Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 81, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1885 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY SENTINEL SUNDAY MORNING HAUCH 22 1885. TWELVE PAGES.

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I the Ur?;?t and best newspaper published la Indian CONTAINING 104 COLUMNS. Fret fran rirtlua Pfciitiri aat SfrtarU Pia. On all subjects of public interest it expresses its opinions according to its bt Judgement, with a y ew only of promoting the BEST INTEREST OF SOCIETY. It contains the cream of the news from quarters down to 4 o'clock Sunday mora rog, excluding only that which is prtirientor Immorally sensational. In fw words, the Erst'AY iici-nrin is devoted to that clas3 of news, literary and miscellany, proper and necessary to make it what it is, THE PAPER FOR 1 HE PEOPLE, epecially adapted to the ho:n. The Sunday Szstisiih iuuuence will be given in aid of the deration and Adyanc?;nent of Woman to the tree position which is hers by virtue cf natural Justice, Price, $2 per year; twenty cents per month, delivered b7 carrier; five cent3 per copy. I 41 TWELVE PAGES. 6 UN DAY M ARC 11 22. OrriCTh 71 and 73 Wt Market Street. D. L. Moody will dispense tbe Go3pslia Kansas City to-day. The New York World is making an effort to collect fends to finish JJiithcldi'a statue. the pedestal for Ex Fkuatob äIcDo.vald was formally ten terf d tbe Kuisian Mission by Secretary Bayrd, Dtit declined it. Lit the city authorities enforce tha ordinance against the nee ot North Meridian strcst fcr heavy freight tra fiis. - Uns. Ha it ley, of Delphi, who so myjteriocsly dieappeaied several days ago, has not hztn toutd up to this wiiting. TJiirop Samci:!. Fallowi, an Episcopal clergyman of Chicly), thinks that the signs cf tbe tlma point to a speedy secoad earning of Christ. Hf-ugio." said Carljl can not pass away. Tbe burning of a little stra may hide tbe stars of the sky, but the stars are there, and will reappear." Why not scrape up the mad before a hot tpitogfun comes and dries it into tons of dost to ba swept through the streets and into the houses aed längs of our citizscs? The Oregon Legi&latcre enacted & law making the study of the physiological effects of alcohol upon the human system a ccmpu'ory stndy in the public schools. "V7hat is teiieYed to be the first Bible ever printed in America Is at the New Orleans Exposition. It bears tbe date of 1791, end was issued from the printing house of Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, Mass. "With tha State-house, new Union Depot end the combined Market-house and City nl completed, and the two broad viaducts cpanning tbe anion tracks, Indianapolis will be ready to receive and entertain company. We bear much complaint, in a social way, gainst the present raw and cold air and frequent snow storms. All who complain should be patient. March was always tha moat disagreeable month of the year, and she Ij now bat repeating behalf. The high license bill passed the New Jeasey House by a close vote. The members who opposed the constitutional prohibition a few weeks ago to ted pretty generally for tns high-license measarc. It is believed the bill trill pais the Ssnate and become a law. Tits Ohio people have bad enough of October elections in Presidential years. A joint reflation has been adopted by the Ohio 'Legislature to submit to the people a constitutional amendment changinz the ti sis of State elections from Octooer toXovembsr. Dr. Ca et i. itt and the New York Avenue Church, of Washington City, have not been the recipients of any very recent critical ahnte froni tbe Indianapols press. This is rizht, gentlemen of the journalistic profession; it pajs to be decent, even for a week. A Kiw Yost couple have just been marmd, after an engagement ot twenty years. 7csdJXT7 hieb they will regret m:st after a year's experience with the stern realities of matrimony, what they missed by ztctxaarry leg earlier or what they lost by carrying at last? Thkv are testier the efficacy of prayer in California. The usual winter rains are rrithheid, and unless they come the spring flower, tbe pastures and tbe wheat and barliy czopa will prove a failure. So everybody rrho hes faith in prayer is biseechlng that tha window? of Heaven may be opened. As American manufacturer has secured tha contract from the British War Departnzat fcr construction of the pumps for the cupply of water to the British forces now csratlng in the land of the Mandl. And yet Tra have been told we could not compete xrith vrith European manufacturers. In this iritzace, no doubt, the manufacturer con-cl-cdto be satls5ed with a wodest proQL Only 1st the high 'tariff bs removed and Antricin labor will be employed supplying tha vrcrid with our manufactured products. Tiia Dilirs Herald discourages hons-steal-izz 3 a prcfeion, claiming that the thief requires mora than a precarious llvir czd ct Izzi ends in prison. From our zzzzZlzz-zv cf Taxes dispatches, it may ba cZl:l tilt ccthnrn of that profession are c!!; r" taJj rtlicTcd from the hardships d r.'a 12 t7 Lb LXcncT, Judge Lynch. 1 ZzzzZl c-Ida ia he ha If of thos to tha r::z:? lz: MIt ta trutbfslly ttitcd

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"It' an ill wind that b!os nobody good." If, es is claimed, it casts the 8 tat- many thomands of dollars to maintain tha Lpg's'ative f on one week, it U estimatfd -Tver ;J per crt. cf such cutlsy is retit in this c'.ty. Yet ica'Jl find some p3pie!n IcdUcaro'ii who wculd rntrb'p to lu lmr '. Scire people believe in 'd-Tith warnings'' and lotne do not. "Without hivir.i: fciven the rraUer very much consideration, we tMalcwe te!cn? to tho latter c'e?s. Anions these who have received 'warnings" it is Mated that th Pmiients of th Unite! States have ieceivid t eir full har?, especially those who d:d while they held tbe cföcc. We surpect that all the ethers received "warnings," but as they did not die, history neglected to preserve them. The editor cf Harper's Batatr eeerxatohave given the matter eome attention, and notes tbe Incidents connected with the. r'e&ths of Uarrison, Taylor, Lincoln and GaiCeld. S:me of these fot'denls cr "warning" era not very frupresstve. In the cse of Tay'cr, his wife fma f bar rpci vd tfce 'warnincr, and when tuld of hr h;:s bAn'l'n elcctxn tb bom int lars ad exclaia.ed: ' Ob, w!iy r&n't tht-j l?t us slor.e? Tbi9 i3 all a f cheme to hrak n, our h n?." When the tutr ie.l her bed-ronui ut tbe White Heute the Msrted beet, and pointing to a diamcr.cl-elaped ornament carved on t'a mantle, t&fd: 'Sec! the firt object to me i? a coüla. Death will rob me in this dreadful hocee of soma one I love.'? . General Harrison received his "warnine" tbrongh an owL, The first night he slept at the White House an owl, perched on the roof over hfs bedroom, hcoteu continuously, and he complained the next morning that ths owl and a howling dog near had kept him awake. When he fiist arrived in tbe city ttere wis a terrible thunderstorm prevailing, and as he stepped fron hi! carriage a vivid Huh ol lightning eo bliadd him ttat he faltend aüd fell. Mr. Llnc:la declared that he eaw an apparition, and he described It: Oa the yenlng of the day wfcen I. received newaof my election, worn cut by excitement and fatigue, I threw myself cn a lonnge in my bed-room to re3t. Jost opposite to ma was a bureau with a swinging glass, and looking in it, I noticed two separate and distinct i-nagea of mysalf. A little bothered, perhaps ttartled, I got up and went to the glass, but the illusion vanished. Lying down, I siw again, but noticed that cue of tbe faces was paler thin the other, and bad a blood stain on it. When my wife came in I told her ot the viticn, and ehe, who Lad great faith in aigne, and generally attecned some meaning to tbe in, eaid : 'It mean) yon will be elected to a second term, but wiil not live through it."' On tbe trip to Washington the Lincoln party passed by General Harrison's barial place, end halted to pay a tribute of respect to his memory. Turning from the grave, a blackbird made a circle round his head. Th-3 night of his assassination Mrs. Lincoln told one of the watchers that on that eventful tilp through tbe bright, happy northern villages decked with flowers in his honor, as well as that mysterious night ride through Baltimore and secret arrival in Washington, thetolliogcf a death-bell, clear and unmistakable, was sounding in her ear. The dreams and forebodings of the two Mr?. Gaißelds, mother and wife, are too recent to be repeated. "Were they the idle fancies ot nervous women? asks the Biz aar. Mr. Cleveland being in the enjoyment of excellent health, with bis nervous system in the most perfect order, the chances are that he will receive no "warning?." If he does he will give them but little thought. RAILWAY MANAGEMENT. Investors in tbe securities of railroad companies in the United States are deeply engaged in trying to discover why these properties are failing to pay their fixed charges. Kail road managers are at the same time disi CUEing tbe problem with a view to determine the best practicable methods ot regulating all evils connected with the present system of operating their roads. We look forward with the hope that these questions may be fully canvasaed while so many of thoa more directly inteiested are investigating tbe eubjfcL That tbeie are many evils connected with the pooling system ia obvious enough, and that there were many more under the old methods is equally tiue. But we are not among thoe who think our rail read managers are lacking in ability, as so many Europeans believe. Indeed, many cf then have managed only too well, and herein lies much of the trouble. Tbe building of railroads where not needed, and paralleling other lines merely as a matter cf speculation has been carried on to an extent that is alarming. The watering ot stocks and trying to make a road pay interest and dividends on securities representing three cr four times the first cost of the road asd its equipments, is the common practice of railroad builders and managers, and the time has come when American railways must be built as well as operated on a bed-reck basis. THE SILVER QUESTION. On the löth of April the Latin Monetary Union is to meet in Paris to discuss the great silver problem. Lx-Governor Hicks, of tho Bank of England, in a recent letter to Congressman Buckner, stated his belief that tbe United States, France and Germany can together re establish bi-mettaiism and so put a step to the shrinkage of prices, which is causing such distress to commerce, thou;h he gives no intimation that England can be induced to co-operate in the fitablithment ci tnis very deairaiie reault. The Latin Monetary Union should be extended in scope and membership, or at least tome organization should be formed which should include all interested coun tries that uniformity in the relation of eil verto gold coins of the tame denominations will te secured throughout the civilized world. It Is certain that the world needs silver money as well as goli. It Is also certain that commerce between the nations would be stimulated if the veins of silver should be made uniform ia all the nations. But, in the meantime, our own country will tha more pre? parous with a largsr circulation of silver. Whatever its relations

togo'd In ctbfr countries, any where in oar own the purchasing properties of a tilver dollar are s erf at as thoe of a gold dollar. Ten dollars in j.o'd in tbe hands fcf tha citizen will buy just what ttn &ilver dollars will boy, and no mere. S long as this is the cat (and it will b thus as long as the imprint cf the Ujited States Government is crcn tbe :lver coin?), we are better o!f as we Lave tbe Jari?r amennt of silver dollars

'Uold rati if on r. 7Le ChiLfpe c!.is3if tho Second Presbyterian Fcnday-scool Lave translated eoma cf the more popular hymns cf the day into their native lanpusge. They aro being bound nett'y for circulation and use among tie Ch'nere of the city. The following is th'e Chine? fcr 'Hold the Fort:" Whrnh snnh I.0T4 ton t-? coon do; Kte yen ooiii j?wy hin Earn ujvr&n Mm Am joa cee dtiow LteLg tit doc km; yia. Ci:or.f-: Ye ab err rents boh faov jhp pov ho037 un coh icoey jnor cee Doc bona joir toad danss ctt Its. ctioy HUDi caua inutcbee. Geo c- on Fau dou bl b'.ng rhiagxaou Jaow j.wey chia rain loey Goan jt yunc s-be iuiiR jsun incj lic.i ong cou pec bhut dovey. Chora?. ('c peon wine euontr Ree bow you 1 ja flip rcoiig caK s'rj; Gosh ji a t?e li ;:ee ttioov cooaa uock l)tU'l LU tlUfc EAOVT biaj. Chor as. Maoke chin csow j'.n sake she zozcj hiui MonK jor odi! ji-'i sun Jee s)oo rti tiin tee dow soai ji Iooit yung lovey heuncnua. Caorus. The following tails gives the various excbanse ia New York city, with the present membership of each: rtortuco 3.0frt ;MntuaI....fc r,'2 Steck hdü fctrol'm .'2.4.' Cofiee- 311 ttarhine ..2,0 0 fmor.'san.l'Jroc'g.. ..0 Htock..... ..l.lo).Baitdinir Material.... 3"0 Mercantilti 01 Mechanic! and Trdrs 00 ltplistate 500, Cotton - 45Y Total 12,203 Kavalfctores ä Tob.. 4C0; The growth of the exchanges has b9en remsikable, many men tow connected with them remembering when that membership was le33 than 10 per cent, of what it now if. Gili;eet and Sallivan'a "Miialo" appaars to be neryaded with the came extravagant bnmor that characterized their other works. Hero 8 re two &pecimecs of the libretto: "If you want tp know who we are We are ceatleaicu o( Japau : cm taatjy a vase and jar, On many a Roreen and fan. We ögcro in lively pain', W ita anliudes queer ana quaint: You're wrong it you think it ain't." Three little niilds from school are we, Tert as schoolgirls well can le! Three little maids who, all unwary. Come from a ladies Bamiaary.' Indiana in her time has produced eminent statesmen, learned dectora of law and theology, as well as philosophers and scientists. Xow all Hoosierdam is startled with the fact heralded forth that the has a noted and able astronomer within her borders, hardly less stocked with astronomical erudition than ProfeFsor Proctor, the noted Englishmau. Professor Daniel Kirkwood, of the State University, is referred to. ALEX AN L)f It II MfKl'IIENS. Home Z,ir and Personal Characteristics of tbe Deceived Statesman. A notable figure in Americai and political and social life disappeared with the demist of Alexander H. Stephens. Those who have only read h.'s speeches or whoss Observation of him was limited to the House of Representatives are unacquainted wit) tbe most entertaining features of his life and character. It was at home or in the social group that Le was mot impressive. The Nation remembers him as the man who. one evening in Dccembsr, ls'i3, etood before the Legislature cf Georgia, a: Milledgeyille, with argument and appeal, which will go down into history, against secession from tbe Union. As Vice President of ihe Conftdera'e Sute ho is known to have been conservative ever anxious fcr rce. He it was who urzed he IImoton Hdscs Peace Conmis&ion the confer ence held between the Confederate commit- j of which he was chairman, and President Lincoln. Wben the Union armiei had tri umphed and Mr. Stephens was advised by friends to leave th6 country he declined.sayinc be would prefer hanging in his own country to a natural death in any other. He was incarcerated for rr.ontfcs in Fort Warren, off Eoston Harbor. In 1ST5 he returned to a seat in CoDgrees which he had occupied, continuously, from 1S1 1 to 1(0, and served until 132, when he becaue Governor of Georgia, which trust ho was filling when he died in lSS-J. So much every reader knows of Alexander H. Stevens, "tbe Georgia co nmoner," ''the Eage cf Liberty Ilall." Perhaps all remember, too, tbat he was never married, and many have read, doubtless, of his physical decrepitude. When I first knew him his tall, spare figure was erect and his dark hair unfrcsted. But later, the effects of his imprisonment at Fort Warren, he was drawn by chronic rheumatism, and after 1ST-, when a large gate threw him from his crutches and fell upon him, he was a cripple and his figure bent. "Liberty HalL" Mr. Stephen home throughout the last forty years o his life, was an unpretentious single-story cottage, tested deep in a grove, 300 yards distant from the railroad station at Crawfordsville, a village midway between Atlanta and Augusta. The half doz?n commodioui rooms were plainly though comfortably furnished, and bad wide, old-fashioned fireplaces. Few homes ever dispensed more hospitality. There being no hotel in the Tillage, Mr. Stephens hundreds of visitors from all parts of the Union were I is gaejts while tarrying. It was here that Stephen A. Douglas and He neb el V. Johnsen, candidates on the eame ticket for President and Vice President in 1SC0, met for conference. Lawyers attending the half yearly sessions ot the Circuit Court filled the hors. Oa these occasions "Liberty Hall" could boast evening gatherings of signal brilliancy. For many years such lights as Henchel V. Johnson, Robert Toombs, William H. Crawford, Charles J. Jenkins, Joseph Henry Lumpkin and Judge Linton Stephens were, eimultaneouily, its guests. What a rare treat it was on any of thess evening?, after whist was abandoned, to hear F.obert Toombs and Mr. Stepbens run counter in conversation. Tbe former massive cf bead and figure, glib and glittering of speech, with the i averted end cf an unlfghted c'gar between bis teeth, would pace the floor, while the attenuated man in tbe easy chair, with a foot nervously patting the floor, would puff at his clay pipe,

and by hi cutting passages irritate his colIcquistinto volatile rejoinder. They were as natural contrasts mentally ai physically, teldoxn agreed upon public tapicj, were prone to disputation, and yet no two mea ever had warmer or moreexaltedalmiratiou fcr each other. It will be remembered how Toombs interrupted with questions Mr. Stephens' great Uaiou speech to which I have referred, and how deferential the speaker was to the questioner, terming hlaa r.iaj- as bis friend. But Mr. Stephens- admirers and friends were net confine J to the distinguished and honored. Ia no yesr of his last twenty-ave was there not s jui poor young man acuirInz education by assistance frm him. Waen he was himself a poor boy, a generoui o!d man forced upon him the requisite a d fcr a collegiate course. The worthy xample was fo'.lowed by Mr. Stephens, and it is known, though r ever f. Mm hi own lip?, that more than foriy youth3 were recipients of this benefaction freni him, some of whom tirnel out admirably and repaid him his advance". The only instance which provofced him is said to have teen when one whom, ha aided to a leal education abandoned his profession immediately ii er entering it tobeome a very indifferent negro minstrel. Hit it was his kind interest in fj is former slive, continuonsly Kfter their emanc ratiin, whic h co:unat.Je! iy warmest admiratioa for him as a hilanthro;i5t. To hsjdi of fioiil-fs hp xi-r..!ed tin necessary aid to be con' p frn e s cn thir own accrual. To tho iiiorp tTTi.'iv he aald liud. giving them all the tin e needed for paying the purchase rcoi:ey. .and nch wes the de'ere c in vv'ch them h?ld his i'id,r:n?nt that h?s

advice was couabt by them upon every o temp'ated undertaking, from the biyincr felling of a p' to the pitching cf a crop. Never an evening came when he was at home that there was not a number of "able callers at his sitting room to inquire after his health or solicit his advice, and it mattered not how distinguished the company present theee callers were given audience, "üat.' Ältck, öat Jim b3yer mine i3 givin' me er pow erful aTght er trnbbul. He done got so triflin' he won't work, an' las' Saturday he wuz dead drunk." 'What can I do to help you about it?" asked Mr. Stephens. "Jeapive'ira a talkin' to, sah; dat will straighten 'im." "All right tell h?iu to come to me." A little later "Jim boy," with a very sheepish air, was ushered in. Not to a son ccnld Mr. Stephens have spoken more persusfcively. The boy did not deny his shortcomings, but proaiised to faithfully observe the counsel given him. I bad the curiosity to inquire a few months later what effect the talk :ad tad upon him, and learned that he had acted well ever after it The day of Mr. Stephens' return from Washington after adjournment of Congress was always a notable one at Crawfordsville. Ihe people cf the village and of the country for miles around, white and colored, wculd gather at the station. Tbe irain arrived and the wheel chair rolled upon the depot platform; the attenuated hands w ere kept bay shaking to the right and left as he was pushed through the crowd. The dowdy-colored dame with infant in arms was spoken to, and by name, too, with equal cordiality as the county official.. Nor was this demonstration of the ehaücw, politic character sometimes drummed up for effect, but the spontaneous manifestations of the affection of the people about him. Among them he was no longer the Congressman, but a neighbor and friend. Mr. Stephens was remarkable for his recol lection of faces and names. Through years of acquaintance and considerable ar relation with him, I never knew him to fail to call the name cf a person whom he had ever known. A signal illustration of th's factalty occurred in January, 173. when he, Ilea jeroin H. Hill, and General John B. Gor Jon were candidatf s before tbe Legislature for the United Slates Ssnatorship. Mr. Stephens was at the Kimball House at Atlanta. Ooe day a gentleman, a stranger to roc, calling at my office on business found me just le&via? it to fill an engagement. I had to see Mr. Stephens at that hour. Upon my stating my engagement, he asked me if he might accompany me just to shake hauds with him. "I met him once when I was quite a young n an," be laid, ''acd tave never seen him since." "If be ever met yon he will remember von," I answert a. "That is irr possible," he replied, 'for at tbat time I was about twenty-one years of age and elf an shaven, whereas now I ha7e full teard." A few minntes later we entered Mr. Stephens' rcom, where there were several callers, to one cf whom I turned to speak. I was atout moving to introduce the gentleman when Mr. Stephens, extending his hand tohim, eald: "Why, how do you do, Mr. ? Imetyouat Greensboro, N. CL, in when I was (tumping that State for Henry Clay." Ihe excellence of his memory was noticeable at whist, to which he was a devotee. I have more than once known him to name the last four cards before they were exposed. His fondness for th's game and his skill in play ir git have often been referred to in tbe prints. He is the author of the treatise on whist in Johnson's Encyclopedia, and, by tbe way, the xcott complete condensation of the more important rules of the game I have ever seen published. From the moment of his entrance into a game his mind was absorbed by it. For the time being all questions of state craft were subordinated to tbe taking of an edd trick. He fought as earnestly to win that t ever to carry an election, and victory at the end of a game sent him to bed in tbe mont amiable zncod. Deleat did not discompose him if there had been no misp?ays on his side, but a blundering partner was a source of irritation to him. It was while fretted by such a raitner tbat he ence told an anecdote of a Scotchman, who was so angered by a etupid display of his lidy vis a-vis that he sprang np, leaned over tbe tab!e, shook Lis fist in her face and exclaimed: "Y'on fool!" But, realizing bis rudenesi, the Scotchman apologized by eaying: "Itumblybeg pardon; pardon, madame, I thought I was talking to mv wife." Of Mr. Stephens' political character or career I intended no mention in this sketch. but I can not retrain from narrating the in cidenta of one night at "Liberty Hall," which are vividly impressed upon my

memory. It was anight in October, 1ST2, when tbe Presidential campaign was on. Mf. Stevens bad bolted the nominee of tbe Democratic Convention at Baltimore

(Horace Greeley!, and was using all his intluence in favor of the irregular "bourbon" Democratic candiiate, Charles O'Connor, of New York. In vain did Democratic leaders reason with and appeal to him. He declare.? the nomination of Mr. Greeley an abandonment of Democratic principle, and bo'dly declared he would be as well satisfied with General Grant a3 with Mr. Greeley in the White HoUce. Oa the night I refer to Mr. St?phens had several guests several distiaguished and among them Robert Toomb3. We had a game cf whist, which, being concluded, the rarty gathered around the Io fire of his sitting room. Perhaps conversation had been general far a half hour, whei oar host incideutally spoke of S3uis cc:ur rence of the Presidential campa'ga of 1S10. The incidental mention of men engaged In that canvass lead up to their participation in the succeeding on$ of lli. It seemed then as if a dcor hid opened and be had involuntarily steppedinto a temple cl memory which must le explored. We Viere treated to interesting episodes of the ccn ftt between James K. Polk and Henry Clay, and the causs leadirg to the latter's defeat. Next foliotd a narrative of Congressional Itg slatj'on during ths four succeeding ver4. and nerfonal reminiscenc of tbe great men of tbat period Clay, Benton, Webster, Calhoun ar-d ctheis whom he had outlived. Tae "oM man elcqnent" had by this time become enwrapped in his own narrative. His pipe going out, one cf the party, without the interruption cf a word, tskes it from him, refills it and returns it with a lighted taper. Even the restless Toomb3haj settled quietly into a rocker, and is listening es if to an oracle. Through the campaign of 1n32, goes the historian, only digressing to give incidents connected with the death cf Calhoun, Clay and Webster. We conld tee that he was not merely reciting but living over that political past amons its giant?, end no one d;etarb3 his glowing dream. Even his old blind deg, upon whsse shaggy coat his feet are cushioned, continues his placid sleep without moving. Now comes the story cf tbe agitation of the slavery question lu Congress and his criticism upon the agitation, the woful blunder of the Democratic party at tfce Charleston Conventionthe cause leading to Mr. Lincaln's success. He has told, though modeetly, of his participation in each cf the six Presidential campaigns tbe '40 and 'CO inclusive and that be had foreseen and predicted the result of each. "No w," he said, turning to me, "I want you to open your note book and set down as I call them out bow the Slates will vote in the coming election." As be named them I wrote the names of the different states in the Grant and Greeley column as directed. When the last was concluded he said: "Put the book in your pocket and show my predictions (o no one until the election returns are all in. And I s ly to you gentlemen that if I have miscalled one State, I state here that never again will I open my mouth on National politics." At 2 o'clock in the morning when the returns in full were laid on my desk, I compared the vote with Mr. Stephens' prediction. He bad not mistaken a single State. What was an usually healthy day far Mr. Stephens at any time within twelve years before his death would be considered an exceedingly uncomfortable one to the average man. Yet despite weakness and intense suffering he did more work during these twelve yeais than did very many mea in lull vigor. When his hand was useless from rheumatism his book went on from dic tation. In addition to his several bosks he made large contributions to various newspapers, för three years did the political editorial writing lor a daily in Which he was patt proprietor, made numerous exhaustive speeches before tbe courts in important cises, did a vast amount cf personal correspondence, delivered adaresses before colleges and universities and numerous political speeches, eerved on the floor of Congress and after ward as Governor of Gsorgia. How he ever found time In the midst of all this work for social enjoyments it was difficult to see. The latter days of his life were saddened by the loss of seveiai who were near and dear to him. The death of his brother, Judgs Lin ton Stephens, poisibly the brightest intellect Georgia ever gave birth to, fell severely upon him. Later a favored nephew, whom be bad raised and educated and who was one of his household, died, and then "Harry," his faithful body-servant and nurse through many years. Yet, with these sorrows weighing npon his heart, be turned only a cheerful face to his friends and brave ly pursued the tenor of his duties. So frail had been his health and S3 great his sufferings tbat a dozsn times within as many years word went out that his end was at hand. At length the word was verified, but not until be had accomplished a great life work and bestowed a vast deal of good upon his fellowmen. And ot al) who sleep beneath the sod of the State he loved so well, none fcave carried to the grave more of affectionate regret or less of dislike than Alexander Hamilton Stephens. Rob Roy. CUKBEXT THOUGHT AND OPINION. The wire fence, like the six shooter, must go. Lincoln (N. M.) Golden Era. Tue read to the Mexican market is one of the roads to gocd times. Chicsgo Journal. It would seem that the Northern cotton mill must go South. Richmond Dispatch. Riddlebergee is not a F. F. V., unless it stands fcr fault-finding Virginian. Wilmington (N. C.) Star. The highest assurance of the truth of the gospel is vouchsafed to those only who have experienced its personal saving power. Northwestern Christian Advocate. The case with which Americans get over their quarrels is unprecedented In the an nals of other races. The English civil wars left scars which showed for centuries. To this day there are traces of the divisions they caused. Brooklyn Eagle. A book Is soon to be published entitled "ihe First Families ot tha United States," wealth being the determining consideration. The trouble with inch a book will be the necessity for a revision every time there is an Important fall in stocks. There should be an

appendix for the Canadian exiles. ChicagD Current. O.v all Legislative halls, Territorial and State, should be inscribed, "Baware of delegating extraordinary powers to auyk!ndof commissioners!" Chicago Inter-Ocsan. The Illinois Legislature is the worst of th? lot. An average lunatic asylum would be a model of g3od tense and propriety compired to this singular aggregation. Al'.oona (Pa.) Tribune. Tite people or the Uniled S a'es bava great resson to bs thankful tha they arnst troubled by a foreign policy like that affecled by the great powers of Europe. Burling;oa Hawkeye. Finv years ago people would go three or four miles to church wilh tbe thero)ometer at zero; tow Ihe cress is heavy if they have to go a mile when it is below freszing. 3t. Paul Globe. Every part of the land should join in demanding laws preventing the employment of children unt'l they have at least secured ths benefit of a good cemmoa school education. Pittsburg Dijpaich. Onl item of information is wanting, of deepest Interest to the consumer of cieara, and that is: Where has gone the secret of the wonderful aroma of the grand regalia of other days? Nashville American. It is a step backward into barbirnm, If its advocates canld C3rclu5vely snow thu hanging has ever prevented a single murder then there might bs ecms slight excus ) for the people of this State tD put themselves in the position of legal murderers. Lansing (Mich.) Republican oa thf3ipitai Punishment Act.

PERSONALS. General Gkant Las not yet acknowledged tbe receipt of the commission as a genera on tbe retired list, and his name has there fore not yet been placed on the Go?ernrhent pay-roll. Locus Imcgese Guiney. author of "Songs at the Stait," is a blonde girl of twenty-three, graceful, accomplished and studious. he will toon, it is reported, bring out a volume cf prose esajs. Pooit old William Peake, now in the Cortland County, New York, Almshouse, indignantly denies that drink brought him to his impecunious condition, since he has touched nothing intoxicating for the past twelve year?, and positively asserts that the skating rinks killed the Siri33 bell-rioging business. President Barrios, the Guatemalan usurp er, married his wife when she was fifteen years of age. He went to the convent where ehe was at school and commanded the authorities to give her up. He assumed so bold a front that they were glad to let him have her to get rid of him. He has seven children. Coioxel Clark, the new Assistant B2cretary of the Interior, is but forty -five years ot age. He Is a small man, dry of aspect, of studious look, face with sharp, light eyes and dutikv-hued hair. He wears a small bristly mustache, and might easily be taken for a keen witted Yankee lawyer. He is learned in legal lore, and is now said to be full of malaria. Weii.e George C Miln ras playing in a Texas town recently, tbe Judge of one of the courts adjoumed th trial of a murderer in order to allow the jury to visit the perfarmance. At the request of the jury for "reduced rates," Mr. Miln wrote the following to Frank Cooper, his manager: "This honorable jury of twelve good and true men desire to change one form of misery for another; consequently admit for a head." Dcrijto a lecture In Itbaca recently, Chaplain McCabe referred to a call he had recently made npon General Grant. The Chaplain said: "After concluding my bosinesi with tbe General I was about to leave, knpwing that his time W8S valuable. 'Dcn't hurry, Chaplain; take a seat,' remarked the General. I will if you talk ab jut the war.1 General Grant smiled end asked: 'What especial feature cf the war do you refer to?' Well, I want to know whether you took Lee's sword when he surrendered. I've seen it stated in print that you did and that you did not; now, I want to know trom your own lips.' 'I did not take General Lea's sword,' replied General Grant" Colosel Simon Mussina is probably the youngest old man in Galveston. He has passed his four-score years, anl is yet full of vitality and retains his faculties remarkably well. In the United States Circuit Court recently Colonel Mussina argusd a motion in equity, and spoke for nearly au hour without the least apparent fatigue, and he made all his points clearly and forcibly, handling his case with as much tact and shrewdness as would have been expected from a younje' practitioner. The eld gentleman has given up the practice of law as a profession of lite, and it ia only occasionally that he appeirs before the bar, which in earlier days h was accustomed to adora. Galveston (Tex.) News. Madame Fasny Duchacfoue, who has lust died at the age of eighty-nine, was long a notable figure in New Orleans society. She was a daughter cf Dr. Gardette, cf Pniladelpbia, who came to America . in 1780 with a French expedition. Madame Duchaufour was born of Dr. Gardette's first wife. The second was Zuline Carrere, mother of Myra Clark Gaines, who wss consequently a stepsister of the deceased, but some ten years younger. Madame Duchaufour had quite an eventful career, residing at times in Philadelphia, Nashville and New Orleans. In her youth she was beautiful and accomplished, and retained even in eld age a remarkable intelligence and vivacity. It Is said tha she knew really more of Mrs. Gaines' true relationship to Daniel Clark than has come to light. President Baeeios, of Guatemala, who proposes to wade through slaughter to a throne and shut the gites cf mercy on Central Americans generally, is a sort of Spanish Indian. He has enriched himself by appropriating everything tbat came in his way. Many storiss are told of his tyranny and greed. He baa ail the requirements of a despot. When he first obtained power in Guatemala he began a relentless war npon tbe Jesuits, and finally su:c9eded in driving them out of the country. He v site! New York a few years ago and purchased a re-side nee for ?1SO,000. He left his family in tbat c ty fora short time, and the supposition was then tbat he intended to evacuate Guatemala for his own good. He held his ground. Ihoufth. and noon called his wife and children back to the land of .centipedes and revolutions.

LOVE IX ii or 3 e. MISS FRANCES C. FULS3 M . A I LEG KD TO r.C Tim CETEOTHF.D CY 1'K EVIDENT CI FY ELAN I'. For the second time in the hit-Lory of the United .Statei, the conin.ouHcalths which comprüe the Republic have elected a bachelor President. Without this exceptional feature of interest, new ecc.al arrangementj at the White Ilou-e are accompanied with a good deal of public cariofcity; when its caief cccurant haptens t j be wilele, a not unsellable weaknf? fcr sarmlaj and gossip find3 excellent diet on which t) feed. It ia safe to cay that the fa'rer and better half of creation throughout this vnt country, not to mention their husbands, brothers and fathers, read with c nrnees all that they find re sting to the lonifOc3e President and and his ein&uiai henfe keep'.ng. Since tbe great doings oa the. 4th of March. much b&s been written of Mies Cleveland and Mrs. lloyt, the ladies who, for the present, superintend for their brother, the hoapitaiities of the first home in the land. It is po tlisparapp merit to thee lvJies to eay tbat tto fair subject cf tbe nbave portrait will attract greater attention even than ttif y, for. If rnmcr err net, she at no distant date, wilt become the wife of the Chief Magistrate of the Nation, and reign tbe queen of his household. She is a resident of RoöaIo, N. Y and the daughter of that Mr. Folsotu, now dceasd, who, for a time, was partner with Mr. Cleveland in the practice of the law. Tie youne lady poetesses great personal charms, ller bair and eves are intensely daik, her features well cut and her complexion faultless. In figure ahe ia tall ai d well formed, and the dresses in the peifect taste which assuredly enhances tbe endowment of physical beauty. Miss Folsom is a well educated vcuug lady, tihe graduated recently from West College, Aurora, N. Y. Since then ahe has resided with her mother in ihe city which has been her heme for the greater part of the twenty years of ber life. Possessing a striking and very pleasing appearance, being accomplished and clever and accustomed to society. Miss Foleom would make a mistress of the White Houoe nuchas it has rarely bad. The President's b?bt friend could with him no better fortune than to win a bride whese beauty end attainments arc a demonstration of all that gallantry and patriotism claim for the ladies of America. The I. O. R M. Entertainment. JI In erva Tribe No. Improved Order of Red Men, gave, at tbeir rooms, last Thursday cvenine, a dramatic and rcufelcal entertainment, followed by a bill. Fully 500 persons were present. Refreshments were served In the banquet hall during tbe Cancin?. The prosrp.tame consisted of an introductory address by Brother George T. lHvld, describing the origin, standing, mottoes, purposes and benefits ol the order, cxplauiin; in full "why we call ourselves Red Men." a humorous recitation by J. Burgees Brown, einging by taeülee Hub, J. ßoreejs Brown, Mary Tarkiuzton. Dr. Woodward, and ctncis: solo, "fiuab Mf L'ab." by 1'rofcMor Llpman; xylophone sov, by M. 3. Bclfsenherz; cornet tclo, by V. i). Kodier, the first rait ending with a delightful comedy by ts -T. V. Cook ekJineoy company." A fiure not down on the programme uit turprihea, as:oinl i, then contu!scd the audience, wntn a s alltmm W8R announced to recite an 'original" pom r.e had hardly linUhed the tltn line, -on, Suow, thm Beautiful 6now," when he was interrupted by a. gentleman, wto informed hiro "the andiene were p'eef nt to be eniertaiued. not borei." and seconded by another eentler-.au, who perfectly agreed with the eentlemaa o'jectiaz," cat prizing end arguing that a man who co'il 1 Um 1 before an intelligent audience and r?cite an ode t snow after snca a hard winter should be tiriwa out of thfl window, upon which the author u! the orJcmal'' was te.7' ty re?ersl gentlemen, and amid the erfleh ot falling glas (beuind thesceie neceedtd by the frantic struggles ot the poor victim, the joke gradually averted itself, when a graduating ripple ot mirth rolled thron; h tbe auditnee as ihey "tumbled." As a wnole tae affair was above tbe averxze, an1 the order was highly comxdimenttd on tre excellence of the programme. It hhonla te etatea the entire aJTtir m as free to ail friends of the rccmbers. and taeas annual eniertelnmenta are looted forward to w;tb pleasure, as this, aa with ail otoer, ecnpö anything of the kind given by other societies The Ullltary Carnival. We are authorized by Mrs Robbls. of the Refreshment Committee of tbe Military Carnival, to extend thanks to tbe many cltiz.-ns for very seneious donations of previsions aui moac7. Alsohearty thaaka to the following named ladles for their great energy and perverancs in solid tins donations during that dreadful leather, aa well as valuable service during the Carairal: Mcsdame Ralph, Rrisiow. J. IL Lowes. Thoraaa i-uet wills. I'ray. U. J. Paraer Georg! W rubt. i,. L. Divine, aisroe Muses Lanni Bryan, Lirzle Black, Telle Rone. TuUe Uela, Goldthvalt. Clara Sawyer, Id Klph, Kate llay. Mrs. Llzle 8 tout and Mra. Llcndae. A misstatement having been made by one of the papers. It is doe to the Jadlta that tbe public should anow that the tables were de oratea by tee ian:es waiting on tie tables at their own expeuse. Thanks are also dae to Mr. bebreder, who dotatcd the use of all the queensware required Residence Burned. The residence belonging to Captain Seal, and situated on Kast Washington street, beyond the Belt Road, was entirely deitroyed by fire at an early hour yesterday morning, the fire originating, it is snppcf cd, from a defective line. The family and neighbors removed a part of the furniture t-fore notifying the department, anl when some ree! companies icacbad ihe rcene they could render no anistance. owing it a ladt of watr aapply. SDd the tief again calfa attention to the fct that aü the residences in that district are within tte City limitf, and that they are entirely without fire protection Captain Neal i absent in Uasninuioii. Iiis lcis will ream srtXO, covered by iakuratce. Would Rather Pay Than Ride. A few days ago a well dressei woata entered Sherman's resüurant and ordered a dinner that raa uptoSl.W, but she substituted a dve-cant check: and disappeared tefore ber game was discovered. Friday she attempted the siae thlog. aul atter eadrg a hearty dinner, fcte was p-entel witi the till for bcth meAls and given the alwrnMtv of rJlr8 or taking a ride ia tne patrol wagn V the station-house, tho prefcrrtl to py the btlli. Glee Club Concert. A c-ee club, compo5e of college boys of. Amherst, will give a concert at Plymouth Caurca. Friday evening, the2Tth. The entertaLwnent I highly spoken cd ia tbe Eit, where thw:lub la a favorite, eixtien male vox-ei anl an attricuva programme will insure a pleasant evejuinj. "I have thee on tbe hip," cried rheumatism, sailing bis victim and testing him on suffering ted. "Not ao:,, be cried, Mnot so! Wait, my ancient foe, just five minutes unltl the boy brings a bottle of Salvation Oil; tbtn we'll tst who trim tbt day'

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