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AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ENGLISH’S OPERA-HOUSE—Henry Irvin? and Ellon Terry—Matinee, “Charles I:" evening. “The Bells" and the trial scene from “The Merchant of Venice.” GRAND OPERA-HOUSE—Edwin Thorne in “The Black Flag,’ matinee and evening. PARK THE ATER—Rentz-Santley Novelty Company, matinee and evening. THE DAILY JOURNAL, BY JXO. C. NEW * SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pacte. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1884. ' TWELVE PAGES. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places. LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON. D. C.—Brentano’s, 1,015 Pennsylvania Avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. C. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUISVILLE—O. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and .Tellerson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot. THE INDIANA SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT. The following contributions to the fund for the Indiana soldiers' monument have been made public through the columns of the Journal: L. M. Campbell. Danville SIOO.OO Benjamin Harrison 100.00 The Indianapolis Journal 100.00 The Terre Haute Courier 50.00 C. L. Holstein 50.00 Dr. Charles D. Pearson, No. 30 East Ohio street. Indianapolis .. - 100.00 McKain & Murray. Indianapolis 50.00 Stanton J. Peellc 50.00 Other contributions, no matter what the amount, will be acknowledged. It is hoped the response will be prompt and general. Let it be a people’s monument to the soldiers and sailors of Indiana.

PUBLIC SCHOOL ABUSES. It is probably unfair to assume that the present school board is knowingly responsible for that astounding rule which prohibits the study of the history of the war of the rebellion in our city schools. The assertions of some of its members that the discovery of such a rule came as a revelation to them must be. believed, but whether their ignorance should absolve them from blame is another matter. To the people who choose the gentlemen who compose the board on account of their supposed fitness to manage the affairs of the schools it is something of a “revelation” to learn that such abuses can exist undetected for so many yearn. While patrons of the public schools may not hold the commissioners directly responsible for dropping the most important period of our countryfs history from the course of study, because it would be “prejudicial" to youthful minds, they will be likely to regard them as neglectful of interests they were elected to guard. With an understanding of the manner in which business is inducted by the board, it is not difficult to Understand how such a rule may have come into existence, and, once in force as a part of the .“system,” have escaped notice by those in authority. As in any executive body where the duties are divided among various committees much business is transacted which never comes before the entire board. In an organization which has had little change in its membership for years, these committees become in a measure self-perpetuating, and their acts and decisions come to be accepted by their brethren without question or hesitation. So far is this ‘ ‘courtesy” carried that it is said to be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for a member to bring any matter, however important, before the board if it has been considered and disposed of by a committee. In this way questions in which the public is concerned are settled by two or three, when a free discussion and the light of combined wisdom might lead to a different conclusion. If, as has been known to be the case, the business is delegated to a single member of the committee, or to a subordinate school official, the one-man power comes in play. That this one-man power exists to an unpleasant degree in the management of our public schools, no one at all conversant with the workings of the patent castiron system can deny. It is not improbable that many a citizen who has no personal interest in the schools is more familiar with their faults and hears more of the complaints which, whether well grounded or not, are frequently made against them than the men whose business it is to right the abuses. Teachers do not complain <to superintendent or committeemen; they know better. If a young woman whose duties in keeping the “lines” straight require her to climb two pairs of stairs a dozen times a day, becomes exhausted in this educational effort, she does not ask that a different method of discipline be employed, but goes on in silence, enduring as best she may. Neither does she raise her *oice in remonstrance over the tacit understanding held by her superiors in office that a teacher can better convey information to her pupils when in a standing position than when seated. Should she complain of either of these outrages upon womankind, she knows that a more able-bodied teacher would soon be found to occupy her place. The school board probably known nothing of this part of the educational system; the proper committee is doubtless ignorant of them, but some under-official who enjoys their confidence and a brief authority regards such matters as immaterial, and disposes of them and the rash complainant at one and the same time. The committee on text-books and the committee on printing are without doubt aware that a certain arithmetic, compiled by two attaches of the schools and published by the board in 1882, has been thrown aside and an edition of

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the same book published in 18S4 substituted therefor. No material difference in the two can be detected, save in the paging and the correction of a few typographical errors. It would seem to the parent, who is compelled to thus duplicate books for his child, that if the school board undertakes to publish books it should not make the buyers pay for the mistakes. If the compilers were not competent, or no proofreaders to be had for the first edition, was it the fault of the patrons of the school that they should be made to buy the collected copies? None of these things is of the importance of the prohibition of the history mentioned, hut they are among the many little matters talked of outside, and which no one thinks of bringing before the proper authorities because of an understanding that, being a circumlocution office, and semi-mechanical in its workings, it would do no good. A confession that any matter connected with their charge is a “revelation” is one of which no member of the hoard can be otherwise than ashamed, whatever may he his excuse. A general overhauling of the entire machinery of the schools and a casting out of some of the distressinglyelaborate portions would undoubtedly result in good, besides giving the board something new to think about.

THE RESPONSIBILITY FIXED. The more the question of the suppression of history in the public schools is discussed by members and officers of the school board the less creditable it becomes and the more ill-temper is displayed. According to Prof. Mills's last statement it appeal's that when he spoke of the suppression to Mr. Tarbeil, some time ago, the superintendent thought it proper that the suppressed history should be taught; that afterward Mr. Mills spoke to Mr. Austin H. Brown, who replied that he was in doubt about the propriety of it, as “teachers were not always judicious in treating questions upon which public sentiment is divided.” This remark Mr. Mills repeated to Mr. Tarbeil, who replied: “If Mr. Brown says we had better not teach it, I guess we had better not.” Now here are facts in a nutshell, and they do away with all the fancies wliich have been spun about the matter by the school authorities and by Professor George P. Brown in his published card. The latter has authority to speak for himself, and it is conclusive, so far as it goes. But why has not the history of the civil war been taught in the schools since Professor Brown retired? Professor Mills explains why. When he asked the superintendent about the matter Mr. Tarbeil thought it well to have it done. Mr. Mills did not consider that sufficient authority, but consulted Mr. Brown, who was the president of the board, and had before that for years been not only a member of the board, but a member of the committee on text-books and course of instruction. That gentleman thought it not advisable to teach the history, because “public sentiment was divided,” and “teachers were not always judicious!” When Mr. Mills repeated this to Mr. Tarbeil the latter acquiesced in the judgment of his superior officer, the president of the board, and who, from his long connection with the board and with the committee on courso of instruc tion, might very properly be supposed to know the feelings and judgment of his colleagues. When the scandal was first broached, and began to unwind itself, the Journal expressed the opinion that Mr. Tarbell’s sin, if any he had, was that of weak acquiescence. Professor Mills gives the proof to sustain that criticism. The responsibility for the first suppression of the history of the civil war is with Professor Geo. P. Brown, who manfully assumes it, because he did not like the text-book then in use. The responsibility for the continuance of the suppression, according to the story of Prof. Mills, under whose charge the study of history has been conducted, is with President Brown, who did not want the history taught because “public sentiment was divided.” The fault of Mr. Tarbeil is, that he consented to the suppression upon the advice of the president —according to Mr. Mills —and the fault of Mr. Mills is, that he did not at once reorganize his chart when he thought it proper to do so, and had received the concurrence of his superintendent. But, whatever the faults, the fact remains that the history of the civil war has not been taught in the public schools of Indianapolis, for sometime at least, for the alleged reason that the president of the board did not think it advisable to commit the work to possibly injudicious teachers, because “public sentiment was divided." Is public sentiment divided upon the proposition that the history shall be taught hereafter? —The school board, last night, ordered the suppressed history to bo hereafter taught according to the text-book now in use. President Brown asked for a committee of investigation, hut the hoard thought it unnecessary. THE PULPIT AND THE STAGE. George C. Miln, the ex-preacher and present actor, reveals a very uncharitable spirit in responding to the exceptions taken by a certain Rev. Pearce, of Akron, 0., who is persuaded in his own mind that the stage is a thing of evil and an abomination. With the superheated zeal of anew convert Mr. Miln rushes to the rescue, which in itself is natural enough, and commendable for its consistency, if for nothing else. But Mr. Miln, in the bitterness of his resentment, is not content with a defensive attitude, but must assume the aggressive. He says in his card in reply: “As the clergyman named lias chosen to assail the profession to which I have the honor to belong, in an indiscriminate and unthoughtful manner, I will venture to say that it is not good form for the pot to animadvert upon the complexion of the kettle. I have been in the

ministry and know its glory and its shame, its strength and its weakness. ‘I could a tale unfold/ if I would, but I won’t. Tlio simple fact is that wherever human nature is, thore is frailty. The clerical coat does not always clothe perfection, nor does the stage costume invariably gild a devil. The pulpit and the stage are both far from ideal conditions; both will undoubtedly evolve into a more ideal state. This much I will say: that for double entendre, questionable stories, and ill-con-trolled hilarity, a company of preachers off duty is a match for any like company of players that could be collected.” Mr. Miln has made a serious mistake in challenging a comparison between the pulpit and the stage. In an issue between the two, the latter must go down. The stage has undoubtedly evolved into a better condition, and is better to-day than a generation ago, and very much better than it was a century ago, or at any time in its history. But the chasm between stage and pulpit is yet too wide to invite a comparison as to moral influence in behalf of the stage. While the play-house, generically, is high above what it once was, there are species still that are but vent-holes to the foulest corruption. The stage adapts itself to all conditions. No taste is too depraved for it to minister to, and only the strong hand of public opinion prevents it from descending to the lowest depths. There are lapses in the conduct of the exponents of the Christian and other religions of civilized countries, but the standard is fixed and the influence good. It is a vain thing to compare any organization to the church, for the church is.the salt of the earth, without which society would be imperiled and civilization a desperate problem at best.

The stage of the present is undoubtedly an improvement morally on what it once was. But there is room still for great improvement, if you presume to speak of it as a factor in morality and good breeding. Such murderous travesties as the James Brothers combination readily dispose of themselves; they are too rotten to hold together. A step above them are those like John A. Stevens’s “Unknown,” which may be classed as the idiotic, without sense, plot, or coherency. Above these, in turn, come the society plays, a large proportion of the most popular of which are of French origin. In this list may be placed “Camille,” “Frou-Frou,” “Adrienne,” “Article 47,” et id omne genus, each and all of which are unhealthy and immoral. At the top are the best, culminating in the dramas of Shakspeaie. Even in these is enough to make them of questionable influence upon immature minds. It will be seen, therefore, that, from the concert garden and variety theater to the best in the land, there is much of evil. If the public be not corrupted it is because the public is above the stage, and is able to discriminate, and competent to realize that the brutal and cheap hero of the foot-lights is no hero at all. It is unjust to erect a character into a hero because of one brave or worthy act, a thing too often done in plays, and pointed to as inculcating a healthy “lesson.” The religious world is better than the stage because the church is better. The general education afforded by the church, directly upon its communicants and indirectly through their influence upon the world, enables the patrons of theaters to discriminate and to select that which is fit from that which is unfit of the pabulum set forth on the stage. It is an encouraging sign that actors are becoming sensitive on this point, but the world is not yet ready to accept the Announcement that church and stage are on the same plane. In one, the evil is the exception; in the other, be it said, the elevating and the pure is the exception.

If ever dissatisfied spirits come back from the unseen world, that of the victim of the colored murderer, Henry, at Edwardsvillo, 111., must have done so. Six years ago he killed another colored man who accidentally killed his dug. His conscience troubled him so continuously that he has just confessed the crime, long after all hope of discovering tho murderer had died out, and when nobody seemed to care to find out. His conversation with a reporter shows tho fearful torture he must have endured, that finally compelled him to incriminate himself in order to relieve his burdened conscience. After he was incarcerated a mob gathered, and th 6 reporter asked if he was not afraid. “Well, no, boss; I guess dey can’t git mein here; but es dey does come I specs I’ll hevter die, dat’s all.” “You expect then to be hung for the murder, anyhow?” “Oh, yiss, sah, I specs doy’ll hang mo, but I’se mightv glad I tolo all about it” “Is it true that the reason you confessed was because you saw the ghosts of the murdered men in your cell every night?” 4 Dat’s true, sah.” “Did they say anything to you?* “No. sah; dey jiss come daran’ stud an' p’inted der fingers at mo, an’ didn’t sav nuffiii; dey jiss look at mo an’ I knowed dat do bess way would be ter tell all about do murder, an’ I did it” “Have you seen them since?” “No, sah, dey hasn’t troubled mo no mo'.” Could anything be more terrible than the torments so ingenuously and so plaintively told by this man? Mr. Marshall Smith, a temperance agitator of New Jersey, confessed before a reform club, of which he is a member, that he had violated his pledge. The editor of a local paper hearing of this and regarding it as a piece of information which would interest, if not edify, his subscribers, published the confession. When tho agitator went out to labor with and lecture at the intemperate classes again, he found his usefulness somewhat impaired, and has therefore sued tho paper for libel. It was one thing to tell of bis little weakness in the sympathetic bosom of tho club, and another to have it appear in cold typo without the extenuating circumstances which all reformers understand, and he demands a financial balm for his injured feelings and reputation. _ In the Connecticut Legislature, at least, the newspaper reporters lobby to some purpose, and, impossible as it may appear, actually enjoy a salary of S3OO per session. In other words, they are paid that sum for tlio privileges accorded them by tho Legislature. It is said, and may readily be credited, that many of the members believe that the reporters are posseased of almost supei naturally malign powers,

and that they can make and unmake public men at will. The impression is not an unnatural one, and as a result it occurred to these law makers that the proper thing to do was to placate the reporters, and with characteristic frugality they voted the subsidy out of the public treasury instead of descending into their own pockets. This will probably he news to their constituents and it will bo interesting to note the effect upon them. An attempt was once made to annul the provision, but the reporters threatened to swamp things and the reform was suddenly abandoned. The schemes of the temperance . people who were preparing to make of Mr. Billy McGlory a star lecturer and a frightful example, all in one night, are somewhat interfered with by the sentence which sends that interesting person to prison for six months. Said one of the ardent temperance workers previous to the court’s decision: “The spectacle of McGlory urging his old patrons to reform will make good men weep with joy. I shall introduce him to a number of respectable people, and I am .sure that he will bo so gratified with the change from his formor life to good society that he will have no inclination to go back to his old business.” As this introduction will bear a little hard upon the respectable people and good society, it may be just as well that the new apostle of reform shall first spend a season of probation in a place so much more decent than his old surroundings. If there is to be any credit given for the discovery that the history of the civil war was not taught in the public schools of the city, so far as we now know the award must be to Mr. Lon. Boyd, who. in a letter addressed to the editor of the Daily News—and of which ho made two copies for other papers, under date of January 19, ult. —pointed out. the fact in detail. This letter undoubtedly led to the investigation, the result of which has so greatly stirred the city and State. Mr. Johnny Curtis, who may be remembered as the very young St. Louis man who ran away last year with the mother of a family, now figures in anothor exploit of the same kind. Unless tho St. Louis authorities wish to have domestic life broken up in that city they should compel the too fascinating Mr. Curtis, when he re turns, to wear a mask. El Mahdi does not allow any one to excel him in his attentions to foreign visitors in his section of country. When ho heard that General Gordon was coining he prepared to receive him, and if reports are tme, took him right in out of tho malaria on his arrival. It costs a St. Louis man anysvhere from sl2 to SIOO every time he takes his girl to the opera. Asa consequence landladies of ten-dollar-a-week young men suffer great inconvenience for several months following a season of grand Italian music. General Gordon may not be afraid, but it is possible that a message from some other fellow saying, “I am coming,” would be cheering intelligence. The campaign is upon us. A “lio was nailed” this week.

POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. The Columbia City Commercial says “Judge Robert S. Taylor, of Fort Wayne, is strongly talked of as the Republican candidate for Governor. Judge Taylor is a host.” The Franklin Jeffersonian announces that Johnson county will present the name of Col. S. P. Oyler as a candidate for Lieutenant-gov-ernor to the Republican State convention. The Albany Evening Journal says it is better to spend $lO in March or April in interest ing Republicans in their party than SI,OOO in buying torches, fire works, and Democrats in October. The county clerk of New York city could not tell a legislative committee whether he contributed $20,000 or $50,000 to the campaign fund. He does recollect that he paid tho treasurer of Tam - many Hall $7,500. Hon. James N. Tyner, who has resumed his residence at Peru, is named as a probable candidate for member of Congress from the Eleventh district. Mr. Tyner formerly represented the district in Congress. Hon. Thad Hunton is very favorably mentioned in connection with the office of Secretary of State on the Republican ticket. lie is well known throughout Southern Indiana, and is strong in that section of the State. Thf. Louisville Courier Journal says that States rights has yet a vital force and meaning with the Democratic party, and it is that doctrine that marks broadly and irreconcilably the difference between tho Republican and Democratic parties. The Lafayette Sunday Times says tho friends of A. L. Kumler, of that city, will before long present him as a candidate for Congress, and adds that “he is a man of brains and decided ability, and the peer of any man who lias represented the district in the last twenty years.” The Kokomo Gazette says: “If Arthur will withdraw from tlio presidential race, as ho probably will, and the influence of the administration is centered on Postmaster general Gresham, ho will stand a first-class show of being nominated. In an event of that kind Indiana should stand solully by him.” Scranton. Pa., is likely to have a mayor out of Jabberwocky, the Democrats having nominated Frank W. Beamish with a hurrah. And there is no use in poetry if Scranton does not say on election day: “Come to my arms, my Beamish boy i O frabjous day! Calloo! Callay! And chortle in its joy!” A writer in the Peru Republican strongly urges the nomination of Hon. John M. Butler, of Indianapolis, as the Republican candidate for Governor. Ho says Mr. Butler is an old resident of the State, well known in all the localities therein as a man of pure integrity, irreproachable character, heroic devotion to principles, an able lawyer, and a stirring logical debater on political issues. The Logansport Pharos, Democratic, says iu a very kind spirit: “The name of James T. Bryer, of this city, is mentioned in connection with tho candidacy for Secretary of State on the Republican ticket Mr. Bryer has been one of the Republican cornerstones of Cass county. Ho has been a leader in advocating Republican principles and inculcating Republican thought, and sentiment. His services have not only been lonf?, they have been earnest and self-sacrificing. His rewards for political work have not been commensurate with the labors he has performed.” Tlio Journal, of Logansport, heartily indorses Mr. Bryer. BREAKFAST TABLE TALK. Bronson Aloott is HO much better that he hopes to attend tho Summer School of Philosophy this year. James Gordon Bennett's latest, fancy is for collie dogs, in buying which he is dissipating recklessly. Our book-keeper who has taken a lively interest in this Egyptian business, says that the accounts are balanced thus: England—All loss and no profit. Maluli— All prophet and no loss. The business of raising sweet-scented flowers for their perfume alone is now of greater magnitude than ever before. Europe and British India consume about 150,000 gallons of handkerchief perfumes yearly; and the English revenue from eau de cologne is SIO,OOO annually, and that the total revenue from other perfumes is estimated at $200,000 annually.

There is one great. perfume distillery at Cannes, in France, which uses yearly 100,000 pounds of accacia flowers, 140,000 pounds of rare flower loaves, 32,000 pounds of jasmine blossoms, 20,000 of tuberose blossoms, and an immense quantity of other material. Eliza Howard Powers, of Paterson, N. J„ who spoilt a fortune during the war in caring for the wounded, is now an invalid and in needy circumstances. She has asked the government for $2,500. Jeanne Davenport, who many years ago created a great furor on the stage and who forsook the drama for her husband, Gen. Lander, lives in Washington in a little white house of two stories on Capitol Hill, a block east of Ben Butler’s stone mansion. An intimate friend of Miss Ella Wheeler, tho poetess, now in New Orleans, says that young lady is to be married in early spring to Mr. Yorke, of New York city. Miss Wheeler is thirty-two years old, and with her pen has earned and paid for a lovely little home, in which she resides with her mother and a young sister, whom she has educated. John llabrerton, famous as the author of “Helen's Babies,” who lias been for many years an associate editor of the New York Herald, is engaged upon a serial for The Current. Mr. Habbertou’s leisure time for some years has been devoted to gathering material for this novel. It is about completed, and will be begun in the columns of Tho Currant iu April or May of the prosent year. Rev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon created a sensa tion by recently preaching in a Worcester Unitarian pulpit. He preached a sermon in which it is alleged he emphatically declared, iu referring by way of illustration to the history of Jacob and Esau, that he considered Jacob a hypocrite and sneak, and Esau, by nature, much the best type of man of the two, and Rachel a designing, scheming, unjust woman. Speaker Carlisle wields the gavel with some listlessness. He pounds as though he was afraid of making too much noise, and in this respect he differs from Keifer, who made the splinters fly over the devoted heads of the clerks below him. He is a smoothly-shaven man, with two bulging bumps of intellectuality over his eyes, a rather narrow forehead, and when he speaks his voice comes somewhat weak and a severe frown ornaments or, to put it better, disfigures his brow. There is a pleasant incident related of Mr. Phillips which is not without a basis. Many years ago, with Charles Sumner, he called on two young ladies who were to take the stage coach very early the next morning. In a pleasant spirit of banter the two gallants were challenged to be at the starting point at t> A. M. Mr. Phillips was punctual, but Sumner overslept him self. Mr. Phillips married one of the young ladies, and possibly the Senator might have found his mate if Morpheus had not prevented. It is explained that 1900 will not be a leap year, although it is divisible by four without a remainder. In order to make calendar and solar time agree as nearly as they can be got for many centuries to come, the Gregorian calendar drops three leap years out of every four centuries, and these omissions aro upon such leap years as will not divide by 400 without a re mainder, though they can be divided evenly by four. The year 1000 was a leap year, but 1700 and 1800 were not, and 1900 will not be. Miss Lloyd, who is to go into history as the only genuine “Bunthorne’s Bride,” is not only pretty and talented, but rich, so that when she becomes Mrs. Oscar Wild© she and that poet of passion and of pyn will not (happily for them both) be dependent upon his publishers for their bread and butter. The story that they were to live in Dublin, her present home, is contradicted, and neither will the Grosveuor Gallery be closed nor Mr. Du Maurier be forced to resign from Punch by tho loss of his best subject. Earnest Longfellow said to a reporter in New York: “The Longfellow Association desires to erect a monument in honor of my father, but it has not money enough to carry out his wishes. It is anticipated that the necessary sum will be raised, but where the monument will be placed is not decided upon. It will not be at Mount Auburn. My sisters are abroad, and will not return until next autumn. We aro having made a plain marble sarcophagus six feet long and four feet high. On the front of it is to be my father’s name, ami on the back the dates of his birth and death. This will be put over his grave at Mount Auburn in April next.” Miss Anthony says: “I have been roundly abused and ridiculed for allowing a female clerk of mine to send a letter in wliich woman suffrage was spelt ‘sufferage’ and was not corrected. There is a little secret history about that letter that will be amusing to those who are laughing at me and my female clerk, who cannot spell suffrage. The fact, is that my clerk made a correct copy of the letter, which I approved, and which was then sent to a male clerk, a college graduate, to make a large number of copies. Every copy which this gentleman prepared read ‘sufferage,’ and, what is still more startling, a number of members of Congress, in replying to tho letter, adopted the same unique orthography.” Wendell Phillips’s lack of the pathetic power, which has been generally remarked upon, was regretted by himself. Upon one occasion, during the war, when Anna Diokinson had moved a great audience to alternate cheers and tears by the fervor and pathos of her appeal for the enlistment of colored soldiers to fight for the freedom of their race, Mr. Phillips, who had spokfen at the same meeting, said to the eloquent little Quakeress —as she was then called—- “ Anna. I would give much to be able to make people cry as you do. Why cannot Ido it?” “I suspect the reason is because you never cry yourself,” was the answer of the strongly emotional and magnetic woman, who had often had occasion, during an Impassioned flow of words, to brusli the tears from her own eyes with a half-protesting, swift movement of her hand.

A Noted Thief Captured. New York, Feb. B. —Eddie Goodie, aged thirty Fix, a man with a score of aliases, has been arrested, charged with participation in tho robbery of Luther M. Church, superintendent of the Harlem factory, on tin* steps of the elevated railroad station at One hundred and-eloventh street and Second avenue, on Dec. 31. last. Goodie is the third of the gang arrested, one of whom has already been sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment. It appears Goodie was the leader of the gang and planned the robbery. Among the daring robberies in which Goodie has been engaged were stealing a case of silk valued at $17,000 from a custom-house truck in 1870, a similar theft in 1874. when ho was fol lowed by the polico and shot one of them; the robbery of Jacob Ruppert's bank messenger of SIO,OOO in 1878, and the robbery of the Planet Mill's messenger in Brooklyn. .'•esG Texas Tinner’s Sport. Austin, Feb. B.—A tinner named John Gardner got on a spree this evening, rode up Oak street, met Dr. Lepscomb’s boys, whom lie made kneel down and pray at the muzzle of a shooter, then proceeded along the road, playing similar pranks upon all whom ho encountered. Finally, in front of D. U. Schmidt’s dwelling, he presented a pistol at Schmidt's baby. Tho father grabbed tnoinfant and placed it with its mother in the back room. Gardner galloped off. Schmidt ran to a neighbor’s, borrowed a shotgun, and was returning as Gardner reappeared before the house and commenced firing into it. Discovering Schmidt, ho turned and shot at him. Tho fire was immediately returned, and Gardner was fatally wounded. Consternation Among IJquor Dealers. New York, Feb. B. —The excise commissioners have sent out the following circular to 1,100 liquor dealers in this city, where records of conviction f°r violation of tlio exciso law have boon obtained. 4 ‘Your license has been revoked, as you have been convicted in tlio Court of Special Sessions of violating the excise law. The inspector of this bureau will call for your license according to law. You will be reported to the police as unlicensed. ” There is consternation among 1,100 liquor dealers. _ Failure at Lexington. Lexington, Feb. B.—James A. Grinstead, of the Urte private banking firm of Grinstead & Biadle/, .and for fifty years considered one of the most soiyent men m Kentucky, assigned to day for the of his creditors. Assets, $50,000 to $00,000; liabilities unknown, but supposed to exceed tho asset*-

BOUGH TREATMENT OF MINERS. Ignorant Men Initiated Into a Bogus Society and Disfigured for Life. Mobebly, Mo., Feb. B.—A curious story, well verified, of inhuman treatment of ignorant miners by superior workmen in the same mines is told here, and has caused considerable rough talk among intelligent coal-diggers in this locality. Mr. L. E. Baker, foreman of coal mine No. 1, between this city and Huntsville, was in Moberly yesterday, and made the following statement concerning the outrage: About sixteen miles from Kirksvillo, Mo., there are and have been coal mines working from eighteen to twentyfive men. The diggings are in an out-of-the-way place, and practical miners only stay long enough to secure a more desirable situation, and consequently the work is principally performed by men whom coal miners generally term greenhorns, or, in other words, men who know little about mining or laws governing coal miners. About two months ago the place secured some coal miners, and among them was Mr. Crainey, of Huntsville. After these new men had been there a few days they discovered that their companions were very ignorant, and superstitious, and they thought, they would have some fun with tho greenhorns. Mr. Crainey informed them that, he was the grand center of the grand lodge of miners, and that he was there to organize them, and in a speech he informed them that the time was fast approaching when, unless they were members of the organization, it would be impossible for them to procure work in any of the States. The men believed this, and all were willing and eager to enter the organization. Tho following night was appointed for a meeting. At the hour stated the men began to gather at the shanty at the coal mines, and they were then informed by Crainey, the grand center, that only one could be initiated that evening, and they could settle between themselves who should bo tho candidate. After one had been selected tlio rest of tho men were ordered to their homes by the grand center. Everything being ready, the candidate was blindfolded and led into another shanty by two men. Once inside, he was required to take a solemn oatli not to make known by word or sign anything he might see or hear while the work was being performed under the penalty of death. He then received the signs, grips and passwords. Tho candidate was next informed that now all that was wanting to make him a man among men was to be branded with the grand seal. Tho man was then made to take off his clothes and lean over a table provided for the purpose, and while in that position was branded on the hip with a figure 8 made red-hot by a stove in the shanty. He was then told to put on his clothes and depart, not without being reminded of his oatli. On the following night another one of tho greenies was induced to pass throu li the same smarting ordeal, and so this hellish work was continued nightly until ten or twelve men were thus marked for lifo. The perpetrators, fearing they would be detected, left tho mines, and tho whereabouts of only one of thorn is known, and he is supposed to be working for the Huntsville Coal and Mining Company at Huntsville, Mo., six miles west of Moberly. Mr. Barker further states that the miners all through the country feel very indignant over the outrage, and that tho grand jury will investigate the case.

BARBARITY IN AN ASYLUM* A Patient Dies from Injnries Said to Dave Been Inflicted by Attendants. Utica, N. Y., Feb. B.—On Friday last Evan D. Hughes, of Nelson, Madison county, a patient iu the Utica Insane Asylum, died, as was alleged, from injuries received at the hands of attendants.’ A week previously his jaw and three ribs were found to be broken. A coroner’s jury has been investigating the matter two days. A. G. Weir and James Brown, attendants, testified that Hughes was very violent, and they “restrained” him by strapping him in a fixed chair. Weir swore that he knew nothing of how tho injuries occurred. Brown testified that he hit Hughes once in the abdomen with his fist “to keep him quiet,” and that Weir hit him in the face twice with his fist, and the jaw was broken by one of the blows, though neither seemed severe enough to break a jaw. He could not tell how the ribs were broken, but thought the break might have been caused by the patient throwing himself out of the chair and falling with witness on top of him. Superintendent Gray testified shat Hughes told him immediately after the affair that he had been in a fight and thought his ribs were broken “when we all went over the chair.” Dr. Gray thought the jaw was broken by a heavy downward blow or by falling and striking tho chair. The investigation was adjourned till Monday. Thera is much feeling over the case, as this is tho second violent death in the asylum within a year. From Hughes’fe home it is reported that the post-mortem rcvoaled that every rib on one side was broken and the. ends of two forced into the lungs), also, that the examining physician said the rib injuries could only have been caused by one jumping on the patient. The attendant, Brown, weighs 200 pounds. NEWS IN BRIEF. Perrine & Cos., a woolen firm, of New York, have assigned. Liabilities, $115,000; actual assets, $22,000. Janies Graham, of New Orleans, shot and killed his wife, then cut his own throat. He is believed to have been suffering mental depression from drink. Pitkington & Cos., proprietors of the St. Paul agricultural warehouse made an assignment on Thursday. Liabilities, $75,000; assets estimated at fully $85,000. Depredations in the oyster beds in Chesapeake bay have been renewed. A steamer and sloop armed with rifles and revolvers have been ordered to proceed against the thieves. Julius Orosio, who last Saturday killed J. R. Beams, at San Angela, Tex., was discovered near Burnett on Thursday. Ho refused to surrender and was shot to death, receiving twenty bullets. Mrs. Mix, of Steamboat Rock, la., standing over the open grave of her husband, said they might as well be buried iu one grave, took out a revolver and shot herself. She is not likely to recover. The annual convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers to determine the scale of wages for the ensuing year, from June 1, will be held in Pittsburg on Saturday, April 5. Chief Moses, in accordance with tho agree ment made with the Secretary of the Interior, has moved his people on tho Colevillo reservation and taken up land. It is believed therfc will be trouble if Congress refuses to confirm. Judgment was entered and executions aggregating $84,000 issued yesterday against A. C. and C. H. Kloraan, lessees under the receiver of the Manchester Iron and Steel Mills of Pittsburg. The creditors include the Cleveland Iran Mining Company, Wampum Iron Company (limited), Wheeler Iron Company, Hillard & Sterritt, Spang Steel and Iron Company, and a number of others. _ A Minnesota Tragedy. Minneapolis. Feb. B—A Tribune special gives an account of a tragedy in Gould’s lumber camp, thirty miles up Pino river, this State. Adolph Brooks fired one barrel of a shot-gun at Mrs. Gould’s sister, inflicting a dangerous wound. Meeting Gould soon after, he fired tlio second barrel at him, but missed him. Goulcl avmod himself and started in pursuit, but found Brooks dead, lie having blown the top of his head off by inserting the muzzle ot' the gun Jn his mouth. Brook® is supposed to have been crazy. A Flea for J odge Blodgett. Chicago, Feb. B.—A petition addressed to th* President for the appointment of Judge Henry W. Blodgett, of the United States Court, of this district, to tlie position about to bo vacated by tho retirement of Judge Drummond, has been in circulation two days, and has been signed by all of the local judiciary, leading lawyers, merchants and bankers of the city. It is also being circulated and extensively signed through the State.