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The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26

THE ARROGANCE OFHONOPOLESTS.
Asurprising A statement was made by Mr..
John w. Garrett in a speech at the banquet
Of the Merchants Club in Baltimore ON the
22d instant. In the course OF his speech
Mr.. Garrett said:
A remarkable combination occurred recently Of AN
the cable interests between Europe and the United
states by which charges were greatly increased aud
under which cables, although sent by the English and
Frcnch lines, were subjected to the supervision of
the Western Union Company. In order to tost
whether any variation could 10 effected from this OK
ttaordlnary plan an application was made ou behalf
ot the Baltimore and Ohio Company To the manager
OF the Direct United States Cablc Company, ot which
the distinguished Mr. John Fender, of London, b.
president, whether tho Baltimore and Ohio Company
could forward messages to France 10y that company
without going through the hands ot the Western
Union Company, as unless this assurance could 10
obtained the Baltimore and Ohio Company would
prefer to use the mails. The response to this Inquiry
was that this could only he done with tho understand
ing that should those messages contain anything ~.
fcctlng the Western Union Company In any way, 1t
would bc the privilege of that company to Inspect
them, and that all messages received from tho other
side Mc sent direct to tho Western Union main onico
and from there distributed
Thus it appears that, not contcnted with
monopoly of the telegraph business at eNorbi.
taut rates, Mr.. Jay Gould cooly asserts
aud persistently exercises the right to
"mspectn all messages passing over the
Atlantic cables or the Western Union lines,
and that to insure the privacy Of business
messages 1t has been necessary to raise
several millions of dollars to lay new
cable. The public will he glad to know that
Mr.. Garrett further informed his hearers that
the money for this purpose had all been sub
scribed, and that the new "cable will be
promptly built in the hest manner and at
"the lowest cost" But when the telegraph
monopolists cease to respect the sanctity of
messages passing over their lines, it is evident
that the time for governmental Intervention
has arrived. The American people will no
more submit to having their kilograms " in.
"spec;ed than they would submit to hav-
ing their letters opened and read. Wander
bilt says the public be damned" and,
though Gould is too shrewd to say it, he
thinks and acts it. The American people
can and they soon rW do their own tele-
graphing as they carry their own mails, and
they wW not pay for the sixty or seventy
millions of water in the stock OF the Western
Union Company.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26

TuE second trial Of the Star-Route conspi-
rators begins next week. II il more than
these special culprits that is ON trial now
namely, the power Of the American people
to reach and punish those who fitch from
the public treasury, notwithstanding their
illgotten wealth, the treaehery Of yenal and
partisan employees OF the Government, and
the general corruption that seems to have
spread from this centre. II is a common
slur that money is all-powerful in America
the star-Boute defendants have plenty, aud
evidently pend it freely in all directions,
to say nothing Of the political influence and
the other darker means which they seem TO
be INSCRIPTIONS in using. Can these wea-
pons be withstood at all the vulnerable
points Jurors witnesses, court officers, and,
il must be said, at the fountain Of Justice in
the Government itself2 Never were the forces
OF public honesty and dishonesty more clearly
arrayed against each other lor life-aud-
death struggle. A victory or deieas fol one
or the other will 20 iar TO decide which is to
be in the ascendancy for years 10 come
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26
TWO FAILURES.

During Grants last term the " Stalwart F"
Republicans of that day tried to secure the
Southern vote in Congress and the Electoral
College hy force of arms. Bayonets and
sabres bristed around the polls, shame
faced soldiers were ordered to turn sovereign
legislatures out of their halls, and the
Southern air was full of Federal proclama-
tions and "banditt" pronunciamentos.
The answer was the tidal wave of 1874,
which substituted for Republican majority
of two.thirds in the House of Representa-
tives Democratic majority of nearly equal
size, and gave large popular majority for
Tilden and Hendricks two years after.
Under Mr.. Arthur the brood of "Stal-
"warts " of a smaller pattern that have
succeeded, attempt to nullify the primary
blunder of the Fifteenth Amendment by the
lavish misuse of money and Federal patron
age in the Southern as we'll as in some of
the Northern States, and by backing every
political renegade in the former. The means
are equally odious but less openly alarming,
and as result we find the modified tidal
wave of this month and year, So it will al.
ways prove. The Radical leaders are build
ing on sand when they attempt to coerce
the free South into voting for their policy
and doctrines. At the very moment they
think they have forced black majority to
the polls, the loyal North, disgusted at the
means employed, slips away from beneath
their feet and they are left sprawling.
Corruption wins not more than honesty"
now as always, and if these gentlemen have
any sense they will appeal to the virtue and
patriotism of the country, North and South,
and not to the lowest instincts of greed and
passion.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26

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The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26

"ClaTa Belle" writing 10 the Cincinnati
Enquirer says; ' As q conscientious uhIonlcler Of
fashions episodes, Gnd that must glYe ono more
paragraph 90 Langtry. As HO6diiHd, last Monday
evening, she exhibited her lower mbs-OT, AT least
the portions Of them beOw the skTi Of her costume
which reached 20 her knees PuDllc curiosity was
centTed upon them, Judging by the promptly lGyel0l
rows Of opera glasses and Lhn women werc not be-
hind the men Ia cuab scrutiny. The acting was not
Of Kind 10 me- The general attention higher than the
hem Of the Lilys short dress aud 80 tho criticism OF
her legs hey cl egs by their right name IN the arli
tOcratic society which gave Us Iahgry and why dodge
the word ~ WAS continued throughout the evening.
They were THU pair, but stapey enough ana L0-
y0ud question: All genuine. The feet large, and
the shanks long aud slender while the calves, pro-
uudlng suddenly and trte lumpily, were the only
points that met with much cOndenuatiOn. Take
them altogether, they may be put down as average
flesh. Their owner has reason 10 beeitheT ashamed
they were worth paying hye dollars to see. How
ever the show was not 10 Disappointing as the ono
that about q hundred wont 10 sec. 1his one failed
entirely 10 come OIL somebody twas 10 the the pro-
prletorfJ circulated ina certain fashionable cIclja
story that Laugtry Mas going To take Turkish
bath on Tuesday Afternoon. Iho place mentioned w
tho IumOr was the establishment in which, as 1 once
narrated In these letters the or les far bathers
appear together utterly nude, Well the motion gf
seeing the court beauty n that condition daz
zllng that, ridiculous AS the promise was, those wb
heard II paid two dollars each aud took "a bath
awiully long bath No Langtry came, Of course, a,,
the par-Doiled ninnies finally gave up waiting. - u
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26

Tue Guardsmen returned from Egypt who
now Walk the streets Of London have Wild look
about the eyes and marked unquiet aDOut tho brow
The trace Of prlyation Is left In their dried
and shTuIkeu forms, but the trace Of mental anguish
Is visible enough In the disturbed gancds they cast
around, The same expression was noticeable 300 the
faces Of the men returned from Iululaud, aud the
OficeTs Of army WIN tell you that the meu who
have served n the frontier var against tho Indians
never recovered The happy, careless look they had
worn at the commencement OF a campaign, zone
single echo Of the war-whOOp by night Will rob a
Of twenty years Of his life aud no may bid farewell
10 his youth forever after said Gen. Custer Just
before entering on his campaign on tho Rosebud
River. -Net0 York Sun.
We have sometimes observed q sGrt Of hunted look
on the faces OF some Of younger warriors, but
have supposed II to be caused by unpaid tailOrs'
bills, unsuccessful love, or something Of that kind
The Indian war whOOp Is doubtless dlsagreeably
startling noise, but many OF those who have heard
II have also often heard tho rebel charging yell rising
above the Of battle the Indian wh0op heard In
later years can hardly have destroyed the "happy
careless look " that had survived four years Of
vice tho great Rebellion. The suns paragraph
Is, Ia short, wholly absurd
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26
SPIRIT or THE HOUR

George Alfred Townsend writes that
stood to be overture to 20 into the Democratic
party, mixed with the desire for rich banker
cllchtage.N
What has Gen. Butler ever done that
people shOuldn take him at his word or should ss-
pect him Of cunning schemng? lIo said pumply
that he is not candidate for any higher oNicc, and
vet the Philadelphia Times says; ''uis interview
Is plain hid for the Presidency Another unIe.
generate newspaper declares that tho Interview itself
was piece Of nrtince-the identity Of phrlscoory I'm
the different newspapers In New York proving that II
was prepared aud given ont III manifold copies How
Is this plain blunt man - ever to get himself un-
detstood? Perhaps few months Capitol hin
WI reveal him as he is.-BOStOn Herdid Und.)
We have great deal more hope of actual
Improvement In our revenue system II the WAYS and
Means Committee shall submit several distinct promo
sltons to the House of Representatives, aud ask con-
Slderaion OF one after another; as, for example, u
b for the abolition OF all of the Internal Revenue
taxes, except one half of the gallon charges on spirits
ana one half o tho direct charges tobacco sweep
ing away every special tax; second, bill providing
that M duty shall lie collected In excess OF SO
per cent. on the valuation; third, bill adding many
articles to the free list; fourth bill dealing sepa-
faoly with the duties On wool and wOolens; NTH, "A
hi relating To the duties cotton fabrics; sixth a
hill about metalsi SEVENTH b adjusting the dutrs
sugars aud all articles Of food; and finally hut
perhaps to be considered among tho earliest "A hin
relative to chemicals of all sorts Uticd Hsrdd
tRep.)
There is an Independent party coming into
existence and the prediction is not Improbable that
the next President may give us q regrnerated and
purified RepubCanSm. have every hope that wo
shall conquer certain evils or suffrage. | want five
guarantees for Its safety. First, hgh-tonrd news
paper press independent Of parties; second n thorough
going common school system; third, an aggressive
nmniprcsent church; fourth CiNil Service Reform In
Its best shape; nth, compulsory suffrage. In old
Athens, on election day, up the streets
with - cord that had been chakcd red, and people
Were driven to the polls, aud, II any mans oga was
spotted hy the red he was fined. The idea was that
II any man c0nld he out on the street he could vote
In ohio i5 900 people stayed away from the polls /
would have every man who could he the fined
II lie diu not vote. | would not take suffrage FROM
thOaa who hal II, but favor "a law compelling every
man to vote who could read aud write up to twenty
hve years Of age, and, when they deficient this
respect would deny them the right to vote. with
these safeguards America may he delivered from her
bondage To the unGducaied. .--Ths Rsu. Joseph CoOk
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26
TnE contract for erecting monument to

TIE contract for erecting a monument to
Jesse James has been awarded a Muscatine (I0wal
marble dealer. the work To cost 900, II consists
Of plain shaft, twelve feet high, pf red scotch
granite The order given by Mrs. Jesse james,
and the monument, the says, Ii - Ia have an uuyoil
Ing and all Mir. James friends are Ia be invited.
-ErchIRge.
Au assemLage Of the widows aud orphaus he has
made ia his career Of blood, aud Of the honest men
ruined by the TObOeres out O the proceeds Of which
this shaft is erected, would be much more IA order,
II the dynamite hend who got Ia bis work on cyrus
Field memorial Of Andre VIII kindly put about
ton Of the same under this monument OF infamy
and send II soaring In the direction n which It's sub.
ect has nat gone he VIII be cheerfuy forgiven for
his previous act u vandalism. It can then be neatly
and appropriately replaced by an elnLlematlc gaows,
bearing the single word "oheStel. -
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How IA Lion Recamc "a bore.

Mr.. Henry Irving recently gave a dinner.
party, NJ which he invited may professional takers
arrived with cOpiOus assortment of mprOmptus. .
Their suppressed feelings may he imagined when Mr.
stanley commenced talking OF Ills travels with the
soup, and continued without one single flash of
silence until The party broke up Those who 20 to
Central Asia and To the Arctic rsgU no doubt, are
usetnl geographical pioneers, hut know of no two
subjects OF less conversational interest than their
ventures. There Is n dismal mOnOtony in African
inonarchs and tropical iungles and in Esqumaux and
Ice fields -Lnniln YrLLth.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26

THE statement pnbIished some weeks ago
that Commander Graham and the officers OF the Pas
sale at Norfolk had given breakfast to Ford Opera
Company has given considerable annoyance to some of
the naval officers concerned, and was 1t appears,
The facts that the troupe came OIL In
boat, uulnyited and hailed the Passaic for permis
sion to come aboard, which was granted. They re-
Ceved, Of the ordinary courteses extended
casual visitors. aud were made welcome. out OF this
simple occurrence grew the misleading paragraph
which appeared In print.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26
SkiII In the XNorkshOn.

To do wood work the mechanic must have
good health. II long hours of confinement IN close
rooms have enteobled his hand or dimmed his sight,
let him at once, and before organic trouble an
pears, take plenty of Hop Bttes. His system viii he
reuyenaed his nerves strengthened his sight become
higher MnrkIng condition.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26
GENERAL SHERMAN Is said

GENERAL SHERMAN is said to have Pres-
dental aspirations, This Is u family weakness. II
would ba In accordance with the proyeIDial
prudence Of the Sherman family, however, II the
great recumseh were 10 live quietly ON his retired
pay OF s7, 900 year. aud leave politics to younger
men.-S. +. Post.
General Sherman said to a representative of the
SUNDAY HERALD last week that nothing could In
duce him enter into politics at this late day. lie
said no was perfectly satisfied with his military
career, and he did smirch 1t by dabDllng
i'm pOlItics
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26

THE proposed advance sessions of various
committees of the House have not been
nickel-pIate success. The habit of Con-
gessional sloth and inactivity is too deep
seated to be easily shaken off, and many OF
the members are in pardonable state of
collapse after the recent cyclone.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26

THR ease Of Detective George Miller and
the law under which he WAS punished are
eXempilications Of what Civil Service Reform
ought to be-uo dismissal except for
cause, but where there is cause, prompt,
public, and after fair triad, A few emphatic
warnings are plainly necessary to teach pub
HE oditials fidelity to the Interests coudded
to them.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26

The much abused telegraph and telephone
wires, which are undoub tedly nuisance in
general, have taken a good part in several
recent fires by saving lives in the stead of
the tire.escapes or ladders which ought to
have been on the ground.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26

IT is not alone our theatres which need
watching against the result OF sudden
fires, though they are in bad case enough.
The danger there is confined TO a few hours
each evening. The majority Of the tall
factories springing up all over this country
are death-trap5 at which the magination re-
coils Dry as finder, full of combustble
materials, and devoid Of lre-escapes, they
expose Thousands upon thousands OF honest,
hard-working operatives, many with de-
pendent families, to the risk of a horrible
death during all the working hours OF the
day. The shocking case in Providence, r..
L., last week was not needed to prove this,
but calls attention TO il once more. Work
men, aud especially workwOmen, are apt to
be careless about their safety, and intent
rather upon their wages. II deyolyes upon
those who have the best interest of this
class at heart 10 see that there is not
merely stringent fre-escape law, but that
il is stringently enforced aud also that the
fire department is equipped with apparatus
for saving lives Us we'll as the less valuable
property. There are many hundreds Of
human beehiyes like the fatal " Calender
building IN Sabine street"
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26

WHAT strange simfles people do make use
Of, to DO sure! They say that thing Is as black as
the ace OF spades, when their comparison would be
much stronger did they say as black as the ten nf
spades, which H. ten times Dlacker than the ace.
tells you that no has been working all day IKE a
dog when you know aud he knows that dog dOesn' I
wOlk at all. lie tells you that the sky last evening
was black AS lux leaving your mind ia state Of
uncertainty whether the sky MAS Dlue or red, either
at which t might have been according 10 his siIie.
Hhen he tells you that soandsO ID as iuad as halter
though hAtteTs were more prone 70 anger than the
average human. When he says that somebody has
been acting Ike sixty however you know that he Is
only speaking hguratlYey, and Of course nobody can
take exception - that. -B9st0H Transcript.
The would-bs smart man, often happens, was a
little OF his base IA several Of his examples, n IN
an II Is a new principle that thing Is any tue
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26

We call attention to a communication on
our local page, showing the injustice which has been
perpetraed the property of East and South
Washington by the expenditure of nearly all the
money street improvements in the northwestern
section OF the city. The facts speak for themselves,
and are unAusWeTablc,
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26
Spefial alutifes.

n495@ NAVY MUTUAL AID ASSOCIA.
~ TlON. general meeting of the members
OF ts Association VIII he held In the hoard room OF
Tho old Navy Department building ON Tuesday even
lug, November 2S at 1880 O'clOck, for the llna dis,
position of the pending amondments to the by laws.
nO2b. ltd Il. q, GlSRN. Spprptary
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26

Fresh Alderney hutter churned every
morning ana delivered In y pound " Ward - prints,
10 cents per pound. Also cottage cheese, butermilk
ana sweet mix, scents per quart. Cream, IL cents
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CARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors aud indls-
cretons " youth, nervous weakness early decay loss
of manhood, ETC., l win send recipe that VIII
cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This great remedy
was discovered by missionary in south America.
Send a self-addressel envelope TO the REV. JosEpu
II. IsMAS, Station d, HeW York Citp.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26

Is the attempted nomination Of General
Sherman for the Presidency in 1854 one Of
the oysr-shrewd Mr.. Blaine'5 astute moves
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26

The Massachusetts, Brahmins will have to
live "Through One Administration that they
won't like aud probably won't write about.
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pRoF. ALEXANDER DRWOLOWsKI
PIANIST AND VOCALIST,

Assisted by his daughter Miss ISABELLA Dr.
MOLOWsKl, has reopened his MUSICAL INsII-
TUTE az lll6 Nj street. corner Twelfth street north-
west. His new and slmplihed method OF instruction
10 the best Ia existence II saves years Practice
IL teaches now TO read music ~ sight aud traius the
the parlOr. seI0.smG
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26
l-s Agnes Herndon, the star in Only

Farmer Daughter - which win be produced at
Furd's opera House next week, Is an own cousin TO
the late wife Of President Arthur. Buth ladies' are
descendants OF the lerndOns Of Fredericksb sbuTg va
Her brother was The youngest colonel Ia the COnfrd-
crate army, lie was Killed when only nineteen wears
Of aye, aud buried at Richmond, Va, with the
highest military hOnors, Miss lerndon possesses an
the qualities essential In good actress aud Is highly
conlneuded by the press everywhere for her true de-
lineatlons Of character.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-26
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