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where Dickson sat with witne*. Bowen apok* to Dickson in an undertone. Dickson said, indignantly, “What do you Dike me for?” or some-, thins of that eort. Hubsequently Cameron name down through the room and called Bowen away, and Bowen afterwards returned. Later in the evening he saw Dickson and Bowen on the balcony of the Summer Garden. Counsel for the government, objected to the testimony of the witness Driver, and counsel for the defense said they would show that after trial in the police court Bowen went of his own volition to the witness and confessed to tint ( truth of the whole scheme of conspiracy between himself and Brewster Cameron to destroy Dickson. “That is true,” said the witness. Court did not think the testimony competent, and declined to admit it Ex-District Attorney George B. Corkh ill testified that the grand jury ignored the first in dictmeut against Dickson, and that the second indictment was intrusted to Messrs. Wells and Ker. He said that after the finding*)f the bill the*© gentlemen came to the district attorney's office and complained that an officer hand not the ■ right to permit a certain witness to go to the grand jury. “Times,” said the witness, “were squally then, and I went before the grand jury and told them if they could find prima facie, they .<&ouki do so.” Continuing, the witness said: “The bill against Dickson would not have "been found without me, ” and he stated that he went before the grand .jury and told them they were not to try the ense, hut if they found a prima facie caae existing they should find a bill. Ha told them there was an effort to shift the responsibilities for their failure to find a bill upon him, and he did not want to carry it. In the meantime. he said, Attorney-general Brewster and Brewster Cameron visited his office, and on the same evening the indictment was found. At this point the trial closed for the day. INDIANA OFFICE-SEEKERS. Thomas F. Rysn Secures a Good Flaoe—Other Indiauiaiiri In Search of Fat Things. Bpsrial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washinotpn. April 23.— I Thomas F. Ryan, of Missouri, formerly of Indianapolis, was to-day appointed special agent of the government for the seal islands of Alaska. The salary is $3,000 a year. Mr. Ryan secured the offioe through Indiana influence. State Senator Fred Hoover, of jasper, lnd., is here. He wants an Indian agency. State Senator Willard, of Lawrence county, is gunning for high game. He arrived to day with Mrs. Willard, and proposes to stick until he secures the consul-generalship for Paris. There are at least fifty applicants for the office, and it is snid that the autograph of Vice-presi-dent Hendricks adorns the papers of at least twenty-five of the applicants; but then Mr. Willard stands as good a show as any of the fifty. John P. Frenzei, of Indianapolis, arrived today. If Mr. Frenzei wants anything for himself, he is not advertising the fact, as he says his business is purely social, and that he desires to express to the President the assurance of his regard. Congressman Bynum, of Indianapolis, arrived this afternoon. Mr. Bynum will devote his energies for a few days to the laudable purpose of bouncing Republican postmasters and postal clerks, if he can secure the assistance of Post-master-general Vilas. In spite of the fact that Mr. Hendricks has been most emphatically snubbed by all the Cabinet officers, as well as by the President, he does not despair, but sticks to his business of hunting for offices. Mr. Hendricks spends three or four hours each day in working, making the rounds of the departments, and has made himself cordially hated by every bureau officer in the civil service by hie persistency. His conpe can be seen at the entrance to one of the depart-: ments every day in the week, yet he has less success than other Democratic statesmen who devote half their time to the business of officeseeking. _ VILAS’S REGULATIONS. Questions To Be Answered by Applicants for Postofllce Inspectorships, Washington Special to Cincinnati Enquirer. Postmaster-general Vilas has prescribed a form of application for those worthy Democrats who dare to aspire to be Postoffice inspectors. First, they are required to answer th§ following interrogatories under oath: 1. What is your fnll name? 2. Where and when were you born! 3. In what place have you dwelt since birth, and during what periods? (State particulars in order of time.) ! 4. Where is your present residence and postoffice address, and how long have you resided there? 5. If not born of parents who were citizens of the United States, * state how, and when, nnd where you became a citizen of the United States? 6. Are you married or single? If married, what family have you, and where do they re i side? 7. What is the condition of your general health and physical powers, and are you in any way incapacitated for physical labor? 8. Is your hearing or eyesight in any way affected? If so, how? 9. What has been your occupation since you became eighteen years of age? (State particulars fully, and in order of time.) 10. Did you ever hold any office, civil or military, national, State or municipal? How long, nnd under what circumstances were you elected or appointed? 11. Have youevor been indicted orcomplained against in court for any criminal offense, and if so. for what, when, in what court, and what wnß the result of the proceeding? (State all particulars fully.) 12. Did you ever occupy any position in any way connected with tlub Poetoffice Department; if so, what, for how long, and under what circumstances was your connection with the service terminated? 13. State generally your knowledge of postal affairs and of the manner and mode of carrying and handling the mails, and of the businoss of tho Postoffice Department, nnd also of a postoffice, separately stating as to each. 14. What has been your education? (State particularly.) 15. AY hat are your qualifications, and what experience have you had as an accountant? I*s. What experience, if any, have you had which you regard as specially tending to qualify you for service as a postoffice inspector! 17. Do you consent to submit to examination nnd such other requirements as have been or may be made as a condition of pursuing your application. at your own risk nnd cost? This done, the applicant is next required to got the certificate of a practicing physician as to his physical qualifications, and next the certificate of the judge of a court, of record that he is a man of good moral chnracttr. In time Mr. Vilas may require applicants for office under his jurisdiction to commit to memory the Catechism according to the Westmi nisicr faith and the Lord’s JSermon on the Mount THE VIRGINIA DEBT CASE. _ m An Immense Amount of Trouble Expected in the Old Domiutou. Wash!ngton Special. The decision of the Supreme Court in the coupon cases will play sad havoc not only with theßtate finances, bat also with the public schools and all the public institutions of the State. Under an act passed by the last legislatures, the board of sinking fund commissioners have recently purchased of Riddleberger bonds to the amount of $1,700,000, for which they pay in cash $900,000. This leaves in the Treasury about $300,000 which will soon be absorbed by incoming coupons under the decision, and of which there are outstanding and past due $2,500,000 of the consol bouds of 1871. Under these circumstances the condition of the State will be deplorable, and as soon as the full text of the decision is known there will he iutense political and financial excitement all over Virginia, it is apparent now that the whole question of the U ;bt will be reopened politically and otherwise,

and It to not improbable that Governor Cameron will be compelled to immediately reconvene tho Legislature. MINOR MENTION. Proposed Transfer of Gold from San Francisco to New York. WAWiiKsroK, April 23.—The Secretary of the Treasury Las under consideration several propositions for tho transportation of a large amount of gold from the sub treusury at San Francisoo to the sub-treasury at Now York. The transfer of about $33,000,000 of gold coin contemplated. Congress, at its last session, appropriated SIOO,000, which was made immediately available for the transportation of this gold. The rates submitted by the express companies for the work are all in excess of the estimates. When the appropriation was asked it was estimated that the gold would be transported at the rate of $2.50 per SI,OOO. The lowest bid made by the express company, however, is $3.23 per SI,OOO. In addition to the bids from the express companies. There is one from the Pacific Mail .Steamship Company, which offers to make the transfer at a much reduced rate, but the oxaefc terms proposed by the steamship company are not known. The reason for the transfer is to relieve the vaults at San Francisco, which are taxed to their utmost capacity, and also to have the gold in New York, where it would ee more needed in case of a sudden demand. It is expected that the Secretary will decide on tho method of transportation in a few days. The President's "Kitchen Cabinet.** Wash hip ton Special. Democratic newspapers are congratulating themselves upon the tact that Mr. Cleveland has -no “chum” Cabinet to ad vise him, as bad some of his predecessors, but with Senator Gorman coming out of the White House at all hours of the day and night, and Mr. Bissell making frequent trips from Buffalo to Washington, it appears as if some of these Democratic editors were not posted. Nor does this “chum" Cabinet of the present administration advise in vain, for tne handiwork of Gorman has already been seen at more than one turn. His friends have come to look upon him as the power behind the throne, and the man who has Gorman’s name upon his petition or the Senator's influence backing him when he goes to tho White House, feels that more than half of the battle has been won. What Became of the Brick Cart? Washington, April 23. —Belva Lockwood, the equal rights party’s candidate for President in tfhe last campaign, while going down New York avenue on her tricycle to-day collided with a loaded brick cart and was thrown from her machine. Except tho disarrangement of her toilet Belva escaped injury. Notes and Personalities. Washington, April 23. —Mr. Bay less W. Hanna, of Indiana, recently appointed United States minister to Persia, qualified to-day at the Department of State. The President has appointed the followingnamed postmasters: J. B. Falconer, at Minneapolis, Kan., vice William L. Harvey, commission expired; H. V. Garrigan, at Columbns, Kan., vice W. W. Coulter, resigned; James T. Stearl, Van Buren, Ark., vice William Smith, resigned; E. B. Williams, Ketchum, I. T. The Comptroller of the Currency, to day, authorized the First National Bank, of Eramottsburg, la., to begin business with a capital of $50,000. A committee of three will be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, in a few days, to supervise the count of all the cash and other securities in the treasury of the United States, incident to the- transfer of the office to Mr. Jordan. .The committee will bo composed of a representative of the Secretary, who will be selected from the public moneys divisiou; a representative of Mr. Wyman, who will be selected from the Treasurer’s office, and a representative of Mr. Jordan, who will be selocted from the outside. The couut will commence at the close of business April 30, and will probably take about three weeks. , Mr. James K. McCammon, Assistant Attorneygeneral for the Interior Department, resigned yesterday, to take effect on the 4th proximo. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. [Concluded from First Page.] in its place. The window is to be set immediately over Sti&kspenre’s grave. The committee which has the unveiling ceremonies in charge, the vicar said, are making efforts to have the dedication address prepared and delivered by James Russell LowelL The decorations represent the “Seven Ages of Man.” and for the illustration of Shakspenre’s text describing each, a scriptural subject has been chosen. The window is said by the best critics to be a marvel of art. Singular Origin of a Mysterious Disease. Paris, April 23.—A menagerie was recently burned at Roubaix, department of Nord, and many of the wild animals were roasted to death. There was great danger, at one time, of ibe beasts escaping, and the citizens became furious over the negloct of the police to prevent or extinguish the fire. A mob seized the police on duty and compelled them to eat portions of the burned animals. The officials soon after became terribly ill with symptoms somewhat resembling those of cholera. The mysterious disease quickly spread to other victims, and has now become epidemic. Austrian Newspapers Seized. Vienna, April 23. —The government to-day seized an entire edition of the Fremdenblatt, and four other newspapers, for printing the text of a manifesto issued by the “United Left,” or German opposition in the Reichsrnth. criticising tho policy of the present Taafe Ministry, The publishers of the five papers at once issued later editions, in which the entire space occupied by the manifesto waß left blank. % The Proposed British Federation. London, April 23.—The bill to federate the British Australian colonies was read a second time in the House of Lords this afternoon. At present the bill includes but five of tho six colonies, New South Wales still refusing, to entar the federation. It is believed, however, that New South Wales will soon overcome her present objections to the federation scheme. The Insurrection in Cambodia. Pams, April 23.—News has been received from Cambodia, by way of Haigon, to the effect that the insurgents hare surprised a French post, captured several guns and massacred many Europeans. Cholera Reappears at Cairo, London, April 23.—1 t is stated that cholera has reappeared at Cairo, and that seven deaths from the disease have occurred there. Twenty-Four Persons Killed. London, April 23.—Twenty four persons wore killed by an avalanche at Seydisford, Iceland. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Mrs. Margaret Harrison was fatally burned at Tiffin, 0., Wednesday night. A coal oil lamp she was carrying exploded. The Board of Commissioners of Asbury Park, N. J., have passed resolutions condemning as a nuisance the meetings of tho Salvation Army, and instructing the chief of police to prohibit the gathering of crowds at the doors of the barracks. In a quarrel at Marx Paulson's saloon, at Winona, Minn., Wednesday, Jesso Neville shot and killed Paulson instantly. He escaped, but the sheriff is in pursuit. Tho murderer is about twenty years of age. His father is a respectable resident of Richmond. At St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, yesterday, Bishop Bloudeil, of Montana, acting for Archbishop Gibbons, ordained to the priesthood Thomas Reilly, of the diocese of Columbus, O.; Bishop Glorieux ordained to the deaconship Mr. Reilly and Frank N. Perry, of tho Chicago diocese, and E. Fallon, of Urn New Orleans diocese.

-THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1885.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. Sensation in tfee Loueks-Lonthain Snit —Acquittal of Clarence Jackson—Revival of Plenro-Fnenmonia in Illinois, INDIANA. Sensation in the Louckg-Louthain Suit—An Alibi for the Plaintiff! Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Logansport, April 23.—The most interesting feature of the Loucks-Louthain slander suit, at Delphi, to-day, was tho establishing of an alibi by Rev. W. E. Loucks, on the only specific time mentioned by the girls who charge him with entering their sieeping-rooms. The date specified was March 10, 1882. In rebuttal several witnesses from Valparaiso swore that Mr. Loucks was in that city from Feb. 26 to March 16, conducting a series of revival meetings. This testimony created a sensation. The argument of counsel was commenced this afternoon, and will be continued to-morrow. It is expected the case will be given to the jury to morrow evening. % Acquittal of Clarence Jackson. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Vincennes, April 23.—Clarence Jackson, former agent of the Adams Express Company, at this city, charged with embezzling certain funds belonging to the express company, which disappeared while he was acting as agent, amounting in all to nearly $2,000, was tried for the crime, this week, in tho Knox Circuit Court. For three weeks or more he had been a prisoner in the county jail. On being arraigned in court be entered a plea of “not guilty” to the charge, though confronted by nearly all the big and little officers of the Western division of the express company. A week was occupied in the examination of eight witnesses, including the wife of the accused, who was by his side constantly during the progress of the trial. The case was giver to the jury on Wednesday, and a verdict was not reached until after daylight this rooming, which was an acquittal. a great public feeling in favor of the defendant all through tho trial, and many believed he was not guilty. The verdict was not a surprise; on the contrary, it is the only finding that would have met with public approval. * A New Harmony 3TIII Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Evansville, April 23.—The Oregon flouring mill, at New Harmony, twenty-six miles from here, was burned to the ground to-day. Tho mill was owned by Ford & Corbin, and was but one year old. It was valued at $24,000 and contained 8,000 bushels of wheat, which was totally destroyed. The loss is estimated at $34,000, on which there is an insurance of $17,500; SIO,OOO on the building and $7,500 on stock, in the following companies: Home of New York, $2,500; Underwriters’ of New York, $3,000; Millers’ National, $7,000; Insurance Company of North America, $2,500; Phoenix of New York, $2,500. Crushed Between Drawbars. Special to tha Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayn®, April 23. —Willis P. Doty, watchman for the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railway, was instantly killed, to-day, by being crushed between drawbars. The company has no responsibility in the matter. He leaves a widow and two children. Minor Note*. M. 8. Pickelheimer will probably be the Democratic candidate for mayor of Aurora. Matthew Wilson, a well-known Madison grocer, is dead, aged fifty-nine years. The dwelling of Benjamin Woodson, at Crawfordsville, caught fire from a defeotive flue yesterday, and was almost entirely burned. Insured for S4OO. Win. E. Ayers, of Indianapolis, and Miss Zoe Manville, daughter of the late Democratic editor, Nicholas Manville, were married at Madison on 'Wednesday. The Richmond Democracy have nominated the following city ticket: Mayor, David M. Hill; clerk, Billy Hantscbe; treasurer, J. IL Moorman; marshal, Will Steinbrink. The board of trustees of Hanover College is called to meet at Madison, next Monday, to elect an additional professor, and to make such readjustments of the existing professorships us this election may necessitate. George E. Trow is the latest applicant for the Madison postoffice. The other wanters are Capt. John Kirk, Capt. Charles David, R. Doolittle, W. B. Swormstedt, Burnett, editor of tho Herald, aud Col. Court E. Whitsett. At Dublin, while Samuel Sheidler, sixty years old, was hauling timbers for anew barn, his horses gave a sudden turn and threw a heavy sill around in such a way as to break both his legs. One of his legs will probably have to be amputated. The Republicans of Lafayette yesterday nominated the following candidates: For mayor, Linu Caldwell; treasurer, Ferd Welsh; clerk, John Fletemeyer; marshal, James McCardle; water-works trustee, Henry Epstein; assessor, A. R. Abbot. ILLINOIS. Pleuro-Pneumonia Again Appears iu Bailey's Herd of Jerseys. Chicago, April 23.— A special telegram received this morning byf tho Breeders’ Gazette from Dr. N. H. Paaren, State Veterinarian of Illinois, announces that pleuro pneumonia has again broken out in the herd of Jersey‘cattle belonging to Mr. Bailey, of Peoria, 111. This is one of the herds in which the disease played such havoc last autumn, and it was hoped that it had run its course there and that the herd could soon bo released from quarantine. But this fresh outbreak confirms all that has previously been said about the insidious nature of this malady, and Dr. Paaren has determined to at once have the entire herd condemned and slaughtered, as the only effectual method of stamping out the disease. It is reported that he has decided to recommend a similar course with all the herds now in quarantine in this State. Later in the day the herd was slaughtered. Three of the animals showed unmistakable symptoms of the disease. The McLean County Coal Strike. Special to tha Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, April 23.— A few men went into the McLean County coal shaft to-day and were not molested by the strikers, who have now been out nearly a month. It is thought that several others will join them tomorrow. These men are not skilled miners, and it is thought they cannot raako enough money to support themselves. The 2TO miners who are on strike are still unmoved. Some of them are at work by tbe day about the city, and all seem determined to hold tbe fort They are peaceable aud orderly. _ Action in the Legislature. Springfield, April 23.—1n tne House, to day, Mr. Dill's bill for the consolidation of railroad corporations was passed by a vote of 82 to 42. The bill provides that all railroad companies in the State are empowered to consolidate their property, franchises and capital stock with that of any oompany with whose lines they connect

at the State boundary, upon such terms as may be agreed on by the directors and approved by the stockholders owning not less than two-thirds of the capital stock of the respective companies becoming parties to such consolidation; provided that no such railroad shall consolidate with any company owning a parallel or competing line. In the Senate, the reform election bill presented by the citizens’ association of Chicago was passed. A bill was introduced limiting telephone use to $3 a month. In the joint ass embly forty-five senators and 135 representatives answered the roll-call. Os these, 100 Republicans were present, and their entire vote was cast for Logan. On a second call the rote was the same as on tho first, and the assembly adjourned. Shelbyvllle’s Sensation. Shelbyville, April 23. —This day will long he remembered by the sporting fraternity of this city. The grand jury, which adjourned Thursday last, found seventy-one indictments, with from five to ten counts each, against men for gambling. The list was a startling one, including many persons standing high in social and business circles. This is the last day of grace before bench warrants will be issued for their arrests, and the boys are marching up in squads to the captain’s office, acknowledging the corn, pleading guilty to five counts apiece, and paying fines and costs amounting to nearly SBO each. Farm Dwelling Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Altamont, April 23.— The dwelling of Wm. Smith, a farmer living about six miles south of this city, was destroyed by fire last night. Most of the household goods were burned. Tbe loss is about covered by insurance. Two of the occupants were asleep and barely escaped from the falling timbers. Brief Mention. Henry Keiser is in jail at Rockford, charged with breaking into the house of Mr. Morey and stealing S6O from the trunk of John Boyd. Fred Eddington, aged thirty-five years, a farmer, hanged himself at his home, two miles east of Miles's Station. He leaves a wife and four children. Report has reached Elgin of the suicide of Miss Serena Morse, at St. Charles, by hanging. She was thirty-five years old, and was the daughter of t*e late William Morse. She was deaf and dumb. Zachariah Nelson, the tramp who, after a murderous assault upon Mrs. Shrefflor, near Kankakee, last month, was removed to Chicago to evade lynching, has been sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. At Shelbyville the grand jury returned sev-enty-one indictments, against persons living in that city, for gambling. Among the indicted were a large number of business men and public officials. A majority of them have pleaded guilty to five counts each and have been fined, the fine of each offender being, with costs, over $75. The two school-girls, Polena and Bertha Morman, supposed to have been drowned eight days ago in Green creek, near Effingham, have not been found. Some fears are entertained that tho girls may have fallen into the hands of trampa The general impression, however, is that they fell from the foot-log, and that the sand has washed over their bodies. At Edwardsville. Amos Woolridge brought suit to set aside the will 'of bis grandfather, the late Judge Samuel Squire, who left an estate of $60,000 to his four children, with SIOO to the contestant, who is the son of a fifth child, a daughter. Undue influence, incapacity to make a will, and improper construction of the same were set up. The jury has returned a verdict sustaining the will. The saloon-keepers of Galesburg have presented to the city council a petition asking that the license fee be reduced from SI,OOO to SBOO. The council, on the other hand, has under consideration an ordinance requiring an applicant for a dram-shop license to secure the consent of one-half of the property-owners of the block in which the dram-shop is to be located before such license shall issue. WOMEN IN THE DEPARTMENTS. Some Are Lazy, Some Nervous and All Unsatisfactory to the Men Who Want Their Places. Special to St. Louis Poet-Dispatcb. In the Treasury Secretary Manning and Mr. Fairchild are trying to get the business of that department upon the same footing as a great business house in New York, They have great difficulty, however, because nearly every employe of the department has back of him a certain mysterious power called influence. If an employe is moved about this influence appears almost instantly at the department to make an appeal to have the order repealed. In some of the bureaus tho work is more agreeable than in others. In looking through these offices, superfluous people, when found, are transferred where there is some work for them to do. Instead of being grateful for not being discharged, they resent, sometimes, these changes with great bitterness. The other day Judge Durham, the First Comptroller, came to the Secretary and said to him that there were two lady clerks in his office that he did not want. They were employed there in making letter-press copies of letters. He did not care to have this usage kept up, and so he suggested that the services of these two ladies should be dispensed with. Mr. Fairchild, to whom the case was referred, asked for the names of the ladies. He found that one of them was Mrs. Chisholm. He shook his head very earnestly when he heard her name. He asked if she was tho widow of tha unfortunate Chisholm who was killed by Matthews in Mississippi. The answer was in the affirmative. Mr. Fairchild instantly said: “It will never do to disturb her.” To please the First Comptroller, however, the two ladies were transferred to another office. They resisted this order, and are working very hard at present for reinstatement, although they have the same pay and no harder work where they are assigned. lu many cases the employment of women in tho depart ments amounts to the giving of a pension direct. The majority of tho women, however, do their work well. But they cannot bo subjected to as close business discipline as the men. Some of the ladies employed in the Treasury are very nervous. If they were men they would be discharged on accountof the bother they give. There is in tho Treasury at present a lady who was the daughter of a very prominent former public official. She was educated and brought up with the most iuxurious surroundings. Her father failed a few years before he died and left her penniless. Her friends secured her a place in the Treasury. She is so nervous and delicate, however, that she cannot be relied upon for an> regular work. The other day she nearly went into a fit of hysteric# because she was obliged to sit in a room next to a clerk who was in his shirt sleeves. She went to one of the assistant secretaries, and made such a wild complaint upon the subject that it was with the greatest difficulty that he could calm her down. At one time it looked as if she were going to faint away in the midst of her excited protest The majority of the women in government omp*loy are very quiet and matter of fact, and are thorough experts in the lines of business where they are employed. They make good typewriters, short-hand writers and copyists. Tho most expert counters of money in the Treasury are women. As detectives of counterfeit money some of the ladies in the national redemption divisiou of the Treasury have no equals. The presence of fifteen or twenty hystericky women in the department is enough to give the chiefs a prejudice against women clerks as a class. There is no doubt but what tbe present commission investigating the department is of the opinion that a greater portion of women is employed than should be. _ Steamship News. Hamburg, April 22. —Arrived: Ravenhill, from Baltimore. Southampton, April 23.—Arrived: Fulda, from New York, for Bremen. New York,* April 23. —Arrived: Assyrian Monarch, from London; Rhynland, from Antwerp. Horsford’s Acid Phosphate, A VALUABLE REMEDY FOR GRAVEL. Dr. T. H. Newlund, jr., St. Louis, Mo., says: “I have used it in diseases of the urinary organs, such as gravel, nnd particularly speriimtorrhcea, with very good results, and think4t a very valuable remedy iu those diseases."

TIIE FIRE RECORD. Damage by the Fire at Sharpaburg, Pa.— Sixty Persons Homeless. Sharpsburg. Pa., April 23.— The fire this morning was completely under control by 4 o’clock. A block of thirteen buildings, bounded by Main, Tenth and Clay streets and Church alley, was entirely destroyed, rendering sixty persons homeless and entailing a loss of $60,000, on which there was an insurance of SIB,OOO. Twentyfive other buildings were more or less damaged by the heat and water. The origin of the fire is believed to have been incendiary, as a man was seen running from Murphy’s saloon a few minutes before the flames were discovered. There were many narrow escapes, but no person was injured. Forest Fires in the Fast. Lancaster, Pa., April 23.—Forest fires started last night on the Welch mountains, about three miles from New Holland, and were still burning at last accounts. The territory burned is considerable. < ' Willtamstown, N. J., April 23 —The forest fires near this place, which were supposed to have burned out for lack of material on Tuesday, sprang up again yesterday, and spread towards this town, which for a time was in danger. All the inhabitants turned out and fought the flames by back-firing. Mt. Carmel,, Pa., April 23.— Within the past forty-eight hours thousands of feet of valuable lumber have been destroyed in the pine forests throughout this region. Dense volumes of smoke are now ascending, and uuless rain immediately falls the fire will reach the more valuable tracts north. Some of the colleries have nar-rowly-escaped. In a number of instances the fires have been started by malicious persons. Foes of Fife by the Recent Fire at Vickr/burg. Vicksburg, Miss., April 23.— The search for bodies has been prosecuted all day among the ruins of the late fire. Six were recovered* and have been identified, as follows: Wm. R. Mulcahy, Wm. H. Phelan and Joseph Dent (white); Hayden Canada, Richard Johnson and Eph. 801 l (colored.) The search will be continued until the debris is cleared away. It is now thought more than twenty lives were lost * Six Dwellings and Other Buildings Burned. Cleveland, 0., April 23.—Fire broke out this afternoon iu a small frame building on St. Clair street, near Erie. A burst water-main caused much delay. The fire spread rapidly. Six houses, a saloon, a wagon shop, and a knitting works were destroyed. Each house was occupied by two or three families, who lost everything. The total loss will aggregate $13,000; partially insured. Railway Shops on Fire. LouisvrLLK, Ky., April 23.—The extensive shops of the Louisville & Nashville railroad, at Eleventh and Delaware streets, are burning, and it is thought they will be totally destroyed. FACTS ABOUT CHOLERA. No Doubt that the Disease Will Appear—How It Is Produced and How to Avoid It. New York Mi] and Express. Dr. Theo. Walser, who was in charge of the Emigrant Hospital on Ward’s island and the quarantine hospital during the last cholera epidemic in this country, his term of office in these institutions continuing from 1851 to 1858, and who was deputy health officer of the port of New York from 1836 to 1865, is regarded as one of the best authorities in this country on the subject of cholera, having treated over 3,000 cases of the disease. The Doctor is now health officer of New Brighton, S. I. He was visited at his home yesterday and asked his opinion regarding the coming of cholera to this country and the best mode of fighting the spread of the disease. He said: “I have no doubt about its coming hero this summer. It is already appearing again in France, and I look tor it here by June at the latest. Its visitation in America has, in its westward progress, invariably followed its prevalence in Europe the preceding year, and to anticipate it here, therefore, is only looking for a repetition of its own history. An efficient and well-organized quarantine system may prevent its introduction, but should the disease, through neglect and malfeasance of the officials, be brought to our shores, a general panic would probably be the first result. In this emergency our State board is our onlysafeguard, informed by the respective town officers of the existence of every and all cases, it should prohibit the publication of any report not authorized by it, and should take such measures to allay public fear as truth and facts would warrant, at the same time employing its controlling power to stem, the extension and progress of the disease. But even this will bo useless, unless every city and village assumes a watchful care over its own sanitary interests.” “How does the disease spread? asked the reporter. “In cholera we have in the sick the carriers and disseminators of the disease. Though personally it is not contagious, it is nevertheless infectious. A ‘sanitary cordon’ to keep out the disease is useless, as it is impossible to cut off all intercourse of New York with the outside world. Therefore, we must make provision for its occurrence wherever it may be found, and not only for the patient already bluo and shriveled, but for the sufferer in the first stage of the disease. ” “But how can this be done!” “The ejected germ of the disease, the ‘microbi’ of Dr. Koch, must be destroyed, and as copperas (sulphate of iron and sulphuric acid) is the cheapest and most effectual disinfectant, its universal aud constant use is the best means to accomplish that result. If the people once understand that the disease is not personally contagious, and that the patient himself is perfectly harmless, provided there is thorough disinfection, then there will be no difficulty in teaching them the use of a saturated solution of the salt or the acid, and to employ bi-ehloride for the disinfection of soiled linen. These things are very important, and when done the first step toward protection ar.d security are taken. Indeed, not only the first step, but, I might also say, perfect immunity from an epidemic is secured. “Dr. Koch certainly merits our esteem for his demonstration of the characteristic presence of the ■microbi’ in every cholera case, but theso ‘microbi’ are only the larva* from which i3 developed the yet ‘unknown medium’ which produces the disease germ with that mvriadic profusion peculiar to the lowest organizations. The question of how this is introduced into the system is as yet answered only by experience, but that neither the lungs nor the pores of the skin have any agency in the matter, and that the stomach is' tho only medium, are now conceded by all who have made the disease their study." “Then how is it introduced?" “By drinking water polluted by passing through substances containing these ‘unknown media developed from the microbi,’ and by the ova of this ‘unknown medium.’ Thus every un healthy or possibly contaminated well should be closed. In food the ova are too minute to bo subject to demonstration, and are liable to diacnfectiou through heat; therefore, no food nor milk should be taken unless warm and properly cooked.” Tli® Polite Way to Call a Man a Flar. Boston Transcript. It is only the vulgar who give the lio. Where is the use of being rude and runnine the risk of having your features mangled, when you can tell a man, as has been said of Gladstone, that he has “a mental habit of rating a shadowy variance in words as a sufficient cover for a substantial difference in facts?" Better Keep On. Philftdelphla Press. The future greatest American tragedienne has been discovered in lowa. Her name is Miss Mary Cope, and she is at present engaged in knocking grass butter out of a churn oh a dairy farm. Sensational Suicide at Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo., April 23.—A young man under twenty years of ago walked into a Mainstreet restaurant, to-day, ordered dinner, and, after dispatching it, druw a revolver and shot himself through the brain, without rising from

the table. A card on his person bore the address of J. Edwin Liddy, New Paris, Ind. It is supposed he had been seeking work. He is now in a dying condition at the city hospital. FISH AND OTHER SPECULATORS. With a Few Remarks Concerning Bank Kx a miner*. Gath, in Minneapolis Tribune. Fish’s offense was allowing a boy like Ward, with hardly superficial scrupulousness to get control of his affairs. He had §ons who were prudent and considerate, and some of them older than Ward, but he allowed this interloper to come between him and his sons, though the sons were in the bank as clerks, and he thus deprived his sons both of their influence and eareer. What the people are interested in, now that Mr. Fish has been convicted, is the security of the banks. It seerns, during this trial, thal the president really the servant of a few of his directors, Ward being one, and that they would make loans to themselves and risk the deposits of the general public. Unquestionably, ability is required in the president of a national bank, and ability and moral health generally go together. It does not take a man long to find out that lying and cheating disparages his ability. and that there is no necessity for them. The government had its regular bank oxamers appointed by the Comptroller, who was Mr. Knox, aad these men appear either to hava known nothing about the bank, to have been unable to fathom the frauds there, or they preferred a present to doing their duty. It seems to me that when the peuitentiary is called in to punish recusants, these bank examiners ought somehow to be put on trial, for there* is no security for a national bank except in these investigations by the experts of the government, We behold the singular fact within the sarai fortnight of the president of one bank, Mr. Seney. who was essentially a speculator, selling his paintings for over $400,000. and the president of another bank, Mr. Fish, being convicted by g United States jury of mismanagement. From what I hear, neither person has any means. The elder Fish may even find conso lation in the fact that somebody has to take care of hiitkfor a few years. His proposition had been to go out to Mexico and manage a tramway there to carry ore from the different mines to tho smelters. Hutchinson, the broker, -who was turned out of the stock ex change for swindling one of his customers to th< extent of $3,000,000 or $4,000,000 was considered virtuous enough to become the leading spirit it another bank in Wall street, and that recentlj broke, and he has run off to Europe, leaving a fine Methodist church here to which he wat a contributor, about $30,000, Each of them men has had his ecclesiastical connection Ward began as treasurer in Dr. Storrs’s Sundayschool in Brooklyn, and deposited the collection! in tht> Marine bank, and Mr. Fish's brother recently told me that the Bunday-school had sine* ascertained that the collections were used for speculation, and that he was short finally with the Sunday-school. Sency was tho son of a Methodist minister and took a largo hand in endowing Methodist institutions. Hutchinson was % prominent Methodist, and always had famiy prayers and grace at the table. It may be sail that these are only incidental, and I think so too, but among other facts they are to be stateL There is no necessity of any suppression la these matters. They possibly tench us that v ought to be guided by facts and not by appearances, aud that one's relations to his fellow tnA are the facts, while his relations to bis Maktt must necessarily be the appearances. A Question for Dairymen. United States Dairyman. We are aware that roported butter tests an plenty, of several breeds, and that reported mik productions of noted cows and herds are easly accessible. But we notice, too, that in neaiy all of them there is a notable absence of wraf the cows consumed to make the milk. Whin we read that the Jersey cow, Mary Anne, of St Lambert’s was induced to produce thirty-fix pounds of butter in seven days, and the HolsUin cow “Mercedes" made ninety-nine pounds fix and one-half ounces of butter in .thirty consefutive days, the practical farmer, waiting to decile which breed to invest in, wants to know wfat each cow made the butter of, and what it ctst; and whether what each does is representative of the general run of cows of the same breed* The weight of milk has but little to do in letermining the matter, and the weight of the letter and cheese of individual cows but very liltle more. The fact that one famous cow may weigh down two other famous cows has but little to do with it, either. The square question to put to the eloquent advocates of breeds and the iispensers of cow chromos is: How many poundi of protein, carb-hydrates, fat and salt does your cow machine need to make 100 pounds of butter or cheese? The given thing with the dairyman is his pils of hay, straw, roots and coarse grain. It is jusl as important for him to know what kind of covn to feed it to as it is to know the market price oi the several kinds of feed if ho was going to sell them to be taken off the farm. Cow and butter tests that simply tell what a cow does without stating her cost of keep, don’t enlighten him a bit. It simply excites vague wonder. If one cow will take the pile and make (50t pounds of butter of it, and another cow caa make but 250 pounds, the farmer doesn’t wantthi latter for butter-making. He would like to know the facts before he payi liis money for either. Hence the breeders nms( show up. No matter about the oighty-fiv# pounds of milk per day, or the thirty pounds o( butter per week. What has the farmer to show for the product of his farm that he sold to hii cows? That is the leadiug question. Prof. S. T. Maynard points out that from th botanical point of view the strawberry is analogous to the corn cob: tho pulp—edible part—oi the former, which exists merely for the sake oi the seed on its outer surface, corresponds with the cob, which is the elongated receptacle for the kernels of maize. NO POISON IN THE PASTRY IF sHI EXTRACTS' AEE VSSS. Vanilla, Femon, Orange. etf., Huvor Cake*. Creams, Pudding*, Ac. ,u delicately and n -* urally as the tYnlt from which they are ■ . FOR STRENGTH AND TRUE Fill 1 FLAVOR THEY STAND ALONE. PREPARED BY TR Price Baking Powder Cos., Chicago, 111. St. Louis, f MAKERS OF Dr. Price’s Cream Baking; Pond. —AND— ir Dr. Price’s Lnpnlin Yeast G#r $ llcst Dry ITop Yeast. *•* FOB SALE BYT Q-BOCSm \ Twenty Years of Cora , e