Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1882 — Page 2

THE HTDIANAPOLlS HEWS: FBIDAT. MARCH 24. 1882.

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W« take pll—r» fa a«B*maeinj to the , labile the emUrfemeat of ell depertmenu Of our hooM—-doabliag the etock rrer \ Ailui Ain tr CARPETS: Wil. Ml AniaeUn, Moqaette, Yehrele, Body gr—>U», Tap—trice aod lagniae, contaia* log mtay ti* private pettenu exChMlrely fat ov eoatrol for tbia market Well Paper, Deeeratioiu, Mouldlap. Ceraieee, etc., iaeludea ereUTtkiag kaowa to the deoeratiag art, Oar Prepory Hepertanat hfca been exUnd•4 te iaelode a variety aad riekaeai in material to place U bejoad competition la the ereet, aad la aader the enperrhion of aa •Xpert, Wm. H. Caldwell, late manager of Eke apholatery department of A. T. Stewart

dt Co., Hew York.

pPIa fact It la fully determined to neke ew honae la all ita braaehea uadlapated aatherity oa , itylea aad deeigaa theeaghwl^ eqaal for viaitation aad aelecilea to the beet la Hew York or Boetoa, aad aa maeh lean in price aa the difference la expeaae of operation. A. L. WEIGHT A 00., 47 aad 49 Boath Meridian 9t.

la Ml Leather Glove** eff varioai Uaif* we shew very deslrahle makes. Oar Haee ef Kid. Caster, Oil Dressed Drirtag aad Degskla G levee fer street wear are very eeaplete. B. B. FAB* XBB, 14 East Washlagtoa Street.

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EmoryP. Bkavcbamp has his consul* ship at last; another "one of us” provided for. We trust his "hole hart” is filled.

The missing .letters concerning which so much guano was thrown at Mr. Blaine are now all in, and will the folks who soiled their fingers please sum up whst they have gained? ■ ^ ' After the many alarming reports of the condition of John D. Dofroos it is a pleas* ure to know that be is mnch improved in health and expects to leave Washington for Indiana the first of the month, when his successor as public printer will probably J»e appointed. The attorney general Is deserving of commsadaMoa fee the maaly words be has ■pokenin announcing his purpose of punashing all those, and especially the promiseat persons, engaged in vlelattag the law •f the suffrage, which, as he justly says, is prastienl tvssssu against the fundamental principles of the people’s power. In the words of other days he wants a free vote and a fair count Tax Chinese bill has passed the house as it passed the ataato, a# modifiontioa of tha tweatpyuar limit being attained, and it will atw await the pres dewt’i si juaturs

to become a law. We prasasis he will sign it. There is safifeient hardship ia the life of the Pacific eoast frsm Chinese competition to demand some measure of relief, and not enough independence in political life to resist the Denis Ksnrneyism which bss shaped the features of this proposition. ^ They whoso anasos were signed to the petition tor Sergeant Mason’s pardon, which was seat to the president yesterday, have doae aa aet aboat wkieh they should say as little as pessiMe. Hey have pleaded fora premium to be pnt upon insubordination, a violation of allegiance, and a contempt oi law. Should they at some time have their Uvea aad property committed to the care of the army and the Midlers thereof should betray their trust and rob, kill and destroy, they would be doing in principle just what these petition signers have prayed ahould not be punished. The Trescott protocol, being the agreement between him, as onr representative, and the Chilian government, gives Chili ail she wants from Porn as her conqueror in the late war, and that is about all she has. As sx-Secretary Blaine shows, it is a “scoop” of her guano and nitrate beds, part of which are to be surrendered upon payment of 420,000,000 indemnity, but, as the means of payment are taken away from Peso, it is, in effect, a permanent cession. The result is to make British influence in South America paramount, and put the trade of that section completely in England’s hands and to make her in* flnenti&l in a way that makes it appear much as Blaine says, an opportunity lost for us which half a century can not re*

cover.

IT is because the republicans are not trying to maintain state governments by force of arms, or trying by civil rights laws to overcome the repugnance of the whites to the social equality of the blacks, or trving to represent the whites of the south as meditating disunion, that the democrats have time to devote to the interests, and alleged interests, of Chili, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, and the Isthmus of Panama. Now for the first time have questions of domestic geography and ethnology so far dropped out of sight, that questions of do- ' mestic and foreign policy can be treated as 1 national questions.—[Chicago Times. That is surely a very good thing is it not? President Arthur has been commended for tfie conspicuous absence of "the south” in his inaugural address, aud for ita absence in his policy, if thus far he can be said to have any policy. Well, how did this thing come about? It came about through R. B. Hayes. He was left the legacy of a bayonet policy which knew no exception save almost the last act of the Grant administration in refusing to follow the policy in Eooisiana. Hayes continued in the direction of that last refusal, and here in & brief half-dozen years that which met with such villification is accepted as the thing to be done. It is thus in the removal of every abuse. Recall the days preceding the resumption act. Sherman waa blackguarded for that as Hayes was for his southern policy, and blue ruin was ^prophesied as the. outcome of both. But both brought peace and a normal condition of affairs, and there is no dispute now that they were the right things. We are going through the same course in reference to the tariff, They who advocate reduction are accused of being enemies to the country’s prosperity. The tarift' is going to be reduced eventually, and then it will be admitted that it was just the thing to do. So it is in reference to civil service reform. They who advocate it now are villified, and it is seriously affirmed that party government can not be upheld without the bait of office to stimulate the people—insulting as that is to American patriotism. Some day civil service reform will come, and then it will be acknowledged that it was the thing to do. Rhere is encouragement in. passing events for large hopes of the future. CURRENT comment. Lucius Robinson, for governor of New York, is a suggestion of the New York Sun. It also occasionally suggests Tilden for presidentin 1884. • Opr export of oleomargerine for the six yean ending June, 1881, were from $70,483 to $381,566 annual values, in pounds tie 1881 export being 21,331,358. On the ot^r hand,the amonnt of butter exported during 1881 was 21,331,358 pounds, while the year before it had been more than 37,000,000; and the value of the export fell off $3,250,000. Some of the decrease of the butter export is due to natural causes but the most of it to the oleomargerine trade. The issue in revenue matters the New York Herald thinks is not a question of free trade and protection at all; it is a question of cutting down needless and oppressive taxation by which the people are robbed. But If the pensions account is paid how much of a surplus | will there be? Hicks, of Gwinnett county, Ga., was shot and killed by a United States marshall, and the Albany, Ga., News calls it an unprovoked murder and thinks it a wonder that the revenue officers are permiited to get out of the county alive. The cause of it is told in this sentence with which the News begins its account of the trouble: “The evidence shows that this old man Hicks had established a little distillery near his house in Gwinnett county.” The republican Kentucky state central committee will meet next Wednesday to consider the policy of nominatint a clerk of the court of appeals or of approving the nomination of the eld union democrat anti-bourbon Jacobs who, it is thought, is supported by at least 40,000 democratic

votes.

There is a great retival of work in the commanderies and chapters among the Masons of Kanaas. It is thought to be occasioned by preparations for the pilgrimage to San Ftancisco in 1883. The White house has been for s series of jean a very democratic Institution, and possibly the pendnitun is swinging the other way. At all events, Gen. Grant and his wife are to be elegantly entertained with all sorts of splendor and feaUvlty.—(St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Hayes wasn’t popular in Washington and neither is Qneen Victoria in London, and for the same reasons. Neither held n court and occasioned a demand tor the kniekknacks and luxuries which make the money go in an artificial lift, The mere

democratic ia this seaae the White house can he made the better. St Lonis has spent a good deal btmoaey OB her streets aad has disenarad the subject of atroet paring pretty thsreaghly, and the drift of opinion la ia favor of granite. No congressman ia willing to ran the risk of losing votes, and whichever way he may stand on tariff measures, he is sure to make some enemies. Therefore it is useless to now expect any diminution of the revenue through tariff changes.—[8t Louis GlobeDemocm. What are good men aad state legislatures thinking of when they insult the spirit of the law and order under which alone society is possible by asking pardon tor a raldier who defied discipline aad betrayed his trust? They are guilty like Mason ef obeying impulse, and with less excase.— [Springfield Republican. The state of the case In England ia jost about the state of the case in this country. Electricity aa an illuminating agent is useful under certain conditions; but, on the whole, it is as yet a dangerous plaything.— [Cincinnati Tbnee-Btar. Even those who patronize liquor saloons most liberally know that they derive no nhysical, moral or Intellectual benefit therefrom. Legislation mast recognize the facts as they exist, and endeavor to so shape the law aa to hold the evil in e heck and make the sum total of wretchedness and crime as small as pomible.—[Hartford CouranL It is no doubt true that the cost of living bes again increased, while the rate of wages have remained stationary, er almost so. Kents are higher than they were;provisions are higher, there ia a perceptible increase in the cost of clothing, and m almost all the necessities of life. Bnt the workmen’s wages, as a rule, are not increased. Tbeee are the cansea of the general nnrest and discontent which are now seen among the wage-earning classes in many of our cities.—[New York Graphic. Under Logan’s arrangement, the government would soon become boss of the pnblio schools, and the party in power would have one of the biggest political machines on record. Every one of the three or four hundred thousand teachers would be the obedient serf of the administration.— [Louisville Couries-Journal. The committees of investigation provided for the ruin of Sherman and Blaine, for being candidates for president in Ih.kO, are about through, and it ia a case of hate’s labor lost—[Cincinnati Commercial. The Suffering In the Floods. [Letter from Osceola, ArZ.j Only think—fifty days since we were shat out from the sight of land except a short piece of the broken levee in front of our cabin. All we can see is water and driftwood. Large breaks have been made in the levee here, through which the water is bearing logs and all manner of drift that is covering our farms. The distressed condition of stock in* many instances is too painful to relate. Hot's have taken refuge on floating logs, which they have walked and gnawed for a week. Cattle are starring in herds on little knolls, which they have tramped into quagmires in which they sink up to their sides. If you go in reach of them in your dug-out, they will endeavor to eat your clothes ofl you. A few have reached the levee at this place, and I am feeding them along with mine twice a day out ot my scant erto and small rick of hay. They will not last much longer, but I can not bear to have an animal starve to death at my door while I have anything to save its hfe. I have not enjoyed a meal in a month, owing to the suffering that I know is around me. Another Monopoly Threatened. [Louisville Courler-Journal.l A Boston company has become the owner of a patent which covers absolutely the use of glucose as an ingredient in candy. Circulars have been sent to all the confectioners announcing this fact, and the confectionera are in a state of agitation, as the Boston concern proposes to enforce demands for infringement of the patent in the past, and charge half a cent a pound for all glucose and grape sugar used in the future, or so long as the patent runs, unless the confectioners buy their glucose from two companies and pay them a quarter of a cent a pound royalty. The confectioners in most cities have determined to fight the glucose monopoly to the bitter end. Collector Robertson’s Statement. [Morning: dlspeiches.] I have read the testimony given by Shipherd yesterday before the house committee, and, so far as that testimony relates to me, Shipherd has stated the facts tersely and fairly. I was employed by the Peruvian company to examine questions affecting the company, and to give a legal opinion. This I aid, and was paid for it. That comprises my entire connection with the company. The question that I was asked to examine was concerning the title of the company to claims made against the Peruvian government. Farther than this, I have nothing to say. Sunday School Work. [St. Louis Post-Dlsputcb.1 Mr. W. P. Paxson, superintendent of the American Sunday school union, left last evening for New York city to present his

gathered into tne Sunday southwest in the year; 522 new schools have been organized with 2,418 teachers; the entire cost of the year's work being $11,830.80. Congress Yesterday. Senator George introduced a bill to create the department of agriculture. A bill for the formation aad admission into the union of the state of Washington was introduced. The house concluded the discussion on the ChineM bill. Mr. Kasson’s amendment, limiting its operations to ten years, was defeated—131 to 100; also, all other amendments proposed. The bill then passed, the vote being 167 to 65. Don't Fill Punched Coins. A law of the United States, known as No. 5,461 revised Statutes, will make it lively for anyone who fancies he can fill up the holes in a punched coin for the purpose of passing it off on his ansospeoting neighbor. The penalty is $4,000 or impriMnment for live years, at the discretion of the court, or both. Rents Higher titan Thirty Year» Ago. An English return just brought down, reveals the surprising fact that in 1852 the rent of all the farms, gardens and nurseries in Great Britain was £46,571,889, while in 1877 it was £59,300,285—an increase of 27.3 per cent, which has by no means disappeared during the late depression.

Commemorating Wycltffe. In commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Wyclifle s death, which will be in the year 1884, a Wycliffe society is in course of formation, to secure the publication of the great reformer’s Latin works, with English translations.

Knows Where to Go.

[Brazil Enterprise.;

When we wish to select an item rig the point, on most any subject, we alt find just what we want in The Indiana]

News.

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An Exodus to the South.

(New York special.] The hotels here are thinned out for the first time in s year, so many people going south and aouthwest. Money Thrown Away. The total cost of the Afghan war ia now estimated at £21,611,000, namely, £17.551,000 for military operations and £4,010,000 for frontier raUwaya.^ No, It*a Voting the Wrong Wey. [New Haven Bests ter.] Talk about “unkiseed kisses”—It is unvoted votes that makes hall the mischief in politics.

Meritor! Salutamss.

The poet Longfellow is seriously ill

taflammstion ot the bowels,

with

Out of tee leaping furnace flame A mass of molten ritver came; Then, beaten into pieces three, V ent forte to meet its destiny. The first e crucifix was made. Within a soldiez's knapsack laid; The second was a locket fair. W ben a mother kept her dead child's hair; The third—a bangle, bright and warm, Around a faithless woman’s arm. • -[F. E. Weatherly.

For The IndiauapoiU News.

Long hare we wandered o’er the heaving main In mournful exile frjm the itfon shore. To hearth and altar on the Dardea plain. The gods dec-ee we shall return no more. Come barn the gsllions rocking on the tide. That we no more may tempt the ocean stream. Here shall onr storm-tossed household gods abide, To bnlld new towers another Troy shall seem. So spake the Trojan women on the Latium strand. In hope reriviug from their sorrows past; To rear new empire in a stranger laud, Where fate had now their broken fortunes cast. And so may we each adverse tide withstand. To reach the haven of our rest at last. -[L. S. X. aciura. Winchester, Ky., has an Orinthorhynchua club. Florida grows twenty-seven varieties of oranges. The Chineae population of Chicago ia about 350; that of St. Louis about 150. If there is any thing an undertaker hates next to a cheap funeral it is cremation. Daring the season from November lit to March 1st, St. Louis packed 316,379 hogs. . Gladstone’s father once said that his son William would “ruin his country and die in a madhouse.” April is bonnet month, and Jay Gould and Vanderbilt are making herculean eflorta to hold the money market steady.—[Exchange. Monaco, whose 10,000 inhabitants live entirely on the profits of the gaming table, has 164 priests to look after its spiritual welfare. A ball dress is of gold colored net embroidered with blue corn flowers, the trimmings being corn flowers and golden ears of wheat. Without some unforeseen disaster, west Texas will reap a larger money harvest from the sale of beef cattle this year than ever before. Mr. O. B. Potter, owner of the site of the former World building,will uoterecta new building there, but he will sell the ground for *800,1100. Five miles from Yorkshire, S. C., a large rock twelve feet high and ten feet wide has moved 210 feet, leaving a trail six feet deep and ten feet wide. The Chinese had circulating libraries sixteen centuries ago, agents traveling around to distant points leaving the books, and later collecting them. Elizabeth, New Jersey, has compromised with its bondholders at 50 cents to be paid in forty or fifty year four per cent, bonds. The debt before scaling waa $6,400,000. First swell: “I never did like ‘May,’ not nearly so pretty as‘Mary;’” Second swell: “Clevaw ideaw, by Jove! make awstaws good to June, you, know.”—[Exchange. Genius is a great thing, without doubt; but if you have a capacity £or hard work you have as good a substitute for genius that you can’t tell the diflerence between the two. “Live and I^arn.”—Magistrate: “Do you know the nature of an oath, my boy?” Witness (promptly): “Yess, sir. Must take it, sir—’relse I can’t be ’memb’r o’ parl’ment. sir!”—[Punch. I,ord Lytton left three unpublished plays behind him, and one of them, on Brutus and Tarquin, has been submitted by the present Lord Lytton to Mr. Irving, who will probably produce it at the Lyceum. Within the past few days seventy-five new gamblers have arrived in Kochester, and twenty new “places of business” have been opened. It is estimated that there are three hundred questionable places m the city. Miss Virginia Murphy is Louisville’s last gift to the stage. She will make her debut in St. Louis next week as Virginia in “Virginias.” Miss Murphy has a rich wardrobe, and is prepared to undertake all the leading roles. Of the 108 dead bodies picked np in the riyer Thames last year, ninety-four were males and fourteen were females, and in most cases they were not recovered until so long after death that their indentification was difficult, if not impossible. The laziest man is on a Western paper. He spells photograph “4tograph.” There have been only three worse than he. One lived out in Kansas and dated his letters “llwortli,” another spelled Tennessee “lOac,” and the other wrote Wyandotte "Y&.” N. It. Stark died in Sierra City recently of abscess in the liver. Upon opening the abecess during a poet mortem examination, a needle, covered with rust, was discovered. It was supposed to have been taken into the stomach with food, and from thence worked its way into the liver, causing the abscess. Cows on the prairies get accustomed to the noise of locomotive bells and whistles, and do not always clear the track until thi own off by the cowcatcher. A patented device is described in the Scientific American for squirting hot water twenty rods ahead. It is calculated that this would stimulate the laziest into action. When a Kentucky congressman was informed that he coaid have all the garden steds he wanted from the agricultural department, he exclaimed: “Seeds, what do I want seeds for? But hold on! Yes. yes, I believe I do want a few.” And he forthwith sent for a half bushel of cardamon seeds, the only seeds he had any use for. A little eleven year-old darky who went last week to the Georgia penitentiary for five years was cut out for a sinner. On one occasion he rained three fine oxen for Joseph Hall by cutting their feet to pieces with a hatchet. On another, being told to bring a jug of water, he did so, but flavored it with a full supply oi earth worms. I a order to see a chicken hop ita liveliest, he put it in the fire and burned its feet ofl. The statue of Washington which ia to be erected on the steps of the United States sub-treasury, on Wall street, by the New York chamber of commerce, will be thirteen feet high above the pedestal. The figure will be standing, with the weight chiefly on the left foot, and will be in the civil costume worn by Washington. The right band will be extended at the level of the hip. It ia to be completed ia time for the centennial anniversary of the evacuation of the city by the British, November 25, 1883. The sculptor is J. Q. A. Ward. Jacob Beble was mordered in a Wisconsin forest last January. He was a lumberman and worked with a single companion. This person disappeared immediately after the deed, and was regarded as guilty of it, but could nowhere be fonnd. Not even a trace of the fugitive was discovered, and at length the search was given up. A few days ago tbs widow of Beble fell dangerously ill at Neilsville, the nearest village to the place where he had been shot, and in expectation of death she confessed that she was his slaver. He had compelled her to dress as a man gnd work with him in the woods. Worn ont by the heaw labor, and desperate with his cruelty,she murdered him. Then she hurried home, put oa her own clothing, and nobody identified her as the fellow who had been her husband’s assistant. The Boll of Honor.—The progress of many a bright and promising scholar is often arrested and discouragement brought on by absence from school esused in ao assay esses by a cough, cold or sore throet. Give Dr Bull's Cough Syrup end let your children answer •’present” when the XOU is called,

TRE4COrr*8 PROTOCOL. Ex-8swatery BUieo Sap* the Tornaa Exacted Mean ths.Psstrecttoa of Pera. Washington, March 24.—The Poet today prints an interview with ex-Secretery Blaine, on the latest phase ef the ChinPeruvian question. Mr. Blaine said he was not sble to giva an exhaustive review of the question, but the general result was precisely what he had predicted when the instructions were revoked. “What do yon mesa by the general result?” inquired the reporter. “I mean,” said Mr. Blaine, “aa I said in

English bondholders aad speculators who furnished her the money and gnus and ironclads thst destroyed Pern. It la so advertised in a Chilian paper, by the treasury department of Chili. They have iasueda proposal asking for bids for 1,000,000 tons of gnano, to be extracted front the guano bees ot Pern, now in the poasesmon of Chili. Every cargo mnat be paid for. oo the sdvertisement runs, in good sterling exchange—English money mark you—at ninaty days’ sight One-half goes to Chili and one-half to English bondholders, and Chili binds herself to deposit 50 per cent of the proceeds of guano ia the bank of England.” ‘•Did they try to argue this?” ‘Trescott was forbidden to sav one word abont it, and not permitted even to interpose a protest” • “How forbidden?” » “Hern?” said Blaine, “why, in explicit terms. See, here ia what my successor in the state department said in his letter to Trescott revoking his previous instructions [reading from the recently-printed volume of Chili-Pernvian dispatches]: The president wishes in no manner to dictate or make any authoritative utterance to either Peru or Chili as to the merits of the controversy existing between those republics, ss to what Indemnity should be s.'-ked or given, at to change of boundaries, or as to the personal government of Peru. The president recognizes Peru and Chill to be independent republics to which he has no right or inclination to dictate. “Of course,” continued Mr. Blaine,“when Trescott was thus made powerless, Chili and the English bondholders had it all their own way, with none to molest or make them afraid.” ‘Then it would seem as if Trescott’s visit had turned out in the interest of English •peculators?” suggested the reporter. “Undeniably,” said Mr. Blaine, “because Trescott, under Mr. Frelinghuysen’s insructions, has stood there as a constant witness that tbe United States would not, in any case, intervene if the indemnity demanded took the last dollar of Peru’s property and the last acre of Peru’s territory. Trescott was specially instructed not to say one word in protest or opposition.” “How did Trescott come to sign this recent protocol?” osked the reporter. “I do not understand that he has signed any protocol; the dispatches are a little confused, but, you will observe, the result to Chili and Peru is exactly the same whether our good offices in aid of the protocol should be used or not. It is merely a question as to whether we would actively aid, or shnply agree not to hinder.” “Does not the protocol change at all the previous demands of Chili?” ‘-I think’” said Mr. Blaine, “it enlarges those demands somewhat beyond the indemnities asked before Trescott arrived. Naturally enough, when Chili found the Cnited States was sure not to interfere, she took all she wanted. She added, I think, the district of Tacna to her previous demands, besides a large strip of territory north of Tarapaca. As I understand Chili’a demands now,” added Mr. Blaine, “they include: First, absolute annexation of TaraJaca and a large strip of territory immepiately north of it, including all the nitrates and a great balk of the guano; second, Chili holds and occupies the districts of Arica and Tacna nominally for ten years, to be then released to Peru on payment of $20,000,000, which they leave her no more power to pay than if it were twenty thousand miliions—Arica and Tacna may, therefore, be considered permanently annexed; third, the Loboz islands to be seized and held by Chili so long as there is any guano on them. They have, therefore, taken the very richest districts of Peru, including ail the nitrates and all her guano, just as they designed in the outset, only they were not then sure, as they are now, that the United States would permit it. When these conditions were sabmiited to Trescott he was graciously told that his good offices would be accepted to urge them on Peru, but if Peru refused to accede to them, then his good offices must be considered at an end.” “That can hardly be considered courteous to the United States,” said the reporter. “Why should Chili be courteous to the tbe United State?” replied Mr. Blaine. “Nations, like individuals, depend for their position upon their power and their will to assert it. When Uriah Keep thanked God he was ‘umble,’ Master (kipperfield took him at his word. When cur minister was instructed to make n > authoritative utterance, but merely to l>s seen and not heard, and act the pajt of meekness and humility, Chili naturally concluded that she could use the power of this great government as she chose, and thus sought to make Trescott aid her designs on Peru.” “But I don’t quite understand,” said the reporter, “how Chili came to advertise a million tons of Peruvian gnano for sale before the trial was concluded er any arrangements for peace was made.” * “She did it on the old principle.” He shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can.’ “It is absolute conquest. She feels so sure of ner possession that she need need not wait for a treaty to be concluded; she simply appropriates the property witn the strong hand. When the United States refused to ask for justice between the two republics, and a strong English power was interested in the aggrandizement of Chili, Peru’s fate was sealed. It is noticeable that this million tons of guano is offered for sale in one block, and any bidder is required to put up half a million dollars, so that the decree of sale is merely aunode of getting this vast property in the hands of the Chilian and English bondholders. It will be carried in English ships, making larger freightage than the cotton of the United States annually taken beyond the “Mr. Blaine, do yon think the United States could, in any event, have prevented this result without war?” “With entire ease,” replied Mr. Blaine. ‘There never was such arrant nonsense talked of as the possibility of war with Chili. The difference in power between the two countries renders the idea of war ridiculons. We are too big to make war on Chilhuid Chili is too small to make war on us. The moral power of the United States, judiciously exerted, could have saved the autonomy of Peru.” “Could it also have preserved all her terriiory?” asked the reporter. “I am not entirely sure of that,” replied Mr. Blaine; “a cession of territory might be necessary in case Peru could not pay a proper war indemity, and I so instructed Trescott. But this always contemplated that Peru had an alternative right to pay indemnity, and if thg territory had to be sacrificed, it should not be in excess of fair indemity ; $50,000,000 would have amply reimbursed Chili for her war expenses. She br£ taken fifteen hundred millions’ worth of property from Peru, merely by the strong arm, and the United States has stood by, ia the person of her special envoy, instructed either to say nothing or say it wits all right” “A great many believe,” said the reporter, “that the active use of our influence would have done no good.” “In any event] said Mr. Blaine, "it would have done no harm, and we ahould have had the consciousness of atlsast trying to save a sister republic from destruction. It would have been honorable to make the effort, even if it had failed. As the result now stands, we have acquired the hatred of the Peruvians to the latest generation, and at least the contempt of tee Chilians. We knee also secured tee self-entisfied chuckle of a band of Kngliah speculators, into whose hands the power of tee United States has ao effectively played. Great Bntian, with all her prowesa, could not have advanced the commerciAl interests of

her otto merchants is South America ao powrrjully, and destroyed the interests of American merchants there so completely k®** done by tbe iaetrections with whieh Trescott wu bound and gagged. The first installment to the Britiah interests is the freight money on millions of tons of gusno, and half the profits of its sale in Europe, which, of itself, is s larger sum than tee war expenditures of Chili.” “But if the United States had intervened, would not Geat Britain also have inter-

vened?"

‘•Well,” said Mr. Blaine, “it would have been worth while to find out whether, if the United States iatrrrsnsd to rave aa American republic, Great Britain would have intervened to destroy it. In ray own judgment, the foreign policy of Great Britain will next take that direction. It certainly wDl not be so long that Britiah statesmen lathe United States can do byomlseion more fer Britiah interests then Greet Britain can do by commission. The whole idea, however, of British intervention is a myth. The moral power of the United States in South America would simply have been irresistible. For American Intereeta it was tbe opportunity of a century, aad it was blindly sacrificed. The commereial interests of this country in South Anmrica will not in fiftyyean recover wnat has been lost, and what was in ita power to acquire. Our interests are not only totally destroyed in Chili and Peru, but our prestige is impaired ia all South America, indeed in all Spanish America, both continental and insular. The present generation will not witness the recovejy of that which has been lost within the last ninety days.” “When you speak of commercial interests, Mr. ^Blaine, do you mean shipping “I mean that,” said Mr. Blaine, “but not that alone. I mean the entire interchange •f commodities, the anpply of manufactured articles ana raw materials, the concentration in our commercial cities of a share of that which will now go wholly to London and Liverpool. The trade of the west coast of South America, from this time forward, will be as much in the hands of Great Britain as the trade of British India. But this opens a large subject, and I have neither time nor inclination to pursue it to-day.”

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The Soldiers’ Home Management.

[Washington special.]

General Sturgis, governor of the soldiers’ home, Washington, has written a communication to congress criticising the management of the home. He charges that the commissioners, Adjusxnt General Dram, Surgeon General Barnes, and Commissaiy General McFeeley, have not used the funds of the home for the purposes intended—the care and comfort of old soldiers. Hundreds of thousands have been spent in beautifying and extending the grounds, while the occupants have not a single place for amusement. A conservatory is maintained at a cost of $5,000 per annum for the exclusive use of the commissioners, who also receive the choicest fiuits and vegetables from the farm, and are supplied with milk and butter from the dairy, while the occupants are restricted to government rations. The disbursing officer has an arrangement by which all the expenses of collecting moneys, which the home may lay claim to, is first deducted from the' amount and the residue is then divided between the officer and the home. In one case, where the amount secured was $157.45 the home received $7.15.

Fires. Barnes & McGill’s elevator at Hawley, Minn., burned Wednesday night, with 150,000 bushels of wheat. Loss $200,000; insured for two-thirds. The Osceola hotel, McBean & Son’s dry roods store and- other buildings were burned at Tawas, Mich., yesterday. Loss $20,000; insurance $13,000. The Proctor house, Kearssge mountain, N. H., was burned. Loss $75,000; no insurance. Holmes & Co.’s large cracker bakery on Front street, Cincinnati, was destroyed by fire this morning. Loss $30,000. The flouring mill and elevator of Haven & Co., at Leavenworth, Kas., waa destroyed by Are yesterday, cansed by an explosion in the dust room. Several workmen were badly injured.

Searching for Del.ong. A letter has been received from engineer Melville, dated Yakut*, January 10, giving tbe details of the plan adopted for the search for DeLong and companions of the Jeannette. It will be carried on by three parties, using as depots of supplies, Belun, Cath Contee, Provainia No. 7, Provainia No. 18, Bucoff. The search was to have begun March 1st. The territory to be covered ia that contiguous to the Lena delta, and it is hoped to nave the search completed before the snow floods rat iu.

Good Advice. Jennv Lind is quoted as advising American girls to study music at home, because “the music is just as good as in Europe and the husbands much better.

In the Earthquake Belt. A scientist who keeps a record of such things sav we are just now passing through a cycle of earthquakes.

■PB A Bad Season tor Shows. Forty-eight Italian theaters hsve been closed during the present season as financial failures.

I hsve been a sufferer from blind piles for twenty years. During that time I tried every known remedy, receiving uone but temporary relief. Ten years ago Prof. Grover, of Philadelphia, used the knife upon me, which, for two years, seemed to hsve cured me, but eight years since it returned, suffering at times excruciating pain. Six weeksago I commenced using Dr. Demlnq's New Discovery, with marvelous results. For the past four weeks I have not suffered at all. My advice to all sufferers from pfes is, use Demiag'g Discovery and be happy, as I am. W. H. Thomas, tt z 261 East Washington.

PAINT UPl PAINT UP! PAINT UP! We have the beet Mixed Paints made, and guarantee satisfaction in every case. It Is better than tbe best White Lead, and cheaper. Can

lor card, Agents wanted. HILDEBRAND A FUGATE, K South Meridian street. Agent Howe’s Scalea, Iowa 4-baxbed Fence Wire.

CleYeland Paper Co. EYES! VAEIETY OF PAFEK. WM. O. DeYAT, Resident Agent. “The paper upon which Thi Niwi M printed Is famished by this Company.”

NEW Milljnery, A.Dickson&Co. ABB low 0PE1IX0 A LUBE STOCK OF NEW MILLINERY. LATER X0VELTXE8 H Hats anl Baaaata, Feathers. Plumes, Flowers, Etc. ■WGur ^lnary Department is now in charge of a New York Milliner, of long experience and good teste. Our present stock is mw b the largest we have yet shown, end includes a larger variety of finer goods than we have hitherto kept.

Art iivited te a visit sf iaspeetira. A. DICKSON & CO. TRADE PALACE.

Look Ont FOB BABOAINS IN

CHINA, GLASS, QUEENSWARE, SHYER PLATE Aif Othir Kcki Funitilog Doris, ChinaHaJl, 54 North Penn. St.

FIFTY DECORATED CHAMBER g*T8, the balance of last year's (lock. wDl be offered lem than cost, to make room for a large and elegant line of New Goods to be opened March 90th for the Spring Trade.

J. T. KINNEY. a.wj

To Redice Stock! We win offtr THE BIST BARGAINS ever yet placed before the public In WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY, 8ILYEBWARE, TABLEWABE, CLOCKS, SPECTACLES, CANES, Eto. Our cases are filled with the Is test styles of everything in our line. We will hsve for a Sew . days some of the largest and finest Diamonds ever brought to this city. Oall and see them. Diamond setting, Watch work and Jewelry repairs, specialUea.

CRAFT & CO., No. 24 E. ‘Washington St.

TOLL JO ADS.

Notice to Voters in Marion Oounlj. Notice is hereby given that tbe question of purchasing the Turnpikes or Toll Roads of Marlon county. State of Indiana, will be submitted to the voters of mid county at each of the precincts thereof, at the next Spring election, to be held on the first Monday ol April—thlfd day— A t such election each vote* who Is In favor of inch purchase shall inscribe on his ballot, “Purchaseof Toll Roods, YES;” and each voter opposed thereto shall Inscribe on his ballot,

“Krchase of Toll Roads, NO.”

Witness my hand, at Indianapolis, Ind., this

27th day ol February.-im WILLIAM A. PFAFF,

March 4th, 1882.

Auditor of Marion County.

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LariailPitiDudOiEiBPviv IN THB WEST.

Oar Prices and Terms are such that no family need be without a strictly reliable Instnunrat

Call and see our jprge amortment at

68 and 60 NorU Pena. St

Easter <Cards. AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT. Cathcart, Cleland & Go., 26 EAST WASHINGTON NT.

A Yitiran Travilir’s Expirince.

On being s*ked whst he thought of the present system of advertising, and If he considered that It paid, he replied: “My experience shows me that in order to achieve any success with advertisements, the article advertised must bare merit. The rwsses ol the people of the present day are not taken In to easily as formerly, and they look with a degree of suspicion upon anything the intrinsic merits of which have not been thoroughly tested; bat when tha reputation of an article is once established, tt requires a good deal to damage its character. When I first saw the advertisement of Burdock Blood Bitten. I Immediately mode inquiries in different sections of the country as to its sale and success, and was agreeably surprised to find It giving such nnlrerai satisfaction. Every one who had used it was loud In its pralsea. C. Blacket Robinson, proprietor of the Canada Presbyterian, Toronto, wu amongst the number; he had for several years been a great suflbrer from severe headaches, aad by the use of Burdock Blood Bittern he wu entirely cured.” There is net another preparation in the world which acta as directly and quickly oa the liver and kidneys and purifies the blood. Sold by all OfURtiu, price, IUN.

CATARRH HAS FOUND A MAOTEB IN Dr.Syke’s Sure Cure ATMIBPHERiellSUffUTOA

This simple plan of treatment by which Be. Sykea cored himself, and which he Isnowwfiy iu Chicago with the greatest mocom, Is detuned to become the leading Calanh Remedy and appliance in our country, and unlike all others, la accomplishing this vsputstkm lac Itself mainly by Its Intrintee merlta, and not by afloodof adverriateg. Tha prise Is wltMa tea Eraoh ol all. Ask yasu druggists foe “Dr. Sykes’s Saw Oum for Catarrh" and “AfoM* pheefo iMuflfotor," aad fokaao other, fer eale 67 Browilu* ft SI—.