Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 18S9. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. 8. HEATH, Correspondent. NEW YOBK OFFICE 204 Tempi Court, Corner Boekman and Naau Street. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY. One year, without Ftmdar flltt) One year, with Snnrty - 14 no fu m ntlm, without Sunday 6.00 Fix month, with Sunday 7.00 Thr e month, withont Sunday 3 00 Three monthaf with Sunday 2.80 One month, without Snnday 1.00 One month, with Sunday 1.20 WEEKLY. Tct year :..fl.00 Reduced Rites to Clubs. Sntjsrrlbe with any of oar numerous agent, or end subscription to THE JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, I ND1A5 APOLI3, I5D. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange in Europe 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchany in Paris, 23 Boulevard des Capncine. NEW YORK Gll&ey House and Windsor Hotel. ; PHILADELPHIA A. pT Kemole, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CIIICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI-J. P. nawley A Co., 154 Vine itreet LOUISVILLE C. T. Dewing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson street. ST. LOUTS Union New Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.Wgg House and EhMtt Hffse. Telephone Call. Bualneaa Ofice 238 Editorial Booms 242 The Louisville Courier-Journal says that it is not necessary for President Harrison to rush, to his own defense when assailed from any quarter. That 6eems to be the President's opinion, also. The New York World is much displeased with Mayor Grant. He has distributed his favors almost exclusively among the Tammany Hall branch of the vNew York Democracy. This is not the kind of civil service the World desires. t . - i Pennstlvanians will vote on two constitutional amendments on the 18th of June; one to put prohibition into the Constitution, and the other to take the poll-tax but. Now, no one can vote who has not paid his poll tax. This, is so .hard on the candidates who have to pay it or lose the vote, and often to pay and lose both, that in their interest this amendment is sought.

Bettteen the Attorney-general and the courts the laws made by the late dreadful Legislature will eventually be interpreted or overruled, 60 that the public may know where it stands in re lation to the matters involved. It is a little hard, though, on the iudges and other legal officials of the State, that they should be compelled to take time from other public duties to do the work of the Legislature over again. ' The Connecticut House of Representatives has passed a bill providing for free railroad transportation for members of that legislative body. It is thought by those wooden-nutmeg statesmen that this scheme remedies the free-pass evil, tho idea evidently being that when the railway companies are compelled by law to give away something thoy will ex pect nothing in return. The simple but effective plan of remedying the pass evil by paying their fare seems never to occur to sapient law-makers. TnE attendants at tho Chicago insane tisylum, who are charged with com mitting such brutal assaults on the help less inmates, aro men of precisely the same class as that from which tho male attendants at tho Indiana Insane Hospital are drawn. The ex-bartenders, saloon-keepers and other friends of Coy and "Dr." Harrison are not more likely to be humane and gentle in their treat ment of unfortunates placed in their power than tko party "workers" who beat their insane victims to death in Chicago. The mugwumps are complaining becauso President narrison has cut off moro official heads than wero removed during tho corresponding period of Cleveland's term. This is no cause for grumbling, but rather the reverse. It must be remembered that tho govern ment eervica was in good condition when Cleveland took charge, and that remov als were made from purely partisan rea sons, and not from necessity. Things are different now, and tho highest reform interests demand tho removal of many incompetents. Tho near-sighted mugwumps fail to get the right focus on this matter. The abuses suffered at the hands of attendants by the patients in tho Cook county, Illinois, insane hospital wero horrible, but it is not safe for any citizen of Indiana to congratulate himself that tho like is not known in the hospital in his own State. Rumors of qucerhappenings in that institution have reached the public in the last few years, but investigation has been prevented by Democratic management on one hand and tho financial inability of the unfortun ate patients' friends on tho other. Somo of these days a calcium light will bo turned on that institution, such as now illuminates tho Chicago hospital. An unusual result of not an unusual kind of a prayer occurred recently in Hutts county, Georgia. One Thomas Shaw had been tried for murder. The case was closed, but, by permission, the jury was allowed to attend prayer-meeting before going into their room. The preacher had been a witness against tho accused, and took occasion to pray a great many things to the Lord, in tho presence of the jury, not complimentary to the accused. Tho jury found the de fendant guilty, whereupon his attorney demanded a new trial on the grounds of such a prayer at such a time. The Su premo Court granted the new trial. Our Democratic contemporaries are insisting that because Governor Hill, of New York, had a plurality of 19,123 and .the Republicans had tho Legislature there was something wrong in the apportionment. Not by any means. They seem to forget that Harrison carTied the Stato by a plurality of 14,373, and that after all Hill licked 11, of a majority of the votes cast fn November. ZIoxo tkm that 3Ir. Hill was not elected

as a Democrat. M r. Cleveland meas

ured tho Democratic strength, while Mr. Hill represented the strength of the liquor power of that State. In Indiana tho case is quite different. Though in a minority of moro than 12,000 they Bend ten out of thirteen representatives to Congress and manage to have a majority in both branches of tho Legislature. SESTBICTJVE LIQUOR LEGISLATION. The address of the president of tho State W. C. T. U., which was read at the session of that body, in New Albany, on Friday, contains some severe crit icisms of the late Legislature. Of the bill calling for instruction in the public schools on the physiological effects of alcohol, which was introduced by members of the union, the address says: "The majority, in their blind prejudice and miserable subserviency to the Liquor League of the State, refused to grant our appeal for the law." It continues: The experience of the last eight years convinces me that there is but little hope of securing any law for the protection of the children of tho State so long as our Assembly is made up so largely of an element whose first and only, consideration is the advancement of their own party interests. These comments are just and well de served, but when the president goes further and includes Republicans in her denunciations, sho is sim ply misrepresenting facts, and is doing her cause no good. She knows that every measure for the restriction of the liquor traffic that Indiana has ever had has been the work of Republicans. She knows that the Republicans of the last Legislature voted solidly for every measure favored by the W. C. T. U., and worked earnestly to secure the passage of liquor laws prepared under the supervision of the strongest and ablest temperance people in the State. She knows, too, that in Indiana no re strictive temperance legislation can be secured except through the Republican party. The W. C. T. U. is, of course, an appendage to the third party, but, since it can hope for nothing through that or ganization, it would seem to be the part of discretion to refrain from abuse of its best and most powerful friends. For tunately for the cause of temperance, however, Republicans are not influenced in their reform movements by such illtempered attacks, and will go on at every opportunity with the work of promoting temperance interests. A FOOLISH ATTACK ON TEE PRESS. Professor Luther Townseud, of the Boston University, distinguished himself at the Congregational ministers' Monday meeting by attacking the press of the country. He charges American newspapers with being under Papal domination, and declares that "the editorial rooms of America and Great Brit ain are servilely bound to the Roman Catholic Church." His attack is partic ularly directed to the Boston papers, which, he avers, repress reports of Prot estant meetings, and flaunt those of Catholic meetings before the public. The Professor has been actively engaged in the recent crusade against Catholics in that city, of which the school-book controversy last fall was a feature, and it was this that led to the introduction of the subject. There was much moro to the same effect in his tirade, and none of his remarks are worth quoting, except as showing the length to which blind prejudice and sectarian bigotry will go in this enlightened day. Pro fessor Townsend is evidently one- of tho3e persons who believe that only their particular ism is worthy of atten tion, and who cannot conceive the idea that it is the business of a newspaper to print the news without bias. When he has rescued journalism from that foreign power, which, ho says, "is now pressing upon it its withering touch," he will, of course, forbid every mention of the. doings of the Catholics in any newspaper. Then it will be tho turn of the Catholics to protest, and so it will go. In the meantime, which will probably be a long time, American newspapers will go right along and print everybody's news, with out prejudice, and regardless of whether the publication makes Rome or Boston howl. SUPERINTENDENT JACOBS. A rumor has been afloat for somo time to the effect that when the new board of trustees came into control, Su perintendent Jacobs, of the Institution for tho Blind, would be required to go. Tho statement of Trustee Cullen, that his influence will bo in favor of retain ing Mr. Jacobs, is reassuring so far as it goes; but, as is well understood, the trustees of the public institutions, under this Democratic regime, aro not always free agents outside political workers of influence sometimes pulling the strings. .Whether it is the intention to remove Jacobs because he has stood in tho way of corrupt methods, or because his place is needed for party purposes, or whether he is to be retained, is a matter that will soon bo disclosed; but it is not out of place to say that his removal would be an outrage upon the rights of the blind and an injury to the institution. Mr. Jacobs has proved himself to bo tho right man in the right place. In oppos ing the corrupt Sullivan board he has shown great firmness and integrity, and has displayed much ability in the management of tho institution. " If the trustees wish to gain public confidence in their professed desire to work for the best interests of the establishment, they will resist outside pressure and retain the present superintendent. In a general way everybody knows that the negroes of tho South have insufficient educational advantages, but the truth becomes more impressive when it is reduced to figures. The showing of the secretary of the Presbyterian mission funds that out of 1,840,556 colored children in the South but 802,585 attend school is startling. Illiteracy is dangerous wherever it is found. It is less bo, perhaps, among the colored people than among whites, since tho former are moro inclined to adapt themselves to the ways and to adopt the views of tho educated and most cultivated members of the community in which they reside than are the ignorant foreigners, of which the white illiterate class is mainly composed; but in any caso it is a menace to society and to the interests

of tho country. Schools must bo pro

vided for this million of colored chil dren, and the best method of doing it is a problem that should bo solved by tho statesmen in charge of the public wel fare without unnecessary deiay. PniLJP S. Sfero, a Russian Hebrew, has been convicted, in Philadelphia, of making an intoxicating dnnk called passover wine, made of California grapes, raisins, blackberries, coloring matter, sugar and water. Its religion name and uses did not prevent his conviction, but as Spero had been only throe years in the country and seemed to be acting in good faith, the court allowed him to go on his own recognizance, under a bond of $500 to appear when called for, which is construed as a practical acquittal. TnE Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, as suming that the statement made in the Presbyterian General Assembly is true, that there are many vacant pulpits in that church for the want of efficient preachers, says: "For the vacant pulpits in the Presbyterian Church and unemployed minis ters, the seminaries of that church are mainly responsible. There are too many of them, and a severe sifting process as re gards students needs to be applied." CniCAGO is wrestling with the annexation question. To annex or not to annex the suburbs is the question. Under the law the city has no voice in tho matter but to give or refuse its assent at a special election. So far, the desire of the suburban munici palities to be annexed seems greater than the desire of the city to have them. It has to come to annexation in the end. A town within a city is not the right thing. Mrs. Cleveland and her mother are out side of the light that beats upon the White House now, and can go about the country, get marriedat least the mother can and do as they please like other private and in dependent citizens without attracting attention. Nevertheless, it must be said that for private citizens of the feminine persuasion they managed to keep the Folsoni wedding uncommonly quiet. Pittsburg is to have a musical festival the last three days of this week, and the papers of that city express a fear that it will be a financial failure. Indianapolis knows how to get up a festival and how to carry it through, and if Pittsburg will keep its eye on this city, it may learn a few thinzs that will be useful to it next time. The Fort Wayne News reports that under the new Republican Mayor of that city, the laws were generally observed there' last Sunday; that saloons were closed, and the city was orderly and no drunkenness was noticed. t ABOtT PEOPLE AND THINGS. George William Curtis, of Harper's Weekly, is still quite ill from the injury he received last summer while playing ;'lawn tennis. ir A most astonishing story comes r from California telling how Claus Sprockets has been paying taxes, owing to defective maps, on hundreds of acres that be does not own. This is probably tho first case of the kind on record. r: General Boulanger seems to hare the ability to interest women of wealth in himself and his cause. The Baroness BnrdettCoutts is his latest conquest. Boulangerisin would not amount to much without its supporters of the gentler sex. Secretary Blaine recently got off a good mot. A friend met him and said: "How is your health, Mr. Blame!" The Premier paused for a moment, rubbed his hand across his brow and said musingly: "Let me see, what newspaper did I itad lastf" Andrew Carnegie has offered to furnish, in complete modern style, a suite of rooms for the Nineteenth Centurv Club, of New York, and to allow the club to occupy the moms rent free. This offer will enable the club to occupy permanent quarters onj or about the 1st of July. j The really proper way to serve strawber ries nowadays is with "the stems on,, Part . of a small saucer should have a little mound of powdered sugar poured into it, taut on' the other side the largest and choicest berries obtainable should be heanod nn' 'Each berry is taken up by the stem, dipped into' i ine sugar ana eaten irom me lingers, Aixkn Thorndike Rick was born j in, Baltimore, and not in Boston, as was, generally supposed. Ilis father married a, Baltimore ieiress, from whom he separated. Thef! child was retained by the mother until hcrf death, in Europe. Mr. Rice then brought! the boy to this country, and placed him in. the care of his grandmother, Mrs. Bourhei' of Boston. John Wanamaker conducts his big Phil-, adelphia house on the profit-sharing principle. Friday night he made his semi-annual dividend, distributing $44,182 among the 400 employes entitled to share.. Tho amount divided during the year was $104,000. It is not believed that ho will conduct tho Washington establishment on the same plan. It turns out that the lawyers "milked the cow" in the Myra Clark Gaines caso. It is understood in Washington that tho heirs have very little interest in the Supreme Court judgment in their behalf, since the little lady litigant, in whose name tho suit was won, had made over to lawyers and money-lenders a great deal more than the amount of tho judgment. Charles Whittmeyer, an eccentrio German living at Mount Holly, N. J., created a sensation by announcing that he had offered his will for probate in order to have his estate settled during his lifetime. A clause in tho will provides that one-half of his estate shall go to his wife Betsey so long as she remains his widow, and when she marries again the other half shall be paid to her, 'as it costs moro to keep two than one." Bayard Taylor's first name was James. Wilkie Collins w.is christened William Wilkie Collins. Austin Dobson's full name is Henry Austin Dobson. Edmund Gosse has William for a middle name, though he never uses it. James Brander Matthews, Samuel Duttleld Osborne, James Lawrence Htittou, and Edward Howard Seely area few other full titles of writers who curtail their signatures in print, and Frank Stockton's name is Francis Richard Stockton in full. A writer in tho Baltimore American relates that Sir. W. D. Howells's grandmother was a very charming old Welsh lady, who had great difficulty in placing her "hs." She was doubtful about the pronunciation of a young lady's name, so sho asked hen "Is your name Ellen or Helen?'' "Helen," said the lady. "Oh it's Ellen, is it? I always thought it was Helen." "But it is Helen; not Ellen." "Just now you said Ellen." "No, I said Helen," interrupted the lady. "Ellen," said the grandmother, triumphantly. "Ellen, just as I said at rirt, I always like to be perfectly correct in calling people by name." An Easter egg, in the making of which an enthusiastic German patriot has spent no less than six months, has been presented to William II by a confectioner at Wiesbaden. The egg is made of refined sugar, and rests on the head of two white sugar statuettes, representing Prince Bismarck and Count Moltke. On the outside of the shell apSears a group of the imperial family, all aintily done in colored sugar, and from the interior of this wonderful egg, whenever a spring is touched, come forth, in the limpid voice of a musical box. the sounds cf the German national anthem. A funny pase was tried in the justice's court in Jasper. Ga., for damage to a hog by reason of the loss of the bog's feet in a collision with a train. In a three hours' legal fight tho defendant's counsel con-. tended that the rule of assessing damages

was the loss in weight of the hog by reason of being run over, which in this case was one foot, weighing half a pound, which at 10 cents a pound would be 5 cents damages. The plaintiff's counsel insisted that the rule for assessing dam aces was the value of the hog when hurt, with the cost of nursing and medical treatment, together with such damages as the enlightened minds of the jury thought proper for the mental

pain ana anguish ot tho hog. lhe jury gave the plaintiff $3. COMMENT AND OPINION. After all, what right have Germany and the United States to settle the internal affairs of Samoa at Berlin? Doe? might make right in these days? New York World. While the development and diversification of industry go on, ail the arguments of all the free-trade clubs, though there were ono in every school district, would be of no avail to reverse the tide of opinion. Americans havo begun to judge the tariff by its general results, and like them. New Yorklribune. The protestations of the Arkansas authorities over Colonel Clayton's assassination, that it was not expressive of the sentiment of tho community, is overruled by this Neely affair, and the murder of the witnesses at Plummervillo, through whom the murderer of Clayton was likely to be discovered. Arkansas needs regeneration. New York Graphic. The possibility of a break-up in a few existing trusts is far from being a menace to commercial prosperity among the people at large. On the contrary, such an event would but widen out the area of manufacturing and commercial activities by increasing the actual capital and tho number of workers employed in meeting the demand for consumption. Chicago Tribune. The vast majority of the intelligent Republicans who have given any thought to the subject favor the coinage of silver, but when they see, as they do, that many millions of dollars of this metal are lying idle in the Treasury, for which there is absolutely no demand, and that the present rate of coinage is more than adequate to meet all the country's needs, they will not support any scheme to double the coinage, by whomsoever proposed. St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. There can be no better thing for our collego men, who are likely to become the future makers of public opinion to a great degree, than that they shall know all that they can learn regarding the subjects of protection and free trade. They can discover error only by searching for it, by having the light of truth turned upon it. If the doctrine of protection will not bear investigation, and the most thorough examination, its frieuds may prepare to speedily abandon it. Philadelphia Telegraph. No reasonable man will object to the association of workingmen, or even of professional musicians, for common protection, but when that protection takes the form ot personal oppression which threatens to add to the population of our almshouses, it would seem that the principle of "union" . was being carried beyond the limits of wisdom or justice. No organization should be permitted to say to any man in this free country that he shall not work to support himself. New York Times. We. who aro friendly to the public schools and desirous of the elevation of the standard of intelligence among the people, .must realize the necessity of preventing the spread of fallacious arguments and so improving the public-school system that it will be invulnerable to all or any attacks, ho matter how carefully guarded or insidious they may be. While exceptions may be taken to many details of our system as it now exists, it is safe to say that no true American is inimical to popular education. Minneapols Tribune. THE FORREST CITY RIOTS. Real Cause of the Trouble That Ended in Four MurdersPossibility of More Bloodshed. :Special to St Louis Globe-Democrat, r The assassination of Americus Neely, colored, and the expatriation of A. Gentry, Tthe colored merchant, and E. Sweet, the white farmer, yesterday, has had the effect of satisfying the appetite for blood on tho part of the mob, and all is quiet now. Both sides have agreed to let the matter drop, but it is known that those who have been driven from home will call upon the federal authorities for protection and restoration to their homes and families. The conservative people deplore the occurrence, and desire the matter hushed up; hence, the facts of the case have never beep told. Everybody knows that the parties did wrong, but no ono cares to criticise, and no local newspaper would have tho temerity to publish them. The attempt to dignify the trouble by calling it a race w ar has been successfully resorted to, and reports dictated by the guilty parties have been sent out minimizing the affair, which have smoothed matters over. The trouble and' its history are well known. When Congressman Poindexter Dunn, of Forrest City, ran for Congress a second time, ten years ago, he was opposed bv Joe House, of Searcy, White count y. I fouso was believed to be the favorite, but Dunn received the nomination. The House men wero disgusted, and openly declared that they would not vote at all. The Republicans laid low until just before the election, when they put'up a colored man named John H. Johnson, of Augusta, who was United States revenue collector at the time, and elected him by something over 1,000 majority. He was counted out and Dunn counted in. Capt. John Parham, of Forrest City, was then a Democrat. He has since fallen out with Dunn, when it was popularly believed that tho Congressman had sold his vote for a largo sum on me aiempnis onuge appropriation bill. This fight between Dunn and Parham was taken up by James Fussel, formerly a dry goods clerk in Memphis, now a merchant of Forrest City, and a brother-in-law of Dunn, and bad blood has existed. Through Dunn's influence Fussel was placed on top in local Democratic pol itics, rarhani retaliated byjoimng the Agricultural Wheel, taking it into politics and fusing with ihe negToes at the last election, when the Fusionists carried the county by storm, and claim to have elected Featherstone over Cate for Congress, a contest for which place is now pending. Fussel and his crowd raised the alarm of negro doin iuation, and the leaders of the Fusionists were marked out for an annihilation. Win chesters were purchased at the last election. but no opportunity was found to open hos tilities. The Fussel men openly boasted since that they would keep the Winchesters, and "if ever John Parham cocked his finger he would be the first one to be killed." When the Fusion ticket was made out it was divided among whites and blacks. Since then several of the colored brethren have made themselves particularly obnox ious, claiming that as the negroes were largely in the majority they should elect whom they pleased. The white Fusionists kept them in check. Americus Neely was one of the most active of the intelligent colored men. He made an intemperate speech to the efi'ect that the time had come when the negroes should have their votes counted if they had to tight for it. He was spotted. While on his way to the court-house to be sworn in as an officer of election, he was stopped by a crowd, headed by James Fussel, who accused him of circulating false reports about him. Neelv denied having circulated the reports, when Fussel called him a liar, and reached down under his coat and drew forth an iron cane, with which he beat Neely over the head, while the others held him. The negro broke away and ran toward Captain John Parham. Seven or eight of Fussel's crowd fired several shots at him. Parham was talking to a young man named Davenport, who represented himself as being friendly to the Fusion side, but who, it was learned later, had been deployed with onePruitt to disarm Parham at the opening of trouble. The two men caught Parham as he was drawing his pistol. He is one-legged and carries a crutch and a cane. When he was disarmed the young men withdrew and Fussel came to the middle of the street, and. taking deliberate aim, tired at Parham, the ball taking efi'ect in his hip. Tom, a son of Capt. Parham, was upstairs in the county clerk's office at work. He ran down stairs, and seeing City Marshal Falbre with a pistol leveled on his father, shot the marshal in tho head. Tho marshal in falling fired at young Parham. so did a brother of the marshal. I. C. Falbre, ana so did a part of the Fussel crowd. No oue knows who strnck him. but ho fell dead, shot through the heart. While this was going on Sheriff Wilson was hurrying down the street to the scene,

sheltered by a block of buildings, when a prominent professional man slipped upon him and snot him, killing him instantly. Then, putting the pistol in his breast-pocket, he put his hands in his pockets and walked away. The two witnesses that saw this killing will testify at the proper time. They are afraid to do so now. In the excitement the negro, Americus Neely, escaped with only one ball through his body, and took refuge in an old building, the doors of which he, his father and brother barricaded. None of the negroes were armed. The mad mob, armed with Winchesters, assaulted t he house, but unsuccessfully. Sheriff Wilson being dead, the next oriicer was C. W. Ingram, colored, the coroner. He. too, was troublesome, and was put aboard tho train and was sent off. Governor Eagle appointed Mr. Van B. Izard sheriff. Mr. Izard st-emed to lose his head. He lost control of the people. He spent much of tho night at Feathrstone's house, beseeching that gentleman to prevent bloodshed, by sending out word to the county Fusionists and negroes to keep away from town, which was done. Sundavnioruing.at 8 o'clock. Sheriff Izard promised tho two Neelys safe transport to the jail if they would come out. They consented gladly. They had no weapons. The sheriff and some of the posse left with the prisoners for the jail, and the remainder continued the search for Americus Neely, the obnoxious darky. They found him under the floor, wounded and unable to move, where his father and brother had scooped out a place with their hands and hidden him. The mob raised the floor and fired volley after vollev into his prostrate form and left him there to die. No effort has been made to arrest any one but the two Neelys, and their crime is that they aro brother and father to an obnoxious negro. Every one, and many of the newpapers, denounce this outrage as being savagely brutal, but little is expected to come ot it. Already the old chestnut about resisting arrest is heard, though Neely's crime was merely that he ran away as fast as he could and was shot while in flight. C. E. Sweet has gone to Memphis. He is a wealthy planter, but does not propose to remain away. "I am either a citizen of the United States or lam not." he remarked, significantly, when approached on the subject, but would not reveal his intentions.

The Trouble Breaks Out Again. Little Rock, Ark., May 21. The town of Forrest City was again thrown into a state of great excitement to-nigbt, about 10 o'clock, by an engagement between three guards and a crowd, supposed to be negroes. Shots were exchanged on both sides, but no one is yet. known to have been injured. The town is up in arms. MR, BAYARD AND UIS FIANCEE. Miss Clymer Is an Accomplished, Wealthy and Lovable Woman. Washington Special to New York World. The matrimonial engagement between exSecretary of State Bayard and Miss Clymer, of this city,is authoritatively announced and is the gossip of society and of the clubs. The lady is the only daughter of the late Dr. Georgo Clymer, for many years a surgeon in the navy, the granddaughter of Admiral Shubrick: and the great-granddaughter of George Clymer, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, as well as one of the tramers of the federal Constitution, and whoso portrait was in the centennial collection at New York last week. Dr. Meredith Clymer, the distinguished physician of New York city, is a member of the same family. Miss Clymer lives at present with her mother in the fine mansion at the corner of H street and Connecticut avenue, iust opposite the residence of tho late millionaire and philanthropist, W. W. Cocoran. Sho was born in that house thirty-nine years ago. Her mother, who celebrated, her seventieth birthday yesterday, and is in excellent health and spirits, is the daughter of Admiral Shubrick, so that on both sides of the house Miss Clymer is connected with people who played important parts in the history of this country. She is also a distant cousin of Mr. Bayard, who is soon to be her husband. She nas no sisters, and only one brother, Shubrick Clymer. who is a professor of English literature at Harvard College. Miss Clymer is an accomplished lady of literary tastes, and has traveled considerably. In company with her mother, she has taken a trip to Europe every two or three years. She was educated at Madam Burr's celebrated 6chool in this city, and speaks French like a Parisienune. She is a decided blonde, and acknowledged by all to be beautiful, but not more distiuguishedby personal beauty than by queenly di gnity and a generous heart. She has a graceful, slender figure, and dresses in exquisite tarste. Few ladies are better known to Washington society. She never dances, but in conversation sho is charming. Her fortune enables her to live in good stylo, but funds that had been intended to purchase jewelry for her personal adornment she has more than once been p known to turn over to some deserving char ity, as she said she could always get moro pleasure out of it in that way. Miss Clymer has been intimately ac?uainted with Mr. Bayard and the Bayard amily all her life. She is an accomplished horseback rider, and in that respect will be a lit companion for the ex-Secretarv in his favorite exercise and amusement. Mr. Bayard's age has been a matter of some comment and discussion at the clubs since tho engagement was first made. He is a remarkably agile, robust and well-preserved man. Various gossips put him down at anything from fifty-four to sixty-six years ot age. in his autobiography he writes himself down as having been "bornatWilni ? li rrf rn 0f 90 Ift tpVi$Vi maVao li!m over sixty. During the early part of tho 1 aita! fi ti I adTniniofrQf inn n'Vinr Via n a VV V1UIIU UU1I1I1I1U11 HII VU. 1 It (IS Secretary of State, his wile and his eldest' aaugncer doui aioa wunin a iew weeKs. Since then his hospitable house has felt the want of such a mistress as Miss Clymer is weu qnaiinea to bo. THE KICE ABDUCTION. Recollections of a Sensational Occurrence of Nearly Forty Years Ago. George Tlclaior Curtis, in New York San. It is a great pity that the propensity to work un sensational stories of fjimilv his tories sliould have led to such an unfounded rigmarole as that in the New York Times of to-day concerning the late Mr. Thorndike Rice and his parents. His story is ono that cannot be revived without giving pain to living persons, however truthfully it may be tola; and when it is told unfaithfully, we cannot restrain a righteous indignation. I knew Mr. Thorndike Rice's father and mother before they were married. I was their neighbor in Boston when their child was bom. I knew the families on both sides, and knew at the time tho circumstances attending Mrs. Rice's departure from Boston with her child, then an infant. I shall 6ay but little concerning Mrs. Rice; but as the account in the Times represents her husband as a sort of a brute, and represents her as forced to leave him, I shall take it npon me to contradict so much of the story as relates to one of the most amiable, worthy and inno cent young men l ever Knew. Henry Rice was the son of a Boston mer chant of great respectability, but of moderate property. He was about five or six and twenty when he married Miss Thorndike. hhe was a granddaughter of Israel I horndike, a very wealthy merchant in Boston. The marriage took place in the spring of 1850. thirty-nine years ago. The newlymarried couple weut to Europe on a wed ding tour. I was in London when they arrived there, and met them at dinner at the house of Mr. Rusaell Sturgis in Portland place. They traveled lor- somo time on the continent. It was very well under stood at the time that Mr. Rice wasverv much in love with his wife, and this was apparent to all who saw them together. It was equally well understood that oef ore their marriage Mrs. Rice was not much in rlove with the voung man whom she accepted, but she was perfectly free to choose, and she chose to marry him. The child was born after they returned to Bos ton. Not long afterward, when the child was not more than two, or at most thrco years old, Mrs. Rice suddenly left Boston, taking her ohild with her, and her husband was engaged for several years in fruitless eiiorts to hnd her and to induce her to return to her proper home. I think I am qualified to speak with some certainty of Mr. Rice's fondness for his wife. Soon after their engagement I dined oue day at his lathers house, with other young people who were in the same society. and she and her accepted lover were present. It was evident to us all that he wai deeply in love with her, and at the same time we all understood that she was not much attached to him. Young people at such times are pretty apt to know a good deal about cacii otber. Miss Thomdiko was a handsome girl, and very fascinating. After the lapse of the period required by the law of Massachusetts. Mr. Rice obtained a divorce on account of his wife's desertion of him. Ho never married again.

Ho died early, and every one in the society in which they both belonged was aware that the loss of ' his wife and child made him a broken-hearttd man. Ho was entirely blameless in the whole matter. Alter the divorce Mrs. Rice lived, without any concealment, somewhere in Germany, and eventually she married a German, who had beou her son's tutor for some time. He was said to have been a man of much force of character, and to have had more intlunco over' the lady than any one else who had ever been connected with her. She died a very painful death in consequence of her clothes accidently taking hre. There is a long and circumstantial account in the Times's narrative about a Mr. Kelley, of Vermout, who is said to have aided Mrs. Rice in concealing herself and her child from the "detect ivca' who wero employed by her husbaud, and her escape is represented to havo been from a cruelty "worse than death." This dark insinuation it would puzzle tho writer in tho Times to explain. I never heard that Henry Rice employed "detectives." Such persons werd not known at that time. He did what his duty a a husband and father required of him endeavored by all proper means to find his wife and child. Thero may have been a Mr. Kelley, or Mr. Anybody Else, who helped Mrs. Rice to conceal herself and her child, and to getaway to Europe, for she must have had some assist

ance at the time. The Times's article represents the search to have been made when the bov was eicht years old. But the fact is. she left Boston and took away her child when he was at most not more than two or three years old. lhe bov nover was in this country again until alter ho had grown up and had taken a aegree at uxford. All that nart of th ntnrr in fh Tim about letters from Mr. Rice's mother acknowledging Mr. Kellcv's services, and years afterward sent to Thorndike Rice, who SUDnressod thim. nnd tli nnniPtKit about the danger of poison incurred by MrsRice in her husband's house, is bosh. It will be received with horror and indignation by every living member of both families, for they all know, as do the persons oi my age in Boston, who are acquainted with the facts, that Henrr Riee wa n most excellent young man, and that his wife's desertion of him was entirely due to a certain waywarduess in her disposition. It was never suspected or intimated that she had been led astray by some one else. Tho grosser Kina oi inuaeiiiy to her husbaud was never imputed to her. BISnOP AND LABOUCIIERE. IIow the Mlnd-Koader and the Great Edi tor Had Their MlsumlrrsUnding. W. F. Ilanda.1, In New York World. An article in the New York Herald of tho 14th inst, containd a short resume of tha life of Mr. Bishop and Mr. Henry Labouchero, in which u decided injustice was douo to Mr. Bishop. Tho article referred to, by us puraseoiocy anaierms, leaas to the conclusion that Mr. Bishop failed to read thn number of a bank of England note in the presence ot an audience. row, tins is not the fact. The writer was abroad at tlm time and took a great interest in Mr. Bish op and his seances. Mr. Labouchere had wagered through the press a nd at public dinners that he would forfeit 1,000 if Mr. Bishop would success fully read the numbers of a bank of Eng land note to be produced by him sealed in an envelope, in the auditorium of a hall to be selected by Mr. Bishop, but his wager also contained other conditions, some of which severely handicapped Mr. Bishop in the selection of a medium. Mr. Bishoti. well knowing the impossibility of suc cessfully porlorming the feat with a meuiuin oi siigni temperament, replied, likewise through the nress and at miblic din ners, declining the stringent terms imposed oy Mr. Ltaboucuere, but ouered to undertake the task if a committee of then were appointed. one to benamed by Mr. Bishop, ono by Mr. Labou chere, and tho two thus appointed to select a third, who should select and produce before an audience five persons for the purpose of affording Mr. Bishop an opportunity of experimenting with their nervous temperament and allowing him to so- , .. ices as nis meaium tne one who appeared to him the most sensitive and of the most nervous temperament. Mr Labouchere ig--nored this offer of Mr. Bishop, and claimed that Mr. Bishop was a failure and a worth less adventurer. Mr. Bishop was not to be shut off and served in this manner and nromntlv tookthe initiative, reissued his olfcr, notified Mr. Labouchere nnbliclv and nrivattdr hrlcttor, engaged Hope Hall in Liverpool where ho was then stopping, chartered a special Wagner car from Lon don and return, which he placed at the disposal of Mr. Labouchem that he might personally h rm. ent, and offered to forfeit l,0(i0 sterling to any charitable institution in England that Mr. Labouchere might name should ho fail to read the number of a bank of England note to be produced by Mr. Labouchere in a sealed envelope upon tho tdage and deiivoreu io me cummmee in me presenco or me auaience. x The time came. Sir. Bishon was on hand, as well as a crowdod house, but Mr. Liaoo ucnere laued to put in an appcaranco and failed to reply to the challenge.' After waiting fully three-quarers of an uour for Mr. Labouchere. during which time Mr. lsisuop amused the audience with a few of his many interesting feats, including tho exposure of tlm well-known sniriftiftBstin cabinet trick, Mr. Bishop proposed that a commmee do 6eiecTea by the audience, which was done. The Right Rev. Dr. jnyie, Disnop oi Liverpool, ana thrco gentlemen and myself, were selected br ! the audience as the committee for the even ing. boveral gentlemen in the audience, ex pecting, perhaps, such an opportunity a.5. oecured, were prodided with bank of England notes duly sealed in envelopes. The isisnop oi Liverpool, as chairman of tho committee, selected one of the offered notes, and, with the committee, selected a medium from the audience, who was, to the greai astonishment of all present, promptly accepted by Sir. Bishop after first pressing the hand of the selected medium and then passing his hand across the forehead. It was thus manifest to every person in the hall, even tho most skeptical, that the the affair was free from trick and device, the chairman. Bishop Rhyle. who selected the note, being beyond the possibility of reproach. Thereupon Mr. Bishop took tho medium in hand, crossed ami recrossed tho platform (the hall being fully lighted alt the time), and finally successfully marked the numbers of the note upon a blackboard in the presence of the audience. The foregoing facts aro within my personal knowledge. Having been present and taken part in the proceeding I am fully cognkant of all that took place. If thero are any persons -who have been misled, by the article above referred to.to believe that Mr. Bishop failed in his difficulty with Sir. Labouchere, and if by this communication such wrongful and unjust impression has been removed, J shall feel that! havo dono iustice to the nirr -ry of a very rcmarka ble and peculiuriaan. Clotfc to the Mud Line. Chicago Tlmea Her name was Tannv Davenport, and sha was supposed to be better than tho great majority of th actresses on the American stage. Sho married her leading man, Mr. Price. She liveJ wjth him two years, fcho got a new lead in!; man. a Mr. McDowell. Her husband b trr. jealous. ?he denied that there was auy cause for it. Husband and wife quarreled, yhe procured a divorce. Now sho hji'j married McDowell. Miss Fanny Davenport has struck the common level of the htao at last. The common level of the stao eems very close to tho mud line at pivscat. . . . - n0 Would Not Ia rieen Believed. Boston Trancrf ft. What a : emulation for madness, for stark, downrk'.at lunacy, any Mississippiau of 1S00 wou.'l have obtained by predicting? that tho ft p.rl fen-year-old negro bey, a slave, John K. Lynch, then owned in Natchez, would, within thirt' years, be appointed an officer of xhe United States Treasury. J?uch a prophet could have kept out of a lunatic rylunj only by taking to tho woods. Tfc Pidiit U'Uere !doe Tailed. New York mrs The opvai"t ul-ii.-iT expressed in a mini ber of - icwnpaners that Mr. Cleveland i prvdmired to bo "the Mows' of "tarifi ' rcfWrj.M Y-e-s. If we recollect distinctly Mose owing to circumstances not under his own control never succeeded in reaching tho promised land. m m m BUmarrk'a Best Line of Business, fit. Ixula Olobe-Dereocrit. Bi&mnrck declares that as a Christian he can pocket an innlt. but tt as Chancel, lor ne can as readily etrio back. It is hardly necessary to add that for tho n:o6 part lie doe business intto latter cayaciljs