Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1889 — Page 4

4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL "SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 7, 1880. WASHINGTON OFFICE M3 Fourteenth St P. S. IIEATH, Correspondent. Telephone Calls. Easiness OSce 238 1 Editorial Rooms 243 TERMS OF sunsciurnoN. PART. BY MAIL. One year, without Fit Jay $12.00 One rear, with Handar 14.00 fiix months without Snnday 6.00 Fix months, with Mir lay 7.00 Three months without snn&ay 3.0O Three months with Sunday 3.50 On month, without trumlay.. 100 One month; with bunday 1.10 . Delivered by carrier in city, 23 cents per week. WISKLT. Per year. 11.00 Reduced Rates to Clubs. Fnbscrlbe with any of our numerous agents, or lend subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, IXCLAXAPOUS, I MX All communications intended far publication in this paper must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange la Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capuclnes. YCBK Gflsey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble, 3735 Lancaster avenue, . , CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawiey & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlng, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ET. LOUIS Union NeVs Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.-Rlggs House and Bbbltt House. The Democratic convention in Pennsylvania declared that "We regard trusts in whatever form organized as the result of the existing monopoly tariff." Of course thi3 includes the Standard Oil Trust, "tho Cotton-seed Oil Trust, the Whisky Trust, and forty others not affected by tho tariff. Democrats who have "been chuckling over tho fancied prospect of no opposition to Coy aro prematurely happy. There will bo a Republican candidate in the Eighteenth ward, and a good one. Mr. John W. Marseo and Mr. Thomas D. Shuffelton are spoken of. Both aro gentlemen and reputable citizens, and either of them would get the votes of every respectable man in the ward. . - Who says tho Ohio Democrats are not harmonious! They first proved their singleness of thought by nominating a protectionist as candidate for Governor on a frce-trado platform, and now comes Hi on. George L. Converse, one of the party leaders, and emphasizes their unity by urging the necessity for a strong protective tariff on wool. Har

mony in chunks isywhat they have over there. " Delegates to tho liquor-dealers' convention, in New York, wore badges bearing a portrait of Governor Hill, and the convention adopted a resolution declaring lack of confidence in tho Republican party. So it is everywhere. The liquordealers, tho whisky ring, the saloon keepers and the Democracy are agreed in saying the Republican party must go. Now, if the Republican party will only retaliate by declaring that the liquor league and the saloon in politics must go, and fight it out on that line, there will be a clear understanding all round. It is interesting to know that the children of the Indianapolis schools who have not finished their old textbooks will not be compelled to buy new ones, thus saving about $10,000 to their parents. But if the books are so un qualifiedly good as the Becktold monop oly would have it appear, why should any children bo deprived of them, even to effect this 6avingl And if the law is compulsory as to all the children in country districts, why should an excep tion be made in Indianapolis? The more the management of this book business is investigated tho moro incomprehensible it seems. - A cablegram says the London strik ers prefer American cash to sympathy, and that, "with considerable bitterness toward America and Americans, they contrast tho largo sums subscribed for their cause in Australia and tho empty resolutions of sympathy and brotherly love with which the Americans content ed themselves." This savors of British gall. There have been serious labor troubles and strikes in this country, but if the labor organizations of Great Britain ever sent their American breth ren either cash or sympathy it is not a matter of public record. Of course, with their ; starvation wages;, under free trado they have no cash to spare, but we do not remember hearing that they ever cent even a message of sympathy to American strikers. A New Orleans special to the New York Times exults over tho Democratio victory in the recent Congressional election, and lets in a little more light on the way it was done. "Mr. Minor (Republican) started in," 6ays the cor respondent, "to make a whito man's can didacy, in kid gloves, before a negro con stituency, while Mr. Price (Democrat) took off his kid gloves and threw them away, sliook hands with tho negroes, and invited them into tho Democratio camp. Even a Third district Democrat can realize now that a lire negro with a ten-dollar bill in his pocket is worth more than a dead negro that the parish must pay for the burial of." So it seems bulldozing was supplemented by brib ery, and the work that was begun with shotguns was finished with ten-dollar bills. Democracy in its native haunts is a very interesting thing. Atlanta society w still agitated over the terrible indignity offered to tho peo ple by Postmaster Lewis in placing a negro clerk in a position where ho would come in contact with tho public and oc casionally bo compelled to hold conver sation with tho whito woman employed in tho same department. Controversy over tho ' matter bids fair to break up the Capital City Club, tho swell social organization of tho place. Tho oppo nents of the postmaster make much of tho alleged insult to tho young woman who resigned because of the negro's appointment. In tho midst of the vow tho Georgia Baptist rises to remark that right there in Augusta there have been, for tho past four years, two whito ladies

employed in tho postoffico where there

aro seven colored men, one of whom is every day in their immediate presence, and yet .they have not felt outraged. "They know," says the Baptist, "that these men are simply there in tho discharge of their official duty, and that social equality, the ghost that seems to have disturbed a few of our white friends in Atlanta, has nothing whatever to do with it." Some of the "kicking" Atlanta peoplo are probably free from intent to make political capital by raising the race cry, and, with the situation at Augusta staring them in the face, the great fact will presently dawn upon them that they are making fools of themselves to no purpose. SOME TJI0UGHT8 OH A CURBE5T TOPIC. The Sentinel says that "for many months the Journal almost daily assured the people of Indiana that there, was nothing binding in the new text-book law; that they were not obliged to pay any attention to it; that it imposed no penalties, arid that if books were adopted under it3 provisions the schools could take them or not, as the officials chose." The exercise of a little intelligence will show that there has been beautiful consistency in tho course of tho Journal 6u the school-book question. Up to the time that the Attorney-general ren dered an opinion that the law was com pulsory and could bo enforced with penal consequences against school boards and other officers, tho Journal veiy freely expressed an opposite opinion. When the Attorney-general de cided otherwise we promptly yielded that point, though it yet remains to be tested in tho courts whether any compulsory process will lie' to enforce the law. Since tho Attorney-general filed his dissenting opinion with the Journal on this point we have, as a matter of professional courtesy, confined our strictures upon the law to its inherent viciousness, its violation of fundamental principles, and its injurious effects on the schools. The compulsory operation of the law cannot change these any moro than it can the inferior quality of the new books. And we feel bound to add that, notwithstanding tho jaunty assurance of the Sentinel that school boards, teachers, parents and children are crying for the new books, it is as pat ent as the noonday sun that nothing but tho alleged compulsory process of tho law has saved it from early failure, and this will not bo able to save it long. The argument just concluded in the United States Circuit Court furnished some illustrations of the absurd conclu sions to which tho supporters of a vicious principle are sometimes driven. In arguing tho monopoly feature of tho question, Mr. Harris said that if tho Legislature could require a particular kind of school-books to be used in tho schools, and grant to a few individuals tho exclusive right to sell them, it could do the same thing with road-scrapers compel all tho road supervisors in In diana to use a particular kind of scraper, and: grant to some person or persons the exclusive right to furnish them. Theable counsel on the other side was compelled to. admit that this was so, and actually maiutained that tho Legislature might; if it chose, enact a compulsory law in regard to roadscrapers, compel supervisors to use a particular kind, and grant, an exclusive right to deal in them. The logic of the case compelled him to make this admis sion. Perhaps if the school-book mo nopoly becomes a permanent success we shall have a road-scraper law. If we are to have a paternal, centralized gov ernment, let us go the whole length. We think Jt more likely, however, that the ultimate outcome will be free trade in school-))ooks, as well as in roadscrapers. TKYIUO TO STEAL A FRANCHISE. A complete history of tho suit of tho Indianapolis Cable Company vs. Citizens' Railway Company, now pending in the Superior Court, would be an interesting story of an attempt to steal a valuable franchise. Unfortunately for tho lovers of sensational literature, a complete his tory of the affair could not be written, as most of the inside facts are in the possession of those who are interested in concealing them. There never was in this city as dofiant, unscrupulous and utterly bad a corpora tion as the Citizens' Street-railway Company .-under the Johnson regime. Tho service was abominable, and the com pany's treatment of the public and tho city authorities was insulting and exas perating to the last degree. It plundered the people and defied the Council. It did this for many years, cud when at last it sold out at a great profit, the transaction was hailed as a pub lic blessing. Since then there has been a steady and progressive im provement in everything pertaining to tho street-railway service. The expec tations of the people as to the benefits to bo derived from the ending of tho Johnson regime have been largely real ized already, with every prospect of con tinued improvement. Everybody remembers the flourish of trumpets with which the so-called cable company came here two years ago. By dint of false promises and glowing as surances of the immediate construction of a cable road, it succeeded in getting, practically for nothing, a franchise to build a cable line on certain streets. After another year of false pretenses, in which it utterly failed to comply with the terms of its contract, it succeeded in having its charter changed from a cableroad grant to an electric railway grant. Then followed another period of false pretenses and attempts to save the charter by digging up tho streets hero and there in spots. No honest work was done, nor any evi dence given of an honest purpose in that direction. Finally, after their charter had been clearly forfeited by failure to comply with its conditions, the Council, disgusted with the whole business, repealed both of the charters and grants it had made. This ought to have ended the matter, but it did not. Now- comes tho cable, company of 1887, alia3 tho Electric Railway Company of 1883, in the person of Mr. Tom Johnson, and, by virtue of the solemn fraud and hoary humbug called "vested rights,'1 claims a right to construct

electric railway lines on any and all tho

streets of Indianapolis. The present suit is . an attempt to get some thing for nothing, and a very big something, too. Mr. Johnson is trying to grab a franchise worth a million dol lars. If he succeeds in doing it, it will prove that law is a farce and public rights a barren ideality. Gen. Mahone says he intends to make his gubernatorial campaign in Virginia the greatest political , effort of his life. Ho will not only superintend the organ ization and campaign, but will canvass the State himself and make a personal appeal to his confederate friends for their support. An interesting evidence of the restored harmony among the Republicans is the public announcement of Prof. J. M. Langston that he will can vass the State for Mahone. Langston is. one of the ablest and best educated colored men in the country. A native of Virginia, and born a slave, he was emancipated many years before the war, graduated at Oberlin, 0., in 1840, stud ied theology and law, and finally be-, came professor of law in Howard Uni versity, at Washington. In 1885 he was appointed president of the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute at Petersburg. For some time past he and Mahone have been fighting, each other in politics, but now Langston is heartily for the nominee. His attitude will con tribute much towards solidifying and arousing tho colored vote. The Iowa State Register is wrong in thinking that Sim Coy, by committing election frauds and going to the peni tentiary, lost the office to which his party has renominated him. Simeon did not lose his office, for tho reason that tho Democratic members in tho City Council refused to deprive him of it. Ho was an Indianapolis councilman during his term at Michigan City, and drew pay for his services, whatever they were. This fact has been stated in the Journal many times, but it is a fact so amazing and disgraceful that it is no wonder outsiders do not grasp it at once. Tho Register very truly says that a re-election will prove that a residence in jail is no bar to Democratic honors, and adds that "a Democrat wants it understood that so long as he remains a Democrat ho is always eligible to office." The fame of Indianapolis as the homo of the most shameless gang of Democrats in the country is rapidly growing. The Maryland Republicans are pre paring to make a lively canvass in that State this fall, with encouraging pros pects of success. Last fall tho Demo cratic plurality was only 0,182, a reduction of 5,000 from that of 1884. The Republicans captured tho Fourth congres sional district, which comprises the best .half of Baltimore city, reversing a Dem ocratic plurality of 7,524 in 188G. They reduced the majority in the First district from 1,151 to 482, and that in tho Second district from 3,C54 to 1,882, and increased their own majority in the Sixth district from 413 to 1,634. Further; than that, they elected a clerk of courts in Baltimoie city, and diminished majori ties so generally that a gain of a thousand votes, well distributed, would give them the Legislature this fall, and. enable them to elect a United States .Senator. This is the objective point of the campaign, which is likely to be one of the most spirited the State has ever known. Maryland is one of tho Southern . States in which the Democratic majority is be coming interestingly small. The Charleston News and Courier, with a very sanctimonious air, calls for a cessation of the race troubles in Missis sippi and Louisiana, and deprecates vio lence and riotous conflicts between the whites and blacks. It then congratulates the public on South Carolina's free dom from such riots and expatiates on the amicable manner in which the two races aro living together in that State. This Pecksniffian talk would bo moro effective with its outside readers, on whom an impression is sought to bo made, did they not remember that this is not a campaign year in South Carolina. They will also reflect that, while the shooting of negroes is not an unknown thing there, tho whito Carolinians have another and surer way of carrying electionsnamely, by cheating, stealing and counting out. It is the success of theso methods that gives rise to the hypocrit ical reproofs of those who employ violent means to reach the same end. Mr. Converse, of Ohio, and Mr. Voorhecs, of Indiana, ought to appear to gether at the big Democratic tariff meet ings in their respective States. Mr. Voorhees could preach free trade in his most eloquent Bloomfield style, and Mr. Converse could demonstrate tho need of a high protective tariff on wool. In this way the great Democratic principle of having no fixed principles would bo maintained and everybody bo happy. Mr. Claus Spreckels denies with vigor the rumor that he is about to como to terms with the Sugar Trust and work in harmony with that combination. In reply to tho question as to how he couldcontinue, single handed, to tight the trust, he is reported as saying: "Well, suppose they put 7,000 barrels on tho market, and I put 7,000 barrels on the market, and ! sell them to the public at DO per cent, lower than they can sell them, and I can keep it up all the year around, eh!" This query is a satisfactory answer. If Spreckels can repeat tho transaction de scribed a very few times tho Sugar Trust is done for. Americans aro reasonably proud of the pretty girls of the country, but the profes sional beauties get to be something of a publio nuisance after their doings havo been regularly chronicled in the "cable specials" for eight or ten years. It is. therefore, a relief when one of them gets married to a "personal friend of the Prince of Wales," and by becoming a permanent resident of a foreign land, retires into comparative obscurity. Do not wear a rubber coat when you go near machinery; or, if you do, reef tho garment closely. The account in yester day Journal of two persons, in different parts of the State, who were caught by their coats and whirled around the shaft ing should servo as a warning.. Ex-Indian Commissioner Obecly and tho New York Post are very indignant becauso tho Interior Department has uncere moniously canceled ono of Obexl'i con-

tracts for soap. Probably the cancellation was out of regard for tho surplus. If Oberly and tho Post had over seen Indians in their native lairs they would know that

soap is a superfluity with them. ABOUT PEOPLE ASP THINGS. Mr. Gladstone declares himself to weigh 168 founds. One of the largest colored churches in Washington has presented Fred Douglass with a handsomely-bound Bible. Colored Cadet Flipper, who acquired considerable notoriety at West Point some years ago, is now an officer in tho Mexican army. Dr. O. W Holmes received a congratu latory telegraphic message on his eightieth birthday, from an entire stranger, marked, "uonecr, w cents." Eight tapestries, woven at Brussels, in the sixteenth century, -for the palace of Hyppoly to d'Este, cardinal and prince, have been bought bv the Belcrian covcrnment. The price was $34,000. Miss Mary Anderson is now in Scot land, on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. William Black, at their country-seat, near Oban. Later on she will visit Lord and Lady Tennyson in tho Isle of Wight. Archbishop Kenrick, of St. Louis, is tho oldest Catholic prelate in the United States. He was consecrated in 1841, and now, at the age of eighty, presides over his diocese without an assistant. Mrs. Kendal, the English actress who is coming over this seasou, vowed when she married never to play love scenes with any ono except her husband. This has saved her any number of other scenes. There is a new Count of Monte Cristo. Marquis Carlo Ginari, of Florence, has bought the island and its title. He intends to construct a residence there whoso splendors will outdo those of the grottos of the late Mr. Edinond Dantes. Miss Helen Gould always believed she had a mission to teach, and even now inBtructs four music pupils, members of her church, at her home. Her father. Jay Gould, has now and then added a thine or two to tho knowledge of some people, too. TnE colored cadet, Charles Young, who failed to pass at tho June examination at West Point, duly made up his deficiencies and has received his diploma of graduation. His assignment to a second lieutenancy will .follow, and it is to be hoped ho will have a better lortune than that of Lieutenant Flipper. General Hooker, Congressman from Mississippi, lost his right .arm daring the war. He was on the confederate side. Major Powell, chief of the Geological Survey, lost his left arm, he being on the Union 6ide. Now both of these centlemen. who are intimate, buy ono pair of kid gloves between them, their hands being the same syje. Dr. Cuyler, who arrived home from Eu rope on nnday, says Mr. Gladstone spoke to him enthusiastically of America and its institutions. The two great enemies of the t t ; a .1 i ! - i umieu otutes, lie saiu, wero plutocracy and looso marriage and divorce laws. The increase of the money power and of monopolies was, in his opinion, one of the greatest enemies menacing tne nuure oi America. It is a curious fact that tho old Seventyninth Regiment of Canreron Highlanders, which is stationed at Balmoral during Qu"een Victoria's residence in Scotland, docs not contain a single man in tho corps whose name is Cameron. On the other hand, there are no less than. SCO Macdonalds in the ranks. In order to appreciate the ludicrous Biue in mis state oi an airs, it snouio. do added that tho Highland clans of Cameron and Macdonald have . been on terms of bitter enmity for several centuries. President Harrison and Secretary Blaine, says a writer in the Washington Post, aro strikingly alike in tho matter of complexion, the peculiar pallor of which defies sunburn, tan or freckles, no matter now piolonged tne exposure to the sun to which they may be subjected. During liis stay at Deer rark tne President spent much time in 'the open air, andwhilo at Bar Harbor, in comnanv with the Secretary of State, led an out-of-door life. Yet neither has even a tinge of brown to show for his summers outing. Miss Joanna Baker, who has been ap pointed to the chair of Greek at Simpson College, la., succeeds to the position cmco held by her father. At four years of ago Miss Baker began the study of Greek and t : l : . i. 1 j i r liuuu, auu at ciut duo cuuiu rcau auuunhon. and at fourteen she compiled a lexi con of the CEdipus Tyrannus. At sixteen she was a tutor of Greek in the college which has now made her a professor.- She is a handsome woman, still very young, and her robust health proves that the study of Greek, when rightly followed, is not per nicious. The Baedekers, of guide-book fame, aro an interesting family. Tho lato Karl Baedeker (born 1801) originated tho series and edited all tho early issues. His name is still retained on all tho title pages, but tho only Baedeker now in the business is his son, Mr. t ntz Baedeker. An elder son, Mr. Karl Baedeker, retired some ten years ago on account oi ill health. Uoth tho brothers Baedeker served as officers in tho late wars Karl in 18GG and Fritz in 1870-71. Tho latter received tho Iron Cross for good service under tire. The former was. in his time, a distinguished mountaineer, and among other first ascents made that of the Silberhorn in 1863. Tub oyster down In Ms bed of ooze, v aked with, a start from Ms summer snooze, i Opened hU shell, and sold with a yawn; "l rear mat our season or saiety is gone. For my pleasant dreams were disturbed by tho jar That always is caused by the letter R, And I know, by toe keel or that hideous sloop That some of us shortly will be In the soup!" New York Herald. COMMENT AND OPINION. ntrns is thA rmst . nation on flarth. Khali tv a mnlr it. . a. rirnimnn tvihTitta Int. fnr b whole, world, or shall we be true to our selves, protect our labor our industries and our nomesT uetroit l n oune. ' . There aro a cood manv people" who are wont to attribute almost every form of crime to the effects of drink. It will be a little ditlicnlt, however, we imagine, to mako the liquor tramc responsible in any i t . .1 i m acgree ior me increased prevalence oi uicamy. rew i orK sun. The time has come when ono of the irrounds on which a political partv can ap peal tothecitizensof the llepublic with tho. greatest commence is inai u nas iaiiniujiy (sustained both the letter and the spirit of tho civil-servico law, and done its utmost to improve and strengthen its provisions. Boston journal. The leaders of the Kepublican partv will do well to refresh their minds in relation to recent tariff history, and avoid the fatal mistakes of the Cleveland administration. If the Senate tariff bill is practicable and can be passed, all right; if not, a simple bill remedying certain well-known inequalities and reducing tho revenue will satisfy the, country. :ew lork Press. The assimilating nower of American in stitutions is iudeed wonderful. But it is conceivable that it may be tested beyond the limits of safety within the next quarter of a century. If any measure whatever is desirable to restrain immigratiou or to modify its character, it can probably bo more easily matured and passed now than at any future time. New York Tribune. The remarkable indisposition of the dressed beef magnates to appear before the Senate committee and testify with regard to the peculiar feature of a reduction of 100 per cent, in the prices of live stock, and no reduction at all in the prices of meat, indicates that there is some foundation for the suspicion of a full-grown colored gentleman in the dressed-beef wood pile. Pittsburg Dispatch. There must be some actual civil-service reform in the Third congressional district of Maryland, otherwise the federation of Kepublican clubs in that district would not adopt resolutions to vote for no man for office who is in favor of "the odious civil-servico law." Men do not war against a law that is not enforced, and the best evidenco that the law is enforced is the 'kicking of those who want ofiice through favor rather than merit. Milwaukee Sentinel

SAYS FORTY WERE KILLED

The War of Extermination Against Miss issippi Negroes Still Goes Bravely On. Statements Made in a Letter from the Seat of War The Leader of Southwestern Democracy Admits Twenty-Two Were Shot THE WAR AT GREENWOOD. One Account Gives Forty Negroes Killed as tho Result of the Trouble to Date. s New Orleans, Sept. 6. A letter , from LeFlore county says: "Armed negroes are now scattered in squads in tho swamps, and are being pursued, bySOO armed white men. The negroes being refused ammunition at Jameson's store, on the Tallahatchie river. burned the buildings. A posse, pursued them, and about forty negroes were killed. Many negroes were killed at the other end of the parish. Governor Lowry is severely denounced by the white people of LeFlore for not sending Cromwell back to them.. They charge that CoL Jones Hamilton, lessee of the State penitentiary, used his in; fluenco to savo Cromwell, who is an exconvict. Statements from a Democratic Source. Greenwood Special to Ss. Louis Republic Twenty-two rioters, negroes, killed! That was the record up to 2 o'clock this evening. If George Ameng, leader and instigator of the insurrection, has been caught and in all probability ho has been, by this timehe will swell tho number to twenty-three. Ho was being closely pursued, and a report from his pursuers said that he was only a few miles abead at daylight. Tho names of the killed, as ascertained, are: .Wilson Porter, Staughton Shields, Elson Bucker, Dol Wharton, Monroe Jones, Scott Marsh, Warren Snell, Pay ton Lock, Ben Lock, John Booker, Warren Breck and a dozen others whose names could not be learned. One was killed on Monday night or Tuesday, and twelve yesterday. Six of those were shot on Dr. L. Jones's place, near -Minter City. There was no disposition among the white regulators to do anything further. The leaders of all this trouble, with tho exception of Cromwell and Allen, have been killed. Their followers deserted them and they are running for their lives. Business aud labor is completely demoralized. Upon inauirv of the largest plant ers in that section of the country, to-day, it was learned that there were only about sixty hands at work out of the usual numberof about 1,000. Cotton is standing white in the iields. and corn needs shucking badly. Yesterday a wet spell, set in. It will be impossible to get laborers from other places. The farmers lodges are disbanding. They were so advised. It has been discovered that these alliances were, in fact, military organizations. Their books were found yesterday, and their leaders divulged everything. ihe negro CroniwelL the chiei instigator of the whole row. was captured in Jackson yesterday, but was ordered to be released by the Governor. His action is condemned by tho peoplo here. Cromwell has gone from the country. Major-general Liddle, of the State militia, is still at Shell Mound with a squad to guard the property. The original letter sent by Uromwell to the citizens of Shell Mound reads: To the Insulters of - Shell Mound When you get ready to have Cromwell, you can get ready to let ustojow so wo can set you on tire. This day by the majority of three thousand alliance members. Please set your time to light, for wo are ready to back ourselves. Thero was no signature. OTHER OUTBREAKS. Ku-Klux, Masquerading as White Caps, Raid a Missouri Town. Epeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. St. Louis, Mo., Sept. & A report from Dexter, Stoddard couuty.Missouri, has been received hexp. it is to the effect that a gang of lawless men, numbering about thirty-rive, visited that town, last Thurs day, with the design of enforcing a threat to drive from that town and county a re cent settlement of negroes. The marauders entered the town about midday, mounted and armed, and rode boldly through the streets. They were not dis guised, and several were recognized. The marshal of the towu suspected their er rand, and summoned a posse, and ordered them to leave town, t or a while the scene was intensely exciting, tho gang Heeing aown tne street unaer wnip ana the marshal's posse pursuing and tiring every instant. One of tho Whito Caps was cantured. His name is Buck Mays and ho is seriously injured. The marshal's nosso wounded aud captured threo others, named Vort, Davis and Dickersou. The gang is buiu iu oe apariui a vmio.ap organization numbering 150 men, which has existed for several months in Stoddard county. Some months ago they were quite active in their operations, but recently havo been comparatively quiet. Wnlpped'for Holding a Meeting. Atlanta, Ga., Sept C A delegation of citizens called on Governor Gordon to-dav and asked him to take action concerning the whipping of a lot of negroes by unknown white men, at East Point, near At lanta. The affair occurred late last night. It was the outgrowth of the lynching of a negro boy, on Wednesday night, for rape. The negroes had a mass-meeting, and tho citizens, becoming scared, sent for the po lice from Atlanta. The presence of tho officers prevented further trouble, but after they had cone: a lot of white men went to different cabins and whipped the negroes m i 'in. r " i i luunccu iuMi. iuo uutuuur uixa onercii a reward of $100 for any person convicted of having taken -part in the affair. The grand Jury is investigating, and some arrests win ioiiow. Trying to Burn' Negroes Alive. : " Meridian, Miss., Sept. 6. Four white men, Andrew Edwards, Sam Strouther, Alf Newsom and Jack McMillan, charged with burning tho home of Jim Brown (colored), , ancr u preliminary examination, WUlCii consumed three days, were to-day refused 1 1 ! x a . 1 a m . oan, anu coramuieu 10 answer oeiore tho firr.nit. Court. The. ofFe.nsn i mirtieft'ililft by death, as thero were several persons i : ii. i : a. i iusjeep iu iuu uuuso wucu ib was set on II TO. To Make Aluminum at Findlay, O. Pittsburg. Sept. C Tho larcest iron. 6teel and aluminum works of the country are now in progress of erection at West Park, near Findlay, O. A man who arrived in thiscity to-day from Findlay stated that this new enterprise was ono of the largest that had ever been begun in Ohio. "The company," he continued, "hs& a capital stock of 0,000,000, and is going to build the finest shops I havo ever heard doscribed. The general manager of the syndicate was in West Park only the other da3 superintending the construction of four immense crucibles in which the aluminum will be made. A number of expert chemists have, lor the last six years, been experimenting with aluminum, and have at last secured satisfactory results. It has been proved that the clay in our part of juio is un musb uesnauio ior mo manufacture of the new metal, and that fact was the chief inducement that led tho comnanv to build its plant at West Park. I have been assured that they will be ablo to make aluminum so cheaply as to compete favorably with iron and steel. The product is to be used in the construction of certain machinery, but principally to manufacture structural works. Remarkable and Wanton Murder of a Negro, Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 6. One of the most remarkable murder cases ever recorded iu this State is on trial in tho Favette County Criminal Conrt. 1 ItSmith was employed last spring as a detective. He arrested Jackson, the negro no Kined, iniuKiug no was a murderer. He afterwards learned that he was mis taken in his man. In order to secure his reward Smith told the negro he would release him if Jackson would allow htm to cut off one of his ears. Jackson's ears wero marked similarly to "those of the neirro wanted. The negro agreed, and the ear was cut off. Smith then feared that Jackson would betray him, and determined to kill him. He gave him the choice of hano-

ing himself or being hanged. The negro chose the former, and, while pretending to search for a suitable place, made a break for liberty. Smith tired, and tho negro felL Smith left, believing him dead, 'iho negro lived, however, to tell tho tale, and his dying statement is tho .principal evidence. m Mrs. Gougar StUl on the "War-Path. Syracuse Special to New York Tribune. Mrs. Helen Gou ear. of Indiana, lectured at Shakspcaro Hall this evening. Shoisan energetic lady, with a high forehead and a wonderful fondness for abusing the Tribune and tho Kepublican party generally. I will tell you." said he, "what high license means. Peter E. Her. the president

of tho Willow Springs Distilling Company, in Nebraska, vjroto to the oflicers of tho Liquor League in New York, saying that nign license mcreaeea tueir collections, and the correspondent of the New York Tribune to put that in his paper to-monow." xio woni ao it." cneu me crowa, "no doesn't dare to do it." Tbese men nfc Rnpietr " nrfripl Wrm vtougar, motion nartv Tribune partv (here the audience hissed again) say: 'We will enter into partnership with them and give them a highlicense monopoly, bo that they may carry out their destroying work.' And so they stand hand and glove, shoulder to shoulder, the Republican party and the National Liquor League. There is not a leading journal to-day that advocates high license that is not bribed from tho treasury of tho National Lionor Lea me Scott the Only Objector. Chicago Journal. The cratifrintr intpllitriTin vm Joliet that a settlement of the Illinois coal miuintr troubles was reached nt. thA ormfT ence held there yesterday. Tho terms proiu iuo winu.iiuia as uii uiiiraaiuni were accepted by tho miners, and tho cou- , sequence will bo an early resumption of work in all tho mines except those owned by W. L Scott. W. L. Scott, the onK"kicker" nmon? i he miiwiwnpr it il."i be remembered, is tho "Great" Scott of tho Democratic campaign of 1SSS, and Grover Cleveland's nearest political friend. Can Find Remunerative Work In Ohio. Chicago Tribune. . Two Arabs, savs an" exchancro. landed at New York the other day in search of em ployment, in their own country they were camel-drivers, and they were astonisned to learn that there was no opening for them in such an occupation in this country. They could have fouud work if they had gone to Ohio and struck the Democratio party of that State for a job. Anybody that can anve ine unio ijampoeii into tho gubernaloriai cnair mis ian can name hi a own reward, and no questions asked. Honors to Mrs. Logan. Boston Hera.iL, If Mrs. John A. Losran were a man. cixAn honors would be easy with her. As it is, sho seems to share with Gen. Tecumseh Sherman the warmest place in the hearts of the old soldiers assembled at Milwaukee. She is esteemed not only as tho widow of a gallant commander, hut as a woman of rara gifts of mind and heart, which contributed in no small measure to her husband's sue cess in life. In honoring Mrs. Logan tho soldiers honor themselves. Capacity of the Western Man. Chicago Man. A Kansas City saloon-keeper has sued customer for the amount of his tab on tho shingle. Tho items included in tho bill aro 26.S1S gallons of whisky! 4G5 single drinks ot the sanio joy-producer, 35 bottles of beer. 15 pitchers of beer. and. C barrels of the same tap. No wonder saloons aro plenty in Kansas City if tho averagoresi dent does as well as tuo defendant in this suit, who isn't claimed to bo even a prominent citizen. Worse than a rrUe-FIght. Trenton Times. Tho authorities of Loni;inTi'Km?ilA n. ota flISS when thev thnnirht. thrrnwaa n. likeli hood of tho Sullivan-Kilrain prize-light oc curring wnmn rno limits ot that State. But Louisiana has iust been disrraro! in a much worse manner. Colored wen hao been whipped and driven away simply because it was known to the Dpninrratin hnlh dozers that they would vote tho Kepublican ticket, - m Providential Fore-Ordination. ClnclnnaU Commercial Gazette. President Harrison said, yesterday, tha' it was a case of Presbyterian pcrseveranN that he had been advertised to mako an ad dress when he had not agreed to do so. But he did mako the address, and undoubtedly it was lore-oruaincu irom tuo oeginnmg ot the world that he should. It was not so much a case of Presbyterian perse veranco as oi proviueniiai lore-oruinaiion. It Ilrings Down More Game. Detroit Tribune. Local option and high license combined aro as much better than Stato prohibition as a double-barreled gun is better than a single-barreled gun (especially when vou can't iuako tho latter tro off). -With tho former, if you can't fetch tho saloon to time with ono barrel you can with tho other. Tho double-barreled gun is growing in favor in most of the States. Afraid of the Chickens' Return. Iovra State Register. The chickens havo a wav of rominc Immn to roost that is sometimes very disagreeable. The Philadelphia Times, a Democratic paEer, denounces tho course of West Virginia emocrats in counting out General Gott ou technical grounds, and says: "It furnishes a precedent ior tno next Congress to reject every Democratic Congressman elected in that State." The Reform Should Begin In Indiana. Pitt&lrarg Dispatch. David Dudley Field r.xnresses his oninion that State legislatures should not be held in ririftniltt liv the nonnlp TVia nnhli nt JaTge will agree with Mr. Field in this respect; ana in oraer to secure tne realization of the desire, the peoplo must turn in and take measures calculated to establish v new kind of legislature. m Beauregard's Revenire. 'Troy Time . General Beauregard, the cx-rebcL savs that he is getting a great deal more fun out of .the Yankees now, by means of the Louis iana lottery, than he had by force of arm3 iu war times. Very likely. . It is much eas ier to "dead-beat people than it is to "down" them in a square tight. Hill's Political Death-Knell. Minneapolis Tribune. The New York Sun hrta nrwInT-f il-nn contract of nominating Davo Hill for tho presidency in 1)2. Tho Sun will bo iemcmoereu as tne more or less able champion of Ben Butler and Bill Holman. Unfortunate Mr. Hill. Might Donate Ills Winnings. Chicago Journal. W. L Scott's h and captured the 00,000 purse. And yet, Mr. Krntfr. .1V 1ia ron't nVi-l ' Tiav hl miners in Illinois so much as the men iu other mines receive. i Shall Mr. Price lie Admitted? Utlca HcraM. - Mr. Price will be certified to the House of Representatives as elected, butth right of Jierinto Congress will doubtless be challenged. Should Decido Easily. Philadelphia PreM. The Indianapolis voters should havo little difficulty in deciding which ticket to let alone when the Democracy hands them ono with the name of an ex-convict on it. Don't Mention IU ClerelAnd Leaden - If you have a free-trade friend for whoso temper you have any regard, don't say a word to him about tho greatest strike of the age in i ree-trado England. Hard to Down a New Yorker. Baltimore American. There is a man in New York who has been bitten seven times by a rattlesnake. He is Mill in pood health. It requires & great deal to down a Now York man. He Mait Hare Had Economical Habits. Chiraro Inier "ce an. street railroad in New i ork, Dan did not get a Dig saiary uown at asningiont Ee eseos to bo fluii

, "havo an organization ior tho proof deviltry, and the Kepublican

. t,VA "V n T-n n t ftllr fiA Vow Vi-t1t-