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VBUKAY, HOYbHBSB tT117*. -... - — .!..-fe= The Indianapolis News has a bona fide circulation more than one-half larger than that of any Other dally paper in Indiana. CothfTT expenses must be reduced. Ivet the courts dispense with superfluous bailifla and jurors. Both sides claim the victory in New York. Whichever way it goes it is virtually a defeat to both. Th* greenbackers don’t have much to aay about gains in New York. Last year they cast over 75,000 votes, this year about 8,000. Philadelphia has a smaller population than New York city, and yet she registers 193,690 voters to New York’s 268,143. Ibon rails are 50 per cent, h igher than they were four mouths ago. The rolling mills have orders ahead, some of them •ufficient to last the year out. California's total gold product since mining began there,is estimated at $1,617,000,000. During this last year the value of staple agricultural products harvested, is $100,000,000 more than this. A southern representative who is as much consulted as any man in congress according to the Washington Star, says at the coming session of congress the democrat! will not attempt to [revive the agitation concerning the federal election laws, and will discourage sectional discussion and sectional measure*; but will try to revile the tariff. • *> The total estimates for carrying on the departments for the coming fiscal year are about $7,000,000 more than last year's appropriations. Of this about $2,000,000 as on account of {tensions; about $3,000,D00 on account of post office, and $2,000,000 among the other departments. The ancrease of about $2,000,000 in pension estimates is caused by the arrears of penaions act. Previous to the treaty with the Sandwich islands 23 per cent, of the sugar imported at the Pacific coast came from •he islands and 77 per cent, from other countries. Now 46 per cent, comes from * the islands and 54 from other countries. 3But the island imports are paid for in liome products, which might be considered an offset to the charge that foreign sugar is first shipped to the islands and then reshipped to avoid duty. “Those who know Grant say he is a man of too much good common sense to decline a thing before it is offered him.”—[Young man in Inter-Ocean. “Gen. Grant will not declare that he will not be a candidate until be has been asked. ’’—[John C. New. Thus forever talk the hangers-on, and the “smart Alecks” who affect to manage our political affairs. Great man is Gen Grant. He is afflicted with so much "saving common sense.” But how about George Washington? What a silly man lie must have been. The opening paragraphs of the farewell* address, which ha* hitherto been regarded as a document entitled to some consideration, are as follow: “The period fer a new election of a citiien to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time aetualiy arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person wrho is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the molution I have formed to decline being considered among the number of these out of whom a choice Is to be made. “1 beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relations which bind a dutiful citizen to his country; and that in withdrawing the tender of services, which silence in my situation might imply, I am influenced by no diminution of seal for your future interest; no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness; but am supported by a fall convictiea that the step is compatible with both.” It is submitted that the thought of the country is now turned to a consideration of the person to be entrusted with executive duties quite as much as it was at the date when this address wss promulgated. George Washington felt U to be perfectly proper to withdraw his name in advance of a nomination,that the contest might be simplified. Silence on the part of Gen. Grant is now taken by a large portion of

TBE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1879.

the people of the United States to mean that he would giv# his services in a third term If asked, and he isnotsomuobgreater than Washington as to make unbecoming in him what has ever been regarded as the crowning act of a distinguished and singularly unselfish life. A reading of the farewell address might be of advantage to young men connected with organs, to political managers, and possibly to General Grant himself. Tbs New York Lesson. There is a wholesome lesson to the engineers of the party machines in the New \ork election, let the tail of the ticket on either side go with the head or not. Mr. Conkling is set back by thousands of republicans, who don’t be* lieve that party managers have a right to force adherents to choose between an offensive or dishonest partisan and a party opponent. That is the “bulge” that “machinists” nearly always get on a party. They work by well known appliances to get a pet nominated, qaring not one cent whether he is acceptable or not outside of their own circle, and then coolly say to the dissatisfied, “You are between the devil and the deep sea; you’ve got to vote for our choice or give- the victory to the other side.” Conkling insulted every man in New York who agreed with the president and his cabinet when they turned Cornell out of his federal office, in virtually telling them: “You have choice but to elect my favorite, or give this state now and next year to the democracy.” The independents have slapped the insolent bulldozer in the mouth, with a force that has brought the blood. He has been saved from utter defeat only by the help of that most corrupt of all corrupt organizations on earth, Tathmany. The republicans were, apparently, strong enough to have carried a generally acceptable man over the united democracy, for they have done H, or come near it, with a part of the state ticket against one that Tammany supported. Bat, deprived of the help of 72,000 Kelly votes, where would Cornell’s 43,000 plurality have been? The fifteen or twenty thousand or more scratchers would have ruined him, as they have probably saved the remainder of the ticket. So we fairly score one for George William Curtis and the men who will not be bulldozed by the “machinists.” There is another lesson with a local application to Indiana, in the New York election, he-the final result what it may. The Tammany “bolt” will not be allowed to go unpunished. To do that would be destruction to the party. Mr. Kelly and Tammany, under their present relations, are dead in democracy. If Mr. Tilden is “laid cut” he will take precious good care to “lay out” any rival that his assassins sympathize with. It may be all that will be left in his power, and if he doesn’t use it his nature will have to undergo a marvellous change. Tammany’s help will be a serious drawback to any rival. It will kill Mr. Hendricks, who is notoriously Tammany’s pet. In our judgment he is more effectually “laid out” than Mr. Tilden. He can have no rational hope of carrying New York against the Tilden influence, and Potter’s own case is too uncertain to make him a saving auxiliary on the ticket. “Hendricks and Potter” would be no stronger than “Hendricks and Ewing,” for the weakness of the head wsuld paralyze the tail. In the present success of Republican reaction, it is very doubtful if Mr. Hendricks could carry Indiana. In any event he has no chance in New York, and he can’t ba elected without New York, nor can he in any reasonable possibility be nominated even.

It is now perhaps a matter of no interest, either as a fossil from the past or as a specimen brick for the future, to allude to the Journal’s vagaries on finance. But, inasmuch, as it saw fit to impeach the veracity of this paper, the truth of history calls for vindication; and the process may be amusing as showing our contemporary’s breathless struggle between a pancity of brains and a plethora of cowardice. We said the Journal advocated the repeal of the reeumption act. It retorted in its usual style, something about a stale lie. We let it answer itself. In November of 1877, in speaking of what it called “the undigested resumption act," it said: It was always,.* fraud; but our fri«ndi east would have it, and the people- of the west were converted to It one by one as they went through the bankruptcy courts. A month later it said: We advocated an extension of the time fixed for reeumption, or a ^repeal of the clause ti xing the time lor resumption, up to the meeting ol the Cincinnati convention. But now, it went on to say, resumption was espoused by the party and it was in favor of it. It kept on favoring it for a few weeks then in February, 1878, it “flopped” as follows:

The repeal of the resumption act or ths extension of the time fixed ior resumption, therefore,

becomea a necessity and the sooner it is done tbe better. • * • We repeat emphatically that with tbe change that has taken place in tbe

demand for our four percent, bonds reeumption at tbe time fixed has been rendered impossible In any

kind of a specie dollar.

A few days later, speaking of resumption,

it said:

It can’t be done and none knows it better than tbe secretary of the treasury. We trust he will hi honest enough and bold enough to say so to congress at once. Later still nnder the title of “resuming with nothing” it said: 6ome of these who • ♦ choose to do what is pot sible rather than what is deairaole sre '• flopping” and ‘‘tnconsistant.” Admit it. Better that than resolute stupidity. It is no Inconsistency to see that facts have made impossible what once appeared practicable. It is simply blindness not to see it. With much of this was its usual quantity of epithets applied to those, among them this paper, who persisted that resumption was possible and would be accomplished. While It was leading this crazy dance it was •triking right and left at everything within reach: called the national banking system a triumph of the creditor east over the debtor west, and could see no objection to the substitution of greenbacks for national bank notes if it was constitutional; called the demonetization of Silver a fraud and characterized its proposed remonetization as an equal fraud; wanted the trade dollar made a legal tender (became fairly frantic on this); then wanted more silver put in the Bland dollar; then when the Bland bill was passed, urged President Hayes to “exhibit great wisdom and praotioal sagacity

by signing it,” having previously called it a “grah.game”for the benefit of “the holders of sUver mines, stocks and bullion, at the expense of the people.” After this it began to espouse the resumption act and up to its last issue has continued it, though without daring to say whether it wants the coinage of 82-cent dollars to continue, and redeemed greenbacks to be paid * out again or not - So much for the inane course of this windy braggart, that hasn’t sense enough to keep silence upon the subjects on which its ignorance is even of. more than its, average density. As in the past so in the future: at the first turn of financial affairs it will step forward to instruct Secretary Sherman iu the premises, unmindful of the fact that it is the bait of its party, and the standing exemplification to its press compeers of “that man, wise in his own conceit; there is more hope of a fool than of him.”

OLRREMT comment.

It is amusing to see with what feverish

EACH CHAKDLKK. A Collect Ian of Intaraatlna Anecdote* of tho Dead Boaator. [ Washington letter Chicago Inter-Ooean.] Chandler had a very small opinion of Hflyes. I was at his boose in Detroit once, during the first year of the present administration, and the president’s ostentatious economy was alluded to. “1 am tol<L.” eaid Chandler, “that he only spends $6,000 a year, aad saves $44,000 ont of his salary. When yon go back to Washington you go and tell Hayes that I will fix it so that he can save his entire salary. He has been in office one" year. He will receive $151,000 more salary if he lives out bis term. I will give him a check for that amount, payable when he will write’ his resignation as president of tbe United States on the back of it. Wheeler will then be president, and this government will be run as it ought to be.” Chandler, however, lost mast of his feeling of hostility when he and the president became better acquainted, and there was no man who had more influence with the president, last winter, than Chandler. Their original dislike was a bad case of misapplied prejudice on both sides; and I kaow that the president to-day feels the loss of Senator Chandler as keenly as any man.

haste some democrats snapped up Clarkson N. Potter as a suitable candidate for the vice presidency. Heretofore they have filled the ticket with various triumphant governors, but suitable personages of this grade have become so scarce that at the first evidence of the salvation of one lieutenant-governor out of||the political wreck, they pounce upon him—and his neck isn’t fairly out of water yet; he may be drowned along with the

others.

It is amusing to see with what unanimity the republican press hasten to declare that the democratic defeat in New York by no means puts au end to Tilden. In this tuey differ from the democratic press. Were Grant elected for third term and afked if he would have a fourth, he would smile and look seaward and never budge a hair from the position that .would enable him to get the usufruct of as many terms of anything that the length of his natural life would span.

RO SYMPATHT POR RASCALS. When he was secretary of the interior a contractor came into his office and awaited his turn for a heating. When it came he went up, took the chair by the side of the secretary’s desk, and, drawing a pile of papers from his pockets, began: ’ , . “Mr. Secretary, I’ve been badly used—” “I’m glad of it,” interrupted Mr.Chandler; you’re a d—d scoundrel, and it’s time you were getting your deserts.” The man coughed, and “ahemed,” and attempted to explain, but Chandler would not listen to him. He finally said that he might write him a letter setting forth his grievances, and he would see that they were investigated. “Although,” said he, as the contractor retired, “it’s my opinion that the worst treatment you could get would be too good for you.” I don’t know who this man was, or what he had done, more than that he was a contractor in the Indian service, and was suspected of fraud, but while he was secretary Mr. Chandler obtained a very thorough knowledge of the entire ramifications of the interior department, and stamped out aU the corruption there was in it.

Watever the outcome of the New York election the “A B C” of it is Alonzo B. Cornell.

At the time of writing Cornell’s election as

governor of New York by a plurality of from 15,000 to 20,000, is conceded by the democrats, while the republicans claim the election of their entire state ticket. This is a splendid triumph, which makes the election of Gen. Grant next year a foregone conclu-

sion.— [St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

They (republican leaders) ought to see that their present sectional attitude and policy are not fatisfactory to the people. In spite of their utmost eflorts they nave not decreased the number of doubtful states this year, and they still depend upon democratic follies to

help them.—[New York Herald.

Why shall we exempt the Indian from it? He should be made to earn his bread in the sweat of his brow. He will not like it, but he will get used to it, and the next generation, instead of being born to the war paint, will be born to the plow. Work must be part of any successful Indian policy.—[Phil-

adelphia Chronicle-Herald.

Let the young men use their energy, backed by fidelity of principle, at the right time in the political affairs of this state, and we shall have better politics and less scratching when another election day comes.—[New

York Evening Poet

a Heroine Heart,

[New York Times.!

On Friday last a woman was found deai on the steps leading into the cellar of a hous on Firpt avenue. Hundayat the morgue, th< body was recognized as that of Carrie Cor nell, a seamstress, who, during the electioi riots of July, 1863, attained considerabli notoriety from having rescued a police office! from the hands of a riotous mob. Office: Jchn McCarty of the Broadway squad wa on patrol at Third avenue and 43d street was set upon by a crowd, who took awav hL club and beat and kicked him. Heimd man aged to resist their attacks for sotdfrfme, bn finally fell to the sidewaik in front of th< house occupied bff Miss Cornell'! parents She was standing at the window, and sau several of the rioters kick the body. Spring ing through the window in the midst of tb< mob, she protecte'd the officer from furthei injury, by receiving many blows on her owr person. Ashamed of beating a young wo man, the crowd desisted, whereupon sh< attempted to drag tbe officer into the house They set upon her again, but she fough them, and finally succeeded in pushing Me Carty through the doors, which she barri caded. McCarty is yet a member of thi

police force.

ifeinerjKabie Dreaence of Mind, Remarkable presence of mind was recentl shown by a-miner near Pottsville, Penn. H was employed in a shaft on Sharp Mountaic He had lighted a fuse and Was climbing t the surface by means of pegs in the side o the shaft. When within a few feet of th top one of the pegs gave way and th unfortunate man fell to the bottom, thirt feet below. One of his thighs wa broken, and the splintered bon«

sufficient presence of mind „ „ lighted fuse which had burned within a fe' inches of the charge and to smother it. If b had not done this he would have been blow to pieces when the explosion took place. I] then crawled back to one of the earth bncl ets, got into it without assistance, and wi hoisttd to the surface.

He Wanted “de ’Lowance.*’ |Columbus (Miss.) Index.] A colored man who had contracted a debt some years ago with one of our merchants came to town yesterday and called on bis old creditor. “Didn’t you ’splain to me dat if I settled up dat account you would give me a ’lowance?” said the darkey to the merchant. “Yes, Tdid say so Sam,” said the merchant, “If you are ready to settle your bill now I will make a good allowance,” and the merchant waited for the colored individual to pull out his pocket-book. “Well, sir, I hasn’t got de money jes’ now, but I thought I’d come in and get de’lowance ; my wife wants a shawl,”

Pestilent Clemency. [Cincinnati Gazette.] Gov. Blackburn is absent temporarilv from the Kentucky capital. When he left the pardoning business stood as follows: Convicts pardoned from the penitentiary, 58; pardoned before conviction, 2; pardoned for carrying concealed weapons. 40; pardoned for selling liquor to minors, 30; gamblers pardoned, 80; fines against gamblers, cases, 80; amount of finee against gamblers remitted, $52,860. The $52,860 remitted to the gamblers is taken from the school fund.

Kissing the Pope’a Foot. Leo XIII. speaks very little English, and converses generally iu either French or Italian. He listens attentively to every introduction, makes a stately courtesy, and then offers his hand, on which gleams the pontifical ring. The visitor who is at the time reverently kneeljpg, gently takes the pone’s hand and carries the ring to his lips. The pope gently sways his body back disclosing his foot, and a kiss is likewise imprinted on the instep, where a cross resplendantly shines.

Diplomatic Changes la Germany. It is stated at Berlin that the post of foreign secretary, made vacant by the death of Yon Bulow, has bean offered to Hoheniohe, present German ambassador to Paris, who would simultaneously be appoiaied imperial vice chancellor. It is understood that Yon Stolberg, present vice chancellor, concurs in this arrangement, but it is not yet known whether.Hoheniohe will accept.

SAIA^ A.IAAX UlJUiA -

When Garfield and other republicans weak ened on the army bill in the house las spring, they did so upon what they believet to be a safe assurance that the president in tended to give it his signature. Congressmat Levi P. Morton, of New York, got up in th< house caucus and said he had positive know! edge that Hayes would sign the bill. Gar field said the same thing, and several others and at least two cabinet officers were certaii

that was the president’s intention.

I went to Mr. Chandler’s house that nigh after the caucus. He was playing wbis with a party of friends. At the end of th< game he sat down in the corner with me

and asked in a familiar way: “What is it to-night, my son?”

J told him of the action of the house re publicans. He expressed great indignation I told him I had positive information froa two cabinet officers that the president in'

tended to sign the army bill.

“No, he won’t!” he replied very positively “no he won’t.” 7

“Have you seen him,” I asked.

“No,” I havn’t seen him, but he won’ sign that bill. I tell you he will veto it a

sure as there’s a God in Israel.”

“I’m afraid you’re mistaken, Mr. Chan

dler.”

“My son, did I ever lie to you?” “No, sir.” “Then take my word for it that Haye: will veto that bill, and you telegraph it al over the country.” THE “185 E L ECTOR A L VOTE” TELEGRAM.

The morning after the election of 1876, when it looked as if Tilden was the president, the secretary of the congressional committee, Judge Edmunds, now postmaster here, telegraphed Mr. Chandler, who was in New

York:

“What is your idea of the matter ? We are very much discouraged here.” A few hours afterward came the reply :

“J. M. Edmunds, Washington, D. C.: “Hayes has 185 votes, and is sleeted.

“v. ru

Z. Chandler.’’

And to the hundreds of people, who applied to him for information he sent the same stereotyped reply, and stuck to it, until life electoral count was completed, and the truth of his assertion proven. Under glass, in a handsome frame, in the rooms of the congressional committee in Washington, that

telegram is preserved. '

AN EXPENSIVE STEAL. Last winter Mr. Chandler had a great deal of sport with his friends over a paragraph which appeared in a local democratic paper, which was discussing his honesty, and admitted it, saying that although he was a very bad man otherwise, he never stole anything but the presidency. Mr. Chandler in commenting upon it, said that it was an expensive “steal?’ The election of President Hayes cost him upward of $37,000. He told me the exact figures once, and showed me a check-book, with the stubs, upon which every item was accounted for.

MR. CHANDLER’S PROFANITY. Although at times profane to an extent that would mortify “au army in Flanders,” Mr. Chandler was a man of sincere religious convictions, of profound reverence and a believer in the Calvinistic faith. His wife and daughter are members of the Presbyterian church, and he attended with them. He used to talk religion frequently, and expressed himself very freely as believing in the existenceofan all-wise and overruling Providence. His convictions upon every subject were intense; what he believed was as much a part of his life as hts blood—whether it was politics, business or religion, I heard him apologize once for swearing. “I am in the habit, sometimes,” he said, “of expressing myself freely. It’s a bad practice, I know, but the English language is deficient in some respects, and I doa t speak any

BIS DRINKING HABITS. For a man so broad and bold in his con.versation, so candid about expressing his opinions, Mr. Chandler was very sensitive. He was paiticularly sensitive about the stories of bis intemperance. Mr. Chandler was not an intemperate man. He never drank «xcept at dinner, and it was extremely seldom that he drank too much. He had a reckless, uncouth way about him that a stanger who did not know him might easily suspect to be the result of intoxication.

PRESENTIMENT OP DEATH. I have frequently heard Mg. Chandler express the opinion that he would die a sudden death. He was of a robust constitution, capable of great endurance, and not pasily subject to fatigue. Of late years he was much troubled with sciatica, andsuffered much pain, but during his last months in Washington he enjoyed perfect health. He, with Anthony and Hamlin, rejjresented the ante-bellum senate, and he watched his old associates die off with great grief. Very often he with his two colleagues, whom I name, used to sit in the cloak room talking pver old times, and^he would frequently remark to Anthony: “You and I will go off of a sudden some time.”

Wall, Hardly. The term of Mississippi’s colored senator— Bruce—will expire next March, and the question of electing his successor is becoming one of interest. It is not probable that a colored man will succeed him.

Very Satisfactory. [Richmond Palladium. ] Garfield is believed to have the inside track for the seoatorship in Ohio. This will please the republicans^f Indiana to a dot. Moalc Hath Charms, Etc. A bass drum has beea forwarded to the Yankton Indians, who, according to the Yankton Press, have their hearts set upon a brass bead. Bo Has Mr. Haadricks. (Jeffersonville News.] We have had enough of Henry Wattonoa.

Fata. Two shall b* horn the whole wide world apart, in different tonguea, aad have a* Eacbol the ether’s being, aad ae heed. And these o’er unknown acne to anfcnovn londa Shalt cress, sscsplng wreck, defying death; And, all aneouecloualy.ahape every apt And bend each wandering etep to this one end— That see day out of darkneaa they shall meet, And rend Ilia’s meaning In cash other’* eyes. And two shall walk some narrow way of life, 8o nearly aids by aide that should one turn Ever ao (title space to left or right. They needs must stand acknowledged face to lace; Aad yet, with wistful eyaa that never meet. With grouping hands that nover clasp, and Ups Calling in vain to lips that never hear— 1 hey seek esrh other all their weary daya, And dia nnaatlafled; and this is Fat*. —(Scsah M. Spaldixo.

SCRAPS.

Japanese ladies wear their hats only when it rains. Governor] McClellan is still too weak to venture much out of doors. Fichna are worn with all costumes, and are in a variety of shapes and materials. A sweet potato weighing nineteen pounds was grown in St. Landry parish, La., last year. A Vermonter at a seance kicked a spirit in the nose, and the medium could not go out fora week. The Boston Sabbath School Juvenile “Pinafore” company is the latest. It is playing at the New York aquarium fish and beer garden. The coachmen have another advantage over the ordinary beaus. They can present the girls the surcingles of their horses for fashionable belts. Dr. John Miers, the veteran English botanist, noted for his researdUhs ia South America more than half a ‘century ago, has just died at the age of 90. Cyrus Seaver, of Waterbury, YL, was possessed by tbe idea that he must set fire to a building every Wednesday or die. He burned dwellings on three sucoessive Wednesdays before he was detected. Tbe earth, says the Singalese version of the universe, “is subject alternately to destruction and renovation; it is destroyed seven times by fire, and the eighth by water.” Just now it looks as though it was moot likely to be destroyed by whisky.— [Hawkeye. r A man called Elder Stanton, claims to have cast a demon out of a young man at Sparta, Livingston county, N. Y. Just before tbe demon escaped, in the form of a green frog, the young man manifested what the local papers call great “green apple distress,” by leaping and j umping like a frog. Stanton has many believers. Statistics show that the number of freshmen in] different colleges is as follows: Yale, 228; Harvard, 209; Cornel], 125; Princeton, 110; Amherst, 109: Dartmouth, 84; Brown, 80; Williams, 70; Wesleyan, 60; Union, 51; Rochester, 40; Madison, 40; Colby, 36: Pennsylvania, 34; Trinity, 36; Colorado college, 10. In one of Chicago’s suburb?, at a resent Sunday-school meeting, a long-winded clergyman consumed too much of the time with a wordy address. W’hen he sat down, the leader of the meeting announced a hymn— one by Bliss—beginning “Hallelujah I ’tis done!” He didn’t me&u it, but it was apropos.—[Chicago Journal. Pit District Pity!—Willum: Heered aboot Peggy Wilson?—Betty: Naw.—Willum: Ben an’ fell 500 feet down the mine an’ killed herself.—Betty: Well, aw’ve known that garl sinst iver she wor a child, an’ though she be alius earless, aw niver heered on her a-dewing such a thing afore.—Willum: Perhaps thus ull be a caution tew her.—[Fun. “Senator,” said General Beatty to the late Senator Chandler not long ago, “I would like to see you president; you are the sort of a man we need just now.” “No,.no,” he replied. “I hope I’ll never get the presidential fever. It is sure death. Men recover from the small-pox, cholera and yellow fever, but they never get over the presidential fever.” The only daughter of the late Edwin M. Stanton, a Washington miss in her teens, will soon .marry a lieutenant in the United States ptillery. She was once engaged to the Turkish minister, but wheu she learned that she would be used as a nucleus for a harem, she indignantly recalled her acceptance, and the Turk and she have never recognized each other since.

Mr. Fawcett, the blind M. P., has been doing some fine salmon fishing in Wales recently, among several noble fish which he landed one day being one of twenty-two pounds. (Mr. Fawcett fishes, gallops on horseback, skates and climbs mountains with unimpaired zest, recognizes any voice to which he has become in the slightest degree accustomed and has such good memory that he can make long speeches on so elaborate a subject' as the Indian budget without a slip or trip among the figures. The Waynesboro (Ga.) Herald has a correspondent who is an exceedingly tough citizen. He says that in 1870 he had his right shoulder broken. After that he had his left shoulder broken. About three years ago he received a fall and was unable to walk for three months thereafter,and about four weeks ago he fell from a' wagon, and the vehicle, loaded with 2,000 pounds of merchandise, passed over his left shoulder, and injuring him internally. Yet, in spite of all these misfortunes, he Is to-day lively and well. In the November number of Harper’s a delightful titbit appears under the title, “A night on the Tete Noir.” It was sent to the editor by the aathor under an assumed name, was accepted and paid for, and actually made its debut ip print before it was discovered, by accident was no less a person than Miss Josephine Harper, a daughter of Mr. J. W. Harper, one of the chiefs of the great house to which the young lady had applied for and received the recognition of merit. Rather neat that, and reassuring to aspirants who imagine that in the world of publishers successful authorship goes by favor.—[Courier-

Journal.

Lalt week a tenant entered the office of a Tipperary land agent, and throwing a roll of notes on the table exclaimed: “There’s iv’rv penny I have in the world. It’s a half year a rint, and ye may take it’ lave it—ar ye take it 1'il go to the workhouse; av ye lave t it I’ll go to America on it.” The agent opened the roll of notes and counted the money. “Why, my good man, there is more then a half year’s rent here. There is over four year’s rent in the bundle.” “The divil there is”— cried the tenant, putting his hand in his pocket—“begor, I.gev you the wrong bundle of notes, after all. —[Mayfair. What Zulu discipline and rule was is clearly indicated by a story told by Cetewayo < himself while on his way down to the place of embarkation. 'Pointing to a bnsh, which he designated by the name of the coward’s bush, be informed his conductors that in front of that Bush Chaka used to sit after a battle bad been fought in order to hear accusations of cowardice against any of his soldiers. If a man were convicted on what seemed sufficient evidence he was expected to standstill with his left arm high above his head, while an assegai was slowly and by degrees thrnst downward from the armpit till

it pierced the heart.

Henri Yivarez says: From the summit of the mountains a winding sheet of snow will descend upon the high plateaus and Ihe valleys, driving before it life and civilization, and masking forever the cities and nations that it meets on its passage. Life and human activity will press insensibly toward the

their eternal shroud. During very many sges equatorial humanity will undertake arctic expeditions to find again under the ice the place of Paris, Lyons. Bordeaux and Marseilles. The sea coasts will have changed, and the geographical map of the earth will have been transformed. No one will live and breathe any more, except in the equatorial zone, up to the day when the last family, nearly dead with cold and hanger, will sit on the shore of the last sea, in the rays of theaun which will thereafter shine here below on an ambnlent tomb, revolving aimlessly around n useless light and a barren heat.—[La Correspondaace Scieatifiqne.

REVOLUTION IN MEXICO. Ths Bdiatna Favor*4 by California Capitalists. It is said that a very large proportion of Mexico is dissatisfied with the governofeot of Diaz. An agent of the government of the restoration of the republic of Mexico, of which Gen. Angel Maria Oorrillo De Abornoz is (resident, is in San Francisco endeavoring to negotiate for material aid to further thetr schemes for the overthrow of Diaz.’ This spent invites capitalists who are now considering a scheme to supply tbe revolutionary government with certain arms and.military supplies in return for which they are to be granted various bankiag and railroad rights and franchisee, and free introduction of goods Into Mexico. Tne same scheme has bten submitted to the capitalists who own the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fa railroad. These gentlemen have already sent aa agent to Mexico to endeavor to obtain from Diaz some franchise, so far as their company is concerned, and, failing ia that, it is said they have promised to give the scheme their earnest attention.

GBAUD OPERA HOUSE, J B. * (JEO. A. DICMON, “— Gsyler’s Canady Campuy, WITH MATTIE VICKERS, Th* Qumo of Soubmua, ao4 ertxam. m. Xt-oacex-M, i'ratu*, tiiilKitvi, “STAB;” 0r t Part* aid Diamond*, Produced with New eceaery rad Osslamsi.

MFRegular prior*; secure sett* at Qaaaaraa’a music store, No 1* North Meridian, aad at Frank Bird’* transfer o*ee, opposite Bata* hsuas. One wees aad Saturday matinaa, waamaaetag *• Monday November 10, JOHN T. BAYMONP. o ■

Dickson’s Park Theater,

The Qaeer Cooh ling*. (Gen. C. H (Jroerenor in Llaciaaati CommerriiL] I have made seme inquiries in New York abont the Conklings, and they seem to be queer. In Genesee, where they catne from originally, they tell all sorts "of ridiculous anecdotes about them. It appears that there are three sistem and two sons. The sisters live a sort of hermit life, and two of them, I think, did not marry. They say Oonklisg's brother, Fred, tfiinkshe ought to be senator, as he Ls altogether a bigger man than Roscoe. The •Id man, Judge Conkling, father of Roscoe, must have been a curiosity. I was told that some " gentlemen called to see him at Utica on one occasion, presuming that he was staying at his son’s office. Conkling entertained them with considerable grandeur, snpnosing that they bad come to see him. He was not 'So cordial when he found that they were in search of the old man. The judge was found in a little house, away down the street, and in a small room, and when he heard that they had called on Roscoe, he exclaimed: “That is all you came to Utica for, to see Senator Conkling. Yon did not think me worth calling on first" The old fellow was jealous, and wanted the attention. On another occasion Judge Conkling was called on to make a speech, and was introduced to the audience as the lather of Hon. Roscoe Conkling. At this tbe old fellow’s countenance fell, and he began to stumble in his speech, and seemed to lose all heart in what he was going to say; and after the meeting he belabored that pan fiercely for having introduced him as the father of his son, instead of the judge himself. They tell me that Cockling on one occasion wanted to consult his father on a point of law,” said Grosevnor, “the father being the best lawyer of the two. So Roecoe began the letter to his father: ‘IJon. Alfred Conkling, Utica, New York—MyTlear sir,’ instead of saying: ‘My dear father, give me some information.’”

A Texas Incident. (Louisville Courier-Journal] At Paris, Texas, Wm. Pitta went to a festival of colored people. Walking into the middle of the hall, and- in the' midst of the crowd, he pulled his pistol and fired it off, the ballet going through the root. Another quiet looking young man walked up and said: “You ought not to act that way.” Pitts replied: “fake it back, or I will kill you.” “I don’t take it back,” replied the stranger. The yahoo then fired, biting him in the right shoulder. The stranger then drew a sharp bowie-knife and made for Pitts. The woman shrieked and negroes seized the stranger, but he broke loose, and getting at Pitts slashed him across the throat and slashed both cheeks in two, besides cutting him in the abdome*. Pitts is reported dying.

Frlno* Jerume for President. Aoorrespondent of the Loudon Tim» at Paris, says Prince Jerome Napoleon seems to have abandoned his expectant role, and to be decidedly taking the airs of a competitor for the presidency. He has surrounded himself with a complete diplomatic household, including Brunet, the ex-navy captain, who accompanied the Princess Clotilde wheu she left France on the fall of the empire, as secretary.

Com* to Stay. (Philadelphia Star.]

genuine and likely to be enduring would almost be to fly in th$ face of common sense. Tbe evidences of activity in trade are perceptible, and they have all the appearance of having come to stay. Every body who will can have employment, and at fairly remunerative prices.

“Tilden Maana Defeat.” [JetfenoiiTiite News.] We can succeed, and will succeed next year by the selection of some such democrat aa Bayard—s*me democrat who will not have to face about on the money question; but as it is now Tilden means defeat, and probably th* last struggle the democracy will ever make as a party for supremacy in national affairs.

Needs an Kinetic. [Madison Star.] The water pipes have commenced their annual eructations, caused by tbe condensation of concentrated corrosiveness upon the exterio-ulterior walls vf the venous system of our city.

Get Down to Business. [Terre Haute Express] Now that the elections are over, democratic politicians of Indiana can torn their attention with renewed vigor to the discussion of tbe negro exodus and the Grant boom. A 811m Chance Then. [Cincinnati Commercial.] The chance the republicans have for gain- ‘ ing the whole stole, is in the continuance of the breach between the Kelly, and Robinson factions.

Down on Their Lack. [Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald.] The close of the political campaign has thrown the jaw of the stump speaker out of employment in the very face of a hard winter.

A Pointer. [Laporte Chronicle ] Everything, in oar opinion, points unmistakably to Secretary Sherman as the next pretidenL

Boom for a Pretty Big Country. Tbe surface of unsold public lands exceeds in area by over 1,100,000 miles, all Europe outside of Russia.

Th# Place for Ed. Moon, of Memphis. The Augusta (Ga.) News claims that the watermelon receipts in that city are worth $100,000 a year.

Mora Room Wanted. The Tennessee penitentiary contains 1,191 convicts, and the number is constantly increasing.

His Final Victory. [Chicago Times] All of Joe Hooker’s fighting is now above the clouds.

Good Advice. Better seek business than office, and preserve what little honor yon happen to have.

A Blockade that Should be Raised. The egress from ths system of waste material through the natural channels should be rendered fret, without Iocs of time, when a blockade ia produced by an attack of constipation, a disorder

oos bodily mischief. Jaundice, severe headset) nanaea, dyspepsia, the usual concomitant* of t malady mentioned, all indicate that the bodi functions are materially Interfered with. Host* t» a Bitten is particularly efficacious in cases

tblaaort, and rend era the habit of

regular. It la a medicine greatly to to drastic cathartics, which are weU drench,but unhappily also to weaken t

Weaay unhappily, since such medicines are tl favorite resource of many illydriaed jwsoam, wl

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Grand Benefit Concert, saroxr*. *7, TXMDEUED MR. ORA PEARSON, Who will be assisted by some of tho heat local talent and Beissenherz’s Full Orchestra.

Tickets for sale at J. B. Cameron’* and Bailie Welchner’s music store. a e*

MASONIC BALL.

GRAND PATTI CONCERT 1 Her tour areand the world. Under the dlrectloa ef Mr. C. A. Chissola. I>. DeYlvs, manager. Triumphant ro-clitre and oalv appearance in this city

of the reigning Queen of Soag,

■me. CARLO IT A PAT FI, ' (Whore peeriem vocalisation hat electrified the most critical audlencw of both hemispheres, and whore concert* in New York hare been the asoet

auceeatiul on record,)l* conjunction with thefol-

ingartists: Mr. Henry He

t poetic pianist- Mr. Ernest De Monek, th*klmi of TloloaceUista; Mr. Theo. J. Toodr, the distln-

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Popular prices—$1; Berervsd aeata, $1.00: % ha had at X B. Cameron’s maaio store, on and afta Thursday. November «. waliCMEIHNG PIANOS ced at tto P»tt Concerts. oa-tu»th,!,*,«,w

MAKNERCH0R HALL. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, Grand Sacred Concert, given nr

Matter Alfred Schellechmldt, From the Conservatory of Leipeig, Assisted by the following artists: MB. ALFRED VIOL, Pianist, Ireu Leipzig; MISS ANNA DESPA, Soprano; PKOF. EMIL ZUMPFK, Cello; and Beissenherz’s Orchestra. Door*opennt7p.ui. Concert begins at 8 p. «• Admission, 60 cents. h h-lu,th,fr,aat

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