Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1883 — Page 7

THE RAILROAD WORLD. Bad Break in C., 1., St. I*. & C. Stock —No Good Reasons Assigned. Freight Bnsinexii Improving Somewhat — Western Passenger Men Worrying the Pennsylvania People. hammering the big four. The C.f I. St. L. & C. Slock Goes Off Twelve Points. Creating a Surprise. Tlie bears took hold of tlio Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis A Chicago railway stock, Saturday, ah<l hammered it down to 81, which iB twelve points below what it was on Friday, president Ingalls is East, and doubtless his enemies thought It a good time to hummer the stock. The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette of yesterdayjgives several reasons for the break—but none of them will stand after investigation—as follows: Decrease of earnings, probable disrapture of the west-bound pool, inharmonious relations with rival lines, etc. As for the first, there Is good authority that the revenue at the present Time and the earnings are well sustained; for tlie second, it is said tiie opening of the new Chicago & Atlantic road will bring a strong competition in the field for Chicago and the Northwest freight business, which may materially decrease the Big Four’s pool percentage, and for the other it is generally known that the new management of the C., H. & D. lias been making matters lively for the Big Four, and dividing the business to a greater extent than heretofore. Another cause assigned is the loss of revenue on east-bound business, owing to a change of percentages by Commissioner Fink. President Ingalls’s visit East at present, it is said, is with a view of more favorable divisions for his roftd in the East pool.” • FREIGHT TRAFFIC. A Spurt of Cleveland Trad©—lnexplicable Dullness Reported by the Agents. The train records for the week, ending April 5, •how some increase in business, yet as iu the preceding week, an unusually large number of empty cars are moving westward. It will be noticed that a large per cent, of the increase is made by the Bee Lino and the I. & St. L,, which is having a sharp spurt of Cleveland busiuess. With all Eastern lines, However, more grain aud provisions are going forward than In any week of either March or April, but still there is room for improvement. Many empty line cars are idle, standing on sidetracks or being used in local business. Fastfreight line men say that west-bound business is lighter than at the corresponding period last year, and at present there arc ho indications of an improvement. Over nortli and south lines •hipments seldom Hre lighter, and freight men are at a loss to understand the cause. General Freight Agent Geiger remarked, Saturday last, that in the several years he had held this position never before had lie felt like apologizing for their light traffic. Local business continues good, but is hardly ms heavy as thirty days ago; yet the revenue, from tills source is running ahead of that of the corresponding period of 1882, and bus for sixty days past. Below is given the number of cars received and forwarded at this point In tlie week ending at 12 M. May 5, as compared with that of tho week preceding: Name of Jbmri. Apr. 28j May 5. Inc. Deo. C. A I. Air Line 184 102 8 I. A V 380 394 14 C-. H. A 1 435) 441; 6 Wabash 1,053 1,058 5 T .) Middle.. 655} 775 120 tv >Bt. Louis 388, 329 59 '• ) Peoria .. 800 873 13 C.,1,8t. L. IWest ... 1,690 1,819 129 AC. 5 East... 2,467 2,530 G3 J. M. A T 992 960 32 C., At. L. IPitta’brg 2,286! 2,221 65 AP. 5 Chicago. 202' 194 8 Vamlalia 2,819 2,998i 149 I. A st, L 2,059 2.348 j 289 Bee Line 2,0441 2,360 j 316 Total 18,544! 19,392; 1,012 164 Nat increase, 848 cars. The number of loaded cars handled at this point was as follows; Received, 8,201; forwarded, 8,180; total, 16,381. Increase ns compared with the movement of the preceding week, 687 cars.

STILL ON THE WAR TATH. Western Passenger Men, Who Want Commissions, Fighting the Pennsylvania. Passenger men in the West, more especially west of the Missouri river, who are paid commissions, are making a vigorous fight against the Pennsylvania lines, so bold a stand have General Passenger Agents Woods and Ford taken against the paying of commissions. While doubtless they take the right ground in the matter, whether it was policy for them before the movement beonme more general to adopt each arbitrary measures is questioned by some friends of the Pennsylvania system, these friends, claiming that while the revenue from passenger service in 1882 shows a handsome increase over that of 1881, the increase would have been still larger had the Pennsylvania paid commissions at Eastern points and all through the West and Northwest as have their competitors. Western passenger men claim that E. A. Ford, when on the Bee Line, the Missouri Pacific, the Iron Mountain and Vandalia was one of the foremost in favor of paying commissions, but on taking the general passenger agency of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati &. Bt. Louis lines he flopped over and has gone back on his old ideas as regards paying commissions, and has thus made enemies of his old associates in the West who could have done his lines much servioe. It is intimated that General Passcuger Agent Wood, of the Pennsylvania oroper, now sees that such action was a mistake, and is seeking a method to quietly return to the paying of commissions at. points where competitors do, while E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of all lines west of Pittsburg, opposes such action, and still believes that the general managers will yet take this matter up. and all leading roads of the country will step upon this expensive method of securing business; and if is further stated that the rumor that Mr. Ford was to resign originated with a previous rumor that General Passenger Agents Wood and Ford were not working harmoniously on certain matters, and this was oue of the questions on which they differed. PROJECTED IMPROVEMENTS. The Pennsylvania to Double-Track Their Important Western Lines. The Pennsylvania Company, it is statpd, by an official high in authority, have fully decided to at once commence doubling their trucks on their more important lines west of Pittsburg, aud it is proposed this season to double their tracks between Crestline, 0., and Cliioago, aud add some twenty miles of double track west to the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & Bt. Louis. He states that without doubt five years from now the Pennsylvania Company will have a double track from Pittsburg to Chicago, and from Pittsburg to Indianapolis. It was a big undertaking, and therefore would require several years to do it. It. was quite evident, he stated, that should the business of their Hues west of Pittsburg improve as rapidly for five years to come as it had In the past five years, their business between the points above named could not well be moved over a single track. The official added that doubtless the Vandalia people would make a similar improvement within the next five years; In fact a considerable portion of the wavgrading bad been done for a second track. This would give a double track roud from Bt. Louis to Pittsburg. A PERILOUS POLICY. The Pennsylvania Watering Its Stock—- . Rears on the Property Jubilant. ' The recent dividend declared by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company represents ail increase ot over $5,(100,000 in the oupital stock, 50 per <?cnt. of which is water. Since the dividend was ■declared the stock has declined 10 per cent., which indicates that stockholders would be better satisfied with less profit on paper aud more in actual cash. The scrip and stock dividend is said to be amply justified by the extensions and improvements undeitaken by the Pennsylvania railroad. Rut the form which the policy is taking bears a perilous resemblance to the old taslilou of etockwutoriug, which was so universally condemned

a few years ago in the light of the panic of 1873. About fivp years ago the management of tho Pennsylvania railroad adopted the policy of reducing itH capitalization by setting aside a fixed sum from its earnings forth© purchase of securities guaranteed by the company. But with a retlfertient of obligations at the rate of $600,000 a year, and an expansion of capital of $5,000,000 by a semi-annual dividend, the processor reduction appears to lie progressing very rapidly in the wrong direction. RUMORS REVIVED. Important Changes Coining on the Bee ✓ Line, if Gossip Is True. Tho surprise of Friday lasr, the reorganization of the managements of tho Vanderbilt lines, has revived the rumor that importaut changes are to be made ou the Bee Line system, and that all the general officers, including President Devereux, except General Manager Thomas and Lucieu Hills, are to be set to one side. That O. B. Skinner, general traffic manager, will go, to hear the knowing ones tell it, is a fixed fact, and it is a fact that the management of tho White Line are making it warm for friend Skinner: but it is quite safe to Ret it down t hat so long as J. H. Devereux is president of the Bee Line system, so long will Mr. Skinner occupy his present position. Parties who have recently conversed with the powers that be on all lines in which the Vanderbilts are interested, say such officials express themselves quite freely in favor of E. B. Thomas, and speak or his management as having been excellent. The road, they say, has been operated with marked economy, road-bed aud equipments have been greatly Unproved, and the earnings quite satisfactory, when the disadvantages under which he has labored are considered. OUTSIDE OFFICES. Mr. John Egan Explains Mr. Martin’s Ticket Selling. The article published in Friday’s Journal as regards outside offices, has drawn the following reply from the general ticket and passenger agent’s office of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis A Chicago road: To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: In your paper of Friday’s issue you hare an article in your columns headed “Dishonorable Competition,” wherein you charge our man Martin, of the C., 1., St. L. A C. Railway Company, under the garb of selling tickets only to local points, lias opened an office, for the purpose of selling coupon tickets, etc. You qualify it by saying it is said. Now, this is not so. Mr. Martin has nothing to do with this office, nor lias he any authority to soil tickets of any description at Indianapolis from this company. It is a separate office, instituted by Mr. Sherwood, our superintendent, to better supply our local customers and patrons of our line, and for the accommodation of the Indianapolis public ouly. We closed our outside office in good faith and will continue to keep It closed until such time as our president shall determine, and don’t you forget it. When we do open it again we shall do it, aud it wiii be done witii due notice to ail in interest. Wo ask nothing but what Is just and right, and shall continue to treat our competitors in a fair and houorable manner, letting the merits of the popular Kankakee line decided lie issue. I will thank }'ou iu your brief manner to correct this statement, and set us right before the public in this matter. John Roan, General Passenger aud Ticket Agent, Cincinnati, May 5. GENERAL NEWS. Final Settlement of Differences Concerning Coal Traffic. George S. Brecount, assistant general freight agent of the Louisville, New Albany A Chicago road, returned from Chicago on Saturday, and from him it is learned that representatives of the roads which haul coal from the Brazil and Carbon mines and coal operators at said mines met in Chicago on Friday and harmonized all their troubles. Traffic Manager Stahlman acted as chairman of the meeting. Rates were agreed upon for the delivery of the cool from the respective mines to the several roads, and a tariff Was agreed upon for the shipment of coal from the different mines to all points in tho Nortli and Northwest where carbon and block coal is used. The agreement was signed bv Traffic Manager Staiilman, of the L., N. A. A C.; H. W. Gays, of the I. A Bt. L ; J. K. Kendall, of the Vamlalia; Colonel Robert Forsythe, of the Chicago A Eastern Illinois, on the one side, and representatives of the respective mining interests on the other, thus settling questions which have created considerable ill-feeling and whioii have tended to demoralize rates.

Miscellaneous Notes. The Chicago & Alton are to build a $75,000 depot at Bloomington, 111., this season. The annual meeting of the Fort Wayne company will be held iu Pittsburg on tlio 16th inst. The Pennsylvania railroad intends making its station flower gardens more attractive than ever thl9 year. The earnings of the Union Paclflo In April decreased $161,000 as compared with the same month of 1882. The work of removing the general offices of the Chicago A: Atlantic road from Lima, 0., to Chicago was completed on Saturday. The Fort Scott & Wichita has been completed to a point 130 miles west of Fort Scott. Thirty miles more it will bring the road to Wichita. W. F. White, general passenger agent of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road, gives notice that round-trip tickets have been placed ou sale to Las Vegas hot spriugs, N. M. The Great Eastern fast-freight line took a number of cars of dressed beef to Boston in tlieir new Tiffiany refrigerator curs last week, via the Graud Trunk and Central Verujont railways, the run from Chicago to Boston being made in 127 hours, which is regarded as fast time. Tiilingliast, of the New York Central, and Newell, of the Lake Shore, say the trunk-line compact never was so strong and copper-fast-ened as it is at present The heavy penalties for violating the new traffic arrangements ate expected to prevent all cutting of rates. The skeleton in the closet of the railroad superintendent, says the Railway Record, is the fear of neglect or violation of train orders. Did he know his orders would be understood and obeyed by conductors, engineers, trainmen and switchmen, he would not feur casualties, for there would be none. * Tiie Boston & Albany has just put in service, hauling one of tlieir fust express trains, au engine which weighs forty tons, lias all the modern improvements in the wa} r of steel fire-box, boiler, smoke-stack, air-brake, etc., and tiie most remarkable feature iu its construction is that it has 221 flues. PERSONAL AND LOCAL. Mr. Geiger's Extended Service as Freight Agent of the J., M. & I. M. C. Connelly has been promoted to the position of chief clerk in the office of Robert Geiger, general freight agent of tho J., M. & I. road. John Chesborough, of the Vandalia, and 11. R. Del ing, of the J., M. & £., left last evening for New York, to attend the general passenger agents* meeting, which convenes there this week. There is no truth in the statement of a Sunday paper that Joshua Staples is to succeed John MacLeod as superintendent of tiie Louisville, New Albany & Chiciso road. Mr. Staples says he has never bee,a offered the position, nor has the matter been even mentioned to him. Robert Geiger, general freight agent of the Jeffersonville, Madison <St Indianapolis, on Saturday last commenced his r wcuty-saveuth year iu railroad service. In 1857 lie assumed the agency of yhe Bee Line at. Marion. In iB6O he came to Indiana polls, accepted the position of chief clerk in the local agent's office, and two years utterward was made agent, whieh position lie held until soma eight year* ago, when he was appointed general freight agent of the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indiauapolis road, a position which ho is filling with marked ability. Local Notes. The road between Columbus and Newark, 0., jointly owned by the Panhandle aud Baltimore & Ohio, is to be improved. The stockholders of tiie ludiann, Bloomington Si Western road will hold tlieir annual meeting in tins city on Tuesday the Btb, and tlio stockholders of tiie Indiauapolis &. Vincennes ou i iiuraduy the 10th. Tiie heavy shipments of grain to Cleveland tiie past week cause freight men to question whether the Skinner Silent Line has really passed out of exlfitenoe. While miles of White Line cars are idle, the Bee Line lias all Its own curs busy. On Saturday, at one of tiie outside offices which claims to he only an information bureau, three tickets for Topeka, Kan., were sold at sl3 per ticket, a cut of $4 on each. Tiie ticket was of a skeleton character, was filled out. at tiie office, paid for there, and the ageut says he sold them

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MAY 7, 18S3.

at the cut to protect their road against the scalpers, thus admitting that he pays no attention to the arbitrary rules of the Union Railway Company. Harmony is again restored in the rank and file of the Indianapolis Railway Detective Association. The Bee Line people have decided to continue their membership, and John Ewan, president of the association, lias withdrawn his resignation. Proper!\ manned, the detective force could do valuable service. It is stated that in the future more system is to bo put into its operations. John M. Osborn, commercial agent of the Wabash, St. Louis A Pacific, spout Saturday in this city, and states that for a month to come he will spend much of his time at Indianapolis that he may become acquainted with business men here. Mr. Osborn spent much of last week at Michigan City, and says there is great opportunity to develop business at that point, aud lie will recommend to the Wabash management that they make some much-needed improvements at that point. Not only docs he trnuk that the lumber traffic from that station can be largely increased, but ho is sanguine that an immense coal traffic could be built up there, Ohio and Indiana coals being shipped there by rail and then loaded into vessels tor northwestern points reached by lake vessels. A DISSATISFIED COMMISSIONER. The Resignation of George W. Haynle, One of the Evansville Metropolitan Police Commissioner*. The Evansville metropolitan police commission is not a very happy family, it seems. The sweet serenity and perfect unanimity of the Indianapolis board cannot bo assumed for even holiday wear iu Evansville, and with a sigh drawn from the depths of tho oppressive responsibilities of the position, tho youngest of the commissioners has slipped the cord that binds, Auditor of State Rice having received the following telegram last Saturday evening from George W. Haynle; “Evassvillk, May 5,1833. “Hon. James 11. Rice, Auditor of State: “You will please accept my resignation as police commissionrr for the city of Evansville, to take effect immediately. “George W. llaynie.” It is reported that the cause of Mr. Haynie’s resignation is general dissatisfaction with the position. lie was chosen for the shortterm of one year, aud it would seem has been regarded by tho commissioners somewhat in the light of an appendage. He complains that the responsibilities were too irksome, and that he could not afford to spare the time from his business (Mr. llaynie is a druggist) which the. duties of the office required. The statement is also made tuat his resignation was caused by the “peculiar actions of the other two members of tho board, besides considering the many friends from whom lie would obtain enmity in the event of their not being appointed on the force.” Mr. Haynle is one of the Democratic, members of the board. His resignation has not yet been formally presented to tiie .state board, i ut there wiU probably be act ion upon it this week.

PERSONAL. A. 8. Kirk, of Chicago, is at the Denison. R. J. Taylor, or Chicago, is at the Denison. Hiram Jeter, of Brazil, is at the Bai.es House. 11. W. Kuowlton, of New York, is at tho Denison. E. M. Thompson, of Vincennes, is at the Grand Hotel. A. B. Austin, of Terro Haute, is at the Grand Hotel. J. F. Elder, of Richmond, is at the Grand Hotel. George B. Cowlan, of Madison, is at the Grand Hotel. William W. Kellett, of Boston, is at tho Bates House. Hon. J. H. Lindley, of Rookville, is at the Bates House. Georgo Seldeu, of Erie, Pa., Is at the Bates House. C. D. Firestone, of Columbus, 0., is at the Bates House. Colonel F. H. Harris, Newark, N. J„ is at the Denison, Charles C. Fletoher, of Richmond, is at the Denison. George J. Langsdale, editor of the Greencastle Banner, was iu the city on Saturday. Dr. O. 8. Runnels Ims removed from No. 284 North Tennessee street to No. 267 North Illinois street. John W. Coons, the former deputy Auditor of State, now* assistant treasurer of the Chicago A Atlantic railroad, was In tho city last Saturday. It is announced that James B. Goe, secondlieutenant of the Thirteenth Infantry, will be tho successor of Lieutenant W. R. Hamilton as military instructor at Asbury University. F. A. Jeffrer, Boston; O L. Hayi, Ohio; E. W. Brown, Chicago; George B. Easton, Louisville; George \Y. Perry and Charles A. Hanscomb, Boston; R. H. Branch, Martinsville; A. B. Kingsbury, jr., Quincy, 111.; H. W\ Beokwitli, Danville, III.; George S. Megee, Cincinnati, O ; W. K. Harris, Rochester, N. Y.; F. H, Oltplmnt, Pittsburg; B. F. Boynton, Decatur, 111., and D. N. Taylor, Terre Haute, are registered at the Bates House. THE CITY IN BRIEF. Monroe county paid $12,559.53 into tho State treasury in making tho semi-annual settlement. The Tecumueh Rifles will enter the competitive drill at the forthcoming State encampment. 11. Shelton aud F. Colbert, private watchmen, have been granted police powers by tho pollco commissioners. John W. Richardson- aroused of violating the postal laws, has been diaoiiurged fiom custody by the Federal graud jury. The North Noble-street Saving and Loan Association, with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO, has Hied articles of Incorporation. The wife of Rev. W. F. Parker, pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian Church, died on Saturday from blood poisoning, after lingering for nearly a month. A post mortem examination of tiie remains was held last night, aud they will to-day be shipped to Keutucky. The Light Infantry Election. The Indianapolis Light Infantry held its regular annual meetlug on Saturday evening, and the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Captain, James R. Ross; first lieutenant, VV. J. McKee; second lieutenant, Robert F. Bcott; first sergeant, August Dietrichs; quartermaster, W. 11. Burke; treasurer, Frank F. MeCreu; surgeon, J. If. Oliver; ohuplaln, Myron W. Reed; council or administration: James R. Ross, W. J. McKee, B (J. Wright, F. F MuCrea. P. O. Hendricks, Lew Wallace, J. B. Cameron. Colonel N. R. Ruckle, after a continuous service of almost seveu years as captain of the company, declined- to accept tho offloe again, on account of a great press or business, which would not allow him to devote the time that the office required. Ho was unanimously re-elected to tiie office, but was obliged to decline for the reasons stated. The company has received its new uni tonus, and is going to work ut ouce to prepare for the August encampment. Amusement Matters. The only theatrical attraction announced for this week is the performances of “Fra Diavolo” at tiie Grand Friday and Saturday next by the Indianapolis Opera Company, which includes all the representative local talent of the city. Interesting performances arc expected as tiie opera has been In active rehearsal all winter. W4lliam Castle, the well-kuown tenor, will appear in the leading role. The work of remodeling the Park Theater is progressing rapidly, uiid the opeuiug will bo Juno 4. At tho Zoo this work Minute Oscar Gray and W. T. Stephens, with their trained dogs, coutiuue the attraction in “Swift and Sure.” State Social Science Meeting. The State Social Science Association will hold its opening session in tiie chapel of the First PiMbyterfai# OtaMrcb. The session will conclude

to-morrow night, and during its continuance Anthony Comstock, Governor Porter, Dr. Rogers and others will speak. Fast Driving. Hereafter all persons guilty of fast driving within the city limits will lie prosecuted. Two policemen were stationed on North Meridian and Nortli Tennessee streets yesterday for the purpose of taking the names of offenders, TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Willard A. Conkling, a professional gambler, of Rochester, N. Y., committed suicide ou Saturday. Ex-State Treasurer Polk is still in jail at Nashville, being unable to give the $35)000 bond required. Tho jury in the case of Ellis H. Phipps, exsuperludcut of the Philadelphia almshouse, returded a verdict of guilty. Nearly all the business part of the town of Growusboro, Tex., was burned on Friday night. Loss between $20,000 and $30,000. The firm of Louis Rosenstein A Cos., fruit merchants of New’ York, has assigned. There are preferred creditors to the amount of $133,000. F. W. Beebe, proprietor of tiie Beebe House, at Manitou Springs, Col., committed suicide at the Windsor House, Denver, yesterday, while temporarily insane. Counsel for tho trustees of the Brooklyn bridge and the corporation cotmael of New York ut.d Brooklyn agree that tiie bridge cannot be mail© free for any kind or travel. Patrick and William Flynn, father and son, quarreled in their home at Long Island City yesterday. The father broke away from his sou, and seizing an ax, crushed his skull. Hbreve Ackley, of the firm of Work A Cos., Philadelphia, has sued the Central News Company as agent for the New York Tribune for linel. It is understood that damages are laid at $20,000. John W. Jones, a hard citizen of Ash Hill, near Poplar Bluff, Mo., created a disturbance in h saloon in that town on Friday nigbr, and was shot ami killed by Joseph 11. Amman, a bartender, whom Joues assaulted with a kuife. Onie Biaisdell, of St. Joseph, Mo., attempted, on Saturday, to commit suicide by taking morphine. She was saved by prompt medical attendance. Onie was desperately in love with a drummer, who married auotber girl. Governor Cleveland has signed tho Campbell penal code amendments, which practically repeal what are known as the Sunday “Blue Laws,” which have been so obnoxious to a large class of citizens of New York and Brooklyn. A Pittsburg bank has obtained judgment for $20,000 on a note of A. O. Tinstiner A Cos., wellknown coke operators. It is said the firm will bo compellt dto make an assignment on Monday. The assets are about. SIOO,OOO and liabilities considerably above that figure. The Josephite Mormons seem to he worrying the “Latter Day Saintß in Utah.” On Saturday the polygamist organ had a throe-coluuin editorial basting it to the monagamist Mormons. Besides this there was a long communication ou the §p.!r?e subject from ?. polygamist stater. Tiie elevator at Macon, Mo., which, by deed of trust, was part of the assets of tho failed Macon havings Bank and the Farmers’ and Traders’ Bank, lias been sold by tiie assignees to General William M. Vanoleve, R. M. J. Sharp, John Scoveru ami John Thompson. George Ilearst, the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of California, is mentioned as a coming Democratic candidate for the United States Senate. Hearst is a man of great wealth, and is the chief financial power behiud the Examiner, tho leading Democratic paper of San Francisco. The governing committee of the New York Coffee Exchange expelled Gustaf A. Recknagel, vice-president of the exchange, for violating the rules and falling to answer t he summons of complaint of the committee. Recknagel failed to meet his obligations to his brokers, Scott A Sons, who sued him for $32,000. The twentieth annual commencement of the Southern Baptist Theological Seiuiuarv was held in Louisville ou Saturday. Nine gentlemen graduated, representing the Hrates of Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, |Missouri ami Georgia. Tho annual sermon will be delivered to-morrow at t P. M. by R.*v. Lemuel Moss, president of the Indiana State University. Before Judge Tuley In the Cirouit Court at Chicago, on Saturday, certain heirs contested the payment of a bequest to a priest of the Roman Catholic church to reimburse him for saying masses for the repose of the soul of testator.’The point urged ly counsel for tho heirs was that the money was expended for superstitious use. The court held the objection could not hold aud tue bequest was valid under the State statute. Work on tho Merced canal, projected to irrigate a vast tract of dry land In the Snn Joaquin valley, Cal., is being rapidiv pushed forward. When completed 250,000 acres of poor wheat land will bo turned Into good fruit ami vegetable land. Should the scheme prove a financial success, It will be the, commencement of other similar canals, which will make the San Joaquin valley tho heaviest wheat-raising section on the continent. The Snndny-school Assembly of Kansas and Missouri will hold its next reunion at Ottawa, Kan., June 26 to July 6. The managers report the most attractive programme ever given outside Chautauqua. A number of leading Chautauqua members are to be present: Rev. J. L. Huriburt, I)r. Schaefer, Dr. Deems, Prof. W. C. Richards, Rev. A. J. Palmer, Senator Calamltt, George W. Brown and Governor St. John. The music will be under the direction of Prof. Slierwin. W. C. Bedford, of Atolilson, Kan., attempted to commit suicide, on Saturday, by jumping into the Missouri river. Ho was rescued by an employe of the Burlington A Missouri railroad and taken to the police station and plaoed in a cell. He was crazy with drink, and endeavored to butt his brains out against the wall and iron doors. In an unknown manner lie obtained a rusty knife, with which ho attempted to take his life again, stabbing himself in the breast three times, inflicting wounds an inch apart but not fatal. About daylight on Saturday morning the body of a man was found floating in a creek at Wheeling, W. Va. The body was horribly marked by the action of the water and gave general evidence of long exposure A peculiar mark on the arm Induced the belief that the body was that of Joseph Schafer, of No. 93 Nineteenth street, and his father being sent for readily identified the remains as those of his son. Young Schafer had not been seen at home for a week, but, having announced his intention of attending the Cincinnati festival, no uneasiness was felt. Ho is thought to have been foully dealt with.

A STATESMAN’S TRIALS. The Weariness of Heart and Flesh to Which a Senator Is Subjected, National Republican. “There is very little comfort to be extracted from politics,” said a distinguished United States senator tiie other evening. “You arc harassed from one year’s end to another by office-hunters, and you have to leg it through tiie departments, and scheme continually to slip some hungry constituent into a $1,200 clerkship. 1 have done tilings for my friends during my term in tiie United States Senate 1 would never think of doing for myself. I have asked favors, nay begged for them almost, of men whom I would not ask the slightest consideration for myself. “And what does it all amount to? When you do succeed in getting a place for somebody a hundred others who were after the same thing, and expected you to get it for them, become bitterly incensed, and the chances uro they w ill bo your enemies for the rest of your life. When * you have gone the limit, and obtained all the offices it is possible for one man to secure, what a little crumb it is compared to the great loaf that is expected. There is nothing in politics to attract a man with sense enough to earn a living outside. Get u place for a friend, and hundreds of fellows who do not care a nickel for you will chorus, ‘There it is. I told you he was a blanked hog; always keeping everything worth having among a ring of timeserving friends. What does he rare for the boy#?’ On the other hand, if you find a place for ‘one of the bovs,’ your friends kick, and say that a man who will not stand by those who stand by him is no good, and they will go back ou you. Where you make one friend you are certain to make a hundred enemies. 1 am heartily sick of the whole business. I may be fool enough to stand for rc-election, but don’t think l shall be.” Don’t Want Any More of tlio Music Hall. C’inrinnati Enquirer. David Hinton is talking of building a large and magnificent theater on purpose for our dramatic festivals. My wife and daughter were made healthy by tho uso of Hop Bitters.—Methodist Clergyimm.

LANGTRY’S CRITICISMS. The Jersey Lily Talks Like an Expert About American Women and Tlieir Dress. Interview in New York Herald. “Since you have been in this country, Mrs. Langtry, have you met many American women?” “No, I have not met a great many, for my theatrical duties have been so heavy that I have received but few visitors and have really refused nearly all invitations —although I have had many friendly oilers of hospitality wherever I have been. But the American women I have met I been charmed with, and of course I have seen thousands and thousands of the American fair sex, for my matinee audiences arc almost entirely composed of women.” “And what impression has the American woman made upon you, Mrs. Langtry? What do you think of her?” “What a question to ask one!” and Mrs. Langtry threw up her hands in astonish* ment, “I really don’t think I can answer that. I don’t think it would be delicate for me to discuss the matter. I think it cannot be expected that I should pass judgment on the American women.” “But you must have some impressions of their manners, appearance, dress, etc. It would undoubtedly interest American women to learn what the English beauty thinks of them.” “Really this question has so surprised me that I don’t know what to say, but if you think it will really be of interest, I will try and tell you what I think. In the first place, I think American women have very pretty faces, so bright and winning. One sees many more pretty faces here than in England. Then I think they have beautiful hair and very pretty hands and feet.” “And their figures?” “Well, l must take the liberty to say that I think their figures are generally bad. The American standard of figure is altogether too plump to please me; but again, I do not see why my opinion should be of any interest in the matter. I have been called ‘scraggy’ in one town I visited.” “And Where was that?” “Well, I think it must have been in Pittsburg. 1 think the most disagreeable things were said of me there.” “Whom do you consider the most beautiful American woman you have seen?” “Mary Anderson, decidedly.” “But Mary Anderson is not over plump.” “She is not. I should have said that the over-plumpness I spoke of refers principally to the married beauties I have seen. It struck me as very funny,” Mrs. Langtry continued, ‘that in every town I visited the local papers in noticing my first appearance, led off with tiie remark that their own town was exclusively noted for its beauties, and with such an array of native beauty it was not surprising that the famous English beauty’s face made but little impression on the audience. Then they would begin to notice the performance, As far as Mrs. Langtry’s ability as an actress is concerned,’ etc., etc.” “In which town did you see the prettiest women?” “In Baltimore. It struck me that every woman there was a beauty. And I think that Baltimore was the only town that did not boast of its native beauties.” “Do you admire the dress of American women?” “I cannot say candidly that I do; on the whole I think they dress to smartly for the street and too simply for the theater. I think they mix their colors badly and have too many bows and ends on their dresses. To my taste a woman cannot be too simply dressed for the street. A dress of simple neutral tints pleases me best. I saw a woman in the street the other day, wearing a gray ulster, a blue dress and scarlet kid gloves. .Just think of that! ’ and Mrs. Langtry almost shuddered with horror at the thought of scarlet gloves, “and she also had a bouquet de corsage of daffodils. That was rather a gay mixture of colors, was it not?” The reporter sympathized with Mrs. Langtry, for on his way to the Albemarle he had met a woman wearing a mauve velvet dress with blue satin skirt, and a bonnet of blue straw, trimmed with crimson velvet, out of which appeared to be growing pink ears of barley. The reporter, by wav of contrast, somewhat reservedly remarked on the richness of Mrs. Langtry’s costume. “You may call it handsome, and perhaps it is, and it might look rather too fine on the street, but lam going out driving. But it is really a very simple dress. A peacoc k velvet overdress over a petticoat of turquoise blue, veiled with moonlight jet.” “You want to know what I think of the manners of the American women? I think them charming; so free and open. The American women are so independent and there is such a delightful lack of self-con-sciousness about them. They are, too. very bright in conversation, and tiie freedom and frankness of their manner impresses one instantly; it is so different from the“reserve of the general run of English women.” “You said that they did not dress well enough for the theater.” “Well, what I meant to say was that I like to see ladies in full dress at the theater; or they might, if they come in bonnets, wear the charming little theater bonnets one sees in the French theaters. These big hats that women wear in American theaters I think are abominable.” Mrs. Langtry’s maid entered at this point in the interview and brought a spray of for-get-me-nots and ferns. They were to be attached to her parasol. They were tied up with a blue bow. Mrs. Langtry caught sight of it and said laughingly: “Now see that bow fly,” and she tore it away and threw itdown. “I won’t have any bows about me,” she sai 1, “not even on my parasol. Yes. you can safely say that I am making war against bows and ends.” “Well, to stun tip on tho American woman.” Mrs. Langtry said, returning to the subject, “I think her very beautiful and charming, and I think she has very strong national characteristics. I would know an American'womun anywhere. In what way? Well, principally from her frank and open manner and her independence.” “What do you think of the fashions in America.’ Are they behiud the European fashions?” “Well. I should say that the American style in dress, in cut and all that, is about a year behind that of Paris. At least 1 find tlie American dressmakers I have visited offer me the styles I saw a year ago in Paris, Talking of American dress,” Mrs. Langtry added, “1 think American women think wo dress very badly in England, and 1 have heard it said that 1 dress fairly well for an English woman. But I must say that Eng* lisli women dress admirably, and the Princess of Wales has set us a charming example in simplicity of dress.” “Where will you go when your season is ended?” “I give my last performance on June 2, at Worcester, Mass., 1 think, and then I shall start on my holiday trip. I mean certainly to spend some time in Newport and Saratoga. and am looking forward immensely to leeing Newport.” “Will you spend the whole summer in America?” “I should like to, but I am going to Europe late in July, and intend studying for some time under the late Adelaide Neilson’s master in Paris. lam ns fond of my work as ever, and have received such encouragement in America that it will make me study all the harder to deserve the continued appreciation of this public.” Painful Conundrums. Tho Graphic. Mr. Eli Johnson, of Brooklyn, has talked temperance so excessively that he lias not

had time to be sociable witu his wife, and that lady, if Mr. Johnson’s suspicions are correct, has been affectionate with a handsomer and wealthier man. Why do they have so many scandals in the city of churches, and why is it that professional reformers are so unfortunate either personally or by marriage? Singular Stupidity of the Massachusetts Rustic. Correspondence Boston Journal. Probably no feature of the investigation into the management of the State almshouse has so impressed itself on the rural mind as the testimony regarding the tanning of. human skin. The vague impression here in the country is that the tanning was part of the misdoings of the Tewksbury officials. It is not understood that it was only a mad freak of idiotic medical students, quite on a par with the conversion of skulls into inkstands. It scents to be believed in some quaiters that Captain Marsh wears slippers made of choice bits of human skin, and spends his unhallowed nights in rifling graves! The love of the horrible and the grotesque is very strong in human nature, and who can wonder that, in the quiet country where theaters are unknown, the “Terrible tale of Tewksbury” is repeated with many a curious embellishment? The Suuday Rule of the L., N. A. & C. Management. *st. Louis Post-Dispatch. As this order is published in the railroad columns of the daily papers as an item of ordinary news there is no reason to suspect its genuineness, and the experiment will attract a deep and deserved interest. While we respect the honesty and sincerity of the motives which control the management, we arc afraid that through passengers who have important business beyond the ends of tho line on Monday morning will not appreciate the situation, and through freight, in which time is quite a consideration, will be apt to go by some other road. For these natural losses of business we see no compensation unless the higher moral tone of the management will induce Sabbatarians to settle along the line and thus build up enough business six days in the week to make good the losses of the day of rest. A Lesson iu Propriety. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. We are pained to note that the Cincinnati Enquirer, in mentioning the names of tho prominent people who attended the dramatic festival, mars the {esthetic refinement of its report by giving several names of gentlemen as accompanied by their ladifriends. In St. Louis a reporter who would descend to the vulgarity of calling one of our social queens a ladifriend would be either tabooed or ostracised, according to the gravity of his offense. A Language Mangier. Boston Herald. The newest and worst thing in the way of new words is proffered by the Indianapolis News, which says a certain man “cards” a New York paper, meaning that he has in that paper printed a card. Some of these newspaper chaps twist the English language about as if they were having a wrestling* match with it. If they were, the English language would throw them, so little do they know of its power. Has Killed Ilis Eight Men. Peru Republican. Phil. Thompson was pointed out to us in Washington as the congressman who had killed seven men. He is a slender, gentlemanly appearing man, apparently under thirty-five, of military bearing and affable manners. His personal courage is never called in question and he is always ready to resent an insult and protect his honor. A Difference of Opinion. Atlanta Constitution. Mr. George W. Smalley, speaking of the United States and England, says: “We are one nation instead of two.” Without going into details, we are willing to bet Mr. Smalley seven dollars and a half that he is mistaken. Strange Facts Side Sy Side. Bouton Herald. Only last week a Methodist conference here in New England voted that the use of tobacco is a sin against God. and Tuesday 4.000,000 poundsof tobacco were started from Norfolk for New England. lias One Merit. Brooklyn Eagle. Cincinnati is as far from being the Paris of America as a pig-stye is from being a Paradise, but it can get more noise out of a brass band than any other city in the world. A Discouraged Railway I’rehideut. Pittsburg Dispatch. Discouraged by his own want of success, Mr. W. H Vanderbilt turns over the job of d—ning the public to his successors iu the railway business. George W. Cox, Lngansport, used Brown’s Iron Bitter.; succcefuliy for a severe pain lu hi& breast.

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