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ADVICE TO A MUGWUMP.
A Few Pungent Paragraphs which Should
Be Passed Around.
National RenubIican

Few Pungent Paragraphs which Should
Be Passed Around.
National Republican.
An official in of the departments having
written to prominent Republican in his own
State, requesting him to exert influence with a.
Democrat to have him, the (the Officially retained
in office, received the following reply:
JUNE Is, 1885.
Friend S.-Your letter received Pardon de-
lay in writing. have been extremely busy
/ have no acquaintance with Mr.. A Have
never seen him to my knowledge, and don't sup
pose would have any influence with him what
ever. Some Democrat could do you more good
than hundred Republicans
| should suppose your service to Cleveland and
the Democratic party and against Blaine and
the Republican party would serve TO keep you
soldier, l believe, and this fact may operate
against you, as | see that many old soldiers
holding civil positions have been asked to walk
the plank Your place may be wanted by some
confederate soldier, who has always been true to
the principles of the Democratic party
Without the aid of Republicans like yourself
Cleveland could not have been elected Repub
licaus like yourself have been the cause OF turn
ing many good and worthy men out of Office and
some of them have been personal friends of
mine, and to some of these friends their dismiss
al has been a great hardship III you should
happen to lose your place you doubtless can sym
pathize. don't find any fault for turning Re-
pubicans out of Office.
l did not expect anything else when Cleveland
was elected. On personal grounds / would be
pleased to see you hold your place. but can't
say that admire your course politically You
have held Office under a Republican administers
ton for many years, and if you should now be
dismissed you can very properly say that ''you
have helped to kill the goose that laid the golden
egg Very truly yours, l. G. H.
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retribution; but, whatever they may be, that
they either did not exist a few years ago, or
operate with the same energy as they have
recently, is too obvious for dispute. We are
more inclined to congratulate community on
the pleasing prospect of seeing the work Of the
~foolkiller' anticipated, and the work Of
! courts and juries obyiated, than to puzzle our
selves and readers with theories of emotional
insanity, or of instantaneous and effective
revelations Of duty that produce such very
fit and serviceable Examinations of irreparable
crimes. H the course of evolution, or of
mental and moral development shall reach
the end of making every emotional murderer
do for himself what he has done for his vic
tim, the world will be better for it. The
example of murder will be no worse than all
crimes of the kind while the suicide will prove
to be as effective restraint as the Japanese
'hari- kari
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.'hari- kari

How refreshingly American it would be if
Mr. James G. Blaine should actually go into
Ohio next fall to stump the State for Foraker,
the candidate of his party for Governor.
There is a rumor that he will do so-and why
notg 1t would be just like him. How much
more rational it would seem that he should be
in the thick Of furious political contest
cheering on his enthusiastic followers, than
resting slothfully at home engaged in philo-
sophicl discussions of the future of Repub-
icanism. Some defeated candidates for the
that the field of minor politics wasn't good
enough for them, and would retire into Sc
clusion of imaginary dignity and never appear
in any other character than that of man who
was once next door to being President. But
there is no such nonsense about Brother
Blaine. With him bygones are tygones. He
is far more likely to jump into the political
cauldron again, and particularly into the Ohio
cauldron, than to moon over the fatalities Of
1884 and spend his days in thinking of what
might have been. He is not of the sort that
lives more in the past than in the present. He
is a man with close grip on the things of the
day, and he keeps an eye on the future be-
sides.-New York Sun.
The irony with which this was intended to
be tinctured is lost in its near proximity to
the truth. Blaine is American through and
through, and if he goes into the Ohio cam
paign he will go as live man, wide awake
to all the matters at stake His abilities as
canvasser are well known-so we'll known that
Democrats would rather have him sulk over
the defeat of last year, or sit back on his dig
nifty, and take no hand in active politics. As
the Sun declares, Blaine is not that kind of
man. "He is not the sort that lives more in
the past than in the present" Mr. Blaine
will probably be heard from, and, if he is,
there will be no mistake about it. He will
stir up the animals in way they despise. He
made no mistake in going into the campaign
of 1884, and he will be power this year if
he chooses to put himself to the work.
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THE Boston Herald is reluctantly coming
to the conclusion that this is Democratic ad-
ministration in all that the name implies 1t
is greatly in fear lest the Democratic party is
simply a combination to secure possession of
the Offices, with no object except to enjoy
their perquisites, and with neither ideas nor
principles as to the right conduct of the gov
eminent" There is a painful probability that
the Herald is correct in both differences, and
that, as it says, when the same conclusion
shall be reached by the people, "the aggrega-
ton of unrelated parts calling itself Demo
cratic will be jerked out of power as soon as
the voters can get at it." The man who in
viewing this sad prospect, has no sympathy
with the afflicted mugwumps is lost to the
feelings of humanity. It is alas and alas for
Reform with big r.
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COLONEL DENBY,s IDEAS.
What the New Minister to China Says or Hia
Mission.

Mission.
New York Tribune
Colonel ID. w. DENLY, minister to China, had
number of visitors at the Gilsey House Friday
they did not find him, as he was taking part in
the reception of the Isere on board the revenue
cutter Grant. A tribune reporter found Col
onei DENLY in his room at night. lie is q tall,
well built man, with smooth face, high fore
head, and courteous ways. He was dressed ia a
stylish New York suit, instead OF the usual
homemade shiny black doeskin of the average
Indiana statesman, and high white hat stood
on the mantel. In the course of chat with the
reporter, Colonel DENLY said:
Il shall remain in New York for several days,
gathering such information about Chiua and the
possibilities of Chinese trade as may be given
me by interested persons here. my visit is win
the concurrence OF the President and Mr.. Bay
ard. They desire me to await the return Of my
predecessor, Mr.. Young which also meets my
own wish He was expected in San Francisco
on the 10TH but did not arrive, and 10 is now
presumed that he is coming By the ocean route
to New York. The time seems proptious 10 ex-
tend our trade to China's millions of people. H
is to that end that shall labor The Chinese
people may become great customers for all our
manufactured products by proper cultivation OF
the business relations between the two countries.
We have been friends since Burlingames day.
China has always trusted America, The Ameri-
can minister has always been trusted counsellor
at Pekin The venerable represen tative Of
China at Washington gave me full and free
conference and interchange of views the other
day, which will be of great benefit TO me.
have received numerous letters from missionaries
in China. They are all full of information and
valuable for my education on Chinese affairs"
How about the Chinese question as it affects
the Pacific Coastln
You can say emphatically that have no
opinion to express on that subject In fact.
have no opinion, but to enforce and obey the
law, whatever it may be. speak this frankly
so that may not be embarrassed on reaching
IA 10 Iba, x>1a Ia
urally deeply interested in this question. 1t af-
fects their business affairs, their personal pros
perity, their bread and butter. But with that
question am not to deal. I am to enforce the
law as made by Congress, whatever it may be.
The President in selecting minister to China
was led to choose one from the interior by q
consideration Of the fact that any one from the
coast would have been prejudical partisan for
or against the Chinese. The people on the coast
are intense in their feeling on this subject, and
1t might have been serious embarrassment if
coast man had geen selected. / say this entirely
outside Of the question of my own selection"
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can be saved and 60 to heaven without being bap
tized by immersion" When the excessive rarity Of
St Jamess version of the Bible is recalled the offer
viii be seen to be erninently safe.
AMONG the converted Indians Of Arizona and New
Mexico the real hero Of the Bible is Daniel The
meekness and owness of the Savior do not appeal TO
their imaginations with tue force Of Daniels expo
rences among the lions.
Miss ANNIE LIPPINcoTT daughter Of 'Grace
Greenwood lately made her debut in italian opera in
Italy where she has been an earnest and dgent stu
dent Of muscfo the last three four years Under
the professional name Of Anita Armour she recently
achieved at Trieste brilliant success in light opera
and won the commentator of all the critics The
prima donna is referred to young beautiful, and
graceful and her friends predict for her prosperous
career.
IT is said that John Wesley was once walking with
brother who related to him his troubles, saying he
did not know what he should do. They at that
moment passing stone fence to meadow, over
which cow was looking '.Do you know" said Yves
ley, why the COW looks over the WALTZ" No replied
the one in trouble. II win tell you," said Wesley,
because she cannot look through it, and that is what
you must do with your troubles look and above
them"
THE Rev. H. L. Haweis writes: Morning literary
work is usually characterized by freshness continuity
OF grasp and vigor night work by fever excitement
and less condensation. This I believe to be the rule
and with exceptions in speaking thus generally it is,
OF course impossible to DEAL Of one thing am GER
tain that for ali headworkers especially esary men,
the following rules will be found golden: To bed
before H. to work before Il as little liquid as posi-
ble' and no smoking before breakfast"
MIR. SEYMOUR has charming home at Deerfeld y
says l.. B. Proctor; plain house, but ample and ad-
mirably arranged and filed with curious historical
furniture. His favorite chair belonged to Daniel
window that came from Faneuil Hall, and his crate
lire burns within fireplace of tiles, and brick, and
stone that was once in the house of John JAY at Al
bany. Mr.. Seymour says that winter evenings, he
sits dreaming at his old fireplace he sometimes can
almost imagine that Jay and other great of the
early days of New Yorks history are present.
MIR. BEEcHER does not believe anything is gained
by wholesale denunciation of tobacco but urges the
young men of his charge form the habit of u.s.
ing it. Il am not saying, he says, that tobacco will
lead to rum and rum to sheol. 1t isn't a good thing
especially for the young. They don't needjt But if
you do smoke if you choose to smoke later in lfe
have no maledicons but to it that the practice
shall take little that is offensive possible There
is great choice in the selection Man may be JUST;
fed in smoking. but charity hasn't got mantle that
is broad enough to cover man who uses bad to-
baceo"
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THERE seems to be one wife-murderer at least
who wants to be hanged without mercy. Flor
ence McEllacuddy, of East ST. Louis, killed his
wife in November last. When the case was
called, about month ago McEllacuddy entered
plea of guilty. and said that he desired to be
hanged. The judge, however, refused to pass
sentence upon him, and appointed lawyer to
look after his case, which was set back until
this week Despite the fact that his friends and
attorneys argued with him not to plead guilty,
he persisted in doing so, and was sentenced to
hard labor for life. When sentence was.pro-
nounced McEllacuddy broke down completely
and cried like a child. He explained that it was
not because of the sentence, but because he had
killed his wife, whom he loved 1t is said that
she was victim of intemperance, and that she
persisted in it. despite his pleadings with her to
reform. He was Woodworking man, but his
wife's conduct drove him to drink, and in one of
his sprees he killed her.
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ACCORDING to Washington correspondent
the candidates for postoffice inspectorships
are forced to undergo double ordeal, the
second not being specified among the civil
service rules. After the hopeful applicants
have passed the competitive examination,
which, for their department of the public
service. has been made severe, they are re-
quired to pass in review before the Postmas-
ter-general. They are admitted, one at a
time, into the august presence of Mr. Villas,
and are inspected" by him in his intervals of
leisure. Sometimes a few formal questions
are asked sometimes single glance at the
applicant is sufficient for the high officials
purpose; now and then candi-
date is timd, and requires to be
drawn out again, one is gushing and
is duly snubbed. The head of the depart
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Too bad. Oh, OH There is rumor in
circulation that high official connected with
one of the departments has been selling his
influence to applicants for appointments. It
was at first charged that the official in ques-
ton was no less parsonage than a Cabinet
minister, but this was subsequently denied
The guilty person, it is understood, has the
confidence Of the Secretary, and, this fact be-
ing known, has traded upon his reputation so
skillfully as to put hundreds of dollars into
his pockets by single transaction. The
matter, it is said, was brought to the Presi
dents attentionby gentleman who paid 5000
FOX $4,000 position which he was to secure
within thirty days after the inauguration. He
grew tired Of waiting at last, and demanded
return Of his money. This being refused, he
made charges against the official and filed
them with the President This is awful, in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-25

IT may be interesting for the military COM
panies who are preparing to attend the en-
campment at Philadelphia, to learn that the
health authorities of that city fear that the
existence of the camp on the banks of the
Schuylkill will cause an outbreak Of cholera
A careful reading of the discussions on the
matter gives reason to believe that the only
persons likely to suffer from cholera are those
natives who fear that the visiting soldiers will
damage the park, and take up room which
might otherwise be occupied by their own cit
liens. Philadelphians seem to be a hospitable
folk.
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The South Loyal to the Shotgun Policy.

Lexington MISS Advertiser.
I. L. Meade, recently appointed postmaster at
Hazlehurst has been asked to resign it having
come to the knowledge of the mugwump admin
istration that ne was chairman Of the Demo-
cratic executive committee of Copiah county
during the Matthews troubles, and took an
active part in freeing his county from the curse
of radlcalism. If such men are disqualified
from public service under Democratic admins
traton, Mr.. Cleveland will have to look else
where than in the Democratic party in the South
for men to fill the Offices.
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view of the fact that the "rascals' were turned
out Of the departments less than four months
ago, and their places filed with men fairly
saturated with reform and official virtue. So
soon; too! Others are probably doing much
should become so bold so soon that scandal
is brought right into the midst of the elect.
1t may yet develop that Democracy is Democ-
racv after all
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How long will it take the Republican organs
to learn that when the people voted it out of
power last November they voted to turn all
the Republican office holders out of Office?
Atlanta Constitution.
Never mind worrying about the Repub-
licans, esteemed contemporary. The real
Democratic conundrum is, GLOW long will it
take the administration to learn what the peo-
pie voted it into power forw
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TIE frequency, approaching uniformity,
with which emotional murders have recently
been completed and rounded off, as it were,
by suicide, suggests the possibility that the
progress of civilization is tending to the point
of relieving communities from the expense
and trouble of furnishing that class Of muir
derers, and from the annoyance Of the pres
ence Of such fools among sensible people.
Within a week we have been told of the case
of Joseph wilma, of Chicago, who on the
18th inst, shot his wife and himself, because
she had applied for divorce to avoid the per-
secution of his drunkenness; of the case, on
the same day, of John Charlton, of New Or
leans, who shot his friend, Mckay, in a fit Of
delirium tremens, and instantly blew his own
brains out, or the residuum that liquor had
left where his brains had been; of the case of
James r. Mckee, "a prominent citizen Of
Alegwippa, sixteen miles from Pittsburg
on the Lake Erie Railroad, who suddenly
ended quarrel with his wife by sending a
bullet into her brain, and Immediately putting
another into his own left eye ON the Goth; of
William Freeman, of Chincoteague, Md, on
the 18th. who had been taken from poverty
and suffering when a child by Mr.. Timothy
Hill, and, falling in love with Mr.. Hills
daughter Jennie killed her and her mother
because. she would not return his affection or
promise to marry him, and instantly shot
himself through the head. Four cases in a
week, and these have been preceded by a
score of the same character since New Years.
More than half of the murders impelled by
jealousy, by resentment Of sights, by exag-
gerated or distorted feeling, for many months
past, have been followed by instant suicide.
We are not disposed to speculate on the psyche
logical conditions that produce so near an
approach to uniformity Of self-inficted
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A PHILADELPHIA judge, in recent ruling
says that under the laws of Pennsylvania
women engaged in business are licensed pi-
rates, for whose fraudulent acts there is no
redress nor punishment. So long as Pennsyl-
yania has room for more why should the WON
en- Of other States be claEnoring for additional
rights Pennsylvania is undoubtedly the
place they long have sought.
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Miss Cleveland and the silly Public.

Sprlngheid Republican.
Miss Cleveland's book on English literature is
very likely good in its class sensible, readable
and all that, but the. alleged interest in it is
ridiculous If it had been published before her
brothers election as President it probably would
not have been paying investment, and why
that circumstance should make it desired and
sell by thousands in advance of publication, as
we assured it does is incomprehensible on
any rational grounds. It is Miss Cleveland's
good luck that the great public has so silly an
appetite for anything to which notoriety att
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-25

ST. LOUIS people are deeply hurt over the
report in circulation that the so-called Preller
murder was merely part of a conspiracy to
realize on life-insurance policy, and was no
After all the ado they have made over this
''trunk mystery" it will be extremely
notifying to be forced to confess that they
were gulled by medical college "stif."
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THE New York Independent has these sensi-
BILE remarks respecting the duty Of temper


BILE remarks respecting the duty of temper
ance men of Ohio in the pending campaign:
''What the Republicans propose is such
legislation as will give us the most practical
and efficient measure for the regulation and
taxation of the liquor traffic attainable under
the Constitution This is what was sought
to be done by the Scott law, and, as contrasted
with Democracy, with its free-rum' doctrine
and its free-rum' practice, it is vastly
better than nothing. It, however, does
not embody the creed of the Pro-
hibitionists, and was not meant to
for the Prohibitionists Of Ohio is whether, as
the friends of temperance they WILL in the
election of next fall, take course that will in
effect help to continue the rum party in
power and defeat the Republican party, be-
cause the latter declines to incorporate their
creed into its platform. We believe in pro-
hibition when and where it is practicable; but
when and where this is not the fact, we be-
heve in doing the next best thing that can be
done to restrain and limit the liquor traffic.
This was done, to some extent, under the Scott
law, and Ohio would be vastly better off today
with that law in vigorous execution than she
is with its destruction by the 'free-rum' par
ty. Either Democracy or Republicanism will
win the victory in the election of next fall,
and we confess frankly to our Prohibition
friends that in the interests of temperance,
we greatly desire that the Republicans should
triumph and take charge of the affairs of the
State. We believe that this will be the best,
alike for the cause of temperance and other
general interests. Ohio Democracy has made
a record that ought to dispossess it of power
This is what we hope to see as the result of
the coming election"
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An Expert Fisherman.

LoulsVIIle UOnimefCai. -
At Atlantic City last week Uncle Hendricks
caught three large fish on one line, and when the
days sport closed he had captured seventy four
black and bass fish. When to this is added one
ancient founder captured in Washington, and
now on exhibition in the Indianapolis postofice,
it will be seen that your Uncle Tom is not such
poor fisherman after all. Surely. he must
spit on his bait.
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Can BE- found at the following places:
L0NDON--American Exchange in Europe, 449
Strand.
Professionalism Exchange in Paris, 80 Boulevard
des Capucines.
NEW Y0RK--St Nicholas and Windsor Hotels.
CHICAGO Palmer House
cIGCTNNATI--J. r. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street.
LOUTSvILLE-C. t. bearing, northwest corner
Third and Jefferson streets.
ST. LOUTS-Union News Company, Union Depot
and Southern Hotel.
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IL one-haf the stories reported from Wash
ington be true, Gene Higgins is not only
politically corrupt 'fxer," but he is an i'll
bred, unmannerly cur, who should be kicked
out of society, to say nothing of high and hon
orable official place.
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ALL constant readers" are once more in
formed that Charles L. Webster e Co., of Hart
ford, Conn, are the publishers of General
Grants Memoirs. This fact has been published
more than score of times. but constant
reader" will ask it again before the sun sets.