Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1884 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 17.1884.

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THE DAILY NEWS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER li. lESd. Thh managing englnms of the local Independent movement do not seen: to be such “vague theorists” after all. Their handling of the list of vlco presidents of the Schurz meeting indicates that they have much of the nuality that constitutes what is called the “practical politician.”

It is thought that New York will get the better of the rascally aldermen who give away the privilege of a surface railroad on Broadway, for which over a million dollar* had already been bid, aul for which f-,000,-000 could uoubtiees be obUlucd. The city Is rising In its wrath. There Is likely to be an Investigation, and It Is hinted that It would not be surprising If a gigantic ring, as far reaching and corrupt as that of the days of Tweed, would be uncovered.

Wu\t‘s the use of talking about high taxes. If the people wr.o psy the ta\»s go to sleep an 1 suffer the buiutaer ekmeut to carry the elec tlon;This was written by the Cincinnati Com merclal Gazette for local application, but It can be adopted by and adapted to this community without the alteration of a syllable. It states our case, too, preHy fully. The bummer element In both parties Is In control as represented by the tickets nominated. To elect either as a whole means higher taxes, abuse of public trusts, extravagance if not extortion, and In short everything that is meant by ring rule. The people have been fully and repeatedly warned. They will have themselves to blame if they suller this thing. The debts of nations was one of the subjects discussed at the recent meeting of the British Scientific association. A Mr. Mulhall’s paper on the subject stated that the national debts of the world now reach f-I,-155,000,000. The ratio of debt to wealth Is highest In Portugal, where It is 2S.5. In Great Britain It is 8 4, In the United States, lowest of all, it Is 2 9. The paper concludes that there Is a good deal of truth in the saying, “A national debt is a national blessing:’’ at any rate it sees nothing bad in it, as everybody thought they saw a centdry ago. It says the increase of the debts of European states has not injured the working classes there, and It thinks these debts will continue to Increase at the rate of at least 1100,000,000 per year to the end of this century. The St. Louis Chronicle administers a Just rebuke to a ribald if not blasphemous editorial in the St. Joe Gazette, which endeavored to defend Cleveland by comparing

him with the Psalmist iHvtd, alluding to the Utter’» ertee with Batfcahab* as justlfiewtloe for CUveUsd, and saying both wen testimony to (he manhood of the two men. The Sk LouU paper remarks that the Bafhaheba Evident occurred after and not before iUvkl was chosen, and contrary to the opinion of the St. -Toe paper, that “that aort of thing” did hurt David very much. “It gave unto the enemte of the Lord great occasion to blaspheme,^ and there waa a bitter curse pronounced against David because ef It and severe punishment meted out to him. There Is nothing upon this subject between the lids of the Bible, as the St Louis paper Justly says, that does not condemn licentiousness. A people surely Is not mahlng much moral progress who will endeavor to wrest Scripture Into s justification of anew evangel of lust, which political necessity msy call for. _ ji the Philadelphia Times speaks truly, New England Is rotten to the core, In the matter of the suffrage. The Times Bat - in Maine bribery Is a thoroughly accepted political agent employed by all parties at every turn, and that only In New Hampshire is it worse. It Is not the bribery of the floating aod corrupt vote of cities which Is always and every where to a certain extent for sale to the highest bidder, but It Is the bribery which finds its subjects in villages and hamlets and among the Independent farming classes. The rural voters who In other states have a recognized position of independence and honesty, In these states go Into the market with their vo tea as regularly and on as much of a system as they take their farm products to market. The thing Las become so much a matter of fact. The Times says, that it r o longer excites horror and that men of high position In society, In but In* ss, In the church engage in this practice openly and without rebuke from publlc.sentlraent. Candidates are nominated for their ability to contribute the money to bribe voters, and men otherwise moral and honest consent to thus seek and obtain office, and the whole political system Is thus based upon and built up by money—corruption money. If this be true It is a state of ailalrs that might well make us ask if our civilization Is a fallurt ? If tjese things can be In the land of steady habits, what hope Is there for the “rowdy west?” We are glad to tes tify to one thing; If the “rowdy west,” is sentimental, guided by Its feelings and acts on Impulse as the east says of It, we can also say that these feelings and Impulses are honest. There Is a bribing of the voters In the towns In one way and another, and until the mlllenlum we presume there always will be, but In the main, and In the particulars wherein corruption is charged upon the New England states, the vote of the west Is pute.

CURRKM COMME-W. The New York Suu 1* out again In an editorial assuming that Cleveland Is beaten. It savs he will be defeated In New York state by a majority of not less than lO.OOO. A New York street car manager says hot weather Increases street car travel very greatly. The local traffic—the people who ride short distances—Increasing about 200 per cent. A Kalamazoo, Mich., man has invented a non-t to liable, anil-fraudulent oallot bov. It has glass tides, and when the ballot 1» deposited it Is held In check by a lever which has to be raised before It can slip into the box. When that lev?r Is raised an auto matlc counter Is moved and the ballot counted. When it Is sealed the register count is closed, and the box Is rigid. The seal can only be opened from ike Inside by unlocking the box. The Chicago Times seems to have stepped down from its Independent seat and become a Cleveland organ—at least It Is beginning to abuse Blaine in terms of severity like unto those with which It was wont to abuse the democratic party—when Its mildest term for it was “putrid reminiscence.” The steamer Oregon’s recent fast voyage from England to America In a llttls over •lx days, recalls the fact that there are men still living who remember the great excitement among the ship-owners and seafaring men when the startling news was heard of a steamer having performed the voyage across the Atlantic In twenty-sir days. Tnls steaniei’s carrying capacity was only ;i50 tons, and the engine power was equal to that of 150 horses. 8oe left Savannah on the 2t>th of May, 1819, and arrived at Liverpool at noon on the 20th of June. We feel a little bit sorry for those papers who credited the report of Hamilton Fish’s proposed vote for Cleveland. As our exchanges come in we tee columns of editorial devoted to the Incident as a significant thing, etc., and now old Mr. Fish spoils It all by saying he will vote for Blaine. There were 22,000 people at a base ball game In Louisville the otntr day. There Is testimony to the love of out door sport as positive as any that the English ever gave. A Philadelphia paper Is wroth at Butler because he wore a “battered straw hat” when addressing the farmers In Kansas. Now, really w«uid it have the man appear on such an occasion m a line silk tile and white kid gloves? There is one tenement house la New York city covering a pLt of ground 100 feet square, in which 1,250 human beings live. Think of Itl We d^ not need to go to tae capitals of the old world to see grinding poverty. The Independents of Ch'cago are reported to be very much gratified over tho second Instalment of the “Mulligan” letters. They enthusiastically say that they prove Blaine to be corrupt to the core. It is said that a horse with green spectacles on will eat shoe pegs for cats. Hansom cabs are great favorites In Chicago as public conveyances and the oldfashioned four-wheel carriage is becoming a thing of the past there. A director in a school of acting la New Toil: says the best dramatic talent is in western people. JL he i ? u< *-'?? now ' s - rAn Mr Blaine bo .oretd to withdraw Tne republican pxrty can afford to bo de.eated, but no party car. afford to win with such a i and .date—(Louisville Courier Journal. That reminds us of the story of the old maid who said to a tobacco chewing man, that she didn’t see how anybody who chewed tobacco could take the name of the Lord on his Ups. “Ob, you don’t know,” sat a the chewer. “you never tried.” If tha C.-J. thinks the republican party “can’t afford” to win with Blaine, just give It a chance in November, and see whether It “can’t afford" it or not. The St. Paul Pioneer Press, which is not a partisan paper by any means, and which is an eminently fair and level headed japer, has the following answer to a correspondent as to voting for Blaine: After a careful examination of the evidence presented, and the able adamant of Carl

Schnr* and others In tne case, the tTooeer Preea baa baan unable to f na any proof of a corrupt Intent In the few phrases of the Molllima lot 'era which are the M»,e support of the charge. That the/ are capable of an Innooeax ooaatrucUon has been aouadantly shown, and that an Innocent conat ruction on*fit therefore tobt pot npoa them acems to ua the Imperative de man a or common justice, in view of the geoera* reputation for official Integrity w Uch h-ta been borne by Mr Blaine, by ti e testimony of ■any of the pareat mea incongreas. who have been his Intimate and life long political aaaoctatea. “Sunday opening” as to the expoattlon M being discussed In St. Louis. The place is now closed, but judging from the newspapers a large majority of popular aeutiment wants It opened on that day. The plain truth that the republicans mast now face is that there is not a certain Blaise Hate from Ohio to the northern lakes and the Pacific ocean, and why they are doubtful I* told In the general revolutionary action of the people —[PhlladelphU Tinea. The tariff, as It stands, has done all it can to create a home market and a home industry. The home market la now insufficient, and the home Indm-trfes are languishing. The manufacturer must be relieved oy lacing the duties off of his raw material The laboring man most be relieved by taking the tax off of necessary articles that enter Into the cost of living. The government can d! mintsh the burden of taxation so ss to help bo»h the manufacturer and the workingmen without ke*‘t.lug a needed dollar out of the treamry.—fpoliadei^ hla Record. A nation which seeks to become rich by taxing its Internal trade for the purpose of shutting It out Is like a man wao tries to become strong by drinking his own blood. A free-trade nation which buys and sells among other people, with no limitation upon Its choice except that of price or profit, feeds iteelf upon the best and cheapest the world affords.—[Louisville Courier-Journal. Of course news is a field the magazines do not try, olhtr than in the moat unsatisfactory way, to cover; but in general literature articles are every day published in the dally papers equaling In depth of thought and elegance of diction any that appear in the magazlnts.—[St. Louts Globe Democrat. The prohibition movement has evidently come to stay It can no longer be met wltn ridicule or badinage. The Issue has ceased to be a local one, and has become national. We have never believed prohibition either practicable or desirable, but we can not close our eyes to the signs of the times.— j Kansas City Star. If the lesson taught by the election In this stale waa not strong enough to convince the most skeptical of the fact that we are on the verge of a temperance crusade which will swetp this country, certainly the electl m In Maine ought to satisfy that doubt. Wt are approaching a period when this question of prohibition will become a natlonil Issue. —[Council Bluffs Nonpareil. Four-fifths of our manufacturing industries, as given In the census report, derive no bent fit whatever from the tariff in the way of protection from foreign competition; and the remaining one fifth either derives a Very limited and conditional advantage or Is positively Injured by the tariff preventing txporta —[J. Sehcenhof. A VISITING STATEjUAN. The Affecting Story of a Widow Who Kept Boarder* (Detroit Free Press.J She waa the Impersonation of the goodnatured, old fashioned, kind-hearted and motherly landlady. She was fat and forty, and as she rat down to tell the superintendent of podee her story she smoothed down her check apron and sort o* tacked up her sleeves as If getting ready to lay the foundation for a pot-pie. “Two weeks ago,” she began, “a very distinguished looking man about fifty years old called at my house to secure board.” “Yea’m.” “He represented himself as a visiting statesman, and I gave him the best room .md tte tuad of the table.” “What’s a visiting statesman?” “Well, that’s one thing I want to ask you about. I alius s’i>osed a statesman was a member of congress, or had something or other to do at Washington. I kinder made up my mind he was visiting th'e hole they dug for the new postoffice, or wanted to see tunth n’about the custom houte, or was a government agent for the cholera.” “Urn. Well?” “Well, when Saturday came he said his credentials hadn’t arrived, and Instead of pa>tng hts board he borrowed $5 of me. “What credentials.” ‘ I dunno. I never saw anything of the sort, and dunno what they are made of or how they look I didn’t want to give my Ignorance away to a visiting statesman, and so I didn’t ask any questions.” “Well?” “Weil, the next Saturday afternoon he came In rather hurriedly and said hts credentials had arrived;and he wanted $10toget them certified.” “How certified?” “1 dunno. I ’sposed it, had something to do with swearing on a Bible, and It struck me that *10 a swear waa awful dear. However I let him have the money.” 1 And you haven’t seen him since?” “No, sir. Do you think he could have fallen Into the rlvei?” “He was a fraud, madame. He has plajed you for two weeks board, and $15 la CAJ-h.” “La! but you don’t, eay so?” “That’s ihe case.” “Great stars! but he was a visiting statesman ’ If our statesmen descend to auch tricks what will our country come to?" “He lied to you; the fellow probably never taw Washington.” “My sake*! but did ycu ever’ And them credential.* ?” “All bosh, madam ’’ “Great eatr! but it makes me shiver all over! And so 1 am btai?” “Yes.” “Weil! Well! Dldlevef And when hs gets the credentials certified to will he come back?” ‘ Never—never more. J ’ “Dear me! but 1 must hurry home and tell my daughter Ann. He kinder made love to her, axil she kinder reciprocated, and tu case they male a match I was to keep house for ’em In Washington, and they were to take dinner with the president every day. Did i tver. ever’ What statesmen! What credentials! What wickedness!”

Miss Astor’s Wedding Dress. Miss Astor’s wedding will take place In New York about the middle of November. Her wedding dress Is now being made in Paris, and will be sent over about the 1st of November. It Is to be of very heavy pearlwhite satin, made with a full princess tram, which will be bordered by a pelisse of tne eatin and on the edge a rucking of the fine point lace In a wild rose design. The front Is to be covertd with rullles of rare print lace that belonged to MUs Astor’s grand mother. The Lee will not be cut, but will cross over In flounces and at thsldea wilt be caught down lu a tw.st and held by a cluster of orange bloss >in« and pearls. The corsage will be cut square and bordered with the lace, while the sleeves, slightly puffed on the shoulders and reaching to the elbow, will be met by long w hPe kid gloves, which are being made to Older to fit the slender little hand of the bride. The slippers are to be of the dress materials, and embroidered la white pearl-, while the stockings will be of the liuest white silk. The veil will probably be o' Ulueicn. Tber Is a rare old point lace veil In the family, and this may be worn, although tulie Is more becoming and preferred by the brldr. A Boy with a Big Brain, (Yonkers (Jazette.] “Bub. will you hold my horse for me for about ten minutes.” “Not exactly. I kin git ten minutes most any time, but I’ll hold Tm for yer for aoout ten cents.” The German Ere as About 600 German newspapers are published In the United States, of which seven ate in the New England states, 208 in the Middle staies, eigh: y five in the Southern states, and :‘»50 In the Western states. Much Implied. [Wabash llalndealcr.) Much is Implied In the statement of The Indianapolis News that liquor Is afraid of the republicans, but has no fear of democracy. Don’t Tnke to Tradea Unions. Of Ihe ijQO.OOO Paris mechanics and day laborers otly 50,000 belong to trades unions.

WASHUVSTOM EKTIYR. A Patriot’s Views on The Res nit U Okie — What Money Cmm dm and Where It Bhoald Come ffiretn-The Female Candidate for Preeideat—LeatevUie’a PeadenM ta Club, etc. rcerremoadenee ok The Urtf aeolW Wewa.] Washinoton, September 15—Aa the political campaign shapes itself it becomes more aod more apparent that Ohio la the critical point. I waa talking with ex-Con-gressman Page, of California, yesterday, and he coincided very emphatically In this view. He said; “I would carry Ohio at all hazards. It to necessary: It to vital; ws must have it. I would spend a million dollars to get it, if so much money was necessary to that end.” “Coaid that much be profitably (pent In Ohio,” I asked. “Every dollar spent in Ohio la profitably spent. I do not mean It should be laid out In buying votes. In organization—org anizx tlon. Yet I would get the votes If I had to buy them.” “You thick Ohio the key to the political situation’:” “Most assuredly. It is the situation itself. If we thould lose Ohio In October, all hell can’t save the republican party. It would be folly to talk ol carrying New York and lose Ohio.” “Is there any real danger of the democrats carrying Ohk?” “A good deal of danger the way this campaign is being conducted. There seems to be a failure to grasp the situation. The campaign managers are frittering away their time and money here, there and everywhere. If we could only have a man like Dorsey In Ohio just now there would be no douht as to the results. This matter Is too Important for us to take risks. I would take no risks whaiever. If an influential German had a team to devote to republican services I’d give him ten thousand dollars for It. I’d get leading Germans In every town and county to endorse Blaine and Logan and print ’em every day in every paper in tho state. If It took a m Hlion dollars this ought to be done. Anything, almost, can be done with money. I can carry any doubtful state In the Union wltn money. Every body know-, a good deal of money Is fooled away every campaign by bad managers, hut money properly expended Is bread cast upon the waters. Ohio Is absolutely necestary to us; It is not to the democrats.” “It Is, then, what Is termed a ground hog cast?” “Precisely. If we lose Ohio we shall be out of meat, ana for a long time, too.” Mr. Page is, as will be observed, a practical politician. He Is very emphatic and very amusing; also, very Instructive. He hits the nail on the head lu a square, blunt manner. He believes the contest to be, as Sfeve Elkins pithily expressed It, a mere question of finances. When Page comes to aealtng with finances he figures like the wealthy Californian he Is. When he mentions methods of securing votes he snap* hts whip like the stage driver that he once was. There Is no question, however, but that his estimate of both the situation and the way through It is a plain, common sense one. Ohio Is vital to the republican party. It can be carried by a liberal use of money one way or the other. The psrtv managers do not appear to grasp the giavfrj of the si uatlon. Can the money be raised? Page evidently thinks It can, provided assurances could be given that it would be expended judiciously. A million dollars Is u large amount. Half of that sum placed In Ohio would corrupt fifty thousand voters. But who would contrlb ute this large ampuul? Not the office-hold-ers, who are protected to a great exteat by tne civil service law. There Is no Star Route ring now to look to for princely aid. The manufacturing Interests are not enjoy lug that degree of prosperity which encour ages liberality. The whit key Interests are democratic. Where, then. Is the money to come from? Page an&wtrsthls question himself in bis own practical way. It must come from Wall street. What la a million to Jay Gould and Vanderbilt when they can make so much under favorable dreum stsmcee In ft day; in an bout! If railroad pool millionaires could make a president they could unmake him, and if they could make and unmake an administration they could control It. Think you there are no favors for the administration to give out which were worth a million to any mao? Bah? There are ever 150,000,000 acres of public lands la dispute between the government and the railroads. Witness the course of legislation on these bills of forfeiture last winter. The>e 00 000,000 aerts which the democrats of the house attempted to restore are w orth every dollar of $18J,000,000. Tbs 100,000,100 acres more in dispute are worth in round figures $250,000,000 at government valuation. A single decision of the Interior department in a single railroad case made a difference of more than $50,000,000 to one corporation. The law and equity of this case were such that a decision ror or against could not be successfully questioned in ad vtrte public prims. What Is a million dol lars or so la comparison with the results which may or may not flow from its use!' I do not say these results would follow the political coDtritutlen of a million. I am only following out Mr. Page’s reasonlug. Mr. Pageeaja money will do almost auytblig. The Goulds and Vanderbilts do not lay out a million dollars without some expectation and assurance of handsome profit Blaine stands well with them. Should they place him In the presidential chair with a million dollars In Ohio and New York, wny should they not stand well with Blaine? There Is a rocky time ahead for the democratic patty before it gels executive power I saw my candidate for the presidency Heating down Pennsylvania avenue on her tricycle the ^ther day. Her expanse of brow was falrwnd serene to look upon. Tne Chicago feet that plied ihe cranks of her machine bad the elasticity of youth and tne red petticoat that flapped about the rather stalwart ankles caught the admiring gazs of the multitude. A serious look sat on her brow, as though she pondered over the carts of state even now reaching out to clasp her in their close embrace. Belva has no cimples in her cheek or brain, JThe gristle has long sli ce become firm bone, the erst brown hair Is whitened and the form is rounded cut by sge. in fact, to be Shvkesperi&n in statement, Belva Lockwood Is no spring chicken. On this particular morniag she really looked old. This Is a tough thing to say of a woman, but a presi deiitlal candidate must take these things. Belva must stand the racket. She cau give as hard blows as any one and Is quite free of her opinions. 8be gave me a “piece of her mind” on the subject of her rRals’s merits. She says Cleveland is a vile adulterer and a scoundrel; that Blaine L a corrupt and per jured villain; that Butler Is a lying dein* gogue and 8t. John a drivelling Idiot. Tnls appears to me to be a correct and succinct statement of the case as gleaued from the newspapers, i wanted to get her opinion ato the tall of our ticket. I suggested Mary Walktr. Belva glared on me contemptuously and raid the slender maj or was a whippersnapper. I protested that a whlpper snapper was just what we wanted for a tail to the ticket It wonld sound very harmonious and euphonious to cry “Hurrah! for Lockwood and Walker” Besides that, a pair of pants would give strength to the ticket without, sacrificing our principles. Then again it wiuld greatly assist the campaign poet upon whose efforts so much hung. He could sit down and grind everlastingly; There was a young woman named Walker, Who proved a magnificent talker; the wore a man’s clo bes, And turned up her nose At all who a-tempted to balk her. But Mrs. Lockwood appears to have soured on Major Walker. Neither pants nor poetry could move her. She says she will play her hand oat alone and without her partner’s best caid. I asked her If she wculd take the stump. She wtlL When she does, Cleveland, Blaine, Butler and fit. John bettsr look cut. Belva Lockwood talks plainer English than any man you ever heard. Jim Winteremith, the doorkeeper of the house, was telling me the other day of the pressure for place under him. “My Texas friends used to write me letters by the cartload They always used red ink. Red ink Is confidential and important. They wanted all torts of tilings. A Galveston gambler said, ‘Now, Jim, I hear you are made door keeper, and as you wilt tend door and know

everybody who comes In, I’m gel a proposttkwi for yea. I’ve got a good layout in chips sad deal boxes, etc. Let om set up a game there and ITl go Shares.’ ” Jim says although this was in red ink he didn’t accept. Jte relates a good thing about a avail club In Kentucky. “They called it the ‘Peadennto dub.’ You see they wasted a swell aame, for they were swell way up. Pendens!* wee a good name, tho’ there wasn’t a member knew a d--n thing what it Beast. Wall, they were eU highcombed roosters. They played high-low jack and faro, etc , way up into the thousands. Maj< r Stevens went there one night and won sixty thousand dollars. The major was a planter. The game went against him at first He bought a fifty dollar stack of chips and all the P ndennto awella did the aame, only he was the only man who pot up. The rest had theirs charged. Well the major lost bto fifty dollars but began to win then, and kept on winning too, till he waa sixty thousand ahead—all on paper. When the game waa over, you tee the major began to see how it was and said he wauld call the thing even and they to refund hto original fifty dollars. “O, no!” Interposed the negro caterer who overheard the proposition, “dat’s for de Kiddy, Maeea fitevenson, daft for de Kiddy.’* “The ‘Kiddy,’ you a»e,” saya Jim, “la where they put tolls for expense*—where Col Morrow’* mccey went. They sty Swaim ured to empty the Kiddy Into Bateman’s. But you see what a swell club ths Pendennls was. Tom Ochiltree ought to have been a member. I met Tom one morning down ijt the Capitol after he had been pit) log poker all night. Tom said he hal lost three thousand dollars bat the worst of It was twenty five dollars of It was cash. Tern didn’t mind the other.” Mpriut .

Double Murder and Bulrlde Last Saturday night Simon Hessler, a farmer, living at Bush Valley near ML Carmel, Pa., returned home unexpectedly, bavicg had bis suspicions aroused that hla wife was unfaithful. He saw bto wife lying en the bed attired only in her night clothes. Beside her sat Thomas McCoy, a young farmer. McCoy was holding her hand. He was also partly undressed. The sight enraged Hessler and be tired two shota, one of which struck McCoy In the temple, killing him Instantly. The other waa aimed at his wife, and she fell back on the bed with a ballet through her body. Hessler then pat a bullet through his own brains. Restoratives were applied, and Mrs. Hessler revived She declared her Innocence. McCoy had been an Intimate friend for years, and had called Satuiday evening while abe was ill. She had always treated him familiarly, and when he called she Invited him up stairs. She had borre a good character, as had McCoy. The woman died on Sunday morning. She was thirty yesrs old and very pretty. McCoy was twenty-three years old and of respectable family. Hessler and wife have always lived happily, and the affair created intense excitement. Few believe McCoy to have been guilty. The husband was well aware of the friendship existing hetw en hun and his wife, which had existed for the past five years. The Emperors’ Meeting. A Vienna dispatch says that while the three Emperors were hunting at Sklernlevlc, their premiers were in conference and there Is reason to believe a triple alliance was concluded. The same dlepotch states that the Austro Hungarian cabinet will be convened upon tbe return of the Emperor. Tho Journal de St, Petersburg, which speaks with some official authority says: “Events at Sklernlevlc are dominating the whole political situation. The meeting of the three closely united sovereigns accompanied by confidential statesmen Indicates a policy of peace. There Is no question new of formal alliances or special agreements, but this Meeting will confirm the understanding already happily existing on all great questions, in order that every question outside the present statute quo may find the monarchs acting conjointly where their interests coincide, effecting harmony where they differ, employing their solidarity to preserve order, law, and peace, while respecting the rights of all, but keeping a watchful eye on those who disturb thi eristic g order of things—the anarchists who prowl about In the dark and aim to destroy all institutions.” _ BUmarck’s Redaction of Corpulency Prince Bismarck received a new leasj of life under the care of Dr. Schwennlnger, of Munich, Bavaria. William, Count Bismarck, the chancellor’s son, was tremendouslv stout, and a terrible sufferer from gout. While oa a diplomatic mission to Munich he met the doctor, who put him upon a regimen, and in six weeks William, the gouty and obese, was transformed Into a pedestrian, whose walking feats astonished the peasants living on the j Zugspitze, the highest mountain peak near Munich, At the instigation of the son the elder Bismarck sent for the doctor, who made him go to bed at 11, rise as 6, take plenty of exercise, and. what was particularly Insisted en, drink no liquor at meals, nor for two and one-half hours afterwards, when the process of digestion had been completed. Schwenninger drives his carriage in Berlin now and charges 100 marks for a consultation. He has been appointed an extaordlnary professor at the Berlin university and is an object of detestation to students and professors, alike indignant at the honors showered upon a South German. A la Moroslnl. Having read an account of the Moroslnl elopement, the daughter of a wealthy lumberman ot Ottawa has fled from the roof of her stern parents in company with the son of Hod. John Carling, postmaster general of Canada. Both are minors. He is a gay young fellow of some seventeen years, while the object of his adoration can not be more than some sixteen summers. A society belle eajs that the couple got married In July, aud the fact coming to the ears of their parents they merely slipped to the states to avoid the unpleasantness which was springing up In regard to the matter. Mre. L F. Walsh has applied for a warrant for the arrest, of her husband. She showed ft letter poetuurked Albany, written to convey tbe Impression that he had committed suicide She said he was a coach man employed In Yonkers, and had eloped with & Lundrcss named Sarah Coyle, formerly in service In the Moroslnl family. The coachman and laundress eloped a short time after the Moroslnl affair.

He Forgot Where He Waa. [Chicago Herald.] “Two small bottles of Mutnm, waller,” said a young man at a Washington street restaurant, and the young lady who waa with him began to smack her lips. “Champagne is a delightful nectar,” she said, “but It is awfully expensive.” The wine was drank la silence, the young man tasting hard cash In every mouthful. When he came to settle at the cashier’s desk he observed “This comes of traveling In Iowa. They call beer mumm ever there and I forcot myeelf. I’ll make this $3 out of seme black republican lu that state bettlag on elections. You hear me.”

An Astonishing Decision. ILoultivlUe Courier-Journal.] In Philadelphia it has beeu decided that a telephone wire placed on a house without the consent of the owner of the building, may be lawfully cut in two by the man who owns tbe house. This acknowledgment that an American citleeu is actually. In some cases, the master of the property for which he has paid, and for wnich he is heavily taxed, will surprise a great many persons in this country. The Wrong Man. “Pa,” asked a little boy, “which saint was it that said, ‘Take a Rule wine for the stomach’s sake?’ ” “8t. Paul, I believe.” “I thought it was fit. John." “No. fiL John Is a problbitionlsL’'

To Wash Stockings, Stockings should be be washed In tepid water and with white soap that has no acids that discolor. They should be turned wrong side outward before being wet. Dry In the shade, keeping the wrong side out, Cheapening of Steel. The progress of invention Is well shown In the constantly decreasing price of steel. la 1810 it cost about $200 per ton; to day, the same quality can be bought for $87. Biblical Places Identified.. ‘ Of tbe 620 places In Palestine mentioned in tbe Bible, 130 have been Identified, 133 of them recently, by the Palestine exploring expedition.

September. With airy fringed gentian gad berriea deep rtd. And woodbines Jest fleshing to ortason o’er heed. With sumac ell flaming la ruby end cold. And aster* light swinging In meadow and wold. With crisp, sparkling mornings and nights that arepeerls. And thistle down clonds that the light zephyr Whlrla, September has come, oh l charmed spaa of days. That links the sweet summer to chill winter’s ways. —[Helen Chase. STRAPS. A cable-car system is to be used on the streets in Pittsburg. Sardine packing business on the coast of Maine to ceasing to be profitable. Two hundred inventions have been sccomplisht d by women during the past year. Claret was used to extinguish a fire at Mission San Jose, Cal., owing ta a lack of water. Sixteen years ago the Interest on tbe national debt was $143,000,000 a year. It ia now $58,000,000 a year. Dwight I.. Moody, the evangelist, has been aeked to labor in eight New York cities from Albany to Buffalo. The sjmptoms nf mental derangement have already left Hans Makart, and he has returned to his work In Vienna. Pennsylvania squirted out 30,000 000 barrels of petroleum In 1883. hut the exchanges professed to sell 6,000,000,000 barrels. The highest price ever paid for a work of art was $123100, which was given In 1852 for a picture of the Virgin from the hand of Murillo. Athlan*, the Kentucky home of Henry Clav, has undergone such changes that little more than tbe name Is preserved to revive old associations. A new form of dynamite Is made from poplar wood flour, and resembles a varnished doughnut. It Is as explosive as the ordinary kind, but far safer. A remarkable collection of m'neral springs exist In north Georgia. They are known as the Catoosa springs, and consist of fifty-two springs, all different In character, within the spar e of a two acre plat. A Bridgep''rt (Conn ) man has Invented a roller for roller skates, made of rawhide molded under hydraulic pressure. It Is said to be. more durable and less noisy than the wooden rollers now In use. Overset from the Omibus: Young woman, to tbe beggar—“I have no money, and my parents are not at home ” Beggar— “But, Miss, just saw I you out of the church come, and now lie you already again!”— [Courier Journal. Five hundred rats undertook to devour a tramp sleeping in an old warehouse in Norfolk; but they didn’t know their man He killed over 200 with a club and melted tne hearts of the others by telling how the Chicago fire reduced him to poverty. To meet the demand for milk, cream, and butter, a number of Florida farmers last year imported Jersey and Alderney cows. Nearly ell have since died from eating poisonous grass. Calves are now being tried In the hope that they will learn to discriminate. Before a French police court—The president— ‘You here again, and for theft as usual!” The accused—“Mr. President, It is all tbe fault of my doctor. That eminent man was consulted' by me, and, In order to avoid the cholera, warned me that I moat not change my way of living.” Fifty yekrs ago a Boston man wrote of the new railroads; “The rich and poor, the educated and j the Ignorant, the polite and the vulgar, all herd together In this modern improvement In traveling, * * * and all this for the sake of doing very uncomfortably In two days what would be done delightfully in eight or ten days.” Many visitors who are surprised at seeing members sitting In parliament with their hats on forget that this is really the survival of a once general custom. Pepya was much elated when he sat on a committee for the first time with his hat on, and In the statutes of the Royal society the right of addressing the meeting with hla hat on was reserved to the president, the other memoers being expected to uncover on rising to spexk * * * instead of being a survival from the days of open-air parliaments it la rather a reminiscence of the long period during which men almost Invariably kept their hats on even in church and at the dinner table. A Boston lawyer baa rooms In a building on a corner. His professional cards give the number on the main street, and If you call in the daytime you find him in a law office. His private card gives the side street number of the same building, and if you call in the evening you go up a different stairway to the Identical room; but it is now a bachelor’s parlor. The furniture Is specially adapted to the transformation. The desk becomes a sideboard, a lounge is covered with a luxurious leopard skin, and handsome hangings are disclosed. “That’s what I call a confidence game, sir—an cut and out swindle,” said a client, and at once withdrew his cases. Somebody in Washington has just unearthed the following good story, told at the expense of Controller Lawrence. He was arguing an appeal before the supreme court laat winter, in the course ot which he quoted a decision quite unfamiliar to the members of the court. “Pardon me judge,” interrupted Justice Wood blandly. “What is your authority for that?” “Lawrence I.” was the rather hesitating reply. Hla embarrassment was not lessened atthe titter which ran through the room, as bluff old Justice Gray exclaimed eotto voce: “Well, if that Isn’t cheek I’ll be damned!” The controller had been quoting from his own decisions. Mein Herr Pedagogue (which means my lord professor—to plain John Smith, esq ) “Acb, zoh! You to not abroof of ze brtfll letches of ze beeiage! My coot Trent, detr Uratest brlffiletsch, In your zo snopplsh Telant, is dat you call zem eggsgluslfly my lort, and delr vlfes my laty! Veil I vlll klf yon an atvice. You are a k r) (of ze greation) and your vife Is a latj !—and zoh Itkvlae viz all your vrente! Acree to gall yourselfs amt each Oder ‘my lort’ and ‘my laty’ for a popple of ebeneratlons or zo—and zerr you are! And vere is ze bee.rage den’ Vat sav you to zat, Herr Lort Bchmldt?” fj. S. to aghast at the splendid audaciiy of the tcggtsUcn )—[Punch. John Wheeler, of Schoharie county, New Y ork, went to the war nearly twenty years ago, leaving a wife and two children. Atthe end of ten years, the wife not having heard of her husband, supposed Mm to be dead, and so married again. In a few years she and her husband parted, and the Liter married again Tbe woman moved to another state, where she remained until last spring, when she returned to Schoharie county and filed an application for a pension. But the husband bad, meanwhile, also applied for a pension, and, finding that he was alleged to be dead, he returned to his old home to get evidence that he was not dead. How this peculiar family situation will shape Itself Is a conundrum. A retired Philadelphia banker, now living in 8t. Paul, Minn., is reported as relating the following Incident; “I went home to bed one night way back In the forties and was sound asleep at midnight when a rap at my bedroom door threw me Into my pantaloons. I went down and found one of mv best friends pulling at the bell. He said; ‘Do you know that your vault door is wide open? I can look in from the street and see, by the gaslight, the packages of bills in your safe.’ 1 went to the bank as fast as I could, half suspecting that I was the victim of a practical joke. I found the place as my frier d had said. The vault door was open. There was over $100,000 In gold and notes. Now, let me tell ycu that men sometimes forget. There ought to be some sort of Insurance against forgetfulness and robberies.” Many favorite household pets are expensive. For instance English pugs are worth from thirty dollars to two hundred dollars each. Parrota are expensive, too. Their price Is dependent upon their capacity and ability to talk. The best talkers are the Mexican double yellow heads. A young untaught bird of this species is worth from seventeen dollars and fifty cents to tweatyfive dollars. An o’d Mexican double yellow head that could slcg “Peek-a B jo” and talk resides, sold for one hundred and fifty dollars In Milwaukee. Macaws that do not talk are worth twenty-five djliara. When taught to talk they are easily worth forty dollars. Mocking birds bring from four dollara to one hundred dollars. Monkeys aie worth twenty dollara, but they are so mischievous that their owners are wlllirg to get rid of them at any price. A Beeaylng Ofty. There are over five hundred untenanted houses in Havana, Cuba.

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A lawsuit has been started tn the court* here which dlschmeo the extotence of a sect, that worshiped e woman, under the belief that aha waa the “Daughter of God.” Thera were twenty five members of the coogregir tlon, and they bought e house on South Eleventh street for the purpose of worahlptng her. The death of the woman, whoee name wm Annie Mstater, brought about* dispute between her heirs and her followers regarding the ownership of tbe propertf, and the matter baa drifted into court. In the houae of worablp there to an oil painting representing the Holy Trinity, with Mtos Metoter u one of the flgiuee. She to shown as a

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