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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-29
TWELVE PAGES.
THE NEWS THIS MOANING.

FOREIGN report from Paris says the French
troops made sortie from Hanoi on July ID. killing
1000 natives and capturing seveh guns. -
Several cases of cholera are reported from Aexan-
dris; a large number of citizens have removed
from Cairo 60 Several of the American riflemen
sailed from Liverpool. - About 5000 carbines
have been sent TO Stanley. the explorer. - Sc
Tious trouble between the police officers of Mani
toba and Ontario Is feared.
CRY AND SUBURBAN.-Three notorious thieves
attempted to rob the cashier of an Orange bank in
train at Hoboken yesterday; they were unsuc-
cessful and Were all captured. 80 The Western
Union Company took down the Subject to delay"
notices. - Duplex. homage. Little MInch. Pa
role, Bancroft and Pasha won the Monmouth Park
races 80 The position Of Controller offered
to Alexander f. Orr and declined. - firm of
clothing manufacturers discovered a plan by
which ID had been swindled out of $4,000. -
An expert swimmer was drowned while bathing at
Coney Island. - The Medical AID and Relief
Society held meeting to vindcste itself. 80
Gold value of the lega-tender silver dollar (412i2
grains) S2.73 cents. Stocks generally were dull
at advanced prices. and closed strong.
DoMEsTIC.-Au accident occurred on the Rome,
WATERFOWL and Ogdens 'urg Railroad, at Carlyon.
N. Y, on Friday twenty persons were killed and
many injured. - 1 he body of Captain Webb
was found yesterday a. Lewiston. - rbe State
Campat Peekskill closed. 80 Lottin, General
Monroe, Bazes and Disturbance won the Saratoga
races. - Tue charges against tne Mayor Of
St. Louis were not sustained. - Ex-Governor
Page, of Vermont, has begun libel SUIT for
5000 900 damages against Clement & Sons, bankers
g. Miss Maggie Cramps body was found.
g. Judgment for $50. 600 was rendered against
the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company. 80 Major
Gillespie. Corps of Engineers. has made his annual
report of progress in coast Improvements i'll New
York and New-Jersey. - Charles L. Schuyler
and Alden Seymour, convcts, have been pardoned
by the Governor.
THE Manufacturers local observations in
dictate partly cloudy and fair weather. with slight
changes in temperature aud chances of light rain
early in the day. temperature yesterdays High
est, $50; lowest, 7Oo; average 75o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-29

well adapted 70 bring about just such az
attempt at robbery as has occurred. As fol
the criminals themselves. there is canse foi
rejoicing that three so well-known scoundrelf
are at last sure Of being sent to State Prlson
Nugent, who undoubtedly was implicated II
the robbery OF the Manhattan Savings lnsti-
tuition has long seemed to have some mys-
FERROUS influence in this city which prevented
him reapng the various pnnishments ne has
so richly deserved. But this time he Is in
New-Jersey and bank thieves of all grades
have been faring badly of late at the hands
of New-Jersey juries and judges.
1t seems doubtful if NJ. de Lesscps Will De
able to sustain the claim that he has monopoly
of the entire Isthmus of Suez. According to
our cable letter from London, Parliament is aux
ious to avoid admissions on the subject, OF even
too much discussion of it. And until his claim
tn a monopoly is recognized by Parliament, 1t Is
not worth much. ". de Lesseps undoubtedly
understands this. Indeed, he has admitted SO
much in the presence of THE TRIBUNEs Paris
correspondent. England, he said, holds Egypt,
and French interests there are past praying for,
except so far as the British Government
pleases; he congratulated himself that he
had snatched more than half loaf from
the lions mouth. All this was said before the
English commercial interests had revolted
against Mr.. Gladstone's arrangement. In SPITE
therefore. of NJ. de Lesseps's recent willy letter
to the English Premier, he must feel terribly
chagrined over his failure to hold England to
the admission that he alone has right to build
a second Suez Canal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-29

N. P. Willis once said that what this country
needed Is an element in It's population that would
give 1t repose. The remark is apt to recur to one
who watches crowd bent upon getting off one of
the Brooklyn ferry-boats
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-29

Senator Blair of New Hampshire, in con-
versation with a TRIBUNE reporter, takes a
cheerful view of the present struggle for the
United States Senatorship in his State. He
agrees with most impartial observers of the
complicated situation that the "leaders" are
too persistent in the struggle for place.
Democrats who have watched this contest
with great glce, however, will be considerably
discouraged by Mr. Blairs demonstration that
it has not injured the dominant party. The
Rep. blican rank and file do not admire sGch
an exhibition as has been seen for some weeks
at Concord. but they have too great an appre-
citation of Democratic worthessness to repudi-
ate their party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-29

At meeting Of the New-York Committee for the
Prevention of State Regulation of Vice. held July
23, Mr.. and Mrs Aaron NJ Powell were appointed
delegates 70 represent this committee at the Con.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-29

The finding of Captain Webb's body at
Lewiston, on the Niagara River, settles the
rash swimmers fate. The most reckless gam
bier no longer has excuse to bet that he will
reappeAr alive. There is nothing in The con-
dition of the body to show conclusively whether
Webb died from exhaustion III the whirlpool
or was dashed by the mad waters against some
Jagged rock and killed. The wound on his head
might easily have been made after death.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-29

The week just ended was remarkable for the
number of painful disasters which its record
shows. Monday was marked by the loss of
sixty-ive lives at North Point Nd, by
the falling of rotten wharf. On
Tuesday the English swimmer disappeared
in the whirlpool at Niagara. Wednes-
days and Thursdays papers abounded
in tales of death by accident Now come the
CarlyOn collision full of narrowing details,
ana sad case of drowning at COney
Island. Nineteen persons lost their lives
at Carlyon, and many more have been
wounded. Who was responsible for
the accident seems likely to remain unknown.
A freightcar had rolled or had been pushed
forward on the switch, SO that it projected
over the main track. Into this the two locomotive
engines. drawing many cars full OF passengers,
dashed at rapid speed The only wonder is
that SO many passengers escaped with their
lives.
The attempt to rob the cashier of the
Orange National Bank, Mr.. Thomas j.
Smith, when quietly seated in a car at
Hoboken yesterday, was q specimen of reck-
loss crime which recalls the exploits of the
train robbers of the West. But the result
was different from what usually attended the
performances of the James boys and their
comrades. Instead Of leaving the cashier
seBseless, and getting away with the thousands
in the valise Nugent and his two confederates
are safely lodged in Jail, despite their fevolvers
and their fast but baiky horse. Mr.. Smith Is
to be congratulated that he has come of with
out . broken head and with his money safe
but be and the directors of the bank probably
<I.4 xAo.-
between New-York and Orange was peculiarly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-29

Tribune readers ordering the Daily sent to them at sum-
gey resorts requested to make of the eract naat
ofe Post Office to ,chich the paper is to be sent Much
trouble arises erey summer from neglect Of this pre-
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grrs, to be bold at The Hague on the 18th of Sep

The old version. The neS rsrs'oh
"The grapes are sour "The Republican party
must co."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02

THE reported action of the Louisville, New
Albany & Chicago Railway Company for the
stoppage of all Sunday trains, is certainly
not to be credited to any respect for the sacred
character of the first day CT the week. In
this regard, at least, corporations have no
souls, and they may not be expected to rem
der homage to the Christian belief in or idea of
the holy nature of the day. If the order has
been given, and shall be carried out, it is
based upon other and entirely different con-
siderations-such considerations as the Jour
nal has consistently urged should be the basis
of all civil law with respect to the rest day.
There are railway corporations, as there are
many private businesses, which cease from
labor one day in seven, and the result has
proven the worldly wisdom of the course.
The rest day should be commanded by the
civil law because of civil and economic rea-
sons, and when that is done the sacred char
acter of its observance, or the regard for its
sanctity, may very we'll be left to the
churches operating upon the individual
consciences of men. The weakness of all
Sunday legislation is that it has at
tempted to enforce its observance upon the
conscience of the people, and against that
there is a natural rebellion. John Calvin,
the sturdy reformer, lecturing to his students
upon the Sabbath, said: keep the Lords
day, unless one in authority command you
to keep it; then break it as an evidence of
your liberty" 1t may be remarked there is
a good deal of Calvnism in human nature,
as has been demonstrated time and again by
the failure of all efforts at compelling
men to observe Sunday as holy day. But
the peculiar feature of the reported order on
the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago rail-
way is, that its enforcement would greatly in
terfere with the Battle Ground camp-meet-
ing, an alleged religious meeting which, like
the Acton camp-meetlng, has thrived off per-
centages or donations from the running OF
railway trains, and the violation not only of
the civil law, but of the divine law in the in
terest of which these camp-meetings are
presumed to be held. We can think of no
greater benefit that could accrue to general
society than the breaking up of the demon
alizing and outrageous illegal practices car
red on under cover of and presumably by
the authority of one branch of the Christian
church.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02

said that they would serve him as they had
served Lecomte and Thomas if ever he dared to
appear among them without MS cavalry at his
back. Sc after the ceremony he walked alone to
the door of the church. and on preteuse OF watt
ing for his carriage stood in the full glare OF the
public glance for a full quarter of au hour, then
turned on his heel and went away"
Mr.. PULsIFER is the publisher and Mr.. Haskell
the editor of that little gold mine, the Boston
Herald. They, with Mr. Andrews the third part
ner, take 81 900 piece out of the profits of their
business and divide the surplus of profit at the
end of the year. With this nice little income
added to the dividends on their Joint investments
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02
Tnden and Hendricks.

5
There seems to be n systematic effort in
certain quarters to represent both Mr.. Tilden
and Mr.. Hendricks as being in very feeble
health While it is by no means certain
that either gentleman will aim to be in the
way of ambitious aspirants, it looks as if
they had no idea of dying in order to oblge
them and simplify the situation. Mr. Hem
bricks health is reported as greatly inn
proved. and it is clear from his recent inter-
view that his old political sagacity is as keen
as ever. lady just returned from New
York, who knows Mr.. Tilden we'll, tells me
SHE never saw such an improvement in any
one as in his case over his condition of two
years ago. The same story of his restored
health comes by other channels. also reliable.
But while some of Mr.. sTiden's special
friends are urging his denomination, there
does not appear to be any authority for as
suming that his consent has been given to
the movement,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02

Iris quite evident from a concurrence of
Grammatical festival is huge, overgrown, I'M
wieldy, barbarous affair. The great Music
Hall is utterly untitled for the purpose, and
appear entirely in a meaningless pantomime
In a spectacular way it is attractive, but
dramatically it is dreadful, dreary failure
Mr.. William Winter, of the New York
Tribune, neatly speaks of it as an effort to
apply 'the barbecue method to delicate
art" while Mr.. John Mccullough says Gin
cinnati has had its first and last dramatic
festival. The ham still remains the best ex-
ponent of Cincinnati art
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02

of prayer or ceremony. Then only brief
prayer was offered, and the grave was imme-
diately filled in. The New Jersey law per-
mits little more than this. Those in charge
of the burial may, if they choose, before put
ting the body in the grave, read the ritual in
private spot and in the presence only of
the relatives Other States may we'll take a
lesson of New Jersey in this direction. There
has sprung up in some sections an unhealthy
sentimentality that in a measure makes
heroes of our worst class of criminals. 1t
were better that the bodies of such mis-
over to some medical college for dissection
purposes,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02
EX-SECRETARY BLAINE.
His Literary Work and business Methods
Nominaily Out of Politics.


Washington Correspondence Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Blaine spends a great deal of time in
the library of his house, at work upon his
new book which promises to be great sue
cess His publishers expect to make $l00, 900
from it. and Mr.. Blaine is to have q hand
some copyright Mr.. Blaine works without
a shorthand writer, the practice of dctation
having become distasteful to him.. Much of
the time when he is not in his library he can
be found at the Congressional Library, search
ing the archives in order to make his work
the complete and accurate history which he
intends it to be- Mr.. Blaine, of course,
is not working for the money which
successful bookmaker may expect
TO make. He is not under the necessity of
resorting to literature for livelihood Nj.
Blaine is unquestionably a wealthy man.
One who knows him well says. that he is as
rapid and clear in his business methods us he
is in politics. Sometimes" says this friend,
"he is, 1 think a little too preclpitate in
business, but he IS very fortunate to have
most excellent business advisers" Among
the men who are his trusted friends and have
been very helpful to him in business are Mr..
S. B. Elkins, former delegate from New
Mexico, and Henry G. Davis ex-senator
from West Virginia. Both of these men have
worked their way up from the bottom. and
both of them are now wealthy. Mr.. Blaine
is large owner in profitable coal mines, and
in successful railroad enterprises. .
Mr.. Blaine's house is social center He
is reported to have recently said to a friend:
81 want you to distinctly understand that |
am not a candidate for the presidency, or for
any political office, and nothing would in
duce me to be-" Mr.. Blaine is nominally
out of politics He is still conspicuous in
public and unquestionably always will be-
To those with whom he talks he expresses
himself very earnestly as to the future of the
Republican party, but he is no croaker or
sorehead He believes that victory can be
achieved in 1884 if the Republicans shall Sc
lect a candidate for the presidency upon
whom the factions can unite and who has the
confidence of the country. Mr.. Blaine is
now in excellent health and is often seen
upon the streets these spring days. His hair
has rapidly whitened, and he is becoming
somewhat portly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02


THE State of New York, during the year
1882, contributed the vast sum of $7,612,-
999.07 to the Postoflice Department for sery-
ices rendered. To afford these facilities
there was spent $5,O11, $50 II, leaving profit
from that one State of $2,6Ol ,4O99O. There
are but few States that show balance of
receipts over expenditures the most Of the
profits being derived from cities, while the
great country at large reaps the benefit,
Strange as it may appear, the greater profits
come from cities where free deliveries are
given. New York city pays the postal estab-
lishment a gross revenue of 81, 200, O66,O7, a
larger income by hundreds of thousands OF
dollars than is paid by any single State in
the country,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02
A Nice Town.

National Republican.
Harrodsburg KY, the scene of Congress.
man Phil. Thompson's latest shooting ex-
plot, is the Oldest town in Kentucky and
was named after one of the original pioneers
of Daniel Boone's time. 1t is situated on the
southern edge of the famous blue grass re-
gion, about thirty miles from Lexington,
and is reached by the Cincinnati Southern
railway. 1t is six miles from the celebrated
"high bridge" over the Kentucky river, one
of the loveliest spots in the State A wealthy
Shaker, colony owns large tract of land
| along the river between the high bridge and
Harrodsburg. This old town was the head
quarters of Morgan, the raider, and his
command was recruited from the people
of the immediate locality. The bloody bat
tie of Perryville, where 5000 or 10000
men were killed, was fought
within two hours walk from Harrodsburg,
The town is beautifully situated, and
the people are exceedingly hospitable, albeit
they have never been able to realize that
they have been reconstructed 1t is one of
the most conservative towns of the State,
and contained more inhabitants forty years
ago than it does to-day. Yankee enterprise
would be regarded as little less than high
| crime in the community. Morgan's memory
and the lost cause are sacred there. Clashing
factions did not get through fighting the war
OF the rebellion in Harrodsburg until four or
nVe years ago, ana nelghborhood teuds grow
ing out of the war resulted in scores of vio-
| lent deaths in and about town. For years
after Lees surrender the place had very
| Lard name, a reputation that will cling to it
for generation at least. The Inhabitants,
| in showing strangers about the town, point
out with great pride and frequency spots
where the most atrocious murders have been
committed, directing astention to bullet
holes in walls shutters tree boxes wooden
pumps. and indicating the exact localities
where victims fell weltering in blood Itis
n nice town
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02

GOVERNOR PORTER, in a reported interview
had in Kankakee, is said to have indicated
that the commission would locate the pro-
posed new insane asylums at Logansport and
Richmond. The Legislature, by concurrent
action of the two houses, has already selected
Evansville as the site for one In the same
talk the Governor is represented to have
spoken very favorably of General Logan for
the Republican nomination for the presi-
dancy in 1884
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02

MRS. BELL, wife of Mr.. Bell, of telephone fame,
la woman whose acquaintance Is worth Gull
tivating. She can say, with truth, "My face is
my fortune. SIR" and can also ada that it is the
the cause of other peoples fortunes. She is q
beautiful woman, and Mr.. Bell, falling in love
with her pretty face, married her, although she
was deaf and dumb. H. was while experiment.
ing with an audiphone for his wife's use that he
discovered the principle of the telephone. Bell
is now worth six million dollars. The leading
portrait painter in Washington owes his success
to picture of Mrs. Bell. A portrait of the lady
which he had painted and placed on exhibition
attracted so much attention that the unknown
artist suddenly became prominent, and orders
poured in upon him until he now has more than
he can fill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02

We see no special reason why the Teller
Hill quarrel should be distended into a
national issue. The Republican party has
had surfet of these differences between
the great men of certain States, which seem
to be too big for one boss and too small for
two. The party and the country can get
along very we'll without a daily deluge of
Colorado literature. Let Messrs. Teller and
selves, or agree to disagree like gentlemen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02

GOOD old-fashioned Methodist brethren of Bal
timore are greatly exercised over the introduce
ton of a ritual into the service at Mt. Vernon
Place. one OF the leading churches of that de-
nomination. The pastor, who is responsible for
the innovation, informed his congregation that
if they did not like it after fair trial it would be
discarded. In order 10 have matters work
smoothly, the reverend gentlemenlhad taken the
precaution to have printed cards distributed CIV
ing the order of service, but had omitted any
trial of the plan previous to the regular dress
rehearsal of Sunday. The consequence was that
the people got up and sat down in the wrong
places until the pastor was obliged to tell them
what to do. He is convinced, however, that a
little practice will make them perfect and that
his people will like the new order of things The
ritual is authorized by the book of discipline,
and it is used by several Methodist churches In
other large cities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02

THF story told by man and repeated with
emotional and rhetorical trimmings by that
prince of religious moonshiners, Flavius
Josephus Cook, to the effect that the late DR..
George NJ. Beard who was a noted agnostic,
had died in the expression of Christian faith,
has been effectually exploded by members of
the doctors family, who were with
him in his last hours. Christian
ity has nothing ITO gain from these
apocryphal death-bed scenes. The Stories as
to Tom Paine have cost religion more than
could possibly have been realized from them
had their Authenticity been undisputed
Death-bed repentanees and dying expressions
of noted infidels or of agnostcs are not
worth so much to the world as consistent
and well-spent lives. What is needed is
better living; the dying will take care of it.
self
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02

MASSACHUSETTS papers make very good
reading just now. With view to repairing
the good fame of their State, which has be-
come somewhat damaged of late they de-
anecdotes of well-fed and tidy inmates of
Tewksbury almshouse who cannot be in
duced by kind relatives to leave that refuge
editors of these papers are filled with rage
and disgust because Western and other bar
barians refuse to credit the nice little sto-
ries, and incline to the belief that Tewksbury
fails TO offer all the comforts of home.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02
II anybody entertains the belief that the

II anybody entertains the belief that the
American farmer has no need of protection
present or prospective, it is enough, proba-
bly,, to state that according to official re-
ports, India can raise wheat at twelve and a
half cents bushel and has 1922 200 acres
keting this vast yield in western European
and English markets, how much reliance
could American farmers put in supplying a
foreign market? The only safe plan is to
make our home markets the best in the
world. This can be done if home manu-
factories are kept busy and in healthful
condition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02

IT is stated that the real reason for the
resignation of General Raum is that ne pro.
poses to enter into contest for the Repuo-
lican nomination for Governor of Illinois
Among other names mentioned in connec-
ton with the govern orship are those of ex-
Senator Oglesby, Governor Hamilton,
Speaker Collins of the House, and Repre-
sentative Morrison, of Morgan county.