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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-05-20
OFFENSIVE MANNERS.
II Il Not Very Serious Matter. but Those
Ont Of OGice Complain.

II Il Not Very serlou, Matter. but Those
Ont Of OGice Complain.
Loud and bitter complaint is made by
Democratic Senators, Repre- .entatives
and other political potentates of the
peculiarly offensive manners assumed
by most Of their brethren who have
been inducted into Office since the 4th
of March.
Instead Of the easy accessibility and
almost unyarying courtesy that OBJ
tanned throughout many successive Re-
publican Administrations, these dis
gusted and irate complainants note and
remark upon ''cold, distant, almost
insolent Tone" in some cases, and a
still more offensive, patronizing man
ner'' in others.
One 81 nguishcd Democratic states
man called at the Office Of an old friend
and associate, who had just been made
the head OF bureau. OF course, the
caller, expected q cordial greeting. He
got snnb, or something worse. In re-
fcrring to it, he said: IF my lord, the
Commissioner, had been mastif and
poodle, the reception ] got would
have been In accordance with the eter-
nal fitness OF things
OF course these things are irritating,
but they are not unnatural. For n
quarter Of century the Democratic
party has been struggling for office, and
for nothing but Office. II has set up
olliee-hold,ng as the chief end and aim
of man. 1t has not besitated to sacri-
fee Its alleged principles at any and
all times whenever such n sacrifice
would, in the opinion Of the leaders,
advance the one great object Of Office
getting. 1t has been all things to all
men, has eaten its own words, and Its
liDs have blessed the things its soul has
hated, all to got hold OF the Offices.
1t Is not more natural for the noun
tain rill TO seek the far deep sea than
for such long. persistent cXaltation OF
oilice-holding 10 produce the haughti-
ness OF which Democratic statesmen
now make complaint.
These new inclmbents hold the prizes
which they have been educated to be-
lieye the most glorious objects of human
endcayor They possess that for which
they have becn taught to sacrifice their
principles ani make false professions oi
faith.
The Democratic idea that officials are
servants and the people then masters Is
reversed, and its reversal is due, as We
L. Il. A n. a :
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-05-20

[Pall Mall Gazette.l

Every one knows something OF the pros
perity Of Swiss townships, where so many
things are In common but more remark
able instance still OF thriving commune
Is given by NJ. de Laveleye in this months
Contemporary Reptetu. It is the township
Of Freudenstadt, at the foot OF the Knie-
bis, In Baden. There are ] ,420 inhabi-
tants, each Of whom has as much wood
for building purposes and firing as he
wishes, while he can send bis cattle out TO
pasture on the common land during the
summer. Schools, churches, thorough
fares and fountains are all maintained by
commune, and every year considerable
improvements are made. Twenty five
thousand dollars was spent in 1888, for
instance, on establishing a new water
supply in iron pipes. A hospital, too,
has been built, and a pavilion In tho
market place, where the communal band
plays on feto DAYS. The villagers have
never paid a single farthing In taxes,
but, on the contrary, each year a distri-
button Of the surplus revenue Is made
among them, aud each family usually OBJ
tains from $l2.5o to $l5 All this Is done
with about aye tho usand acres OF pine
forest and meadow land belonging to the
township, q fact which seems to show that
communism is not always unfavorable 70
the production Of wealth. srsfsf
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-05-20

exports Of specie from New York were
$292,027. Imports of specie for the same
period, Sl96,462. l
The juror, Harvey M. Munsell, who Wis
tied the office of O'Donovan Rosa during
the trial Of Short for carving Captain
Phelan, was adjudged guilty Of contempt
Of court on the 10th, and was sentenced to
thirty days in Jail and to pay fine Of $3.50.
Emil Dorner was on the 10th sentenced
to the penitentiary for two years for ille-
gal voting at the last municipal election in
Pittsburgh. NI
The statement of the New York asso-
ciated banks for the week ended the 10th
shows the following changes: Loans de-
crease, $351, 900; specie decrease $604, 200;
legal tenders increase, $2,276,9OO; deposits
increase, $3,083, 800; circulation decrease,
$26s, 400; reserve increase, $2,115,325. The
banks held $57,418,05O in excess of legal
requirements.
Andrew J. Dorm, the well-known pro-
prietor of the Astor House, New York, died
suddenly on the 10th Of neuralgia Of the
heart.
At the sixty first anniversary services
Of the American Sunday school Union,
held at Newark, N. j., on the 18th, Morton
X. Jesup, of New York, presided and gave
O summary of the society's work the past
year as follows: The new Sunday schools
organized numbered 1,499, with 67,660
scholars, averaging nearly five schools,
gathering into them 1856 scholars per day
for each day in the year. The schools
aided numbered 1,7lS, with membership
Of over 100000. There were 1929 Bibles
and Testaments distributed, 33,707 family
visits were made, and S,9S2 addresses were
delivered by the missionaries Of the
society. I....
A collision on the Philadelphia & Read
ing Railway on the 18th near Wilkesbarre,
Pa, between flying engine and a local
freight train, killed Engineer Philip Strong
and Fireman William Shane.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-05-20
Claiming the Town of Pullman.

CHICAGO, May IS. = Archibald Mills
paugh, j., Of Albion, Mich, announces his
intention Of bring suit to recover sIx-twelfths
Of the town Of. Pullman. a suburb of Chi
cago, including the ground on which are
built the Pullman works, the Allen Paper
Car Wheel Company large number Of
private residences and half a mile Of the
Illinois Central right Of way. The property
Is valued at s9,000,000. Millspaugh claims
TO have inherited the properly from his
father and uncle, the latter having received
II from the Government for his services in
the War OF 1872. He alleges the Pullmans
have an imperfect title 10 the property.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-05-20
sensitive nature.
Texas siftIngs.l

Two not very prepossesslng-looking
gentlemen were toasting their feet ut a
stove In the back room Of saloon. One
Of them was reading newspaper. Bud
denly he exelalmed:-
"why, Sam and BIZ Boggs have been
stealing horses in Kansas Bill was cap
tured and Is TO be tried for T., but Sam
was shot and killed while running from
tho Sheriff.
"You don't say sol Well, I am glad
Sam was killed. knew them boys. I
am glad Sam did not survive. for he was
very hlgh-toned, aud 1t would have al
most killed him to have had his brother
convicted Of stealing. He was too sensI-
tive, Sam was-had too much family pride
10 succeed In rough frontler country"
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-05-20

Paul Boyton, the swimmer, has
abandoned his aquatic profession and
opened q saloon in New York City.
From water to whisky Is bad 60.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-02-09

generally, that things were going to the bow
vows This is the '.good citizens stock in
trade, without which he would only be plain,
ordinary, sensible man, and this the "good
citizen" could never allow to happen. The
good citizen belongs to the dangerous classes,
and, so far as we can see, is likely to continue
in that category. Let call be made for a
meeting of the liquor men, and every one
would be present, if it rained, showed, or
thundered all around the sky. Let call for
'tgood citizens be made and there would be a
beggarly account of empty benches. If
things go wrong, the 'fgood citizen" is to
blame. Let us first see some evidence that
the "good citizen" cares continental except
to growl at others who are doing the best they
can, and when that is made plain, it will be
time to risk count of noses in public meet
sxr.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-02-09

lost his life in attempting to lead to the charge
an Arkansas regiment which had refused to
charge although repeatedly ordered to do So
Rising in the eloquence of wrath and indigna-
ton, he proceeds to fay the hero Of Appomat-
fox:
No, sir, says Colonel Newman, no sir.
The confederate troops like the Trojan Hector,
though warned of gods and men not to engage
the invulnerable Achilles, nevertheless they
moved forward on every occasion when or
dered although nothing was in store for them
but the criminal burial of battle. '
And as long as we have tbs honor to set a gal
ley or WELD a pen, no Promethean thief of
Clos stylus shall slur or impugn without con-
tradiction the heroism, bravery, honor or en-.
dnrance of the grand old confederate sol
diers'"
This is probably the worst punishment ever
suffered by General Grant, and coming, as it
does at a time when his health is not what it
should be- it will be felt keenly. The Kun
mel should have been more considerate.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-02-09

THE Chicago Tribune has come to the con-
clusion announced by the Journal long time
ago. that railroad pools are fraud and fail
ure. There is not ''poor in the country
that there is any pretension of living up to,
while their very existence is an answer to the
stereotyped protest by railroad men against all
legislative regulation-that the laws of trade
and of supply and demand must be allowed to
work unhindered. Every ''pooP is an arbitrary
interference with the operation of these natural
laws, behind which railroad managers shield
themselves whenever it is proposed to put
them under any extaneous restraints.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-02-09

SOME genius fred with spirit of genuine
reform, has introduced into the New York
Legislature an act for the suppression of SEN
timental gush and glorifcation of felons
which reads as follows:
"Any person, whether male or female, who
shall send to convicted felon, or to person
held for trial for the crime of murder in any
Jail, prison or penitentiary of this State, a
bouquet of flowers or other sympathetic token,
shall, for the first offense, be subject to fine
of not less than $40, nor more than $25, to be
imposed by any court of competent jurisdic-
tion, on the complaint of any citizen, and for
a like subsequent offense shall be liable to inn
prisonment in the county Jail not less than 10
or more than 25 days."
This stern legislator evidently has no SYM
pathy for those dear souls who, having no one
to love, seek to ease their yearnings by atten-
tions to murderers The bill should pass.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-02-09

may be to the contrary II is, then, their own
fault if misrule carries the day. The remedy
is in their own hands. 1t is every mans right
to take an interest and part in his local, as
well as general, government affairs; if in any
particular these are not to his liking then it is
his business to enter a protest. BY this is
not meant that he should rail at the authori-
ties, nor content himself with finding fault
with the condition of things and then wash
his hands Of them," as is the unpleasant
custom of the average "good citizen" He
must join forces with others, and work to at
tain the desired ends. The majority rules in
theory; it can be made to do so in reality. If
law is to be enforced it is not enough for
few to meet and pass resolutions recommend
ing its enforcement then doing no more,
after the fashion of the ministerial brethren
who so justly excited Mr.. Morrisons ire
The better element must unite, the weapons
of the opponents must be used, method
must be agreed upon, and all minor differences
laid aside until the desired end is
accomplished. If the city government
is corrupt, take it in hand, and reform and
purify it. If law is not satisfactory, bring
every moral force to bear without ceasing un-
til better is enacted. Take, for instance
the vexed and vexing question of the liquor
law. It cannot be doubted that considera-
BILE majority of the voters of Indiana desire to
see an improvement in the laws which will
at least modify the evil. One class favors
absolute prohibition, another local option,
still another high license Each faction, but
particularly the first and the one with no pos
sible chance of present success, is working for
its own pet idea. By uniting their forces,
there is little doubt but law much better
than the one now in force could be passed.
But no; everyone for himself. Any attempt
to secure such a modification of opinion as
will enable all to work together for the general
good is met with scorn and indignation. The
result will be that the law will not be amended
at this session. and for two years to come tenn
perance people will indulge in vituperation
which might have been avoided, and their
hands made free to do further work to advance
their cause. The temperance sentiment is
strong, but it is not well managed. Its
various leaders, though earnest, are not polite,
and by their lack Of good business sense the
whisky traffic will again be ascendant and the
best interests of the community suffer- "How
long, oh! Lord, how longs" is the cry of many
who have prayed and worked for q different
result.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-02-09

IT will be matter of surprise to many to
know that Indiana has no less than twenty
eight colleges" New York has the same
number, while Ohio alone has more the total
number in that State being thirty five. Penn
sylvania has twenty-six, and Massachusetts,
seven. But the Massachusetts, colleges have
an income from productive funds of $29l,8l2,
receipts from tuition of $780, 538 and libraries
containing 303, 126 volumes; whereas in Ohio
the aggregate income from productive funds
is $2l0,510 and from tuition fees $125, ,3S2,
while there are only 161, ,3O2 volumes in the
libraries. Michigan, with nine colleges has
better provision for their support than Ohio
has for hers. The colleges of New York and
Pennsylvania are far better endowed
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-02-09
The PHILADELPHIA Press well saws:

ut has been clear for some years that the
present status of the Territory [Oklahoma]
cannot be maintained in perpetuity. This
would be just neither to the white man nor
desirable for his red brother. The problem
must be solved in some way, and the question
is how shall it be done so as to work the least
injury to the Indian2 The method advocated
by Congressman Springer is the one, perhaps,
which meets the appreciation of the majority
OF those who have given the Indian question
the most careful and disirterested study. This
is, i'll brief, to abolish the tribal relations
allot to each head of family sufficient
quantity of land and throw the remainder
open to settlement, meanwhile comforting
upon the Indian the full rights of an American
citizen. If a temporizing policy is adopted
and the Oklahoma lands thrown open to set
tiers, it will be solution for day only
With foothold given the white man in the
Territory, the difficulty of saying the Indian
reservations from encroachments will be
greatly increased, so that all will admit that a
comprehensive policy from the start will pre-
vent complications in the future"
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-02-09
TAXATION OF THE LIQUOR BUSINESS.

AdAh11ON 4a1 OUO1Nb00,
Indiana is awakened to the unpleasant fact
that the State Treasury is empty, and one of
to-day's duties of the Legislature now in ses-
sion will be to pass bill authorizing tenn
porary loan, to provide for its own expenses.
The simple fact is the States expenditures
have been on a scale that could not be main
tanned on the amount Of revenue collected. 1t
is not easy to say how these expenses
can be materially reduced for, with
an increasing population and renewed
demands for needed improvements in
the way of new State-house, new asylums,
ETC., it would be poor policy to stop work on
them There then remains nothing to do but
to increase the revenue and naturally enough
taxpayers viii view an increase of taxation
with anything but patience. In this event
the Journal would again call attention to a
rich field that up to this time has been fallow
ground. We refer to the saloons. Other States,
and notably Illinois, and Ohio also, up to the
time the Supreme Court pronounced licensing
nconstitutional-have reaped large harvests
from them, and that too without any particu-
lar detriment to the saloons themselves. In
Indiana they have been permitted to have
their own way, escaping their just proportion
of the burden of public expense while other
and legitimate lines of trade have borne their
own burdens and those that should have
rested on the liquor traffic. ~
The time has now come for Indiana's law
makers to call on the saloons for their share
of the public expense. Put on high license,
and the result will be full treasury without
increasing general taxation, and with the ad-
ditional good effect of freezing out the more
disreputable saloons, which do so much to en-
courage vice and crime The liquor traffic
is the most profitable in the State.
1t pays bigger dividends than any mill
or factory, and the proprietors of saloons
make hundred-fold more money, in proper
tion to the capital invested, than do merchants
| in any line of trade. This is no exaggeration.
A saloon pays hundred times more on the
money invested than does any other business.
What will the Democratic Legislature do now
for the people of Indianae Shall taxation be
increased, to the hurt Of every branch
of trade, or shall the saloon men at
last be called upon to do their
share toward carrying the public burden9
That the average Democratic legislator is
afraid of the saloon vote, and dares not cross
the will of saloon-keeper, is so evident as to
need no argument. But now, in an issue be-
tween the people and the saloons, there is lit
tie chance for lodging. 1t is to be hoped that
for once they will assert themselves, and re-
quire the liquor traffic to pay its proportion Of
| taxes.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-02-09
LnDIOIAL OATHS.
result.

Mr.. Carlisle, Speaker of the House, is said to
hold the opinion that ''the form of an oath
will eventually be done away with in the
courts and that each mans evidence will have
weight according to his credibility as wit
ness" That is all the weight any mans evil
dence has, oath or no oath. If a jury doesn't
trust him his testimony will do but little to-
wards convincing them, though he should
swear, in the old backwoods phrase, ''on
stack of Bibles as big as meeting house."
If the jury believes he is telling the truth it
will take his testimony at 'its face" whether
it is sworn to or not. There are people whose
lightest word goes further towards establish
ing conclusion than the strongest protesta-
. tions of others. Says the "Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table" in one of his earliest papers:
''There are some people whose rhetoric con-
sists of a sort of understatement. I often tell
my wife that her i think it is so is worth
the Bible oath of everybody else in the house
that they know it is so'" Besides, the
oath has lost all solemnity of appeal
to God, and half of the time is iumble of
words that nobody hears or cares to under
stand So far as its effect in securing the
truth is concerned, it might be abrogated to-
morrow and leave no sign that it had ever ex-
listed. 1t has been abrogated for years in the
interest of certain religious opinions-the
Quakers especially-and form of 'affrma-
ton" substituted which seems to answer
every purpose, as it is supported by the penal
ties Of perjury. Why not substitute for it
and affirmation both a statement like that
of British peers on the trial of a peer, con
honor" and back that with the pains of per-
jury if wilfully falsifedR 1t would relieve le-
gal proceedings of the offensive feature of ap-
pealing to the Almighty in matters of mere
form--matters so trivial that in ordinary bus
mess there would be no thought of other as
surance than a mans word It is really irrev-
erent, not to say blasphemous, as oaths are
usually administered and received, and it is
utterly useless as a security for the truth as
witness the tax returns of men who are held
as respectable in business and social life, and
in the church, too, as any men in the COM
munity.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-02-09
TO the Editor of the Indiana polls Journal:

To the Editor OF the indianapolis Journal:
Please state in your next issue the cost Of
applying for patent; also cost of taking out the
same, and whom to apply to-whether best
through an agent or directly to Washington, d.
Co. and if to Washington whom to address.
Are patent agents reliable in generals W. O. 9.
FRANKLIN, Ind.
If you apply through patent solicitor, which
is the safest way. you must pay $40 on applica
ton. If the patent be granted, another pay
ment of 500 is necessary. If you have any busi-
ness directly with the Patent Office, you should
address Commissioner of Patents, Washington,
D. G. You would better however, apply
through some solicitor. They are generally
reliable. See advertising columns of the Jour
nal
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-02-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

AT Prince Bismarek's private table member of
the household speaks word until its head has tacty
or otherwise given him leave.
Mr.. MALLoCK author of us Life Worth Lving9"
has so far answered his question in the affirmative
as to become a candidate for seat in the House of
Commons at the next election.
ALL sorts of pleasant things said of that worthy
woman, Miss Susan B. Anthony, who at sixty -four
looks no than fifty, talks WELL is very amiable
and wears good clothes and pleasant smile.
ERNEST RENAN is bulky, short, tat, rosy, with
large features long gray hair large nose small eyes,
o well shaped mouth, and his manner lecturer is
tgay. very gay and his gayety is rather comical."
MISS ALGER of Boston. says that in her experience
as visitor for the Associated Charities she finds no
drunkenness among the Italians and the greatest
fastidousness, coupled with economy, among the
French
EMPEROR ALEXANDER, of Russia has purchased
the great Basewski collection of paintings. While
moving from Paris to ST. Petersburg he insured the
consignment in the sum of ST. 200, 600, in eighteen
different companies.
THE venerable historian, George Bancroft, recalls
with delight that he discussed Byron with Goethe at
Weimar, and Goethe with Byron at Monte Nero
Half century from now somebody will record his joy
at having talked with George Bancroft about George
Bancroft.
GENERAL JAMES GRANT WILSON relates that the
second Duke of Wellington reported to him his father
the Iron Dule-as saying mot only was Wash
ngton in my Judgment the purest and most patriotic
man of modern times but he also the stateliest
most majestic and the most modest of men,"
GOVERNOR PATTIsoN denies the story that he
would enter the ministry when his term as executive
had expired. '1 do not know how the story started I"
he says, but presume it because have made
number of addresses in churches and was lay member
of the last General Conference of the Methodist Eps
copal Church"
CHARLES PELHAM VILLIERs, brother of the late
Earl of Clarendon and eighty-three years DID, is
about to celebrate the beginning of the feth year in
which he sat continuously in the House of Commons
as the Liberal member for Wolverhampton. The
event of member representing constituency for
half century is remarkable even in English parlia-
mentary history.
Ex-MAYOR ROBINSON, of Hartford, Conn. tells
this of the famous preacher, DIR. Joel Hawes: "One
day he came into my Office and said Henry, q man
was in my stady this morning, and right under my
own roof, told me hadn't preached the gospel for
forty years What would you have done, if you had