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Mob law is a disgrace to civilization. The law respected and sustained is the sure safeguard of the people. Mob law is no law at all. mmmmmmmmmmwmmmmmmmmmm As in all the fine arts, Paris excels in assassination. The work done in railway carriages is neat, safe and expeditious. M. Barreme was murdered, robbed and pitched out of the car within twelve minutes after the •train started. Mackin’s case, on appeal, is before the Illinois Supreme Court. Mackin made a mistake in not taking up residence at Cincinnati. There an expert changes “726” to “926,” and the Democratic candidates claim election on the single stroke of a pen. In a recent interview M. De Lesseps is represented as saying that the Panama canal will be finished by the end of 1888, and it will be opened formally at the end of the rainy season of 1889. He will please not be offended if we say we do not believe his prophecy will be realized. THj President will make a serious mistake if he captiously antagonizes the Senate. That body has the confirming of executive appointees, and it is its prerogative to insist that they shall boos the proper kind. It has the right to make careful inquiry into this branch of the President’s business. The Chicago grand jury has very properly indicted “Dr.” Bartholdi, if reports be true. It is told of him that through his ignorance several cases of smallpox have been contracted and a death or two has resulted. It will do to investigate. The people should be protected from pretenders. “The best is none too good” in this case. Colonel Wooley’s assertion that Donavin has only told one-eighth of the truth in regard to the corruption of the Democratic legislators of Ohio, does not necessarily indicate that the irate bass-singer was a homoepathist in his use of facts. He did not dilute the truth, but merely essayed to give it in broken doses, and the effect so far shows that one-eighth was gather a powerful portion. The ice crop is reported ruined at Wabash, and a special from there says that Indiana’s supply will come from Michigan aud Wisconsin. The dealers there must have been very •low to avail themselves of the opportunity. Hundreds of thousands of tons have been secured in this part of the State, and of excellent quality. There will bo no excuse for fancy prices next summer. The public is prepared to believe the Inter Ocean when it says “The workingmen of Chicago are not parties to any of the criminal enterprises” there. The real workingman seldom takes part in anything looking to violence or the infringement of the recognized rights of others. Chicago papers have done wrong in advertising the idle vaporings of vicious men. The farmers who are “too poor” to take a newspaper, and who think money spent for this purpose a useless extravagance, are the ones who are being taken in by the Bohemian oak swindlers. This fraud, which has been

practiced extensively in other States for several years, has been repeatedly exposed in the columns of the Journal, and readers of the paper, profiting by the warning, have declined to be victimized by tho agents for this wonderful grain when they made their appearance. Judging by the reports, however, the rascals are reaping a tolerably rich harvest in illiterate districts throughout the State.

THE CARE OF PUBLIC MONEYS. The law and system practiced under the law for the custody of the public moneys of the people of Indiana, State, county, township and city, are about as inefficient and defective as could well be devised. For instance: the State Treasurer is required by statute to keep the money of the State in his personal custody at the State Treasury. As Treasurer he gets a salary of $3,000, and is given two clerks at salaries below the compensation of bank clerks or mercantile clerks, who have less responsibility. The custody of the money is imposed upon the Treasurer without a burglar-proof safe, or even one fairly fireproof, and without any compensation for a single night watchman. The Treasurer of State is required to give a bond of a very large sum—say, $700,000 —for the benefit of the State, and to provide which he has to call upon his friends. The salary paid will not justify him in employing watchmen and firemen to guard the State building in which the Treasury is located; so, of course, he deposits the money in bank, or places it where he thinks it will be safe, and he would be foolish if he did not. The county treasurer, say of Marion county, gives a bond of a million dollars or more for the safe custody of the money that comes into his hands by reason of his office, and of course he places it where, in his judgment, it is safe. The city treasurer of Indianapolis did the same thing; he has no salary, but is paid exclusively by fees. He is responsible for all' the money belonging to the city. Os course he exercises his judgment in the deposit of city funds in such banks or securities as he thinks best and safest. Now, if a State, county or city treasurer acts as a trustee, in good faith and without being paid a compensation that would be sufficient to make him a guarantor or insurer, and in the exercise of a reasonable business discretion a loss occurs, without fraud or connivance on his part, it is certainly a very doubtful question, in morals, if not in law, whether the public are not as blamable as the officer, and if the loss should not fall on the public rather than on the officer or his sureties, who did the best they could under the law and the surroundings. If the public, by reason of its parsimonious treatment, forces a treasurer to loan the money in his possession for interest, out of which he must pay at least part of the necessary expenses of his trust, the public knowing this fully and completely, and, in fact, auctioneering off the office to the highest bidder, with the understanding that he is to make money out of the funds, are not the people jointly liable w ith him for any loss that may result by reason of the methods they compel him to adopt, providing the officer has acted with good faith and integrity? This article has no reference to any particular case that may be now pending; but its suggestions are such’as should be carefully considered by the people. The whole treasury system needs radical and complete revision.

ABE WE MOBOCRATB7 In the lynching of murderer Epps, at Vincennes, by a mob from Greene county, an additional stain of dishonor has been placed on the fame of the entire State of Indiana. It helps confirm the increasing impression abroad that lawlessness is the rule here, and that the people of Indiana prefer the excitement and shame of a cowardly midnight lynching to an orderly execution of the finding of the law and the courts. Verbal argument with such men as constitute mobs has proved without avail. Only too many of them do not read, and some cannot. Asa rule, with few tions, mobs are made up of very questionable men. The murderous instinct has to be largely developed to make a lynching a success. Without knowing any of the men engaged in the hanging of Epps, it is safe to say that the lynchers were not all “honest farmers.” Men of peace may be deeply stirred by such an atrocious murder, but they are not quite so quick to volunteer to act as hangmen. It is an office that few men seek, and its stern duty is generally very distasteful to any but the most hardened. It is demonstrated once more that it is folly to waste words with lynchers. A man willing to anticipate the work of the sheriff is not to be reasoned with. The law should lay hold of him. The world at large may well believe that the people of this State were shocked and horrified over the awful crime of this miscreant. But tho onus of his crime was upon him only. The shame was not on the people. But now the lynchers take a hand and perpetrate a second murder, this time in the interest of law and order! They are careful, however, not to assume the responsibility, but are masked, and it is given out that they are farmers, representative citizens of Indiana. Thus the reputation of all the people is smirched with the suspicion of murder perpetrated by men only too anxious to get a chance to take human life without the hardihood to abide t!.e consequences. Thus the people at large, the tens and hundreds of thousands, who would recoil from such bloody and brutal work, are made to suffer in reputation through the misdeeds of a few disreputable fellows who engage in lynchings because they feel that there is no danget in the work. It does not appear that the people of Greene county have been gradually driven to this

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mode of protecting themselves. There has been no organized crime that defied and defeated officers and courts of justice. A brutal, vicious, scoundrelly negro murdered his employer, and, possibly, attempted to outrage his wife. He is pursued, overtaken and placed in jail. With the evidence of his guilt established beyond the possibility of his escaping on a technicality, the people of Indiana liad this trembling wretch safely in the grip of the law. There was absolutely no escape for him. His trial was morally certain to result in conviction. All that was necessary was for the people of Greene county to await the outcome of the trial, when the appointed officer, Under direction of court and in the solemn discharge of his duty to the people, would have hanged the condemned man in the manner prescribed by statute. All this would have been done in the interest of peace and order, and after it was over the people of Greene county would have felt avenged without the shame of having the stain of two murders to their credit. Every man engaged in this lynching should be apprehend and made to feel that he has committed a very grave offense against the peace and dignity of the State. When once it is established that organized murder will not be tolerated, the courts should remove the only apology for mob law by the prompt and effective enforcement of equal and exact justice in every case brought to trial. It is quite evident that there should be more hanging in order that there may be fewer murders. If there must be hangings, let them be conducted under the form of law.

This kind of Irish item is now appearing: ‘Tour disguised men stopped a mail-car at Listowel, in the County of Kerry, covered the driver with a revolver, and opened and searched the mail-bags for writs of ejectment.” Is this the year 1803?—New York Sun. No, it is 1886 in Ireland as well as here. The trouble is that Ireland is very like some portions of the United States. The Millinery Trade Review points out that the weapons which are to deal the death blow to polygamy are nothing more nor less than the fashion plate and its resulting “confections” in the way of dress. A few years ago Mormon women in Utah were distinguishable from gentiles by the shabbiness of their costume, but now, in the vernacular of the street, they have “caught on,” and the wives of the saints vie with each other in the richness of their apparel. No man in ordinary circumstances can afford to keep more than odo wife in fashionable attire, and if the women insist upon applying the proceeds of their individual labor to replenishing their wardrobes instead of dutifully turning them over to the husband, one of the strongest props of polygamy is knocked out. The spring bonnet has its uses even in the missionary field. The New York Post, mentioning the superiority of silver currency over paper in point of cleanliness, suggests that the objection to carrying the clumsy, heavy silver dollars may be overcome by using half-dollars instead. The difference in weight and “clumsiness” between two half-dollars and a single silver coin of equal value with both is not perceptible to the ordinary sense of “heft;” but perhaps the editor of the Post does not contemplate carrying more than one half dollar at a time. Can the exigencies of a dwindling circulation have brought him to this? A New York paper, fired with the “American idea,” calls for someone to write the American opera, and suggests “The Last of the Mohicans” as a theme. This subject would involve the introduction of war-dances, with the performers in costumes more airy than even the continental spangled tights, which scenes, in addition to scalping matches, would have the merit of originality, if not of aboriginally, on the operatic stage. The Rev. James C. Clarke, pastor of the Methodist Church at Hazelton, Pa, has been acquitted of the charge of stealing egga We are glad of it No self-respecting minister will be guilty of stealing egga Few of them would care to interfere with tne processes of nature until the egg had accomplished its mission on earth. The egg has little temptation for a preacher compared with the chicken. The Washington Post recommends the building of a private presidential residence, and the using of the present executive mansion exclusively for office purposes and official receptions. IV isn’t a bad plan. If pushed through Congress now, and carried into effect promptly, the residence might be made ready for occupancy by the Republican President in ’B9. Hon. B. S. Parker delivered his “Talk on Canada and the Canadians” at Mt. Summit, Ind., Saturday night, to a good audience, notwithstanding the terrible state of the weather. The lecture was such a success that the people there have arranged for its repetition under more favorable circumstances. Now that he’s put several thousand miles between him and the polyglot editor of the New York Herald, Judge Stallo declares that he can speak Italian, French. Spanish and German. If he learned bis French from American bills of fare he will starve to death at a European hotel The Paris correspondent of the New York Herald, in giving an account of an attempted assassination in a French railway carriage, gravely declares that the would-be murderer and his victim glared at each other like chiens de faience. Has France ho law against this? An Oil City, Pa., paper has the following: “No toll will be taken at the Petroleum bridge to-day, out ot respect to the memory of the late Mrs. Beers." This method of mourning will tend to cause a desire among Oil City travelers that Mrs. Beerses should die often. Pauline Luoca will not be able to sing again this winter. In fact she will be lucky if she ever sings again for mortals. When she arrived in Vienna she was in such a feeble condition that she had to be carried ont of the train. We trust that Mayor Harrison has not been passed by in the distribution of tickets to the Moody revival meetings. Strange as the statement may seem, no Chicagoan is in greater need of grace. Edna Lyall has written “a novel of high character,” entitled “Donovan." It is not dedicated to Senator Payne. A great iuterest has manifested itself in chess circles over the result of the ZukertortSteinitz games, but we have not observed any

frantic desire on the part of amateur printers to get the earliest returns from the type-setting contest in Chicago. Type-setting is a useful pursuit, and no one gets excited over it. Bismarck is no hoe when it comes to ocean islands, and he always takes Samoa whenever he feels that way. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Nilsson would not sing in Munich because only twenty-two tickets had been sold. A single copy of the first edition of “Pickwick” was sold in London the other day for $l4O. Lowell Courier: Editor Burr, of Hartford, is the oldest editor in the State. Buir must be a chestnut. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has written “Burglars in Paradise” in the style of “The Old Maids’ Paradise." Congressman Houk, of Tennessee, educated himself while working at the cabinet-makers’ trade and reading by the firelight at night. Boston is becoming sarcastic. On Wednesday evening a hall was dedicated to “music, literature and art” The name of the place is Sleeper HalL It is said by a contemporary that Isabella, exQueen of Spain, owns considerable real estate in Philadelphia, and, furthermore, is a shareholder in the Keely motor. A Connecticut society that was organized about 1800 for protection against horse-thieves, is still in existence, and so flourishing that it has declared a dividend of 200 per cent., payable Feb. L Victorien Sardou, the French dramatist, was asked the other day by a lady, “Monsieur, why did God make men?” “Madame,” he replied, “to keep women from assassinating each other.” Miniature silver barrels, filled with the best Minneapolis flour, are the gifts which the Danish ?eople of the Northwest intend sending to the ’rincess of Wales aud her sister, the Empress of Russia. A platinum wire too fine to be seen with the naked eye is said to have been made by Mr. H. T. Read, of Brooklyn. It is to be used in telescopes as a substitute for the spider's web usually employed.

The day of the wooden nutmeg is not altogether past Two hundred patents have been issued at Washington for machines to polish low-grade coffee that it may be palmed off on the innocent as first quality. The largest dog in the country is said to be a St Bernard owned at Glen Cove, L. I. He measures seven feet eleven inches from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail, stands twentyfive inches high, weighs 192 pounds, and has never been vaccinated. Violet Wordsworth, a granddaughter of William Wordsworth, the English poet, waß married at Ambleside, the other day, to a Liverpool solicitor named Jones, who therepon changed his commonplace name to the more poetical one of Wordsworth. “Leo XIII,” writes Mrs. Brewster from Rome, “is a thin, wiry man, with a fibre as strong as steel; he can stand shocks that stouter, flabbier men cannot.” The Pope has an income of more than a million a year. He limits his personal expenses to $2.50 a day. Perhaps the most original plea for a pardon yet made is that of a convicted Maryland forger. His mother has just died and left him SIOO,OOO, and he has sent a petition to the Governor for release, promising, ’ in the event of favorable action, to become an exemplary citizen. An honest lowa granger recently sent the following letter to a business man: “Pleas send me at onst one of yure paten letber pumps wich you sell fer $2 25. My ole pump hez about gin out, and sence the probishun law went into effeck the ole well is the only drink we have.” President Grew is a devoted chess player, and every day at 2 o’clock a servant arranges a table at his house when his presence is not required elsewhere by state matters. His most frequent adversary is M. De Freycinet It is said that very few can boast of having beaten him at the game. Congressman “Tim” Campbell was asked how he came to leave the Arlington Hotel to board upon K street. “The fact is,” he answered, “there is too much excitement at the hotel for a quiet feller, so 1 have me quarters at a quiet house, where I am the star boarder and sit next the landlady.” In a French medical paper a thoughtful surgeon suggests that the swords and bullets employed in dueling shall be carefully disinfected. A party to a recent affair of honor had the misfortune to be run through with a sword not absolutely clean and died of blood-poisoning; hence this humane suggestion. A lady lawyer from Dakota has opened an office in Washington. Her name is Miss Cynthia Cleveland, and it is said she was at one time engaged to be married to a very promising young man, but broke off through her devotion to her profession, as she feared that the responsibilities of matrimony would interfere with her legal practice. General Stoneman, the once famous cavalry leader, who is now Governor of California, has lived for most of the time since the war at the San Gabriel Mission, near Los Angeles. His health was completely undermined, and it has taken almost twenty years to overcome his severe dyspepsia. His equanimity of temper suf sered correspondingly, and there were few people who would brave his remarks by a visit to the huge orange plantation which h© cultivated. It is almost unnecessary to add that his restored health has altered his disposition, aud that there are few more genial men than he to-day in California. Maxime Lisbourne was the leader of the Commune of 1871 at whose orders the Archbishop of Paris was killed and the city fired. Later he served a term of seven years in New Caladonia, with an iron ball chained to his left ankle and wearing the prison uniform of yellow pantaloons and red coat with yellow sleeves. Evidently he became attached to this unique garb, for he has opened a hotel in Paris in which it and other features of his prison life are reproduced. The door-keeper is dressed in the uniform of a prison guard, and thirty waiters serve the guests in the regulation penitentiary costume. It was found inconvenient, however, to drag around the iron ball on the floor, aud it is carried attached to the belt

COMMENT AND OPINION. There is one thine in favor of Dakota. She did not try to get into the Union until after the mugwump had left it—Louisville Commercial. The ice crop is not 6uch a failure as it was, but it will cost just as much next summer. Ice and coal never obey the law of supply and demand. —Minneapolis Tribune. The now-famous phrase, “I m a Democrat,” is what the grammarians call elliptical—there being one or more words understoon, to wit— Cleveland isn’t—Buffalo Commercial. The Payne charges are exciting great interest in Ohio. It is feared several members of the Legislature have committed the great political crime of being found out—Pniladelphia Inquirer. The “offensive partisan” does not expect to get his official head replaced, but he really thinks he ought to know why, being an honest man, he was smirched before being hustled out—National Republican. It is too late in the day to attempt to rewrite Grant’s war record, and speculation—in public at least—concerning what might have been had General C. F. Smith lived are idle impertinences. —Philadelphia Telegraph. The one thing needfnl in our finances jnst now is to stop the forced coinage of silver. The next thing will be to teach the people the proper estimation of that precious metal, which is an indispensable part of the money of the world. —Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. If Congress knows no more than the newspapers on the silver question, it ought to more

very slowly. Prom the lies told for and against it, silver might almost be mistaken for a presidential candidate.—New York Hour. The silver enthusiasts may be depended upon to defeat any attempt to pass the bankruptcy act. To them the idea of means of honest liquidation seems as preposterous as the means for honest coinage.—Philadelphia Press. The fact is there are' about as many Democrats in the present House who would oppose a tariff bill prepared by Morrison to suit his wing of the party as in the last House, while the Republicans, with one or two possible exceptions, would vote in a unit against it.—Philadelphia Press. The United States do not want to bully anybody, but neither do they mean to be bullied. It is for the present Congress to give them the means of self-protection, and make an end of the absurd and shameful weakness in which they are exhibited to foreign nations.—New York Sun. A writer on economic subjects figures it out that in Germany a laborer’s family, consisting of himself, wife and five children under twelve years age. can subsist on $57 a year. The American people do not take kindly to that sort of figuring by political economists.—Lewiston (Mo.) Journal. However different the views of congressmen may be on certain questions, on one subject they are of one mind. They all aeree that it is wise to draw their salaries on the 4th of every mouth, and they rarely fail to do so; never, unless absent from Washington on that day.—Rochester Chronicle. The Edmunds bill without the Mormon corporation section would be a very poor bill indeed; for it would leave in the hands of the lawbreakers and conspirators all the sinews of war, thus enabling them to form new plans and execute boldly new schemes to uphold their pet institution.—Atlanta Constitution. Ip people would only keep their heads on their shoulders and act reasonably, recognizing the difference between a dollar and the promise to pay a dollar, a treasury-note circulation would be at least as good as a bauk-note circulation. But so long as thousands of men entertain the notion that a government can pay its debts with its due-bills the bank-note circulation is preferable.—Chicago Times. The Knights of Labor obviously do not appre ciate the obligations they are under to school book agents. They class them as they do penitentiary convicts—among the enemies of honest labor. The truth is, they are the best friends labor has. They are the men who' make a demand for labor. They keep many persons engaged in making books and most of the others busy earning money to pay for them.—Chicago Times. This stand of "society” against doing justice to Ireland cannot defeat, but may very possibly delay, that justice. If, while the settlement is pending, there should be an octbreak of “outrages” in Ireland the effect of them may be very disastrous. But revolutions never go backward, and it is certain that the advance of democracy in England will continue until the last privilege of the privileged class is swept away.—New York Times. If Europeans think they would be cheated if the interest on American securities is tendered them in silver, they need uot buy the securities. There is no compnlsion in the matter. We hold that a currency which is good enough for the working man is good enough for the bondholder. If Europeans don't think so, they can sell what American secnrities they hold and buy no more. It won’t make a particle of difference to us. —San Francisco Chronicle.

Now that there is no longer an urgency for an immediate provision for the devolution of the duties of the presidency on a member of the party in power, it is to be hoped that Congress will devote to the subject the careful attention it deserves. The Hoar plan will do well as a temporary safety-brake, but its discussion has clearly shown that it has faults from which a satisfactory and effective regulation of this question should be free.—Louisville Courier-Journal. The rights of the people of Dakota should be considered in this matter, and the recognition of these rights by Congress ought not to be made dependent upon the political views of a majority of the people. A political test of this kind is wrong, and it ought not to be resorted to. Dakota should be admitted becanse it has population and wealth enough to enable it to take its place with credit to itself and the other States as a member of the American Union.—Denver Republican. The land-league movement, under Mr. Parnell, is the only one that has ever accomplished anything of practical value to the people. It is succeeding, because it is on practical lines and led by a capable, co<d-headed, unsentimental man. If the energies of the Irish leaders are now divided between two causes—one economic and the other political—which have no necessary connection or affiliation with each other, both will suffer, and neither will be followed to a successful conclusion.—Chicago Tribune. As trades-unions have become stronger and better organized the employers of labor have naturally taken hold of the tactics of the workingman to fight their battles, and now lock-outs, or strikes of capital, are opposed to labor strikes, with the effect of paralyzing business and cans ine suffering to thousands who have done nothing to merit such punishment. This is the condition to which hasty action and ill-considered policy have reduced the labor question in nearly all of the large cities of the country to-day. —New York Times. An eight-hour day, no matter how stringent the laws may be to the contrary, means an eighthour pay, and this, as things usually are in the the United States, signifies a bare subsistence and no more. * * * No doubt many would like to make the experiment of an eight hour day, and its results would be interesting, but if they do not show that, after a fair trial has been made, the chief opposition will come from the laborers, then a very mistaken idea has prevailed as to the desire of the American laborer to make money and better his condition.—St Louis GlobeDemocrat

We want our children to know that in the years 1851-65 there was a rebellion in this country, which the men of the North put down with their strong right hands. We waut them to know all about it, and to see memorials of it in public places. Not for the mean and contemptible purpose of nursing in their breasts prejudice agaiust the Southern people, nut in order that they, if in their day another rebellion should break out, North, or South, or East, or West, shall know how their fathers dealt with such accidents, and shall tread firmly in their footsteps.—San Francisco Chronicle. If their demands [those of foreign lajaorers] are refused, then they join societies whose object is to break down all business, ruin all labor, destroy property, menace the peace and good order of society, and defy the law’s. They tramp the streets with red flags and cheer demagogues who advise them to rob and burn buildings and haug capitalists—every man being considered a capitalist by them who persists in working, saving his wages, owning bis home, and acquiring a little property. They demand that everything shall be divided up in common, so that they may live without work. —Chicago Tribune. Bade* In Moody’s Meetings. Opening of Sermon on - unday in Chicago. Now I want to s Sy to all the mothers who have babies, and have no nurses to leave them with, that 1 want you to come and bring your babies with you. If they cry, why, I guess I can talk louder than they can cry. We’li have some good Christian ladies below, who will take care of your babies for you, or. if yon don’t want to leave them, you may keep them up here and walk the aisles with them. If that makes anybody too nervous to stay, they can go away. I want the mothers here. And I want the wives and mothers to get tickets, so that they can give them to their husbands and sons. They have influence with them, and can get them to come here, where, perhaps, they will be saved. We want to reach the outlying masses. That’s what I have come to Chicago for. The Philosophy of Boycotting. New York Evening Post. It [the ordering of a boycott on Chicago prison-made shoes] will probably run its course, and end in a larger demand for orison shoes than ever, for two reasons: First, because it advertises the firms making them as furnishing a cheaper article, and second, because the public are just waking up to the philosophy of boycott ing, and are beginning to extend their sympathy to boycottees without much regard to the merits of the particular cases. The Fifth-aven-ue Hotel, for instance, since the boycott was ordered on it, has been the recipient of a largo amount of patronage from persons who never went there before, and who have taken pains to state that they had transferred their patronage

from other hotels to it on account of the boycott The Fifth-avenue people have learned A. fact of great importance* in what we may call J “advertising circles,” viz., that the best advertisement is the one which comes spontaneously from some interesting fact which all the newspapers are obliged to write about This principle will work more effectively for*M. D. Weils & Cos., of Chicago, one of the boycotted sho£‘ firms, than any exhortation based upon the abstraoi principles of political economy, NO SUNDAY DELIVERY. There Is No Necessity for It, and Therefore It Shall Not Be Ordered. Paltimore Special. The'Baltiraore ministers and strict Snnday-law observing citizens have succeeded in preventing Postmaster Veasey from establishing Sunday mail deliveries to accommodate the business men. The Postmaster-general has written a letter to the postmaster, in which he says: *T recognize that the proposal to establish Sunday mail deliveries emanates from your zed and public spirit as an officer seeking to afford the utmost conveniences to the citizens of Baltimore. and that there are very many reasons ia support of the proposed action tending to indicate that it would not increase the work already necessarily performed Sunday. It would, however, be an innovation upon the usages prevailing throughout the country, and it appears to me a st*p in the direction of an increase of Sunday toil. The beneficent uses of society and the blessed comfort to all who labor with hand or brain, following the institution of one day in seven as a period of relaxation, whether it be spent in divine service, iD aecent recreation, or in intercourse with friends, or in whatever other proper manner different opinions may dictate are so well assured by the experience of men that, although the fact strongly indicates its ordination proceeded from more than human wisdom, its continued observance is at least obligatory in just regard to our fellow-men, as well as in religious obedience, and the importunate earnestness of our methods of business so continually presses and encroaches upon the day that it seems to me the part of wisdom to resist any change which is in the direction of an added establishment of labor. Mach is due in this respect to the opinions of those—certainly among the very best citizens of the land—whose religious feeling is shocked by any new action of tbe nature of that proposed.” The decision is of national significance, as it if reported that similar requests have been made in other large cities. A special dispatch from Washington states that the Postmaster-general received many protests from ministers, and that some people thought the Postmaster-general might allow a partial delivery Sundays to merchants, but be say3 if a delivery was ordered it must be a complete one and a general order to the whole country.

ON THE INSIDE. A Man Who Says the Present Administration Will Build No More with Granite. Plttfiburg Dispatch. “The federal building may not be finished so ten or perhaps fifteen years," remarked Mr. Robert Lindsay, agent for one of the companies which competed for the stone contract, yesterday afternoon. “And why?" was asked. “Well, everybody knows that the limestone supporters are mad; so much so that they will do anything to thwart the plan adopted. When the first appropriation for the granite work of the building comes up before the Congressional committee on expenditures for public buildings they will object to its confirmation on some pretext, and thus delay mattera They can do it, because tbe Indiana Congressmen are in the majority on the committee. In this way the fight will become bitter, and work will be delayed until a settlement is reached. I feel confident that this will oe done. “One thing is certain, there is no use of any person bidding for stone contracts for public buildings hereafter during this administration, for limestone is bound to eet it As evidence of this, you can see that the Detroit .and Louisville buildings will be of limestone. The decision on the former was made one day ago. Secretary Manning’s action on the Pittsburg building puzzled the boys. When my company’s representatives called upon him and urged the Berea sand stone for the bnilding at a cost of $90,000 less than granite, and $90,000 less than the limestone, he replied that he wanted to cut down expenses, and wonld consider our proposition. We then understood that he was in favor of limestone. This talk of the Chamber of Commerce and Congressman Bayne inducing him to decide on granite Is all trosh. He ff£ci<te3"“T?f just because he wanted to; that is, for reason* best known to himself." The Flower of the Bayard Flock. Washineton Special. Miss Katherine Bayard was the eldest of the Secretary’s six daughters. The next, Mabel Bayard, is the wife of Mr. Samuel D. Warren, of Boston, and Miss Anne, Miss Florence and Miss Louise Bayard have but recently entered society here. The youngest daughter is with Mrs. Warren in Boston, pursuing her studies. Miss Katherine was the flower of these daughters, a brilliant, clever and accomplished girl* whose latest savings and doings were always quoted. She was well read, cay, humorous and witty, and her spirit and repartee made her famous as a conversationalist. She was a fearless rider, and at hunts and riding parties would dare any leap and pat her horse at anything; while her coolness and presence of mind were equal to any emergency. When unseated by a vicious horse iast fall, and her foot caught in the stirrup, she held on by the pommel and the horse's mane, while it ran for a half mile before overtaken. As tbe eldest daughter of her invalid mother, she had all the charge and responsibility of the family, and her younger sisters had a blind, passionate admiration for her, and all leaned and depended on her. She was the chief companion of her father, and resembled him in many traits, more than any other of his children. Certain audacious and eccentric things that she did were only the repetition of his own younger course, and Miss Bayard’s courage was always quoted. The shock and horror of her death are the more terrible in view of her active part in all that surrounded her, but many recall how she used to say that she “wanted to die like that” (illustrating it with a snap of her nervous fingers).

The Five-Cent Indiana Woman. Cleveland Special. The woman that Batt bought for five cents ia a handsome young girl, who was married to Newell Stratton, in Indianapolis, about two years ago, where she came from a weli-to do and highly-respected family, Stratton at that time also being respectable. The pair started out with from S6OO to SI,OOO in cash, and, after spending some time in Chicago and other Western cities, arrived here about a year ago with about S2OO. He opened a saloon here, but soon sold out, and since that time has led a dissipated and miserable life. Finally one evening while in Batt’s saloon, he proposed to sell anythiug in his possession, even offering his wife for five cents. Batt accepted the offer, and, to make the bargain binding; drew up a bill of sale in due form, which Stratton and Batt signed in the presence of witnesses upon the payment of the purchase money. Mra. Stratton being content, went to Batt’s house and has lived there since. Stratton, upon realizing what he had done, implored his wife to return to him. but she refused to go, and he has since beeu taken' away from here by a brother in Cleveland. The Civil-Service Commissioners. Special to Cincinnati Emjulrer. Civil-service Commissioner Edgerton stood at Willard's counter, to-night, when the Enquirer asked: “When m Dorman B. Eaton going tc resign!” “Oh, I don’t know,” said the Indiana Commissioner, “hut I imagine, now that he is confirmed, he is willing to go. and I should not be surprised if he should resign very soon.” “How do new the Commissioners like Eaton!* was asked. “Oh, fairly well. How he can talk, though! I don’t know’ but one man that can out-talk him, and that is his colleague, Ilhr. Trenholm.’' “Is he much of a talkerC I asked. “Oh. yes.” he replied. “He can outdo Eaton. He is also well read. He can write learned disquisitions on the silver question, and, for on any question of public policy.” I asked Mr. Edgertou if he felt at home in hla new office. “Oh, yes," he said. “I feel comfortable, but we ought to have anew office. Where w© are now is out ot the way. We want about ten rooms somowhore in the central part of the oily;*