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DAILY EXPRESS.

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We yet hope to run an excursion from Indianapolis to this city on excursion day. Indianapolifl visitors say that the oil well is the topic of conversation at the capital.

"At New Bedford, Conn.," says the In dianapolis Sentinel, "where President Cleveland kept a Republican postmaster in office three years—oirjuntif two months after his commission expired—the Democratic incumbent, an upright and efficient man, has just been displaced, after one year's service." The sequel should not be forgotten. President Cleveland, who tried to be both reformer and spoilsman, was defeated for re-election

The business men who compose the committee on finance for the oil excursion will to-day pass around the hat. Every member of the committee was present at the meeting last evening, and all are willing to devote their time (which is worth money) to this duty and they Bhould receive a hearty welcome. We are going to beat the Cleveland excursion which was worth many, many times its cost. Let every one called upon realize that his subscription is not "expense" or a "tax" but a splendid investment.

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OUR OJL FIND MISRESPRESENTED.'

We have the best assurance that the oil discovered here in both quantity and quality equals any discovery made in the United States up the present stage xf the development of the find. We have the assurance that it is a source of material benefit to the city of Terre Haute and to the state of Indiana by the industrious efforts of Eastern oil experts, Standard Oil representatives and others, to secure land privileges everywhere about us. It is passing strange therefore that a newspaper like the Journal at Indianapolis should give space to the opinion of an unnamed person who either wilfully or ignorantly misrepresents the facts about, the matter.

The interview will be found in another A place in this impression of THE EXPRESS. The misrepresentations are apparent to all who have investigated the oil and the ^qgrrounding circumstances butwedeto Itqgjyfe tb iin.ll particular attention to one or two glaring instances. First, the gentleman who gives his opinion says the oil is forced up by^the hydraulic pressure of the artesian well here. But the first oil wells of years ago were good flowing oil wells, abandoned only because not appreciated. No hydraulic pressure made the oil How from them. He says Trenton rock is 2,700 feet down here. The river well iB deeper than that and no

Trenton rock was found. The specific gravity of the oil is not 34^ it is 30. But what we would call attention to particularly is the reference to "our gas field" meaning the Indianapolis gas field and in that reference we find the animus for speaking disparagingly of Terre Haute's great good fortune.

It is difficult to account for this voluntary attack on the city. The Express learns from the state exchanges, from the hundreds of visitors, many of whom come from the natural gas field, which happens to be too remote from Indianapolis to enhance its prosperity, that this Terre Haute oil excites the interest of all classes of people. That it should be assailed, anonymously, in what is supposed to be a state newspaper is almost unaccountable.

C. O. I).

Not Exactly.

Brlggs—I don't see Mr. Braggs down town so much as I used to. Has he taken to cultivating the domestic virtues

Mrs. Brags—Not exactly. He Is probably cultivating the domestics.

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111 humor—sickly wit. The reason the small boy does not wear a bathing costume Is because nothing Is good enough lor him.

A late description of Miss Sanger, the president's stenographer, says she Is "Inclined to be a blonde." Being a woman, It naturally follows that she Is inclined to be a blonde she will be.

It took aNew York paper to discover that the medical profession know nothing of the disease called "Charley Horse." It Is only a question of time when the complaint will be In the books under the title of "Equlnus Carolil." The profession are not expected to recognize a disease until It has received a Uitln name.

When an Omaha paper prints a description of how faro Is played, with the Idea that it will be news, there Is some Indication that the wild and woolly West Is progressing. But It must be remembered that the editor of the Herald which paper, last Sunday, contained the article referred to, has not been In that city a great while.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Troy Times: Newspaper reporters, as a class, are the best detectives in the world. Philadelphia Telegraph: Train wreckers deserve capital punishment whether their victims are killed outright or not.

Philadelphia Inquirer: It must worry Benjamin Butler considerably to noUoe how soon he Is forgotten when he stops talking.

Omaha Herald: If there Is a society In this country which finds It necessary to kill Its opponents, then It is time that that society was eradicated.

St. Paul Pioneer Press: The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch Informs us that "Mr, Lincoln positively violated his oath of office when he set the necroes free." O, no. He might, possibly, have violated his oath when he refused to bang Jeff Davis—and Ben Butler and Admiral Porter.

BIGAMY BY MISTAKE.

Regarded as a mere spectacle the pastime known in military circles and elsewhere as "the tug of war" may be, and probably is, far superior in interest lathe sport which takes place in our law courts when the fourteen judges all have te consider the same case and agree on a decision, says the London Telegraph. There is, however, much intellectual satisfaction and some fun to be obtained from the latter diversion, provided that there are about as many judges on one side as the other, and that they are pretty equally matched in mental caliber. The latest subject on which a whole court full of judges has been' giving its opinion in bigamy. It might have been supposed that the law of England has existed long enough, and naughty mar ried people have been going through wholly invalid forms of wedlock suffi ciently of ten, for every point in such matters to be made as clear as noonday but such is not the fact. There were, it appears, lately two women named respectively Tolson and Strippe—the law in its rude fashion will not allow polite prefixes—who, after being married, were deserted by their husbrnds. Mrs. Tolson and Mrs. Strippe thereupon, like good, datiful and law-abiding spouses, waited for years for the return of their errant consorts, and waited all in vain. No Mr. Tolson brightened, or darkened the portals of Mrs. Tolson'e dwelling nor could it be said that one fine summer evening, when the lamp was burning in Mrs. Strippe's boudoir, and the fair occupant was sitting sadly with her head buried in her hands, having recently put the fatherless children to bed, the long lost Mr. Strippe hurried up the front gravel walk, cast a look of mingled agony and rapture into the window and in a moment more clasped his wife once more in his manly arms. On the contrary the sober prose of the affair is that the ladies married again they had been informed that their husbands were dead, and they believed' the authoritative story. It so happened that in both cases, which were tried together for the sake of convenience, but which had no real connection with each other—the wives had waited nearly seven years before the ceremony of re marriage took place. Now the law sayB that, aft'er a wife has not heard of or from a husband for as many as Beven years, a prosecution for bigamy is impossible and, if these ladies had consented to regulate their love affairs by the advice of a good practical solicitor, they would, no doubt, have been advised to put off the nuptial day until the exact period had actually expired. Unfortunately for themselves, they did not take this course, and, when it turned out that Messrs. Strippe and Tolson, so far from being defunct, were both of them alive and kicking against the hymeneal proceedings of their respective better-halves, the thunderbolt of a prosecution for bigamy was launched The cases were originally both tried before Mr. Justice Stephen, who directed the jury that if a woman reasonably believes her husband to be dead, and remarries before the seven years, that is no defense againBt a charge of bigamy. Not that Mr. Justice Stephen himself formed this view but he felt that the law required clearing up on the point, and he considered that the best way to have it elucidated was for the woman to be convicted and then for the justice of the conviction to be tested by the court for Grown cases reserved. The jury convicted, being bound to do so by the judge's direction but they also found in each case that the woman had acted under a bona fide belief that her husband was dead.

When judge met judge in the subsequent tug of legal war which took place in the crown court, there were found to be nine in favor of quashing the conviction, and only five in its support. In the majority were counted the lord chief justice, Mr. Justice Stephen himself, as well as Justices Wills, Day, Smith, Hawkins, Grantham and Charles. The minority is not to be despised, considering that it contained Mr. Justice Manisty and Mr. Baron Pollock, and three other learned justiciars still it is the view of the majority which stands, and so it is now declared to be the law of England, where a woman has reasonable cause for believing her husband to be dead, she can marry again within seven years without exposing herself to all the pains and penalties which bigamy entails. This is a most important and, we believe, most satisfactory statement of the law. The old seven years' rule is really and truly quite unsuited to modern conditions of existence. It was formed at a time when "life ran slow as the sauntering Thames," to vary a line of Mr. William Morris, and at the present day it involves to deserted wives and innocent "grass widows" a very real and substantial injustice. In the old days it was quite possible for a husband to sail away and get wrecked on a distant coast, or to be captured by American, African, Asian or Polynesian savages, and not have a chance of communication with home during seven long years. At the present moment the world has shrunk up amazingly, owing to fast steamers, railways and the electric telegraph. Communication between all parts of the world is so rapid that it is well-nigh impossible for a man to be lost sight of for 2,554 days, unless he willfully intends to keep away. Is he wrecked on a desert island? We may incidentally observe that the stock of desert islands is running short but let it be supposed, for the sake of argument, that a man after being wedded takes a voyage a la Lemuel Gulliver, and gets stranded on a foreign and unknown shore. Can we imagine that in these days he would be so utterly unacquainted with the ways of shipwrecked mariners in novels that he would not devise about twenty different expedients for communicating his predicament to the outer world? The very first thing he would do, after finding that his island was really untenanted, and after he had built his hut and found water and cut down some cocoanuts, would be to tie a neat little letter to a seagull's leg or rig up a series of semaphores on the highest peak, or build a raft, or in Bome other way denote his presence on the isle. If he failed to do this he would have only himself to blame if his wife gave him up for dead in the course of a few months. It is possible that a traveler might, even in our own advanced era, be captured by a tribe of savagee or become "prisoner to the Moor but, if so, he would have to use his wits, and find a wandering troubadour outside his dungeon bars who would carry the tale of his captivity back to Europe or he might explain to the barbarous potentate the intricacies of the English law of bigamy, and the danger which his wife incurred by reason of his enforced absence and her own possible wish to marry and, if a lecture on legal

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recedents did not make any average willing, and even anxious, to

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put with tin lecturer, then nothing efaft could suffice for that purpose. OopijigUring the entirely new and unexpected conditions which modern ease of intercommunication has interpolated into humanexiatence, not only is seven years for too long for a woman to be asked to wait for a husband who has gone away without leaving ah

POWDEBED COAL AND GAS.

A Combination Found to Be Economical In Heating Irons.

The experiments in the economy of burning of powdered coal side by side with natural gas at the works of Moorhead Bros. & Co., at Pittsburg on Monday, were limited in extent, but successful so far as they went. Among those present were: G. W. Lord of the Diamond State iron company, Wilmington T. M. Stammler of the Cambria iron company, Geo. Coleman of the Niles iron company, Mr. Maxwell of Long & Co., and others. Mr. Erastus Wiman and Mr. J. G. McAuley, who control the process, were also present. The amount of coal consumed in the first test was 684 pounds, and the amount of iron heated was 4,600 pounds. The charge for natural gas is at the rate of $1 per ton of iron: while the cost under the new process, it is claimed, would not exceed, including pulverization, fifty cents per ton of iron. The result of the test to-day was sufficiently satisfactory to induoe the owners of the furnace to continue the device in practical operation for thirty days, at which time they will decide whether to equip their entire plant with a pulverized fuel process or continue to use natural gas.

MEMORIAL DAY.

The Final Meetings to Arrange for Tomorrow's Exercises.

The Woman's relief corps and all other ladies of the city, (who will do so) are to meet in the vacant store room No. 21 south Sixth street, Thursday morning, May 30, at 8 o'clock, to prepare bouquets for decorating the soldiers' graves.

The memorial committee would reuest that all our citizens who have lowers to donate for Memorial day would kindly have them sent to the vacant store room on south Sixth street, opposite the old postoffice, by 8 o'clock Thursday, May 30th.

There will be a general meeting of all soldiers and sons in G. A. R. hall tonight to finish all preparations for the observance of Memorial day. All the committees are requested to be present.

RAILROAD NEWS.

General and Personal Mention of General and Local Interest.

Engine 114 was sent to the shop yesterday morning for a general overhauling.

The shops were visited yesterday by a number of mechanics from the Sandford tool works.

Wm. E. West, of the I. & St. L. freight office, has returned from Chicago, after a few days' visit.

Ollie Hiltabiddle leaves for Indianapolis this morning, where he will work in the car shops.

John Cline returned to work in the carpenter shop yesterday morning after four days' sickness.

Wm. Rigney and A. Hutton, of the carpenter shop, and families, leave this morning for Greenup.

The old ties in the I. & St. L. switch yards near Sixth street are being replaced with new ones.

Joseph Pullim, formerly of the car works in this city, is now working in the' car works at Indianapolis.

Wm. Farer, formerly of the carpenter shops, but now working at Danville, called pn his old friends yesterday.

Anew time card took effect on the E. & T. H. Sunday. The only material change is in the morning express Bouth, which goes about half an hour earlier.^

Logan Chance, night ticket agent for the Vandaliaat Brazil,passed through this city Monday evening on his return from a two weeks' visit to Houston, Texas, and Parsons, Kan.

Harry Harold resigned his position as helper in the boiler shop, yesterday, and will leave this week for Rock Island, 111., where he ha3 secured a position in the Rock Island & Pacific railroad shops.

Colonel Yeoman, who operates tfce principal mines on the Indianapolis & Vincennes road, states that the company of which he is president expects to ship 5,000 car loads of coal to market before March 1,189a

The trainmaster of the Big Four road at Kankakee, 111., would not let Company of the Fourth regiment have a train to take it to the scene of the Braidwood troubles Monday night until he had received security for it, being afraid to trust the state.

Sidney Dillon,''of the Union Pacific, his private secretary, F. T. Taylor, and W. W. Peabody, of Chicago, western manager of the B. Jk O., were at the Carleton hotel, Baltimore, yesterday. Mr. Dillon was closeted with Charles F. Mayer, president of the B. & O., all morning.

Charles Mayfield, foreman of the bridge carpenters on the E. & T. H.« met with quite an accident Friday afternoon while at work with a force of men on a bridge near Vincennee. He stepped on a plank which he supposed to be fastened, but it was not and it tipped, letting him fall on the rocks and shallow water below. His arm, side and back were badly braised, which will lay him up for several days.

A Pointed WaralKf

.Address,

but the limit of time ought to be substantively fixed at a much shorter period. It must be recollected that this desertion may be" a mere willful and mischievous trick on the part of a spouse bat, whether it be so or not, there is no doubt whatever that seven years subtracted from the life of a woman of marriagable age is a very large slice taken from her available stock of mundane felicity. She marriee, say, at 22 her husband leaves her after a few months, goes to foreign climes, and stays there, reckless of what may happen to a woman whom he married in haste and deserted at leisure. She is expected to remain till 30 or 31 a "grass^idow" of the most pronounced kind, with a sort of slur put upon her because of her husband's failure to appreciate the happiness of life in her company. After taking all possible stepe to ascertain where her husband is, and what is the reason of his prolonged absence, we believe thai she has a perfect moral right to re-marry at once. At all events this arbitrary seven years' limit, fixed by lawyers of old titles who knew only of old modes of communication, is a great deal too wearisome a period of enforced celibacy. We believe that no harm whatever would be done to national morals if a wife deserted under such conditions were allowed to re-many after three years and it would have to be considered whether the reappearance of her old husband, after that lapse of time, should be by itself sufficient to re-estab-lifih the old tie and abolish the second bond.

WaadM* Oil Will llhl» Just before ite adjournment U»e United Stateeaupremeooart rendered an opinion that must have a aaln taryeffeet ia ahaping the law relating to trusts and combines designed to destroy competition and establish monopoly, says toe New YorkHenh).

Thecaee was Gibbe sgainst the Consolidated gas company of Baltunone. The complainant was the general manager of a corporation engaged in the business of "the owning, improving, leasing and manipulation ol gas property throughout the country." He sued to recover for "services in negotiating and consummating an arrangement and settlement of differenoee" between the Consolidated and Equitable gae oompaniee of Baltimore. The "arrangement" waa simply a combine by whioh the two companies bound themselves to raise the price of gas to $1.75 per 1,000, and^not to anpply it to the publio at leas than that rate. They further tareed to pool their revenues and divide them on a stipulated basis.

The effect of this combine wss to force consumers to pay more for gaa than they had been paying and more than the gas was worth. Ib was to kill competition in the business, to set up a monopoly, to make the public pay tribute to two graeping corporations. For bringing about this reeult the complainant made out the modest bill of $50,000 against each of the companion.

The Consolidated declined to pay because it had not agreed to pay. Suit was "therefore brought to oompel payment. The supreme ootiit held that the auit could not be maintained for the reason that the combine waa illegal, and hence the oomplainant could legally claim nothing for his services in bringing it about., .,

The decision was based primarily on the ground that one of the parties to the combine was'prohibited by a statute of Maryland from "entering into any consolidation, combination Or contract with any other gas company whatever." The court heldthat this statute was a constitutional and legal bar to entering into the agreement. But no one who reads the opinion of Chief Justice Fuller can doubt that, even wart' from such statute, the court looked upon the combination as one to kill competition, and therefore against publio policy and unlawful. Here is an extract from the opinion: -v'* ... "Innumerable cases, however,- might be cited to sustain the propoeition that combinations among-those engaged in business impressed with-a publio or quasi public character which are -manifestly prejudicial to the public interest can not be upheld. "The law 'can not recognize ae valid any undertaking to do what,fundamental doctrine or legal rule directly forbids. Nor can it give effect to any agreement the making whereof waa an act violating law. So that in short all .stipulations to overturn or in evasion of what.the law has established jrtl promises interfering with the workings of-the" machinery of the government in any of its .departments or obstructing its officers in their official acts or corrupting them, all detrimental to the public order and public good in Buch manner and degree aa the decisions of the courts have defined, all made to promote what a statute has declared to be wrong and void.' "It is also too well settled to admit,of doubt that a corporation cannot disable itself by contract from performing the publio iduties whichithaa undertaken, and by agreement oompei itself to make public accommodation or convenience subservient to its pntatoj|kte«»ta."

FSBS XS&i cfaoi.,

Now that vital queattdfifcas the legality of trusts an ing up all over the country, these views, coming from the highest court of the nation, are as timely as they ate wholesome.

AMUMUtENft.

The engagement of the distinguished tragedian, Mr. Frederick Warde, which occurs to-night and to-morrow.night at Naylor's, promisee to be quite a dramatic treat and a fitting finale to the theatrical season. The company supporting Mr. Warde is a capable one, and includes the services of two leading ladies, Miss Adele Belgarde and Miss Stella Boniface. To-night Sheridan Knowles' tragedy, "Virginius," wiH be presented. The character of Virgniue one that affords Mr. Warde the fullest scope for the illustration of his art. To-morrow (Thursday) evening, will occur the first production in this city of the grand romantic play by d'Ennery (author of "Two Orphans"), entitled "The Mountebank." The story of the play may be thus briefly told: Belphegor, a poor traveling showman, devoutly loves his wife and family of two children. The former is claimed by some rich relatives, on condition that Bhe should abandon her husband. This offer is, however, rejected with indignation, but when one of her children falls Bick, and the doctor tells her that the only chance of saving it is to let it enjoy suoh comforts as her relatives could give her, the mother love proves stronger than that of the wife, and Belphegor, while out buying her a surprise in token of his affection, returnB to a desolate home, left alone with his older child, a boy, and a broken heart. After a series of pathetic scenes, Belphegor searching for his wife and child, he is arrested as an imposter in her presence in the home of her relativee. Pardon is offered if Madeline will disown him. The child now out of danger, the wife's love once more prevails, and, defying her relatives, she claims him for her husband.. The old duke, vanquished by such nobility of character as both Belphegor and his wife have betrayed. pardons both, and everything is brought to a satisfactory close. The character of the mountebank affords broad scope for the delineation of emotion and the finer shades of humanity-

Colonel McLean's Resignation Accepted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

WASHINGTON, May 27.—The resignation of Colonel William E. McLean from the position of first deputy commissioner of pensions has been accepted, to take effect June 30th. The colonel was this morning granted a leave of abeenoe, and at 3 o'clock this afternoon left the city for his home, at Terre Haute. He will be absent two or three weeks, looking after his real eetate interests. Colonel McLean will remain in Washington for several months after he goeeout of office and before he finally resumes his residence at Terre Haute. He owns a handsome home here, and he and Mrs. McLean have about them a circle of .very warm friends whom they will leave reluctantly.

Opening of th« Picnic Season.

The following waa overheard at a recent picnic: "Darling, I'm going to let jo your hand for a minute, but you won't be mad, will you, darliitg? I wouldn't let go till you aid, only some aort of a bug is crawling down my back, and I can't

HAWAIIAN MUHCnS IN NSW YORK.

Xtaessf King Kalafikaa on ffo»-Way to •aflaa*..

The Hawaiian priheesa, Victoria Kawekin Kaiulani Lunalilo Kalaninuahilapalaps, niece of King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich islands, arrived at the Windsor hotel from Honolulu, by-way of Ban Franeiaoo, Sunday night. With the princess are Mrs. 1'. R. walker, wife of the British vice oonsul general atHonolulu, and Mrs. Walker's two children Urn. Bnroh^rd and her two children, Mrs. George C. Beckley and theprinoesa' younger sister, who ia registered aa Misa Cleghorn. The princess is a dark little beauty of 14, ana her chaperone, Mrs. Walker, ia greatly averse to permitting strangers to see or talk with her. The father of theprinceea is Andrew Soott Oleghorn sin English planter of the islands, now collector general of the port of Honolulu by the appointment of king. I^er, mother was the Prinoees Line-Like, King Kalakaua's sister. The young prinosss speaks good English, and is greatly pleased with her journey thus far. The entire party will sail for England on the steamer Britannic on Wednesday.

Hot Up to the Old Man's Average.

Erskine M. Phelps, of Chicago, reached New York on the Etruria Sunday on his return from a three months' tour in Europe. At his hotel in Nice he waa introduced to Lord —-, of England. As he waa smoking he said to Lord ""Will you have a cigar?" "Thank you but I only smoke one brand, the Henry Clay." "All right. I'll order some."

The box was brought. It was embellished with the familiar picture of "Harry of the West." As he .took his cigaij Lord said: "When old Clay was alive he made a good cigar, but his sons don't keep up hisraputation." "Henry Clay! Why, he didn't make cigars he was a statesman, and ranked as high with us as Gladstone or John Bright do in your country." "I beg your pardon. I've smoked these cigars all my life, and I tell you old Clay made a d— sight better cigar than hiBboys do."—[Shoe and Leather Reporter.

Oppose Electrical Executions.

NEW YOKK, May 28.—JamesH.Graham, a negro bootblack, is on trial for murder in the first degree in the court of sessions, Brooklyn, for the killing of Bartender John Moeller in the saloon at 20 Brooklyn avenue on January 18. Graham fell asleep in the back room of the saloon and when he was awakened by Moeller and told to get out he drew a knife and stabbed him in the heart, killing him instantly. The prisoner says that he acted in self-defense. There was considerable difficulty in securing a jury. Many of the taleemen who were otherwise acceptable were excused from serving as jurors on declaring that they had strong objections to the infliction of the death penalty by electricity.

A Secret Ballot and Honest Count. HARTFORD, Conn., May 28.—The senate yesterday, by a vote of 15 to 5, passed the secret ballot bill which the house had previously passed. The amend mehte made in the house were accepted, and nil that now stands between Connecticut and a secret ballot law is Governor33ulkley's aignature,which it is not thought will be withheld.

Democratic and Slightly Personal.

Georgia, whose

speech gave Ohio to the Repubuoana in 1886, is suffering from a runaway mouth again. He recently observed that in the late war the Northern men. were the rebels. All right, general the rebels licked, then, and now let's talk about fools. How is your health?—[San Francisco Alto (Dem.).

Canada May Have Them.

OTTAWA, Ont, May 28.—Reports received here state that the Mormon influx into the Northwest continues. No proof has been obtained that the new arrivals, who already form a considerable

colony,

are given to the practice of polygamy.

Dynamite on the Illinois Central.

CHICAGO, May 28.—Four sticks of dynamite were found on the track of the Illinois Central road "at Fourteenth street this morning.

ABOUT PEOPLE.

Robert Garrett is in Philadelphia. John Bright's property amounted to £85,000.

Dr. Agnew says a healthy woman can kill herself in about a year by horseback riding.

Bismarck has taken to solitaire', and js holding its heavy-weight championship against all comers.

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe received many congratulations and evidencee of esteem on the 70th anniversary of her birth on Monday.

Robert Adams, of Philadelphia, minister to Brazil, Bails about June tenth. The state department ordered him to delay his going on account of the fever in that county.

George Ken'nan, the Siberian traveler, has given up. his Washington house. For the next year or two he will be busy with lecture engagements, and in the summer will live on Cape Beton island, next neighbor to Professor Alexander Graham Bell.

Harvard is getting more certain every day that Sir Edwin Arnold will come over next month and attend commencement there. Sir Edwin would be most cordially greeted in Amercia, as would Lady Arnold, who is a grandneice of William Ellery Channing and a second cousin of Colonel T. W. Higginson.

Jake Kilrain will be the recipient of sad news when he arrives in New York on the steamer Adriatic, lo-day. His mother, Mrs. Hannah Kilrain, aged 68, died Monday at the residence of the pugilistjNo. 1,610Division street, Baltimore. The funeral arrangements will not be completed until the arrival of her son.

The Chicago Police and the Murder.

Chicsgo News: The Chicego police force is reepeotfully requested to let other people commit the crimes.

Cincinnati Enquirer: The only hope of the detection of the murderers of Dr. Cronin rests with the newspaper men of Chicago. They oan not be bought, and they can not be frightened. If the mystery .is ever unraveled it will be done by them.

St. Louis Republic: "From all we know of the Cronin case," says Inspector John Bonfield, of Chicago, "it is safe to ea that it was either a political assasrfnation or the result of some private uee." Now there ia an astute and knowing policeman for you! What oould be more comprehensive than that?

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OLD. OLD 9TO«T,

Be kmd 8oe

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"Oh, Susie, darling, lot*" be cried. Site leaked on Mm mil tenderly. And dem be Mtbr Susie's side.

She let bias kold her prettr band, pjj' And let him all bis frames confide In ber, as women often

Then softly, sweetly, itestfbed. The summer days went swiftly by,

And she became another's bride While be, poor fellow, sleeps beneath A stone on wbieh Is "Suicide." —[Washington-CHUc.

Shad are selling for $13 a hundred down in Delaware. The English courts have decided againat the right of women to hold seats in the city councils.

The deepeet coal pit in the world ie said to be the St. Andre, in the Charleroi (Belgium) district.

Enough bones to fill a cart were found in a fox's den in Birmingham, Chester county, Pa., recently.

Week before last the Isle of Man was visited by a wonderful thunderstorm. The lightning waa of a beautiful rose oolor, and moat inoessant.

A common expectation in the theatrical profession in England ia that a knighthood'for Mr. Irving ahould be the reward of the performance before the queen at Sandringham.

Cincinnati's veteran "newsboy," A1 Shattler, has retired from business with the comfortable surplus of 900,000, and will buy a cattle ranch in Colorado and settle down. He is 39 years old and out of health.

The "penny in the slot" machine mfiBt have reached its culmination in that invented by a Mr. Englebert, which, after the prescribed rule has been complied with, will take your photograph, finish it, and drop it out already framed.

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

Baron Alberto Franohetti, who composes operas, expends immense sums on their productions. His work "Asrael" was rehearsed for a month previous to its performance in Florence, 700 people being engaged. The mise en scene was estimated as costing £80,000

On May 10th a man was sentenced by the Toulon police court to eight days' imprisonment and a fine of 50 francs for uttering what were described as sedition cries, to-wit: "Down with parliamentiem! Down with the government! Down with the Tonkinois! Vive Boulanger!"

Physicians will be interested to know that Dr. Pagel, of the royal library of Berlin, has found there a Latin manuel of anatomy in manuscript, written in 1301 by Henri de Mondeville, surgeon to Philip the Handsome, of France, and teacher of anatomy and surgery in Paris.

An operetta dealing with life at Newport, by the American composer, Robert Goldbeck, was lately performed at Devonshire house with considerable success. Among its chief songs area "Swimming Scene," "Cheer the Yacht," "Dancing Leseibn," and the "Song of the Looking Glass."

Progress is again to be recorded in the matter of powerful war ships. The Italian ironclad Ruggiero di Laurea, which has just been tried for speed, reaching 17.6 knots, carriee four of the largeet guns yet brought into practice, 110 tons. Her sister ship, Andrea Doriu, will

be ready. One of the meet famous barbers of Europe, Leon Dumont, who used to out and trim Napoleon III., described as a "teller of tales, a connoisseur of picturee, and the best of gossips," has established himself in London. He was one of the fint persons called in by Boulanger af telr the latter's arrival.

Master Jabez Bailey, of Fitch ville, Conn., has broken six sheep to harness, and he drives them about the village daily. He is not 15 years old but has broken oxen and horses. He is going to tackle pigs next, and if he is successful with them will try breaking a team of hens, and next geese or turkeys.

Mrs. Bruce, an artist in painting on china, met with a singular and fatal accident at Memphis on Thursday. She was preparing to fire a dozen plates decorated as a gift for her daughter, and while leaning over the kiln the naphtha gas rushed into her lungs with Buch sudden force that Bhe was overcome and died.

Captain Morris, of the British schooner Galena, which arrived at Charleston, S. C., from New York recently reports that when off Frying Pan shoals a carrier pigeon flew on board. Oa one leg was a rubber band with "88" Btamped on it. No vessel was in sight at the time. The pigeon was brought to Charleston.

Ladies who have a weakness for a husband with a pedigree are presented with an unrivaled opportunity. A gentleman from Austria f"of fine appearance") advertises in an English paper

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Half a million dollars are to be expended giving better terminal facilities to the New York end of the East River bridge. As New York seems likely to be disappointed in its demand for greater rapid transit facilities in the direction of the upper end of the island, Brooklyn anticipates an immigration of aggrieved New Yorkers.

At Reading the other day a young man who had hired a livery team returned to the stablee, when it was seen that the horses had been over-driven. Without any oeremony the young man was lifted up bodily and thrown into the horse trouth. It is said to be an old custom in eastern Pennsylvania to duck men who abuse horses or fail to pay their billB.

The court of Lao XIII. is said to comprise 1,160 persons. There are 20 valets, 120 house prelatee, 170 privy chamberlains, 6 chamberlains, 200 extrahonorary chamberlains, 130 supernumerary chamberlains, 30 officers of the noble guard and 60 guardsmen, 11 officers of the Swiss guard and palace guard, 7 honorary chaplains, 20 private secretaries, 10' stewards and masters of the horse, 60 doorkeepers.

Two sea robins, or grunters, were shown as curiosities in Fulton market recently. They are called sea robins from the two large pectoral fins, which are webbed and resemble wings. They are called grunters from the noise they make when caught. There are plenty of people who will say that sea robins will fly, and tales are often heard of sea robins flying into a boat-at night when a bright light is shown. These are fish tales.

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VANDALIA LINE. T. H. & I. DIVISION. LEAVE FOR THE WEST.

No. 9 Western Express (SAV) 1.42 a. m. No. 5 Mail Train *. 10.18 a: in. No. 1 Fast Line (P4V) 2.15 p. m. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.04 p. m.

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No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.30 a. m. No. 6 New York Express (S&V) 1.51 a. in. No. 4 Mall and Accommodation 7.15 a. in. No. 20 Atlantic Express (P4V) 12.42 p. m. No. 8Fast Line 2.00p.m

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No. 9 Western Express (34V) 1.30 a. m. No. 5 Mall Train 10.12 a. m. No. 1 Fast Line »(PftV) 2.00 p. m. No. 3 Mall and Accommodation.—..... 6.46 p. in. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.00 p.m.

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No. 12 Cincinnati Express (8) 1.20 a. m. No. 6 New York Express •fSAV) 1.42 a.m. No. 20 Atlantic Express (PAV) 12.87 p. m. No. 8 Fast Line* 1.40 p. in.

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