Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1883 — Page 5

RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND. The Farm and Farming Methods of the British Agriculturist. nigh Prices for Horses ami Cattle and Low Wages for the Laborer—Country Schools and Charities, Special Correspondence to the Journal. London, May 19. —The Whitsuntide holidays, just past, afforded your correspondent fin opportunity to refresh his memory in regard to English country life and to gather a few facts in relation thereto, which will not only be interesting to your readers, but will be directly in the line of the special subjects marked out for investigation. With Parliament safely adjourned, the fisheries’ exhibition properly opened, the dynamite conspirators In the tight clutches of the law, and the executions warranted to proceed with due regularity in Ireland, it was felt that we could safely leave the center of the world’s intelligence for a little while, and, indeed, had we not done so we should have been guilty of the unpardonable sin of being unfashionable, for everybody goes out of town at Whitsuntide, with the exception of the few prosaic millions who may chance to lack the necessary funds, or may be compelled tc remain to look after business. To be sure of getting beyond reach of the great city’s din and bustle, we bought a ticket that carried us fifty miles away, and then took a “fly” to a genuine, old-fashioned English village, about seven miles distant from the railway Station. And what a change from the busy streets of London to tlie green meadows and fresh springing harvest-fields of Cambridgeshire, from crowded sidewalks to quiet country lanes; from the rattle of the übiquitous cab over hard thoroughfares to the warble of the lark; the lamb’s soft bleating and the song of the nightingale! And what added greatly to the pleasure of this visit was the delightful transformation that took place all at once in the weather. Three days of bright skies and gorgeous sunshine, with a temperature that enabled us to dispense with fires and overcoats, after as many weeks of clouds and cold, and almost daily rains, w’as an experience no less grateful to the dwellers on the sylvan banks of the Cam than to those who had braved the storm in the bustling metropolis on the Thames. This change gave anew face to nature and afforded the farmers around some hope of a fair crop. That the tillers of the soil here should he much Inclined to gloomy forebodings is scarcely a matter for surprise, considering that their harvests have been partial failures for seven successive seasons, barring alone that which was gathered a year ago. Nor is it surprising that they complain of the bad effect on prices of the large imports of grain from the United States. Wheat now, they tell me. is selling at about a doilur and thirty-five cents a bushel, and just as soon as any upward tendency is marked there is an extra influx from our side which knocks the prospect all to pieces again. And as though the farmer had not troubles enough from foreign competition and bad harvests, an unkindly, though unintentional, cut was recently given him by the Queen In banishing lamb from the royal table as a mark of her displeasure at the diminished size of the flocks of sheep throughout the country; for, of course, if her Majesty was going to abstain from juvenile mutton her dutiful subjects would do so likewise, and thus a sudden calamity was threatened, the price of this article of food going down several pence in a few days, with scarcely any demand, and those who had depended on the sale of their spring lambs for the money necessary to gather their harvests, being left, as it appeared for a time, to suffer great inconvenience and loss. But the Queen, seeing the injustice it would work to an already muchafflicted class of her subjects, has kindly lifted this embargo, and what with this concession of his most gracious sovereign and the smiles which a favoring providence had bestowed upon him for a few days, the average British farmer was found this week in a tolerably happy frame of mind, with the latch-string out, and not averse to giving an inquisitive Americana few points of information in regard to his STOCK, LANDS, AND LABORERS. The horses used on the farms here are of the massive English type so suggestive of those qualitiesof strength and solidity winch are the national characteristics of the English people. Those of good working age and capacity range in price from S2OO to S4OO each. A good-sized driving horse is worth from $l5O to s‘2*so, but there are a great many undersized animals in use and these. of course, are cheaper. A two-year-old colt that w’ll he broken ut once to light work, and which will be about fourteen hands when it has its full growth, had just been bought at Cambridge market for $75, and was considered a fair bargain. A good milk cow, with calf, is worth about $l5O. Land is cheap, considering the high state of cultivation to which it is brought. It seldom, of course, changes owners, and nearly all the farmers in this country are renters, but the current value at the distance ot a few miles from a large railroad center is from $l5O to $225 an acre. Farm laborers are paid from twelve to fifteen shillings c* week, that is from about $3 to $3,75, Ottt 6i this wretched pittance they TtVu&t pay house rent and must feed and clothe both themselves and their families, the latter of which are by no means patterened after tiie teachings of Bradlaugh’s “Fruits of Philosophy.” The waaes of laborers in the southern part of the country are slightly better than this, and there are more perquisites. Here the only relief to the monotony of this paltry stipend is during the harvest, when the farmer bargains with his help for S2O or $25 a month, with $5 for beer, the return he requires being hard labor for seventeen hours a day. The houses in the district are, with a few exceptions, of a very humble description, thatched roofs and small rooms mostly, but warm and comfortable. Rents, of course, are very low. The farm hands pay from sls to $22.50 a year for their dwellings, and have a small garden to cultivate. With beef selling at from twenty to twenty-five cents per pound, mutton the same, and pork at fifteen cents, not to speak of flour and other commodities, all of which are proportionately high, the marvel to a visitor is how these people live and manage to keep up such a good appearance. You will see them at a church on Sunday quite respectably dressed, and they look anything but ragged and pinched during the week. Clothing, however, is cheap, and is made to last a long time, a black suit of Sunday clothes being worn by the men ns long, in many instances, as twenty years. Where the laborer’s children number over seven one or more of them •will probably be earning a little—say fifty

cents each per week, and that is some help toward the family’s support. Owing to the liberal grant which the government now makes to elementary schools (the total sum per year now amounting to nearlys2o,ooo,(XX)) the education of the little ones costs a mere trifle. The first child must pay four cents a week, the second two cents, the third two cents, and as many more as there may be in the family can go for nothing. A little is made during harvest by gleaning, a merciful tradition making it incumbent on the farmers to not rake their fields too scrupulously; and that all the families may have an equal t .:nce in the gathering of what is left a rule obtains that none shall begin to glean till 8 o’clock in the morning, when the signal is given from the bell of the parish church, a similar signal being sounded at the hour agreed upon for suspending this work. Fortunately, too, in the village of which I am writing a large number of charities are in operation, most of them coming down as relics from former generations, but as conscientiously administered, nevertheless, as though the benefactors were still alive. SOME QUEER CHARITIES. One gets an idea here, not only of the amplitude of English benevolence, but of some of its vagaries also. Many years ago a gentleman invested SSO for the perpetual schooling of three poor children. The yearly income from this amounts now to sl2oand is quite a Ood-send to the school board. Contiguous to the village is a small piece of land which from time immemorial has been known as the Poor’s Fen, the rental of which fields every poor family in the neighborhood a half ton of coal yearly. Another singular beneficienco of great antiquity is that from which there is annually distributed to the poor families in the village a sum of money equal to a shilling each for fatherand mother, and half that amount, (or about 12X cents,) for each of the children. From money saved by a former parish minister, who sacredly set apart the whole of his salary to this work of charity, living in the most humble manner during the thirty years of his rectorship here, the widows of the parish, who number about forty, get an annual dividend at the present time of about 's23, and there is a surplus left for other benevolent objects. Still another charity provides for the schooling and clothing of twenty children in the parish, the beneficiaries of this fund, of whom sixteen are boys and four girls, wearing dresses and coats of a dark-green color, as a practical means, 1 suppose, of keeping their benefactors’ memory green. Asa still further method of keeping fresh and fragrant the memory of the eccentric authors of this charity, an annual memorial sermon is preached in the parish church, after which the widows of the community are again remembered by the distribution to those of this class who are present to hear the sermon of the munificent sum of thirteen cents apiece. The widows, it is said, are always out in force on that day. There are also two clothing clubs in operation here, the members paying from five to fifteen cents per week and getting a bonus at the end of the year of from seventy-five cents to a dollar; and added to all these there is a Maternity Club, from which all mothers in the community who pay $1.25 a year can obtain the use of such articles as are necessary for young children. Thus, the poor and laboring classes are not so badly off as would at first appear, though, notwithstanding all these helps, they can scarcely be said to “live on the fat of the land,” unless having a piece of fat bacon as a social relish for Sunday dinner entitles them to be placed in that class. lam candidly assured that bread and dripping (a cheap substitute for butter) form the chief articles of diet in the laborer's family for breakfast and tea, and that for dinner they usually eat vegetables cooked in a sort of paste or pudding, with the luxury of meat once or twice a week and most meager allowance for beer and tobacco. Still, however, they look hearty and healthy, and have, withal, an air of contented repose, which, among the better paid but harder worked laborers of the United States, is a universal and lamentable deficiency.

AN ANTIQUATED VILLAGE. The village in question is a charming place to visit. Everything is so old there. The parish church has stood for over six hundred years, having been first Catholic, then Protestant under Henry the Eighth, then a witness of the Catholic persecutions under the “bloody Mary,” and afterwards Protestant again, as, of course, it still remains. What changes in government it has witnessed, to what opposite doctrines its old walls have listened, and how many generations it has seen pass in solemn procession to the grave! One needs to case occasionally on such hoary piles to give him a proper appreciation of the stirring past and to remind him by force of contrast of his own littleness ami mutability. The place of sepulchre around this church has been used in every spot over and over again. Such a complicated condition of affairs ns wili be revealed there when Gabriel’s trump is blown baffles comprehension. To unearth skulls and bones in digging new graves is a common occurrence; and quite recently, in digging a foundation for a new’ wall around the school-house close by, us many as five skill Is were turned up. A rather solemn place, and yet a place of great interest—-this antiquated village. It has its drawbacks, however, as n place of residence, chief among which is the prevalence of the accursed caste spirit. The village 'squire i9 walled in by a dignity that is positively impenetrable. The land-owner is, of course, very much above the unfortunate wretch who rents his farm, even though said u. w. may ride in his own carriage; while the tradesman looks down on the farm laborer. Between church people and dissenters the lines are very sharply drawn. The Congregational minister tells touching stories of social ostracism of himself and flock by the pampered children of the bloated Establishment. No wonder this worthy man entered such mild protests against the refilling of his social glass by “mine host,” for he must needs have some comfort, poor fellow’, ami if lie seeks a little that is spirituous, as well us spiritual, who can blame him. especially as the customs of the country allow ministers such indulgences? Blit my friend of the cloth, a really intelligent gentleman, much beloved by his flock, is about to seek “fresh fields and pastures new” under the smiling skies of America, and meanwhile he strengthens himself for the battle here by the fond hope that the days of the Established church are numbered, and that the withdrawal from this institution of the stute aid, on which it has grown so rich and proud, will be the ushering in of anew era of social and religious equality throughout the whole country. h. t. The Gallows Still Useful. Philadelphia Record. The restoration of capital punishment by a vote of the people of Zurich, Switzerland, is a noteworthy occurrence. We are getting nearer to the millennium every day, but are not yet near enough to dispense with the gallows. A Fashionable Spring Bonnet. Philadelphia Chronicle. Last year's old straw’ bonnet covered with the best portions of a worn-out pair of handsome stockings w-ill make a stylish bonnet for this season’s wear. A Secondary Affliction. Hutton Advertiser. Poems spring up briskly In the path of the Western tornadoes, and these slorius have new terrors. "No sense in having sickness if you will use Hop Bitters ill time.“—One who kuows.

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AN IRON STRIKE AVERTED The Manufacturers Sign the Scale of Last Year. Great Rejoicing and Satisfaction Throughout tlie I'ittHlmrg District—dosing of Chicago and Cincinnati Hills. A STIIIKi: AVERTED. The Pittsburg Iron Manufacturers Sigu Last Year’s Scale. Pittsburg, May 31.—The conference of the Iron Manufacturers and Amalgamated Association committees, this afternoon, resulted in the manufacturers signing last year’s scale, $5.50 per ton for puddling. This action, happily, averts the strike and insures the running of all the mills in the West for at least one year longer. The manufacturers, who have all along persisted that they would not nay more than $5, and who were supposed to have a solid front, give as a reason for tlie unexpected action, that they had positive information that a number of Western mills had made arrangements to continue at the old scale, with the condition that if the manufacturers here were successful, the workmen would accept the same wages, and rather than submit to seeing their trade going to other places, decided to pay the wages demanded by the Amalgamated Association. President Jarrett, of the latter, says the scale was signed unconditionally, and characterizes it as “a victory without a battle.” Intense satisfaction is expressed on all sides over the settlement, as a strike was regard ed as inevitable, and to Pittsburg an indefinite shutting down of the iron mills means not only a serious loss to those engaged in that particular industry, but to every other industry and business as well. Great Satisfaction at Wheeling. Wheeling, W. Va.. May 31. —It is now definitely decided that there will be no lockout in the iron mills here. N. E. Whittaker, president of the Crescent Sheet-iron Mill, signed the scale to-day, and his mill will continue to work without stoppage. The news of the signing of the scale at Pittsburg was received here to-night with undisguised satisfaction by the manufacturers and delight by the workingmen. This settled the matter here. President Laughliu, of the Junction Iron WorKS, at once gave orders for his mill to continue without stoppage. Tlie other mills will he idle till Monday, but will then resume. The lucky solution of difficulties at the eleventh hour causes general joy among all classes of the community. At Cleveland and Youngstown, Cleveland, May 31.—The Union Rollingmills, formerly the .Fltna Company, has signed the scale; the S. O. Britton Iron and Steel Company has through its proprietory declined to say what it will do; the Forest City Iron-works either has, or undoubtedly will, sign the scale. Nrt other establishments here are affected by the Pittsbuig action. There is no sign of a strike. A Youngstown special says: “There is rejoicing among the iron workers, because work wili be continued to-morrow on the new scale, although a suspension is expected. All the mills will go on except two or three, where stock is exhausted, and which expect to resume at the earliest opportunity.” No Iron Strike at St. Louis. St. Louis, May 31.—50 far there are no indications of a strike among the iron-workers here. Only two mills in this immediate vicinity employ union men—the Needringhams’ mill in North St. Louis, and the Nut and Bolt Company of East St. Louis. But the men in them have made no demands as yet, and matters are working smoothly. In the non-union mills, of course, there is no disturbance, they being in no way affected by the action of the Amalgamated Association.

SHUTTING DOWN. Cincinnati Mill* Close, but Will Probably Rcftume Work. Cincinnati, May 31.—The five leading iron mills of this city, Covington and Newport, the Globe, Mitchell & Tranter, Riverside, Swift’s, and Licking, have declined to sign the scale presented by the workmen of the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers, and the mills will close to-night. This throws out of employment between 4,(XX), and 5,000 people. The situation of the iron workers here is peculiar. Tho puddlers ask an advance of fifty cents a ton, making,s6. The proprietors refuse to consider any proposition, stating that by the cont ract made in October, 1881, and reaffirmed in July, 1882, the subject of wages was fixed and was to be the same as that fixed at Pittsburg. The contract also contained u provision in case no price was agreed|on at Pittsburg. The puddlers hero have not united to support the other workmen. A meeting of finishers is called for tomorrow. from which puddlers will be excluded, when, it is said, action will be taken to compel the puddlers to recede from their position. One of the mill owners Announces to-night that he will only shut down one day to allow tlie men to attend this meeting, and then will supply the places of tlie puddlers and go on. The agreement at Pittsburg makes the demand of the Cincinnati workmen more hopeless. 12:30 a. M. —Asa matter of fact, six rollingmills in Cincinnati, Covington and Newport shut down half an hour ago, which was midnight May 31. The time after the receipt of the news that Pittsburg had signed the scale was not sufficient for negotiations. Only tomorrow can tell whether the strike is elided or will be prolonged. The North Chicago Company Close* It® Work* at Rayvlew. Milwaukee, Wis., May 31.—Tlie mills of the North Chicago Rolling-mill Company, at Bay view, will close at 5 o’clock on Friday morning, as this company is not a member of the Manufacturers’ Association and was not represented at any of the Pittsburg meetings. When notified of the action at Pittsburg, the Amalgamated Association committee at Bayview expressed the willingness of the men to continue work, but Superintendent Parks said the company had decided to shut down. Eleven hundred men are thrown out. The Situation at Chicago. Chicago, May 31.—From an interview with the managers of the leading iron mills in and about this city, it appears inevitable that all will close down to-morrow, owing to the failure of the mill-owners to accede to the Pittsburg scale. The controversy will not in any way affect the steel rail mills, which will continue their operations. The managers of the mills join in asserting that the advantage rests with them, as the market is inactive and prices only moderate, while the employes

were only recently engaged in a long strike, fro ;i the effects of which they have not yet recovered. OTHER STRIKES. The Differences at Belleville Amicably Adjusted at Last. St. Louis, May 31.—Tlie conference of miners and operators and the committee of the Board of Trade met at Belleville this morning. The miners agreed to accept ail the conditions of the Board of Trade proposition, previously telegraphed, except that which contemplates non-interference with machine mines. One of their committee said they had concluded to accept no conditions that did not put the hand-mines on an equal fooling with the ruachine-mines. The other propositions made by the Board of Trade were accepted by both miners und operators. Another conference will be held on Mondaj'. It is believed the differences wili then bo finally amicably adjusted. The Bricklayer*’ Difficulties. Chicago, May 31. —President Prusaing, of the Master Masons’ Association, stoutly denies the imputation made by the members of the Bricklayers’ Union that he had tampered with the agreement signed by the committee of arbitration, and which it was supposed would end the strike. He asserts that the bricklayers are in a rage simply because they have been defeated in everything they set out to accomplish. The end of the strike cannot now be foreseen. TWO UNHAPPY WOMEN. Mrs. I*lil. Thompson amt Mrs. Walter Davis—The Former’s Story of tlie Cincinnati Incident. Harrodshnrg Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer. When your correspondent called at the slain man’s late home he was ushered into the library, where were seated Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Walter Davis, Mrs. Latham, sister-in-law of Mrs. Davis, and Mrs. Governor Robinson, mother of the fair young widow'. It was a pitiful picture. Mrs. Davis contrasted strongly with Phil. Thompson’s wife. The former is young and fair. She is atypical brunette, with a pair of beautiful black eyes, and a sweet, innocent expression, which has become intensified by the sorrow and suffering of the past few weeks. Mrs. Thompson has been a very handsome woman, and a few traces of her once remarkable loveliness still remain. The most casual observer would notice that she has prematurely aged, and the history of her marital troubles are told in that carewora countenance. The two women syhose lives have been wrecked by the same horrible tragedy sat in opposite parts of the room, but when they addressed each other it was in the friendliest and most sympathetic terms. Both ladies, and particularly Mrs. Thompson, were taken unawares, anti the latter seemed to understand that she had been entrapped by her friends, and the time had come for her to tell what she knew of the distressing occurrence at the St. Clair Hotel on the afternoon and night of the 28th of last November. Yet, the lady hesitated to give her version of the affair, and it was only obtained after a series of questions, some of which she left unanswered. During the interview, which lasted for more than an hour. Mrs. Davis and her mother would interject interesting points which had not yet been brought out. Mrs. Thompson said that she went with her husband to Cincinnati on Monday, Nov. 27, and they stopped at the Burnet House. Mr. Thompson wrote a note to Jessie Buckner, requesting her to call at the hotel, which she did, and took supper with them. Phil ordered his wife’s baggage sent to the St. Clair Hotel, and before lie departed for Washington bis better half left with Jessie Buckner for her rooms at the St. Clair. The occurrence at the hotel on the next afternoon are given as nearly as possible as the unfortunate wife stated them to the Enquirer correspondent:

“On Tuesday morning Jessie and I went shopping and met Waiter Davis. He said he had just come from Harrodsburg. Miss Buckner told him where we were stopping, und invited him to call. His card was sent up about our lunch time, and when we emerged from the dining-room he walked to the parlor with us. While we were there Miss Buckner excused herself to to down to the drug store and get some Apollinaris water, and we went up to her room. Was there harm in that? Walter Davis and I had known each other for years. His family and ours were on the most intimate terms. We trailed at his grocery, and whenever I needed any money my husband always told me to go and get it of Walter Davis. When Jessie returned I was silting at the piano playing. Presently a card came up for her. and upon it was tlie name of M. T. Threlkeld. of Harrodsburg. who wanted to see Miss Buckner. The young woman looked at it and contemptuously threw it aside, with the remark: ‘1 wish every striped-pant* galoot from Harrodsburg wouldn’t come to see Miss Buckner. I am tired ot it and won’t see him.' Walter Davis went down town with me to telegraph my little daughter that I wouldn’t be home that night. He didn't tell me there was a wreck on the road. My husband didn’t tell me when I should go home, but before I left him he gave me some money to do my shopping. “We went to the St. Nicholas to get some ovsters, and returned to the hotel at 6 o’clock. I was not drunk, and the story of the champagne bottles is an infamous lie. I had on a dress with only two small pockets, and where could I carry wine in them? Walter Davis hart purchased three tickets for the theater that night—for Miss Buckner, me and himself—but Jessie said she had an engagement, and couldn’t go. She offered no protest against ray going, but rather insisted upon it, and made the significant remark that she was a sound sleeper, and it might be hard to wake her when we returned. I arranged my own toilet, and Walter Davis called for me and requested Miss Buckner to go with us, as he had a ticket for her, but she persisted in her declination. 1 believe the theater was Robinson’s Opera-house. But about 9 o’clock I was taken ill, and we went back to the hotel. We tried the door of Jessie Buckner’s room, but could not wake her. Mr. Davis said: ’There is someone in there. Come to my room and sit by the fire.’ The day was cold, and it had been snowing during the afternoon and night. I accompanied Mr. Davis to his apartment as entirely innocent of any wrong. He turned up the gas, and we chatted by the fire for perhaps an hour. As God is my judge, Walter Davis was not guilty of any wrong. We had hard work the second time to get into Jessie’s room, but at last she got up and let me in. The story that I fell helpless on tlie floor is a falsehood. I took my jewels off’, put them in my jewel case, placed it under the pillow’, ami went to bed. Jessie Buckner didn’t disturb herself at ull on my account. Early the next morning 1 took the train for Harrodsburg and chatted pleasantly with a number of lady friends whom I met eti route. This is the true story of the occurrence at the St. Clair Hotel, und my husband killed an innocent man.” “Do you think there was any one in Jessie Buckner’s room the night of the occurrence at tlie St. Clair, Mrs. Thompson?” “I most certainly do, and I know who it was, but l dare not reveal the name.” Mrs. Thompson spoke in the kindest terms of Phil. Thompson, sr., and his wife, whom she said had ever treated her kindly, and al--1 ways said they didn’t believe her guilty.

Jessie Buckner and John Thompson she declared were the authors of ail tlie trouble. “I feel sorry for Phil. I didn’t want him punished, but I desired that niv fair name should not be sullied and an innocent man held guilty of a heinous crime.” The unfortunate lady spoke in touching terms of her children, and particularly her daughter Mattie, in school at Washington City. She showed the reporter a letter from Mattie, dated May 27th, in which she told her mamma to write often, as she loved her so dearly and w*as so anxious to see her again. “My daughter knows why I went to Washington to see her lather, aiid she still stands by her mother.” She wouid say nothing against her husband. whom she spoke of in the kindest manner. and thought lie was prompted to kill Walter Davis by bad advisers. During the conversation Mrs. Davis sat with her face buried in her hands, but would occasionally make some remark or offer a word in defense of her departed husband. The newspaper man at last took his departure, and the ladies were left to carry on the omnipresent topic of conversation among them. The fair sex in Harrodshurg, almost without exception, side with Mrs. Thompson, and not one of them can ever be convinced that she was guilty of adultery with Walter Davis. Public interest in the great trugedv, although more than two weeks have elapsed since the end of the trial, which resulted in Phil. Thompson's acquittal, has not ceased. If the proposed suit for damages is brought against the Thompsons the excitement will be greater than before. The Davis faction assert that they don’t want the money of the slayer of their friend and relative, but desire only to vindicate his innocence and show that he died to protect the honor of Phil. Thompson’s wife. A CATHOLIC COUNCIL. An Impending Event of Great Importance to American Catholics. New York, May 31.—The Sun has the following: “There is reason to believe that an event of great importance to American Catholics is impending. It is. we iearn. the intention of the Vatican to convoke at a day not distant a plenary council for the United States. The great ecclesiastical assembly will probably be held in the city of New York, although the place of meeting has nor been irrevocably fixed. Tlie scope and purpose of the council will not, of course, be definitely settled until the views of the American hierarchy have been elicited, and totiiatend several influential members of the episcopate will, it is said, be speedily invited to Rome. It is expected, however, that whereas Archbishop Spalding officiated as apostolic delegate at tlie council of Baltimore in 1860, Leo XIII will be represented on the coming occasion by a Roman canonist of extensive erudition and experience, selected from among the most distinguished prelates of the curia. Attended, as he will be, doubtless, by divines of unquestioned competence and ripe learning. the papal delegate should be able to enlighten and invigorate the labors of the council, so as to permanently allay the troubles growing out of infractions of ehuroti discipline and of canonical morality.”

End of the Northern Ohio Fair. Cleveland, May 31.—The Northern Ohio Fair Association grounds, embracing one hundred acres in Glcnville, were sold to-day by public auction, and the association ceased to exist. It was organized in 1870, but the fair never met expenses since the second year, and would have been bankrupt long ago but for tlie profits on the races given by the Cleveland Club, composed of directors of the association, though conducted separately, in order to separate the fairs and races. The Cleveland Club expired with the association, and its place and engagements are taken by tlie Cleveland Driving Park Company, formed mainly of members of the Cleveland Club, with the same officers, and incorporated with a capital of SIOO,OOO. Organizing the Philadelphia Civil Service. Philadelphia, May 31.—Dorman B. Eaton and Dr. Gregory, of the United States civilservice commission, and E. W. Clarke, advisory member of the board, began an inspection of the custom-house and postoftioe this morning. After consultation with Postmaster Huiuekoper, the board selected three of the department superintendents, as well as a board of examiners of qualifications for all applicants for a place in the respective departments of the postolfice after July 16. The commission then visited the customhouse, where they lmd a private conference with. Collector Hartrnnft. Tlie commission selected five subordinate officers of the different departments to act as a board of examiners for the custom-house. Funeral of the Lynchburg Fire Victims. Lynchburg, Va., May 31.—Tlie body of the fifth victim of yesterday’s catastrophe was exhumed to day. All the bodies are now recovered. The funeral took place this afternoon. Business was suspended and schools closed. The cotfins were conveyed to the opera-house, where J. W. Daniel delivered the funeral oration. The procession, composed of military, white and colored, municipal officers, the fire department, civic societies and citizens, mounted and on foot, moved to the Presbyterian graveyard, where the bodies were interred side by side. A monument will be erected. The appeal for relief of the families is being generously responded to. Celebrating lowa’* Semi-Centennial. PriiUQUK, May 31. —The first permanent settlement of the Slate of lowa was made at Dubuque, June 1, 1833. A semi-centennial celebration of the event wili be held in this city to-morrow under the auspices of the Dubuque Club. Extensive preparations are being mart?. The club fives a banquet in the evening, when an address in honor of tlie occasion will be made by Senator Allison, B. B. Richards, J. K. Graves and Rev. D. J. Burrell. New I’apor In Cincinnati. Cincinnati, May 31.—Arramr**ments have been completed bv Cappeller, Webber, Bovle & Cos. to start a daily evening paper in this city on or about July 15. The paper is to be a seven-column folio, and will be a red-hot, radically Republican organ. The press has been ordered in Chicago, and the work of altering the building for the purposes contentplated will lie commenced at once. The street price of the paper will be two cents. Importation of Liquor* Into Canada. Cincinnati, May 31. —The Export Association. having been inquired ot frequently whether the rejM>rt was true that Canadian restriction on the importation of liquors had been removed, to-day received a dispatch from M. IV. Owell, commissioner of customs, Ottawa, Canada, saving: “No change has been made in the regulations restricting the importation of liquors.”

PLAIN FIGURES. ONE PRICK. The Pouch Gossamer Own Water-Proof Coat, at $1.25. Is a rattier, unit sella accordingly. sand 7 W. Wash. St. FAMOUS EAGLE.

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