Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1893 — Page 4

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The Democratic Legislature in New York has made hasto to tell Mr. Cleveland to mind his own affairs by declaring for Murphy for Senator at tho earliest hour. One of the things which no one has explained is why the stocks of many railroads which have done an enormous business the past year wero lower when tho year closed than when it began. What is the matter with the Chandler immigration bill now before the Senate! Why not keep out of the country all those who have not tho means of support while they look about for employment? Mr. Cleveland writes that it is a "very solemn" thing to feel that one has the confidence of the American people. There is a probability that his solemnity will como from another quarter before a couple of years. If the Speaker should bo required to name all the counties which some members represent in part under the gerrymander when he recognizes them, he will, necessarily, occupy a considerable portion of the sessions. Boss Choke it tells his followers that ho shall not recommend any business man for office, for the reason that those whom he calls politicians are more satisfactory. Our nascent Tammany evidently holds the same views. Again suffering is reported in portions of Russia which will require the assistance of the people in this country to prevent its ending in famine. It Is, however, better to help care for tho starving at home than to have them brought to this country. Senator Hale, of Maine, has jnst been nominated for a third full term by a unanimous vote of the Republicans in tho Legislature. Maine retains an influence in Congress altogether out of proportion to its population because it retains able men in Congress term after term. The cheek of a class of political pretenders in the East is illustrated by young Governor Russell, who denounces the use of money in cloctions in face of tho fact that his brother took it upon himself to collect of tho brewers and distillers of Massachusetts several thousand dollars for campaign purposes. In view of the recent destructive fires in Milwaukee and tho consequent increase in rates of insurance it haa been decided to add three new engines and two new fire tugs to the fire department. Perhaps this was a necessity, but the fact remains that tho weak point in all American cities is in tho methods for preventing fires, rather than in extinguishing them. Governor Flower, of Now York, evidently feels that ho neods moral backing for appointing a man to a seat in the highest court of the State who stole an election return and defeated the seating of the man who had the most votes, so he has presented the public a letter from tho return-stealer's Presbyterian pastor certifying to his excellent moral and Christian character. The men who came here seeking legislative offices or appointments and who failed to get them will probably go homo feeling terribly disappointed. If they but knew it they are to be congratulated, especially if they nru young men or capable of making t living any other Way. There is nothing in thtso little offices, and they do not lead to anything. The time 6pent in seeking and" holding them is wasted, and in mnny cases they lead the successful aspirants into dissipated habits which prove a curse for life. A dispatch was sent out from New York on Wednesday, evidently based on information furnished by Mr. Cleveland or his private secretary, as it could not have been furnished by any other person, stating that in his mail that day was a letter and a card sent to him by Hon. Thomas C. Piatt. Tho letter announced that Mr. Piatt, as president of the United States Express Company, inclosed a pass, giving Mr. Cleveland tho courtesies of the company. "Mr. Cleveland," says the dispatch, "looked at tho card and returned it to Mr. Piatt."

This is intended to convey the impression that Mr. Cleveland was too scrupulously honest to use an express pass. No doubt tho truth is ho has passes issued by other companies, and did not care to accept one from a prominent Republican like Mr. Piatt.

BE. CLEVELAND AND ME. CARLISLE. It is practically certain that Senator Carlisle will bo Secretary of the Treasury under Sir. Cleveland. Whatever doubt has existed on the subject for some time past has been due to Mr. Carlisle's reluctance to accept the position, which, there is reason to believe, was tendered him and probably urged upon him some time ago. Mr. Carlisle is a very able man, and Grover Cleveland will be fortunate and may well feel proud to get him in his Cabinet. But there wero obvious reasons why he should not care to accept the position. In the first placo a Cabinet position is not relatively as conspicuous or as distinguished as in former years. Cabinet officers used to be called the "constitutional advisers of the President," and tho position was supposed to carry a great deal of political prestige. Nowadays everybody knows that a Cabinet officer is simply an executivo clerk of high grade, n subordinate of tho President, who has very little will of his own and no authority beyond what the President chooses to accord him. The position of United States Senator is Jar moro independent, and, as Mr. Carlisle can probably hold that for life, it is not surprising that he should hesitate to exchango it for a placo in tho Cabinet. He knows Mr. Cleveland is an imperious man, cranky and stubborn Fo a degree, and a hard master. He could hardly enjoy tho prospect of surrendering his independence and individuality by accepting service under such a man. Then there is the financial phase of the matter. Mr. Carlisle is poor, and the salary of a Cabinet officer is scarcely equal to tho requirements of tho position. It is more than that of Senator, but, under the social code of Washington, the expenses of maintaining the position are much greater. The fact that Mr. Carlisle has concluded to waivo these considerations and accept the position, as there seems no doubt ho has' done, shows that very urgent reasons have been presented and perhaps strong inducements held out for him to do so. A President-elect has it in his power to present such reasons and inducements, and it is not unlikely that Mr. Cleveland has given Mr. Carlisle to understand that he shall not bo the loser by accepting a place in his Cabinet. Mr. Carlisle's ambition is to be on the Supremo Bench, and it will doubtless bo in Mr. Cleveland's power to place him there before his term expires. He wants tho prestige of Mr. Carlisle's name in his Cabinet, and his services in establishing the economic and financial policy of his administration. That done, after ttvo or three years, Mr. Carlislo can be appointed to the position which ho prefers above all others. It is highly probable that there is a tacit understanding between Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle to this effect. His conclusion to accept tho secretaryship of the Treasury is hardly explicable on any other ground. THE BPISIT OF EEFORM ABROAD. Tho people of Indiana will bo delighted to learn that the spirit of reform and of economy was brought to tho capital by Democratic Senators, and was let loose, so to speak, in the Democratic caucus. The opportunity was afforded by abuRO of preceding Democratic legislatures in the appointment of door-keepers, cuspidor-cleaners, etc. The statute appears to define the number, but legislatures, whilo admitting its existence, have been a law to themselves in this matter. The number of able-bodied Democrats and local Democratic statesmen assigned to these important duties by tho last Legislature was thirteen in excess of the number defined by the statute, the increased force being doubtless explainable on tho ground of decreasing physical vigor on tho part of employes and increasing desires for $5 a day. No sooner had the elate been announced in tho Senate Democratic caucus, Wednesday, than a Senator whoso soul is evidently surcharged with economy, arose and, in impressivo manner and word, declared that this Democratic Legislature should make a noble record in behalf of retrenchment, and, for one, ho was prepared to begin in that consensus of Democratic wisdom. Every eye was fixed upon the speaker, as he drew forth a pieco of paper and read as follows: Keeolvea, That in the judgment of tho caucus of Democratic Senator tho number of attendants shall be reduced from thirteen to eleven. A solemn stillness fell upon the assembled wisdom. The chairman put tho question. The mover responded with a loud "aye," followed by an almost inaudible approval from four other members. Thus has the great work of retrenchment and reform been begun in tho Legislature. Who will nowscoffingly assert that patriotism is dead in tho hearts of Indiana statesmen! What conscienceless Republican will dare declare that tho Democratic party is not j the party of reform reform of the grandest proportionson paper? A WOED FOB MR. CLEVELAND. Whilo tho Journal has criticised Mr. Cleveland in tho role of Democratic Czar, it is not unmindful of tho fact that those who defend him can assign good reasons for his action. At tho outset It should bo fully understood that ho has no adequate conception of tho theory of tho government of tho United States that it is divided into legislative, executive and judicial departments, each of which was designed to bo independent of the others. In Mr. Cleveland's view the President is the boss over all. But, above all, Mr. Cleveland knows tho Democratic party. He has been brought up in it. Ho was one of the boys with it. He knows that, left to its own sweet will, it will pursue vicious courses; that in cities it will bo sure to bo controlled by the vicious elements, as in New York; that its majorities come from tho localities in which the percentago of ignorance, vlco and

crime is largest. Ho knows that in Congress tho Democrats can always be relied upon to oppose all just and progressive legislation, and to favor that which is vicious. He knows that, if left to itself, it would pass a free-coinage bill, kill the national banking system and flood the country with' wild-cat money. He knows that many of tho Democratic Congressmen will urge the appointment of men whom tho public knows to be bankrupt in character, and who, if appointed, would bring his administration into disrepute. Four years' experience has caused him to thoroughly distrust all these men. He remembers, for instance, that an Indiana Representative induced him to appoint a man who was not long out of the penitentiary. Others led him to appoint notorious criminals and adventurers. Ho not only distrusts but he despises such men, and he knows that they will soon besiege his office and deprive him of that comfort which is so precious to a man of Mr. Cleveland's temperament. In short, knowing tho general cus3edness of tho active element of the Democratic party, he distrusts it and proposes to take such measures as he thinks will hold it in check. This is tho true reason which has led Mr. Cleveland to proclaim himself dictator.

CATE0LIC3 AND INDIANS, Senator Vest, who has made a pretty closo study of the Indian question, is of the opinion that the Catholic missionaries and teachers have done moro than any others towards the practical civilization of tho Indians. Senator Vest says: I am not a Catholic and have no religions feeling as to the Indian question. My opinions are based upon personal observation and knowledge, and not on sentiment or theory. 1 have examined tho Indian sohools in tho West as a member of the committee on Indian a Hairs and have visited the different tribes in Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas. My only wish has been to observe the plainest rales of justice toward the Indians and to ascertain the best instrumentalities to make them self-supporting and self-respecting. In my opinion the Jesuits have done more for the advancement of the Indians toward civilization and Christianity than all other agencies. Whether it be the ceremonial of the Catholio Church or the selfdevotion of the Jesuits, or whatever the reason, f givo the statement as the result of careful personal investigation. I do not sympathize with those who believe that extermination or simply giving rations is a proper solution of the Indian problem. It is a wicked, heartless and cowardly solution, and wecauuotso escape oar responsibility. It would not be surprising if this were true. All experience proves that the Catholic Church is moro patient, persistent and successful than any other in its missionary efforts among savago peoples. This may bo due in part to the greater zeal, enthusiasm and self-sacrificing disposition with which its missionaries are inspired, but no doubt it is also due in considerable measure to the intelligent lines on which their efforts are made. The Catholic Church always works on a definite plan by approved methods to a practical end. This is not always true of tho efforts of the Protestant church, which are sometimes crude and misdirected, and at others marred and weakened by tho jealousies of different denominations. Again, the Catholic Church does not try to make Christians out of savages before it has brought them under the influence of practical civilization. When nn Indian has btn taught to saw wood or plant corn he is then in a condition to be instructed as to the plan of salvation. When he has been brought to see the value of physical cleanliness ho can be made to understand tho necessity of moral purity. A savage who has been converted to industry and cleanliness has been moro than half converted to Christianity. It is absurd to try to make a Christian of him before ho has been brought to recognize any of the duties or docencies of life. Tho Catholics begin by impressing on tho Indians the duty and dignity of work. They teach them to cut down trees and to convert them into lumber, to build houses instead of tepees, to plow and plant, to sow and reap, to raise horses and cattle and by the time the Indian is civilized he is also pretty well Christianized. Indinns who are civilized on this plan will stay civilized. It is much better than keeping them on reservationsand rounding them up three or four times a year to receivo rations. The government might learn something from tho Catholic method of dealing with the Indians. As for tho religious aspects of tho caso it matters littlo whether the Indian bocomes a Catholic or a Protestant so he become civilized. The government could well aflbrd to turn all the Indians over to the Catholics to be proselyted on condition that they should first bo civilized. The government seems to have made a decided hit in the Columbian postage stamps now being issued. In all tho large cities a crowd of buyers has besieged tho fctamp-windows since the first of tho year, and the popular demand for tho new stamps has exceeded all expectations. They are artistic in conception and design and handsomely executed, each . stamp representing a historic scene in the life of-tho great Admiral, as depicted in a celebrated painting or work of art. These pictures or bronzes, copied by competent artists and printed in inks of different colors, make a series of stamps which aro likely to becomo very popular as souvenirs. As they can be purchased at any time during tho year there is no need of special haste in obtaining them, but their issue will cease with 1603. Indirectly, tho government will profit by the large number of these stamps thai will be hoarded by collectors in all parts of tho world or laid away as souvenirs, since for every ouo purchased and not used another stamp will have to be purchased. The design on the 10-cent stamp is from a painting which hangs in the corridor of Notre Dame University, in this State. Tho painting is by a celebrated Spanish' artist, Gregori, and shows Columbus presenting the natives to Queen Isabella on his return to Spain from tho new world. It is probable that the Hon. Mr. Lane, of Missouri, is tho only person in the United States who enjoys tho unique distinction of having been released from jail on parole to sit in tho Legislature. Mr. Lane was formerly one of the commissioners of Cass county, Missouri, and

some time ago was imprisoned in the county jail for contempt of the United States District Court in not obeying an order of the court to levy taxes to pay certain bonds issued for a railroad subscription more than twenty years ago. The fight over the payment of the bonds has been a long and bitter one. While Mr. Lane was in jail he was nominated and elected to the Legislature, and just before that body convened he was released, with Instructions to report back at tho jail on Feb. 1, after tho Legislature adjourns, unless the people of the county, at a special election, to be held Jan. 28, authorize tho County Commissioners to make the levy. If the subject of prison reform comes before tho Legislature Mr. Lane's opinions ought to carry weight.

There is but one trouble with the Republicans in the Legislature. There are too few of them too few by a largo majority. In point of ability they are a large majority, but, unfortunately, ability has not controlled an Indiana Legislature for some years. If tho aggregate fitness for legislation of tho Republican members should count in roll-calls against the aggregate fitness of the Democratic members, the Legislature would be Republican by a majority greater than was ever known in an Indiana Legislature. The Republican members, however, can be of use to the State. They can oiler sound measures for unsound ones. They can labor with the Democratic members and perhaps induce them to pursue a wiser policy than did tho last Legislature. Governor Flower, of Now York, calls attention to the fact that tho owners of personal property do not pay their portion of the taxes in that State. He intimates that the largo class of people whose wealth is in bonds, stocks and money escapo taxation by various devices which are not honest. He doubts tho propriety of the provision of the tax law which permits tho holders of such property to deduct the amount of their notes and other liabilities from the amount they hold, as often these notes are given to escapo taxation. As a iusinees man, Governor Flower knows more than tho Democrats who made the tax law in this State, which Auditor Henderson declares to be perfect, and which Governor-elect Matthews is expected to applaud. The Republicans in the Massachusetts Legislature, in solecting Henry Cabot Lodge for United States Senator, havo given the country the services of a man of excellent ability, of rare attainments and of profound political convictions. Mr. Lodge is now forty-two years of age, and has made a reputation in literature antl in public affairs which, in connection with his election to tho Senate, make him one of the most prominent men of his years in tho Nation. Mr. Lodge is tho scholar and practical man in politics. When the Beaconstreet element mugwumpised in 1884 Mr: Lodge remained with the Republicans, and because of this he has been maligned moro by them than all the rest of the Republican party in the Bay State. It may surprise and disgust the wildeyed Democratic demagogues of Illinois and Wisconsin, and even those of Indiana, who have made or have attempted to make capital out of compulsory school laws, to read that portion of tho message of the Democratic Governor of New York recommending the enactment of such a law.' Tho fact that 772,000 of the 1,845,000 children in New York of the school age do not attend tho public schools, leads him to conclude that many children in that State aro growing up in Ignorance and that it is tho duty of tho State to see that such an evil is stopped. Governor Flower seems not to care for the muddled observation of Mr. Cleveland upon this subject. The first exhibition of the temper of tthe Democracy in regard to legislative spoils occurred yesterday in the adoption by tho Senate of a resolution appointing an extra page. Section 4971 of the Revised Statutes Bays: The President of the Senate shall appoint ono page for himself and the Principal Secretary jointly, and two door pages, and the pay of such pages shall be such as the Senate shall allow, not exceeding $3 each per day. Under this section tho Senate is only entitled to threo pages, and that is enough. The appointment of an extra page by resolution of tho Senate was a plain violation of law. It is a small office, but the violation of law is not a small matter. Tun race-track managers and sports in Chicago aro making themselves very offensive of late. Because the proprietor of the Wellington Hotel denounced the methods of one of them he made himself a nuisance, and would not give up his room when requested. Another, who had mado 81,100, used to sleep under the cashier's window in the Sherman House, and because he was removed rushed into the ladies' parlor with a spring-blade knife, which he proposed to plunge into the clerk. Horse-racing in Chicogo," says tho Chicago Jonrnal, "is no longer a harmless amusement, but is a synonym for a gang of toughs and gamblers." It says that Indiana has a duty in the matter of suppressing the m. The promoters of an electric trolley system aro working for a franchise in New York citv. In answer to their opponents, who have fully exploited the real or supposed dangers of the electrio current, an employe of the company says: "Five hundred volts will not kill a person, except tin. der very peculiar circumstances, and the percentage of these persons is so email it may bo disregarded entirely." This is a pretty bold stand to take in these days of Petlerism, Bellamyism and general corpora-tiou-baiting. ' Ik the course of an earnest appeal for harmony the Savannah (Ga.) News says: "Every Democrat in Congress should be a plain and simple Democrat, without qualification of any kind." "Without qualification of any kind!" A better nor more concise description of the "plain and simple Democrat" was never given. The natural-gas catastrophe in Chicago, Wednesday afternoon, is attributed to "careless workmen." Men may be careless in the use of combustible and fire, but the careless man, workman or otherwise, cannot be tolerated about natural gas. A Louisville burglar who , had otlected an entrance mto a wholesale store took the

precaution to cut the wire of the burglar alarm, but in so doing caused his own arrest. He says: "The first I knew that the alarm had been sonndod was when I walked to the window aod saw tho patrol and polico in tho street" Ho owed his capture to the facilities of modern science.

I AlTuP&Y OX AX UjEPHAXT. Xinetj Pounds of Chain Fcund in the Stomach of Zip, Who Died a Few Xiffhts Afro. Bararoo, Wis., Jan. 5. An autopsy, remarkable in itself and with surprising results, was hold to-day on the body of the mammoth elephant Zip, that died a lew nights ago in quarters here. Professor Donaldson, of the Chicago University, and Professor Akely, of Milwaukee, performed the autopsy, the purpose of which was to ascertain the cause of the big pachyderm's death. Although long of tho moat tractable disposition. Zip. for threo days preceding his demise, had been in a state of continuous frenzy, scaring the kangaroos and other animals at the quarters into spasms. Another peculiarity of the huge brute was a sudden loss of appetite. Elephants are proverbially long-lived, and the opportunity for a scientist to dissect one comes so seldom that Messrs. Doualdion and Akely eagerly accepted this chance. The autopsy was performed in one end of tho quarters especially curtained oil to prevent tho other elephants from seeing wiiat was going on. A sharp knife was tirst drawn through the tough skin, under the stomach, the entire length of the animal and then the hide was deftly removed. An incission was then made in tho 6tomach and Professor DonaMson, who was wielding the scalpel, uttered an exclamation of surprise. "1 here certainly can't bo a bone in tho elephant's stomach!" he said, "and yet the knife strikes something apparently as hard as iron." The next moment the cause of the Professors astonishment was plain. As tho ligaments parted, the spectators crowded around and saw the links of a big chain. There was no longer any doubt as to what had caused the big elephant's death. Professors Donaldson and Akely both declared it was a marvel that the animal hod lived 60 long with so large a foreign substance in the stomach. Tho action of the elephant in swallowing the chain was also considered remarkable. It was four feet long and weighed over ninety pound. Zip tipped the scales at eight tons and stood nearly twelve feet high. MAUTYKDOM OF HIGH POSITION. Social Exactions and Malicious Press Coinment Shortened Mrs. Harrison's Life. Washington Correspondence Harper's Bazar. "The King is dead! Long live the King!" are phrases to be easily paralleled in this Washington, where tho administration is always right, socially. "It is a quick change of administration when the ashingtcn citizen cannot keep pace with it,'1 said Mrs. Harrison, four years auo, amused in some instances and fairly dazed in others, when assurances of derotion, loynlty ami Republican leanings came to her lroui those who had been loudest singers in the Cleveland choir. Mrs. Harrison had lived too long in Washington not to know something of the ways of its world, and was versed in human nature, but these busty conversions were matter ot amazement to her for many mouths before and after the inauguration. A little jf the same spirit was evident this last spring at the tinio of the Minneapolis convention, when some of the most aggressive aud insistent of tho Blaine admirers turned around between luncheon time and the dinner hour, berated their former idol in unmeasured terms, aud were first among congratulators at the White House. The same politico-social gymnastics are again in progress on a larger and more serious scale, and by March there will be few but Democrats to be met iu any unoihcial drawing-room. And should tho fortunes of war change at the end of the next four years, the gay world will come around with the same agility, aud say, sweetly, once more: "Of conrse we could not tight political battles in society, nor wage bocial war with an administration, so we just kept the peace. But now we are so glad that our own havecorne in attain!'' And any one whose experience has covered these last eight years in Washington haa seen and heard many amusing things. In those earlier times when political parties held the power for even a quarter of a century without cnange, the talent for rapid transformations was untried; but these modern whirligigs of every four years aro fast ripening it to perfection. Tho families that lingered so late in Washington, and gave it a social life into midsummer, have been as late in returning. The notes of sadness and of chango are in the air, and with all us emptiness, it-s time-serving, and favor seeking, eociety noes sincerely deplore the death of Mrs. Harrison, who did so much for thai world, opening the White House doors wide, aud with a moro generous hospitality than it had ever known before. AH realize how plain was her. sacrifice to the position, as through all that long and busy last winter bcuson Mrs. Harrison never spared nor rested hersolf long enough to recover lrom the cold that began iu tho holiday weeks. She presided at every entertainmeut, was present at every function, and did not yield until that last week of Lent, when exhausted nature forced her to a halt, and her quick decline began. Always sensitive to newspaper comment, aud desirous ot avoiding publicity, she insisted that her ailmeuts and illness should not he matters of news, and few ot even her nearest friends suspected anything but tho nervous prostration until late In the suminur. Mrs. Harrison never rested nor recovered from that most enthusiastio and wearing campaign of four years ago. She came to Wauiiington worn with its exactions, and for three more years never spared nor rested herself lor a day. More trying than the fatigues and incessant demands of the position were the brutal newspaper attacks upon her, her children, and her araudchildren. These wore upon and troubled her to a degree that they should not have done, and to a conscientous, sensitive, and high-minded woman all this abuse, ridicule, aud malicious invention were as so many actual stabs. She quivered under it in real physical pain, and it was impossible to spare her such hurts. The most malicious and absurd stories, printed in small and faraway Democratic newspapers, werecutout and mailed to her. and more important papers near at hand made war upon the party by most infamous attacks uton Mrs. Harrison and her children a class of non-comLdtauts that most barbarians respect in time of war. There are pome editors who should justly fear the dark or an hour alone with their consciences. As President Arthur was stabbed to death by the newspapers so was Mrs. Harrison, and ull friend exhortations to pay no attention to printed things wero as useless in the oue case as in the other. Both brooded aud could notput such things aside, and tho kindly, sensitive woman's houI, beaten, irniaed and crushed, conld not long sustain the burden of such Insult and injury. The White House, where tho most beautiful family life reignod. is now a home of sorrow, and political disasters are secondary and of little weight beside the greater loss. The President has changed visibly, and bis face tells ot the grief deeper than words, of the intense feeling which his quiet manner so well conce&ls. Need Amending. T-aTajvtt Courier. The principles of the Australian system are commendable, but the law has been loaded down with complicated and nnnecessary details until it is tit subject for revision, as has been amply proven after a fair trial ha been given It. The matter deserves to be considered without partisan bias or prejudice, and while maintaining all its cardinal features, it should be pruned and umended in a spirit of absolute fairness To stubbornly sustain a law in all its iniperlectious that has been ehown. by practical demonstrations, to rob any portion of tho people of their political right, is a crime against sufTrago and an outrage on Americau citizenship. 1 rolitlo of Statesmen. South Bend Tribune. Northwestern Indiana is well represented in the nw State administration, having the Lieutenant-governor and a Supreme Court justice. Nexttorm our section will ak for still more, as there are candidates already m training for the governorship in both parties.

MR, GLADSTONE ASSAILED

Gail Hamilton" Writes a Caustic Letter in Bfhal! of Mrs. JIajbricL". The "Granl 0M JIan" an.l IBs Government Denounced in Intemperate Lanswe for the Ccurse They Have Paratied. Boston', Jan. 6.-"In the nsrao of God I arraign you. the Lead of the British government, for the murder of Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, now dying in the convict prison at Woking." So writes Miss Abigail Dodge, the authoress, known to the literary world as Gail Hamilton, to Bight Hon. William E. Gladstone, Prime Minister of Great Britain, known the world over as the "Grand Old Man" on account of h'.s philanthropic ideas and actions. Uy way of beginning she apologizes for contributing to the harmony of his birthday gratulations a note of discord. "But." she says, "humanity is a more sacred thing than harmony." After arraigning tho Prime Minister Miss Dodge says: "The Home Secretary of the late government, who began the torture; the lata Prime Minister, who sustained him in it; the present Home Secretary, who continues It these b.re all as guilty as y ou, but I do not know whether they believe in a God. You believe in God. It is, therefore, because you believe in God that I invoke tho witness of Almighty God while 1 charge you with tho murderot theinnocent woman who is perishiug iu Woking prison. I have been asking justice in the name of mercy, I ask It no more. I ask for justice, and for justice only, and 1 ask it in her own stern and sacred name." Following this Miss Dodge declares that there is no evidence of the imprisoned woman's guilt, and shames the great government for binding the feeble hands of ft woman in a living tomb and then demanding more evidence ol her muocence. Then tho writer continues: "The British government not only murders her. but slanders her. The late Primo Minister and the lata homo Secretary joined baud iu hand to brand her before America as an adultere. She was neverconvicti-d for adultery, tried for adultery. charged with adultery, iiutsho is an enslaved woman and tho grenjt, power of England seals her to eternal silence Letoro it islanders her. The Home Ollice of your own government seems to be following iu the same ignoble track more meanly because more itdirectly. Kumors are rita oi evidence suppressed at her trial, but retained in the Home Ollice against her. This is infamy. It is violation of MaguaCharta, of common law, that oue should be duprived of life and liberty without the opportunity to hear accusations, to confront accusers, to answer evidence in open court." After reproaching the British government and the Home Ollice in particular ioX their barbarous action. Miss Dodge declares they are guilty of deliberate murder. "(Jo on your cruel way because you can," concludes the writer, ".he is alone, and poor and weak, aud a foreigner. She can lose you no votes in England, for she has no friends, no family. Make the sacrilice complete. But if there bo a God wbo marks aud notes the ways of this world, who hears the voice of innocent blood cry ing unto Him from the ground, it is better to be the young wifo and mother perishing in Woking prison than the Prime Minister of the government which works her torture and her slaughter." Ihn llnroiietft I)e lloqnen Indignant, London, Jan. 5. TheHaronessDeRoques writes from Paris to the Central News: "I am horriticd to iind a gross libel in the St. James Gazette on Mrs. Maybrick. I ask; you to coutradict entirely, on my authority, this infamons charge against a defenseless woman, who is powerless to speak, or even to know what is said against her. It is unwdrthv of the English. Every word is false. The libel in tbo St. James Gazette attacks also my integrity. Our honor is concerned, and 1 trust that every ono will sustain me. I make a pnblio appeal that an independent and liist-clasi physician be instructed by the Home Ofiice to visit Mrs. Maybrick and report upon her case." The statement in the St. James Gazette to which the Haronees Do Koques alludes was to the eflect that Mrs. Maybrick had been swallowing needles in order to cause an edusion of blood from the stomach, and thereby create the impression that sho was in tho final stHgesof consumption. MCKY CoUNTKY GIRL. Graw Wilson, Who Get a Slic of Ihs Cronst Estate, Was Weddfd to Two JliilicnairfS. Zanf.svili.e, O., .Tun. 5. The mystery snrrounding the birth of Grace Wilson, who has settled with tho heirs of the late D. Edgar Crouse, the Syracuse (X. Y.) millionaire for $1.0u0,000, has been solved. She was born near St. Clalraviile, Belmont county, Ohio, thirty-live years ago. Her first husband. Wilson, and one child dying, she went upon tho dramatic stage, where elo became a favorite with Crousa. They were married. His parents refused to pecognize her, and the couple separated at the end of two weeks, she going to England at his expense. A child was born. The mother got a divorce from Croupe and married Siegbert Xosterlitz, a wralthy Austrian. He is now df.id. leaving his wife a child, for whom (the is endeavoring to get a big slice of money by settlement with the Nosterlltz heirs. This statement is authenticated by relatives at Zanesville of the poor country girl, who became tho wife iu due succession of threo men, two of whom wero millionaire!'. Why Slagwutnps Dislike Murphy. Eh Had el phi Tress. The mngwomp dislike of Mr. Murphy, of New York, and their hostility to his election as Senator are easily explained by going back a littlo in political history. Gn the loth of last June, while in Chicago, he gave an interview to the newspapers, in which ho characterized tho mugwumps in this language. Said he: "The Democrats dislike thm all nna all their followers, sidcrs and abettors, with a bitternetts far exceeding any possible illwill which they entertain toward their Bepublicaa opponents, for tho reason that the latter are opn and manly antagonists, while the mugwump, preteuding to boa friend, slips his stiletto in your tack while you ar opposing the common enemy." It is only natural that the mugwumps should oppose a man who described them accurately. But their opposition will bate no eflect probably, as tho liquor interest demands Mr. Murphy's election. The Wine and Spirit Gazette says: "Tho liquor-dealers of the State want Mr. Murphy, and will stand no nonsens m this business. They are sure of visiting piiu;hirin t upon thoe Democrats who tiall undertake to thwart their wishes in a matter which they consider one of loyaly rather than of politic p." The Democrats will not.henitate long when they hare to choose between the urihe of the liqnor-dealers and the mugwumps. All Are Interete.l. Go!.cn News. The declaration of certain farm organizations in opposition to rod improvements, an proponed by the road congress, held recently in the State Capitol, that "tho farmer is the only one directly interthted in road-making," is as foolish as it is false. The merchant, tho manufacturer, and all professional and biiHiness men generally are grratly luterested in the proposition to improve tho highways, aud tho movement with that end in view is likely to receive recognition in the session of tbo Legislature, which opens next Thursday, despite tho trotets tiled by lesMentsof rural districts, who oppose everything which savors of reform. Should Not Indicate tTqualltf. M&lison Courier. The monument at Indianapolis should not bear dues Indenting that the Mexican, M ar was equal iu importance mid glory to tho war for the preservation of tho Union. I'mstlmtliitf 111 Ott!c. l.UtnTille Ilf Dubllran. Green Smith, the tnislit Attorney-general, is doing all he known bow to h.ie tho gerrymauder to tho Democratic palr. Ho s his party's, not the people's. o:itrerf