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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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