Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 188D.

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LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern IIotcL WAPTIIXGTOX, P. C.-Kiggs House and Ebbltt IIOUAA. Telephone Calls. 238 Editorial Booms...... Basiness Offloe.. Groyer Cleveland is like March ho came in like a lion and will go out like a lamb. Peritaps a good rule for the Chicago Anarchists wouldbo to let them meet, but prohibit them from speaking. There is something of a lull in Cabinet speculations in the Eastern press, and the unfortunate readers arc doubtless drily thankful. If the reports from Hayti are correct, Secjetary Bayard will haveuscfora more vigorous foreign policy than ho has yet been able to evolve. The sun came out of the eclipse without a scratch, came up smiling yesterday, and attended to business as if nothing had happened. It is his way. Oil, too, in quantity, as well as gas, in Indiana! The natural wealth of the State is something surprising to the residents, who are only fairly waking up to their advantages. Mr. Cor is understood to be getting very impatient at the President's delay in issuing his pardon. Evidently Mr. Cleveland does not fully Tealize that the entire Democratic party of Indiana is demanding tho release of this representative member. The Cabinet-making business is. still being prosecuted with great vigor. At first and for some time it was handwork, but now machines have been introduced. It is very doubtful, however, if machine-made Cabinets will pass the inspection of the foreman. Postmaster Aquilla Jones, it seems, adhered to old-fashioned methods, in business. as well as in politics. By his defiant disregard of civil-service laws ho succeeded in making himself a Nation's by-word for four years, and by his failure to require a bond of employes in responsible positions he sutlers pecuniary loss. The chances are that Grandpa Jones is very, very tired of official life. TnE attempt to bar out foreign actors is so unexpected that there is no telling what will happen next. Foreign lecturers and preachers may bo complained against as interlopers, and English and French books may bo prohibited. In the latter case, however, there will be compensation. No more Robert Elsmeres will make life a burden to the unfortunate individual who is expected to keep up with tho literary procession. There is good ground for Governor Gray's doubts of tho genuineness of Hon. Win. Henderson's Democracy. Mr. Henderson is openly opposed to election frauds, even when committed by Democrats, and his position in this respect is fo remarkable pud differs so widely from that of Governor Gray and other party leaders that his fealty is not unnaturally under suspicion. The Journal, however, is of opinion that the re-elected police commissioner is a "pood Democrat" in the honest sense of the terni. Among tho guests and speakers at tho recent Republican banquet in Chattanooga to Cougrcssman-elect Evans was Hon. Emerson Etheridge. His name has not been hoard in recent years, but it wa3 very familiar in tho early days of the Republican party. Mr. Etheridgo was elected to Congress in 18oo as a "Whig, and served three terms. During the war he was a stanch Unionist, and is now a Republican. In 1802 he was elected Clerk of tho House. Mr. Etheridgo is now in his seventieth year, but must be well preserved, for in his speech at Chattanooga he said: "I am not the oldest man among you. I am good for half a century more. "Why should a man bo old who has a God to fear, glorious principles to fight for, and certain victory in the future r "It is believed' says Governor Hill, of New York, "that tho recent presidential election was the most corrupt of any in the history of the country, so far as the direct use of money, was concerned in influencing the electors." Democratic papers, from the New York World down to the cross-roads patent insider, will take this up aud howl in virtuous indignation about Republican frauds. It is tho most extraordinary exhibition of political cheek ever wituessed. The world never saw anything to equal tho diabolical audacity of the Democratic party and press prating about election frauds. Tho infernal scoundrels who talk this way know there has not been a fair election in tho South for fifteen years. The votes of white Republicans, as well as black ones, are counted out there by thousand every election. In half the Southern States republican form of government does not exist. Their election laws arc framed expressly

in the interest" of fraud, and what they I

lack m terms is made up by the open, shameless, barefaced, systematic frauds of Democratic canvassing and returning boards. With a fair election Cleveland would never have been President. With a fair election General Harrison would have carried half a dozen more States than ho did. ' The canting hypocrites who thus talk about corrupt elections arc like Italian bandits who rob with one hand and count their beads with tho other, lying and praying in alternate breaths. They are only honest when "they are caught, and only penitent when they are punished. TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION IN MISSOUEI. The St. Louis Republic publishes a bill "to regulate the sale of intoxicants and control dram-shops," which has been prepared by a citizens' committee composed of representative nieu of St. Louis and other cities of Missouri. In their report accompanying tho bill they disclaim all partisan motives and say they are actuated solely by a desire to "secure the enactment and enforcement of a law to regulate saloons and to control the traffic in intoxicants in behalf of humanity and good citizenship." Tho bill was prepared with great caro and embraces the best provisions of all tho laws the committee had access to. It is a high-tax and local-option measure, and covers the whole ground of tho restriction and regulation of the traffic. St. Louis contains a very large foreign population and has always been regarded as a drinking town. Missouri contains one other large city, Kansas City, and a largo number of smaller towns. Some of the provisions of this bill are interesting as indicative of tho growing public sentiment in favor of stringent legislation on this subject. It prohibits tho sale by any person, under any form or pretext, without a permit. The character of tho person to whom a permit may issue is carefully defined, excluding aliens, pugilists, gamblers, all persons who have ever been convicted or indicted for crime, and persons who have been twice convicted of violating tho liquor law. The following section fixes the rate of State and county tax: "Upon every permit to sell intoxicants as a drarashop-keeper there shall he levied a tax of 300 for State purposes and 300 for county purposes; but upon every such permit granted to a dramshop-keeper in any city containing more than 5,000 inhabitants ihe tax for count y purposes shall be $1,000; and in every city containing more than 20,000 inhabitants flic tax for county purposes shall he $1,500; and ineverv city containing mure than 100,000 inhabitants the tax for cocuiy purposes shall bo 2,000; and in every city containing more than 800,000 inhabitants the tax for county purposes shall bo $2,500." In addition to this, the proper authorities of any incorporated city or town mny levy a tax in any amount. Tho sale of intoxicants by druggists is carefully guarded. No saloon-keeper shall at the same time hold any public office. The location of saloons is restricted as follows: 'Sect ion 38. A dramshop shall not be located in any block of a town or city wholly 'or principally occupied for residence purposes, nor in any building used as a tenement or boarding-house; nor within three hundred feet of any church, public schoolhouse or academy, or of any building used principally for educational, religious or charitable purposes; or of any town or city hall or county court-house, or building used wholly for tho transaction of public business; or within three hundred feet of any manufacturing establishment, if objection be made by the proprietor thereof; or within live hundred yards of any college or institution of learning for youths and adults, without the written consent of the president thereof." The principle of local option is secured by careful provisions. No dramshop shall be located in any rural district without the written consent of a majority of the male and female residents of the township, nor in any town of less than 1,500 population without tho written consent of a majority of the inhabitants, nor in any larger city without tho written consent of a majority of tho property-owners in the block where it is proposed to bo located. No permit is good for more than ono year, and a violation of any of the provisions of the law works its revocation. No dramshop-keeper shall have any organ, piano or other musical instrument in his place, nor any billiard-table, pooltable or other game, nor permit dancing nor expose tho reports of any games, races, elections, or contests of any kind. All sales of intoxicants made on a eredit shall bo void and of no effect, and tho debt thereby attempted to be created shall not bo recoverable by law. All dramshops shall bo closed at 13 o'clock at night and on Sundays, holidays and election days. These are some of the provisions of a bill which probably embodies the bestmatured features of high license, local option and stringent regulation of any measure yet prepared on tho subject. While providing a heavy tax on tho business, it aims to protect those who comply with tho law, and pay the tax, from competition with a lawless and characterless class who make the business of liquor-selling specially obnoxious to the public. If it becomes a law, Missouri will have the best liquor law of any State in tho Union. Mr. Si rixger, chairman of tho House Committee on Territories, says the bill for the admission of new States will be called up Jan. 15. He adds: "I hope the names will bo changed, so that instead of North Dakota and South Dakota we may have Dakota and Winona, and instead of Washington and New Mexico we'may have Takoma and Montezuma. This will depend upon the action of the House. The bill provides for elections in all of theso Territories for delegates to constitutional conventions in May next, for tho conventions to assemble in July and for a vote on tho constitutions in October next. Tho States can be admitted into tho Union immediately on the assembling of Congress in December next. Five States would give us ten new Senators and probably six new member of the House." If Dakota and Washington cannot be admitted without New Mexico it may bo necessary to include it, but it is utterly unprepared and unfit for admission about as much so as Hayti or Honduras would be. Regarding the names of the new States, Congress should bo careful and make no mistake. Mr. Springer's suggestions may call for revision. Certainly wo do not want North and South Dakota. Let ono bo Dakota and tho other Pembina. Tho latter is better than Winona. As for Washington, that name is rather overworked, and Takoma would be better. Montezuma is not a very happy selection for New Mexico. The name has no

connection with American history and is heavy sounding. The abbreviation of it, Mont., would be tho same as that of Montana, and objectionable on that account. Ono of the new States ought to bo named for Lincoln, but New Mexico is not worthy of that honor.

Mayor Roche, of Chicago, is right in demanding of the courts an explicit interpretation of tho law in regard to tho right of Anarchists to hold meetings and indulge in other demonstrations. Tho police authorities have been criticised for allowing that class of citizens too much liberty and have been as severely blamed for what is termed improper interference. It is their duty to maintain order and to protect life and property, but neither more nor less should be expected of them than the law requires, and the courts should definitely determine what latitude is given them and to what extent their responsibility goes. Tho tendency of tho Chicago public seems to be to hold tho police force responsible for every act of the Anarchists without due understanding of its power in the matter of restraining them. Electoral Reform in w York. A year ago the New York Legislature passed a bill which embodied the views of the friends of electoral reform, and which it was hoped would become a law. It was, however, vetoed by Governor Hill, with a statement of his reasons therefor. A new bill has been prepared, and will bo introduced immediately, which meets all his objections. This bill embodies tho latest views of tho advocates of electoral reform in New York, and if it becomes a law it will probably serve as a guide to legislation in other States. It provides that the State shall print and distribute all ballots, the expenses of tho general election being put upon tho counties and for municipal elections upon the cities. A primary for tho nomination of any candidate for whom tho State is to issue ballots must bo an organized assemblage of electors or delegates representing a political party which, at tho last preceding election, polled at least 1 per cent, of the entire vote of the State, county ordistrict for which the nominationis made. Tho certificate of nomination must be in writing and must contain tho name of each person nominated, his residenco and business and business address. The certificates for nomination of Stato officers must be tiled with the Secretary of State. Fifty electors can sign a certificate when a man is nominated for a county or district office for which no primary or convention is held, and 1 per cent, of the last vote can sign anomination for a Stato office so nominated. The certificates are open to public inspection after having been filed, which must bo done not more than forty nor less than twenty days before the election. Section 10 of the bill says that at least seven days before election the county clerks of the several counties shall cause to bo printed in at least two newspapers of opposite politics the nominations for office. Tho county clerks are to send a list of tho nominations to each alderman of a city or town clerk. Section 10 also says that, if any nominee dies or declines to run, the vacancies may bo filled in tho manner required for original nominations. Governor Hill vetoed Mr. Saxton's bill last spring because it made no provision for such late nominations. The county clerk is to have tho ballots printed in tho form prescribed, and all other ballots are void. The names of candidates nominated by each party are to be grouped together and designated. The county clerks are-to provide two hundred ballots of each kind for every fifty electors or fraction thereof. Two additional inspectors of election for each election district in the State are provided. In New York city tho bureau of elections is to provide in each polling place such sup-. plies and conveniences as will enable a voter to prepare his ballot, and in whicli electors may mark their ballots screened from observation. A guard-rail is to be so constructed at each polling place as to prevent outside persons from approaching within live feet of the polling boxes, or within five feet of the screens behind which the voters arrrange their ballots. The number of such screens is To bouot less than one to every fifty voters..- - No person other than electors engaged jnreceiving, preparing or depositing their ballots, or a person present for the purpose of challenging the vote of an elector about to cast his ballot, shall be permitted to bo within the guardrail, except by authority of the inspectors of election. No election district is to contain over oOO voters. Two inspectors of election are to be appointed clerks to deliver tho ballots to qualified electors. Each voter is to be entitled to one ballot for each officer ,to be chosen. Just before delivering the ballot the two inspectors must write their names or initials on the back of the ballot, immediately under the printed indorsement. On receiving his ballot, tho voter at once, without leaving the polling place, retires alone behind one of tho screens and prepares his ballot by marking a cross before or after the name of the person he wishes to vote for. In marking his ballot the voter can copy an unofficial sample ballot brought by him into the compartment, whether it was marked by him or not, but the samplo ballot must not be printed on white paper. Tho official ballot when prepared must be so folded that the face is concealed and only the indorsement and initials of the inspectors can bo seem An elector who is physically unable to mark his ballot may bring a friend with him into the polling-place and havo him mark the ballot. If a voter spoils his ballot he can get a now one, but he' must, return tho old one to tho inspectors. No voter can take longer than ten minutes in preparing his ballot. No elector shall tell any one in tho polling-place for whom he votes. Twelve cards bearing in bold type in English, and such other language as the county clerk may select a clear explanation of the way ballots must be prepared, are to be displayed in each compartment. The result of tho holiday advertising should have taught Indianapolis merchants the wisdom of calling attention to their stock in detail. Newspaper readers will go carefully over a list of goods, especially if prices are attached, when a general announcement of tho existence of the shop, and its character, will attract little notice. "What is true of holiday time is true of any other season, buyers being at all times more or less undetermined as to their needs until the merits of goods havo been set before them. ' Mrs. J. Ellen Foster's methods of temperance work aro practical, and the result of long experience and closo observation and study. Her position, as opposed to tho third party and tho manipulation of tho W. C. T. U. by third-party managers, is well known, and all who aro interested in temperance work as disconnected with politics will bo profited by listening to tho views of a woman of so great intelligence and ability. . Senator Palmer is really writing a novel. Its origin was peculiar. Ho was talking about current literature to Senator Ingalls one da3 when the latter remarked that he had abandoned his effort to produce a work of fiction. "No man can write a novel and also attend to his duties as Senator," remarked Ingalls. "You are mistaken," returned Palmer, "and I'll prove it to you." RATnER more than tho usual nnmber of book-keepers and cashiers have disappeared with their employers' funds during the past few weeks. They seem to have found that the easiest way of balancing their books for the year was to make oil" with tho cash balance. . New York has literally an elephant on its hands, Adam Forepaugh having made a New Year's gift to the city of his trained elephant 'Tip." - ne had previously given

"Bolivar" to Philadelphia, and both of these cities, though, of course, deeply grateful, hardly know what to do with their presents. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please inform me where an applicant for railway mail clerkship is required to pass examination and in what branches. Subscriber. For this and all other information on the subject wito to Civil-service Commission, Washington.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND TILINGS. The Czar has commanded Anton Rubinstein to compose an oratorio on the subject of his recent railroad accident. Two great-grandfathers of . editor J., S. Clarkson, of the Des Moines (la ) Register, were killed at Banker Hill. One was a rebel and the other a red-coat. A sister of the late Colorow, chief of the Southern Utes, died the day after her brother's demise. She was old and feeble, and could not withstand the sad news of the renegade's departure. It is the proud boast of Rutland, Vt., that it has at its bar the oldest practicing lawyer in the United States the Hon. Reuben R. Thrall, ninet3'-three years of age, and not yet ready to retire. It is said that Miss Isabel Hapgood, the. translator of Tolstoi's writings, acquired her knowledge of Russian from a'New Testament and a dictionary. She is now in Russia, gaining a conversational knowledge of the language. John Tyler, son and private secretary of President Tyler, still lives at Washington. He holds the place of "Representative of tho Public" on the board which . superintends the destruction of mutilated currency, to which he was appointed by President Arthur and Secretary Folger. Dr. A. H. Getty, of Athens, N. Y has the chair in which Governor George Clinton sat during the legislative session of 1777 at Kingston. "It is at least 150 years old," writes a correspondent of tho Kingston Freeman, "is in an excellent state of reservation, and looks as though it would ast for 100 or more j'ears to come." Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs) is a prominent figure in Buffalo society, and her poems, which are read often by her husband to entertain their friends, are almost as well known there as her prose. She makes it a rule to rest a yearbetween the publication of one book and the beginning of the composition of another. George Kennan, the journalist and author, lives in a quaint and modest little house in Washington, D. C. He is fortythree years old, and has a long, thin face; his mouth is concealed by a heavy mustache; his eyes are largo and dark, and his figure is spare. Mr. Kennan keeps himself in condition by a daily spin of ten miles on his bicycle. -Mrs. MacGahan, the widow of the famous war correspondent, traveler and author, who died from diseases contracted during tho Kusso-Turkish war, whose horrors Verestchagin's genius has so vividly placed on canvass, is a resident of New York city, with her two children, a handsome girl ami boy. They all speak Russian as well as other languages. ' The greatest land-owner of Great Britain is shooting alligators in Florida. The possessions of tho Duke of Sutherland embrace an area of 1,358,545 acres, principally in Scotland. Stafford House, the Duke's London residence, is perhaps the most magnificent mansion in the citv. His father paid $.300,000 for it, and $1,250,000 has sinco been spent in improving and decorating it. - It is said to have been Miss Mary Garret, sister of Robert Garrett, who restored the Garrett family to control of the great Baltimore & Ohio property. She advanced tho money to release the road from the inliuenee of the banking syndicate, put in a 'new President who would be obedient to her wishes and demonstrated a grip and grasp -on big affairs that would do credit to ft, Vouderbilt or a Gould. The career of a government clerk is fairly typified in tho case of JamesEvelyth, tho veteran of the War Department. He began working for the United States in 1829,-at 800 a year. In 183G he was given 1,000 a j'ear; in 1850, $1,250 a year; from 1851 to 1853 he was paid $1,500, and the next year he was promoted to 1,000. In 1S04 he was given $1,800, and in 1885, on account of advancing age. was reduced to $1,000. There he is now, at about eighty years of age, and there he will die, unless, perhaps, he live long enough to suffer further reductions. It is said that Queen Victoria's household expenses come to the enormous sum of 85,000 a year. There must obviously be great extravagance somewhere. The complaints of the lord steward's office are constant, but it is said to be quite impossible to cut tho expenses down or to see where economies could bo introduced. This sum includes the expense of the royal stables in which 300 men are employed. This seems a large number, considering how little there is to show, judging by the turnout on Jubilee day last year, which is the only opportunity there has been for years of showing what the royal stable could produce. . Count Herbert Bismarck's recent speech in the German Reichstag was practically his first appearance in tho character of an orator. He is said to have acquitted , himself well, and to have spoken with clearness and ease of delivery. Count Herbert is a man of undoubted ability, and if he is to be his father's successor, he will need to be something of a speaker. Prince Bismarck's own speeches read (in places) magnificently; but ho is a most awkward sneaker, and has never, though ho has had abundant practice, acquired easeandllueuc3 in addressing his audiences. He always speaks in the Reichstag in his Cuirassier uniform, with top-boots, aud his left hand resting on the hilt of a big cavalry sword. Mr. Rylands, the great Manchester manufacturer, almost up to his death, at nearly ninety years, insisted upon conducting personally the concerns of his business, which he founded nearly seventy yearsago. Every morning ho would be driven to his office, and with the kindly connivance of his managers and head clerks made believe to direct affairs as he used to do in former years. One day recently, when tho end was growing very near, he was driven as usual to his office. When he was helped out of his carriage and looked up at the building ho tunied to re-enter the carriage, exclaiming pettishly: "No, no, 1 want to go to my own place." He did not know the palatial building in which his later fortunes wero cared for, and his failing mind, suddenly turning back forsixty years saw the modest building in which he had started. COMMENT AND OPINION. Anarchy has set back trade-unionism in both worlds. Anarchy brought the unions into contempt at Paris in 1871; it ruined their combination here in 1880. It hovers on their Hanks now, to foment their troubles and bloody their peaceful attempts for higher wages. Chicago Herald. We need to divorce railroads aud politics. If we have, instead of this, laws regulating the whole business, we establish a connection that, from the very nature of the case, is corrupt and corrupting. Under such circumstances, the corporations always fare better than the people. Louisville Courier-Journal. Geleral Harrison's voice is for peace. The leaders of tho factions who are now inarching up unnecessary hills at the heads of their clanging hosts will presently march down again quite meekly. In other words, the men who are not clamoring for recognition are likely to draw the substantial prizes in the Republican lottery. Chicago News. The "great constitutional lawyers" who infest ashington will discover many obstacle 4 in the way, no doubt, if anybody proposes that the Irnited States should in any manner regulate the suffrage. But it would seem to bo expressly in accordance with the Constitution to enact that a person, before voting for amemberof Congress or presidential electors, shall prove that be has "tho qualifications requisite for elect

ors of tho most numerous branch of the, State Legislature," and shall submit that Eroof to an officer created and acting under 'nited States law. New York Tribune.

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tho interstate act has brought about theso Winnepeg, Man., Jan. 2. The eclipse ol results it should command the gratitude of the sun was witnessed by thousands here railroad owners, and they as much as the'yesterday afternoon, andwas a magnificent public should demand its strict and impar- sight. Hie moon commenced to obtrude tial enforcement. Chicago Tribune. , itself over the sun's dise shortly after C

Let our ex-Presidents co about their business. 1 hey aro not divine creatures, we need not go suffering on their account They are not. in the sight of a true reptile lican, hedged about Avith any awfulnesj peace or an ex-Governor. e are opposed to tho visitation of a Rtit Of affliction UpoC the people regarding ex-Presidents. Cin) The essential point of tho Democrati policy on the tariff question! is to raisi pandemonium over the terrible, the calamij tous situations connected with the surplus, Tho poor man robbed of his bread, infants starving and freezing in their cradles, th business interests of the country paralyzed and all that the circulating medium mign be uselessly locked up in the nationa Treasury. Boston Advertiser. IT is a great mistake for any young maq to seek or accent a federal office, lie cari do better in any branch of commerce: More men have been wrecked than have! ever been benefited by pursuing a politica career, and depending upon the govern ment for a living. The truly wise man is the ono who lets others hold tho office? while he devotes himself to some legitimate and reliable business. St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. It may be said, as a general thing, tha the Southern negro does not resort to vio lence to avenge his wrongs. He is disfranchised and frequently reduced to a condition a little better than slavery through tin cunning or Ins wlnte employer, out nc knows the folly of attempting to redress his injuries by force of arms. Any attempt! of that sort would be regarded as a- "race war," and the negroes would bo tho only snfierers. San Francisco Chronicle. This Republic has not yet come to tb period when it is prepared to admit dron to its busy hive, and we hope many Presidents shall be elected, serve their .term, c two, and return to professional or cor mercial pursuits to lead the life of an it telligent, honest workin gman, before Amet icans imagine that untitled, nnpreteutioui American citizenship and honest labor art in anv degree unbecoming or unworthy an American ex-iresiaem. inicago ximes. THE MOON-OBSCURED SUN. Scientists on the Pacific Slope Secure Some Good Yiews of Tuesilay's Eclipse. San Francisco, Jan. 2. Professor Pickeriug, of the Harvard University party, telegraphs from Willows regarding yesterday's eclipse, that the sun was perfectly clear during the totality. Over fifty photographs were secured. The party consisted of four observers from Harvard,: and twenty-nine local assistants. Fourteen telescopes and cameras were employed, and eight spectroscopes, besides miscellaneous apparatus. The first contact was lost through clouds. Tho other three were observed at a duration of 11.8 seconds. Eight views were secured with a thirteen-inch telescope, giving images two inches in diameter before enlargement; nine were taken with an eight-inch camera, one being on a crytkriesina plate, through stained gelatine. Thenty-five negatives were taken to measure the brightness of the corona and surroundings, five negatives to search for intramercurial planets and twenty to study the spectrum of the corona to determine its composition. These will reach from yellow rays to extreme ultra violet. For tho latter purpose a spectroscope was employed, with lenses and prisms composed exclusively of quartz. Seven observations were made with photometro measure. General illumination during totality was found lighter than the eclipses of 1878 and 18S0. The corona was similar to those of 18fS and 1878, but showed much more detail than the latter. It was an exceptionally fine corona, extending usually on ene side to two solar diameters. A striking characteristic was two forked wings of light polar rays, well defined, and considerably shorter. Tho meterological observations wero under the direction of Winslow Upton, of Providence, 11. 1., and A. L. Botch, of Blue Hill observatory. The photographing and spectroscopes were under the direction of Prof. W. iL Pickering, chief of the Harvard College part, assisted by S. Bayley, E. S. King and llobert Black, of Harvard. At Cloverdale the eclipse was observed with great accuracy by the Pacific coast amateur photograpnic association.- The weather was favorable, no apparent wind and a cloudless sky, excepting a few floating cirrus clouds. The eclipse was first noticeable at 12:23. The totality commenced at 1:46.42; lasted ono minute . and forty-four seconds, Pacific standard time. Shortly before totality the cirrus clouds were all tinged with the most brilliant colors of the rainbow. Venus appeared early in tho eclipse, and mercury and other planets wero plainly in view. The arrangements of the club wero most complete, and every phase of the eclipse was photographed by some ono of the party. A party of observers fromCarleton College, Northfield, Minn., consisting of Professors Payne, Pearson and Wilson, were located on an open plot on tho famous ranch of Gen. John Bidwell. The party used a six inch photograph telescope and other photgraphic apparatus, and a two-inch zenith telescope. Professors Wilson and Pearson exposed nine plates during the period of totality, and six between the first aud last contact observation. Sketches of the corona were made by Professors Wilson and Payne and Surveyor Browu. Tho sky was not perfectly clear. Four long streamers were seen from prominences, and the chrouosphec was strong for a quadrant distance of the west side ot the sun. The northern and southern limbs of the sun showed a great number of fine radiating filaments. At An iheim tho eclipse was plainly visible. No photographs were taken, but it is claimed an intramercurial planet was seen during the period of the sun's greatest obscuration. Professor Davidson camped near there and made scientific observations. At San Jose observations were taken by the normal school observing party, which consisted of Prof. Kleeberger, Holway and Randall, with a four-inch refracting telescope and smoked glasses. At the time of the greatest obscuration "Bailey's Beads," the corona and prominences were carefully looked for, but wero rendered invisible by floating clouds and the unobscured portion of the sun. Venus was plainly seen with the naked eye. Among the incidents of tho phenomena observed was the ellect of tho eclipse upon tho images of tho sun, formed where its light shone through apertures. A beam of light shining through a crack in a shutter formed innumerable interlaced and overtopping crescent-shaped images of the sun. The University of the Pacific has a fine transit instrument and a six-inch refracting telescope in its observatory. Observations were made by Prof. Wilbur W. Thoburn. assisted by Prof. A. H. Briggs. During the first quarter of the eclipse tho sky was obscured by clouds, but from that time on it was comparatively clear. At the moment of greatest obscurity the sun was almost hidden, except a very thin crescent on the southern edge. The mountains of the moon were clearly seen outlined against the sun. Tho sharpness of the moon's edge on the disc of the sun was especially marked. During tho last half of the eclipse the obscurity seemed to be that of twilight. Three of the planets were visible. Venus and Mars in conjunction were easily distinguished with tho naked eye. All that is known of the observations at Lick Observatory is. .contained in the following message frorn Professor Holden: "Tho eclipse was successfully observed, and photographs were ta ken "here. The expedition at Bartlett Springs were perfectly successful." At Leigan, seventy miles north of Reno, Surve3'or-general Irish, of Nevada, and his party, managed, in spite of cloudy skies, to note the time ot tho first and second contacts They secured ten photographic views during the totality, which was but one minute and forty-four seconds in duration, -a'-',.-At the observatory of Prof. George Davidson, in San Francisco, under the charge of Prof. R. A. Marr, of the United States

"oast and Geodetic Survey, the path of the -clipse was cloely noticed. During the 'arlv stages of the transit complementary jolors were visible. The first contact was

o;0-.). 'lh conditions teemed 10 ie mrowiuK uu uuiuuiuus iui umns ot vapor. ? and at 4:0U tue nearest approacu 10 totality was reached. The citv and its im mediate suburbs were submerged in twilight, while tho light on the eastern and western horizon gave a weird effect to tlm whole sceno. When the createst degree of "ur !? ll"tulu miiko uiu u"!'". t tauwi u iur MMur toiuiw. was distinctly visiblo to the naked eye, and through a were brought eruptions ir" traced. few small reflectors which into requisition, gaseous the solar surface could be KEYEXGE OF -BARBARIAN'S. Four t Down 'ly "Wnhaiak .id Their Land Seized. Avenger Slmqualak (Miss.) Srtclal to Chicago Nev. Three bands of live men each, headed by William Hare, one of tho men slightly wounded in the attempt to kill tho negro Maury, Tom McClare and Frank, have never given up the hunt among the mountains for the fugitive negroes concerned in the Wahalak "massacre." They have made their rendezvous at a place called the White House. Last Sunday the vigilantes sent in to Shuqnalak for supplies, and it was learned that the man-hunters have murdered four negroes Wide Cheatham, Anthony Wilder, Zack Maury and Stiles S tennis. Zack Maury was shot while the whit a men were' talking to him in his cotton-gin aud while he was protesting that he knew nothing of the whereabouts of his brother George. Cheatham was shot in the backyard of his houso after he had got down on n:s knees to the white men and begged for his life. Anthony Wilder, a Union soldier n ho was with Grant at Vicksburg, was met !y the desperadoes in the road as he was going with a load of cotton-seed to Wahalak. They questioned him and he said brt fcne.w nothiner of thft Wnhnlak trnirertv. I They told him that Cheatham had betrayed him and showed him his name on a r list they had prepared. He was deceived r and thought they had him. He dropped his ' or-whin and cursed them and all the whito men of Mississippi, saying that he had shot at llenry Maury that night and alter IMaury fell had aimed at George Nicholson, who ran so last that ne couiun t get a steady sight on him. Tho white men shot jhim and buried his body, as they had tho two others, by digging shallow holes ami rolling stones upon t lie dirt alter the corpse rwas covered. Saturday they caught Stiles Stennis, who had been hid in an abandoned gin-houso for nearly two weeks. Nobodv knew where ho Iwas except his dauehter. The man-hunters Kvatched her for four days, and when sho took some fresh-baked com bread to her father they followed her and found him. He had an unloaded shot-gun and showed fight with an ax. He was shot three times before he felL His daughter, in terror, told I the hunters that George Maury had escaped I from the country, but that Walter Cnok, 1 the other leader of the negroes, had been I hid with her father three days before, and had left to go to a negro in the country , . 1 . J J A. 1 - 1 1 . wnose name sue oia not Know aim uoumv enough money to take him North. The white men have sent word to their friend in the country to renew their watch about the county lines andtheinspectiou of trains on the Mobile fc Ohio railroad, which runs :' through the county. The merchants ot tne county nave oegun to write letters, to Sheriff J. R. Key, of DeKalb, intimating that it is time for him to 6top the bloody work. All the negroes killed owned little farms worth from $VK) to Sl.800. All of these farms have been relocated ot DeKalb by whife men. This circumstance has aroused indignation among the conservative men here. M. Kosenbaum, a merchant of DeKalb, who passed through Shuqualak to-day on his way to St. Louis, said: "We can see now what all this fuss was about It was simply a neighborhood row. They wtnted the negroes' land, and they've got it." Meridian. Miss., Jan.- 2 Everything is quiet at Wahalak. There is no truth in today's report about the killing of negroes at that place. m Parson Downs Mad Enough to right. Boston Special. Tarson Downs is again posing as a martyr before the good people of Boston. vcr since his trial the ministers of other churches have turned tho cold tdioulder to him, and have withheld from him the fellowship which bound the others so closely, lie has conducted services in Bunistcad Hall each Sunday, but there have been uu pleasant relations between him and th other ministers in the city. This b a j nettled him not a little, but ho has held bU peace. Now, however, he is as mad as a Slarch haro because a minister in whose' church he spoke while conducting a funeral service, published a card apologizing therefor. That was the last straw, and now Parson Downs rises in his wrath and demands from Parson Gilford, the offending minister, a personal apology for the insult. Parson Gifford declines to apologize, and the publio is awaiting the next chapter. Tli Cheap Newspaper Eril. "Gata's" New York Letter. About one-half of our news seems to bo printed in order to deny it next day. The subjects of permanence generally lie outside of crime, personal politics and tho business office of the newspaper. There is a news aspect to news more informing aud striking than sensation. 1 regard the .sensational period of news to be the offspring of the evanescent interest of circulation; for permanent circulation must be based, like personal credit, upon a standard character for perception. Tho cutting down of newspaper sale prices to 2 cents was as great an injury to civilization, self-respect and deference to authority as a conquest of New York by little imps. The news is now "worked up." Editors are afraid to be courageous, lest they lose some nefarious bit of circulation tney have acquired by trespass. Joe Cannon Qnotes Scripture. Washington Spec1 to Boston AdTertiaer. "Joe" Cannon made a comical clip, yesterday, during the debate on Holmanrs resolution to increase tho "soldier roll" of the House. He was right in the glow of an eloquent period when he bethought himself of a little Bible quotation. "AstheOldTestament has it," ne exclaimed, 'Not everv ono that eaith unto me "Lord, Lord." shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven.'" The House caught the bull very quickly, and even the unregenerate on the Democratic benches began to titter. The Illinois candidate for Speaker turned it off with a laugh, but his friends havo been plaguing him by declaring that no man who is capable of blundering over the Old and New Testaments is competent to preside over a close House. All Our AVay. Philadelphia Trews. This vear will be the first time since 1S74 when all branches of tho government will be in political harmony. The Congress elected in 1880 doesn't count, for while opposition control of the House was then broken, the Senate was practically a tie. No vital action to which any party was opposed could be taken. Since the middle of Grant's second term there has been divided responsibility. Through four different F residencies there has been a clog. Neither layes, Garfield. Arthur nor Cleveland had a Congress wholly with him. When Harrison comes in all branches will be in full accord, with power to carry out any policy upon which the ruling forces may determine. That means everything for a party which knows what it wants and isn't afraid to do it. The Dram-Shop Tax. Marlon Chronicle. The liquor tax should be raised to at least five hundred dollars. As long as the business is a lawful one it should be made to pay for a portion of the expense it entail upon the community. Indiana is far behind the surround in j .Mates in managing this business. Indeed there is not a State in tho Union where liquor is sold with the freedom that it is in Indiana, nor does tho liquor league in any State exert. n powerful an influence as it dors here. Wc do not believe tho Legislature will refuse to amend the present laws in accordance with public beaunjeul.

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