Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1874 — Page 2

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THE EVENING NEWS

JOHX M. HOLLIDAY. Paomro*.

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niption which now prevails in politic and “TilE gentleman of high standing” who that th ’* dia f* tirf * ctioD u “has been residing in a certain place for confined to any political party or any sec- , , . , , . . tion of society, but is shared by all honest two years, an I having abundant opportu-

roen alike, agree to form an association, that thereby a better unde.-staodipg may be promoted among men who hold these opinions, and that an interest in all public measures will be excited among those who now stand aloof through apathy and disgust, and in so doing they give no pledge, nor do they abandon the organizations to which they now belong, but sav: “We know that honesty and punty in public life are of equal importance to ail parties, and that nothing is more necessary than that private citizens should take an active and intelligent interest in public affair*.’’ The officers of the club are: E. R Hoar. President; Henry L. Pierce. Richard Oiney, John Q. Adams and W. E. Perkins,

Vice Presidents.

Tbe Arch Duke Charles Ferdinand died

yesterday.

Coroner Rice, of San Francisco, has been ousted for malfeasance in office. Roche & Co., lumber dealers, of Quebec, have failed with liabilities of (300,000. Isaac Butts, for many years editor of the Rochester. N.Y.,Union and Advertiser, died

yesterday.

The Cabinet yesterday concluded that nothing had occurred in Arkansas callingfor Executive interference. Beecher’s counsel have decided to appeal from the order of the general term denying a bill of particulars to the Court of Appeals. Shade Westmoreland, alias Shade Woods, was hanged at Chattanooga yesterday for murdering Wm. Emberling near that place in May, 1871. The total number of killed by the explosion in the Warren V’ale coal mine, Yorkshire, is 24. Ten men have been rescued more or less injured. The roundhouse of the Cairo and St. Louis narrow gauge railroad, in East JxHiis, with a locomotive, was burned yesterday morning. IjOSb $10,000; no insurance. Prince Bismarck lias assured the Turkish Minister that the conclusion of direct treaties of commerce with Rouiuania will in no wise prejudice tbe political soverignty of Turkey In that principality. It is stated in Berlin that the British government declines to comply with the proposal of Russia for the adoption of an international code ou the basis of the negotiations of the Brussels conference. Prince Gortschakoff had a long interview with Bismarck yesterday, after which he left for 8t. Petersburg. Gortschakoff has expressed his confidence in the maintenance of the peace of Europe for many years. A Rye Beach dispatch states that the direct United States cable fleet, the Faraday, Dacia and Ambassador, were in the harbor* of Grace, Newfoundland, on the 12th inst, waiting for suitable weather to complete the Uylng of the cable. W. McLean, an old citizen who served as Collector of the port of Cincinnati under Pierce and Buchanan, and who, for eleven

At Brookville, Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, yesterday a fire broke out in Scotts A Angder’s livery stable and spread to and entirely consumed Oak Hall Hotel, owned by Mr. Bell, two dwellings owned by fL Arthurs, and occupied by C. S. Irwin and T. P. McCrea Nicholson's large building, occupied on the first floor by C. 8. Irwin, merchant, Ix>ng & Pearsall, hardware. The second floor was used as a town hall, and the third story by the Masonic order; the Franklin House, owned by J. 8. King, H. L. Blood’s building, occupied on the first floor by K. L. Blood, druggist. John Mills, grocer, and Dicky A Kennedy, general merchandise, on the second floor by the Republican printing office and O. H. Brown, undertaker; on the third floor by the Odd Fellows’ Lodge; J. G. Fryers' store and dwelling; A. S. Scribner's dwelling, occupied by 8. H. Smith; Mrs. Clement’s dwelling; J. T. Carroll’s store and dwelling, and W. J. McKnight’s, three buildings. The total loss is estimated at about $2Q0.00o. The insurance will cover

about one half that amount.

: Peace still reigns in Arkansas. And still Smith is not Governor. Five colored representatives—all new men—will adorn the next Congress. The Northern Pacific road will ask for aid this winter to penetrate the Bananna

Zone.

Grant ought to suppress Harper’s Weekly. It says it will oppose him for a third term. Robeson will ask lor about seventeen millions for next year. He can’t ring in any Virginias this season. Chandler telegraphs the information that his re-election is secured. Is Chandler noted for truthfulness?

years preceding 1870 was business manager

and a leading sh

Enquirer, fell dead of heart disease at his

stockholder of the Cincinnati

residence yesterday morning. The followtngofflcial dispatch was received at Omaha from Fort Jairmie, yesterday “Havejust returned from the agencies. All quiet. The Ogallalles and Minnicoujons are counted. A good many are leaving for the reserves to hunt. Prof. Marsh is still

out."

At Frankfort, Kentucky, early yesterday morning, the w’hisky warehouse of Robert P. Peppers, situated on the Kentucky rivqr, one mile above the city, ami containing about 2,700 barrels of whisdy, was totally destroyed by fire with its contents. The whisky was insured for nearly $00,000. A German, George Snitzfaden, while driving on Canal street, New Orleans, last evening, with three little boys, was thrown into the Carrollton avenue canal, the horse running against the bridge. Two children of Spuzfaden were saved. He and a little grandson were drowned. The bodies were recovered. The City Council of Cincinnati yesterday •fternexta, in pursuance of a communication of the Mayor and the action of the Stone Cutters’ Association Thursday night, appointed a committee to visit Washington to consnlt with the department officers in order to secure the work of cutting the stone for the new Cincinnati Custom House in that

city.

Yesterday morning the Dugan gang of miners went to their work at Scranton, Pa., armed with Remington rifles. When the miners came out of the colliery last evening they were greeted by a crowd of men ami boys, who hissed them, and called therti blacklegs, thieves, etc., but offered no personal violence. It is supposed the danger is

over.

Another letter has been received by the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce from the Hon. James G. Brisbin, urging larger and continued contributions to aid the sufferers of Nebraska. In response to a request from Capt. Holloway, the President of the Chamber, the Secretary of War has decided to appropriate a quantity of Government clothing, now at Jeffersonville, for the relief of the sufferers. Mr. P. Ehrgott, of the firm of Ehrgott &

dead

letter ironi a partner m a tornier nrm. protesting against Messrs. Ehrgott & Krebs printing on their business cards the words “successor to Ehrgott, Forbinger A Co.” The letter contained a threat of prosecution if the words complained of were not taken off the card. Apoplexy is the assigned cause of his death. Edward Black, brother of George Black, one of the robbers of the American Express Company, yesterday sued H. S. duller of Cleveland, Charles Fargo of Chicago, and Col. Kirsted and two detectives of Cincinnati, to recover $20,000 for false imprisonment, yesterday. Edward Black was imprisoned four hours on suspicion, and was taken out on habeas corpus and released. The officers said that his arrest was made through a mistake. At the morning session of the Women’s National Temperance Convention, at Cleveland, yesterday, the consideration of the report of the Committee on Resolutions was resumed. Tbe prefatory address embodied in the report was referred to the Committee on the Address to the Women of America. The Committee on a Constitution reported, and the Constitution was adopted. The name of the association agreed upon was, “The Woman’s National Christian Temperance Union.” Committees were appointed on a newspaper, on a juvenile organization, and ob a permanent organization. -. The slander suit of Henry C. Bowen against Den:as Barnes, one of the numerous actions growing out of the Brooklyn scandal, was begun yesterday in Kings County Court of Sessions. The case was submitted to the jury without argument on either sida The Judge charged that proof of malice was necessary to convict, and the jury, after a brief consultation, brought in a verdict of acquital. The jurors at the same time handed a written statement to the court, to the effect that while the defendant was legallv exempt from conviction, yet they belived the printed matttr in tbe Argus relating to the deceased Mrs. Bowen, was atrocious and cruel. Prominent Republicans of Massachusetts bare organized the Commonwealth Club. Thr preamble to the constitution recites ljut the members, dissatisfied with the cor-

Another change that no lunatic could have prophesied a dozen years ago. The only Democratic Congressman from South Carolina is a negro. « » The new party to be bom next week will first see the light in the hall of the Real Estate Exchange. Possibly it may be the long looked-for “bubble.” Notwithstanding the complaints about business, the report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shows an increase of receipts over the preceding year. It is certainly time the benevolent societies were organized for the winter’s work, and those who are actively engaged in them, should make ready to begin at once and all

together.

Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian prime minister, in an interview^ with Bismarck yesterday, said he had confidence in the maintenance of peace in Europe for many years. It was Talleyrand who said that language was given for the purpose of concealing thoughts. A corresbondknt of the Bun accuses Mr. McDonald of belonging to the “Morton “ring” and of having run for Governor in 1864 to elect Morton. The man who writes such slanders is evidently not a Democrat. He is probably an “Indepen“dent” who became “weary” because the Republicans didn’t give him an office. It seems that that the father of this man Smith was a bitter enemy of Christianity, and he called hisson Yolney Voltaire Smith, intending him to he a perpetual defiance of orthodoxy. The father was known as Delusion Smith and it would appear that the name was not ill-bestowed. If Smith is captured he will find the Governor of Arkansas disposed to give him a garland of- hemp.

Congress will be crowded with schemes this winter. One hundred and fifty members go out, many cf them with no political prospects. The lobbyists will find a great many ready to turn an honest penny, and it will require the utmost vigilance to prevent the success of many jobs. Tlie paternal influence which insists upon the Government paying for all the huge schemes of “improvement” that private capital flees from like a pestilence, will reach its zenith this winter, and if it can be defeated it may be long before it raises

its deadly head again.

Groton, Mass., gave birth to Senator BoutweH, but apparently he is the only man who lives there, excepting one. The Springfield Republican gives the following account of the other resident,who has filled more offices than Governor Dix even: Elisha Morgan, of Groton, has been Town Clerk for 20‘years and most of the time Treasurer; Justice of tbe Peace 29 years; Representative five times, besides holding the positions of Registrar, Assessor, Surveyor of Highways and every other conceivable town office, and often several at the same time. He has also, in the military line, been Corporal, Ensign and Lieutenant, and served in the war of 1812, besides being commander of a coast squad during a part af the rebellion. ..The School Board has postponed the question of purchasing a building for the library, for two weeks, which will enable every one to discuss it at length. Some very unjust insinuations have been made about the motives of some of the Commissioners, and they are naturally anxious to have the matter thoroughly sifted. A meeting of citizens held yesterday afternoon condemned the purchase proposed, as unwise and inexpedient, and at the meeting last night other sites were offered, so that the question bids fair to be exhibited in its length and breadth before it is

time to act upon it.

nities for observation can be relied upon,” etc., has turned up again. This individual is one of the successors of “the intelligent contraband.” He- hail« from Florida now and “brings information that gentle“men in that State are now engaged in “buying up claims for slaves, and actually “paying for this class of claims; in some ‘ instances, one hundred dollars each having been paid.” This is conclusive proof that the negro is to be re-en^laved immediately. Horrible! The household troops should be set in motion immediately to

quell this threatened rebellion.

The speediest way to improve the financial situation of the country is to let it alone. If Congress will quit tinkering with the business it will right itself. If nothing had been done last session times would be a great deal better. Continual interference creates distrust and prevents the healthy operation of the laws of business, which alone can restore it to a prosperous condition. There is every indication that times are becoming better. The supply of currency is in excess of the demand of the transactions. The country is full of crops that command sale at good prices. People are beginning to economize and save. The habits of extravagance begotten by the wasteful period in which there was a plethora of depreciated currency and every article produced sold at high prices, are being broken into, and money is beginning to have a value. Prices of manufactured articles are falling, and it is becoming possible to live comfortable on an income something less than a fortune. It is true that the circumstances of many persons are not what they would like, they are not. so rich as they thought and can no longer indulge in expensive fashions or live in the style they weuld like to. Many speculations have been nipped and many paper fortunes have suddenly contracted, like the coin in the fairy story that w T as gold when put away at night and bits of wood and leaves when taken out in the morning. Thousands of businesses are not as prosperous as they were two or three years ago, but in spite of all this the outlook is brightening. A flood of paper would not set the wheels in motion again. It would clog them all tbe more. Those who now realize what is the effect of doing business with a fluctuating currency, and who have felt the evils that invariably accompany it, ivould not have much confidence in a state of affairs based upon further inflation. Every one would be trying to grab all he could, and instead of there being an increased activity, there would more probably be a stagnation. We are growing out of bad times just as fast as we call. Every day brings us nearer to better ones, and they will not be far off if Congress will let things alone. Whenever governments interfere with business, there

is always trouble.

Secretary Bristow is a man of sense in one direction at least. Under Messrs. BoutweH and Richardson the Treasury Department has seemed to have three or four heads, particularly when it came to making the annual reports to Congress. Each head always happened to have ideas that must be impressed upon an inefficient Congress, and consequently each report was embellished with elaborate views upon questions which the writer considered himself competent to expound. Often these did not “consist” with the opinions of the nominal head, and the country had the gratifying spectacle of a subordinate transversing the opinions of his superior, to gaze at Secretary Bristow does not intend to countenance this custom, evidently thinking that he will express the opinions of the Department so long as he is held responsible for them. A dispatch says: For the first time in some years, the report of the Secretary of the Treasury will be a consistent document throughout; that is, the reports of the bureau officers will not be found filled, as heretofore, with general recommendations at variance with the Secretary’s views. In all cases the reports submitted have been returned for modification, in case they traveled outside the limits of proper representations of the work of the bureau. The result will be that the Secretary’s report, and the accompanying documents, this year, will be a document consistent in its parts, and not a collection of independent essays on various financial sub-

jects.

Corroborating this is another dispatch, which says that Mr. Bristow carefully “ed ited” Mr. Treasurer-Spinner’s report, cutting out all matter foreign to the actual business in hand, among other things thirty pages devoted to the advocacy of “an elastic currency,” some thing or other on whifch Mr, Spinner thinks he has a patent, and that it must be adopted at once or the country is irretrievably smashed. Now Mr. Spinner is a good enough man in his way. He is an honest officer who faithfully administers his duties, but he thinks he knows too much for his own good. He is afflicted with a superabundance of information. He has too many views and is too anxious to expound them. For a long time he has been pretty thoroughly possessed with the opinion that be was the Government himself, and would regard as idiotic drivel the intimation that he could be dispensed with. Bot the country has heard enough from Spinner. Lef him “cease his yawp” and confine himself to the business of making that signature. That is work enough for any man, even if he is as brainy as Daniel Webster. Secretary Bristow deserves public thanks for sitting down” on this old man of the

Treasury Department

1HJE NEtT YORK TAX COMMITTEE. The Legislature of New York appointed a committee of “experts”—meaning, we suppose, simply experienced and well informed men of business—to investigate the question of exempting church property from taxation, and after a thorough debate j of it the conclusion has been reached that

such property should be taxed like all other private property devoted to private uses. Unquestionably thia is the tendency of public opinion, and just as unquestionably another decade will not pass away till this class of wealth, favored at the expense of all other, is to bear its due share of the public burthens. There can be no departure from the plain rule of taxing private property applied to private uses, without injustice to that which the departure does not cover. The only argument for it urged in the New York committee is that urged by President Elliot, of Harvard University, which The News examined some months ago, that churches contribute to the elevation of the race, to the order and safety of society, and to the repression of pauperism and crime. So they do, but so do newspapers aud factories and railroads and telegraph lines and every one of a hundred developments of intellect and industry which distinguish a civilized from a barbarous people. A church sets the example of order and morality, and a pork house sets the example of order and industry. A church repels the influences that lead to violence and insecurity of life and property. A rolling mill nullifies these influences by providing occupation for the men who might be affected by them. Each establishment, moral and industrial, does an office of elevation and improvement of moral condition, while the industrial adds a duty or service of material improvement which the other does not. We do not mean to put mills and packing houses beside churches, as renovating or purifying influences, but to show that the only argument for tax exemption urged for the latter extends to the former. The public service done by churches is too intangible to constitute a set-off to a just public burthen. They are not organized or conducted with special reference to public service. If they were, the public would not be measurably excluded from the most of them by the sale of seats. Their value to their members no one can question. They are an indispensable part of religion, the most impressive part of religious duty. A Christian without a church would be as anomalous an existence as a flower without a stalk. But that is not a public service, except as all Christian conduct is of public service, and surely no one can pretend that a man should be exempt from taxes because his conduct is valuable

to public morality.

In their relations to the public churches render great service, no doubt, but it is of a kind which cannot be estimated, and which cannot be separated justly frorff that rendered by other classes and modes of application of private property. A church comes into the Superior Court, w T e will say, and asks that its tax be remitted, because it inculcates good morals, sets a good example, contributes to the elevation of the community, aids in the preservation of order, strengthens the safety of property and person, represses pauperism and crime. It is admitted, for it can’t he honestly denied. Well, a pork house comes in and asks exemption, too, because it furnishes employment and wages to men of a class which supplies a large share of the disorderly element of society, and this makes them industrious where they would otherwise be mischievous, orderly where they might be riotous, sober where they would he drunken, provident for their families which would else be a burthen on public charity, and in its final result makes good citizens and contributes to the moral elevation of the community as well as its peace and safety. Where would either of the Judges be able to draw a line of distinction that would exempt the church and tax the pork house? “The latter is intended to “ make money and the former is not.”

Jewelled Tr+*. When all the trees were clad in green, And all the birds were singing, >nd blossoms full of incense sweet Their perfumes forth were flinging,— One tree, amid tha joyous scene, Looked sad and diaoantentad, And to the gentle summer breeze In whispering tones lamented. It murmured to an oriole That on a bough was swinging: “Last eventide, in silvery strains, 1 heard a poet singing “Of trees afar, with jewelled fruit. In flashing diamonds shining: These green leaves are so commonplace— For jewels I am pining!” — The summer fled; the trees stood bare Amid the wintry weather, Until one night, when rain and frost Came silently together,— Then, when the dawn had ushered in The rosy fi-gored morning, The tree rejoiced at its array In new and strange adorning. From every twig and bough there hung A sparkling crystal p- ndant; The proud tree glittered in the sun, In jewelry resplendent. But with the night there came a wind, And wlt^ the wind came sorrow; And then, alas I a piteous case Was seen upon the morrow. , For when asaln the morning broke. The hapless tree presented A sight to warn all other trees From being discontented. The ground was Hrewn with glittering ice; The stately bonehs lay under; Botne downward by its weight of gems, The tree was snapped asunder! —IA. M. Macher, in St Nicholas for December.

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New York Store

Volney Voltaire Smith is the little Charlie Ross of Arkansas. A tug pursued and captured a deer that was trying to cross Muskegon Lake, Mich., a few days ago. A little Charleston, S. C M girl killed herself the other day by falling upon a bottle and cutting her throat. An experimental plantation of olive trees in Georgia is said to have yielded an excellent quality of olive oil. The Prince Imperial is declared to have a will even more concentrated and persistent than that of his late father. A battalion of Bahama negroes were*landed in Florida on election day and exercised the highest privilege of freemen. Tbe soil found on the slopes of Vesuvius is said to be an antidote to the potato disease and other fungoid diseases of plants. A son of the Right Hon. Thomas Hughes, member of the English Parliament, has settled permanently at Colorado Springs. It is stated that the Erie Company has se cured an English loan of $5,000,000 to con:< plete the contemplated improvements along

the line.

Southville, Kentucky, has a cat that follows a two-year-old-child wherever it goes, watches over it when it sleeps and yowls in concert when it cries. Five veterans of the Tenth Alabama Con federate regiment are members of tbe next Congress from that State, viz: Forney, Caldwell, Bradford, Lewis and Hewitt. Edwin Booth is rusticatiug at his residence, Cos Cob, Connecticut, He refuses all engagements for the present, but may appear toward tbe close of the season. About the qnly mills in active operation at Paterson, N. J., at this time, are the silk mill, making embroidery for jet fringe, the rolling mill, Ivanhoe paper mill ana the

skirt mill.

Mrs. R. Buford, of Rockcastle county, Ky„ has not tasted a drop of water for fifteen years, except what was contained in her tea and coffee, and is said to look none the worse for it. The central chandelier in the' Paris Opera House is to cost $20,000. “Will Faure consent to shine in the company of a luminary so much higher paid than he is himself?” wickedly asks Figaro. A New York lady of wealth has discovered in Florence, in t;’e person of a povertystricken and sick young artist, a son of Burton, the renowned comedian. He has a wife and three little children.

1 Cue Striped Poplins. - li I-2c 1 Case Double-width Lustres, 28c Garner Prints, full standard, 7 l-2c Pacific Poplins, 29 inches wide, all colors, - . . . 30c Good Canton Flannel, • - - 10c Case 44 Percales, In Navy Blue Figured, worth 25c - 15c Gents* Clouded Merino Shirts and Drawers, ----- 50c Gents* Blue Mixed Shirts aud Drawers, - - - - 87 l-2c Arid many other Bargains which we have not space to enumerate. PETTIS, HICKSON & CO. First Premium 1874 Awa ded to 18^4 GEORGE I, HEITKIM & (EIRE! FOR THE BEST Beady-made Clothing and Gents* Furnishing Goods. SILVER MEEAJL,

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Best Custom-made Goods A. Lni-fcpe Htoek of English, French and American Scotch Diogona’s. Cassimeres, WonUKia, Cheviots, 811k Mixed Cloths, Doeskins, OvercoAtinjis, Vestings, ready-made and in the piece. Shirt Collars, Underwear, etc., etc. GEO. H. HEITEAM & KENNEY 38 W. Wam111nLon 8t.

True the moral sense of the nork house is The Aruericans in Berlin - Germany, have „„ ITll \ „.v,!! revived the President’s proclamation and

will listen to its call by getting up a big dinner in concert, at which the American Min

ister will carve the turkey.

A manufacturer of paper boats at Troy, has invented a paper box for transporting kerosense. It is the shape of the ordinary square tin oil cans, and is said to be juat as strong and secure, and much cheaper. Prof. Barker of Philadelphia has discover* ed a metallic paint to be applied to “journal boxes” on railroad cars, and which changes color when the journal becomes heated, so that the train hands can detect the trouble

at once.

The Terre Haute Gazette terms one of its departments “Gazettelets.” If the inventor of that term was taken out into “a backie yard let and mauled with a hickory clubkin” it would be a good thing for him.—[St. Louis

Journal.

Two ex-Kings.have taken houses in Paris for the winter, Francis I, Of Naples, and George V, of Hanover, the latter of whom has just failed in the negotiations for the marriage of his son with the Princess Thyra,

of Denmark.

Miss Kate Giltner, of Mankato, Minnesota, fell over an abrupt embankment fifteen feet, rolled a short distance, and fell thirty feet more. Strange to say, she was not badly injured; and, although not positive, believes

she was pushed over.

Portland is agitating itself over the unfitness of of matinee for describing a afternoon performance, and wants to change it to vespertine as more strictly appropriate. The saloons take np the disenssion and now call an 11 o’clock drink a matinee, and a 4

o’clock one a vespertine.

In Sonth Boston a building four stories high, and covering an area of fonr thousand square feet, was raised five feet from its foundation. The tenants were not disturbed, and no machinery or merchandise had to be removed. Forty men working with four hundred powerful screws did the job. A daring reporter called at the residence of Richard Grant White the other day and wanted to interview him. “To interview!” se reamed the enraged philologist, “wants to

““Sr—” i interview! John, give me my revolver! The

era farmers. The Enquire^troTh Jrry^ip ‘ etches who make an active transtive verb . that inflation business, or there will be a dis of ^ noan (interview) can not he external-

covery that Us medicine is not wanted. > nated too soon.’ 1

an incident, not an object, but the public service of a church is equally an incident and not an object. There is no ground for exemption cognizable by common sense in one case that does not appear in the

other.

A Delayed Jobe About Nellie Oraut's Wedding. [Washington Letter.] Apropos to the removal of a Marshal in one of the Southern States, I am reminded of a cruel joke that was played on the poor man when Nellie Grant was married. He happened in Washington about that time for some matters of personal interest. A heartless wag wrote a paragraph for one of the papers, which was universally copied, that this gallant gentleman had traveled to Washington for the purpose of making a magnificent bridal present of a fan to Miss Nellie. A lengthy description was given of the fan, and, as the writer had a brilliant imagination, there was no limit to the costliness of the pearl frame, exquisite paintings, point lace cover and sticks resplendent with diamonds, and monogram of the same precious gems. The poor man was thus placed in a most embarrassing position. Of course, as such notoriety was given to his offering, there was no alternative left him bat to procure a fan as nearly resembling the description as it was possible to find. But oh! what an inroad Wi»s made in his finances by the fan he purchased! Every one who saw the presents at the wedding looked for that remarkable fan, and were of course disappointed when they saw only a smoked pearl fan, with a laee cover mines monogram or diamonds. The variation between the high-colored description and the reality was attributed to the general unreliability of newspapers, and everything ibont it might have been forgotten if the cruel wag had not boasted of the

joke.

Beforminic tbe Civil Service.

[New York Financier.]

But the only real reform of civil service is to be had in reducing it. Reduce the expenditures; reduce the receipts; take ont wheel after wheel of the complicated machine, diminishing the Dumber and the size of the things which Government attempts to manage; bring the Government down to simplicity and to small revenues, and reform

in avil service will follow.

lufiallon Medicine not Wonted.

fCincinnati Gazette.]

Wheat is improving, hogs are high, there is plenty of money to buy. and within the next sixty days over one hundred million dollars m good crisp greenbacks and national

^ TAKE (hOOC S? 11 bHy a * 5r, ° Rosewood Annr AT/h £ Ian °. with mu mouldings and V Jyk OULU banjsome carved leg*, at UJULU FULLER’S. V Will buy a beautiful 7>$ octave flrst-classPtano,fully warranted for seven years, at 4 Circle Hall. Will buy an elegant Fiano with full airaffe, and warranted for 7 years, at K. FULLER & CO.’S. Will buy a beautifpl Fquare Grand, In rich plain case,with atl improvements, at 4 Circle Hall. (tnnn Win b,, y the_b«*t Square Grand 'PH in the world, worth in greenU U U backs $1,000, at FULLER’S. OC wm bu >’ a superior Estey Organ, $|/n with 6 stops, in improved case, ILU at 4 Circle Hall. $300 HSrS $300 Ivl£K CO.'S. mil/ Instrument* sold on con- 11 mil K T venlent time. Old Pianos N W u u I takra in exchange. Pianos il U IVI and Organs to rent, at * E. FULLER & CO.’S, 4 Circle Hall. Decker Bro.’s Pianos and Estey Oraans a specialty.

Drs. JOSES «fc 11AUU AKT> HOMOEOPATHIC EllYHICIAXH AND SURGEONS, »1 Worth Delavraro Street.

Northampton offers $10,000 for the conviction of the “fire-bug” who has been setting things on fire. The chap who did it had better give himself up, take the $10,000, invest it well, go to prison, stay a while, come out with $25,000 or so, go to Congress, or take a foreign mission. He will never bring so much again.—[Boston News. Such sacrilege as Moses Kimball is guilty of! In discussing the proposed widening of Tremont street, Boston, at the expense of that blessed Common, he declared that the mall of that sacred place is monopolized by the Punch-and-Judy man, the electric physician, venders of stale cakes and nnta, while the seats are filled with bummers. At Maury, Tenn., a few nights ago, a young roan went to bed, leaving a burning candle and a pistol on tbe table. The dripping sperm ignited the table, the table ignited the pistol, the barrels began to explode,, and when the young man awoke he was nearly horned, smothered and shot to death. The pillow received the balls and saved his

life.

Among the dozen women who crowded into the office of the Director of the Poor yesterday morning was a little female with sad eyes and an anxious look. “Well, what do you want?” “I’d like some money,” she whispered. “How much?” “Well Toan't say exactly,” she replied,“how much do yon generally give out to them when they want to buy a bead belt?” She did not get any relief.—[Detroit Free Press. In repairing the house of Mrs. Wrialey, a little below Haydenville, Mass., last week, her gold watch and chain were found, just under the floor, hanging to a piece of board. Thirhouse was upset by the flood, and tha watch had stopped at the time the flood came along. When shaken it began running again, apparently as good as ever. ‘This watch with a history was once stolen, for which offense a man was convicted, and now serving out his sentence.