The Indiana State sentinel., 1880-09-01
CLIPPINGS.

Mr.. ENGLISH, the coming Democratic Governor
| of Connecticut. is seventy-one years old.
AT Mapleson's recent benefit in London, boxes
sold at $780, and even parquet seats brought SIS
apiece. W r
Sol SMITH RUssELL's new play, "Edgewood
Folks" made quite success at Buffalo, and will
shortly be produced in New York.
THE New Haven Register says: "J-Ames A.
Garfield Is suggestive way of writing the name
of the Republican candidate for President"
THE Archbishop of Baltimore is about to return
to America. There are men who remember when
the Archbishop was young clerk in grocery
store in New Orleans
TRANQUILISo LUNA, Republican candidate for
Congress from New Mexico, belongs to highly
distinguished Mexican family, and is a wealthy
young man of thirty-one years. He was educated
at the ST. Louis University.
Miss DUDu FLETCHER the author of ''Kismet,"
who went from Italy to London to superintend
the publication of her novel, 1.-THE Head of
Medusa, is said to be again seriously i'll.
SENATOR LAMAR has remained quietly at his
home in Oxford, Miss, during this summer and
has so far recovered his health as 10 look forward
to political speaking in the autumn.
LADY BURDETT-CoUTTs is described being
rather large and having white hair and slightly
horid complexion The extensive gardens sur
rounding her residence at Highgate are always
open to the children of the charity schools.
a BosroS dispatch makes the positive announce
ment that General B. F. Butler will declare for
Hancock and English at a Democratic ratification
meeting at Faneun Hall August 2s. 1t is further
said he will stump the doubtful States.
IT
Butler can give the same reason for returning to
the Democratic party which the inebriated indi-
vidual did who appeared at his own door and was
asked by his wife why he came home at that
hour: cause all the other places are shut up"
HoN. JOHN W. FoRNEY says: If 1 desire to
give reasons for my preference for Winfield S.
Hancock have only to turn TO the columns of
the Republican papers OF America in 1868; If de-
sire to prove distrust of James A. Garfield have
only to turn to the Republican journals of Febru-
airy, 1873. have no prejudices 1 want to defeat
Garfield, because 1 regard him to-day as sneak.
a iobber, an imposter."
THE New York Sun says: "Garfeld's course in
Congress has caused many of the most intelligent
and fairest Republicans to coneede that he is not
honest. As to his capability, the more he pos
sesses so long as he is dishonest the more danger
as he is proved TO have done, as legislator, has
no respect for the Constitution, and can possess
but little principle
OF thirty-seven campaign documents that are
circulated by the Republican Congressional Com
mittee, thirteen are the productions OF General
Garfield himself He has also furnished nearly
all the documents which being used by the
Democrats, and il is no wonder that the Cincin-
natl Commercial should say that never before in
the history of American politics has candidate
for the Presidency produced much literature
which goes to make up documents for campaign
circulation"
THE Easton, Pa, Free Press understands that it
has been positively established that the Republi-
cans carried Alabama sin the face OF disadyant-
ages, by large majority. and lost it because the
Democrats deliberately used their possession Of
the election machinery TO count out or throw out
or not count at all over 1O0O 900 Republican yotes
If the Free Press ever finds out that the Republi
cans had ticket in the field it viii be profoundly
surprised at its own statement.