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the post is inlaid with pearl. The double parlors. in which the wedding occurred, open off the hall to the left. They are commodious rooms of about 16x18 feet in dimension, and separated by very heavy sliding doors. The door-racings and window facings are very broad, but without carving or molding, and are painted white just as they were in their days of glory. Theltnobs of the doors are of solid brass, and perfectly smooth, as was the fashion when the house was built The fire place is surmounted by a wooden mantel, and is faced by an ornamented sheet-iron front, which has escaped any serious defacement or injury all these years. The most notable feature, however, is the chandelier, which is the same that lighted the memorable bridal festival. It is a very unique affair in bronxe, with three burners and three supporting rods, between which latter is a handsome knightly figure. The wonder is that such a souvenir has remained safely through all the mutations to which the house has been subjected. The front room is now a sleeping-room, but at the time the reporter called it was bare and in course of renovation. The back parlor is a dining room. There is nothing in the general plan of the house to call for special mention, as it is an ordinary dwelling place, with three large rooms on each of three iarge floors, and a hall room additional on tha second floor. The walls and doors are all thick. and the inside fixtures are in a fair state of preservation. It is furnished in a style suitable to the class of custom which a boardinghouse in that locality commands, and the landlady pays $45 per month rental for it to Mrs. ■Walsh, the owner. It would appear that the days of this relic are already numbered, as it lies directly in the line of the proposed route of the elevated road which is to connect the Iron Mountain road with the Union depot The bridal couple did not make this house their home, but after a wedding trip they returned to St. Louis, and lived for sometime with Mrs. Grant's parents out at the farm, on the Gravois road. It was there, at the residence known as the Wish ton Wish, that their daughter Nellie (now Mrs. Sartoris) was born, as were one or two of the boys. After a prolonged furlough, Lieutenant Grant resumed his army duties, spending part of his time at Jefferson barracks, where he was located at the time of his marriage, and part of the time elsewhere. In 1852 he was assigned to a post out in Oregon Territory, whither he took Ins wife aud children. It was a lonesome place, however, and the distance from her home and friends was so great that the youtig wife became an almost constant sufferer from home sickness. She bore it as lone as she could, but finallyrinduced her husband to send her home. He either came with her or soon followed her, haring resigned his army commission. This was in 1854. He located with his family out on the Dent farm, Mr. Dent having made his daughter a present of eighty acres and four slaves. They lived there very nicely, but Grant did not find the life congenial. Everybody liked him, because he was sociable, kindly, and adapted himself to all sorts of company. But nobody pointed him out as a model armor. and he knew it. The chief farming he id was to haul eordwood to town and sell it, on Inch occasion the very familiar costume winch iad his gaunt form was a jeans pants, gray roolen shirt, one or two “galluses,” a pair of rawhide boots, a slouch hat' and an uni-rimmed beard. A blacksnake whip made him complete. Somehow or other he didn’t get along very well, and ho complained because he eoulil find nothing to do by which he could earn a living. lie was in no desperate strait, because his father-in-law wa3 quite well to do, but his pride stood in the way of accepting any more assistance than was absolutely necessary. Fiually he Warned that the county court was about to appoint anew county surveyor, and, being quite ah expert civil engineer, he wrote an application for the position. Another aspirant was Col. E. C. Salomon, and as Grant was not possessed of any very prepossessing appearance, or of any of the *“inflooenco” ■which was as essential then as now, his application was rejected. Tiring completely of farm life, lie moved in to town, and at first occupied for a time a house at southeast corner of Seventh and Lynch streets. Here they lived in very nice style, and Grant meanwhile sought some employment which would enable him to make a living for 'his growing family. He knew very few people, and, besides, his army life had totally unfitted him for commercial pursuits, so that he found very poor success in his search. His funds began to run low, and. softer boarding for a timo, he moved his family into a very diminutive cottage, which now bears the number of 1008 liar ton street. This dwelling is now flanked on either side by brick residences, which tower far above it, so that it seems to shrink and crouch between them. It has the aspect of a very lonesome little thing that had somehow or other got lost, yet it could boast the day when it was the only houso on the block; in fact, there was no house nearer to it than two hundred yards, that being ail open and rough country at the time. There is a great deal of individuality .to the house, and its appearance is calculated to awaken the interest of any passing stranger. It is suggestive of a birdcage in its proportions and style, and it seems difficult to believe that one of the greatest men in America's history lived there with his family when h# had almost reached the prime of life. In those days, moreover, the houso was not nearly so large as it is cow, but consisted only of a single room on each floor. The front door is reached by a few stone steps now, but before the street was graded the ground was almost level with the door sill. The caller’s knock is answered by Mrs. Adolph Wecklor, who, with her husband, has lived in tho .ome like little place for twelve years. Tho in>rior of the front or main room is, she says, exeily the same as it was when the Grants lived :ere, so far as its general appointments are eon- ■ -rued. Tho front door opens right into the oom, whose ceiling is so low as to admonish a all man to duck a little. In the corner furthest from the front entrance a flight of stairs leads up to the second, or garret floor, tho narrow stairway being cut off from view by a door just before it makes a very promiscuous sort of a right angle to accommodate itself to the narrow space allotted it The stairway gives opportunity for a snug closet underneath. At tho end of the closet the wall elbows off to the east a little and then makes room for a blind fire place, after which there is still another elbow. The entire room appears to be hardly more than twelve feet square, but withjits present tasty appointments is a very inviting apartment. Clambering ud the stairs at some risk of limb, one secs a funny little room suggestive of a play-house, whose walls, beginning at a height of four feet from the floor, slant inward from front and back till they come within a few feet of meeting at the narrow criling. One could not help thinking what a nice place*that would be in which to read or dream, or play when the rain is beating on the roof. The two small windows in the front wall of the room are still guarded by the same diminutive railing that served in other years to prevent Miss Nellie Grant from taking a header out into the country road. Along the east side of the house a porch extends, with a well and well-curb situated at its north end. At one time this well-curb was inclosed by a small kitchen structure, but this was probably after the Grants left. Tho curb and windlass is the same that served to draw the water supply for the uses of the Grant family, and there is an antique air about tho contrivance which is very interesting—even to the deep groove that has been worn iu the upper margin of tho hard wood front by friotion w h the old oaken bucket There is no good reason to doubt that that vonerable old windlass crank has many a time and oft slipped out of General Grants hand, and rapped him on the head, as cranks will do, if tho bucket happens to get the drop on the operator. The well appears to be deep, and is walled in with rough stones. Near it is a rustic bench with squat legs, after the forefathers’ style of garden architecture, and at the end of the bench the cellar opens hospitably, and almost vertically, with a flap like the cover of a book. From this it is inferred that General Grant, when he wanted to draw supplies from nis wine bins, was enabled to do so without comiromisiog his dignity, and did not have to scrape limself down through a trap like folks that have •ellars do now-a days. Taken all in all, this house is altogether tho most interesting relic we have of the days when Grant was a St. Louisan. About the time he took up his residence in this houso he went into partnership with a Mr. B;*ggs in the real estate business. The style of ’be firm was Grant & Boggs, and their office was on the north side of Pino street, just cast of Third, where the new Gay building stands. Their fnrnituro consisted fa pine table and a couple of chairp, and they ;'ept and account book in the drawer of the aide. An army officer is not a good collector as a rile, and Grant wan an exceptionally bad one, bf 'HUsa of his soft hearteduess, his disposition

being to forego his commissions whenever a renter appeared to be in distress. The firm did not prosper, and the little office room closed up. no lived for some time longer on the farm, and then determined to go over to Galena, where his father was, and assist in the management of the old gentleman’s tannery. He could not take slaves into Illinois, so he and his wife gave their four human chattels to John P. Long, and moved the balance of their belongings to the Sucker State in 1857/ Soon afterward the war broke out. and Grant was not long in discovering that there was at least one way in which ho could earn a living, and earn it nobly. LIEUTENANT GRANT, A Picture of the Dyinjf General as He Appeared at Twenty. Philadelphia Prens. George W. Childs will forward to-day to the address of General Grant, New York, a timeworn daguerreotype in un old-fashioned case. It is a picture of the hero at Appomattox as he looked when a young man twenty-two years old. There is little in the boyish face that is suggestive of the General of the Union armies and President of the United-States. It is the smooth face of a boy with the bloom of health upon his cheek and the marks of a vigorous constitution in every outline of his sturdy frame. He was a newly-fledged lieutenant then, fresh from the training of West Point, and the young soldier appears in the uniform and epaulettes worn by regular army lieulcnanta forty years ago. Though the face is beardless and immature, a careful observer notes at first glance the firm mouth and stubborn jaw of the soldier who swore “to fight it out on that lino’’ if it took all summer. It is Grant, the boy, but just enough like Grant, tho conqueror, to illustrate the adage that “The boy is father of the man.*' Mr. Childs has taken the portrait from among his store of treasures, that an engraving may be made from it to illustrate a page in the memories of General Grant, the book upon which the shattered hero is expending tl:o last painful labors of his eventful life. The history of the daguerreotype and how it came into Mr. Childs’s possession is an interesting. and hitherto unpublished, narrative. In 1844 Lieutenant Grant was stationed with liis regiment in Texas. Among his best friends at that time was Mrs. G. B. Bailey, of Georgetown, Brown county, 0., the mother of his most intimate associate and comrade-in-arms, Lieutenant Bailey. Grant had often visited the pleasant home of Mrs. Bailey, and came to look upon her almost as a second 'mother. To her he sent the little daguerreotype that she might know how well he looked in bis newly-won regimentals. In a letter written from camp in 1844 the young Lieutenant describes to Mrs. Bailey, with all tho exuberance of youthful pride, his novel experiences in camp and on the march. The handwriting bears little resemblance to the scrawling chirography that appears in Grant’s general orders to the army and his messages to Congress in later years. He subscribes himself: “Yours affectionately, Lieutenant U. S. Grant, United States Army." and then, with characteristic. modesty, he appends a postscript in which he explains that he does not affix his military title from any feeling of undue pride, but simply that his old friend may, by thus addressing him, be more certain that her letters will reach their remote, destination promptly. Mrs. Bailey kept the young lieutenant’s letters and cherished his portrait fondly until long after he had conqnred the Confederacy and become chief magistrate of the nation. At her death the portrait and letters passed into the hands ol her daughter, Mrs. Lucinda Powers, of Georgetown. Sometime ago Mrs. Powers forwarded the daguerrotype to Mr. Childs, accompanied by a letter, iu which she explains that she knows Mr. Childs will value it, and expresses tlic hope that he may have a portrait painted from the old likeness before it has become obliterated by the fading process of time. Being a stranger to Mr. Childs, Mrs. Powers also inclosed as her vouchers one of ~the timestained letters written by General Grant to her mother in 1844, and another written by the President from the executive mansion in 1874, in which he expressed in the warmest terms his unchanged regard for his Georgetown friei ds, and said that lie looked forward with pleasure to the time when he might be at liberty to visit them again in the scenes so familiar to his boyhood. General Grant never knew that the old daguerreotype had passed into the hands of his .friend, Mr. Childs, and a week ago when recalling the portraits of his earlier days with a view of securing the best possible likeness with which to illustrate his book, he remembered the old daguerreotype sent to Mrs. Bailey forty years ago. Under date of March 0. Colonel Fred Grant wrote to Mrs. Poweis requesting the loan of the likeness as the most accurate portrait now extant of his father ns he appeared when a young man. Mrs. Powers forwarded Colonel Fred Grant’s letter to Mrs. Childs, and the publisher of the Ledger, as he chatted yesterday about the valued treasure, was carefully wrapping it in paper preparatory to its shipment to New York to-day. All the correspondence upon tho subject, including Grant’s autograph letters to Mrs. Bailey in 1844 and 1874, is still in Mr. Child's possession, and among the relics that he values most highly in his interesting collection of souvenirs.

Another Photograph in Later Years. Hartford (Conn.) Uourant. There is in existence a photograph of Gen. Grant which is of pathetic interest at this moment. It was taken during the last winter of the war, while the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac were at City Point; The photograph may have been, instantaneous, for thero is no appearance of posing for it Grant appears in the door of his tent, with one arm raised grasping the tent pole. He is in the simplest field uniform, the coat is unbottoned, and he wears the soft hat with the twisted cord of the service. The face is thin and heavy with care, and the whole figure denotes self forgetfulness, if not dejection. The utter, absence of parade, the entire simplicity of the attitude, the rudeness of surroundings, would advise no spectator that this was the iron commander of great armies, the man upon whom the hopes of the Nation at that moment centered. Upon his skill, coolness, tenacity, unshakable faith, millions reposed implicit trust. It was weary waiting; wealth was wasted in streams, debt was accumulating, foreign powers wero threatening, treason was brewing, precious life was poured out like water, and the land was full of mourning. This General, silent, inflexible, stands thero at his tent door, apparently unconscious of observation. not so much looking abroad as communing with himself, bearing in every line of face and figure the impress of the heaviest responsibility and of vicarious suffering. No note of complaint, no sign of relenting, -no consciousness of the show of power, but just at that moment a patient endurance in his own wasted person ot the woes of an anxious nation. Upon him, at that instant, rested greater responsibility than upon any other living man; upon him oentored hopes, entreaties, prayers, curses, bitter criticism, brutal disparagement. He is in the attitude of bearing it all with the capacity of suffering and of carrying the burdens of others without complaint, which is the mark of greatness. Perhaps if he had failed, perhaps if he had lost his cause and disappointed the hopes set upon him, this picture might to-day have been more utterly pathetic than it is, but remembering what the man ha'd endured, and was still to suffer before the final triumph of the people through him, this simple figure is not wanting in any of the heroic elements that touch the hearts of men. _ President Cleveland’s Sympathy With Mrs. McClune. Buffalo, March 15.—The following telegram has been received by Mrs. McClune: “Washington, March 15. “To Mrs. 0. W. McClune, Buffalo: “I extend to you my heartfelt condolence and sympathy; and if it were possible I should attend the sad exercises appointed for Monday next. “Grover Clevklanp." Another Cut in Kates. St. Lottis, March 15. —The Vandalia line will to-morrow reduce the Now York passenger rate to sll, another cut of sl. The True Way to Cure Coma. Apply Dr. Wing’s great Corn and Bunion Remedy every night and morning for throe days. Druggists, 25c, and Browning & Sloaj> c

THE IN6IANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1885.

AT THE FEDERAL CAPITAL. [Concluded from First promises by removing Rounds, the Public Printer. The appointment of Higgins, asap pointment clerk of the Treasury, was a bad move; but Manning is responsible for that, and not Cleveland. Rounds's office is wanted by a dozen or more men; but he has been the best man for the place that ever held the office. His term has not expired, and two-third* of Congress favors his rotention. The President realizes that by the removal of so competent an official, solely to make way for another in political harmony with him, would be exceedingly bad policy just at this time. He is pleased with the reception that has been given his administration thus far, and it is certain that he is not disposed personally to remove Mr. Rounds. The pressure for the place, while very great, is not confined to the support of any one man, and (I say it with knowledge) unless something new turns up the present public printer will not be disturbed in his place for sometime to come.” THE SENATE. Some Minor Treaties To Be Considered, but Very Little Else. Washington, March 15. —The Senate is likely to devote its spare time the present week to the consideration of foreign affairs. It is expected two or three treaties of minor importance, and in respect to which there can be littlo difference of opinion, will be reported from the committee on foreign relations and taken up by the Senate in executive session. Among them will probably be tho treaty relating to the boundary lines between this country and Mexico, and the treaty providing for the readjudication of the Weil and La Abra claim. Mr. Manderson’s resolution calling for information in regard to Central American affairs may also bo reported and discussed. The more important of the pending treaties have been (withdrawn, and the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty, and that relating to an international patent rights system will be held back until the regular session. The “Backbone’'’ resolution will doubtless be fully discussed to-morrow. It is pi*obable that all public business which the Senate has in hand will be dispos'd of within three or four days, and .the body will then only await the pleasure of the executive, and will adjourn as soon as his important nominations have been received and acted upon.

THE fiKLEAOUREI) CAPITAL. Latest Ncrs from the Seat of Government— Ajssaults Made on the Departments. New York Snap. Congressman Sara Randall walked out of the lobby and, addressing his colleague, Congressman Dorsheimer, asked how long a siege he thought the new pension building could stand? “It is well provisioned, *' replied Dorsheimer, languidly, but urbanely, “and pickets have been stretched across the avenue. Howitzer and small guns have been mounted at every approach. The defenders have stores in abundance and whisky enough to last for eight days at least.” “Morrison tells me," resumed liandall, “that a detachment of Kentuckians fixmi Grayson county have been reconnoitering in the vicinity. They are armed with letters of recommendation lrom Proctor Knott and appear formidable.” At that moment Sunset Cox crossed the corridor “Whitney is besieged in the Navy Department by a band of New Jersey reformers,” he said uneasily. “They look ravenous. John P. Stpckton is among them. Whitney is prepared for the attack. But he is very nervous. If tho worst comes to tho worst, he says he will flood the trenches with standard oil. But here comes Bill Holman.” The great Indiana oPloctor looked President .is invested in the White Tlouec,’’ he said, “and Lament is cutoff from all communication. The Massachusetts mugwumps encircle the place. Tho situation is indeed critical.” “And I understand,” said Cox, “that the Koosiers have deposed Dan Voorhets and laid siege to the Attorney-general's oflice. The motto is—” “Bread or work, suggested Randall, with concern. “Cake and no work.” said Cox, flippantly. “Can the Patent Offioe hold out?" asked Dorsheimer. “Hardly,” added Holman. “It is surrounded by tho men who ‘discovered’ Cleveland. There ate twelve thousaud of them. Buffalo must be depopulated.” “The Ohio men,* said Dorsheimer. “have massed themselves about the War Office. They demand the freedom of the Miami canal. They seem reckless of all consequences. Endicott is at the telephone.” “Bayard is better off.” ventured Cox. “On tho contrary," spoke up Holman. “The North Carolina straightouts have driven in the pickets and removed all the portable furniture. They beleaguer the department and have-openly defied Delaware." ‘•Many Illinois men," said Cox, “are under arms in front of the Postoffiee Department. They demand control of tho registered-letter and monev-ordor offices. At last uccoants they were shouting. ‘Liberty or Carter Harrison!’ ” “Cannot they be restrained?'' inquired Holman. “No, indeed, some have been drummers in Chicago. They will not leave while a stone of the building stands.” “The Pacific coast contingent,” said Dorsheimer sadly, “are encamped in front of the Interior Department. They have walked across the Rocky mountains to get here, and seem crazed with excitement They demand two offices npieco. ‘Lamar must go,’ is their watchword. ” Randall, Holman, Cox and Dorsheimer exchanged nervous glances. They looked downcast Bill Morrison soon joined them. “What is new Bill?’’ asked Holman. Mr. Morrison threw his slouch /at on the floor. “I fear that this is the beginning of the end.” “What?” said his colleagues in concert. “Dan Manning is a virtual prisoner in the Treasury Department Ho is surrounded and completely cut off. “By whom?" “The Tammanyites, led by Judge Gorman, insist on turning the rascals out They demaud an opportunity to count the surplus. Manning has held out bravely, but he has been a newspaper man, and is accustomed to realities. He says the Treasury must fall. Ho cannot withstand tho Tammanyities. I fear the worst. At this moment a rumor reached the House of Representatives that a phalanx of Texas officeseekers had taken the Department of Aerieulture by storm, and were distributing the bulbs to Okahtfma cowboys as trophies. | Snap’s advices, we regret to pay, end abruptly at this point.] THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. Names Suggested for the Principal Foreign Missions—State Department Places. Washington Spocial. In all of the talk about the leading foreign missions there are comparatively few names mentioned for the four leadiug missions of London, Paris, Berlin and St. Petersburg. The following aro the only men who have been urged upon the attention of the State Department: Ex Senators Pendleton and Thurman, Governor Curtin, Charles Gibson, of St Louis, and Gen. McClellan. Os these gentlemen two are considered as out of the question on account of their own disinclination. An intimate friend of Mr. McDonald, who is here, says the latter would not accept any foreign mission. McDonald has other ambitions. He can come to tho Senate two years from now as the successor of Ben Harrison, as the entire State is back of McDon aid for thin plaoe. There is a feeling in Indiana that McDonald has not been fairly treated by Hendripke, and this has created great sympathy

for him, and it is said insures his election as senator almost without a contest. Mr. Thurman’s friends here say that he has not the slightest desire to go abroad. The last time ho was fa Europe he went over as a member of the Silver eommisaion, and suffered terribly from sea-sickness. This suffering made him resolve to take no more sea voyages. At least, that is what his friends here say. If the statements of the friends of these two gentlemen are correct, they lenvo the other four gentlemen very prominent. Pendleton and Curtin are mentioned in connection with the English mission, McClellan with the French, and Gibson with the Berlin. The Missouri delegation has agreed in a meeting, to present Mr. Gibson. He is the only man from the distant West who is now mentioned in this connection. The Missouri delegation, when it agreed to present his name, did so after listening to a statement from Senator Vest, in which he said that the action of the delegation in pushing Gibson might, if successful, cut them off from a number of smaller offices. The delegation, by its action, must have agreed that it was of more importance to secure the appointment of Gibson than all the other diplomatic patronage they might incidentally claim at this particular time. There are two names mentioned in connection with the office of Assistant Secretary of State. It is said that Mr. Bayard would like to have Perry Belmont in that position, if the latter vould prefer diplomacy to Congress. The place is said to lie between him and John Cadwalader, of Philadelphia, with the preference in favor of Belmont if he will accept it. Philadelphia has two candidates for tho diplomatic service, Col. Gibson, who wants the Belgian mission, and Heller Crosse, son of the celebrated surgeon, who would like anything the State Department is willing to give him. Pendleton Suggested for Bayard’s Assistant. Washington, March 15. —Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, has received the signatures of many Democratic senators asking the appointment of ex-Seqator Pendleton as Minister to England. Secretary Bayard would like to have Mr. Pendleton as Assistant Secretary, of the State Department. He thinks the position is equal in dignity to any position, except that of the Secretary of State. He wants a man in that position who wiil be perfectly competent to act as the head of that department in his absence.

TOSTMASTER PEARSON. Charges Against the Man Backed by the New York Independents Washington, Mareh 15. —The effort that is being made by the independent Republicans of New York to retain Postmaster Pearson in his present position has received a rude shock. It will be remembered that, about two years ago, a lucrative business was carried on in New York city by private firms and corporations engaged in the delivery of city letters. In the course of time these outside interests affected the revenues of the office to such an extent that the Poemaster general had them stopped for violating the postal laws. A copy of a letter has been unearthed at the Department of Justice, written by Attorney-general Brewster to the President on this subject, March 25, 1883. In this letter General Brewster charges Postmaster Pearson with being an “incorporator, stockholder and director in the Manhattan District Telegraph Company,” one of the corporations engaged in this unlawful traffic. General Brewster adds: “This fact being folly established by the report of tho special agent who investigated the matter, shows Mr. Pearson to have been guilty of a gross violation of law. First, in advising them how to evade it, and, second, when called upon in an official manner to give the names of all companies violating the law in this respect, he reported them all except the one he was connected with.” General Brewster concludes his letter by saying that Mr. Pearson’s conduct merits immediate and prompt punishment, and recommends his dismissal. It is understood that the original letter is now in tho hands of President Cleveland, and that tho strongest possible influence will bo brought to bear upon him not to reappoint Mr. Pearson, whose term will expire on the 22d fast. _ THE SENATE COMMITTEES. Complaints Over the Geographical Distribution of the Chairmanships. Washington, March 15. —The Senate committees, when they came in, gave pretty general satisfaction. There is some feeling in tho West because Senator Cullom was not given General Logan’s place on the appropriations committee, but that it to Mahone, giving the South five out of nine, and leaving only two Northern Republicans on it outside of New England. In other words, the purse-strings are given to Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia and Florida, an inequality that is likely to make trouble, and to compel a reconstruction of the committee. The great middle States and largest Western States are without any representation at all, and considering that the important legislation is now nearly all done on appropriation bills, it is a serious loss to them. General Sewell becomes chairman of the military committee and Conger of the postoffice committee, these being the most important chairmanships in which any change has been made.

MINOR MENTION. The Washington Knights of the Call-Bell Weary of the Crush of Callers, Special to the Courier Journal. “Please send this card up,” said a rather shabby individual with a hopeful faco to a clerk of a down town hotel, that is regarded as a Democratic resting place. A shade came over the face of the clerk, which was hardly perceptible beneath the studied politeness that at once acquiesced with the request by tapping the bell and dispatching the messenger. “You may think this easy work,” said the clerk to a reporter standing by: “but when you perform the act of ringing the bell and sending a card up about 500 times, it begins to get monotonous. We have emptied .that card-box there about three times to day. That makes almost 1,000 cards.” “All after office!” “Every one of them. Congressman A. S. Willis, of Kentucky, seems to be the favorite. I believe he has 150 cards a day sent to his room. Then the Texas members come in for a good number, but none of our congressional guests are slighted.” “Do they see all the callers?” “Oh, yes. Election day will roll around in the course of time, and each man has a vote, you know.” The Office-Seekers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.. Washington, March 15.—1 tis reported tonight that McLean and Payne, of Ohio, have had a quarrel about who shall dictate certain appointments in that State, and that McLean has sworn to rule or ruin. J. B. Stoll, of South Bend, has been getting in his work to day for tho public printership. Daniel McSweeney, the Irish-American, who so successfully straddled the Ocean during the campaign, is announced to-day for the collectorship of the port of San Francisco. As ho is repudiated by the Pacific slope delegation, he will get no office, unless he changes his residence to another location, which he will doubtless do. That unselfish patriot, Thad E. Pound, is now looming up as candidate for Commissioner of the General Land Office, which place, he thinks, it would not be at all surprising if ho should get Hon. George W. Julian, whose name has been mentioned in connection with the commissionership of the General Land Office, declines to be considered an applicant for that office, but says he will look to a different position hereafter. Death of Two Centenarians. Washington, March 15. —Two centenarians have recently died in this city. The elder of the two, Mr. Michael Callan, has reached the age of one hundred and three years, seven months and four days. Ho was born in Ireland, and came to this country and settled in George town forty years ago. His age is attested by a certificate of his birth which has been preserved. The other centenarian was Mrs. James Tilgh-

man, who has just passed her hundredth year. She was born in Virginia, but has lived in Wash ing.ton for the past twenty-five years. General and Personal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March 15.—Mme Mariscal, wife of the Mexican Secretary of State, and Miss Mariscal, will assist Mrs. J. W. Foster at her usual Monday afternoon reception, to morrow. The President, possibly, will celebrate his birthday in the White House, next Wednesday, the 18th. He will then be forty-eight years old. Local papers announce to-day that Vice-presi-dent and Mrs. Hendricks will return to Indiana immediately upon the adjournment of the Senate, which may be at the end of this week. Wm. C. Ball, of Terre Haute, is at Willard's. In regard to the Nicaraguan treaty, it is 3aid that the new administration does not regard its ratification as necessary to enable the United States to protect American interests in Central America, and prevent foreign governments from interfering. If there should anything of the kind bo attempted, it is said the administration will be prompt to assert a policy vigorous and energetic enough for the occasion. It is understood that ex-Secretary Chandler sold his interest (the controlling one) in the Republican, to Eastern parties. Mr. E. W. Fox, of St Louis, the new editor, is very reticent as to the names of the new proprietors, end only vouchsafes the information that they are friends of his. He is president of the new company, TIIE FIRE RECORD. Mill, Warehouse, Etc., Burned at Columbia, Pa. Lancaster, Pa., March 15. —A large planing mill, two warehouses, a stable and one dwellinghouse, the property of Frederick S. Bletz, at Columbia, burned. Loss, $20,000; insured. Supposed to be incendiary. Store-Houses Burned at Petersburg, Va. Petersburg, Va., March 15.—A number of buildings used as stores, and owned by John McGill, burned. Loss covered by insurance. Stores Burned at Norfolk, Va. Norfolk, Va., March 15. —Fire destroyed F. Friedman’s clothing store, J. Goodrich’s grocery and Runaldire & Son’s cigar factory. Loss, $16,000; insured. _ Hotel Destroyed. St. Marys, Ont., March 15.—Donnie's National Hotod and stables burned. Loss, $20,000; partially insured. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Dominion government is considering a scheme to fit out armed schooners to watch the fishing grounds of the maritime provinces, and prevent American fishermen taking fish in Cana dian waters. A Lost Creek, Pa., special says: Arthur Coyle, a young maried man, was shot dead on Saturday night, by Jim Harris, a Reading Railroad Coal and Iron Company policeman, with whom he had a dispute. Reuben Applegate, aged fifty-nine, a mate of a bark, was assaulted on the street, on Saturday night, in the lower part of New York city, and his skull fractured. He cannot live. Three youths were arrestod on suspicion. The shoot, yesterday, between Penrose, of San Antonio, and Dr. Carver, at Fort Worth, Tex., for s2f>o, one hundred birds, thirty yards rise, resulted—Penrose. 72: Carver, 71. Carver claimed a tie. and decision was withheld. At Princeton, Mercer county, W Va., on Tuesday night, a farmer named Perry was mortally wounded by a young negro named Jackson. The latter was arrested, confessed his crime, and the following night a mob took him from jail and hanged him. It is reported, on apparently good authority, that President Stephen, of the Canadian Pacific railway, has written Premier McDonald that unless the government comes at once to the assistance of tho company the work of construction will bo stopped. William Fox died at the hospital at Williamsburg, N. Y., yesterday. Two weeks ago, Fox, while drunk, threw a pan of hot water at his wife, and the contents scalded their vear-old child so that it died. The wife seized an ax and fractured her husbands skull. Robert and William Duplex, brothers, went to McCraigs tavern, at Toronto, last*night, and demanded drinks. They were refused, and two Italians, lielosi and Feole, * attempted to holp the proprietor put them out. A free fight ensued, in which Relosi stabbed Robert sixteen times and William three times. McCraigs head was severely cut. Constable Hart went to the sceno of tho fight, and was knocked senseless with an ax. The Italians were afterward arrested. Robert Duplex will die; the others may recover. Efforts to Save the Life of a Convicted Murderer. WiLKESBAttRE, Pa., March 15. Efforts are making to secure a stay of execution in the case of Edward Bothers, sentenced to be hanged April 7, for murdering William Nichols, at Hazleton. Eight hundred dollars lias been raised to employ counsel. Bothers’s niece, upon whoso evidence Bothers was convicted, now contradicts the testimony sho gave in court, and medical experts will swear that the probing for the ball was tho immediate cause of Nichols’s death.

Steamship News. New York., March 15. —Arrived: Somerset, from Avonniouth; Richmond Hill, from London; Normandie, from Havre. Boston, March 15. —Arrived: Cephalouia, from Liverpool. London, March 15.—Arrived: Westphalia, from New York. g-JB—W'BH'MBIIIWI Wllllil ■ME— An Qltl Proverb. Pouting, my darling, because it rains. And flowors droop and the rain is falling, And drops are blurring the window panes And a moaning wind through the lane is calling! Crying, and wishing the sky was clear, And roses again on the lattice twining! Ah, well, remember, my foolish dear, “ ’Tis easy to laugh when the sun is shining!’* When the world is bright, and fair, and gay, And glad birds sing in the fair June weather, And summer is gathering, ni ht. and day, Her golden chalice of sweets together; When blue seas answer the sky above. And bright stars follow the day’s declining. Why, then, 'tis no merit to smile my love; “ ’Tis easy to laugh when the sun is shining!” But this is the time the heart to test. W T hen winter is near and storms are howling, And the earth from under her frozen vest Looks ud at the sad sky mute and scowling; The brave little spirit should rise to meet The season’s gloom and the day’s repining; • And this is the time to be glad, for, sweet, “ ’Tis easy to laugh when the sun is shining!” Wide Awake. Sectional Rivalry. Somerville Journal. There once resided in Coweta county, Georgia, says a correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution, five ladies with these names: Nancy Nanoe. Nancy Dance, Nancy Vance, Nancy Hance and Nancy Mance, and the correspondent asks: ,l For similarity of names what county can beat this?” Well, we don’* know certainly, but we’ve got some pretty good liars up hero in Middlesex county. A Belle fur a Target. Chicago Ho mid. In the island of Ivica the popular emblem of love is gunpowder, and the most brilliant accomplishment a young damsel can display is to stand, without fiinehing, while her lover fires at her legs, and which often assume, after a lengthy courtship, the appearance of a Christmas plum pudding. They Will Not Do It, Those who once take Dr. Pierce’s “Pleasant Purgative Pellets’’ will never consent to use any other earthartic. They are pleasant to take and mild in their operation. Smaller than ordinary pills and inclosed in glass vials; virtues unimpaired. By druggists.

THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC. President Diaz and Guatemala—Mexican* Busy Trying to Make Money. Boston Herald, Saturday. Mr. Simeon Levy, proprietor of the Mexico* Financier, arrived at Young’s yesterday. Regarding the news that President Diaz had intimated to President Zaldivar, of .San Salvador, that Mexico would uot permit President Barrios, of Guatemala, to carry out his ambitious programme of enforcing a union of the five Central American republics. Mr. Levy said: “Mexico and Guatemala have not been on the best of terms for many years, owing to the attitude of the latter country on the boundary question. I think Mexico is entirely right on that matter, historically and practically. Barrios wants to create a strong republic on the southern border of Mexico, and were that union to be brought about by the exercise of the popular will of the the Central American republics, Mexico would not have a word to soy; but as the most powerful of all the Spanish American republics. Mexico cannot 9tand etill and let Barrios to make unjust war on the other Central American nationalities. It is a pretty impudent thing to claim one’s self President of a consolidated republic, and then take up arms to bring about the consolidation. lam inclined, to believe that the moral influence of Mexico, as conveyed in President Diaz’s protest, will be effective, nnd that there will be no trouble. Gen. Diaz has all he cares to attend to in getting his own country into good shape. It is but early yet in the second term, and internal affairs take up all his attention. His reduction of the army list by the dismissal of a crowd of supernumerary colonels and generals has been a stroke of genuine economy, but, at the same time, .all these discharged people are disgruntled, as is natural. However, the public temper is pacific; everybody in Mexico—that is, overy one engaged in mercantile pursuits or industrial enterprises—desires peace. The financial situation iu Mexico is steadily improving, and we are hoping for good results from President Diaz's policy. Certainly we shall not undertake to criticise him thus early in his administration.’’ “Is there any truth in the report that President Diaz has objected to our government’s sending a veteran of tho Mexican war to his country as American minister. “I don't think that there is the slightest truth in that. President Diaz would not undertake to interfere with the action of his government. I am myself of the*opinion that no man should be selected from the South or West for tho Mexican mission. In the South the filibustering spirit has been rife for many years; it was the South which precipitated the Mexican war, and that fact is now very Well known to the enlightened section of the Mexican public. All tho talk of invading Mexico and robbing her of her territory has come from the South or West These sections have * not invested any capital in tho work of developing Mexican resources. Chicago and St Louis, and Kansas City as well, aro interested, to be sure, in securing a share of the increasing Mexican trade, but the heavy investment of capital in Mexico has boon done by the East, and notably by New England, and for that reason I have advocated in my paper the selection of a New England man for the Mexican mission. Boston alone has put about $10,000,000 into Mexico, thus making au important contribution to the national development across the border. Just what we don’t want iu Mexico at the present time is an ‘old war-horse’ who desires comfortable pasturage. What we need, and I speak for my fellow Americans iu Mexico, is a live, energefie man from the East, who understands the business situation, can get on harmoniously with the Mexican people, and who does not need to be drilled in the language at the outset” “Are there many Americans in Mexico?” “The past winter was very mild and delightful there, and a great crowd of tourists from this country and across the water have been pouring into the country, filling up tho hotels ana giving quite a Yankee air to our principal streets. There have been a great many heavy capitalists and pushing business men in the country. This lias been a good thing for Mexico, os these men have seen for themselves the business to be done there. The city governmor tis actively ongagod in improving the streets and parks, and much will be done toward beautifying the capital as a great metropolis and political capital should be. Tho tourist business is a good thing for the railway, and has only begun.” “Then you look for an era of quiet in Mexico?" “It is as quiet there as in the Quaker part of Pennsylvania, despite the sensational rams your papers print. * The Mexican people ark tryjug to keep still and make some money. The revolutionary days are past. Should Mexico bo compelled to interfere by force of arms to prevent Barrios from making himself master of all Central America, the affair will bo short and sharp. Mexico has a large and well-disciplined army, and the military class would like a dash into the territory of Barrios. One of these days we may see a big republic stretching from the Rio Grande to the isthmus. This may come about naturally, the people of Central America first accepting the protection of Mexico against usurpation and tyranny.” Then Why Not Write It with a Capital? Atlanta Constitution. Dr. Atticus G. Haygood, in bis address at the dedication of the Elizabeth Rust Industrial Institute for young colored women, at Holly Springs, Miss., said that no colored man or woman should object to being called a negro any more than a German or Frenchman should object to being designated by the name of his race. Negro, ho said, was a better term than the word colored, because it had a more definite meaning, signifying tbb race, but it should be written with a capital “N,” like the names of other races. Thought He Was a Reporter, Buffalo Express, Whitelaw lie id is a society man. The other night he was attending a full-dress party at one of the most fa&hiouable houses in New Ybrk, and as he penciling his name on a fair woman's dance card, a giggling girl sidled up with the tender inquiry: “O, Mr. Reid, are you taking notes for a report in the Tribune?”

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