Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-16

polite and intelligent gentleman but the life of the party.

This is great campaign. A special dis patch from Portland, Maine, to the Chicago
 Tribune says that Mrs. Merrill is woman of
 singularly unhappy disposition, and of such a peculiar mental makeup and habit
 that Senator Morrill, before he died took
 care to leave his property so that while it
 could be used for her good it should be ab- solutely free from her control A. P. Morrill,, Senator Morril1's brother, deprecates her wild talk, and says if his brother were ! alive he would be on the stump for Blaine.
 In recent speech MT. Gladstone gave some ! facts regarding his financial administration which bring into marked prominence his l economy and faithful adherence to the inter-
 ests of the taxpayers. He first showed that | the late tory government had in it's last four years left deficiency of s7, ,33O, 900, while his own government had the satisfaction of reporting for an equal time surplus of q, I 550, 900. He then made clear that, while the Beaconsfeld government paid off ZIG, ,984, 900 of the debt in four years, he has reduced it e25, ,0s4, 600 for an equal term, and that, by ~AANN O~ DAAO duction will reach about e33 000, ,000
 General Hancock, lately on western tour, ' is said to have received letter asserting that the writer had lent various sums of money to his nephew, Lieutenant Frank Hancock, out on the plains. Frank died not long ago, \ and the general had undertaken to admins ter upon his estate. The letter intimated n4 ! ought to be quietly satisfied Hancock s.de- clined to be agitated by this onslaught. Again the fellow wrote of chumship with the dead lieutenant in the far southeast, de- seribed himself as gallant but unfortunate adventurer into eastern civilization, and as friend advised the general to silence scan- dal by taking the insignificant sum of $50 out of his own wallet. Then the general replied that the demand would never be met unless
 clear proof of it's justness was supplied. The applicant turns out to be a confidence man
 of extensive experience. His Texas record shows him up a swindler of Freemasons. An official communication from the secretary
 of lodge at Fl Paso sets him forth as pro-
 fessional rascal
 The Utica Herald has received advices
 from the counties of central New York rela-
 tive to the Republican situation. It instruct
 ed it's correspondents to report any defection
 visible and give their best judgment as to the
 vote in November compared with that of
 1880. The information obtained shows that the Republican outlook was never better
 e'There is not county in the entire belt
 where the Republican vote does not promise to equal that of the presidential election; and
 in number of localities reasons are given for expecting Republican majorities larger
 than those of 1880." Everywhere the rank
 and file of the party is alert, enthusiastic,
 and full of confidence. Club organizations
 are doing more than ever before. The Her
 aid, commenting on its returns, says: A
 studied effort has been made to spread the
 impression that the condition of the party in this section is not promising it might be, and that Cleveland was to make great gains in these prosperous and intelligent counties. It was to ascertain the actual truth that the investigation now published was made. It appears that the Democratic achievements are as fabulous here as they are elsewhere-in Maine for instance where the Republican vote and the Republican ma jority both larger than ever before. They are like the mythical sea serpent-very much talked about, and occasionally seen by some one else, when nobody is about. In word, the Republican party is in the same condition here that it is in everywhere else alert, aggressive, united and confident of victory