Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1890 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1890.

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1890.

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It accompfjntid by the name and odditis of the writer. THE INDIANAi'OUS JOUUNAL Can be found at the following places: PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 36 Boulevard - Je Capuomes. NEW "YOIiX Gilsey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA -A. pT Kemble, 8735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI-J. P. Hawley & Ca. 184 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Peering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS Union Kews Company,. Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. a Biggs House and Ebbitt House. Democratic Plan of Taxation. Editorial in Indianapolis Sentinel of Sept. 14, 1890. The tax on personal property ought to be wholly repealed. Democratic riatform. We demand the adoption of a system of equalizing the appraisement of real and personal property in this State, to the end that an equal and proper uniformity in such assessments ftball be secured, tor the reason that under existing regulations many counties are compelled to pay an unjust proportion of the State's expense, which others as unjustly escape. The prospect is that the system 01 private property In land will remain a it Is, for ho in e genera tions, at least.but that all taxes, at least for State and local purposes (except such as may be derived from the sale of franchises) will. In the near future, be laid upon land. Bear in mind that Mr. Bynum led the anti-pension Democrats in an effort to stigmatize pension laws. It was a long session of Congress and a strong session, and., as a general rule, th Republicans pulled all together. The Republican party in its platform in 1888 promised the veterans a dependent pension act, but its Congross more than kept the pledge by enacting a disability la w , The Prohibition candidate for Governor in Missouri in 18S8 is now in line with the Democrats. He prefers to be . in the big Democratic tent to leading in a Democratic side-show. The abolition of tho tax on personal property and the placing of all taxation on land, as proposed by the Indianapolis Sentinel, would add about 30 per cent, to tho hardens borne by." Indiana farmers. The Democrats have made a record during tho present session of Congress that ought to destroy them for tho next ten years. JVr contra, the Republicans have made a record that ought to insure them success for tho next ten years. TnE New York papers devote five lines to the fact that tho supervisors under tho federal election law were sworn in on a certain day, and yet, so far as supervision is concerned, the aim of the existing law is tho same as in the socalled force bill. In asking Congress for tho repeal of the fifteenth amendment the Mississippi constitutional convention is too modest. It should ask for the re-establishment of slavery. In tho honest opinion of Southern Democrats that is the only true solution of tho race question. Ir snch a tiling should ociur as another Turko-Russian war, it is to bo hoped that the rest of tho powers will quietly permit Russia to drive thoTnrk entirely out of Europe. Russian barbarism may be bad enough, but the Turkish idea of civilization is a thousand times worue. The session of Congress which ended last night was one of tho longest on recordnearly as long as tho first session of the last Congress. But there tho comparison ends. Tho first session of the Fifty-first Congress has done something, while tho first session of the Fiftieth Congress, or any other Congress with one branch Democratic, did nothing. Our Anglomaniac organs in New York continue to recite the fact that England docs not like tho now tariff law. It is sad; but it looks as if the British manufacturers were doomed to wait a long f time before an American Congress will legislate in their interest. The Democratic party will not. ''control both branches of Congress for many years, if, indeed, it ever does. Mr. G keen Wats6n, of Brown county, Democratic candidate for Representative from Brown and Monroe, has had some legislative experience. That is to e.ay, he was one of the noble twenty-nino door-keepers of tho last House, moro than half of whom had nothing to do but draw their $3 per day. It was probably during those hours of leisure that Mr. Watson was seized with the desiro to be a legislator, and help put other Democrats in as door-keepers. One of Green Smith's services to tho State was as Secretary of the Senate in 1889, tho oflice having been given him as. a reward for his services in seizing and holding the office of Lieutenant-governor two years before. By an article in another column it will bo observed that Mr. Smith, in addition to $5 per day as Secretary of the Senate, received a gift 'of $450 for indexing Senate bills. First and last, Mr. Smith has haiTS pretty good pull at tho Stato treasury. Perhaps he has had as much as ho deserves. Democratic papers of Ohio havo heard that New York and Philadelphia Republicans have contributed to a fund to assist Major McKinley in his campaign j re-c!eetion. .Theso Democratic or--ins are crcatly c-crc::r3 rrcr t!:o ru-

wor, but they show a great lack of party wisdom in giving circulation to it. Just let tho Democratic voters of the district get the idea into their heads that McKinley has any money, and they will hang around on election day waiting for a distribution until it may be too late to get their votes in forhis opponent.

EXTEAVAQAXCE OF THE LAST LEGISLATURE. Tho last Legislature was without ex ception the . most extravagant and ex pensive one in tho history of tho State. No doubt this recklessness in the use of public money was largely due to tho feeling that tho money was not to bo raised by taxation but by borrowing, and nothing is easier than borrowing. Easy come, easy goes," says an old adage, and borrowed money is generally spent moro recklessly than any other. Tho extravagance of the Legislature appeared not only in making lavish ap propriations, creating now salaried offi ces and increasing the expenses of tho Stato government. In the' matter of their own employes they were extrava gant beyond any precedent. The two houses had 135 employes. Each Houso had 29 door-keepers, where 10 for each would have been more than sufficient. In tho Senate there were 8 assistants for the. Secretary, 9 assistants for the assistant-secretaries, 8 committee clerks and 8 pages. In the Houso ,4here were 13 assistant clerks, 9 assistants for the assistant clerks, 5 committee clerks and 7 pages. The appointment' of 29 door keepers for each House was scandalous. Door-keepers and assistant door-keepers were thick as locusts in Egypt. A ma jority of them had nothing to do, but they all drow salary. Every one of tho employes "above-named except the pages drew $5 per day and tho pages $2 per day. They all drew pay for seven days in the week, whether the Legislature was sitting or not. The entire force of employes in tho two houses lacked only fifteen of being equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives. , Early in the session, after this large list of employes had been made up, one Edward Mozier, a Democratic worker of this city, was appointed a mail messenger over the protest of the Republicans, who insisted that there were already too many employes. One I. R. Gibson, of White county, was already on the pay-roll and doing the work. A dozen door-keepers might have been detailed to do it, and not have been missed. Tho appointment of Mozier made it cost $10 a day to carry the mail between tho postoflice and tho State-house. On Jan 23 the Republicans made an atteihpt to reduce tho number of employes. Mr. Brown, of Henry, introduced a resolution reducing tho number of door-keepers to ten, but it was promptly voted dtfwn by the Democrats. A few days later the House actually had tho audacity to pass a resolution authorizing tho appointment of another page at $2 per day, to make a place for somebody's pet. This resolution was passed over the votes of the Republicans. Owing to the excessive number of employes, most of them had littlo or nothing to do, and all were too well paid by the regular wagos. The door-keepers alone cost $290, a day, and therors not evenlight work or nominal employment for half of them. Yet, at tho end of tho session, the Democrats voted nearly every one of the door-keepers and clerks from $50 to $100 each as extra pay. In all, nearly $2,000 was thus voted away to men who had already been overpaid. The Republicans opposed the extravagance, but were outvoted. The following statement shows tho amounts drawn on warrants issued to clerks, door-keepers and pages of the two houses up to March 5, 1889: Clerks. House $0,715 Senate 8.112 TotaL $17,827 Door-keepers. House........ $7,316 Senate 6,733 Total $14,041) Pages. House $752 Senate 734 Total $1,456 Jlccapiifdation. Warrants issued to clerks $17,827 Warrants Issued to'door-keepcrs 14,019 Warrants issued to pages ; . . . . l ,456 Total $33,332 There was paid out after tho above date, and on the same account, about $12,500, making a total of $45,832 paid to clerks, door-keepers and pages during the session of sixty-one days. And in addition to their per diem of $5 per day, John D. Carter was allowed by special resolution $450 for indexing tho Senate journal, Green Smith was allowed $459 for indexing Senate bills, Charles E. Crawley was allowed $550 for indexing tho House journal, and Thomas J. Newkirk $500 for extraj irdexing the calendar. All this was done to reward party workers, and it was done with tho people's money, borrowed at interest, on top of a big Stato debt. No political party would darn to raako such a record as this unless it felt itself secure from popular punishment behind a gerrymander intended to prevent tho people from making themselves heard. Tho thing to 'do is to smash the gerrymander and elect a Republican Legislature. AN UN PEE CED EN TED BEC0ED. To mention all of tho useful legislation of the first session of the present Congress would take moro space than is necessary to show that it has been the most laborious and effective Congress in a quarter of a century. Nevertheless, those who are called upon to defend . their approval of tho work of tho Congress just closing its first session can name tho following as among tho measures of national importance which it has given the form of law: Tho bill revising the tariff. The customs administrative bill. Tho disability pension bill.. The anti-trust bill. The anti-lottery bill. - The meat inspection bill. Tho land-grant forfeiture bill. The original package bill. The Sherman silver bill. Nine measures, all of first importance and all demanded by the mass of the intelligent people of the Nation as essen

tial to tho development and prosperity . of tho country. . Moreover, nil of these measures were designed by Republicans and carried through in tho faco of the most persistent opposition. The party which elects a Congress which has made such a record challenges the attention of tho country. Such a party is very naturally slandered and assailed by its enemies because it has tho capacity to ' do things, but it receives the cordial support of the intelligence of the country. It is a party which, while it can

"point with prido to the past," can claim by its achievements to bo gratified witlr its present power, and position. Tho g. o. p. was never a grander power than it is to-day. ' BYNUM'S BIG EIUNDEB. Mr. Bynum seems to havo mado his falsehood regarding the pledges of tho Republicans to veterans a preamble for a rather clumsy explanation of his folly in introducing the an tirpension proviso' as an amendment to oner of the rules of tho House. Ho says that he offered tho amendment in order that the Republicans should havo no excuse on tho grounds that there would bo no revenue to pay pensions when they were asked to keep their pledges, as his amendment provided that a clause could be added to a general pension bill raising the money by the "issue of bonds or greenbacks or the levy of an income-tax." To show how tricky Mr. Bynum would be, it is only necessary to give tho history of this somewhat famous amendment which he offered to the House rules. In tho first place, it is not original. It has been used several times, and always by Democrats hostile to liberal pensions. It was first offered in the House by Mr. Morrison, chairman of the Committee on Rules, Juno 22, 1886, ahd reads as follows: That it shall be in order, when any general pension bill or proposition to increase the rates and amounts of pensions, or to grant pensions to persons not previously entitled thereto by law, is under consideration, to amend the same so as to provide by taxation or otherwise for the payment thereof; but no such amendment shall be in order unless the net revenue provided Jor shall be thereby set apart for the sole purpose of paying such increased pensions.; This is the proposition which the Democratic committee on rules, in 1880, consisting of Messrs. Carlisle, Morrison and Randall, proposed, and it is precisely th'e same , that Mr. Bynum offered as : an amendment to tho.rules of tho present House, and which rejected it by a vote of 104 to 68 more than two-thirds. . Not only did every Republican vote against it, but eighteen Northern Democrats, including such men as Springer, of Illinois, andJudgo Seney and Yoder, of Ohio. Mr. Holman did not vote on the question. But those who voted with Mr. Bynum are the ex-Confederate and Southern Democrats,' who aro on record against every proposition to pension Union veterans. The bogus service-pension bill offered by Mr. Yoder, as a substitute for tho Morrill bill, received tho votes of forty; seven Democrats, of whom fourteeji voted against the Bynum amendment and thirteen did not vote, indicating that a majority of tho Northern Demo-., crats favorable to further pension legislation were opposed to his proposition to attach a tax provision to everyr new pension bill, presumably because they believed that euch provision would provent the passage of tho bill, or make it odious should it become a law. If further evidence were necessary to show that the Bynum proposition was regarded as hostile to pension legislation, it might be added that when the disability bill was under consideration in the Senate, Mr. Vest, of Missouri, not only an ex-confederate, but a man violently hostile to all legislation for tho benefit of Union soldiers,, and who loses no oppor tunity to assail the pension system, of? fcred as an amendment to tho bill a tax law such as Mr, Bynum's borrowed proposition provides for. Would Senator Vest havo added a proviso to a river and harbor appropriation bill directing ' that the money should be raised by an incomotax? Not a bit of it; for tho reason that he is in favor of the river and harbor bill, and would not stigmatize it by any such condition. Mr. Bynum is not so bright a man by a very great deal as is the Bourbon Vest, but he is bright enough to know that the amendment which ho proposed would havo stigmatized and mado unpopular, any pension law to which it might be attached, or wouh prevent the Republicans from passing it, either of .which was exactly what he desired to accomplish. The fact is, Mr. Bynumpnt his foot in it when ho proposed to stigmatize pension bills. ' HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE. , No doubt Congressman Mills, of Texas, is a great statesman, but ho sometimes errs in regard to historical facts. In a speech at Racine, Wist, he said: Tho school-house was erected in tho State, of Wisconsin when that Territorr was' ceded to the United States by Virginia. Where does the Republican party get this sudden atiection for the school-house? Let it carry oat the old Democratic doctrine that was laid down in the ordinance of 1789, Of course, everybody knows that, the Virginia Democracy have always been enthusiastically dovoted to the freeschool' systenj) and that in ante-war times they used to whip their slaves in order to mako them attend school. But Mr. Mills is mistaken when ho says the school-bouse was erected in Wisconsin

wjien that Territory was ceded to the United States by Virginia. A statesman of his broad culture ought to know that the first free schools in Wisconsin were established by the Indians.. The aboriginal inhabitants of Wisconsin were even more devoted to popular education than were the Virginia Democrats. The Menomonces, tho Winnebagoes, the Chippewas, tho Sheboygans, the Oconoinowocs, tho Poygans, and other Indian tribes were all enthusiastic friends of free schools. Tho name of tho Wisconsin river (French Ouisconsin) is sal to mean in Indian language "wild, rushing river, n and was probably so called because in tho spring and fall it was alive with boats, a wild, rnshing crowd of Indians hurrying to school. The "Vincient earthworks, remains of which Mr. Mills may have seen m some parts of Wisconsin, are probably part of an extensive system of university play-groucds constructed by .

the patient labor of tho Indians. It is all right for Mr. Mills to attack tho f reoschool record of tho Republican party, but he should not attempt to exalt tho Democracy at tho expense of tho Indians. They have been despoiled of enough without being robbed of tho honor of having established(ireo schools in Wisconsin.

THE GROWTH OF INDIANA CITIES. . The scattering returns of tho census of Indiana cities show that the greater part of them have made large, and many of them almost marvelous, gains in pop ulation during the last decade. Indian apolis proper shows a gain of over 41 per cent between 1880 and 1890, and if tho suburbs wero included, which are a part of the growth and prosperity ot the city, the increase would be 50 per cent. Tho same growth appears in many cities, while in others which havo re cently become the seats of prosperous manufacturing industries the relative growth is much larger, reaching over 100 per cent, in cities and towns like Kokomo andMuncie. From mere villages they have come to be cities whose names aro known in all the marts of tho West and . South. A few cities havo made but small growth compared with the large majority of them. Why is it? Because they have not attracted to them the varied manufacturing interests which havo come to the others. As a matter of fact, tho growth of cities in Indiana has been largo or small as tho manufactories in them have been mul tiplied or havo not increased to any ex tent. To-day there are made in Indiaua a variety of manufactures ot the best quality, which, if any man had predicted twenty-five years ago that they would bo produced here, he would havo been regarded as a crack-brained vis ionary. We havo become so accustomed to the miracle of this growth that wo dp not appreciate it, and accept it as a lutural consequence. Perhaps it is; but a natural conscquenco of what? Why has tho plate-glass of Indiana become famous throughout the country? Why has the brand of its carriage-manufacturers become the favorite in the market?, Why has the State thousands of men building cars, making nails, carriages, paper, machinery, furniture in short, scores of articles requiring skill and capital for their production? Ask seven-eighths of the manufacturers and they will tell you that it is duo to tho fostering influence of tho protective tariff. Ask the other eighth, who may not admit the general value of the protective policy, if they would havo it removed so far as relates to themselves, and they will answer with a very positive no. But it will bo said by some that the protection which has v built up the manufactures is very well for tho "robber-baron" of a manufacturer and capitalist, but death to the workingman land the farmer. Suppose the men who work in the industries in our cities are put on Mr. Mills's "piano of equality" with tho foreign workmen in the same industries would they retain tho average of 75 per cent, moro wages that they now receive- over workmen in tho same industries in England? 'The asking of such a question is an insult to the intelligence of a practical man. If the wheels of the varied industries in Indiana should suddenly stop for six months, would the "robberbaron" of an employer, or the thousands of employes, suffer mostin consequence? And the farmer the man for whom and with .whom, if ho would let him, the apostles of calamity 6hed tearsp would he bo better off to have two purchasers at the Indianapolis market-house instead of three, which represents the gain of tho past ten years? Is it of no account to the farmer in the vicinity of the score of growing manufacturing towns in Indiana that he has two consumers now where he had but one four or five years ago? He would reply to that question, if it wero put to him: "Why not ask me if I am a fool?" : It is one of tho things which no man can find out that, in the faco of theso self-evident facts attesting tho beneficence of tho protective policy, men can have the assurance to go up and down Indiana denouncing protection and preaching free trade and that men who admit all these facts will go on voting for men who would adopt a policy at variance with that which has brought such general prosperity, simply because they wrero born Democrats, and seem to be bound to die Democrats. MR. PORTER AND THE HEW YORK 0ENBU8. Secretary Noble says of Census Superintendent Porter, who has gone to Europo to recuperate from an illness caused by overwork: Mr. Porter has been doing a prodigious amount of work, and has made a most admirable Superintendent of the Census. But he has worked himself completely out, and his physician Rays a trip to Europe is absolutely necessary to his recovery, perhaps to the preservation of his life. Ho will not be absont long, and -though I did not wish him to go until I found out the urgent necessity of it, I then advised him to take tho trip. The Secretary adds: There have been, some criticisms of the Census Bureau, but they are entirely un founded. It is true that recounts have been necessary in some places, but this is to be expected in a count of 60,000,000 of , people. Tho criticisms hare been made by people who were disgruntled over something, and they should havo no weight. Tho work of tho Census Bureau is admirable. Some of these criticisms a great many of them, in fact were made by the Democratic and mugwump papers of Now York, and began before tho work was fairly undertaken. These papers declared that the work would not be properly done; they distorted the intent and purpose of many of tho questions asked, assured their readers that the inquiries to be put were impertinent, and day after day advised against answering them. All this cackle and outcry, which meant nothing moro nor less than a desire to interfere with and hamper tho officials of a Republican administration, naturally had effect, and greatly increased the difficulties of the enumerators. No sooner was the result of the census known than these same organs began to complain that tho work had not been properly done and to demand a recount. Tho population of New York city was not just what theso worthies would liko to havo it, but they offer no better reasons for desiring a

second enumeration. Tho government very justly refused to comply with tho demand, and tho second . count will bo

made by local authority. It is to bo observed that the papers that placed all possible hindrances in tho way of tho government officials are not riow urging the citizcO to refuso to answer questions and assuring them that they havo a right to keep their affairs to themselves, but, on the con trary, aro advising them to do all in their power to assist the enumerators. If, by this course, a few thousand aro added to New York's population, it will not be surprising, but such result will by no means indicate that Mr. Porter's men did not do their duty to the best of their ability. Tho New York papers havo pursued a very contemptible course in this matter. To tho Editor of the Indlauaixlis Journal: Democrats hereabouts are trying to mako E olitical capital by calling the new pension aw a deDendent nension law, a pauper pen sion law. etc. Some of our veterans would like to have the Journal explain the mat ter. V HEADER. RcsiiviLLE, Ind., Sept. 30. Democrats are making similar state ments elsewhere for political effect. There is not a word of truth in them. The new pension law is a disability law, and whoever calls it a dependent or pauper law knowingly misrepresents it. It provides that all persons who served in tho army ninety days and were honorably discharged, and who aro now suf fering from any disability which incapacitates them from tho performance of manual labor in such a degree as to render them unable to earn a support, shall, upon proof thereof, receive a pension. It also gives a pension to tho widow or parents of any honorably discharged soldier who has died since tho war. The law contains no reference to tho pecuniary circumstances of the ap plicant, but only to his mental and physical condition. If disabled from performing manual labor so as to earn a livelihood he is entitled to a pension, provided the disability is not tho result of his own vicious habits. No matter what the form or nature of tho disability, no matter when or how incurred, if not caused by the person's own vicious habits, ho is entitled to a pension whether he is a pauper or a. millionaire, and in no case is he required to state his circumstances. In the last Legislature Mr. Brown, a Republican member from Henry county, introduced a joint resolution declaring, ifter a suitable preaniblciN That the committee on temperance be and is hereby instructed to report a bill giving to the people of this State, in their, several localities, the right to determine whether or not intoxicating liquors shall be sold therein. ' " , Tho resolution was hardly read before a Democrat moved to lay it on tho table, and, under the operation of the gag law, this was done without giving the Republicans a chance to say a word in favor of it. The Democrats would not even permit it to be discussed, and every Democrat in the Houbo voted to lay it on the table. The Ohio Democrats mado their campaign successfully last year by crying for reform in the VForaker boards" of Cincinnati. They got what they cried for, and now they have the beautiful spectacle of the "Campbell boards," tho rottenest and most corrupt aggregation of official rascality known since the Tweed ring in New York. The three Republican Senators who voted against the tariff bill demanded free trade on ono or two articles, and because they could not get what they wanted, voted against the whole bill. It is not to be supposed that they are wiser than tho paTty, and their course shows them to bo unsafe party men. : The publication of the names of the Johnstown beneficiaries of the flood fund, with a circumstantial account of the outlay, is an outrageous proceeding. People in general who contributed to the fund were willing to leave its distribution to the persons assigned to the duty by the Pennsylvania . anthorities, confident that' it would be expended to the best advantage and not caring for details. ' No one has questioned the honesty of the committees so appointed, and there is, therefore, no reason why . they should have a personal interest in tho. publication. The only reckon assigned by the local board of disbursers is that there was a public demand for such information. Tho demand could only have come from people actuated by vnlgar and impertinent curiosity, and from residents of the place who begrudged tho assistance given by the committee to others than themselves. It is but just to say that the publication was strongly opposed by the members of the general relief commission, the chairman of which wrote a scathing letter of protest to the Johnstown local board. In the course of it he said: Common humanity would of itself forbid such a publication to the world. Many persons would be seriously pained thereby, some would be injured, but th lartre damage would come with accumulating years. As time passes the special conditions surrounding the great disaster of the flood will have passed away and the cold bare facts of charity (riven and accepted wUl remain in permanent form, a record without taint or humiliation to the recipient, but which in unfriendly hands may be made to serve the cause of malice and injustice a power that right reason would not say should be passed on to future generations. The condemnation that will faU upon you from aU right-thinking people in your town and throughout the htate and country, should the proposed course be pursued, will be severe and lasting. The local board was not to be restrained by this protest, but has issued the book, and it may bo hoped will be mado to feci the full orce of tho contempt its action deserves. A few days since the Boston Globe, the Democratic organ of New England, remarked editorially as follows: ITere in Massachusetts we have another issue that is quite interesting. It is: "Shall Massachusetts industries and commerce in this lafet decade of the nineteenth century be wiped out of existence, by a twelfth century affair!" The same day, among the telegrams published in the Globe was the following, with the heading, "Effects of the McKinley Bill:" JFall RiVKit, Mass., Pept. 23. Hoger Mitchell, ot Mitchell fc Co., Glasgow, Scotland, is here seeking a location for their gincham factory. Mr. Mitchell says that under tho McKinley bill they cannot compete with Americans, and must come here fe save their trade. They will erect an establishment either here or at Philadelphia; Which goes to show that the editorial writer on the Glob either does not read that paper or does not believe its news. Citv anthorities of Pittsburg aay that the brick sidowalk is a relio of barbarism, and must "go." As the chief of the department ot public works puts it, bricks aro unhealthy, as they hold moisture; are dangerous, as they become slippery upon tho slightest breath of frost; they aro unpleasftnUts they have a habit of bacciains lsos,

and when a pedestrian steps upon ono he is liable to shoot a stream of mud np the inside of his pant Ip?," and from an a thrtio point of view are not attractive. This may be all very well for Fittsburg, bnt there aro cities whoso inhabitants consider themselves lucky if they can have a suQJciency of brick pavements. Bricks, simply or collectively, may not bo beautiful, but they aro a "heap" better to wait on thatx gravclr plain mud. ArnosrERous citizen of Richmond, Vs., committed suicjdo the other day, leaving behind a letter in which he spoke of his "poor, bleeding heart." His physician says ha had been for some time suffering from an affection of tho liver. If tho truth wero known it would probably be found that it is tho liver of tenor than the heart that causes the desiro to bo dono with this weary world. Mr. Cleveland declined tho invitation to tho Texas Stato fair, but they insist that he must attend. Tho cattlemen and beef experts out that way propose to have a drawing card this year or know the reason EviRY man is good f or some purpose, if only to wear out second-band clothes. To tbe Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please give the dates of the following: 1. The explosion at the exposition grounds. 2. Explosion of the engine at the Union Depot. 'J. Tts burning of tho Academy of Music ScrCRlBKK. 1. Oct-1. 18C9. 2. Monday. March 13, 1870. a Jan. 27, 1877.

Brotherly Love. Said the deacon, who was lucky enough to have the honor of tlrt dining the new minister: "I think we havo a rare treasure ia Bro. Wilgug. I actuaUy believe he would rather pray thau eat. Then answered the other deacon: "If that's tho case, 1 don't doubt but that your place just suited him. Justified. Tommy Paw, is Grcat Fcott swearing? Mr. Flgg I don't know whether he is or not. lie certainly would be justified in swearing a littleat the way the funny men tako his name la vain every day. He Drew the Line. Watts Do you believe everything your wife tells you! Fotte Everything. Except when she teUs roe I am an idiot I can't quite go that, you know. Game. "Yes; he was taken out and lynched, they 6ay, Die died game though, I'm told. "That's natural. lie always was a wild duck, anyway. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. D. L. Moody will begin a series of revival meetings in Troy, N. Y., on Nov. 9. Miss Winnie Davis will bo tho guest of the citv of Atlanta at the Piedmont exposition this falL In Dublin, whore tho late Dion BoucU cault was born, his family name was pronounced Boccolt. Clement G. Morgan, tho colored grada? ate of Harvard, is lecturing in Connecticut on tho educational needs of the South. . Michael Wagner, who resides in a small town in Minnesota, and is a cousin of tho composer, has just learned that he is heir to a large estate. ' William Carleton is a broad-shouldered, erect, handsome man, looking like a soldier rather than a ' poet, and alwaya dressed with scrupulous care. Gad's Hill Place, Rochester, famous as the home of Charles Dickens, has just been purchased by the Hon. Francis Law Latham. Advocate-general at Bombay. ' Daniel Lamont, once secretary to President Cleveland, ten years ago was working. on a country newspaper for a salary of $15 a week. His income now is placed at $T0,000 a year by men who are conversant with his business. The Digger Indians of California used to be considered the most degraded of all tho tribes. Now they aro reported as becoming quite civilized and well-to-do. They own ranches, horses, and have beconio avaracious, "just like the white man.", T would rather be a human sandwich, with tbe gospel on my breast and back, and rescue souls, than preach in a frescoed templo to a handful of old men and women who have gone to church so long that they have sacred rheumatism." Thus epoko Rev. Mr, Dixon, of Chicago. It is not generally known, perhaps, that Lady Randolph Churchill, formerly Miss Jennie Jerome, is a capital musician, and, did any reverses come to her, could support herself and family with the proceeds that her paintings would command. he has a studio in her London houso and paints ' diligently pictures that have real merit and beauty. A Russian legend relates that when St. Joseph returned from his flight into Egypt he found his shoes in great want of repair, and being aware of tho excellence of leather work in Russia, sent them to Kiclf to be mended, where they remained. It is now reported fiom Kiell" that the archbishop of St. Sophia proposes to resole tho shoes and then "expose them to the veneration of tho faithful." It's an obliging world sure enough. A New York woman mailed a letter to Baltimore. . It had a paper pocket sewed on the outsida of tho envelope with white thread. On tho pocket was a message to the postmaster that it contained 10 cents, and that the writer desired the postal authorities to buy a special delivery stamp for the letter and deliver it as soon as it reached here. Tho injunction was obeyed, and the letter promptly forwarded. The Czar, has . grown 6ofat that he is obliged to wear uniforms that appear grotesque, and he rides a heavily-built, sturdy brown horse, which is capable of carrying. his immense weight. But the norso docs not prance with 275 pounds on his back. Emperor William, on the other hand, is a perfect typo of an athletic, broadshouldered German soldier, with a deep chest and arverect carriage of the head. It will be many centuries, however, beforo these points are ever admitted in France. It seems pretty well settled now that Mrs. Mackay will return from London next year and tako up her residence in America. Her present intention is to take a house in Washington. Mr. Mackay has spent tho summer in Europo with his wife, and they have recently been traveling extensively through England and Scotland. He is now about to return to this country and will bring fcver with him his eldest son. who is about twenty years of age, aud who will probably go into business here, assuming some position in the Commercial Cablo Company. Thomas B. Jones, Governor-elect of Alabama, tells this incideut of bis boyhood, part of which period was spent in school in Virginia: "On my way home for a vacation, I passed through the Capital for tho express purpose of getting a glimpso at President Buchanan. Standing in tho National Hotel. I remarked to a friend that 1 hated to leave the city without seeing the President. An elderly gentleman, who was reading a paper near where we stood, looked up with a smile and remarked: 'So .yon' want to hoe tho President, do yout Meet me here at 10 o'clock to-morrow, and we will pay him a visit.' It is needless to eay I kept tho engagement. Tho gentleman wns on hand, and wo got into a carriage, but I didn't know 1 was riding with tho President of the United States till alter wo had reached thoWhito House and heard him addressed by his title. Then my modesty got the better of me. and 1 wanted to retire, but tho President kept me quito awhile, and 1 went away thoroughly hapry n "Tins climbing hills gives strength unto tho calf.'. Bald Vitzauirustus Motitmorcnci Push, And really did not like It not by hall When Alice akcd: "Why don't you climb ft

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