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DAILY EXPRESS

GEO. M. ALLEN, Proprietor.

Publication Office 16 south Fifth street, Printing House Square.

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REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET.

For Mayor

FRANK C. DANALDSON. For Treasurer WILLIAM w. HAUCK.

For Clerk

A. C. DUDBLEoTON. For Marshal A. J. THOMPSON.

For Assessor

JAMES W. HALEY. For Councllmen

First Ward -WILLIAM E. BURNES. Second Ward—W. B. STEELE. Third Ward—JOHN J. THOMAS. Fourth Ward—RUSSELL R. Tt.K L. Klftll Ward—JAMES P. LEINBEttlJER. Sixth Ward—FRANK STORZ.

INDISPUTABLE FIGURES.

City l«lt April 13. 1889 $ 453,850 00 City debt. April 13, 1888 378,800.00

Incr":ise In the year $ 81,050.00 Money received by the sale of »llroi\l bonds 10,000.00

Total $ 91,050.00

LAST YEAR'S EXPENDITURES.

Too mucli money was expended last year in these departments [police and lire], more money than the Gazette hopes to see expended next year.—[Gazette.

THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.

The Kopublicans have nomirited si creditable city ticket.—|G»/.ett«.

The French centennial celebration yesterday was given a dash of French sensationalism by the act of a crank who lired a blank cartridge at President Carnot.

Ab yet no one baa disputod the statement that a very decided retrenchment in the city'd expenses can be made with out lessening the efficiency of any de pariment of the city government.

Winter which has been not only ling ering in the lap of spring but jumping on her with both feet je3terday pre pared to leave the fresh young thing and give her a chance to grow beautiful

is a as are all

-roiiwja'jMPB'Qtfy wwa grann tmcceea. A good, soaking ran will do much for Col lett park as it will for all the rest of the country but even as it is the park is highly appreciated by the thousands who once in a week like to enjoy th8 verdure and fresh air of a public park.

The street commissioner complained that the council would give him no money with which to hire men to clean the streets during all those months sue ceeding the fall campaigD, when the Btreets were in a horrible oondition, un til lust week when he spent $649.05. To day, no doubt, he will have employed more men than any day in the year be cause to morrow is election dBy, and yet the people of this city are asked to en dorse this sort of thing by re-electiDg men to the city council who will perpetuate this policy.

Terre Haute is a Republican city. A straight and .full Republican vote will elect every man on the general ticket. The fact that the city is Republican and that the tide is with the party should be the occasion for every Republican to go to the polls and vote the straight ticket. Don't let it be shown by the returns on Wednesday morning that any candidate is defeated who eould hard bsen elected if the party had voted solidly for a ticket. The Democrats will be very desirous to trade and save one, or perhaps two, of their candidates by trading but don't let them accomplish their purpose You don't have to trade to elect any man on the Republican ticket.

Can the Gazette give the people any guarantee that a Democratic majority in the council nest year will be guided by any better motives than during the last year? The leader in the council of last year, who, while at the head of the police board, is conducting a policy shop as means of livelihood, will be the leader of his party in the nest council, as he is a holdover. What has there been in his public career or is there now that gives promise of better things? Perhaps, our contemporary will say that it is not a follower of his leadership as it has said heretofore, but he leads in spite of our contemporary and taps his fingers at its futile efforts to check his sway.

During the past year, under the management of the present city government, the city has borrowed the following sums of money: June, 827,000 July, $13,GOO August, $10,0C0 September, 35,5C0 October, 816,400 November, 87,000 December, $20,OC0, January, 1SS9, 816,CCO February, 1SS9, fo.CCO total for the year ending April 13, 18S9, $120,500. At the leginning of the same year the balance on hand amounted to $62,140.19. During the year 8164,COO in tases were collected. At the close of the year the balance on hand amounted to $91,349.9?, The cash on hand accumulated during the year amonntedjto but 830,209.76. Yet $120,500 were borrowed. Therefore the actual coet of conduoting the city for

the past year was $98,360.24, more than the receipts from all sources.

The New York World stops to make this comment which bears out what has been charged by the press in the wild woolly West: A

Now that the centennial ceremonies are over it is but proper to «ay that never in the history of big events in this city has the

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with such scant courtesy as It received at the hands of some ol the snobs and cads who identified themselves with this affair from the outset It was the press which advertised the celebration and made it a success. The pismires who dominated the committees and directed the show were crazy for notoriety and ravenous for fame, and yet they not only obstructed the representatives of the press, but actually t»sulted

In the discharge of their labors. What was all this wrangling and jawing about except that some peaple wanted newspaper glory and were anxious to

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other people from achieving it?

Why, then, were the reporters compelled to fight for news and Information as though the press was to be punished for trying to record history The trnth Is, there never was a big affair so bestridden by pigmies, and now that they have strutted and fretted their brief hour let them be forgotten.

Chief Justice Puller has purchased a $100,000 residence in Washington. Considering the size of fees that lawyers receive nowadays, every one of them competent to sit on the bench of the United Btates Supreme court is likely to have acquired a fortune. So it should be considered as to the incumbents of all our public offices. The salaries are, in the first place, ample for a man to live in a dignified manner, and if he wants to lire extravagantly the chances are that he is not the man for the place. As to the judiciary especially, there should be no "frills!" but it is true, as stated above, that the Pullers who happen to get on the bench are likely to have .grown rich with fat fees and can afford the extra expense without calling on the people to pay the bills for these things that may give the justices a reputation in social affairs but the comfort and fame of any less lucky member of the court will not be jeopardized by the fact that he receives only 810,000 a year from the government.

As indicating the extent to which the base ball "crank" fever may take possession of a city which rejoices and rages in the possession of a league club, the display of partisanship at Philadelphia yesterday is unique. More than twelve thousand residents of that quiet quaker city crowded into a ball park to see the Athletics play a game of ball with the Brooklyn club. When the game was less than two-thirds played the visiting club gained a lead such as to make it almost impossible for the home club to win and the crowd unmindful of the fact that they were entitled to one-third more amusement for their money crowded into the playing ground ,so as to prevent the completion of the contest and the umpire declared the game a draw. This and many other incidents this early ii 1.1-n 1:——±j

national game has there been such absorbing interest in base ball as will be manifested this season.

POLITICS IN THE CITY DEPARTMENTS. Foriunately the police and lire departments are out of pollUes. An aUempt Is, made, and It Is fairly successful, to get the best men for these places, without having the problem, difficult at the best, mixed up with and dominated by that other and Immaterial question of their political activity.— rGazette.

That sounds well when read aloud in the sanctum to an admiring group of friends but what is the fact?

There is one Democratic police superintendent at 883 33hj a month, a captain at $75 a month, a clerk at 865, two sergeants at 865, and a number at $60, at headquarters all of whom are D31110crats. The Republicans hare no men on the force except those drawing the minimum wages—860 a month—and but two of the fourteen who are at headquarters. There are thirty-nine men on the force of whom not more than fif teen are Republicans. They draw 8900 a month in the aggregate, an average of 860 a month. The Democrats have the officers named above and patrolmen stationed at headquarters—in all, twelve men. The Democratic mem bers of the police force draw the remainder of an aggregate of more than $2,400 a month, and as they have all the officers receiving more than the minimum of $60, it is plain that the average pay of Democratic members of the force is greater than that of the Rapublican officers. The truth is that in round proportion Democrats get twothirds of the money voted by the city for police expenses.

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A Redeeming Feature.

He—They say an Indian lover never kisses the girl he is courting. She -They area long way from being clvllizcd, aren't they?

He—There is a g.eat deal of hugging, though. She-They have some sense, after all, haven't they?

Whereupon the young man convinced her that he, too, was possessed of a high degree of Intelligence ,r~:

A Great Moral Lesson.

Mrs. Wlckw.re -There was a great moral lesson for you Henry. In the fate of that man Scarpla in the play. You see what his Infatuation f»r a pretty face brought him to.

Mr. Wickwlre—Yes I noticed. He died In consequence of getting stuck, so to speak.

Bad Her Donbts.

Mr. Jason— Here's a Uttle bit of ad\ice In the paper you ought to hear, Maria: "The woman that remembers that her husband Is only a human being and not a demt-god will find her path through life much smoother for doing so."

Mrs. Jason—I do try to think you are human, Jehlel. but it Is pretty hard for me to believe it sometimes from the way you carry on. n-

Monday Minutes.

"No man Is a hero to his valet," though he may seem such to the nurse who takes care of the twins.

An open-fatrd watch—A yawning policeman.

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An Excellent Bejr^

"Bromley, 1 hear^ housekeeping?" "Yee, Darlinc "What has '•A wifej

BLOODTHIRSTY AS WOLVES.

By lycanthropy, strictlyso called, is nftant the transmutation of a man into a wolf, the man still retaining his human reason and knowledge, but becoming imbued with the fierce animal inatincta of the brute into which be has been transformed, says a writer in Leisure Hour.

In ancient times the same distinctions are to be* observed. Lycaon, king of Arcadia, is transmuted into a wolf, but Io becomes a heifer the companions of Ulyssee, swine Actajon, a" stag Nisus, a hawk. The number of transmutations, indeed, is so numerous that one of the great Latin poets has written a long poem descriptive of them. In the Hindoo mythology Indra is represented as transmuting Rabandha into a monster, while the sons of Vasishtha convert Frisankla into a bear. In Scandinavian legends Sigmund becomes a wolf, but Tragli a wild boar. From the same sources La Mothe Fouque has derived his wild and beautiful tale of the "Eagle and the Lion." There it is represented as being the common practice of Northmen at their pleasure to lay aside their human formB and take those of some beast or bird. The braver and nobler spirits become lionBor eagles, and achieve deeds of high daring the meaner are transformed to wolves and bears. According to the Persian myths, the ape, the serpent and the dog are usually the animals into which the changes are made. In the "Arabian Nights" Zobeide's sisters become black dogs and the second Calender an ape. Among the Scythians and Greeks, again, the wolf is the brute chosen for these transmutations, as is the case in other parts of Europe. Herodotus tells us that among the Neuri, a race dwelling contiguously to the Scythians, every one for a few days in the year becomes a wolf, at the end of that time returning to his ancient shape. Pliny quotes Evanthus, an author of some reputation, as affirming that, among the Arcadians, the family of one Anthus drew lots among themselves which of them should repair to a certain pond, undress himself on the edge of it, hang his clothes on an oak, swim across the pond and go into the deserts, where he would be changed into a wolf and live with that species for nine years. If in the course of that time he did not devour a man he might return to the same pond, recross it and resume his original form, being, however, nine years older than when he laid it asid. In short, there are endless fableB in circulation among the

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natives of every country in the world, and to all of them the general title lycanthropy will apply, though, doubtless the term is commonly understood of the transmutations supposed to have taken place in the dark and middle ages of European history.

Olaus Magnus, early in the sixteenth century, from whom we might have hoped better things, tells a story of a nobleman traveling through a forest. He and his servant lose their way and can find no house where shelter and food are to be obtained. In the extrem ity of their need, one of his retenue dis closes to him, under a promise of secrecy, that he has the power of turning himself into a wolf, under which form he can

der the semblance of a wolf, and returns with a lamb after which he resumes his human shape.

John of Nuremberg, in his book "De Miraculis," relates how in like manner a priest traveling in a strange country loses himself in a wood. Presently he sees a fire in the distance and makes for it. On reaching it he finds a wolf sit ting by it, who informs him that he is an Ossyrian, and that all his country men are obliged by a law imposed on them by an overruling power, to spend a certain number of years in the shape of wolves,

In the year 1573 one GilleB Gamier, a native of Lyons, called from

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habitB of life *'The Hermit of St. Bonnet," was accused before the tribunals of being a loup-garou. It was affirmed that he prowled around like a wolf at night and had devoured several infants. It was alleged that on three occasions under the guise of a wolf, and once in his own proper form, he had seized Billed ana mangled children. It was of course difficult to establish identity in three of these instances, but in the fourth several witnesses well acquainted with his person had seen him strangle a boy and afterwards tear his flesh with his teeth. He was arrested and put to the torture, when he confessed the truth of the charges against him

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burnt at the stake. A few years afterwards a tailor named oulet, living near Angers, was tried on |a similar charge of having slain, and hen mangled with his teeth, a lad of 15. It was declared in evidence thpt he bad bsen ssen, while in the shape of a wolf, to tear the body, and, pursuit having been made, he was caught in a thicket, but having now reeumed his human form. At his examination he confessed that he had anointed himself with magic salve, which turned him into a wolf, when it was delight to seize and lacerate his human victims. He wes condemned, and would doubtless have been burned at the stake if he had not appealed to the parliament. They wise ly and mercifully declared him to be a maniac, and placed him under confinement.

The case of Jean Greiner in the next generation very nearly resembles the above. He was a peasant lad, of St. Antoine de Pizon, near Bordeaux. He was charged, on what seemed credible evidence, with having torn to pieces several children. He made an elaborate confession, in which he declared that a black man whom he met in the forest had given him an ointment which had the effect of making him a wolf for a time, and while in that oondition he Jiad killed and mutilated several children. The judges in this instance also pronounced the man to be a madman, and placed him in a convent to be cured and reformed.

Earlier in the same century a story, in most particulars very like the two just related, but with a more shocking termination, is told of a farmer near Pavia. He Eet upon some men, whom he lacerated with hiB teeth, but was seized and brought to trial. Here he made a confession to the effect that he was half man, haif wolf, one side of his skin being human and the other covered with bristles. By magic power he was enabled to turn thiB skin as he pleased, and so become man or wolf, as the fancy possessed him. It is doubtful whether he made this declaration in the hope of terrifying his captors, or was like the others—in

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that he had been attacked by a savage wolf, from whioh he had freed himself by cutting off its fore paw. He produced the paw from under bis sleeve as he spoke, and, lo! it had become a woman's hand with a ring on it. The gentleman thought he recognized his wife's wedding ring. He went straight home, and found his wife with her apron thrown over her arm. The apron being removed it was seen that her hand bad been reoently cut off. She was accused of being a loup-garou, was convicted and burned.

Baring Gould rotates a still more horrible tale of a Hungarian lady of rank, who was proved to have killed and mangled several, hundred girls in order to Buck their blood. There ie also the wellknown case of De Retz, marechal of France, in the time of King Charles VII., who had murdered and revelled in the blood of, it was supposed, 800 children. The truth of the charge was proved beyond the possibility of doubt. He himself affirmed that he had been seized with the uncontrollable craving for human blood while reading Suetonius' description of the cruelties of Tiberius.

Theee stories might be multiplied to any amount, but, as has been already remarked, there is a great similarity between tnem, and the above are enough to enable us to arrive at an intelligible, if not a very aatisfactory, conclusion respecting them.

It is clear that bodily disease is largely connected with them. An insatiable craving for blood not by any means the only unnatural appetite known to science. There is nothing unreasonable in believing that the same craving which induces many animals to mangle a succession of victims in preference to devouring any one of them might take possession of a human .subject/ also, whose physical system had become greatly deranged. As late as 1849 the case of Bertrand, a junior officer in a regiment quartered in Paris, attracted attention. The facts are too repulsive for full narration. In frantic fits of uncontrollable desire he frequented the burial ground of Pere la Chaise and exhumed and lacerated a great many bodies. After a while the guardians of the cemetery were alarmed. Bertrand was fired at and wounded. The police then captured him, and he made a full confession. He Was put under medical treatment and recovered.

SYSTEMATIC BLACKMAIL.

Collector Bishop's Bailiwick at Cincinnati, Divided Into Three Districts. Special to the Commercial-Gazette.

WASHINGTON, May 4.—No additional repoit was received to-day at the internal revenue bureau from Special Agent Somerville. The Commercial Gazette, of Friday, which arrived here this morning, had BO full an account of the bad Btate of affairs in Collector Bishop's dis trict that a revenue officer, after reading it, Baid there seemed to be nothing left for the agent to report. An application to the commissioner for a copy of Mr, Somerville's report for publication was met with a refusal, on the ground that the case in Cincinnati was as yet in an incomplete condition. When all the papers are in and fully made up the commissioner Baid be would consider the advisability of giving them out. In the meantime the newspapers do not seem to be suffering for lack of interesting information.

A gentleman who recently heard some of the goseip on the subject among the whinkv dealers of Cincinnati, and who is says the fact mac uujre it an Open revo on the part of distillers shows that things must have been pushed to the very last extremity. The whisky men, he says are the most liberal and easy-going of al" business people. Their traffic makes them so, and they allow a good margin for losses of various kinds. A little pinching here and there by a gauger would have been allowed to pass, but not BO concerted and continued a blackmailing operation.

One of the stories he heard in Cincin nati was that Bishop's district was divided into three sections. That each section was worked for all it was worth on a regular system, and that there was a bg divide of the stealings with higher officials.

Another Btory is that certain gaugers were frequently absent from their posts, but this made no difference in the trans action of their business. Packages were marked, branded and cut as though they were present.

Another story is to the effect that the whisky men have suffered very much from the thieving of whisky from them by revenue employes. AB one dealer said on this point: "I would not mind a quart occasionally, or even a gallon, but when it came to carrying my whisky off in demijohns I thought the limit had been reached."

Full confidence is felt in Agent Somerville's ability to get hold of all the phases of this extraordinary affair.

If Collector Bishop is discovered to have been a party to any of the extortions practiced, or a beneficiary by them, he will Ije removed instantly but it is asserted positively at the internal revenue bureau that so far nothing of a charac ter implicating the collector has been found. Somerville's supplemental report is being eagerly looked for.

LETTER FROM JEVF DAVIS.

He Has Something to 8aj About the "Sacred" Cause to Those He Led Astray. At a meeting of the Confederate veteran's association of Birmingham, the following letter ffom Jefferson Davis was received:

BEAUVOIK, Miss., April 17,1889.

Colonel It. E. Jones: DEAR SIR—Please accept my thanks for your very Kind letter of the 14th. The inclosed draft of the constitution and by-laws of your organization of Confederate soldiers has been read with much satisfaction. To preserve the memories of a struggle for constitutional rights is a duty we owe not only to the past, but to posterity. Never was cause more sacred or more heroically maintained. Misrepresentation, however malignant, can fix no indelible stain upon your record. Truth may follow with tardy step the flight of falsehood, but it must at last prevail. While from your shattered fortunes you contribute to pension your assailants, the maimed and needy of your own comrades are left entirely to the support whioh can gratuitously be afforded by their impoverished breth ren. Well and nobly do you propose to perform this duty. May God bless your efforts. To each and all the members of the organization I tender assurance of the paternal regard which I feel.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

1 lie Te*t of Recognition.

"Speakin' of twins," said the old man Chumpkins," there was two boys raised in our neighborhood that looked just alike till their dyin' day. Lem didn't have any teeth and his brother Dave did, but they looked precisely alike all the same. The only way you could tell 'em apart was to put your finger in Lem's mouth, and if he bit yer 'twas Dave."— [Lawiaton (Me.) Journal.

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NATIONAL AIBS.

"America" and "God give The Qoeen"— We Ian Ho National 8oag. To the Editor of the Stw Fork Sun:

.SIR:

The controversy in the columns

of the Sun as to the nationality of the air known on one side of the Atlantic as "America" and on the other as "God Save the Queen" is an old discussion revived.

A little over two years ago it was {minted out in the Sun that, with the single exception of "Hail! Columbia," we have no national song of which the music is distinctively American. "The Star Spangled Banner" was adapted, with slight alterations, from a melody by Dr. Arne (1710-1778), the composer of "Rule Britannia," "Yankee Doodle" is "Lucy Lockett," a song as old as the days of Charless II., and "Home, Swe»t Home," was oomposed by Sir Henry Bishop. "The Red, White and Blue" is thoroughly Britiab, both in words and music, except that "Columbia" is substituted for "Britannia." "Dixie" and "Marching Through Georgia" are genuinely American, but these are local, not national, songs. It is worthy of note that while we have adopted the English national anthem,the music of "God Save Ireland" was composed by an American.

I was much amused one summer evening while.returning from Glen island at the conduct of some English gentlemen on the boiat. The company had begun to sing "America" in chorus, when the Englishmen, not noting the words, and very, naturally supposing that they were listening to "God Save the Queen," instantly removed their hats, and appeared to take the whole thing as a great compliment to themselves. A. E. G.

NEW YORK, April 28.

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IN THE SOUP.

Circos Outfit Held for Debt at Princeton, Ind.—Trouble Feared. Special to the Commercial trazette.

PRINCETON, Ind., May 4.—Hutchinson & Co.'s menagerie, circus and wild west consolidated shows showed here to-day, and on account of non-payment of salaries a meeting of the 160 men occurred this afternoon. The show, it is alleged, ia owned by John Long, of Chicago, and the men were promised that upon his arrival here to-day all would be made right. He refused to liquidate the attachments, however, and the entire outfit is held here by the mayor until the debts are satisfactorily settled.

In the meantime the showmen and hangers-on are drinking heavily, and serious trouble is apprehended before morning. The local police force haa been trebled, and the mayor has telegraphed Governor Hovey for authorty to call out Company of the First regiment if the trouble continues. Two of the managers were under arrest last night.

Col. Ingersoll's Anxiety on Hayes' Account Robert G. Ingersoll wai walking out Euclid avenue, in Cleveland, the day Garfield was buried, with Mark Hacna, of Cleveland, a seriou9, solemn soul, and they were talking about the funeral, the

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spot where Garfield was buritd, and forth. Finally they stopped on a corner, weary with walking and talking, and Ingersoll, thrusting bitf hands into trousers! pockets, said slowly: "By the way, Hanna, where's Hayes buried?" a

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"Well," said Ingersoll, "don't you think you're keeping him rather too long?"—[Peiladelphia Record.

A Boston Society Weman't Penance. A unique penance was performed during Holy week by a prominent society woman. Clad in a working gown ftnd equipped With soap and towels, she went to the Church of the Advent and slowly and conscientiously scrubbed the steps of that edifice, and the observation most commonly made on the proceeding was, "She is the only woman in Boston who dares do such a thing." There are those, however, who remember tbe penitent who boiled the peas he placed in his shoes when they recall the fact that the lady was taken to and from the scene of her Lenten humiliation in her carriage —[Boston Gazette.

He Applied Too Late,

Unhappy Juror (to boodle alderman, whom he had helped to acquit)—You re member me, I guess—one of your jurors. I was kept from my business three months and it went to the dogs. I am sick and poor. Give me a little help, won't you?

Boodle Alderman (contemptuously) O, go 'way. You make me tired. If you had come to me before the verdict I would have made you rich, but not cent now.—[Texas Siftings.

The Greenbacks That He Wanted. Chawles—Who is she? Jawdge—My fiancee. Chawles—Pshaw I I thought you had more tasfe._ I wouldn't marry a girl who wore a red dress with a green back to it.

Jawdge—It's the green-backs in her pocketbook I am after, dear boy.—[Chicago Journal. 4,

Glad They Ace Alive.

The only big city in the country which is not complaining about its corrupt common council is Brooklyn. Corruption has existed there so long that the people have accepted it as a part of the inevitable, and they may thank heaven that even their lives are spared.

Suicide of Fanny Davenport's Brother. SAN FRANCISCO, May 5.—William Henri, the reputed brother of Fanny Davenport, the actrese, committed suicide yesterday, using morphine. Deceased was 53 years old, and a woodturner by trade. The cause of his action is unknown.

Oklahoma Plantings

New arrival at Oklahoma—How's plantin'? Old boomer—Wall, 'bout the on'y plantin' I seen done is by old Longface, the undertaker. He's puttin' in aright smart chance.—[Toledo Blade.

Not From Chicago.

A peculiarity about the household of John E.Week, a Louisville carpenter, is that two cradles have been constantly going Bince the first two years of his marriage.—[Ex.

A South Carolina Jury.

Only three members of a grand jury summoned at Anderson, S. C., lately, could tell the name of the governor of the state.—[Boston Journal.

jAn Improvement 011 Talleyrand. An interview is a collection of words by means of which a man conceals his iews.—[Albany Express.

An Astounding DlBcovery. ^f In this time of the year woman's highit joy ia her new bonnet.—[Troy Timee.

EXPRESS PACKAGES

SH* WAS so swan AHI SIMPLE.

She was so sweet and simple, love lurked in every dimple, caog^t me on the fly when first we met She was like a woodland flower, blooming bright in sun and shower,

And I called her in my fancy Mignonette! O, she loved me for myself, with no care for sordid pelf

She preferred love In a cottage—for her part: Infamy beyond all measure for a girl to weigh the treasure

Of the Indies in the scale 'gainst a true heart! Ah! mamma was mercenary—but her feeling eould not vary

Wild horses coald not drag her from my side! Mamma championed a chandler, a vulgar, rich grease-handler—

She would rather welcome death than be his bride! How she rallied with noble passion at the senseless slaves of fashion,

Sweetly pointing out life's truer end and way. O! I'm still lain to admire her, bat her true name is Sapphlra,

For she wed the tallow-chandler yesterday! HKLKN W. PIXRSOH. One-third of all the zinc made in Europe is manufactured in Belgium.

The Pennsylvania railroad ooiqpany has 89,369 persons in its employ. A Goldendale, W. T., colt fell into a shaft, and its mother went inaane with grief before it was rescued.

A bottle of beer burst and blew away part of a Tacoma (W. T.) man'a skull. His injuries are probably fatal.

George W. Childs has consented to loan Tom Moore's harp to the ScotchIrish congress which is to tQeet tn Columbia, Tenn.

Two Washington Territory fishermen caught 2,000 red horse on a recent fishing trip. They were only gone two or three days on the expedition.

Russian petroleum is competing with the American product in the Dutch East Indies, which have been customers of the American companies.

Jonathan Battles, who died recently at Dorchester, Masa, aged 76, was one of a family of eight who all became useful school teachers.

A circular has recently been issued by the French botanical society inviting for eign botonists to take' part in the botanical congress to be held in Paris in August next.

The four pages of honor attached to the English court get $750 apiece, their only duty being to attend the drawingroom receptions during the winter season.

Machinery is driving out hand labor at last in the nail working trade in England. The machines have had a monopoly of the business in this country for many years.

The only great thing that could be said. of Thomas Wingate, a Rhode Islander who died the other day, was that he borrowed and kept over five hundred pocket-knives in his day.

Canesteo, N. Y., raised so matiy onions last year that growers are now dumping them into ravines and gullies to get rid of them. ANew Yorker bought enough to load a car for $1.

In the Greek play, the "Antigone" of Sophooles, that was given by the women students of Swarthwore college last week, the actors spoke the original Greek lines and wore Greek costumes.

A San Francisco dealer advertised for sale the "Stanford light," a new illuminating oil. Afire marshall tested some of it, and found it to be about as explosive as nitro glycerine. A warrant Wfcs issued for the dealer's arrest.

Mrs. Sarah Mai lory died at Lon JL tuuj aiwvij uwUUVlj dt VUO OU ItUttlU of 106 years. She was the daughter of Colonel Wright, of revolutionary fame, and the widow of Major Mallory, who was a private in the war of 1776.

Over a million and a half dollars in money, bonds and other securities belonging to heirs of persons who have died intestate in India remain unclaimed by heirs. Some of the accounts have been standing since the beginning of this century.

George Clements, of Rome, Ga., is the talk of the state papers. He is a 9-year old newsboy, has a bank account, and has just profitably invested around sum in real estate. He is very Bmall for his age. His money is all made selling newspapers.

Many are the detractors of Charles Dickens, but his amanuensis has given him the most bitter blow of all. In an interview published some time since he says: "He (Dickeus) was an insatible cigarette smoker, and when dictating to me always had a cigarette in his mouth."

On Second street, Portland, Ore., is a hitching post with a ring at the top. The post is neatly but not gaudily painted a sickly yellow, and on two sides is painted in plain black letters "hitch no horsee." Just wlrat the post is for is a conundrum, but probably it is to hitch mules to.

April showers had a bad effect upon cheap decorations in New York. A white building, printed with a design of calico in different tints, is one of the "sights." All the color of the decorations was washed onto the building and remained fast, to the grief of the inhabitants and the wonder of the crowd.

Mr. Gladstone's ancestors, it appears, were pirates. In 1665 a company of adventurers sent out the George, of Glasgow, fully equipped as a privateer, to prey on tne Dutch mercantile marine, and "Halbert Gladstone, merchant in Edinburgh," was one of] the co-adven-turers, From thiB gentleman-buccaneer the English Liberal statesman is descended.

A sensation has been created in Atlanta, Ga., by the proposed adoption of Voltaire's "La Henriade" as a text book in the public schools. The advocates of the book claim lthat it is innocent, and that its literary beauties and the purity of its French make it necessary to a complete education in the polite tongue. Atlanta is likely to be divided into factions over the question.

A case has lately come to light in the Cincinnati courts that recalls an expedient once resorted to by King Solomon. Two women claimed the same baby, and Miss Schaller sued Mrs. White for its possession. The former claimed that the child was born in a private hospital, and was taken forcibly from her by the matron. It is not likely that Solomon's tactics will be employed by the court.

On the evening of May 20, 1766, the citizens of Boston celebrated tbe .repeal of the stamp act by hanging 108 lanterns on the old Liberty tree on Essex street. One of the lanterns, which, according to its inscription,-was-hung en "the west bough, opposite Frog lane," has been in the Hunneman family ever since, and has been presented to the Bostonian society by the widow and children of the late John H. Hunneman, of Roxbur^.

John Rausch, a San Francisco expressman, believes that marriage is a failure. He married a pretty girl, after investing about twenty-five dollars in a bridal outfit for her, and established her in a comfortable fiat. They spent Saturday night together, and Mr. Rausch went to his work Sunday. When be returned home Sunday night his brandnew wife had disappeared, taking with her everything of value she could lay her handson.

Pleasant, profitable, everybody likes it. We will inaugurate it

MONDAY MOMM. MAI 6.

For one week this special Hosiery, Underwear, Glove sale. £W~A clean sweep in all these lineB, regardless of coet.

At the same time: 1,000 parasols, all styles, oolors and shapes, from last season, half price. 100 dozen Ladies' Jersey Fitting Vests 15c, worth 35c. 100 dozen Ladies'Jersey Ribbed Vests 19c, worth 45c. 50 dozen Ladiea' Jersey Fitting Lace Trimmed Vests 25c, former price 50c. 25 dozen Ladies' Fane? Striped Cotton Hose, regular made, 15c, former price 25c. 50 dozen Ladies' Black Lisle Thread Hpee 29c, former price 50c. 50 dozen Children's Fancy Tiisle and Cotton Hose 23c, sold from 35r to $1 a pair. 0 50 dozen Lisle Thread Gloves 15c, former price 35c and 45c. 50 dozen Black Silk Mits 15c, cheap at 25c.

MONDAY. MA.Y. Q.

L. S. AYRESI CO,

"INDIANAPOLIS, IND,

AMUSEMENTS.

NAYL-OR'S OPERA HOUSE

ONE WEEK OF COMIC OPERA,

R? COMMENCING

MONDAY, MAY 6th."

Matinees Wednesday and Saturday.

GEO. A. BAKER'S.

Bennett-Moulton

Comic Opera Company..

48 PEOPLE 48

Our Own Orchestra! Sew and Elegant Costumes! .- Two L'ltina Donnns!

KKPERTOIKK FOB THK WEEK:

Monday Boccaccio Tnesday The Beggar Student Wednesday Matinee Merry War Wednesday Evening. Bobt. Macalre Thursday The Black Hussar Friday •. The Bohemian Hlrtr Saturday Matinee Robert Macalre. Saturday Evening Chimes of Normandy*

Prices: 15. 25,35 and CO cents. Secure seats at Button's book store.

TIME TABLE.

(P) denote Parlor Carat-

Trains marked thus taclied. Buffet Cars~"attached. fratns "marKfetfHiflfe— (•^•un dally. Jll other trains run daily Sundays excepted.

Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping

VANDAUA LINE.

T. H. & I. DIVISION. LEAVE BOB THK WEST.

No. 9 Western Express (SAV) 1.42 a. m.-'' No. 5 Mall Train 10.1H a. m. No. 1 Fast Line (P&V) 2.16 p. m."' No. 7 Fast Mail 9 04 p. m.-

I.KAVJt FOK THK RAST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.80 a. m. No. 6 New York Express (SsV) 1 61 a. m. No. 4 Mall and Accommodation 715 a. in. No. 20 Atlantic Express (P&V) 12 42 p. m.„T, No. 8 Fast Line 2.00 p.

AliKIVE FROM TBS EAST.

No. 9 Western Express (SAV) 1.30 a.m. ». No. 5 Mall Train 10.12 a. m.» & No. 1 Fast Line (P&V) 2.00 p. m. No. 3 Mall and Accommodation 6.45 p. m. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.00 p. m.

ARRIVE FROM THK WEST. '•,

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.20 a. m.No. 6 New Y«rk Express (8AV) 1.42 a.m. No. 20 Atlantic Express (PAV) 12.37 p. m. No. 8 Fast Line 1.40 p. m.

T. H. L. DIVISION.

LEAVE FOR THK NORTH.

No. 62 South Bend Mall 6.00 a. ra. No. 64 South Bend Express 4.00 p. m. ARRIVE FROM THE NORTH No. 51 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. 63 South Bend Mall 7.30 p. ni.

GREAT

Plant Sale!

Thirty Days.

Immense stock. Choice, well grown novelties very cheap. Everybody Is Invited to call and see for themselves.

JOM g. SEINL,

25 N. Eighth St.. Terre Haute.

A. J. GALLAGHER,.

PLUMBER

Gas and Steam Fitter,

424 Cherry Street. Terre Haute

M. A. BAUMAN,

Painting, Graining, Glazing', Calcimlninjr and Paper Hanging, NO. 23 SOUTH SIXTH STREET.

(Residence, 1823 Chestnut street) Tour Patronage Respectfully Solicited. WORK PROMPTLY DONE.

T. J. WELCH FAMILY GROCER.

Peed, Wood and Coalj

S. E. Corner Seventh and Poplar St

SPASMS! IPIL8PST ?1TS1 A new, prompt and permi nent cure. Nothing like No Fits after liveday's trea. ment. It Is not in any wJ injurious to the mind. NamJ kept private if requested Call and investigate tbe medi cal properties of this wondei ful Magic Nerve and Bral| Tonic.

DR. 8. D. WILLIS, 1213 N. 7th St TerreHauteJq