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Xanaa—Cub, Invariably In adranoa. AH yr——ah»old ba aldranad ta Joan H. Holijpat, proprtetoa. THE DAILY NEWS. WEDNESDAY, ACGUsili] 187*. The Indianapolis News has a bona fide circulation more than one-half larger than that of any Other daily paper in Indiana, Xaw most be respected as law. Gbeenbackism does not seem to be Rampant in Kentucky. Universal skepticism and lack of reverence for anything are the dangerous tendencies of the age. The crowded summer resorts of this Country—every where filled to repletion— do not look much like hard times. The Courier-Journal thinks Kentucky dem&craU have done nothing to be proud of. You can’t get anybody to dispute that. Minnesota thinks she will “stand up - ’ with 40,000,000 bushels of wheat, more than half of it number one. That’s the kind of a boom that pays. Be La Mas yr’s plan of providing work lor everybody by the unlimited issue of currency, is as unworthy of-consideration ms the experiment of extracting sunbeams from cucumbers. Chas. Fechter, the actor, an undoubted genius, is dead. It might be appropriately said of him, “After life’s fitful fever be sleeps well.” He was of that disposition that on the whole is happiest when it is unhappy. The corn crop was beginning to suffer from drouth, and the rains of the last fortyfcight hours will do a wtrld of good. The prospect is remarkably good. Certainly Providence is doing for this land all that Could be asked. There seems to be a fine chance at Chicago to make an example of aiders and ■betters in the straw-bond business. Beonard Swett, a prominent lawyer is involved. Chicago justice has come to be of such a quality that the quicker it investigates and punishes such cases as this, if guilty, the better. The more prominent the man the greater will be the effect. ^ There is a gratifying decrease in the fever at New Orleans. At this time of the year when it generally has not yet begun it is now believed to have ended, at least for the present. In Memphis the new cases are few and the deaths also few, but the disease has spread from the two points first infected and hereafter it is expected the mortality will be greater. Most predictions of a favorable kind must be taken With allowance. It is so early in the meason yet, that any predictions cannot be relied upon implicitly. About the second week in August is when the fever generally begins to get under way. The last session of the Illinois legislature cost the state $273,799.73. And to this must be added “extras,” printing, etc. For this the state press declares there is notbingAo show. It is a bad sign when the meeting of legislative bodies, from the national down to those of different states, Is looked upon with distrust and fear, as most legislative bodies of the past few years Have been. A characteristic of them toll is useless expense. With singular Unanimity they manage to have extra sespions, and happy is the state where they suljourn leaving only a big bill of expense behind them, for frequently the curse is in bad laws. There is an agitation among the liquor dealers of Iowa, which was so vigorously started at their recent convention in Dm Moines. As a general thing the German vote, which largely represents the l^uor Interest, has voted solidly with the republicans. But now, with politics in such a chaotic state, by reason of the ending of the issues which gave the republican party Swing, the Germans are getting restive, and when prohibition tickets are pat in the field they feel as if they had an invit»Uon to go with the party which is on the Hide of free liquor. They cry aloud for license now, as they did In Michigan in 1874, when being refused by the republicans they went to the democracy and, says the Detroit News, “came within about 3,000 of giving them the Btate, which at the previous election had cast a republican majority of about 60,(D00.” In the last election Iowa republicans were in a minority as compared with the combined forces of greenbackism and democracy. It now suffers a prohibition Split, and this threat'of “license” split on the part of her German vote. It won’t be yery safe to predict much about Iowa. Here come some more of those malicious reports, which show by comparison how much better off this country Is than any other in the world. The “United States consols by careful report prove that

wages In the United States are double those of Belgium, Denmark, France and England, three times those of Germany, Italy and Spain, and four times those of Netherlands; that the prices of the necessaries of life are lower inths United States than in Europe; that more misery results from strikes, drinking, socialism and communism in England and Germany than from all other causes combined, hard times included. The state department in commenting upon this thinks it will remind the naturalized workingmen who are so free in denouncing the condition of things here what they really have escaped by coming here. It is bad enough to be sure that ignorant men who come over should denounce the administration of affairs because they don’t find an Eldorado flowing with seup and free beer; but what is to be said of those who are born here, who are intelligent, who have in many cases been honored with positions as national legislators, who go up and down ranting in the same fashion. Of coarse they will say that these reports are a vulgar no-such-a-thing. That we are the only nation on the earth that is truly miserable; that the United States’ consuls are in league with the treasury department, and that it is nothing but another of John Sherman’s scheme* to boost him toward the presidency. They must say this or else recant. They have declared the horse is seventen feet high, and they have got to swear it through, or else imitate the father of their country, and say they can not tell a lie, and “ ’fess

But we deny, and defy The News to prove, that there exists any definite connection between the principles involved in a greenback currency and the malice of a few officials, who may or may not believe in and adhere to those principles.—[Carlisle Democrat. This refers to the over-assessment by the Toledo, Ohio, board of equalization, controlled by greenbackers, which “raised” returns for taxation in some cases from $500 to $30,000. Concerning this The News said: “There is no difference in principle in forcing a man to take worthless paper-for his labor and in compelling him to pay taxes on something he doesn’t own, and little difference between both and highway robbery,” and to this our contemporary replies, in part, as quoted above. The News did not say there was a similitude in greenback principles and the malice of those greenback members of the board of equalization, but in the acts consummated by the Toledo fellows and those proposed by the greenback party. The Toledo equalizers told John Smith that he must pay taxes (funds for common use) on thin} thousand dollars. Smith said he only had the benefit of five hundred dollars worth. But they make it compulsory for him to pay on thirty thousand willy nilly. In other words they are making Smith part with something for which ho has no equivalent. He hasn’t the use of thirty thousand dollars worth of property; but must at their order, nevertheless, pay for that much. The greenbackers who propose that the government shall print bits of paper, back them with a similar compulsion. They don’t say people may take them if they like, but that they “must” take them, and for them give up their labor and accumulations. When they have bought everybody out, or when people begin to “hedge” by increasing the price of their possessions, for they can not refuse to accept this paper, then the greenbackers propose “more paper,” and so on until they have “equalized” things by robbing every one who has. for the benefit of every one who has not. We believe there is no difference between thus compelling a man to part with his posssessions for something that represents no value, and in compelling a man to pay for the use of something which he has not had. As for proof: it it the same as would be adduced to prove the existence of the sun. If our contemporary doubts it, look at it.

Flnnkeyitm Here and There. There is a foundation of sound sense in the English character—speaking generically, and including all of the tongue— under all its whimsical fiunkeyism. The Atlantic seaboard is eager to wipe the Duke of Argyll’s shoes with its mustache, but laughs at the vice-regal ordinance for low-necked dresses. Its fiunkeyism stops short of applauding immodesty. General Grant, says the dispatches, “feelt keenly” the slight of the English minister in Japan. If he refused to allow him a salute, or to join in the demonstration in his honor, we expected better of the General, for, after the glorification he got in England, it ought to have been of little consequence whether Englishmen abroad joined a foreign people in such honors. But vanity, like jealousy and young pigs grows in proportion to the feed it gets, and Grant has been petted and puffed till he possibly begins to feel that he has a right to a sort of royal recognition wherever he gbes. If he should get over to the Victoria N’yanza be would probably “feel it keenly,” if king Mtsa didn’t turn out his canoe navy and his female guests to celebrate the event. His flunkeyism has only himself for its object now, hut it is of the genuine EnglishAmerican character; and of the same texture is the ridiculous fiunkeyism that ordered Lieutenant Carey to trial by courtmartial for deserting the Napoleonic lad when the Zulus were butchering him If nobody had been killed but the two or thr^ soldiers who fell at the same time, nobody in the kingdom would have dreamed of censuring, much less trying or putting on trial the officer in command. But ahoy, who was nothing more to the English people or government than any other boy, of no marked character or intellect, a decent, well behaved boy, though, is killed, and the English court goes into mourning, and the English ministry officially attends the funeral; a place in Westminster Abbey is assigned the remains, among Englishmen of immortal memory, and he was no Englishman; and Lieut. Cary is censured and ordered to trial for not saving him or not staying to be killed himself. It is a

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pitiable exhibition of flnnkeyism, for the boy was called what he certainly was not, a “prince imperial,” and that name is the explanation. Ridiculous as it was, though, it was less silly than Grant’s Bensltiveneaa to the slight of the English authorities in Japan, for that was the hunger of self-coddling, and the other was at least no self-adulation. But under both these exhibitions of the Anglo-American proclivity to personal adulation and abasement to rank, the fiunkeyism that is hurt because it is not duly honored, and the fiunkeyism that seeks to give undue honor, there is a “bedrock” of hard sense and manly independence. So the English authorities have dismissed the case against Lieutenant Cary, and the London papers are pratesting against admitting to the English “Pantheon,” a foreign lad of no distinction, no official position, no claim to any national or official recognition. And there are precious few Americans who will not read with a smile of amused contempt that General Grant, “Keenly feels the slight” of the English minister at Tekio. Both nations are a good deal like the celebrated “rocking stone” which a 4 child’s finger could set in motion, but a giant could not displace. We easily wobble ofi into flunkeyism and worse follies, but we are mighty sure to wobble back again to a safe level-

CLBKKNT COMMENT. The Natioa thinks Secretary Sherman’s share of the bloody shirt in his recent speeches when his theme was finance, recalls that modern actor at an English theater whose only duty being to appear at a certain time and say “The carriage waits my lord,” varied it by adding, “and he who lays hi hand on a woman in aught save kindness is unworthy the name of Briton.” The wheels of Foster’s chariot smoke as he whirls through Ohio. Recently he made nine speeches in thirty-two hours! Monday he closed a long and able address at Columbus, at 3 o’clock, and took the down train for Portsmouth. After a ride of twenty-six miles he was called out and addressed a large crow d at Uircleville. Some twenty-three miles further down he made a third speech to a lively crowd. At Waverly, less than twenty miles, near Portsmouth, another large crowd and the fourth speech. At Piketon, ten .ciiles nearer, a fifth demand by the fifth crowd, and the fifth speech. Tea miles further cm, at Lucasrille, the population turned out en masse, and the sixth neat speech was, like its predecessors, highly applauded. Then at Portsmouth, continues the report, about nine o’clock a crowd of at least [2,000 blocked the streets and applauded his utterances to the echo. When this speech ended he was told it was an all night ride across the country to Mineral Springs, “is the route practicable?” said Foster. “Yes, but hilly, rough and thirty-two miles long.” “Drive on/’ he said, and they did. Without a wink of sleep they reached Mineral Springs at four in the morning. A rest of two hours and they were on the road again for ten miles more to West Union, where the future governor spoke for an hour and twenty minutes. Then at night he was at Manchester with his ninth speech inside of thirty-two hours. Such a canvass even in these days of quick transportation is a marvel. No wonder the democratic state committee is hunting some patent device to head off the irrepressible Foster. Vanderbilt, it is said, paid George F. Cornstock $50,000 for his services in the Vanderbilt will case, but he objects to paying Henry L. Clinton $250,#00 for his services in the same case. As to big fees, Clarkson N. Potter received $1(80,000 a few years ago in a railroad case, and Charles O’Conor had $75,000 in the Jumel will case and $100,000 in the Parrish will case. Scott Lord had $100,000 for fighting Mr. Clinton in the Vanderbilt case. The most money ever paid for a legal opinion, it is said, was $50,000 paid to Theodore W. Dwight, who covered a few pages of legal cap with it One of the reforms recently promised by the Equitable Life insurance society was that the terms of policies hereafter shall be expressed in the most concise and simple manner. A copy of the new form shows that this has been carried out in full accordance«with the promise. The policy is short and simple; it has few clauses and those are written tersely and clearly, so that “he who runs may read.” This is a most important step, and if other companies want to hold their own with the Equitable, they Will have to adopt it. This sort of thing will be found necessary in rebuilding the public confidence in life insurance, which has been damaged set trely of late years. Some of the bonds stolen from the Manhattan savings bank were successfully negotiated, notwithstanding the wide publicity given them. They were passed and not discovered until they came to the treasury de1 artment for redemption. Among those thus passed were a number of 5-20a of $1,000 and $500, and the discovery was made because bonds of like numbers had already been exchanged at the treasury department for 4 per cents. The red ink numbers were removed or changed by the use of alkalies, new numbers were printed on the bonds and the background of the numbers, which was also removed by alkalies, was skillfully restored by painting with a brush. The whole operation was done so artistically as to defy detection without the aid of a good glass. Thus far five of the stolen bonds have been discovered. The numbers of ihe $1,000 stolen bonds were 187,650 and 208,419. On the former the figure 6 was changed into a cipher and in the latter the figure 8 was changed into a 9. The numbers of the three $500 bonds detected were altered as follows: No. 97,928 to 97,828; No. 208,746 to 208,748; No. 194,597 to 194,697. The government will not redeem the altered bonds, and the holders must bear th e loss.

should prosper without stimulating every other industry and promoting the healthfnl growth of every department of trade. And there is good reason to believe that this result has been already attained.—[Chicago Tribnne. There has been a notable decrease of panwrim during the last year, due to the revival of bumneea which has followed the retumption of specie payment. We have taken pains to ascertain the facts in regard to this matter in this city, and we find that the number of persons helped by the city this year is less than one-third what it was last year. As in this city, so throughout the state, and in other states, as we ijsam from reports in the leading journals and from official sources, there has been a large decrease in pauperism. While the greenback organs wail about the poverty of the poverty and the destitution of the laboring class, the country is paying off iU debt, reducing the interest burden, astonish ng the world with the great smd varied products of its industry, aad the pauper list is steadily and rapidly on the decline.—[Augusta (Me.) Journal.

KogUsh Trade Hertslng. The Lqndon Economist calls attention to the fact that as an immediate result of the revival of business in this country the trade of England with the United States is reviving. “Our exports to the states,” says the Economist, “have ceased to diminish and are rapidly expanding” An increase appears in the export of this country daring the first six months of 1879 of beer and ale, catton piecegoods, metals of all kinds except bar, bolt and rod iron and wool. In the latter export the whole year 1878 showed a decrease of 63.5 per cent, as compared with the year 1874; while the first half of the year 1879 shows an increase of 195 per cent, as compared with the first half of the year 1878. The increase in the export of railroad iron of ail kinds to this country in the first half of 1879 as compared with the first half of 1878 amounts to 1,568 per cent On the other hand there is a continued decline in the export of cloths, worsted stuffs, and carpets and druggets.

Farmers, Pay Your Debts. [South Bend Register,! Let us adjure all our farmer readers to whom this advice applies, and who can now so eatily heed it, to resolve that nothing shall stand in their way of ridding them selves of debt. Some will argue that there is no hurry; that next year will answer just as well; that the mortgage notes are not crowding and the grocer, the dry-goods merchant and die doctor can be put off, while a lot of new things are bought for the place, etc. But £ucli reasoners will rue the day when they decide to gratify desires for expenditures which might be avoided, instead of using their money to secure immunity from debt. The experience of the past teaches that fortune in farming is little more constant than in many otner livelihood channels, and it is the part of wisdom never to assume that to-day’s sunshine is a guarantee of fair weather to-morrow.

Her Me jest >’a Subject, Sitting Ball. General Terry, commanding the department headquarters at St. Paul nas received a dispatch from General Miles, dated at a camp on Rock creek, July 28. Major Walsh, of the Canadian mounted police, accompanied by the Sioux chief, Long Dog, came into camp and stated that Sitting Bull’s whole camp, 5,000 to 8,000 people, comprising seveial hostile tribes, had moved north to Swan lake, about eighty miles from the line, where they had determined to remain. The chief brought assurance that the Indians wou^l make a permanent residence on Canadian soil, would abstain from all hostile movtments on this side, return the stolen protit rty and desist from hunting American lunulo unless permitted to do so under the supenision of the United States officials.

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Singular Murder and Suicide.

Solomon Senn, a partner in the firm of Schill, Kossnan & Senn, irqn founders, of Cbki-go, yesterday shot the foreman, Conrad Englemau, through the head, and then, after snapping a pistol at his own head, retired to his private office and cut his throat from ear to eur with a knife. Both men leave famiiie?“, were sober and industrious and not quairelsome. Senn was wealthy and Engleman was poor. The quarrel was about a pillar which was being cast in the shop, and whkhSenn claimed Was being apoiied by Ergleman. The latter denied this, and, after resigning his position on the spot and beii g paid off, Sean reiterated his charge. Englemau gave him the lie, and the ^double

tragedy was at once enacted.

Murray’s Whereabouts. , A gentleman formerly acquainted with Rev. W. H. H. Murray, claims to have seen him in San Francisco, but inquiry fails to discover his whereabouts. The St. Albans, Vermont, Advertiser publishes an interview with Miss Hodgkins, Rev. W. H. H. Murray’s amanuensis. She denied with indignation the insinuations that they had eloped. She says she has all his private papers and understands his business, which will be settled satisfactorily and honorably. He would rather die than do anything dishonorable. Miss Hodgkins will meet his counsel, Senator Platt, of Connecticut, in New York to arrange matters. Murray was w< rn.out with work and went off for recreation.

The Campaign in Maine. [Correspondence Boston Journal.] There are three elements that republicans look to for votes to redeem the state: The republicans who left the party last year, those who stayed at home, and democrats who can not follow their party into the greenback camp. Of the former there are about 14,000; of the stay-at-home class nearly as many more. Resumption, which last year was in the future, and prophesied as a thing th at would bring disaster and untold suffering, has come, and nothing but the best results have followed..

Indiana’ Kighta. Mayor Prince presided at a meeting at Boston. yesterday, to consider the question raised by the Omaha decision in the babea* corpus case of the Ponca Indians. The manner in which the aboriginal race has been treated was strongly denounced. Resolutions were adopted that the rights of the Indians should be finally determined by the supreme court, a nd a committee was appointed to collect $4,000 for that purpose.

The Fisheries Question. Owing to grave complaints of American fishermen the Kearsage, now cruising in the Gulf of St Lawrence, has been instructed to stop at some port of New Brunswick or Nova Scotia for a special agent the state department has directed to visit the fishing grounds, and report as to the conduct for the inshore fisheries by our fishing fleet, and their treatment by the local anthorities and population.

Rich Discoveries on Lake Superior* A St. Paul Pioneer Press special reports the discovery of rich mineral veins in the Northern Light lake region on the north shore of Lake Superior, supposed to be a coutii,nation of the wonderfully productive veins on Silver islet. Three veins are exposed 14 feet below the surface and specimens assay $49 gold and $57 silver per ton.

Two elementaxy ideas have yet to be recognized in the management of railroad companies in this country. One, that capital is entitled to participation in power, whether those who tarnish it be bondholders or shareholders; the other, that where the ownership of property is concerned, minorities have rights which majorities should not be allowed to override.—[New York Times. The howl of mortgages! mortgagee! mortgages ! has been so great among the greenbackers of Adair county, that both they and the republicans have gone to hunting no figures, and find, as shown by the Transcript, that the mortgages are to the assessed value of property as one is to sixteen.—[Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye. It is to be a fair and square stand up and knock down fight between honest money and inflation, and the sooner that fact is comprehended by the people of Ohio the better. Shall resumption be maintained ? is the issue. All who are not for it or against it—[Cincinnati Commercial. I*is quite impossible that the iron works

Don’t Seem to Want to Tote. About seventy women have so far entered their names at the registration office in Boston, and about two hundred have asked to be assessed for poll-tax, as a preliminary to being made voters in school elections.

Troubles of the Mormons. John Taylor, trustee of the Mormon church, yesterday brought suit against the estate of Brigham Young for one million dollars. The executors of Brigham’s estate are still in the penitentiary.

Base BaU Yesterday. Troy: Providence 7, Troys 6. Syracuse: Boltons 8, Stars 2. Chicago: Buffaloes 2, Chicagoes 1, 10 innings. New Bedford: Holyoke* 4, New Bedfords 2. Springfield: Albany's 4, Springfield 3.

Short Crepe In France. Th* grape crop us France is much improved, but the yield will be only half as great as last year. The beet root crop will be 40 per cent less than last year.

The Indian Hunter.

He W34 a stranger there, and all that day Had been out oo the hill*, a perilous way; Rut Ihe foot oi the doer was far and fleet, hud the wolf kept aloof from the huutar’a feet. And bitter feeliugi paaa d o’er him then A§ he stood by the populous haunts of men. The winds of autumn came over the woods As the sun stole out from their solitude*: The n«iea was while on the maple's tiuak, And tiead from its arms the hale vine shrunk. And ripen’d the mellow fruit hang, and red Were the tree's withered leaves around it khed. The foot of the reaper moved slow on the lawn, And t he sickle cut down the yellow corn; The mower sung loud by the meadow aide, W here the mists of evening were spreading wide. And the voire of the herdsman came up the lea. And the dance went round by the greenwood tree. Then the hunter turned away from that scene, Where the home of his fathers once had been, And braid by the distant and measured stroke That the woodman hew’d down the eUnt oak, And burning thoughts fl Ash’d over his miad, Of the white man's faith sod love unkind. Tie moon of the harvest g-ew high and bright; As her golden horn pierced the cloud ot white A fooUtep was heard In the rustling brake. Where the beach o’ershadow’d the misty lake. And a mourning voice and a plunge from t le shore, And the hunter was seen on the hills no more.

When years had pass'd on by that still lake side The ftsher looked down through the river tide. And there, on the smooth yellow sand displayed, A skeleton wasted and white was laid. And ’twas seen, aa the waters moved deep and slow, That the hand was still grasping a hunter’s bow. —[From Longfellow's Early Poems. SCRAPS.

The window-glass trade in Pittsburg, was never better than now. Mr. Sankey has a new hymn entitled “How can I keep from singing?” The Custer monument at West Point will be unveiled Saturday; August 30. Elizabeth Caroline Swing, wife of Prpf. Swing, died at Oxford, Ohio, Sunday. An aged woman of Windsor Locks, Conn., died at a picnic which was given in her honor. The quarantine between Texas and New Orleans is so strict that the papers are not interchanged. The gamblers in New York are using the telephone to warn each other of an attack from the police. Union college, Schenectady, New York, is receiving more applications for admission from southern young men than eyer before.

A Texas man has patented a gate for railway crossings which is lowered automatically by passing trams and raised as soon as they have gone by. An officer in the Austrian army lately snatched a soldier's cravat off and knocked his ey e out with a hackle, because he thought he w ore his collar too high. * A young man of Pittsburg jilted a girl, demanded the money and jewelry which he had bestowed upon her, and gave her brother a severe beating because he presumed to interfere.

.Stage door-keeper (to youthful admirer):, “Will 1 give the bouquet to Miss Montmorency? Well, this is her husband, p’raps he’ll take t for ytu.” (Youthful admirer does not laugh )—[Judy.

Rev. Dr. Thompson, who has been a missionary in Palestine for forty years, has returned to New York, and is preparing a new and elaborately-illustrated edition of hia ‘‘The Land and the Book” for Harper & Brothers.

Paymaster General John 0. Bradford died in Brooklyn a month ago, leaving a will dated three days before his death. Of course, it is to be contested. He left bequests amounting to over a million dollars, and his property is found to be worth absut $60,000. A good deal of satisfaction is expressed here over the fate of Dr. Spencer, a dentist, recently shot dead for kissing a woman in Mississippi,while she was under the influence of ethir. Women want to know it when they are kissed, and the fool who does not appreciate the fact ought to die.—[Stillwater Lumberman.

In New York agents of the society for the prevention of crime have lately been keeping a close survillance upon the various faro banks, and have followed clerks and others w bo have been seen to enter, to their places of business, and reported the fact to their employers. It said that this system of espionage will ,be kept up till all „the gambling places are closed. The permanent buildings at Fairmount park, Philadelphia—relics of the centennial —are to be taken down and the articles on exhibition scattered. The museum was intended for the instruction of the people, but the managers went into the show business, and therefore the pari commission has ordered that the buildings must come down. Some of the church debts raised by Mr. Kimball do not stay raised. The mode adopted in nearly every case was to take promises to pay at various periods during a ytar or more. These pledges are usually repudiated in case of a popular pastor resigning, or any other event affecting the church adversely. The financial embarrassment of subscribers is another element of disappointment. Harry, the square built three-year-old of Major Joe H. Stewart, went around the yard ana house yesterday—his father had given him a line and hook—and turned on all the water cocks. The house was flooded and the yard and walks overflowed. He was discovered, calm and serene, fishing from the doorsteps. His paternal ancester discovered him with “What do you mean, sir?” The answer was: “How the could a fellow fish without water?”—[Austin Statesman.

An amusing story has lately been having a run through the Boston clubs, at the exjiense of a self-important, somewhat portly man about town, who, on returning from Paris some time ago, was asked how he liked French cooking. “Jolly,” was his reply. “It is wonderful how they transform everything. Boston could learn something in the way of cooking greens, for instance. Why 1 should judg^ from one little experience of mine, that a French cook could make you think a dish of dandelions was calfs-head jelly. They had a kind of grass—‘patty de foy grass,’ I believe they called it—with nothing to indicate its real nature. It ‘came high,’ as I was therein the winter,you know when it was out of season, or else 1 should have had my fill of it.”—[American Punch.

In Belgravia, Richard A. Proctor shows

that while it is theoretically possible to construct a chess-plating automaton, it is practically impossible, because the machine would necessarily be so enormous and complicated. There would scarcely be room on the earth for it, and it could not be operated. The number of different combinations that can be formed on a chess board is approximately represented at 100,000,000,000,000,»O0,000,000.000,000,000, and if a workman could make and drill 1,200 holes an hour it wonld, to drill the requisite number of holes in a metal plate for one antomaticchess board, require all the present inhabitants of the earth 100.000,000,000,000,000 years! Therefore, Mr. Proctor thinks there will never be a chess automaton that can play a game unless there

is “Life in other worlds than tours.”

Th® Kentucky Election. The Courier-Journal has nnnffirinl and definite returns from about fifty counties, which show about one-third falling off in the • aggregate vote, but about the usual democratic majority. The republicans have made legislative gains, but the general assembly that two years ago was 114 democratic on joint ballot continues democratic by over 100. Blackburn's majority for governor is variously estimated at from 20,0*0 to 40,000. The vote on recommending a call for a constitutional eOBvention, though supported by both parties, has undoubtedly failed of the required constitutional majority. The election was unusually quiet all over the state, no serious difficulty being reported. The greenbackers have certainly elected two members to the lower horns® of the legislature, but their aggregate rote is insignificant..

> SOIMEBUrO IN WCHIOAM. A Br®®*y L«tt®r Aboat a Trip to th® North )’• toshey •«* ®th® r Fotote-How u> Get There, aad what U to B« Had. ['omepoDdenre of The IndlaaspoU* Netrt.] P*to«»t, July U». Prom the reports that reach here from Indianapolis, St. Louis, Cincinnati and other cities, the heat wave is sweeping over the country, and people are skipping out, hunting cooler places. This state presents to the tourist a good field to “sammer in” and, all things considered, at a maderate expense. One need not confine his attention to the older settled parts of the state, but by “roughing” it a little acquire a new experience which will prove beautiful both to the body and mind. A good point to start out from, after spending a few days in it, is Traverse City or Traverse bay, a good sized clean and neat looking place, with fair hotel accommodations and pleasant surroundings. From here to “Old Mission Point,” is a couple of hours’ ride by steamboat. This place is said to possess great facilities for raising fruits, immense quantities of whivh marketed put “filthy lucre” in the pockets of some of its denizens, thereby adding to their prosperity and happiness. This was told us by a native. Saw no fruit but fully believed the report. Strange people, these “Michiganders they will not lie—except in bed. In visiting Michigan believe everything that you hear. No matter how improbable a story may seem, pin back its ears, put some butter on it and swallow it down as though it was a sweet morsel. Our party had faith, bushels of it To say that much of it remained on hand when Michigan was left benind would be to nrevaricate. Some of the fish stories we heard drew largely upon it, but the supply equalled the demand, and piloted us through the state safely. Two or three days of boating and fishing at “Old Mission” is enough, and one is ready to leave. Just across the arm of the bay is “Elk Rapids—a town mainly built up by the ‘ efforts of Dexter Noble, where they c;-crate aa iron furnace, grist and saw mills, a large general store, hotel, a couple of steamboats, and they only know what else. They seem to own the place, both soul and breeches. They are “boomers,” no mistake, and make everything hum. They are bound to ba rich or bust, and from present indications are not on the “bust” to a»y alarming extent. The “Lake View house” has, in the persoil of Goo. Dryitf. its chief manipulator, a genial and who* sculed fellow, and the guests are made comfortable, supplied with tackle, minnows and worms free of charge, -the hotel having a man especially for this purpose, and scoring a point in ils favor by so doing. Are there any fish here? Yes. Do they bite freely? Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t You must devote to them time and patience, and j-ou can, in the course of say from seven to ten days’ stay, have a gcod time and good sport Enough water abounds at Elk rapids to supply every man, woman and child in the United States if they drank nothing bat “water straight” the balance of their lives. A chain of lakes “feeds into” Traverse bay here, furnishing a day’s delightful trip by streamlet leaving early in the morning and returniag in the evening. The natives claim these lakes are full or fish, bass, pickerel, perch, etc. Our party fully believed this witheut seeming to be “skeptics” by attempting any fishing. By as hard a day’s work as your correspondent ever wants to engage ia, conviction entered his soul that trout were here, and could be caught. Our party, composed of five men, caught one hundred and seventy-five in one day, not with reeland fly, but by “stealing.” “Stealing” trout is simply sneaking up where they are, yourself out of sight, hcok baited with a worm; drop gently in. A rush like “chain lightning, ' and, like the Irishman’s flea, sometimes you get Mr. Trout, and sometimes you don’t Fnt goodbye to this place, and ho for Cbt-rleooix. Cbarleooixis not a bad place, but one doe* not have a consuming desire to stay there long, and a few days brings the anxiety to get aboard the boat and away. The gnat trout stream of northern Michigan, the river Jordan, is eleven miles from here, and getting on a small tag which plies through the small chain of lakes into one of which the river empties, a short time suffices to reach its mouth. To ascend the stream you charter a guide and hire a boat, which can be rowed a few miles, then has to be poled, slow and laborious work, •well worth the price asked. This stream is from thirty to forty feet wide, three to ten feet deep, has a rapid current, water clear as crystal and very cold, and aa it winds in and out through the thick nnderbrusb and forest which grow down to its yery edge, ia quite romantic lockisg, and presents a strange appearance to those who expect to see something modeled after the Ohio or Mississippi river, only on a smaller scale. It is a beautiful stream, and well repays tha time, trouble and expense of visiting it, whether one fishes or hunts. “Did you catch any fish ?” methinks I h» ar somebody ask. On this point history is dumb, and we shall not distrurbher. The natives say the river and woods are full ol the “speckled streaks of ground lightning ” Our stock of faith was greatly depleted at this point, Fttoskey is not far from Charlevoix, and can be reached either by boat or stage. If you are not afraid of sea sickness take the boat, if you are, stick to dry land. The squalls (not baby ones either) come up so sfiddenly, and have at times so much of the “Old Harry” in them, that one is disgusted at paying fifty cents for a meal and being compelled to surrender it so soon. The captains of the boats are all alike, a gruff, crabbed set of men, who won’t hardly listen to their seasick passengers’ civil request “to stop the boat and let them get oat and walk.” “Deru ’em,” they only laugh and think sea sickness a good joke. But the stage has one great advantage, as the Irishman truly said, “If the horse* run away and dump you out you know where you are, but if the ship blows from under you, where are you ?” But here we are at Petoskey. Old Petoskey, an Indian, (one-half fraud, I believe) furnished the town with its name, and is said to be less than 150 years old. and growing older every day. Poor old man, if he lives long enough he will die of old age. Our party did not seek as interview with the old fellow for reasons. It takes some money, and none of us were broken-jawed linguists enough to tackle the aforesaid in Choctaw, Greek, jibberwaw, or whatever his native gibberish was. Geo. Harding, with that colossal cheek aitd interviewing experience which he pos- | sisses in such a remarkable degree, wrestled long and valiantly with “old Petosk,” and finally gave it up as a bad job. It might be incidentally remarked here that this place is the terminus of the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad, and will, in the near future, no doubt, grow into a good sized city. It has a high elevation, magnificent water privileges, good air, etc., etc. “Little Traverse City,” about four miles across thebay, within s ght and easy rowing distance, and near it is the “Presbyterian Resort,” a charming place. Bay View.on^mile from Petoskey,connected with it by a railroad, boasts the “Methodist Resort,” and one can find this a delightful place to spend several weeks at. Running out about five miles to Crooked and Round lakes, on a tramway in an open car, propelled by what looks like an old fashioned saw mill mounted on wheels, you see fine scenery, and (at hast the natives said it) get good fishing. From here to Mackinaw is sixty-mile*, and if sea sickness strikes yon on the boat you feel and think it is at least six hundred But Mackinaw is a good, healthy, interesting place, and a few days can be whiled away with good results to health, bat sad to say, dire consequences to the pocket book. But traveling anywhere take* money, so that by some carefulness, as cheap a trip can be. had in this part of the country as anywhere. From here you go to the “Boo” (Sanlt Ste Marie.) A short time does for this place; then to Duluth, St Paul and home. The best route for I ndianapolis people to reach Pt-totkey is by rail, taking the G-, B. and I. &. R. at Richmond or Winchester, where, with good day coaches, sleepers, parlor coaches and a smooth track, the long ride

a land grant of about a million of acres, * selling at from four to ten dollars aa acre, according to location, and farmers who have thoughts of setUing ia Michigan can get information from W. O. Hugbert, Uad o mmimloner at Grand Rapid*. The eacoenums paused upon A. B. Ltet, the affable and gentlemanly general passenger and traveling agent of this road, by an excursion party composed of the northern Indiana editors, were heartily accorded with by us, aad everybody decided for themselves their aunts, sisters ai/d cousins that Mr. Leet could hold his own with any one la a like positioa, * Our experience, as regards fishing, is that it is always better a “little further oe/' so that one has td keep moving ia orderto fiad the place where the fish ore “honing to b* caught.” Certain natives in, answer to th* Question, “are the moequitoes bad up here?” once answered- “no; there baint no skeeters at all—not enough to count on." We began to fish. But in a short tune our minds were made up that we were being serenaded by a brass bend. Verv soon . e 7 b T ean t0 gather around and interview us with their business ends, and in so hearty a * manner that on* universal howl went up: “Is this being welcomed with Woody hands to hospitable graves?” This time the natives had lied, and the warm reception can ? 5d a girding up of loins and rapid flight We saw no “bar,” nor had any consuming desire to see any. A certain gentleman who boasted of his Tennessee nativity, calling him olf “colonel,” based on having seen service in the cot federate army (sutler’s department, no diubt). claiming great wealth as his (in biek, probably), etc., was always blowing about his fishing and “bar” hunting euccesses claiming to have been driving along in a* wagon which upon meeting a “bar” caused the horses to run away and break the vehicle, etc., etc. The “colonel” never stated what became of the “bar,” which very likely was more scared than anybody. The "colonel” soon took the belt as the champion liar, and when he got three or four drinks aboard, could grind oat lies as fast as Goldsmith Maid could trot, and was soon known as “Col. Windtub.” But go your “ain gait,” old Falstaff, and farewell to your lies and loud snoring. The eating in northern Michigan, so far as , our knowledge goes, might be wptse^-aud it might be much better. For the prices one has to pay, a landlord can set a good table, furubh good rooms aad beds, and make money. Our luck, good or bad, was to strike some “hoggish landlords;” but competition will equalize all things and improve the fare. Taking everything into consideration, our trip “panned” ou' well enough to create.the hope for a repetition. Esquimau x. TRADE DOLLARS. What They are Worth Hera-Yery Few In Clteulatlon—Silver Coins Generally. A subscriber writes The News, asking the preient,value of the trade dollar. It varies fo’om 90 to 97 cents in this city. In Cincinnati these-coins pass in some sorts of trade at par, as they do in several other large cities and in New \ork they are bought by speculators for 99 cents. The New York buyers anticipate congressional action making the stamped ingots worth thoir face value in the currency of the realm, an act to that effect having passed the lower house during the last session. The following are prices pail for them at the city banks : First National bank 95<a97c Indianapola National bank 'Mi Indiana National Uuuk 5*5 Meridian National bank WAM Citizens’ National bank «o - Merchanta’ National bank as Fletcher A Sharpe’s bank ....»5f»97 Fletcher A Churchman's bank.. '.Kiijas Bank of Commerce Indiana Banking Company „..95<§#T The postoflice department will not take them at any price. The Union depot ticket office receives them at ninety cents and pay* them out at the same figure. It also takes m Mexican dollars at eighty ceuta, at which figures it pays them out. 4 A large number of retail itorei offer to take thim in exchange lor goods at their par value. This practice, however is more customary in Cincinnati and Chicago than here. The l auks there probably pffer a smaller discount than those in Indianapolis do. It Is estimated there are not over $1,000 of three rotos at the present time. Beveral banks wenrScarly destitute of them yesterday. The gnat bulk of them is in New York. Mexican dollars are taken all the way from 80 cants to 85 cents. These are also bought by New York speculators, though for what purpose L not quite plain. The circulation of these dollars, as is the case with the trade dollar, is daily growing less. Last week some banks did not receive a single one. They assist their retirement by never paying them out. All they get they sell in New York. A bank cashier told a News reporter this mornit g that the circulation of silver was increasing instead of decreasing. This is especially true of the subsidiary coinage, Ths bonkers greatly dislike this sort of medium, as it is difficult to handle. The Kansas Immigrants. Miss Amanda Way, formerly of this city, now of Lawrence, Kansas, arrived at the Kemy hotel last night. She has been through the east seeking money to aid the colored refugees who have settled in ihat state. She says the refugees number 7,000, and they still continue to como. Their immediate needs are to be supplied until they can be rent out on government lands in the fall in time for sowing wheat. Miss Way will be here several days, and will present her cause to the benevolent of the city. m *^1111 - 1A Telegraph Incident. Western Union telegraph office, 8 o’clock this morning: Operator received the following: • i hrirtfabbreviatlon lor Christian) (Uodstll o'clock luat night.’’ Rushes to the mnnager. “What shall we do about this, Mr. Langhourn?” “About what?” (Reads tfce dispatch.) “Why that infernal idiot at the New York office has been holding this for nearly 1,900 years!” No Faver In New Orleans. A New Orleans dispatch says that Mrs. Howell audson are out of all danger. Dr. W hite of the sanitary association states that no other cases have appeared for six days and reports the city free from yellow fever. Flmicians say that the fever has run its course the present summer. Obituary, D. L. Morris, the well known 'comedian did at Cape Giradeau, Mo , last evening. Charles Fechter, ihe actor, died at ten o’clock Monday night, at his farm at Richmond Center, Pa. He was 54 years old, aad had been sick since early in the spring with a complication of diseases. Doings of Peruvian Wnr Teasels. The Peruvian warships Huascarand Union have visited the Chilian ports, destroyed launches and capturing the steamer Rimac with an entire regiment Of cavalry fully aimed and supplied with horses, besides three vessels loaded with coal and copper. ntrike of Callters. In Staffordshire, England, thirty-four hundred colliers hare struck against a redaction of wages, affecting 17,000 persons. Ceunterfeltors Caught. A gang of Brazilians, counterfeiters and forgers of Brazilian money, were caught ia New York yesterday, These Useful Coudelts, The kidney snd bladder, sometimes become torpid and week from ucascertainable causes. Whan tits occurs, their discharging f auction isof necessity very imperfectly performed, snd certain datola, which is the result of nstural bbdily vast® ai d decay, does toot escape as II should, hut ren a It.* to ooirupt the hioed and develop poisonous humors aad dangerous as well as painful dls-snas. It is one of the beneficial effects of Hostetler’s 81 cmarh Bitters to geniiy stimulate the urinary oi zatis, aad prevent them from lapsing into a state ol inactivity, always provocative of their Inflammstory degeaeratioti snd decay. How much better, t ben, la it to adopt this mild diuretic as a oxen, of I Belting them to action, than to incur the desgar of tMs destruction. To exp’Urom tha system waste matter through the bowels aad kid- ' te regulaae and arouss the stomach and among th* chief asss af this v*^b!«