Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1878 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS HEWS: MOHDAY, JULY 22, 1878.

SUMMER SILK. SUMMER SILKS AT LOW PRICES TO CLOSE OUT BALANCE OF STOCK.

WHITE GOODS BARGAINS at the BEE-HIVE this week in all makes of White Hoods. Close & Wasson, BEE-HIVE.

Tapestry Brussels75c, Extra Supers75c. Two-Plys25c, PER YARD. W« hftTf placed on «il« 21 to AO pleco* <•»<•!» of the Above gow)« that we offer at lew* than coat lo clore out. Uti e*aiuiii»ri'‘n you will find the igoodi cheap, r and betua- than anything ever offered »>efore In Ite Siate Great Bargains .in All Lines of Goods. Adams, Mansur & Co., - 47 and 49 8. Meridian St Bingham, Walk & Mayhew, J'ra'OT’firjlEHFLS, 12 E. Washington St. JUST RECEIVED, HEW AKD ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF SILVER COMBS, BANGLES, BRACELETS, HAIR ORNAMEHTS. These Oooda are all the rage. Call and see them. SIGH OF THE STREET CLOCK., The Indianapolis News is published every afternoon, except Sunday, at the office, No. 32 East Market street. Pricea—Two cents a copy. Served by carriers in anjr part of the city, ten cents a week; by mall, postage prepaid, fifty cents a month; $6 a year. The tt'4-kJy News is pubUshed every Wednesday. Fr ee, ft a year, postage paid. Advertisements, first page, five cents a line for each Insertion. Display advertisement* vary in price according to time and position. No odecrliiemenf* inserted at editorial or nets. matter. Specimen numbers seat free on application. Tenua-rCash, Invariably In advance. All communications should t*> addressed to Joint H. Holliday, proprietor. THE DAILY NKVV& >fONDAY, JULY 22, 1878. The Indianapolis News has he largest circulation o*' any daily paper in Indiana. * Gambling must be aupprettsed. • County expenses must be reduced. The New York nationals will hold their state convention at Syracuse to-mor-row. The president rested in Columbus yesterday and to-day goes to the soldiers reunion at Newark. ' — ♦ James Gordon Bennett proposes to furnish another ship to supplement the Jeannette’s eflbrts if the navy department will furnish the crew. Inasmuch aa the Howson plan was left in the lurch by the ahert-sightedness of the last congress, this would seem a good opportunity to do some effective north pole work. Rumors have it that Major Smith, the “fiat” seer of Indiana, has joined bands with Yoorbeea to throw the greenback strength in his interest. The major ha* been particularly vigorous in his denunciations of “traitors to the cause,” and we shall take down his words as they fall from his lips on this incident. TAe Cincinnati Gazette talks in this fashion concerning affairs in that city: “'J'he gamblers are in full blast. What are the police commissioners about? Shut up the gambling hells; shut them up tightly and keep them shut.” As this wasn’t calculated especially for the latitude of Cincinnati we apply it to Indianapolis and ask the authorities “what are they going to do about it?” The Potter anb-coauqittee emits a gleam of fairness in announcing its willingness to sAmmon the witnesses desired by Secretary Sherman, and declaring its intention to get fct the whole truth in the Txiuisiana business. If it holds to its purpose and is successful, it ought to be congratulated. But we fear the truth in the Louisiana affair is at the bottom of such a deep well that it will never be brought to light. The public debt of France, under Napoleon III, was increased from $1,076,361,0(X) in 1833, to $2,26^030,000 in 1870. In the next two years the expenses and indemnity of the German war brought it up to $4,366,152,500. The budget for 1876states it at $1,515,818,931, an increase of $149,676,431, in four years of peace. While the Lnited States is steadily reducing its public obligations, Frame is steadily increasing hers. It needs no prophet to foresee that unless the course of French finances Is changed, ruin and repudiation will be the end. The English liberals will make a protest against the government’s policy and take a division. The result of an appeal to. the country will probably be an overwhelming approval of the Beaconsfield ministry. The liberals frota the 4tart have acted like factsonists. They have shifted from opposition in the beginning because the government upheld “the unspeakable Turk” to opposition in the end because it has not upheld him, but allowed his possessions to be partitioned. It is a grave crisis with England,

for it is an abandonment of a settled policy, but the liberals do not seem to have strengthened themselves suiSciently in the Minds of the people to be entrusted with leadership at this juncture.

Value in Vickies. To all objections that the government can not create something out of nothing and therefore can not give value to paper by mere “fiat,.” the one all-sufficient answer as the grecnbackers think is that, “If the ‘fiat’ of the government can make 92 cents worth of sHver worth one dollar, and 41 cents worth of silver worth a half dollar, and one cent’s worth of nickel worth five cents, so can it make a bit of paper to be worth any amount it may choose to inscribe on it.” To expose the fallacy of this answer it is not neeessary to deny that these coins pass in trade for more than their intrinsic value as commodities. The reasons why they do so are apparent. In the complicated relations of modern civilization a government exercises a vast inllmnce on individual welfare, and its services are constantly called into exercise to define and enforce i|iese relations. It is therefore entrusted with large powers and discharges important functions. Because the government can verily money better than any private person it is entrusted with the business of coinage. Its acts are through public laws so that none need be deceived as to the contents and value of its coins. To it also is committed the business of enforcing contracts, of collecting debts, of settling diapntes, of protecting persons and property. The coins of the government will pass in trade above their real value because they art? a great convenience, save labor and expense to the individual and represent the service the government renders to the citizen But the service it can render, like the power it can wield, is limited; and so is the coin value it can impart. And hence the difference between the coin ami commodity value of the pieces mentioned is in inverse ratio to their denominational value. That is, the nickel passes for proportionately more than its true value compared with the dollar because of its small worth. If the dollar was of nickel, and rated at one onehurdred times its true value, it would not go. And the ail sufficient proof of this is in the fact that the government can not float unlimited quantities of the nickel piece. The country will take, and circulate as counters, as many as are required for convenience in trade, and n* more. The treasurer of the United States’ annuah report, page 11, says: “Your attention is called to the excessive accumulation of minor coin in the treasurer’s account, amounting on September 30th. to over $870,000, while at the same time last .year the amount on hand amounted to less than $157,000. The receipts have been very large recently, owing partly to the dullness of business, being much in excess of the payments; though should business revive, without doubt some portion of the amount on hand will be again demanded for circulation.” If the government did not retire the nickles when in excess of the demand they would depreciate and be refused in trade. Hence it is not the fiat of the government, but the convenience of trade which gives them circulation. And for the same reason Mexican dollars and trade dollars circulate without fiat and without legal tender. Coins and paper of the government derive some value from legal tender laws, and never from convenience of trade. But these limits passed depreciation inevitably follows, as it did with greenbacks fifteen years ago.

Importing Voters. The Madison Courier thinks there will be an effort to carry Jefferson county in the interests of the democracy, at the fall elections, by imjtorting voters; and thereupon it attacks the board of state house commissioners as being party to this project, because the bids for quarrying stone are to be opened about the middle of Auust, thus Riving corruptionists time and opportunity to colonize illegal votersjn the guise of laborers in the quarries of all close counties. It demands of the commissioners therefore that no contracts for quarrying stone be opened until after the October election, * and draws the unwarrantable inference that “If the request is refused the people will regard such action as prima facie evideqee of fraud and evil intent” on the part of the gentlemen composing the state house commission. To enforce its desire, which being a desire for a free and fair election is a commendable one, the Courier bolds over the head of the state house commission the threat that if they do not comply with this demand the people can if they like, at the next legislature, refuse further appropriations, stop the May plan, appoint a new board of commissioners and adopt a new olan altogether. We think the Giurier’s threat is as impotent as its suspicions are gratuitous, and we are surprised to find it giving voice to eitherWe suppose it would make little difierence to the gentlemen composing the present board of cominkMonera if they were turned out of otfice • whew the legislature met. They have been assailed with lawsuits, abuse and suspicion ever since they took their first action. At first they were a set of corruptionists who were going to “job” the various contracts connected with the state house. They made so and so much by a choice of plan and they were to profit by the award of' contracts, etc. But as it gradually dawned on those who took the trouble to inquire, that the plan chosen would make one of the best public buildings ever erected in this country, and as contracts were let that each one was placed far below the estimate, the howls about “job” and “corruption” ceased, and, judging from the press of the state, the people have gradually come to see that the present board are working effectively and earnestly in their interest. The News has carefully noted the course of the commissioners from

the start, and hns awn nothing to make it think that they are not working with an eye single to the good of the tax-payers of Indiana. Because Mr. May was a democrat his choice as architect was seized as proof that the board was a “democratic ring,” when it is notorious that the rcsjionsibility for that choice, if it rests on any individual, rests- on the republican members of the board, they being most strongly in favor of his plan from the outset. The News flatters itself that- its record is suffeieut proof of the fact that whenever it sees corruption, political or commercial, in the state-house commission or elsewhere it will not be the last in denouncing it, but it can not bring itself to second the cry of th* Madison Courier, which is founded on its suspicions, and wlii''h, so far as we can see, is wholly gratuitous. The counties from which the stone is U> be taken with their political status according to the last election are as follows; * Decatur -Dem., 2,122; rep., 2,281. Shelby—Dem., 2,862; rep., 2,182. Jennings—Dem., ],585; rep., 1,849. Jeff?raon—Dem., 2,603; rep., 2,802. Putnam—Dem., 2,673; rep., 2,705. Owen —Dem., 1,761; rep., 1,43-8. Monroe—Dem., 1,527; rep., 1,689. Lawrence—Dem., 1,680; rep., 1,889. Washington—Dem., 2,064; rep., 1,024. Harrison—Dem., 2,178; rep., 1,092. Six of these counties are republican, four are democratic. Of the republican counties Decatur has 162 majority; Jennings 264, Jeflerson 199, Putnam 32, Monroe 162, Lawrence 209. The Courier can thus see how many imported voters will be necessary in each republican county. Is it not unreasonable for the Courier to assume that the board of state house commissioners are engaged in a deep laid scheme to change the political complexion of those six counties? Cl KKKNT CO MM*. NT, The greenback wave in Maine is plainly receding. John A. Logan is fairly entered for the senatorial race in Illinois. Conklir g s home organ has changed front and now wants a republican state convention called in New York, to give expression to the party’s indignation against “the treacherous and defiant act.of the president in suspending Arthur and Cornell, in a platform that Hayes can understand as readily as King George could read the signature of bold-handed John Hancock,” Last' week’s troubles in Canada are said to have strengthened the feeling in favor of annexation to the United States. We think it may l>e said fairly that there is no reciprccity about this. The senator’s head radiates heat like burnbbed copper.—[Herald. Philosophers tell us that a polished metallic surface reflects heat well but radiates badly, and that a rough surface radiates it well but reflects badly. Anent the New York custom house removals the Na'iou gives the following clear definition; “Yet the lact remains that these officers ought to have been removed long ngo, and that their continuance in office Inis been a repnach to the ad mi a Dt rat ton and a detriment to the public service every day—a reproach because it was based rifion a defiance of superior authority, and a detriment because the first consideration governing the custom house was fealty to Senator Conkling; the second or third «r some other consideiatiou. having reference to the collection of duties on imports.” Columbus Alexander and Eppa Ifuntou, M. t\, arc 'alking “pistols and coffee for two” because H unton it. a speech declared he advocated certain things iu reference to the district at Alexander's request, which that gentleman denied. The Virginia M. C. immediately appealed to ‘ the code, sah, begad sab 1” Alexander sensibly declined. The revelation of the swindling perpetrated upon Messrs. Wilson and Greig iu New York, by th*-ir employes, has created much exciteim n. among the merchants of that city whose profits have been unaccountably lessening. An intelligent Englishman, commenting on the revelations, said: There is a wondetful difference between the way in w hich business is done in this country and in Europe. The American merchant places entirely too much responsibility and trust in his employes. It seems to be his desiie to organize his business into a series of “departments,” so that he can nut each under the absolute control of some trusted perpon at d then stow himself away iu his private office and allow things to* run themselves under “the system.” The Philadelphia Record has a roorback in the shape of special Washington information to the effect that the administration is contemplating a war of annexation cm Mexico The roorback specifies: The plan of the war party' is to have Gen Ord seize a favorable opportunity, to cross the border and make an attack on the Mexican, troops, w hich of course, will be repelled. A large body of Texau troops, which will be in readiness, are then to be thrown across. The whole territory know n as Zona Libre, comprising the northern states, is to be seized, and the revenues collected by force. It is of course expected that this course will precipitate a general Mexican w at. and prominent movers in it, r ow in this city, admit that it will take 100.000 men and two years to bring the war to a close. The prime moveas in this war movement appear to be certain railroad interests, which ate anxious to run lines itiro Mexico, and quite w illing to do a little transportation business for the government. “Why have we not been successful in our reforms?” a-ks General Hanks. The correct answer would U*: “Hecan-e the party is afflicted with a host «f tradin'!' politicians like General Har ks, who nmke'ur> for the want of principle by a prodigious display of zeal, and are always ready to trade off the party's interest* to advance their own—pretentious campaign followers, in fact, who value a campaign for its opportunities, and whose impudence obtains for them a consideration w hich neither their character nor service deserves.”—[New York Times. It is Astonishing with what alacrity the political trimmers who have charge of party jailitics in Pennsylvania hasten to get down on their marrow bones before the greenback monster. It would lie the political making of any man in either party who has in him the true elements of leadership to meet this delusion half way, to show the people the folly and the falsehood which are covered up in the idea of an unreal tender.—[Philadelphia Record. ’ An ingenious greenbaeker out west added up the jiaper currency reported in circulation four years in succession, and thus made a strong argument that the contraction had been rajdd In the same way by taking his measure four years he could prove, if he is a six-footer, that he is 24 feet high.—[Boston Herald.

Killed by I.ightning;. During a heavy storm at Gloucester, Mass., yesterday, Miss Julia McPhee and Mrs. George Byers were killed by lightning.

TUE GItANT MOVEMENT. Iteptibllcan Warblem Toning theirYtarpa. I Philadelphia Record. 1 The Grant movement ia fast Assuming shape. A year ago when the ex-preii* d. in started for Europe from tliia city, Zai’h Chaudier, Simon C ameron and General Sherman net the hall rolling. It was tin the 17th of May, 1877, on the steamship Illinois, that Zadh Chandler gave utternnee to the signitioant remark : “Whatever criticism he (Grant) may now rewive, full justice will be done to him in three years.” General Sherman and Simon Cameron followed in the same strain. Since then “favorite sons” have been at a discount iri the political fold. Conkling was recently announced “for Grant.” Secretary Sherman, another siatesman with the presidential bee in his bonnet, [declared front Long Branch last Sunday that, “Grant would receive the nomination for the presidency, and if the convention sat to-morrow the vote would be given almost unanimously.” Jersey’s jolly tar, ex-secretary Robeson, told a Record reporter last Friday, “Grant can rely on my support if nominated for a third te rm.” Every republican statesman whose time hangs heavily on his hands is prepared to sing: “Give us back our old commander.” It is a noticeable fact that all the leading rejmtillean politicians of the country who have declared for Grant are men who foulrol the jiarty machinery of their states. With the Camerons in Pennsylvania;* Conkling in New York; Robeson in New Jersey; Sherman in Ohio; Chandler in Michigan, and the Kellogg-Patterson school of southern politicians, who are ripe for theonly move which may reclaim lost power, there is a combination so strong as to give peculiar emphasis to Secretary Sherman's remark, “if the convention set to-morrow the vote would be given almost by acclamation.” Philadelphia leaders are nol idle. “A movement is on foot in this city to make the reception to Grant on his return here the grandest thing ever known here.’’ This was the confidential disclosnre of a noted wirepuller when reference was made to the arrangements made by the committee of city councils ajipointed last month. “Men of means 1 —bankers and merchants— have subscribed to the fund. A few smart politicians are managing the thing, but they do not appear on the surface. Thing* are getting desperate, if we can’t win with Grant the next sixR?Sn years will go rough with us. There will be no trouble in raising money hrre for Grant’s nomination. The thing’s in the wind now, and all a fellow can do is to shout for Grant when he’s outside of the custom house, and go along on the tide, prepared to float on top.”

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O, •urely It I* plwtuant, la * trwh, d<41nt«ua way. To I he baby koirntng Kane new thing every day. word that Memed prodlxloua For thoac young Up* to speak, Next week Is clearly uttmed, Though bard enough last week! To-day some pretty motion New to our loving eyes,

Some funny trick, to-moirow,

fil'g us with surprise!

That

The Georgia Independents. [Washington letter.] The postmaster-general has received a letur from a prominent citizen of Georgia (a democrat), asking wiiat assurance of assistance the Administration will give to the liberals or independent elements in that state if they nominate a ticket in opposition to the old burhons, who are not in sympathy with the people, but are simply utilizing them for their own interests. He alludes to this independent element as gaining strength, and asserts that it only needs some recognition frop the government to enable it to crystallize into a formidable factor in southern politics. The w riter suggcststheestablishmentof anewspnper at seme central point in the state as the organ of this progressive political sentiment. Firf-s Yesterday. A fire at Grand Rapids, Michigan, yesterday destroyed Dean & Sou’s agricultural works, larsw $4,090 to $:*,000; insured for $3,000. The foundry of one of I>ewis, Oliver A Phillipn’s iron mills at,Pittsburg burned out yesterday. Loss about l5,0iK). The glass house property, packing and mixing room of tlie Ihmscn Glass Go , limited, located square distant, caught from sparks of the tout'drv fire and was also burned out. '1 lx lor s here was about S8,000. t The glass works were run on the co-ojierative plan, weiity glass blowers being interested. The lofcses are fully covered by insurance. The fire caught from the core oven in the foundry. I rlmvtr’s Strike in Chicago. Some weeks ago the manager of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, by ami with the l onKnt of, the Typographical Union, obtained concessions of the printers in his employ The |>roj>rictors of the Tibune, firdinc it out, demanded similar concessions. The result was considerable excitement among the printers. On Saturday the union repudiated the arrangement with the Inter-Ocean, and it is believed that utiles* the manager recedes the men w ill be ordered to go out. The probabilities are that the office will become nonunion, ns the manager says he is prepared to fight it out on (hat line. l>a*nHK«- to WtiCiit la Minnesota. Dispatches to the St. Paul PioneerPress from the heaviest wheat-growing counties represent the probable loss to the crop from the rains and hot weather at from 20 to 40 percent. In Goodhue, the first county in the state in the amount of wheat j trod need, the damage from blight i.- estimated a* from 50 to 75 per cent., and many fields will yield only five to ten bushels per acre. lVaceabl« Indians. A San Francisco dispatch says that J. H. Wifbur, the Indian,agent at Yakima reservation, says that the scare about the Indians crossing to the north side of the Columbia arwie from some of his Indians who had been to Blue mountains hunting and returning to their reservation. He says none of the hostiles have crossed the Columbia, and ;.thnt his ludirqs are all peaceable. \ Collector Merritt. At four o’Hfock Saturday afternoon Collector Arthur transferred his office to (fen. E. A. Merrill, who thereupon entered upon lo duties as collector of the port of New Yo rk. But few changes were made in the subordinate*. Lydecker, deputy of the third division was retired, and John J. Osborn was re-instated. A Cyelone at Albany. A cyclone struck North Albany, N. Y , la t evening, sweeping through West Albany, unroofing the houses, scattering the eon ten) s of lumber yards and destroying cattle jens. The gas works were so badly damaged that North Albany was in total dark liens last night. The loss, is estimated at $100,000. Voorhees on the Potter Commission. The Illinois State Register, h iving published an alleged interview with Senator Voorhees stating, among other things, that he disapjiroved of the Potter commission, Senator Voorhees says that he had no ►nch interview, and jironounces the utterances imputed to him a fabrication. One Scissor* Grinder Gess. John Dally, keeper of the State Line house at Stamford, Vermont, yesterday killed an aged scissors grinder named James Patrick Spellman. The murder originated in a quarrel about payment for grinding two razors.

The Pope will Leave Rome. A dispatch from Rome says that instructions have been given for preparations of lodgings for the pope at Perugia.

A hundred cunning signal* By which we may behold Th*t, just like many another. Oar baby's gruwing old!

I-or each fresh grain of knowledge We see the dear one get, Tates further elf. forever, Our lurely, heli>le*a pet! —[Wide Awake. SCRAPS. The whoop-skirt—skirt of the Indian country. Mercury and Mars will be only onefifth of a degree apart to-night. A rural inventor has patented a padded gate top to facilitate courtship. California Chinese have gone largely into the vegetable-raising business. Six gallons of whisky and five American flags constitute the assets of a recent Chicago bankrupt. iffss Celestine Winans, daughter of the late Thomas Winans, is probably the richest heirees in America. Brass bands are found to be effective in frightening away the Indians from the frontier towns in Oregon and Nevada. A Richmond, Mo., sow recently cama to her master’s place from the woods with three young coons among her pigs, which she nursed as if her own. The king of Belgium offers to furnish explorer Stanley the financial backing for another journey through Affiea, and it is stated that Stanley!* getting ready to start under these royal auspices. Gen. -John 0. Robinson and James Tanner, of New York, representing the Grand Army of the liejmblic, are in Washington to induce "the president to urgd the employment of ex-soldiers ujion the public works to be prosecuted by the govern-

ment.

The efforts of the Associated industries to secure South American trade appear to have been successful, so far, at least, as Chili is concerned. One house in Valjiaraiso has just purchased goods in this city to the amount of $120,000.—[Phil*-

iphia Record.

city to defphia

Boy (gazing interestedly at first peaches of the season)—“Say, boss,has them peaches got any pits in?” “Certainly, young fellow; bow’d yer suppose they’d git out?” “Well, blow me if times musn’t be hard when even peach-pits is so cramped.”— [Yonkers Gazette. “Every fool knows,” says Mr. Charles Reade, “that the musical performer is an honorable exception to the. lop-handed mania.” Mr. Charles Reade knows that the musical performer is an honorable exception to the lop-handed mania. Ergo— Mr. Charles Reade is a fool. There are two million beehives in the United States. Every hive yields, upon an average, a little over 22 pounds of honey. The average price at which honey is sold is twenty-five cents a pound,so that, after paying fur their own board, our bees present us with a revenue of $8,800,000. To reckon it another way they make a clear gilt of a pound of honey t j every man, woman and child in the vast realm of the United States. Mr. Charles Ross, chief of the parliamentary rejKirting stalf of the Lmdon Times, in giving evidence before a select committee of the house of commons, which is considering the question of having an official report of the proceedings made, stated that he had been in the gallery fifty-eight years, for twenty-five of which he had been leader of the Times corps, which consists of fifteen men in the commons alone. There are 50,000 illegitimate riWdren born in France every year, and there are now about 4,000,000 of these unfortunates in that country. Although they come into the world through no fault of their own, they are scorned by prejudiced people and disinherited by'the law. A number of generous people have, therefore, formed a society for. the jirotection of tl’.ese children, ami Victor Hugo has written a letter full of sympathy. A company has been organized at Washington for the purpose of supplying the householders of the entire city with provisions on the co-operative plan. The < ity is to lie divided into quarters, with a clue! for each quarter and an assistant for each square, and the duty of the assistant will be to go from house to house in his square, soliciting orders and setting lorth the advantages of the system. The company expects to have 20,00:) members end patrons within a year,, and will sell everything a man and his family require at from 15 to 20 per cent, less than the prices ruling at present. Troubles in Bosnia. The latest news from Bosnia is unsatisfactory. It is feared that the orthodox Sclavs and Mussulmans will forcibly n.-ict the Austrians. The Turkish authorities encourage demonstrations against' occupation. The negotiations at Vienna do not progress. In any ease it is thoughtthat bands of semi-brigands in the Bosnian hills Will harass the Austrians whether organized resistance is made or not. \\ ith these possibilities in view, the Austrian preparations are very elaborate, as the slightest check might have disastrous moral consequences. Never » »* Hu*|>r«-t**i of It. [Tne People.] Is the Journal of this city a newspaper? We bunted all through its columns on last Wednesday to find something about the Voss case, but marched in vain—although the important question of admitting the accused murden r to bail was before the judge ot the criminal court the day previous and evidence being taken with the view of admitting the defendant to bail. Probably the Journal was of the opinion that the public generally was not interested in this case.

Ilcunett’* Polar Expedition*. James Gordon Bennett is in communication with the navy department regarding Arctic explorations, and proposes converting the yacht Dauntless into a screw steamer and sending her to the north pole by way of Spitzbergen, asking only that the navy department furnish officers, men and provisions for the voyage. The Jeannette, which Mr. Bennett has fitted out for the Arctic seas by way of Behring’s straits, is now on her way to San Francisco. Rarua’s R^card. At Toledo Saturday Rarus trotted the third trial heat against time, going to the quarter-pole in 34 seconds; half mile in 108$; three-quarters 141$, and the mile in 2:16, being tiie fastest mile ever trotted on a half-mile track. He went without a running mate.

INDIANA REPUBLICAN*. The Campaign outlook—Th« Position and ■trongth of tfaa Various Partins.

[Latter to Clneimisli Gazette ]

In republicans counties they talk of carrying the atate. Henry county, for instance, is big with hope ami confidence. So are Howard and W abash and Hcadricka, and other banner counties which have come in the line of my traveler*. A gentleman in Howard, who is not given to making large figures, believed they would carry that county bv 1,200 majority, a gain of nearlv 200 over the vote of 1876. In \Vabash, the majority is fixed at 1,300, a gain of nearly 200 more. In Hendrick*, they promise to gain quite as many. These figures are based mainly on a preliminary poll. The danger of defeat tie* not so much in the atrength of the democrat*, a* in that «»f a third party movement. It is useleai to deny or to attempt to conceal the fact that the nationals are an important factor in the {lending conust. They are not now so boas'.!ul as they were three months ago, but they are even more aggressive, getting in their woik wherever the least opportunity presents itself. Already thfy have six congrotwional candidates in the field, and by the end of July will have three more. In the sixth district he’s a. dangerous enemy, and in the fourth he threatens trouble. Should he combine with the democrat* in the ninth, it will give the republican nom-

inee a very close race.

The national ha* also twenty-eight legislative candidates in the field, and nearly as many county tickets. Where it will serve his purpose better, he affiliates with the democrats, accepting a Voorhees representative for a county office. Several combinations of this character are re|>orted. Ip-Such activity must result in the polling of a considerable vote—not less than 12,000, possibly 16,000. If 16,000, at least 12,t 00 of them will be sliced off the republican side. In other words, the nationals are simply a democratic side show, plaving into the hands of Dan. Voorhees. Democrats understand this, and arc secretly encouraging the movement. They »*••> in sympathy w [ t K Mr. Voorhees’s

REMINISCENCES.

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The remark of a mmwpondeat fn yesterday’* New* that the association of ‘HMd Hemtnary Boys” “would take in tiMt.surviving member* of the ancient Union literary society, which was an append4ge of the school, though all the member* were not seminarian*,” soggt*!* to Tim News’* reminiscent Home points which J may be of interem just now, when the reunion of ihe “old buy*" with their old master, after thirty-one year* of a-par alion, i* attracting a good ileal of attention among old rt idenW. The society can not properly be regarded as “an appendage of the school," though it was organized by the pupils, held it* meetings for some years in the school house and admitted only pupil* to.membership for a considerable time, the. reminiscent can’t say just how long, in the latter and more conspicuous period of its existence, it was aa wholly separated from the seminary a* the Young Men’s Christian association. Its first meeting* were held - in the last room of the old house, and one of the earliest presidents was Luther Reck, drowned in the Kio Grande during the Mexican war. The member* were ail pupils, but few of the older ones were among them. At one time it* meeting* were held in an old house on Ohio street, just east of Meridian, where the proceedings degenerated into o*»yi*h frolic* and it died practically if not formally, it was soon after reorganized, or revived, in the seminary and held its meetings in the west room, with some show of serious literary effort for a time. But it didn’t hold up well, and left the, seminary and found quarters for awhile in the northwest room of the “Governor's house.” Then it removed to the upper room of the house on the corner of Illinois and Washington streets, where Claypool’s block stands. All its tenancies up to this time having been gratuitous, and all its eflbrts private and of no interest to anybody but it* members, frequently of little more to them. Then a change came. A room was rented in the third story Af the new building just west of “Washington hall,” near the New York store. Mr. Alfred Harrison, the owner or agent, let the boys have it for a tritle. Here outsnhrs were’ more largely admitted,

financial policy, they applaud his coiumun, ’-tic views, they approve his salary grabbing, and wink at his treason. Those republicans, therefore, who have cherished the hope that the nationals would injure

the democrats as much, if not more, than ings were given more attention an the republicans may iis well dismiss it. A small library, which hadToliowed

I find few republicans apprehensive of| lb the result. They seem to nave an abid-

Mnyor Cuven being one, and the uroceed-

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ing faitlk in the patriotism of the people, and in their ability to carry the legislaturtj however the state may go. 3 he detuacratic committee announces that, they will open the campaign about the 1st of August, with a rally at some point in each congressional district. The republican committee have wisely put off’ their opening one month later. By that time county, legislative and congressional tickets will be in the field, farmers will have leisure to attend meetings, thewcatfier will be less .blistering, counties will have completed their first or preliminary poll, and the needs of the campaign will be made known. It is understood that few foreign speakers w ill be invited to the state. Republicans have good canvassers in nearly every County, and these, with the Indianapolis and Washington supply, are thought to be sufficient Hon. Albert G? Porter, first controller of the treasury .^Assistant Postmaster General Tyner, and Secretary Tfioeipson have indicated"a willingness to do their part. Gen. Harrison will make a canvass of the state aw he did two years

"go-

Gladstone atui Forster on the Treaty. At the anniversary of the establishment of the liberal association, in Bermondsey street, London, Saturday night, Mr. Gladstone made a long speech, iu which ho begged to decline resuming the leadership ot the liberal party. He powerfully attacked the manner in which the jieople had lately been governed. No despotic government in ..Europe would have dared to do what this cabinet had done, accepting such responsibilities unknown to the people. He criticised the treaty of Berlin, whereby England const nts to replace, under the despotic, rule of Russia Bessarabia, which belonged to free Rpumania. Russia retains her claim to a heavy indemnity, which she can always make a pretext for war. At the same time the treaty destroys the integrity and independence of Turkey. With regard to the convention with Turkey only one eplhet is {sissible, namely: An insane covenant. None of the great* English statesmen of the last forty years would have signed it. It is to our shame a convention of absurdity ami duplicity. It is odious to every valuable feeling of the country, and has alienated the friendship of all foreign powers. England has sold Bessarabia to Russia, the brave Montenegrin conquests to Austria’s jealousy and,*eltishneas, the Greeks to Turkey, and lastly, Turkey lurself to England. Gladstone concluded bv hoping the ministry would .shortly be judged by an appeal lo the country. lion. W. E. Forster, presiding at the Cobden club dinner, Saturday night, made a speech on the eastern question, taking the same general grounds against the governmem’s policy as Mr. Gladstone. H<* said that lie and other liberals hail hesitated to challenge’ the government while the negotiations were pending lest strong opposition might entourage Russia in her warlike attitude or a weak one encourage i,urown rulers; hut he declared that the liberal leaders are now agreed that they sill make their protest and t ike a division regawiles* of their weakness or stri ngth. The will give the country an opportunity, by a long debate ami thorough ventilation of the Mibjert, to maturely i^iusider whether or not it approve* of the government’s acts. MurUer in Cleveland.. Saturday night about midnight on Bank street, near Frankfort, a man named John Masterson was shot and almost in»tuuly killed by David Mulieyoe. The parties had quarreled in a saloon earlier in the evening, and Masterson with three others had been following Mtilleyne about the streets. Mulleyne fearing an assault fired, as he claims, in self defense. Labor Troubles in Franc*. The miners’ strike at Anzin continues, but the eflbrts t<> settle the differences have failed. There has been some arrests, hut the strikers are generally quiet. Other labor trouble* are reputed at B rdc i A, Marseilles, and St. Etienne, but they are of an insignificant character. The President** Visit to Oblo. Yesterday the president spent the day resting quietly at Columbus. To-day he is at ihe Newark soldier*’ reunion. This evening there will be a reception to the president, the generaf of the army and the governor, at the L ttsing house, followed by fireworks and a banquet. Embezzler Caught. James E. Toliver, bookkeeper of C. P. Markle A Sons, Pittsburg, jhaa been arrested at Buffalo, charged with embezzling $10,000 from Ids employee. He ab* ended on the 18th of May, with Annie Berry, of Hunbenville, Ohio, $6,000 of the money was recovered.

the society in all its migrations, accumulated from the donations of liberal citizens, was here greatly enlruged by the addition

of the library of 1

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the old “Indian

Condition of th* German Emperor. The emperor will go to BabeUburgsoon, but it is undeterm toed yet whether he will make the usual Visit to Gasteinor Tepiitz. He has entirely recovered from his wounds, but ia still very feeble,

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cal society,” which had been lying idle for year* in the office of Henry P. Coburn, clerk of the supreme Court. The membera-. were now all young men and made the as-* sociation a more res{>ectable affair than it had been, and here it lived the rest of its life, going out gradually, so gradually the the reniuisccut, though “in at the death,” can hardly say when it died. In itself the society was never a very instructive institution, its proceedings being often if not commonly desultory and purjioseless, but It was the cleans of introducing the first lectures ever heard here. It was the pioneer of the Y. M. C. A. and its associate lecture collecting society. The first lecture delivered to \t was by Henry Ward Beecher, in his then new church,now “Circle hall.” The next effort was an emiinatitm from the society itself, and oonsishd of two addressee, *on Washington's birthday, 1846, in the basement of Roberts chapel, one of the eminent lecturers bring J. C. Fletcher, and the other B. R. Salgrove. These boyish display* served to keepalive the spirit of action in the society, and a year later Rev. Dr. Johnson, rector of Chrint church was induced to deliver a lecture. His was so good and encouraging that shortly after a resolute effort wns made to raise money enough to obtain Dr. Fisher of Cincinnati' and he delivered two lecture*. Resolution slackened after this for a gopd while and the next lecture certainly recalled by the reminiscent was delivered by Robert Dale .Owen in Wesley chapel basement during his attendem c on tho constitutional cotivcmion. There may have been an occasional lecture after this but if there were it was given to the ghost of the old society or to its feebly flickering life, in 1853, . when it was known that Horace Greeley was to deliver the agricultural address at the state fair at Lafayette, several citizens suggested to the writer to invite hirn to give a lecture here to the society, although there was no society then to act one way or the other in the matter, ami he did. Mr. Greeley at first declined, but afterwards consented and gave, ns his address or. Henry Clay at Masonic hall. That was the last appearance of even the ghost of the Union literary society. But it had prepared the way for better things, and we soon had leetift-es of the best in plenty. Ho long as the society remained an “aptieiulage of the old seminary” it was a boy's affair, amt in fan it was never much else except in its efforts to hew the way to an effective lecture system ; but after iu complete separation it assumed a more respectable shape and became in some measure a sort of public institution. The only surviving member* who were not neniinsriaits that the writer can recall are Judge Newcomb and Mayor Caven. It collapsed and was reorganized two or three

times during its life.

The Torrid Hirer Bottom. The recent excessively warm weather without rain is showing marked effect* on the stream* anti swamp* about the city. The river is *o low that a little way below ’the Morris *treet bridge there is a point _whcre its width doe* not apparently excel d 50 feet. At the mouth of Fall creek, too, it is a mere creek in dimensions, and not a large one either. Fugue’s creek, at the pay street bridge, i* dry and all the win' to the Morris street bridge (crock) it is a series of dirty puddle* andriirtv mud • bed*. Palmer’* swamp i* dried out comnletely and overgrown with coarse but beautifully green swamp gras*. Another striking effect i* seen on the big sand Iw on tht west side of the river, opposite the oid cemetery. Traveler* leli us of the wonderfully rapid growth of vegetation in tropical countries under the combined influence of great heat and abundant moisture. There i* something \ like it on thi* bsr. The river furnish?* the moisture, and we have certainly h id tropical heat enough in the last throe weeks, if the thermometer and universal perspiration don’t lie. That bar a little more than a month ago was a wide, brown,, barren plain of *and from the wa« r’* edge to the line of the old channel bank. Now it is as green a* a meadow, covered so thickly with sand grass and sand bar* that the sand hauler* have no more show than they would in a thicket of rag weed*. The inshore portion of the bar is usually overgrown in the summer, but this is the first time the river lounger of The News ever saw it grassy and green to the water’s edge, or near it. " (Surest Tranquilizer of the Nervee. The surest tranquilizer of the nerves u s medicine which remedies their •upenensHirewn* by invigorating them. Over-tension of the nerve* always weekens them. Whst they need, then, U a _ umie. tart a sedative. The latter ia only useful when there is Intense mental excitement and aa Inimediate uece**i<y exists for posliiclog quietude ot iht brain. Hosteller * Stumach Bitters restore* traiKjtiiiffy of the nerves by endowing them with the vigor requisite to boar, wiiiieut Mag Jarred or disturbed uiO.eahhfuUy, Um ordinary impression* pr<dtwi-d through the media of sight, hearing and oiiMtion. Nay, it doe* mor* than this—It enable* l hem to sustain a degreeo< tension from mental applicstioD which they would he totally uniU. u, endure w it hoot ite assistance 8uch *t least is the irreidatttile conclusion to be drawn from the tcattBiosyof bur!nr** and professional men, llttarateot>. clergymen and othera who have tested tho ionifyiug and reparative influence ot this colebratdt lomt end nervine. tt ot

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