The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-06-08

are more striking than that between Bell, the
photographer, and Speaker Reed.
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Out in Wicomico County, Nd, they are talk
ing about sending Governor Jackson to Con
gress in place of Mr.. Gibson, who is not can
didate for another term.
Maj. Stofer tells funny yarn about false
alarm raised by Fergus Ferris the other day.
Ferris was bathing in the surf, and being unable
to swim he was very timid. All of a sudden he
began to splash and splash and beat about in
the water and to cry out, "Save me, save me
from drowning!' Stofer thought at first that
Ferris was joking, but he wasn't. He really
thought he was in danger of drowning and was
greatly frightened. Stofer saw what was the
matter, and called out to Ferris to put his feet
on the ground. Ferris did so, and the water
wasn't more than elbow-deep. But putting his
feet to the ground was something he had never
thought of until Stofer told him. Now, what
do you think of man who don't know enough
to stand up in order to keep his head above
water
Ingalls's speech at Gettysburg on Decoration
Day will never be reported The best reports
printed were fragmentary and very imperfect.
That is the Senator's own fault. because there
.
who would have made verbatim report of the
speech if the Senator had not assured them
. they could rely upon his manuscript. When
the speech was finished, and the reporters began
to look over the Senator's manuscript, the re-
porters found that there was not even note on
the paper relating to the best things the Sen
ator had said His treatment of the proceed
ings at the unVeiling of the Lee statue in Rich
mond, and his lofty remarks about the immor-
tality OF ideas, We're entirely eXtemporaneous,
and the remarkable thing about it was that the
language of that portion of the address was as
magnificent and as precise as anything that
even ingalls, has ever uttered. 1t is pity that
1t cannot be reduced.
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Three or four years ago it was the custom
among certain newspaper correspondents to de-
cry the alleged eXclusiyeness of the leading
Democratic officials, and to represent that if
Mr.. Blaine were Secretary of State his door
would be open all the time, and he himself ac-
cessible to all callers-in fact, with Mr., Blaine
as Secretary of State there would be music and
a free lunch in the Secretary's room to attract
people there and induce them to call. Now,
must say that since Mr., Blaine became Secre-
tary of State in March, 1889, l have not seen
any of this extraordinary accessibility. On the
contrary, his eXclusivenesS has been the exclu-
siVeness of an English or Russian government
official. l think | can state without fear OF
contradiction that since the change of admins
tration the Secretary of State has not vouch-
safed to any newspaper in the country single
interview or the slightest bit of direct informa-
tion about any of the affairs of the State De
partment More than that, he hasn't
yet sent to Congress the papers relating
to our foreign correspondence last year, which
ought to have been sent to Congress last De
cember when the heads OF the other Executive
Departments made their annual report. l am
one of those who believe that newspaper has
no more civil or political rights under the Con
stitution than drug store, cigar stand a
blacksmith's shop, lumber factory, gin mill