The Canonchet Crowd

Tlio Conkling-Spragne scandal continuos to be the upperiuost topic of the newspnpors. Each has made a statement. Sprague says he ordered the equator from his premises at the end of loadcd shot gun, and that hoviolated f promise made some timo ago to him viz: That he wonld discontinue hie visits to Mrs. Hpragne. That ha had withetoocl the intiraacy and sctindalous reports in tho newspapers as long aa he nho'(l, and will shoot him at eight if ever sffnin found on his preruises. Per contra, Mrs. Spraguo denics that anything moro than friendship has over existod butwoen herself and Conkling; says hor fcnsbnnds' habita have rondered Ufe fcgroeable for iho past thirteen yeats, n:id tbat sho will do longet livo witb him. Whatever tho truth of these statements may be it is beyond question that the senator and Mrs. Spraguo havo associated too rauch toexpeottokeep their clinrncters from scandalous aspersión. - A guise of counsel is no excuse for Mr. Corilding to be an occupant of Mr. S's. residence more or loss foryears, and, too, much the greater portion of the time in tbe husbands absence. Such action would not be tolerated by any man who properly regards tho sanctity of his housohold. Mrs. Sprague may protest purity; Conkling may challengo proof of oriminal wrong, yet the public willnot Gelieve their long continued association was wholly for a pure and honorable purpose. Mi Ice, a unión soldier and stationed in West Virginia during the war was in command of a squad of confedérate prisoners. One of them broke away, ran, pursued by Ice, was commanded to halt, which failing to do, Ice shot and killed him. Tried by court martial Ice was acquitted. After the war Ice settled in that state, was indicted, arrested, tried and convicted of murder for the shooting of the confedérate prisoner, and bas been since 18G5 in the penitentiary. The department of justice at Washington are trying to solve the legal quibble and procure Ioe's release for doing what was done in hundreds of similar cases. A peculiar case is on trial in a St. Louis court. Two individuals named Burrows and Hannon have been for Borne timo past publishing a book called "the Dead Beat List," and supposed to contain the ñames of persons who do not pay their bilis. The St. Louis Dispatch denounces the enterprise as a blackmailing affair. Mr. J. H. Potthoff found his name in " the Dead Beat List," and instituted a suit against Hannon and Burrows for damages. As Burrows refused to state whether he was or was not connectod with the publication of the book, he was committed to jail. The threatened outbreak at the meeting of tho Mew York Democratio state central committee held at Niágara Falla on Friday, between tbo two great factions did not tako place as was hoped for by the political enemy. Although the Kelly faotion had a majority of tho committee last fall, theKobinsonfaction, through substitution of two members and the coming over of a third.disgusted at Kelly's attempted dictation, turned tip with threo majority and located the convention at Syracuse. All was quiet, forboding peace and harmony in the ooming campaign. A staff correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing from Manhattan Beach, gives it as his opinión, from careful observation and inquiry, that Tilden will reoeive the Democratie nomination for the Presidency, and that Blaino and Sherman have a long lead on all the other competitors, with a possibility that both may be set aside for a candidato who will be more popular in New York State. He thinks the Southern vote will bc nearly equally divided between Blaine and Sherman. Some of the truly loyal papers that didn't want to hurt the party are beginning to print short dispatches from Washington to the effect: "The general impression seems to be that the publishcd accounts are greatly exaggerated. No one appears to take the slightest interest in the affair, one way or the other. The friends of Senator Conkling say it is a personal matter, the forced construction of which originated with his political enemies." Another fatal result from the careless handling of revolvers. On Tuesday, in camp, near Amherstburg, Ontario, a young man named James Wright, was handling a revolver that was fullcocked. Tnrnlncr round to say something tn 1?av. Mr. Tillinghast, pastor of Holy Trinity churoh of Detroit, it was accidentally discharged, the ball entering the shoulder of Mr. T., from which he died in a few hours. Such Eepublican newspapers as affect o bo unablo to see any political virtue in Democrats, are astonished to read of the action of the Democrats of Maryland in convention demanding a registration law for the city of Baltimore. They have said so often that the party favored ballot-box atuffing and naturalization frauds, they don't know just ■what to say bout the lie given them. Look at the runaway boya in thesedays of Indian-killing literature. Last ■week two Boston boys, loaded with revolvers and scalping knives, were overhauled in Jersey City, en route to the }ava beds of the "West, and Monday two Brooklyn youths similarly oquipped, were led back to their fathers andmothers. One of the most violent storms ever faiown visited the Now England coast on Monday, wrecking yachts, beaching ve8sel8, unroonug buildings, uprooting trees, flóoding wharves, and destroying ciops Not au Eaglish Republican paper is printed ia the late rebellious states. Cause - the Republicaus down there are negroes who don't know how to read and vava ao use fo newspapers.