Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1889

THE DAILY" JOURNAL THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1S89.

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LOUIS VtiKm Nevrs Company, Union Depot and Southern Hou L WASHINGTON, D. C. Rirgs Ilouse and Ebbltt House. Telephone Calls. Ruisness Offlce 253 1 Editorial Booms 142 Judge Niblack ran against an unexpected snag when ho encountered your uncle the Governor. The revenues of this city could easily be increased $50,000 a year if the Legislature would repeal the $100 limitation on the saloon tax. Governor Hovey deserves the thanks of the people for conducting a kindergarten school to teach Democratic legislators the primary principles of constitutional law. The proposed constitution amendment providing that the terms of all county officers shall be four years, and making them ineligible to re-eiection,is a measure of reform, and should pass. Mr. Gapen unwillingly confesses that Mr. Sullivan has had to use of the State's money in hi3 business, but it is not yet made clear how much the exclerk and chicken-dealer carried away with him. Mr. Patrick Egan's experience goes to show that the common advice to "burn old letters" is not always wise. Had he not carefully kept a file of his correspondence the Piggott fraud might never have been discovered. There is this much to bo said in explanation of the consumption of ten thousand dollars' worth of potatoes at the Insane Hospital in nine months' time: potatoes do not get wormy nor yet rancid, and can be eaten when some other things on the hospital menu won't go down. Now, what could have been the crafty ex-Governor's reason for falling suddenly ill at the time he was billed to address the Hendricks Clubl Does the would-be Senator foresee the time when to be claimed as a "comrade" and "brother" by that body will injure his prospects? As might havo been expected, the Sentinel comes to the support of the poor, dear, persecuted murderers who are in the penitentiary for life and want to get out at the end of fifteen years. This disposition to "turn the rascals out" is hardly in lino with the popular ideas of reform. Eulogists of the out-going President find little to say, but are unanimously agreed that ho was a hard worker and attended strictly to the business of his office. Every one will admit tho truth of this, but comparatively few are ready to go to the length of asserting that it is a mark of greatness to look after details which a clerk could attend to as well. If tho story of Piggott'a crime and its detection by Patrick Egan had been woven into a romance by Wilkie Collins it would bo called interesting but improbable, and many weaknesses and inconsistencies would bo pointed out by overly-acute critics. Real life is not only stranger than fiction, but stranger than fiction-writers dare to represent it. . Wrrn an empty treasury, a largo deficiency and a prospective loan of 2,000,000 staring them in tho face, tho Democrats still have tho gall to recora- ' mend an appropriation of $15,000 to pay Warden Jack Howard's shortage, money to pay Green Smith's salary as Lieutenant-governor, and $500 to pay Scott Ray for contesting a seat which ho did not get. This is government by Democratic caucus. Mn. Piggott wa3 a shrewd villain, and really took little risk when ho committed his ingenious forgeries and held them out as a bait for the London Times to snap at. He had doubtless calculated carefully the chances of his detection, and found them so few as to offer no bar to the success of his Fchemes and his owu safety. It was a very remote probability that his own letters, written years ago, had been preserved to servo as a clue, or that any one would connect him, who had dropped into obscurity so long before, with the crime. As it happened, however, those very improbable tilings did occur; the one chance in ten thousand was the one that served to convict him, and all his ingenuity and rascality have gono for naught. His case should servo as a warning to men who arc only restrained from committing crime by tho danger of being found out. TnE Willard bill for the release of all life convicts at tho end of twenty-five years is a mischievous embodiment of tho maudlin sentiment that would mitigate tho punishment of crime until there is little or no punishment left. It is another and a long step in tho direction of the vicious idea that tho rights of criminals are moro important than tho rights of society. The practical effect of tho bill is to limit all life sentences to twenty-five years, subject to further reduction by., tho cood-timc law. Warden

Patten, of tho Prison South, says it

would virtually reduce the life sentenco to fifteen year3 . and six months, and that if passed it would immediately release five life convicts now in that prison. So far from this being tho indeterminate system adopted in Ohio, it is a plain perversion of that system in tho interest of life convicts. We advise the chairman of the ways and means committee to stop tinkering at prison reform and turn his attention to finance. STBimG A SNAG. The gentlemen who arc engaged in concentrating all the powers of the State government in the hands of the Legislature met with a slight obstacle yesterday. Judge Kiblack, one of tho five Supreme Judges recently appointed by tho Legislature, called on Governor Hovey for his commission, and the Governor respectfully declined to issue it, on the ground that the bill under which tho Judge was appointed was, in the opinion ot tho Governor, unconstitutional. This contingency was foreseen by the Democratic caucus which framed tho bill. It provides that the judges shall be "commissioned by the Governor; but in the absence of a commission, their appointment shall be evidenced by a certificate thereof, signed by the Speaker of tho House of Representatives and countersigned by the Secretary of the Senate, which certificate shall be sufficient evidence of their authority to act." The Governor has taken his position deliberately, and will not recede from it. The five commissioners, theref ore,will receive certificates of their appointment, signed by Speaker Niblaek and Secretary Green Smith. The Supreme Court may, and probably will, decline to receive them as commissioners or recognize their right to act without commissions from the Governor. The Constitution says, Section 228: "All commissions shall issue in the name of the State, shall be signed by the Governor, sealed by the State seal, and attested by tho Secretary of State." It does not recognize the right of any officer to act without a commission, nor does, it recognize such a thing as a legislative certificate of appointment to office. If the court declines to recognize the right of the Commissioners to act without commissions, they will have to apply for a writ of mandamus to compel the Governor to issuo commissions. If, on the other hand, they attempt to act by virtue of a legislative certificate of appointment, a writ of quo warranto may issue to test their right to do so. Either courso will raise the question of their title to office, and, indirectly, tho constitutionality of the law. Tho action of the Governor brings the matter to an immediate issuo and insures an early adjudication. The questions involved arc of great importance, and should be settled on broad and solid principles. OUR EXECUTIVE LEGISLATURE. Governor Hovey's veto messages will furnish a good compendium of constitutional law for future use, though they are thrown away on the Democratic majority in the Legislature. It is casting pearls before swine. His last one is an admirably clear exposition of the divis ion of constitutional powers. It ought not to be necessary to remind the Legislature of this simple and fundamental principle of government, but probably there are not a dozen Democrats in both hoases who ever heard of it before they heard tho Governor's veto message on Tuesday, and the promptness with which they proceeded to override his veto shows they neither understood nor cared for what he said. No principle of constitutional law has been more frequently asserted or moro strongly insisted on, than that which separates the legislative, executive and judicial functions of government. It is a corner-stone of constitutional government. It has been recognized by all writers, imbedded in tho national and State constitutions, jealously guardedby tho various departments of governjont, each in its own behalf, adjudicated by courts and accepted by the people as a fundamental principle of constitutional law and a landmark of popular government. Our Constitution, like all tho other State constitutions, says: Thepowcrsof the government are divided into three separate departments the legislative, the executive, including the administrative, and tho judicial; and no person charged with tho official duties under ono of these departments shall exercise any of tho functions of another, except as in this Constitution expressly provided. Under this provision no possible stretch of construction can find power for tho Legislature to creato offices and appoint their incumbents. Theappointingpower belongs to tho executive department. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, so aptly quoted by the Governor, "Nomination to office is an executive function; to give it to the Legislature is a violation of the principle of the separation of powers." Tho Congress of .the United States has never, in a single instance, violated this principle. It has created thousands of offices, but never filled one, except those pertaining to its own body. What would be thought if the Governor should issuo a proclamation, or the Supremo Court promulgate a decision making a new fee-and-salary law, a new criminal code, a new road law, or any otherl The people would riso in arms against such a usurpation of power; yet it would be no worse in principle than tho exercise of the appointing power by the Legislature. The moment that body steps outside of its constitutional function of legislating it is in a state of revolution. These primary truths and fundamental principles of constitutional government have seldom been moro clearly or strongly presented than they were in the Governor's veto message of Tuesday, and havo never been more contemptuously disregarded and trampled upon than they were by the Democrats immediately afterwards. Wiiat potato-eaters the Insane Hospital patients must be! . Mr. Gapen says that all tho vegetables used at the institution in the summer months are produced on tho hospital farm, and yet it appears, according to his account, that the potatoes bought during tho year cost more than $10,000. Bought iu bulk, tho average market price of potatoes does not exceed thirty-live cents per bushel.

Assuming that thehome supply is enough for three months, this leaves not less than thirty thousand bushels of tho tubers to be consumed in nine months by the twelve hundred persons for whom maintenance is provided, or, to make the calculation more accurate, twenty-five bushels are eaten by each patient and employe in three-fourths of a year, and over thirty-one bushels in tho twelve months. This is a far more liberal allowance than the private householder, even though ho has a bank account, provides for himself and liis family, but perhaps this abundance is a feature of the present medical treatment at tho institution. It has not, hitherto, been known that potatoes have a notably curative effect upon diseases of the brain, but it is possible that tho superintendent, assisted by Messrs. Harrison, Gapen and Sullivan, has made a discovery of this character, and is endeavoring to relievo the afflicted inmates of their mental aberrations by filling them up with starchy food. If the experiment is a success if potatoes are a remedy for insanity then in the interest of science and humanity tho fact ought to bo mado known. Until it is, a curious public will occupy itself with speculations as to tho manner in which those forty thousand bushels of potatoes are disposed of, and the physical condition and capacity of tho person who can consume thirty bushels in a year, in addition to the other food said to be provided and paid for.

TnE refusal of the Legislature to repeal the $100 limitation on tho saloon tax is ono of tho most disgraceful features in its disgraceful record. That provision of law robs the people of Indiana of hundred of thousands of dollars every year, which they might otherwise recoup in the form of a heavy tax on the dram shops. It is a notorious fact that these nurseries of vice and crimo add very largely to the cost of govern ment, and by every principle of justice, , if permitted to exist at all, they should bo, heavily taxed. Tho $100 limitation operates as a protection for them. Scores of cities and towns would gladly impose a heavier tax if the law permitted, thus increasing 'their revenue and at the same time diminishing the evils of the liquor traffic. Tho refusal of tho Democrats to remove tho limitation is a gross insult to the people, and is worth several hundred thousand dollars a year to the liquor league. The Sentinel is printing stenographic reports of the testimony in tho Insane Hospital investigation, so that the public may know precisely what the facts are. Sentinel. Tho Journal has been engaged in pub-, lishing tho facts about tho Insane Hospital for three or four years. Dante classes can vary their classic discussions by speculations on tho probable effect of American base-ball on tho Florentine descendants of the Qnelphs and the Ghibbellines. If the author of the "Inferno" were to revise his celebrated work ho might add another chapter after noting this step in the progress of modern civilization. ABOUT TEOrLE AND TffLVGS. Mas. Frank Leslie denies tho rumor that she was to sell the business of her houso for 650,000, and says further she shall never dissociate herself from it. Mas. Stowe denounces all the projected biographies of herself as wholly unauthorized, and it is reported that she will write or dictate a history of her life and literary labors herself. Two of the most successful college presidents in Kentucky are women Miss Lottie A. Campbell, president of Caldwell College, Danville, and Miss A. M. Hicks, president of Clinton College. . Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, proposes to take a vacation of several weeks before tho end of the year, and it is said that he intends to avail himself of that opportunity to get married. The identity of the bride is not yet known. A Bengalee student was asked to answer this proposition at an examination: "Put down m your own words what yon think of the character of Lady Macbeth." To this tho Baboo gavo the frank reply: "O indeed, she was a brazen-faced female." Mrs. Frances Forrks, of New York, daughter of Robert Bonner, is prospectively a very rich woman. Her husband takes a deep interest in religious work, is fortyfivo years old, and lives quiet ly. Mrs. Forbes is tho only daughter of tho great publisher. Capt. Bex Richardson, of Harlem, N. Y., owner of a coach once belonging to George Washington, is dead. He was a 49er. . Every 4th of July and on Washington's birthday Captain Richardson would drive about the streets of Harlem in the ancient vehicle. Mrs. Hinckman, of Momstown, N. J., is the oldest debutanto of the season. She is eighty-six years of age, and last Wednesday, for the first time in her life, witnessed a theatrical performance. The play was The Old Homestead." She was amazed that everything appeared "so real." Major Ratiibun, consul at Paris, had a curious experience during the BoulangerJaqucs election excitement. A newspaper article advocating the choice of "lo brav general" appeared over his signature. He was able to prove, however, that he had nothing to do with the article in question. The most distinguished dog at the New York bench show is a Siberian wolf hound named Ivan, from the imperial kennels at St Petersburg. Ivan was presented to Consul-general Way by an attache of the Czar's court, ne was imported last spring, and upon his arrival in New York was uaid to be a gift to Mrs. Cleveland from the Czar. Mrs. Potter says of the gauzy and invisible draperies she wears in "Cleopatra": "The only correct criticism of my costume that could be made is that there is too much of it not too little. Of course, I couldn't dress, or havo my maids dressed, in really correct costume. The real Cleopatra woro no waist at all, but a jeweled girdle and collar, as 3Tou can see by tho picture." Tennie C. Claflin was incarcerated in New York jail, eighteen years ago, on a charge of obscenity. Now sho is a lady by act of Parliament, or. in other words, the wife of a knight. She married a wealthy money -broker and dealer in India goods in London, and he was knighted. Tennie C. Clallin, a fortune-teller and heroine of New York polico courts, has thereforo become Lady Cook. Kraszewski. tho Polish author and patriot, who was imprisoned for years in a German fortress, has just died in Italy. He left to his family 92,000 rubles, a valuable collection of paintings, a library of 42.000 volumes, and a largo number of valuable manuscripts. The imperial library of St. Petersburg has entered into negotiations with the heirs for the purchase of these manuscripts, many of which relate to Russia. , According to theReichsanzeiger, of Berlin, the late Crown Prince Rudolf was "the dearly loved friend" of the present German Emperor. A few months ago these dear friends were in converse with each other. Rudolf talked of literature and science. William yawned, and then said, insolently, "Oh, I don't understand nuy or that. Such dry stuff is unworthy cf a prince." There is," replied liudolf, ."only

one thing unworthy of a prince, and that is, to aspire to the throne while his father isyet alive." William Penn lies buried in the little town of Jordan9, England, ?nd the Mayor of that borough has sent a photograph cf the tomb and its surroundings to the Philadelphia City Council. The photograph represents a rustic scene, including an oldfashioned house, with thatched roof, at the side of which are several tombstones, on one of which are inscribed the names of Penn and his wife. Cardinal Gibbons, in preaching a sermon before the convicts of the Maryland penitentiary, remarked that he could sympathize with their lot, as he, too, had been in prison for six years. "They called it a college, ;tis true," said tho Cardinal, "but the discipline was a3 rigid as that which governs.you now. And whatever I havo learned of theology, history and other matters I attribute to the work of those six years." Ex-Secretary Hugh McCulloch rarely wears an overcoat. Ho is eighty years of age, but says ho does not feel the necessity of any extra wraps. "I can remember." he states, "when I thought a man old at fifty. Afterward I moved up the limit to sixty. Then I concluded that a really old man was seventy. Some time afterward I changed my ideas about being old to eighty. Now I wonder that any body could consider eighty old. I don't feel any older in thought and spirit than I did when I was forty. The London correspondent of tho Glasgow Herald hears "a rumor, which is backed by excellent authority, that the next poet laureate will bo Mr. Alfred Austin." Ho adds: "Should the rumor prove true, it will no doubt create considerable astonishment in the public mind to see Mr. Austin elevated, so far as the state recognition of Iioetry is concerned, over the heads of Mr. fcobert Drowning and Mr. Lewis Morris, to say nothing of Mr. Algernon Swinburne, whoso candidature probably might not bo serious." Gen. Harrison, on the day he becomes President, wiU be fifty-five years, seven nionths and fourteen days old, about a year less than the average age of his predecessors when inaugurated, is the accurate calculation of the New York Tribune. The grandfather of Mr. Harrison was the oldest of the Presidents, having entered upon tho duties of the oflioein his sixty-eighth year. General Jackson, when he began his second term, lacked eleven days of being sixty-six years old, and Buchanan was only five days yonnger than this when inaugurated. Tho first six Presidents, also Taylor and Johnson, were all older than the President-elect when inaugurated. General Grant was the youngest President inaugurated, being under forty-seven. Mr. Cleveland next, not quite forty-eight: Pierce forty-eight, Fillmore forty-nine, Polk and Garfield each fifty, Tyler and Arthur each 51. Lincoln 52, van Buren and Hays each fifty-four. Four new States in the Union soon, Each of them sound and true, boys; Four new daughters 'round Uncle Sam's hearth, And four new stars in the blue, boys. Long they've been rapping, Patiently tapping. Their right to come in we all knew, boys. But now that's aU past, There safe in at last. And their coming we never shaU rue, boys. Buffalo Express.

COMMENT AND OPINION. With the confession of Piggott, the miserable role of tho informer in Irish politics comes to an end. Louisville Commercial. ; Mr. Parnell's vindication will unquestionably bo followed by an immenso increase in the political strength of the cause which ho represents in England, Scotland and Wales. Boston Herald. If the Democrats were to remain in power four years longer, it is doubtful if any department of the government would bo free from scandals. They had hardly got their hands in when they wero turned out. Cleveland Leader. Cleveland is a lawyer, and ought to know that after his case has been neard, Judgment pronounced and execution out, it istoolatoto frantically attempt through the press with his own pen to re-argue his cause. The decree has gone forth, and is irrevocable. New York Graphic. That he Cleveland was not elected was because no Democrat could be elected just at that time on account of the insolence of the solid South after it got power, and tho fatuity of tho free-traders in getting off tho fence and going in to uproot protection to American industries. Nebraska State Journal. Tiiu friends of the administration do it questionable service in insisting that its action on the Sackvillo case was founded on considerations entirely ditlorent from those it formally and officially avows. Those friends would degrade it to maintain their ante-election representations. Utica (N. Y.) Herald. Tun cause of Irish misery is tho canse of English misery, and tho remedy must in both cases be tho same. Pigottfa perjury has given a completely new direction to the curreut of public opinion in Great Britain, and his confession inaugurates a British, perhaps imperial movement, the end of which no man can see. Philadelphia Inquirer. Tin; proposed anti-drossed-beef legislation of Eastern States; and tho proposed cattle trust of tho far West are equally impracticable, and will come to naught. An-ti-dressed-beef laws doubtless would be declared void by tho courts, a interfering with interstate commerce. The cattle trust would soon dissolve, from the fact that it could not bo made to include tho most numerous and most imptrtant class of cattleraisers. Chicago Journal. The attitude of Mr. Mills is. that if he cannot get tho whole loaf he will have none, but this is not Democratic. To a tax-burdened people some relief is better than ne reliof at all, and especially is this true in tho South, wherothe production of tobacco has come to be an important industry. Mr. Mills is wrong. He has arrayed himself against an overwhelming majority of tho Democratic party, and he should hasten to set himself right. Atlanta Constitution. A ESSON TO BE PONDERED. Secretary Vila Sharply Rebuked for Ills Course in the Timber-Land Frauds. Milwaukee Sentinel. It is reported that Secretary Vilas now admits that some serious abuses have crept into tho administration by his department of Indian attairs in this btate. The complaints made of it, which he long treated as originating wholly in the malice of hostile partisans, he is now inclined to concede havo had some solid basis of fact. In extenuation of the matter ho pleads his ignorance of the details of the lumbering business, and his reliance upon persons who have not shown themselves entitled to the generous confidence which ho placed in them. It is doubtless true that the chief of such a Department as tho Interior, witn tho vast and complicated affairs under his charge is entitled to charitable judgment. While human nature remains vrhatitis, there must be, with the best intelligence and the most vigilant and honest efforts put forth to prevent them, many mistakes made and many abuses occurring. : But in regard to tho frauds which hav been perpotratedupon tho timber lands of the Indians in this State, Colonel Yilas has had abundant warning, and he has persistently disregarded it. The public cannot know iust now much of an expert he is in lumbering operations, but certain facts are pretty well understood here in Col. Vilas's own State. For -years before he entered tho public service he was giving a good deal of attention to the wealth of timber in northern Wisconsin. He was enough of an expert to buy up a largo amount of valuable timber lands. Ho became interested in a large establishment for the manufacture of lumber at Ashland, and when ho went into the Cabinet he procured the appointment, a Indian agent in that region an officer who has corttrol of the cutting of timber on Indian lands of a young man who had been in his employ, and whose appointment was a great, surprise, it being apparently made on purely person:il grounds. It at once created a kind of scandal, and suspicious were Iroinptly expressed that the relations that lad existed between tho appointee and Colonel Vilas's lumbering company had 'much to do with it. It was aUo anticipated that tho interests of the Indians would not be promoted by it. Tho abuses that havo since occurred in the dealings with the Indians in regard to their timber have arisen under this agent's management, and. in disregard of all complaints, Colonel Vilas has kept him in otlice. It is the more unfortunate for Colonel Vilas that li haa luniaeU been, uoat

censorious and unmerciful critic of publio officers who were not of his political faith. In commenting upon tho administration of Republican ollicials ho has never allowed them to plead that they wero not omnisciett and omnipresent. If any abase or blunder occurred under them, he was prompt to attribute it to deliberate and intentional wickedness, and in long-winded, highsnifling, Pharisaic discourses on Republican profligacy and Democratic purity, if he has not exceeded all othermembers or nis party, he has been surpassed by none. Mr. Cleveland himself has not talked more sanctimoniously and solemnly on the subject of reform, nor professed liner sentiments than Colonel Vilas, yet here is a veryunfragrant affair developed among his close personal friends and under his immediate supervision. Possibly he may take it as a lesson to bo more charitable inhis judgments heroafter of other men.

JAMES C. FLOOD'S FRIENDS. The Were Not Numerous but IIo Never Forgot Any of Them. New York Special to St. Louis Republic James C. Flood, the millionaire mineowner who died iu Heidelberg on Thursday, was even-tongued, calculating, patient and courageous. Like men of his temperament, he made but few friends. It was hard to gain his confidence, but he never permitted an opportunity to go by to help the few who were his friends. While Flood was still dispensing liquors over his bar in San Francisco, he was a member of a volunteer hook and ladder company. When he became a power in the stock market he did not forget tho associates who had been members of the fire company or patrons of his saloon. One by one they dropped the reius of the horsecar, gave np their' hods, vielded up whatever might bo called the badge of honest toil aud began to frequent the pavements about tho Stock Exchange. They were first ill at ease in their new station, but they acquired one good habit from Flood, the silient, golden Irishman. They did not talk too much. They never missed a chance to talk of Flood's virtues, but had nothing to say about his business. When, in 1S73, tho big bonanza was uncovered in the Comstock lode and Flood and his partner began the manipulation which made them so rich and then so poor. Flood and his associates still remembered their old friends, and their fortunes went sailing skyward, too. To help them along Flood did far more than his share. He lent money. to some, carried stocks for others and made all richer than they had ever dreamed of being. Bnt their riches, easily got, easily went, and to-day but few of them have anything left. J. M. Walker was one of the men who Erofited most in the big bonanza deal. Now is mansion in Oakland js a hospital, while his daughter, once such a belle, now the divorced wife of a clerk, was two years ago playing minor points in a small theater. Dennis McCarthy was once city editor of the fcan t rancisco Chronicle, and ho was let into the secret to tho extant of winning $100,000. He is dead, and left only a small estate. Joseph Goodman published the Virginia City Enterprise, and his friendship for the bonanza firm got him information which resulted in the accumulation of at least $750,000. He felt that he must have at least an even million, and he went into stock speculation after the collapse of tho big bonanza deal. When last heard from e was raising raisins on a little ranch near Fresno, and would probably be satislied with any fortnno that could be represented by five figures. Pat Crowley was chief of police of San Francisco. He profited by his intercourse with Flood to the extent of $425,000. His ambition was only half as large as that of Mr. Goodman, as no only wanted $500,000. He followed the footsteps of the editor and is again a policeman. Flood had a fancy for fast trotting horses, and Pete Finnegan was his driver. Peter got his horse in first once in such a clever manner that several brokers "went broke" betting against it. Mr. Finnegan had a "tip" on the big bonanza which sent Consolidated Virginia up to ah unheard of figure. He also had sense. He kept his money and built one of the finest of the houses on Nob Hill, and became the chief Jatron of tho turf on the Pacific coast. Mr. "lood's fortune, though greatly reduced, is still large enough for an ordinary individual to look after, and will be divided botween James L. Flood, his son, and Jennie Flood, his daughter. She was ouco engaged to Ulysses Uraut, who afterward married the daughter of Jerome B. Ch a co of Colorado. Sho has already $5,000,000 in her own right : ROSSER'S BOASTING. What History Says of the "Pumpkln-Vlne Savior" of the Shenandoah. Washington Letter in New York Times. General Rosser's speech at Baltimore last night, iu which ho boasted "that tho Southern gentleman, as man to man, can whip a Yankee every time," and the comments that followed it have been heard too soon after General Sheridan's blunt criticism of Kosher to be considered prudent, and some of the Southern men who know him say that ho would not have made such a speech anywhere except at the close of a too bountiful dinner. Ho praised the appearance of the Southern cavalry aud hurled contempt at the cavalry of tho North, both oflicers aud privates, and then gave swme incidents of the victories of Southern cavalry commanders and troops. eral Kosser. General Sheridan found that Kosser had announced himself as the "savior of the valloy" and that he and his men decked their hats with laurels to indicate their character. Oct. 9, 1864, finding that a force of cavalry was harassing the rear of his command, General Sheridan halted his army to give fight to the following army. He "became satisfied," he said in a dispatch written at the time, "that it was only all the rebel cavalry of tho valley, commanded by Bosser," and he directed Torbert to attack and finish "this savior of the valley." The attack "was handsomely made," resulting in the capture of eleven pieces of artillery, caissons, battery forge, wagons, the headquarter wagons of Kosser and others, and atjout 330 prisoners. "The enemy," wrote Sheridan, "alter being charged by our gallant cavalry, broke and ran. They were followed by our men on tho jump through Mount Jackson and across the north fork of tho Shenandoah." The people of the valley, remembering Kosser's laurels, afterward poked fun at him by suggesting that ho wear pumpkin vines to signify the capacity of tho wearer for running. General l?osser boasts that "the cavalry never surrenders," giving tho impression that the confederate cavalry dodged surrender at Appomattox. In tho history df tha array of Northern Virginia, by General Long. General Lee's aid-decamp, Gen. T. B. Rosser is named as having been surrendered to General Grant by General Lee. ' SOWING WIND IN INDIANA. The Partisanship of the Legislature Will Meet -with a Day of Reckon! ay. Cleveland Leader. The Democratic majority in the Legislature is sowing the wind, and in due course of timo it will reap a hurricane. Its partisanship has been unprecedented in the history of American legislation. It refused to allow a Republican Lieutenant-governor to exercise his constitutional right and duty as presiding officer of the Senate. It has revised tho rules so as to cut off digcussion on partisan measures, and has denied to the Republicans nearly all the rights that in other legislative bodies are accorded to tho minority. It has now capped the climax of its partisanism by depriving the Governor, a Republican, of the power of making appointments, enjoved by all Governors for many years. The inevitable result of that kind of work is to hasten the overthrow of the party that is guilty of it. The people of a great State will not tolerate that kind of thingvery long. The time cannot be far distant when the Republicans will have a majority in tho Indiana Legislature, and then we may look for a very thorough undoing ef the partisan work of the present Democratic majority, including a reuistricting of tho State for both Legislature and Congress. The Deraociats are now creating tho very best of reasons to justify the Republicans in so fixing things when they cet control that the Democrats will sit in the opposition benches for a generation at least. Is HUs a Threatl London Saturday Review. Of cour,e the United States, or any other Boyereipi State, may refuse to receive a minister, or may send him away sans phrase. There is no limit to what a sovereign State may do, except what is imposed by the forces of nature and 'the power of others sovereign btate. If the people

1 ho n glit, however, to tell-the story of his own part in tho Shenandoah campaign of 1S64. was not a victorious one for Gen

of the States, in convention assembled, were to add an amendment to the Constitution ordering the erection of a golden image of an Irish-American "boss" on the bank of tho Potomac, in the District of Columbia, and further commanding all mankind to bow down and worship it to the sound of slow music on a brass ban$, it would be within its rights. All the foreigner could say would be that he would rather fight than bow down and worship that golden image. Mr. Cleveland and his Cabinet seem to have forgotten that all sovereign States have the same rights. GERMAN CriURCIIMEN.

Bishop Dwenger Says There Has Tteen No Discrimination Against Them. Washington Special to Chicago Inter Ocean. Bishop Dwenger, of Indiana, who is here, expresses some very4 decided views as to tho reported discriminations against German churchmen in tho Northwest. He was asked: "Bishop, were vou not connected by the press with moving heaven and earth at Rome against a continuance of discriminations in tho United States airainst German churchmen, and to that end invoking the powerful aid of your kinsman, Cardinal llenrenroether, of Bavaria!' A- heartr ecclesiastical laugh was the response, and then came the verbal Mipplement: "I believe I was. But what a bundle of absurdities. laUavarianT If thoy had said I was a Shawnee or Miami Indian they would have been nearer tho truth, a I was born a Buckej-e and am a pure Anglo-Saxon, rny ancestors being Hanoverians. And asto the main point, it a" ,a. fabrication: I know nothing about it. and it has been since emphatically stated so by official dispatches IromRonie. The truth is, thens is no discrimination as against the Germans or other sections of our fellow-religions of the Kepublic: no truth at all in the allegations." In conclusion Bishop Dwenger said that the canon law established over tho United States by the last council of Baltimore the largest council, hy tho by, that has as.scinbled sinco Trent, 200 years u is working admirably, as ho felt most happy to sta fe, as he waj nearly eight months in Home giving the movement his entire support as tho senior representative of tho American hierarchy. In Fort Wayne there were now, by oeration cf the new regime, six rectors, and all over the country tho good results of the chan go were multiplying. . Indiana's Patient RepubUcans. Nebraska State Journal. The Republican Senators of the Indiana Legislature are a long-suffering crowd, and have permitted tho sergeant-at-amis, th door-keeper and the pages to turn them r at of tho chamber, push them down into their seats, and sit on them prostrate on the floor for the two years last past with marvelous patience and fortitude. But now that tho door-keeper has undertaken to order them to "shut up" whenever one of them gets tho floor for a speech, the .galled jade feels that she has winced about enough, and they have called a caucus to consider the expediency of resigning and leaving the Senate without a quorum. . They certainly owe that much of satisfaction to their constituents. If they don't do that they should at least raise a fund to hire Jack McAuliiFe or Prof. Sullivan to come over to Indianapolis and punch the head of the door-keeper a couple of times. Tho Indiana Repuluican Senators have overdone the Moses business to some extent, and should either resign or commence to smito immediately. If they had permitted their natural American instincts to let daylight shine through two or threo of their assailants during the riots that have from timo to time prevailed in the chamber they would not be in the minority, and could control the business. The County Superintendent. . Uendricks County Republican. Representative Cnllen, of Rnsh county, has introduced a bill to abolish the office of county superintendent. This is a step backward in the direction of bad management. There is not an office in the State more plainly necessary than that of county superintendent of schools. The plea of "economy," no more applies to it than to tho office of Governor. Tho schools of a county can no more run harmoniously and efficiently without a head than the schools of a city or county-seat. This is not all. Tho superintendent's oftico should bo dignified with a salary sufficiently large to make it command the aspirations o the very best talent, and scholarship the county affords. That functionary should feel that his abilities are not only recognized but paid for, at prices they might command in other vocations. The Democracy and the Dramshops Goshen New. Tho Democrats in the Legislature 6eera determined to block any legislation on the luiuor question and until they are in tho minority in that body wo cannot expect any relief in the way of legislation in accord with the spirit, and need, and demand of the time. Unquestionably the people of tho Stato favor legislation that will better control and curtail intemperance and the saloon business; and in thus annulling the will of the great majority the Democrats should be reduced in power in the Legielature to the extent that they will not be able to block enlightened' legislation on this or any other question. Business for Cleveland Philadelphia Press. The unfriendly feeling between those two zealous but gloomy exponents of transcendental mugwunipcry the Boston Herald and tho New York Evening Post is increasing in volume and violence, and there is no telling where it may end. The parties to the quarrel might profitably agree to 6ubmit their differences to lawyer Cleveland for arbitration. He will do ready to give prompt attention to such cases after a week or two, and his terras would doubtless be reasonable. The Wicked Are Always Spared. Chicago News. An Indianapolis bicyclist ran over two judges of the Supreme Court with his rub-oer-shod machine and injured ono of them severely. If any public officials of Indiana are to be hurt one would naturally think that tho members of that State's freak Legislature would be tho iirst'to 6uffcr. Pretends to Like a Bitter Pill. Milwaukee SentineL It isn't often that a man is seen to mal:e a pretense of liking a bitter rilL Bill Springer nearly succeeds in appearing happy over the admission of toe four new States, although ho never advocated anything that made his heart as heavy. i - Looks Better at a Distance. Omaha Republican. ' Prseident Cleveland's administration has been reviewed again this timo bv the New York Times. It looks well at a distance and the greater the distance, the better it looks. Thepleasantest feature about the administration is its perspective. The Track Too Long or Pursuers Too Slow Boston Herald. The announcement is again made that the law-abiding citizens of Arkansas are on the track of the Clayton assassins. The only trouble abont this is that either the track i too long or tho pursuers are too slow. They should expedite matters. Good Reason to Celebrate. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. With a Republican President and Congress, a patriotic foreign policy, and four new stars added to Old Glory, the American ?eople will have good reason to celebrate he 1th of July this year in a most grateful and enthusiastic manner. A Pair of Scoundrels. Eprtogfleld (IU.) News. Pig?ott appears to hare been the spigot by which tno London Times's case was drained of its esseuse. Himself and Mr. Le Caron constitute a pair tho liko of which was never seen. Treaches What He Did Not Practice. Albai iy Journal. President Cleveland says be will go out of office as he entered it, a believer in civil service reform, but he goes out of it with civil servico reform not a beliovcr in him. A Gentle Hint. Philadelphia Inquirer. If you think you are anybody of importance, just fctay away from the inauguration ceremonies and see now much you will be missed. A Lefl-1 landed Compliment.' MllT-"nukee Wisconsin. Cleveland can bras over Harrison in ens respect. He defeated a better man for ts presidency than Harrison