A Poor Investment

Secretary Gorham say tbc RépubliCftn Exccutive Cominittee i again running short oí íuncls. He also says that the money thn fur subscribed by persons not holding Federal offices will not exeeed 1,000, wMch, if trae, indicates that the Repiiblican "onts" liclievc that the Reflnblican cause is hopeless, and that there is no use contribnting money in its bohalf. It is only a few n'eeks, however, since Secritary Gorham eheered his party witib the 'étnfê that there vras not a time in its history w'heu money ponxed more froely into the exche(]uer of thc Execntiye Coiiimittee than it then did. What lias beeome of all this snperabundaiice oí cash ? W?s tlie bulk of it expended iu Maine? If so, vhat do the party managers think of the investment? If they do not realizo more extensively on other ventures than they did in Marine, it will be extremely cruel to turn on fito screws again. - Detroit Free Preuts. Dr. Babcock, inventor of the lire cxtingnisher Vjearing his name, ík i dnmken outcast in Oaícland, Cal. He was once moderately weulthy.