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DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET FOR 1678 For Secretary of State, JOHN G. 8HAMCLIN, of Vanderburgh Co.

For Auditor of State,

MAIILON D. WANSON, of Montgomery For Treasurer of Stnto, ifi*» W1L«L»1AM FLKMING, Of Allen County.

For Attomey-Genetal.

T1IOS. W. WOOLLEN, of Johnson Cotmty. For Pnptrlnteridout of Public Instruction JAMiCS II SMAHT,of Allen County.

THURSDAY. APRIL 18, 1878.

THE Logansport St*r, a morning daily, has been snuffed out, its light being hidden under a sheriffs bushel of execur* Uon%*£ |. .W

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MURICE THOMPSON, the archJ^^ Crawfd^dsvllle, ttie Democratic Can* didate for the Legislature from^ Montgomery countv. W.

THE Vincennes Sun appears in anew dress. The Iwrnisbed Sun is" now as bfight? as it i» newsy. It always was a good newspaper*

#THERE never was abetter prospect Tof big crops ttf\d eplenjJid husiness than in this year of our Lord -1878. Let #«k" «i «u ing stop and our manifold blessings be enjdyed.

BLAINES vote or. the Pacific bill established hiai fi^attciaUetaiididg bet. ter ^an his set speech on the fi&On^y question?'"Blaine is ln favor of theilingle

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GERMANY1 is busying herself m- the meditator between EngTaOtLiajMi, Russia. lAhis sort of thing g«f®wl

Bismarck needn't «fxpect any ovation from our grain pafjcchants and farmers in ftit tVeriVdif hS^CAfcitng on a tour to this

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*®R*v.J. W. LANE of Wisconsion, has been looking into the future and reading up the scriptures. He has made up hi mind that the millenium will begin in 1885. We are constrained to remark with Mr. Armstrong that it is a blank long lane that don't blow somebody «ome breezes.

.HAVENS announces himself in this issue of the GAZETTE as a candidate for Mayor, subject to the decision of the Democratic city convention. Mr. Havens has always been a Democrat, is a live and active man, has an irreproachable private character, and would, if elected, fill the place with credi^ to

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NOW YOU WLVmiXJli. "The Democrats have howled a good deal about the secrecy of the NatiaMta. A Natjoo*! dropped into Democratic headquarters one evening last week, when he was politely rcque«teu to retire because the brethern ware lo secret efaiOn. Are the Dcmocrat^derising a system of grips and passwords?—[Express.

Somebody has either played?Op" on the creoulity of the Express, or some National has drawn heavily on his imagination.

Who is the KatiSnal Mat ^dropped,?'' If he is a good witness and has ,been snubbed, he should glvVhW hamfc to the public, So is tdfhavtS the proper effect

PRESIDENT HAYES has done a grace* ful act of justice in granting a rehearing to Gen. Fitzjohn Porter wl(o irks cashiered during the war. His offense was alleged disobedience to orders during the brief campaign when Pope was at the head of the army of Virginia. His trial occurred daring the time of the war when the angry passions of mdn 'werejaroused, and when we were suffering fro.m a series of military disaster!. $teips minds were warped in thosfe days-and there is a possibility, to say thp le$st that the punishment inflicted Qn Porter was unjust and undeserved. At any rate it can do harm now to give him a rehearing. If it shall appear upon a secondr. trial that the*^ original verdict Was wrofig and that an innocent man hat undeservedly Iu4er€d obloquy and bhaffle, President Hayes iil have reason to be proud of the fact that he was instrumental in righting the wrong. If the verdict is sustained Porter cannot blame him. mrnammmmm-mmmmmmt

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rf "u until the last few days, defended every measure of the party and support ed every may whom it has placed in nomination, can, all of a sudden, .whip over int» the National piar^v the main point of which is tvholesale denuncia tion of every particle of financial legistlation enacted by the Republicant party, is one of those things no fellow *£an find

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°^K°ld by the banks on paper money at

the full value is only "equalization,*1 arid not resumption. Now the curbstone financiers can take the que from the Express and howl "equalization," that will settle the whole question, and we wilt soon ag*ir. have two kinds of currency of different values—a depreciated one for the laborer, and one of full *value for the "untaxed nobility*

THE greenbackers make a good deal of noise, but the fact that they are falling off in numbers is unmistakable. The silver bill and the prospect of resumption hare weakened a good many. Good times will take away naaay of 'the rest, always excepting howeyer the blatant emagoguea whose only hope and object \to get an office, Mid who will howl and *f\l in their intense desire for

or a drought Calamity is Good crops, good

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between-youths and ignorant, shrewd unscrupulous tricksters in obscure gar-: rets of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and St, Lou is, to alarm parents. The advertisements of these blood-suck-ing parasites fill the columns of every daily paper in the United States and the only possible way to counteract their influence is to cultivate study of physiological science in the schools, and greater confidence and familiarity between parents, children, and family physicians.

IN the Dayton Journal of recent date the following editorial paragraph appear1.

ea: -v, .» -I-. I W It appears that Mayor Rouzer made one tatal mistake in his campaign. It is charged that when he was- a candidate two years ago he did net wear a shirt collar, but (h^t after he Was elected mayor he thought that it would look better for the chiet executive of the city to Spruce up a little, and he therefore appeared in public with a shirt collar. This gave offense to the voters, who thought he was "putting on airs," and hence they scratched him and voted for Butz, who habitually Wears both a shirt collar and a plug hat. in the GAZETTE prove a soUce of comfort to a

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distinguished politician of Terre Haute, Whose plug hat was 'ruthlessly sat down on. The Dayton incident doe* not exactly match that which has aroused the attention and elicited the sympathy of our people/ jbut shows, ^nevertheless) the amazing sensitiveness ef Some' voters when a candidate wears a silk tile. In DayUn the people voted against a man wbo had never been in the habit 6f wearing either a collar or a plug hat, {nit Wha donned thdsff oraarAental articles of wearing apparel,, after his first electioh! ft was thought he was putting

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REFORM AGAINST NATURE It is often forgotten in the necessary straggle of rich aodpoor, thaX only stolen wealth is harmful. Mr. Astor, Parton said, turned his best capital to the goner al good, not because he, was benevolent but because Tie knew the laws of trade. If men wanted coal he purchased coal. If furs Wer! most needed, he sent his capital to British America* If cotton was most *e%ujridr his money Went south. The' accumulation of capital in enormous sums is absolutely necessary to the building of railroads, capals, and wholesale trade|^The powe* following the ownership -ilf immense property is dangerous, and must be watched and guafded by law. Monopolies, if left alone would become tyranny. Yet, much, as we envy and hate millionaires, we cannot dispense with them. Such men as Vartd&rbilt and Scott will bear watching because they are like other men, selfish, and they are dangerous in proportion to tbeir power "and- their ambition. Theli power and ambiMoh, however, have developed the resources of New York, the Empire State.

Coriolanus' friend told the ribid levelers of his day a fable—so Shakespeare says—which is.apt to-day: "There was a time when all the body ^i^nbers| Rebelled against the belly thus accused it: That •ol^vUltfli'a gulf it did rsinain I' the midrt 0'Uw.bodr. idle and inact-

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IN another column will be tound the proceedings of the meeting at tliie court house on Saturday, to take into consider* ation the matter of improving the roads. Two petitions were presented. One asks for an assessment, on adjoining property lying within two miles of the road so improved. In the other it is proposed to collect the ^htle amount by general taxation. The meeting adopted the second petition, jft #111 be presented to the Board of Co|in|f Cotafails* Burners for their consideratidi^vWhether the law Will permit them to lfvy" a tax for such a purpose is not certain| One thing however is certain and -tfiat is that thp... roads. ofro Vigo County are, fo'™: tKe ®lriost J3art» a wretched condition and Bteps should be taken ttl firiprove ihe^t Each year more than the amsuht of money that it would Require to fii them is lost in the increased time and trouble in bringing' farm produce to town. With difficulty a half ton load is Ibrought where two tons might just as easily be hauled.

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A popular "specialist' commends him self at the expense. Of.the family physician in the followfhg puff. "A patient is conftned while hei|g personally examined by a physician, and gives imperfect answers. In consulting by letter the patient is not embarrassed, states the exact symptons. The timia young lady and nervous young man wrHje jnst as they feel." This is plausible. It tends to throw many a young man into the hang* Of some distant unknown specialist who is dispised where he lives and hated where he is known. It is a specimen of the traps laid to catch lambs and fleece »5f them. There is ^already enough of

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pid see and bfesifi devise, instruct, walk feel.'*- f» 3 the beUy' answiir^:' True it is, j» That I receive the general food at firsf Which you do live upon and fit it is Because am the storehouse and the shop of the whole body. I send it through the rivers of your

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r. Astor CduTd only eat and wear al nvost A little more than one of h|8 cl^|ki. Ambitipn p^^cichfs1 drove him to invest |U the rest. Even wise avarice must place its funds where rats will not eat it, nor taxes qopsume it. Legislation must be directed again st the abuses of wealth and not against its accumulation. The labor reforms can never succeed as 'reforms r.gainst nature. The more men become civilzed the morc inequality is manifested. Only savages are nearly equal in wealth. Yet the poorest

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THE COUNTRY.

It is said there are many idle men in Terre Haute. Whether thei'e are really many, or Just what their number may be there is no means of telling. One thing, however, Is certain, and that is that standing on street corners will nqjt win bread. Nobody is disposed to divide his hard-earned money with st'ch, as have been drones either from choice or compulsion. Nothing is going to "turn up" that is worth waiting for in this city. There is,th« prbifiiae ofon£ of the most growing and productive years ever known in Indiana. Every acre of tillable land will-be put nnder cultivation this year

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far as possible. It will be a year of productive industry. Voluntary 'Idleness on the part of those who are out of money and who are strong eriough to work,- is a serious mistake. It fi a 8hamefor them to remain a day longer than possible in the city. There is no prospect ot any great demand for unskilled laborers to work in town the soming season. The demand will be from the country. For several years past the tide of travel has set from the cauntry into the towns. Towns have incieased |n population out of all proportion to the rural districts. Ther^^ is!

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city life for many men. Crowds are pleasant to them. Many prefer to live in the town the whole year round, and often on short rations too, than to spend their time more prt^ft^bly, but to them less pleasantly in tile country. Country p'fe lack spice. No lhng processions keep things lively. Loud-lunged orators do not so abound. It is a dull humdrum sort of life. One day is very much like another, steady work, moderate Wages, plain fare, and a Sab-bath-like quiet worst of all.

Spring has now fairly opened with the promise of fine weather. Farming operations tej£un- ii# earnest.. Good, faithful men, who are not afraid of work, and who will be content with moderate wages 1 certainly ought to find employment in the country during the present summer. No man ought to be contented with his lot who ia out of money and out of work. But no healthy laboring man ought to be in that condition, except ^s the few cases where sickness or some cfther calamity has overtaken him. The truth is there are two classes of men, with a pretty broad line of demarcation lietweea them. One is orudent and thrifty, laying up money, never idle when it is possible to secure employment The other ia imprudent and thriftless, never accepting employment when it is possible to ge along without ww^

TnE guardian angels who-" have under* taken td prOteJe^Bcs» Tweed, according td the last"statemehf _gf' thw.t departed statesman, will find, before they get through wi(h it, that they have a pretty big job on their hands.

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RIGHT TO EMPLOYMENT. The rights of labor are sacred. But there can be no conflict of rights. False notions on thissubjest are mischievous and react on laboring men. No reform which violates conditions of civilization Can be permanent. There is aright of employment but no 6uch thing as right to employment, any more than to demand money without'work? The rights of employment cap be defined they are, first, the right to the full use of personal power*, of body and mind, and of al' property gained by industry and economy. Further there is the right to the enforcenif nt of contract between employer and employed. In addition to these it is sometimes openly asserted or insinuated that^tnere is ah abstract right to be employed. James Hodge is a birck-raaker. It is hi* privilege to use his service wherever he thinks he can make the most .money. If he can use his brains in inventing machinery to assist, him he has aright to do so. If any union interferes to prevent his working for any price he can get, society in general is bound to protect him. If his employer loses money in the business and demands a settlement on lower terms than the conract, society ought to make the employers property subject to a lien, that he may be secure. But if Mr. Hodge further insists with hib hand on the brickmaker's throat that he be employed, then it is necessary to resist to the bitter end. Here comes the danger of a popular delusion. No pdrty can promise employment. If it doei make su:h foolish promise a few months of experience will prove its promise false.-& Then the workman is angry and disappointed. He does not find what he expected and he is ready to join a mob, It seems that some of the "National" party are attacking the second rigl\t—the right to have the debts of employers enforced by law, and they offer in its stead the enforcement of a right which is a barren ideality. They would take away a real and tangible aid to the laborer, one which imbedded in all just legislation and substitute a promise which cannot be fulfilled, and which will arouse false hopes in the p9pular mind. It is perfectly tair to offer* as the Democratic party does toV assist^ in such reforms as will remove legislati in favor of class benefits, subsidies, and the like But it is quite another thing to promise everybody a farm a mule, and a plow in caie of a party ^victory, as did "carpet baggers" in Louisiana before federal bayonets disappieared from' that state. Yet if a man is made to believe in this fallacious political Heresy he will not only insist on his right to be ensplaved but he will also set out his own list of prices. If the laws of* supply and demand can be overturned in one case they may be in the other. All that can ever be realized is the destruction of the power of com bined capital to interfere with these laws by means of "corners," "watering tocks," "rings," defective bankrupt laws, and all of that kind of monstrous vil— liany. In this direction we are steadily reaching success without aid from extravagant communistic demagogism.

THE BANKRUPT LAWl As published in the Senate proceedings yestei day afternoon, that body has passed a bill abolishing the bankrupt law It now goes to the House. How soon that body may act on it, is, of courbe one of those things no one can definitely pnr swer. But that it will either pass the Senate bill, or some bill making very radical changes in the bankrupt law as it now stand*, cannot be for a mom en doubted, in its present shape the bankrupt law ife a snare and a delusion, a fraud and an outrage. Discounting the relief it has furnished to some good men, it has been a screen behind which dishonest ones have concocted more deviltry than Satan himself, though he he is the arch fiend, would be willing to claim as ewn. And this thing ha» hurt cred Every day it stands it hurts credit Men in the east arc afraid to trust men in the west, and men in the west are suspicious of giving credit to their eastern brothers.

Worse than that. It fiddles while men swindle their fellow townsmen. Nothing is good but real estate security. A man beg?, borrows, or purchases something for which he owes. Six months afterward it gets inconvenient to pay. He abolishes hell for his own sake, condemns every creditor as a scoundrel to the place he has abolished, and gees into bankruptcy,,without assets. Solomon's as judge# having gone out of fashion, and omniscience not being an attribute of our blind human justice, it is next to impossible to detect his perjury. He comes out of bankruptcy a free man, fat and prosperous and ready for more victims, a moral leper breeding the contagion of dishonesty asevery man does who prospers by well understood, but unpunished criminality. Not for the relief it has given good men who have been unfortunate in their business ventures, but for the means it has furnished bad ones of detraudiftg their creditors,it will and should be abolished. Ia the meantime all men who an and have been really bankrupt for Some time wQl probably avail themselves of the law, give up tEeir overburdened property, wipe out their debts and start over fresh, There never was such a splendid time for starting over fresh as the present w*

Boss TWEED forgot to mention the color of the guardian angels who were going to protect him.,

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TWEED.

Tweed's death in .a jail is a fitting termination to a iile of crime. Few men if any in this country made such base use of office as he did. He was the leading1 conspirator in.a gigantic raid upon the treasury of a great city. For months, he called about about him his confederates and in their council chamber they deliberated on the amount which all bills against the city should be raised, and settled the per cent, of the stealings which should go to each of .their number. It was bold, ccfiant robbery, practiced, through a series of months. When exposure finally came through the columns of the New York Timer ho lkl not lose heart. While be did not, as he Could not deny the charges made, he defiantly challenged the community which, he had robbed.- Protected against purtbhment, as he supposed,"lby his ill gotten gains and a prostituted judicif ary of ^is oWn creation, he wanted to know what the city was going to do about it. With the trial, his conviCtibn and sentence his escape, recapture and subsequent incarceration the public is fa miliar. His death at noon yesterday in the prison to which he had been sent, is a proper ending for'him. •frr

His last words, as reported Friday are amazingly "cheeky" —so ''cheeky' in fact that we reproduce them, only asking that thev be, read to 6low music. They are: "I have tried to do some good, if I have not bad good luck. I am not afraid to die. I believe, the guardian angels will protect me."

Evidently Tweed has read his bible and has heard of the thief oh the cross. But of course Tweed has read his bible. Did he not say once, on the witness stand, that when he was a senator at Albany it was his habit to persuade a certain other senator to vote for his measures by putting bank bills between the leaves of that oth er senator's bible, which he kept con spicuously on a table in his room? Of cburse he read his bible.X

We give in this place some incidents connected with his decease which, were hot contained in the dispatches published in the GAZETTE yesterday. They are as follows:

Tweed, shortly before his death, said to Mr. Edelstein, a lawyer, something with reference to the effect upon his health and fortunes, of his confinement in jail, and mentioning some persons by name exclaimed "They will be satisfied now.1' No member ot his family wasin his room when he died, although his daughter Mrs, Douglas, was in the adjoining apartment. His wife, his sons Richard and W. M. Jr., and other relatives, near and remote, were in Europe where they have been for some months, rfis room was sumptuously furnished but his meals had been brought to him from the jail. His beard was snow white, and so was his hair. His fice was very thin, but the dimensions of His figure had not been perceptibly reduced.

Mr. John D. Townsend, who has late lv been Tweed's counsel, came lo the jail at atout hall-past 1 o'clock, and was present at the inquest. To a reporter of the Evening Post Mr. Townsend said he had been told by Edelsttin that Tweed made the following remark t6 him about twenty minutes before he died: "Tilden and F'airchild, I guess thy'Ve killed me at last. I've tried hard to do the best I could latterly, but they wouldn't let me they will probably be satisfied when 1 am carried out of here to-morrow."

Coroner Woltman and Deputy Coroner Cushman went to the jail this sfter--noon to hold an inquest, as the revised statutes provide that the bodyof any per son who dies during confinement in prison shall not be removed until after a coroner's investigation. A jury was impaneled and viewed the body, which laid on the bed where he died. The de position of Dr. Carnochan was taken and a verdict rendered in accordance with his statements, in which Dr. Cushman coincided. Dr. Carnochan certified that death was caused by pericarditU, inflammation of the membranes around the heart, pneumonia, bronchitis, and chronic diseases of the kidneys. He added, although this was not included in the deposition, that' death was also caused by the moral shock produced by the constant excitement under which Tweed had been laboring."

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The body will be removed from the jail to the house of Tweed's ton-in-law, Mr. Douglas, on Seventy-seventh street

MONTANA papers claim that N. S. Vestal, owner of the Penobscat mine, twenty miles from Helena, has suddenly ascertained himself to be the owner of a gpld bonanza. The vein is thirteen teet wide and assays from $1,003 to $2,000 a ton in gold, and $600 in silver. Mr. Vestal nns the entire lead—3,000 feet in all—which is probably the most valuable mining property in Montana, or for that mat»rr. anywhere else, "the discovery ».au 1* situated at the exact summit of the mountains. Five feet west from it the waiter runs into the Pacific. Five feet east it runs into the Atlantic oc an. In a word the mouth of the shaft is at the divide of the continent.

Less than a month ago Mr. Vestal was heavily In debt was considered by others and considered himself a poor man. Now he has leaped to fortune as rapidly and as wonderfully as if he were really the possessor of Aladdin's far famed lamp, or ring ef mystic power. In few year* the bonanza king will blossom into a Senator^ from Montana, hie daughter an objec of denunciation, and fiimMf ot adulation from that select body of patriots who have very properly designated them' selves the Notional*** In the meantime Oh! Vestal virgin pull down that article

vesture which' covers your abdomen, and be assured that you Caiinot find too much gold to please each and every one of us. Array yourself** purple and fine linen iuy ap tHe natfchud debt and whoop things up generally, if you love your fellow men

BEECHER—TILTON.

Considerable space is devoted 'fn this issue of the GAZETTE to the latest phases of the Beecher-Tilton scandal., Many, had hoped that that unsavory scandal had been laid at rest. Day by day it was gradually sinking out of sight and mind though the prominence of«both Beecher and Tilton and the 'fact, that both are constantly lecturing over the cdhfltry, and being interviewed on the subject, Jg^s servoccasionally to bring it up again. But this has been in a desultory wsiy and peoph were getting heartily tiretf of the whole subject, and were expecting that it would quietly rest in the oblivion to which they had onlv too gladly-consigned it in their hopes. But this, it teetns, was not to be the case. Again it raise* its horrid head,andin a fashion sure to attract the widest possible attentkm.

At the first it seems perfect!/ astounding, the revelation now made, and one Is apt to believe that it settle* all- dispute about the 6rig!rtal question Involved in the trial. But a second thought is likely to convince one that it real!/ .leaves it exactly where it wa* before." Whoever thought Mr. Beecher innocent of S the orignal offence charged on

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Tilton will think so stiil. Who* thought him guilty wilH:ontinue in. that belief. Mrs. Tilton has said io many- things her testimony has been so contradictory, a* to render her absolutely valueless as a witness. None the less an object of sympathy as the most conspicuous Wreck of the storm Of scandal, she entirely untrustworthy. She has asserted so many things so many times, as to render it impossible to guess when she told the tru}l. It it te said that more credence is to be attached to what she says now because she acknowledges her own guilt, it can be anfeWCred that sufficient motive may be found In the fact that only in such way can she hope foe

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ation With her husband. L, That *fiIton and his wife would ulti mately become reconciled and' live together, always seemed probable. His testimony cm the trial always -shielding her as far as it was possible for him to do so. He spoke of her as "the white-souled Elizabeth." His door has been open to hei*. It is believed that he has helped hert* ^e has never spoken of Iter anywherehM'Or^.jjtt any time except as one who had been more sinned against than sinning, and for whom he still cherished fond remembrances. All these things have pointed 1 to a reconciliation some time or Other. Now it has come, or is about to come, and in the only way it was possible, by an^'admisslon on her part that hen# husband swore truely on the trial and that she was guilty of the offtnee wherewith he Charged her.

And the world will move 0.1 just as it did. Some will think Beecher guilty— those who thought So before. And those who have always thought him innocent will not swerve from their belief. Mrs. Triton's testimony comes too. late.

Tilton afrd his wife after some peculiarly Brooklyn gush will come together, and go to Europe, and he will lecture on the "Music of the Spheres," or some such subject next winter.

And Beecher—-he will retain hU pulpit and remain, until he dies in the harness the foremost pulpit orator of the country Should he lecture, crowd! Will throng to hear him* and lose alt thought of the man in remembering the wonderful witchery of his speech.

Both he and Tilton will be in all the greater demand as lecturers because of this new notoriety given them, and will probably be able to increase their rate per evening one or two hundred dollars.

One curious fact concerning the popular estimate ot Mr. Beecher is worth noting. Religious men—by which is meant church members—for the irtost part believe him innocent and a grossly maligned man. Those who think him guilty believe he abolished a certain place, which

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for cause, but that hew ill not escape it* fires nevertheless. Most men of the world—by which is meant non church members—believe him guilty. And, granting the' original^, offense, about which the less said the better, like him all the better for periling his own soul by perjury to protect the reputation of his weaker paramour.

THE idea of imposing an income tax

gaining favor the more it is discussed, Its justice can not be doubted. The only possible objection lies In the difficulty of its faithful collection. The powers at Washington Pre beginning to realize the probability of its importance. Dispatches say that the commia" sioner of Internal Revenue has already begun to prepare himself for the emergency, and is taking steps to ascertain what extra force will be required to carry such law into effect. It is barely possible that Congress may pass a law before it adjourn* thi* summer.

AT its recent session the Iowa Legt*:

latere named a law prohibiting the sale or giving away of beer, wine or other intoxicating beverages within a distance of two miles outside of the limits of any city or village which has prohibited the sale Of such beverages within its corporated limits. The same law alto place* saloons at which these beverages are sold, located within a distance of wo miles of the limits of village* or cities which ficensethe ale by ordinance, under the poitce»jiirisdictj$!* of such ordinances* Penalties of fine and imprisonment are provided for violations of the new law.