Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 87, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1885 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY SENTINEL SATURDAY MORNING MARCH 28 1885.

SATURDAY MARCH 2s.

OFFICE 71 and 73 West Market Street. RATES OP SUBSCRIPTION. Indianapolis Sentinel for 1SH. Dally, Sonday and Weekly Edition. PAII.Y. Delivered by carrier, per week .....t 25 Daily, Including Sunday, per week.w........ 30 Dally, per annum, by nail 10 CO Dally, per annum, by mall, including Sunänf toy 1-iaA1 ruHMM . . 12 00 Daily, delivered by carrier, per tnaam...-. 12 00 Dally, delivered by carrier, per annum, Including 8unday. . 14 00 Dally, to newsdealers, per copy 3 H'XDAT. Sunday edition of eighty-four columns- S 2 00 Bunday Bentlnel, by carrier . .. ...... 2 53 To newsdealers, per copy- zy WEEKLY. Weekly, per annum. S 1 00 The postage on subscriptions by mall la prepaid by the publisher. Newsdealers applied at three cents per copy. Postage or other charges prepaid. Entered at second-claw matter at the Pos to See at Indianapolis. Ihd. It looks more warlike on the other side. GK5XF.AL Joe Johsstox is announced for Commissioner of Railroads. NOBMAN J. COLEMAX, Of St. LOUi, Will be Commissioner of Agriculture. The President has requested the Senate not to adjourn until next Thursday. Bk retaky End'cott says that no orders hare been issued to General Hatch to clean out Oklahoma. A man by the name of Cleveland has been riipmrorpri in lipnrcri whn rlitmi no rla. W tionship to the President. Strange ballad nation. It looks as if the opposion would allow the President to cat his 8 o'clock breakfast in peace. They eeem to baye lost all interest in bis wine-cellar. Tun organs are all flying the bloody shirt not at Half mast, either in memory of the death of "old Jake Thompson," as they affectionately call him. Omaha Herald: "Miss Cleveland says, My brother and I are two.' It was different under Hayes, There was but one then, and it wasn't Rutaerfraud. either." It is denied by Mr. Tilden's friends that he is taking any hand in the appointments o' Mr. Cleveland. He is anxious, however, that the administration should succeed. Ex-SiKATon McDonald, says the New York Herald, is the only Indiana Democrat who ever declined a first-class foreign mieslon. Perhaps they are not plentiful in aoy party. Dr.MocnAf y regards Jacoo Thompson as a patriot and Captain vYirtz as a martyr. Journal. Our esteemed but rampant Contemporary is nothing unless severe. Paragraphs like the above paralyze and make life bürden some. Commissioner of Pensions Black has is sued a circular announcing that no more claims will be made "special" that is, taken oat of their order for expedition. This practice has been prolific of fraud under the old management. The forenooner and afternooner Republican organs trot beautifully together in double harness. The story of David and Jonathan or Damon and Pythias is weak in comparison with this modern combination of mutual love and admiration. We hear no more from the Republican papers about the "Southern negro" and the 'colored brother." With the loss of federal patronage, Republican sympathy with the colored man dissolved into thin air. Make a note of it, colored Republicans of Indiana. Hello! here is something that almost es caped U3. The Enquirer says: We presume the appointment of a Cincinnati man to be Minister to Germany assures a ragged flght for the American hog. "A Cincinnati man" may be classified under the head of "sarkasum." The Vice President made an appointment of a page or messenger yesterday. The Journal and other organs might amuse themselves for a day or two by "tackling" the young man. The Postoffice controversy and Colonel Hughes Last have passed into history. In General Gordon's last letter the following extract occurs: "I will accept nothing whatever from Gladstone's government, I will not even let them pay my expenses. I will get the King to pay them. I will never put foot in England again, but will(D. V.) SO to Brussels and to on to the Congo." Our Washington correspondent telegraphs us that general good feeling prevails among the Indianians at Washington over the appointment of Mr. Jones as Postmaster at Indianapolis. All are at rest now except the Republican organs. They continue to fret and fame, and this they would have done no matter how the matter had ended. They fixed the trap to catch the Democratic c Don gwine orcominV and lo and behold they are caught themselves. Don't get excited, gentlemen. Kick around awhile and enjoy yourselves. The country generally has been much more excited ovet the Indianapolis Postraastershlp than tbe people here have been. It was scarcely to be expected that our citizens would set up o' nights about a strugcle between Sir. Hendricks and Mr. Pynum to determine wh'ca one would be allowed to pay otf a personal political debt with an office. The dispute was contemptible, and unworthy both the men engaged in it. Journal. Governor Morton insisted, when be was in the Senate, that the appointment .of the Indianapolis Postmaster belonged to him. Mr. Porter thought differently, and they locked boras before President Lincoln. After a

"depute centmptib!e and unworthy to both the n:n engaged In It," to use the Journal's word?, Morton won, and Mr. Porter ca'. Mr. Lincoln's acquaintance, and it waa understood at ite time that he never again put b!a foot lr.;de the Whit House darirg the Lincoln administration.

The President received his first mouth's pay on Thursday, in the shape of a warrant for :;,fc.s;T. This Is for the month of March, datiog from the 4th, up to which time Mr. Arthur had been paid. The warrant wes made out In the regular oSce routine, without being applied for byanyboly at tbe White House, and was signed by Treasurer Wyrcan with other mall matter requiring his name. A DISQBAOEFUL A.FFAIR. It is of little wonder that the Republic ms of the United States Senate want to muzzle 8enator Van Wyck, one of their own political faith. He knows too much of the sharp practices of his party, and seems to have a very unhealthy way of blurting it right out in open Senate. The country has been 83 much employed in watching the old Democratic ship spreading her sails for a four j ears' cruise, that the valuable work of Mr. Van Wyck in the Senate has not received the attention it deserves. Remember, there are no Democrats engaged in this " bill of discovery." They are all Republicans. One trying to "discover" a batch of rascality and the others doing their best to cover it up. We have several times called attention to the late fcteal of public lands, which was "discovered" by Senator Van Wyck. His more recent coup in this direction was in discussing the ascounts of certain Republican Commissioners end the disgraceful tour they made, or rather the disgraceful bill of expenses that they rendeied. The Diplomatic and Consular act of July 7, issi, provides as follows: For three Commissioners to be appointed by the President, by end with the advice aod consent of it e benate, at a compensation ot ?7,5C0 each. Said Commissioners shall ascertain the best modes of securing more Intimate international and commercial relations between the United States and the i everal countries of Central and South America, and for that purpose they shall visit saca countries in Central ana Soutn America as the President may direct. " - in addition tithe foregoing amounts such further sum as may be required lor tbe reasonable expense of siid Commission, such expenses to be paid upon the certificate of the Chairman thereof, and approved by the Secretary of State. We get considerable light Into the true inwardness of this matter through the New York Sun's correspondent. He states that the law fixes no specific limit to the expenses of the commission, except that they stall be "reasonable." Senator Van Wyck inspected the accounts of the Commission at tbe State Department, and he asserts that the expenses were $0,000 between the 1st of October and the 1st of January, one Item being $1,U7 for a Pullman pa'ace car fcr fortyone and one half days at 3.5 per day. At that time the Commission had visited San Francisco, Mexica and New Orleans only. They had not started on the main journey. He also charged that the "President of the Commission, General George H. Shape, had never left New York, except to come to Washington. He did not even go to San Francisco; he did not even go to Mexico: he did not even go to New Orleans; yet, on the 25th of Febraary he received and took nearly S,000 out of the Treasury ?V G79.1C." The Republican Senators who have made an attack on Mr. Van Wyck should be very eure of the ground they are occupying. This jaunting about in a palace car for oyer forty days at ?35 per day at the expense of tbe people is no small affair, as the Senators endeavor to make it, And, moreover, it does not appear that they were attending to the business entrusted to them. The Commission had not during these forty days even visited Central or South America, They went to San Francisco, New Orleans and Mexico oc ly, and General Sharpe, the President of the Commission, was not ,with them and yet he drew nearly ,3,000. We hope that Mr. Van Wyck will continue to smoke cut this picnicking, pleasure-seeking gentry, even if they are endorsed and basked up by Republican Senators. THE NEW DEPARTURE. President Cleveland makes no mistakes in his appointments. As each day's list is announced from Washington there Is inward gnashing of teeth among the organs of the g. o. p. all over the country. The selections are of the fittest, and every appointment shews that due deliberation has been exercised, and that the administration means to have character, ability and worth as the standards by which must be measured those who are to fill the offices under government. This reform in men, as well as measures, is what alarms the Republican press. Accustomed as they have been, under the spoils system, to bestow the offices entirely as a reward fcr party service, without regard to fitness or qualifications, it is no wonder they are filled with dismay at the wise course taken by the new administration. Their apprehension is great, and though most of tbe Bepublican papers undertake to criticise and belittle the appointees to office, indefatigably pursuing and hunting their weak points, yet do thev all acknowledge that on the whole the , officers chosen are men of character and merit Some of the more liberal orzans go a step or two farther and speak out in praise of the men who are appointed to place, and of the judicious course taken by President Cleveland. The only news of interest to the organs from Washington is that relating to the latest appointments. So long have they enjoyed the spoils cf office that they claim these as belonging to the m; that Democrats are entitled to a share cf the offices is not a part of the Republican theory, and they raise a howl when word comei that one of their number Is decapitated. Meantime affairs of great moment to the people pass unheeded by the organs. That steal of 700.000 acres of land in Louisiana by the late Secretary Teller is not criticised, scarcely mentioned by the Republican press. The honest, manly edbrts of Senator Van

Wyck to show up some of the land crabs and ontrazeous steals of Republican officeholder?) are frowned down, and he taken to t;tak by his brother Republican Senators, who are almost ready to read falra out of the party because of his telling disclosures, ar.il his desire to bring the fiuilly partita to justice, or at least to difgorge their stolen land grants. Sach is the Republicanism of the great "God and morality" party to day in its pure, simple, unadulterated state. Nor can it again rise to power while so lacking in princ'ple, hone;ty or usefulness.

REPUBLICANS AND CIVIL SERVICE. The Republican party would have something less of disrespect in its retirement from povrer, did its organs and leaders prate lis cf civil service reform. It is only when the Democracy has the dispensing of the offices that they clamor for the enforcement of the civil service enactments. When their own party had tbe appointing prerogative they disclaimed against any share of the offices going to other than Republicans. In practice they endorsed, religiously, the doctrine that "to the victor belongs the spoils." Upen the doors of the Departments and every Government building of the country was, impliedly, painted the sign: "No Democrat need apply.' Cut now that the Democracy has the keys to these doors, the ousted party indignantly protests against the signs being changed to read in the same way against Republicans. As long a3 the Republican party wes knecker-out it claimed the entire ga.e receipts. Rut now that it aas been fairly beaten, it is whining for a division of the receip's. This is very contemptible. It indicates despicable littlenesss and dishonor. Even the devotees of the sporting ring would scorn and repudiate each a spirit. It is as mean as is tbe act of the man who having staked in an effort to beat another out of money and lost, seeks technicalities of law to recover it from the winner. Under tho civil Bervice law, itself emanating from a Democrat, soni3 Republicans will for some time be retained In office Bat Lad the Democratic administration adopted Republican rarty ethics, the offices would, every one, before this time have been filled by Democrats. From a party standpoint, and in view of the practice of Republican adminiitrations.no Republican is entitled to an hour of service or a dollar ot compensation under this administration. If Mr. Cleveland sustains the civil service laws, he is doing what none of his predecessors have dene. If he permits Republicans to tarry a while, it is in pursuance ot a policy which In its nationality is entirely foieign to Republican narrow partisanship. Let the Democracy deserve never to much praise for its magnanimity, the Republicans deserve only contempt for their baby act appeals to stay. MISS VAN ZA.NDT SURRENDERS. There was a determined attempt made to create a riot in Paris on Thursday night when Mile. Van Xiudt tang. About 'i00 students from the Latin Quarter started to the theater, singing and shouting in a disorderly manner as they went, and about the time they reached the Opera Comique the crowd had swollen to 10,000. Although frequent attempts were made, they did not succeed in getting into the Opera Housa, but massed themselves outside, hooting and singing. Indside, the hisses on the one hand and the cheers of encouragement on the other followed each other promptly and plentifully. A cable dispatch describes Mile. Van Zindt's attitude and bearing as "dauntless." Except for a moment at the first hissings, she never flinched, trembled or broke down. Her voice was steady and purer than perhaps it had ever been, and she sang the love duo in the first act so faultlessly that she was obliged to repeat it. She was called before the curtain after every act, the whole audience rising repeatedly and cheering till it was hoarse. At the close of the opera she was twice recalled, and was so overcome with pleasure and excitement that she could hardly totter forward to bow her thanks. As she was driven away with her mother, a crowd get around the carriage and mobbad her. She managed to escape bodily violence, however. This last hostile demonstration decided her future course, as we learn from a Pari dispatch of yesterday that Miss Van Zandt had decided not to sing any more in Paris and had so advised the management of the Opera Cornlqne. We are sorry for it. We had hoped that she would stand her ground, but the attempt to mob her carriage utter the excitements and triumphs of Thursday night wes too much for the lady, and sie yielded up the struggle to a gang composed of certain hostile critics, street gamins and student roughs of the French capital. HENRY IS AGREEABLE. Henry Watterson was in New York a night or two ago, and a special to the Chicago News says that he was asked hi3 opinion of the President, end he replied that he had been agreeably surprised. He had strongly opposed Cleveland's comination at Chicago, as be thought the country needed a President of more experience, but he was now convinced that the President was more than capable of filling the position to which he had been elected. The Cabinet cho3en was an exceedingly strong one. There had, of course, bjen great disappointment in the West that McDonaM La i ot been chosen for the Treasury Department, but, inasmuch as Cleveland must bear the brunt of criticism should his ar1. ministration prove a failure, he ought in justice to be allowed to choos9 his own advisers. Mr. Watterson wa3 especially pleased with the foreign appointments. With regard to the offices, he believed in "turning the rascals out." Still, while he favored filling vacant offices with Democrats, he thought abiliij and honesty should be considered. If there were not enough Democrats to fill the offices, then by all

means appoint Republican. Should he order a clean sweep at once, he would come into collision with the Republican Ssnate, ard Andrew Johnson's fate would not compare with his. Both the great partus were committed to taria" revision, and If Cievelacd could bricg Randall and Culisle together and define a policy agreeable to boh, there was no resson why the necessary revision should not be accomplished before the close of next session.

THE NEWS' NEW BULLOOK PRESS. By invitation quite a number of promtcent citizens assembled in the pres3 room of the News office yesterday afternoon to witrcss a teat cf the new Bullock press. Firit tbe party was ehown the stereotypeiDg procesf, arid after completirg the eight stereotype plates for the evening edition, the press was set in notion, and it worked to perfection, printing and folding at the rate of about 10,000 completed papers per hour. The pree3, a dcuble one, is certainly the perfection of printing machinery, feeding itself from a continuous roll of papar ana folding two completed sheets at the same time. The improvement of newspaper printing machinery in the last decade is wonderful to behold, and we congratulate our neighbor on its acquisition, for it is certainly a prize initaway. Onr evening contemporary is now begin nie sr to reap the results of years of painstaking labor to build up a good newspaper, and we are glad of it. It seems that several Republican officeholders in Washington, as soon as they heard that the President had made up hi3 mind to attend Dr. Sunderland's Church, immediately made arrangements to worship in ths same church. The prica of the pews baa already gone up 50 per cent. That makes no difference, however. One applicant said, "Money is no object, if I can sit near the President." The church seems to be situated in a very unfashionable quarter. The immediate vicinity is filled with lawyers' offices, cheap boarding houses and drinking salooDs. Polite society, which followed Ar thur from the Methodist church where Hayes worshiped, to St. John's Episcopal Church, on H street does not relish the idea of going to 4 J j street to practice its devotion; but it will, nevertheless. In fact, the tide has already set in that direction. Quite a number of applications have been made this week for pews centrally located. SPIRIT OF THE STATE PBEiS. A n:w Republican papers have lately been enxiccsly inquiring as to why the books were not being ojened. They are silent on the subject ju&t at present, for they have learned tbat thev are heing opened, and by experts at that Huntington Democrat. It is laughable to note the continued interest all oar Republican exchanges feel in the federal cilices. They seeai to hive no regrets over lbeir late dtfeat, to as they are left in possession of the postoffir.es and such. No word of regret overdefeated principles, no more fear for the freedman Auburn Courier. Rhpcbucans all over the State have gone into mourning because the Legislature did not pass the appropriation bills in time to avoid an extra session. Bat, as the Auburn Courier avers', they don't tell all the truth that might b3 told. The fact is, the Republican members have continually voted against bringing up the appropriation bills, and that is jest what compelled the extra session. Angola Herald. The character of the service rendered the pecple by the forty Special Agents and Inspectors who have just been dropped from the rolls o! the Treasury can be imagined. These people work principally during political campaigns, and their labors are not then for tbe people whose money sustains them, but for the politician or officeholder through whose influence they were appointed. Much of the Ecancal that has been brought on the public service has been due to the fact that every managing party chieftain has had several of these fellows in his keeping, to go and come at his beck and call. Valparaiso Messenger. In order to delay matters and make a special Eession necessary, the Republicans hit upon a plan of opposing nearly every meritorious measure, and delaying matters by speech-making. They would occupy hours with epeech-making when speeches were unnecessary, and when a vote was finally reached occupy as much of the time as possible in explaining their votes. Thus has days and weeks passed with work that should have been done speedily being left undone. After all their splatter and speechmaking, they now have the effrontery to eay tbe Democrats are responsible for it all. Covington Friend. One of the grandest evidences that Mr. Hendricks dees his whole duty as a Democratic official is the fact that he has the cordial hatred of the rabid Republican pre??. The radical vipers would not be happy if they could cot squirm and hiss their venom at the Vice President The future of Mr. Hendricks is what worries the Republicans; they have reason to fear that he will be the next Democratic President. Vmcsnnes Sun. Ik these latter days civil service reformers are becoming like auge's' visits few and far between. The necessity cf reform in the the public administration i?, of course, dwelt on as emphatically as ever, but it hes now assumed the Elmple and intelligible chape of reforming cnt of place the present office-holders, and substituting for them men of a different political stripe. Wells County Times. A Washington correspondent ssys: Early ia the winter, when President Arthur cave aa evening reception, one ot his coterie (a lay) remarked to another cf the pet: "tfnjoy thlneleirance and fplendor pow. for after the -tin of March you will tee ncthiaz but man?y tout'aerners." On tte contrary, ifr. Cleveland's first reception, given neatly a week a?o, exceeded in elegam-e any of those given by his preice-isor. The Hast room was more elaborately decorated tban ever before in in history. The lady who prophesied about the downfall of elezance and taereiga of manjry Southerners was there, aal feit how shrunken she was in importance by comparison with ths party she ha J derided. It

was 2al! and worm wo 1 to her wh?n pbe saw tha repreeentatlve men and women of me Democratic party. General Arthur' snct ?svr tol oa the very aane spot where the former hsd o often received, and President Cleveland in no wine fUEered by the comparison. Mis C'.ereland tpH Pleasant an :m;resioa as Mrs, McKIroy nad done. A patriotic Catholic addresses a letter to the New York Sua and sajs; The writer hs been taucht, and ttusht with hundreds of other yoan? aea. by hi religious 1astrtctors. trat to be tree to (;od he mm', "be true to his lellow neu. And who arc nis feilour men X):i Americana? To be a true Christian he must be true to the instructions under which he has lived and to the community in which he move. ud wiat are these institutions and communities but Americta? Tbe man who questions the pntriotiSTi or true ctt'.zenshipof t'aibollcs because thev are Catholic, dees thst which Is low, contemptible an 1 erroneone and. instead of maklne out Catholics to be the enem Us of American institutions, makes of himself the lsuzhln; stock of all true minded men. and his statement to be ad captandum VUlfiUS. A letter to the Courier-Journal from Washington says: Mrs McDonald did not accompany her husband, si.d this was a disappointment to her many waroi Intnd In this c y. Jibe and her husband an? al ways the recipients of great attention when they vb-it Washington, and their residence here was counted upon as more tbaa probable. The President and Mr. McDonald took a liking to each other, and are warm irlends.

The Milwaukee Journal says: ' We don't know this Mr. Hicgins, but w believe he is a dsriinggcod rasn as compared with Dudley. Dorsey, Uowgate, R ach. Robeson, Brady, Relsnap, vans, Wright, Riaine, and a lot oi other gone but not forgotten suitenen wbo were dear to the heart of ths Iligsins maligners. The Troy Times (Rep.) says: Ouecf Chicago's retired business mn ba published a volume containing tne Lord's Praver lu 1; 0 different language. In the rreparatloa'ol the woik fce was engaged about four yenr. 'l ho apptOHChinst chance in foreign appointment will doubtless make the book popular with the Democracy. Tbe Worcester Gazette says: The man who wrote to the Slate Bo.ir-1 of Aericulture to ascertain what wan best to plant ia wet Janas wan favorably itnnressed with tho answer. it was "Lecss." The SpriDgfield Register says: Cleveland is putting no oue but Democrats on truard. Boiler Explosion Steel-Kltld Contest. Special to the Sentinel. Makiox, Ind., Älarch '27. This afternoon about 3 o'clock a boiler exolosion occurred at the saw mill of M. F. Larkens. near Jonesfcoro in this county, instantly killing George Miller, a resident of Marion, who had just caned at tbe mill a few minutes before to see a friend that was engineer at the mill, acd while talking with his friend the exp'o sion occurred, with the above named result, and aieo terionsly scalding his friend, Charles McFarr, the engineer. The mill is a total ruin. The taking of evidence in the Steel Kidd contested case in this the Eleventh Congressional District is still dragging alonir. It pesrs there will be on end to it. J. T. Stro ig is th; attorney for Kidd and Kerry A: Bildwin for Klee!. Both parties are well represented. A great maay witnesses have bau examined, and as jet no one can fort'hadow the rehult. Incipient Cowboys. Ciscrj.NATi, March 27. Mrs. Hoyt, a tf scher in the second intermediate school on Ninth street, near Main, was alarmed after the clcsa of school by an unusual clamor in one of the rooms. When she entered the apartment she fjund four boys rushing over the dsaks in the greatest c lafusion with large revolvers and all whooping like Indians. The unruly youths were disarmed, acd it was learned that they had planned to go to Texas in May and become cowboys, and were piacticing in the school rcom whsn found. All were armed with revolvers and towie knives. The oldest was thirteen, and he was to provide funds for the expedition. The children belong to wellknown families, and their names are suppressed. Item From Washington. Bpeclal to the Sentinel. Washington, Ind., March 27. Railroad elections in Elmore, Steele and Washington Townships to determine whether er not the corporations will pay the tax asked for by tbe E. and T. Railroad will be held April It. The wheat crop in this county (Daviess) is not very promising. Considerable anxiety is manifested h?re in regard to the bill establishing a new judicial circut out of this county and Martin. That such an arrangement is an absolute necessity i3 very evident, from the fact that it is almost impossible for one Judge to dispos of all the ceses tbat arise 1j tbn and Knox County, s the circuit is now constituted. L'rakeman Killed. Special to the BwhUnel. LociAyppoKT, Ind., March 27. Martin F. CcnnelJ, a brakeman, fell under the wheels of a Wabash freight at New Waverley, near here, at 4 o'clock this morning and was killed instantly, his head being crushed to a jelly. His parents reside in this city. Chicken i&ntlD;. Coi.umlia, S. C-, March '27. A, chicken fight is in progress in this city between North Carolina and Georgia. There are 100 birds in the main. Eleven matches have been fonght, resulting in a tie and one drawn battle. The rxain will continue until Saturday night. After Um Seitlp. New York, March 27. Tne Woman Suffrage party's Executive Committee has writ ten a letter to President Cleveland askinj tbe removal of Governor Pierce, of Dakota for vetoiDg the Woman Suffrage bill passed by the Legislature. Obituary. Newark, N. J., March 27. News has just been received here of the death, in Florida, of I. 8. Hyatt, one of the inventors of celluloid. He was formerly connected with the Illinois newspapers, and was once Sheriff of Henry County, 111. A Kentucklan Strangled. London, Ky., March 27. John Sexton was banged at Barboursville, the county seat of Knox County, to day for tbe murder of George Routen in July last, the object being robbery. Sexton died game. His neck was broken. The WJ'Coiihln Sighted. Geanp Karins. Mich., March 27. The eteamer Wisconsin was sighted at noon to day, about fifteen miles west of Grand Haven. To all appearances she was ail right, but surrounded by ice. The tug Arctic wa3 eeen about two miles Iroaa the steamer. Loss f Life by a Gas Explosion. CoNcxrcrox, Chili, via Galveston, March 27. An explosion of gas this morning in the coal mines Leba. caused the death of thirtyfive minert. Thirteen were dangerously wounded.

BETTER THAN A CIRCUS A 8entlnel Man Visits the 4lUntoa Vateran' " Meeting, and, Is Immensely Entertained.

Tbat remnant of the grand old, old party, known as the "Union Veteran Association," held a meeting in the Superior Court roax last evening, that grand and eloquent stamp speaker, Joseph R. Perry, presiding. There were present about thirty "ole vets," fourteen cf whom were "gmmea of co'ah," and when the Sentiml representative entered the room he was eyed suspiciously by everybody. Joe was asking his comrades whether they thought it would be advisable to continue the 'asciat.on" any longer. A graveyard stillness rervadedvhen Joseph took his sat The quietude was broken, however, by an 'ole vet" who occupied a seat not far from the President He jumped from his eoat with v treat alacrity and blurted out: "Oh. we'd tetter not bust up jut now, fr these here ivi luisuuii uni oi -ninus:asm a spot tea rfog with a bump on his back, which hal been ambling promiscuously about the roam, feil to the cor with a sickening thud, while an aged colored man in one of the back seats awoke from a sweet and refreshing sleep and glared wildly at his fellow-beings. At this juncture Joe's side-burns twitched nervously, and be arose to bis feet, saying that he agreed with tbe comrade, but be wanted some other fellah" to tngineer the map some iadi- -vidual who could infne new lif into it. lie was completely discouraged. biX did not nelieve in being frowned bw:i by any such paper as the Indianapolis Saatintl. Another "comrade" over in the corner was then "recognized," and said that Joseph was jest the man to be at the helm, for n wonld soon lead the vets to victory. Jesse Dehaven stepped into the rcom at this crisis. I and everybody looked real eonr, bat Jesse staid "wid 'em," notithstandinc. A dark complected citizen then nmei ht ills aseociasbnm hire a hoss and wa?oa and a band of music to go aroand the city on next Friday afternoon, and a 1vertise u meeting of the Association to b held cn dat evening." Jce put this fisry and untamed motion in writing, and then eaid he didn't know whether or not there was enough money in the treasury to pay for the wagon and band. Of the ."OJ persons wbo bad signed the muster roll but twenty had blowtd any monsy against the enap, this number paying forty fort.' cents each. U thought they wemd manage to cet a suiljo:ont amount of k A . L - .1 .. . . however, end ths motion wss unanimously adopted. It was then resolved that hereafter the general public, (reporters not excepted), wonld be excluded from tha conferences cf this mighty organization. In announcing that another meeting would be held on Friday night tbe aforementioned "eloquent fitump speaker" took occasion to say tome very funny things about the Sentinel and News. He hammered the uaotfenditg tab e with his bare fists in a meet unmerciful manner. With his co'nmancing form towering far atove the tpittons, andhis eagle eye fiüed wtth a harc litbt, Joseph turced his bojish fdC? tma'd that of the reporter and sail in tone of thunder: "I am her to tell the Sentinel reporter tbat vinegar will not catch flies, and the Union Vetersn Association will still exist notwithstanding the hitter attacks rr ade upon it by tbat paper. Oh! the Democrats will want the nier votes at the neat ifction, and want them badly. As for Dan Voorhees, the bnndle of misinformation, I despif e him." After delive.rina: himself in this disconnected style, Joreph wiped his nobh brow and adjourned the Unioa Vets until next Friday evening. PJEilSONAIi MENTION. S. G. Morton, Secretary of tbe Western Polo League, was in the city yesterday, and left last night fcr his borne, in Chicago. Mr. Arthur C. Levi is visiting his brother, Mr. Levi, of the Model Clothing Company. He repreeents Stitch Brothers, of New York City, one of the most extensive of Eastern hat manufacturing firms. P. H. McCormack, Columbus; J. Irving Riddle, Mrs. A. J. Nelly, Terre Haute; Mrs. W. G. Sayer, Mtfs Z. McCown, Wabash; IInry Maley, Edinburg; J. E. Lynn and wife, Blcominston; W. Keller. A. J. Frederick, North Judon: E. H. Wolfe. Rushvllle; G. Maier, Danville: Samuel Higgins, FortWejr.e; Colwnel A. F. Beach, A.ttica; T.J. Charlton. Plainfield; Walter Vail, N. P. Ropers, C. O. Dem ins. Michigan City; üam. B. Sweet, Fort Wayne; AT M. Willocghby. Perry Hooi. Vincennei; A. M. Atkinson and wife, Wabash, are at the Giand HoteL Shot by a Street Oar Driver. About 12 o'clock last nlghtFrank Madison, a street car driver, observed two young msa in the yard where the company keeps Its cars when not .n use. This yard,whlch is situated on Tennessee eteeet just opposite .the siables, is enclosed by a high board fence, and the driver knew that the men bad no business there, eo he pulled out bis gun and hurried toward them. One of the men ran and tbe other made an effort to go, when Madison, pointing the revolver at his feet, fired. He then seized the man and tcok him into the oiiice, where investigation proved that the bullet had passed into his left ankle. The young fellow was turned over to Merchant Policeman Webb, and eent to the Central Station, where hs gave the name of John Hartsr. He was elated on a charee of burglary, and the ball was removed from his lJg by Police Surgeon Hedges. Young Harter, who is a brother to Ira, recently sentenced to four years in the penitentiary for holding Willis Ellis up. said be did not go Into tbe yard for the urpof9 of robbery, but failed to give a satisfactory explanation as to what bewantejl there. The change box in one of the cars was broken open, but it is understood that the money was taken out of it before tbe car was moved into the yard. An Excellent Tblgh Bone. Last evening about a oclo:k, while Ward P, Hibbard, a railroader, waj walking alon on the Vandalia Riilroad near Tennessee street, he was knocked down l7 a Wabüh pony, which ran over h:s rirht this, a id, tfcengh singular it may s?em no bones wer broken. He was picked up. and removed to SL Vincent's Hospital in Krezeio.t Whltsett's ambulance. Llibbard is in the employ of tho Vandalia Corxpaay, and rsids in Terre Haute. He is about twenty nice'jeara of age. Polo at the Meridian Rink To-Nigrlit. Those who attend the Meridian Rink this evening will have the pleasure of witneü'ji a game of polo between the Meridians and Halcyon?. As the latter club has lost only two games this season they are justly entitled to all thev claim the championship of the State of "Indiana. The game will te called at 9 o'clock and allowed to run thirty minntes, after whirh general skating will be indulged ia uctil until 10:33. Admission tea ctats.