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DAILY EXPRESS.

GEO. M. ALLEN, Proprietor.

Publication Office 16 south Fifth street, Printing House Square.

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THE EXPRESS would remind some of our citizens that when we arranged for the Cleveland excursion to Terre Haute we provided in every respect for the hospitable treatment of our friends of the Wabash valley and that the excursion is now admitted to have been one of the best things of the kind for the city that ever happened to it. In the management of the oil excursion we can profit by experience.

This would be a good time for the Chicago newspapers to publish circulation aflidavits. The Carter divorce case reports undoubtedly swelled the number of papers printed, and quickly following it came the Cronin mystery, which in the sense of being a sensational news matter has had few equals as a serial of ab sorbing interest. The mystery, and conspiracy which surround it make of it a iirst-class sensational event.

Mr. Cleveland gloried in the fact that the Democratic party never was perturbed by defeat. Therefore Mr. Cleveland is a- good enough candidate for 1892. Many of his admirers are making the statement that other defeated candidates have been renominated but all of them ignore the fact that no president defeated for reelection was ever renominated for another contest. In other words, no president who was tried and found wanting ever found a political party foolish enough to ask the people for a reconsideration of their verdict.

C. O. D.

A Potent Threat.

Tramp—Missus, can't you give a poor wayfaring man a little bite to eat? Woman of the House—Naw, I can't give a poor man something to eat. I ain't reedln' no tramps nowadays.

Tramp-Missus, I've four mice In thin here can, and If you don't gimme some chuck I'll turn 'em loose right here on the floor, do you hear?

Woman—There ain't a thing cooked In the house, but If you will yet down a while I'll go and broil a chicken for you.

Musical Note.

Muslcus—That is quite a nautical dog of yours. Cyulcus—'Why so? Muslcus—I notice that his bark Is pitched on the high C. -i

Just us Vuung as He Used to Be. Mr. Bibb- No: I'm not going to let Laura take a position In Wlckwlre office. It Is not the proper place for her, and you know It.

Mrs. Bibb—But, John, he's old enough to be her father. Mr. Bibb-Yes and so am I old enough to be her father, and I know I—

Mrs. Bibb -Well, Mr. Bibb, I'm waiting. Why don't you llnlsh?

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Boston Heruld: Miss Frances E. WUlard observes that a constitutional prohibition Is in the ulr. She doesn't give Its exact altitude.

Boston Journal: Mr. Randall will be a much more forceful Ugure In the next house than In the last one, and what Is more, he will have a bigger Democratic following,

Boston Herald (Mug.): We have not been disposed to crltlslse President Harrison with especial severity. Within the limitations of a strong partisanship we have recognized In him a conscientious effort to do his duty In the presidency.

Philadelphia Inquirer: There Is no issue on which the Republicans would rather Join battle than this one of the tarlir, and no candidate they would rather meet than (irover Cleveland. By all means let the Democratic slogan be Cleveland and innll reform.

Peoria Transcript: The city lftarshal of Dubuiiue publishes a notice warning all saloon-keep-ers that their licenses are now due, and that unless they are promptly paid saloons belonging to delinquents will be closed up. There Is quite a sermon in that notice.

St. Louts (ilolie-Democrat: If the Bourbons imagine that they can keep the Republicans of Arkansas In the minority by the shot-gun and Winchester they are In error. For every Republican assassinated by the Bourbons a thousand decent Democrats will join the Republican party.

BlifYaio Express: General H. R. Jackson, Cleveland's ilrst minister to Mexico, said In a speech the other day that the people ot the North, not those of the South, were the rebels In 1861. This Is true. They rebelled against the Democratic doctrine that slave dealers were the natural masters ot tills country.

Kansas City Star: The obstinacy of theCherokees is obviously due to the Influence of the cattle syndicates which desire to perpetuate their profitable leases on the "Strip." The government Is willing to pay the Cherokees a fair price for their titles for the lands in question, and they can not possibly be benefited by pursuing a course which will necessitate a more arbitrary policy. (ilobe-Democrat: The internal revenue collector In the Dubuque, Iowa, district says he has Issued 1512 more liquor licenses this year than were Issued in 1888. 1'roulbltlon prohibits In Iowa In the same way that it does in Kansas and In the other states in which it has been tried, by Increasing the liquor tratllc and by cutting off the local revenue which assists In paying for the police and Jails which the traffic makes necessary.

Indianapolis Journal: An exchange says: "Miss Frances K. Wlllard, who Is traveling in the South, ilnds that prohibition is a name that does not strike the popular fancy of the Southerners, and so she has given her party the name of Home Protective society, and the new Idea takes." Miss Wlllard has cribbed this Utle. It belongs to the Republican party, and this party, because It Is home protective In every sense, is gaining ground in the South much taster than any spurious organization can do.

Indianapolis Journal: The Charleston News and Courier gives good reasons why the South does not care lor protection—It has a great abundluice of cheap labor—and the South Is right. Average wages in the South are full as low as In any part of the world, and If the working force were skilled it could compete with any country in the world. But who wants to reduce the worklngmen In the North to the level of the wage-workers In the South? But our manufacturers have less to dread from the South than our farmers. The South Is becoming more and more a competitor of the North in farm products, and its cheap labor Is producing agricultural products at a price which will starve Northern farmers. Let us protect our home interests against the cheap labor ot Europe, and we can afford to let the chenp labor of the South feed upon Itself until its own home demands will regulate prices.

To Search the Sea at Night.

A Russian navy officer has invented a method of searching the Bea or coast by night, which does not reveal the position of the ship. A mortar fires a buoyant shell containing a compound which ignites on reaohing the water and lights up the surrounding area.

THE ANTI-PYRINE CRAZE.

"It is a craze, apt to be more dangerous than the quinine craze." Dr. E.F. Ingalls, a noted physician of Chicago, was the epeaicer, and anti-pyrine, the new specific which has taken the town by storm, was the drug he referred to. "If taken continuously, or frequently, it is certainly injurious. We don't know as yet what the ultimate effect of antipyrine on the human organization will be, because it has not been long enough in use. But that it must have a most disastrous effect is self-evident, since it acts BO powerfully, even in small doses." "Tell me something of the history of anti-pyrine, doctor," asked a Herald reporter. "It was first introduced, something over four years ago, by liudwfg Knorr, chemist of Erlangen, Bavaria. It is a product of coal tar, like aniline and hundreds of other chemicals, and, chemically considered, it is an artificial alkaloid, obtained by the action of acetic ether on coal tar. Its effect is mostly directed on 'the nervous system, but it influences also the action of the heart and stomach. Frequently it produces fits of vomiting, and, if persisted in, will lead to dyspepsia. The dizziness which often seizes persons taking anti-pyrine is due to its powerful influence on the nervous system. If judiciously used, however, and under proper medical direction, this new remedy is quite valuable in relieving fever and headeaches of every description. Understand, it relieves fever, it does not cure it. The fever will return, despite frequent doses of anti-pyrine. But it will reduce the temperature and the sufferings of a patient for the time being. It will drive away an attack of neuralgia or sick headache. It will be of momentary benefit.in a number of complaints. But it will not permanently cure anything. It is a remedy, not a cure." "What about the injurious effect of anti-pyrine?" "Medical practitioners in Chicago are not of one mind as to that. A few deny all injurious effect, so long as any sort of discretion is observed. Here in this city anti-pyrine is anew remedy, lit is barely a year since it was first prescribed here, and the experience with it is as yet too recent and incomplete to speak of its full effects authoritatively, but even within the limited experience we've had here it has been demonstrated without the shadow of a doubt that anti-pyrine Jis a dangerous thing, and that it is very injurious to the general health if taken habitually. And yet that is precisely what is done by thousands of people, especially ladies, in this city. One woman will complain to another of being much troubled with headache. Straightway that other will say:i 'Why don't you try anti-pyrine? It's helped me wonderfully.' And, of course, the woman will do it. Now, one of the peculiarities of anti-pyrine is that it has totally different effects on different persons. One doctor will find that a patient, after a strong dose of anti-pyrine— twenty-five grains, for instance—will be benefitted, and will not experience any unpleasant results, while another, often a very small dose—five grains or so—will be seized with dizziness, vomiting, etc. Another trouble with this drug is that it is cumulative that the dose has to be constantly increased—if taken frequently—to give the desired relief, very much like opium, cocaine, quinine and other popular panaceas. As I said before, what the final effect of anti-pjrrine, when taken frequently, will be it is as yet too early for us here to surmise. But medical journals elsewhere mention disastrous results."

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fast succeeding crazes. He seems to have hit the nail on the head. De Quincey's intensely vivid (and somewhat highly tinted) "confessions" gave rise to a tidal wave of the opium habit in all English-speaking countries. Then came the short interrugnum of chloral, which was soon driven out of the field by opium, which came into UBe again, after which nervous and irritable humanity looked about once more for a heal-all remedy and took to quinine. That, together with opium, held the fort for another period, when suddenly the wonderful properties of cocaine became known to the general world. The cocaine craze which followed was of short duration, but it gathered into its deadly folds many victims of distinction and intellectual eminence, among them some Chicagoans, whose pitiful stories made sensational reading at the time—not so long ago. And now it is anti-pyrine, as yet an unknown foe, or rather one whose whole power for evil is but partially understood. Dr. Ingals, whose opinion on the subject is quoted above, does not stand alone by any means in what he says. The great majority of our physicians, especially an overwhelming number of the conscientious and conservative ones, indorse his view, and are extremely cautious in prescribing anti-pyrine. Yet there can be no doubt that there is an anti-pyrine craze on in Chicago. Right at the foot of the elevator which had taken the writer down from Dr. Ingala' office he passed to ladies who were exchanging greetings, having met on their shopping tour, and what they said was almost word for word the language the doctor had imputed to many of their sex. "Why don't you use anti-pyrine? It's helped me—the only thing that has ever driven away that terrible nervous headache of mine. You know how what a sufferer with that I've been for years. Well, it's all gone now. As soon as I feel a touch of it I take a dose—and it's gone." "How big a dose?" queried the other. "Oh, about fifteen or twenty grains. I used to take ten at first, but I find a good strong dose is what I require. Well, and how about that new drees?" and she took a new tack on toilet matters whioh had no interest for the vanishing reporter.

There iB not a drug Btore in Chicago and suburbs where anti-pyrine is not in constant demand. Even the small druggists, who

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brushes instead of medicine, have to keep it. There is an enormous consumption of the drug to-day, a consumption whioh is moving like an avalanche and carrying everything—common eense and medical warnings—before it and this despite the fact that many reputable druggists rather discourage the sale of the drug, some of them absolutely refusing to sell it except on a doctor's prescription.

Steal on Kecortl.

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Pa., May 27.—It has just been

reported that car thieves on Friday night last robbed twenty-one cars of the Pennsylvania company that came over the Pittsburg & Lake Erie railroad, and that a large amount of valuable property was stolen, but no exact figures can be

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given. Railroad officials say that this is the greatest steal on record. No arrests have yet been made.

SAND HEAPS FOR CHILDREN.

A Scheme That FnrnUhea Health and Enjoyment for Poor little Folki, I do not know of anything that yield* so large a return for so small an expenditure as the sand gardens, writes a Boaton correspondent of the Worcester Spy. The Massachusetts emergency and hygiene association provided seven of these play grounds for poor children last summer at a cost of $1 for each of the 400 little ones entertained for eight weeks. In Berlin the government provides heaps of clean sea-Band in the parks and squares, in which the German children

lay under the general care of the police. Boston the ladies Btarted the movement, the school committee gave the use of the school yards, the public contributed the money, and poor, but reliable, motherly women were employed four days in the week to matronize the little folka. It was a pretty sight to see these poor children, doomed to spend the summer in town, playing with shovels and pails in the sand, whose fascination was unending. Others were playing horse with worsted reins, or tossing bean bags, skipping rope and playing ball. If a different set had come every day, it is calculated that the matrons would have entertained almost one hundred and thirty thousand children. Now and then a basket of flowers would be contributed, so that each' child went home with a nosegay. This season it is hoped the, contributions will be sufficiently generous to establish twenty sand gardens and extend the benefits.

A Charley Horse.

A friend who wishee to keep up with the advanced thought of the day in all its ramifications, sends a postal card with this question: "What In blazes Is a Charley Horse." I

The Charley Horse, as near as its definition can be got from the somewhat conflicting opinions concerning it, originated on the base ball field, and suggests in its nature that half perceptible animal which is described in "Paradise Lost" as being of a "shape which shape had none." It isn't anything in particular, but everything in general. It's an ailment, physical or mental, which doesn't assume, a sufficiently precise form for the faculty to give it a name. Hitherto the base ball field, where players are apt to be out of sorts, has monopolized it, but we suppose that it will spread, and then anybody can have it.— [New York Sun.

Governor Hovejr and. the New Trustees.

The point made by Governor Hovey in refusing commissions to the new board of trustees for the blind institution is well taken. In effect, he asks the court to decide once for all the question of the location of the appointing power. The court's decision in the former cases was, in effect, that, according to the law of precedent, the boards were legally constituted but the governor goes further in his later demand and argues that the precedents are in violation of the constitution, and on this point he wants a full and complete decision. The statement that'the governor and attorney general are not agreed in this matter is unwarranted, for they are in perfect accord concerning it. The present conflict between the legislature and the governor as to where the appointing power lies is of sufficient importance to be definitely and decisively settled, and it is better to have all doubts removed now than to have Bimilar complications arise in the future'—[Indianapolis Journal.

Columbus Starcli Company Assigns. Special to the Indianapolis News. COLUMBUS, May 27.—A sensation was

caused in manufacturing and business circles here this morning by the announcement that the American starch manufacturing company, which is one of the largest concerns of its kind in the slate, had made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors, with John U. Story as trustee. A chief stockholder gives the amount of liabilities at $100,000, and states that this is covered. by the assets. J. E. Mooney, of Cincinnati, owns the largest amount of stock. The works have been idle for several months.

State Treasurer Karning Salary.

May has been the busiest month experienced in the state treasurer's office since the present incumbent came in. The counties have settled more promptly than usual, and the deluge of money from them and the big loan has encouraged hundreds of the state's creditors to present bills for services rendered. Over a hundred warrants have been paid in a single day several times during the month.

No Text Book Bids.

Agents for several publishing houses are in the city but as yet no bids have been filed for the publication of textbooks under the new law. The bids, if any are filed, will be opened at 10 o'clock this morning. Interest in the experiment is great, especially as several state legislatures are'said to be waiting developments in order to know how to proceed in the enactment of school book laws.

The Supreme Court's May Term.

The May term of the supreme court convened at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, with 1,034 cases on the docket. This shows a good record for industry, for this number is smaller, by 101 cases, than that with which the last term opened. The court was organized with all the judges present, Judge Elliott, chief justice.

The Federal Grand Jury.

The federal grand jury reassembled for duty at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The trial jury to take up the cases prepared by the grand jury will probably be called together next week. At present the deputy marshals are scouring the state after indicted persona and wit-

The Removal of Mail Agents.

G. H. Minnie, L. !•. Travis and J. D. Bremer, mail agents on the Panhandle between Pittsburg and St. Louis, have been succeeded by Frank Milgus, J. W. Bishop andEd Fabled rick, who were removed two years ago.

Indiana Notes.

Strawberry shipments at New Albany seine days reach seven hundred gallons. The Hon. Addison Daffy, a well-known attorney of Green castle and member of the state senate of 1864, is confined to his house from paralysis of the limbs. His friends despair of recovery.

Anthony Kunk. of Richmond, attempted suicide on Saturday by taking pasts green. He had been dissipating, although for twenty-three rear* prior to the last presldenUaf campaign he had abstained entirely. "Doc" Beard, of New Albany, was not appointed on the police force, and he openly charged that this was due to hit failure to bribe Councilman Pickering. The latter has entered a general denial, ana demands an investigation.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1889.

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Cleveland's Vather-ia-Law Speadsa Night ia a 8tete-Room with a Lanatie.

On the day before Henry EL Perrine left Buffalo for Jackson, Mich., to become father-in-law^ ex-President Cleveland, he told of a remarkable experience .ha had a week or two ago on a steamship as he was returning from Florida. He separated from his aim Carlton temporarily because the atate-rooms were all occupied. In the room to which he waa assigned was a man about twenty-eight yean old, whonh he surprised in the act of absorbing a flask of liquor. That night while sleeping in the upper berth Mr. Perrine was awakened by a noise in the stateroom.- Peeping out from his berth, he saw his room-mate standing with his left hand holding the door, while in his right was a heavy caliber revolver. Pulling the door open the stranger thrust the revolver out, calling in a sharp tone, "Look oat! look out there!" Then suddenly drawing back, he closed the door. After repeating this action several times, he turned quickly to the window and thrust his weapon oat, calling as before, "Look oat! look oat there!" Drawing back, he got upon the seat be-' neath onhia knees, and holding^the curtains by one hand he oautiously peered through the narrow opening and again pointed his pistol at the imaginary foe, repeating his warning cry.

Mr. Perrine decided that he would be very lucky if he escaped from the lunatic with his life. In describing what followed he said: "He got down from the seat and stood with his back toward me, muttering to himself. Cautiously raising myself to a sittingposition, I dropped my feet over the side of the berth and proceeded to draw on my pantaloons, meanwhile keeping close watch of my insane neighbor. Speaking quickly, I said to him as I let myself down tp the place behind him: 'I have got to go out for a moment.' He made no reply and I walked slowly out of the room, not knowing but that when my back wss turned he would shoot. I went to the bridge and the captain sent men to disarm my neighbor. Suddenly he appeared, swigging his pistol and followed by the two men. In the engineer's room he was disarmed. I had been in my berth but a few minutes when my room-mate entered, all begrimed and blackened with dirt from the hands of his captors. He searched for his flask, and not finding it, said: 'Where can my whisky be?' I replied: 'Perhaps the men who were in here have taken it.' He stood by the berth and said to me in a pitiful voice: 'The captain says he is going to throw me overboard at 9 o'clock.' 'He will not dare do that,' said I I'the passengers will not allow it.' 'Yes, he says he will, and I don't, want to be thrown overboard. I have been away from home, in Texas, three or four years. I have been pretty wild, but now I want to go home.' He went to his coat and, taking a book, tore out a leaf and wrote a few lines with his pencil. Handing me the paper, he said, 'If the captain throws me overboard, take this to my grandfather, Mr. Dabney, of the firm of Dabney, Morgan & Company, Wall and Broad streets, New York. The following morning a boy came to my room and asked me if there was any other property of the young man's remaining there. I pointed out a collar and tie under the looking glass and then asked, 'How is he this morning?' 'He is dead,' was the startling reply. He was wrapped in the flag and slid into the gulf stream."

'LAMB OF GOD.".

Some Information About the Agnus Dei Found on Cronin.

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read about the Agnus Dei said to have been found on the corpse of Dr. Cronin may want to know what it .is, its meaning, and purpose, writes a "Catholic Layman" for the New York Tribuneu It must not be confounded with a scapular, which is a different thing.

It is a small cake of wax taken from that whioh remains -from the Paechal candles, is stamped with the figure of a lamb supporting the banner of the aroaB, and is solemnly blessed by the pope the Thursday after Easter in the tint and seventh years of his pontificate. Early in the ninth century Agnus Deis were made of wax and oil by the archdeacon of Borne, blessed by the pope, and distributed to the people on the octave of Easter. It is forbidden to paint or gild an Agnus Dei. They are usually sewn up in a covering of silk in the shape of a heart, and are never for sale. They belong to what is known in the Catholic Church as sacramentals, and as such, if worn with pious dispositions, they excite increased fear and love of God, detestation of sin, and so, not in themselves, but because of those movements of the heart toward God, remit venial Bins.

Senator Allison to Wed in the Fall.

It sterns to be settled that Senator Allison is to marry Miss Theresa Stoughton next fall. The alleged prospective bride is now a guest, with other ladies, of the senatorial Canadian trade relations junketing expedition en route for Alaska, and which underwent a few days ago the experience of a railroad accident, in which Senator Hale was injured^ Miss Stoughton. is a handsome lady about 30 years of age, daughter of a former patent attorney of Washington. Her sister is the wife of Paymaster Albert W. Bacon, of the United States navy, a native of Pennsylvania, who built the fine residence on Farragut square occupied by Postmaster General Dickinson during the late administration, and recently purchased by Secretary of the Navy-* Tracy. Senator Allison resides in a fine residence on Vermont-avenue, just off Thomas circle. Since the death of his wife the senator's household has been presided over by her foster-mother, Mrs. Grimes.

A Charge to the Jury.

A newly elected justice of the peace, not a thousand miles from Milford, delivered the following charge to the jury the other day: "Gentlemen of the jury— Charging a jury is anew business to me, as this is my first case. You have heard all evidenoe in the case, as well as myself you have also heard what the learned counsel have said. If you believe what the counsel for the plaintiff has told you, your verdict will be for the plaintiff but if, on the other hand, you oelieve what the defendant's counsel has told you, then you will give a verdict for the defendant. But if yoa are like me, and don't believe what either of them said, then I'll de if I know what you will do. Constable, take charge of the jury."—[Milford (111.) Herald.

The 8ingle Tax Idea in Dakota. YANKTON, Dak., May 27.—A new party

has been formed in South Dakota, known aa the Single Tax party. It was organized at Huron, Saturday, and a central committee appointed. It ia the purpose of this party to open the campaign in the new state of South Dakota with the

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gle tax principles into the state constitution. The aavooatesof the new theory —that all public revenues should ultimately be raised by a single tax on the valne of bare land.

WILL 'wrra Bit TROUBLE

Movements of War Ships tk»tDUturl» the State Department." NEW YORK, May27»—A Washington

special to the Herald says: The sending of the English flagship Swifture and the Amphion to Sitka, with orders to cruise in Behring sea, has caused quite a stir in official circles here. The treasury department has time and again called the attention of the government to the fact that ahips flying the English flag are engaged in illicit sealing in Behring sea. In most cases these vessels are well armed, and our revenue cutters, which carry howitzers, are no match for. them. The government has decided that its interests in Alaska Bhall be protected. The United States steamer Adams, whioh was under sailing orders for Honolulu, expected to leave on Tuesday, but a telegram has been sent to the commandment at Mare Island navy yard to detain her.

She will go north in company with the Iroquois, bnd both vessels will leave early in the week for Sitka. The state department has decided that the Behring sea is a Mare Clausum, and intends to assert dominion over the whole North Pacific within the limit defined by our treaty with Russia. What constitutes the waters of Alaska has long been a complicated question, and if, as appears, the English government is sending war ships to protect Canadian vessels engaged in taking seal north of the Aleutian islands, our government will be confronted with an international question of the gravest importance. The revenue cutters Rush and Bear and the warships Thetis, Adams and Iroquois will be at hand to enforce the law of the country as defined by the treasury department, so far as depredation of the seal fishing is concerned.!

Our government takes the ground that when we acquired Alaska by purchase in 1S67 we also acquired all of its vested rights, one of which was Behring sea. This question was settled in 1829, when England attempted the same tactics she is now engaged in. Russia showed fight and sent a large fleet to these waters to uphold her position. The question was finally settled by arbitration against England. Secretary Blaine is determined in this matter. He maintains that we have exclusive domain over all that portion of the Pacific ocean known as Behring

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the treaty line, bordering on the Siberian coast. The matter has been discussed in cabinet, an the determination of the administration is to enforce all our rights in the matter. If England persists in sending ships of war to protect the Canadian vessels in taking these young seal, this government will take vigorous measures to stop it.

The first conflict of authority within this immense area of water, claimed and owned by the United States, may mean war. It is believed Ihat England, seeing that this government is determined to enforce1 its rights, even if recourse to force is necessary, will withdraw and submit the question to arbitration, as was done with Russia in 1829.

A A CLEAN SWEEP JULY 1.

The Administration Waiting for tlie Be ginning of the New fiscal Tear* Special to tbe Chicago Inter Ocean.

WASHINGTON, May 26.—A congressman who is on as close relations with the president as any congressman, and who has recently had repeated interviews with him, gives this opinion as to the course of appointments during the re mainder of the fiscal year: "It is my judgment that most of the discontent relative to appointments which exists on the part of a good many congressmen will disappear with the beginning of tbe new fiscal year. Most of the leading places have already been considered. The decision as to the greater part of them is, I am convinced, substantially reached. There will be a pretty general jail delivery of the Democratic incumbents by July 1st. You can see in talks with all of the members of the administration that there is some sort of a concurrent plan as to the fiscal year as a terminal point for the old and an initial point for the new order of things. Whenever you call up any officer the first consideration is wherever you go, what is the date of the commission Books are taken down and an inquiry made to ascertain when the incumbent of the office that you are talking abont was appointed. If the date is anywhere near the fiscal year, if it runs into August or September, I have been led to understand that resignations will be asked for* if they shall not already be at hand. Everything is substantially slated already and the last day of June will be the general clearing house day."

Mississippi Methods in Michigan. PORT HVRON, Mich., May 27.—At

2 o'clock this morning about twenty masked men forced the county jail open and took the mulatto, Martin, out and banged him from the Saventh street bridge, where his body still hangs. They dragged him down the street, not an officer being in Bight. Martin is a tramp who entered the farm house of John Gillis, four miles west of the city, about two weeks ago and brutally assaulted his wife. She has been in a precarious condition ever since. She is not expected to live.

His Little Scheme Didn't Work. WATJERTOWN, N. Y., May 27.—It seems

probable that Cornelius Donnelly, of this city, who was found by his wife yesterday afternoon with a rope around his neck and in the last struggles of strangulation, did not intend to kill himself and only wanted to frighten Mrs. Donnelly (to whom he had been married only about four months) into giving him possession of her property, amounting to about sixteen thousand dollars.

i-ij..Beady to Start a Livery Stable. TRINIDAD, Colo., May 27.—Lorenzo

Lopez, sheriff of San Miguel county, N. M, came in from FolsomuN. M., Saturday afternoon with

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stole five hundred horses from ranches in the above country. Three hundred and fifty were found in their possedaion, and the herd was being driven toward Montana.

STICK TO YOUft FLANNELS* Stick to your flannels, Tom, 'Till the end ol Mar Don't take'em off, my bo

And catch pneumonia. Stick to roar flannels, Tom, However glows the son. Or yon will be an angel, Tom,

Before the spring is done. —fBoston Courier.

Slurring Chicago Vidocqs.

It was a gang of laborers who found Cronin. The Chicago police never find anybody, and often lose themselyee.— [Cincinnati Enquirer.

CXPBCB FACKASn.

A XAKITAL FAIMMK.

Kj lady's noes oft vexed me sore Our bspp married days before Each UtOs favor I woold pray, She'd pout, and sweetly answer nay: "No, no, 'Us assises to implore, "Ko, he." her pietty Bps would say, UnUl I dreaded more web day, Because each day they vexed me more,

My lady's noes.

And now she's promised to obey. And yields her will like potter's day. Yet still she vexes as of yoreAlas! alas! why will she snoie? I sailer now another way

My lady's nose.

—[George Horton.

"Don't interrupt me till I'm done," was an Irish bull perpetrated by an English speaker.

A real estate agent at Taooma, W. T., claims to have paid $3,600 for postage stamps last year.

Some friend of the institution in New York has made a gift of $25,000 to the endowment fund ot Rutgers college.

The Fresno, Cal., Republican asserts that Fresno county has enough iron ore in sight to duplicate all the navies in the world.

Two lkrge apple trees now in full bloom are growing from the roof of a building on the farm of George Newhart, Lehigh county, Pa.

H. S. Bigham, a chicken raiser of Antrim, near Chambersburg, finds that eggs will hatch much sooner if a small hole is punched into the shell.

It is Baid that one woman out of three all over Utah drinks whisky and gets drunk about so often. They claim they do it to keep off malaria.

In Baltimore they call ball throwing in the public streets "barking and catching," and when a catch is made by a police officer the barker is fined $10.

H. H. S., of Farmington, Me., suggests the violet as a natural flower, because of its typical color, the blue of our national flag, and because of its abundance.

A syndicate of Philadelphia cepitalits has purchased the graphophone rights for all countries outside of the United States and Canada for $500,000.

Minnie Moses, the negro woman convicted in the criminal court of Birmingham, Ala., of highway robbery, was sentenced to be hanged on the 7th of June.

A 15-year-old Philadelphia boy kicked another in the stomach. Peritonitis set in after two months had elapsed, and the other day the unfortunate little fellow died. "A prominent doctor in Detroit has his office.hours from 7 to 8 a. m.," says the Pittsburg Post, and it "wonders why he can't be obliging and make them from midnight to 1 o'clock."

The largest family iu Arkansas ie that of W. D.'Green and wife, of Murfreesboro, Pike county. They were married in 1835 and have had twenty-three children, eighteen of whom are living.

Fermina Apepago smiled the other day as the black was drawn over his face at Tucson, A. T. "Let her go," were his last words, just as the sheriff touched the leaver that dropped him into eternity.

A swarm of bees, attracted by a comb of honey in the window, took possession of a grocery Btore in Plainfield, N. J., and put an end to business for the day. At night they were destroyed by burning sulphur.

The bark Lyra, after being dismasted, completed her voyage to Queenstown round Cape Horn, a distance of 10,300 miles, under jury masts. The Mercantile marine association rewarded the captain and officers.

The extraordinary growth of Volapuk in popularity is evidenced by the fact that its adherents are now supporting thirty-two monthly journals, while twice as many newspapers devote departments to the "universal" tongue.

They were to have a combat between mountain lions at Mexico City the other Sunday, but when the four were turned loose in the pit three dropped their tails and groveled, and the fourth tried to climb a poet and claw the audience. "We venture to assert in all candor," Bays a paper published at Madrid, "that the United States will yet give the black man the right to vote at presidential elections, if no more." How far off this country must seem to that editor

The army worm was not known in France until after the war with Prussia, and now he is such a pest that the country would give millions of dollars to get ria of him. He isn't spoken of by the French as a worm, but as the ''Dutchman."

An English lady has written to the newspapers protesting against the outrageous conduct of tbe railway companies in not providing men to stand in the railway coachee and hold bonnet boxes in their arms, BO that their contents shall not be jostled.

The Volapukists are invited during this month to a great jubilee festival at Allmendingen in Wurtemburg. It being ten years since the south German country pastor. Dr. Scheyler, published his grammar of the "universal language for all parts of the world."

Since the termination of the dynamite patent in 1881, there has been immense industry in the invention of high explosives, and there are now more than three hundred varieties. A dynamite cartridge one foot in length takes only 1-24,000 of a second to explode.

A metallurgist gives as a reason why steel will not weld as readilly as wrought iron that it is not partially composed of cinder, as seems to be the case with wrought iron, which assists in forming a fusible alloy with the scale of oxidation formed on the surface of the iron in the furnace.

The crew of a Baltimore vessel charged with mutiny exhibited black eyes, broken noeee, broken fingers, body bruises and other injuries as excuses, and stated that not a man rebelled until each one had been knocked down from fifteen to twenty times, while the food was not fit for dogs.

A young man of Americus had his picture taken Tuesday, also one of his pointer dog, says the Americus (Ga.) RE corder. Then he called on a young lady, presented the pictures and asked her to take her choice. She selected'the picture of the dog, and remarked that she would look at it and think of him.

English oomments on the art department of the Paris exhibition are very severe. Some of the canvases are as large as the drop scene in a small theater, and many of them are said to be revolting in their hideousnees and euggestivenees. The artists seem to have striven to depict the worst phases of human nature.

The Atlanta Constitution says the traffic managers of the railroads running the Southern watermelon territory estimate an increase in the crop over that of last year of at least two thousand car loads. The superintendent of the Savannah, Florida & Western road reports that the LsConte pear industry is growing at a surprising rate.

A Consul to Belfast.

WASHINGTON, May 27.—Samuel J. Ruby, of Iowa, has been appointed United States consul at Belfast, Ireland.

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