Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1884 — Page 4

TUE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, "WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1884.

"WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1.

OFFICE: "1 and 73 West Market Street. TERMS FEB YE AB. Single Copy, without Premium. . .5100 Claba ef eleven lor 10 oo Wo ..V namnmla tn rvPar In mind, thd Select their own State paper when they come to take subscriptions and make up clubs. E?en now the conflict la in the air, and the word Is Every Democratic ahoulder to the wheel. Agents mating; up clubs send for any information desired. Address INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL COMPANY, Indianpolia, Ind. New Hampshirk is now reported doubtful. Tiikes thousand dollars was bet in New "York Saturday that Blaine would not carryNew York. Said a Democrat of National prominence ihe other day: "The Enquirer will lose ua 19,009 rotes In Obo." Ose thousand to 5 00 was bet the other day by a New Orleans banker that Cleyelan 1 Trould be the next President. Ex-Szxator McDonald says he has never inown the prospects of Democratic euccess in the State so bright. The Ions faces of the Republicans echo his utterance. As ITr. Blaise is anxious to get the Mulligan letters before the country, it is a little singular that the Republican Committee is not printing them as a campaign document. Chicago Times. Me. Blaise's plumed announcement that ie would "defend the honor of his family, if need be, with his life," suggests the simple question: "Would he not have done well, when a pressing need was on, to have defended the honor of his family with his AMK? Iowell Claytos is traveling with Logan End "Steve" Elkins with Blaine. They Bliould tend over here for Bruce Carr and Jihody EhieL They would then hava a L'drawiDg" combination. Calkins might draw well ii Cray leaves anything of him after cne joint discussion. Some of our contemporaries find satisfaction in this collocation: "Burn this letter." James G. Blaine. "Tell the trnth.'-Groyer Cleveland. "Well, the letter was not burned. Nor was the truth told. New York Sun. ;No, Jim lied right along. "Wk have complaints from Ohio Temocrats concerning the course of the Enquirer. AVe lave this suggestion to make: They might ascertain just how much money that paper is making or expects to make by pubiishiag 'Gath's" letters, and give McLean a check lor the amount, with the undsistanding that le gets rid ot "Gath" and supports Cleveland. Gesehal Sherman went to the circus in Sf. Xouis the other afternoon, and enjoyed it after his delightful manner exceedingly. A reporter tries to describe how he langhed at lhe antics of the clowns. "He starts in," says thia reporter, "on a mouthful ef wind, which he expands in three or four short, jerky, semi-guttural aspirations. It has a Scotch sound, something like 'En, hech! tech! hech!' the V having its short, flat sound, as in the word 'get.' He gives e' pretty much the same sound in such words a 'here,' there.' It i3 reported that John R, McLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, contracted a few days ago to carry Ohio for the Democracy, on condition that he be given full control of Federal patronage in that State in the event of Cleveland's election. It is unofficially stated that ever since the returns came in from Maine, Colonel McLean has been offering three barrels of Cincinnati hams and a Waterbury watch to any man who will take the contract oil his hands. Chicago Tribune. You have It wrong. The contract was probably to carry the State for Blaine. It looks as if the Enquirer had just such a contract, and was doing its level best to carry it through. The Journal knew that it lied when it said that Governor Gray had thrown a Democratic press into the Ohio Itiver. He has said repeatedly that the charge was not true, and the other day we Tinderstand when he was addressing an audience that contained one of the rascals who started the original lie, the Governor denounced him as a liar and a dirty dog added that he was responsible for what he said and that he would be in town until 3 o'clock the next day. Terhaps Mr. Calkins would like to charge him with the same lie next week at their opening debate at Fort "Wayne. JLkotheb paper has come to its senses. The Teople" of Saturday says: "The Sentinel of last Monday morning redeemed itself. Its article on Blaine, his letters and his answer, was lucid, clear cut, incisive, unanswerable. It was devoid of all vehemence that might have been expected, the coarseness which the subject invited, the abusiveHes3 which it had had to contend with, the extravagance that it could have found ample ground for. It was simply the utterance of hie solid eide. In calm contempt and armed with palpable facts, Shoemaker meets and measures his foe, and the issue that at one time seemed so dubious now appears about as good as settled." A base conspiracy has just been exposed to concoct another "scandal" about Governor Cleveland. Keep it away from Brother Alabaster. Brother Alabaster seems to bite readily at any sort of a bait. A special says that this new piece of deviltry on the part of tie Republicans to besmirch Cleveland involves a plain case of forgery and blackmail. The particular feature of this exposure is that it clearly demonstrates that James G. Blaine, the Republican candidate for President, was willing to lend his encouragement to the circulation of another base and contemptible slander on his gentle, manly and unoffending opponent. When written to by the scoundrels who were at the bottom of the dirty forgery, Mr. Ulaine replied through his Private Secretary, referring them to the National Republican Committee. This act upon the part of Mr. Blaine demonstrates the depth of his meanjes3, and will serve hereafter to deprive him

of any sympathy that may be thought to be dee on account of the invasion of his private and home circle. It was his place as an honorable man to rebuke the carrion crows of Buffalo, and his failure to do so shows conclusively that he is lacking in every sentiment of decency that should characterize a man who seeks the highest ofSce in the gift of the people. Tue re is much reason to believe, too, that Mr. Blaine knew of the original slander on Cleveland, circulated by the clergyman. Ball, and gave it his countenance.

TO HONORABLE MANHOOD AND WOMANHOOD. Candidate James G. Blaine, of 1331, has, In his letter to William Walter Phelps, given us a character sketch of Major.BIaine, school prolessor, of 1350-1. Candidate Blaine's antecedent character, the Major, was a good fellow and a lover true. One can not fail to admire and honor him. A man of singleness of heart and purpose is a hero. Candidate Blaine, speaking for the Major of lSäO-1, says: "I was threatened with an indefinite separation from her who possessed my entire devotion. My one wish was to secure her to myself by an indissoluble tie against every possible contingency in life." That sounds well enough. It has jnst the ring to please parents who have daughters and brothers who have sister?. For to those thus bound by ties of blood to young womanhood there is music in the couplet: True hearts are more tn in caronets And simple faith than Norman blood. But there is a reverse of this which kindles reverse feelings in the parental and fraternal heart. The lover at home who is no lover when abroad is not esteemed altogether admirableat least not by mothers and wives But the man professing a proud love for an honored mate, who when distance divides them, expressedly or impliedly denies the 'indissoluble tie" is not a true man. His profession of devotion is a sham, ke is un worthy of trust. And if to this denial of the legal tie is added tender devotions to womea who misunderstand his true position, tha deceiver is complimented by the altribuie of villain. Of course we purpose an application of the latter propositions. It teems impossible that the Major Blaine, whom Mr. Candidate Blaine recommends so highly, Bhould be the culprit, but he is. According to the candl date's own confessions the girl whom he secretly married on March 23, 1SÖ1, (and whom he claims to have secretly marriedjbefore), was all that woman should be. She certainly wa3 a patient being to suffer the wrongs she did from him. He left her in Tittsburg immediately after the secret mar riage left ;her to (journey without him in her sad condition to her mother's home hundreds of miles distant. He returned to Kentucky to Drennon Springs, some sixty miles distant from the village she had left in dishonor, to pass himself off as a single man, to hide his responsibility for the sufferings of the unfortunate woman who had gone to Maine, and to pay addresses to the fair ones around him who knew not of the two "indissoluble ties" by which he now tells us he was at that time bound. Comment on such conduct is needless. There is not a wife, a mother or a true man but will set the seal of their abomination upon such a character. But is this accusation against James G. Blaine well founded? We here adduce evi deuce which we challenge Mr. Blaine to refate. We first introduce a letter from a gentleman who, out of a feeling of friendship for his former tutor, Blaine, has since the beginning of the libel suit been laboring to exonerate him. But recently he must have lost faith in the man he had trusted. Hear him: "Mikibias, Texas, Sept. 10, 1331. "Mr. John C. Shoemaker: "De ab Sir I herewith submit a statement of facts to you which may be of some importance as corroborating evidence in the Blaine libel suit. "I entered the Military Institute at Dren non on the Gth of April. 18-31. My first in troduction to Mr. Blaine was early in the morning or tne same day, and before 1 ar rived at school. "I was from Logansport. De Soto Parish. Louisiana. I took passage on the steamer Indiana at New Orleans, bound for Louisvine, Ky. i arrived at Leuisville on the morning of the 5th of April, 1851. I then took passage on the little steamer Bine Wing, which plied between Louisville and r rankiort, on the Kentucky Itiver. "We passed Carolton, which is at the juncuwu ui iuc i n u rivers, ueiwceu u nuu i o'clock on the morning of the Cth. Some time in the morning, after breakfast was over, I learned from some of the passengers that there was one of the professors of the Western Military Institute on board, which i learned later was Mr. James G. Blaine Some one also informed Mr. Blaine that there was a young man on the boat going to tne institute to become a cadet. "Mr. Blaine, after hearing of me, then apEroached and introduced himself to me as eing one of the professors of the institute and expressed himself as being well pleased to meet with me tinder the circumstances, and that he would conduct me to the institute, from which he had been absent several days. The distance from Carolton, at the mouth of the Kentucky River, to Drennon's Landing was about six or seven hours' run by the steamer, if my memory serves correctly, and when the steamer arrived at Drennon's Landing, Major Blaine and myself got off and walked to the institute, which was about one and a hall or two mile. Now, as we journeyed along by ourselves, we soon became well acquainted, and when we arriyedat the institute he gave me a formal introduction to Colonels Thornton F. Johnson and Bushred R. Johnson, Superintendents of the schooL Now, the point which I wish to give you is this: While we were walking together up to the institute, Mr. James G. Blaine told me that he was just then on his return from Pennsylvania, where he had been on a visit to his friends or relations. Now, I read in the papers that Mr. Le Mayne, ex-Congressman, proposes to testify that he was a witness at the Blaine-Stanwood wedding at Pittsburg, March 29, 1851, and now you will readily perceive the difference of time between March 21), 1851, compared with the Cth of April, 1851, the very day that I met with him on the steamer Blue Wing. "There would be about rive and a half days, and he was then, as he told me, on his way from Pennsylvania. I will refer you to our Texas Congressman, Hon. R. L. Mills, or to Senator Richard Coke, or I can reier you to the Commercial Register, as I am a merchant. Yours, "A. J. Kasdall." It will be observed that this letter was written before Mr. Randall had seen Mr. Blaine's letter to Mr. Phelps or his answer to our interrogatories. It is wort'iy of special note that Mr. Elaine ftated to Mr. Kendall that he was returning fiorn a visit to relatives in Pennsylvania, In an interview with Mr, Randall by the

Galveston News, a few days before he wrote

us as above, Mr. Randall said: "We all looked upon Major Blaine as a high-toned, honorable and refined gentleman. They have it down wrong," said he, "about his being married in 183L, He was a single man during the entire time of my stay in the institute. I entered it April O, 1851. and left in Febuary. 1852. He could not have been a married man during this time, because it was commonly understood differently by everybody connected with the school. "I saw him constantly, and was in a posi tion to know that he could not have been married." A gentleman of high standing residing in the second city in Louisiana, whose name for the present we choose to withhold, writes us as follows: Eeitoe Sentinel I was a cadet at the Western Military Institute at Drennon Springs, Ky., from June, 1S51, to June, 1353, during a portion ot. whish time James G. Blaine was professor at said school and well known to me. He was connected with the school from the time I entered it and for some time before, as late, I think, as March, 1S52. He was known as a single man during all this time of my acquaintance with him at Drennon Springs; was a student under Mr. Blaine; saw him daily, and am sure that he waslnown as an unmarried man. There is something strange and mysterious tome about Mr. Blaine's statement oLa Kentucky and a Pittsburg marriage, knowing, as I do, that after both alleged marriages he was known, for at least several months, and deporting himself as a single man. I know of at least t o other men in this State who were alio cadets, and know what I have written you to be true. We also copy here a personal letter, without naming the writer, received by the editor of the Sentinel from a Kentucklan of high standing, who knows Blaine well and is his friend: 'Louisville, Ky., Sept. 20, "Dear Sir. I have read Blaine's letter to Phelps. I do not believe his statement of. a secret marriage. He left Dren con Springs in December, 1351. After the session closed for vacation in June of that year he remained at Drennon Springs through the wateung season, and passed himself off as a single man; at least no one knew he was married. I understood at the time, and have heard it reliably stated often since. that during the summer of 1851 he courted at leaxt one. and, possibly, two ladies. This conduct of bis can be easily proven. In March of 1851 he was absent at Pittsburg, but returned and stayed through the watering season, and after that taught until December." A gentleman residing in Chicago, and also a gentleman residing in Nashville, write U3 substantially to the same effect as the fore going. In a recent interview with a Miss Davis, of Georgetown, Ky., who was an old friend of Miss Harriet Stanwood and James G. Blaine, Miss Davis said that he, Major Blaine, was a flirt, fraud and gay deceiver. In regard to his marriage she says: "I heard it took place in Pittsburg. I have letters written by Harriet Stanwood after the school was moved to Millersburg. Harriet maintained that Blaine was ambi tious when here and wanted to marry a rich heiress of a famous family. It was said that he was paying court to Anna Maria Mar shall, at Drennon. She was one ot the hand somest belles of that region, and of tne fa mous J ohn Marshall family, of Kentucky." Concerning this btory the reporter talked with an estimable lady who had taught in the same school with the Stanwood sisters. She said: "Mr. Blaine taught at Drennon after he was married quietly to Harriet Stanwood, at Tittsburg. it was not known at Drennon that he was married, and he was quite a favorite among the young ladies, who thought him single, lie was especially at tentive to Miss Marshall, but she found out later of his married life." THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. The principle that the essence of owner ship is in possession is now the chief stone of the corner of the Republican party, and that is why its leaders protest against any change in the management of the affairs of the Nation. The principle is wrong, of course, because it is in opposition to our sys tem of government. This was fully recog nized by the first leaders of the Republican party. They looked upon political offices as trusts only, and that they were responsible to the people for their stewardship. But that element in the party has passed away, and the Blaines, the Dorseys, the Belknaps, the Elkinses, and men of that ilk have taken their places, and having been in pos session ior some time, now virtually claim ownership of the machinery cf government, and profess to believe that in their endeav ors to retain possession, the end justifies the means. To be sure, their theory of government is diametrically opposed to any form of gov ernment which contemplates a Government of the people and by the people, and is at variance with the doctrines of their party as set forth and presented by Lincoln, Sumner and the other early leaders. We must conclude, then, that the Republican party of to-day has the name only of the party to which Chase, Trumbul and Giddings belonged, and that its object now is to fasten a centralized power upen the people, the ownership of which rightly belongs to Blaine and his followers by right of possession. This principle is further em phasized by the cry that the best interests of the Nation demand the continuation of the existing power; that any change would be detrimental to our commerce and oar indus tries, and that any agencies that can be introduced and employed to secure the perpet uation of the powers that be should be. Now, if the Republican party possessed all the wisdom, honesty and patriotism of the country, and inte ne other hands could the reigns of government pass with safety to the Nation, Blaine and Dorsey would per haps be justified in assuming heirship to the offices at Washington. But if we as a people have the right to judge a tree by its fruit, and preserve its life or cut it down and cast it out according ' as we shall deem best, then we may deal with the Republican upas tree according to the good and eviLit has done, and in summing up its acts we must call at tention to the poisonous influence which it has and continues to exert over the only things which can make any people great, namely, their trade and commerce and in dustrial and social interests. First, then, let us point to the National and Savings Banks that are collapsing and bursting from one end of the land to the other, with a multitude of beggard deposi tors vainly knocking at their doors; to the working women whose wages have been re duced below the living point; to the teas of thousands of honest and capable

mechanics and laborers out of employment;

to the corruption that pervades every hole and corner of the National Government; )to the thieving rings that rule supreme at Washington ;to the soulless monopolies whose iron hand is upon the neck of every wageworker in the land in short, the depressed condition of trade and commerce through out the length and breadth of the land; and if anything can be found therein to com mend that party to the people, why then, its hold upen the affairs of the Government should not be disturbed, otherwise it should be cut down and cast out. If it is the wish of the majority of the peo ple of the United States that their servants shall steal, rob and plunder; shall bring the whole power of the Government to bear upon the industries of the country, that a few monopolies shall flourish, shall make thiev ing, perjury and dishonesty ef all kinds the chief object and business of officials, and shall employ the most disreputable and dis honest methods that can be invented to still further fasten their grip upon the throat of the body politic, why let them signify it by voting for that representative of the worst element of the most debased political party that the world has ever given birth to, James G. B!aine. ATTENTION, DEMOCRATS I Under the Constitution a voter must be a resident of the State six months, the township sixty days and of the pre cinct th'rty day?. There can be no mov ing from one precinct to another after the 4th day of October. Remember that you lose your vote if you move now into another township, and if you move into another precinct in the same township after the 4th of October. PUESS ECHOES OC the I'opolar Verdict on Mr. Ulaine' Confession. No one except Mr. Blaine himself can be blamed lor the pain he now reels. fort Wayne Journal. "I am not at present engaged in criminal prac tlce." said Mr. Con time, when requested to make come peeches loruiaine. There was a man in Kentuckv, Iiis name was Major Blaine, Be wedded secretly, one day, Tto' th' record Is not plain. And when he found that he was wed, This secret man of Maine Went slyly to another State, And in secret wed again. Mr. Blaine has teen "weaving a taneled web" about hi ro self, and his "slander chicken' has come home to roost. Paducah (b.y.) Newa. Such absurd and silly answers as Mr. Blaine makes are too thin to lav hold of too airv and un substantial to criticise. .Nashville World. The air of deep mystery that surrounds Blaine's nuptials and his anti-nuptial relations with tue woman ne married, justny tne Dciiet mat au was not "squaar." Illinois btate Kegtster. It does cot seem to be generally known that the reason Governor Cleveland bas never married is that he was never able to find out whether or not a marriage license was necessary. Chicago Tunes. We predict that tbey will continue the case on one pretext and another until after the election. and then withdraw the auit. Such was the liDshot of a like auit some years ago that he brought against a paper in Maine such will be the upshot of this. rasnviiie vtorid. Be preteads to plead ignorance of the law. ventuie the assertion that every boy and girl in Kentucky of the are of sixteen did then and do now know the general provisions of the Kentucky statutes in that particular that is, that a license is essential before a marriage can be legally solemnued in that btate, Kansas city limes. Mr. Blaine does not ask the recording anzel to drop a tear on the record so tbat humanity may rejoice as it nnas me page as ll not written, but ne insists on the truth of the record and demands justification at the hands of the mothers and lathers of virtuous daughters of America. De graded mueea would be the standard by which such conduct could be justified. Cor. Galveston News. We bold Mr. Blaine directly responsible for the degradation of the canvass. It has been cnarged that through a person connected with a costou paper Mr. Blaine procured the public Uiono of the lying Buflalo calumny. At all events Ihe could. by a word, a hint, have stopped its circulation by ms own press. aew loria wona. It must be remembered, however, that Mr. Blaine is not a gentlemen whose word has always passed unchallenged in tnis country, ana in the ligbt of this fact the utterances of to-day will ue subjected to more ttan usual scrutiny, Chicago Ist ws. There is no twenty-year-old boy on earth who Is not aware that at a legal marriage the priest, the judge or tne justice of the rcace is absolutely es sential under the forms of law. Nashville World, We fear that Mr. Blaine does not read his Bible as carefully as he should. If be would turn to his Bible, he ought to be able to answer in three min utes when he was married and when his first child was born. Kansas City Times. He put on a bold front and thought he could bulldoze his way through, but bulldozing would not Co. The bentinel held him strictly to the text, and when he saw no way out of the unfor tunate dilemma his daring disposition had placed him in. be began to dodge just a he did on the temperance question. t ort Wayne Journal. Why does he not bring libel suits against Schurz, Curtis. Bishop Huntington, rrcsideat fciiot. ena tor .Edmunds ana others ; iv ny is he not as careul of his public as of his private character? Is not his "family" affected when he la branded as a public corruptionist, a venal ana disgraced pub licomcer? New ion world. Be pleads in avoidance and sets up as a fact hat is unquestionably a falsehood. The Bepublcans ray they are going to make this man i re i dent of the Knited btaws. Nashvtlle American. "Why. in Blaine's letter to Phelps an1 5n his an swers to the questions of the Indlanar v. s tienti nei," said one gentleman, "you can reaa toiween the lines that Blaiue did not marry, but only 'bun dlrd' In Kentucky, and what Le Moyne says con firms it," Illinois State Register. Oh. yes. Ex-Congressman Le Moyne witnessed Blaine's "second marriage," but declares tbat he never had any luca teat he was married oetore All around, it would be much mora to Mr. Blaine's honor and advantage to accept O rover Cleveland s motto and "tell the truth." Chicago News. Sarah C. Stanwood died year? ago. Of course S L. Blaine is dead too it he was ever anything else but dead, strange that Mr. James G. Blaine while about it didn't also give ns the name of some preacher who pretended to marry him. Be could tave killed him on" jnst as easily as be created him. Nashville world. The explanation of bis double marriage and the reasons for it. if there was a possibility that an in teliigent person could accept them as true, would show him to have been scarcely one remove from an idiot when he was in Kentucky. Illinois State Keg ist er. Mr. Blaine, by bringing this suit, acted a false hood, in telegraphing that the Charge was "ut tcrly and abominably false in every statement and In every implication" he deliberately stated a falsehood, the object being to deceive the whole American people. r ash vine American, This undertaking to deceive the public Is not an appeal to the magnanimity and generosity of the "noble manhood and noble woman bood of America," but is a miserable, whining lie, told under the expectation that a truiy magnanimous ana eenerous beoule will make a display of their char acter merely because their magnanimity and gen erosity are appealed to. uaiveston iews. We have it unon reliab'e authority that Mr, James G. Blaine will not be the guest of Colonel John C. Shoemaker, editor of the Indianapolis Ben tinel, during the former's visit to Indianapolis. Bnt we are informed that, at some subsequent pe riod, Mr. B'.ainewill be entertained in a lively manner by Colonel Shoemaker in the Indianapolis courts. Chicago xews. What a stupid crowd it must have been, to be sure. Blaine did not know the marriage law; Blaine's wife did not know the law, and tbey were both teachers in a college and both interested parties, and it never occurred to them to inquire; the "party" who "married" them did not snow the law; the "select few friends" did not know the law. What a stupid crowd, to be sure. Wbatcv idpnee is there that there was any sucn marriage. anyway T Nothing apparent but the word of the author, and be tne puriomer oi tne Aiumgan let lers. Illinois SUte Keglster. It Is not azain st Mrs. Blaine, the faithful wife and mother, nor Miss Stanwood. the bstrayed and slichted airl. that we have aught to say. But who nan forbear an expression of ineffable contempt for the clumsy and miaeraDie suctcnuee oy wniou this mm attempts to force for himself a passage to the White House. The lofty hero before whom the high mettled Cleveland was held up as a monster of iniquity, steps. seii-conviL-vea. irom his pedestal. The plnmea of the fallen knight are broken and trailing in tne ausu ine rcopie. In other words, candidate Blaine asks the American people to believe that after a little over two years' acquaintance, his agony reached such a nltch as to imoel a secret marriage, and vet after a connubial experience of just nine months, lacking one aay, ana tne solemnization ui a 6wuu4 sevii-i

marriage, this ardent youth of twenty-one yean voluntarily and inatantly separated from hit

youmiui oriae ior nearly a year, leaving ner U undergo the dangers and sorrows of maternity and its subsequent responsibilities, privations and suffering! alone, while he be too himself to the remotest accessible regions of the United States. Is candidate Blaine's admitted conduct that of a man who bad voluntarily contracted two honor able marriages, or a person who bad been tardily persuaded into one marriage? rortlinl (Me.) Argus. Mr. Blaine should write no more letters or tell tbe truth. The Times said he made a mistake in bringing that libel suit, that tae people reallv cared nothing about his love affairs of thirty years s, uui wid ne conciuaea to brass it tarougn ' ne ougnt to nave "toia the truth." tie should not have said the "story is ntterlv ind aha min. ably false in every statement and in every implication." and then be compelled in juit a month to admit the truthfulness of the story in all its salient and important features. Bis reputation will be better if be write no uiore letter tn "m dear Mr. Walter Ihelp" on the subject of too previous, too private, and too numerous marriages of the same parties Kansas City Times. But tbe most shameless falsehood ever uttered by to notable a character is the matter set un In avoidance that he was secretly married in Kentucky tbe 30th of June, ISM. ne does not give the name of the functionary officiating; be has no living witnesses, ana no record, and asks the Arnericsn people to believe him when he says that, though a professor in a college, he recklessly married without a license and without ever inquiring whether a license was necessary; that the lady msde no inquiry about It; that tbe minister marrying msde no Inquiry, when it was a penitentiary offense for a minister to pretend that he had authority when be did not. Nashville American. BLAINE'S SECRET MARRIAGE Interview With One of the Witnesses, ExCongressman L.moyne. Chicago, Sept. 23 "Yes. I witnessed Blaine's marriace in PitUburg, in March, isji." said exCoDgressmen John V. Le moyne, yesterday, tn auswer to a reporter's inquiry. "Did you know at tbat time that Mr. Blaine and bis wile bad been married previously in Kentucky?" No, were they?" inquiringly answered Mr. Lemcyne, with some surprise. Mr. Lemoyce had just returned from a two weeks' bunting trip in Minnesota and Dakota, and when seen had not been in his house ten minutos. He had not read tie daily papers since he left Chicago, aud bad not seen Biame's letter to Phelps nor his sworn reply to the Interrogatories of the Indianarw!lg Sentinel, in both of which Blaine asserted that be was married secretly in Kentucky, in June, 18;0. Mr. Lemoyne was referred to these, and after looking at them he said: "Well, I can not say bow it was. It may have been so, but I heard nothing said Mr. Blaine or any one else at the time of tbe Pittsburg marriage which led me even to suppose that there had been a previous marriage, fie says tbat the Pittsburg marriage waa had simply to satisfy all possible doubts regarding tbe legality of the one he claims occurred previously in Kentucky. He made no explanation of that sort to those who witnessed the Pi'.tsburg marriage." "Oo you blieve that he was married in Kentucky at all?" "Oh, he must have been," replied Mr. Lemoyne, laughing; "doesn't he say he was. It makes me think of what the man said about the patent medicine: 'If .you don't believe it's good just read the printed advertisement and see what that tays. But," continued Mr. Leinoyne seriously, "it seems most remarkable to ms that If this Kentuckv marriage did occur, Blaine should have kept it secret so long. A child was born three months after tbe Pittsburg marriage, and the date ot its birth appeared on its tombstone. Now, in that life of Blaine, written a few years ago by a Maine man named Conwell, I think, the one for which Kobie, just elected Governor, wrote tbe preface, the story was. concealed. Blaine acted unaccountably, it seemed te me, in aUowing the date of his marriage to be published in that took as March 2J, 1S5L" "Were you a witness to tbe Pittsbur? marriage because of your intimacy with Blaine?" "Yes, I suppose that was the reason. I was a clast-mnte of his in college, and was living in Pittsburg at tbe time." "it hes been said tbat Blaine was induced to many through a sort of shotgun argument offered by one of the Stanwood boys. Did you have any reason at that time for thinking such to be the case?" "No: if It was so I did not know it." "Do you know S. L. Blaine?" "No ; I never beard of him before." Is Blaine's Letter of Confession Cajolery of a Soft-Voiced Lovelace? I From the People. It is nearly two months since tbe Republicans all over the country, and particularly in this city, were jubilant at the "open," "honest," "direct" and "manly" course of tbe plumed knight in bringing suit against John C. Shoemaker, of the Sentinel, for tbe story that was "utterly and abominably and false in every statement and in every implication." Alas, the exultant sensation that went up like a rocket baa even so soon fallen like tbe stick! Tbe cloFetdoorin the Blaine household has opened with a spring and forth steps the ancient family t kelcton draped in some flimsy texture of coarse meshes tbat Bignally fails to coceal its reality. The readers of the People will all testify that since the publication of the Blaine article in the Sentinel we have leaned sympathetically toward Mr. and Mrs. Blaine. While we said our say concerning Blaine's fraudulent public transactions we bad no encouragement for wbat was called "the attack" upon his domestic troubles. But "fakes alive 1" (as an old lady of our acquaintance said when she iinished reading the Blaine letter and paused to wipe her glasses), a more complete, transparent and self-damning "give away" we never read than this from tbe candidate for the Presidency of the United Slates. It is indeed very difficult for a disinterested looker-oa to determine just wbat course he would have selected if caught in such a snarl as now entangles Blaine, but tbe popular impression is tbat the candidate has arranged a very illjudged plan of escape. His confession contains more of the cajolery of a soft-voiced Lovelace than the statement of tn Indignant Candida .e for high ottice. His secret marriage was 'sacred in the sight of Heaven," if not in that of men. Tbe ceremony (and what kind of a ceremony imagination only suggest) was performed sans clergyman, raus ring, sans liceuse, sans everything that might substantiate it, but was made holy by mutual love and mutual vows. There were two witnesses, a Blaine and a Stanwood, and the voices of both are bushed in death I Those vows, registered in neaven but not on earth, resulted in the distress and shame of a poor voUDg woman struggling in a land far from her home for a respectable maintenance, and the restitution of a tardy marriage was given her when, three months before the birth of her child, they were privately but really married in PitUburg, in March, 1851. He pleads tne baby act. and begs consideration for tbe ardor and impatience of youth. Certainly, Mr. Blaine, few of os would be unwilling to sympathize with and pardon the errors of rash young blood, but that Is not the point in question. It Is not tbe follies of youth we so much deplore as the hypocrisy of maturer years and the glaring hypocrisy of the present campaign. A'ith this perilous secret shadowing him, as that evil insect, the windhover, poises above it prey, Blaine has been posing as the virtuous foil of his bizarre opponent, shaming Cleveland by a show of white sou led purity. With the sin of his youth and his dark and tortuous public career liable at any time to be exposed, be was prepared to assume the highest otlice in the land in the guise of domestic saint and public patriot. But before the seat was gained and the voice of invesU.'ation silenced forever the expos 9 came, tbe windhover pounced upon its prey, and the wily, but checkmated, candidate wn forced to make some public explanation. We think he might have made a better impression by making a clean breast of it. Ue has furnished his enemies with a Delphic sword that cuts both ways, for if there was a secret marriage in Kentucky, which not one person in a thousand believes, it was a miserable farce. The young man held a position and possessed intelligence and a thorough information as to tne laws of the land, which made absolutely criminal the imposition upon a trusting f irl of what he knew to be a perfectly illegal transaction, and having thus imposed upon her by an HUsive ceremony of some sort. God knows what, he leaves her to brave alone tbe evil consequences and public exposure which followed their intercourse. Nailed down to a point, then, which places him in the most despicable ligbt tbe seducer, who did maxo very tardy but his only restitution, or the execrable betrayer of au orphan girl through a spurious and Invalid ma triage? UghtnlDf in Telegraph, Offices. Popular Science. I It sometimes happens, however, that an actual discharge of lightning does involve a telegraph wire, and such discharge is then usually distributed so that it passes to the earth in small, broken outbursts wherever it can find an outlet. In such instances enough of the fragmentary discharge may fall to he share of some signaling ofrice to produce very grave mischief. Telegraph wires should, "on this account, never be carried into the interior of dwelling-houses, or of inhabited places, without appropriate arrangements having been made to neutralize the risk. The plan which is most usually adopted for the protection of instruments and operators in such circumstances consists in the ingenious expedient of arraDgiDg two broad metal plates so that their contiguous snrfaces be face to face a very small distance apart, one of the plates being in immediate connection with tbe telegraph wire, while the ether is in communication with the ground. The narrow Interyal between the two plates is then sufficient to prevent any escape of the ordinary electrical current of low intensity which i employed in telegraph work, bat

upon the occasion of tbe wire becoming accidentally charged with an electrical force of high intensity, such as is produced by the agency of the thunder-cloud, this leaps through the narrow spac by virtue of its superior explosive power, and so escapes harmlessly to the earth, instead of making its way through some more devious and dangerous route. The plates are, of course, designedly fixed where they serve to intercept the discbarge by the temptation of the more open and free passage to the earth, and in that way divert it from the dangerous course which it would otherwise pursue. RESCBBECTIOXIST BLAINE.

His Celebrated llloody Shirt Speech In the Famous Amnesty Debate. INew York Sun. Jan 22, 1876.. But Mr. Blaine, being fairly in the bone business, was not content with the ghastly spoils of the Andersonville ditches. It will be observed that every one of tbe "historic cruelties" cited by him were cruelties inflicted by lloman Catholics. He eagerly explored the vaults of the Inquisition, fondly traced the ravages of Alva and hung gloating over the massacre of St. Bartholomew. That must have been a moment of supreme triumph to the learned politician. Ue had not only placed his skeleton far in advance of Mr. Morton's bloody shirt, but he was just then about two lengths ahead of Grant in his anti-Catholic development. These chronicles of the darker ages were sealed to the uneducated soldier, and the studious Blaine was not slow to improve his advantage. But, on the whole, the epectacle is not attractive this of a reckless demagogue blowing the embers of dying sectional passions, and armed with a glowing brand to barn his mother's church. He might have remembered his grandfather Ephraim, the pious beef contractor of tbe Revolutionary war; be might have remembered the long line of ancestors who have fallen asleep in the faith against which he agitates; he might have remembered his mother, home, and baptism, or even those maiden aunts who, with the Sisters ot Charity, still prosecute their self imposed mission of healing and mercy under the ecclesiastical authority which he affects to dread; he might have remembered any or all of these; but if he did they were dismissed as trifles which his vaulting ambition would not brook. In the vulgar strife for Grant's old boot3 there is no rocra for either mental or moral integrity. In case Mr. Blaine succeeds in getting the Republican nomination by making the loudest and coarsest bid, the country artist who will paint his picture for the campaign banners will have the opportunity of his life. Let him draw tbe figure of a well-fed and somewhat corpulant gentleman, his capacious pockets filled with protruding documents labelled "Credit Mobilier Shares," stooping and industriously clawing open a secluded grave, over which the grass has grown green and the flowers have bloomed through many a year of peace. Blaine's Villilication of Archbishop Ilasries. From an interview of Ki-Assomblyman Coesch in the N. V. World. Blaine was afraid to vote for the prohibition he favors and he is without even a throb of sympathy for the laboring masses. In his own paper, the Kennebec Journal, he said of the late venerated and most venerable Archbishop John Hughes, on April 13, 1855, in reference to the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, "The bill will compel the mighty Archbishop to diBgorge nis ill-acquired wealth. It will act, we hope, as the Mrst step toward leading Papists to a sense of the delusions under which they labor and of the rotten errors in which they believe. Archbishop Hughes, who rules the destinies of the Catholic hierarchy in the Empire State, is a bold, unscrupulous man, and his machinations and plottings have given him a disgraceful prominence in all the straggles that have taken pLice between tbe corrupt clergy on the one hand and the rights of the superstitious and ignorant laity on the other. Lamb and Mord at Crawfordsville. Crawfordsville, Ind., Sept. 2!. Hon. John E. Lamb and Hon. Francis T. Hord addressed the citizens of this place Saturday night The weather was very bad and the streets were very muddy, but notwithstanding this a large crowd Greeted these gentlemen. They both delivered masterly addresses and were received with rounds of applause. The street parade was a very creditable affair and was participated in by several delegations from the out townships. Tbe only thing that prevented this demonstration from excelling all others of this campaign was the rain. The Waynetown Tress, which has heretofore been a neutral paper, has declared for Cleveland and Hendricks and will support tbe entire Democratic ticket. Ed Copner is editor, find he proposes to make things bum. Heavy Call on Imagination. Utica Observer. Imagine George Washington: "Burn this letter." Imagine Benjamin Franklin writing: "I will sacrifice a good deal to get a settlement." Imagine Thomas Jefferson writing: "I will not be a deadhead in tbe enterprise." 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I reached Detroit and was w low I thought I should hare to go to the hospital, but I finally got as far as Lansing, Wich., wbere I had a sister living. One 1t. treated me about two weeks, but did me no eood. A 11 tnoaght I had but a short time to live. I earnestly prayed to die. Cracked through the skin all over my back, across my ribs. arms, liands. limbs, feet badly swollen, toenails f ame oil", fingernails dead and bard as boae. bairdead, dry and lifeless as oid straw. O, my God ! how I did süßer. "My sister had a small part of a box of Cuticura in the bouse. She wouldn t give up: said: We will try Cuticura.' tome was applied on one hand and arm. Eureka! there was relief; stopped the terrible burtim? sensation from the word po. They Immediately rot the Ccricpaa Kesoi.vent, Cctu tea, and CTTicrna Siap. 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Complaint to quiet title. James A. Roosevelt vs. James Shepherd. Chsrles C. Davis, administrator of the estate oi Rebecca S. Cleavenger, deceased, and tbe unknown heirs ot Bcbecca 8. Cleavenger, deceased. Be it known, Tnat on the 21st day of Auf:., 18?4, the above named plaintiff, by his attorneys, fiied in the otlice of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Marion County, lu the State of Indiana, his complaint against the above named defendants, and the said plaintiff bavins also filed tn open Court in the 2M day of September, tbe affidavit of a competent person, showine ttast Jaraci Shepherd. Charles C. Davis, administrator (with the will annexed) of the estate of Kabecca S. Cleavenper. deceaed. and the unknown heirs of Bebecca fe. Cleavenger. deceased, are necessary parties defendant to the complaint herein: that a cause of action exists acainot them a shown by said complaint, that the ame is in relation to real estate ituate in Monroe County. IndUua, and that said James Shepherd and Charles C. Davis, administrator as aforesaid, are not residents of 'the State of Indiana, and that the names of the unknown hei-s of Rebecca S. Cleaveneer, deceased, de'-rdants herein, are respectively unkcown. at.1 aid defendants ire believed tote non-resir.Lt.s . :he state of Indiana. r'.ow. trjwtclrrc. by order of said Court, said defei.dmitF above i amed are reptctively hereby notified of the fiing and pendency of said complaint acai-rt thea, and that unless they appear and ans? r 01 demur thereto, at the caliine. of aaid catiseon U v'stdsy of December, the same being the .. judicial dav of a term of said Court, be lguu aud heid at the Court House in the city of Indianapolis, on the first Monday ia Decsmber. ISSt, 6aid complaint and the matters and things therein contained and alleged wiU be heard and determined in their henc MÖSLS G. McLAlN. scp21-3w Clerk.

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