Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1885 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY SENTINEL FB IDA! MOBNIKG JANUARY 2 185

FRIDAY, JANUARY 2.

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Tre fiflh annual meeting of the Deno-ratic Editorial Association will be held la the city of Xd'anapoIIs Jackson's day J ancatiy 8, 1SS4 The indication? are that tho meetin; will be the larsed editorial convocation ever held in Indiana or in the 'ett. The Democratic editors of In-llana contributed t'aeir full sharo Iq securing the prand victory November 4, and to a man, they should be present to taks part la the proceedings of the 8th of January meeting. A locl co-Jim Ittee will make every required arrangement for the xr-eetiug. of which tlratly notice will bo given. '.'ome one, cone all. I. n. McDonald, President. It is estimated that more than 2,000 parwere killed by the recent earthquakes in Spain. Ben Butlek is positively going to write a book. We snggrst an embossed spoon as the decoration for the cover. Mr..?. Sfnato t Hakui-on and the granddaughter of General Lewis Cass were among the callers a,t the White House receptioa yesterday. I'.Y the way. i3 not Mr. Watterson the author ct the splendid political maxim, "Let Pennsylvania go to the devil?" Commercial Gazette. Yea' and ehe went over SO, 000 just that Fkesidejct Ahthcr "received" an immense throng of New Year's visitors yesterday notwithstanding the S berian winter call" cf the weather at the same time. Some cf the most prominent ladies in Washington social circles assisted the President in entertaining his numerous visitor. The Illinois Senatorial question is still a perplexity. The Legislature is a tie on join ; 1 allot. General Logan's friends claim tha1 ha will be nominated b7 the Republican caucu?. Th Democrats are understood to Etand twenty-nine for Carter Harrison, twenty-four lor Congressman Morrison, and eleven fcr ex-Governor Palmer. GeviRXOR Sr. John, the late Prohibition candidate, haa flatly denied the Republican charge that he wa3 bribed by Domocrats to xnaka cr continue his race for the Presidency. Editor McCullagh, of the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat, having stated that proof is extant of Mr. St John's trafficking, the latter pentlenan challenges its production. The .Republicans must put up or shut up. A rnF.F.rroLOGm called to see Mr. Cleveland last Wednesday evening. lie did not succeed in feeling the "barups" of the Presidenten ct, but froni observation he concludes es follows: "I find the Governor ha3 great powers of insistance, and the bump of selfreliance is unusually well developed; that and the organ of perseverance are ths most prominent characteristics ho po3:e3J3?. If his head does not belie him, he will make a strong President." Tue causes of the hog cholera now prevailing In West Virginia are being investigated. A Wheeling telegram says: "The firet result achieved was tha discovery that the cerm cf the hog cholera, which created auch ha vo 3 about here, is a specific geini a bacillus and can be reproduced. If the experiants verify present hopes, hogs and other animals may be inoculated with tha virus oX cholera, and by producing in them the disease in a mild form, prevent ravaa by the plague la its fatal shape. Already cattle may be Inoculated for TexaB fever and pleuro-pneumonla, and Dr. Reeves has the strorgest hopes of the same result with the cholera. The disease is now raging throagh Eelmont County and all Eastern Ohio, though practically stamped out in thl3 ß:ate." Iris not with any great reluctance that the average reader baie the old year adieu There is a feeling that it might have been a more orderly and more generous cycle. It did not retire from oCioe with wreaths on its brow from the handmaiden o! prosperity. Tha industries will not hold it up as an exemplar fcr any corning year. The half million nnemployed working people of the United States will not remember it with blessings. The hundreds of bankrupts it has made, or disclosed, have no kind words for it. Commercial men whosa trade has dragged, farmers who have realized but corry prices for their products, transporta tion lines whose carryings have fallen o J, and indeed the public at large, look upon eighty-four ai a contracted, dull, sourTisaged old year, whose departure ii not to be regretted. Even the political revolution, CO ercmtial to the maintenance of the Republic and future prosperity of the people,

was literally wrung from the old year. If efghty-uye is at all ambitious for popularity, it will do well to repudiate the methods of its immediate preiacessor, nor permit the latter's mantle to be seen on itj shoulders. Letthe new year show itself Democratic from the start

RECEPTION OF TOE CIVIL SEP.VIC3 LETTER. The cordial approval by Democrats of the letter of the President-elect on civil eervice reform is sorely disappointing to the organs and demagogues of the la' lamented G. O. P. How often have thc-e pictured to the public gar. aud hearing a tamultao'm rash by "hungry Democrats" for the otllceg. The7 fcave huzged the delusion that greed for etoilsandthe precipitate demand fjr theru would briD di'raca npon the puty, while rivalries and jealousies vrouid soon pplit it, much to the benefit of its rival. Rut ths universal commendation of Democrats who have given expression nuon the letter indicates positive patriotism. Conceding a desire to obtain the ollices so soon as ths administration can with safety mike th changes, the Democracy yet desires mora the thoroughly successful operation cf th j Governmental machinery. I: n apparaat now, even to the most blinded prtizan who belittled and blackguaris.t Grover Cleveland throughout the cmpalgce that he Is a brainy, earnest, broidguage patriot with principles and impulses eminently fitting him for the exalted trut to which he has, been callfd. It must oscar pretty soon to the sxrue partisans that t e parly which so roundly indorse such a leader is impressed with sormdhinj ci his sentiments. Mr. Cleveland's utterances end the Democracy's applauding reception of thera stand out in resplendent ontrr.st to Mr. FJaine and his party. To the latter and their leader, party came first and country second. To them party was country. Rat the Democracy and it3 President denonatrate that tae public good is their tir.it objtCt. IT KNEW THELI. Thp New York Times was thoroughly posted in regard to tie gang who wa3 behind Blaine last summer championing his caus-s and urging his claims for election to the Presidency. The Times always supported the nominee of the Republican party, and during the campaigns for the Presidency haj never failed to wield a particularly trenchant blade. As eoon, however, aa Mr. Blaine was nominated, it recognized the full meaning of his nomination. The Times remarked in its issue of the 30th, in a reference to Mr. Cleveland's letter: "The view taken cf Governor Clevelacd's letter by some of those persons in Washington who have peculiar reasons for anxiety as to the policy cf the next Administration, i3 as just to the author of the letter as it i3 disquieting to those persons themselves. It is well known to everybody in any degree familiar with the working of ths departments that a large number of subordinate officials are kept in the service of the Government for whom there i3 really no proper employment 'Influence' keeps them cn the pay-rolls. Such employes of the Government have good reason to fear the effects cf the new influences which will be dominant after the 4th of March. There is another class of Federal employes who have still better c&uss or alarm as to their f ature We can in no way describe them more clearly, perhaps, than by saying that If Mr. Blaine had been elected ar.d Mr. Elkins, Mr. Dorsey or Mr. Powell riaytcn bad b?en appointed Postmaster General they would immediately have appeared as purchasers of brown stone houses in fashionable quarters cf thn capital." PHENOMENAL DOWNWARD PERCENTAGES. A Sentinel New York special of yesterday, reciting reductions of rates made by the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company, names certain percentages which suggest that our correspondent ivould do well to investigate the pages of a school arithmetic. Says the special: "In order that a fall appreciation of the reduction may ba had by running comparisons as to the rates cno year ago, cia not but provo interesting, to New Eagland points, as above, the fall averages froai 100 to 300 per cent." In illustration, it is stated that the rate is now "twenty cents for ten word3 to Indianapolis and St. Louis, a difiereace of 150 per cent., ths former rate having been fifty cents." The change from fifty to twenty cents is a reduction cf CO per cent. A reduction of 100 per cent, cn any rate would simply wipa it entirely out. Had the Indianapolis and St. Lonis figures been twenty, and now increased to fifty cents, the percentage of increase would be 150 per cent; but this is a case in which the rule will not "work both ways." If it is any consolation to the correspondent to know that he is not the first man affecting education who ta3 made the mistake, he is welcome to the assurance, but he is none the less ridiculously wrong la hi computation. He is as far from the mark ai the German who, charging $2 for an article costing him but $1, declared he was making a profit of only 1 Der cent. -THE HERALD AND UONKLINO. The New York Herald Is going to see Roecoe Conkling write Senator after his name again or know the reason why. It for no other reason, the Herald wants Lord Roscoe in the chamber to see him throw red pepper in the eyes of the Piumed Knight when that hero of fnss and feathers puts his lace into Senate affairs. It compliments Mr. Arthur for being "the moat capable President cf the United States since Abraham Lincoln," and Mr. Kvarts as "an orator capable of such achievements as talking a usurper (Hayes) into the Presidential chair," and then adds: 'Terhaps the best piece of Senatorial timber in the United States to-day is Mr. Roscoe Conkling. He is the Saul of his party as to

moral and intellectual stature a man with a genins for politics, a man of high character and unimpeachable Integrity. Indeed, the decadence, meanness and foal condition of the Republican party are not made pc elf arly evident by any other fact as by this lhat in the strnie in that party for th? survival of the fittest between R a'ne and Cnkling. Blaine was found to be the fittest. It must ba a muddy atmosphere and a vita wcrld in which the esg'e, soaring in his prids of place, is rated a poorer bird than th i carrion crow. Conklin's election wou'd be a wonderful sign ot a new departure in Republican polit'cs "

ITekk is a specimen of the lyin staff that is being telegraphed from this city to the .Sr. Louis Gloe Democrat (Repib'ican, of course): "The administration at lav hereunder the Metropolitan lizard of Police has ret:'!-! tech a steH that the organisation of a vigi'r.r.ce cormittee has bn timed i:i the c Atai.ns cf the pres. At present tat city is fnll of criminals cf u o?prratü and d vig?rens charscter, and for the many outr-ves recently perpetrated no arresia hava been made." The truth is that the metropolitan polfct! i.y tlie finest organizitiou of the kind that the city has ever had. The mornhers of the I oard ere recognized In this city as respected, rtspor.sible, honorable gentlemen. The R-j-rnblican organs hunger for the mlserab'u, disgraceful Mud tcaiulA'crii tcenes tuactc4 under iho old system, when it wa3 posfib'e to ttutT ard tt(il balljtboxe3 whenever it v;n Lfceary to produce .it Republican majorities. This i3 the entire ttory in a nut-hell. Ths old fcrcj wss f-inudy an annex to the most degraded forms cd lccal Rep'iolican politics, manipulated, controlled and directed for the mrst part by ard bummers in tl.e interests of the city a-d comity Republican ring?. The rir?s have been badly damaged in recent elections, and more especially has the Metropolitan Police bill crippled them. The plunder that once held them together hu? hern placed beyond their resch. Altogether the occasion is a Bid on?, suggesting the v. ails of a wake. Hencs the hubbub. tene3t3 possible to accrus to the United States by the construction of the Nicaragua Canal are not generally understood. Here i an extract from a speech of Mr. R. W. Townshend, of Minors, In the Hoiiffcf Representatives July 5, 1831: 'Tl.-e trade of those South American conntries) ought to be controlled by us. Their nearness to us, th facilities of communication by water or rail, all give us the advantage over any other country. What share of this trade do we get now? The statistics will show that Ecglancf, France and Germany como to our door and taken away the tuls of this trade. Look at the figures. Our trade with eome ef these countries is so significant in comparison with England and France as to ba humiliating to the pride of our country. Take Cnili and Peru, so remote from Europe, and yet, comparatively speaking, easy cf access to us acroes the Isthmus of Panama or from California, acd seo the disparity: Fxportf from Chill. Peru. Tot!. itatllritain...$ 2 0r,-i 317 Sis.75i. iv S'-o.Td sn Frmce U.Ü.O.'JIO 8,71:1,37-' 21.7,5-J t inted fctattd 3.583, 3.L71. 1"Jj 7,15J,5J7 "I have not yet had access to the statistics of the trade of these countries with ether European countries. ' Iheir trade in 1830 with all foreign countries accounted to ?C53,701,C0O, of which $373,091 000 were imports and consisted mainly of manufactured articles. Of those imports England furnhhed $3 3,. -320, 000, France $02,771,00 , a-d the United States only f3G.0il.OCK). If this commercial union was established thess figures would be more than reversed." TnE Necrology of 153 1 for the United States includes the names of a number cf men highly distinguished in varied callings. From the list we mention the following: Ex-Goyernor Letcher, of Virginia; Congressman E. W. M. Mackey, of South Carolina; Wendell Phillips, of Massachusetts; W. II. Hunt, United States Minister to Russia: Chares O'Connor, the greatlawyer; Cyrus II. McCormick, the inventor and manufacturer of the McCorraici: reaper; Secretary Folget, Bishops It. II. Clarkson, of Nebraska; H. II. Kavanangh, cf Kentucky; George F. Piercs, of Georgia, and Matthew Simpson, of Peonsylvania; General Terrell, of Indiana; Dr. Woodward, of the United States Army; Dr. Samuel D. Gross, Wilber F. Storey, editor of the Chicago Times ;Thoma3 Kinsella, ed tor the Brooklyn Eagle; Robert M. Hoe, inventor cf the II 09 printing prtss; Fxank CLanfrau, the a:tor, and Allan Pinkerton, the r.cted detective. Be?; Butler, it ia charged, used the spy system to aid him In his political fature. A recent Washington dispatch eays: "When he was at the height of his notoriety in Congress he had in his employ at least half a dczn so-called secretaries, who were eo rtcre or less than spies. When he would become engaged in a controversy with a member he would turn thos9 creatures back upon the member's private record, and where he would discover anything he would drag it with perfect recklesness into the deb;ite3 of the Heuse. He was so frequently exposed in the underhand metheds employed by him that it almoct completely destroyed his influence, and had as much as anything to do with his final retirement from the House." Tnr New Year's greeting of the GlobeDemocrat to its readers sounds very like a waiJ. Sample it Thus: "It would be superduous to say that the year just closed has been the mcst unfortunate one in all of that party's long and extraordinary history; and it is equally as useless to say, so far as any doubt about the fact is concerned, that this misfortune is chiefly to be ascribed to said party's own blunders and follies. It is very easy, now that the penalty has fallen, to see how it might have been averted, and another Republican President elected last November by a good round majority; and the special sting of it is that we can excuse ourselves for sot having seen and escaped the danger only by impeaching our own iateUigence."

PERSOXAIiS.

Sam Randall always weirs a smooth face and a sleek broadcloth suit. Stanlkt is lecturing in England on "The Horrors cf African Slavery." Senatoes B:;ov.v, of Gaorgia, and In galls, of Kansas, do not "speak ai they pin by." The first volume of Mr. Blaine's book h?s now reached a sale of half a million copies. Some men re very patieat W. M. Evarts was a candidate for tha Senate twenty-four years ao. rr.crEf-or. Hl'xlev think3 smoking, in taoderation, in luoro injurious than drinkir water. ConziN. President cf the Long lü'.ind Railroad, distributed ten tons of lurityj .aniens hi employes. WniTTisr pot seventy-ceven bur.vwheit cakes from a Bo3.on cooking srhool oa his birtldoy annivr;ary. What can be the matter with St. John? His newspaper organ in Kaa3'is hi3 bcia sold out at Sheriff's sr.le. It Hnovv- statTd that Orton, tha Tichbirne claimant, will come to America as amu3e;iai attraction. That is where he belong?. A tOLvt.-i.n f-ilverjoiuh cf Gairg-itofn, Ry., made n. miniature t.-a engine which aUracts a grttt deal of at!e:itivn at Ne Orltans. Sf.NAToa Fa in, cf NeviU, is a:E32ed for 1 L'O.f C in city vl S-ri Fraocüsco, an 1 is now a defendant in a deimt;u-j::t tax suit in which the city claims f cm niui 'Jj 2 ;.'. Tnnr.r. i? a Jw:sLi tnrr.a t in Vienna who writes lit JhVvhtrson ono ra'n. of tv brat. If has als written trie Jcvish pr.ijer for the imperial family on the narro v ede of an ordinary visiting card. Fircr.MAN Day, a son of the late Pierl J::ii Jeremiah D.ty, of Yala CoIIp:?, died recently in San Francisco. Mr. Day sirvyd tha first railroad between San Jofe and .Sj.cr.imento, and mado one of tho firat gral?i w8gon roads e ver the S!?rrai. Mus. Ass Milucrs died at Jacsonvlllr, III., Docembar 3J, aaod Ciehty-even yeir?. ;the had resided ther fifty years, and was the mother of tha noted "blind preacher," VTilliam II. Milburn. whose eloquence his made tha name" famous in Europa and America. 'Uncle Peter" Eceritt, one of the pioxicer3 of Kano County, worth 130,00), end seventy year of age, wa3 married in E'gin, on the COth, to Miss Rebecca McBxide, a lady of twenty-threa. The marriage created quite a sensation. They left for a New Orleans and Florida tour. A jjucskes marine, arrested in Vallejo, Cala., the otner day, complained that he had been shot in tho fo:t, and hi3 toot Wi3 full of blood. On being ttken to the hospital it was foand that a bott! filled witii whisky höd b?en broken in his boot. He irxagined he was dying. Stanley, the African etplorer, i3 not married, and probably never will bs. Whsn he first started for Africa he was engaged to a pretty New York girl, who gave him up for dead in a year and married another man within two years. He did not return till the end of the third year, and thought the damsel should have waitel for him, and her course embittered his life. Judge Dessy, of Oregon, is introduiirg gam.9 birds from China into that country, and recently received a lot of ninety pheasants, comprising the golden, silver, copper, greeD, tograpan and ringneck varieties. Home previous importations of ths ESm'i hire's are doing well and increasing rapidly in various sections of the Stato. A poition cf the Jat orrivals will ba distributed throughout the State. A Ft. Paul merchant ha3 a very poor opinion of the farmers in that section because they buy at the stores what they ou at to raise. "Farmers!" said ho contemptuously: "Why, we haven't twenty real farmers in th:s connty. Th?y are all nothing but wheat raisers, and that ia a long way from being a farmer. A larje number of farmers in Dakota, who own whole i :arlersectiens of land, s2ldom have a drop of milk in the home, and the hatter they eat is bought at the nearest fetore. They don't even keep a cow or pig, or trytorai33 v-etable3 enough to provide for ths winter." The following letter was received by rusml crs of the theatlcal troupe at Chicagj who rtfustdlo play unless Brooks & D.ckson guaranteed their salaries: Nev York, Dec. 21. Iam vry eorry to inform you that there fca3 been a ecriou disagreement between the members &f the firm of Broofca it Dickscn, consisting of J)seoh Brooks, J. B. Dickson and James Randall, and that the matter has been taken to the court for adjustment, which will probably requiie a week. In the meantime there will necessarily be considerable n-jwspaper talk, but I take this opportunity cf reque3tirg you not to feel any uneasiness whatever, and to assure you that your Ealaries will be paid promptly when due from this time forth; tut under th9 present disagreement all past indebtedness will have to rema'n until the court have decided the matter, which will not require more than a week, as above stated. Trusting this explanation will be EuSicient, yours truly, James B. Dicksos. WonsniPERs of John S. Sullivan will bs delighted at reading thathe has knocked out another. This time it wis a slender girl a waitress in a restaurant. He etruclc her on the face with & wet driving glove; then hit her a heavy blow with his clinched fist, cutting an ugly gash over öer rieht eye and fellicg her to the floor, when he kicked her cruelly. If the girl had had a big brother with a crowbar in hand ntar enough to have broken both arms and both legs, he wduld Lave done the country a service. Tiieee is a movement in the Grand Army of the Republic in the East in favor of Colonel Horatio C. King, ef Brooklyn, for President Cleveland's Secretary of War. Colonel KiDg is Jadgo Advocate General on Governor Cleveland's staff, and was President of the Cleveland and Hendricks War Associa

tion of Brooklyn darin? the campaign. Hi i also S-cretary of the Society of the Array of the Potcmac His father was Postmaster Geneial under President Buchanan.

Democratic Editors. To the EJi tor of the Sentinel: Sin I desire, throueh tne Srate orgm cf the Democratic party, to cll the attention Of every Democratic editor in the S:ate to the great importance cf the brethren of the Democratic press of the -hole State to attend the fifth "sanas! meeting of the State Democratic Editorial Association, to be held :n the city of Indianapolis, oa the 8th day of January, 155. I &m advised that there will t ii:truduetrd before tJje iiieo'.irit sotce v-ry importiat resolutions, teaching vtry important qnjtlots -pertaiuipg to the unit I ectirn of the Iu:ocra4dc pres in the 1st? cer.va-?, Us s'icof ??, a:;l fature action in s hjdi;;i;u' the ir cotair:; j-dmi'iij.tra'ir.u", bath in tl e S ;i"e Süd at Wts'nicgton Taes qu-i-tio's will com before th meeting. Tu rfore. I do hope tliit evf ry Dem orat'c e lit r in the 8 fi;e ill irake FrrtingrMn' s be ttc st-ut, to hesr and b? h?ard. and aH, you hve vroiked nobly and hsrmoui p.'y tof-tbi-r fvr a grand victory, which b.u bea wci:. coiüe up to the meeti'ij:, co'igra'ulitn sn:d b congratulated by th lsob'e D?HK.fTacy of the whole Stat for your g-od 'ik. Is.iah 11. McDonali. Fro vent of the Democratic Sine Editorial Ai-SCJ'MtlOfl. Cti'-isbiaCity, Ind., Dto. 3, 13I. ruft iti Mhh. To ti e F.litor of t'io Scatm-wl: Sir Thre iia-j been an article going the rounds of thy pr--3 setting f j-th that my brot!:r r, II nii K'irchlf r. was one cf the partie.i inij.dc-itr d tu the a'.tempted assassination of lie. Eiligerer of Germany. My brother (.ü:i tj Amcric in lbOO and enliste.1 in tho th?e mi'ith's ervic and served his time, lie then enlbtel in k!Je j-'.r.ir:e::t!i IrnHanrt R?i;ii3nt, YalUMttcr In'artry, and was woa-adi 1 at th.9 battle of Anteitara. After his c-juva!e3anci h sered his rl rev vrrs. and then re-Rnh?te in the Fir.t Indiana Bitttry, under Captain K.au, an i orvcd until tho close of the war. He lii.j n-ver teen in Germany Eine? he came to ATwfiiea in l: J't. He i. now foreman iu the "Eru Tdgobla.t," and is the sa.ue niau wlum the press rt presents as having beea one of the oyi.aniite liends who attempted to tatje tr.M lii of King William. I ma?e t Iii-g suten'.et.t for the purpose of defending my brother ugiinst such false a 'id unjust &czition?, the fah-eneos cf waich can ba p.tsily proven if need be. I trust ail papers will be as tf ady to copy this vindication of my brother as they iiave been to publish tu vrry unjust accusation against Iran, as above L.ciitioutd. Very respectfully, LjUis KuacaoFR. Indianapolis. Jan. 1, lbvS3. Clerk of ti House. Gr.EExcASTi.i-:, Dec. 2.). Hon. II. C Dsrr.all, of this city, will be a candidate for Clerk of the House, and he has made such headway that hi3 election is almost a foreg;: e conclusion. The wide acquaintance and popularity wh:ch he enjoys among the politicians of the State are enviable, and his thoroui h mastery of details renders him eminently fitted for the posittoa to whica ha tspires. A man of tome judgment, of genial manners, of perfect houfty and sterling Democracy, ho will discharge tho duties of his cilice, if elected, to the sitisficticn and pride of bis supporters and frieuda aad to the welfare of the A??s:iibly acd the State. Mr. Darn ill came within only six votes of being elected to this position in tha last Legislature and ro doubt the incoming Housi1 will recognize hU ability and very high claim to this position by a very lare support. G." The Frfcs on the L'letelaud Letter. Courier-Journal: Governor Cleveland's letter, brief as it is, leaves nothing unsaid cn the subject which should be said. If he shall carry out principles thsroin enunciated with the courage, honesty and sturdiness which have heretofore marked hi3 public career, applying the same lofty conception of sthtesmanehiD to his other trying duties, he will rot only establish the Democratic party firmly in the confidence of the country, but hi1 administration will rank in history ttccr.d in honor and luster to none wh;ch has preceded it. New York Times: This whole letter is tha plainest ard amplest common sense, and yet it i3 one of the most rcieworthy politicii documents of this eneratlon, because common spme has for chrs bren the rarest thing known in the treatment of this supreme "question. Mr. C.ece'and lists without effort and naturally to the folk Lerht cf his great post, and gives a r.ew proof that in his selection the sagacity of the people was not at fault. Philadelphia Times: This letter will nrt Loweter, bring much comfort to the men now in office who have made their place3 recruiting stations for a political party and who have Euddcnly been 8?izd with great admiration for the tenure of cilice portion of the civil service reform principle. He icrves notice upon such persons that they will be expected to go and that without serious or unnecessary delay. And if there is to be any genuine reform of existing methods the ofLcial nuillctine can not be sot in motion too quickly. On the other hand, he is no less positive in Lis notice to his own partisans that claims of party activity and energftir; elf seeking ero net ths elements .e will sesk in filling vacancies. " Rochester Union-Advertiser: Under th"i3 ruling pretty much eyery officer under the Government who does not come within tho letter of the civil service statute may consider his time up. If there are any exceptions to wh'ch ii dees Dot apply, they have yet tobe discovered. President Cleveland appears to have the correct idea of civil service reform, and Mr. George William Curtis and his a??ociates have done him the favor to furnish him a favorable opportunity to expxess It Chicago Herald: No letter from a Presidentin twenty-five years has had the wholesoma effect on onr politics that this one will have. It is a warning and a threat, a promhe and a fulfillment, all in one. In it the disputable and tyrannical officeholders, who have served party and not the people, may read their doom. The Senate can not ave then. Faithful public officers will see in it a guarantee of protection and reward. Chicago News: It should be remarked that Governor Cleveland uses the word "decent" a favorite with him, by the way as having regard to the manner of displaying oneself to as to be approved and respected. When a man is not a decent public servant in his eye, he means that that man has made some public exhibition cf conduct unbecoming a man holding an official trust. Many officeholders whose names will occur to the reader without any suggestion from ns afford conspicuous examples of this sort of indecency. It is to be hoped their fate will prove a warning to their successors. Chicago Times: The civil servant who voluntarily uses bis place for party purposes, in disregard not merely of his public duty, but in contempt of an express law (as, for example, the Marshal of this Judicial District) is one whose prompt dismissal ii imperatively demanded by the spirit and

purpose cf a reform whie fandtmental proposition is that ts public offices shall not be so tssd and abnd.

GOOD WOItDS. Pike County Democrat: The Indianapolis Sentinel is a newspaper with nerve and a strong spinal column. Rnsnville Jaekjonian: Every Damocrat in Kosh County who want? an able and rlieb' paper, da lv or -weekly, thcald Uk tte S?ntinet. It is a good r.?w3paoer, and an able advocate cf Democratic principles. Se prospectus in another clamn. Teoplt'd Frir.d: The Indianapolis Sntinel, after fighting the good ficht and winning a glorious victory, is now asking it reward in an increased s ib cripti m.snd offering new inducement that should meet with a Learty reception. lheS-ntinI Is a ruot excellent Democratic journal, and should It in every household iu Iudiana. Areola Htra'd: As an outspoken, resisted t ard vigorous defender cf the principles cf Deircctacy. and an unconip-omi-ing oppop en t to oppressive monopolies, the Sntir.el 1 ss few equals and scarcely any superior. Every Democrat in Indian ought to suvecrioe for and read the S:ate rrgaa ot his party- and keep posted. We will take p'esure in forwarding any tubccriptioLa left at thi3 clfice. Shelby Democrat: Colonel Shoemaker, proprietor cf that simon pnro newspaper, the Indianapolis Sentinel, is f-eling exceedingly well et this whtirg. The Sentinel ha covered itself all over with elory. It did a much as any psper in the Union tn defeat Blaine. It is ripht as cft?n as any of the groat newspapers we know cf, and Dem ccrats should rally around it andjarml? support it Lawrenceburg Register: The Sentinel was a valuable auxiliary in th late campaign and a fearless advecsfe of tha cuse of rlht. No Piper did more to advance the interests oT the party and is more deserving now of the support of the Democracy than the Sentinel. It is the leading Democratic Taper of n e b'tate, the organ of the psrty at Indiniinpolis. and is now well equipped to do teu bf tter work in the fature than in the last. We trut the Democrats everywhere in the State will give the Sentinel ,h liberal sup i ort. l'rom thw üMutti. Fx tract Form a rrlvata Letter iu ITartford Times rated Ringgold, Ga December 13 1 Now about election and the time?. E'ectir.g a Democratic President does not make the hard times. America i an over-producing country, and when 100 articles of anythii g are made where only fifty i.re needed, there U sure to come a glut in the market, end goods will not fell. Tne ory cf Free Trade i3 all empty talk. There is need cf a revision of the revenue Jaws. There is a duty now on over () articles -which coats thf Government racie to collect than tha di.ty amounts to. I cctice in the New York Tribune that the b'iCksoftc-e South are ostracised, and are & i intimidated that they are not allowed to v de. bach stufi is a ba?e lie. The Republicans South in many places told the blacks that if Cleveland was elected they would all ce put back into slavery. In many places where the npgroes were numeroas, they vt ere so excited that rnay whites staid at home, being afraid to go and vote. I have cot heard a single instance ct the blacks being intimidated. Many countiei in Georgia gave oXJ majority for Blaine. 'I he result will perfectly satisfy the negro, restore harmony between the races, en coarege Southern enterprise, nnd make tha Southern States feel that they belong to a united country with united interests. The time vill come in a few years when th South wiil be one-quarter if not one-half richer thsn she is to-day. Atlanta will reach a population of 4;0,0D0 within ten years. In twenty yearj she has grown from ruin to 00.000 population. Birmingham, Ala., hes in twelve years prown from nothing to 12 000, and sends 100 car loads of iron ore to Chattanooga daily, and has contracted to Jo so for five years to come. Anniston, A!a has Eprung up like maic to a population of 8,000. Rome, Ga., also has a population of 8.000. Talladepa. Ala., and many other plaees are growing like Western citie?, J. E. Rood. The Speakership. rutter to Madison Herald J With Mr. Jewett in the Chair the tax payers of Indianacan rest assured that, sofar as lies in his power, there will be retrenchment and reform, and an economical expfcdimre cf the people's money. The graceful and dignified manner in which Mr. Jewett presided over the last Houe cf Representatives, as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, combined with hia uniformly correct rulings, stamps him r.9 a parliamentarian of the highest order, and 83 a member thoroughly equipped for the weighty and responsible duties of the Speakership. Moieover.as Southern Indien contributed a lanre majority of the Democratic vote of the State, it is nnthirg more than justice that the next Speaker bhould be her favorite son Charles L. Jewett. The Liberty Hell Oulcg South. Philadelphia Ep.-cial. The o'd Liberty Bell, it is expected, w:il be tbiped from this city to the New Orleacs Exrooifon cn January, 2L The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will be intruste 1 with the chare of its transportation. A rrecial train will bs famished ty the com-, tany to carry the bell and there ofiiiers appointed by the Mayor as custodians who will not It ave it day or night until the relic ii returned to the c:ty in June at the close of the Exposition. The special train will be preceded by a pilot eDgine to guard against collision. When the bell leaves the city it will be the second time since it was originally received in Philadelphia in 1S2. In 1777, when it was expected the British would capture th? city, the bell was removed to Bethlehem fcr eafe keeping. It was restored after the evacuation. A Modest Inquiry. O'Neill P.cportcr.1 We con't wish to do Yalentine an in justice and, for information, would inquire i! it is, or is cot, a fact that the connty judge keeps a saloon, that the Sheriff also keeps a saloon, that the County Clerk is in a saloon, tt at the Deputy Sheriff deals faro, that tha Judge, Clerk and Sheriff also deal monte and faro, that the sessions of the County Court are held in a saloon, and if gambling is not the zcaln business of the town. Frozen to an Umbrella. Boston Herald. Charles B. Hodges is at the City Hospital with hia left hand badly frozen. Saturday night be wa3 walking with an umbrella clasped in bis hand, and before he realized the extent of the cold it was literally frozen stiff to the umbrella. The injured member wUi have to be amputated. The Deaf Engineer, savannah Kews.1 At one of the cotton presses in 6a van nah the engineer is deaf. He takes the string of the whistle, pulls it down and ties it, and tbe blowing goes on until some one cuts tha String.