Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1878 — Page 2
THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 1, 1878.
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Th» Largo Stock of.Good® advertlsod by. CLOSE & WASSON on Saturday will b« offered for sale to-day. The sale will continue at prices named until the stock is
dosed out.
j>re»»ilency dtmion and ho uow iwe* W»t•noo'a pluck to try ami jurovo that he vraa m brave na the real of {hem. Hitherto he ha* worn the laurel of praLw tendered him by Chnrlefl Francis Adams for his great modbration and self denial in submitting his claim to adjudication. Now it seems, per Watterson, that ho never intended to so submit. The country is to understand then that so far ns in him lay he would have appealed to the verdict of strife. The last state of the man is worse than the first.
J. Milton Turner, formerly United States minister to Liberia, tells a' New York paper a story about that country
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THE DAILY NEWS.
MONDAY, JULY 1, 1878.
The Indianapolis News has the largest circulation of any daily paper in Indiana. County expenses must be reduced. i ♦ - — “Sttli.-hcxts” will be the order in politics until the heated term is over. s
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.cherne, winch looked to the colonization of the black population of this country as “Afric’s sunny fountains,” or golden sand. He says immigrants are not.welcomed at Liberia; that the climate during a large part of the year is unhealthful; that the national debt is a heavy burden on an impoverished people and that immigrants who have not money suffer terribly. He admits a fertile soil and crops under improved culture, which will make large industries, notably, coffee growing. But this requires capital of from $35,000 to $50,000, and immigrants generally don’t carry that amount about their clothes. He is strongly opposed to the exodus movement, which regards Liberia as the black man’s paradise, and says it is nothing in comparison with the opportunities offered here, and U of the impression that the entire negro race in the United States had better remain
where it is.
What with the various intefpretations there doesn’t seem to be much left of the president’s civil service order. Mrs. Jenks’s opinion of herself is that she is a general genins. The country would “admire” to know that she is the only one of her kind. In another column we publish a fine description of the appearance and ap-' preaches to the buildings of the Paris exposition, which will repay careful reading. ♦ ♦ “Platforms,” says the New York World, “are made by parties to conceal so much of the party doctrine as it is hot deemed prudent to express.” This is only a half truth. Platforms are also “springes to catch woodcocks.” The people are exacted to believe them until the (lay of election and forget t'jem afterward.—[Philadelphia Record. This is the head and front of President Hayes’s offending. He didn’t forget. SeckeT^ry-Sherman, in answer to the Potter committee which denied his request for the summoning of a hundred witnesses to prove an unfair election in Feliciana parish, says “whether he wrote the Anderson letter or not, the real thing the committee wants to know, is whether there was actual fraud and violence in these two parishes to justify the returning board in what they did.” , We think not as to Sherman, They want to know whetheror not he wrote that letter. Packard says: “I was inaugurated governor January 8.” This was the spectacle telegraphed at the time and prilled in the The News: About 600 people witnessed Packard’s inauguration. The majority were colored people. The building was barricaded and guarded by about 200 policemen, who admitted those who had passes. Not over 200 persons were in the street, . That is a fine spectacle for the “freely elected” governor of a state. A man who professed to be the choice of the people! No wonder he wanted the support pf a regular army. By way,of contras! the following description was given the same time: 1 About eighteen thousand people witnessed Nicholls’s inauguration. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed.
Packard, in telling the Potter qpmmittee how “he was elected if Haye* urns,” naively says: “I believe if I had beei| allowed troops I could have maintainedyny position.” The spectacle of this impudent upstart talking in that fashion of the ofice? of chief executive of a state which is supposed to rest on the free will and consent of the people as expressed%y a majority of flic voters, is"enough to make the namef of “free government” a laughing stock. The idea of amah gravely stating that if|ie had the support,of troops—outside troops, not state mili[i'a—he could be the governor of a State! lie could be the king of Poland or the conqueror of the world; in the same way. t A few troops to uphold his courts and a, few midnight orders frqm drunken judges, such as he procured frbm Durell, would have made Packard per-
petual for the matter of that.
“Lijght Horse Harry” of the_ unarmed 100,040 is not amenable to Hewitt’s inatruction.R and spitefully retorts that he is an impudent upstart and charlatan in that he deceived the democrats in con- ■ grese into the belief that Tilden favored the electoral commission scheme and so induced them'to support it. Watterson wittingly or not seem* to be the catspaw of Tilden in thU. The latter was in bad odor with his party for what it believed to be his pusillanimous action during the time of the
The Journal thinks it intends to keep Voorhees’s anti-war record before the people. Voorhees was in favor of letting the Sonth go in peace; the Journal was in favor of letting the South go in peace. The Journal repented its error, so did Voorhees. If now Voorhees should join the republican party he and the Journal would be co-equal, jxir nobile fratrum, and we should hear nothing more of his antiwar record. If the Journal expects to beat Voorhees on the “Southern sympathy” question, it is badly mistaken. The fierce memories that sprang from the war must soften some time. They blazed into being in the campaign of 1$7G, but that was simply the flame that signaled final destruction; as when a structure is burned out i and falls into a heap that for a moiient sends up a spurt of fire. The war is riot to be a wellspring of bitterness forever. There must be other reasons advanced, and they are legion, why Voorhees should not be reelected to the senate. In tliis the Journal might follow the advice of Sidney Smith to a noble but profane friend, who generally wasted time and weakened debate by his expletives: “My Lord, let us consider everybody and every thing to be damned and proceed to business.” Let the Journal consider Voorhecs’s war record as black as the plague of Egyptian darkness, and then proceeed to business. To-NIOHT the school board is to choose a city librarian. The rare fitness of Mr. Evan- for the place is so manifest that The News would not think of saying that he should be his own successor, except that faint rumors have been afloat concerning a petty intrigue which hopes to hoist some hungry aspirant into the place. It is not fillingjlhe meed of Mr. Evans’s praise too full to say that the conspicuous ability he has shown in his position has raised him to the first rank of librarians and has resulted in placing the city library of Indianapolis in the first rank of public libraries of the land. The proper management of libraries has come to be a profession which requires, in addition to natural aptitude, the patient study and close application which makes any professional work valuable above the product of willing but unskilled hands. By Mr. Evans’s services there has been built in Indianapolis the foundation of a great library, and the-same care that has marked its inception is necessary for its growth. There is as much difference between a library and a collection of books, as there is between a pile of bricks and a house; and that our library shall not become a storeroom of ink and paper in bindings made expensive and unwieldy by hap-hazard selection, it is necessary that a trained librarian shall preside over it. Of course there are some who find fault with his management, but no man in such a place can please everybody, and if Mr. Evans is displaced because somebody don’t like him, and not because his work is not meritorious, it will be a matter for lasting regret. Petitions in favor of other candidates ought to have no weight with the school hoard. It is very easy work for an active office-seeker to get up petitions. People sign them to get rid of him. CUltUKNT COaULKXT. The political adventurers who run the natipnal party, so-called, in New York city, are talking of nominating Peter Cooper for mayor, and the pure and simple old dotard expresses a willingness to be pat up and plucked and “bled” again as to his pocket book. Harper’s Weekly says: “If a republican congress is to be elected, it must be by the selection Cf men who have other qualifications than a regular party nomination,” i»d adds’thatthe independent voter should refuse to cast his ballot for either party candidate if both are unfit men. It is alarming how men and news; apers are beginirin^to’ “talk right out in meetin.” f Hog cholera causes an estimated loss of $2^00,000 per year in Illinois and Missouri alone. The congressional $10,000 to find a cure and preventive of that disease was money vreil appropriated. The political contest this year in Ohio is specially a conflict for ideas, for policies. —[Cincinnati Enquirer. ♦The Enquirer is an expert in the use pf prepositions. It was entirely accurate to say a contest “for,” not “of, ’ ideas and policies, neither side having demonstrated that it possesses either. Of the boys graduated at the Worcester, Massachusetts, high school last week, seven will go to Catholic colleges and two to Pro-
testant.
Chicago U not covered with mortgage*, as j timed to be. Creditor* took the property, and debtors took the' bankrupt act, and thus the mortgages have been wiped out The independents are breaking out in North Carolina. One “regular” district judge is-nlready opposed by an iqdependout candidate. ' The Emperor William avows his intention as soon as sufficiently recovered, to resume bis customary rides on the avenue “under the Lindens.” If he isn’t careful the next shot may put him under the dasies. All that the oonntry really has ascertained in regard to the matter is: First, that Mr. Sherman hesitates to swear that he never wrote a letter guaranteeing place and comfort to certain “cutpnrses of the empire and the rule;” and secondly that Mrs. Jenks gleefully maintains that through her these “cutpurses of the empire and the rule” were led to believe that place and comfort had been guaranteed them .—[New York World. We publish this morning from exchanges a few points showing the seriousness of the third term movement—how regular arrangements are made to provide for outbursts of Grant enthusiasm—how- the republican country press takes up the wondrous tale, and thf democratic organs recite the song of praise of the man horseback. All this wonld seem to showthat there was enough in the third term’talk to warrant a share of newspaper attentioiO-[Cin. Com. Mr. Storrs wiis' - a lawyer who was very powerful in the defense in whisky/ cases. Wherever there was crooked whisky there the Grant enthusiasm bubbles forth. The theory presented by Storrs is, that the people of the United States need a savior of society. That is the very abandonment in contempt of republicanism.—[Cincinnati Commercial. We doubt very much the policy of publishing the proof that Daniel W„ Voorhees was a rebel sympathizer during the war and a salary-grabber since. These facts, so well known and generally admitted, only eeem to - render him more popular with the democracy and unite them more earnestly in his support.—[Richmond Palladium. The republicans may carry the next house bpt it will be by nominating better men than the democrats—not because the country is afraid of rebellion or revolution, if the democrats win, as it seems at present more likely than not that they will.—[Springfield Repul>-
lican.
Purer politics when women participate! Mrs. Jenks’s opinion on that point would be valuable.—[Boston Herald. Fires. A fire at French town, N. J., yesterday caused a loss of about $75,000. The Tremont house, of MaAsillon, O., was discovered to be on fire in a vacant room on the third floor Saturday, and was about totally destroyed; the walls alone remain standing. Partially insured. At Deadwood, D. T., Saturday George F. Ingram & (’o.’s saw mill and shingle machine, with 125,000 feet of lumber, were destroyed by fire. Loss $5,000. No insurance. About five o’clock last evening fire was discovered issuing from the northwest dial of the dock in the cupola of Dr. J, II. McLean’s building, corner of Market and Fourth streets, St. Louis, Mo., and in a few moments the cupola and upper part of the dome was in flames. The fire department was promptly on hand, and the fire was extinguished before.the dome was destroyed. The clock in which the fire was first seen was about 175 feet above the ground, and how the fire caught is a great mystery. The Joss is claimed to be about $15,000, fully insured. The Festival In Faria Yesterday. The national festival in Paris yesterday in honor of the exhibition, was a great success. Hundreds of thousands of people poured into the city, and when the inauguration of the statue of the republic began the mass of spectators was immense. I)e Marcere, minister*of the interior, unveiled the statue and delivered an eloquent speech. He declared the republican party had now became the nation, and that France was detjermined to enjoy the benefits of her dearly Bought institutions in pSace. The illuminations at night were grand in dimensions and ingenious in construction. Bailroad Statistics. Poor’s annual railroad statistics for 1877 show that the gross earnings were still falling, amounting to $473,000,000,‘against $520,410,000 in 1873, since which there lias been ad annual decline,* although the mileage meantime has risen from 00,000 to 74,QOO. The capital and funded debt aje still rising, now amounting to $4,568,000,000. The dividends had fallen to $58;.550.000, against $74,204,000 in 1875, the highest point, and $50,450,000 in 1871.' Suicide of a Yardmaster.* Charles Jones, formerly yardmaster at the C., C., C. & I. freight yard, at. Dayton, committed suicide by ■ throwing himself under a freight car Saturday afternoon. The car passed over his neck, cutting the head completely from 4ie body. Jones had only recently returned from the lunatic asylum. The cause of his insanity was domestic difficulties. More Clianges iu Turkey. It is stated that the porte is dissatisfied with Carothedari Pasha, its pleni[>oientiary to the congress, and possibly Safvet Pasha will himself go to Berlin with final and irrevocable instructions. Should the Tongress result unsatisfactorily to the Turks, the opposition will probably attempt a rising. After the Cattle Thieves. The order formerly issued authorizing the military pursuit into Mexico of cattle thieves will be more vigorously enforced, irrespective of Mexican protests, on the ground that Mexico, by herself preventing the incursions, can obviate an invasion of her soil by our troops. Narrow Gauge Railway Convention. A national narrow gauge railway convention has been called to meet at the •Grand opera house at Cincinnati, July 17. The questions to be considered embrace 'everything relative to the construction and operation of narrow gauge lines. Large Deficiencies. The total amount of deficiencies provided for by congress since October last is fifteen millions of dollars. The very large and unforseen deficiencies met last month will make the exjienditure exceed the revenue nearly three millions. Worthless Bonds. The supreme court of Arkansas has decided the levee bonds issued in 1863 and 18(0 unconstitutional and invalid. About $3,000,000 in bonds are affected by this" decision. The court declares them worth-
less.
Christian and ChrtsUmna.
Honest Bankrupts. The assignee of Green & Cranstons bankers and brokers, of Providence, H 1., who failed more than a year ago,'announces his readiness to pay. all claims against them in full, principal and interest.' • ' • • ' 2 Internal Revenue Receipts. Internal revenue receipts for the fiscal year ending yesterday, $110,502,748; for •the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, $118,886,749. Failure* in New York. The failures in New York city in June numbered 54; amount of liabilities, $4.300.000.
[E. C. SuAmtn’i poem it the foidnn wedding of WilHsm E, iHsiffe, of Biew York.] Who has not resd-whst man that loved Good EdkHrIi, uioua tpcwh ami valiant deed— Tin- iwrr old Wilt In which John Runyan proved Uia poet's heart alive t•«Death the creed? Who has not In his fancy traveled loos With (’lirlfitian on that ancient pilgrim igo, hared all hia fears, and lifted up the song After the I'attics it was hia to wage; Or with brave ChHatianafollowed on, ChoosinK the path her lord had trod before, Until the Heavenly Ci|y, almost won. Shone like a dream beyond the Uiver'a shore? —Well, ’Us a goodly tale, we think, and cloaa The book we have Ironi childhood read, and aay, “3 he age of miracles is past! Who knows The Joyous saints, the pilgrims of to-day T” "No Ugh't," we sav, "like that which waa of oldl” Yet atill serenely shine the midnight stars. And there are wonders left us to behold If we but think to look between the bars. v r ', I'Cfo la tine nanai* < nristian, in as irue ami uTiug iurm As that in which oid Bunyan'e hero stood. Long since this happy pilgrim, staff In hand, Set out, yet not alone—for by hia ride Went Christiana alto toward the Land Anear whose boundaries they now abide. Epch day less distant front the City’s Gate, Through shade and sunshine hand in hand they pressed; Now combatting the foes that lay in wait, And now in pleasant meadows lulled to Vest.
'he Lowly Valley HtUe had to wound Their gentler hearts devoid of acorn and pride. The darker Valley ol the Shadow of Death They passed, but with them One they knew was near. Staid by whose rod and staff the Psalmist salth The toiling pilgrim shall no evil fear. And many seasons afterward they dwelt In Vanity’s great city. There apart From all things base and mean they humbly knelt With prayer upon their lips and pure of heart. He, too, has fought with ^anta—those that lurk In fastnesses of want , despair and sin; p By day and night he did his Master's work, Hoping a house not made with hands to win. And Christian from the outset took Sweet Mtrcy for a guide and bosom friend, And sought with her the poor in every nook, Giving as one that to the Lord doth lend. Together thus they climbed above the pass Whcyc from the hili detectable ’Us given To gaze at moments through the shepherd’s glass, And catch a far off, rapturous glimpse of heaven. Sorrows they knew; but what delight was there Led oftentimes where the still waters How, Or in green pastures guided unaware To trees of life that hung their fruitage lowl Now, ere the pilgrimage is ended quite, Its weariness forgot, they seat them down In Beulah, in a country of delight, And rest a season ere they wear the crown. Here, after half a century, thev breathe Air fresh from I’anTdisc; and here renew Their wedding vows, while unseen watchers wreathe For each a chaplet, sprayed witb golden dew. Blessing and, blest, amidst their household group, Christian and Christiana here await Their summons, knowing that the shining troup Will bear to each a token, soon or late. And we who gather near—ourselves too blind To see undazed the light of heaven's grace— Their wi 11-loved visages behold, and find A bright reflected glory in each face. SCRAPS.
THE PARIS EXPOSITION. ; • —— Its Extent and Magnificence.
Bret Ilarte has sailed for his consulate. Jerusalem has only a third f of Jews among its 39,000 people. No bones are broken by a mother’s fist, says a. quaint Kustsian •proverb. Every man has to die on his own merits. This is observed by the Socrafes of the De-trok-Ejee Press. The Nihilists in Russia show their contempt for religion by smoking cigarettes in cathedrals and churches. “There is not much hope for me,” murmurs the sultan. “My cause is now in the hands of ‘visiting statesman.’ ”—[ExJoseph Cook is not a' success in Chicago, the management of his three late lectures to this city having lost considerable money on him. A diver who went down tb the wreck of the Grosser Kurfurst is of the opinion that the ship was broken into two parts. He saw nothing of any bodies. The late Mr Thomas Win arts was probably fond of early strawberries. His bifl for three months at a fruit store in Newport, Rhode Island, was $1,800. A Facramentoan has received a Fetter from his father in Louisville, Ky., which says that if Moliie McCarty beats Ten Broeck, J uly 4, it will bankrupt the entire state. . . - > Preparations are already making in Holland for the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the birthday of Grotius, which will occur on the 10th of April, 1883. “And what did you think of Switzerland?” at-ked a lady of a young American belle-who had just made the tour. “Pretty plaee, but it struck me there were too many lakes and too few younsr men.” Dr. J. C. Ayer, the millionaire pill man who has been at Dr. Russell’s private insane asylum at Winohenden fftr a year"’ past, is said to he gradually failing. His disease has reached the placid state and he does not sufi'er, but his mind is wholly wrecked. The eapers of a team of mules hitched to a harvesting machine, near St. Louis, saved the lives of five men who had taken shelter from a thunder storm under a tree. . The mules began to kick, and the men, going to quiet them, escaped a thunderbolt that shivered the tree. An old tramp said to a Pittsburgh reporter: “I would rather walk all day and have plenty to eat than do manual labor. I have worked occasionally, but it’s very hard on my constitution. Nothing agrees with me so well as tramping through the country, that is, if I am fed wdl.” The sisters Smith,of Glastonbury, whose cow was sold because they refused to pay a tax unless they were permitted to vote, have got a part of their original translation of the New Testament printed. Here is a verse of it: “Friend, how earnest thou in hither, not having a garment of the nuptial feast? And he was muzzled.” A wild Texan boarded the train at Fort Worth for Dallas. . It was his first ride on the cars, and as the conductor reached in his hippocket for his punchy the sharp eye of the Texan caught a glimpse of its polished handle, and quick as thought he leveled a navy six 911 the conductor, saying, “Put ’er up, or I’ll blow daylight through you. *No man can get the drop on me. The oleomargarine men have taken the oflensive. The *New York Tim*;, has*a three-column rffticle from Dr. A. II. Mott, jr., in which scientific analyses and cuts of microscopic examinations are given. Dr. Mott decides that oleomargarine is true butter, prepared on advanced scientific principles, and that it is better in every respect than ninety-five per cent, of oldfafcffioned butter. An exemplary clergyman, who is somewhat weak in the pulpit, relates with much good nature how an “elevated” drover, whom he met in a coach, did in aU kindness try to gloss over this inferiority. “Ah, Doctor B.,” said the drover, his heart warmed by good bargains at a great market, “ye dinna ken me, but I ken you. I'm whiles in your parish. There’s no a better likit man onywhere; yer own folk list adore ye. Who cares aboot preachin'?”
The Beauty of Its Surroundings and Approaches.
[Correspondence ol The Indianapolis New*.] Paris, June 15,1878. If you imagine the world’s fair of 1878 « like any of its predecessors, you are totally out of your reckoning. To begin with it covers in buildings at least six times as much ground as the Philadelphia affair. This space being completely filled, give* a superficial area of objects shown from every quarter of the globe. In Philadelphia the main effort was to show the comparative progress of national industries and handicrafts. Combined with this purpose the French have added the ambition to present j to the world its varied curiosities, not only in handicraft and invention but in/ the natural products of strange races and far-away climes. From Greenland’s icy mountain, to Africa’s barren strand, from the torrid coasts of New Zealand to the golden streams of California,'all that can aid, interest or Arouse human efforts are gathered in the labyrinth of galleries, pavillions, vestibules, pagodas, kraals, wigwams, palaces, villas and architectural intricacies of an endless sort, which go to make up its perplexing and wonderful ensemble. Should you or any of the hundred thousand readers of The News take ship and come to Paris to see the great exhibition, this is about what you would see, experience and conclude. Taking one of the convenient open cabs,; which Indianapolis people call phaetons, you pass out from the center of the city by one of the many magnificent avenues converging on the Place de la Concorde—the place where the guillotine did its swift work hardly a hundred years ago—to the £reat avenue called Champs Elysees, a street so broad, shaded and beautiful that it really seems a great stretch of open way through a wood. Driving across the juncture of this main artery of Parisian joy and display, with the blackened ruins of the west facade of (he Tui.leries just visible through the foliage to the leit of the stupendous arch of triumph or column of stars which stands two miles away, you pass on into the “Lours de la Keine,’’ an avenue.jot less magnificent than the Champs Elysees, to which it runs at an obtuse angle, following the windings of the^ river Seine, to the very heart of the' exhibition—one part of whichms built squarely over this gravel avenue. Now keep in mind that - you are driving westward by a trifle south; that the road you are on is a dream of the beautiful; that it is just four times the width of Meridian street, and that this generous breadth is divided into carriage ways and riding ways with charming rows of shrub like orange and chestnut trees; that bounding this two-mile stretch of luxurious way, on [the right are solid rows of cream-coloretj palaces, uniform in hight, uniform in ornamentation, uniform in size, almost, uniform in balconies—in short, two solid miles of palaces much more imposing, because more compact than the splendid edifices that adorn Meridian street. On the other or left hand side—remember all the time you are driving slowly from the Place de la Concorde to the hill of the Trocadero—is the solid stone parapet, and over it and beyond it you see like a field of cloth of gold the sunny waters of the Seine—a stream much narrower than the Hudsou, but in its way attractive and of incalculable benefit to the great city built upon Its banks. But evenrthese boundaries do not confine the wonderful perspective, for when your eye has crossed the hundred yards more or less of the glittering Seine, another avenue which under differing names leads from the Latin quarter along the left bank, presents almost the same fascinating intervals of green and gold you* ad mire and wonder at on the right. There you see an enormous sweep of avenue, say Meridian street four times doubled, and in the center a glittering sheet of swift ; flowing water with just enough of curving, irregularity in its course to intensify the ^picturesque. When you have driven about as far as from the Circle to Tinker street, your coachman turns to the left over a granite causeway called the bridge of the Alma—everything in the way ot bridges in Piiris is named after some battle— and then as you ^ross the stream the glory of the picture'is impossible to tell. Up the river to the right the tall towers of the Trocadero—high above all surroundings; to the left a full glimpse of the river side of the palace of the Tuileries until it merges into the diminishing lines of the Louvre—seven granite bridges like belts of gray on the transjtarent water; at the end of them as far as the eye can see, the square towers of Notre Dame on the island, the curious turrets of the conciergeries and palais de justice, where Marie Antoncttc saw* with tearful eyes the tumbrils rolling day after day to that scaffold which her own princely blood was to wash • in expiation; vhe graceful dome of the institute of France, the “la tour de nesle” of other days,where Margaret of Burgundy lured the'flower of French youtlj, and when her insatiate passion tired, dropped them into the dark waters that swirled about her gloomy palace walls. Farther to leftward the towers of Bt. Germain Aux ' Rois .over against the grand portals of the Louvre—towers, that recall the most barbarous episode of French, or, for that matter, human history —for it was from these exquisitely-model-ed gothic battlements that the sinister chimes of St. Bartholomew sounded three hundred and fifty years ago; further on the colossal net-work 01 timber, high above the serried rJWs of houses, the terrific reminder of where the Hotel de Ville stood, a building grander and more beautiful thin any left, save perhaps the Tuileries; further still, the hills of Belleville and the grqen plumes .of Pere la Chaise; nearer to the left still, the great dome of the Pantheon, the snrine of the Latin quarter, an edifice sacred to the impulses of the generous and liberty-loving; nearer to you still, almost above you, the great golden dome of the hospital of the Invalides, a palace of the time of Lo.uis le .Grand. _ , But if you remain here on the bridge you’ll ' never get to the Port Rupp or Port du Seine, where seeing the exhibition begins in earnest. So you move slowly forward and as you reach- the broad avenue of the quais on toe left bank, the outworks of the exhibition show themselves. In the great square of the Invalkles, where in'other times the soldiers drill, there are compact rows of handsomely finished lines of frame buildings for the cattle and live stock exhibit. This alone would be called a very large exhibition at any other time. It covers much more ground than your exposition grounds, pnd is filled with diverse breeds of all nations. Leaving this you drive for three-quarters of a mile through charmingly constructed rows of timber pavilions in which agricultural notions are displayed. If you had driven straight along Irom the Place de la Concorde you could have reached the river entrance for the main buildings in 45 minutes. But you stopped to wonder and admire, and. yon have teen two hoars or pore coming
to the point where an examination of the plan of the exposition i* possible, ♦ Now for the better understanding of the unique combination of nature and art called into play to accommodate the world to show and see,'let us imagine Indianapolis builton both sides of the White river
>rtiona. That would the Heine just aa it the topography of the
exposition. Then imagine the west bank of the river where the Vandalia road crosses, an enormous hill, approached on ail sides by wide avenues; then on the east side, exactly opposite .the hill, and connected by a solid * granite bridge on seven arches, a great fiat plain three times the size of the Southern park, to serve as the Cbanrp Je Mars or drill ground—the river running between the two. There you have, as nearly as it can be presented to the mind's eye, the rough outlines of the grounds upon which the innumerable buildings rest. The hill side of the river is called the Trocadero, in commemoration of a ’ victory gained by the French arms in Spain in 1837 or 1838 by one of the Orleanest princes. As the Trocadero buildings overshadow all the rest, thev are first visited. The “palais,” so-called, is an enormous structure, not unlike St. Peters at Rome in its outlines. In the center a huge octagonal edifice flanked by two square towers, dominates, cot only the whole scene, but absolutely may be seen from almost every quarter of the capital. From this prodigious octagon, runs to right and left, a low colionade, so low indeed that it giyes a disappointing impression of disproportion. They form as nearly as possible a flat half circle, and crowning the hill, give'a sort of protecting aspect to the composition. The main edifice contains the largest auditorium in the world, and is to be devoted to musical festivals anq the like, while the interior of the horse shoes is ta serve as galleries for the as-
semblage of ancient French art.
The builders have put in practice some striking innovations, ventilation and accoustics that the great theatre may not, like the one hundred or more in Paris, be intolerable during a performance. Au to size imagmeyourold Academy of Music just three times extended as to dress circle and galleries and yon can form an idea of the prodigious amphitheater. As it is not yet even more than half completed as to details, it is impossible to say what success the architect has achieved. It will take six months or a year to put it in finished order, titough it is now serving for concerts. But it i« the exterior of the building that gives the best idea both of its
1 prop rtions and the adjacent wonders tlte exhibition. Embracedi in the sweep of its curving arms, they extend fully * three
quarters ’ of a mile on each side of the colossal octagonal center, there ere great beds of varied foliage, flowers and green sward—all the work of intricate art. Interspersed plentifully in these vernal delights pretty fountainsgush profuse streams of sparkling water, while immediately below the overhanging central balcony of the “palais” are a series of stair-iike basins from which spurt a dozen jets of crystal— forming, as you look riverward, a sort of foliage of trembling silvery spray, while directly at your feet as you stand on the balconv a broad curved sheet of veil like water Itrtaks over the stone pedestal, and falls in a prfeet curtain into the soreading, receding basin. These effects, though theatrical, are exceedingly pretty—e6ntrastingwith the brilliant colors of the foliage and green sward, and accented more markedly by the fairy fabrics of oriental architecture interspersed at artfully irregular distances on the sloping shies of .au abrupt descent, so skillfully concealed that only the fatigue in climbing reminds you that from the Champs de Mars to the Trocadero is genuine uphill work, the descent being over 100 feet before the first step of the Trocadero .palais portico is touched. The clustering edifices scattered about are mainly pleasure houses,Chiuest*, Japanese, Tunisian, Egyptian, kiosks, cabarets, kraals, minarets and what not in ancient and modern architecture. ’Even the cabarets are fashioned in the most picturesque and., varied form, so that you may eat your hurried lunch under the pomp and panoply of Moorish, Egyptian or Byzantine building. These are the things that please the Parisian—indeed for that matter the European taste, for no part of the enormous environs of the exhtbition is more popular than these gorgeous pleasure places. With the countless fountains playing, the sun shining, the music rising and’ swelling from every quarter, the joyous murmer of an incessaut crowd, I know nothing to which this unique assentblage of ming'led manners and costumes can be-likened. This, too, you will bear in mind, before we can be said to have touched foot in the exhibition proper, for that is embraced in the prodigous quadrangle yonder, whose gilded pinnacles and lowering domes oppress the mind with the impossibility of ever being able to explore their inexhaustible wonders and treasures.
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Fatal .Municipal Row. The trouble between the rival police administrations of East St. Louie, eulmin'ated yesterday in a fight between a part of the metroj>olitan police force and city marshals organized by Mayor Bowman. The marshals attempted to capture an engine house held by the metropolitans. Officers Wallace and Gleyre, and Win key Chapman, barred the door, hastened up stgirs, and the two first named apj>eared at the window armed with Springfield rifles. City Marshal Walsh and his men rushed on, armed with chibs and revolvers, and .found Officer Stock near the door of the engine house, whom they assaulted with clubs, knocked down; and three pistol shots are said to have been fired at him, one of which wounded him in the head. Wallace and Gleyre then called upon the crowd to diaperse, when more shots were tired by the marshals. Wallace and Gleyre then shot into the crowd, and deputy marshals Newell and O’Connor fell dead, and James Doyle was wounded. The marshals then retired, taking with them their dead.
Killed While Asleep. John McCormick, asleep in hia room at Baltimore, Saturday i;ight, was fatally stabbed by John Fleming, who waa drunk. Frank J. Chapman, the well-knownCar-bondale merchant, and head of the 1 amber firm of Chapman & Hess, of Forman, Johnson county, 111., was shot through the headTand killed, in a bed room at Forman at 1 o’clock yesterday morning, by an unknown partly who fired a piatofthrouirh the window.
County Court Expenses. I Nome how or other, despite the evident det-ire and intention of the judges-of the superior court to reduce expenses, the weekly allowances for juries and bailiffs do not come down in amount. Last week, nearly $6oo! time to examine me unis a saving might be effectel. For instance, they might be able to tell the public how it is that a baiiff, on an allowance fixed by law at $2 per day, is enabled to earn $14 or $16 in eixdays. Then, too, the allowances for meals for juries betray an alarming capacity on the part of the average professional. Lost week they amounted to $68.75, equally divided between three caterer^ represenG ing 275 meals. It would require full juries in all the four courts two days to get awaj^Fith that number of meal*. A con-
stant attendant upon the courts fails to call to mind any such number of jurors present. Another matter that involve* great expense is the trial of unimportant case*. Ibis probably can not be remedied without a change in the constitutional frame work, but the record of a case that came up last week will show bow necessary is. some such change. About three year* ago a suit involving not more than $100 Was brought It was tried tiro or three week* ago . by a special judge, with all-the modern attachments, full jury, stenographic reporter, etc,, and ' the county was put to an*expense of $150 or $175. A motion was made for a new trial, and on Saturday last it was sustained, neceesstating another outlay similar to the above. It would be a saving of from fifty so seventy per cent, to the county to pay the amount claimed out of the treasury. Cannot some remedy be devised for such ' cases as this? Base Ball. The game of ball between the Indianapolis and Cincinnati club* Saturday wont the way of its predecessors, and was gath- ■ ered in by the blfie-hoscd lads. A change was made in the visiting nine—Mitchell, the left-handed “phenomenon,” going in to pitch, and Kelly td catch. It was a bad change. The only brilliant points of the lame were made in the first inning, when i^uest and Pike each led off with a three- | base hit. Game was called at the end ol f the eighth inning, when die score was 10 to 2, to enable the Cincinnatis to reach L home that night. The Blues have won a majoritv of their series with the Reds. . | : The following is the standing of the several league clube in the race for, the i ehampienship: ^ Won. 1 Ii-rrt Ginctncati - 15 .11, Boston.... 14 7 . Chicago - 14 ts Indianapolis IS IS Providence. ...» 4 U Milwaukee 7 1* The fielding average of the Indianapolis nine is .-849; batting, .254, The arrangements for the future playing of the Ipdianapolis club include league games both in this city aod St. Louis, where the privileges of the Grand avenue ball park have been secured free of charge. Ail league clubs except Cincinnati will nlap here. McKelvey went to Pittsburg Saturday night to see what kind of a proposal he could get for the club to*go there, out it is not believed that it will amount to anything. , _ * Accidents, ' About 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon Henry Kimbro, a seventeen-year old colored boy stealing a ride on a Bee-line freight train in attempting to jump off at Bright wood, fell under the cars, the' wheels of which passed over Him, killing him instantly. Thebody isbein^f inquestetl at Russell and Lee’s where Ft was removed immediately after the accident. The boy’s father k a minister and lives at Brightwood. ') • George Eagfosfield, a brakesman, jumped off an incoming Vandalia freight train at noon yesterday at the freight yard west of the river, to open a switch, and in attempting to get on again was struck by a switch target, fell under the cars, the wheels passing over his right t foot. His leg below the knee was amputated at the surgipal institute. He has a wife in Terre Haute. David W. Smith, a saddler, hired a horse and buggy of Ira Williamson, Saturday evening. Returning from a drive in the country about midnight, when near the Michigan street bridge over White river, his horse frightened and jumped down the embankment, throwirta Smith out, injuring him severely about the head and shoulders and breaking a rib. The horse plunged into the river and was drowned. The buggy was a complete wreck. . ’ ^
Deducting Delinquent Taxes from City » Orders. A question of some interest ami importance td the taxpayers of the eity is liable to arise' from the recent action of the council, directing the treasurer to deduct from all warrants drawn niton him the amount of taxes due by the'person to whom the warrant was issued. The board of public improvements is itapoxtunedjor work by men who say they owe tiixes to tlie eity and want' to work them out, Thin pirit is -encouraged by giving the applicants a position on the force of the street commissioner. But when the delinquents get their order*, tho zeal iu behalf of taxes oozes'out, and they sell the warrants to whom fever will buy. When they are presented by the purchaser, the amount of delinquent taxes is claimed by the treasurer, and of course the holder don’t want to pay it. The question that U likely to come up is, can the city compel the innocent purchaser to submit to the shave? It is suggested that the orders issued to delinquent taxpayers be endorsed across the face’with the amount of unpaid taxes due by. the owner, and-then no Iraud nor injustice can be perpetrated by any-
one.
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1W. J. B. Abbett and wife celebrated their gold wedding Saturday night iq the presence of a large company of relatives and friends, who were entertained i in a handsome manner. Mr. Abbett gave a short history of hijpself and wife. X>rs. O. H. P. and Lawson Abltett, brothers of the ’groom, and Jiev. T. H. Lynch, an carl* friend of the bridal couple made short aodresscs. The occasion was one of deep interest and enjoyment to all who partici-
pated.
R. A. Black, formerly of this city, now
of Greenfield, is a candidate for prosecuting attorney, for Hancock and Henry
counties. ' William Wallace, Esq., will deliver a
fourth of July oration at Verbid's grove
near Lawrence on the Bee line road. Rev.-Dr. Seaton will leave next Thurs-
day to enter upon pastoral duties at Mt.
Piaqth church, Washington, I), C. Hinton,of this city, will organize* of colored Masons at Charlestown,
fa ike county, to-morrow.
David Grauman and family will leave to-night for a summering at the sea shore. The teuajs-rance meeting at the Y. M C. A. chapel, last night, was largely attended. There will be a meeting at the same place to-night. To-morrow night the Crawfordsville choir will be in the eity, and the meeting will be held at Masonic hall. Yesterday* temperance worker* visited the Friends, First Baptist,South Baptist,’Fletcher Place, Edwin Ray, and I ourth Christian churches Sunday-schools nearly 600 of the scholar^ and teachers of which signad the pledge. A’blue ribbon temperance meeting will be IpM at the Ninth Presbyterian church to-night. .^/ An I in porta lit Function $ttmul»t«d. The kidneys exercise most Important functions, which ere so wearirome -that they tax to the utmost the strength and endurance of these busy little organs. Every breath, every pulsation of the heart, every movement of' a Ufnb, every UioaghL wake* waste and necessitates tho development of new atoms. The used up perli tes In the blood are sUted from it and dissolved in s water fluid Jiy the kidneys, wMeb then discharge thU fluid into the bladder. A train of disaWers to the sytfem would follow if these "ash**," bo to apeak, were not thoroughly strained off and discharged. This la the case when the kidneys become inactive. Hao-
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m-phistis albumenuria, and other maladies i ly incident to them, which, although nots? Ste 1 ^—' pr0&rmit ®’ “*1 I
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