Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1883 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. "V7EDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 28, 1883-

WEDNESDAY, PEBUARY 23.

Gotxrsor BcTtTB, of Massachusetts, has determined to haci a fast day for the old Bay State, and has, by proclamation, set apart April 5 for that purpose. Ei-Si5AT0 DoasKT.it is generally ad altted. carried Indiana, and the Chicago Times thinks it would be strange if he should laJl to carry a Washington Jury. Hoj. Johic W. Foster, of Eva.nville, suc ceeds Hon. Hannibal HamJn at the Court of Madrid. Indiana is in luck. This ap pointment usually goes to the T2a?L It be eins to look as though Folic, the gen tleman who speculated with the money of TiniHMD will hfl nermitl.ed to eo to A VAA4W?fcJV X Mexico instead of the Penitentiary. "Whix will ex-Senator Dorsey have his head shaved by a Government barber! "When the event takes place, will the distin ruished Republican thief, who carried Indi ana for Porter and Garfield, have a banquet at Delmonico's? Frahktort. the capital city of Kentucky daring the late flood, lost 3,000 barrels of choice whisky. Of the lot, 100 barrels went adrift bungless; that is, with bungholes open. Kentucky newspapers deplore with a roar the great calamity, but so far they see in the catastrophe no necessity for an excess of profanity. ' TmCx&rhas ordered 900,000 pies for his coronation dinner. The banqueting table will be about eleven miles in length. The brass band will number 1,000 instruments, and when the National air is sung, 8,000 trained voices will join in the chorus. So far the programme does not provide for any Nihilistic performance. Now, here is a good chance for that class of individuals who are constantly soaring into the infinite and diving into the un fathomable: An astronomically inclined lawyer of Pesth has bequeathed $400 to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, to be offered as a prize for the best solution of the question how the inhabitants of the earth may be enabled to communicate with those of the moon. Sox s time sines three men living in Jersey City concluded to wreck a couple of banks, and went at the business systematically. In due time they accomplished their purpose. jI few days ago they were all sentenced to State's Trison. One of the robbers gets ten years, one six years, and the other four years all at hard labor. The ten-year sentence falls npon a man sixtythre8 years old. These Jersey villains were all educated men. moved in good society, and were respected. They were guilty, however, of embezzlement, theft, forgery and perjury. A.r eccentric citizen of Farmington, N. II.t recently handed in his checks and took his departure for a journey across the "imperceptible frontier," as Mr. Ingalls would put it. Before leaving he had made every necessary arrangement for his funeral. "lie had," says the report, "dug his grave, his coffin he had hewn out of a block of granite, and carriages had been engaged for his friends, including 100 or more brother Odd Fellow3 and Knights of Pythias. His wishes were honored, even to the eating of a feast that he had ordered at the village hotel." Certainly Mr. Chadwick was very eccentric Ah interesting old Bible, printed in 1G09, belongs to a citizen of Hamilton, Mass. It has the distinction of being called "The Breeches Bible," on account of the word "breeches" being used in the seventh verse of the third chapter of Genesis, instead of the word "apron," used in the present version. The old verse reads as follows: "Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed gge tree leaues together, and made themaelues breeches." This is accompanied by a queer marginal note. The twentieth verse of the same chapter says: "And the man called his wiuea name Heua, because she was the mother of all lining." "What pleasure can there be in diamonds or any other ornaments when it requires so much trouble and evident anxiety to look after them, as is the case with Mrs. John Jacob Astor, of New York, and her diamonds. They are the largest and finest in America, remarkable for size and brilliancy, and represent a labor of years to collect, match, size, and shade. It is only on rare occasions that she wears them, and when she does, detectives, who are splendid facsimiles of the society gentlemen of the period, accompany her to and from the house or place she visits. At home these diamonds are kept in a safe, so built that to rob it one must need knock down part of the house. Thk London Globe remarks that the Irish people can no longer depend npon the potato as a future food supply, and recommends as a judicious and feasible expedient that the oat crop of last year should be doubled, and that a few common vegetables, like the cabbage and the parsnip, should be cultivated to some extent, and asserts that with slight pains the cheaper forms of fish, which swarm in the Irish Seas, might be made a common article of diet among the Irish people. England has ruled Ireland until ehe has produced anarchy, poverty, crime and starvation, and still she claims to be a Christian Nation, and her Queen is the head of the Church. It is always amusing to see one Republican boss sit down npon another Republican boss, and the fun is quite as lively when one Republican organ takes another Republican organ to tatk for the purpose of demonstrating that it is a blackguard, a fool or crazy. A few days since the New York Times took occasion to comment upon "our civilization," and said: The other day the Tribune began a quite too perfectly beautiful leading article with the ques lion. "Is the South no more civilized than Bar si?" The occasion for this tremendous q'ustion was tarnished by certain stories of atrocities inflicted in Southern prisons upoa convicts, most of wfcom were negroes. The Tribune did not avethe nigh test doubt that these stones were true as, Indeed they probably were stid it strew the conclusion that a country In which conYlctf were braully treated can cot bo caüs3

civilized. It so happened that on the next pave of our enormously esteemed contemporary was a long account of atrocities aaid to bar 'been perpetrated upon convicts In the State of New York. Naturally the Tribune did not make the inquiry, "la New York no more clvillxea than Batata?" for It is much simpler to attack abuses in the South than abuses at home, and, betides, the majority of the convicts in our New York prisons are white instead of colored. People half-way pleased when a blatherskite is effectually used up will not fall to enjoy the happy faculty displayed by the Times in showing that the Tribune 1j capable of combining meanness with malignity when it refers to the South, and of obscuring fact by falsehood when talking of other matters. Common sense men, even of the Republican persuasion, no longer tolerate the balderdash about Southern barbarism.

PATTON VS. INQALLS. Some weeks since both Houses of Congress suspended tlie regular order of business. affording the friends and late associates Senator Hill, of Georgia, an opportunity pay fitting tribute to the b igh character, public services and private virtues of the de ceased Senator. On the occasion referred Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, delivered an ora tion in which he took occasion to allude the impenetrable mysteries which surround ed Senators as well as others who have been less conspicuous in mundane affairs. Mr, Installs is not a spiritualist. He does not believe that any trustworthy information in regard to the departed has ever been vouch safed to the living; in fact, Mr. Ingalls may be regarded as a disciple of Colonel Ingersoll and ouite as willing as the famous Bob to put his views on record whenever an oppor tnnitv offers. In his eulogium of Senator Hill, Senator Ingalls said: Ben Hill has gone to the undiscovered country. Whether his journey thither was but one step across an imperceptible frontier, or whether an interminable ocean, black, unfluctuating, and voiceless, stretches between these earthly coasts and those invisible shores we do not know. Whether on tha August morning alter death he saw a more glorious sun rise with unimaginable splendor above a celestial horizon, or whether his iDithetic and unconscious ashes still sleep in cold obstruction and insensible oblivion we do not know. Whether his stronz and subtle energies fouad instant exercise in another forum, whether his dexterous and disciplined faculties are now contending in a higher Senate than ours for supremacy, or whether his powers were dissipated and dispersed with Lis parting breath-we do not know. whether his passions, ambitions, and affections still sway, attract and impel, whether he remem bers us as we remember him we do not yet know. Thee are the unsolved, the insoluable prob lems of mortal life and human destiny, which prompted the troubled patriarch to ask that momentous question for which the centuries have given no answer, "If a man die, shall he live again?" Every man is the center of a clrele whose fatal circumference he can not pass. Within lis nar row confines he ijpotential, beyondlthe perishes: and if immortality i a Fplendid but delusive dream, if the incompleteness of every career, even the longest and most fortunate, be not supplemented and perfected alter its termination here, then he who dreads to die should fear to live, for life Is a tragedy more desolate and inexplicable than death. When Senator Ingalls' views were pub lished, Rev. Dr. A. S. Patton, editor of the Baptist Weekly, concluded to criticise them from a purely orthodox standpoint. He referred to Mr. Ingalb' speech as "heathen talk in Congress," and quotes with flattering indorsement a Washington letter which sought to rebuke the Kansas Senator by saying: "But the Senate is not the forum where from to preach sermons on infidelity, nor should the occasion of memorial services upon a deceased colleague be embraced to question, as did Mr. Ingalls. whether 'if a man die, shall he live again?" Mr. Patton, directly and indirectly, refers to Mr. Ingalls as an infidel, at which the Kansas Senator flies into a passion, and bounces the Baptist divine with an energy which, were it physical rather than intellectual or controversial. would approximate an irreparable calamity. In writing to Dr. Patton, Mr. Ingalls, in a few terse sentences, sets forth how he sought to honor the memory of Senator Hill, and that he presented only such "reflections as arise in all thoughtful minds when meditating upon the impenetrable mystery which veils the future state of man from a'l except the editor of the Baptist Weekly," and adds: I suggested the argument for Immortality, based upon the Imperfection and incompleteness of all earthly careers, even the longest and most fortunate, unless supplemented and rounded out hereafter, aad affirmed that from this standpoint I knew of no one whose life was so rich In the prophecy of a future existence as that of Senator nilL I Bald further, that though his sun went down at noon, it sank amid the prophetic splendors of an eternal dawn. Upon this you publish detached paragraphs of my speech and tell your readers, if you have any, that I am a heathen and an infidel. If you are a Christian I prefer to be a heathen. If your religion prompts or permits you, without provocation, to libel those with whose views upon the great problems of human destiny you do not agree, I prefer to be an infidel. But I am neither the one nor the other. I have had some doubts hitherto whether eternal punishment was consistent with infinite love, but I am quite sure it there Is no hell for such bigoted slanderers and malignant liars as you there ought to be. The ludicrous feature of the controversy, if such disputations can be said to have funny or comical ingredents, is found in the fact that the irate Senator after denouncing the divine aa a bigoted slanderer and malignant liar, subscribes himself with "great respect," Dr. Patton's "obedient servant." A remarkable condescension, to which'Dr. .Patton in responding to the Senator's philippic alludes, to is as follows: As to your concluding personal and ungracious allusions, in which you das me "with bigoted slanderers and malignant liars," I have nothing to say, except that they are such terms as a true gentleman would not use, especially in addressing one to whom be condescends to subscribe himself "with great respect, yoor obedient servant" It does not appear that Dr. Patton in commenting upon Senator Ingalls speech transcended the limits of permissible criticism, but all fair minded men will agree that Senator Ingalls permitted himself to use language in flagrant violation of all the proprieties observed among well bred men.. The trouble grew out of the fact that Dr. Patton referred to the Senator as an ' infidel," and to his oration as ''heathen talk in Congress." But it appears that Mr. Ingalls'J views are are not those ot a Christian, what then? Simply this: Mr. Ingalls ir an infidel. The term "infidel" is no more a term of reproach than la "agnostic," Agnostic assume that we have no knowledge but what we acquire by means of our sense?, and Mr. Herbert

Spencer and Mr. John Fiske are now regarded as eminent agnostics. They do not believe la the divine origin of Christianity nor in the divine Inspiration of the Bible, and as Mr. Ingalls is an agnostic he la, therefore, by every standard of authority which correctly defines the meaning of

words, an infidel, and Dr. Patton is not. therefore, guilty of falsehood or slander. Men, particularly United States Senators, should have the courage of their convictions, and if in publio they declare their beliefs and disbeliefs, they mnstexpect'tobe criti cisea. and they should be pleased rather than annoyed by honett animadversions. The terms "infidel" and "infidelity" are of late losing much of the reproach that once attached to them. and as now used are more for classification than for opprobrium. The standards of belief are changing. The Church itself is renouncing old theories. The Bible is undergoing revision, but the eternal principles of ri.hteousnesa upon which Christianity is founded are not therefore losing their grasp upo l the minds of men. If Mr. Ingalls does not choose to adopt such principles, if he prefers to be lieve that the problems of life are "unsolved and insoluble," then "for him Christianity is not a divine solution of that supreme problem" and he must take his place noUns roU:HS, in the ranks of infidels, or ag nostics, for there are no means of escape. THE QUESTION OP RESPONSIBILITY. Brave men are always ready to take the responsibilities of their acts and their de clarations. Cowards, never. When a political party is in the majority in Legislatures, Congresses or Councils, it must take the re sponsibility of such measures as pass, as also of such as are defeated. It has the power, and the people will hold it responsi ble for the use made of it Majorities can not go before the people and plead the power of minorities. Such pleas only make derelictions of duty the more conspicuous, and majorities the more contemptible. The Forty-seventh Congress is a Republican body that is to say, the Republican party is in the majority. It can bring forward and pass such measures as it deems advisable, and the minority is powerless, however much opposed to such measures it may be. Notwithstanding these incontrovertible propositions, the Indianapolis Journal seeks to make the Democratic minority in the Forty-seventh Congress re sponsible for the failure of certain measures which the Republican majority has brought forward. It ia really very amusing to note with what flatulent energy the Journal urges its theories upon the at ten tion of its readers. It charges that the Dem ocratic party "is the enemy to popular progress," that "forgetting nothing and learning nothing it is a shoal in the tide of advancement and a sandbar in the current of history," and adds: Its attltute in Congress i hostile to every vital interest of the Nation. The Republican party, without a majority in the Senate and without a working majority in the House, is practically bound band and foot by the Democrats. Pledged to tariff" reform, the Republicans have endeavored to secure legislation wheieby a wise reduction may be made. In this, as in al efforts to effect reduction of taxation, the Democratic members have stood in the way. The "tariff reform" to which the Journal alludes is probably the most beautiful specimen of reform that this country was ever called upon to contemplate. Take, for instance, iron cotton ties; the tax was orig inally 35 per cent The Republican Senate reformed it up to 135 per cent, and the Republican House reformed it down to81J per cent, leaving it still 46 i per cent more than It was when a Republican .Congress began Its work of reform. The people of Indiana demanded at the polls last Novem ber tariff reform, but not such as the Repub lican Congress is preparing for them. Dem ocrats are not helping Republicans to put diamonds on the free Hit, while they tax trace chains 67 per cent, salt 36 per cent, and rice 123 per cent Democrats are not helping Republicans to tax quinine to enrich a half dozen monopolists who desire to grow rich by taxing the vic tims of favor. The Democrats in Congress, so far as it lies in their power, are endeavor ing to inaugurate tariff reform by reducing the taxes on the necessities of life. Indianians, if they would understand the policy of the Republican majority in Congress, have only to contemplate the TEXAS OK AK 15 DI Alf A KITCHI5. The iron the stove is made of 45 53 4 65 45 45 25 86 42 36 35 123 20 Holloware pots and kettler. ............... Copper and brass Utensils, if any........ Crockery of the commonest kind....... Glassware of the cheapest kind .... Table cutlery and spoons. ...... ........... Pickled or salted fish. S Q &!- . ...... lOCSTftF HMtH,M,H Pickles Rice - . Oranges and other foreign fruits, about. Democrats in Congress and out of Congress do not propose to help the Republican majority in the Forty-seventh Congress to perpetuate such infamous rates of taxation. If Indianians would understand bow Demo crats are embarrassing the Republican ma jority, they may learn by examining the following rates of TAXES OX AIT IXDlAITA PARLOR! Carpets, if made of druggets 74 Carpets, if made of Upestry.....M.-.. C8 urnlture .... 85 V si 1 - pa pe r. ................ 25 Window curtains . 45 Looking-glasses, from . 35 to 64 Ornaments or knick-knacks . 85 Democrats will not lend a helping hand to perpetuate such iniquities. If they are continued, Republicans must take the responsibility. Nor will Democrats be found helping a Republican Congress to rob the people by the fallowing TAXES OH AI IXDIAICA WARDROBE: Men's clothing, of wool.. 48 76 45 7S 50 50 66 63 Woolen hosiery and undershirts...... Cotton hosiery aad undershirts....... woolen hau and caps..... The farmer's wife's black silk dress...Gloves ..... .. Al &Qsa tS m,nMtnMtm'tmiimtmwiM Alptca dree , Any other woolen dresses, from 60 to 70 A pair of scissors Brass pins........... 45 80 45 60 25 45 25 20 45 Hair pi as Penknives ...-..... iteedles. Steel pens. inx ........... I'sper Razors And here is still another batch of taxes which a Republican Congress is trying to continue on the tariff list, which Democrat will oppose and seek to cut down to the lowest point consistent with tariff reform

and the people of Indiana are requested to

look at the figures in the following list of IHDIAHA STECBSSITIBS: castor oil.. 102 Castile soar.. ,,- . , ,,, 81 a aoae 01 ptom aim rT. 80 insect powaer- 20 faua oii 3t l ne commonest window glass for the house.. Paint, white lead for the farm bouse 80 54 KrVCKS Roofing slates. Horseshoe nails... Trace chains A handsaw35 80 .... 81 53 40 40 Ppool thread. 60 40 Bags and bagging for grain..-, ourr stone.. Combs and brushes A wooden p'r ...... , . . . , 20 , SO M An aipaca umbrella .. Any iron or steel a farmer may need, an aver 50 age of . 45 The Democratic party in Congress and out of Congress will always be found a "shoal and a "sand-bar" to obstruct the Republican party when it seeks to crush the people with taxation for the benefit of monopolists. The Democratic party is forever the enemy of that sort of "progress." It will never forget its duty to the people, and in the way of "learning," it has got one lesson, at least, by heart and that is to oppose Republican ras cality, expose Republican villainy and hold Republican msjorities responsible for the measures they bring forward, advocate and pass, and for others which they oppose and defeat CUR BENT NOTES. Ex-SccRETAtv Blaine has taken the trouble to deny that he opposed the marriage of his daughter to Colonel Copplcger. Mrs. Kate Chase üraAuus will proceed to Eu rope next summer t3 placs her daughters at school, and will rent a villa near the Seminary that she may always be with them. ; Hesrt Viucest, the English lecturer, related to an American that he was driving with John Bright when the news of Abraham Lincoln' death was told tnem by a man who stopped their carriage by the wayside for that purpose. Neither of the two Englishmen spoke a word in response. They drove on in utter silence, and by-and-by when each looked up at the other's face, the eyes of both were full of tears. As Mr. Colby, of Bowdolnham, "Me , lay dying, he placed his arm lovingly about his wife's neck and drew her head to the pillow npon which his head rested. Her skirts at that moment took fire from the open fireplace and she was burned nearly to death before she could shake off the grasp of her husband, whose mind was so mucB under the influence of morphine that he did not realize that by preventing her escape he was en dangeriog her life. William Fierce, for twenty-nine yers Clerk of the Massachusetts State Prison, and regarded as an expert in the management of convlets, marks his resignation from office by expressing the opin ion that sentiment has gone too far in the admin istratlon of penal justice. lie thinks that flogging ought not to be abolished. He says that a man will come out of the solitary cell limp and death like in appearance, ana yet without any dlsposi tion to improve his conduct; whereas, the lash wCl, in nearly every instanco, bring him to obe dience. William Pkirct.. for twenty-nine years Clerk of the Massachusetts State Prison, and regarded as an expert in the management of convicts, marks his resignation from office by expressing the opinion that sentiment has gene too far in the ad ministration of penal Justice. lie thinks that flogging ought not to be abolished. lie says that a man will come out of the solitary cell limp and deathlike in appearance, and yet without any disposition to Improve his conduct; whereas, the lash will in nearly every instance bring him to obedience. Marie Roze, the wife of young Mapleson. was playing "Fldello" to a large audience ia Kochdale, England. When in the middle of the great aria in the first act, the manager's deg emcreed from the wings, seated itself near the prima donna, and watched her movements with evident interest. Mme Roze finished her number undis turbed by the Incident and went off, followed by the dog. She recei sd a warm recall, when, to the amusement of the audience, she was again followed by her canine admirer, who evidently thought himself entitled to a share in the triumph. Pkixce Napoleon ("Plon-Plon") has a face ex ceedlngly like that of his famous uncle, but with the face the physical resemblance ceases, for Prince Jerome is as Uli aa the "Little Corporal" was short. It Is related that years ago, when be was a young man, the Prince happened to pass through a town where lived one of the Old Guard, who would not believe his beloved commander was dead, but stoutly maintained that he would return to France. 8ome practical Joker told htm that his expectation was fulfilled. He rushed to the street Jerome, with the first Napoleon's face, was sitting in a carriage, responding to the salutations of the crowd. "Viva l'Empereur.'t cried the old Guardsman and fell back deadhappy in the belief that the Emperor had Indeed returned. BcLEsare a very good thing generally, but sometimes a little humanity is vbstly better. The inquest on a poor woman's child Lu London a few days ago illustrates this. The woman was home less, and for two weeks had been sleeping with her child on doorsteps and alley-ways. But at last, noticing that her child was ill, she applied for admission to St. Giles's Work House. The sapient Bumbles of that Institution curtly told her that she must show a note from the house where she had been sldeping the night before The poor woman explained how things stood, but was sent off to get a reference from a lodging where she been a fortnight before. She could find no one there, and came back to the Work House again only, however, to be again repulsed nntll the relieving officer had "made inquiries." The f tory turned out to be perfectly true, and she aws ultimately admitted, Just in time for the child to die in the honte "from cold and exposure." The late ex-Congressman lewis Selye, of Roch ester, N. V., was a born orator, but he made speeches from manuscript, r.A the same.- On one of these occasions two frfends assisted Mm, the one on his right handed him the manuscript page by page, and the one on his left took the sheets as the orator read them. He started in well, and with earnestness and sophomorlc elo quence proceeded to deliver himself of his views. Suddenly he paused, looked perplexed, closely scanned the page held. "The tariff must be re pealed," he said in ringing tones. "The tariff must be the tariff why , It I I've read that before." The friend en his left had passed a page behind his back to the friend on his right, and he had be;un reading it for the second time. The Congressional Record contained an expnrgated report, with the profanity left out, but Mr. Selye manipulated his own manuscript ever after. Ait autograph letter of Washington owned by Mrs. Lucy Woods, of Staunton, Vs., has Just been made public. It was written to the citizens ot Sbeperdstown, October 12, 1796, in response to a formal address tendered by them to the first Presi dent on his announcement of his determination to retire to private life, and runs In part as follows: "That beneficent Providence which hitherto has preserved us in peace and Increased our prosper ity will not. I trust, withdraw its protecting hand, while we on our part endeavor to merit a continu ance ot its favors. Equally persuaded am I that no Inconvenience will result from my re ti eat; to the walks of private life. The good sense of my countrymen will alriys discern and can never be at a loss to choose a fit character to administer the Executive Government of theso United States. If It has been my good fortune through the course of my civil and military employments to have met the approbation of my countrymen, my wishes will be consummated and I shall have found the only reward I ever had in view."

"WASHINGTON LETTER.

Terr Cool TThlte House) qnette. Social Eti BrlUlsvnt Beceptioa at Commodore Nlchol son's The Ladles ot the Cabinet "At Borne. I desire to make no invidious comparisons when I say that the present regime at the White House is several degrees more formal than during the period when Mrs. Hayes enacted the rjle of "first lady." Her Satnr day afternoon receptions were delightful features in the social whirl, and every caller felt personally welcome when gssing into her bright, sparkling face. The presenta tiocs to Mrs. McElroy are not followed as heretofore by introductions to .the several members of the receiving party, and one wanders rather helplessly along the long line of beautifully dressed women, unless perchance some familiar face causes a mo mentary stop and a snatch of conversation. The women of social standing has hitherto stepped in tbe rear of the receiving party, if ste so desired, in order to witness the incom ing human stream or to meet the friends sure to be gathered there, but the man who is stationed at the end of the receiving line. guards the entrance to this desired haven as effectually as the angel with the flaming swora protected paraaise, unless perforce the person desirous of entrance is on intimate iciuio una sumo lucmuer oi ue party as sisting in the entertainment of callers. It may be perfectly correct to enforce such petty laws, but the effect is felt in the stiff ness ana coldness of the -social atmosphere ana tne small numbers in attendance. One of the principal features of last Saturday's reception was the presence of Dr. Mary aiier, wno so closely identified herself witn the receiving party, and stood in line so long tnat many strangers thought this queer-looting little gentleman was a part of the jag?anL Upon making her adieus the slender doctor, tall hat in hand, put one foot behind her and made a most elaborate woman s courtesy. Many society people have hardly left their houses since Shrove Tuesday, which overtaxed them so heavily Ihey have neither made nor received calls. but have indulged themselves in the luxury t i j. . ... ui uuiug uomiDg unm jaat mint's receo- : I tl'L:. T T 1 . F iiuu at i lit? wuue xiuuse caiiea many out in iuii uress, u not in mil lorce. Oa Tuesday afternoon Commodore and Sirs. Nicholson held a large and brilliant reception at their pretty house on Stoddart street, West Washingto'n. The occasion was in nonor of their son's bride, a pretty young creature whom the dashing Lieutenant met and wooed in the far West, where he is stationed. All of Georgetown ANO ITS PRETTY GIRLS, of whom it may well be proud, and all Washington society people, poured in from 4 to 7 o'clock. During those hours there was bardly room to turn around with ease. The Navy was fully represented. Admiral Almy and his twin sons, as much alike as the twoDromios, handsome Admiral ltogere. Mr. W. W. Corcoran, the fortunate grooms' rich uncle, Judge and Mrs. MacArthur, Senator and Mrs. .Jona, with their niece, Miss "Rosebud," General Sherman and Miss Eachael, General fcturgis arid Miss Ella, Dr. and Mrs. Goldsboro, Mrs. Drum and Miss Blosiioru, Paymaster General Rochester, Colonel and Mrs. Rockwell, Mies Watt and Miss Moore, Marshal and Mrs. McMichael, Senator and Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. Pollock, Mrs. Brew&ter, Mrs. Don Cameron, Mrs. Chandler and Mrs. Kinsley and hosts of others were present, and especially the nock of pretty debutantes. The supper room was packed, and a man's coo'ness and nerve were put to the test in guiding a plate rilled with terrapin salad or ices to some lady in waiting. The Commodore's eldest daughter, Mrs. Pitt Cooke, was present with her bright little girl; also Lieutenant Nicholson, U. S. N., with his pretty wife, the tiny mother of two children. It was literally a family reunion on their part. Tuesday evening the President received the members of the upper and lower Houses of Congress and the Diplomatic Corps. The attendance was not as full as on similar occasions heretofore, probably owing to the overtaxed condition oi many ol the ladies. Can anyone tell what is gained by such social revelations? An aching back, swollen feet, general lassitude and a large doctor's bill are the only outcome thereof. A woman rebels at household duties, and yet she seldom hesitates in making herself a slave to fashion or society. Wednesday tbe ladies of the Cabinet were at home to visitors, excepting Mrs. Brews ter, who will, however, receive on the coming Wednesday. Among the many callers, perhaps, the German Minister and his bride attracted the most general attention. His bride is a fine looking blonde, who speaks English as fluently as does her hus band. 1 he Minister himself is a splendid specimen of manhood, and is a man of many personal attractions. There are so few ladies in the Diplomatic Corps that any addition therein IS GLADLT WELCOMED. It was prophesied that, when Mr. Ronstan, the French Minister, came here, he would not remain a bachelor the year out, but he has held to his single state with much tenacity so far, notwithstanding the array of beauty, youth and wealth constantly before his eyes. Mrs. Hugh McCulloch issued cards for Tuesday evening, and last Wednesday evening General and Mrs. McClellan resumed their evenings, omitted only once out of respect to Ash Wednesday. Decretaryoi b täte ana ilrs. t relmgnuysen will continue their Thursday evening receptions, as will Mrs. Hornsby her delightful Saturday evenings. Alis3 Florence Sponord. daughter of the Librarian of Congress, gave a St. Valentine's lunch to thirty-two young laaies on ednesday, among whom were Miss Waite, the Misses Ranney, Miss Norcross. Miss Lida Miller, Miss Wood, the Misses Neal, the Misses Matthews. Miss Nordhoff, Miss Alley, the Misses Strong and Miss Davidson. Each plate was graced with flowers, tiny bows and arrows, and verses on the pretty cards written by the talented hostess. A conversazione on art occurred at the residence of Hon. Joseph A. Scranton, M. C, Wednesday evening. Yv e are going to have a fine bench show here during the latter part of February, and some of the dogs entered are claimed to be the most valuable of their kind in the country. There is a lady from the far West who spends most of her wintert 'here, who has entered a huge Russian stag hound, for which she entertains the most violent affection. Last wirfter she, with her husband, boarded at Wormley's, where a room was obtained for the idolized canine, whose meals were served him in his room, and who accompanied his mistress on all her walks and rides. The position became rather embarrassing when the lady rode in a coupe, as the dog took op much more room than his mistress. Another lady has entered a valuable pug and five puppies. Almost all our society ladies own doss ot high degree, and we are anticipating quite an exhibit. Colonel and Mrs. Ingersoll eave a card re ception Tuesday evening at their house on Lafayette Square. It was a mingling of representatives of all nations and peoples, party eaaers ana ue avant couriers of enfran chised races. Mr. Fredrick Douglass, with his strongly marked face, surmounted by its abundance of white, woolly hair; Register Bruce, AS BLACK AS IBOBT and as polished, dreesed with the immaculate neatness whicn alwaya characterized him; Mrs. Bruce, a tall, finely formed woman, so lent in color that tne uninitiated would never suspect her nationality, and a woman who always dresses with much elegance; Aristarch Bey, the Turkish Minister, with his sparkling eyes of jet blackness and cose like

the beak of a bird of prey; M. Rous tan, the French Minister, witty, vivacious, not over large, and rather attractive in personal ap-

pcarmuce; uenerai ana Mrs. lxean, Mr. iilaine, the Chinese and Danish Ministers. the Hungarian Minister, as darkasHytien.if noi uaraer, wno struggles manfully to speak our language, ana wno acts wnen speaking aa if his mouth were too full o! words for distinct utterance, and the chatter of a par rot is easily comprehended. General and Mrs. Sheridan were present; also Senator and Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Chandler and Mrs. Kinsley, Speaker Keif er and his niece. Miss iora wnue, wno nas just "come to town;" Senator and Mrs. Harrison, Ben Halliday, the hero of the overland coaching days; Mr. Byron Andrews, the artLt; Representative Bellord, the roseate-crowned statesman of the Kocky Mountains and the citizen and tJiioyenne politician and man of letters. ine press and the Departments were all represented at Mr. Ingersoll's. The supper was unusually good, and everything wa? proviuea on ine most liberal scale. Mrs. ingerKju is a nappy-faced matron of tine pnysique. The two daughters are f ieciniens oi neauoy womanhood. Mia Mamie th. daughter of Mr. Ingersoll's dead brother, is cuy very pretty ana attractive. rraeucal Objections to Woman SafTrage. I Communicated. If political authority is placed in the hands of those who have not the physical power to exercise it there is danger that disorder, civil war and military despotism will be the practical results. Such a policy provokes revolutions. Suppose a case where a few more than two-thirds of the women and one third of the men vote on one side, and two thirds of the men, with the remainder tne women, vote on the other side. It is not improbable, when the angry tempers of men are excited, that the two-thirds of the men might revolt It would not do to keep up eianaing armies to prevent revolution?, nor to disarm dissatisfied clashes; and when ine aid ot the General Government is in voked it is expected that a State will itself nrst endeavor to enforce the State laws. In eitner case tbe result woald be social disor 4 .3 : I : . 3 ... uer mm military uespouem on one side or the other. Moreover, questions of peace or war may arise at any time in Consress; and it is right that the men, who are liable to be cauea into military service, should, through meir representatives, decide such questions not me women, wno are usually exempt irum moat oi ue aangers oi war. it may be said that nearly all of the women would probably vote oa the same side with the men of their families: so that practically the election results wr.uld not be changed. iiut ir tms is so it only prove3 the useless ness of dragging women into the politica! arerja. If, oowever, elections should be carried by the votes of a portion of the wo men, the perilous result arrived at would be nominal political authority on one 6ide and a preponderance of physical power on the other, in that order of society, which Prov idence and nature and reason have ordained first come the rights of personal liberty, personal security and private property These belong, of right, equally to men and women, and ought to be secured by the constitution to Doth, ext comes tbe fam ny, because the majority of men have, or will have, families. And it Is not iinnrooer to consiaer tne vote as tne vote of the am ily cast by its natural representative, the head of the family. It is through their representa tives that male voters usually exercise their political influence ; and who would the family be so likely to select for its represen tative as tne husband and father? If women can not trost their father?. bro'hers.bus bands and sons, who can they trust? Not. surely.the politician.whosevgreat object is to obtain a lucrative of lice. It may be that some women can not trust their husbands; but it does not appear that the Constitution and laws can furnish any remedy, further than to secure them their personal rights aca rigats of property. At any rate, e misfortune of a few ought hot to be Eaaae the basis of a rule which would necessarily apply to ail; to the majority of women who believe that they can trust their husbands. Reasonable men listen with respect to the opinions oi taeir mouiers, sisters, wives and daughters, but it does not follow that they should consent to undermine the natural T .a . foundations of society by dangerous politi cal experiments which invite disorder and civil war. The advocates of such professed reforms seem to overlook the fact that Prow dence has not made force the only ruling power in nature, it is Dot compulsion that causes a hen to care for her brood of chickens, or that causei parents to toil for tneoenentol their families. Again, divers influences sometimes co-operate to bring about certain results; and none must be lacking. The power tf women is not derived from force. It is this very fact that often makes it so effective. Perhaps no more certain way of destroying or improving the influ ence of women for good could be devised than to change them into law makers thus substituting the rude rule of force, woman sunrage.ior a natural influence for good, which has no element of force in it; and which the world can not safely dispense witn. w. 11. M. Indianapolis, Feb. 18, 18S3. The confession made by one of the Star Route conspirators the other day in Wash ington has made a profound impression everywhere. The New lork Tribune's Washington special says: Rerdell gave a minute account of his Interview with Dorsey in Washington, when he told Dorsey that he would do anything to help him but com mit perjury. "D n it," said Dorsey, "wha does mat ameuut to when a meDd's late is at stake? wouldn't hesitate a moment. I have been tout inena ior years." Here Kerdell s voice becime almost inaudible. Ue was sitting in the chair on the little dais, with tbe onen desk in front of him wblch serves for witness box. Almost his whole person was vuible. His eyes were lowered; his elbows rested on the arms or the chair: his hands were clasped tightly toge' her; bis face twitched. He cominued in a voice that could hardly be heard a few feet away, and evidently only with great euec: -i m.vs stood by you. i toox you from the District Government when I knew you could not remain there alter 1 leu the benate. I will be a friend to you from now forward" here his voice fairly broke down, but continuing with an enort he said : "lie took me by the baud and said Rerdell, for God's sake, don't ruin me and my family; particularly just now to be torn down from the height I occupy would be death o my wife." There was a deathlike stillness In the room as this drama from real life was belDg described. Kerdell had his handkerchief ia bis hand, and wiped the tears from his eyes and cheeks, "i allowed myself to be completely overcome," said he, choklDK: and then had to stop altogether. Mr. Merrick told him to pause a few moments, and all waited in tiience until he could compose himself. The following is a specimen of the sort of specials that are going from Washington to a Republican paper concerning the tariff juggle of the Republican leaders. It is to the Chicago Tribune and says: The farce is nearly- ended. The iron lobbv has nearly accomplished its purpose. The object for which the Tariff Commission was devised seems about to be real 'fed. If there is to be aoT legisla tion on tbe tariff those who have been the most earnest advocates of tariff revision are unable to indicate how this ran be accomplished. If there la to be any reduction of internal taxation no one ia prepared to av bow that can be done. The obseques of the Houie Tariff bill have been cele brated, it seems possible that the attempt of toe Republican to paxs an internal tax reduction bid will also fail. 1'robably the o-gan of a great parsr has never been more surprised than the Ways and Means Committee was this afternoon when the roll-call in the House showed that there was not to be a two-thirds vote in favor of passing the Internal revenue reduction bill. Profitable Patient. The most wonderful and marvelous success in cases where persons are sick or wasting away from a condition of miserablenesi, that no one knows what ails them (profitable patients for doctors), is obtained by the Die of Hop Bitters. They begin to cure from the first dose, and keep it up until perfect health and strength is restored. Whoever is afflicted in this way need not suffer, when they can get Hop Bitters. Cincinnati Star.

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