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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1884)
rjjiZcJT k zE"jH w "i : r i -"---- RjjE rati t ijf. T2 r V t ! i i i- . - - ' tTy ' v -- k-- .- L & i - :' LIS A P1TJSG1 TO DIITE. ' 4. Tawiinr Trala ea the Meaea Reato - Plaagw Tareara a BrMfe Over "Wait ' Ktver, tfoar TniUaaapolls Six Feneaa Kaaataa to Deata la the Baratas Can aad Several Ja jarad. s Ihdiakapoli8,Ikd.. JamSL The accommodation train from Monon, dae here at 10:30 o'clock a. m., bad made the last stop before reaching Iadiaaapolis, r and: was just getting tinder headway when it began to cross the bridge over White River. The train consisted ot an engine, baggage and express car, .smoking-car and ladies' coach. Conductor W. 8. Losey was in charge, and John Bremer was engineer. The latter, after leaving the station, how ever, bad gone into the baggage-car for some purpose unknown, leaving James Nonan, the fireman, in charge of the engine. The bridge was of the ordinary Howe trusse pattern, consisting.of two spans, each 150 feet in length. A speed of about fifteen miles per hour had been attained, and the train bad pulled its full length on the bridge, when Nonar felt the baggage-car sinking. He had his - band on the throttle-valve at the moment, and instinctively pulled her wide open. As the engine shot forward the baggage-cai plunged downward, and the tender was separated at both ends from its connections and the engine fairly climbed into a posi tion of safety on the remaining span. The jerk lifted the tender off the rails, and it ran a short distance on the ties and string ers without leaving the bridge. The first break in the bridge occurred di rectly under the baggage car, which seemed to be pressed down by some super natural power, and it dropped like lead in to the water below. The smoker forged ahead a few feet and dropped squarely upon the forward -car. The rear coach went down through a second break in the span and the channel was choked with the debris of the bridge and of the forward part of the train. News of the disaster reached the city in a few minutes. The railroad officials acted with the most commendable promptness in dispatching a relief and wrecking train. Inside of an hour after the accident occur red the train was on the ground, but little could be done owing to the want of pecul iar facilities with which to work. The sight that presented itself was suffi cient to justify the harrowing rumors that rapidly found their way into circulation through the streets. Half the bridge was down and with the debris of the cars in flames, which originated lrom tho stores ic the coaches, nothing but the wheels and other iron work remained. A dozen mec were endeavoring to quench the flames with buckets of water, but unavailingly. Soon a large bucket brigade was formed of vol unteers on the relief train, and the burning wreck was rapidly cooled so as to'pcrmit the work of recovering the bodies to begin. The dead and seriously injured were all confined in the ruins of the smoker and bag age car, and these lying one on top oi the other were in deep water near the pier. The river was high and the current strong and icy, adding to the difficulties of the work, which was quite tedious, there being only one skiff to work in. It was a sicken ing and heart-rending labor. Five form less and almost unrecognizable trunks oi other portions of the human body were taken from the smoldering pile. The names of thoVe dead, together with theii residences, were: John H. Brewer, engineer, Lafayette. J. E. Ricketts, baggage master, Monon. Abel Smith, American Express Messen ger, Madison. George Lowry, brakeman, Buena Vista. John Bray, Deming, Ind., passenger. Lynn Clark, Westfield, a passenger, in jured fatally. -The others injured, all of whom were pas sengers save white and Parker, are: W. P.Houk, Westfield, Ind., head cut and bruised. William A. Zamars, ex-Sheriff of Hamil ton County, arm broken, face cut, side bruised. William T. Swiggart, Carmel, skull frac tured and hip hurt. B. J. White, bridgeman, bruised. Charles Parker, bridgeman, face and head cut. Mrs. Sullivan and baby, wife and child of section boss, bruised. J. B. Horton, slightly scorched and bruised. Thomas Parr, Superintendent of Bridge Repairs on the road, who was working on the bridge when it went down, is missing and it is believed his body is underneath the wreck at the bottom of the stream. The ladies' car was thrown on end, and frightful scenes ensued. Mrs. Sullivan, with her babe tightly and securely clasped, stood on her head, wedged in between seats. She was released and all made theii way out, only to hear the frightful cries oi the more unfortunate in the front cars. In the smoker were instances of unparalleled sufferings and of great bravery. .From this car there was no escape for the unfortu nates, whose injuries did not allow volun tary motion. The suspicion raised by a statement oi Conductor Losey that three unknown bodies are yet in the wreck is strengthened by the report that several persons are missing. Among them are Elwood Moon, a merchant at Hortonville, who is said to have been on the train and has not since been seen. He has a wife and ten children. Another pas- a senger of whom nothing is known is Mat Hayes, of Louisville, a traveling agent for . Fairbanks' Scale Company. His wife is the daughter of M. McCord, Secretary ot the Indianapolis Car Company, who drove out to the scene of the wreck in search of his son-in-law. Although the bridge was being repaired, stay-bolts being tightened and nuts re moved, no signals were displayed calling for caution in running over the structure, and the most ordinary precautions aga'inst danger under the circumstances appear to have been neglected. Those of the wounded who are so badly injured that they could not be moved were cared for in the village, Dr. J. W. Bates residence being turned into a sort of hospi tal. Lindley Clark, of Hadem, Kan., for merly a resident of Westfield, is fatally in jured, his hurts being internal and on the head. He has a family. W. A. Seemans. proprietor of the West - field Mills, and Wm. T. Swiggart are in a serious condition. ' W. P. Houk. who was badly burned and cat about the head, is a poBtal clerk on the -Cincinnati, Indianapo lis, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad, running between Cincinnati and Chicago. He was taken to his home in Westfield. He had been laying off for some days, and was on his way to Indianapolis to resume his run to-night. This is the most serious accident of the nature that has ever occurred in Central In diana. It created great excitement in the city and the bulletin-boards were eagerly canned for the latest information from the wreck. The management of the road is quite popular and offer the victims of the terrible affair every convenience. The road itself was the object of sympathy in the un fortunate experience that brought two such dreadful catastrophes to the same line in successive months. Will Xaey Kever Iieara? Dallas. TcxWaa. 31. W.T. Vaughn, of Goliad, Tex., returning rem a visit to Illinois, was to-day swindled by confidence crooks out of 5910. One rep resented himself as an old acquaintance named Steward, telling Vaughn he had been East and purchased a big stock of goods to engage in business at Victoria, Tex, A third party with the words "Ex press Agent" on the front of his cap came up and presented a bill of charges amount ing to $1,000 against the alleged stock of goods. Vaashn took a $1,000 bond of the Batte City, Mont, Gold and Silver Mining Company and advanced -$910 on it. Tee -bond is worthless and the swindlers are -gone. A OREAT'FOO.- A Heavy Atmonpltem Ilangi for noun Orer New York City to th Danger ol Ule and L'uib A Collision Between Trains on the "I." lload How It Ap peared from the Big Bridge. New Yokk, Jan. 31. A dense fog cov ered the city like a pall yesterday. Such a fog has not visited Manhattan Island before in years. The elevated cars, the stages anc ferry-boats were crowded, and very natur ally all these routes of travel were subject to incessant delays, now and then an acci dent, and uninterrupted confusion. At ten minutes to eight o'clock Engineer Tower, of the Sixth Avenue "L" Railroad, brought bis Harlem-bound train into the Park Place depot at a rapid pace just as the preceding train was starting to get out of the way. Forsome reason or other the block system, under which the trains were sup posed to be running, failed to work in this instance, and Tower's train went crashing Into the rear of the car in front with great violence. There were only two or three people in the car at the time, and no one was hurt, though the dummy and car were jorry-looking wrecks. It required half an hour's labor to cleat lway the wreck so as to permit trains to re lume their running. It was nearly noon aefore trains were running on schedule time. All the car lines were thrown more or less off their schedule dnrlng the day. Even the drivers of street-cars and truoks were unable to see just what they were doing when the fog us thickest Bad as Die fog was on the sheets, it wasgnatiarally worse on the rivers. It lifted but little from the face of the water from morning till night, Mid those by the river side listened to an un musical entertainment of steam whistles without an intermission. Air the boats were run at half speed, and it was a novel sensa tion for landsmen to feel themselves slowly 'oioviug through the water, to hear the iteam voices hailing them from every quarter and every distance, and yet to see July the deck they stood on and the white walls of fog around them. To cross the Brooklyn bridge between six and eight o'clock was like i trip in the clouds. It was balooning. with nothing but fog in sight Walking aear the towers oue could not see the big jables overhead, and thirty j-ards away he rould not sec the towers themselves. Only ;lie suspension ropes at the sides of the foot artilge were in sight. The majority of lie ferry-boats stopped running altogether, md travel everywheie was very much im peded. There were a number of minor ac jiduuts, but no serious casualties reported. e e m TERRORIZING A TOWN. Cnkaowii MIscreanU Threatening to Firs an Ohio Village and Batcher IU Best Citizens A Lady the Innocent Cause ol It All. Fostoiua, O., Jan.3L The town of Ar-1 eadia, six miles west of here, is blazing witr excitement over threatenings made by un known parties to fire the town and murdei the best citizens. The school directors oi the town have just built a S3, TOO school house. Among the teachers em ployed is a Miss Askcome, of Vanlue who scem9 to be the Innocent caus of all the difficulty. On the 26tt inst a threateniug letter was found on th desk of the Superintendent of Schools. TIm letter charged Miss Askcome's fattier witt several crimes too horrible to mention Soon after this villainous communleatlor was received each of the school director got a letter threatening his lite and property if he did not have Miss Askcome discharged. But little attention,, however, was paid tc these threats, as they were supposed to come from some one who was jealous of the young Jady. Seven or eight of such letters in all wen received, the handwriting being good, whih not a single word was misspelled, showing that the waiter was a person of education. As a measure of precaution, watchmen were stationed at the drug-store, school house, and several other places, all of whicfc had been threatened, to save them from thi incendiaries' torch. About llo0 Tuesday night the parties made their appearance at the residence ol Mr. Morganthall, where the young lady was boarding, and sent a large hammer whiz zing into the room in which she was sup posed to be asleep. Morganthall at once jumped up and went to the door, when three pistol-shots were fired at him in rapid suc cession, one bullet whizzing by his head. The marauders then decamped. Miss Ask come has tendered her resignation as teach er, but the directors have refused to accept it, saying they purpose to ferret out tin whole thing. m m BREAKING THE ICE BRIDGE. BU Louis' Annual Smash-Up of Steamboat and Bridges. St. Louis, Jan. 31. Just before dart Wednesday afternoon tho Ice bridge across the Mississippi River broke, and the great mass, from a point just, below the bridge, commenced moving. The ice was very thick, and a break-up was not looked lor, sc many of the steamers were unprepared foi what came. Fires were made hurriedly. A few iniuutes after the ice commenced moving the whistling began, and summoned thousands to the river front The ice moved rapidly, and, as It journeyed along, broke up, and in some places plied very high, and looked as though it would carry everything before it The Anchor wharf boats, which are moored to the levee with immense chains, were the first to feel the shock, and they were driven high upon the levee. Then the moving mass struck the wrecking steam erSalvo No. 2, breaking in her sides and filling her so full of water that she turned over in such a position that the ice was carried over her, forming a regular stairway. Further down the ice hit the St Paul and St Louis Packet Company's fine steamer Minneapolis, crashing in her sides and sink ing Iter. She now lies upon one side and in a critical position. She is valued at $40,000, ind the Salvo, owned by Carroll & Powell, is worth 810,000. Both sustain great dam age to hull and machinery. At the foot of Lesperance street the ice struck the wharf- aoai iwoen juiicueu ami uiu consiueraoie iamage to it The ke is still moving, but a forge is looked for at the Arsenal or just eIow. e . Stocks er Wheat in America, Cincinnati, Jan. 31. The Cinclnnab frtce Current has made a special examina tion of the wheat slocks In the country, and publishes the result, showing the total supply of wheat to be 175,000,000 bushels. To flits is added 35,000,000 in flour in the hands ot dealers, making a total ot 210,000,000 bushels for the remaining bait of the erof year. It is estimated that the requlreme ntt for that time are: For domestic food, etc., laSjOOO.oOO-. bushels; exports, including flour, 57,000,000, leaving a surplus of 27, 009,000. Tills is upon the basis of 120,000, 000 bushels for exports this year, against 148,000,000 last year. The night telegraph operator at Winona Ilss., is only twelve 'years old. 7 THE LATE OLIVER. P. MORTON. A monument to the lato Oliver P. Morton was recently unveiled at Indianapolis. Sev eral addresses commemorative or the dead Senator were delivered, and the following upem by Prof. John C. Itldpath, of Do Pauw university, was read by Its author : When Lincoln's band was thrust into the night. And strained to touch some pillar of support. When through the darkness shot no ray of light, And Slavery bad Freedom for his sport; When no star shone to guide our ship to port And bale-tires blazed across the solitude; When liko Laocoon in woeful sort Ibe Nation Writhed, and crimson streaks of blood Flashed up tho sky, then Morton rose and siooa. Dark was tho night and star by star went out And men groped blindly, and no way was seen. And Freedom fell and Treason raised a shout And feeble folk with napkins rushed be tween To mend the earthquake, and the Dragon's grin Mocked their endeavor! All men waited for That -presence whoso inspiring voice and mien 8houhl mark him for the coming leader, nor Was any found like ours, tho Great War Gov ernor. The people saw him as he lifted high His arm of iron! In his warlike face Was seen the fire of conflict and his eye Shone with a quenchless light while from his place Ho thundered forth his challenge; and the race That served the times, and doubted, and stood still. While men were bleeding and tho black dls Krace Still wrapt its coils about us, felt the thrill. And rose, and stood, and went to battle at his will! How great ho was in that heroic time! How doubly great when round about him rose The treacherous bands whose garments dripped with crime! How snail this hour speak senile words of those Who in that, hour were tho Nation's toes? Lo, all night long, while other men were sleep ing, Morton kept vigil, knowing not repose, Piercing' tho dark, the far horizon sweeping. Where homos were desolate and women sat a-wecping. On every held where soldiers fought and fell, On every Weld of triumph or dismay. On every Held where men did duty well. In march, in camp, iwebarge and battle fray. There, in tho darkness of the gathering n&ht. Where thousands living with dead thousands lay. The sons of Indiana saw a'light And irraspcda friendly hand, and roso and blessed tho sight! For there was seen tho shadow of a form That all men knew was heard a loving sound That all men recognized, and then tho warm. Strong arms of Morton were entwined around The d3-ing soldier, and his bleeding wound Was stanched, and in his breaking bruin The pulse of life, returning with a bound. Throbbed wildly, and tho brave forgot his pain. While tears of deathless love were mingled with tho rain. He saw the Olack Man in his fetters bound. Upon his buck the slave-whip's horrid "scar: He felt in his broad, generous breast a wound Until what time was drawn the sword of war. Then other blood Was pourod as waters are Poured from the thunder-cloud in summor time! Two hundred fields were red as cinnabar. Till earth was purged of that so sickening crime. And Slavery fell down dead, and Afric rose sublime. He rose sublime, and trembled as ho rose. Patient and black; but Morton, too. was there. The Negro's champion, frowning on his foes; His face grew dark as night; he said: " lie ware! This is a Man now touch him if you dare!" And they who would rcsiuve the hutnun durst No more bind on the manacles, or bear The flaming ire of him who braved their worst And smiled denanccwhen the slavers gnashed and cursed. The Commonwealth beheld nis rising star And bade him onwanl till he stood among Tho nation's great and there renewed tho war. The battle of the weak man with the strong The endless strife of right against the wrong. There, side by side with Sumner, hn threw down Tho mortal challenge to the sullen throng That scowled upon him with the slaver's frown. And sought to set again their plume in free dom's crown. O Morton ! dead, but still not dead at all ! Arise lrom out the shadows! We arc here! Behold our offering and hoed our cull! For six years thou hast 6poken not! Come near And speak once more! Wo stand and wait to hear. As in the days that tried us as by fire We gather round thee to applaud and cheer! Answer our cry, and feel our heart's desire While here before thy feet we fling the sword and lyre! No monument can blazon such a life; No brief eulogium add uuto bis fume! Born to ln great a leader in that strife In which were blent our glory and our shame. Ho stood the foremost! At his magic name Freedom set up a shout on all the Held Where our starred banner was the ori tlummo! And patriot soldiers, until freedom yields That banner up, will write his name upon their shields. This stone may crumble, but the fame of him Who stands sublimely in this form of art Will brighten history when the age grows dim. And of the future bca deathless part! No time can tarnish what the human heart Han made immortal! Not till flood and lire. And hail and tempest and the ice-king's dart Have wasted nature, and tho ages tire. Shall Morton's cherished name and glorious deeds expire! Forward er Backward. There are among those most inclined to discuss the political situation several Republicans of some prominence who have been at some pains to say that the people are tired of the negro question, and because they are tired of it the dis cussion of Civil" Rights Amendments is not likely to become a prominent feat are of the next Presidential campaign. These gentlemen incline to the opinion that the Nation has done enough lor the colored people, or that it believes it has, and the people at large, assuming that the negro should now bo able to take Bare of himself, arc not disposed to weight themselves down with further responsibility on his account On this theory the whole question of Civil Rights is to be left to the States, and present wrongs are.to be righted by the 3low wearing away of tho prejudices. It might be said that if the rights of 'the colored people were left to the States, that in the South, where there is the most prejudice, there would be a Erompt denial of all rights. It might e argued that if the piivileges and rights of the colored people under the law were to be limited or defined by those who had held them in slavery that the prospect was not a very encourag ing one." But the question is one of principle now, just as it has always been, and it must be met and settled as the suffrage and other questions were settled years ago. The people may or may not be tired of the discussion. It does not matter if they arc, and it does not matter if they are not. The people were disinclined fifteen or sixteen years ago to grapple with the suffrage question, and thou sands of good Republicans thought that the party was .inviting, certain, defeat whin it made negro suffrage an issue. Bat in the devdopmej of a policy based on principle the Republican par ty had come to a point where to stand still was to go backward. Tho ques tion was not one of personal tasto or in clination, or of party convenience. It was as much one of duty and principle as was the defense of the Union, ana in those times Republicans won their bat tles by clingiug to the right and think ing little of risks. Had they stopped then to ask if the people were tired of the negro question the Suffrage Amendments would nevei have been adopted. Had the Union men of 1861 stopped to ask if the peo ple were tired of the slavery discussion tho few would have answered for the many, and the Union would have gone to pieces. If the Republicans of to-day stop to ask if the people are tired of the negro question they will take a step backward instead of forward. To adopt such a course will be to subordi nate public opinion as well as principle to the dictatorship of a few self-appointed spokesmen. The rule of Republican action has been to dare a good deal and risk agood deal for the sake of the right When the Civil-rights bill was framed there was need for it in every State. Undei its provisions prejudices were driven back, and colored people made smooth progress in the assumptions of citizen ship. Just how much progress they have made in all the little things that go to make up the prerogatives of the American citizen is uitlicult to realise, until the memories of the agitation cm are recalled with the customs of the present in view. The law was made for the prejudiced and the unreasonable, and it compelled them to follow the lead of a progressive sentiment. The law has now been pro nounced unconstitutional, and already the rowdyish anil turbulent elements ol society are making an attempt to re verse the order and compel a progress ive public sentiment to march in sham bles at the rear of the procession. There is in the near future a retro grade movement from the Republican standards fixed by Lincoln aud Sumner, or a quick dash forward to a position that will make sure of what they battled for. It is the old question of the rights of the citizen, anil on this Republicans can face only to the front. If there is any doubt as to the rights of a colored man, there are doubts as to the rights of white men. The principle is to be defended without reference to color. In the face of the decision of the Su preme Court, the Republican party can not stand still, for to. stand "still is tc make a backward movement. It musl go forward. Chicago Inter Qaian. The Wipers. The Democrats are not verj powerful at originating legislation, but they are terrible fellows at wiping out law's that other people have made. A few years ago they were engaged in wiping every vestige of the war legislation from the statute book, and so vigorously did they pursue the job that m the end they came uncomfortably near being wiped out themselves. Just now they are en gaged in wiping out the Civil-service law, with what result to themselves ro mains to be seen. So long as the Republicans were so firmly established in power as to show no probability whatever of an ap proaching change, the Democrats were the most virtuous Civil-service reform ers in the world. They could not hold a convention of any sort without sol emnly arraigning" the Republicans for gross partisanship in the distribu tion of ofiices, and declaring that merit and not favoritism should oe the true and only guide in making appoint ments. "Even as late as last year they were so much impressed by their own pretenses in favor of Civil-service Re form that they did not as a body place themselves in opposition to the bill, and it was allowed to pass without becom ing distinctly a party measure. But bv talking to each other in pri vate anil to other people in public the leaders have for some months now been deluding themselves into the belief that they can carry the Presidential election of 1884, anil the first thing to trotib e them in that connection has been the impediment, in the shape of certain pro visions of the Civil-service bill, that would lie in the wav of an immediate seizure of all the political spoils, and it was determined that if bv auy means possible, the Civil-service law must be "wiped." Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, was "wiped" a few days ago, and all because of his connection with the Civil-service bill. The Democrats evidently thought that if one of their own number didn't know better than to act as though he thought the party declarations in convention meant something, it was time to put him out of the way. His fate will warn other Democrats not to indulge in the recreation of composing Civil-service Reform bills so long as there is any possibility of their passage through Con gress. A gallant Democrat from Kentucky introduced a bill in the House a day or two ago for abolishing the Civil-service law outright. This goes to the root of the matter. The new bill has gone to the select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service, of which Mr. Mutchler, of Pennsylvania, is Chairman, and eight of the thirteen members are Democrats. If they do not bring in a favorable re port it will be because, unlike most of their fellows, they have sufficient wis dom to make them timid. It is most likely, however, that the Democrats will wipe out the Civil Ser vice Commission by the process oi starvation rather than by direct aboli tion. That is the favorite process among cowards for killing off their enemies. Democratic lawyers are being impressed anew with the great fact that the Com mission is an unconstitutional body, and before the Executive Appro priation bill is brought in probably the scruples of the Democrats on the score of unconstitntionalitv will become so 'serious as to prevent their voting for any money to carry on the reiorms un dertaken by the Commission. Whatever way they may be compelled to adopt in order to get rid of the spec ter of Civil-service Reform, the Demo crats will march on to the glorious work of wiping it out, and lucky will they be if they do not perceive before the year is over that with all their pains they have only succeeded in once more extinguishing the prospects of theiifown party. Detroit Fost and I'ribum 'the Sext Democratic Flattera; The election of Mr. Payne as United States Senator from Ohio does not serve in the least to clarify the atmos phere with reference to the position ol the Democracy in the approaching Presidential struggle. It rather tendf to confirm the already strong probabil ity that a state of impenetrable fog giness will prevail, and that the cam pain of 1884 will be very much like that of 1880. Latterly the tariff-for-revenue-only men have passed through a season of rejoicing on account of their supposed capture of the party. The decided majority by which Mr. Carlisle was elected Speaker over Mr. Randall sufficiently indicated, it was claimed, that the Democracy -was no longer on the fence on the tariff ques tion; that it had hung the banner oi revenue reform on the outer walls; and that henceforth there would be no ambiguity in its platforms. The policy of the party would be humane but firm. It would not cut the protective cat's tail off all at once, but would amputate it gently inch by inch, so that the ani mal might receive no shock. But there was no mistake about the fact that the .tail must be eventually eliminated sc that the location of the stump even would become purely a matter ol memory. The Ways and Means Com mittee was formed on this basis, and it was understood for a moment that the partv had really struck the bed-rock ol a principle. But all at once there was a revulsion of feeling. A number of the men who helped to elect Mr. Carlisle and to com mit the party began to comprehend thai they had probably made a mistake, and already there has'begun to crystalize a Democratic opposition to the Tariff Re form bill which is to be brought forward as an er cathedra measure. What is represented by this opposition may be regarded as strengthened by the choice of air. Payne by the Ohio Democrats as Senator. "Mr. Payne is au unqualified protectionist. He does not beat about the bush and talk about a tariff" for rev enue so regulated as to protect home in dustry, but he advocates our tariff foi being" just what it is namely, a tarifl for revenue and protection both. And here we are reminded that the Democ racy of Mr. Payne's State have recently made a demand for the restoration ol the duty on wool, which was reduced in the late Tariff bill. Somewhere it is stated that Mr. Payne has said that in s direct issue between free-trade and pro tection in Ohio the protectionists would win by a hundred thousand majority. Whether Mr. Payne ever said this or not it is pretty evident that he substantially believes it. Now. Ohio is an Octobei State. The Democracy lay great stressor carrying it m that month, not only be-. cause they want its Electoral Vote, but because they place particular value or the moral effect of a ireliminary vic tory. Does it seem likely that Mr. Carlisle and his Ways and Means Com mittee will so prevail in the National Convention as to incorporate a tariff-for-revenue plank in the Democratic platform? And if they do not, what be comes of the bold stand taken by the party in the election of Speaker? There will surely be some crow eaten by the Kentucky school of statesmen before election day. The revenue reform idea will be dropped, and the Democratic ticket will represent nothing but an appetite for office. There is one inevitable course for the Democracy to adopt under these circum stances. It is the course it has been driven to adopt before, and there is no escape for it now. Like causes produce like effects. It must fall back on the old cry of administrative reform, or Re publican corruption. And how is it equipped fortius kind of warfare? Mr. Payne and the Ohio Democracy again furnish us with a suggestive illustration. Thus speaks a prominent party journal, published at the State capital, anent the Senatorial election: "The mind is staggered by tie revelation that putrefaction could gain a spot to further rot within the Democratic party." -And again: "Corruption has made rotten the Democratic Legislature of Ohio. Money has had its potency tc drag honor down in the mire." And Still again: "These pernicious and for eign elements must be eradicated, and until they are no Democrat will enter the Capitol of Ohio or of the Nation." The spectacle of Senator Pendleton, author of the Civil-service Reform bill, turned out in the cold, while good old Tlmrman, disgusted, flees from Colum bus for the time being, forms an appro priate ad ji net to the scene. Allied to this comes the memory of the McLean Convent.on in Cincinnati. Ohio seems to be just the State which the Demo crats ought to carry on an exclusive platform of political purity, doesn't it? And New York is the other State which the Democrats must make a tremendous effort to carry. The political purity dodge there on the part of the Democ racy while catering to the chief of the Tammany rag-tag and bob-tail, and in the light of the legislative experience of last w.nter, will not awaken any great amount of confidence. Once more we will venture to make use of Air. Parne for the purpose of il lustration. He has distinguished him self by a sound financial record, and can have no kind of sympathy with the Na tional stultification which was involved in the placing of such men as Bland and Bnckner at the head of the two ira- Eortant finance committees of the ousc Fortunately, Mr. Payne repre sents a strong enough constituency to prevent the Democracy from being a unit in favor of bad money, though they have the cards in their hands and are playing them for all they are worth in that direction now. Where, then, is there any chance for Democratic unity upon any real issue in the next cam paign? There is none. Administrative reform is to be fallen back on. SL Louis Globe-Dcm oerat. A North Carolina parson rode sev-snty-five miles in the mud and cold one iay recently to marry four couples, not ne of whom paid him a cent for his rouble. Sympathy for the brides of he stfngy grooms is asked by the local aewspaper which records the affair. George D. Phipps. the New York ikater, went half a mile in the unprece dented time of one minute and thirty seconds on the Harlem. River recently. The cours3 "was straight away. The previous record was eighteen or twenty ieconds slower. A'. 1C Times. PERSONAL AND LITERARY. Miss Martha Jellison, who had taught school for sixty years, died in EllswortbMe., the other day at the age of ninety-three. Boston Post. Charles Delmonico, recently found dead, was the owner of a valuable libra ry, which includes books on cooking from ancient times to the present day. N. Y. Sun. General Butler found tho State House of Massachusetts destitute of 3 Bible. He should be given credit for leaving a handsome copy for the study of his successor. Ben is one of the best IJible scholars in the United States. Chicago Inter Ocean. The New York Historical Society, with 1,898 members, no debts, and 69,000 on hand, i taking steps to se cure a new building. The present quar ters on Second avenue are much too small to accommodate its library of sev enty thousand volumes and its great mass of maps, pamphlets, pictures aud other objects. X 11 Times. Major William Arthur, of the army, bears a strong personal resemblance to his brother, the President though of lighter build and a more distinctive mil itary bearing. He has seen a great deal of active service on the plains, and was a bravo and efficient officer during the reoellion. He still bears the scars oi severe wounds received in battle. For politics he cares little, his tastes being purely military. Washington Star. Charles Nordhoff, who edits the Washington news department of the New York Herald, is paid a salary of $10,000 per annum, and has in addition a house whicii is provided for him by the proprietor of the Herald. His wife is a daughter of Bishop Ames, and in terests herself especially in the welfare of young women from Indiana who go to the capital cither to find employment in one of tiie Departments or to enjoy the pleasure of Washington society. Rev. John A. Cass, a well-known Methodist clergyman, writing from Europe to the Worcester (Mass.) Spy, says: "Vienua, the capital of Austria, is the most magnificent city on the planet. Not Berlin the mighty, not London the world's center, not Edin burgh the elegant not Paris the beauti ful, not Washington the wicked, can for one moment stand in comparison if we contemplate the stately magnificence of her public and private buildings, tviiile if we consider the beauty of her women, not even Boston or Worcester can be put on a par with Vienna." The library of Harvard College contains the first two drafts of Longfel lows "Excelsior." The first is written ou the back of a note addressed tc Longfellow by Charles Sumner, and is indorsed "September 28, 1841, 3:3l o'clock, moruin'j:. Now in ted." The second shows variations and erasures. For instance, the line "A youth whe bore 'mid snow and ice" was written four times before decided upon: "A youth who bore in snow and ice," "A youth who bore a pearl of price," and "A youth who bore above all price." The inception of the line "A tear stood m his bright blue eye" was, "A tear stood in his pale Post. blue eye." Hartfora HUMOROUS. "My Lord," saidTawmus, "you've no idea what a horror it gives a man tc steal up behind a girl who is scribbling, look over her shoulder and find that she's idly writing 3our name, with a 'Mrs-' prefixed." Boston Post. A "Bumper:" "What's phrenol ogy, ma?" " Bumps on the head, my dear." "Was pa phrenological when he came home the other morning and you were putting vinegar and browu paper on his head, ma? Fun. As two ladies were gazing at the large black bear brought into town yesterday, one remarked: "Oh, what a nice buffalo-robe his skin would make?' The other replied: "Or such a splendid sealskin sacque." Oil Citi Derrick. A Terrible "fhfant: I recollect a nurse called Ann, Who carrle 1 me about tho (mii, And one line day a line young man Came up and kl-cd th- pretty las?. She did not make tho least objection! Thinks 1: "Aha! When I can talk I'll tell mamma:" And that's my earliest recollection. Irish gentleman (paying debt of honor): "There's the sovereign ye kindly lint me. Brown. I'm sorry I haven't been able" Saxon (pocketing the coin): "Never thought of it from that day to this. Forgot all about it." Irish gentleman: ' Bedad! I wish ye'd tould me that before!" "This introduction gives me jjreat pleasure, believe me," frankly" ex claimed Brown, when introduced to a popular society actress. "Really, you llatter me, Mr. Brown." "Not at'alf. I have worshiped you from a distance for over twenty years and" Brown bs still engaged racking his brain trying to find out why the actress cut him Kiiort, and hassince declined to recog nize him when they accidentally met. Boston Globe. A colored individual who went down on the slippery flags at the corner of Woodward avenue and Congress street scrambled up and backeif out into the street and took a lonir look toward the roof of the nearest" build ing. "You fell from the third-story window." remarked a pedestrian who had witnessed the tumble. "Bopl believes yer," was the prompt replv; "but what puzzles me am de queshun of how I got up dar an' why I was leanin' outer de winder." Detroit Free Press. "According to the testimony of the witnesses you were caught just as you were getting out of the window, with the contents of the till in yonr pockets. Now. what excuse have you got?" and the magistrate ioced back in his chair very complacently. "I know ir, vour honor, and I shall always be grateful to ihe man who caught me. When I havo these somnambulistic fits I am in dan ger of falling out of windows and hurt g tnyself." "That idea never occurred to me," remarked the magistrate, pen rively. "It has often occurred to me." remarked the prisoner, with uncon scious humor. "That being the case, I will direct the Governor " "To turn me loose?" "No, but to have an extra bar across yonr cell window, for fear j-ou may fall out" Chicago Eerald. f. ' t 1 I I.h. y ff Mf-r-iV t -- j- J,r- n . n 1 1 mii 11 t im iwi frim-TiH