St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-11
EDITORIAL MENTION.

Some of our Eastern scientists are ex
cited over the discovery in a New Je1-
sey stone quarry of a sandstone rock
which looks like a prehistoric horse,
with flint horn in its head. We see
nothing exciting about this. A rock
has to look like something, and we see
no reason why it shouldn't resemble a
prehistoric horse, if it happened to be
built that way. This latter day science
is altogether too easily excited, anyway.
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The Epoch tells the following anec-
dote as all illustration of the courage,
honesty and independence of GROVER
CLEVELAND: One day Secretary FAIR
CHILD entered the room in the White
house where President CLEVELAND sat
writing at his desk. The president
lookedup, and remarked with impressive
earnestness: "Mr. Secretary, am now
writing something which will prevent
my denomination and reelection if
anything will; but l write it because l
feel that it is the right thing to do" 1t
was his tariff message to congress.
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The skies had a lowering aspect YES
terday. They were in sympathy with
HARRISON, whose heart bowed down
with grief that the ancestral tree should
be obscured by waving plume.
The hanging of MAXWELL yesterday
was the closing chapter in one of the
most interesting stories of crime in the
history of American jurisprudence. The
story is one from which many moral les
sons can be learned, but there is no
more forcible moral adorning the tale of
MAXwELL'S crime than the one which
teaches the impossibility of murderer
escaping the clutches of the law. AS
DANIEL WEBSTER once said, the only
way for the murderer to escape detec-
ton is by suicide-and suicide is con-
feSSion.
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What is the matter with the Republi-
can press in Indiana, that the Chicago
Tribune has to bear the whole burthen
of the Indiana campaign? 1t couldn't
be told from reading the Tribune's col
umns that there is going to be any elec-
ton in Illinois this year. 1t is all in
Indiana.
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The anxiety manifested by the Re-
publican press on account of the DELAY
of Mr.. CLEvELAND'S letter of accent
ance is wholly unnecessary. Mr..
CLEvELAND's letter Of acceptance, and
his next inaugural, for that matter, was
all embodied in his last annual message
to congress. There is food enough in
that to do through the campaign.
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How many various theories there are
with regard to the motives which i'm,
| PEELED MAXWELL to the murder OF
PRELLER. There are a great many
persons who believe his statement that
he killed PRELLER accidentally while
| experimenting with chloroform. There
are others who think the desire to GET
ehold of PRELLER'S money was the real
motive. And yet the most probable
theory is that he killed him out of pure
deyilment, without any motive except
to crafty cranky desire to witness the
effects of. chloroform, and to see
how person died under the infu
ence of it. BROOKS was one OF
those educated fools who didn't have Il
work for living-a class that are the
most dangerous enemies to society. The
young man who starts out III life withou
any other mission than to squander hi.
fathers money is always in a fair wa,
to wind up just as HUGH BROOKS did
at the end of rope.
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CARTER HARRISON is homewart
bound, and the Chicagoans are arrang
ing to give him bigger blowout thai
BLAINE got yesterday. CARTER is Chi
cago's '''uncrowned king" and deserve
all the homage his subjects can pa,
him. Chicago has been going to piece
mighty fast since his royal highnes
went away, and he ought to hurry bacl
to brace the old town up.
Hon. H. E. Niblack. of Indiana, has az
cepted the appointment as member of tn
| advisory committee of the national Dem
ocratic committee.