Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1889.

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LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern ILoteL WASHINGTON, D. OBhrgs House ana Ebbitt House. The Rhodo Island Legislature is in special session to adapt tho liquor laws to what is supposed to be the verdict of the people at the-lato election. After all, it is rather a gratifying vindication of law to see two bruisers and their backers flying from one State to another and trying to get out of the country by a back door to avoid arrest. A very small policeman with a warrant would be more than a match for Sullivan. . The Sentinel intimates that the Journal is paid for opposing the new schoolbook monopoly. We are not surprised at such an intimation from such a source. By tho way, the Sentinel does not get the job of, publishing the school-books, as it expected to under the Mull in ix bill, which it supported vigorously until it was knocked out. The liquor-dealers of New York will hold their annual meeting at Rochester, Sept. 2 and 3; tho Prohibition party, at Syracuse, Sept. 4 and 5, and the Democrats the following week, all three having the same object in view the defeat of the Republican party and the prevention of any legislation that will, in the least degree, militate against tho saloon. The Journal records, with pleasure, that the Democrats have started a paper at Shreveport, La., called the Caucasian, the object of which is to abuse the negro. There is something so manly and truly Southern, pre-eminently chivalric in this that it meets our cordial approval. Hitherto all this has been done on the sly. Now it is to be open and above-board. The new school-book syndicate is the first monopoly ever created by law in Indiana, and is the only one of its kind in tho United States. It is not a case of the State buying goods or materials from ft lowest bidder for its own use. It assumes entire control of a certain branch of business and gives a favored syndicate the exclusive right to furnish certain goods to all the people of the State. No definition of a monopoly was ever made in any dictionary or by any court that would not lit this. It will lead to a popular demand for free text-books and no monopolies. Tarifp is a tax, everybody knows that, for the free-traders have said so a thousand times; but just how it is a tax nobody seems to understand, except that a great deal more of it would please somo people better, for under it almost everything taxed gets cheaper and cheaper, Plate-glass is hardly half the price it was before. Under the protection of a tariff home manufactories were built up. And now comes soda ash. Only four years ago it was $43 per ton. The tax is $3 per ton, making, according to the "theory" of free-traders, $53 per ton, but, according to the "situation which confronts us,n it is only $20per ton. The facts are, we have the material for making it, and, sinco our manufacturers have got a start under protection, they can make it at less than half the price wo were paying for it and make money at it, besides giving employment to thousands of men. The case of General Thomas J. Morgan, recently appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs, has been attracting some attention by reason of charges made against his military record. Tho charge is that during the war he was court-martialed, f 3und guilty on certain charges and sentenced to be dismissed from the service. This charge has been pressed with some bitterness, and efforts have been made to smirch the administration on account of the appointment. An ex parte statement of the case made it look bad for General Morgan, but his explanation, and tho publication of the record, puts a very different face on the matter. ...... i. It is true, as charged, that General Morgan was court-martialed and sentenced to bo dismissed from the service, but tho record shows that the proceedings of tho court were reviewed and disapproved by General Steedman, and General Morgan was released from arrest and returned to duty. The record shows that the court-martial was the result of personal hostility to General Morgan, and General Steedman's ; ro-' versalof the finding of , the court left him without prejudice. J)uring his service of nearly four years he made a fine military record. As evidenco of the esteem in which he was held by his brother olliccrs ponding the court-martial, General Morgau produces a paper drawn up and signed by eighty-seven field, staff and line officers of his brigade, testifying in the strong-

est manner to his character as an officer and gentleman. After the court-martial lie was Tecommended for promotion as brigadier-general, and the paper was indorsed in strong terms by the late General Charles Cruft, of this State, and by Major-general Georgo Stoneman. Finally, several months after the courtmartial, General Morgan was appointed brigadier-general and confirmed by tho Senate without question of his record as a soldier or his character as a gentleman. In view of these facts and the record in the case tho present charges against General Morgan fall to tho ground, and those who have made them, or who have criticised the administration for his appointment, owe him and it an apology.

UNIFORMITY IN SCHOOL-BOOKS. Not the least vicious feature of the new school-book law is that, in so far as it can be enforced, it will establish absolute uniformity in school-books throughout the entire State. Under tho old law there was county uniformity, but no attempt to establish State uniformity. Any county could use any set of books it pleased, and buy them where it pleased, at wholesale or retail rates, 'the only restriction being that they should not be changed oftener than once in six years. Under tho new law every county and every school in the State must buy books of tho monopoly. This precludes the exercise of any taste or judgment by local school !boards or by different counties, and establishes dead level uniformity throughout the State, with the added incubus of inferior books. State uniformity in school-books has worked badly wherever it has been tried, and is disapproved by intelligent teachers everywhere. It is opposed to tho principle of local self-government, and is a bar to school progress. It; tends to produce mechanical teaching and to removo the public schools from sympathy with tho people. By compelling city and country schools to use the same books it makes no allowance for different environments. In New England, where local government and school government are best understood, attempts to establish State uniformity have been studiously avoided. In Minnesota, where it ha3 recently been established by law, all the leading educators agroe that its effect is bad in every way. The attempt to establish uniformity in this State, and to compel the people to pay tribute to a centralized syndicate, is one of tho reasons why. they will eventually demand free schoolbooks and n 1 monopolies. THAT ' 'SAVIN Q" ON SCHOOL-BOOKS. . The people of tho State will save a considerable sum of money through the acceptance of the bids. The new books will be furnished them at the following prices: Ex'hange Price. Value. First reader. $0.10 Second reader , 15 Third reader 25 Fourth re ader. 30 Fifth, reader. 40 Elementary arithmetic 35 Complete arithmetic A3 Elementary geography 30 Complete geography 7" $0.00 .13 oo .20 .as 3'J .10 .27 .74 It will be seen that the new books, where pupils have old ones to exchange, will cost iroml to 5 cents in money additional. News. This statement is radically wrong. The language of the syndicate's bid la "We further propose to furnish said books in exchange for books of corresponding grade in the hands of the pupils of the public schools of the State of Indiana at the following exchange prices, to wit:," the prices being those in tho second column above. These prices represent the difference between the old books and the new ones of corresponding grade, or tho amount that holders of old books surrendering them will have to pay in addition for the new. Thus an old first reader and nine cents will get a new one valued at ten cents; an old second reader and thirteen cents will get a new one valued at fifteen cents, and so on. An old geography and seventy-four cents will get a new one valued at seventy-five cents, one cent being allowed for tho old one. Tho entire amount allowed by the S3Tndicato for a complete set of old books is twentyseven cents. Any second-hand bookdealer will pay three or four times as much as that for a full set of the old books and sell them at a profit after wards. There is a big profit to the monopoly in the exchange business if tho people can bo induced to exchange their old books at the beggarly prices offered, but they will probably prefer to pay tho price fixed by law for the syndi cate books'and sell the old ones on their own account. Eventually they will repudiate the whole arrangement and demand free school-books and no mo nopolies. ' MORAL ACCESSORIES ATTEB THE FACT. It is only when public opinion and public justice hold the accessoiy after the fact equally guilty with the acces sory before tho fact, and with the perpetrator of the fact itself, that crime re ceives its proper punishment. Tho re ceiver of stolen goods is really more to bo despised than the thief himself there is something so cowardly about him, willing to avail himself of the prof its of tho felony, but too cowardly to take any risks. For this reason there is more personal respect for Sim Coy, the mere tool of the Democratic party, than for the party that greets him on his re turn from prison with an ovation worthy a returning conqueror. By their ovation they make the crime their own and pledge themselves to render all possible protection in tho future to him or any one else who shall duplicate his crime. They are moral accessories after thoiact. A few weeks ago the New York World sent a competent reporter to the scene of the -Clayton murder, in Arkansas, with instructions to report the truth. A few days ago his observations were pub lished in the World, and it is a horrifying exposure of Arkansas brutalities, speaking of which, the World editorially says: "The facts should make every 6elfrespecting citizen of Arkansas ashamed. It shows that the people of tho State have made themselves morally accessories after the fact by permitting tho guilty men and: their friends to institute a silent reign of terror. Everybody, from tho judge on the bench to tho village gossip, has been terrorized. Such

a state of things is not civilization. It is barbarism, the terror of savagery. . By submitting to this state of affairs the people of Arkansas make themselves responsible for it." This is true not only as to Arkansas, but it is true of the Democratic party. So far as our reading has gone, this is the first real protest against that "savagery" that has appeared iu any Democratic paper, North or South; but even the World does not propose to abandon tho stolen goods. The man who was elected by the methods of the party is to take

his seat, and is to take a part in obstructing tho organizing of the House, while universal Deniocracyjoins in the denun ciation of tho Republican party as sectional, when, by these methods of "savagerj" it is prevented getting a foot hold in tho South. The policy of the Democracy makes it, as a whole, an accessory after the fact. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. M. Crampel, one of . DcBrazza's assist ants in the French Congo territory, has brought to Paris a young black woman, daughter of a chief of the M'fang tribe, who was presented to him as a wife on one of his exploring expeditions. 'Nothing," writes Edmund Yates, "is more charmiug than to seo the Prince of Wales with Queen Victoria; his manner is so tender, deferential and affectionate, and ho watches over her with such care, attending her every want, and suggesting anyming wnicu ne mints win please her." The Empress of Russia has lately made her sister, the Princess of Wales, a beautiful present. The gift takes the shape of a fan, and tho painting upon it has been executed by the Empress herself. The design represents the meeting of Cupid and Psyche, and the two figures are very cleverly drawn and colored. . - Count Ladislas Plater, who recently died in Switzerland at the age of eightythree, was once mercilessly ridiculed by Caroline Bauer. In her memoirs she sDeaks of him as "a sort of spoony youth, to whom his mamma was not very liberal as regards pocket money, and who himself evinced an uncommon talent for economy." Yet she atterward became his wife. Jake Morris, janitor of the Atlanta, Ga., City Hall, and who belonged to every se cret order in the city, laughed himself to death on Monday nicht. He attended the Masonic Lodge, of which ho was a member, and in the morning was found dead by the servant. The theory is that he laughed so immoderately as to bring on palpitation of the heart, to which he was subject. Venerable ex-President McCosh, of Princeton College, and Mrs McCosh have gone to the coast of Maine on their summer vacation. Dr. McCosh has nearly recovered from his late serious illness, and appears to be in good spirits. If his health permits he may lecture at tho college next year. The Doctor is now seventy-eight years of age, and his chief i nterest seems to be in tho success of his books. The American girls who marry lords are. commonly supposed to owe their conquests' to coin. Miss Caroline Fitzgerald, of New York, who is engaged to Lord EdwardFitzmaurice, has other claims to distinction: She is a classical scholar and a linguist, a student of Sanskrit, a member of the Orw; ental Society, and a poetess besides. Add to all this that she is only twenty-one and an heiress in her own right, and it is no wonder that the younger brother of the Viceroy of Iudia succumbed. The' true inwardness of Hadje Hassein Ghooly Khan's rather undignified exit from this country comes to light in the statement of a friend of his in Washinetou. The fact is that Hadje is homesick, lie is a married man, and is anxious to return to his family. II. 1 II' 1 A ? 1 I ue louuu iu uasmngion a civilization io which he was not accustomed, and, instead of Rending for his wife and children as he at first intended, he began to lay schemes whereby ho might gracefully return to his native land. Ho hit upon the very worst device possible to effect his ends. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton retains a wonuertui amount or vitality alter a long life of activity as the leading cham pion or lemale sutlrago in tho United States. Mrs. Stanton is in tho seventyfourth year of her age, and it is just about half a century sinco she first became an advocate of "woman's rights." She and Miss Susan 13. Anthony have worked to gether lor tho greater part ot that time. Up to this period of life sho keeps the countenance that has become familiar to millions of people all over tho country; but she is not now to be seen on the platform as in iornier years. The costumes in which the Shah displays himself to his English hosts have been something absolutely gorgeous. The gold belt around his waist was fastened with tho biggest emerald in the world. He wears breastplates of enormous diamonds, besides which he has a tremendous aigrette of brilliants in his hat and strings of precious stones scattered all over him. A man who understood such things saw him at the opera, and said that he would he very glad to buy him as he stood for a million dollars and return him next day unharmed, minus his clothes. His Majesty wears, among other ornaments, a sash of the Order of the Garter, to tho center of which he has fastened his enormous diamond called "the Sea of Light." The Duke of Portland, while he was merely Mr. Rcntinck, incurred some debts of honor which he desired to pay. Ho went to a money-lender, but tho Jew at first was not inclined to let him have the money on easy terms. "The DuKe of PortlantTrnav live twenty years; J you may die in tho mean time," said tho tleorcw. Mr. Rentinck could not deny this, and was ready to give liberal interest. "I will tell you what I will do," said the Jew: "you will give me vour word that when you become Duke of Portland you will pay me 10.000. and I will give you 1,000 now." Tho Duke closed with the offer, and a few weeks after the Duke of Portland did the new Duke remem bered his bargain. Ho instructed his agent to nay 10,000 in spite of tho remonstrances of his lawyer, who insisted that a promise so extravagant was not binning. A BARE riTTANCE. In the zoological garden, in a big round sandy Pit. The great ant-bear with the curly hair right' patientiv ooiu sir; And the crowd, with irlce, doth ray the fee of 25 cent admittance To eee htui feed -with a fiendish greed on his real ly bear-pit-ants. Decke, In Tack. COMMENT AXI) OPINION. Prize-fighting has received a boom: now let us have tho boomerang in the shape of imprisonment at hard labor for the crim inal participants. All eyes are directed toward Mississippi. Uoston Advertiser. SrrrosE Beniamin Harrison should be a candidate for tho presidency in 1S12, where are the Democratic papers going to get their supply of ammunition to combat his election! lhey have used up all the available ' supply already. Philadelphia In quirer. It may not be out of place to observe that President Harrison finds it possible to make very agreeable speeches to the people along the line of his vacation trip without borrowing a single fact or fiirure from tho cyclopedia. fct. Louis GlobeDemocrat. Sooner or later the leading newspapers of this country will recognize a fact daily becoming more prominent that the vast majority of the people of the United States have no sympathy with immorality or vice arrdvare opposed to the violation of the law bv those engaged in the liquor traffic. Chicago Times, The curreucy of the Nation is so ample that no one is asking for its enlargement, and it is so good that its character could be but little improved, and not at all in the direction tho liatists would seek. There is nothing, therefore, on which to base a revival of tho greenback agiritiou, except the desire of two or three individuals for notoriety. Cleveland Leader. Is it not about time , that wo rose np in self-defense and stopped this tide of pauperism, -cHnie and iiubecilityf Must we

submit longer to have our country the receptacle of the inmates of the prisons, poorhouses and insane asylums of Europe TEvery one of these clashes sent hither should be returned at the expense of those who forwarded them. Pi ttsburg Chronicle. Let any fair man review the comments of mugwump or Democratic journals on President Harrison's appointments, and ho will find therein a palpable incapacity to judge honestly. The critic proves that ho has less integrity of mind, less real freedom from partisan blindness and bias, less conception of the needs of the public service thau the administration which he labors to disparage. New York Tribune. , Men usually clearsighted and intelligent will iasist that when a farmer mortgages his land for $10,000 there becomes at once 0,000 worth of property to be taxed $10000 iu the form of real estate and $10,000 in personal property although not a dollar has been added to the valne of the farm, and the mortgage is only an incumbrance on it. This system of double taxation is defended and maintained bv thoso who sutler most from it. Chicago'Tribune, If Harper and the numerous other rascals of his stamp are to go free, because they robbed on a large scale, and proved false to a trust confided by the poor if the law is for the poor and freedom to rob the poor for the rich then we have, indeed, reached a social crisis. Ohio conld not allord to

have a single petition sent to Washington lor the pardon of this huge villain, whoso atrocious crime no one thinks of question ing or doubting. Springfield Republican. DID GEN. PKYOIt DESERT? Confederate Officers Who "Were Present Say that He Did. Charleston (9. CO Special to New York Herald. Some months aeo Gen. R. R. Hemphill. editor of -the Abbeville Medium, denied that Gen. Roger A. Prvor had any right to speak for tho South, and charged him with having deserted from the Confederate army. Ueneral Pryor indignantly denied the charge. General Hemphill published a two column article in the News and Courier in support of his charge of desertion. He publishes a number of letters from confederate soldiers who saw Pryor leave the lines. Lapt. Isaao F. Hunt, of the Thirteenth S. C. V., who was division officer in command of the ritle pits that day says: "When I ap proached the picket lines 1 saw two men between our line and tho enemy's, about rive or six hundred vards to my left, a deep ravine between us. I at once extended down the l:ne an inquiry to know who they were, and what it meant. The renlv was. It is a scout and General Prvor exchanging papers.' I crdered the pickets to order him back. To my astonishment the two men apparently locked arms and started to the enemy's line. At first I did not realize their mtention. but was soon convinced and extended an order to tire upon them. By that time they were too far oil for the shot to take enect. 1 made a report of the circumstance to division headquarters." Major W.s. Dunlon. the commander oi McGowan's sharpshooters, now Auditor of tno Mate of Arkansas, gives substantially the same account of the incident. O. F. Cheatham, of McGowan's sharnshooters, says after Prvor had gotten fully half way tho Yankee officer started to meet him slowly, while Pryor was walking fast. They met a short distance from the Yankee pit, shaking hands. Pryor took the Yanikco uuiuci a aim uuu wumcu imuugu mo skirmish line. After getting in the breast work the usual huzza that accompanied the arrival of a deserter was distinctly heard. There was no force used to get Pryor into iue i anKee lines, no was iu a Digger nurry to get tluro than the lankee omccr was. AN AMERICAN CARDINAL. now the Head of the Church tn the United States Lives and Works. Baltimore Letter in Philadelphia Inquirer. Cardinal Gibbons will be tho central fig ure in the celebration of the establishment of tho Catholic hierarchy. He is one of the best known men in Baltimore, and thoso who have the pleasure of knowing him personally will not be surprised to hear that he is not only beloved bv the members of his own faith, but that he also enjoys the respect and esteem of the whole people. II 1 A? a 1 - . . jus elevation to mo caruinaiaio nas not changed him in tho least. His rooms in the archepisuoual residence, on Charles street, are fitted up with almost painful simplicity, and display to a great degree tho unostentation which is characteristic of the man. The distinguished prelate 1 m a 1 enjoys xne distinction oi oeing me young est oi me carainais. nerctoioro it was almost proverbial that to become a cardi nal one must first become very old. But xne preseni roniiu nas snown nis uesire oi having yonng inea assist the venerable princes of the church in its temporal gov crnment. Cardinal Gibbons is not a young man. in the strict sense of the word for ho has already nassed his fiftieth birthdav but he is young in comparison with his venerable colleagues m the College of Cardinals. Cardinal Gibbons is an American from the soleH of his feet to tho crown of his head. He was born in the city of Balti more on July 23. l&tt. within a stone's throw of the place where lie now re i ens as the head oi the American church. He was or dained a priest on Juno SO, 1801. He dis played such marked ability that in lfcx8 he was appointed vicar apostonc or. norm Carolina, tour years later he was in stalled as Bishop of Richmond. In 1877 he was made Coadjutor Archbishop of Baltimore, assuming, on the death of Archbishop liayley, the full archbishopric. On June 20 of last year the red hat was conferred on him with imposing ceremonies in the city of his birth. - In personal appearance the Cardinal is sleuder and delicate. His features are clear cut and his kindly manners mako friends wherever he goes. His ability as a writer anKs very men, ana no que mat nas reaa ho "Faith of Our Fathers" can help being charmed with his style. As a speaker he is always clf-ar in argument and simple in style, l ho "r aith of Our r athcrs ' is mado up principally of sermons delivered while on missionary tours iu JNorth Carolina, the book, it is said, has met with a larger circu lation than any other similar Catholio work ever published. Sinco its publication more than one hundred thousand copies have been 3old. Cardinal Gibbons's career has been filled with manv humorous and pathetic in cidents. bile he was an humble priest in tho small country parish of Ldkridge, near Baltimore, one or his characteristic actions iravo him considerable fame. Small pox broke out in the villiage and all the people who were able deserted the town just as rats desert a sinking ship. ' One poor old negro who was at the point of death, was deserted by nis friends and iamny, who leit nun neuner icoanor ineui ciuc. rather uibbons heard ot the case and hastening to the dying man's bedside remained with him until the last. This was not all, however, for no one could bo procured to carrv the corpse to the crave, Father Gibbons was not long in making up his mind he determined to act as undertaker as well as minister. So having obtained a coOin he placed the body in it and having in some way or other dragged it to the grave performed tho last rites of the church and buried it. Thero is another incident in the life of tho Cardinal which he rarely touches on, and for the accuracy of which I do not in tend to be held responsible. The story has frequently been told in Baltimore. and never denied, and is old enough to be true if it lsirt. line the prelate was Bishop of Richmond he was defendant in a 6uit relat ing to some church property. When he was caueu to iue siana, me piainuu s lawyer, a distinguished legal luminary, who still shines among the legal lights of Richmond, determined to trip him up in some way or other. After a number of vain endeavors to in volve the witness in contradictions, he struck on a plan which he thought would annoy the bishop. He therefore questioned Bishop Gibbons's right to the title of the JJishopot icichmonu. lhoaelemlant s lawyer, as a matter of course, objected to this as irreleveut. but the Bishop, with a queer smile, said that if allowed half mn hour to obtain the necessary papers he would comply with the request. This was graciously allowed. The Bishop left the court-room, and in twenty minutes returned with a document, which he proceeded to read with

great solemnity all the more solemn as the paper was entirely in Latin. The plaintiirs lawyer pretended to take notes industriously, bowing his head once iu a while as if in acquiesce, and seeming perfectly convinced at the end. Wheu the reading was finished, he announced that the papal bulls just read were entirely satisfactory, at the same time apologizing for his expressed doubts. The uext day it leaked out that the Bishop, unable to tind the papal bulls at his residence, had brought to court and read a Latiu essay on Pope Leo the Great, written by one of his ecclesiastical students, and dorwarded by - :, ' -.. v"

the president of the college as a specimen of the young man's skill in Latin composition

Cardinal Gibbons is a very liberal prelate. without -saying or doine anything to detract from the established doctrine of tho Roman Church. Sneaking of the Cardinal. it would not be out of place to say a word concerning nis uisiincnve insignia, xnereu nat. innocent IV, at th& council oi Lyons in Vzio, conferred on the cardinals the distinction of the now famous red hat. The special meaning of the hat is that the Pope places it on tho head, tho seat of the brain, to warn the cardinal that "he must give learned and loyal counsel to the government oi uie cuurcn, wnue lis coiur pignmes iuai the wearer must be prepared to shed the last drop of blood rather than betray his trust The hat is now one of ceremony only, and serves but twice once when tho cardinal receives it in consistory and next when it rests on his catafalque at his obse quies. It is then suspended from the ceiU ing of the chapel or aisle of the church in which he is buried. The form of the hat is round, with a low crown and wide stiff brim, from the inside of which hang fifteen silk tassels. The Cardinal's health is comparatively good at the present time and it is understood that he contemplates -writing another book on the doctrines of the church. It is certain that auy future work from his pen will repeat tho success of the "Faith of Our Fathers." THE POPE AND T1IE CLAN-NA-GAEL. Truth of the Report of Opposition from Rome Reaffirmed. Borne Dispatch to the London Standard. I am in a position not onlv to reaffirm the exactness of my statements respecting the Pope s condemnation of the cian-na-uaei, but I can also further state that the present action of the Vatican is not the result of sudden impulse nor the direct consequence of any isolated crime. (These statements were in substance that Archbishop Feehan, of Chicago, having made a long report to the Vatican, through Cardinal Simeon, on the criminal acts of the Clan-na-Gael, the Pope had given instructions that the faculty be granted the Archbishop to take whatever measure he may deem opportune to declare the Clan-na-Gael in opposition to the church. Ed.l The question of these secret societies was one of those which largely occupied the attention of the . assembly of American bishops at Baltimore some time ago, and instructions, asked and bestowed, passed frequently between the United States and Rome, lhe evidence then adduced, though far less full and detailed than later reports, was such that the judgment sent hence was that tho organization and modes of procedure of the Clan-na-Gael must be stigmatized as most reprehensible. Sice then the Holy office has been increasingly' occupied with the matter, and lately evoked the authoritative words lrom the atican which I telegraphed to the Standard on Sunday last. The proceedings of the Holy office are always extremely deliberate and searching, and sometimes the results ap pear tardily, but there Is no wavering about a decree when it has been once pronounced. I can cive a striking instance of this which came to my knowledge to-day. Certain Irish bishops have made confidential representations to the Pope representing the alleged severe treatment ot prisoners belonging to the Agrarians League, and have begged his Holiness to take some steps to obtain from the British government better treatment for these . persons, but Leo XIII does not appear disposed to do any thing of t lie, kind. He has been seriously displeased at the want of union and obedience shown by a large portion of the clergy of Ireland, and his reply to tne Dishopsmay be best summed up in effect thus: "If mv decree had been obeyed the crimes which led to these punishments would never have been committed." This, 1 am assured by thoe who have the best means of knowing, is the Pontiff's present attitude of mind on the Irish question. He has renounced the idea of contin uing Mgr. Persico's mission, but renews his exhortations as to the observance of the de cree against the plan of campaign and boycotting. ALEXANDER MARTIN, D. D., LL. D. His Educational Work at DePauw Universi ty An Untiring Christian. Western Christian Advocate. The following is from the pen of a promiment minister in Indiana, and wo are glad a ii l ; x ! 1 to give it a piace in our rational columns. Dr. Martin has given himself wholly, to his great work, and now retires .from the E residency of tho university crowned with onor ana success: "The work of Dr. Alexander Martin, "who retires from the presidency of DePauw University, deserves something more than a passing notice. His services in the pastoral and educational work of the church have been modest, yet etlective and faith ful. Lntcnng the Pittsburg Conferenco in 1847, by the division f that conference he became a member of the West Virginia Conference in 1848. He held in turn pas toral charges at Charleston, Elizabethtown, Parkersburg and 1- ourth-street, A hechnir. In the educational work of tho church he was a teachr in, and then prin cipal of the Northwestern Virginia Acade my, at Clarksburg, three years, professor in Allegheny uoiiege nine years, president of tho West Virginia University eight years, president of tho Asbnrv-DePauw University fourteen years. His connection with this last-named institution extends over the most eventful period in its history. Rare wisdom.untinng industry, eminent ex ecutive abilitv these were thequalitiesdemanded of him who should' successfully conduct this university through tho years of its phenomenal enlargment. It is saying much yet not too much to affirm that tho quiet, self -restrained man who' has just now put aside tho fnrther leadership in this institution, met the demand most 'satisfactorily in these regards. His resignation was regretfully accented, at his own most, earnest and repeated request. He retains the chair of mental and moral science on an ample salary. He retires from tho presi dency to tho less burdensome and more congenial duties of his chosen chair, carrying with him tho warm regard and unbounded confidence of the joint board of the university, and also of the church wherever he is known. Three times his brethren have made him one of their honored - representatives to the General Conference. Many .years of faithful toil have closely identified his name with the widening history of the church. His vigorous health and largo capacity for work give promise of yet other years of efficient service. V THE GENUS TOUGH." He Is an Ever-Present Quantity in All Suburban Places of Pleasure. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. European pleasure resorts aro free from a certain individual who frequents the suburban places of pleasure in the United States, and who is known as a "touglr' or "rough." At the dancing parties in public C laces in this country and on excursion oats or trains this coarse and lively customer often intrudes and sometimes he comes in force. There are resorts most charmingly situated which have fallen into disrepute and been abandoned by wellbehaved people on account of the'tough and his gang. The American tough presumes on the fact that he has a certain quantum of loose cash to spend, and, in additional literal supply of muscle. Ho is fond of roaming where there 'is beer, and music, and frolic, and Hatters himself that he is quite a social lion in a mixed company, when he gets fairly soaked with liquor -his pucnacious inclinatious develop, and he can be relied on to" bring any festive occasion to grief and confusion. "In the vicinity of every large city social affairs that are open to tho public are liable to bo invaded by. this independent free lance, and he spoils many a genial gathering by his peculiar ideas of what constitutes a good time and his exemplification of them. ' . Europe is welcome to him, butneis a true patriot, and prefers America. The Publication of Legitimate Newt. "Wanhlnpton Post. Whatever is legitimate news may legitimately bo printed. Whatever is grossly indecent and demoralizing has no legitimate status in print. Thn report of a prize light is not agreeable reading at all, but shock ing and brutal as its details may be, it feeds uo prurient inclinations, it panders to no vice, it tills the mind with no unclean imaginations. In the lingering savagery of our civiligation there is an admiration for brute courage and high physical training that will always assert itself on occasions of this kind, and coupled with it jS the universal propensity to take chances on uucertain competitions of skill or prowess. Hence the national interest that attaches to the race and the arena. .The news which this sentiment craves is legitimate, news. It is not nice, but it is not necessarily naughty. The story of the seventy-live rounds that Kilrain and Sullivan .fought -

carries with it its own moral. It is of a

character calculated rather to bring tho prize-ring into disrepute than to popularize it. It is not of a character to be sunnressed on the theory that it presents a rhae of human nature which it were better did not exist. The Judicious Are 2sot Grieve. Shelhyville Republican. Harrison's administration so'far has not disappointed his most judicious friends. Only the selfish find fault, while the great mass of the people are fully satisfied. It is evident to tho close observers that Harrison is giving us a prudent administration. He intends to make no mistakes if he can help it. Somo mistakes are unavoidable, but these the President proposes to reduce to tho minimum. Tln chief trouble comes in, of course, in the distribution of the patronage, otherwise called the "spoils." The miracle of tho loaves and tithes has to bo performed over again with every administration. But as the age of miracles has passed, the modern achievement is not up to the requirements. Iu other words. President Harrison, as skillful a mechanic as he is, has not been able to make the three fishes and three loaves of bread supply soma fifty thousand people. But aside from this trouble, which confronts every President, Harrison has done remarkably well. Hii main appointments have beeu admirable. Scarcely a mistake has been scored against him. Later on this fact will bear its pregnant fruit, and after the scores of disappointed otli re-seekers begin to heal up, the country will be left free to sec by a dispassioned observation that the administration has done all that could be expected of it by themost exacting. Remarks Subject to Revision. Atlanta ConsUtuUon. We sincerely regret that Mr. Jake Kilrain did not wipe up about half the State of Mississippi with Mr. John Sullivan yesterday. A We do not mind saying at this distance that Mr. Sullivan is about theunlovelieKt person in sacred or profane history. A more sodden brute a duller or more 6en-, sual human wo are not at this writing;' able to summon from any written page. Mr. Sullivan's record tho day before th fight of eating three chickens, a hunk of beef, several pots of vegetables, and thea falling asleep while ho was being shaved give some idea of the sort of human anaconda he is. We repeat our regrets that ho was net smashed and mangled at Rich's mills j'esterday. Of course, these remarks are written on the presumption that Mr. Sullivan will carry out his advertised purpose of returning home via Louisville. They are subject to revision if ho &hould take a notion to change his route and journey northward by the Piedmont Air-line. Professor Hilgard's Successor. Boston Advertiser. Professor Mendenhall's appointment as superintendent of the coast and geodetio survey will probably be a perfectly acceptable o"ne to all. Certainly it is difficult to see how President Harrison could havo found a more worthy and accomplished gentleman for the position. Mr. Menden mil, as professor in the Ohio University and in tho Tokio University at Japan, showed himself thoroughly acquaintedwith scientific matters and familiar with the latest scientific discoveries. His "Century of Electricity" and his well-known report on the Charleston earthquake havo made his namo well known, not only in this country but abroad. His appointment waj recommended by the faculty of tho Smith sonian Institution and by other well known.American scientists, and the FresU dent, in complying with the requests, has. shown his own good judgment, while be stowing a well-merited honor on Professof Meudenhall. - Interstate Extradition. Brooklyn Standard-Union. The alleged intention of tho Governor ol Mississippi to secure the extradition of th principals in the recent prize-fight hai given rise to considerable discussion, and the belief is held by not a few that his pur pose will be by no means easy of - accom plishmcnt. Tho unsatisfactory condition of the interstate extradition la'ws has been recently demonstrated in the difficulty experienced by the Illinois authorities in securing the surrender by the New York au thorities of two of the men accused ot complicity in tho Cronin murder. Thero should bo a fixed, uniform and well-defined law, in accordance with which interstate extradition processes could be carried cut with certainty and celerity, and efforts ar& making to this end. A Cruel Game. Falrmount News. The News is informed by a gentleman very well and favorably known throughout the State that the condition of the coai miners in Clay county has been purposely exaggerated by the Democratic politicians, of the pot-houso variety, in the hope, as ha believes, to mako capital out of tho matter foT party purposes. The gentleman ia question said he had talked with people and ministers from that section, and that the reports of sullering among tht miners .was'greatly exaggerated. He also stated that tho Journal.of Indianapolis, had given correct representations of affairs in Clay county. . Some of the Itesnlts. Brooklyn Eagle. Boston is jnbilant. the gilded codfish oni the dome of tho Massachusetts State-houso-' shines with renewed splendor, and th mighty slugger stands forth "vindicated' J in the eyes of an admiring universe. Uponv the Patapsco has fallea the shadow of a profound sorrow. The wailing of Baltimore) is heard iu the land. Hereafter the echoes' of the Chesapeake, erstwhile sounded inj lofty defiance, will fall to a subdued mur-J mur. mere is no consolation in store fof Maryland, my Maryland. Using the Miners as a Cat's-Paw. Brazil Register. The striking miners will awake, beforo. long, to the fact that Democrats and freetraders have throughout been using them as a cat's-paw for drawing political chest nuts from the fire, while their competitors have been blinding them by charity, that they might steal their market. When the steal has been completed, and the minera' find themselves out of a year's job, they, will have ample leisure to note who their friends really are. Might Call It a Republican Outrage. Philadelphia Press. Wisconsin's Democracy is all torn up bof cause Gen. E. S. Bragg, late minister to Mexico, has been expelled from tho Grand Army of the Republic forcontimu dneglecM to pay his dues. The Wisconsin Demo-j crats might make a routing political issue of this affair, taking the broad ground thati the expulsion of n Democrat from any ort ganizatiou for tailing to pay anything is a Republican outrage. Technicalities of the PrI?-Elng. Philadelphia Becord. "What do they mean by a rib-roast?" asked u gray-robed lady, turning lrora a Sullivan extra to her escort, whose still hat and shad-stomach coat denoted the relationship of bride, and groom. T should saw" said the husband with a twinkle, "that it meant bill a la mode!'' And tho bride looked as much at sea as ever. A Difference lletwren Two Mates, rrovidence Journal. One difference between West Virginia and Ohio is that the former voted for Governor last fall, and is now trying to find out which was elected, .while the latter will vote for Governor next fall, and is trying now to hnd out which will bo elected.. Ohio may find out first what it wants tir know. Draw int; the Line. Tack. Collector Do you wiMi to subscribe to the flood-sufferers' fund. Mr. Greatiuan! Mr. Greatiuan tan eminent s Talesman IPm I don't think there is anything ia that for me. Most of the oters got drowned: but I'll subscribe to the fund ler the striking miners in Indiana. Where They IMfTercd. . Philadelphia lieoonl. Austere man iu clerical-looking coat, commenting on the fight "it would have been small los if they had killed each other." Thin-chestedyouth.glaringthroughi eye-glasses with an air of persona I resent-1 ment "I beg to differ. It would have bcea a loss to science!' Northern Capital In the South. Milwaukee Sentinel. Not long ago the Atlanta Constitution, expressed the hope- that Northern capital) would be found supporting mills in tha South. It was Northern capital that mado th Sullivau-Kilraiu mill s.