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the man became wealthy, and when he died the othee
day his friends tried to avoid fulfilling the contract
But the professor insisted and the matter is to be-
brought before the law courts. Pending the decision
the defunct gentleman has been buried with his head
on his shoulders.
STUART CUMBERLAND, the mind reader after an
extensive onizng in London, is going to Berlin and
Vienna where he has invitations from the most dis
anguished people to practice his profession Mean
while he has started of mitators and the al
legged mindreading business threatens to become an
epidemic nuisance
Miss AGNES BEcKwITH who is going to trv to
swim across the English Channel next month made
visit to this country last summer accompanied by her
brother, who is professor of natation In fact the
science in the family the father and most of the
children being distinguished for speed and endurance
In long swimming distances.
The business of making wooden houses in the
United States for custom sale is stimulated by brisk
demand for these products in Brazil Several large
shipments have been made to Rio Janeiro, and they
were all sold soon after their arrival Fifteen hun
bred of them have already been erected in the new
city of La Plata the new capital of the province Of
Buenos Ayres.
ALPHoNsE KARR, living at Nice, in pretty chateau.
surrounded with gardens of great extent and wonder
full beauty, seldom his pen now But he is fond
ofrecalng and incidents of his brilliant eccen-
trio career, and New Years day, two or three
years ago sent to all his friends gorgeousy designed
cards with the inscription: 'tAlphonse Karr florist
gardener captain, novelist, exprofessor and poet"
LADY appeared at Lords underground in Lon
don, on July IL in what may be fairly termed an
evening costume. She wore black lace dress vel.
low satin cuirass bodice brocaded with black cut low
very low-and fitted into the neck with black lace.
Her tightftting black lace sleeves reached down to
her elbows, being joined by black gloves. mass of
fluffy yellow hair, cut short, nearly hidden be-
meath huge black hat. The lady was not slender.
She created Juror wherever she went.
Mr.. STURGEON told an interviewer, the other day,
that he thought on the whole the world had grown
better since he first knew it. There have been many
improvements" he said, especially in the direction
of temperance. A whole class of men who were very
extinct refer to those good and respectable gentle
men who never got drunk but who were in the habit
of gettng-well, let say tolerably mellow. You
never come across one of these nowadays. At least
never do. think there has also come about an
improvement in the attitude of respectable people
toward lcentious literature Our grandmothers read
books which daughters would be ashamed to open
And in many other respects especially in that of open
vice and lawlessness London has greatly improved.
People did things thirty years ago without fear re.
straint which they would dream of doing now
There has, in fact, been great progress
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POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP.

THE Connecticut Republicans win meet in
State convention at New Haven, August 20, to
nominate State and electoral tickets
The Philadelphia independents have organized
under the name of the association of Republi-
cans and Independents of Philadelphia.
The Golden Censor opposes prohibition po-
litical party and thinks there is more to be
gained inside old party lines than by making a
new party.
To Mr.. John P. St. john the presidential
nominee the Prohibitonists belongs the distinc-
tion of being he-only Republican candidate for
Governor of Kansas who was ever defeated.
A. w. CAMPBELL, one time editor of the
Wheeling Intelligencer, is spoken Of as the prob
able Republican nominee for Governor of West
Virginia The Republican State convention
meets to-day.
THE Macon (Ga. Telegraph says: THE Geor-
gia Prohibitionists will not likely put an electoral
ticket in the field Georgia Democrats cannot
afford to throw away their votesn The infer
ence seems to be that the Georgia Prohibition
lists are Democrats.
THE peaceful arbitrament of international
quarrels which is the fundamental principle of
Mr.. Blaines South American policy, has some
Society publishes list Of instances in which it
has been successfully resorted to- In twenty of
the thirty-seven cases the United States was a
party to the dispute
The conviction of the Augusta correspondent
of the anti Blaine Boston Herald that the people
of Maine are preparing to give their greatfellow
citizen tremendous majority is confirmed by
daily reports from that State. Captain S. B.
Washburn, brother of ex- Minister Washburne,
writing from Portland to friend in this city
says THE Democrats have about concluded to
make Blaines election unanimous
Elk SENATOR BRUCE will deliver his first
speech in the political campaign at Salem, Ohio,
next Friday when General Robinson, the eandi-
date for Secretary of State, and Congressman
E. B. Taylor General Gar6eld's successor, will
also speak Mr.. Bruce will speak at Cambridge,
Ohio, on August I, and at Providence. r, l.,
August 15 He will return to the West about
September l. and speak in Ohio and Indiana I'M
til toward the close Of the campaign, when he
will go to New York to meet engagements al
ready made in that State.
SOUTH BEND Tribune No man is accomplish
ing greater work for the Republican party in
this congressional district than Hon. Ralph E,
Hoyt, who established and for some time edited
the now defunct Greenback paper in this city
By reason of his attitude on the Greenback
question few years ago, being one of the
stanchest Greenbackers, he is able to accom-
plish work for the Republican party that no one
else can, He is an interesting speaker, and at
Middlebury, on Saturday, at the Republican
judicial convention, spoke for nearly two hours
and was enthusiastically cheered.
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that Mr.. Hendricks had more influence with
Mr.. Lincoln than almost any Republican Of
that date" The people of this country are
not all condemned idiots, presumption nee
essary to make such blistering rot as this at all
marketable. Mr.. Hendricks was probably not
the worst man in the country during the rebel
lion; there were few others who did more
against the government but to represent him
as close, particular friend and confdante Of
Mr.. Lincoln during that period is bald and
disgusting nonsense.
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A New YORK paper reports that the school of
telegraphy for women, in Cooper Institute, is
oyercrowded, with large list of waiting appli-
cations on hand. This is because women are
like sheep in following leader. 1t is only when
they are asolutely forced out of line of occu-
patton by reason of an oversupply that they
turn to other means for gaining a livelihood.
When one woman finds an opening for herself
in new direction, the crowd rushes pell-mell
after, instead Of each striking out for herself.
When the teachers profession became over
crowded, it was discovered that telegraphy was
a suitable occupation for women; not very re-
munerative, it is true, and by no means flight
and easy work. but still, a few women had be-
come telegraphers, and why not all who could
find way to learnt When the multitude of
girls who are fitting themselves for this occupa-
ton have reduced the salaries Of the business,
through their preponderance in numbers over
the places to be filed, just as teachers and shop
girls salaries are kept down, the tide will turn
in some other direction In time, perhaps,
women who must provide for themselves will
learn to think and act for themselves, regardless
Of what the majority of their fellow workers
are doing; but it takes time.
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that source

JEREMIAH s. BLACK, one Of the greatest
jurists and greatest Democrats ever in this
country, on one occasion referred to the Multi
gan attack on Mr. Blaine, and gave it as his
opinion that "Mr. Blaine's letters proved that
the charge was not only untrue, but impossi-
BILE, and would 50 continue to prove until the
Gregorian calendar could be turned around
and October be made to precede April in the
stately procession Of the year We commend
this Democratic opinion to the attention Of the
Democrats, and of the independents as well.
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WRITERS of sensational literature of the dime
novel order probably never evolved anything
so apparently improbable as tho true story of
Mother" Mandelbaum, of New York, which has
been outlined in the news reports during the
past week. Mrs. Mandelbaum has, for many
years. been engaged in the business of receiving
and disposing of stolen goods, and so uninter-
rupted has been her prosperity in this line that
she has accumulated real estate and bonds to the
value Of one million dollars or more. Mother
Mandelbaum has acted as the head center or
moving spirit-it would, perhaps, hardly do to
say guardian angel-of a large circle of shop
filters and crooks, and has engaged their conf
dence to degree that gained her the maternal
title She STOOD by" them, and they were loyal
to her to such an extent say the New York POI
lice that the authorities, though long indirectly
aware of her operations, could never fasten
ever, took the matter up, and have succeeded in
obtaining proofs which they claim
are sufficient to land her in the
penitentiary, if she is properly prose
ecuted Facts which come out incidentally
with the breaking up of the woman's establish
ment indicate, according to the detectives who
detect, that the reason of her immunity from
legal difficulties heretofore is that she was under
police protection. Various prominent officials
connected with the police board have returned
hastily from their summer vacations to confront
the charge of standing in" with this queen Of
shop-lifters About fifty officials and detectives
are openly charged with having received stolen
goods from her for their use, and are in a state
of agitation in consequence The district attor-
ney declares his intention of seeing the affair
through, and very corrupt bit of New York
ofcial life bids fair to be disclosed. The sensa-
tional story writer's will find bonanza in
''Mother" Mandelbaum.
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fHTHERE are two classes, rather than two
parties, struggling for supremacy; two great
opposing forces struggling for conquest The
one looks only to the past for its inspiration;
the other turns to the future The one ap-
peals to smoidering prejudices, to Ignorance
and bigotry for its support the other relies on
the generally patriotic impulses Of the people,
and counts on love of justice and morality
to rebuke time-servers and demagogues. The
one asserts that everything must be sacrificed
to the success of the party the other asserts
that party is only means to an end, and IS
only to be supported when its purposes are
admirable and its measures justifable."
The two classes to which the Courier-Jo Jour
nal refers, from which paper the above
paragraph is quoted, are the Democratic and
the Republican. The zone" is represented as
the latter, and the f'otherg the former.
It is a sorry commentary on
the Courier-Journals wisdom that
the Democratic purposes and measures
have so long been so far from admirable" and
'justiiable" that for aquarter of a century the
people have refused to assist that party to an
opportunity to experiment with public affairs
Your reliance ON the generally patriotic"
impulses of the people seems sadly misplaced;
but, since 1860 the people have not been
patriotic" according to the Democratic stand
ard On the contrary, they have steadfastly
refused to trust the Democratic party, ex-
perience in that direction having proved any
thing but satisfactory The Coulier-J Journal
should wait until the Democratic party "gets
out of the woods before it s'relies on the
generally patriotic" impulses of the people.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE number of tax-paying Indians has more than
doubled in the last decade.
THE ostrich farming experiment at Sanford Fla,
has proved a failure. The last of the six imported
birds died few days ago.
THE Augusta, Ga, Chronicle is informed by an
eminent physician of that city that cholera never
penetrated the pine regions Of the South.
Mr.. REED of Cincinnati has writtenover column,
assaiing women who kiss each other He says their
hypocrtical smacks lower the moral character
PosTMAsTER-eENERAL FAwoETT says that in his
opinion the parcelspost system, which established
in England last year will ultimately pay expenses
LORD WoLsELEY, the English general who wears a
bangle bracelet speaks of Con. Grant as 'Mr. U. S.
Grant" Such things this must make the General
very tired. 4lr ~
FIRST come the missionaries then the consuls, and
after them the armies said King Theodore, of Abys-
sinia some years ago to French traveller, explain
ing his adherence of explorers and missionaries.
Two young girls have gone into business as dolls
dressmakers at Holyoke. A sign is hung out which
reads: Dolls dresses made and sold here, and a
good many little girls emerging from the door
with dolls in their arms.
THE Washington Star informs an inquirer that the
President is paid his salary by the United States
Treasurers draft issued the warrant Of the Score
OooOu
the First Auditor and First Comptroller of the Treas.
ury.
THE orange tree at Versailles known as the "Great
Constable" was planted in 1422 by Eleanor, of Car
Isle, wife of Charles H. King of Navarro. 1t is
likely that Eleanors enthusiasm VISA aroused by read
ing Florida letters in the Partisan newspapers Of that
time.
A SYDNEY a. s. VIZ paper remarks: 'sThe curious
notice of the American CONSUL Mr.. Kahlo, that the
public reading on the Fourth of July of the Declare
ton Of Independence is offensive to Englishmen, or
not good in British colony, has led to di.
vision in the American camp"
"TELEPHEME'' is the latest addition to the English
language. It signifies telephone message and Is said
to be Of correct Latin derivation 1t will be classed
with the words cablegram and telegram, and as the
Associated Press has authorized correspondents to
it in dispatches it will soon into general use
TEN years ago penniless man. with peculiarly
shaped head made bargain with London professor Of
anatomy, by which the latter to have the head on
payment of the mans funeral expenses Meanwhile
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THE Union is safe unless itfalls by the cor
ruption Of the People The flag is nowhere
assailed All sections are loyal, and one with
the other equally law-adiding. The foes to
fear are not open and confessed; the danger is
from within from a free, untrammeled ballot,
from ignorance everywhere, and from cor
ruption in high places. Louisville Courier
Journal.
That the Democratic party regards "a free,
untrammeled ballot" as dangerous probably
accounts for the fact that such thing is not
tolerated in many portions Of the South. The
State institutions of South Carolina Alabama
and Mississippi are in no immediate peril from
that source
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"a POLITICAL preacher is an animal that
sends an ordinary "old-sumptuary Democrat
into an ague of distress Yet, when Rev. Mr..
Albeit, at the opening Of the recent Demo-
cratic State convention, prayed God bless the
Democratic party, and make it Moses tolead
the people out Of the wilderness of corrup-
ton" the whole large audience of heavenly
minded Christians broke out into tempest Of
applause. But Mr.. Albeit was not epolit-
ical preacher
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THE history of the political course of Har-
per's Weekly shows that recklesness and
malignity not infrequently control it. Old
John Brown was victim of its editorial and
pictorial abuse. In the days of Buchanan
and Harper's Ferry the journal of civil
cation" was an abject toady Of the slave
power. Before that time it was Know-noth-
ing organ, and one Of its proprietors was the
Know-nothing candidate for mayor Of New
York city, and another was an anti Mason
candidate for presidential elector when the
anti Masonic party was in existence. La 1861
it grossly caricatured and ibeled Abraham
Lincoln, representing him as a drunken,
leering, smutty, beastly sort of human ape.
So outraged were the loyal people of New
York over the course of the paper that de-
termined mob forced the proprietors to hoist
an American flag over their publishing house.
How the pencil Of Mast and the pen of George
William Curtis were used against Horace
Greeley Carl Schuz and others, is well
known. What Mr.. Curtis thought of
Charles Sumner when he revolted against
his party, because he did not like the candi-
date; how Mr.. Curtis denounced Thomas A.
Hendricks in 1876 as an unfit man to be voted
foB7Yan these things, and more are well
known to the people Of the country. The
seemingly constituencies conduct of Mr..
Curtis within the past few weeks, by his
course in and since the Chicago convention,
casting principle to the winds, eating his own
words before they are cold and proving him
self, out of his own mouth, to be a liar, has
been thoroughly exposed, and the man stands
before the American people stripped of the
thin mask Of independence and virtue
with which he has tried to veil the personal
petulance Of his action. For George William
Curtis, as man Of letters and scholarship,
the country has admiration; until lately, they
had respect for his political convictions. But
that respect cannot continue, if the man him
self shows that he has no self Prospect.
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The New York Sun, speaking of the break
ing Of the unit rule in the Republican national
convention of 1880, in the interest Of Mr..
Blaine, says:
How little could he imagine then that the
same unit rule by which the majority of the
Republican convention refused to abide, would,
four years later, be tamely accepted by a
Democratic convention, and would be used to
force to the head of the Democratic party a
man of whom at that time he had probably
never heard! Such are the surprises Of poll
tics, which is full of the marvellous, the UNI
expected and the grotesque"
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state Ticket.

state Ticket.
GovKRSoR-WHLIAM H. CALKINS, Of La Porte
bounty.
LIEuTESANT-G ovKRNoR-EUGENE n. BUNDY, of
Henry county.
SECRETARY OF srATE-RoBERT MITCHELL, of
Gibson county
AUDrToR OF srATE-BRUCE CARR. Of Orange
county.
TREAsuRER OF srArE-RoGER R. sH1EL, of
Marion county.
ArroRSEY-eKSERAI- WILLIAM c. WILSON, of
Tfppecanoe county
JUDGE or THE SUPREME CoURT FIFTH DISTRICT
EDWIN p. HAMMOND, of Jasper county.
RRPoRTER SUPREME CoURT-WILIIAM NJ
HOGGATT, of Warriek county.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
BARNABAS C. HOBBS, of Parke county.
PRESIDENTIAL. ELECTORS.
State at large-SIilo s. Haseall, of EIkhart John NJ
Butler. of Marion.
First Distriet-Janes C. Veatch of Spencer
Second William B. Roberts, of Sullivan
Third-Iohn g. Berkshire. of Jennings.
Fourth-Wilham d. Ward, of Switzerland.
Fhth-Marshall Hacker. of Bartholomew.
Sixth-Josiah E. Meliette, of Delaware.
Seyenth-Thad S. Rollins, of Marion.
Eighth-Elias S. Holiday, of Clay
Hinth-James n Reynolds of Tippecanoe.
Tenth-Truman +. Palmer of White.
Eleventh-James F. Elliott of Howard
Twelfth-Joseph D. FerreH of Lagrange.
Thirteenth-John Reynolds, of St Joseph
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Cleveland,s Advisers.

Justice (Anti-monopoly Organ.)
Clevelandis credited by those who know him
best as being a thoroughly honest man, but he
seems to US to have generally acted as if he felt
that the masses were guilty of aggressions on
corporate rights rather than that corporations
were the aggressors upon public rights. He
seems to have chosen for his advisers men like
Manning, Dorsheimer, Field and Others who are
closely associated with the corporate interests,
and to have imbibed their opinion that Anti
monopolists are cranks and agrarians, who
have no respect for the rights of property, and
who, like the Red Socialists, simply desire to
tear down without offering any practicable
structure in the place of the one they demolish
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WHAT Mr.. George William Curtis really
thought of James G. Blaine, before he permit
ted himself to be gangrened with independent
ISM" is worth knowing if fair man
would make up fair Judgment upon the pres
emit attitude maintained by the editor of Har-
per's Weekly. On the Goth of March, 1881,
Mr. Curtis wrote and printed in Harper's
eeThe selection of Mr. Blaine for the State
Department shows that the President means
to have party behind him. Mr.. Blaine is
an alert, brilliant, versatile public man, with
a larger personal following than any other Re-
publican leader. As Secretary of State
his course will be regarded not only without
prejudice, but with the most friendly antici-
patton. The administration begins,
therefore, with an admirable manifesto, and
with Cabinet to which no part of the party
openly objects"
On November 5, 1881, Mr. Curtis printed
an editorial commenting upon Mr.. Blaine's
foreign policy, as developed in his letter on
the Panama canal, and which was transmitted
to tie Senate, Mr.. Curtis said
eTEhe letter states with admirable franllness
sition of this country; and it will be universal
ly sustained. The position is that which was
stated by the administration of President
Hayes. The letter is a temperate and
dignifed document, stating our position with
blended spirit, and courtesy, and decision. 1t
is capitally adapted to meet any such PROPOSE
ton as joint European protectorate, had it
been advanced. But whether the project was
merely tentative rumor, design serious
" entertained, the letter has suficed to arrest
it, and it is another illustration of the skill
and ability with which Mr.. Blaine has man
aged the department confded to him. He has
what may be called the American instinct, an
essential quality in our foreign secretary, yet
restrained in its official expression by an equal
ly American tact and good sense
Again, in Harpers Weekly of June 4,
1881, in an article under the heading of 'The
Administration, Mr. Curtis said
Secretary Blaines prompt and energetic
action in defense of naturalized citizens and
of a threatened hostile commercial policy in
Europe toward certain American exports
showed admirable vigilance"
Each and all of these warm expressions of
commentator and approval were written and
printed after every charge that has been or
could be made against Mr.. Blaine was well
known Since the date Of their appearance
Mr.. Blaine has been out of public life, living
simply as a quiet, honorable citizen, doing
nothing but writing his book, which the
Harpers do not publish, but the first volume
of which was received with favor both in this
country and in Europe as a work of political
history. We submit that if Mr.. Curtis
meant what he said when he wrote the edi-
torials from which we have quoted, that his
present opposition to Mr. Blaine cannot be
explained upon principles honorable to him.
1t is because of such facts as these that we
have no hesitation in saying that Mr. Curtis's
present opposition cannot, in the nature of
things, be honest and candid.