Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 35, Bloomington, Monroe County, 2 July 1881 — Page 3

THE NEWS.

Home Items. The first postage stamps were used

a - . ? ju uio uiuieuotai.tti m uie year xot. I I At New Orleans there were eleven

3 cases ox sunstroke Thursday, of which I it seven proved fatal. 1 - ! The attention of the Grand Jury at 1 Albany, N. Y., has been called to the 4 : recent charges of legislative briberr.

i 'f Jat Gotjld has leased the bridge '4. - over tho Mississippi at St. Louis, perT , . petually,afcan annual rental of $650,000. i': Governor Cobjell has vetoed the

i teachers in New York, after a long jr L ; term of service.

ted that by taxing the parsonages in their city the revenue will be increased several thousand dollars. Congressman Speer, of Georgia, elected as an Independent Democrat, days he will vote with the Bepnblieans in tlie organization of the House. It is said that? Mrs. Morse, the mother of Elizabeth Til ton, recently astouished Henry Ward Beecher by appearing in a pew of Plymouth Church. Hcteltttes have been opened bei tween the Gould and Vanderbi J 1 railroad combinations. May it be a war ? to the death. WBi hen . rogues fall out," j. etc;' " : , President Garfielb has decided that he will no's permit ths publication of the letters written to him by General Grant on tho New York complication. .......... The Grand Trunk Railroad Company will give their machinists at Montreal an advance in wage? of 15 per. cent. The men have agreed to return to worH Thirty-five persona attending a picnic at Decatur. Ga., were poisoned . from eating chicken salad. The chicken had been bailed in a brass pot. No deaths. ' At Pottsville, Pa., 2G0 colliery hands are thrown out of work by the burnI ing of the slope house and wooi work i at the head of the slope at Bear Bun ; Colliery. t An earthquake at Ne wburry port, Mass., very ready Sunday morning, must have suggested the; end of the world to the citizens. No serious loss I t occurred. A split is threatened in the Chicago - Ijand League;. Some of the patriots claim that thy do not desire to be controlled by the "kid-glove" section of the league.-

Pierre XaiiUard's 3-year-old mare Arazana,for' which he paid 812,000, was ' severely injured in transportation from Koneoconsj jN. J., to Coney Island race course. Delegati : Pettigrew, of Dakota Territory, expects that Southern Da- ' fcota will be the nextState. He claims a population of 110,000, with thousands swarming in. . Secretary Windom told the interviewer-that there was no reason why Assistant Secretary Upton should resign, which means that Mr. Upton will remain in office. THEjsuspension bridge over the Alleghany river at Pittsburg, was badly damaged by fire a few days since. It cost $300,000 in 1859, and its loss will be a serious Inconvenience... - Miss Fannie Walker, a dressmaker

at Elizabeth, N. J.f was shot twice by a lunatic named Magie, whom she had refused to marry. Magie then shot bimselfc The lady will recover. itNine thousand wild pigeons were received in New York Wednesday morning from the Indian Territory for the New York State Sportmen's Association, which, is in session at Coney Island. The Republicans of New Hampshire have concluded to postpone the election of Senator for two years, upon the theory that the seat of Senator Rollins will not become vacant un til that time; ' John Ai Walsh has brought suit in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against Thomas J. Brady to recover $28,052 for " money loaned Brady when he was. Second Assistant Postmaster General. : Commissioner of Internal Revenue Raum, expects to- show in his forthcoming annual report, that during his administration 800:000.000 hftw hp An

. collected without the loss of a single ?. : dollar ovdefalcation.

ji . -J ? Secretaiy Windom has abolished the frm office of Custodian of theTreasurv.

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? want, and to toll Americans that the

imsn people are determined to carrv

on the present constitution al agitation. A contract has been made in St. Louis for an experimental shipment of 30,000 bushels of Spring wheat from St. Paul to Glasgow, Scotland, by barges to New Orleans, thence by steamer. If the shipment proves successful others will follow. The rate for the first shipment was 28 cents per bushel. President Garfield, being interviewed by a delegation of straight Republicans oi Virginia, declared in favor of supporting .the party which was opposed to repudiation. He stated that the patronage of office would be decided by the executive without interference from any source being tolerated, .. , : y Mr. Thomas Garfield, unele of the

President, died at 5 o'clock Wednes

day evening from injuries received in being thrown from his buggy by a rail

road tram. Deceased was escorting

Mrs. Arnold, a lady friend, who is also fatallv iniured. The deceased gentle

man was 82 years old.

Mr. Gonkliug made a strong speech at the Stalwart conference at Albany

on Tuesday evening. ie irotested

against the half-breeds' measures of hriherv. .ftrrnntinn mid fraud, mi 1 ad

vocated that tne Stalwarts make their

nght against the prostitution of public office for money or patronage. General Brady, ex-Assistant Post

master General, made application

Thursday in the Criminal Court of

Washincrton. to have the charcres of

fraud made against him tried at once.

The Court ( Judge Cox) . heid that he

could not expedite matters, and Bradv

will have to wait until September,

Judge Cox, in charging the Grand

Jury in the Criminal Court, of Washington, D. C., informed them they would have to pass upon the men charged with defrauding the government, through violation of postal laws, . t J. SJ A.

auu warnea teem xo consiaer me cases without bias, but simply from a true and just basis.

Sir Roger Tich borne the only, origi

nal, lost heir has, according to the San Francisco Examiner, at last turned up. The Duke of Sutherland and

MBnll ; "Riin" Rnssol! TT,. TV infpr-

viewed him, and the latter wrote a long letter for a -London-paper on the subieefc. The new man served throuerh

the war, married iu Brooklyn, N. Y.f

ana is now Iiviug m the vicinity of San Diego, CaL

It is stated Vor a fact" in special

telesrrams to the Louisville Courier-

Journal, that a woman in Jackson

county, Tennessee, gave birth to seven

children, a few days ago, and that, at last accounts, they were all alive and doincr well. Thev are aid to have

weighed from four to five pounds each at their birth, and to resemble each other-so closely that it is difficult to "tell which from 'tother." The new firm of Moody & Miller has gone into the revival business. The senior partner is Dexter L. Moody, the famous Evangelist, formerly with Iia D. Sankey, and the junior it E. F. Miller, formerly a workman in the car shops at Denver, Moody and Sankey are said to have disagreed as to the division of the proceeds from the sale of Sankey 's hymn books, and Miller is to take the place of Sankey in the new concern. Judge O. A. Lochbane, of Atlanta, Georgia, makes a prediction as follows: "The son of old Abe Lincoln, the present Secretary of War, wilJ! be President of these United States! iHe was one of the 306 Grant men at Chi

cago, ana coma bring tnat wing up. He's in with the Administration, jind will not be distasteful to that wing. D I know him? I do, and heTs a r ian with the same wonderful magnet sm that his father had. You look out for Boo Lincoln!" Batavia, N. Y., has a sensation in the discovery of the remains of WilliamMorgan, the man who was alleged to have exposed Free Mason ry , and was supposed to have been drowned by order of the Masonic fraternity in the Niagara river fifty-five years ago. Thurlow Weed is. the high and mighty authority for the drowning story, and it would be very sad indeed to find that he hp s for so many years been propogating a calumny of the meanest kind againat a very large body of the most respected citizens of the United States v The largest purchase of laud ever made in the worid by a single person was that completed a few days ago, when Hamilton Desson, a prominent manufacturer cf PhUadelphia, took a deed from the State of Florida for 4,000,000 acres, situated north of Lake Okeechobee. The amount paid is not published, but it was supposed to be about two dollars an acre in cash.

This euormous transaction has beeu in

- - ve&ra. The rhitiPfi J f.hi a finr ava S ' . .inoii tbs, ... thciand

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years. The duties of the office are to

be nereafter entrusted to the Chief Clerk oMhe Tieasuryv A xtjmber of bodies of persons who, it is supposed, were murdered, have been taken out of the Missouri river at Kansas City, and the inference is that an organ ized band of assassins are at work further up the river. The Xmocratic members of the Xew York Legislature have withdrawn John C. Jacobs as one of their candidates for Sen&tor. and substituted Hon: dirkson N. Potter in his stead. Jacobs -was probably ineligible. 6 The heirs of the late Anthony J. Drexel? for whom Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, is named, are having a fountain made in Berlin costing 40,000. wheh they will present to Chicago as J a memorial of their deceased relative; - -The- Cincinnati Gazette suggests suspicion of the "harmlessness" of swi glass of lager" by saying "there is not a brewer in Cincinnati who Would dare pi in t a list of the ingredieuts ho uses in manufacturing lager buefj' z At Hew Haven, Conn , in a base ball match between the Yales and Amheists, the pitcher of the former, Hutchinson, tripped and sprained the tendons of his knee, and" Gould, the Amhei-sts' pit cber; had . his left arm broken by the ball. The recent drowning of her five children by an insane woman in Calhoun county, Arkansas, has caused two suicides in that locality. A worthy oli farmer, unable to throw off the cloud from his mind, read a chapter in the Bible and hanged himself in his smoke house. . . A siogie highwayman stopped the stage' twenty-five miles from Galvesr ton, Texas, Saturday night, and compelled the. two passengers to alight and amisthim in rifling the mail, which lasted a couple of hours. " The robber is supposed to be the same who robbed vnot). er stage two weeks ago. ' A New York agricultural paper, . judging from 2,000 crop reports, draws zhe conclusion that the next harvest wii J how 20 per" cent, less wheat than , last j ear, and 15 per cent, less corn? an incwase in rye and barley, and the j largest crop of' oats every produced i ItEv. Fatiiek.O'CWseu is' coming from Ireland to this country with a from Archbishoo Orokft.

him . to proclaim e veryAmerica -What Irjsbmen.

missioning wheie in

beine under the control of the Board

of Internal Improvement of the State of Florida. The tract is nearly as large as the entire State of New Jersey, and the greater part of it is susceptible of cultivation. Mr. Desson has bought it for the nuroose of sncculation. and

will at once endeavor to direct emigration that way. Agencies for the i sale

of farms will be opened in this cou ntry

ana in Jiiurope.

....... Foreign. .,.

Sixty thjusand Jews from Bhssia

will emigrate to Spain.

That San Diego Tichborne is a fraud.

at least so his neighbors say. j The Mexican government proposes to establish a Nation al bank. Parnell is to make another tour of the United States next month. . Iftfince Leopold took his seat in the House of Lords yesterday as Duke of Albany. - At Marseilles one hundred . and twenty-five persons have been arrested. Order is re-established. Her Von Gossler, the new German Minister of Public Worship, is incline! to favor peace with the Vatican . The anti-rent excitement appears to be subsiding in Ireland, and many landlords have returned to their property. ; Large bodies of Russian troops are being massed near Kasbgar, and a conflict with the Chinese will probably be the result. . Peru is still engaged in war with Chili. The inhabitants of Areguipa have fled from the approach of the Chilian forces, - The Irish census gives the "gem of the sea" a population of 5,159,849, a decrease of . only a quarter of million in eleven years. Further particulars of the electric railway of Siemens and Halske, tlie inventors, tried in the suburb of Berlin, state it to be a success. ... The British authorities' are preparing for bloody work in Ireland by sending thither from Woolrich field stretchers and ambulance wagons. It took two armed policemen and forty lancers to carry the Rev. Father Sheeny from Naas to kiimainimm jail. A rescue was feared. Yokomiva is the name of the latest Nihilist heroine, who is the daughter of the priest, who was connected with the f ecfent attempt to mufder the Car,

' in the French-Italian riots at Marseilles, it is said tliat eight persons were killed and twenty-three woundod. There were a large number of arrests. A court-martial at Kiefl; sentenced ten Nihilists to death and eight to penal servitude. Tho Czar commuted the death sentences to penal servitude. The immense importation of American flour into England "will gravely cflkngethe system of English bread supply," says the Mark Lane (London) Express. To prevent tho mailing of revolu

tionary documents, the Sultan has suppressed the post offices in Constantinople. He also wishes the Powers to cut his emnire out of tho Genera

Postal Union, It is said . that Mexico has agreed to pay f 90,000,000 to railroad companies, a large part of which, will be. claimed by companies thatwill build thior roads and call for the cash. Two rubber bags containing 150 pounds of dynamite were discovered under-the bridge over tho Catherine Canal. St. Petersburg. Fuses were attached to the bags. The President of the Republic ox San Domingo, who has become dictatoi , proposes to court-martial malcontents against the legally established political institutions of the country. The steward of the Bey of Tunis has taken refuge with the British Consulate, carrying with him securities and jewels which the Bey claims are worth 1,000,000 francs, and his accounts. A Barcelona dispatch announces the existence of schemes for a Carlist rising in the Province of North Catalonia. The. Spanish government is carefully watching the movement. The Great Eastern Steamship Company have announced their intention to dispose of the leviathan incumbrance at auction on the 1st of October, unless disposed of by private sale. Rowell and Weston, the pedestrians, have commenced a walk in London tor the championship of the world. In an hour and a half Rowell, who did some running, scored 13 miles to Weston's 10. 1 he King of Spain has sent word to the Spanish Minister at Constantinople that he will gladly receive in his dominions all persecuted Hebrews, to compensate the race for the. tervities of his predecessors toward them. At Loughrea, Ireland, three farmers connected with the local Land League have been arrested, charged with mur

der. A man named Mullen, who shot the boy Farrel, in Diiblin, May 1, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. The Italian Govern men t will obtain a loan of $120,000,000 to enable it to resume specie payment. It will be placed in London, Vienna. Paris and New York, a portion being reserved for Italian banks. Two well known London banking firms, with the co-operation of a French syndicate, have taken the Italian loan. To prevent danger m the

transportation of so much gold, $S0,.

uuOjUuu wilt be sent In the course of two years. Mexican dispatches state that a fight occurred between Mexican soldiers and twenty-five smugglers neaCerraloo , in which the smugglers were defeated, with a loss of their goods. An army of sixty Apaches invaded Chihuahua. Vomito is increasing in Vera Cruz. The Right Rev. Archbishop McCabe, of Dublin, has issued a pastoral, which was read in all the churches of his archdiocese Sunday, in which he regrets that, persona were preaching doctrines subversive of law and order. This is a rebuke to the Archbishop of Cashel. , There is a split in the Nihilist party in St. Petersburg. The milder-mannered branch call themselves the Black Division, and have chosen this for the title of their journal issued on the 10th inst. They have written the Czar and his Ministers that they do not seek to assassinate them. At Nantz, France, a protest against a decree forbidding religious processions was made by an immense crowd of devotees Sunday, who promenaded the streets singing hymns. Meeting an anti clerical crowd, who were singing La Marseillaise, a riot occurred, upon which the police interferred and arrested several persons. At Madrid the municipal authorities engaged in raiding the gambling houses, arrested a young man preparing to lay" a petard, who confessed he was the agent of a great conspiracy .planned to secure immunity to the gambling fraternity by alarming the c'tizens. Twenty-seven of his accomplices have been arrested. There are a million more female persons in Germany than there are male persons. In this country there are a million more males than females. Will the law of supply and demand regulate this coincident inequality? and, if so, how? The cheapest plan will be for the Germen women, to come to this couniry, saving two fares for each far placed in the market. " I saw more intoxicated women at the Derby than on any former occasion," says Edmund Yates in the London World, "and not merely the females with, whom inebriety is normal, but decent-looking women, appaiently the wives and the sweethearts of artisans and small shopkeepers. Perhaps the heat of the weather upset their calculations as to the amount of liquor they could take with impunity It is stated by the European financial journals that until Italy formally withdraws her disapproval of the French policy in Africa the Italian loan will not be dealt with on the Paris Bourse. At various French cities rioting continues between natives and Italians, and in Italian aud Sicilian cities formal demonstrations are being held. Italians are leaving Marseilles en masse. ; Sexton is now President of the Dublin Land League, Cox, a farmer who started ir, having been arrested. At its. last ...meeting the league made a strong appeal to America for funds, which they need now worse than ever. The Para elli tea will refrain from holding any more meetings until the land bill is passed. With regard to the Irish-American press Mr. West, the new British Minister, will draw the attention of the United States Govern ment to the most atrocious of Rossa'a articles., - , :V.j w,. The Suggestive Cham. Forney's Progress. A: gentleman calls at a French jewelers in London to have a memorial ring, containing the hair of relatives, repaired. The good man said: "Eh bien! Ya-as, it shall be done." continuing, "zare is notting like ze hair, it last a Peternite, wiz care. Now, here is pretty ting, vach chain, much better zan gold; besides it make you tink. Suppose you are out witz friends, you look at your vatch vitb gold .chain, and you say it is 10 .o'clock, and you put him back, zat is all. But .suppose you have chain of madam e's hair, zen you remember; you say it is 10 o'clock, yere is my poor wife waiting for me I shall go; ohegrnot. J. shall go home.

THE ADDRElSS

Delivered liy Hon. Bichard B.

Smith, Editor Cincinnati Gazette,

Before the Members of Northern

Indiana Editorial Association at

Wabash, Ind., Friday Evening, June 17, 1881.

One day lately it was my privilege

to accompany a steamer sailing for

Europe down me bay of ISew York to Sandy Hook. Our yacht passed there outward bound steam era "full of passengers, who may be said to have rep

resented in part camlai interests. They were going to Europe partly on business, but mainly in search of pleasure. We passed also at quarantine, three large steamers at anchor, loaded with emigrants. These represented labor. One class was going abroad upon the means they had acquired. The other was .coining in to seek a fortune or a .subsistence, and thus represented two phases of American life. The growth and prosperity of our country made it possible for our fellow citizens, many of whom had no doubt been immigrants in former years, to enjoy the luxury of a trip to Europe; while their experience served to attract the overflow of European countries to our shores. Thus we progress in population and wealth, and how amazing has been the progress iu both respects. In 1776, when the colonists declared their independence of Great Britain, the population of this country was 2,750,000. The population of Indiana, according to the last censuStWas 1,978,362. The population of the United States is, in round numbers, 50,000,000. When the first census was taken the centre of population was east of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland. Now it is within a few miles of the city of Cincinnati, and is moving steadily westward. Then the place where we now stand was a wilderness, Now what is it? This progress has been accomplished within three generations. Pioneer settlers are still living; in your State, and in Ohio. There are persons living in Cincinnati whose memory reaches back almost to its first settlement. These facts afford an idea of what has been accomplished, and taking our stand at the date of the census, of' 1880, we may imagine the magnitude of the progress that lies before us. This country is capable of even more than has been accomplished in the past. The tide is onward and it is not likely to be checked, (50,000 in eleven months). In the statesman's year bock for 1879 we rad that our territory is as large as the combined territory of Russia, in Europe, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland. Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Swit2erland, Italy. Spain, Portugal, France, Great Britain and Ireland. In extent of territory and in material resources on the earth and under the arth, the United States may be regarded as about equal to the whole of Europe. The development of our resources has been wonderful. This is fairly measured by the fact that there are now in operation in . this country 98,000 m iles of rail roads. The aggregate population of Europe is 293,000,000. This country is capable of maintaining a population equal to that, and such a population it will ac quire. There aie those now hviug who will form part of a census that will give a total enumeration of one hundred million or more.

To what do we owe this extraordinary progress? Partly to our extended and fertile lands, but mainly to that high civilization which laid deep and broad the foundations of our govor n ment. Religion and morality were the controlling ideas of the fathers who secured freedom and gave us the constitution, which instrument has been maintained, in its leading features., unimpaired. Upon that foundation, the superstructure has been built thus far, and upon it the work will be continued if we shall prove faithful to the trust handed down to us. One feature of our government from the beginning has been the education of the peo)le, and as a result we have a smaller per centage of ignorance than any civilized country, in .the world, with tlie exception of Germany, and this notwithstanding the large immigration of the lower classes from Europe, and a slave population of four millions that by inhuman laws were prohibited from acquiring knowledge. According to the latest statistics the per centage of the adult population unable to read aud write compares as follows : Russia, 91: Spain, 80; Italy, 73; Austra, 49; England, S3; France, 30; United States, 20; Germany, 13. This per centage will change as t ime progresses in favor of the United States, as the work of education is a work in which a growing interest is taken, a ad the time is approaching, it is to be hoped, when no child will be suffered to grow up in ignorance. In view of all that is being done in tho cause of education, tbc tiine certainly ought to come speedily when persons unable to read and write should be denied the privileges of an elector. . , I. have said that our wonderful progress is due mainlv to the principles upon which our government was founded and upon which foundation the superstructure has thus far been built Those principles are well expressed in section vii. of article 1 of the bill of rights of the constitution of Ohio, which reads as follows: ;A11 men have a natural and inde feasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates ot their own conscience. No person shall be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship or maintain any form of worship against his consent; and.no preference, shall be given by

law to any religious society; nor shall

any interference with the right of conscience be permitted No religious test shall be required as a qualification for office; nor shall any person be incompetent to be a witness on account of his religious belief. . , Religion, morality and knowledge, how ever, being essential to good government, it shall be th5 duty of the general assembly to pass suitable laws to protect every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own

mode of public worship, and to encourage schools and the means of instruction." That is the platform) to use a familiar expression", upon which the people of the country . have stood since the foundation of the government. It recognizes the existence of Almighty God; the rights of conscience; forbids the connection of church and state, and pronounc s religion, morality and

knowledge.. essential. to good govern

ment. These fundamental

adopted at the begin nin

ideas were

and have

been continued throughout, and have

thus far resisted the assaults of infidelity on one side and priestcraft on the other. Upon this platform churches have multiplied aud school houses have been erected, until now, in your own state, you can hardly get beyond the sound of the church or school bell. In the same connection the freedom of the press has been established, and this has caused the growth of newspapers.. No .settlement is complete without a church, a school house aud the printing press, and these three cover the ground of religion, morality and knowledge. One does not exist without the other and one naturally produces the other. This idea is peculiarly American, A free church and a free press sprung up with a free govern ment and the latter has been no where successfully maintained without the other. The people that govern themselves need to be moral and intelligent and in the absence of intelligence the press could not live and the ballot would soon be displaced by the bayonet. v. , Great privileges and such opportune

ties as are enjoyed in this country, are simply corresponding responsibilities, and these rest upon the Individual citizen. Our's. is absolutely a government of the people, in which every citizen has equal rights and privileges. The government obtains its rights from the governed. , The power conferred upon the ruler, is returned at stated periods to the people. The man who deposits his ballon therefore is the source of all power in this government, and is therefore the basis at all responsibility. This cannot be shifted onto communities, or parties or states. If there is corruption :,n government, municipal, state or national, the people are responsible, and each individual bears his full share. Therefore the ballot which falls as noislessly as the snow flakes into the ballot-box, should be intelligent, so to speak, and hence it is that religion, molality and knowledge are essential to good' govern ment. and hence it is also that the nation is to be congratulated upon the steady

progress o f those esse tit ial features of our civilization. We can receive without danger the overflow of Europe

and we can witness nob only with complacency, but with pleasure, tho

rapid growth of our population., so long as we conservatively maintain the vital principles of our government. Greatly indeed are we Indebted to the fathers for our princely inheritance a free country, wonderfully rich on

the earth and under tho earth: a free

church, free schools, a. free press, and a people tree and secure, and equal in all their rights. There is cause for rejoic

ing also in the fact that 'there is in this country no royal road to place or power. There are no toll gates where blood passes free. The road to wealth

is also open, and the young man hi en

couraged to press forward without the

fear ot encountering obstacles of man's'

creation, certainly not of govornment; creation. The ..chances of the voung

man who inherits, no wealth is better than that of the young man who in-

bents wealth in the long run. Thin open road is better too, for the country. Inherited wealth, in most cases, dwarfs the man, while the honorable pursuit

of it develops the pursuer. The final ending of inherited .wealth, too, ha3

been described by a practical philoso

pher as follows : "Th father is a free-

tan, the son is a millionaire auu the

grand-son is a pauper.7' It is a good

n ature of our government, too, that estates cannot be en tailed, and that the right of inheritance does not rest

in the .first born, from generation . to generation. The law of entail has

proven the curse of tiieiungJisn nation. Ithassacured what is eallod"Soeietv,"

but it oppressed the masses of the people. The fathers in providing against

that monstrous evil were certainly inspired. ;

And now the question,. for us to con

sider is : Shall we han d down this sacred

trust, the faithful, observance of which

has blessed our people for a century.

intact to the future, as we have received it? This is a question that comes home to every man and woman. It is not deposited In the archives of the

government. It is distributed among

ihe people. Jfivery citizen bears his

fi.aare of the responsibili ty, and he renders an account of his; stewardship every t.me he deposits his bal lot or neglects

t deposit it. Vv e must bear in mind tnat we do not live for ourselves. The

fathers who fought the revolutionary

war did not fight for the mselves. They

fought lor their children, aud for us

for the fifty millions who now inhabit

;he country, in like manner we are m

trust for the millions to come for the millions yet unborn who are to be the

future. citizens of this great Republic. In addition to individual responsibilities there are class responsibilities.

The church has its responsibilities and

they do not consist ehieiy m the prorogation of dogmas buii; mainly in the promotion of true religion and morality. The educators Lave their responsibilities, and these are weighty. The conductors of the pi ess have their responsibilities, and thene are second to none. This brings me to speak directly of a class which is especially represented on this occasion. The growth oJ: the press, and by this I mean, for present purposes, the newspapers, has been marvelous.' It has kept fully abreast ol tlie most favored enterprises, and its wide circula tion is as essential to intelligence as religion is to morality. Its growth in power too has kept pace with. its numerical strength, aiid while its liberty has been much abused no doubt, it has on the whole greatly improved. It has largely diminished the: number of boss statesmen. It has crippled the power of the stump. The time was when the people relied upon the sturip speaker for

their political iniormation, ; ana tne leading orator was in those days a great power In the political field. He was the authority from whose decisions his followers were not allowed to appeal. The presu was not equal to the publication of political speeches; hence the same speech was; new every time it was delivered. And of course comparatively few people could hear it at ah . They might get fragments of it, but no more. They were liable too, to be imposed upon by the opposition. The opportunity for investigation was not presented, and the people voted for party names rather than principles. As tii) tree fell so it lay. If a man happened to be born into a Democrat or Whig family he continued a Whig or a Democrat. Charges of misgovern ment were believed or disbelieved, according to party prejudices. To some extent this is the case now, but not to near the same extent as formerly.. The press is revolutionizing the political world. Leading speeches are published far and wide.; I have seen a speech of 15,000 words, delivered in New York between S and .11 o'clock, telegraphed to Cincinnati and printed the following morning, and commented upon hi tho same paper. Thus intelligence is carried into every well informed household. The facts are collected and presented ard there is an opportunity to discus? the affairs of state at every fireside where the head or the family is not too stupid or too stingy to take a newspaper. If a party makes a mistake or an official, whether high er low, violates bis trust, information is flashed with lightning speed throughout the country and the fate of the party or the man is affected accordingly. There is no such thing as suppression, and the press being free, and there being, two sides, the truth is apt to be reached.. Thus the press extends its influence. It is not male by politicians, hut it makes politicians, The press that is the creature of politicians makes but little headway in. moulding public opinion while the politicians who are the creatures of public opinion through the press, are usually those that end ure longest. The time was when presidents were selected in Washington. The caucus dictated the nominations and the whole country., looked to the national capital for political inspiration and instruction. The press ooiiM not speak until it heard frcm the National Intelligencer or tho Wash ington Union, and these were the organs respectively of political rings. But through the press this power is taken away from Washington. It has been transferred to the people. S ow, instead of looking to Washington for polit ical information, Washington politicians look to the country for directions. In the same way what may be c alled personal leadership has been, woakened. The power that formerly lodged in a few men has been diffused and public opinion is directed by fiee discussion rather than by party leaders. No man now is above criticism. When be speaks or acts ha fear a tho whole people and in twenty-four hours the great jury of Amari can citizens pass upon his cuse. His utterances, if thoy are worthy of noiiee.are flasket! over the wires and primed within a few hours m thousands of nowspa per s artel read ainhultaueously hy flftfUftas of reader

Hours suffice to spread information where formerly it required days and weeks. This places public men on their guard. They are also careful to avoid misrepresentations. There is no part of the country so remote that a public man can afford to make misstatements. The press is ever vigilant and almost omnipresent. Sometimes it would seem that public lite is more corrupt than formerly. This is a mistake. I think the stream grows purer as we advance. The mistake grows out of the faot that owing to the vigilance of the press and its unsparing treatment of abuse, we see more of public life and more of its worst side than formerly. COrruptiouists cannot cover their tracks as they formerly did, nor is any office so high as to be a protection against public scrutiny and ultimate exposure, and exposure in these days is ruin. Nor is there money enough to cover up misdeeds. The press sees with too many eyes and speaks with too ma

ny tongues te permit the mantle of secrecy to be thrown over the shoulders of any corruptionist either in public or private life. Newspaper ItoW.is Ja terror to evil doers in Washington. They hate it and tney fear it, and they lie about it, but it is a terror all the same. Now and then there are unfaithful members of the profession who are silenced, but there are so many who can hot be bought that its aggregate power exercises a continuing influence for good. The motives may not always ;be above the thirst for news, but at any rate the suppression of information is practically impossible. This was not the case when the press of the country was in its infancy and when all the news, or nearly all . the news from Washington was obtained through two newspapers managed by men who if dropped down, into the newspaper field to-day would feel lost. All

this while it adds to the disco msorts of public life tends to purify public and private life and it has unquestionably elevated the public service and society also. .There was far more dishonesty in official life and corruption in society, relatively, forty years ago than there is now. "The reason for a different impression is that we see more of what happens now than we did forty or thirty or twenty years ago. The press was then too weak to be hold and too dependant to be impartial or newsy. The press makes mistakes. It does injustice. It is unscrupulous. It is even vile, in many cases, but these are exceptions to the rule and as a whole it has grown as an Instrument for good and has worked wonderful reforms in public life, Those who cannot afford to be exposed fear it more than they do the penitentiary, while politicians are careful of their steps, knowing mil well that if crooked their sins, will he sure to. find them out. With reference to the failings of the press in this coyneetion I shall have occasion to speak under another head. While tho growth of the press has served to make boss statesmen unnecessary and almost a thing of the past, it has also diffused its own powers to such an extent as to obliterate what may be termed "bossism''' in the press. America has more great newspapers now than Sit any former time; but it has fewer newspapers that make opinions for the Test than at any former time. New York used to be the center of newspaper influences and that, too, when the press was far less powerful than it is now.. It has not ceased to grow, but the papers in other parts of the country have grown more, and relatively outgrown it. The newspapers of the west have, so to speak, set up for themselves. To illustrate, the point a few comparisons may prove interesting. I received the first news carried by wire to Cincinnati for

the press, and was the agent thereafter for several years. One thousand words a day was the. average, and that cost the daily papers of that dty. which then numbered twelve or ..'thirteen, $6 to $8 per week each. Most of them paid tjiat assessment with difficulty, and some of them did not pay it at all. The cost of publishing a daily paper was small, and such papers sprung up like mushrooms, and many of them, figuratively speaking, did not last much longer. There were no correspondents then. The papers depended upon their exchanges for news, except what little they received by telegraph. But the telegraph developed enterprise and this increased the cost of printing newspapers, and thus diminished the number. Of all the daily papers published in Cincinnati at that time only five remain, three English and two German, viz: the Gazette, the Enquirer, the Commercial, the Volksblatt and the Volksfriend. I have mentioned them in the order of their age. And of ah: the papers started within the last' forty years, which number more than a score, there are only three or four alive, and only one of these has a membership in the Aasociated Press. The season for this is plain enough. The Gazette spent more for telegraph news and correspondence in a single year than its entire annual receipts for subscriptions, daily and weekly, when the telegraph was first organized, and it pays .more fo?; composition now in a single day than it did then in three weeks. Thirty years ago five thousand dollars cash and a little credit were deemed sufficient to start a daily paper in Cincinnati. Now to start a daily paper with the expectation of establishing it would require a cash capital of half a million, and that would in. all probability be lost in tlie venture. I have said that the average amount of telegraph news at the outset was one thousand words per day. Now the Associated Press alone del ivers an average of fourteen thousand words per day, wb'le each of the morning English dairies receive from eight to fifteen thousand words daily as specials. Two of the papers have special wires with their own operators, which they use for New York and Washington specials. These are held until 2 o'clock n the morning. The progress in printing machinery has been equally great, and it now requires a small fortune to stock the press room of a first class daily paper. Thirty years ago a press that would print fifteen hundred sheets an hour was considered first clas3. Then came the double cylinder; next . the rotary lour, six, eight and ten cylinder. The six cylinder printed, at ordinary speed, one side at a time, 12.000 sheets per hour. This was followed by what is known as the perfecting press. - There Is one of these in the Gazette office and two in the Commercial office. The Enquirer uses the Bullock perfecting press. The Gazette press is double anil is capaple of printing the Gazette, both sides at once, at the rate of 28,000 per hour and its usual speed is 22,000. It not only prints, but cuts, pastes and folds the paper in the shape in which it is handed to the subscribers. And now comes still au other improvement. Hoe is putting together a-press similar to ours, with the addition that it prints and inserts the supplements at the same time that it prints the regular paper. With this machine the paper of the future will be not a blanket sheet, but moderate sized pages, numbering from ten to sixteen, the latter to be increased or diminished according to the demand for space. With that, too, will come into use larger types, for which there is from readers a constant appeal. The cost of this machine complete and sot up is $30,000. -., , This is the condition of the newspaper business in all the large cities, and there are so many large and powerful papers there is no boss; there is no

center of news; there are many centers, and many that would boss if they could, but the power is too widely diffused, and there is too, much independent .-..thought and ri valry to admit of any bossism. Before I leave this subject, for the purpose of illustrating the amazing growth of the daily newspaper in this , western country, I will remark that iliere ts paore telegraph

news prin ted in single papers in Cin

cinnati ana unicago in one day than

is printed in the London Times in a

week.

But now having seen what the dailv

press of the large cities i3, where, it may be asked, does .the country papers

come mv l confess to some embar

rassment at this point. As regards the daily press .1 have, for obvious reasons, more information than most

of. you; but as regards tho weekly press you know far more about the de

tails than I do. You will permit me,

therefore, to speak' general? on the

subject.

I do not know, precisely, the object of this association. If it is social inter

course,, that in itself is a worthy object.

The editors are a hard-working and

self-denying class. If any body under

takes the conduct of a newspaper for

fun, it does not take him long to discover his mistake. Sharp competition

and exciting demands on the part of

readers, require hard work and imposes continuing, care. His labors

have no end. With the delivery of

one issue tne preparation or-another begins. To mental responsibility is

added financial cares. He must make

a good paper and at the same time see that both ends meet Editors and

printers cannot live on wind and glory. They must have monev to

meet obligations and must have bread

and clothes. Creditors will not wait.

To write editorials and prepare news

to try to maKe a useful and sprightly

paper, witn dencient cash accounts constantly in mind is no easy undertaking. How this is to be avoided ought to be one of the objects of your association. -Theu there is great ad

vantage to be derived from social -in

tercourse. Editors who are personally

acquainted are likely to be fair and

courteous in. their treatment of each

other, and this elevates the tone of the press. Personal slang or abuse disgraces the profess ion, degrades the paper and tends to demoralize readers. It is my opinion ih at language should not be used in tho columns of a paper that would not be admissable in the society of gentlemen. In this respect there has been great improvement, and while there is still room for , progress, your meeting together promises a continued advance. Editors also very largely labor under the belief that their read to success lies over the ruins of their competitors. There has been a vast amount of energy and money wasted in consequence. of this delusion. In every state there is a vast unoccupied newspaper field. Have you ever undertaken a census of population, with a view to ascertaining who reads and Who does not read a newspaper?. The result of such an effort would probably astonish you. A political party in Indiana reported as a result of a canvass that forty per cent, of the voters read, no newspaper. In one of the richest and most populous countries of Ohio, where there is an average Republican majority of eighteen hundred, thirty-five per; cent, of the voters get along without the aid of newspapers in their houses. The talent spent by editors in, throatcutting could be spent to far better advantage in mental efforts to cultivate the unoccupied fields. Sharp and honorable competition is promotive of newspaper success. It makes better newspapers and the surest way to get and hold subscribers is to make the paper so good that it will be found indispensible. The benevolent feature is not reliable, and most of those who take a paper they do not care about, merely to encourage the editor, are those who usually forget to pay it- The best way to' occupy a field and hold it is to make the paper so good as to be expensive in order that people may not be easily tempted to start new ones. This experience has worked well in large cities. There are not haif as many daily papers in Cincinnati now, with the carrier delivery of 400,000. as there were thirty years ago in the 'same territory with avpopulation not one-fourth as large, 'the papers there occupy the field fully and they make it so expensive that new ven tures are not popular. The New York Post so'd lately for 900,000 cash, without real estate. The outfit of the establishment could be duplicated for $75,000. It was deemed cheaper to pay 3825,000 for the good will than to start a new paper. 'This principle applies to country, papers, not in the. same proportion, perhaps, but it applies. The Western Associated Press has grown iuto poorer by reason of being associated, we have the telegraph, it is true, to work upon. WherS we began our contract was for 6,000 words per day. Now our minimum is 12;000 and our average 15,000 words per day. We have never cheapened the business. The public are benefitted ; there is no news occurring in any part of the civilized world that is not collected aud furnished every morning. The" Western Associated Press pays $42,000 a year for cable dis patches alone. The country papers can work together for their united advantage as the daily papers do; not in the collection of news by telegraph, it is true, but in other ways; aud our example and success should encourage an eSort on your part. Yon can not compete with city papers, of course, in the news field, but you can in your own field if you v ill determine what that is. ; One of the most expensive departments on a city paper is that devoted to city news. How much doe3 the average country publisher spend in collecting the news of his neighborhood or of his field? The best country paper is that which most carefully collects its home news. These are certainly the papers most prized as exchanges by city editors. In your business department you can greatly advance your interest by working together. You may not adopt cast iron rules but you may establish a general basis of charges for adver

tisements that would work out good results. The error that many commit is to enlarge their sheet and then seek advertisements at cheap rates to "fill up." You seek to fill up with standing advert isem euts in order to save composition. Did you ever make a close calculation to discover whether the white paper on which the advertisement is printed does not cost more than is paid by the a Ivertiser? A small paper well edited and with live advertising, locus better and takes better than a ' blanket sheet that looks more like a poster than a newspaper. Then there is the free advertisments. Every editor has a host of friends, many of whom want a free notice. Besides a person who pays five dollars for an advertisement demands editorial notices worth twice the amount. The work that an editor does for udear charity's" sake is enormous; no one in a community contributes near so much in this way as the editor. People have an idia that it costs nothing to set up and insert a notice. They think the editor is always in want of something to fill up. The live editor is always in want of space and not of matter. Then there are the dead heads ! noble army of martyrs, who are always ready to help to swell the subscription list provided they are not asked to pay. You ought to cut that business oil behind the ears. When I did that I made some enemies. There were gentlemen who had been reading the Gazette free for years, who, when the free list was abolished, forthwith subscribed for the Enquirer, and they expected, perhaps to wake up any morning and hear that the Gazette had suspended in consequence of the withdrawal of thelir "patronage." A newspa per costs m ouey, therefore no one lifts a right to expect it for nothing no inre than an editor has a right to ask for food andrj'loUmig without paying fojr them. 7 The credit system is another evil. No one prizes a paper more than, the man who pays for it cash in advance. When the Gazette company changed from the orejclit to the cash Hi advance

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system there were $80,000 due on the . i books from weekly subscribers aloue that had leen accumulating for a '':

tUiril tf a. nnntmnr' Of Ihftt amnimt "S

not 80.000 uents were collected. We

employed a man and furnished him a ., f good horse and sent him off on a col- - '. Wtfndr fnm T-n nhr months' the horse . ' 4?

died, the saddle and bridle were pawned for keep and the man returned . a considerable balance against the , tcompany. We sold the books for old paper and called, those credits lost. A few days spent studying your books on this subject would be profitable. f . Are you sure you get your fair share from advertiseing agents? Some insight I have had into the business re ? ; minded me of a banker we used to i have in Cincinnati, who charged such . a high rate for money that the discount amounted to more than the bor- 1 rower received. One day a borrower asked the banker if he would not be I : good enough to keep the principal and give him the interest. T V Then do not permit Sheriffs to edit .g your papers; neither suffer then to 4 pocket a per centage of the money au- j $ thorized by law lor legal advertise-

ments. Editors make the politicians ...

An editor made by politicians is rarely

of much account, can you arrora to

be independent? Rather ask canyon

afford not to be independent to the ex- . tent of editing your own paper and expressing your own views. The press ;

grows in power in proportion aa tne

editor msists upon tne maepenaence of thoueht: I do not mean now inde

pendence of party; but the right with- , j. ; in the party to discuss men and meas- r .

ures fairly. It is bad poncy to swear; i with your mental eyes closed to

everything the party leaders may say or do. The latter are largely selfish

and seek their own gain. Theeditor

is supposed to represent the people and seek the goodof the country, and? tlie editor as well as the individual who serves his country most serves his party best. An honest, intelligent' fearless course oil i the part of the press f

is essential to the welfare of any pajtyl The latter, left to; the control of too? ;

fessional pohticianB wno live on oince, and spoils, would surely die. The political eravevards are full of the re

mains of those who have insisted that

a newspaper is an organ, and that the ;

business of tne editor is to ooey instructions. There is no class that does

so much for a party as the editors; yet there is no class so grudgingly recog

nized by politicians. This rematk ri does not refer to ofifice, for I hold that an editor who has a paying business A cannot afford to take an office. His l T" calling is higher and more ennobling ;

than that of an omcenolaer or ornee- r- :t i

seeker. As the result of many years' ? of active life and close obser i ', K

vation, it is my conviction '

that the young man who is v capable of work, in this country of i

ooportumties, masres a great mistase

when he seeks or accepts an office. I ;: ? i.

could detain you for hours with per- iX

sonal illustrations, l nave in my

mind now scores of wrecks who sacri

ficed themselves upon the altar of office. They wasted their years, and'

in old age they had nothing and arei H

good for no thing. I have an acquain- ,:

tancewho several years ago was one of the foremost editors of Ohio and was in good circumstances, He ink, )f; captured by an office and a good one-:

He ran nis ume, as an omcenoiaers do; he was out of business; he lost niii t connections; he was advanced in years, he w now Utile better tb a I beggar.. ; , - The objective point of every good and successful editor is the success of ,j his newspaper as a newspaper. Inso far as the press is sought as a stepping I

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stone to sometmng eise, it n ow iw .. r JT&W the press, and bad for the individual l w,g and bad for the country. -; ' ? O I have already said that the press - MW-SWi is one of the three greattforces in shapr ff&i'-

should not misunderstand nor slight itsk .' i'M nniRsion nor abuse its nrivUeices. ItS'tl M.

a wrtml Ancrln ft. r- ' gH

The editor should not send a stream into the household of his readers thet he would not be willing to have pour-1 ed into the ears of his own family, .h There have been marked violations of ? this rule, but we may be sure the rule ,

would not be violated it it did not pay. And this leads me to remark that my

observation is the average tone of tho; & j. ? k Mi press is above that of public morality. : - m There is a demand for impure litera-;f ; tare, and this could not be profitably -tS supplied but for the patronage of that ? class who profess to condemn Inde- i;'. -mm

cent puoucations. Anus is twwususy . , ,

true of large cities. Editors who search the country, as with a drag ? net. for all the nastiness that occurs t

in low society find ready readers and ; many of thenu Otherwise they would nnt Vim vide such material and pur

chasers wou3d not, as I have said, be , I found to a profitable extent, if: people; t who profess to condemn the practice did not buy the paper ; and read it around the corner to see how filthy iti could be. There is a great deal of de- jg pravifcy in human nature, and thatfeeds upon nastiness. But editors? should fight manfully against this de mand for indecent publications andguard the morals of the s families of : their readers as they would have the; ; morals of their own families guarded.: s I am glad to be able to bear testimony ; that this is the aim of editors in general and I believe that those who aim- $ at pure and honorable journalism will; j succeed in elevating and controlling; : public sentiment. I can therefore con " gratulate the press on its growth in numerical strength and its increase ml moral-power. In this connection too there is evidence of independence of . thought. It has ceased to bo deemed ; esseutial to standing in lrty to blindly commend all that a party may, do; or in the support of a candidate t$ try and make it appear that he is as pure as amangel and the embodiment of wisdom. The Influence of an edfc

tor is getting more and more to be prxg portioned to his ability to think and; his inclination to be nonest, and it is- f cwtHni? too. to be lecofirnized as bis

Hffht in nriHaiKfi from Within thfe

party the shortcomings of the party and of parity men. The press has nst reached perfection in this time, buti is progressing, and the steady growth ot that class of voters known as Inae pendents is evidence that public sentiment is moving in the same direction, This is a .hopeful sign. It is especiaWjf cheering in this country, where the people are the sovereigns. The stream does not rise above its source. The government will not rise above the

level or tne people. Tne. raturei our ;iJ country, therefore, rests with the peo- g pie, and it depends upon the churchy l m the educators and the" nress whethets v M

. t : p. .v tli: j. .. r-i yma

the sacred trust created by 2,7W,wu

i- ft.

people shall be found intact wnen cnf census shall show, as it will in time .mnlAtimi Of 300.000.000.

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TiTaKTNiNG olayed remarkablo

pranks, recently, on the premises Jeremiali C. Cromwell, at Baldwin's J Station. New Yorki tiJ&ht!$,fflrhouse the ground was ploughed in ftir- I rows and the sds thrown up on the vj roof. A grape vine- was uprooted and a cherry tree quartered; '- ;f-Ch?bikry:d 5 a closet was broken into small pieewH; Twenty nine panes of glass were bro ken out of the windows in front of tW N house, and boards in the kitchen wei splintered. The le were jerked from under a stove, picture frames were splintered, portions of the walls and J ceilings were torn down, and a block under the corner of a desk was split, while the desk was uninjured.? Two . pieces of gold coin in a chest were melted, and a quantity of documen ts were torn into fine stripsi The metal on a parasol was melted;- and shoes were wrencbed out of shape. As wow that hung on the wall was driven, v throiurh the floor. A larare stone, abeut

ten yards from the bouse, was bioken j

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