Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 May 1889 — Page 2

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DAILY EXPRESS.

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The Express does not undertake to return rejected manuscript. No communication will be published unless the full name and place of residence ot the writer Is furnished, not necessarily for publication, but ua a guarantee of good faith.

The job printing offices are busy printng blank forms of leasee

for

land on

whiich companies will drill for oil and gas. That there will be many wells dnow beyond doubt,

ThSt™®® ^/Jtfot get too high for the city's gooKt the rate it is now booming nor is it likely to raise values to a point that will seriously retard securing all the advantages our great find can bring to us.

One of the best features of our oil discovery boom is that the oil, while admittedly of a superior quality, is unlike that found in the Ohio and Pennsylvania fields. There may be gold in it - and diamonds.

The new council to be organized tonight has a busy year ahead of it, a year in which it is expected to meet the demand of the people expressed at the recent election for a more economical and business-like administration of the municipal affairs.

Mr. Huston is now treasurer of the United States. It is an honorable position and is filled by an honorable and capable man. Mr. Huston is deserving of the recognition no less by fitness for the oflice than by his exceptionally meritorious services in behalf of the Republican party.

The supreme court has also said that the Chinese must go, and the court has also had something to say about the Myra Clark Gaines suit for that New Orleans property. These chestnuts having been duly roasted and exploded might now be removed from further annoyance of the people.

Mayor Danaldson goes into office at the meeting of council this evening. He and the approval of the people goes without saying to those who know him and this means the people of Terre Haute where he was born and where he has always lived.

There seem to be strong indications that the Democrats will resort to extreme tactics to prevent the Republic nns acquiring control of the next national house. It is decidedly material to the welfare of the party that no such schemes shall avail, and the importance of this consideration is the strongest reason for believing that an extra session of congress will be called to meet in October.

TERRE HAUTE'S OPPORTUNITY.

There has been no time in the historj or the city when sucti a rtpe opportunity for general advancement of its material interests presented itself as at present. The most conservative opinion is that the people of the city are now fully warranted in making a great effort to secure industries and an industrial population largely in excess of that now located here. The fullest test of our facilities as to oil and gas has not, of course, been made, but the assurance and probabilities are such that we can safely and honestly go to the whole county with our advertisement. Whatever may be the future of oil and ga6, here or elsewhere, we are in no doubt as to our advantages as to coal, geographical .location and shipping facilities.

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It Wan Free.

Ynbsley—Hello, Wlckwlre, you are not looking f. very well t6-day. s! Wlckwlie—No: I took some lung syrup this morning and It kind of made me sick.

Yaiwley- First time I knew there was anything the matter with your lings. Wlckwlre—There isn'tUrjieas. '"it there was a free sample brittle ot stulfleFt at the house and I thought fjjpQuld try It.

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On the qt Express saw fit .- to rem arkThafc.'1.AjjMeMriei^tontributes a poem on 'Love's Seasons*®) H,irp6rfSjBii2ar. There are only two seasons to love ot the Etlffes variety. One

Is ml pepier and the other if more pepper." And now a little sheet published out In Kansas City tMo.}, which Its owndt has christened "Tlie Thlnkograph," and which announces Itself as "the only humorous paper In the West," republishes. the foregoing, with the comment: "Stolen from our Issue ot April 20."

Thk Kxi'ukss has long been accustomed to furnish wit, wisdom and principles for various loathsome contemporaries without the hope of recelvIng other reward than that which comes from a consciousness of having battled manfully tor the right, but to be accused by a paper at Kansas City (Ma) ot having stole® from It a paragraph three weeks before it was published Is an example ot Jn-

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gratitude hardly to be expected, even from Kansas City (Mo.). However, Thk Exi-bkss will try and rally from this latest crushing blow, giving and continue to do business on the same "high plane." whether its esteemed contemporaries give it due credit, steal from It bodily or merely refer to It as "A morning paper,'* with a big "A."

It is due to the Thlnkograph of Kansas City (Mo.) to state that It announces Its Intention of making for Itself "a national reputaUon," and now that it has been mentioned In Tub Kxvress there is some cligqce. fo^augjh a state of things.

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"ONE OF THE TIGERS."

[A.C. Gordon, in St. Louis Poat-Dtopateb,] I.

Time: A June morning in the year of battle, sixty-two. Place: A straight and sunlit lane in the Shenandoah valley not far from the point where two small streams converge to form the sonth fork of the river of that ilk, whose Indian name," being translated, ifl "The ClearE/ed Daughter of the Stars." Person: A slim, light-fcoied young woman, with the freshness of the indigenous wild rosea in her cheeks and the serenity of that summer day in her translucent eyes.

The quiet which pervaded the atmosphere was most startling in its sharp contravention of yesterday's hideous noises. Port Republic lay between the two small confluent streams of the Shenandoah's south fork and Shields and Jackson had within the past twenty-four hours paid each other their deadly compliments of shot and steel in the immediate vicinity of that village.

On one side of the narrow lane a wellworn foothpath was marked in the greenery that extended to the corners of the Virginia worm fence, a greenery over which innumberable tiny webs of wheel-like films spread and glittered with the prismatic radiance of dew and morning sun. Amid the bushes that hid the ragged outlines of the 'fence small birds flitted stealthily, as though yet cowed by the affluence of yesterday's thunderous cannonading. Far off to ward the north stretches the range of the MaBsanutten mountains, touched to an etherial purple by the pencil of the summer's haze. Nearer and more rugged for its proximity the Blue Ridge rose to the east, silent and sphinx-like, as though its recesses had never echoed with deep-mouthed iteration the battle's furious resonance.

The young woman was dressed after the conspicuous simple fashion of her people. Her gown of ptpin brown homespun stuff wtoainadorned with, ornament of any kind. Vfet so closely did i^flt the trim, vigorous figure that ita fiverj^want of flounce and furbelow served to emphasize mor© distinctly its w©&r©r grace and symmetry. Th© lack of th© couvg^^od&L short cape, which is th© Dunktfffi woman'H badge of matrimony, was notneeded to bespeak her girlishness. The scarcely developed outline revealed by the homespun gown, the quick, springy step, the .rosy, healthful complexion, all told in eloquent phrases of the newness of her life. Not more than 18 years at the farthest looked out from under the sober little poke bonnet crowning the unorthodox gold brown of her hair. "I'll be glad when it's all done an parpy gits back," she said aloud, swinging the tin bucket which she carried in her hand to the measure of her light movement. "Berrin' folks that air shot must be a lonesome job."

A scared partridge rose from an adjacent meadow with a sudden and sonorous whir that startled her. "It sounded like a pistol," she said Then she briskly drew nearer the fence to watch the bird's bullet-like flight A f.nnglftd growth of Virginia creeper lm most touched it. "Pisen oak!" ''She cautiously approached the fence again. "Naw, it's jes creeper. But it is currisome how much alike they air."

She pushed back the poke-bonnet from her face. "An' yit, one's as harmless as the tother's hurtful. Like the soldiers and the peace folks, I reokin—pisen oak and creeper. Mighty alike, too, 'till you git close ter 'em and fine that one's got the five leaves an' the tother the three." "The bad and the good, Missy, and the world chuck full of both!"

The voice came from the fence corner, so near her that she bounded out into the middle of the lane in terror. The poke bonnet fall back upon her neck and disclosed amass of tangled curls about her forehead. The sight of that tangle would have evoked the reprobation of the Dunkard elders, for they hold that only ~when drawn back taut and straight from the brows are woman's tresses her chief glory.

The girl's pretty mouth puckered itself into a peculiar shape. She shrugged her shoulders where she stood in the lane. A distinct shiver ran over her. She drew her narrow skirts slightly up and back, as if in anticipation of an encounter with some disagreeable reptile, and ejaculated in an uncertain tone the single monosyllable: "Oh!"

In this attitude she stared with undivided interest at the peculiar object which crawled like a wounded beast from the covert of chincapin bushes in the fence corner and paused at length almost at her feet. "Wha—what air you?" Bhe gasped, as the thing lay there, looked up at her with solemn cavernous eyes that belied the ghastly smiles upon its lips. It was not an unreasonable question. To say nothing of the pallid countenance with its faded look, the apparition:was garbed in outlandish and unfamiliar raiment, oversifted with dust and mottled with forbidding stains. A blue jacket over a shirt of unbleached cotton, belted in at the waist by a Bash that had onoe been white, but was now only the unpleasant ghost of its former self red knee trousers, baggy and voluminous, which were discolored with powdermarks and the grime of march and battle dingy cotton cloth leggings and unpolished cowhide shoes—this was the creature's uniform.. A confusion of wild black elf locks about its brow was Burmounted by a dirty scarlet fez with a small tassel. The only glimpse of brightness visible about the fagged-out object lying there in the low grass came from the deep-set wandering eyes and the polished barrel of a six-shooter at the belt. "What air you?" the girl asked again, still holding back her skirts and breathing hard. "I'm half-starved and played out, that's what I am, missy. I shouldn't have minded it with a full stomach and a whole leg but I'm hungry and off my pins. A broken caeeion got in mv way yesterday, and I haven't struck the quartermaster's department since."

The girl's repugnance changed to pity. "In the battle?" she queried, hesitatingly approaching a step nearer. "We heered the guns at home, an' parpy's gone ter Republic now ter help 'em bury the kilt. Was there many hurt?"

He raised himself on his elbow with an involuntary groan, and smiled up at her sneering smile that bespoke such scorn of her ignorance as even pain could not conquer. "Hurt? That's like a woman. Well, should say so. What do you euppoee

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we fight for, if it isn't to hurt»nd maim and destroy and kill?" "It's awful, an' it's sin! she said with unhesitating reprobation. "Sin? It's war," he answered. "Fire and the sword and the •laughter and the tigere in the forefront forever!" fte feebly waved one arm above hit head. He would have cheered at the recollection of yesterday, bat- his voice failed him. She regarded him with wonder ind a growing aversion. *D—n'em! Thevtrampled me down and went over me! Bat they were first! It was worse than death or capture to be there, and seeing my Tigere go forward. stay behind. Hurt, missy? Somebody's always hart when the Tigers go in. There are hundreds of dead and dying piled up on each other like butchered hogs over yonder. The Tigers were there, I tell you."

His eyes burned with a feverish fire, and »he strove to moisten his dry and cracking lips with bis parched tongue.

The youdg girl's faoe blanched with horror. "Tigere!" she faltered "I don't understand "Ravening for the feast, he answered, in feeble mockery. Then makings farther movement as. though to rise, he continued: "Look here, young woman, aren you going to get somebody to pull me out of this? I can't mBrch alone. How far is the nearest house?" "Over tharin the draft apiece," she answered, "beyon' that hill." She pointed in the direction whence she had come. His eyes folUajed her isn't two hundr^""no3femove that fur if ilwfe?" Heroonfi dence had come back to her with the man's pleft for help. "You?" he asked. "I'm stronger'n I look ter be," Bhe replied. Stooping, Bhe put her arm about him, and with an effort lifted him to his feet As she stood thus supporting him, she looked into his face with eyes of tender pity. It was a handsome young face, but for the pallor and the deep lines in the brow and about the arid mouth. "I'm mighty sorry fur ye," said she consolingly and he forgot his pain for moment in the knowledge of her sympa thy and of her soft and strong embrace "Who air you?" she asked, modifying her former question to a recognition of his humanity. As she spoke she could feel his fevered breath on her cheek, and was conscious of his futile effort to

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more erect, while he answered her with a proud intonation that thrilled her and mbcked his own helplessness: "I'm one of the Tigers." •Thus they stood for a second's space together, embodied War in the clasp of incarnate Peace. Then with Blow and careful steps she led him away down the gr en-bordered and sunlit lane which she had just traversed. [TO BF. CONTINUED TO MORROW MORNING

TO EXAMINE ELECTION CASES.

Evidence to Be Taken by the Grand Jury In All Dismissed Cases.

The Federal grand jury resumed business this afternoon, says the Indianapolis News of last evening. Election cases are to be considered from this time forth. It has been determined by the Federal authorities to consider all of the charges against individuals who were indicted by the late Bailey jury. This will include the one hundred and more indictments which were quashed under the rulings of the court. —id Tia TBH

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tliorougfi examina­

tion of all charges. It will be clear that we have acted not only fairly, but fully up to our duty, and that we have neither desired nor attempted anything else."

It will take several weeks to make the necessary examination of the witnesses in all the cases quashed, and in other election cases which will come before the jury.

Why are They so Slow?

State Treasurer Lemcke has received no response to liis telegram of Saturday to the New York bond bidders, urging them to have the New York authorities pass upon the Indiana supreme court decision without further delay. If satisfactory response is not reoeived this week Treasurer Lemcke or Auditor Carr will go to New York to look after the state's interests.

Indiana Stats Nam Notes

The new electric experimenting station of Furdue university will be completed In time for the fall serslon, and the building will cost $20,000.

A curious scene Is witnessed dally in Lick creek, near Cambridge City. Every evening the bed ot the creek Is dry. but In the morning there Is a lively flow of water.

The Joe H. Kraft dry goods house, the largest of Its kind In New Albany, was partially consumed by Are yesterday morning, caused by spontaneous combustion In a pile of cotton batting, located on the second floors. Loss estimated at fifteen thousand dollars, covered by Insurance, of which the German ot Indiana carries $3,000.

Ms" Mr. Huston Goes' to Work. WASHINGTON, May 13.—Judge Mat­

thews, who succeeds Judge Durham as first comptroller of the treasury, and Mr. Huston, who succeeds Mr. Hyatt as treasurer of the United States, entered upon the discharge of their new duties this morning. There was no ceremony beyond taking the oath of office and the usual instruction of officers and employes of each of the bureaus to the new chiefs.

He Defended His Slater.

HOPE, Kan., May «tabbed and killed Charles® day'at Durham ranch. Both were«prominent men, and were out with a hunting party. Sears insulted Bruce's sifter and Bruce defended hot. Sears was taken to the Marion county jail. Violence is feared from-the people.*

TheaUsual Legislative Story.

There have been worse legislatures than that now expiring at Harrisburg, but* there have been mighty few lazier ones. If the members were to be paid by the job for the good laws they have passed some of them couldn't foot thj^r joard bills.—[Philadelphia News. 1^

He Dropped Three Hundred Feet. HOUSTON, Tex., May 13.—Professor St

Clair, the aeronaut, in attempting to I ive his *'leap from the clouds," at the Hair ground park last evening, lost his grip on the parachute and fell 300 feet to the earth. Nearly every bone iu bis body was broken.

Say Rather the Democratic Shrinkage.

It is said that ex-President Cleveland's carriage horses, which together brought $282 at auction the other day, cost $1,000, showing a shrinkage of $718. Theee figures represent about the average luck in none trading.—[Boston Herald.

An Office for a Colored Man. WASHINGTON, May 13.—It is stated

that ex-Congressman Lynch, of Mississippi (colored), has been agreed upon for first auditor of the treasury, vice James Q. Chenowith, of Texas.

Kn. VMMlerMlt'a Stater Waarlee •flappnttigll*** to the Chlcaco Tribune.

New York, May 12.—Tb* troubles ef Mme. Gaston De Fontenilliat anf| her hosband will make no Mid ot gossip. She ts the sister of Mrs. *W. K- Vsnderbilt,andisnowliving wSmt

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hotel, apart from, her husband. She was indignant to-day over the vereioogiTsn by her husband of the cause of their estrangement Saturday Mi*. De Fontenilliat declined to talk about tha matter, but when she saw that her husband had declared that their troubles were on aeoount of the alleged influence wielded over her by the wife of his brother, Baron Dd Fonteoilliat, she decided to give her side of the controversy.

Mme. De Fonteoilliat is a small, extremely graceful woman, with darkbrown hair and handsome dark eyes, •qshed over by eyebrows several shadse darker than her hair. She was dressed entirely in black to-day, and her faoe was pale, save now and then when an angry flush stole into her cheeks as she spoke of some particularly exasperating feature of her troubles. Her manner is quiet and ladylike, and is attractively free from affectation of any kind.

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regret much this publicity, she said.

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regret it on my own-iooount

and on aeooonc of my family. But there seems no help for it My husband has seen fit to drag me before the public^ and I wish to .justify myself and to give the facts aa thefcsre. I will tell you the whole histoiy^of mjr married life with M. Gaston De Fontenilliat, and everything I say lean prove by others, by letters and documents, and by my ohsckbook. I went to Europe four or five years ago in oottfpany with my sister-in-law, now the Bsitonsss Alice De Fontenilliat, but then Mrs. Field, of Philadelphia.' Mrs. Field became acquainted with her pressnt husband, and they were married. The marriage took place in the Hotel Castiglione, in the Rue de Castiglione, in Paris, and I was pressnt at the ceremony. It was on account of that marriage, and at the home of the Baroness De Fontenilliat, that I became acquainted with the baron's brother, my present husband. Our marriage took place on the 22d of December, 1887, about a year after that of the baron and the baroness. The ceremony was performed in Paris, in the house of my aunt, Mrs. De Forest My first trouble came within two weeks after I was married, and was in the form of a letter. It came from Lyons, and was addressed to me. The writer was one Mme. Odet She informed me that my husband had borrowed from her the sum of 40,000 francs, or $8,000, and she threatened that unless it was paid she would expose my husband, his relations with her and his indebtedness to her. This Mme. Odet, I must Bay right here, was a disreputable woman of the town of Lyons. She was in no sense main tained by my husband. She is now, I believe, in Paris, keeping a fine establishment there."

According to the story told by Mrs. De Fontenilliat her husband first denied find then acknowledged his intimacy with Mme. Odet and said it was true he owed her 40,1 his wife's help, found he was FrenchZarmy becj money from the Lyons. She troubles and of tb N. Y., to live

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the bi soon city. wedding of the br band's tl that nigh' said he hi bracelet at street and never cared for ai me. He then said the house with his brother's wife. He said she had made all the trouble, and lie would not live with her. I told him, as was true, that we had taken the house until November and they had paid half the rent I said if he would provide a home for me and would pay the rent I would go with him. He came to the city, and I came here to the New York hotel, where I am living with my maid. I have written to my husband and told him if he wished to see or communicate with me I was here. "I have supported my husband and bought all his cl jthing since we were married. During the last three years Mr. Vanderbilt has made me an allowance of $2,200 a year. This I shall now ask him to discontinue. Having my husband to support no longer I can live on my own indome, which is $1,800 a year, invested in Wagner car company shares. I detest this notoriety, and would have avoided it My husband forced it upon me. I have only spoken in self defense."

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Tbe Baron and the Baroness De Fontenilliat were at home in their apartments in the Arno hotel this afternoon. The baron said: "My brother had no right to attack my wife as he did, and when he attacks her he attacks me. I went to see him this morning and told him so. He said he did not wish my wife to live fmder the same roof with, his wife, and I told him we did notdsmre that arrangement qsore -did.- It ia true my ~ei#«s foroed to reeign from the French army. A woman with whom he had lived raised a scandal about his borrowing money of her. I cannot understand my brother's position."

The baroness, who is a handsome keen eyed brunette, was extremely indignant at what her brother-in-law said about her. Sb£ said she oould only attribute it. to insanity or jealousy. De Fontenilliat seemed to think that she monopolized the affections of his wife, which were du% to him alone. In this view the. barop shared, adding further that a possible explanation of his brother's conduct

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with Mrs. Vanderbilt, who had objscted to her sister going to Europs with the baronees, who was then Mrs. Field.'

Probably," continued the baron, "my brothers thinks if he attacks my wife Mrs. Vanderbilt will be pleased."

The French consul has been called in to mediate in the disturbance. He was in the baron's room this afternoon. He advisee moderation and au amicable settlement .of the difficulties before they become more complicated.

The Ghlaeie Hpit Go.

WASHINGTON, May 13.—The supreme court to-day affirmed the validity of the law excluding Chinese laborers, known, as the Scott exclusion act

In an opinion by Justice Bradley, the court awarded the executors of the will of Myra Clark Gainss tbe sum of $576,000 against the city of New Orleans for the use of property sold by the city, but recovered by Mm. Gaines after long litigation. The judgment of the lower court awarding tbe executors $138,000 for the use of the uhimproved property eold by theejty waaf not concurred in.

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IMMTII A|int«fifc*Oi E* B—*ohs. Ikdiawapous. May 13—It is announced ss settled that Charles "H. Rockwell's aueesssor as geosnl passenger agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis road will be E. O. McCormick, wno is now in chaise of the passenger department of the Monoa ancL_ the change will oocur the 16th inst It is believed that Mr. McCo^mick's sucwill be S. M. Guthrie, of Cincinnati.

The Bee Line Consolidation. Chicago, May 13.--A special dispatch

from Cleveland, Ohio, says Judge Stevenson Burke has begun 4«gal action to prevent the Bee line'ind-Big Four consolidation. Some of the points' of bis obection are: The propenied contract ss qiade is not authorized by any statute in Ohio. It is io conflict with the provisions ot the statutss tbe increaee of capital stock to the amount of $5,000,000 is illegal the eontraat in question absolutely prohibits the board, the majority of- Vh||fc.stockholders, however large, from Attracting any indebtedness or leaaijBg any other railway property without the consent Of a majority of the preferred stockholders there is no statutory authority in this state allowing the issue of preferred stock and surrender of common Btock. It provides $10,000,000 of -preferred stook for tho«mrrenffeFBT $5,000,000 of common stock, thus watering the stock $5,000,000 this is also unlawful

Thomas Daley, of the blacksmith shop, is sick. Colonel Hill, of ths Van, was in the city yesterday.

Mr. C. Idler, foreman of the shops at Indianapolis, was in the city Saturday. The clerks in the & St. L. freight house engaged in house cleaning last week.

H. Busby, running the steam hammer in the blacksmith shop, is off because of sicknsss.

Will Chance cashier in the E. AT. H, office, is away on a week's vjsit with friends in Ohio

Franftfort is discussing the question of voting $57,000 as a subsidy to secure the Clover Leaf shops.

Stroeder Ruffner resigned his position in the blacksmith

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one at Indianapolis. A trunk fell onto Chris Price, a Van brakeman, at New Market-, Thdrsday evening, seriously injuring him.

Jamea Carroll resumed work in in the blacksmith shop yesterday after an enforced idleness of several weeks,

Washington Gazette: By. July 4th •the E. & R. railroad exrafcs to cun a train from Elnora to IndiaWaprini

The C. & E. I. and L. E. & W. roads are abolishing the wooden culvert for waterways, and substituting sewer pipes.

The directors of the Bee line and Big Four railroads meet at St Lduis on the 15th to ratify the consolidation of those lines.

Joseph A. Derolf, of the machine shops, is building anew frame house at the corner of Eleventh and Tippecanoe streets.

Charles Haynes, of the upholstering shop, who has been absent because of ckness the past few days, returned to yesterday,

Jl the passenger conducj^rebiit^ Chicago 4 Grand TrunS railroad Qhicago and Port Huron have

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/.ny' Hirfppers of Ridge Farm, 111., 'ae C., V. & C. management, on acit of excessive rates. all the freight cars of the United States were in. a line they would extend from New York to San Francisco and back again to New York.

Eight car-loads of fast horses, belonging toEd Corrigan and others, passed through the city Sunday on the E. & T. H. on their way from Nashville to Chicago.

The wrecking car on the Van brought in two pair of trucks and a few other pieceis of iron yesterday, all that was left of a freight car burned at Plainfield Sunday.

A prominent railroad man says many engineers are afflicted with kidney ailments, due to the constant jarring of the engine. A bit of rubber hose under the Beat breaks the jar.

The special train, consisting of an engine and four cars, which brought the Gilmore company from Kansas City, covered the distance between St. Louis and Terre Haute in four hours.

The shipment of early vegetables and fruits over the E. & T. H. from the South has commenced. Ten carloads of strawberries billed for Chicago passed through the city over that road Sunday night.

The Monon people will put on a special fast fruit train between New Albany and Chicago as soon as the berry season opens. The train will leave New Albany at 6 p. m. and arrive in Chicago at 6 a. m.

R. A. Morain, of McLsan county, 111., got a verdict last week for $5,000 damages against the Lake Erie & Western railroad company. Morain fell under a train from which he was alighting and lost a leg.

Within the last twenty days the Indianapolis & Vincennes company has received from the Pennsylvania steel works fifteen miles of new steel rails, which will be in the track before the close of this month.

The 10 a. m. passenger on the C. & E. I. road was delayed five hours yesterday by an accident to a freight train about forty miles above this city. The freight jumped the track, but no serieus damage was done.

The storm Saturday tore off nearly all the roof of the P., D. & E. shops at Mattoon, and blew in the north half of the^ west wall. Tbe falling brick and tins-' bers did considerable damage to a numJwr of passenger coaches and baggage cars.

George Carson was knocked down on a siding while switching cars at Pekin, 111., Isst week and four wheels of an empty coal car pawed over both legs above the knae. Instead of the legs being cut off and mangled, as would oe natural under the circumstances, not a bone was broken. The flesh was badly braised, butthe skin was undisturbed.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Indianapolis & Vincennes railway company was held Thursday in Indianapolis. Seven directors were to be elected, and G. B. Roberts, J. N. Messier, W. H. Barnes, Samuel F. Gray and William Mullins were chosen—all re-elected. A showing of tbe earnings and expensss of the property was much better than that of the preceding year. In 1888 the earnings were $451,250.97, and the operating expenses $421,000 in round numbers, leaving $30,000 excess of earnings over expensss. Io 1887 tbe expensea exceeded the earnings by $21,000. This gain is caused by decreased expensss, as the gross earnings in 1888 were not quite so large as in 1887.

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It inu dainty lady's (tto*e— A souvenir to rhyme witti to*.

called to make It rhymewlth fellas.

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There waaamonth at Mooat D*ert— Synonjmooa and rhyaM* wltb flirt

A we"ty ictrl and lota ot atjle— Which rhymes with "happy for a while.'?

There came a itral, old and bold— To make him rhyme with gld and »old.

A broken heart there had to be— Alas! the rhyme Jnat titled roe. 44HLIfe. Los Angeles, Cal., last year shipped away 8,095 tons of fruit and imported from the Blast 7,021 tons of beer.

A London milliner has invented a cork bonnet It is made wholly of the bark of tbe cork tree, and is very light.

The Chineee lsundrymen at Pittsburg, Pa., bleach tbeir washes with Chloride of lime, and the garments soon rot away.

The' largest circulation on reoord is that attained by tbe volume, "Hymns, Ancient and Modern." Twenty million copies have been sold in the eighteen yean of its existence.'

There appears to be an epidemic of rabiee among the dogs throughout the country.

Numerous cases'are reported

from KentuckjTjWest Virginia, Iadiana and other sections. The Philadelphia Call remarks that "the down-town bob-tail cars should bear the legendf 'Drop a nickel in the slot and see how much faster you could have walked home.'" "I hereby offer (303 r»»»rd fertns srrest and conviction of the ecoundrel wbo hit my dog with a rook," is an advertisement in a Trenton paper to which Henry Armstrong signs his name.

Prof. Paul D'Nuce, whoever he is,says he can cause a thunderstorm and a fall of rain in any district on two hours' notioe, and that he can have the shower stop in fifteen minutes or continue half a day.

In a case in a Rhode Island court the other day it was shown that a farmer w&nted a tramp to saw three cords of wood to "pay for lodging and breakfast, and when the man refused he was set upon and badly beaten.

The ravaees of the birds in the cornfields of Barnwell county, S. C., are almost without precedent In many places the fields have been planted the second time, and now the birds are de vouring tbe young corn as fast as it appears.

A Pennsylvania hunter found a cave in the mountains the other day, which con tained, as he estimated, four tons of solid honey, but the bees pitched "into him and stung him a score of times and ran him off before he could arrange to gather, pack and ship.

Garden and Forest quotes this simple method of testing the quality of a pear: Write a name with pen and ink upon the dry skin of the fruit If the ink is quickly absorbed, leaving the clear, sharp lines, the quality of the fruit is good if the skin do9S not absorb the ink quickly, and the lines are blotted, the quality is inferior.

Woman's right to clothe herself in masculine garments is fast being recognized in Paris. Formerly it was prosecuted, but is now tolerated by the police, and it is recognized as permissible in social circles. One well-known author Aas in nni(1 trt flThihit. ViopgalC ®the TOUlevaras intbe a man.

The ways of

a

country and England the seller beare the expense of the sale, but in France the purchaser bears tbe cost, 5 per cent, being added to his purchase. In Holland it is still worse, the buyer being required to pay 10 per cent.- additional for the expenses of the Bale.

There is so long a list of applicants for admission to the London Athenaeum club that the last man elected has been waiting for sixteen years, and fifteen years is the average time that a name remains on the lists there unless it is so distinguished that it is taken up out of its order. Three or four years is said to be a moderate time to wait for a chance of admission to many other clubs in London.

In tearing down a building in Warren, Pa., a stuffed crane was found, which some wag took to the river and set afloat. In three minutes, by the town clock, a dozen duck hunters were at the river blazing away at the strange bird, which held up its head and sailed serenely on. After much powder had been burned some of the sportsmen "got on," and folding their guns beneath their coats they stole home by unfrequented streets.

It ^doesn't require an expert to tell whether a diamond is genuine or not. The test is very simple and can be made in any place, and in a moment. All you need is apiece of paper and a lead pencil. With the latter make a small dot on tbe psper, then look at it through the diamond. If you can see but one dot, you can depend upon it that the ntone is genuine, but if the mark is scattered, or shows more than one, you will be perfectly safe in refusing to pay 10 cents for a stone that may be offered you at $500.

A funny attempt, of a black man to be made white has been brought to light. A poor little boot-black was hired to sell his skin piecemeal at the rate of a sovereigh a piece, each piece being about as large as a sovereign. Theee bits ot skin were transferred to the faoe ot a negro who was discontented with his natural color, the negro's skin being transferred to th» boy. The operation is hardly a success, for it appears that in a short time tbe white patch on the negro began to turn dark, while tbe black patch on tbe boy turned white.

Some discoveries of great importance to archaeologists have just been made at ^Pompeii on the site of the supposed H?reek temple in the triangular forum.

Excavations were being carried out there in the presence of Herr von Duhn, professor of archie jlogy at Heidelberg, and a party of students. The vases and other objects found prove that the socalled temple of Hercules, hitherto supposed to belong to the Greek period G00 B. C, is of much later origin, dating from about 400 B. C. The full results of tbe discoveries will first be published in the Italian archaeological journals.

Tbetfollowing letter from Fitz Hugh to John Buckner, written in 1G81, and to be found in the Virginia Register, sounds odd now, although when written it was serious enough: "I hope you will make me some abatement for the dumbtiegro you Bent me. Had Bhe been a new negro (recently imported) I must have blamed my fate and not you. But one that you had had for two years I must conclude that you knew her qualitys, which ie bad at work—worse at talking and took advantage of the softness of my messenger to quit your hands of her."

Bald heads are too many when they may be covered with a luxuriant growth of hair by using the best of all restorers, Hall's Hair Renewer.

Rich and Poor,

Prince and Peasant, the Millionaire and Day Laborer, by their common use of tliis remedy, attest the world-wide reputation of Ayer's Pills., Leading physicians recommend these pills for Stomach and Liver Troubles, Costiveness, Biliousness, and Sick Headache also, for Rheumatism, Jaundice, and Neuqiigia. They are sugar-coated contain no calomel sre prompt, but mild, in operation and, therefore, the very best medici^ for Family Use, as well as for Traveler* and Tourists.

I' have derived great relief from, Ayer's Pills. Five years ago I was taken so ill with

Rheumatism

that I was unable to do any work. I took three boxes of Ayer's Pills and was entirely cured. Since that time I am never \rithout a box of these pills Peter Christ&nsen, Sherwood, Wis. "Ayer's Pills have been in use in my family upwards of twenty years and have completely verified all that is claimed for them. In attacks of piles, from which I suffered many years, they afford greater relief than any other medicine I ever tried." —T. F. Adams, 'Holly Springs, Texas.

I have used Ayer's PUls for a number of years, aud have never tound anything equal to them for giving me an appetite and imparting energy and strength to the system. I always keep: them in the house."—R. 1). Jackson,: Wilmington, Del.

Two boxes of Ayer's Pilltf cured me of severe I Icad ere Me, from which I was long a sufferer. Emma Keyes, Hubbardston, Mass. "Whenever I am troubled with con-: stipation, or suffer from loss of appetite, Ayer's Pills set me right agam." A. J. Kiser, Jr., Rock House, Va. "Ayer's Pills are in general demand among our customers. Our sales of them exceed those of all other pills com-v! bined. We have never known tlienu fail to give entire satisfaction.'' Wright & Hannelly, San Diego, Texas.

Ayer's Pills,

PREPARED B*

Or. J. C. Ayer St Co., Lowell, Mast. Sold by all Dealers in Medicine. e.

A BIG BLACK MARK.

ONE HUNDRED PIECES OF

Black Dress Goods!

MARKED DOWN

Monday, May

They will be sold without reserve for 51, 50,64 and 69 cents a yard which IS ONE-THIRD LESS Than regular price. They include all the fancy weavee in checks, stripes and figures.

AN UNUSUAL BARGAIN.

LS. AYRESHO,

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

P. S.—On the same day we will make an addition to our "May sale" of Ladies' Muslin Underwear of a line of Gowns, Skirts and Drawers at 95c a piece, which would be good value at $1.50 and $2.

-AMUSEMENTS.

NAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE

SPECIAL! .SPECIAL! ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY

POSITIVELY ONE NIGHT ONLY,

Thursday Ev'g, May 16.

MR. JOSEPH

Jefferson

AND HIS OWN

COMEDY COMPANI

PRRSKNTING

Rip Van Winkle.

Advance sale opens Button's.

at o'clock prompt at

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (F) denote Parlor Car a ttached. Trains marked thus (8) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Bullet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dally. All other trains run dally Sundays excepted.

VANDALIA LINE. T. H. A I. DIVISION. -J,

..

LF.AVT5 FOR THK WK3T.

No. 9 Western Express (SAY) 1.42 a. m. No. 6*Mall Train

1

No. 1 Ka«t Line (P4V) No. 7 Fast Mall LKAVZ FOK THK HAST. No. 12 Cincinnati Express (8) No. 6 New Tork Express (5&V)

10.18 a. m. 2.16 p, in. U. 01 p. m.

1.30 a. ra. 1 f)l a. nx.

No. 4 Hall and Accommodation 7.16 a.m. No. 20 Atlantic Express (P4V) 12.42 p. m. No. 8 Kant Line *. 'i00 p.

A.RR1VK FROM THK KAST.

No. 9 Western Express (84V)' No. 5 Mall Train No. 1 Fast Line (P4V) No. 3 Mall and Accommodation.......... No. 7 Fast Mall

1.30 a. m. 10.12 a. m. 2.00p. m. (i.46 p. m. 9.00 p. m.

ARTtIVS FROM THK WIST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express No. 6 New Yark Express No. Atlantic Express1 No. Fast Line*..

ess (8) es»(8AV) •(PAT)

1.20 a. m. 1.42 a. m. 12.37 p. m. 1.40 p. m.

T. H. A L. DIVISION.

UUYI FOR THJE HOHTH,

No. 62 South Bend Mall 6.00 a.m. No. 54 South Bold Express 4.00 p.m. ABBIVB FROM THJC NORTH No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. S3 South Bend Mall 7.30 p.m.

For inventions promptly secured. Reference, byitermlsslon, to Hon. Win. Mack. Address

O. E. DUFFY, em Seventh Street, Washington, D. C.