Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 110, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1885 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY SENTINEL' MONDAY MORNING APRIL 20 18S5

MONDAY, APRIL 20.

OrFICEx 71 and 73 West Market SU-eet. KITES OF SUBhCRIPriOX. Indianapolis Sentinel far ISS.V-Dally, San day and Weekly Editions. DAILY. Delivered by carrier, per week S 25 Pally, Including Sunday, per wcek.. . 33 Dally, per annum, by mail.................... 13 00 pally, per annum, by mall, including Sunday, ty mail 12 00 Dally, delivered ty carrier, per annum.. 12 00 Dally, delivered by carrier, per annum, including Snnday....-.-.... . ...... 11 CO Dally, to newsdealers, per copy 3 8CNDAY. Bun day edition of ehhtvfour column- 5 CO Bunday Sentinel, by carrier....-. .... 2 50 To newsdealers, per cop7 ... . z WEEILY. Weekly, per annum. ..." 1 1 00 The postage on aubccrlptioni by mail Is prepaid ty the publisher. Newsdealers supplied at three cents per copy. Postage or ether charges prepaid. Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Indianapolis, Ind. Ma. Pesdletox has been tendered a farewell dinner in New York City. Yesteboay twentj-four years ego the Massachusetts soldiers were attached in the city cf Baltimore on their way to defend the National Capital. Ocr Columbus correspondent telegraphs the killing by the cars last Saturday night of Uriah Holland, who resided near Hope, Car tholoaiew County. The Commercial Gazette does not second our proposition match the Chevalier Hal stead against the Enquirer McLean In the approaching gubsrnatlonal canvass in Ohio. New York has on its boards this week Lawrence Barrett, Patti, Madam Theo, Minnie Palmer and Barn urn's Jumbo circa?. Hat true ball has broken oat, skating rinks are still wide open, and dime museums in fall blast. 6d the stege and ring attractions, are not axsured all the receipts. This thing of Mark Twain becoming General Grant's publisher may have a bad eflect upon the sale of the book. The subscribing public will want nothing but the earnestness of Grant in the work, bat may not the consection of Mark Twain with it arouse suspicions that there is a joke hidden somewhere between thn litis of it? Ms. Cleveland remarked ihe other day to an Indianian : "Younjt man, you will never tee ihe end of Democratic administrations in this country. The Democracy are here to atay." The President wished to give the idea that the administration of the Government will so thoroughly command the admiration and respect of the people that they will never want the Republican party in power again. Consent We direct the special attention of oar readers to an interview with Governor Gray concerning the late Legislature, which appears elsewhere in this hsueof the Sentinel. The Governor's estimate is clear aid convincing, completely paralyzing the reckless opinions of certain unscrupulous Republican organs, which without any argument or reason, have repeatedly sought to belittle or totally misrepresent the work of the legislature. Representative Spbixger thinks that he could not be successful a3 a candidate for the United States Senate before the Illinois Legislature. In regard to the use of his name. Mi. Springer eays: I have Bern for a mo meat entertained the idea that I could get a single Republican vote in the Legislature. I have been in Congress for ten years, and xny Democracy is of so pronounced a type that I don't suppose any Bepublican cares to vote for me. The trouble is, the idea that 1 could be elected hes never entered my mind; hence I have never thought of trying it. I am naturally anxious to see a Democrat elected, but I have taken no part In the contest If Mr. Morrison or any other Dem ocrat can win, I shall be glad of it. A LIE DOES NOT SERVE THE PURPOSE OP THE TRUTH. Since the controversy between the Sentinel and the Times as to the latter's Sunday circulation has been going on, we have furnished some facts that make a case of gigantic lying on the part of the managers of the latter paper. Two weeks ago to day the Times announced, with a blare of trumpets, that tbey had printed the dav before (Sunday) 14,421 papers. It has since percolated through some of the employes of that paper that to arrive at that astonishing result they counted each sheet of elgkt pages (that was their great three sheet paper of twenty-fcur pages) as a separate paper, when in reality they enly worked 4.800 complete papers cf twenty-four pagts. How is that for a gigantic confidence game on the advertising public? The Times wrote a letter April 10, 1SS3, to to a foreign advertiser in which it stated the following preposterous lie, viz: Trie Times guarantees a paid bona f; do list larger than that of any other morning paper m Indiana, and equal to that of the Journal anl Sentinel comblcc!. Book on circulation opened. Daily, 9.5C0; 6uudar. 11.0C0: weeklv, 12.CC0 Would be pleased to have your aseut vi.it on r pressroom while worein? edition. (Signed; Tkk Times Indianapolis. The Times, In its game of bluff, did not euppcs9 that such an invitation would be accepted. Well, it was accepted by an agent yesterday morning, and here is the result with which we have been famished, viz : TheTimea" preis, a four-cylinder rotiry Hoe, ute but three cylinders, and these were started on their second edition at seven minutes before 3 o'clock yesterday rooming and by 3:30 the edition was worked oHTEash cylinder printed thirty-five papers per minute, which would be a total of 3.C75 papers." To thu should be added the apron

full cf papers that was printed for the first edition at 11p.m. To cover contingencies and make a liberal estimate of first edition papers, say six to eight hundred, we add 1,000 it stead of 700, and it makts their entire Eunday editions yesterday a total of i G7Ö papers. From information tendered us from several reliable sources, these figures are several hundred tco high. This reveals an extent of business depravity we didn't suppose existed in any newspaper effee in Indianapolis. We dismiss the subject more in eorrow than ansrer.

DOUQLASS AND DYNAMITERS. Whst is the matter with old Frei Douglass? He grows cranky as he grows older, or perhaps It is the result of the near approach of the time when he will lose a snug Government Leith. He talkes like a dynamiter or a glib Nihilist of Russia. What exccs9 had he the other evening, when addressing a large audience cf respectable and prominent colored people in the capital of the Nation, to give utterance to such ignoble, wild and reckless advice as the following? Who could blame the ne?ro if, when driven from the ballot box and j Dry-box, and on" of railroad trains, be should re-.oit to some terriblo expletive force? Douglass means mischief when he advisss the use of "some terrible explosive force" to meet certain wrongs. Any man means mischief when bis advice tends in the direction indicated. Douglass has no excuse for it Republican pspm havo copied this sentiment as announced by Douglass, but so far as we have noticed, not one cf them has denounced it. Douglass tries to neutralize the effect of this villainous sentiment by qualifying it as follow : "It would be folly, but oppression makes wise teen mad." If it is folly to use dynamite, why does the colored demagogue suggest Its use? "Folly" is a weak word to advise the use of dynamite in the line indicated ij depraved and villainous. It is the stiletto in the hands of the cowardly assassin the pistol shot in the dark. No truly brave man will advocate it In his concluding remarks he said that the decision of the Supreme Court on the Civil Rights bill was a clap of thunder from a clear sky a blow dealt the negro in th9 house cf his friend. If dynamite Is a good thing and a proper gent to get rid of unpleasant people, why did not Douglas! advise the blowing op of the Republican Supreme Court that made the adverse decision on the Civil Rights Dill? This Republican demagogue seems to be an admirer of Ingertoll. He eulogized Colonel Icgersoll, and eaid that love of the negro was a better test cf Christianity than love et Jesu?. Tb a latter was popular and essy, but to love th.3 negro required a strong man. The entire speech is an worthy of any Americ an, black or white. The only excuse for it is that Douglass may be growing cranky. The world is going wrong with him. If be has ever had a mission in this world, he has evidently reached the end of it BAYLESS W. HANNA'S MISSION, Jude Hanna, of Crawfordsville, has been appointed Consul General to Persia. The appointee being well known In Indiana, we recite some information as to the miislon and the place to which he goes. The salary is 53.000. The Consul General is also vested with diplomatic authority, there being no minister to the Court of the Shah. It Is a journey of considerable length the Indianian has to make to Teheran, the Persian capital. Teheran is an inland city some seventy miles south from the Caspian Saa and 210 miles north of Ispahan, and contains in winter a population about equal to that of Indianapolis, which is, however, greatly reduced in summer by exodus the Bhah and probably two-thirds of the inhabitants moving out and encamping on the plains. The city is unhealthy in summer. It stands in a sandy plain in the form of an irregular square1 and Is inclosed by a deep dry ditch and a thick mud wall pierced by gates, which are always guarded and aie always closed after sintet The houses are said to be tally built and mean in appearance. Tha principal building of the town is the Ark or Royal Palace. There are a number of mosques, one of which is roofed with plates of gold. But the bazaars are described as being wretchedly kept and dirty. Teheran is connected by telegraph with the Turkish and Rus3ian frontiers. Judge Hanna will have superb opportunity for missionary work, if he should incline to thus supplement his political duties. Shiah Mohammedanism is the prevailing religion that branch of the Mohammedan faith which hoocrs Hussein next after the prophet, and eo repudiating the first three caliphs. The murder of Hussein by the caliph YezU is still commemorated in the cities of Persia by passion plays, which constitute the most remarkable ob-ervance of Shiah Mohammedanism. The performance is held in a large tent In tho public iquare, and compr!s33 ten act.', one from each of the ten dsjs mourniDg in memory of the event the drama celebrates. Many of the Persian women of the upper classes are reputed very beautiful, lively and clever; but then polygamy exists. There are two kinds of marriiges, permanent and for a limited time, ninety years being the maximum period permitted In the limited contract. Of permanent wives a man can have only four, but of th limited class he my take a thousand if he likes, and all for ninety years if he so prefers. Just here Judge Hanna has opportunity to put in good work for his fellow man. Th average Persian male is said to be a ratner worthless fellow; no wonder he is, living un der laws limiting the majority of his matrimonial alliances to only ninety years. ' He is probably worrying in mind at having to give up the majority of bis wives in so short a time. If the Judge can only persuade the Shah to extend the limit from ninety to 100 years the Persian may possibly become of score account We have cyclopedic information that it is a mistaken ids a entertained by Christen

dom that Persian women are restricted of ilberty. The Persians are not jealous In dtspesitioa, and their wives and daughters go about unattended to the public baths, the stores and on visits to their friends. Bat then, they go with face and persons so enveloped as to be unrecognizable to their nearest relatives. Eilk is tha most important product of Persia, and the people have acquired great dexterity In its manufacture. Sitins, velvets, brocades and all kinds of striped silks are made in brilliant colors, and strong and durable. The Persian csrpets and Cashmere shawls have, also, world-wide reeputation. Tj the extent of reading and writing education is general in Persia, all the towns containing schools In whichchildren are taught, thj Koran. In the Government College at Tiheran both French and English are taught so that our Consul General will have no need cf conversing In soliloquy. We might add moro of interest concerning Persia, but refrain eo as to leave curiosity the stronger for the narrative, which, no doubt, Judge Hanna'a facile pen will give after he has made the acquaintance of the Bhah, and learned to swap recitations of Eng lish yerse with fair Persian devotees to th.9 poetry of Hadz and Firdusl,

TWENTY YEARS IN THE NAVY. An interesting book would be fhat writtei oy Secor Robeson and W. E. Chandler giving appropriations for and expenditures by the Navy Department since l?6ö, and showing the result of such expenditures. But neither one of these former Secretaries of the Navy will write such a b ok; neither is likely to print an autobiography of crima. Bat the people will, under Secretary Whitney's administration, get at the facts of the outrageous maladministration of that department At the close of the war in 13;5 the United States had a navy second to that of no civilized nation on the earth. We had 177 war vessels with aggregate of 1GÖ.G15 tonnage, carrying 1.1C3 guns, and having cost $04.20),302. In addition we had purchased i:7 rxerchant vessels and armed them at a cost of $PG3J,51S, making a graud tolal of G74 armed aid equipped vessels, besides which we had eighty unarmed vessels. Since 1SG." Concrete has appropr'atod for the maintenance and establishment of the navy f 313,651,923.03. And yet our navy of to-day comprises, all told, only thirty-eight vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 30,935, and worth, pcs3ibly, $1G,003,000. What went with all this money? Let as briefly compare our navy and naval expenditures witn that cf Great Britain daring these twenty years. As already state i our navy was, in 153, fully the equl of Great Britain. Oar present camplemeat of thirty-seven vessels comprise; 1 of the first rate, 12 of second rate, IS of third rate, 4 of fourth rate, 2 torpedo rams, and 1 Llallory propeller. Of the thirty -eisrht all bit five are wooden, and of the five iron vessels three are of third rate and two of fourth rate. The British Navy to-day contains some oi the most formidable war vessels of modern times. In its list of armored ships are twelve turret ships of the first-class. Borne of these carry four eighty-ton guns, while the others are armed with guns ranging from thirty-five to forty tons. 01 the broadside ships of the first-clcss there are twelve carrying guns rar ging from six and cue-half to twenty five tons. Of the armor-belted class there are five carrying guns ranging from twelve to twenty-five tons. Of the coastdefenders there are fifteen carrying eighteenton and lighter guns. Two of these are Arabs. Of the iron broadside ships of the old type there are ten carrying twelve-ton guns. There are two of the wooden broadside ships. The second aad more imoortant branch of the navy is made up of the uuarmored ships, the iron and steel vessels of the service. In this list there are three iron frigates, six iron corvettes, two steel dispatch vessels, nine eteel and iron corvettes, six composite corvettes, fourteen comp3aits skops of the first class, six of the secondclass, six compcsit9 gun vessels of the Arab class, four cf ths swift class, twenty-one of the thistle class. In addition to all this the British Navy has sixty-six gunboats of superior make, carrying sixty-four eighteen and twelve ton guns. The United States has between 8,003 and 9,000 men in the navy, maintained by an average annual payment of about 57,000,000. The navy of Gteat Britain has 45.000 men, the pay of whom averages more per maa than our Government pays. Bat at the same rate cf pay Great Britain's yearly expenditure upon her men would be about ? 13,000,000. At 57,000,000 per annum wj would within the last twenty years have paid our seamen $140.000,000. while Great Britain would have paid $: 30,000,000. And yet her total appropriations in twenty years have been 1.077,413.902, or but little ever doable our appropriation cf $313,031,923.03, Ardyet against our thirty-eight tubs we have enumerated 200 English vessels. One of the English first-rate veissls alone could sink every one of our tubs, and sixteen of them will sell for more than our whole navy. These figures, which are o facial, tell bsyond controversy that this Government has been shameleesly plundered by the Republican ring which has controlled its navv. Referring to this eame subject the New York Werld well says: The figures covering the appropriations 'or tas last twentv veais represent a peri oa of iriznuui corruption and -aste. Tee appropriation for this perioa in the ajjresate nearly equal the amount previously appropriated for ize naff from 17'Ji to isto. including me enormou expanditnres necessitated by the A ar of the Rebellion. 1 he United States, with the great expenditure of half a billion of dollars, hare nothinz. We have to-day not one vessel capable of enraging with the weitest ot the war Tewels of the humblest of tbe civlüzed powers. If the United States were to be Involved in a war to morrow anyone of the minor war jewels of tee principal foreign nations would he sufficient to put to rout every e&el upon our The Coheaon period is one of the blaskest chapter in the history of Republican maladmlnlstiat'on of public affairs- At the close of the war we had a saw eoual to that of any civilized natnn. From lses until the present time the navy has de teriorated with a rapidity wrucn is hard to believe even In the faceot the trim official teures. Ac cording to the very lowest estimate Mr. Robeson employed S60.000.OiK) in the conatru jtloa. parcaaie rod repairing of ships. Congreoi gave him tha. amount ot money to be used for that purpose.

Yet fach succeeding year of Robeson' mle theri were Xewer and iewer Teasels upon the nayy list. He threw away and divided with corrupt co a tractor "the price of sixty of the finest of the reat ironclad of the modern Brlti&ii nary. At the close of his administration the navy was rained. There tas been cothinz done fcince his time to retriTe this lamentable and disgraceful condition of aSairs. Euch is the record of the Republican party In one of the most important departments of the Government. Is it not enough to make every honest man forever turn his back upon a party permitting such villainous robberies from the people?

OUR BEHRING POSIil ASTER. Mr. Wildman is not one of the RepnHlicans to whine over a Democrat succsedmg him in oilice, nor is he one who retires with a record which all the patrons of the postfli:e, regardless cf party, may not cjmnerd. T.ie Eentinel volunteers an expression of its high estimation of the manner in which Mr. Wildman has administered the affairs of the postcfike throughout the four years of his incumbency. Uniform courtesy and faithful attention to business have characterized him. Bis management has been efficient, honest acd with an eye for the im provement cf the service. We congratulate Mr. Wildman upon the success oi his administration, and wish for him personally and we could hardly wish more that he may succeed as well in whatever he may engage in as he has in the conduct of the Indianapolis postofhee. As the friend of the medical profession we have yearned that General Grant might recover without provoking the doctors about him into ecalpsllcgeach other. Rat it is now published that Drs. Douglas and Sara Jy have become jealous of one another, while the two consulting phyEicians, Buker and Bands, are whispering it, inter 9., that the other two have never sent out reliable bulletirs. None of them will risk a statement to tbe public whether their patient will recovi r, and if so, what it is he will recover from. The only positive statement had from any one connected with the case is from Mark Twain, who, having been General Grant' publisher, is Interested in the c?mpletlcn of the General's book by the latter's own hand. Mark says positively that Gen eral Grant will lire until fall. Tiicr.s is unpleasant family feeliog in one home of royalty over in England. Marie, wife of Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edin burgh, is sister to Alexander III., the pres ent Czar of Russia. It is eaid that since the interne excitement over Russian and British affa'.rs the little sister of the Czar has been cruelly snubbed by some of her husbsnd's people. Bat if Marie has the pluck of the avei age American daughter in law and i.fs-ter-iu-law, she will give Mother Victoria and her sons and daughters a tongue trounciog they will not forgst. 0IE AM) C0U1IOT. General Log ax, if re elected to tho Senate, would bring to the dignified deliberations of that body a fresh and valuable experience as an active ward politician. Chicago Times. Postmaster General Vilas has sloughed off another batch of RBeless Inspectors, and Secretary Whitney has lengthened the hours of clerks in his department under certain contingencies. Thus the good work of reform goes on. New York World. It is possible that Barrio?, the Guatemala Dictator, is dead. His death, however, will not insure peace. Any man who owns a shotgun and can wave it in the air and give a whoop, can stir up a rebellion in Central America in four minutes. Taunton (Mass.) Gazette. Was the Sun mistaken, when years ago, it set up the stirrirg cry of "Torn the Rascals Out?" We don't think so. They ought to be turned out; and, besides, there are lots of 'em. We hope that in spite of everything the wont will get turned out before the play is over. New York Sun. Mr., E. W. Halford, of the Indianapolis Journa1, complains that the Philadelphia Times habitually copies poems from the Journal without giving credit. "This is escecially the case with the poems of James Whitcomb Riley," says Mr. Halford, and he openly declares that the Times is "a pirate." We do not believe this latter accusation, but Colonel McClure ought to reform the practices of his subordinates. New York Sun. Ffasck Hattos rushes into the Tribune with a column of abuse of Postmaster Pearson. Hatton is an ass to draw attention to bimssif. Obscurity is his only safety. Nobody cares a straw for Hatton. Nobody asked for his retention. Everybody was glad to get rid of him. Buffalo Express. The most picturesque incident of Appo rrattox, the one which has endeared General Grant to the Southern veterans, and shown his supporters on the Northern side not only his true nobility in war. but his subtle reasoning, was his remark to Lea when writing out the terms cf surrender: "Let your people keep their horses; they will need them for their spring plowing.'' Albany Times. Pr.EFiDENT Ci.evzi.asd's postponement of several contemplated White Hens receptions became ot the lingering illness of General Grant is a becoming deference to public feeling, and will be silently approved by a heavy-hearted people. There are cheering evidence that the social and domestic affair of the White House are to be conducted with the tame refinement of delicacy and dignity that characterized them under General Arthur's t term. Philadelphia Press (Rep.). "Cleveland thinks he is honest," said a Buffalo Democrat to me last evening, "nd c& one can change bis mind. The man selected to run against hint for Sheriff was a person whose reputation was net the best. Tne people taid they wanted an honest man, and pointed to Cleveland, He was elected Then came the election fcr Mayor, and another cry for an honest man was heard. Cleveland was acain elected. He got to believing that he really twts honest, and now

he considers his reputation forhcneitya tbe corner etoue of Lis success. He could cot be forced to do a thing now which he believed unfair. He is too anxious to kep up his reputation." Pittsburg Times. Omn'EEiNa that for nearly the last four years the White House cellars have never been so full of bottles recently emptied, the Philadelphia Press still shows signs cf the coolness of the arctic winter in its comments open Miss Cleveland's refusal to interfere with her brother's arrangements for serving his guests with wine. "She fully realizes that this is to be a Damocratic administration," sajs the Press. Is it any wonder that the Prohibitionists are quite sick of Republican bypecrisy on the liquor question? Detroit Free Pee.

pei:m.als. Pr.E-ciDrsT Ci.Rvr.LAM' favorite ilowsr is the lily of-the-valley. Tns wife and daughter of Minister Pen ileton speak Pench and German with accuracy and ease. General Grast is still worth more than a brigade of dead men. The enemy seems to be on the retreat Ths President has purchased a handsome seal-brown coach team in Poughkeep&ie, N. Y. The horses are sixteen hands and one inch high. Appointment Clerk Higgixs is a blonde and is 6aid to look like a village doctor. He knows how to dlagaos? the cases of which he his charge. Mii-s Ada Sweet is forty years of age. The desire of the administration is to put a younger and a sweeter girl in her place. Let tke work of reform go on. Atlanta Constitution. Mr. Randall's complaint is the gout, and if he has a particularly bad case he may perhaps be able to realize how the American farmer feels whenever he squeezes him with another twist of the tariff screw. A minister of Edgefield, sixty years old and a widower, traveled twenty mile3 last Sunday, preached two sermons and got married in the evening. Literally, business before pleasure. Augusta (Ga ) Chronicle. Fexator Payne is eaid to be the most attentive and amiable cf all the Democratic Senators to the office seekers. He has carefully briefed and filed away every application for places made to him, amounting to over 1,000 in number. Hayisq found it impossible to prove that Miss Cleveland is a Democrat and meeting with like poor success in ecdeworiog to show that she is a Republican, the busybcdi8 have settled down to ths conviction that she is a mugwump. GeoegeW. Ca dlk's study in New Orleans is said to be the neatest ot literary workshops. It is a rather sombre room, with low book cases, a high desk, a map of Louisiana opposite the ocen grate, above which batgs a strong head of Homer, bsside a few etchings and sketches to relieve the walls. Colosel Couch, since the death of Payne, tbe leader ot the Oklahoma "baomer," is a native of New York and a "Forty-niner." He is medium-sized, mild-mannered, dresses in conventional garb, and presents no suggestion of the wild border-man. He was colonel of an Illinois regiment in the war of the Rebellion. Referring to the recent appointment of Oscar Henderson, of Kokomo, and the incidents attending it, a Washington special caye: What Js virtually a test case with regard to Changes in the Internal llcvenoe Collectorships is now before the President, and upon his action a grf at (Seal depends, mis test case is maaa.up of two cases similar la many paiticnlirs. One is the cae of Henderson, nominated to the Kokomo. led., District, ana the other is tho West Virginia Collectcrship, where a nomination was made to take the place of a man who had been in o3ice but a bort time. The Senate neglected to confirm either nomination, upon tne ground m it was giren out that no vacancy existed in either cae, and nn reasons were given for the removal of the incumbents. The 1'rcsident has been Follcited repcAtoily since to reappoint both of the men f aillnjj of confirmation by the Senate, but has not as yet done eo, and until he t'znifies his position in the premise nothing will be attempted in any other cases. His failure to remove the incumbents in the two case cited, both of w'nora, it is concsdel, have their cfilce in trood working or;ier, will be cor s rued as making it necessary f"r charges of oSesue partisanship to be filed and proven aaais$.t anv Collector whom it is sought to replace by a Democrat. On the other band, if trie President removes the two Collectors referred to, it will be construed as indicating his policy with regard to all of those places, and other applications will be presod at once. This U the view taken of the aituation by the Comnitssioaer of of Internal Kevenue and by others. A Society Event. f Communicated. Stencer, Ind., April 1G. Married on the 15tb, at 8 p. m., Benjamin Franklin, son of tbe Supreme Court Commissioner, Hon. William M. Franklin, and Miss Flora Belles, daughter of J. T. Belles, a druggist of this place, and formerly of Indianapolis, Ind. Quite a number of guests were from Indianapolis and other places, and the elite of Spencer ssciety were present. It is said the residence of the bride's fsther was filled by guests; that the ceremony was very beautifully conducted; that the presents were many and ccstly, and the supper after the marriage ceremony was all that could have been desired, but as your correspondent was not there he can give no particulars. Tne best wibes cf the entire community go with Ben and Flora, who are both great favorites in Spencer society. An Expensive Lainry. Pack. I 'Are jcu going to Newportnext summer? ' askfd one actres of another. 'No: I don't think I will. Iean'taflord It." 'Can't afford it? Why, you have made over ?2" 0CO to far this season." "Yes. I lfow; but you ee6ra to forget that I have a hrjsband to support." An Impertinent Query. irexasSiftinjs. Did a woman ever clan up a rented house when &b moved out of it; and did she ever fail in expressing her opinion, ranging from mild vitti Deration to emphatic condemnation, of the horrid condition in which her predeceeaor had left the premises into which she moves? It Hay be More Than Talk. Dayton Journal. There is talk of Allen G. Thurman for Governor next fall.

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, J. Sm A- :;-t. , s TOE TROUBLE IX AFUIJ A.NI3TAX. ADIil'RRAHMAS KHAN, AMEER CK CAKCL. Abdulrahiuan or Abdurrahman Khan, who, in the summer of 1 SS0, was acknowledged by tbe British Indian Government as Ameer of Cabul, had lorig t en an exile ia Turkestan. He is the lineal representative of Dcst Mohammed, the founder of the Barukzai dynasty, and is the oldest son of Afzul Khan, who was in his turn ths eldest eon of the Dcst, and he is thus nephew to the late Ameer Sbere All. It is believe! that Abdurrahman was born about is .0. When Dost Mohammed died, in IST only twelve days after be had orowned his victorious career by taking the city of Herat, his favorite son ard nominated heir, Shere Ali, succeeded, at first quietly, to the throne. Afzul Khan, the father of Abdurrahman, was at that time Governor of Balkh . or Afghan Turkestan, with his capital at Takht-i-pul. Abdurrahman had taken to wife a daughter of the Ameer of Bokhara, and one of his sisters as married to a son of the same Prince. Tne next brother of Afol, named Azlm Khan, joined with Afzul and AbdurrahII an in a conspiracy &gtint Euere Ali, immediately upon b'.s accession to the principality cf Cabul. This caused the outbreak of civil wbr in Afghanistan in 161. During that war Abdurrahman played a leading part on the side of his father, Afzal, and nis uncle, Azion, agaiast febeie Ali. In 1S0, 1S(W and 1SG7 he won several tattles, and the great victories of Shaikbabad and Khclat-i Gbilzsi were u-ainly due to his ability. II was intrnsted with the Governorship cf Balkh, where ha made himself popular by his moderation and by marrying the daughter of the Chief of Badaksham. Ia lSOs he was unable, however, to oSer a successful resistance to his cousin Yakoub Kbsn, sen of Shere Ali, who delesUd hira Ht Bajpaii, near Bimian, and also finally at TiLah Khan. Abdurrahman then tied from the country, ultimately reaching Russian territory. He was well received by General Kaufmann, who permitted him to resida at Sara arcand. and allowed him a pension of l3,000 roublf s a yar. Abdurrahman Khan remained in Türkis ' tan, an exile and a pensioner ol tho Rusnan Government, till 1S70, when he suddenly departed without taking leave, and slowly made his way through Bälkh to the Cabul frontier. No attempt waa made to detain him, and there was some mystery about his intentions. With regard to his personal character and disposition, the reports that were current seemed rather favorable. The American traveler, Mr. Schuyler, who saw him at Tashkend In company with General Kaufman, remarked the dignity of his appearance and tne intelligence of his mind.' Another account, apparently front official sources, describes him as transacting all business himseif and working with secretaries from an early hour in the morning. What degree of political education he may have received it is difficult to conjecture. The World's Heroen. Indianapolls Labor Blgua'. The man who displays courage, fortitude and self sacrifice, and gives up the ties of friendship and association that he may practice a principle which he believes to be right, is a hero in private life. A man who acts out a principle because it i3 riht will meet with his reward somewhere along ia life. It will likely not be to-day. It will meet him on one of the to morrows of life. There are many of the world's heroes unknown. Ohio's Good Governor. Buffalo Newt. The story that an infernal machine was sett to Governor Hoadly, of Ohio, was doubtless untrue, for it would puzzle anybody to explain my such a thing ehould be sent to a man like Hcadly, who has shown himself to be a wise counselor and prudent Governor, with the best interests of his people at heart. It was shown during the time matters were In such a bad wy in the Hccking Valley that Governor Hcadiy wss the friend of ths struggling pc or. Kxactly Ro. (New York GraDhicl A letter written by General Grant ia April. 1 SGI. shows that he, l;ke al other respectable Democrats, was prepared to drop all party lines as soon as the rebellion began. There never was a wor loyal party than tbe Democratic party, and many of the beet Generals and bravest men in th war were men who tad acted with the Dsmocrat:c party all their Uvea. Ia the Interest of Reform Cuicgo Hertld.l Postmaster General Vilas has ch-neei the name oi tne kuhi uu jjcui j';jhü i jhuiujo cf Buzzard's Rcost. Ga., to We'tlaVo, and pot a new nin in cbare. To Hrald now invites h.'s attention mne tioue Republican PcstclSke of Hell, Minn . aM suggests that that be cb an Red to Dlly Verden or something else in the interest of ref ir m. Maat lttnru to Hon :nk. Macoa Telegraph j The Telegraph still holds its original position: Washington scciety will nver bs af for Democratic statesmen until iticsU upoa a sutstratum of gocd corn bread. IIow Big John's Doom Is. IPhL'adelphia Timet. 1 Gradually the Senatorial boom of Mr. John R. McLean assumes the dimensions of a mustard seed. Gentle 8princ. I Boston Record. The Soda water man now begins his fixzcal year.

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