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DAILY EXPRESS.

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5% The base ball season may said to be fairly opened now that the wine waa "opened" for the traveling playera in

New York.

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Our .esteemed Indianapolis contemporaries are quick to resume the monotony of the headlines of "A Combination of Errors," "Indianepolis Defeated Again," which gave us our daily information of their ball club last year.

The oounty commissioners are of the opinion that upwards of three thousand dollars a year is just a little too much for the water and gas at the court house, and they are figuring on some means of producing both on their own aocount.

Wilford Woodruff has been selected as president of the Mormon church and a policy of fight adopted against the "persecution" of the government. And it was only a few months ago that we were informed by our Democratic friends, who wanted the territory taken into statehood, that the snake we? dead.

There can be no doubt, now, that the Pitzpatrick-Gaz3tte clique has-"set-up" the ticket for this spring. The newspaper carefully refrains from mentioning the name of Mr. George Davis as a candidate for treasurer, although he stands a better show for the nomination than Pitzpatrick himself, were it not for the ring methods being uead in behalf of the latter.

A Methodist preacher at Goshen, Ind., has been detected in stealing Talmage's sermons, and a successful competitor for oratorical honors at the Baptist college at Franklin stole his oration from a student at the Methodist university at Greencastle. The question now uppermost is whether this sets things even in these two denominations of the Christian Church.

-ji'2?e attorney for Evans, the accused ftd^McNy rcfPfjar," ir%hjf'J Mug EXFRES

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if his client had been put on trial he would have been convicted. This is in direct conflict with the opinion of the judge before whom the trial would have been conducted. The attorney, by inference, says that his client was a "crook," a fact pretty well established by the burglar's toolB found in his possession, and altogether substantiates what

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to this remarkable incident in the criminal court.

In the eulogies of the late Justice Matthews, pronounc3d in the supreme court Saturday, none was more significant than that of Senator Edmunds who frankly admitted that as a senator he had been wrong in opposing the confirmation of Justice Matthews when his name was sent to the senate by President Hayes. There was a factional opposition inside of the party to Justice Matthews at that time as there recently was to Mr. Halstead. In both instances the senators who opposed the nominations were wrong, no less so as Rspublicans than as senators.

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Mr. Mutoncd—Alter all, the West Is the plrce. A mail there does not Dad his fanlly coniections nor that sort of thing to be of much use. In other words, they take a man at his true valuation.

Miss Pertllc-Was that the rrason you left the West? Just the Thing.

Foreman—Slug seven came In drunk this slternoon and pled your article on the "effects of Intemperance."

Kdltor—Completely? Foreman—All but ihe held. Kdltor—Well, just run the pi launder the hesd. 1 think that will Illustrate the point.

Two Views.

Old Mrs. Kreenus—I wonder what you would do If I were to die. Young Mrs. Krcezus—And I wonder what I wouldn't do. *.i

Sad Indeed.

Dolan—It must be a sad thing to be left a widow. Wiigstaff—It Is. It wouldn't be half so sad If Blggars hail not left me his widow some two yean flJO. 'rZ-,'.' vl 7

A White Horse on Jinx.

Jinx—Will you marry me. Miss Srajthe? I know you are red-headed, and all that, yet still I think you would make a good match.

Miss Smythe -For your nose, Mr. Jinx? *r "J Entrees. Why is It a man's wife makes twice as much noise munching pop-corn as she did in the happy days of their courtship I it Is not customary to writs mortgages on transfer paper.

Love and a lottery ticket make rather a small capital to commence housekeeping upon. The system of telegraphy whereby messages can be sent over the same wire In opposite directions at the same Instant must be productive of many cross words between the operators.

Tou can tell the homeliest kind of a girl that Tshe is "beautiful as a poet's dream" and not do the least damage to the truth. Pcets have the nightmare Just the same as common folk.

Things are coming rather rocky when a fellow Is compelled to rob a corner store of #1.50, as a Cambridge City thief did recently.

The young woman who boldly states that she likes to ba hugged should be Immediately repressed.

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METHODS OF SUICIDE.

I wonder if there is any country in the world where suicide is accomplished with the same calm resolution that it is in France, and also in such eccentric ways and for such odd re aeons, says a writer in the Philadelphia Telegraph. For instance, I have 'heard lately of a man who killed himself because he had stolen a pair,of socks, and waa oppreased by remorse for the theft. One would imagine that a more practical way of proving his repentance would have been for him to have saved up his earnings to pay for the purloined articles. In another instance a man hung himself because one of his comrades owed him 10 cents and would cot pay him, and he was in consequence tired of life. A male patient, suffering from a very painful disorder in one of the Paris hospitals, contrived to secrete a sharp knife under his bedclothee and literally committed

^&NoWong ago a husband and wife, finding themselves in the last stages of consumption, and perceiving that their four children were all threatened with the same malady, hired a horse and carnage, the toother and children occupying the vehicle while the husband drove. He made straight for 8 deep and rapid river near his home and drove the horse headlong into it, so that the whole party were drowned. The unhappy parents left behind them a declaration, which both had signed,! setting forth the reasons which had impelled them to the deeper-

dissipated workman in Paris possessed a tame rabbit of which lie was very fond, and which he had trained to execute a number of amusing tricks. People often tried to buy the little animal, but he always refused to part with it. Finally he was offered $60 for it, and the largeness of the sum overcome his fondness for his pet so he let it go. He soon wasted the money in debauchery, and riotous living, and then he hung himself, declaring in writing, before he committed the deed, that life was not worth the living since he no longer had his rabbit. I can better understand the action of a wretchedly poor old woman who shared her scanty meal and her miserable garret with a favorite dog. The animal died, and his mistress Bpent her last Bavings for a pan of charcoal, for, as she piteously said, she had no one left on earth to love or to love her, now that she had lost her dog. So she shut herself up and lighted her charcoal, and was found dead in her bed the next day.

Poison divide with the rope and the asphyxiating fumes of charcoal the honors of popularity 83 a means of getting out of the world. These are toot so numerous or as eagy to obtain in France as they are in England or America. No apothecary can sail a poisonous preparation of any kind, except through the medium of a physician's formal and signed prescription. Laudanum, morphine and chloroform are not to be obtained by the casual purchaser any more easily than are stiychnine or areenic. The only poisons within the reach of the would-be suicide are such as can be prepared at home, such ei phosphorus, which is obtained by steeping the heads of matches in water, grie, made from copper c^'^ oy catering them with and letting them afmJim eo'ine days. But both thee? poiGons are slow in action and extremely painful in their effects, esp ^cially phosphorus, which causes death by irflatning the coats of the stomach and intestines. The trouble about a suicide by charcoal lies in the fact that it ie a difficult matter to make a room perfectly air tight, 60 as to render the fumes effectual, and there is also the danger of the odor beiog noticed from without and help being rendered to the intended victim before the death-dealing process is completed. It is, however, a painless fate. The self-slayer sinks into a profound sic 3p, which deepens into insensibility, and from thence passes into death. But of late this oncefavorita mode of suicide hes been negleot9d in favor of hanging or drowning.

The official statistics of the suiddes in France during the peit year are extremely curious to examine. The cases amount to nearly eight thousand for the whole republic. Of these the department in which Paris is situated comes in for nearly a fifth, though in proportion to its population it ought to furnish only one-fifteenth. But the life of the great city, and its trials, its miseries, its deception?, are fertile in providing causes for despair and selfmurder. It would naturally be supposed that the gloomy months of winter, with their cold, gray weather and short days, would be those in which unhappy people would the most readily quit the earth. Such is not the case. December is the month in which suicides are least frequent, and July is that which furnishes (he greatest number. Can it be that the bustle and gayety of the weeks immediately preceding the holiday season produce a favorable effect on the minds of those who are weighed down by oares and woes that are rapidly assuming intolerable proportions? Perhaps, too, the possibility of some amelioration arriving to the doleful lot of the sufferer, through the medium of that time of gifts and generosity, may oause a postponement of the fatal hour. But why should midsummer, with its bright sunshine, and its comparatively easy conditions of existence, when neither extra olothing or fuel are necessaries of life, be the season most conducive to self-murder? That problem presents no rersonable means of solution. Yet nearly twice as many persons commit suicide in July as in December. It is possible that the oalmly flowing river, warmed and brightened by the summer sun, may tempt the wretched wanderer to seek for rest and peace in the cool, tranquil depths while, on the other hand, the icy, muddy torrent of winter is repellant.

Suicide is far less common among very old or very young personf than with those of middle age. Between 40 and 60 is the period when life seems to become most burdensome. Very few young people kill themselves, and very few old ones. As to the causes of suicide, insanity, whether incipient or declared, furnishes the largest contingent. Im*patienoe of physical pain, the suffering caused by agonizing and incurable illness, comes next. Drunkenness also supplies a large number of cases. But poverty and disappointed love comes lowest on the list of predisposod causes.

As I have said before, the rope and the river are the most popular of all means of self-slaughter. The pistol comes next, and then aspyxiation by charcoal. Comparatively few persons have recourse to knives or to poison. Some few leap from an elevated point, like the Arc de Triomphe or the towers of Notre Dame. Instances are knows of persons who have thrown themselves on the railway track in front of a passing train. Poison, for the reasons I have already stated, tarnishes comparatively few victims. People have been known to drink

themselves purposely to death, av allowing aloohol in each gnat quantities* to produce congestion of the twain. And last year one unhappy creature, a woman, deliberately starved herself to death.

The most dramatic cane of suicide of which I have eVer heard was one of which I waa by chance the witness, some years ago. On a fine afternoon in winter I was walking on the Rue de la Pais at the end nearest the Place Vendome. I was attracted by the aspect of the vast dark Column Vendome rising against the pale gold of the sky, and with the last rays of the sunset iingftring upon the statue at ita summit. Suddtoly I b©h©lji ft miM of white, fluttering drapery falling rapidly down the front of the great dusky shaft. It etruck upon the huge laurel wreath surrounding the column where ita base comes in oontact with the pedestal, and was thrown by the violence of the shock clear over the railings to the pavement. These white draperies were the skirts of a woman. She had climbed to the summit of the column with a camp stool hidden underneath her cloak, and while the guide was explaining the principal points of the view to some other perqongj

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by the moment that his

attention was distracted, placed her camp stool just beside the rulings, mounted it, and threw herself over. In her pocket was found a card requesting that her body might be sent to a certain house in a highly respectable street The police caused the poor crushed remains to be taken to the address indicated, thereby unconsciously carrying out the revengeful purpoee of the suicide. For the husband had deeerted her, and had gone to take up his residence at the place ehe named with another woman. The effect upon the guilty pair of being thus confronted with the corpee of the woman they had wronged must have been painful and startling to the last degree. Some time afterward a young man threw himself from the summit, breaking off one of the spearheads of the iron railing in his descent.

And since the epoch of this last suicide the column has been closed against all visitors. The broken spearhead remains unmended to thie day. The Column of July on the Place de la Bastile furnished for a time its quota of suicides, but finally thiat, too, was closed against all persons wishing to ascend it. The last individual who sought death by throwing himself from its summit lodged on one of the Gallio cocks in bronze that ornament the base and as the law forbids any one to touch a corpee till it haa been visited by the police authorities, the ghastly remains hung there, a dreadful spectacle, for over an hour.

A very singular case of suicide, remarkable for the deliberation with which it was resolved upon, took place lately in the French provinces. A man who had committed a theft of some magnitude found himself on the point of being arrested. He called his wife and children together, told them what he had done, and consulted with them as to the beet method of disposing of the affair. They unanimously agreed that he ought to kill himself. The culprit acquiesced and deliberately completed all his preparations, which included going some distance in search of a priest,

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whom he made his lait confessuw^-^T^dn he came back homeJ(flO*/"fci8 gun and went out intoJiHr^nooUn and shot him-

A-rvI'^ sad instance was that of cue young Viscount who was playing with his first-born child, a spirited, active boy of some 8 months old, at the open window of his suit of apartments, which was equated on the fourth floor. The baby, in the gaiety and exoitement of the sport, made a sudden spring, escaped from hiB father's clasp, and fell headloBg to the pavement of the court. The wretched parent gave one glance at the lifeless little form lying on the cruel stone 3 below, and then turned from the window, took a loaded pistol from its ca?3 and blew his brains out.

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GEN. BARRIOS' SCHEME.

A Central American Union—The First Step Taken Toward That End. Speckil to the Chicago Dally News.

WASHINGTON, April 8.—It is not generally known that the five Central American states have recently held a congress for the purpoee of laying the foundation for a reunion Bnd a confederacy such as existed after the separation from Spain. The convention met at the city of San JOES, Cieta Rica, leit November, the governments of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador being repreTentad by ministers plen:potentiaiy with full powers. After a long discussion on February 16 they signed a treaty of peace, friendship, and commerce, which is the first step toward euch a reunien. The first article provides that there shall be perpetual peace between the five republics, and if any difficulties should occur a settlement shall be sought by reference to an arbitrator, who shall be ejected from among the governments of the following nations^ The Argentine republic, Chili, France, Germany, United States, Great Britain, Mexico, Spain, and Switzerland, and each nation egress to abide by the decision of the arbitrator. It is provided, too, that delegates from the five nations shall meet annually upsn the anniversary of indepandence for the purpose of considering matters of common interest.

The late President Barrios, of Guatemala, gave the beet years of his lifs to the development of the idea of the reunion of the several republics as one nation, and died in trying to bring about that end by force. There is no doubt a great majority of the people in each of the countriee desire to make one nation of the five, but the trouble heretofore has been the ambition of local leaders. In every one of the nations there has been some man who thought he was best fitted to be president of the consolidated republics, and he has had sufficient influence to prevent the consummation of the plan. This recent step, however, is a most natural one, and will be encouraged by all the friendly nations of Europe and America.

A Good aad True Dog Story When S. T. Wadley Co. purchased the poultry house once owned by the departed John E. Sullivan, one of the fixtures which did not appear on the invoice was a three-legged "tramp" dog, who is something of a genius in his way. Jack, as he is known to his friends, makes himself useful, despite his lack of a foreleg, in catching any chicken which may escape, and gets his pay by carefully inspecting the hencoops each morning, and appropriating any egg* h* finds therein, 'l'his act he performs by inserting his one good paw between the slats of the coop, rolling the egg out upon the ground. If the fall is insuffi cient to break the shell, he gently tspa the egg with his paw until access is gained to the contents, which he then proceeds to absorb with evident satisfaction.

Excitement of Chess Tournament. That New York chesa tournament is aa wildly exciting aa a growing match between rival oyster beds.—[Philadelpia Inquirer.

MINUTER HOT srnoraw IIL.

thai ill is painfully ing, and to his tool

[fee AM* to Sail r«r Me New •athalTthbet. that ex-Govsrnoc Porter, to Italy, waa seriously

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leave Indii to Washington for

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from excessive walkiveralday* ba waa confined ibut he was able to be on the then. It is his intention to '. Ha will go inatractaona

from the state department, and will aail from Naw York on the Geraan-Iiloyd ateamer Allen the 17th4nst. He will not remain in Roma after hw arrival, but will after thirn or four daya go to aome more healthful point for the aummer. Colonel John C. Naw, the consul general to London, will leave for his post of duty the 223 inst. He has appointed aa fcia private secretary Romeo Johnson, telegraph editor of the Indianapolia News. The preeent force of clerka will probably be continued.

Thsttsts'ilsfnaiMMSi fw Bsys. Forty-two boya, nearly one-tenth of the entire number of inmatee of the Plainfield reform school, thia month received their "honor" badgea. Thia ia the badge which, in the diaoration of the superintendent, entitlea the boy to leave of absence.

He

ia sent home or to

friends, and if hia oonduct ia good he ia permitted to remain. Superintendent Charlton, while in thia city waa proffered a place by a first-class business man for one of the "honor" boys.

Ground has been broken for the new building whiob ia to contain the ateam heating apparatua, the laundry, ate., provided for by appropriation, but the failure of the loan bill has compelled a suspension. However, the boys are making brick and preparing to do the work in case a financial way is found later.—[Indianapolis News. Murphy Doctrine Opposed by Preachers.

Francis Murphy's declaration that the gospel alone can save men from intemperance suggested the subject for the Methodist preachers' meeting this morning, "The New Berth, the Indiapensable Basis of a Genuine Temperance Information." C. E. Lewis wrote the paper. In discussion the fact waa made prominent that there is a general diabelief that the gospel alone can reform men. The Rsv. H. J. Talbott thought this due to a great extent to the general confounding of the church and the gospel. Among other thinge he disapproved the policy of coddling a so-called reformed man'and making him expect undue attentions. He approved sterner methods and a sounder sort of reformation.—[Indianapolis Jfewe.

Why is There Delay?

The new school-book law ah emergency clause, but the state superintendent of public instruction (who is now East) either is not aware of it, or is liberally construing the meaning of "emergency." Governor Hovey, however, says that he haa been aware that the bill contained an emergency clanse, and a few d»y |i^

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ueiay, advertise for bids to furnish the required books, in accordance with the provisions of the law. The time for receiving the bids must be fixed not later than six months after the publication of the notice.

Hovey's Democratic Appintmenta. 3 *oWOT

Hovey has appointed Josiah of the New Albany Publio Edward S. Hays, of Mt. Ver-

no^ who was a Democratic candidate for doorkeeper of the house at the-last session of the legislature, to succeed De Foe Skinner, of Valparaiso, and E. P. Richardson, of Peteraburg, respectively, as members of the commission for the construction of the additional hospitals for the insane. AH are Democrats. Colonel J. R. Gray, of Nobleeville, has been appointed as one of the commis-

The Courts Must Pass Upon the Law, State Auditor Carr, in a letter received yeaterday morning by Deputy Auditor Coons, says: "The loan is off. The attorney of the bank here had already the same opinion that McDonald & Butler gave. The money caniTot be had now, unless our courts pass upon the law and declare it constitutional."

Another Week of Suspense. The supreme court will make public no decisions this week, and, in consequence the constitutional cases will not be disposed of before next week.

Indiana News Notes.

George Talton commlttcd]sulclde by taking pari* green at Westville, Iod. A powerful gas well was struck at Hartford City on Saturday at adepth ot 949 test

The Evansville 4 Newborg motor line Is nearlng completion, and the enterprise will be Is full operation early la June.

Cbarles Halderman. formerly head clerk In the Vandalia railway msll service, has been reappointed, vice L. E. Daniels, ol Frankfort, whose time has expired.

A sacrilegious thief tore the corner-stone of the Baptist Church, at Cambridge City, Ind., from Its position in the wall, and appropriated Its con-t3nts-?l 60.

The Murpby meetings at Greencastle are meeting *ith such abundant success that the absence of the temperance badge Is becoming more noticeable than the ribbon Itaelt The meetings will close this weak.

Upward of seventy thousand dollars have been expended to plare Jeffersonville beyond danger of oveiflow by the Ohio river In building a levee, and J5.CC3 is still needed before the work will be deemed complete.

The trial ef Benjamin Scott, the wealthy Texan who killed "Con" Crowley, of Elkhart, resulted in the Jury finding blm guilty of manslaughter, with live yenrs In prison. The lightness if the punishment Is a surprise.

Sergeant W. O. McKlnney, the unsuccessful applicant for tfie position of superintendent of the fifth division .railway mall service, was presented with a gold-hradd cane by the postal clerks at the Dealson house Saturday.

William Benson, of Floyd coonty, who assassinate! Jacob Motweller, his employer, was found guilty by a Jery at Jeffersonville en Saturday and sentencsd to death. An appeal will be taken. Benson alco tried to kill Mrs. Motweller.

John Wright, the tallest man la Madison eonaty. and probably the tallest la the state, being a little over eight fest high, died at hts residence In Anderson yeaterday morning, after a lingering 1Uness. He had been a resident of Anderson twenty years and was unmarried.

Milwaukee and the O. A. K. Encampment. Special to the Chicago Dally News. MILWAUKEE, April 7.—The chairman of the Grand Army of the Republic reoeption committee for the national encampment in Milwaukee next August has issued a prayerful appeal to the citizens to provide beds ana ehelter for 500,CC0 visitors. After a house-to-house canvass the committee can figure up aocommodations for only about thirty thousand people. The committee admite thu it has just begun to realize the immensity of the occasion.

Diek Wlntersmlth's Hatred or Ctevelsad. Colonek Dick Winteramith, ot Kentucky, vn is one of the Ebbitt house statues, is credited with a good saying. Somebody was talking about Cleveland, and the remark waa made that Winteramith hated the ex-preaident. "Hate aim?" said Colonel Wintersmith, "didn't be appoint that Albany darky recorder of deeda againet aaold

rssMsat Hfcs s»T Birt* hteT Why, I bate him so bad I dont think hia wife Is handsosa*"—{Washington apsotaL

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Speela] Hspateh to toe Soqamr. WASHHTGTOH, April 8.—The Washington Sunday Herald has the following intonating sketch of a gentleman who ia likely to become interesting to Cincinnati people through matrimonial alliance: "The announcement of the engagement ot Justice Horace Gray to Mus Matthewa, the eldeat daughter of the late Judge Stanley Matthews, rscalla the fact that if this engagement ia consummated by marriage it will be the only inatanoe of a juatioe ot the aupreme court being married aince the organization of the government. Joatice Ijamar caaae very near it, for he had not been married the second time but a little while when he received hia appointment to the court as the suooessor of Judge Woods. Justice Gray, by the way, ia a splendid specimen of manhood. Of course he is well known in Washington, but as the readers of the Herald are not oonfined to this city it may not be amiss to give a little deeoription of him, the more especially aa Mies Matthewa' friends, who are scattered all over the oountry, will be anxioua to know what. sort of a gentleman ahe has picked out for a huaband. In the first place, Juatioe Gray looka like one of those English deig gymen that Anthooy Trollope deligh'e to depict in hie innumerable novels. He must be fully eix feet tour, wtigha probably two hundred and fifty pounds, haa a dear, ruddy complexion, dark hair (what there ia of it), blue eyee, no beard or mustache and only sparse whiakera, worn in English style. Justice Gray haa aome peculiarities, both in drees and manner. He haa been an almoat constant reaident of Waahington since he took his seat upon the bench in 1881, but, winter or summer, he haa never been seen without an irreproachable white cravat.

In the winter time he is given to wearing a very long overcoat of the sack coat style, which comes almoat to his heele, and the soles of his shoes are of enormous thickness. The justice is an inveterate pedestrian, and if the weather will permit he walks from his house to the capitol and generally alone. He aeems to be lost in meditation and oblivioua to all who are passing him, for he very rarely recognizee any one. One would suppose that being so large a man the justice would be very deliberate in his conversation, but euch is not the case. He talks rapidly and appears to be of a rather nervoue temperament. As a conversationalist he is charmini Outside of the law he is very well

ming. read.

A young ladyaaid last winter: 'I believed that the judgea ot the supreme ceurt never thought of anything but their stupid old law books and tiresome oa«?, they look so solemn sitting up therejojg the bench with their silk .gowSa around oufdonT you know I went down to dinner the other evening at Mrs. Secretary's with Justice Gray, and I found he waa just B9 well posted about novels, especially of the French school, as I we*?, This may partially account for the great popularity Justice Gray has always enjoyed with ladies, both married and single. Although he ia now 61 years old and has been for twenty-five years upon the bench, either of his native ~Btate (MaBsachuBette) or of the supreme court, Justice Gray does not look a day over 4 With his excellent health, robust co stitution and temperate habits, he n. doubt, has many years ot active usef nn ness before him." u'-

Obitnary.

NEW YORK, April 8.—Mrs. Theodore Thoma-j, wife of the musician, died in this city this morning after a lingering and painful illness. She had been confined to her bed since last autumn with a form of nervous prostration, which from the firat puzzled medical skill, though it was not till within a few weeks of the end that hope of a successful coping with it was abandoned. Mrs. Thomas was a woman of fine intellectual attainments and unusual force of character.

LONDON, April 8.—The Rev. Sir Frederick Arthur-*^ore Oursely, Bart., is dead. [He was professor of music In the university of Oxford and composed much church music. He was fi3 years old.

WASHINGTON, April 8.—Dr. J. H. Kidder, of the Smithsonian institute, died this morning at his residence in this city from an attack of pneumonia.

Dr. Palmiter, of Lagrange, Ind., one of its best known residents, died very suddenly yesterday, aged 72.

Colonel Charles W. Chapman, one of the wealthiest citizens in northern Indiana, and prominent member of the bar, died at his residence at Warsaw, after an illness of only a week. Deceased was 65 yeara of age, well known during the war, having served as colonel of the Seventyfourth regiment, Indiana volunteers.

P. S. Browder, the oldest living pioneer of the section ab3Ut Tuscola, 111., died near Murdock at the age of 82 yearp.

A Twelve-Pound Brook Trout. The venerable and genial Dr. P. Hoy, of Racine, Wis., is one of the best illustrations of the beneficent effects of natural history studies and out-of-door sports in prolonging life and preserving strength. He recounted to us recently his participation in the capture of the celebrated twelve-pound trout by Seth Green in the Sault Ste. Marie, in 1875. Readen of Foreet and Stream will remember the description in this journal at the time. The doctor states positively that the fish wes a brook trout and that he saw it weighed on a pair of "balances the weight was "down weight." When the landing net was used, it waa a question at first whether the doctor should go into or the trout come out of the water. Dr. Hoy made the first studies of the food of the whitefish, and secured many new animals in his early deep-water explorations in Lake Michigan.—[Forest and Stream.

Entitled to all She Got.

Miaa Soroei S. Alexander, an old maid of Vermont, haa been awarded 826,867 aa a reeult of a suit against her brother's estate. The brother promised her that if ahe would not marry, but stay at home and take care of the old folka, he would give her tl,000 a year. She discarded her lover and did as requested, but the brother failed to reward her as promised hence the suit and verdict.

"Oklahomy or Bust."

Ah" Oklahoma bound wagon which passed through last evening bore the inscriptiofn "Chintz buged in Illinoy, sioloaned in Newbrasky, white caped in Miasouiy, prohibited in Kanaas, Oaklahomy or Bus*."—[Winfield Visitor.

•The best physiciana assure ua that Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is a reliable and never failing remedy.

[Teat Bargains

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"BOOTS, SHOES

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Slippers.

,iiHMMMS" Dickinson ranch.

ooanty, Kan., haa a

Pineapple culture in Florida yielde $400 per acre. The Rothsohilds have aecured oontrol of mote than half the trade in Ruasian petroleum.

The Royal academy in London has definitely decided not to opes ita doom on Sandys.

Philadelphia supports a permanent oompany of minatrela, and ia the only city in the oountry that doss.

A burglar arrested in Boston had on hia braaat an India ink picture of a gravestone,pn which wss marked: "In memory ot my father and mother."

Twp hundred pigeons presented to Captain Wissmann, by the Straaburg oarrier pigeon aoriety, were apart of the outfit he took with him to Africa.

The total coat of the Paris exposition ia expected to be $10,000,000. The government contributee the greater part and the city of Paria most of the reat.

An ingenioua Boeton man haa captured 100 crowa and propoaea to hatch with an incubator crow chioka for the Maine market, where their heada are worth 10 cents apiece.

The feee for ascending the Eiffel tower are 5 franca to the top, 3 francs to the second platform and 2 franca toSthe first. The three platforms will hold 10,000 people.

Lister Wade, of Bradford, Eng.,* haa died from concussion of the brain resulting from a shock received while playing three-quarter back in afoot ball matoh two weeka ago.

The Prinoe de Ligne and the Baron de Jongbe, who reoentlyifought a duel in France at midnight by torchlight in a forest, have each been aentenoed to a fine of $19 for their fun.

The British ateamer Earl of Ulater, on her way from Fleetwood to Belfaat, ran into a lighthouae and tipped it over. The keeper waa rescued with difficulty. The steamer'* injuries were trifling.

The 4Mb^*ttach^d^3Mnum«abcw In ~ftew York have joined in a prqteet against being obliged to eat sauaagea and other diahea furnished by their boarding housea. They have all got dyspepsia.

The Epiacopal bishop of GUugow ia alleged to have inhibited Canon Wilberforce from talking tomperanoe in the churches of that diocese because he co-operates with the church of Scotland in hia work.

A Waterloo veteran began his 101st year on January 1, ia the province of Parona, Brazil. The Germane assembled to do him honor and put a crown of laurels upon his head, which ia not yet bald.

Csylon people are intonated in a rivalry es to who shall find the higheet palm tree. An Englieh railroad builder named Cantrell made the first reoord at 110 feet, but Mr. Paton-Cray has just shown a palm 117 feet high and takes the medal.

Ernest Hull,,of Lyme, Conn., caught a big striped bass off shore in a novel way. The fieh waa floating on the waves seemingly benumbed with the cold. Mr. Hull thrust an oar into ita gulls and towed it ashore. It weighed 11% pounds.

Roes Winans, the American who scandalized Great Britain by leasing the deer park of an old Scotch family and then getting into a lawsuit over the payment of the rent, has just hired the Kilmorak ahootings in the same county for £1,500 a year.

Charles Faulkner, a Boeton kleptomaniac, attempted to steal a keg of nails from a hardware store in that city. A minute after taking the nails he fell to the floor insensible. It waa a paralytic stroke, the firat he had ever experienced, and his recovery is doubtfuL

Morgan county, Georgia, has a curiosity in the shape of a balance rock. It is a large bowlder, somewhat the shape of an inverted cone, and ia in a perfect state of equipoise. The baaeupon which it reata is so small in proportion to the size of the bowlder that a man can shake it.

A diacussion as to the height of trees in the forests of Victoria haa elicited from Baron von Mueller, the government .tanist, the statement that he saw one of a height of 525 feet. The late ohief inspector of forests messured one fallen and found that it was 485 feet long.

There is a natural born humorist at Red Cloud, Neb. He announced excitedly the other day that he had made an important discovery of coal, and volunteered to show the plaoe. He was followed by an enthuaiaatio crowd all over town, when he led the way to a coal yard.

Here is an item for the superstitious: "In an old farm house garret near Shamokin, Pa., a clock haa atood for years unmoved. One night recently, without apparent cauae, it struck seven timee. On the following night at 7 o'clock a member ot the family mat with sudden death."

A Salano, Cal., paper

Bays:

Tbe straits

are literally awarmtng with sea lions, and the fishermen are having a hard struggle with them. Out of sixteen salmon in a net Tueaday onlyjtwo were secured by the fishermen, the sea lions eating up before their eyee the other fourteen, besides tearing the net to pieoee.

There has been a great, developing of lumbering in the South sinoe 1880. There are 160 per cent, more sawmills now than then, 107 per cent, more handa employed, and 103 per cent, more capital invented*. Syndicates are rapidly buying up all the Southern timber lands that they can get their handa on.

There are aaid to be more than one hundred thouaand varieties of butterfliea. One of thefineet collections of butterflies in the world is owned by Berthold Nsumogeo, of New York. Only two others in tbe world can compare with it One of them ia in the British museum and the other belongs to a public institution in Paria.

"He saw before him the Gladiator die." Yes, and he wouldn't, perhaps, if there had only been a aensible man to rub him well with Salvation Oil,

POWDER

Absolutely Pure.

jmSnSTartanaol lie aoMia with tbemunttuae at lowtest, short taf or phosphate powdsca. SoMonlf aoitt.Hiirae Bownm 0&,m Wain r.

TWO SALES AT ONCE.

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Monday, April 8th, we begin the sale of

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The diaslay will that day be complete, giving you the whole Btock te select from.

Lll'E ITRTALNS.

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At the same time our lace curtain sale, at which will be offered one of the largest and beat selections ever shown here. It will include all styles, and the prices will be lees than any house in the state makes.

GO UP

These goods are all on the second floor. tTake the Elevator.

_.L S. AYERSI CO.,

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2 INDIANAPOLIS, iND. 2

AMUSEMENTS. OPERA HOUSE.

MYLOR'S

Tuesday Evening, April 9th.

STETSON'S

Big Spectacular .ri

30--.-PEOPLE-:-30 a

Double Band and Orchestra. Special Oar Load of Scenery. —LONE STAR QUABTETTE-

AFRICAN MANDOLIN PLAYERS-

SECURE YOUR SEATS IN ADVANCE, Usual prices, 75,60 and 25 cents.

NAYLOR'S EXTRA.

OMoSi°THr

COMEDY COMPAIIKS TEAVKLINfi

—Everything New—

Better than Ever,—— And Best of All.

Sale opens Monday morning at Buttons.

PRICES, 75, SO arid 35.

323ft -NAYLOR'S- IpKclli:

TWO NIGHTS.

NEW PLAY

-two-si:

A Companion Picture to

THE OLD HOMESTEAD, By the Same Authors.

The Play, Scenery, Music, ana Company ot Twenty-two, forms a flrst-class Entertainment.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parioruar attached. Trains marked thus (8) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Buffet Cars attached. Trains marked thus ran dally. All other trains run dally Sundays excepted.

VANDALIA LINE. T. H. ft I. DIVISION.? LKAVK F*OB THB WIST. (SftV)

No. 9 Western Kip No. &:Mall Train *. .. No. IFastLine• (PAY)... No. 7 Fast Mall

Mail Train

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WMESBAT, APRIL ID.'

The Greatest ot all Farce Comedies.

HOYTS'

"A Hole in the Ground."

Author of "A Brass Monkey," "A Midnight Bell Presented by one of the strongest

APRIL 12 & 13,1889.

SATURDAY,

DENMAN THOMPSON'S

I

1.42 a. m. 10.18 a. m. 2.18 p. m. 9.01 p. m.

I.KAVa roa THX BAST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (8) No. 6 new York Express (SftV) No. 4 Mall and Accommodation No. 20 Atlantic Express (PftV) No. 8fast Line*.

1.90 a. m. 151a. m. 7.16 a. na. 1242 p.m. 2.00 p. m.

ARBIYI nKW THK KAST.

No. 9 Western Expreee »(SAV) No. 5 Man Train •. No. 1 Fast Line*(PftV) No. 8 Mall and Accommodation.....™. No. 7 Fart Mall

LSOa. m. 10.12 a. m. 2.00 p. m. 6.4^. m. 9.1 m.

ABUTS ntox THB WW,

uvx 1 Expressi (f)" I Express •(oftY) Express (P*Y)...—«

No. UCUielnaatt No. 6New Yaik No. 90 Atlantic express No. 8 Fast Line

1.20 a. 1.42 a. as. 13.J7p.rn. 1.40 p. I