Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1885 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY SENTINEL, TUESDAY MORNING JANUARY 20 18&

TUESDAY, JANUARY 2X

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Vcop.iiie. was nominated unanimoa:ly to saccted himself in the United States Senate by the Democratic caucus, la-t niht. Mr. Porter was the choice of the Republican caucus. Ccsa's two million of people have to pay 514.000.CCO a year for th a support of the army and navy that keep them in subjection. The island yields Spain an income ;of $37,000,000. Not a tingle American steamer carried grain from New York list year, and only two sailing vessels carried onr Iis. Each are the fruits of the rule cf the late Republican party. Trie French Spoliation Claims bill recentI t i & ;Fed by Congrecs will bring nearly ?l,00 000 to be divided between Mrs. Magre Taylor. Charla3 Taj lor ar.d Mrs. Charles A. Long, of Eagle wncd, 111. A cosKEroDF:NT of a western paper asserts that Washington is the most beautiful and iramortl city in the United States, and that Tarn can f arnish no paralles of the viciousncssand immorality of the Amaricin capital.' Pcoit Blaine. It is now said that hi? "greatest tleairfe" is to live loug enough to revenge himself npon his enemies. As he seems to have rather a feig and healthy lot, it locks ss it be night net to be the oldest citizen of tfce Republic before his "greatest desire ' is gratified. Tue "Washington correspondent of tbe 1'hilauelphia Press, in refeniLg to ths Hon. 1). W. Voo:he3, says: x.'hile he is the mot onrtcons of oppoccn's in delate, the man who due not respond ttthv ourtt had tetter hrA out. lie has uvoi-eoi iMsrdcr and the courage nrnl Impc.uoiity of tut t: cr. ami he is very quic In debate and rcprt.e. In private life and amonz tils associates, Penorrt!and kepuhdr:ans alik, he is a rentleand Aainisl kb a ir I. lie h.n not ama's.- l prent w;-j 1th, m-ckus ia the most conero'isof men. iri.-l Ncaue he dors bo much law business where " Th init je" is all he Rets. Tfteek is something decidedly businessilka in the arrangements of Dancan C. Hdp?, the Ohio athlete, for dropping siueins and aalooning and entering the pnlpit. From Lis bar-room he has written two theo'oical seminaries the terms upon which he will consent to become a theolone. Although expressing the conriction that he ia called to preach, he still holds on to his saloon, &nd will not leave it cntil February. If neither of the seminaries written to will accept his terms he will don the cloth (after leisurely winding up his bar business) withoat stndyln; the9logy. Let us hope Ker. Mr. Iioss will be epiritnally as sound and ellctive a3 he has been physically. If so he nmy giva the devil many falls. A LICASÜRE TO HS FROWNED DOWN. It is undentood that a bill of relief is to I introduced in the Legislature in behilf of public ouicers who hate lost public money by the failure of banVs in this and other cit'es. Of course, the elTect of such an act would bo to release these public odice-s and their bondamen and throw the loss upon the taxpayers at large. The spirit of such a measure is unm. Its intent is simply tD increase the burthens of taxpayers for the beneüt of thoi3 who had sought the custodianship of their tax payments. The proposition should meet with no favor. When a man asks for aid as a public ofheer Le voluntarily assumes a!l the respocsibilitioj and hazards along with the honors and emoluments. The case must bs exception ally extreme that justices such a baby act of legislation. THE INSANE ASYLUM HORROR. There is something exceedingly pathetic in the reading of the burning of seventeen distraught human beings, as occurred at the Illinois Asylum for the Insane. Only a like fate for so many afflicted with blindness would appear so sad. To think of the unfor tunates, in the d.irkness of unreason, not realizing the danger that was upon them, and so making no affort to escape from the riimes, Is harrowing beyond expression. The reports concerning the condition of the Illinois infirmary building, if true, reject sariosaly upon the government of that State. We are told that the Superintendent called the attention of the last Legislature to the ceed of protection of the detached wards from fire and asked for an appropriation f ?2.5"i0 for that purpose. The Legislature, in response to that warning petition, voted f 1,006 only a sum indeo.uate for the protection asked. It would appear, then, that for $1,500 a great Stile prefeired to risk the loss of the lives of hun-

dredsof a dieted and helpless people a risk which may the actual cause of seventeen bodies being charred seventeen unfortunates to suffer death by that most horrible of ail tortures burning. That an asylum for the insane should be unprovided with some ficilitiea for extinguishing accidental fire la m. crime. That auch an institution ehonld be lecated at a town having no tire department is nothing: ehort of outrageous. There appears to have been no thought nor concern for the protection from fire of the inmates of trje asylum. Whatever evidence the Coroner's jury may find of cegligenca on the part of architect or attendants oi the asylum, gro3 neglect on the part of the State of Illinois is established by the lack of the provisions named.

THE bTATK TREASURY. . There can be no reasonable objection to a proper committee cl the Legislature investigating the condition of the State Treasury. If there is any thortsge in the Treasurer's account?, it is the right of the people, and particularly of tbe party that elected him, to know It. We have no reason to eupposa there is any shortage. We do not believe that there is. Mr. Cooper has displayed cone of the fast and lo&e qualities, either openly or under the cover, that go to make the defaulter. In distinctly declaring ia favor of a prudent and correct investigation, now that tbe matter is before the public, we have to elate that we do so all the more freely in view of the fact that the Treasurer is our political and personal friend. From a party standpoint the Dsmocracy Las nothing to fear from an investigation. Ehculd there be anything really wrong with tbe tresönry balance tbe Democracy would be the stronger for discovering and exposing it. No person, co far as we kno?, has reason for supposing there will be acy such discovery, . Then the situation co les fully calls for the investigation . The late Republican Governor suggested it; the Republicans in the Legislature call for it. The failure to inves tigate would ue used by them and their party in the State as evidence of fear of so doing. The interest of the Democracy re quire the repudiation of such a construc tion on the part of tho Pepublicans. Toe Democratic party in the State would not be harmed should it be true that its State Treasurer has not all the money the Auditor's book shows tj have been placed in his possession, in ths rickety Tmsury vaults, provided it i9 shown that the money is all deposited uaMy. Mr. Cooper's Republican predecessor, it is admitted, did not keep ail the money in the Treasury vaults. Governor Porter sta'.e l in his late me93age that the State repository was not considered altogether eafe, and con ceded that it Lai b?en the custom for Treasurers to place portions of the 8tate funds in other repositories, referring doubtless to the banks of the city. So then the Republicans wculd have no vantaqe on that score. Mr. Cooper, demonstrating the safety ot the funds entrusted to his care, even if prt of them were found outside the Treasury vaults wculd be only following the precedent 3et by the Republican Treasurers. fc'Again raprol;ting any inference that there is anything amiss in the State Treasury, we also, agin, repeat that an investigation of It can tlj co injustice to the Treasurer, the State, the taxpayers nor tbe Psniocratic party. Our party light, National and State, has been upon the platform of rigid honesty in the public offices. And we are in favor of giving the Republicans to understand that the Democracy moant and means just hat its p!atfcrm recited. TBE NICARAGUA SHIP CANAL. Tne distance from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast of the Republic is in round numbers 3,000 miles. The time in which the same may b traversal, overland, hs been shortened from in&nthsto hours.leavlng nothing further io be derived in the way of facility. The route by water still remains.the same, unchanged, and involves yet a voyage through those straits which Ma:eJlan discovered in his first journpy round the globe. To shorten the way by water has baen a standing problem for all those nations who are interested in the commerce of the world. That problem seems now to be approaching a solution injthe project of M. Lesse p, by the construction and completion of a ship canal through the Isthmus of Darien. But this solution of it seems hardly satisfactory, and is certaioly not advantageous to the people and Government of the United States. Indeed, it appearoasif it would be far better and safer not to have any water-way through the isthmus than to have one of which we could not at all times and under all circumstances control the undisputed passage. The exigencies of w&r may at any time, upon short notice, demand the transfer of the Pacific squadron of oar Ceet to the Atlantic side, or the reverse. Now if, in such a contiogency, ourselves and the enemy had to make tbe same voyage around Cape Horn to etTect the transfer, this would be something like equality; but If the enemy had control of the shorter route, while we had cot, here would be an advantage to them which might be to cs disastrous. We do not know under what particular auspices the enterprise of M. Lesseps is being prosecuted. It may be a French work or an KagMsh one, or a joint plan by the associated capital of both those nations. We are very certain of one. thing; it Is not American. It will not be controlled by the UBited States. The terminus on this side is too suspiciously near the heavy and longestablished British naval stations in Jamaica and St. Thomas to fancy that they will not control the entrance, and in case of hostilities close it against either 'neutrals or enemies at their pleaiuie. Entrance into the canal byes then would only folio as the result of a naval campaign, in which we should be at a great distance from our supplies and basis of operations, while theirs would be near at hand. For these reasons, although we da not oppose the

construction of the Darien Canal, we do most earnestly favor the building of another In case of its completion. We therefore favor the early consideration and conclusion of such a treaty with the Government of Nicaragua or Central America as shall lock to tha prosecution of a water-way through their territories antler the control and superTiälca cf tbe United States. This route bhould be, for all public purposes of war and ace, an established mail and miittaiy line of the Government of the United State?. The effect cf such an enterprise would be to shorten many months the voyage round Cape Horn, to Jpractically move tbe Isthmus nnre than a thousand miles corta, and to place the means of comcaun!catlon betwejn cur eastern and weetern shores by water, wholly under oar own control, much nearer tbe lir.es of the United Statei boundary and within easy supporting distance of the vessels cf the Gulf f qnadron, ttatior ed at Key West or Galveston. We are not advised a3 to what the expenses of buch a work may be, but we think the immediate expenditure required can not be very large; we mean the outlay necessary to conclude the treaty and acquire the territorial right of way and the jiriadictioa of the route for a canal. The liaal expenditures misht for the rrent await the contingency cf the success cf the Darien schsnie. But we ought to by ready iir that emergency, and not tarry loo lon. to avail ourselves of the opportunities nov oiltrcd to compete with and counteract iL We think sincerely in the end that the Central Amercan canal route might not prove even financially remunerative. It certainly the best and eas:ft transit for anything Tke EOTthrrn fea tra-ie. France and England might discriminate against it for awhile, throwing their trathc through the Panama route, but this would not last always. It may be said this esuntry ought not to own a canal in a foreign dominion. This was said very often in England before the Sues Canal became what it reailv ia

a British channel, connecting tho mother country with the Ea3t Indian Colonie. It must be recollected that this canal referred Ito, although in a foreign dominion, actually would connect the public waters of our ojvu coaU with each other. It would be an American roadstead connecting the harbors of New York 8Ld Ban Francisco. This is certainly a necessity, a measure cf dompstic safety and commercial convenience. We musthavaa vater-route of our own, if one be made by the way of the isthmus. We can not cut a curat on the line of our own boundary, up the Rio Grande and so R:ro3 mountains and deferts to the wertern coast. This U impossible. Then let ns take the nacesar,Etepa to closely ally ourselves vtth the people and Government cf CcntraAu:erics, who control the nearest and bst route connecting the Etas cf our distant shores with each other. This seems to us to be a work of the highest expediency. and cne cecet:ar to pur National f-fsty and honor. Whether the actual work ot construction be underttl'-i by oar Government or by the Government of Nicaragua, or jointly by both; or, whether it may be let to private capitalists ander the auspices and guarantee of the United States, these are details which will and may arrangs themselves in the future. What we want is the right, power and franchise to build and navigate the canal as soon as it may be neopeeary or expislient to do so. The entire estimated cost of the work, even if paid by tlis United states' Government, does not equal in value one-tenth ot the subsidies granted to the Pacific Rs.il ray Companies. Yet ths object of thesfl two enterprises is the pame, that of affording safe and speedy means of coaimunicat'on between these distant portions of our country. It may be said Indiana is little concerned in this question, We answer that every citizen of Indiana would speedily feel tha effect of losing the control of the mouth of the Mississippi, of the blockade of our southern or eastern sea ports, of tho bombardment of Boston, Baltimore or Philadelphia, or any other of the maritime depots of cur coast, allof which might cccnr for the want of the water-way through Nicaragua, if the Darien passage w ere completed and held by a hostile power. The Darien Canal completed and successfully operated under Eoropcan companies, without competition, is a standing menace to the peace and honor of our Government and people. We are for the strictest economy in all public expenditures, but an economy which disdains necessary precaution and preparation for the difficulties and dangers of the future, and which may leave the whole tastern or western coast cf tbe coantry without means of defense or with inadeqoate means therefor, is unwise, unjust, and in tbe end may be exceedingly expensive. ST. JOHIi'3 GRIP ON HIS DEFAMERS "We hope that the Blaine organs will con tinne to agitate the alleged bribery of Mr. St. John. Their first attempts partially un covered a deal of Republican rascality, while any wrong doing on the part of St. John was cot apparent, even to a prejudiced eye. It sometimes looks as if it was a moneymaking scheme on the part of a few V.epnblicans involving members of the National Republican Committee. Mr. 6t. John, in his statement published in the Sunday and Monday papers, says on this point: "Now I submit to the caa lid judgment of every gcod citizen unbiased by partisan prejadice, even though I should interpose no word in my own deft nee, do not the statements of Clartsoa, L3 gale and McCullah thow that there was a plan laid to either Sich noaey from the treasury of the National Republican Committee, or to bribe me to bstray an honest, sincere and conscientious minority, and thus prevent an fccncft expression of the will of the people, anä through auch cor rupt raeact gain victory for the Repablicaa party? I Failing In thl?, and smarting under the lah of political defeat and blasted hopes, to crown the infamy. Legate is treacherously betrayed and oSered aa a Lcrifice upon the altar of corruption, and theee are my accuiera. Mr. St, John says the plan was either to bribe him or to ich campaign money from

the National Republican Committee. He is probably correct, except as to ''filching" money from the committee. The probability Is there was co "niching" about it, The committee is not composed of men who allow themselves to be "filched." Like the old Deacon who had two profane, swearing boys, he lold them if there was any '"sweariD?"' to be done around his house he preferred to do it himself. This committee, if there Is any "niching" to be done, prefer to do it themselves. The bribery part of the programme miht be handed oyer to some one else, but the committee always had ways and means to eet money. When star-route money failed then came the pressure on swindling monopolies and Government employes. The thing to be done was to get St. John out cf the way without getting apparently involved in it. The evidence, with Mr, St. John's statement, indicate3 that the programme was attempted, but that finding the Prohibition candidate firm against corruption and bribery the schern' was abandoned. It is pleasant to note that eo Democrat, or the National Democratic Committee, had anything to do with this rescally anV.r. On this point Mr. St. John says: "Acain, it is charged that there are ceveral gf;ntlen:en who could help prove tbat I sold out to the Democrats, and the ecinorcf the Chicago Nets is mentioned as or.e end Senator Gorman, of Maryland, as anrtber. Nov, while I have not tbe honor of u personal aciuaintance wita either cf these gentVmen, I respectfully reqaeet il.eni. In the interest of common fairnf$p, if they have any evidence to crimirjate me to give it to the public." The advantage is wkh Mr. St. John in this entire controversy. He h? a deth grip on the republican gang who attempted his destruction.

THEN AND NOW. In 171 the Missouri Republican propo?6d a new Democrsfc departure, involving the abandonment of th old war issuts, and the acceptance of the work of Republican retors true tion. About the same time Mr. Julian urged a new Republican departure, in an article which we hero reprint. In the libt of to-day it will not be without interest to the reader, whether Democratic or Republican: The Republican prty has an honorable r?or.l, aD J a an or?6ni:atioa already in tueeldUcm continue ta govern the country; but it can oaly do this by a redical reoonstr action oi its i i:a.s aiid yoli.y. Ia a ward, It uecas, and must have a new departure. Ltt us cxpmia and part cul-iriz: T..e lh.TUb.icaa party ia; st take a new dep'irtar; u the ur;il' q'iCMioa. We do not say it ehoald ground i lavor cl Xroe trade thonzli we believe, for ourselves, In a tariff for revenue, with kv.ru protection oaly as is fair y incident to that objitu Hut tne old coutro7eiy between fr?e trultrsFiid protectionists is not necessarily iavoived in the work ot tnorotis'ily reforming our i'it'piii tsTiJ policy, innt poncy is coastantlT uiHkiug the rich richer and ine poor po'jrer. it impo-ea heavy burdu.s uitj the raa-s of the H up e, una especially upon tho poor, lor the h ULt;iof i i laofX'üi.'.s who:n It t.sxpers. We t'tllm lit tho "canal prottctlon of the liw" for all. ft-. a utterly repudiate trat toliey of 'robbing re er to pay raui" turcih wLich tae salt. Iroa. mal and other monopolist under our present i. raeal tanu laws have ir.own insolvent and nch. ihetrla'6 of tno Uta war aflorded some excuse r-r rreat mi-take ia dealm with the question of S itoo and revenue: but thce mitaks rau!t now be crrccel. if the old WMir element in trse Republican pnrty will not allow tn; to Vo done. Uea a ;v jarty will siria Into life thatvMll undertake IL j be Kepiiblirjui prty needs a new df-pirtare on tLe iUfcnuoa of civil &enie.? reforra. I: bnaids uarcninitted oa tüi issue, while pome of Us taot inS'ic-Ltial leaders ignore it, an 1 othera Fcoat it. II ine party expect. to live, pad to hare aa honor able tlce ia American politics, It mut me; tae question fat once, and deil with it fciricbsdy ia 1 trifiieuRhiy. It tho'iia r ela tee wort by a declaration it favor of tl.e one-lerm pr.iif iple for taa Presidency, e;id m?.kc i?. a plank in tne platform nxtyrar. rothmg conll b3 rsore shameful, rroie dis'oucria: to political decency than tha conduct c f ilenoriil tlrant in usiu all tne vst power and patronwe of nist klgh oilice in securing his rc-tltctum for v fcccou 1 term, hurling froc r face botest, laithful, and capable men, simply to mfcfce rtfce for sraiawa--,- ana tnteTts: turaia; out tried KepublicAua and uniliachlo loyalist., atd pntiin la their p'aecs me long Democrats or rail ittbeiei ue lorn Murpciy. oi rew lort, sal brother-in-law Caey, ot ew Organs, and lieapina honor, and emoiuwenu uroa toor kia. while accepting prenu of Mae houses aid tempting largesses ia money from men uuknon to fame, whe ore paid otf In fat yjare1. It In not neceary for too Kcpuhlicau rartyto make war on ocaerai orant, DUtit it lacls the wurize to rebuto lhe.se acaudalouj pro ceedings it can waicelv hope td command the refl ect of the r.onest ineu la tie rant. All ita professions ia favor of civii service reform next year will te in vain, if it allows the preeeut executive ard his mercenaries toforcj nitn upoa tha party as its standard teurer, and thug to brand their proft.vdons as hypocritical and Tammanyizo our organization. Let ihe Republican party hinnaijzeitsnew oepwiure oa tne questioa ot our land policy It was crcatly helped iat tower in ls.0 by it3 professed friendship for the homestead I cliey, ana by writing on it3 banners 'land for the Undies-.' Under the constantly increasing pressure of puMic opinion itps-ed the Loaiestead law of r.t2. lor w hich it should have dne credit. But the truth demand i this credit should ba eonpidembly qua!ilid. The homestead act Is wmply a ha'fway miRfiire: lorwhPe it Oaers a home to the pioneer ou the conditions of occupancy and im provement. thre n no law to preTeut the cpee-i'.ator from throwinj himielt' across the r eth of the settler, and buying up irreat tracts of choice lands to be held for a riso ia price, by wLu h our poor pioneers are drives turtner into the irontier and oa to le8 delrahle laads and coir relied to pay the monopolist the UrilThti may ex ct. The simple remtdy for this is a law forawidin it and re;erTlug the whole of car public lftpita la limited allotments tor actual t-ettlers who want homes. A2aia and acaia has fee Republican party voted iown all such proposed legislation while boldln the power to exact it ir the past eijihi or nine years. Oa this point iu record can net be defended. Jthhould alio be remembered that the Repub lican party ia rcsponeiole for ihe vicioirs Indian policy lnaucuiated in lsu. by which mlllioaa el acres of caoice lands have fallea into the cravp of peculators through prttenced treaties with our ind.ta trits thus plundering them of their rights, deprivlu? thottanda of white settlers of homes and making void both the homestead and pfc-mptloa laws. It h beea under Kepubllcaa rule also ths,t nearly 2.000,000 acres oi the public domain have betn g) anted to railway and other corporations, without aay conditlOLS or rcfitrlctlous whatever ia behalf of the lardless poor. If the party thail refuse to take a new departuro aa to ihese fearfal evils, and this frightful mal administration, and thus make good Its vaunted professions, it will prove itaU unworthy foture support. A new Republican deprtire ii not lej neaie.1 oa the lAbor question. Here, as on the Und question, cur party parades its regard for the ri?h ,s ! workinerupn. and fondly pointa to the emancipation of 4,MQ,0f;O of slaves. Let it be honcrei for this grand work. It should be remembered, however, tbat the Kepubiican party abolihd slavery, aot aa a voluntary act under a esse of duty to the s:ave, but on compulalon. It tried, witn all its mUbt. not to do it It announced, aeain and aain. ita readiness to leave these millions im cbalas as a means of compromise with their rebel masters We speak of the party, and cot, of course, of the abolition eltmeut in it, which always asserted the cUinas of justice and humanity In demanding emancipation under the war power. The Republican party wis finally driven tato lta as&Aaltupjn slavery, ia rder to save the country and itaeif from destruction. Hut in work i3 only half done. Chattel aiavery 1 sor.o: but we hars left wa;e slavery, the ownership of labor by capital, walch Is timp'v slavery In another form. The Republican party mut o bccept iU It mut favor a reduction ol tha t ours of toil in the great factories and workshops of the country over which the Government ha control. It must ahow itself thefrlealot oar pioneer settlers, and of the rUhta of the people, by a thorough reconsUucUon of our lanl policy aal

the emancipation of itself from the control of great corporation?. It must give the people a sound Sational currency without the costly machinery of ouz system of National Banks, whose cbampiocship It mutt surrender. It must, la short, prove itself the party of progress and tha friend ot the people, and oppose the principle of monopoly, arUtocracy, and privilege la whatever ioim. The position here tafcen by Mr. JuLaa Is remarkable in the light of prophesy fulfil led. The attitude of the Republican party toward the slaves of the South, and toward the whole country In fact, when its own existence was jeopcrdizeJ, is a sample of its inetabilit7 touching principle and ab?o of the sort of conscience it must have hal. Mr. Julian taw that a Republican new departure was necessary in 1S71, and he haJ the courage to point out tbat necessity and to advocate that new departure.

DO YOU SKATE? If there is anything in signs the present L'git ature will be called upon, before the session clones, to consider a b'.il instituting a certain change forone of the apartments of the State House. "We had heard sometime since that some rnembsr would, at an opportune time, move for the abolition of ths State Library. It was not stated In what interest the legislation was to be attempted. OI course we knew there must be something posterior to it. The hall that was to contain the ni8ny thousand boofcs and the museum articlf s belonging to the State could not bo Uf; an empty area, dismal and unfrequented. Cut an explanation of the purpose of abolitbirg the library, and sending its contents to the junk shop, is had in the suggestion tbat the Library llall is wanted for amusement purposes. The member who introduces the abolishing b 1 1 will not let out this fact. He will only demand the eale of the histories, encyclopedias, State and National recorda, works of science, art and biography, 6word battle flags, etc., in the interest of public economy. Cut should his measure be adopted, it is intimated that another will immediately follow Ü3 passage providing for tbe arrangement cf the Library Hall as a Legislative Stating Kink. The advocate of this substitution for the library, whoever he may be, has hit upon a L3ppy thought. He is a statesman, pure and Eimple. Everybody knows that in this generation the legislator's Iii is not a happy one. He has to sit for hours and hours, et t'.ccs, until his knees are cramped and a feer, perchance, gone to sleep. What Is there in the dull bcokj of the library to enliven tbe legislator's leg and drow3y pedal? Lnt suppose he might step through a side 'Joor into a rink, strap on a pair of roller spates and to the strains of waltz music go ekeeting and tcooting forward, backward, 'rcucd and 'round over the polished floor! Wbat exhilaration could not he find in the dsliciocs exerctse, and wbat inspiration might he rot realize therefrom for returning to the Senate or House and electrifying floor and gallery with eloquent words upon the importance of a dog law, orthe bestrsmedy for foot rot in sheep. lnt pre requisite to the fullest enjoyment cf legislative rink (after the library has been 6bolished)is adeptness in the art skatorial. Ii each le gulaior rracliced in the diplomatic motions and balancings needful to keep hia heels upoa ths !oor and his head clT it? Has each gene through the rehearsal of bump, bruises, sprained joints, skinned ankles and adhesive plasters antecedent to graceful skating? If not, let us ang-jest the continuance cf the library and the postponement of the legislative tkating link for a few sessions more, until all have been thoroughly versed in skceting and scooting. SrcRET.sitY Fr.r.biNtiHuvsrN will be sixtyeiht years old next August. Cap.l Fciut.z la lom3ke a Southern lecture tcur, beginning at ltichniond. The long, lank Kvarts, a very ple of iuhbcr, still stretches himself for the persimmon. Rev. Dk L'cbcit.m i is eaiJ to have prayed for Presidsnt-elect Cleveland cn Sunday night. R.sLrn "NVai.po Emf.i:pox always rejected pastry in which the fruit had been economized. SiTTi(i Et i.L has taken a great liking to canned peaches, and a quart can juat fill him up. GovEEon Hoaply boasts of the longest met sage and the shortest Thanksgiving proclamation ever issued. Theks is not a single lawyer among the 1,000 convicts in the Virginia Penitentiary. Virginia lawyers seldom get found out. Juron Hoak has eaid that the reason Wendfll Phillips and lien Botler never quarreled though each quareled with everybody ee was tbat "neither succeeded in finding an adjective in the dictionary mean enough to apply to the other." Brapli-y is ia;d to be the richest membar of the Supreme Bench. He is suppled to be worth 750,000. He has the largest private law and miEcellaneous library in "Washington. His large house is packed from basement to garret with rare and va!uabls I ooks. John P. Kino, Mark A. Cooper and Junius Hillyer.tatesmen of prominence long before most people now in the world were born, are still living at their homes in Georgia, and all watch the march of the present actors on the stage of affair". Mr. Kirg, who lived the life of a gentleman of leisure in Paris a3 long ago as 120, was in the United States Senate in the year 18G1. Colonel Cooper was a member of the House forty-five years ago and Judge Hillyer in the forties. Judicial Circuits. ICommuaicatei. CoxsEr.jviLi.2, Ind., Jan. 1G. Members of the Legislature are already aware of the project now on fcot aimed at a general redisricting of Southeastern Indiana for judicial purposes, and which will probably materialize into a bill at an early day. The

scheme affects most of the counties fnim Wells County to the Ohio Iiiver. If carried into efJect, it will, among other thinri, take this county (Fayette) away from the Thirtyeeventh Circuit, where itwasiplaced onlytwo years ago, and attach it to Henry County. Henry County will be divorced frcm Hancock, with which it now forms the Kiehteenth Circuit, and Hancock and IVis re to be joined ia aa eatirely new circuit, with a Judge and a Prcsecutic Attorney tj be appointed by the Governor. This. Ia turn, will necessitate other changes from. Ku$h Coaaty southward, and the entire plan, if executed, will make three Jaieei ar.d thiee Prosecuting Attorneys in addition to thoe already paid from the State Treasury. If the interest of litigents in this portion of the Sate required this additioual expense to taxpayers, the writer would not object to the measure. Bat inquiry fails to thow the necessity for it, and it looks very much t3 though the entire scheme were justly subject to the criticism of a Kepnbiican paper of Indianapolis, this niornla?, that it is an etlort "to make places for nee iy Democratic attorneys in three new Judgeshirr." The people cf this county. Democrats and Republicans, lawyers ani liti pants are overwhelmingly opjosed to any such movement. Tbe last IegisiaAur attached this county to Franklin and Fnlon, and the change fcrcnght fpeedy relief to our fermerly burdened docket. Judge .'irift has, in the past two yers, had too much work npon his bends, but he has Bucceelei in "catching up," and will have little dillicnlty in discharging the judicial duties of the three counties henceforth. I believe tbe egitators of this uew scheme in Hush County are all counted in counting half a dozen politicians, half of them Republicans, who have a fancied grievance .against Decatur County, with which they are now coupled. If anybody can show a crying demand for all this proposed legislation from ths necessities of the c?s, we, in this portion of the threatened territory, would he glad to hear from niuu While there Is so much necessary work pressing upon the Legislature, its members should be slow in appropriating public time and public money in r&Siicg blll3 for the benefit of the few. Democratic Member ok the Dat.. For KeTsnua Collector. ICommualcatod.l Tirroif, Ind., Jan. IU. TLe writer asks space to express a few words in the interest cf a worthy gentleman who is favorably located In this Revenue District. Tipton County has the honor to present the rame of W. L. Berry man to the Democracy of the Slate as a candidate for Revenue Collector of the. Eleventh Indiana District, and his candidacy 13 seconded by tmDmccrscy cf theNinth Congressional D'strict. In submitting the natneot Mr. LVrrvman we feel assured that every unbiased Dea.crat will applaud his candidacy and speak in no uncertain tones that he is entitled to that appointment for varsous reason. Mr. Berryman is a lifelong Democrat who has always been faithful to the principle s advocated by that party. Daring his successful career in life he had always exerted his energies and spent his time and money to exhance the interest! of the Democracy. He resides In a county that can always be depended upon for a Democratic majority and a democratic Representative to aid la the election of a United S'ales Senator. Notwithstanding the fact that Tip'on County always presents an unbroken Democratic majoiitv she has never teen honored with a State cflicer cr Government appointment. Mr. Berryman is a man of high moral standing and a business man of a Hairs. He has by his untiring efforts aided largely in increasing the Di?mccratic majority in T'pton Cci-nty. He is a n. an forty-live jears cf ae, and has never resided In a town bat what he made rapid Democratic gains frofitJjs' time he became a citizen of it. Daring his entire life he ha3 arduously labored and battled for Democratic supremacy, and has Lever received a penny for his gallant services. Snch Is the career of Mr. Berryman. who is deservinc, worthy, and well quail de J to discharge the duties of that oilice. TinoN.

For Coal Oil Inspector. Ccmmualcated.l Among the numerous candidates for the office of Coal Oil Inspector I know of no one that is more deserving than the candidate from Decatur County, Mr. John Vi. Shields, of Greensburg. Mr. Shields hasnocpp:si tion in this Senatorial District, and his Dem ocratic friends in Decatur are solid for him. Mr. Shields is a Democrat and a worker, not a croaker, ror one of those who sit back and find fault, and as a member cf the Executive Committee of the Argonaut Club at Gremberg during the last campaign he did active and efficient work, and his appointment would encourage the Democrats of Decatur, who have a hard row to hoe. Suelby. January ID. Mexican Pension ltill. To the Editor of the Sentinel: SinInclosed find renewal of subscription to your daily. Within sixty days I hops to know that the "Mexican Pension bill" has been passed; tLat Grover Cleveland has been inducted into the Presidential chair; that Joe McDonald has a place in Clevelaad' Cabinet, and that Coloned .Charles Denbv, of Evansviile, Ind., has btpn appointed CommiisioLer of Pensions. Yours truly, S. M. Hoixomp., Pert Branch, Ind., Jan. 10. epcdAl to the Ucaiir ei. Maf.ti.s ili.k, Ind., Jan. ID. Andrew J. Wampler, one of the pioneers of this county, died on yesterday morning. He died at tha residence of his son-in-law, Dr. R. H. Tarleton, who is one of the Trustees of the Insane Asylum. Mr. Wampler'a remains will be takan charge of by the Masonic Fraternity, and also by tbe Methodist Church. He was an honest man, "The noblest work of God." A Farmer Assaulted. epcdal to the öontlaeL LoGAJi!KKT, Ind., Jan. 10 Jetse Coon, a notorious youth of the town, i3 in jail awaiting the action of the Grand Jury for committing an assault cm a farmer named Ith ran. Coon had been angered by Ishman, who defended himself with a whip from tbe snow-baiiing of a gang of boys Coon was lending. Coon followed him, aad cut cpn his hend with an ax handle. Amuasments. "Two Bad Men" drew a good hoase at the the Grand last night. It will be repeated to-night "Mafcotte," at KcgUsh'-, was rendarsd to an enormous crowd. "Olivette" to-night. The Dime Museum exhibite-3 new curiosities yesterday. -Chang," aa eight foot gian, is the attraction. The Zoo began a new prozramme last night to a large house. Matinee to-dsy. We had prepared lengthy reviews of all amusements for today's paper, but thaj Lave been unavoidably crowded cat.