri-j tories in the Union, reviewing the events' of the closing year, and briefly considering the prospects for the year 1880. Every one of them had something terse and pointed to say aljput the growth, a prosperity and prospects of his State except one. This was Governor Gray, of Indiana, who wrote on Christmas, and spoke of the beneficial influences of a general observance of the day. This was highly statesmanlike. The New Y'ork Sun quotes a few passages from Cleveland's recent letter to the Boston Free-trade Club in which he calls the 5,437,000 people who voted against him ignorant and unpatriotic, and pays: "Nothing has been offered' to the public which marks out with clearer definition the author's own rating of himself as a public man, the dimensions of his intelligence, the character of his patriotism, and the nature of his Democratic instinct not only as a defeated candidate, but as an American citizen." The telegraphic announcement that Governor Hill, of New York, has been inaugurated for a third term is somewhat misleading. Governor Hill has been elected to the office twice, the first time in 1885, but was Lieutenant-governor at the time of Cleveland's first election to the presidency and succeeded him in theX?overnors chair for the remainder ur that term. The Morgan county circular and others of like import possibly constitute some of the several "good schemes" that Mr. Sheerin said the Democrats had to carry Indiana. . About this time of year look out for wonderful tales of gold discoveries in some remote and nearly inaccessible region. The last marvelous "find" was in the Coiur cl' Aleno mountains, and from all parts of the West, not to speak of the East, fortuneseekers migrated to that region. . Tho stories of rich ores and monster nuggets brought from there were persistently and systematically kept in circulation, evidently by persons interested, and were of the most plausible and seductive character even to persons not overly credulous. Hundreds, and doubtless thousands of men, filled - itli the love of adventure and the hope of speedy wealth, wandered iuto that desolate country, but when the excitement was apparently at its height the astonishing tales ceased as suddenly as they began. If any man of all who were attracted to the Ctrur d' Alene mines has made his fortune there, that fact has been carefully concealed. Tbe reported craze in Lower California will, without doubt, subbide as swiftly, but the adventurers who go there will have the advantage over tho others mentioned that they are not in danger of freezing to death in their search. Popular Science Monthly has information to the effect that thehippopotamus will become extinct within the next twenty years. This fact may bo of interest to would-be stock-raisers who have not yet derided in what branch of the business to engage. High grade hippopotami would be something new and mjght have a nm. -c .Troy, N. Y., .will commence celebrating its centennial anniversary to-day. Like its namesake of old, made -memorable by Homer, it demands an abiding-place in the history of its country, and tho celebration this week will be largely devoted to the purpose of advertising it self. But,

unlike Homer's Troy, tho modern Trojans have no Helen seeking to avenge her wrongs, and will content themselves in showing other cities what they have accomplished in a commercial way in the past hundred years. The Empress Eugenie "visiting Paris incognito, walking unattended and unrecognized through the garden of tho Tuileries, and attending mass in tho Cathedral of Notre Dame, where she was married to Napoleon III, forms about as striking a picture of tho mutations of fortune as history records. ' !

ABOUT PEOPLE AND' THINGS. Pig-Iron Kelley, tho "Father of tho House of Representatives," is to write a book containing his recollections of public men and measures during the last forty years. When Cleopatra's Needle arrived in New Y'ork Dr. Talmage asked Mr. Evarts where the eye was. "YVhyt" responded Mr. Evarts, "when the camel tried to go through it, it got 'busted.' " Perry Belmont, the new Spanish minister, is very dark and distingue looking. HLs father allows him $40,000 a year. He is about nvo and thirty and was at one time engaged to tho beautisul Miss Marion Langdon. Jim Givens, the brave negro who recently reproduced "Jim BludsoV heroic deed on a burning steamboat on the Mississippi, bore a name which will not bo forgotten. English newspapers aro telling the story of his glorious death. Robert Bonner is sixty-four years old. He was an Irish lad and came to this conntry to seek his fortune in 1830. His first employment was as "devil" in tho office of a Hartford paper, where ho received 25 a year .and his board. " Mrs. Newton, one of the four women who were given tho Crimean medal, which Queen Victoria personally pinned on her, is still living in Toronto. She was a nurse in tho Crimean war, and was shot through tho knee in a trench before tho Redan. President Dwight, of Yalo College, does his writing on an old-fashioned secretary that is said to have been in the family 200 years, and the Puritanic straight-backed chair in which he sits looks as if it had been in tho family at least a century. The Princess of Wales and her daughters, says an English paper, have become interested in America, prompted, no doubt, by tho friendship of England's future Queen for Lady Randolph Churchill. Tho Princesses read many American authors, and are collecting photographs of views of cities, buildings, and scenery generally of tho United States. . King Kalkaua, of the Sandwich islands, has become a prey to tho cigarette habit. He awakens in tho night to puff his papercovered weed, ho smokes between courses at meals, and is, in fact, during his waking hours, always surrounded by a cloud of illsmelling smoke. The influence of his example has affected Queen Kapiolaui, and she rolls a cigarette with tho skill of a Spanish senorita. Mme. Janiscii, the actress is said to be confined to an insane asylum near Vienna, the result of morbid dejectionbrought about by financial reverses. Formerly, sho handled money freely, bathed in champagne regularly, lived in a luxury that equaled anything Vienna has ever seen in its private life, and became famed for her reckless disregard of tho the "sinews of war," and for her joyous disposition. Geokgk Lincoln, of Coatesville, Pa., has just fallen heir to gll.000 in a curious way. An elderly German visiting tho country some years ago, met Lincoln and took a fancy; to him. The German returned to Europe after a time, and Lincoln had forgotten all about him,uutil he was informed recently that the old man was dead, and had loft him his entire estate. Lincoln is a journeyman printer, aud has set typo in efOTY'State in the Union. The most gorgeously dressed woman at tho court of Spain is tho j'oung King's nurse Gho always wears a dress of rich black velvet, with broad bands of gold round tho skirt, an apron of blue velvet, also trimmed with gold, and a black velvet bodice, fastened with silver buttons. This bodice is open in front over a chemise of fine lawn. Round her neck she has five or six rows of coral beads, and upon her dark hair is arranged a handkerchief of rich silk.; Her long ear-rings are coral. The two best male catches in .New York are Mr. George Vauderbilt- and Mr. T. J. Oakley Rhinelander, both of whom aro double-distilled millionaires. George Vanderbilt is tho son of W Hliam 11. ana is rising six and twenty. He lives in superb style on Fifth avenue, but is not particularly keen about society. Oakley Rhinelander is three years older, and, as becomes a Rhinelander, is a member of the Knickerbocker Club. He owns a good-sized strip of New Y'ork city. Somebody has taken the trouble to inform tho world that Queen Victoria is a very hard worker. Sho breakfasts at 9 and then spends the morning dictating letters to her secretary. At 2 P. M. sho takes luncheon, then holds a court ceremony and afterward indulges in a short drive. Sho does not dine until 9 v. M. As her mail is enormous, she really pets through a vast deal of work in a day. Once in a while questions of state of some importance require her attention. Tho fact is that she has no sineenre. The fifteen great American inventions of world-wide adoption are: 1st, tho cotton gin; 2d, tho planting machine; 3d, the grass mower and reaper; 4th, tho rotary printing press; 5th, navigation by steam; Cth, hot-air engine; 7th, tho sewing machine; 8th, the india rubber industry; 9th, the machine manufacture of horsesnoes; 10th, the sandblast for caning; 11th, tho gauge lathe; 12th, tho grain elevator; 13th; artificial icemaking on a large scale; 14th, the electric magnet and its practical application; 15th, the telephone. On Saturday William E. Gladstone reached his seventy-ninth year. Naples and Hawarden both realized this fact. Gladstone is now at tho former place, and the telegraph office there was overworked in tho effort to keep pace with tho congratulatory messages sent to him from all parts of tho world. Countless presents went to Hawarden. Oxford sent him a silver lamp. Cambridge presented him with rare books. There were all sorts of gifts, from sweetmeats to a weighing-machine. Gladstone is in splendid health at present, and even talks of climbing Vesuvius. The Princess Royal of Brazil, who held the reins of the government during tho absence of the Emperor and Empress in Europe, is a very pleasing and popular lady, gracious, dignified, and pleasant in expression. Her husband is an Orleanist Prince, the Count d'Eu, who has been created a marshal of the empire. The Princess, whoso name is Isabella Christina, is aged forty-one jears, and is the mother of three little boys, the oldest of whom, tho Prince Imperial do Grao Para, is the heir to all the vast territories bounded by the Andes and Atlantic, and drained by the vast tributaries of tho Amazon. Canon Fleming, the popular preacher, is a remarkable man, and he has a remarkable son. This young man decided not long ago that he wished to go into the army. He was too old to secure a commission .in the ordinary way, so he enlisted as a private in tho carbineers. His ability and good conduct soon attracted tho attention of his commanding officer, who did al he could for him. and in an incredibly ihort time Mr. Flemiug got a commission. . No sooner an officer than another piece of luck befell him. He met an exceedingly charming young lady, succeeded in winuinghcr atlVet ions, and was married to her. This young lady was Miss Norman, daughter of Sir Henry Norman, who has just been appointed Governor of Queensland. 'fun New York Board of Alderman has passed an ordinance which requires under penalty of 810 fine that all vegetables must b8old by weight'and the contents and

weight of every package must be marked on tho vessel in inch letters. Every barrel of spinach shall contain not less than 40 pounds; every barrel of sprouts shall contain not less than .50 pounds; every bushel of potatoes shall contain not less than ft) pounds; every bushel of turnips, carrots, parsnips or beets shall contain not lessthan 50 pounds; cverv bushel of sweet potatoes or onions shall contain not less than 55 pounds; every bushel . of tomatoes shall contain not less than 00 pounds; every bag of string-beans or wax-beans shall contain not less than 40 pounds; every bag of cranberries, lima beans or green peas shall contain not less than 50 pounds. Mrs. Chaska has a baby. Part a baby, part pappoose; In the night time Chaska, mebbe, Will go hunting oil of goose. And will oint the little fellow Cora Fellow's son, you know; While the little one will bellow In. the gripe of colic throe. St. Paul Pioneer-Press.

COMMENT AM) OPINION. TnE race of life is not won by tho swift, but by the sober. This remark applies to professional men as well as to middlemen. Chicago Tribune. It is a sad fact that too many people keep upon one side of our churches tho outside. They seem to feel most "at home," there. -Gloucester Advertiser. Secretary Bayard must bo careful not to ask too largo an indemnity from Hayti. Otherwise they may want us to take tho country.insteail of the indemnity,. and that would be a misfortune. New York Herald. Wine-drinking and dancing aro not forbidden by law. Custom has made them a part of official life at the capital. If they are driven out it must bo by tho force of public opinion and not bv tho displeasure of a President. Chicago News. TnE statehood of Utah would create a Mormon despotism supreme in politics and religion. lor the present the hope of Christianity, of progress, of civilization, even of the safety of the gentile in Utah, is tho continuation of national authority through tho territorial government. Utica (N. Y.) Herald. A tree is known by its frnits. A trade must be judged by its natural results. If those results are tho increase of crinio and pauperism, and the degradation of many who are not brought within range of tho law, but are simply debased in body and mind, then that trade tends to become a social evil, against which society must protect itself by limiting its power. New York Press. VThe truth is that they are eager for revenne reduction of their own kind and nothing else. They care more for Louisiana sugar and South Carolina rice than for tho checking of surplus accumulation, and upon the Democratic party, which' blindly follows their leadership, must bo laid the blanio for tho' failure of revenue legislation in tho Fiftieth Congress. Cleveland Leader. The surplus is no longer a stalking horse. There is a complete abandonment by tho , President and his Secretary of the Treasury ' of tho disingenuous pretense first formulated in Mr. Cleveland's phrase, "It is a condition which confronts us, not a. theory," and repeated in countless forms during the eleven months preceding a certain November day of defeat and disaster. That is something of a gain. New York Sun. Facts do not sustain the theory that organization has practically advanced tho wages of labor. On the contrary, facts strongly confirm tho belief that workers do actually gain most in wages where each man is left entirely free to make such terms with employers as his personal qualifications may secure. But if that is true, then the cost of labor organizations as a means of securing better returns for labor is practically wasted. New York Tribune. The American p'eople are perfectly willing to listen to reason as they did during the last campaign, but the time for cracking the whin over their heads has gone by forever. Threats of vengeance have no meaning now except as an evidence of des--perate disappointment, and it would bo in better taste not to make such open display of it. Sympathy is only bestowed upon tho vanquished when they bear their defeat with heroism. Baltimore American. The intellectual world is largely occupied in trying to solve the problem involvmg tho correlations of property and labor,, and any contribution to that solvent, however small, cannot be classed as unimportant. If the near future maybe judged from the indications of 1888 the next great landmark of history will be an appreciation of the truth of the conservative rights of property and the progressive rights of labor are in entire harmony if only clearly under-" stood and mutually respected. Chicago Inter Ocean. When polygamy shall bo really dead; when the chiefs of the Mormon church grasp the fact that tho mixing of politics with religion is now, what it has ever been, a fatal mistake, and they take their grasp from tho consciences of their people, then it will bo time to -begin to talk about the admission of Utah, but not one moment sooner. And if these chiefs are as wise as they are accounted tobe,thev will not postone this duty very long, lest while they lesitate their church shall become utterly disintegrated. Salt Lake City Tribune. It is not money, but tho lovo of it, that is tho root of all evil. The parents who, . having gained a competence, are endeavoring to lay by a store from which their sons, and daughters may draw when the light ;oes out in the home, and its shelter and loly influences are gone- forever, are engaged in a noble work. It is tho grandest trait of human nature; the most unselfish. If tho money is wasted, or put to bad use, it is not tho fault of those who gained it. They have not placed temptation, but tried to remove it from the pathway of theirchildreu. Omaha Republican. THE SOLID SOUTH. Democratic Election Methods In Florida "Little Jokers' in the Hoxefi. Mr., II. C. Rippey, formerly a resident of Kosciusco county, this State, now of Tallahassee, Fla., writes a letter to the Warsaw Times concerning Southern election methods. Following is an extract: "At all, or nearly all, of tho precincts in Leon county, at the election held Nov. 6, 18S8, on opening the ballot-boxes after the close of the polls tho 'little jokers' raised their heads in the shape of very, thin white paper, with tho names of tho electoral, State and county candidates of the Democratic party printed upon them.' Most wonderful conversion. I will give you a few precincts: At precinct No. 1 the returns show that there were 119 Democratic votes cast and 19 Republican; 78 voters have signed a statement that they voted the straight Republican ticket. At No. 7 there are 179 registered voters; tho number of tickets found in tho box was 215; Democratic majority 134. ' At the election in li&4 there were cast for Blaine 173 votes; Cleveland 19. My opinion is that there aro not over 25 Democratic voters in it at this time. At precinct No. 11 it is stated that there were 55 more tickets in the box: than there were registered voters. At precinct No. 12 only 90 "little jokers' were found in thebox, and counted "straight Democratic." At precinct No. 13, in which is located tho State capital, court-houso and the jail, and the abode of "polite and refined society," only 170 "little jokers" appeared in the ballot-box; perhaps I should say that thero were 170 more tickets in tho ballot-box than registered voters. Thestrangcstthingof all, there was only one solitary Republican ticket counted. At jirecint No. 14 the ballot box, poll books, registration list, etc., were stolen tho night before election. The Comity Comissioners refused to accept the returns from four of the largest Republican precincts in the county, claiming that they were not properly signed. The above is sufficient to show how tho election was conducted in this count3 and it is not necessary to go over the whole eighteen precincts. Tho official vote of tho oountv for Cleveland is 1,314: for Harrison, 188. In 1S84 it gave, for Cleveland 831; Blaine, 2,194. In IS) it gave Hancock IS5; Garfield, 2,832. From the best information I can gather, I do not believe 100 negroes voted the Democratic ticket. The negroes were never as well united as they were this year. " ...... Cleveland Deserted. FhilatU-lpliia Press. President Cleveland is' said to feel very keenly the fact that he has been practically deserted by his party friends since election. Hrt is no longer sought after; his receptions are mcagerly attended, and everything about the White House is dull and lonely far more so than ever beforo when a livsident was about to leave otlice. The situation, if accurately stated, shows that all Mr. Cleveland had to attract people was his official power. It is not news to anyone to say that he has few, if any, real personal

friends. None of the leading men of hit Earty like him, and none of them go where e is out of personal re garth It is not unnatural when his conrse in public life i3 considered. When he was up he had lifll use for them; now that he is down ther have no utc for him. Common luium- it v. however, ought to have retained J or l.i-M the friendship of tlm free-traders, wbc. ;:r the chief architects of h: !!iisrtuiiv-. Thev are in thsairo ho'o with him, and ought to know ho v.- it fivds.

TWO niESinilNTS. Abraham Lincoln and Hcnjandn Harrisou Speak on the Same Spot. Ylncennes Commercial. One of the most stirring times in the history of Knox county occurred at Hrnceville, in 1844, when Abraham Lincoln addressed the people there. It occurred ti the Democrats then to charivari the persons assembled to hear Lincoln, and break up the meeting if possible. They camwith bells, and instruments of eery description for making noise, and also took speakers with them to supply the place of Lincoln after he was driven lrom the field. A most hideous noise was made, and it seemed that Bedlam had broken loose, for every one made a perfect pandemonium as nearly as ho coukl. But Lincoln did not abandon tho field, but, in defense of Whigeery, ho made a stirring address. Tho Whigs who had collected to hear Lincoln got clapboards, split them, and each taking two pieces, went about striking them together and outdoing tho Democrats in the demoniacal noise. The horses broke loose and ran away, and tho Democrats were soon glad to desist and withdraw from the field. A great crowd had collected there. The people came from all parts of the county, but asido from tho noise and a few slight "scraps" nothing serious hapEencd. Lincoln spoke in the old schoolouse just above the town of Rrucevillc. He was a candidate for the position of elector at the time. , Again, in 1853. General Benjamin Harrison, now President-elect, then a llowery and enthusiastic young orator, spoke at Bruceville. Major Clark Willis selected tho very spot where Lincoln stood, and had Gen. Harrison stand on tho identical spot to address the people. The old school-Iiouso had been torn away, but tho foundation was still there, and the snot was not dillicult to select. Major Willis could have no knowledge that they would be elected as President in after years, but the were, and that is the strange feature in his selecting the identical spot Lincoln stood upon as the one for Geueral Harrison to speak from. The Democratic G. A. It. Failure. Brooklyn Eagle (Ind.) It was cntirelj- fitting that the attempt to organize a Grand Army of the Republic on a political basis should fail. That is tho fate that has befallen the efforts of Adjutant-general Koontz, of Indiana, to rally the Democratic veterans of Hoosicrdom against tho Republican veterans. Tho whole movement had its origin in General Palmer's mortification over his defeat for Governor of Illinois. He evidently expected to be elected, although running on theDemocratic ticket in a strongly Kepuhlican State. Because his Republican comrades of the Grand Army voted and worked against him he got mad, very mad, and denouncing tho present organization as a "Republican machine," gave the signal for starting an organization that would be reliably Democratic. It is to be regretted that the General did not exhibit better sense and more philosophy. Tho principlo on which the fraternity of veterans is based is the good fellowship of men, who. putting aside everything bnt the memories of tho great stmgglo in which they participated, unite in the spirit and for tho work which those memories inspire. A Grand Army of the Republic organized for the object which General Palmer and his followers proposed would not be a Grsnd Army in the proper sense at all, bnt simply a Democratic club. It ought to be possible for the gallant men who shared together the dangers of the battle-field to protect their association from every suspicion of being perverted to political ends. i How Interest Count Up. Dry Good Reporter. Peter Cooper was always a careful and prudent business man. lie was strongly opposed to the methods of many merchants who launched out into extravagant enterprises on borrowed money, for which they paid exorbitant rates of interest. Once, while talking about a project with an acquaintance, the latter said ho would hvo to borrow tho money for six months, paying interest at the rate of 3 per cent, a month. "Whv do you borrow for so short a time!" Mr. Cooper asked. "Because tho brokers will not negotiate bills for longer." "If you wish," said Mr. Cooper, "I will discount your note at that rate for three years." "Are you in earnest f asked the would-be borrower. "Certainly I am. 1 will discount your note for $10,000 for three years at that, rate. Will you do it?" "Of course I will." said the merchant. "Very well," said Mr. Cooper, "just sign this note for $10,000, payable in three years, and give me your check for $800, and the transaction will be complete." "But where is the money for mef' asked the astonished merchant. "You don't get any money," was the reply. "Your interest for thirty-sixmouths, at 3 per centum per month, amounts to 108 per centum, or $10,800; therefore, your check for $800 just makes us even." As to 3IacMnhon Meniolra. London World. Marshal MacMahon is finishing his memoirs. He has sent proofs of the chapters relating to the military operations of the Anstro-FTench war of J 859 to the Archduke Albert, inspector of tho Austrian army, and those relating to the war of 1870-1871 to Marshals von Moltke and Bluraeuthal.' requesting in each case to be informed whether he has stated facts accurately. The interest of tho memoirs will center on two points: First, tho influence political considerations had in preventing the retreat of his array on Pans after the defeats at Woerth and "Forbach in 1870, and. hccondly? the part which the Marshal played in assisting and afterward frustrating th attempts at a monarchical restoration in 1883-1884-188.. The Marshal, as was well known, thought the Com to do Chambord acted very foolishly. The crown was ready to his hand and he had only to make a move to grasp it. Ho was, however, dissuaded from it by the Comtesjje do Chambord, who, having no children and hating the Orleans princess, loathed the idea ot raising bcr husband up on high simply to mako the throne secure for his cousins. A Vole from the Patt. Boston Herald. The humorous element in tho remonstrance against General Harrison participating by his presence in the inauguration ball atY ashiugton is its most obvious feature. It is like a voice from a past agt? an anachronism of the absurdity of which those engaged in it aro sublimely unconscious. Perhaps Gen. Harrison intends to carry out tho joko by assuming to Rerionsly consider the objections urged; but probably there is not quite fun enough in his nature for such an end. A Retrospect. . Buffalo Commercial. The truth is. Uncle Sam has had a good year, take it all around. He has not wasted it in scientific preparations for slaughtering his neighbors, but has attended to business, laid up money, changed rulers for fonr years without a single row or hard word, and has found time after chores to do a little courting with a prett3 girl across the bonier. In the vernacular of the period, what's tho matter with ls&f A Very Harmless Affair. Chicago JonrnaL Judging from the ado that some good peo. pie are making about the inauguration ball, to bo given in Washington as one of the features of the local festivities of the induction of tho new President into oifice, dancing must be a great wickedneKs. Hut it isn't. A properly conducted ball has no more harm in it tlian has a properly conducted church sociable. Natural la I a Permanent Feature Illinois State JonrnaL The'lndianapolis Journal is boasting of the attractiveness of that city as a winter re.iort. But this is pretty certain to be changed before the 4th of March, when tho birds of passage now enjoy ing the "glorious climate" of lndiauapolis, will take their flight to Washington Ciy. Speaking from Experience. Chicago Herald (iH-m.) "Stanley was safe in August.' say the newspapers, but how was he in November! A great many people who thought themselves safe in August were in very bad fdiapp in November.