Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 188D.

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1889. WASUtNGTOX OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St P. S. IltATn, Correspondent. JTEW YORK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, , Corner Reek-roan and Xaasan street. Telephone Calls. Basinets Offira 238 1 Editorial Rooms 243 TEKMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY. ' One year, without Fnnday ....f 12.00 One year, with Sunday 14.00 bix month, without bnnday o.Oo tl x months, with Sunday 7.00 Three months, without fnnday 3.00 Three months, w lth Sunday 3.f0 One month, without Sunday 1.00 One month, with tiunday.. 1.20 WE KELT. Per year.. f 1.00 Itedured Kates to Clubs. - Echseribe with any of our numerous agents, or send subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, l5DIA.XAPOLI3.Im All ecmrnvnicationg intended for publication in (bis paper mutt, in order to receive attention, be, accomjanied by llie name, and addrett oftht writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can he found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange In Europe, 443 btrand. PARIS American Exchange in Taxis. 35 Boulevard ties Capuclnes. NEW YORK Gilsey House and Windsor Hotel. PIIIL.ADELPHIA A. P. Kcmhlo, 3735 Lancaster avenue, CHICAGO Palmer House. CES'CINNATI-J. P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street, LOUISVILLE C. T. D erring, northwest corner Third and Jenerson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern lio tel. WASHINGTON, D. 0.-IUggs House and EhhitC House. The New York Post is constrained to admit that the appointment of Edward Mitchell as district attorney for New York is "a very good one a wonderfully good ono - for Mr. Harrison to make;" but with truo mugwump unfairness and inconsistency it declines to suppose that Mr. Mitchell was chosen because ho is a good lawyer and an honest gentleman. When President Cleveland appointed the rascally Fellows as district attorney, and afterwards gavo him a strong personal indorsement, thd Post and kindred organs, lamented tho strength of the improper influences surrounding the son of destiny. The plea of overwhelming outside influence was made in his behalf for every grossly partisan and indecent appointment made. If, as tho Post claims, President Harrison is completely under partisan control, it ought at least to be held in his favor, and that of his party, that his appointees aro honest gentlemen. If party influences must prevail, is it not decidedly better that they should bring good results than bad! In short, is it not better that they should bo Republican than Democratic! It is a poor rule that docs not work both ways and apply in more cases than one.

Tin: action of the Methodist Episcopal book committee in refusing to consider tho wishes of so largo and influential an element as that urging Dr. Rawlins's Jtvasttnwise, to say the least. Indiana forms a large part of tho Western Advocate's patronizing territory, and representatives 01 he Indiana conferences certainly had the right to express their wishes concerning tho appointment of an editor, and to havo their requests treated with respect, whether acceded to or not. This, according to all accounts, was not done, but tho matter was settled in a high-handed way, and with regard only to tho personal feelings of tho committee. Choosing an editor by ballot must, for many reasons, bo an unsatisfactory transaction; but when such method is practiced it should certainly if an expression of fiinfnl origin may bo used in this connection have tho merit of being a 6quaro deal. Tho ' Indiana Methodists had no desiro to force tho acceptance of their candidate upon the committee, but feeling that they had a man admirably fitted for the place, did wish to havo his claims fairly presented and carefully considered. Had this been done, and tho decision been adverse to them, they would acquiesce cheerfully in tho result, as good Methodists should, but, as tho matter stands, aro full of righteous wrath. The unfairness must tend, however unreasonably, to create a prejudice against tho new management among Indiana Methodists an unfortunate thing for tho paper in view of' its dependence upon tho church in this State. Personal preferences aside, a doubt exists in the minds of leading brethren as to the propriety of choosing a man for tho place who is unacquainted with tho pastors or people of the tributary districts, and their peculiar needs. On tho whole, it appears, from an outside 6tand-point, that tho book committee has blundered in tho performance of this delicate and important oflicial duty. According to tho registration in tho office of the Secretary of Stato tho Third Louisiana district' contains, in its twelve parishes, 25,807 white, and 30,388 colored voters, which, of course,' means a Re publican majority. Tho Democrats, however, havo held tho district since 1S84, when they cast 15,H02 yotes against 15,003 Republican, but threw out 1,000 Republican ballots. In 18SG tho voto was: Democratic, 14,000; Republican, 11,000. In 18S8, Gay, Democrat, received 18,852 votes, and Jolly, Republican, only 6,211. That is, over 18.000 of the 25,000 white voters went to the polls, while only 0,000 negroes voted, or, at least. only that number had their ballots counted. Reforo each election, tho in timidation of the negroes has been so great, and has resulted so satisfactorily to tho bulldozers that it has not been thought worth while by tho Democrats to canvass tho district. This year, however. there were signs that the colored men were recovering from their terror, and that even among tho white men a lean ing toward Republican principles existed. As a consequence the Democracy has conducted an arduous campaign and havo had many speakers, numbers of torchlight processions, and havo prac ticed all tho methods of rousing enthusi asm. Not feeling securo with these, they resorted to tho old means of carry ing their election, and, by raising tho 'race" cry at an opportune time and

shooting down a dozen or so negroes, succeeded in creating tho desired impression that it was unsafe for a black man to vote. They have, of course, carried tho day, but no ono in tho United States honestly believes that they have won it fairly. Tho so-rallcd election is ono that demands congressional investigation, and is a caso that will go' far to strengthen tho sentiment in favor of a rigorous law providing for federal supervision of congressional elections. Such a law is the inevitable outcome of Southern methods, and if Southern Democrats object to it, they have only themselves to blame.

PRESIDENT HARRISON'S FIJIAKCIAL POLICY. The Sentinel attempts to make a point against tho financial policy of tho present administration because, within six months after President Harrison's inauguration, ho has not reversed all tho bad precedents set by Mr. Cleveland. The special poiut of the attack is that tho surplus has not! been wholly applied to tho purchase of bonds, and that a largo government deposit still remains in the national banks. Tho following, from ono of General Harrison's speeches, is quoted: Tho snrplns now in the treasury should he used in the purchase of bonds. The law authorizes thisuse of it, anil, if itisnot now needed for current or deficiency appropriations, the people, and not the banks in which it has been deposited, should havo tho advantage of its uso by stopping interest on the public debt. The President is charged with insincerity and inconsistency because this policy has not been carried out to tho extent of devoting tho entire surplus to the purchaso of bonds and reducing tho government deposits in tho national banks to a minimum. Tho charge has this much foundation that thcro is still a considerable sum remaining on deposit in tho banks and tho surplus has not yet been entirely wiped out by the purchase of bonds. But a good start has been mado in both directions, and, as in tho caso of the Demo cratic office-holders, wo think if President. Harrison is allowed reasonable time he will get there. The Sentinel quotes an editorial on Mr. Cleveland's financial policy from tho Journal of Oct. 13, 1888, to prove that President Harrison's present policy is just as bad. . Tho Sentinel's recent practice of using Journal editorials with tho change of only a few words is furnishing its patrons with some mighty good reading, but it should exercise better judgment as to tho time of printing them. Wait till October, 1802, and see how our Cleveland editorial of last October fits President Harrison then. Tho distinctive feature of Mr. Cleve land's administration, next to his freetrade pronunciamento, was tho accumulation of a surplus. Tho nursing of tho surplus was a part of his free-trade pol icy. As a leading banker of New York said, a few days ago: ' The policy of Secretary Fairchild under the Democratic administration of Presi dent Cleveland did not aim to reduce the surplus, or the Secretary would havo proceeded differently. The scie aim seemed to bo to keep the accumulated surplus in tho Treasury. Under such a state of affairs Mr. Cleveland and Mr. fairchild, from tho mere political view, argued "now we've got them." With tho Treasury groaning under the plethora. Mr. Cleveland promulgated his celebrated messages, liis aim, and that of his Secretary of tho Treasury, was not to reduce tho surplus by the purchase of bonds, but by tho reduction of customs duties, tho accumulation in tho Treasury being the mainstay of tho argument. In tho cflbrt to increase tho surplus tho law authorizing the Secretary of tho Treasury to purchase bonds was ignored, and money was purposely allowed to accumulate in tho Treasury and tho banks. That was Mr. Cleveland's policy. Tho present administration has al ready begun to reduce the surplus and bank deposits, and has made a good boginning in tho purchasoof bonds. A private individual would be accounted a financial ninny who should pile up money in his safe while he continued to pay interest on outstanding notes that he might buy in. The government has to pay a premium for its bonds, but it stops interest and saves money by it. During tho months of July and August tho Secretary of the Treasury paid $4,030,543 as premiums on bond purchases, against Sl,400,G19 paid for tho samo purpose in 1883. An excellent beginning has already been made in carrying out General Harrison's suggestion regarding the disposition of tho surplus, antr ho has three years and a half yet to serve. Suppose wo wait a while. A COSTLY TRIUMPH. Representatives of the Indiana schoolbook monopoly claim that, as a com pulsory reform, tho law is a great success. It is amusing to note how openly the advocates of what was to be a popu lar and educational reform now boast of the success of tho compulsory enforce ment of tho law. Tho Sentinel yester day contained a statement by tho business manager of tho monopoly, stating that the books had already been forced into a majority of tho counties in tho State, and pointing to tho fact as a nota ble triumph of "American capital, pluck and energy." The triumph is over the people and tho schools, and, such as it is, it -has been accomplished only by threatening the penalties of the law against all who objected to taking tho medicine. Tho same issue of tho Sentinel which con-? tained this boastful statement of the monopoly manager printed a dispatch from ono county stating that it had been decided that "all "school children should be provided with tho new books, and that a failure to do so would deprivo them of school privilege?." In another county it was stated that the county board had decided "that wo will not permit teachers to hear pupils recite in now books hereafter purchased that conflict with the Indiana series." It is by such arbitrary and compulsory process as this that the worthless publications now being spawned over tho Stato aro forced upon tho people and into tho schools. A great triumph, indeed, of "American capital, pluck and energy." The transaction, so far as it has gone, represents tho confiscation of thousands and thousands of dollars' worth of good books now in the hands of tho people, and a compulsory exaction of thousands of dollars more for books which no respectable educator in tho United States would daro indorse over his own name, and

which, as now being furnished, aro far below the inferior standard fixed by tho

law and tho specifications of the monop oly's contract. Perhaps it is a great tri umph of American capital, pluck and energy, but it is a still more remarkable illustration of American ignorance, recklessness and stupidity in legislation. It is a triumph which the schools of Indi ana will bo twenty years in recovering from. A COiUIENDABLE PROJECT.The movement started by the Board of Trado to make a deep boring within tho city limits in further search for natural gas, or whatever may be found, should by all means bo carried out. The result of such an enterprise could hardly fail to justify tho outlay, and it might lead to discoveries of tho greatest importance. Recent developments in this and other States show that natural-gas reservoirs are found at varying depths. At one point in Ohio a great supply has recently been discovered at a depth of 3,000 feet, completely, overthrowing all previous theories and experience on tho subject. While it cannot bo assumed with certainty that natural gas would bo found hero at that depth, it might be, and there are many reasons for believing that local exploration has not yet been pushed as far as it ought to bo. A discovery of natural gas at any depth within tho city limits would bo of ines timable value, and tho mere possibility of such a thing is enough to justify every effort in that direction. But even if natural gas were not found, such a bor ing might result in some other valuable discovery, and would certainly yield a perpetually flowing artesian well, which would bo worth to the city all it cost. The fact is, the interior of tho earth be neath us is an unexplored field. Indian apolis occupies on interesting section of country, and discoveries of different kinds all around us emphasize the importance of making a thorough explora tion of tho earth in this vicinity to a depth of at least 3,000 or 8,500 feet.' The boring should bo commenced with a. dis tinct understanding that it is to go that depth, unless valuable discoveries are made sooner. The project is suggestive of important possibilities, and should by all means be carried out. Gen. Gordon, in his address to the Veterans' Confederate Association at Atlanta, expressed a doubt ; that tho : Southern people "would over again wit ness another civilization equal to that; which began with theiiwWashingtonand ended with their Lee." Will this un speakable rot never cease! What achievement in literate science or art can Gen. Gordon poinn as tho result of distinctive Southern civilization? Thcro were educated people 'among them, but their culture wa3 -super? ficial and their education brought forth no results. Tho wealthy classes were hospitable, but it was a vicarious hospitality, based on tho stolen service of hereditary slaves. Their big planta tions were such as to mako a Northern 0 i farmer laugh, and their Southern,, man sions would not compare, in comfort or convenience, with tho. averagqfitrfri-' houso in any Northern State. Their mode of liviug, their facilities for trlver, their educational systems, their public and private architecture, were all primi tivo and crude. In fact, tho civilization of the South before tho war was semi civilization, and tho people were so provincial that they did not even know: it. It seems Gen. Gordon has not! found it out yet. Tho less said about it the better.. ' i - i ' . EX-CONGUESSMAN NORWOOD, of TjCOTis a failure, and that tho ballot is to him' a "toy which he has tired of." Thero is' unmistakable evidence in many parts ofj tho South that tho negroes aro tired of! trying to vote, but it can hardly be that familiarity has bred contempt for tho practice. Such massacres as that; in Louisiana a few days ago aro apt1 to mako them tired. i , Witen the mother of John Sullivan was buried, three carriages were required' to carry the floral tributes to the grave. ! If ever the floral tribute" business was vul garized, It was in this case. If tho friends of John Sullivan's mother wished to show their respects to her memory by offerings of flowers, they had as much right to do6 as other mourners, and it was quite as proper. that such offerings be made in her caso as in others. . But tho three carriage loads of flowers were not given by Mrs. Sullivan's friends; they wero contributed by the ad mirers other eon, the slugger; by roughs. and toughs, and "sports" from all parts of the country, who wished to bring themselves to tho great man's attention, and to advertise themselves at tho same time. In view of such misuso of a beautiful custom, it is no wonder that the legend, "no flowers," is ap pended so frequently to funeral notices by fastidious people. The discussion of tho national flower question has taken on a decidedly chestnutty flavor; and. after all, has amounted to nothing, and can amount to noth ing, since who is to decide what the flower shall be! Tho only really practical and sensible suggestion made in regard to tho matter was that of somo correspondent of a Washington paper who proposed that each President should designate his fav orite blossom, and that that should bo tho Nation's emblem while he remained in of. fice. This plan at onco affords variety ami gives all the flowers a chance. 0 m The Journal has heretofore commented on tho disadvantages of selecting an editor becauso of certain qualifications which have nothing to do with making a good editor, but recent events show that there may be other objections to this plan than those mentioned. The Methodist brethren would do well to establish a system of civil-service reform in tho offices of their church payers -whereby the man who knows best how to perform tho duties will .be called to fill vacancies. The seal-skin harvest of forty car-loanV together with that portion of the fur crop J H-Ii!..t -1 . - recovercu irom dhusu poacutrs, gives comforting assurance that the American woman will have a cloak to her back next . winter at least. To the Ertltor of the Indianapolis Journal: Will you please Inform we the date of "Har vest bunas j " ior mm yean Reader. Mahtissville. Ind. . Your question is hardly clear. Observances of this character are held by diflerent church organizations, the davs beinir an. " e 1' pointed according to local convenience. In jDguuiu tjuca ceic orations aro actermuied

by the time of the harvest moon, which is

the full moon nearest the autumnal equi nox. To the Kdltor of tho Iudlanapolls Journal: W1PT1 1 a 10' Yi ,1 wont InfA r W rnx thorn l'fTrt Treasury. Has there been a count, and what is the status of the casht II. J. C crrr. The count, since Treasurer Huston's ap pointment, showed a shortage of a few dollars, tho result, perhaps, of some error,. which was mado rood by tho out-going Treasurer. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. ; The average ago of tho twelve English bishops is seventy-six years. Senator and Mrs. Join Sherman are expected homo from Europo about Sept. 12. -i Wagner's only son, Siegfried, now grown, is studying to bo an engineer. He looks like his father, but shows no marked musical talent. The richest man in the English House of Commons is said to be Mr. McEwan, Homerule member for one of the divisions of Edinburgh, worth 02,000 per annum. Mia. U. S. Grant, who accompanied Minister Fred Grant to Vienna, is home sick, and she will soon return to this coun try and spend the coming winter in Washington. General Maiione, of Virginia, is the son of a tavern-keeper, no walked barefooted to Richmond to secure tho Governor's aid to enter the Virginia Military Institute. v lino there he was twitted with being a poverty pupil." George Ebers, tho rival of Rider Hag gard in Oriental ronuacing, is fifty-two years of ago. ' He is a professor of Egyptviugy m .ueipsic university, ana iook iu novel writing, so ho says, becauso illness prevented, his doing Larder work. Mr. Arkell, proprietor of Judge, and Russell Harrison's partner, is described as a little,, chubby man, with a round faco and a round head, and a mind that calculates with lightning-like rapidity. Though so rich and prominent, he is hut a little over thirty. The Rev. Father Hanselp SaTagian, who was sent by the Armenian patriarch of Constantinople to look after the spiritual interests of the Armenians living in this country, held his first service in Boston on bunday. 1 his is said to be the first use of the Armenian ritual bv a genuine delegate of the Patriarch in America. Rev. Waldo Messaros preached a ser mon to his congregation in New York on Sunday, in which he stated that Abraham was tho first gentleman on record. "For," said the preacher, "Abraham remained at home and was always in harmony with his people. Even when they offered him a grave for a rah he.insisted on paying for it. That was tho first real estate transaction." . A . seedy man asked for a dinner at a farm-houso in Harborcreek, near Erie, sev eral days ago. The lady snappishly refused hint, but her little danghter pleading for him, she relented, and after dinner the man went on to the next farm, where he wrote a letter to the snappish- lady, revealing tho fact that he was her brother, supposed to have been drowned thirty years aeo. and inclosing for tho child a roll of new $10 notes. . . . If. Mrs. Harriet Coe, of '.Grand Rapids, Mich., lives until Jan. 11, 1890, sho will be 103 years old. Sho was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1787. Her father" Alexander Mc Neil, was a soldier in tho war of 1812, and her grandfather. General McNeil, reas a soldierin the war' of the revolution. In her 100th year she had a paralytic stroke. ana it was thought she could not recover, but sho did, and now is in a fair state of health. Emperor William has but recently hon ored himself with any high military rank. Though as Kaiser he is tho "War Lord" of the German army, he remained but a brig adier until a short while ago, when he roso to uo a maior-general. 8inco Queen Victoria mado him an admiral and the Austrian Erateror made him a general, Moltke uas urgea mm to come un to tne nrst rank, and he now is a commanding general. Henri Rochefort's best points aro his lovo for his family and his charitable nat ure. He has long aided Louise Michel aft er helping her mother, and still pays a pension to tho three children of Olivier ram, Ins former secretary, who was killed while fighting for the fahdi's cause. He allows 50 a month to the widow of Emilo Lndcs, a socialist friend who died a year ngo. and last year he adopted a poor littlo orphan girl, to whom ho intends to give a uowry. Aiiogeiner no gives away annual ly about $10,000. ;ij 'Victoria Yokes is training a pet canary ;to perform a partof her now play, entitled VTho Doctress." Tho bird now performs his part of swooping down upon the come dians. Dining shrillr and chasfn? varioim characters about tho stage with great skill. The only fear is, that it may suffer from stage lrignt wnen tne noise and lights of the first performance are encountered. To provide for this, two other birds aro now in training by the stage manager of tho com?any, so that under, studies can bo substiutea rapidly. A good story is told of non. M. D. Harter, chairman of the Ohio Democratic convention. When he flopped over to Democracy his wife remained in tho Republican ranks. Last fall, when the Republicans' celebrated their national victory, they called upon Mr. Harter for the loan of his fine team, to use in the ; parade, which ho refused. Mrs. Harter, however, intimated . to . a friend that the horses wero hers, and that her horses would celebrate every Republican victory. The Harter horses pranced in the parade, nna tne iiarter nome was magnificently illuminated. The women of Illinois are determined that their sex shall not be ignored in tho coming celebration of the landing of Co lumbus. So they havo incorporated a com pany of women, who will undertake the work ot erecting a statue oi iueen Isabella, rf Snain. who iniirlft thi Hfiilin it nf tfiA Pinta the Nina and the Santa Maria possible, ami who, though a woman, was the only person in, Europe at that time with brains enough to see the force of Columbus's theory. The statuo is to bo unveiled in 18.2. and the in corporators are Dr. Julia Holmes Smith, Catharine V. Waito and Dr. Fanny Dick inson. The Droxel cottage, at Mount McGregor, in which General Grant passed his last hours, is kept just as it was when ho died, with the exception to the removal of a few personat belongings to the family. The two big leather-covered easy-chairs in which ho passed so many painful da3's ore draped in black and left in the same position they were in when he occupied them. The clock. on the mantel has been silent since the moment of his death, when the doctor stopped it, and the writinir-tablets ho used when speech was prohibited are in a case on the wall, together with his pencil and a couplo ot messages in writing io .nr. urexei. COMMENT AND OPINION. Labor has the samo right to organize for its own protection as capital has to com- . . j : i r . bine ior seinsa kiiu. spun oi luirnexs on each side of these mammoth interests is all tho American laborer asks, and is what every honest American employer should be ready to grant. New York Telegraph. The Maryland clubs may renolve till the crack ot doom, but the civil-service law will not bo repealed. On tho contrary, it will be gradually extended and ehlareed in its scope, and spoilsmen, whether Republican or Democrats. Blight as well under stand it. The set of the current cannot bo changed. Philadelphia Press. It is quite time that the boasted friendship of the Southern whites to their colored neighbors was based on something else than the proviso that its recipients 6hall not vote, and quite time that tho former welcomed kindness that recognizes the lat ter as rightful voters ana aims to nt tnem to exercise that right New, York Press. In spite of all that tho free-traders of this country have said about the favorable condition of labor in England, the fact stands demonstrated beyond doubt that a verv large proportion of the laboring men of England are at work ruinously long hours and receive starvation wages. Tho

striko further proves tho utter foolishness

here are due to protection. Cleveland Leader. .. . ! It is rather odd to seo Democratic organs which protest against the mammoth striko , f . : t . in tivuuun ueiug regarueu as an ouicuuip the British system of lren trado, hotly inw . . . t amirs nru me immediate ana logical outcome of thft AmpriMn srtiii of tirotection. 1 he fact is that neither a revenue nor a proiccuve xann is an etjectivo rcmeuv ior ino Unfortunate nnl fruilich 1ivttlna tif rnnital and labor. Boston Journal. Nothing is surer to come than a civil war in the South a "race war" so called if the Southern Bourbons continue to pursue the unlawful and crimiunl methods by which, in the past, they have robbed the ballot-tinT nf ita Virmoof varvliAf' nml in. llictcd cruel wrongs upon tho colored race. mm wucii mai - war comes, it win ie blOOdv (Hie. Wn linr.a if m-trr iAri rnmn. but it surely will if the South continues to 1Vti1fl M.l AS A A uyuum aiiu encourage tne regulator system, wlllrK il lttlf n lata. - t l.n Irln.iiim If this is waving the bloody shirt, make vue most oi it. uetroit Tribune. , MR. HURLEY'S DECLINATION. Why lie Refused the Third Andltorshlp His Reply to Certain Charges. To the Editor ot the Washington Post: lour issue dated Anz. IB contained an articlo which, in commenting upon my declination of the office of Third Anditor of tho Treasury, has done me great injustice. In the belief that vou were misinformed, and not inspired by malice, I ak that equal space and nuhneitr bo Accorded me. The article treats the declension of an of fice by an Indianian as "Ktartling." It is perhaps rare that good offices are declined, but the rarity of such an act ought not to subject the gentleman declining to unjust surmises as to his motives, or expose him io gossip wnicn borders on the libellous and slanderous. It is true, as stated, that I was appointed; it is not true, that I started to Washington to qualify. I did leave New Albany, but my tickets and des tination were for Deer 1'ark. My object m calling upon tho President was to state the embarrassment I was in: on the ono hand a good ollice was mine if I qualified, on the other was an increased salary from the Pennsylvania railroad, a congenial pursuit, and a continuation for my family and myself of tho pleasant social relations existing at home. 1 went to Deer Park to show the President the regard I had for him aud to manifest my seuso of tne nonor conferred upon me. I chose a personal interview rather than the medium of the mails. I mav be oerniitted to sav that tho President was pleased to express his regret becauso of my determination, and has at a later date expressed his personal regard for me, and his regret that I was not to bo at Washington. Neither Mr. Harrison nor any other gentleman requested me to surrender the office. The act was my own made after deliberation and of my own volition. Neither prompted by suggestion, invitation or nmt froinanv source wnatever. Had l so elected, I would to-day be filling the office so honorably filled by Mr. Williams. Jt is alleged that I was asked to surrender the office because of an unsettled account with the Postothco Department. It is true that a difference of opinion as to what constitutes a contract and authority lies be tween the chief clerk of the allowance division of the Postoffice Department and myself. He claims that I overpaid an account of rents for the period embracing quarters ending March si, ltSxt, and August 31, 18& the sum of $221.93. 1 assert I paid it under a proper countract and by proper authority. Herein lies the whole matter in controversy. The issue will soon be tried, and the verdict will, I think, be in my favor, but in the transaction thero is nothing which Affects my character as an official or gentleman. In conclusion. Mr. Editor, permit me to say that the reckless handling of pnblio men by newspapers is reprehensible in the hiehest decree, when, upon misinforma tion, often given by evil-disposed persons, they proceed to publish matters calculated to wound and to injure one's social and business standing. Against mi ordinary assault I know how to defend myself, but against a newspaper I am powerless, and. in proof, am compelled to depend upon vour generosity to publish this. I- have been tried in the columns of your paper, ad judged guilty, notwithstanding that tho tuo reasons given ior not accepting tne oince havo tho backing of the .President, Uen. v mdom, aud, yours truly. M. AL HURLEY. New Aijiany, Ind., Aug. 27. i A DIPLOMATIC RECLUSE. China's New Minister Will Tiring Ills Wife, but She Will Be Cloistered. Washington Special. The Chinese minister, with several mem bers of the-legation, will remain in the Catskills for a week or two before return ing to Washington.. when thev will at once be gin preparations for their departure for their native laud. The successor to the present minister has been appointed, but the cablegram announcing the date of his departnro for America has not yet been re- : i x i l a: tl . ct'ivrii ub iut) it'guuuu. auu new imuiBirr will be accompanied by his wife and family, which will be the nrst instance wherein a woman of high caste has been permit ted to accompany her husband outside the Celestial Kingdom. The strict surveillance which is there exercirpd over wives will be followed in this case, for im mediately upon the arrival of tho new minister with his family they will drive in a closed carriage to the legation, where niadame win uc at onco insianea in tne suite oi apartments assigned for her occupancy. With ono exception, when tho members of the hew legation will be formally presented to the mistress of the household, a few days after her arrival, she will not at anytime see visitors or be seen by company. Tho minister will take his wife to drive occasion ally, when her health demands such exer cise: but. instead of nerraitting her to take part in any social duties, tho legation will bo conducted in all respects as a bachelor esiaotisnment. Tho present minister will be accompanied upon his return to China by the members of his legation, who, with tho exception of lr. low and one other, are all married. Mr. Shu. who is now in Bangor visiting Mr. and Mrs. Parkhurst, has been in this country for eight years, during which time ne has not onco seen his wile and child. : Druggists to Keep Fostofflces. New York World. A plan under consideration by the Post master-general, if carried out, will result in the establishment, within a lew months, of from sixty to seventy additional postoffice stations in this city. It is proposed to rent space in corner drug stores for the establishment of these stations. For several weeks agents of Mr. Wanamaker have been making a quiet canvass with this object in view. The proposition is that the proprietor of the store shall provide a clerk who shall, at all times, bo ready.to sell money .orders, register letters and receive letters and parcels for mailing. . It is not yet decided whether tho storekeeper shall be asked to provide delivery for the mail matter which may bo left with him. This project is part of a plan which looks to doing away with alargo number of the letter-carriers. Special wagons will go from store to store collecting the mails aud delivering them at either tho general postoffice or the branch offices. A similar system of collection and delivery has been provided in Philadelphia and, it is said, works well. It is thought that the expense of tho proposed plan would be less than the employment of tho additional clerks that seem at present to bo demanded for the proper distribution of man matter. m s - ' A Macedonian Wail for Boodle. A tifrn sit a td The national Democracy must stand squarely by the people of Virginia in this right. The sinews of war should bo liberflllir Tinri ! ftjl rfM.si 1'irii.inna will Vi.tail help, and a great deal of it, from tho outside. To put it plainly, and not to shock in the purity of the ballot, money makes tllA luillnt. rtntAnti'il Vtir awpllinff Tin the count. Col. Calvin S. Brice and his coraxmttee should look after tho Mate or Vir ginia, it needs their best work. : Pertinent Questions. Baltimore American. Whatever mav bo tho impression concern ing the beginning of tho riot at (Jouldsboro depot, in Louisiana. ,ono fact stands out bold, and clear, and disheartening to all decent people, whether they bo Kepublicans or Democrats. The whites engaged in tho affray tired and burned to the ground the colored people's place of worship, within a stone's throw of Now Orleans, the typical city of the South. It is pertinent to inquire. would tho colored people, with all the ignorance, superstition and degradation imputed to them by their enemies in the

South would they have set firo to a church

and onrncu n i iue ground to imphasizo TiAir TevenceT Have th ava .1 . have they ever done anything comparable with this picco of vandalism! Guilty of rurirrtrv. South Bend Trihnn?. The Indianapolis cntinel is attempting nopoly by forging extracts from papers known to bo opposed to the syndicate monopoly. In last 1 nday's Issue the Sentinel South iiend Iribune: The organs of tho old school-book monopoly do not get the cncourarcmcnt that they honed for when they entered upon their cmsadoaeainst the new school-book law. liven Uovernorllovey disdains to vc them aid nud comfort. A number of inf.ncntlal Republican paper, not held in tow bv the old school-book monopolr. manfully stand up for the new law. " me sentinci .uuws me Tribune never printed, editorially or locally, any such expression of opinion as the above, and it will present tho triplicate bidding Sentinel $iw u ivw" - , u-u expression of opinion in favor or the school-book svndirato in iuoj;in)viiv.i..i n i u is paper, in Tribune for the past twelve years has faiutnivw.-.-- uu mumiu ui Indiana, but it has never favored putting the furnishing of school-books -into the hands of a monopoly such as now has its irracn linnn t lift State. Srli rnl -1 -. tuished by this monopoly are not free. A Reasouable Request. : Philadelphia Inquirer. - ( . Prompt attention should be given to tho petition sent tho Interstntr-commerce Commicoinn lit TlCarlV KVOfifi liml-Am.n liiinotvu - ajuth .tlilA other railroad employes, askiug for tho adoption of automatic brakes and couplers for all freight trams, n appears to be a reasonable request. Hundreds of brakemen aro killed or injured every year by delectivo braKesor misnaps while coupling cars. Automatic brakes are now used on nlmnaf nil tVlRSPntrer tmin nnA rn m-in. C the fast freight trams; their application to all cars is a mere question of expense. An alleged difficulty ih tho way of applying automatic couplers to freight trams is louna in xao varj iug ui-igms oi ine platforms: but recent inventions that have Imon nnnrnrcil b the inaafpr rnr.niU.r. remove all the force of this objection. If it cost tne ranroaua us iuucu io kiu a braKetnrin na it lnP tn kill A Tl.'l rrnr nil trains would soon bo fatted with safety ap pliances. Blind Free-Traders. Louisville Commercial. The nresent tariff on tin elates is 1 cnfc per pound. With a slight increase to partly ottsetthe difference in cost of labor hero aud in England, American capital and en terprise will be louna to take hold of tho business, when, so far as prices aro concerned, our experience with the steel-rail manufacture is likely to be repeated. But the Bame class of economists who foneht protection to steel-rail manufacture, under wnicn prices nave ueu reuueeu io one-nitn tho former standard, are lighting protection to tin-plato manufacture and with tho same arguments alleged fear of raising tho price. Blind to the teachings of experience, they deny tho advantage of domestic competition in supplying the home market with homo labor, in utilizing our unlimited natural resources, and insist that we 6hall continue to send abroad $08,500 per day for labor and materials no Dettertnan are to be found at our doors. Yes, and Fifteen Negroes Murdered. Atlanta Constitution. Have you heard from Mississippi! Ex tract from its Democratic platform: "We must show the world that that race created to govern, ana mat nas governed an other rnoB,hArA tli mrm in rnnta nt will in Mississippi, stand by the common civilizaA A". ltl ITS-l- At A. 1 lion ox me union wuicu mai race uas constructed and maintained, and that it will never consent to bo ruled by any other raco J 1 A .1 , . . . as a race nianipuiaieu oy renegades, ine flag of a Caucasian civilization must now triumphantly at the South, and in every section of this proud land, and throughout Christendom." The Same Old Story. Terr XIante Express. In all these "race wars" and "negro up risings" you will tind, even according to tho story that comes to us from lionrbon press sources, that the inception of the troublo was iu a dispute between a white man and a negro, and, of course, we are expected to take the white man's story as the truth. It will also be noticed, though, the negroes aro reported to be heavily armed and collected in gToupes up in the hundreds, that in the conflict none of the "best citizens" are injured and only negroes killed. - Pensions for the Widows. Iowa State Register. - One result will come from the election of the Republican administration. The widows and orphans of deceased Union soldiers will be cared for. Other legislation is con templated, this will certainly come to pass. Soldiers' widows aro hecoraiiig tired, many of them, of the burden of life. It was a great effort to keep house alone while tbo living husband was in the army. It is only justice to help take the dead husband's .place now. ah obstacles are now nappny 'out of the way. Let it come. Failed to Bring the Ulesslngs Predicted. St Louis Globe-Democrat. British laborers, for a good many years past, have enjoyed the privilege of "buying in tho cheapest markets," and yet their condition is deplorably bad. Free trado is better for Eu gland than it would be for any ' other big country of the world, and is ' probably better for England underexistmg circumstances than protection would be; yet free trade in that country has signally failed to bring about tho blessingrs which its advocates predicted. Slandering u Good Man. Washington Post. , ' As an instance of the non-exemption of hilosophers from human frailty, tho irooklyn Eaglo gives currency to a rumor hat tho Hon. George Frisbio Hoar, whom t facetiously styles the "paleozoic statesman," of Massachusetts, has added to his other accomplishments a complete mastery ofthegameof draw-poker, and that it is like a liberal education to see him adjust his spectacles and rake in the riches of a jack-pot. A weak invention of the enemy, doubtless. ; A Stroke of Business. Madison Courier. Mr. Windom. Secretary of tho Treasury. has done a very handsome thing in a quiet uusiness way. ne ua3 sold bonaseuougu to relievo thoTrcasury and the money market at the same time, and has not run up tne price oi oonus. i his is a good way to get rid of tho surplus. Last vear the Dem ocrats were telling us this could not bo done at all, at all. They Don't Believe Illm. Philadelphia Press. General Sherman made his annual farewell speech last week in Milwaukee, and a mighty good speech it was, too. When tho General announces that he is about to make positively his last public speech, "tho boys" think "chestnut," but they never say it They simply snicker and tell tho old hero to bo on hand nt next year't encampment. General Walker's Successor. UUca Herald. Wheelock G. Veazev, whom the President has appointed a member of the Intrstatccomni;rce Commission, is Chief-jnstice of the Suprema Court of Vermont, a fact that 8iguities his fatness for tho judicial duties to which he is called. Commissioner Walker, whom Judge Veazey succeeds, was appointed from Vermont. Protection Helps Agriculture. Clereland Leader. From 1870 to 1880 the average gain in this couutry in tho production of corn, ha, cotton and wheat, the four great staples, was 84 per cent. During the same decade the growth in population was IX) per cent, does that look as if protection had "dwarfel and ruined agriculture?" Well, not much! And You Have Encouraged Them. Memphis Avalanche. The hoodlums of New Orleans and vicinity did a lino day's work yesterday. Firing into excursion trains and bnrning negro churches aro diversions peculiar to their class, and they are as expert as they aro ready in tho trade of murder and arson. Not that Wuy. Washington Pot. It is daily becoming more and more apparent that New York's boasted 500 capitalists who are worth $l..Vxooo.ux) did not make their money by contributing either to the Grant monument or to tho world's i&i2