Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1885 — Page 2

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/ THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6,1385.

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HtidD till Eire Sranrj, Painted on Plaqnea by Will Snyder. 12.0 and $10 08 each. Ow Use of Family BlMea to large. Alboma. 176 different itylea. Odor and Toilet Gaeee In Plash. Morrill, Meigs & Co., 6 B&ot Washington St* •tore open erealnga We dnplloate prices on books, pablisted by other Anna

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THE DAILY NEWS .i — i ■■ i - * TUMDAT, JANUARY 6, IMS. A MoirrooMiaaT, Ala , paper says "Since the 2flth of last January there hat* been 418 marriage licenses Issued to negroea and aboat llOtowhttea." Tet tnere to 5 per cent, more white than black people In AbtaBM* Here la a moat potent factor of the "negro problem. ^ With all the evidences of wealth in abundance the croakera ought to retire from business.—[Clnclnnaatl Commercial (iarette. It Isn't the croakers who will retire, but the willing fellows who want work that hare retired. There are all the elements of wealth In abundance, but little of H in exchange for labor. Ripobts continue to be sent out? from Washington that President Arthur will be a yery poor man financially when he retires fsom office; and, Indeed, this statement has been ssddled on to his friends as a reason for their wanting his election to the senatorship from Naw Xork. It is to be presumed thsre is no foundation tor this. Surely no .man worthy of that senators hip hss friends who want him to have It simply for the reason of mending his priyste fortunes; and If Mr. Arthur has not been able to lire in Washington on fifty th^usind dollars per year, how could he live on flye thousand, ersa under the different conditions of a r senatoi's life from that of a president's? If Mr. Arthur is pcor it must be bee suss he has watted hto subatotsnee In riotous llylag. He bsa^to house or office rent to psy, nor • anything tor help hire or household furnishings. He has simply the bills of his kitchen and wine cellar to liquidate. If he can't do that on about $1,000 per week, there Is no c ill that we can see to talk about * his poverty. Pbof Joint Caktbbll’s address to the the Indians College association on the condition, modes of life and diseases of the ptoS seen of Indiana says: It was easy enough to raise 100 bushels of con to the acre, but the difficulty was to get the sere cleared. Then, after the corn . wae produced. It was more difficult to take it to the distant market over the bad roads, and It was most difficult to be compelled to ■pend a goodly portion of the proceeds of his crop for barks and whisky, or quinine straight, to atop his chattering, aa<\ shivering and burning. The picture is good and true, in the main, but Prof. Campbell did not stop for the « "second thought," or he wouldn't hays spoken of the pioneers of this state taking "quinine straight," at least in their early years here. Quinine was not dleovered till 1830, and a considerable part of Indiana was settled, organised and going on with all the prectoion ol civilisation and civil government then. The use of the universal alkaloid wai not common in the west before I860, hardly then, for it didn’t get to ^lew York till 1835 or '96, or thereabouts. The pioneer remedy for the ague and chills and all malarial diseases was "bark and wine,” or the Hoosler substitute for wine, whisky. The quinine was taken in the original package aa K came eff the trees of Peru.

OiADSTOKi Is getting Into deeper water continually. The London Times to a good deal of a weather coek, and when It calls on him to resign It Is a pretty good Indication that such to the prevalent feeling of the country. Tor weeks England has been Just about aa thoroughly miserable as a proud country need be. She baa been irritated by whtopers of Russian intrigue In {pdla—a chronic ecaie for an Englishman; the has settled into the belief ot Germany’s policy to be one designed to Isolate her from Europe and supplant her iff the new rage for colonization which has seized Europe. She in sensible as a result of this, or as a concurrence, a coolness on the part of France. The Australian troubles have added to her general uneasiness, and our own talk about tbs

Nicaragua treaty has not bean In thn nature of soothing syrup. Then there has been tbs angry Egyptian sore which has well nigh become aa eating cancer. So altogether the Erglishman has had a perfectly royal time, so to speak, in a multiplicity of things to grumble at. The notice to the channel squadron to get ready for service betokened action to tbe nation, and was doubtless the climax that caused the Times to voice the national discontent with government and call for a change. English politics for a time at least promise to be aa Interesting to ua almost as our own, and it to to be noted that tbe grayest Import of both pertain to foreign affairs. Thi 8t. Louis Republican say* of Mr. Hayes’s remark that he didn’t mean to be in tervlewed any more: "Why any. human being should want to read anything he says or know anything about his movement* to a mystery we can not solve. He hss Illustrated In hi* person the highest capacity of an Ohio republican for fraud, and having do-ie this, let aim sink out of right forever.” Such utterances as this belittle the utterer not the subject. Mr. Hayee was a good soldier, a brave general, a pure, modest and faithful governor, and his administration of the general government was as nearly a model in honesty, d<corum and recognition of moral and social duties as we have ever seen or are ever likely te see. The "fraud” that the democrats are so persistent in laying at hto door was, In the first place, their own fraud. lu the next place Mr. Hayee had nothing to do with It. I The electoral commission that accepted the votee which elected him was constituted by democratic congressional votes, with what they expected and meant to be a democratic majority, and its action was sustained as final and Irreversible by aa good democrats and lawyers as Joseph K. McDonald. In every direction Mr. Hayee Is freed from the complications of that election, andths only frauds unquestionably established are those committed by demo crate in the late seceded stales, either secretly by connivance of perjured poll officers, or openly by force of powder and shot. Mr. Hayee west into hie office without a spot and cime out of it spotless. If Mr. Cleveland shall do as well his party may be proud of him. Ten very Intereating review of the work logs of our city postofflee which will be found elsewhere In this Imprasslon of Tbe News will bs a revelation to moat people and we are sure, an instruction to all It is a matter of not merely local bat state pride that tbe Indianapolis poetofllce presents a vast administration of public business with an abaolote precision that might be the despair ot a private enterprise of a similar magnitude. Since the Incumbency of the present postmaster, Wlldman, 15,000,000 have been bandied here without the loss of a single cent, while no postofflee In the country equals this In lu perfection ot maildellv.ry. We have never had a more efficient postmaster than Mr. Wlldman, who, not content with general excellence, has been vigilant In season and out of season to improve in the smallest detail even working of tbe business to facilitate promptness and accuracy in administering to the wants of the people. It is to be partlcnlariy noted also that this accuracy has not been attained at the cost of "Insolence of office.” Patient courtesy has been tbe mark of conduct in all cases, and never more so than In those where the ignorance of the people has been the source of the trouble. In abort, our postofflee administration hss been an example no less of the practical application of perfect business principles, than of the true American idea that a public employe is a public servant. We can wish the people and the government no better fortune than that Mr. Wfldman’s tuccessor will hold the rceord of the Indicnapolls postofflee up to its high mark ot excellence.

Bomb Washington speculation is busying itself with what Randall would do should he become secretary of the treasury. The great question la such an event would rather be, what would the people do? Bo far as Randall Is concerned he would rivet still tighter the chains of the tariff which even now is choking the life-blood of the country. In the face of tens and hundreds of thousands of Idle working men, idle simply because we have more products than we can consume, ana are shut In by the tariff from selling the surplus abroad; In the face of this suicidal condition, Randall to crying the remieslon of every cent of Internal revenue tax. That soanis like a great alleviation, doesn’t It; but what does it mean? It means simply tbe taking of the tax off whisky and tobacco. Now, whom will free whisky and tobacco benefit t Not the consumer, any more than the remtosloo ot the taxon patent medicines hss reduced the price thereof. It will simply put colossal fortunes within easy reach ot the whisky and tobacco men, and to whatever small degree it might reduce the price to the consumer would be no saving; for both are artl ciee to the purchase of which price never was a bar. But this to Rsadsll’s scheme, in order to raise all the government revenue by a tariff, as he has specifically announced, and so still further fleece tbe country for the benefit ol Pensylvsnla’s monopolists chiefly. If the workingmen of this country submit to such s program as this they will deserve all the hardship that will ome upon them from low wages, high living, little work or none at all. Randall and his school are the most dangerous enemies that this country hss just now. For la him and them is the cause of high protecUon which was defeated at the polls, making Its way to power and attaining all under the name of democracy and reform which It boldly claimed for itself. Will the people of this country sit quietly by and be robbed of their victory ?

Tnn Indianapolis News piomply opposes compulsory education, on the ground that It is an "invaak n ot private rights, and a destruction o! Individuality." la it any more of either or both of these than the varions methods sanctioned by law tor the government of pupils, and for compelling the cooperation of parents with the teacher in voluntary attendance upon the schools? The subject la a broad one, as The News (ays, butfih the humble judgment of many the argument of the Invasion of private rights is no stronger regarding compulsory education than regarding wktoky selling

and drinking- If tbe state bae a right to defend itself in one case, it haste both.— [Elkhart Review. It to decidedly more of an Invasion of private rights than the preaent law compelling the “co-ope-atlon of parenta,” for the very reason our contemporary assigns in the use of the word "voluntary.” A parent need not send his child to school anleas he chooses: If be chooses be mutt send him subject to the school regulations. But a compulsory education law would leave no choice at all, and be an Invasion of private right, the like of which exists In no law of this country. This statement is made not only generally, but particularly against our contemporary’s parallel of the whisky law. We are at a loss to understand how a law restricting the use of an article which clvillzstlon to agreed breeds pauperism, and crime, and which medical science to agreed to a poison If used exceaslvaly^'how such a restriction can be put upon the plane of compelling parents to surrender their children to the state for education. If our contemporary means a comparison with a prohibitory liquor law, we see that as an ah stract matter both are arbitrary; both being based upon the supposed good to secrue to the state. But it is In each case a matter of reason not of precedent. People may agree to prohibit the manufacture or sale of opium or dynamite, but it does not thereby follow they should agree to prohibit the private regulation of a household, and the one is no argument for the other. In time of danger the state usurp* even a man’s in (Ilvldnallty and compels him to risk hto life In the army, bat it doein’t follow from this that the state ought to pass sumptuary laws. Each of this sort of questions must be judged in and by itself. In this judgment we oppoee s compulsory education law as working more harm than good. ' Mfenn'iNa wohk again Thnfisnadi of Iron Operatives Find Employment in tbe Mills of Ponn* sylvnaln nod Oble. Among the Ur ms welch resumed work yesterday In and around Pittsburg were the following: Weetioghoute Machine Company, fifty men; Zug A Co , .300 men; Cambria Iron works, at Johnstown, 5,000 men; Long & Co., 300 men; National rolling mill, McKeesport, 5,000 men, Oliver Bros. A Phillips, Tenth and I- lfteenth streets, Bouthsids mills, 600 men; Soborbergsr mill, 300 men. The Amalgamated association men having accepted s reduction at the Homestead Bessemtr works, 11 is thought there will be e cut ot wages at all the steel mills of the country. The wo ke returned In all departments to day. The steel mill of the Bethlehem Iron com psny, which has been Idle for sevaral weeks, has resumed work. The Ferndale Car company, near Catasauqua, commenced a coni'set for 250 new pattern gondola cars, of thirty tons capacity each, for the Lehigh Valley railroad company. ’Ahe works will be kept Ju operation all winter. In the face ot Ibis contract the Lehigh Valley road yesterday discontinued stv-ral trains Oae uf them was an iron train that has been on the road nineteen yean. Tbe extensive iron work* ot Brown. Bonnell A Co., at Yonngstown, O , which have been idle tor some time, resnmsd la ail departments to dav. Five departments of ths Cleveland rolling mill; closed three weeks ago, started yesterday, and the entire worse are tunning a single turn. The operators thick the worka will iuq through the winter. Many knitting mllla about Troy, N. Y., resumed yesterday. The koittere admit little encouragement in 'he prospect and much discouragement in th price of woods, but 'he help are taken into considersUon, and for this reason many mills ware pat in operation. His Malady Accounted For.. (Philadelphia Call. I Plumber’s wife (sitting by hid bed, clad In an enibi<6»ed velvet gown, and with 4135 030 worth of jewels sclatllattng on her ears and fingeis—"Is he dangerously ill, doctor?” Doctor—"No, Indeed. He to the most comfortably off of all my patients." "But what makes his right arm and hand shake so?” “That's only scrivener's palsy.” "Palsy!” she exclaimed, wltn s clasp if her jeweled hands; "what could have »o pioetrated my dear Algernon?” "Be has been writing too much without rest," smiled tbe doctor. "He tells me he has been steadily at work day and night, for four months past, making out his annual hills." • A Oaoer Thing In Freights. Ills somewhat remarkable fact, says the London World, that the cheapest way to send a certain class of goods from Uverpool to London Is via New York. Tnls arises from the keen competition between outward bound Atlantic steamers for profitable dead weight. The other dsv about 1,000 tons of rongh freight was offered for carriage to London, no time being specified. The London lines tendered at 10s. a ton. but one of tbe Atlantic firmsui dsrtook to deliver it for 6*. a ton, and the offer was accepted.

Fire Loeses In 1884. The New York Daily Commercial Bulletin estimates the fire losses in the UoUe.i States and Canada for December, at 111^)00,000, and for the iear at 1112,000 000. This i* f 15,500.000 more than the evrrsge annual loes for the nine years preceding. In December there were 244 fires where the reported loss was (10,000 and upward. Of these there were iwtmy-two firs* of (100,000 or more, aggregating (3,150,000. or nearly 30 per cent, of the entire fire lose for the month.

A Painless Knife. The latest surgical luxury to an instrument by which incisions may be made without giving pain. It consists of a knife which to regulated by a watch attachment, *o that it advaucts at the rate of only one Inch In six hours. A slight sensation of uneasiness to produced, which does not, however, prevent the patient from going to sleep. A Popular Fabric for Brides. It Is quite probable that the new French faille will find favor for the dresses of brides In tbe immediate future, its soft, beautiful fln’sb combining many of the best qualities of satin and the old fallie. Connecticut Cruelty. [Harford Timci.] It has been discovered that at a mill near Westerly, children between 6 and 8 years of age are employed, who receive only nine centa a day for their labor! Probably a Pickwicalan Statement. Judge O. A. Lochrane, of Atlanta, say* there to not the hunger and anxiety for office among tbe southern people represented by the northern pies*. _ Skeptical oa Hfs Socialism. [St. Loots Post.Dispatch.} When Mr. Carnsgle’e socialism Interferes with hto bank account the bans will have teeth. A Poor Year for Fire Insurance. ? Only a few of 'be more fortunate compaults declared dividends on last year’s basinets. ( T “Nothing” Defined A Pittsburg witness the other day described “nothing” as "a footless stocking without any leg.” «. An Old Idea. The reports ot the patent office show that twtnty fcur hour dial clocks are at least 211 years old. A Good Prohibition The Baltimore authorities have forbidden track salting. r

1TATK ffEWS. The Madtoon Woolen mllla have started up on fall time Mumps Is very prevalent la Seymour at present, having assumed an almost epidemic form. Jo. Brown, awaiting trial for forgery la tbe jail at Vevay awaits no longer. He has escaped. McCasland. the man shot by Brown, at Crotherevtlie, recently, is not dead. It to thought be to imcrovlug. Ice In the Michigan City harbor is not of soffidf nt thickness to allow passage over it, consequently the ferries are all running ■grin. Ell Clark, who- was upwards of eighty years old, and was one of the pioneer* of Ohio connty, died at Rising Sun Sunday night He was the father of Postmaster W. H. Clark. George Link and Eva Miles twenty and eighteen yean old respectively, broke through the Ice while tkatieg on Syracuse lake, twenty-miles southeast ot Goshen, and were drowned. Five county newspapers In the southwestern section of the »ute have suspended since election: the Washington Dally Jacksonian and Weekly Advertiser, the Spencer R-puV Mean, the Owen County Journal, and' ths Winston Herald. A church choir rumpus at Shelbvville Is Imaklng trouble for Rev. (J. H McDiwelL He n quested the leader of the choir, Mr. Wm. Isiey. to resign, which he did. N ><r a petition Is in circulation asking Rtv. Mr. McDowell to resign. Call In C. King, a prominent farmer residing near Wabasn, was throws from hto buggy and tUstalned injuries which will probably prove fatal. Tbs sctldent wae caused by his horse taking fright at the discharge of a gun and running away. Madame Stanley’s great female mastodons, which have been giving entertainments In Evacsvlllr for the past four days, are In bird luck. The sher .ff is the property man. The troupe has had bad business, and to said to be wrecked beyond chance of recovery. The Madison county board of agriculture hss elected th* following directors, the same being one half tbe board, the other halt boding over: James Carmichael, W. E. Yost, 8. M Graham, A. E By man. Samuel Drum, C Parklson and C. C. Mansfield. In tbe superior court, yesterday, at Evans Yille, Oscar Baldwin, eighteen years of age, brought suit for $30,000 against the Evansville ft Terre Haute railway for Injuries received by him An September 4, while coupling cars, by which he was crippled for life. E. H Kinney, of Colambus,baa began suit of (ICO against the Western Untoo telegraph company for their failure to deliver him an Important mefsage, at Hillalale, while there recently on buklnesa. Thn message was duly received at Hilladalr, but not delivered. A barn owned by Mrs Eltobtlh Jenkins, In Van Bnren township, fibeiby county, was set on fire, Sunday night, and totally burnsd, together with a large quantity of grain, fanning Implements and other machinery. Loss, (1.000; Itanrance, (500, la the Continental. New York. Judge Malott, of the Knox clrcn.t court, has appointed William Hvatt, of Washington, and Hugh Barr, of Kuox county, ataigucea ot Eltoba HvaV, of the broken Washington bank. These gentlemen will file a bond of (400,000 aacb. Flfty-eeven suits have been entered against the bank In the circuit court. An item In Tbe Newa the other day recorded the sale of tbe Wabaab Courier building It failed to etite. however, that tbla sale was In no manner injurious to the Courier, which stands firmly on its feet and is in a flourishing condition. The aale ef the building waFtnsde at the Instance ot tbe proprietor of the paper. Mias Cora Fetors, a young lady of Vevay, was married by telegraph laat Saturday, to a young man named Grewaon, In Prescblt, Arizona, The necessary questions were aektd and answered by the telegraph, and tbe minister pronounced them man and wife. Miss Peters’s parents were opposed to the men lags, and hence the speed. David Patterson, a foreman at the car factory at Michigan City, was lu the lumber dry kilo, and between two of the care coupling them, when the latter, which were somewhat smaller than the regulation cars, came suddenly together, catching him between the shculdeie ai d breast, resulting in the breaking of two :lbs and damaging one of hts shoulders. Christopher Kiumm, sn old resident of Coinmbia City,aged stxtj-tWe, was run over yesterday afternoon, by a freight train on the Fort Wayne road. Both limb* were b >r rlbl> ciurbed, and he war otherwise so bally lijortd that death resulted la a short time He heard tbe train coming, and thought it was on the main track, but It waa on the siding, and he stepped oa to the side track to avoid It. Samuel Calhoun wae thrown from hto buggy near Waymansvllle, Bartholomew county, on Saturday evening, and received what are tt ought to be fatal injurle*. The scalp was torn from the right side of the head, the cheek was cut through, one arm was injured and the spinal column received a severe shock. He is fortv years ot age, unmarried, and had just returned from the south to visit bis father’s family, who reside in that coun-

ty.

Ths feeling at Bloomington over the murder of Louts Fedder to Intense. A numoer of tuaplciou* persona have been arreeted but no light has been thrown upon tbe affijr. An attempt was made to arrest a t-Uf ptcloue character named John Reeves. Be resisted and hto father came to hi* assistance, when both were knocked down sud roughly haodJed. If tbe murderer to discovered soon he will undoubtedly be Ijccbed. Tee murdertd man was buried

yesterday.

Mrs. Judge Gunn, of Sullivan, recently passed through Vincennes, bound for Ante tope valley, Kansas, In charge ot three car loads of cattle, which she w .a superin e - fling This is probably the first Instance on record where a woman has undertaken e trip of thto kind. She rode in the freight cabwcee and was accompanied by two large does. She is an inteillge it, thrifty woman, full of business, and will get to her new home in Kansas with a shipper’* pass, the *ame as any male stock dealer. Tbe EvacsviUe Journal has betn interv ewlng the totacco dea lets of that city on the e ffect ot the Spanish treaty on that trade, and finds them unanimrus in the opinion that while the treaty would not so directly Interfere with Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois leaf dealers, yet the agitation which would be produced In tbe trade by its adoption would necessarily leave a moat depressing (fleet upen the trade generally, and be productive of greet harm and no good. Evansville to the largest tobacco market In

the west.

No Poo try in MU Boat,

i Newman Ii * "Georgle, dear,” you spent last Cl

"Yes. Kitty, and I enjoyed it very much.” “I suppose yon dla some kissing under the mistletoe, didn’t you, Georgia, dear? You know that to a favorite amusement In that

section.”

*T—I—no—I”— "What? Didn’t you klea her under the mistletoe?" "She—I—she told me to but I—I"— "Why didn’t you do It then?" "Why, I wasn’t going to kiss her foot.” A Growing Industry. [ Liverpool Courier 1 Lest year over a million and a half of cats were killed for their skins, which have be come valuable aa for lining. The Industry of cat skin collecting as an industry to of very recent growth. It within so short a space of time the casual destruction for their hide of a few stray cats baa assumed the re- ' epectable dimensions of a solid traffic eetime’cd in round numbm at hundreds of th tsands of skins, that will be a decade het t? About tbe auperioilty of cats’ skins, in • e way or ono’her. over those of rat, rabbi, or squirrel there to no qneatlon.

It to, to say the least, wrong for anybody to go to church or public meeting, hacking away and disturbing the preacher or orator with coughing. Use Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup at once it coats only % cents a bouts

'vwtry au kkas ouui. ’irman iudJtfmndeaLJ

ar,” sfitd she, ‘ didn’t you say Cbrffimaa In the South?”

The

Smiths Are Uolag to College.

Tbe Smiths row aat Yale college number fifteen, and at Harvard no less than twenty-

three.

It is not enough to say that a njtodictne wil cure thto or that disease What to wanted to bear out tbe case to actual testimony of cares effected. Mr. W. R. W. Chambers, of Pitts burg, Pa, tays: ‘‘I waa fearfully ori ppled with rheumati-m. and for weeks I could not erea walk with the a’d of crutches. Seven bottles of Mtohler's Herb Bitters completely oared me. I have never keen troubled with tt tinoe, notwithstanding frequent fexpoeare.”

A Paradox. I recollect how grieved I was when Oooiin Amy married. I thought her very cruel because For roe she had not tarried. She gave to my affection green Encouragement in plenty. For I was nnder serento en And she waa Lre and twenty. Fair Amy to a widow now. Her sorrow fss’. outgrowing. ’Pto very singnlar, I row. Tbe way the Tears are going. With me. at allegro rate; With her a graceful lent*— Now I am nearing thirty-eight And she to slx-atd twenty.

nly g One year tn half a dozen O. < hroaos. teU the secret me. The power superb a man That causes time with roan to flee. But bids It wait with woman.

SCRIPS.

Blaine has a whole platoon of gift canes. Dartmouth started the first college paper

in 1SC0.

Retired army officers like to live In Wiah-

tngtoa.

Policemen who serve on the New York korce for twenty yean are retired on a pension of (600 a year. Last year 6,700 dead horses, 10,800 dead cats and one dead monkey were found In the streets of New York. Tobacco to the best crop In North Carolina. Here are numeroua ins tan tee of it yielding (500 or (600 an aerd. A man In York countv, Pa , has had his wife arrested for pouring a gallon of motassee on hto head. He laid he didn’t want hto taffy that way. It to a fixed law among the Apache Indiana that a man and his motber-ln-law moat never visit each other or see each qther 11 It can poeelbly be avoided. Judge Brown, of the supreme court, of New York, has rendered a decision that a wife may be the legal business partner of a person other than her husband. Rev. E. Mauie Cole, the English scientist, says that the delta of the Nile Increases at the rate of three and one-half Inches every century, and that 15,000 years have probably been spent in bringing It to Its present foim and condition. The average price of milch cowe in Indiana to (35, In Illinois (35, in Ohio $36.50, in .New Jersey, $8!i 38, In New York (86.33, hi California (38. and in Colorado (40 00. The average for the United States is $31.37 per bead. There are 19,501 206 milch oo we in all the atate*. A Beaton cook writea: "Through the warm season I drink four quarto of strong coffee a day. I eat only one meal a day, and that at 8 o’clock li th* morning. I go to bed at 8:30 In the morning. I sleep well, and my wife dote not have to pour water In my ear to awaken me. My advice to more coffee and leas whisky.” A New Ofleani correspondent aaya that it the opening of the exposition. ’ when the band played the ‘Star Spangled Banner.' men women a children cried real tears.” Some bands have that effect on human beings, no matter what tune they may play. It is a wonder the band wasn’t mobbed.— [Norristown Herald. The claim to mad* for Ludwlgsburg, Germany, of having produced tor the cathedral at Riga, Russia, the largtat rrgan ever constructed. There are in It 7,000 pipes and 124 stops, with pedals, etc, sufficiently numerous. The organ to sixty-five feet nigh, the largest pipe being thirty-two feet long and the smallest half an Inch. "How to it you never married, Charlie ?” "O, I don’t know, except I remained single from choice." “Why, I heard that you tried to get that Podgklna girt a year or two •go.” "Yes, I did ask her to marry me.” "And she would not have you ?” ’That's about the eiee of tt Sol remained tingle from choice—her choice, you know." He wee at breakfast, wrestling with a piece of remarkably tooch veaL Hto wife said to him—"You always say thereto something to be thankful for In everything. I guess you’d be pusxled In thto Instance.” "Net at all," he responded, stopping to breathe. “I was just tninktag how grateful we should be that: we met tt when It was

young."

A traveler retires to his room, leaving word that he to to be calltd for au early train. In the morning he is aroused from a sweet sleep by tbe porter knocking vehemently at tbe door: "Whoto there?” "Are you tho gentleman that waa to b« called for the 5:15 into?" "Yea. All right!'’ " Then you can go to sleep again, sir; the train’s gone!”— [Hotel Mail. Lord Coleridge says that when in this country he was struck by the absence of childhood. We defer to our children, ask their opinion s, allow them to engross the general attention, force social obligations on them, and cut them off from "all the sweet dependence of their years.” making grown persons of them before English children have left the nursery. Ex Governor John M. Palmer waa Interviewed in regard to the Illinois senatorshlpBe is reported as saying: "I am not a candidate; I have apent thirty yews In political life—that's enough; I am out of politics cow; I am vies president of the Southdown Bh> ep assoctotion and a delegate to the coming hog convention at Washington, and that to honor enough for me now.” Tbe preparations for the cold weather In tbe northwest ere a surprise for visitors. Fur coats and caps are the rule for everybody ; tbe houses have duplicate sets of window?, with a few inches of air between; the aiovts are ef enormous size, often reaching nearly to the celling; and euch a diversion as sleighing to scwcely known, as nobody tblnks of spending time out of doors for fun in winter.

| WAJHINQTOW K.KVTKR. The Meat Iingnwal City la tho Ooaa-try-A Corrupt Pol loo Foreo Malnt stood by o Bod Low—Block mo I Hog Cotnmoo—Subsidy Pomoroy’a Grot

Dado.

[ Correspondence ot The ladlaoanoUs News l Wasbihoton, January 3—A remarkable case of the modern administration of justice has been agitating society at tLe capital. It nvolvos not only the peculiar relations existing between various grades of our society, but forcibly Illustrates the eecret operation ^ of thoeo political loll aeoees which underlie ' our social and legal fabrics. For the reason that such a atate of affair* is not to Le found in any other city ot tbe union. It to well worth particular notice. Dating back to war times, when the "gratitude of the nation,” to use the stereotyped expreealon of party platforms, waa continually slopping over toward our national defenders, congress enacted a law that none but ex-aoldlers and ex-sailors of the government should be employed on the police force of the District of Columbia. It waa a very good and patriotic law twenty yean ago. Preft rence to the soldier was Incorporated in the laws relating to appointments and promotions in the civil service about th* came time. These laws were made when the republicans had a majority of two-thirds in both houses; when a file of regular soldiers stood guard at the White Home door; a soldier drove Preeldent Grant’s carriage, and a soldier in full uniform, with burnished gun and gleaming bayonet waa a familiar object about Washington. Tbe armed soldier has disappeared. So has the two-thirds majority in congress. So has the unfortunate Grant. They came In with him and they all went out with him. Bnt the laws concerning the ex-soldier in the civil service and police force remain upon the statute books. The former wu always a dead letter, the latter soon beesme a legal crime. For the enforcement of toe civil service law relating to the soldiers was dtccretionary with ih« powers that were for the time being, and waa finally nullified by competitive examination. The police force act, however,was compulsory. Yet they read well from the party platform, and were pointed to with pride from the partisan stamp. Neither party dared to be honest enough to repeal Mum. Originally deelgned to reward the ex-sol-dier who had served his country tn tha war of the rebellion,' and had been honorably

A couple of tons of powder exploded ,in Sale Lake City tbe other day, wrecking everything In the neighborhood and shaking

the whole town, and a deaf old woman who lived a couple of blocks away pricked up ber ears and said, "Come In!” Then she said to ber daughter: "Law me, I do believe I’m getting back my hearing. I heard that knock at the door as plainly as I ever

beard anything in-my life.”

A man from the mountain recesses of North Carol'na visited Piedmont, Ga , the other day. Loag flowing carto hung down hto back, every feature of hto face was hidden by hair, which nearly covered it, and he had a scarcely human appearance. He spoke with a peculiar, unnatural, grunting brogue; said be lived away up in a hollow on da mountain In da Kalina stote. Thto was hto first visit to a town, here the first brick house he ever saw, the first negro, kaew nothing of books and newspaper*. He had been "four

tuns” in coming.

Once a gentleman, who bad the marvelous gilt of shaping a great many things out

»nu jar. i nomas mu, ana succeeaea in counterfeiting a pig to tha admiration of the company. Mr. Hill tried tbe tame feat, and after destroying and strewing the table with the peel of a dozen orange* gave It up with tbe exclamation: "Hang the pig; I can't make him." "Nay, H1U," exclaimed Hook, glancing at tke mess on the table; “you have done more; instead of one pig you have made s Utter." Of every twenty parson* who, when a blU to presented, almost Involuntarily exclaim: "Leave It, I'll examine it," at leaat eighteen know the biU is all right, end of the eighteen probably sixteen could pay the amount just aa well one time at another. It to quite as ofren the rich who thus thoughtlessly make a man ran twice or more for hto mon j, as people of moderate meant. "I never make a man caU twice for his due," remarked a gentleman a few days (luce, and ha was eighty years of age. Imagine the amount of happiness this man has contributed to this world. Some conservatives are opposed to the beating of street cars on the ground that ventilation will be Impaired and th* air be made onendurable Theoretically, the temperature of air does not affect its parity, and wai m air will be as pure a* cold under the same conditions. Practically, heated horsecars wherever they have been tried give great satisfaction, 1 hey are more comfortable and more healthful. In cold can much dancer Is incurred, and many people now walk jns’ead of riding to avert the dsogsr of catching cold from the draughts In an unhealed car.

Mr Carl. F. Espouse hade, MUOtntown. Juniata Co , Penns , writes, that he was iajared severely, but by applying 9t Jsoob* OU. he was cured at once

army. Tt e able-! o lied soldier of th* rebellion has nearly become extinct, but the law remains. A tew old men of the war are still on the force, but tbe majority of our ablebodied police are from th* raeke of the mirctanrlei who compos* th* regular army and tbe marine corps. It 1$ necessary to nuderstand this to account for th* otherwise Incomprehensible policy of the district government In placing such n bud of Irresponsible and atoreputsbU knaves in charge of th* lives end property of th* people of thto district. The dally murder, the robberies Innumerable. tbe affrays, th* licentiousness, rape*, blackmail and general deviltry which have disgraced tha best governed city in the country, are but the natural outgrowth ot such a a system. I venture to assert that Washington 1$ the most bcnutlful and immoral city in th* United States. If t><e annals of Faria or New Yoik were searcued there could scarcely be found parallels ot the vidouenesa and immorality at the American capital Where else tn the world would you go to find policemen in citizen’s drees prowllag about ths streets at night Insulting honest women and soliciting btd in order to make casts of prostitution? Where else in the wide world would you go tofindgovenment detectives la league with borgDrs and theivee, putting up Jobs against banks and citizens and dividing the plunder with th* robber*’ In what city In the world could you find the enforcement or non -en forcemeat of tbe laws reduced to a system of black mail, such ss to openly practiced hero again it liquorsellers, gambling boose* and other resorts of ill-lame* Where can you point to a more Infamous act than the employment of officers to systematically Induce and commit crime for the purpoee of making a case against parties obnoxious to public officials? • I defy you to point out any such cities here or abroad. Perhaps you may think I am coming it rather strong. Yet there are plenty of facts to sustain every count tn tne indictment. What think you, virtuous public, ot a lieutenant of pouee whose uniform and gold watch were paid for by the subscriptions of the keepers of bawdy house# detailing officers of his force to solicit women on the streets and to carry them iff to assignation houses In order to make cases? Of officers in citizens' dress going about begging at ssloooa after midnight lor a glass ot liquor, feigning sickness to get it it no other means will answer, for the purpose of convicting the liquor sellers ot violating the law? Of spying at one place and taking bribes at another for Immutiny? Yea, that sort of business Is done in every city it is true. But not wlththe impunity with whleh It to done here. The star route eases afford examples of legal corruption and the em-, plotment of a corrupt force to corrupt andpack juries which have not been known since tne lime of Jeffreys. They were followed and reinforced by the exposure of a conspiracy beta een detective* and professional burglars and thieves than which nothing more infamcui can be found in criminal annals. All of which crimes,though established by Indubitable proof', went unpunished txcause the fountain of Justice lu Washington to stagnant and impure. - Now there to another ease before the public which recalls these evt ier ces of legal and acclal Immorality, not through any sympathy for the persons affected, however, bu> because of the infamou* means to au end. Two effiem lu citizen's diiyw, married men, are furntebed with money out of the public treatury and instructed to make a case against a disreputable home in afaehionable neighborhood. Obedient to these Instructions they enter the place, treat tha female Inmates to wine and occupy rooms with two of them. The character of such officers can be Imagined. They return to police headquarters and make oath to their successful crime against the laws, against their wives and children, and against God. Their method is "approved bf the authorities." What Is called a "raiding order” Is tosoed and executed and the women thus caught are arraigned before the police court But a pecu-

toorderly”

of police court proceedings. The raid caught a senator of the United States, a couple of members of the house ot representatives and a brae* of coogreailonal officials. Tbe judgment rendered against the woman one day waa hastily reverted by th* upright judge oa the next day. The whole city to full of righteous Indignation. The fines are revoked and the women allowed to go 1 se. The model officers are arraigned instead on the next day after. Their superior officer denies on htoosththst he bad directed any each methods. The arraigned officers reaffirm their former statemenu and produce collateral evidence. Who to proeeeutlng thee# officers? The United States senator, th* two members of tbs bouse of representatives and th* braes of high officials art mysteriously silent. There to a quiet panic prevailing among thoie about ; *. . ■ » ^ ^ »

men Involv

Whatever the eadwfll be (for It ie'not yet

t police headquarters. The wood have mysteriously disappeared, the end will be (for It Is not yet

in sight), the public to now rigorously cry-

ing, "O, the tbama of It!"

1 be portly figure of old ex-8eaator Pomeroy bae appeared in view again, "dubaidy Pom,” tbe boys call him, and he earned the title. "Sobeidy Pom” used to ride oa horseback a good deal whea he was la ths senate and hto pudgy form became a familiar objtet to the residents of Washington. Seeing him reminds me of sn ante-war story oice told me by a Kansas man. It was tn 1856 during the border troubles. The name of General Atchison and the deeds of hto “border ruffians" were then carrying terror to that section. About that Urns tee New England Aid society sent lie secretary, Prmeroy, out there. He beesme vary obnoxfous to the pro slavery people and Atehl son touud a proeiama'lon that hto capture would be followed by death on the snot. It was one morning In the winter of 1857 and tbe old general bad had his eockttll and wa« about to sit down to a Kansas breakfaa In field quarters, that a prisoner was march*

before him. Atchison was an awfully profane old man. "Who the are you?" he ripped out, addressing hto captive. "General! General! ’ protested th* horrified Pomeroy, "please Jo not use such profane language in my presence. I am a humble follower ot the Lord Jeeus Christ.” Tbe and you are!" exclaimed Atchison. "And what in are you following him tor around here’” "To call poor atnnere to repentance,” meekly replied tbe prisoner. "Well, we only follow the abolitionist* here. Captain Jones, take this snivelling whelp outside our line*. Wedun’t want any such ft I io oa m thto section. Take him

awaj 1"

Now the Captain Jones whe

oropp

io, at the word

ot command, dropped a king full to do his duty, was Immediately recognized by the

evangelist He knew that Jonas knew him perfectly Well, and therefore tamed as white as s sheet bellevetng hto time had OOfl One word from Jones would be the slgi It r hto being taken out and shot Bat for •ome reaeon of bte owa Captain Jones pretended not to recognise him. Calling a gnaid be escoiUd Pomeroy outside the une* In person, pmuteiy informing him that hto return or dkcovery would he death. The war soon folljwed on the heels Of Kansas troubles. Captain Jonns joined General Price’s command, and In 1864 was brought a prisoner to Washington. While here be was granted permission to see Hon. Frederick Staunton, whom he had known tn Kansas. While in Staunton's office s gen-

tleman called on busln st.

“Here is a gentleman you ought to know,” said Staunton, pointing to Captain Jones. “There to something familiar about him; but I can not locate him exactly, remarked the xen* comer, who wan none other than J Senator Pomeroy. Capt. Jones, however, quickly rose and extended hto hand, saving: "I am a follower of the Lord Jeeus.”

"Good heavens!” ^

‘why. What

cried old Pom,

this to the men who saved my lifel

are you doing her*?"

Cap*. Jones explained that he was la about the asm* attuation Pomeroy was In In Kansas several years before. Senator Pomeroy, however, immediately got him hts parole, the preaidaat, who waa told the story, saying good humoredly that he could go beyond our lines, but if he ever got caught again he would be shot as Pomeroy had

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