Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1879 — Page 2

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THE DAILY NEWR SKubsdat. novkmbeb e, ism

The Indianapolis News has a bona fide circulation more than one-half larger than that of any Other daily paper in Indiana.

Grant's visit postponed to December lOtb, is calculated to dampen, or chill enthuaiasrn. Unless December’s as pleasant as May it is not a very auspicious time for a parade. Explorations in Alaska make the Yukon river one of the largest in the world. It u nearly as large as the Mis* aissippi. ■ About 500 miles from its mouth it receives a large tributary, and the basin formed by the, contluence is twenty-four miles wide. A table of prices of all stables from January 1 to October 18 of this year published by the New York Commercial Bulletin ebows an average increase of 28 per cent. This however doesn’t include textile fabrics as there has been but little change in their price. Every 1 woman in New York nowadays, it is said, who assumes to be “anybody,” . must either work in clay, paint, or carve in wood, while the number .who pursue systematically special branches of study i« increasing amazingly, not only in N.eW York but all over the country. The London Spectator informs it* readers, concerning American affairs, that “the democrats have virtually chosen their candidate for the presidency.” If the Spectator would forward a bill of particuulara it would confer a sweet boon upon several statesmen; though perhaps the recent elections have allayed a good deal of irritation In this particular. ♦ Some pertinacious newspapers continue to remind Secretary Sherman that in his letter to the senate he said that “the restoration of Messrs. Arthur and Cornell would be a serious injury to the public service, involving a low of public revenue • and an increased expenditure.” And yet he did his best to have him restored to the public service in New York and it is said now that it was chiefly because of administration help that Coruell was ■uccesaful. Tilpkn’s friends, it is reported, are already asserting what "The News yesterday predicted: That there would be no divided democracy on national issues and that^the old man of Gramercy park is as much a necessity now as ever. For it - is clearly proved that he can carry New York, and without him it is suggested it might be an easy thing to lose it.. This is in the nature of an assertion that Tilden k getting stronger than his party. Thus democracy also may be said to be suffering from one-manism to a certain extent. The situation in New York at this Writing is unchanged. The probabilities, we take it, are that the democratic ticket below the governor is elected. Thus, although Cornell creeps in with the aid of Tammany, and although the republicans carry the legislature, the victory is a ^barren one, for it leaves the state, with its • thirty-five electoral votes, in the hands of the democrats, and the problem whether or not it can be taken from them is one not settled this year but to be settled next year. It still leaves New York and Indiana the battle ground of the presidential contest, with probably the best fighting chance in New York. Our trade with China grows smaller and smaller and beaatifully less. Six years ago our tonnage entered and cleared at Chinese ports amounted to 3,483,203 tons. The English tonnage for the same time was 3,645,557. In 1878 the English tonnage was 8,438,373, the German 750,000, while ours had dwindled to 341,942 Of $20,000,000 revenue from tariff which Cbina receives, the English pay $35,000,000 to ear only $500,000. It may be that oar illiberal spirit toward the Chinese is returned in favors shown to English and German traders. Be this as it may, the competition we are going to crowd England with in foreign markets, doesn’t cut much of a figure in the celestials', coun-

try.

Some democratic congressmen are reported as vouching for the willingness, nay, eagerness, of the democracy to vote lor a bill patting Grant at the heal of the army, with a salary of $25,000 a year.

This is quite on a par with the most eg re* gions folly that party has shown itself ready to father. If any sach purpose as this exists, which is vouched for by so respectable authority as Singleton of Illinois, we trust It will neeer get any further than the individual utterances of those who entertain it. it is at ones a humilliating confession of weakness and a most cowardly desire to purchase fancied security. It says at once that this government is so feeble that it is in danger from one man, and the. people so supine thst the only way of safety for them U to buy the man off. Such a proposition to Genera] Grant would be nothing more nor less than this, disguised in any way it might be. Every honor this country has in its gift has been laid upon him. The plea of poverty is now insulting. Such poverty is more creditable than the riches of Croesus. General Grant has had iverything from the^American people he is entitled to, unless they choose to bestow more of the same kind upon him. To give him a place over Sherman, simply for ornament, would be, we repeat, a most humiliating confession on fife part of this people. If the American republic has come to the point where it is in danger from one man, unless he be bought oft', let us know it. If its salvation depends upon one man, let us know it. Better have the contest right now than postponed for a single year. The sooner we understand the relative strength of the republic and oae-manism the better. Tbs Purity of Politics. Horatio Seymour, who is^or was, a politician of as much ability and disinterestedness as any of equal prominence, says that thare are no corruptions in politics that do not get there from extrinsic sources; that efforts for a great common pxrpose are elevating, net degrading; and that bad men in parties are made bad in other relationships. His theory is not a new one, but he presents it more concisely than we have ever seen it before, and we reproduce it for a word of comment: Tfe bear a great deal of cant about the corruptions ip politics. There are no corruptions in pubiic affairs which are not generated and nourished by other influences at work among the pebple, as a people. All efforts, all Eeal for a cause, if it is not an unworthy one tends to lift men above mere personal objects, and by exertions for others, and by dwelling upon considerations outsida of themselves tend to make men better and more generous. We hare selfish men in our public life, but they were not made selfish in their positions, for these lead to dealings with general interests that tend to liberalize men’s purpoies. Theie a?e corrupt men and bad men in parties, but they have been made corrupt and evil-minded in other relationships of life than those which grow out of their association with others in promotion of a common cause. There are men in parties who labor “for a cause," and “dwell upon considerations outside of themselves.” Probably fivesixths of the intelligent citizens of this country are of this class. They have no selfish interests in politics and give their efforts to their parties f rom motives that | at the worst, are not degrading o^corrupting. Nebody baa ever imputed corruption to this class, and the “cant” that Mr. Seymour hears and miscalls is never applied to it. But are there no men in parties wfco work for selfish ends? who “dwell on considerations” fiolely or chiefly affecting themselves, who give their efforts to no “cauae” bat under the impulse of personal interest Yea, verily, and these are the professional politicians, the “machine” makers and menders, and among them are generated the “corruptiona” that it is no “cant” to denounce in season and out. Mr. Seymour forgets these when he lays down his rule of the elevating influence of exertions for a cause. Exertions for “a not unworthy cause” are elevating, and “tend to make men better and more generous,” but is the cause of the machine politician, “a not unworthy one”? Is it one party mainly that he gives his exertions and hopes to? Net a bit of it. Mr. Cenkling was not laboring in the cause of republicanism when he forced Mr. Cornell’s nomination. He was not “dwelling on considerations outside of himself.” He was revenging himself for the president’s alight, by forcing the president and Mr. Evarta to eat humble pie, and they did it. The man who aervea a party to advance his own interests, to enlarge his own reputation, to gratify his love of power or parade, to work his revenges or individual ambitions, does not fall into Mr. Seymour’s category. His “cause” is himself, and his party is a means to his own ends. His motives are corrupt in their very source, and through him come the “corruptiona in public affairs” that Mr. Seymour thinks it “cant” to declare or denounce. And that sort of man is pretty numerous in all' parties. In fact, he is the manager of all parties to a mischievous extent. Mr. Seymour’s estimate of the purity of politics is fallacious, because it leaves that man out. “Politics and parties are ‘not’ what the people make them in this country,” though they are what the people, through indifference, allow selfseeking managers to make them.

CUKKENT COMMENT.

It is believed that there are now over one handred thousand persons,directly connected

with our postal service.

Some English capitalists, it is said, have bought 300,000 acres load from railroad companies in the vicinity of Denver, through which they will construct a canal for the purposes of irrigation. That soil irrigated is said to be the most productive in the world. “B” stands for boom, barrel and Butler.—[Chi-

cago Tlmta.

It stands for “Bottled” also; and just now more exactly deecribes the situation than

any of the others.

On the eve of election the New York Times had a warning to republicans not to vote for any Kelly officials. It said; We have before na a state and county ticket coming trom republican headquarters, on which nominee lor county clerk, and wa bare another coming from the Kellr headquarters on which the fsror Is reciprocated by the aubsUtutlou of Mr Wadsworth for Mr. Oioott and Mr. Ward for Mr

Bchoon maker.

Thus republicanism struck hands with

Tammany.

A- Jewish congregation in Nashville tendered the use of its synagogue to a Methodist congregation whose church had been horned. It was accepted and the novel sight was teen

of a Methodist congregation worshiping in a Hebrew synagogue on Sunday, which the day before had been used for Jewish service. Seventy-five negro families in one county of Norh Carolina are ready to emigrate, and a colored preacher la on his way north ria Washington to find an opening for them. The conclusion of the whole matter is that we are forced back to New York every time, from whatever point of view we approach the subject. H e need those thirtyfive votes.—[New Orleans Picayune. The great significance of this republican revival is that it is spontaneous. It has not been made by any man or set of maq, and can be claimed by none. Instead of the people lying apathetic, waiting for some great leader to awake them, they hare taken the matter into their own bauds. And as the movement has not been created by any mao, so*it .will;not depend on any person.—[Cincinnati Gazette. It is not true, as so often reported, that the southern people, both white and black, do not work. They do work, and work hard. They have to work to live. But the soil is poor. It is all worn out. The yield of corn is not over an average of ten bushels to the acre. It generally ranges from five to fifteen bmhels, and there are more fields that yield five bushels than fifteen bushels. The outlook is not encouraging. It is true the south has mineral wealth, but it is undeveloped, and Virginia has some manufactures, but the basis of its industry is agriculture, and for that purpose it has a very poor soil.—[Congressman Jorgensen of Virginia. The most important result of Mr. Chandler’s death may be the election of a democratic president in 1880.—[Detroit News.

PLACES FOR GRANT. Bamored Offers of the Presidency of Two Large Railroad Corporations to the £xPrealdent. (Speclsl to Cleveland Leader.] A late report authenticated by the best of authority in railroad circles, is that Hugh J. Jewett will probably retire from the presidency of the Erie lines to accept the presidency of the Western Union telegraph company, and then in case of Vanderbilt getting control of the Erie, the stock of which, reports say, he is fart buying up, Gen. Grant will be asked to succeed Jewett as its president. In support of these reports it is urged that Grant would bring to the road not only bis great administrative ability, but also a large political- influence, such' as could be obtained in no other way. [Washington special to Chicago Times.] It Is certain that one railroad organization is trying to secure Grant’s services, and the consequent value of his position and reputation. The concern which desires Grant as its chief officer is the Texas Pacific railway. Ex-governor Brown, the vice president of this road, who has been in this city for the last week or so, is the authority for the statement that the offer of the presidency of this road was sent to Grant last Saturday, and is now awaiting his disposal. It is proposed upon the part of the management to have the salary fixed at $50,000 per annum, in order t« make the acceptance an object. Before agreeing upon this course it was announced by certain friends of the road that it would ask no further subsidies frem congress. This statement was made when it was believed that anv further effort would be useless; but since it Ess occurred to the management that the services of General Grant maybe obtained the hone of a subsidy has again been revived. The officers of the road have thought that it would not be improbable that the republicans in congress would be persuaded by Grant.to vote for a subsidy, while they are certain of the votes of the southern bourbons, and by the aid of these two elements a subsidy might possibly be oblained. The stock of the Texas Pacific has long ago dropped out of the regular quotations. Occasional sales are noted' at two cents, but it has been long classed as a valulees stock. To secure Grant as the president of ihe road would naturally ensure credit and capital to the company mat no other man could secure.

Officers of the A. W. S. A. The following officers were elected by the American Woman’s Suffrage Association, in Cincinnati, yesterday: President, Henry B. Blackwell, of Boston; vice-presidents, T. W. Higginson, of Rhode Island; Mrs. Hazzard, of St. Louis; Mary A. Livermore, of Illinois; George William Curtis, of New York; George W. Julian, of Indiana; Theodore D. Weld, of Massachusetts; Celia Burleigh, of New York; Margaret V. Longley, of Cincinnati; chairman of the executive committee, Mrs. Lucy Stone; foreign corresponding secretary, Julia Ward Howe; corresponding secretary, Myra Bradwell, of Illinois; recording secretaries, Miss Matilda Hindman, of New Jersey, and Amanda Way, of Indiana; treasurer, Frank B. Sanborn, of Massachusetts.

Benator Chandler’a Funeral. The funeral of the late Senator Chandler took place in Detroit yesterday afternoon. There was a snow storm at the time, but the streets were lined with people, and the services v ere solemn and protracted. Among the distinguished attendants from other states were ex-United States Senator Cameron, and bis son, Senator Don Cameron; Colonel Burch, secretary of the United States senate; R. J. Bright, sergeant-at-arms of the United States senate; Senators Anthony and Burnside, of Rhode Island, and Senator Blaine and wife. Eighteen thousand people viewed the remains while lying in state in the City hall. Emperor Alexander’s Hypochondria. It is said that the Emperor Alexander of Russia has become a confirmed hypochondriac. He shuts himself up for days, and can with difficulty be persuaded to take food, which must be left at nis chamber door. He frequently bursts into tears, and is afflicted with strange dreams. On the nights when these seize him, twodoctors sit np in his bed room. In short it is supposed he is mentally afflicted, and his long seclusion at Livadia, it is believed, it to be devoted to a treatment that will either kill or cure. Obituary. D. A. Mahoney, the veteran editor of the Dubuque Daily Telegraph, died yesterday. He has bad a long and painful illness from disease of the stomach. Rear-Admiral William Reynolds, United States navy, died at his residence in Washington yesterday. His remains will be taken to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for burial. Professor James Clark Maxwell, writer and lecturer on natural sciences, is dead; age 48. Tlie Eaale Screams. [Interview with Carter Harrison.] I don’t think that yesterday’s results makes it gloomy for the democracy' in 1880. The democratic party is built upon a foundation of principle, the corner stone of which ii the ability and the right of the people to selfgovernment. It may suffer defeat after defeat, through the folly of its leaders, but it can not die until imperialism ha? set up its throne in the national capitol.

The Rising Commune. [Paris Cablegram.] The Prefect insists that the government is willfully blind to the dangers which hare been imminent in consequence of the return of the exiled communists, and that an outbreak on the part of the most lawless and desperate portion of the population in the city is soon to be expected. The New Secretary of Wer. [Washington special.] Ex-Senator Ramsay, who is to be McCrary's successor as secretary of war, is negotiating for the rental of ex-Postmaster General Cresswell’s fine house, at the corner of I and Nineteenth streets. It is one of the laigest and handsomest residences in town, and has a spacious ball room.

• Gee. Grant at Galena. ^ The special train bearing Gen. Grant and yesterday afternoom* Ha was^warmly^ ceived by the people, He dined in his owa house ii a quiet war, and afterwards held a reception at the DeSoto house.

WOMEN IN THE SOUTH. A Point of Honor Obscured in Dark Color*—How Slavery Has Cursed a Fair Lend—Only One Way to Eeeapo Enin. (Cormuendenoe of The IndUmtpolia Newt,] Tallahassee, October 30,1879. Yon published ia The News some weeks ago a letter from the editor of the Boston Herald, who has made a toar through the south, in which he spoke at some length of the jealousy with which soathern men guarded the honor of their women. That editor was a very superficial observer, or else he was disposed to paint al [ he saw in rosy colors. The subject is a delicate one, and I approach it with hesitation, but I have some very pertinent facts bearing upon it which are of more value than opinions of any one, and I will give them as they present themselves to my mmd. I will remark, prefatorially, that the preservation of the honor of the south era woman depends altogether on her color. With this kept in view what follows may be better understood. There are seen upon the streets of Tallahassee, and in all other southern towns where I bare beea, Iftrge numbers of black and mulatto children, but very few of clear white parentage. It is a marked feature iu the population of all the towns and cities. It may be so in the country also, but I have not had the opportunity of forming a correct conclusion as to its existence there. My impression, from what I have seen is that the purity of the races is better preserved on the plantation than in the towns, but I am not clear on this point. Now for some facts: A prominent attorney at the Tallahassee bar, whose wife is a daughter of one of the former governors of Florida, maintains an establishment presided over by a mulatto woman. He has more children in this habitation than he has at home, and he passes as much of his time there, I am told, ss he does with his wife. Some weeks ago I was sitting in front of a liverv stable, waiting for a team to be made ready, when my attention was called to five likely mulatto children passing by. The livery man, who is an old acquaintance from Indiana, said to me: “The father of those children was old —• ,” naming him and the office he held in the governor’s cabinet. “He is dead now, and tbeir mother has to support all that group ‘by her own exertions. What would the people of Indiana think of keeping a man of that kind in office?” *■ A prominent physician at Jacksonville, descended from an old Spaaish family, n year or two since married a young lady of the same lineage. A grand wedding was made and invited guests crowded the church where the ceremonies were performed. When the question was asked if any present had any reason to give why the man and woman at the altar should not be made husband and wife, a mulatto woman approached bearing a child in her arms and leading another by the hand, declaring they were the doctor’s children, and she wanted them pro-' Tided for before he entirely disdarded her for another, There was a most decided sensaiion and the woman was hustled out of church, but she would talk and in loud tones. The wedding was spoiled, and was declared “off,” but in a couple of weeks the doctor concluded a treaiv of peace with his bride and had the ii <er t|>te„ aarrisy < ceremony finished. Th • gi cq le r c w j «into what is called the “ <• rittlclV A treasurer of tins v .„ecr? <f u 1 some years ago supported a colored beauty xn most extravagant style. Guriages a.id drivers were at her disposal, and the county paid the expense, as was afterwards ascertained. This man also had a wife. One night the treasurer and his wife, and the treasurer’s dusky concubine, all departed together and never returned. On counting the cash in the safe it was feund short some $20,000. I know another official whose wife is the groat-grand-daughter of Thomas Jefferson, w ho makes no concealment of the bird of daik plumage he keeps in a cage separate and apart from wife and home. This wife is the only one of all the number mentioned to mo, and I have named only a few instances of many given me, who protests against the conduct of her husband and who grieves at his immorality. I would ask tpe Boston Herald editor where he can seethe jealously guarded honor of southern women in the instances I have named? Is not the wife’s honor tarnished by the husband himself? . Has the southern woman any self-respect—and eelfreepect accompanies honor always—who will permit such a state of society to exist? If the southern woman had force of character there would be a better race of men for them to choose husbands from. > I know the first point of honor to which the Boston editor alludes, it is that the white man would assassina*.© with a pistol the man making any attempt on the white woman of the same na ture of which he is daily guilty with the colored woman. It is simply a matter of color and taste, and I fail to view it in the rosy light which the Boston editor imagines he sees around it. If immorality is crime in woman it is also crime in man. There can be no distinction on account of sex; neither should there be [on account of color. And I can’t iostify and appland assassination by a man who is’ guilty of the very crime for which he takes the life of his victim. The assassinator has been fortunate in selecting dark colors for his depredations, the assassinated made the mistake of taking something white. The virtuous ami hightoned southern public never forgive a mistake of that kind, and never fail to punish the man who makes it. It is a peculiar feature of the civilization of this region. I might go on and illustrate my subject with the frightful evidences of immorality in the youth ef the south. I could give appalling instances of the utter lack of manhood and honor among all ages of men and boys, except that fine point mentioned by the Boston Herald, which I think is wholly obscured by the dark colors surrounding it. There is no use in disguising the fact that this ia a crimecursed land. The crime of slavery—“the sum of all villainies”—has left its curse everywhere. It has impoverished the soil and turned fertile regions into wasted fields. Wherever the foot of the slave has pressed the earth degradation and misery have followed, and there thy remain. The sense of justice is^ blighted, and extortion and oppression are practiced with impunity. Truth is a stranger and falsehood met on every hand. Theft is honorable, if you are successful in hiding. Repudiation of a debt is a smart transaction or clever trick. There is no honesty of purpose, purity of motive or stability of character. The slave, degraded, oppressed and outraged in every way, has sought, like the savage, retribution in the way of a savage. There is no refinement about him. Even in his present state of freedom he is coarse, rough and brutal. Slavery would make him brutal, even if he were not so originally. The slave’s brutality was communicated, in a greater or less degree to the master and to the master’s family. And this brutality has been inherited for generations and has now become a controlling element in tke character of the controlling claw in the south. The mark of the slave, the curse of the crime of his enslavement rests upon all. Society, institutions, legislation, custom, habit, the physical and moral condition of the people—the very ground itself—is cursed by the crime that made man a slave to his brother man. There is but one escape from the min that is apparent upon all the land. The class which enslaved, oppressed, and tyrannized over another class, must take by the hand the subjects of their cmeltr and the victims of their wrong and raise them up to the high plane of tivilizatidh and Christianity they would occupy themselves. They must not only learn justice, but they most dispense it to the race they despoiled for generations. They must repent in deeds before exoecting forgiveness and receiving blessings from the Almighty Dispenser of good gifts. The great crime of slavery must be atoned for, and those who were guilty of the crime must make the atonement or be swept from the earth. If they fail to do this, and the atonement is made vicariously, those who made is will suceed to a rich.inheritance never appreciated by others who have so far only abased it. Babtox.

For Tbs InitanapeUs New*. Mors Jamtm TUm. I knew thst f wu dnd. go very far Menesth me toy all world* that the rough mm Which waste the ■ounuina of the farthest star Sounded more faint than do the maple treat RuaUing in rummer, whan the wind to tow. Piaaed wae all npace; and paeeed the atbery voids Whenca nav worlds coins, aod whither aid world* »o. Mmol rod; perchaneo te make now asteroids. Famed were heaven s outer coasts; the angola turned Their heeds Worn me, and apnka not. One I saw Whom I had known on earth; her silence burned My soot, even as frost burns the face. With awe I ip-ke: “Where in the heaven ef baavana is Ha Whose hand creates, bnt never eherlthm: Who smiles alike while man and strenaa and tree Sach grows and tows and blooms and perishes'” Where dwells thy Ged-he who demurely efts And sees the earthquake gulph tke sleeping town: * Or hears the cherub* sing, while the storm hits The reeling ahlp, when aU the crew roes dewn? Me answering, the said, “Thee once I knew; . Bow, in what world, or in what years ago Thou knowest; and I, stoat for love is true. Yet that earns kiss here saved which worked me woe Yondrt. Thou want the storm that my white mil Engulphid; while Cupids sang to thee. Oh. where Slept town more peacefully than I; The tale la old Thou wa»t my earthquake. I was fair As, breaking from their hive, a swarm of be«e The earth with murmur’s every cadence tile, bo memories burst; the droning hum of Ease, And Passion's burr; and the shrill sound that kills. She, standing radiant, fixed on me her eyes. Eyes that keavea’s lights, and all hell’s ehadawa knew. And, speaking low, she mid, “Ail faiaahoed dice; Love Uvea alone, for love alone Is true. gs False it the storm, and false the shock; they die. True are all peaceful mu!s and true the Weave; Nor does one perish; neither they who lie Covered with sea mom, or la noisome cave.” L’KSVOI. Two clouds that hunt across tke farthest sky, Curtaias that bide the embrace of day and night, Rifted; and In! I saw with undated eye, God, breathing love as morning areathea the light.

Tiftox, Ixd,

-[John W. Tindall.

SCRAPS. New York and Brooklyn still have eight Pinafores between them. The best man among the Utes discovered to date is Susan, the squaw. A Baltimore paper has the hardihood to call soothing syrup a kid napper. r Building goes on rauidly from Fifty-ninth to One handred and thirty-fifth street, New York. The total number of visitors to the Virginia state fair, last week, was estimated at 30-000. An ounce of generous praise will do more to make a man your friend than a pound of faujt finding. Sprinkling machines and Chinamen each have their uses; one keeps the lawn wet and the other the laundry.—[N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. The latest fashion in ear tabs is to have black velvet caps for the ear, with the monogram of the wearer embroidered in gay colored silk on the sides. An Englishman named Hook has been engaged all the past summer in photogtaphirg Montana scenery. He has built a boat in which to descend the Missouri. J. C. Calhoun’s late residence, in Pickens county, Pouth Carolina, with all the grounds attached, is to be sold by the sheritf. It is to be sold as the property of J. W. Cranford. Mark Twain has been making republican speeches for Cornell in New York state. His friends were always confident that he would do something funny before he died.—{New York World. Mr. C. B. Bishop, of Baltimore, the fat comedian, has passed examination in a medical college in San Francisco, has received his diploma and has hung out his shingle as a practicing physician. A comprehensive Scotch school inspector asked an Aberdeen class if any one coaid tell him anything remarkable in the life of Moses. Boys: “Yes, sir. He was the only man who broke all the commandments at once.” Mr. William Jerrold Dixon, eldest son of Mr. Hepworth Dixon, was found dead in his bed recently, in Belgrave square, Dublin. He had just concluded his labors as secretary to the Royal Sanitary commission, which had been silting in Dublin. Now is Ihe time of a year when the young bride fondly gazes at seven fish knives, andja pair of sugar tongs, a napkin ring and a clock, and sweetly whispers to the wedding guests that the other presents are not displayed, owing to the wish of the givers, who hate publicity.”—[Pniladelphia Bulletin. The jhossbunker fisheries of Port Monmouth, N. J., have closed and the season has been very successful. Over 25,000,000 fish have been taken. The oil averages three gallons toa thousand fish, and the scrap yields seventy tons to a million fish. The scrap readilv sells for $30 per ton, and is used as a fertil-

izer.

The Cherokee Advocate, edited and published by Indians, very truly suggests, in seme comments upon the letter written by Miss Rose Meeker, in which she speaks of Utes as “red devils,” that “if you feel toward an Indian that he is a red devil, that you will treat him as such, and that if you treat him as such he will ‘come at you’ in the same

way.”

Letter addressed to Postmaster General Key: Hon. D. M. Key, postmaster-general, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, land of the free, western hemisphere, temperate zone, between latitude 25 and 35 and longitude 27 and 127, situated on the planet known as the earth, which revolves around the planet known as the

sun, etc.

The Rev. James Beecher, half brother of Henry Ward Beecher, still lives with his family near Beecher Lake, in the center of a wild tract of country among the Catskill mountains. The house, built by the clergyman himself, is a story and a half high, with a veranda fronting the lake. There is no road nearer than nine miles, and the nearest

poetoffice is ten miles away.

A new sentimental song is entitled, “Tel! Me to Live in Your Soul, Love.” We’ll do it. There’s nothing mean about us. Come right along and live in it. High stoop, stone front, basement dining room, hot and cold water on every floor, and a telephone in the sitting room. Rent $28 a month, invariably in advance; references. But why did you

leave your last soul?—[Hawkeye.

An angry beldame burst into a do!ice court in Limerick, mattering incoherently and gesticulating violently. “What d’ye want, in the name of goodness?" asked the magistrate. “Justice!” she shrieked. “Arrah! look at the hour,” petulantly answered his worship, who was getting hungry; “it’s 4 o’clock, I tell ye, an’ divil a bit more justice anybody will get from this binch to-day.”—

[London World.

Florence, tie actor, tells this story of the elder Booth: “He was playing Hamlet in Virginia one night and had no skull. A little darky volunteered to get one. When Bootn was leaving the theater he felt some one tugging at his coat tail. He looked around and saw the little brunette. ‘What will you have, sonny ?’ ‘Please, sah, I want daddy's skull, fab.’ ‘Daddy’s skull?’ ‘Yes, fah. Dat used to be ole man's headpiece afore de mewel kicked him, an’ mammy’ll

lick me ter rags ef I lose it.’ ”

A San Francisco paper says: “Mr. Redpath is about five feet eight inches in height, sparely built, with dark, clear, sharp eyes a prominent nose and a firm month. He has very little hair left, and that little, around the base of his head, and is iron gray in color.” He said: “I can not account for my manner of leaving New York. I think I would have gone to Patagonia if I had bo«ded a steamer for that place. I really had no idea where I was going until I was sway out to sea. I believe when the reasoning power is dead that one becomes a machine: the will as it were directs one. I had visited Jamaica three times in my life to es-

arves in great pain, my

Has posted for

cape sorrow and grief, and no doubt aj I

watered oEthewbarre eyes fell on the steam

Jamaica and fithout any reasoning power went aboard.” * Mr. Redpath remarks that the first of bit trouble was an excruciating

pain behind the left ear.

BECEETAKT ITANTON. The Wag HA Became • Member ef Fleecin'a Cabinet. [Washington cor. St. Louis Republican.] I met Marshal Ward Lam on the other day. and (peaking of ths Stanton letters published in the North American Review, Lincoln’s friend and biographer told me of the manner in which Lincoln happened to get Stanton into the cabinet. I use the word happened advisedly, for it was like ao many other important acta of Lincoln's administration, purely a happening. Iu December, 1861, which was only a few month* after the date of the Stanton letter, now published, Mr. Lincoln was talking with Secretary Chase about the action of our government in the Trent affair. The president was asking if the secretary had heard of any opinions as to the government’s coarse by prominent democrats, when Mr. Chase said he understood Mr. Stanton, who was then in Washington, shared the opinion of the pieeident and upheld the president’s course. The president then asked Mr. Chase if he had ever heard how Mr. Stanton bad abased him (the presidentjin the McCormick case at Cincin'ati. Mr. Chase replied that he had not,*nd the president told how Mr. Stanton, being retained on the same side os Mr. Lincoln, declined to consult with him, saying he would have nothing to do with the “long legged and long armed ape.” “But,” said the president, as ne concluded the story, “tell Mr. Stanton I would like to see him.” Within a few evenings Mr. Stanton called at the White house. The president told him he had heard that his visitor was upholding the legality and policy of the government’s course. Mr* Stanton replied at some length, giving his reasons for the opinion he held. The president asked him if he would commit it to writing. Stanton premised he would, and the interview ended without any other subject than the Trent affair being alluded to during the whole of the evening. .It was within one or two evenings afterward that Mr. Stanton called with the mms. of his opinion as requested. As he handed it to the president the latter said, “Mr. Stanton, there is about to be a change in my cabinet. Will you take the place of secretary of war?” Mr.'Stauton was much surprised, but before he left that evening he had accepted the position, and during the next month, January 1882, he went into the office.

Th* New York Independent*. [Springfield Republican. ] The encouragement Af the liberal scratchera has come from a wholly different class. Letters in answer to their call have come from clergymen and teachers, young college men, professional men just beginning to practice, and occasionally an old irreconcilable abolitionist. Ministers have sent in lists of ■ voters in their congregations, young graduates have supplied the names ot college chums living over the states and the membership of college associations has supplied the material for forming local organizations. Successful or not the “ecratchers” have been able in a short campaign of thirty days to reach in all parts of New York state the very classes on which the republican party once leaned. It is barely possible that the politicians will be able this time to get along without the votes of these men. but with a year’s time to organize and unite, the republican party in 1880 will find it a moat dangerous thing to get along without the influence of this large and growing class. Whatever the result of the election the New York “scratchers" intend to keep their organization ap and come into communication during the next winter with men of like mind in other states who will not hesitate to defeat a machine candidate, whichever party nominates him.

Governor Long. [Letter in Chicago Times ' It is to the honor of the republican narty in Massachusetts that it had ihe sagacity to recognize a leader in Mr. Long. If his life is spared, and the exigencies of politics do no net procure his retirement in favor of selfish intrigue or pliable mediocrity, the nation will sometime hear more of the new governor. Those who have known him longest and most intimately forecast his future with the most enthusiasm and confidence. Mr. Long married, some ten years

been exceptionally happy. Fortune has always been kind to him. It is safe to say that he hat not an enemy in the world, unless there be here and there a modern Athenian who is tired of always hearing Aristides called the Just. Where la Hendrick*? [Report of Senator Wallace’!speech ] Direct methods, clean hands and a spotless record are the marks of the man who are to lead ns in the coming race, whether it be Bayard, fearless and pure, ever the champion of home rule against corrupt government, a third term and consolidated power; of Hancock, the soldier advocate of civil rule, Pennsylvanian by birth, and clean of hand; [cheers;] of McClellan or Thurman or Hendricks—the issues of principle will be sharply defined, and personal issues relegated to private life. At the mention of Bayard’s name the applause was prolonged, and the cheers great. Hancock and McClellan’s names were also cheered.

Jay Cooke’s Estate. The Philadelphia Times printed a history of the management of Jay Cooke’s affairs since bis failure, and said: “Creditors who have not parted with their claims nor sold their stock can to-day, counting their receipts from cash dividends, realize the full face of their claims, with a handsome surplus by way of interest Beside this there will be another scrip dividend, which it is believed will be worth in cash five per centum of the claims, which will make a return of $1,122.37 for every $1,000 o( claims.”

A Remarkable Olfferenee. [ Evansville Tribune. 1 It is wonderful what a difference there is in the statements of democratic papers about Indiana. When there is no collateral question to warp their judgment they oay it is fertile and can support almost as many people as there are in all the U nited ntates. When southern negroes propose to come and settle here they say there is not room enough for the people already here to make a living. A Dead Lion. [Eetrolt News, Tuesday evening.] Senator Chandler’s death has had one visible effect in this city. Dying as he did in the midst of his stalwart crusade, his last words an appeal to rally to the A>arty standard, republicans who rontemplated bolting will hesitate to do it in the presence as it were of hie dead body. This is superstition, of course, but it will its effect to-day. Bettor Than ILt, Me. [Chicago Time* j Somebody has seen that Senator Morton’s grave is kept green. At the second anniversary of his death the other day, the spot was covered with flowers. The proposed monument has not been built, of course; bat such attention as has been noted is more grateful and gracious than the most towering of marble shafts.

Mr. Harper’* Fine Colt. Mr. Frank Harper, the owner of Longfellow and Ten Broeck, thinks he has the finest yearling colt in America. He is by Longfellow, dam Platina, and is named Fellow Play. Longfellow measures 71 inches, Ten Broeck 72 inches, and th’s colt«ow measures 67 inches round the heart. How to Keep Good Times. [South Bend Register.] Save a little every week from yonr earningt—a good deal if you can without denying yourself or the family absolutely needful comforts. CuluVaUe* of Cera. Indian corn was first grown by Europe*-'4 in this country at the James river settlement in Virginia, in f608. In 1609 more than forty acres were grown by Virginia planters.

GRAND OPERA HOUSE. J. & * GEO. A. DICK8QH, Gsyler's Ctmady Csmpany, WITH MATTIE VICKERS. The Quean* SewbiwUae, ud The Popular Comedian and King al Mimlem im 9 CHARLES GAYLEK'H Drama, entitled, “STAB;” Or, Part* and Dltmoadt, Produced with New ncesery and OestqsMa. «rRegular price*; secure aaata at Qunerwn's music More, No IS North Meridian, and at Frank Bird’s transfer e«ce, opposite Bates house. One week and Saturday matinee, commencing on Monday November io, JOHNT. RAYMOND, ea Dickson’s Park Theater,

Grand Benefit Concert, DF'x-lcT.ay, KTov- 7, TKXDUKD MB. ORA PEARSON, Who will be amisted by some of Ihe bast local talent and Beissenherz’s Full Orchestra. Ticket* for sale at J. B. Cameron’s and Emile Welchner’s music store. na MASONIC^ HALL. GRAND PATTI CONCERT I Her tour areead th* world. Under the direcite* ef Mr. G. A. Cbtimla. D. DaTtre, manager. Trt■mphant re-entre and eely appearance in this city of the reigning queen of Soag, Mme. CARLO FT A PATH, (Whose peerleas vocalisation hsa electrified the meet critical audieoeas ef both henlshheres, and whose concerts in New York have been the aaeat successful oa record,[ia oosjunctlea with the following artists: Mr. Henry Katies, the brilliaet and poetic pianist; Mr. Erneet De Munck, the kieg o( vtolonceUlMa; Mr. Thee. J. Toedt, the dUUnguinhed American tenor; dig. Clampl-CeUaj, the eaalnent baritone; Mr. Gee. W.Oalby, accompanist. »» Popular prices—|l; Reserved seats, gl.W: to ba had at /. B. Cameron's music store, oa and after Thursday. NaVcmhar •. »# CHICKKRINU PIANOS used at the Patti Concert a. o i-tu.th.f.sm.tu W/ENNERCHOR HALL SUNDAY, NOVEMBER *, Grand Sacred Concert, erviH nr ^ Master Alfred Schellschmidt, From the Conservatory of Leipclg, Assisted by the following artists: MB. ALFRED VIOL, Pianlat, from Leipzig; M18S ANNA DESPA, Soprano; $ PROF. EMIL ZUMPFB, Cello; and Beissenherz’s Orchestra, Doors open at 7 p. m. Concert begias at 8 p. *. Admission, 60 cents. h h-ta,th,fr,Sat

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