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THE SUNDAY JOURNAL FOR APRIL 5 Will Contain the Third Installment of HE. WILLIA)! BLACKS GREAT STORY, ENTITLED “The Wise Women of Inverness." The third installment of this story give3 the experience of the old farmer with the deadly charm obtained of the wise women to work the death of the young sailor. It is a very vivid and intensely dramatic chapter. In additien to this feature of extraordinary interest, the Sunday Journal will also contain the following articles, written specially for its columns— A Sketch of William H. Vanderbilt, by our New York correspondent; Among the Painters of London, in the Royal Academy, bv Mr. Joseph Hatton; The New Version of the Old Testament— Features of Dole Historv, bvKev. Henry Tuckley; Some of the Famous Dead of Early Imlanapolis, by B. R. Sulgrove; The Home of the Havana—an article for lorers of tobacco: Besides these and other original articles, the Sunday Journal will give its readers— A comprehensive review of the great BaconShakspeare cipher discovery of Ignatius Donnelly; Review of the International Sunday-school Lesson for April 12; Interesting Miscellaneous Features for Old and Young People; The Week’s Review of Society, Music and Art, by Mis. Rose Bailey; Special Features in the Amusement World: Fraternity and other notes: Special Telegraphic Letters from Washington and New York: Full Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World. The Sunday Journal is prepared and printed lor the entertainment of all the people. The table of contents prepared for the next issue is more various and entertaining than any yet published. Each week the circulation of the Sunday Journal is increasing.

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THE SATURDAY JOURNAL. As already announced, the Saturday edition of the Journal to-morrow will* contain the first part of a beautiful new story by the celebrated author. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, entitled “Home, Sweet Home.” This story will attract wide attention, not only for its own merit, but because of the great reputation of its writer. In addition to this we shall print a concluding letter from Mrs. Emma Carleton on New Orleans snd the exposition, and a number of other special articles, beside the usual literary features that make the Saturday edition so attractive. To-morrow’s issue will be more interesting than for some time by reason of its novelties. The Saturday Journal continues to have the largest circulation of any issue of the week. Twenty years ago to-day the bells were rung to celebrate the fall of Richmond. General Grant is so very near tho end that no more can be said than that he is not dead. Rev. Bradley is right in urging the more general observance of' Good Friday. It is one of the solemnest festivals of the Christian calendar The contrast between the gayelies at Berlin on the occasion of the anniversary of the birth of Bismarck and the universal feeling of sorrow in this country because of the fatal illness of Grant, it startling. The stealing or losing of the Sunday base ball bill does not seem to have accomplished its possible purpose. The House passed the measure yesterday, the Senate having furnished a copy of its amendments. The Senate adjourned yesterday, leaving a few nominations unacted upon, among them that of Mr. J. O. Henderson, to bo collector of the Kokomo district. Hon. Rufus Magee was confirmed os minister to Sweden and Norway, Hi ill Mr. CLEVELAND is reported to be greatly worried by the importunities of office-seekers, and to have said that if tho annoyance continued he should adopt a rule not to remove any Republican office-holder until his term expired. As one of tho civil-service rules fits these cases exactly, tho badgered President need not go to the trouble of formulating a new one. ______________ A '‘Massachusetts mugwump” writes to the Boston Herald that he has made a trip through the South recently, and has learned that the Republican office-holders down thenare not so black as they have been painted, but arc, as a rule, honestly and faithfully administering their charges. Although the writer avows hin. self an enthusiastic supporter

of Cleveland and civil-service reform, he feels conscientiously bound to protest against their dismissal before the expiration of their terms. This is truly kind on the part of the mugwump. but recent events indicate'that advice of that nature will have little w< ight with ■ ! the reigning power from this time forth. The New York postoflicc was a sop wherewith tho reformers must be content. Tiff. News, given to splitting hail’s on every possible occasion, thinks, apparently, that the hope of the Nation was not centered in General Grant in 1863, and that the war would have been brought to a close pretty much as it was had Grant died before the fall of Vicksburg. It remains a matter of history that all the substantial victories up to that time had been won by Grant. Mn. Cleveland made haste to have it understood that the re-appointment of Mr. Pear son as postmaster at New Y'ork must not be taken as a precedent; the case was an exception. and would not be followed. Does one re-appointment make civil service reform? What\arrant is there for such a ridiculous gush over the appointment of one postmaster, and that apologized for at the time he was appointed? The Washington Post calls upon Democrats who are dissatisfied with the Pearson appointment to sit quietly down and ask themselves, in all seriousness, if there is really any gross injustice in bestowing one office out of a hundred thousand, upon a man who is in full sympathy, in some respects, with the Democratic party. One office out of a hundred thousand! Is this intended as a hint to President Cleveland not to overstep the limit? M. Bartholdi cables the American committee that the great statue will be shipped from France about the Btli of May, on the French transport Isere. Over SIOO,OOO remains to be raised to complete the pedestal. The New Y’ork World has undertaken the work of securing this amount, and up to date has received subscriptions aggregating nearly SIO,OOO. The amount w ill be raised, of course, but it is a shame that it has not been secured long ago. General Grant is dying on tbe twentieth anniversary of his greatest military achievement, involving, as it did, the surrender at Appomattox. At 4 o’clock on the morning of April 3. 1805, his troops entered Petersburg, and at 7 o’clock on the same morning General Weitzel occupied Richmond, capturing 6,000 prisoners, 5.000 stand of arms and 500 cannon. Six days later, at Appomattox, the rebel chieftain surrendered his remaining forces, and the rebellion was practically at an end. Mr. McDonald does his reputation for candor no credit when he says to the Minneapolis Tribune that “my personal relations with Mr. Hendricks are of the most friendly character/’ Everybody knows that that is far from tho truth. While the distinguished gentlemen do not make mouths and pull each other’s hair when they happen to meet, their “personal relations” are not “of the most friendly character’’ by a very large jugful. Mr. McDonald presumes upon the intelligence of the people.

If Mr. Blaine had been elected, he would doubtless have appointed Henry G. Pearson to be postmaster of this city.—New York Sun. # Possibly: but had he done so, it would not have been because of friendly services rendered by Mr. Pearson. The New York postmaster observed a masterly inactivity during the campaign of 1884, and on tho day of election looked or t for Mr. Cleveland’s interest. He set a trap to catch the coon cornin’ or gwine. The Washington Post has been studying up Mr. Jefferson’s policy, and finds that that Democratic saint believed it to be “both unreasonable and unjust for the majority party of the country to be excluded from public offices of appointment and compelled to see those offices filled almost exclusively by their political opponents: nor did he wait upon death or resignation or delinquency to enforce his opinions on this subject.” Mr. Cleveland cannot long be deaf to the mutterings of discontent. . Some people have no grasp of the situation. The Washington correspondent of a Democratic exchange comments querulously over the fact that Gen. Joe Johnston has been honored with an appointineut when his military record shows that he never achieved a single brilliant victory while in tho rebel army*. The correspondent and his kind should understand that it is not for what they did, but for what they wanted to do, that these exconfederates are distinguished. The Lamars, the Jacob Thompsons, tho Johnstons, did their best to destroy the Union. That they failed to succeed was no fault of theirs. The administration loves them for the enemies they made. It claimed by some that partisan preju dice is practically dead in the South: that is, the prejudice that for years has done murder in order to make the South solidly Democratic. The solidity cl that section should be proof enough of the most intense partisan prejudice. Republicanism is not tolerated anywhere in the States once in rebellion. Even in Florida, a State Republican on a fair vote and honest count, Republican communities and counties have been stripped of their political rights in the most shameless manner. To accomplish this a bill has be* n passed abolishing the city government of Pensacola, the only reason possible being that that city is Republican, so that ins affairs are now under control of a Democratic commission. In the aarnc man

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nor every county has been stripped of its rights to select officers, except that of constable. No Republican is allowed a voice as to how he shall be taxed. Such is the Democratic idea of non-partisan fairness. The rumor that Mi’s. Garfield was about to marry proves to be a heartless canard, without a shadow of foundation in truth. Mrs. Garfield refuses to talk about it, properly regarding such an insinuation as an insult. Like any other widow, she has an undoubted right to make anew alliance; but popular feeling would unqualifiedly condemn such a step. To be the widow of a man of Garfield’s rank is to owe his memory more than if he had been a private citizen. Her friends deny the rumor without equivocation. The Humane Society of Pittsburg has its hands full of business. In looking about for something to reform, one of the members made the appalling discovery that it is the custom in certain classes of society to pierce the ears of infants of the feminine persuasion. The mothers do this for tho ostensible reason that it is beneficial to the female infants’ eyes, but really, it is suspected, for the purpose of decorating them with jewelry at a tender age. The humane society, on being informed of this prevalent cruelty to children, resolved with one voice that it must cease. The babies will, of course, have their ears pierced when they grow to maturity, if the Operation has not been ’ performed in childhood, but the society has nothing to do with the future. The perforation hurts the helpless creatures now, and they must be protected against the inhumanity of their mothers at all hazards. As yet the association has not decided on a method of circumventing the heartless women, but by putting their minds to it a rescue of the suffering innocents will doubtless.be effected.

Y'our typical Southerner is gallant and polite, if nothing else. On Wednesday one of them got on a train at Hazlehurst, Miss., a place noted for shooting on slight provocation, and without a word emptied the contents of a shot-gun into tho back of his father-in-law, inflicting a fatal wound. As might have been expected, however, some of the shot flew wide and lodged in the back of a stranger, a New Orleans excursionist from Ilinois. The shooter was arrested, but before being dragged off to jail, begged the stranger’s pardon, receiving which, he departed thoroughly satisfied with himself. Such acts of deferential kindness should be emulated, and doubtless the unhappy young man will be speedily relieved of all responsibility relative to the less important incident of having killed his man. A curious divorce ease has been tried and adjusted it Deposit, N. Y., in which a woman was legally separated from a man who has been dead nearly eleven years. In 1874 John Summers, of Groton, died in an insane asylum. He was a pensioner of the late war. His mother applied for a pension on the ground, that his death resulted from wounds received in the army. Pending a decision in her case, a woman who proved herself to be the widow of John Summers made a claim for his pension. She was married to him in 1873. This claim made that of the mother of the deceased void. It has just been .established that at the time of his marriage he was insane, and the ceremony has been declared void. His mother has just received sl,152 for arrears of pension.

The members of the “White Cross ArmySign the following pledge: “To treat all women with respect, and endeavor to protect them from wrong and degradation: to endeavor to rut down all indecent language and coarse jests; to maintain the law of purity as equally binding upon men and women; to endeavor to spread these principles and to use eveiy possible means to fulfill the command, ‘keep thyself pure.’" These rules of behavior cannot well be improved upon; but as they are the principles of true manliness, which should be taught in early life, it is hardly to be expected that any moral revolution will be brought about by men of mature years who find it necessary to join associations for the purpose of strengthening their sentiments of gentle manners and decency. Mr. Thomas .Judson Cluverius, the young lawyer under arrest for murdering Fanny Lillian Madison by plunging her into the reservoir last week, at Richmond, Va., is a very devout person, and fills his hours in jail with prayer and song. On this account he is held by many to be innocent. while in consideration of the facts that he professes to be an ardent Baptist and shows a marked preference for tho hymn, “On Jordan’s Stormy Banks 1 Stand,” others are inclined to think that he may have dropped the girl into his favorite element without murderous intent. He declines to talk on any but religious subjects. A thoroughly accommodating man has been found in the person of a certain bank official of St. Catherine’s, Ont. Two weeks ago his wife eloped with a man named Jones, going to New York. After a search of ten days the unhappy husband found the truant pair. The wife had been told of his coming, but expressed aversion to returning home with him. He succeeded in coaxing her to do so, however, and they left for home together. He did better than that, and invited Joues to come back and occupy his old place iu tho bank. _ People are awful particular in Connecticut. A young gallant wanted to sit up all night to take care of his sweetheart, who was dangerously ill. The lady with whom she was staying objected, on the ground that it would not be “proper.” The young man rushed wildly forth, secured a license and a preacher and was married then and there, and he staid in a very, very proper manner. A Jackson, Tenn., young man was so very, very toney that he had his particular glass at his favorite saloon, on which he had his name etched. The young man is now in jail, on a charge of forgory. with every prospect of going to the penitentiary, where -he will drink coffee out of a tin cup, with no etching within a mile of it. A les Moines adventist, inflated with the be lief that the second coming was at hand, ap neared in the streets naked, personating, as he claimed, the character of Adam. The police would have arrested Adam himself had he been guilty of the offense. Tuf. autograph fiends follow General Grant to the very gates of death. These monomaniacs would not value a leaf from the Lamb's Book of Life, because the names incribed thereon are written by a mere recording angel, and are not original signatures. “Sim Crank has signed with Indianapolis,” so says the New York World. But who is Simeon Crane, and what did he sign, and why with Indianapolis instead of some other city? Did he take the trouble to inform Indianapolis, or has

he gone forward and done this something on his own vote? Is he a mugwump or a Pedobaptist, and if bo, why? Again, we would like to ask, who is Simeon Crane, and why did ho “sign?” Bv some oversight the New York Horald on Wednesday published its Berlin news in English, greatly to the inconvenience of its readers. We had become so accustomed to reading German text that we feel the deprivation deeply. The Tennessee strawberry crop promises a big yield, and will bo ready for picking in about three weeks. The prudent man will save up $5. and buy a pint of them. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. It is said that Chauncey M. Depew nays the bills of one student every j-ear at Yale, selecting the young man in his own way and without ostentation. A Nuremberg chemist says that paste made of starch, glycerine and gypsum will retain its plasticity and adhesiveness longer than any other cement. IT H no Horr, no Cox, no Ochiltree, no Beiford and no John D. White, the coming House of Representatives is in danger of being quite staid and solemn. Stanley Huntley, the brilliant humorist, whose “Spoopendyke” papers have given him a national reputation, is lying at the point of death. His malady is Bright’s disease. “I LIKE a clean kitchen.” says George Eliot, “better than any other room.” And that was uttered after Mr. Owen Jones had attended to the ornamentation of her drawing-room. The Mahdi began marrying when he was sixteen years old, and has kept on doing it till he has now accumulated a collection of thirteen wives, which looks as if the False Prophet found real profit in matrimony. A PROFESSIONAL athlete says there is a great knack in climbing stairs easily. His advice is: “Do not lean forward. Do not hurry. Do not spring from stair to stair. Step firmly, leisurely, and keep erect," The children of the Princess Polgorouki, widow of the late Czar of Russia, go by the name of Jouriewskv, a name held by some Russians to be more illustrious than that of Romanoff. The family live in great eloganco in Paris. The latest craze among young ladies is the collection of military buttons. One young miss of the Astor family has received a string of these trinkets in which nearly every government iu the world is represented. London Life is responsible for the statement that Lilly Langtry's personal charms are dwindling and fading, and declares that their loss is due to her devotion to her acting; but her acting doesn’t seem to have gained any of the charms. The poet Whittier, in response to a suggestion by an Englishman that he should write a poem on Gordon, regretted that on account of previous illness he did not dare undertake the eulogy of such a man with a feeble hand; but he added that Alfred Tennyson should be urged to produce a threnody on the subject. The Ameer of Afghanistan has been obliged to bear a bad toothache without relief, for reasons of stare. Abdul Rahman asked a Bristish dentist in upper India to come to C'abul and treat the objectionable tooth, but the Foreign Office actually forbade the dentist to take the journey, according to the Times of India.

I AM a jolly old chestnut, Who began my career of fun When the boy preacher began to preach In the year one hundred and one. And I have a sister older than I, But as hearty and hale as can be, Who wore short dresses and flirted with the springpoet joke when Susan B. Anthony was a coy young thing. In the year 17 B. C. Ik India it costs more to get married than to die. Expensive presents are bestowed, and the parents of the bride are often impoverished for life by the dowry which they give the bride. When a great wedding takes place troops of beggars and priests appear, and they must not be sent away empty-handed. At a recent marriage 10,000 people wero sumptuously fed, and presented with clothing and money. Pkoplk that knew Mr. Pendleton's family will believe that the German mission is particularly suited to h'+t? The whole family spettir German fluently, and Mrs. Pendleton is likely to prefer the comparative plainness of living in Berlin to the costly show of Paris. While in Cincinnati the Senator and his family lived in elegant simplicity. Mrs. Pendleton and her daughters attended a little sort of mission church near their Liberty-street residence. Gknkral Wright, with bis staff, was one day passing Genend Grant’s headquarters, and stopped to pay hi* respects. During the conversation Genemal Wright asked how long before they would enter Richmond. General Grant replied:—"l did intend to get in by the fourtli of July, but I have just got a letter from a friend in California who has been betting on an earlier date, aud we shall have to .hurry up a little.” Richmond did not fall for nearly a year. It is recalled in Washington society that the steamer Baltic, on which Mrs. Nellie Grant-Sartoris lately returned from Europe to see her slowly dying father, is the same on which she went with her husband on tlfoir wedding tour across tho Atlantic a few days after their brilliant wedding iu tho White House, May 23,1874. Slio has always been her father's special pet among his children, and while her mother maintained her composure in telling her good-bye when she was leaving after her marriage, her father broke down completely. Mr. Norman J. Colman, of Missouri, who has been nominated to be Commissioner of Agriculture, has been spending some time iu Washington. Last week, when it became settled that lie was to be appointed to the office, lie said he was much embarrassed at the prospect of having to manage both a government bureau and a big farm near St. Louis. 1 ‘What shall Ido with my celts?” he exclaimed. ‘‘They’re just about ready to break.” "Bring ’em on and break 'em here ” said a friend. “Great Scot!” was the reply; “why, there are forty-two of ’em —all promising trotters.” Ilf 1802 Daniel Webster was a schoolmaster in Fryeburg, Me., and was paid a salary of $350 a year. The old ledger which contained Mr. Webster’s store account while a preceptor at Fryeburg, is still in existence. Among the charges are “soap, one sixpence;” “quills, one and sixpence.” and “one pair silk hose, fourteen and sixpence. Those extravagant hose were worn at one of the festive balls for which old Fryeburg was noted. An old lady, who was one of Webster’s pupils at Fryeburg, describes ldm as “all eyes.” He was a successful schoolmaster, and was given a pres ent at the end of his term. Thk Era (London) tells that at a garden-party given by tho Governor of New Zealand, in Christchurch, Miss Genevieve Ward was among the guests,and the wife of an archdeacon, noted for her dislike to the theatrical profession, was also present. The latter darao was not acquainted with Lady Jervois, the Governor's wife, but, struck by the appearance of Miss Ward, jumped at the conclusion 'that she saw her hostess in tho striking-looking lady who bore herself so regally. Without waiting for an introduction, she hastened to present herself, and a brief but pleasant conversation ensued; and the archdeaconess, turning to a friend who hail ate lied tho interview in surprise, exclaimed: “What a charming woman Lady Jervois is!” “What!” said her friend. “Why, that's the actress!” Paralyzed with horror. Mrs. Archdeacon gasped staggered and fled, and the incident will be a p opular story in Christchuch for many a day. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. To honor the lost cause is to honor a system of organized conspiracy, murder, arson and poisoning against unoffending private* persons, men, women and children, and private property, which makes the thugs aud the Fenian dynamiters civilized warriors by comparison. All this to be carried on among unsuspecting populations, in the guise of peace, and claiming the immunities of the laws of peace. —Cincinnati Cos mmercial Gazette. TIIK result, take it all in all, has been fairly satisfactory, The South, as a section, cannot complain. It has a fair share of the honors. But as the sectional line is now abolished, we may m&ko a comparison* of States, and it does seem that Georgia, with two im portant missions and a fat consulate, has carried off the lion's share, while Texes, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina and aoiqp other States are unappeased. For our own State, however, we do not complain. Wo

have no right to. Wo have not reached ranch higher than the custom-houses and postoffices, and if wo succeed in knocking them into the mouths of one in ten of the hungry expectants, we will cry quits, and reach our poles higher in 1889.—Charleston News and Courier. Tiik action [Tearson's appointment] is eminently right, auddeservesfrauk acknowledgement; but, f<>r the reasons we have indicated, the administration could net help itself. The independents extorted the concession. The appointment, therefore, signifies nothing as to the general policy of the President. We do not expect him to make sweeping removals; but we venture to say that in offices of this sort Mr. Pearson is the only Republican he will reappoint, and that, as fast as commissions expire he will put in Democrats — of the Tilde u-LUnd&ll-Mauuing stripe.—Philadelphia Press. It is to be hoped that Commander Kane, of the Galena. can explain his a.leged inaction when the revolutionists at Aspinwall seized an American steamer with her officers, the Pacific Mail Company’s local representatives, a United .States consul, and one of the Galena’s officers, and held them until a consignment of arms on the Colon was surrendered. * * Secretary Whitney appeal’s to have acted energetically upon the case, and, as we donbtless have navy enough for the occasion, this is well, for it is really a little too much to have the flag trampled by Colombian revolutionary riff-raff.—New York Tribune. There is no question of European policy, however delicate or complicated, that could not be easily and most advantageously settled in council if men would come together in their wisdom, rather than in their prejudice and greed; and when we have the spectacle of two great powers settling amicably a question of vital and broad interest to both, relying upon their statesmen instead of upon their soldiers, it is a matter to invite the applause of the world, and should be viewed without partisan censure, even though there may be in the method of settlement or compromise some slight tendering of national pride.—Chicago Inter Ocean. All this struggle in the newer States to suppress the liquor traffic by more stringent legislation but emphasizes the principle that we in the East are learning to accept. Law cannot rise above its source. Total prohibition cannot be enforced in a community where people recognized as respectable wish to purchase or use liquors. The traffic may be cpntrolled just so far as the great majority of the public care to control it, and the Western people will find their only adequate protection from tne evils of intemperance, where other communities find it, in the education of the public. This remedy is slow and hard to apply, but it is yet the only one that stands the test of application.—Springfield Republican. The Chinese have two qualities that go to the making of good soldiers, viz.: A contempt for death and a wonderful capacity for discipline. All they need, indeed, is good arms and a knowledge of the art of modern war, and they seem to be acquiring this rapidly under the teaching of the German experts. It. is no wonder that under the new order of things they are beginning to prove themselves capable of meeting trained Euroiiean soldiers on an equal field. Having met with such fine success, the Chinese will be more eager than ever to follow the teachings of their German instructors, and may soon prove themselves a formidable military power. The French will probably find it. no child's play to carry out a policy of conquest in the Tonquin,—Chicago Tribune. Th* fact that over $80,000,000 of surplus is lying idle in the New York banks alone—nearly $50,000,000 in excess of the legal reserve, and that the loaning rate is from 2to 4 per cent.—proves that the cause of the business trouble is not what it lias been—a lack of abundant and cheap money. Another fact, and a favorable one, in connection with this plethora ot money, is that the accumulation represents so many debts paid, or so much cash withdrawn from wild-cat enterprises The failures and the liquidations of the past three years have left business in a much more normal and healthful condition than it was in before. 5\ ith the advent of spring, a little of the old-time American push and pluck ought to be able to start the wheels, and clear the channels of trade.—Boston Herald. Evidently no French statesman, who believes himself to have a future, can wish to take office at this juncture. Only a stop gap Ministry is possible, for the factions composing the majority which drove out M. Ferry have nothing in common, except their vindictive aim and the conviction that a foolish war must now be fought out to the bitter end. For M. t’lemenceau to form a government is out of the question, and it is very doubtful whether M. de Freycinet or any other politician thus far named could maintain himself even for the short term during which the present Chamber of Deputies can legally exist. Anew general election is at hand, but how far the recent grave events may affect the prospects of the Radicals on one hand and of the monarchical reactionists upon the other is too large and intricate a question to be just now discussed.—New York Sun.

ML’DONAED IN THE WEST. He Denies the Rumor of Goins Into the Cabiuet, and Eats Dirt. Minneapolis Tribune. Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, “Old Saddlebags," the Hoosier Democrat_who occupies such a hi gh place in the hearts nl 11 111 11 1 —Nap ; j mil whose candidacy for the presidency made him known" to the whole country, is an old gentleman of rotund person and benignant countenance. He looked at the reporter over a pair of gold-rim-med glasses, while his huge double chin and little tuft of whisker crowded out over his oldfashioned collar. In answer to a query, ho said: “it is eutirely by accident that I am with this party. Colonel Vilas is a friend of mine whom I esteem most highly, and, having business in the Northwest, I availed myself of his kindly invitation to accompany him as far as Minneapolis, with my young friend here, Mr. Lamb, who represents the Terre Haute district in Congress." The young Hoosier congressman is a lawyer by profession, of stocky" build, phenomenally florid complexion and smoothly-shaven face. He wore a closely fitting Prince Albert coat, buttoned to the collar, and smiled at the reference made to himself by Mr. McDonald. Continuing, the latter said: “My first'acquaintance with Colonel Vilas was made during the Haneock-GarfieM campaign, when he was one of the most eloquent of the political speakers sent to our State to plead the cause of Democracy.” “You were chairman of the Democratic State committee at that time?” “Oh, no. I was, however, chairman of the Indiana Democratic central committee during the Tilden-Hayes campaign. ” “You have, of course, heard of the recent rumors concerning your beiug called to a place iu the Cabinet in the near future,” remarked the reporter. “I have; and a more absurd story was never set afloat. It is as groundless as the rumors which have been published all over the country concerning an alleged ill-feeling between myself and Mr. Hendricks, and the ill-natured criticism of our family affairs. I would like to say that my relations with Mr. Hendricks are of the most friendly character.” “What do you think of Mr. Cleveland’s nominations to the foreign courts?” “They are typical of tho man. He has exercised a shrewdness in his selection that does the amplest credit to his good judgment, and confirms my belief that his administration will not only be successful, but conducted upon the principles set forth in the Constitution.” “What is the feeling in Indianapolis over the appointment of Aquilla Jones as postmaster?’ “The people generally are satisfied. There was more of a struggle for the place in the newspapers than in fact.” “I suppose you noticed in the afternoon papers that Mr. Cleveland has nominated Mr. Pearson for postmaster of New York?” “Yes, sir. The matter had been decided before wo left Washington, and was, therefore, no news to us. It was an act that will do more than anything else to strengthen the confidence of the businessmen of tho couutry in Mr. Cleveland’s civil-service policy. This is to be a practical Democratic administration, and mere placehunters will not displace competent men, whatever thoir politics.” Where Is the Civil-Service Reform. VYaahiugton Critic. The mugwumps won a great victory. Pearson has been reappointed postmaster of Now York city. The victory will boa costly one to the Democracy. It will demoralize tho working element who expected tho plums. For if Pearson is reappointed because he is a good officer, why should not every other good officer be reappiolnted? If Pearson should be reappointed, why should Wildman, of Indianapolis, bo turned out, even before his time was up? Wildman is just as good an officer as Pearson. Why make flesh of one and fish of another? Is it because a Vice-president demanded one, and the mugwumps tho other? Whore does civil service reform como in? The Washington Cold Wave. Fall River Herald. Mon with great expectations walk into the White House as cheerily as if they owned it, but they come out of it as if they were coming out of a dentist’s office. Not Enough to liurt Him. Cincinnati Kuiiuirer. Postmaster Pearson's Republicanism never hurt him much. Certainly it hasn’t injurod him greatly with Mr. Cleveland.

CENTRAL AMERICA’S WARS. The City of Aspinwall a Complete Ruin and the People in Great Distress. The Revolutionists Defeated and Routed After a Severe Engagement, Only a Few of Preston’s Followers Escaping. • i ii United States Troops Ordered to tho Scene for Protection of Americans. Barrios Has a Pitched Battle with the Salva* dorian Army, and Is Badly Defeated, losing Fifteen Hundred Men. THE BURNING OF ASUINWALI* The City a Complete Ruin—Distress Among the Homeless People. Panama, April 2.—The particulars of the battle at Aspinwall and the burning of that city are still meagerly reported. The attack upon the rebel chief Preston by the Colombian troops waa led by Colonel Ulloa. Preston’s forces, were literally routed after a severe engagement. As soon as Preston became convinced that it would be impossible for him to maintain his position, he set fire to the city in various places and then made his escape. Only a few of his followers succeeded in getting away with him. The city is almost a complete ruin, and only three houses are left standing. Much distress prevails among the people who have been rendered homeless. Everything is quiet here at Panama, and no serious apprehension of an attack from the insurgents is felt. Communication with Aspinwall remains open. United States Troops Ordered to the Scene. Washington, April 2.— ln answer to a telegram sent last night by Secretary Whitney to the president of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, at New York, relative to the number of men the company's vessels can take to Aspmwall -without delay, the following reply was received this morning: “We can carry 200 mon in the City of Para to-morrow at noon, and GOO in the Acapulco next Monday.” Secretary Whitnoy replied: “We will ship 200 men by yoursteamer to-morrow noon, with tents and camp equipage. The Tennessee, with Admiral Jouett, will leave New Orleans, probably to-day, with an extra complement of marines for Aspinwall, and with extra provisions. This will place four ships and between 400 and 500 available men at Aspinwall for land serviee. As to Monday's steamer I will communicate hereafter.” The men will be taken from the Brooklyn and Portsmouth navy-yards. In reply to a telegram sent to Commander Kane, of the Galena, the following was also received to-day: “Transit m closed. The steamship property is safe and in my possession; also, tho railroad property at the north end of the island. It is advisable to send another vessel.” When it was learned in the Navy Department this morning, that the Secretary had determined to protect American interests at the Isthmus by force, there was considerable excitement among the naval officers on duty here. A number of them immediately volunteered their services to go to Aspinwall. The selection of officers, however, has been left to a board of detail, whiph "Poffvened at 11:30. _ it is understood Hlaj. Carles Hayward, of tlie Marino Corps, who is iu charge of tho marine barracks at Brooklyn, will have immediate command of the marines. A naval officer of rank, however, will probably be detailed to command the expedition. A prominent naval officer, in speaking of the Panama difficulty, and the sending of a force from the United States, said to-day: “It is a subject of regret among naval officers that the sailors who will probably form part of the forces to be sent to the isthmus will not be as well armed as the marines, or even as well as tho forces with which they will have to contend. Their arms consist of the short-magazine guns, which will not compare in range with the Springfield rifles. Neither are they supplied with bayonets.”

Government official* are of the opinion that the transit will not continue closed for any length of time. It will depend upon informa* tion, derived in tho meantime, whether any additional force will be sent to Aspinwall on Monday. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company has reduced the rate for taking the men to $lO per man, including the subsistence upon the passage, and including the tents and camp equipage. This covers about the actual cost to the company for taking them. The four ships-of-war which will be at Aspinwall by the time the Pacific Mail steamer arrives have Gatling guns for use on land, and a force of sailors trained in their management. _ Preparations at Brooklyn Navy-Yard. Nkw York, April 2.—There is a quiet hum of preparation to-day at the Brooklyn navy-yard and at the marine barracks in Brooklyn. Tha cause is said to beau intimation from Washington that it would be well to have the available marine corps at this station ready for transportation to the Isthmus of Panama in order to protect American interests. If needed, 150 marines can be sent away at two hours’ notice. The ordnance department is also kept busy supplying Gatling guns and such ammunition as may be called for. Captains Fagan and Cochrano* and sixty mea of the United States Marine Corps left League Island navy yard, Philadelphia, to day, at three hours’ notice, for New York, to sail thence tomorrow for the Isthmus of Panama. 1 '■ e Mail Burhod at Aspinwall. Nkw York. April 2.—Cable advices from A* pinwall, received by Postmaster Pearsou, report a serious loss of mail matter in tho destruetion of that city by fire on tho 21st ultimo. The entire mail for the South Pacific, dispatched from New York on the 21st ultimo by the stoamet Colon, was destroyed, aud also the registered mail for Aspinwall, sent by the same steamer. The letter mail was nearly all delivered before the fire broke out. As accurately as can now be statod, the mail for Central America and the Pacific coast of South America, burned, consisted of 150 packages of registered mail, ten sacks of ordinary letters, and fifty-three sacks of papers, BAKIIIOS BEATEN. Ills .Forces Completely Routed, After a Tea flours' Engagement. La Libkrtad, San Salvador, April 2.—Authentic advices regarding the first engagement between the forces of Guatemala and San Salvador on the 20th of March havo just beon received hero, and indicate that the result will decisively affect the arbitrary position assumed by Barrios. It seems that the Salvadorian commander had massed a force of about 11,000 on the plains of Santa Anna, for tho protection of