Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1890 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1890.

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1890. WASHINGTON OFFICK513 Fourteenth st, P. 8. Heath. Correiionlent, Telephone CalL Bnlsnew Office 233 1 Editorial Rooms 242 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIOM. DAILY BT 1U.II. One year, without Sunday fllOO On year, -with Hnnday 1 00 Bix Mouths, without Sunday . Fix months, "with Sunday 7.00 Three months, without bunday 3.00 Three months, with Sunday 150 One month, without Sunday 1.00 One month, with Sunday 1-20 Dehrexed by carrier In city, 5 cent per week. WEEKLY. Per year fl-CO Reduced Kates to Clubs. BntscrlDe "with any of our numerous agentf, or end subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS. I5D. Feranna sending the Journal through the mail In the United States should put on an eight-page paper 05K-CKNT postage stamp; on a twelve or sixteenpage uaper a two-cint postage stamp. Ifoieign Hostage la csualiy double these rates. All ccinmumeationt intended for publication in Vile 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: PABIS American Exchange In Paris. 36 Boulevard dee Capucmeev NEW YOBK-X-iUey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. pT Kemble, 373J Lancaster Tenne. CHICAGO Palmer House, CI2CIlf ITATI-J. P. Hawley fc Co.. 154 Vine street. LOTJlsVUXE-C. T. Deerlng. northwest corner Third and j efferson streets. BT. LOTJI8 Union Hews Company, Union Depot and Southern lloteL WASHINGTON, D. C Biggs House and Ebbitt House. DEMOCRATIC SENTIMENT, m m Jj Expressed in the Columns of the State OrCan and in the Platform of the Party. Sentinel Editorial, Jan. 6, 1887. THE SCPREMECOURT. Damn their cowardly souls. The members of the Supreme Court of Indiana are afraid of their shadows. Yesterday Judge Elliott delivered the opinion of the court in tho Smith-Robertson lieutenant-governorship case. There was no dissenting opinion, more's the pity. If only one man had shown honesty enough and courage enough to have dissented, something of the august character of tho court would have been saved; but it stands now a crying shame. The Supreme Court at that time consisted of Judges Niblack, Zollars, Mitchell and Howk, Democrats, and Judge Elliott, Republican. Democratic riatform. Judges Coffee, Berkshire and Olds, Republican members of the Supreme Bench, deserve the contempt of the people of Indiana for their action in overturning the settled construction of the Constitution, reversing all legal precedents and contradicting their own rulings for the sake of a few petty offices and at the dictation of unscrupulous political tricksters. Sentinel Editorial, Feb. 9. 1890. The men who were hanged and the men now in the Illinois penitentiary for the Haymarket crime were tho victims of the most flagrant judicial outrage in the annals of this Republic. It was tho mob spirit that convicted them. It was a jury of cowards and lickspittles that brought in the verdict. The time will come when the trials of the Chicago Anarchists will be regarded by enlightened people the world over with the same feelings of horror and amazement with which we now review the trials of the Salem "witches." Sentinel Editorial, Sept. 14, 1890. The tax on personal property ought to bo wholly repealed. Tho prospect is that the system of private property in land will remain as it is, for some generations, at least, but that alj 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. Good Republicans are always at home on election day. There should be no absenteeism among Republicans on Nov. 4. Remember it is the stamp that counts. The ticket not stamped is not counted. A good sign to put over the polling places on election day would bo "Stamping Done Here." There never was a better time to make an effective fight against the Democracy than this year. Under the Mills bill the duty on binding twine would have been from 2 to 8 14 cents a pound. By the new tariff law it is 710 of 1 cent. Do the tax-payers desire to have tho valuation on their farms and homes raised in order to increase the State revenues! That is the pledge of the Democratic State convention. Persons should decide how they are going to vote and should know how to prepare their ballots before entering the booth, as no person is permitted to occupy it more than five minutes. "It is certainly evident that the American workingmen are receiving less for the same quantity of labor than their English competitors." So said Mr. Bynum; but Mr. Bynum does not know. There is no need of anxiety on the part of Republican voters over the matter of casting their ballots under the new law. All they need to do is to stamp the Republican ticket and Vote it straight. It is high time that Indiana should have a modern system of taxation, but bo long as it elects legislatures that will begin their work by electing Mr. Voorhees to the Senate, the same old podauger system will bo continued. Dear Madame: If your husband is a Republican traveling man or contemplates leaving home, you can do the State some service by reminding him that ;tho election comes on Nov. 4, and that it is his duty to bo at homo and vote. - Other things being equal, the party whose voters are best instructed under tho new law will have a decided advantage in tho coming election. Much has already been done in this direction, but there is still a surprising lack of information among the peoplo and in some cases a surprising amount of misinformation. It would bo a good plan to hold schools of instruction in every precinct in tho State between now and tho election, at which questions might bo . asked and answered and information conveyed on doubtful points. Caro

should bo taken, however, that the information be correct. It would also bo a good plan for a few Republicans who have made a study of the law to supply themselves with sample tickets on election day and bo prepared to give object lessons in voting. The law does not permit anything of this kind to be done within fifty feet of the chute, but there is no impropriety in doing it outside of that limit, and it might bo a favor to somo persons to have such instruction before entering the booth.

COUSTISQ THE BALLOTS. It is probable that the process of counting the ballots under the new election law may take considerably more time than formerly. The law provides that when the polls are closed the election board shall first count the unvoted ballots and the clerks'' shall record the number of. these on the tally-sheets. The object is to see if the unvoted ballots, together with those voted and those accidentally mutilated and returned, agTee with the total number originally received by the election board. Whether this shall prove to be an effective check or not, it will occupy some time. After the unvoted ballots are counted and burned, the board must then count tho State ballots through before beginning on the local ballots. As every irregular or doubtful ballot will have to bo disposed of before the county ballots are taken up, this may occupy considerable time. All disputed ballots are to be preserved, and the poll-clerk must make a record thereof on the tally-sheet. Not until the count of the Stato ballots is completed and recorded in the tallysheets can the county tickets be taken up. It is important that election boards carefully observe the provision of law requiring disputed ballots to be preserved. All unvoted ballots and all undisputed ballots that have been voted are to be burned as soon as counted, but all disputed ballots are to be preserved. This, of course, is for future revision and verification, and for use in case of contest. There will doubtless be a considerable number of disputed or doubtful ballots. Many mistakes will be made in stamping tickets, especially by persons attempting to vote a mixed ticket, which will raise doubts as to how the ballot should be counted, and end in their being preserved as disputed ballots. It is important to understand that the election board has no right to throw out a ballot or any part of a ballot, except under the following provision: In the canvass of the votes any ballot which is not indorsed with the initials of the poll-clerks, and any ballot which shall bear any distinguishing mark or mutilation shall be void and snail not be counted, and any ballot or part of a ballot from which it is impossible to determine tho elector's choice of candidates, shall not be counted as to the candidate or candidates affected thereby. Under this provision a person who votes a ballot which the poll clerk has accidentally failed to indorse with his initials will lose his vote, as the law makes such a ballot absolutely void; and a person who makes a mistake in scratching may lose his vote as to the particular candidate affected by tho mistake. But these two cases and that of a distinguishing mark on tho ballot are the only ones in which the election board has the right to throw out a ballot, either in wholo or in part. Their discretion in this regard is very limited. The law evidently contemplates that all ballots which are not void, but merely doubtful, shall be counted one way or the other, and included in the tally-sheet. f Doubtful or disputed ballots are not to be thrown out or laid aside for future counting, but are to be counted and preserved for use in case of contest. They may be passed over informally till the end of the count, but must then be taken up and decided one way or another. In every case where the ballot is not absolutely void for one of the reasons above indicated, it is the duty of tho board to ascertain the will of the voter, as nearly as possible, and give effect to it. At a ward election held under the new law a few months ago in Vincennes, 2C3 votes were arbitrarily thrown out for alleged defects. If these alleged defects consisted of anything else but failure of the poll clerk to indorse his initials on the back of the ballot or tho act of the voter in putting a distinguishing mark on his ballot, tho board acted without authority of law. It is the duty of an election board to treat as valid every ballot that is not plainly void under the law, and to go as far as possible in ascertaining and giving effect to the will of tho voter. WHEN THE TAEIFF IS A TAX. The tariff is a tax upon the consumer when the country in which he lives does not produce a sufficient supply of any article to meet the home demand. When the country produces sufficient to meet the home demand tho tariff is not a tax. As was shown yesterday by tho testimony of Ex-Consul Schoenhoff, free-trader, when we produce all the clothing which tho mass of the people wear, the price is as low in any city in this country as in London. Tho duty on sugar is a tax. It is a tax because tho best our producers can do is give us less than one-tenth of the quantity we use. Therefore, wo must rely upon tho foreign market for the bulk of our 6ii gars, and pay the foreign price. The duty is added to the foreign price, and is of necessity paid by tho consumer. There is no escape from it. Tho 6ugar duty is a tax, as tho consumer will learn after July 1, when ho will carry homo a third more sugar for a dollar than he now does. The tariff on tea and coffee, if there were one, would bo a tax, bocause those articles are produced exclusively in other countries, and whatever might be imposed as a duty, 5 or 10 cents a pound, would be added to tho cost to tho consumer. On the other hand, the duty on all kinds of cotton cloths, underwear, hosiery, boots, goods mado of iron, the grades of crockery most in use, is not a tax, because we mako enough of all these to meet the home demand, and to create an activo competition. Consequently, if anyone imports these goods, ho pays the duty for tho privilege of selling his goods in this country. Becauso this is tho caso manufacturers of

goods in Europo nro complaining bitterly about tho new tariff shutting them out of tho American market. Would they do this if tho consumer always paid the duty or tariff on imported goods? Not to any extent. These plain facts about the effect of duties on imported goods are repeated now because tho free-traders are doing service as Anglomaniacs in shouting that the duty is added to tho price, and that tho consumer pays it. The duty, it is emphasized, is added only to the price of such goods as we do not produce in sufficient quantities for the home market.

FAILURE OF THE IEEE-TRADE COMBINE. The Democratic and free-trade combine to put up prices upon the passage of the new tariff bill has totally and miserably failed. In numbers and noise it was very much of a combine or trust. It was also very much in earnest. Indeed, it may be said that it is a very unscrupulous combine, and a very absurd one. If falsehood could have availed, success of the most gigantic proportions would have crowned their efforts, but falsehood has failed. There is the New York World. It caused the percentages of the two tarifls to be made, and published a long list of prices of clothing under the old law and the prices which would prevail under the new. The cost of clothing now, according to that list, should bo from 25 to 51 per cent, higher than it was Oct. 1. But the dealers did not mark up their goods; on tho contrary, a patron of the World had an advertisement in the same issue in which it put up the prices, putting them down from 25 to 50 per cent. Tho World figures were widely quoted, but some seasonable advertisers of clothing neutral- . ized them by announcements that cloth- ; ing will not be advanced this season. The pearl-button bugaboo perished early in the season. The average people do not indulge in a gross of pearl buttons every day in the week. And now, the tin-cup outrage begins to pall. The increase of tho price of shoes 50 per cent, died a sudden death when it was discovered that present duties are lower than the old. The hosiery woe still survives, but it has taken an air of resignation since several dealers have offered that article at the lowest prices , ever known in tho market. Just now the combino is touching the sugar question. Somo of its members are intimating that it does not fall as Republicans and sugar-dealers have predicted. The statement is true. It is one of the few truthful statements the free-trade com-, bine has made. It is troubledlest it should fall. But the price of sugar will not fall until July 1, becauso tho freesugar clauso of the law does not go into effect until that time. The combine can now assert that taking 213 "cents from tho cost of sugar after July 1 will not affect the price, but the grocer will take the other side. But, after all, the comsumer who has not more .money than he knows what to do with, and.who could dispose of moro than he has to a good advantage if he could get it, will rejoice that the free-trade combine, or trust, to advance the prices of all ncces-.i saries of life 25 per cent, or more, has ' failed. THE BINDING-TWINE MATTER. " ! . . i Democratic speakers like Senators Voorheesand Turpie, by their misrepresentations, insult tho intelligence of the people. They assume that the people cannot ascertain the facts, and, relying upon that assumption, they insult them by telling them falsehoods regarding simple matters. Their misrepresentations regarding the duty on, binding twine is a sample. They both declare that the present duty is a burden, but they do not state the fact that the duty on-binding twino has been put, in the present law, at tho very low rate of seven-tenths of 1 cent a pound. Now, all these Democratic Congressmen either voted for or advocated tho Mills tariff bill. What was the duty imposed on binding twine in that bill? Was it on tho free list? Nothing of the kind. The duty was 25 per cent ad valorem. Last year binding twine sold by the carloads from 11 to 16 cents, according to the quality It is fair to 6ay that the price in England could not have been less than from 8 to 13 cents per pound. A duty of 25 per cent, ad - valorem would have been from 2 to 3 14 cents per pound. That is what the Mills bill would have done tho bill for which Bynum and every Democratic member of the House voted in 1888, the bill which Voorhees went up and down the country advocating as a Democratic measure. And now they are condemning the Republican party for burdening the farmers with a tax which is seventenths of 1 .cent a pound on bindiug twine! When it was a Democratic measure from 2 to 3 14 cents a pound was a proper tax; but, in a Republican law, seven-tenths of 1 cent is a burden and an outrage! Major Dunbar, Republican candidate for Congress in the Fifth district, was egged at Nashville, Brown county, a few days ago. Brown county is a Democratic stronghold, and Nashville is an out-of-the-way place where bourbon Democrats do about as they please. Major Dunbar was a gallant soldier, and is an honorable, reputable gentleman. He was egged becauso he hpd gone to Nashville to mako a political speech. Mr. Lynch was about right when he said in his speech, Monday night, that the spirit of Democracy was as malignant in tho North as in 'tho South. The decent peoplo of the Fifth district should resent this outrage. When you receive your ballot from the poll-clerk be suro that it has his initials on tho lower left-hand corner, on the back, and in folding it be sure that the initials are exposed. A ballot without the poll-clerk's initials on the back is void, and the judges are forbidden to put it in tho box unless tho initials are folded on the outside. Ex-Senator McDonald said in a recent speech that tho probability was "Western farmers would have to buy foreign potatoes for seed next spring, and when they did thoy would curse the now tariff law which places a duty of 25 cents a bushel on them. Yet the Chi-

cago Grocer says that "in one of tbb counties of Minnesota the price of potatoes has declined to 20 cents a bushel, and is likely to go still lower, because there seems to be no end to the supply. Near the town of Harris about 800,000 bushels are in sight." And we may add, Minnesota potatoes are far better for 6ced than imported ones. Our Uncle Joe does not 6eem to know much more about potatoes than Senators Voorhees and Turpi do about binding twine.

The Farmland Enterprise of Oct. 17, published at Farmland, Randolph county, Indiana, contains the following advertisement. Mr. J. W. Erther is a member of the Democratic county central committee: DO NOT BE GULLED! While other merchants may claim to have received letters from wholesale houses in the East that the McKinley bill has affected the prices of many lines of dry goods and that they have advanced from 10 to 40 per cent., I have received no such notice from wholesale merchants with whom I deal, but to the contrary 1 have been assured that I can duplicate my stock of goods at former prices. The McKinley bill will cut no figure in the price of goods with honest merchants, and the undersigned will continue to sell goods as heretofore, at the smallest living margin. J. W. Ertiiek, Farmland. .We are glad to know that there is at least one Democratic merchant who is not afraid to tell tho truth. In the language of Mr. Erther, we say to the people, "Do not be gulled." Merchants' who have been warned to look out for higher prices by importing houses will do well to hold off a few weeks before making their purchases. The enormously heavy imports, made to escape the duties of tho McKinley bill, have had the effect of greatly overstocking the markets in certain lines of imported goods, and shrewd observers predict a heavy decline in prices in consequence. Most of the houses that were in such a hurry have thereby undertaken very heavy financial loads, and tho man who has tho money to buy can afford to wait a great deal longer than they can; hence, their frantic exhortations to "buy now before prices go up n Tiie report that the Republican congressional committee is raising an immense campaign fund by assessing office-holders in Washington - is denied. Colonel Clarkson declares that the committee has not asked money from any person in the public service, but that the magnificent sum of $70 has been sent the committee by persons in office. Nevertheless the New York Herald and other Democratic . papers have announced that every clerk who did not contribute was a doomed man. Truly, this is the campaign of falsehood, and 'of silly falsehood at that. : The action of the Havana Chamber of Commerce in urging the Spanish government to modify its tariffs so far as they relate to Cuba and the United States is an indication of the wisdom of the reciprocity clauso of the new tariff law. Those tariffs now shut our products out of Cuba, but with the retaliatory pro-, vision regarding sugar duties in the tariff law, Cuba sees that her sugar industry will be ruined unless Spain offers the United States some advantages in trade which wo are now denied. Republicans throughout the Stale will bo glad to hear that at a meeting of the State central committee, held in this city, yesterday, the best of feeling prevailed, and most oncoura fin p reports were made from all quarters. The situation is very favorable for Republican success,' and is improving every day. If Republicans do their duty during tho next two weeks, and on election day, they can almost surely count on victory. It is said that some people are waiting to see the effect of the new tariff law on business. Why wait longer? The general business outlook was never more favorable. Old factories, that have been doing half a business, have been put to work at full speed; now enterprises are being started in all parts of the country; labor was never more fully employed, and everywhere there is confidence and courage. The Journal's correspondent writes that it was $40,000,000 which Senator Voorhees said, at Tipton, was all tho money that 65,000,000 of people have in circulation. It would seem that the Senator is making tho most absurd statements he can conceive, to see if the people will quietly listen to them. Those who attend his meetings seem to do so, but the attendance is not large. For the past thirty . years Daniel Webster Voorhees has predicted woe and destruction to the country as a result of the supremacy of the Republican party, and right along through that period the country has been increasing in prosperity. It ought to dawn on Daniel by this time that his predictions are of the wormy uhestnut order. The person who tells au impossible falsehood is not so much of a liar as an idiot, and such was the person who telegraphed the Sentinel that Speaker Reed declared that "the new tariff law would increase the price of tho necessaries of life, and he hoped it would do so." Speaker Reed never mado such a statement as that without qualification. If the voters of Indiana desire to have half a million a year added to the State debt and to have the interest account increase until tho interest charges become the largest item in an appropriation bill, let them permit the election of a gerrymander Legislature this year. A charge that intellectual Boston could be led to approve of any literary production on any other ground thau its intrinsic merit would ordinarily; meet with scornful denial, but it appears that other elements are occasionally taken into consideration. A New York society woman, for instance, has written a novel, and one that might attract no notice from fastidious Boston critics had they not discovered that the author is related to "some of our most cultured families." Her pedigree is sot forth by the gratified Boston press, whereby it is shown that her uncle is a wellknown and highly-respected citizen of the Hub; she lias a cousin who is an eminent Boston lawyer; old Bostonians well remember her grandfather, who was also an au

thor, and she is second cousin to Thomas Went worth lligginaon. This, ns tho discoverer announces, naturally arouses an interest in the ladj'a book in "our best families." The moral of this incident is that it is well to have talent, but ancestors who lived in Boston are uncommonly useful in undertakings literary career. The recent death of Mrs. Emily Meigs Ripley has carried sorrow to a large circle of friends. Though an invalid for some time past, she still made herself widely felt by her indomitable spirit and the energy of her gracious character. With her love was "the greatest thing on earth," and all who came near her felt its influence. Her intellectual powers, like her moral qualities, seemed more spiritual than human, and almost up to the day of her death her mind was reaching out after new fields of labor. She had done some excellent literary work, and if she had lived even disease could hardly have prevented her from carrying out cherished plans of work and usefulness. Mrs. Frank Leslie and her clothes are now occupying Western lecture platforms. She delivers a lecture, bit, according to the accounts of dazzled reporters, what she eays is unimportant compared with what she wears. Gorgeous gowns and "at least 300,000 worth of diamonds" tax the descriptive powers of the most gifted newspaper writeis. Mrs. Leslie's appearance on the stage is, in fact, an apotheosis of clothes. It is a great country, and women of one sort and another are to the fore. The caba-snatcher is figuring prominently in Philadelphia police circles just now. If you are unacquainted with the Philadelphia vernacular you will not know what a "caba" is. Translated into the language spoken by the rest of the country it is "shopping-bag." Only Philadelphians carry cabas. Minister Phelps is reported as saying that he finds life in Berlin extremely enjoyable. The announcement that his two daughters are engaged to officers in tho German army indicates a harmony of feeling in the Phelps family on the subject of Berlin life. - ' - Only one thing is lacking to make Indianapolis one of the most thoroughly delightful residence cities in the world a general extension of street paving. What has been done has been well done, but the city can stand about ten times as much of it If all the stories of the murderous Italian organization ferreted out at New Orleans are true, the Chinese highbinder tales that have served as stock for reporters for so long are thrown entirely in the shade.

BUBBLES IN THE AIR. As to Belief. "Do you believe In dreams!" "Yes. In dreams I believe all sorts of things." Pa Always Knows. Tommy Paw, what does "funeral baked meats" mean!" Mr. Figg Er why It is the poetical term for cremation. The Worm Turns. Customer Tula milk is a little blue, don't you think! Milkman If you had as many one-horse jokes made about you as city milk has, you would feel a little blue yourself. lligglns's New Excuse. Charitable Woman You've had your breakfast: now, are you going to saw that wood! Ilurgry Iliggins Madam, I am 6orry, but since I joined the Association for tho Preservation of American Forests I can't do anything that looks like an indorsement of their destruction. Inconsistency Watts Queer thing, marriage. Fotts I guess you are not the first man to notice that fact, Watts No; but I was thinking of this: When a man applies for a divorce he usually wants to hold the baoy, but as long as ho is married it is just the other way. A Puzzle. Mr. Wlckwire Here's a bit of poetry that ought to be in the puzzle department instead of the poets' column. . Mrs. Wlckwire Why, dear! Mr. Wlckwire It rhymes "gander" with "yonder." As it fails to locate the author either in Massachusetts or Illinois, I can't tell whether it ought to be "gahnder" and "yonder," or "gander" and "yander." ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS." From noon until 4 o'clock every day P. T. Barnum takes a nap, and during those hours no one is allowed to disturb him. . The Mizam of Hyderabad is a liberal patron. He not long sinco gave a dentist 8,000 government rupees (about 4,000) for extracting two of his teeth. James Pease, who acted as General Fremont's guide in 1S4C, was drowned last week near Redwood City, Cal. lie was ninety-eight years of age and the oldest resident of San Mateo county. Christine Nilsson's husband has been made under secretary of the new Spanish Cabinet, and the duties will come easy to him on account of his long service as under secretary of the Nilsson cabinet. Mrs. Oscar Wilde is a plainly dressed, pretty little woman, with no distinguishing graces, and her only approach to a'sthoticism is tho affecting of immense Gainsborough hats, heavy with drooping plumes. Boulaxger, the man who is so anxious to save France, isn't likely to save himself much longer, unless he ceases to be on such friendly terras with the wine cnp. He is only a little less bloated than tho regular habitue of the tap-room. Friends of Hon. YV. L. Scott say that reports of his illness are unwarranted, and that he now drivos out every day. It is understood that Wall street has heard from him during the last few days, and that he has bought some stocks. Of thirty pedestrians injured on the streets of Cincinnati in one month, twentyfive owed their injuries . to carelessness of female drivers, and a9 a result there is a call for an ordinance to prevent any woman from driving horses in that city. The Orleans Princes, one of whom is the son of the Comto de Pans, now traveling in this country. ar the richest princes in the world. They will inherit in about three months 100,000,000 francs through the death of tho Duke de Montpensier, of Seville, Spam. Miss Flora Grace, of Iowa, is the inventor of a cooking thermometer, which, instead of registering "summer heat," "blood heat" and "freezing-point," marks the boiling-point, the gently simmering altitude and the varying baking points for meats, bread, cake and pies. The committee for the erection of a monument to William Tell has, by a majority of 0 to 3, decided in favor of the site in front of the Townllall of Altorf. The hero is to be represented in a bold and resolute attitude, with a cross-bow in his hand, and in tho costume of the Swiss peasantry of hjs time. The Empress of Austria has distributed among her most intimate friends ail her court costumes and light-colored dresses. They will be kept as mementoes of the beautiful Empress, who says pathetically that she will never feel gay enough to wear colored dresses any more, and that now her daughter is married, she will not attend any more festivities. Kate Chase Strague, living on her farm atEdgewood, in the suburbs of Washington, is busy writing a lifo of her father. Chief-justice Chase. She has bushels of

letters of a precious natnro, and a diary of her father that ebe esteem ono of tho ruost important historical papers in existence. She keeps it iu a tire-proof vault, and will use it freely in her biography. Mil William Waldohf Asxoit possesses two books which have no duplicates. These are his own historic novels, "Valentino" and "Sforza." interleaved and illustrated with water-colnr drawings, pen and iuk sketches, and illuminations in gold and silver, all done at his own tmggestion and expressing his own ideas. The artist is Maj. David, E. Cronin, who is one of the best living illufctrators, and the beautiful volumes are said to have cost nearly 1,000 each. "Little PniL Sheridan" is a manly boy, and devoted to his mother. He has a soldier's instincts and habits, and no doubt before many years the roll of cadets at West Point will have his name among their number. General Grant's son, Fred, was educated a soldier, at that celebrated nursery of heroes trained to command, but is now a diploraate, near the court of Kaiser Franz Joseph. Sherman's son was trained to tho sacrifices of religion, instead of tho glories of war. Little Phil Sheridan will complete the trio of, sons of the three great captains in the war for the Union. He is ambitious to emulate the brilliant career of his father. The Marquis of Hartington, who is to marry the Duchess of Manchester, was once introduced to President Lincoln. It was during tho war, and the Marquis's sympathies were with the South. Lincoln, not having caught the name, repeatedly called him Mr. Partington. Lord Hartingtoj was annoyed, and finally corrected tho Piesident, when Air. Lincoln said: "Oh, I thought. vou must be 6ome relative of old Mrs. Partington, who tried to sweep back the ocean with a broom." His lordship enjoyed the President's humor, as hn was something of a wag himself. It was Hartington who, when once waited upon b3' an emissary and asked if he would marry one of the royal princesses, adjusted his eyeglass and inquired: "Cawn't you find another fellah!" The young Duke of Aosta, nephew of tho King of Italy, and 6on of the late ex-King Amadeus of Spain, is officially announced as betrothed to Princess Elvira of Bavaria, sister of the young Duchess Isabella of Genoa. The news of this marriage has been very favorably received at Munich, where the Piincess is much liked. The Princess Elvira Alexandra Maria Cecilia Clara Eugene was born at Munich in 16C8, and is Abbess of the Chapel Royal of St, Anne at Wurzburg. Sue is the fourth daughter of the late Prince Adclbert, who was renowned for his charity, so much so, that during his life ho made over the greater part of his worldly goods to the poor, and at his death ho left a very small heritage to his children. The Princess is a very pretty girl, endowed with much wit and intelligence.

CORN CROP X0T SO BAD. Probability that the Yield of Marketable Grain Will Be 1,250,000,000 Bushels. Chicago, Oct 21. The Farmers' Review to-morrow will say: A careful , examination of estimates furnished by our correspondents reveals the fact that the corn crop is tnrning out somewhat better than was expected in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota. Reports from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri and Iowa state that while the ears are small, owing to the midsummer drought, as a rule they are well filled, sound and thoroughly matured, grading No. 1 aud No. 2. It is probable that, about 75 per cent, of the product grown in those six. States will be marketable. The Review estimates the average yield in Illinois to be 2S bushels an acre; ip Indiana, 28; Ohio, 31; Kentucky, 23; Missouri. 2S; Kansas, 14; Wisconsin. 40; Michigan, 47; Iowa, 30; Nebraska, 16; Minnesota, SO; Dakota, 23. The crop in the twelve States named is thus estimated: Illinois, "224,628,712; Indiana. 105.030,11)2; Ohio, 92,229.123; Kentucky, 56,920.44fi: Missouri. 104,588.012; Kansas, 98,247,058; Wisconsin, 41.4$7,9:0; Michigan. 41.833,311; Iowa, 2G8.454.biS0; Nebraska, 74,484,X)C: Minnesota, 22.382.010: Dakota, 19,592.044; total, 1,229,&S,374. Deducting from the foregoing grobs product the large percentage of unmerchantable corn, the Review's estimate of the total marketable corn in the twelve States named is 825,935,253 bushels. According to October estimates of the. Department of Agriculture the condition of the corn crop in tho remaining States not covered by this report is about 83 per cent, of an average. The government reports show that in 1SS7 the crop in these States amounted to 534.118,000 bushels; in 1888, to 525,275.000 bushels, and in PiSO, to 530,700,000 bushels. SHOT BY A JILTED GIRL. Miss Florence Tyler Tries to Kill Her Former Lover in the Presence of Bis Wife. Chicago, Oct 21. It is not the fanli of Florence Tyler, of Butler. III., that Eugeno F. Mease was not murdered by her hand. Miss Tyler walked into Mease's room last evening and shut him down. The most sensational feature of the shooting is tho fact that Mease was married last Saturday to Miss Tessio Raymond, and the youug couple had iust started house-keeping at the number given above. The cause of the shooting, according to the statements made by Miss Tyler, was revenge. Mease had formerly been engaged to her. and they were to have been married Xtjw Year's d.iy. lie put off the wedding and finally married Miss Raymond. Miss Tyler went to their room last eveuing. Mrs. Measo answered the bell. She called her husband and entered tho front room with him. "I want my ring and my photograph. Eugene Mease." said Miss Tyler. Mease left the room, returned in a few minutes and handed her a package. She started to leave the room, but turned when she reached the door, and, running up to Mease, drew a revolver from the folds of her dress. Sho placed the muzzle of the weapon directly over Mease's heart He turned slightly to her left, just as the weapon was discharged and the bullet entered his left shoulder in the arm pit, and lodged under his left shoulder-blade. Mease fell to the iloor and his . bride fainted away, falliug upon a lounge. Miss Tyler started to walk out, but was met at the door by an officer, who, hearing the shot and a woman Bcream, started to investigate. Miss Tyler had the revolver in her hand when arrested. Mease will probably recover. lie admits his former love affair with Miss Tyler. Darn ins Coal-Heds and Prairies. Pierre. S. D.. Oct 21. A party of hunters just returned from the Moreau river county, running partly through the iSioux reservation, report a vast prairio fire, which is devastating a large ncopo of country. They were camped four days ago at Cave Hills, which have had burning coal-beds sinco the first knowledge of tho countrj-, aud assert they saw tiro blown from a burning pit bv a whirlwind which fired the prairies all about. There is great apprehension that lire may spread aud reach immense coalfields along the source of Bad river, 1.000 acres of which were recently taken- by tho Milwaukee road. JIust KstAbllsh Their Right to Vote. Chicago, Oct. 21. On the last day of registration about five hundred new names were put upon the lists. Since then both parties have been earnestly at work, each trying to show that the other had caused many names to bo fraudulently put upon the rolls. The aggregate result, according to an independent morning paper, is that about cwenty-five thousand notices, or onehalf in number of tho new registration, have been sent out. calling on the persons suspected of being improperly registered to come forward and establish their claims to a right to vote. In a Perilous Position. Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 21. Two membeis of the Biitish Iron and Steel Institute had an experience here they will never forget. They were walking over a trestle on the fmi am it oi a mountain, and were caught by an approaching traiu. On ono hide wus a rock wall 100 feet high, ou the other a precipice of 100 feet, and the tie were too short to stand on without being fctruck by the cars. In their dreadful dilemma they Jay down as far out as they could get. By the merest chance the engine was stopped before it reached them.