Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1878 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS; THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1878,

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Linen Lawns. A lot of White Linen Lawns on sale to-day at about HALF FRICE. Big Bargain,

Close & Wasson, • BEE-mVE.

Tapestry Brussels75c, Extra Supers75c, Two-Plys25c, PER YARD. W* b*T« placed on aale 28 to (W ptecca each ot the above good* that we otter at leee than coat to eleae out. On exainlnatton you will find the goods cheaper and better than any thing eT«r offered before In the btate. Great Bargains in All Lines of Goods.

Adams, Mansur & Co., 47 and 49 S. Meridian St

Bingham, Walk & Mayhew, 12 E. Washington St.

JUST RECEIVED, HEW AND ELEGAHT ASSORTXEHT OF SILVER COMBS, BAffOLES, BRACELETS, HAIR ORNAMENTS, Theme Goods are all the rage. Call and see them. SIGH OF THE STREET CLOCK.

THE DAILY _NEWa THyjUOAY, JULY 25, 1878.

The Indianapolis News has the largest circnlation of any daily paper in Atdiana. County expenses must be reduced.

Lisraeu seems to be in no hurry about ordering an election for a new parliament. Oiutz Brown is attending the great temperance mass meeting at Bloomington, Illinois. He takes his buttered watermelon with Hon. David Davis. Mrs. Myra Hai.l addressed the New York nationals on woman suffrage, yesterday. She wanted Ben Butler for president and a woman for vice-president. The News nominates Mrs. Agnes Jenks. The democratic candidates for the legislature are pledged to vote for a law limiting the rate of county taxation. This law has been a great success in the city and has given tax-payers great relief. Will the repnblican candidates pledge themselves to vote for such a measure for

the county?

: •" - <■ Thb “independent press” is respectfully commended to a consideration of the democratic platforms of Colorado and Texas, and to the increasing determination of the democrat* every where to permit no dissent f rom the most dangerous political doctrinesjLissibleto be espoused. An “independent^ who labors to build up a party like the democratic, which crushes out all iudependent thinking, must, at times, wonder why be is led to do BO.—[Boston Transcript. . The Transcript might be induced to obtain information to the effect that the iudependent is not engaged in building up any political party. He is laboring to have honesty in legislation and administration ao recognized that all parties shall fear to indulge in political crime under its name. The New Hampshire legislature yesterday pasted a bill providing for the punishment of tramps by imprisonment from fifteen months to five years; the leaser penalty applicable to any person proven to be a tramp. This is as it should be. Officers of the law have long since learned to distinguish between- the honest labQrer seeking for work and tl» professional idler seeking support without it. The idleness of the professional tramp has become confirmed to the degree that it is a burden upon society and a danger to it. There need be no mawkish sentiment in applying the only remedy possible for such—hard work. To the tramp it is a punishment and an antidote; to the honest laborer it

is a blessing.

The folly of women with a bee in their bonnets was shown yesterday in the address of Mrs. Hall to the New York nationals. She wanted office. She wanted a woman to be nominated for every office a man could be. She did not want to usurp the power of man, but she wanted a woman nominated with a man and the salary of the office to be divided! To state this proposition should be to comment upon , it. But it is worth noting that shriekera ior the ballot don’t want the ballot so much as they want office. They are like the rest of the philanthropists, and there was great fitness in this harangue being addressed to the nationals. They are all malcontents together screaming for the loaves and fishes.

If the democrats of this district should accept the greenback congressional candidate, Rev. Dr. De La Matyr, and support Lim with a will, it will make the contest disagreeably close, popular as John Hanna is. The nohaination in thb light u the best th$ grecnbackers ’could have made. Dr. De La Matyr is not open to the charge of being an office seeker or a sore head. He is an earnest though we believe a wrong beaded man, and if he accepts the nomination will do so because he believes it to be his duty. He has been very outspoken in his views upon the war and the question# growing out of it, and it is possible that some democrats may take offence at

that, but the party will be likely to endorse him, or at least make no nomina-

tion.

The suggestion of Senator Edmunds as the republican candidate for president the Springfield Republican regards as a sign that the political tone of the country i 8 rising, whatever it may mean as a sign that it might become a fact. Mx. Edmunds is decidedly the ablest man who has been mentioned for that office as a republican candidate. His integrity, intellectual attainments, legislative experierce, perception and frankness in acknowledging evils, mark him as nearer a statesman than any of his senatorial associates. He is cold as a wedge and the managers would probably decide that the masses wculdn’t “enthuse” over him, unless the said managers should get it into their pates that it is nearly time for this country to get enthusiastic over a self-respect-ing man, who thinks more of principle than popularity. From New York come Pennsylvania rumors that a strike is to begin in that state and to extend all over the country on August loth; the same strike which was intended on June 15th, but which, on acconm of the wide awake c^pdition of the authorities, was postponed until next month. - The same reason that existed in June will certainly exist in August, and if it was sufficient to cause a postponement then, will certainly be still sufficient. There are now no conditions which call for a strike as there may be said to have been last July. A strike now will be understood to be the expression of malicious discontent on general principles, the logical sequence of the unrest preached by the nationals, and as such no body of men need expect to take the country by surprise, bind and gag it, and turn it over to the fury of anarchy. Such attempt may cost much treasure and some blood, but it will be capped by crushing defeat. No PAPER in the state has more persistently denounced the resumption act or more vehemently demanded its repeal than has the Terre Haute Express. That paper has represented it as the Pandora’s box out of which all our troubles have come; it has charged it as the cause of starvation to laboring people, as a means of robbery for the benefit of capital; it has denounced political death to all who opposed the repeal, and lauded Voorhees and such like demagogues for their efforts to secure its removal. But finding its efforts vain, resumption a fixed fact, and all its jeremiads discredited, it falls thus: Resumption then is a very simple thing— nothing more than the redemption of treasury notes whenever anybody desires it, and when there is money in the treasury to acdbmplish it, and their reissue after redemption. It does not mean that the banks shall pay coin or that private citizens shall pay coin so long as they can get greenbacks with which to pay. Resumption will make very little chauge iathe character of our business. After it conies things will move on very much as they did before. It has only linked in a very delicate manner our paper to gold. The slight link at the treasury is all that binds them, and even this will be broken if the premium increases on gold. As to a third term Hamilton Fish declared the other day that if the people wanted a man for president a third time they would have him, and that ended it in Mr. Fish’s estimation. And then Mr. Fish “gave himself away,” to use a slang phrase, by saying that the reason there had been no third term agitation during the time of the first five presidents was that when they ended their second term they were near about three score years and ten and “their ambition was satisfied.” But for this they might have desired a third term, except Washington perhaps, who had no ambition. No one had been chosen president so young as General Grant. To look at the logical connection and sequence of this philosophy, one is constrained to say if the presidency of the United States is to be made to minister to men’s ambition, the sooner proper curbs are put upon that ambition the safer the liberties of the republic will be. Here is the wealthy cultured student, Hamilton Fish,virtually declaring that the presidency is for the gratification of personal ambition, and to come to a practical example, Gen. Grant is very yottng and has not yet reached the age when men’s ambition is satisfied. This is the most “solid” confession we have seen of what is involved in in the Grant movement. It deserves consideration.

What is the Reason!

The other day the chief of police, when asked hy a News reporter why he had not taken some sort of action against the pool gamblers, and the men who shelter them, and the owners of the building, all of whom are liable to prosecution under the misdemeanor act, said if the warrants were given him he would serve them if there was a basket full, a plain implication that he would not act without a warrant. We are not disposed to impugn the chiefs motives or to impeach his fidelity to his duty as be understands it, but we are curious to know why he and all classes of peace officers, city, township and county, make such obvious fish of one kind of offences and such palpable flesh of another? He sees an assault committed on the street or in a house, and he arrests the offender without a warrant. He is authorized to arrest “on view” and so are all officers. He has probably seen the pool gambling going on in Chapin <& Gore’s establishment frequently, for it is as easy to see it as it is to pee street peddling or hucksters squalling “apples,” and if he has Why hasn’t he arrested “on view” for “a violation of the misdemeanor act?” If he should see one pool.gambler strike another wouldn’t he arrest? Then why shouldn’t he arrest if he sees a pool gambler bet his money on a game? The statute prohibits “all betting on games or wagert” just as distinctly and peremptorily as it prohibits assault and battery, and it is the same statute too. Would he check the hand of the law by a construction which made money put into a pool different from other kinds of betting, or would he make pool betting no offense under the sweeping and explicit language of section twenty-eight of the act? He must do one or the other; either say that money in a pool is not a “bet on

a game or wager,” or that pool betting is not covered by the provision which prohibits all betting. Unleea he adopts one or the other of these preposterous alternatives, he has no possible excuse for failing to arrest every man that he has seen selling or taking shares in a pool. He has violated his duty as clearly as if he had failed to arrest a burglar in the act under his eyes. But this is not all. “Professional gambling” and “keeping gambling apparatus” are made felonies by section 38 of the felony act, and with a penalty limited from one to five years in the penitentiaryIt is the same grade of offense as manslaughter. If one man had killed another, and was parading about the street corners, dining at big hotels, sporting gold chains and patent leather boots, with occasionally a handsome residence, and had neither been tried nor arrested, would not the police pick him up mighty quick ) warrant or no warrant, if they were sure of their man and his offense? No policeman saw John Achey kill Leggett,but a police, man arrested him without a warrant. No officer saw Greenley kill Ida Kersey, but no officer waited for a warrant to arrest him. Well, there are professional gamblers in this town, just as well known to the police to be felons under section 38» as Achey or Greenley were known to be murderers. Three have recently died, one bv the hand of an assassin for some alleged wrong practiced in “the commission” of a joint felony, the “keeping of a gambling apparatus,” and Ml were notorious felons under the law. But the officers never disturbed them. There are a score more in the city that the police know to be felons just as well as they know that James D. Williams is governor, and know as well where they pursue an occupation that the law makes felony, as well as they know where the criminal court sits. Why don’t they arrest on their knowledge, as they arrest murderers and thieves they know to be such,as they arrested Aehey and Greenley and fifty, other offenders? They wait for no warrants when they are sure of the offense, and they have as absolute certainty about these gambling felons as men can have. Why are they so lenient to blacklegs? The State House Coloulzation. The Madison Courier thinks: The Indianapolis News, the paragon of journalism in Indiana, is so warped by local prejudice as to favor the erection of a stole house the exterior of which is hideous, simply because of an excessive haste ta secure a coveted object for its citizens. We suppose the Courier means that “the exterior of the state house is hideous because of excessive haste.” It surely could not mean that The News favors the erection of such a building because of excessive haste. The state has been five years resolving that it would build a state house, and has in that time reached the point the town meetin’ did in its resolution “Resolved, that we will no 1 build a new jail until the old jail is torn dow^' In five years the old state house has been torn down, and the plans matured and work begun for a new one. If this is the Courier’s idea of haste we should like to see it when it wasn’t in a hurry. As an example of the hideousness of the new state house and of “extravagant ami useless ornamentation” the Courier says: What mortal man can frame an excuse for a public building having fivedomes? Imagine fire additional domes puckered out of the roof of the national capitol at Washington. As a matter of fact the May plan has only oae dome; it has four cupolas. The capitol at Washington has one dome and two cupolas. The Courier should get an architectural hand-book and “study up.” As to the “extravagant and useless oraamentation” of the May plan, if the Courier literally knew what it was talking about and told the truth, as it always endeavors to do, it would be compelled to publish the fact that the chief and striking characteristic of the May plan was its severe simplicity; its rigid adaptation of all means toward the end of securing a massive, light and airy structure. There isn’t a bit of “ginger bread’’ work on it, or in it, from turret to foundation stone, nor waste spaces and dark rooms where gas must be kept burning all day long. As to the paper perfection of a plan, The News liked the looks of the Eppinghausen plan the best of all. But it never examined any of them critically, and it supposes the Courier never did either; and it is too modest to insist that its notions of beauty should outweigh six months’ careful investigation by four honest and competent men. ‘ On “the state house question” The News, to the best of its knowledge and belief, stands thus: The old state house was disgraceful in appearance for the state of Indiana, dangerous to inhabit, and not large enough by half for the accommodations required in a state house. After five years the legislature hit upon what has been proven in other states to be the wisest method for building a new one. The governor selected a board, creditable to himself and honorable to the state. They decided, after careful investigation, amid a perfect labyrinth of pipes laid and schemes matured to entrap them, upon the May plan. The News has faith in their probity and intelligence, and is willing to admit that they know more about it than it does. Contracts thus far made have come from ten to thirty per cent, below the estimate. The new state bouse will be built for many thousands of dollars below the sum contemplated, and this paper is decidedly opposed to any interference which will stop the work thus happily begun, and throw the enterprise open to the. mercy of hucksters and corruptionists who will take ten years and ten million dollars in putting up a pile of stone that would stand to the disgust of the people, and probably fail in many of the essentials of such a building. As to the members of the commission being privy to a plot to import democratic voters in the guise of laborers at the stone quarries, we repeat that such suspicion on the part of the Conner is wholly gratuitous, and say, what we failed to say before.qfiat the Courier ought to be ashamed of itself for ottering it. With exactly the same force democratic papers could say the commissioners were winking at a plot on the part of the republicans to overcome by the same means the majorities of the four counties which are democratic of the ten that have the quarries which will furnish the ston e, yet so far as we have seen no democratic paper has charged this. The Courier has let Its party zeal run away with its usual good judgment in a deplorable fashion. If corruptionists attempt this importing business, they should be punished if caught That they may at-

tempt it on both aides ia not impossible, bat to load np and fire off a charge at the state house commissioners as being privy to such a plot is unwarrantable and insulting. If the Courier will produce any proof of its assertions, we will aid it in ferreting out this conspiracy, but we decline to accept suspicions which, if they are not immediately backed by facts, call for an apology from the Courier Pbebidext Clark Skklte, of the Smith’s Woman’s college at Southampton, Mass., has published a history of- the results of imparting a regular collegiate education to women, similar in all respects to that given by the best colleges for men. The college was founded by a bequest from Miss Sophia Smith, in 1871. and was ojiened for the reception of students three years ago. The first class entered numbered fifteen and the last forty. There will be no graduates until next term. From three years of study President Seelye shows tpat in all respects the experiment has been a satisfactory one. In acquirement, health, enthusiasm and high intellectual results he reports the girls as outstripping the boys, and regards the proven result at Smith's college as settling in the affirmative that women may be put to the higher education of the classics and mathematics, not only without bad effects but with positive good ones as to health, and all other things which follow a thorough education. On this he bases a strong appeal for co-educa-tion. A notion of fiat money is givea by a fac-sim-ile greenback circulated for inspection. On its face it has the usual pictures and the words “The United States,” with the figure 3 in the center. Below is a blank space which may be filled np with “this is three dollars,” and the official signatures. On the back there is an X with a blank space whitb shows that it may be declared “This is ten dollars.” Of course these are not to go on the same piece of paper, but we suggest to the nationals that they might. A man could take the three dollar face for his labor, and then turn the paper and make thebloated capitalist take the ten dollar side; “fiat” him out of seven dollars as easy as Signor Blitz used to make canary birds out of paper.

CURRENT COMMENT. The Rev.‘ Prime, the veteran Irena?us of of the New York Observer, has been ten months on the continent of Europe and busily engaged by a thorough visiting of fairs, reviews, out-of-door shows and such gatherings and an occasional look into drinking places as to the amount of intoxication in those wine drinking countries, France, Germany and Italy. In these ten months he saw just one person drunk. Pursuing his investigations still further, he made it a daily practice to read the police reports in the local papers, and found his personal impression confirmed, one city of 55,000 inhabitants not reporting a single arrest in 40 days. These are anniversary days recalling the terror of last July, when the strike riot locked the land as effectuaily as if every city had been besciged in regular fashion. The anniversary brings with it the reminder of the experience gained in those days and the comforting belief that should the experiment be tried again it would be ended quicker and better for • ail parties concerned. We have had our war and our riot and know what to do under a repetition of either. The New York Uerald believes that New York stands at the beginning of an unexampled career of prosperity, and needs only fuir management and the exercise of common skill and prudence to begin very soon a growth more rapid than any it has known hitherto in all its history. If the Herald had substituted “this country” for “New York” it would have mouthed a prophecy that looks enormously like a fat fact. Mrs. John A. Logan is hard at work for her wusser half in his senatorial raee. It will be remembered that Mrs. John was chief manager of John’s other election. Mrs. Oglesby is also at work for Mr. Oglesby. How a state is to be pitied which may have to choose between John Logan and Dick Oglesby! A Connecticut firm writes to Mr. Gilfillan, United States treasurer: “We will take $5,000 in silver, but the Lord only knows v hat we are going to do with it.” Will anybody enlighten this benighted firm? If Conkling appears before the Potter committee there will not have been such a bundle of vanity in the witness box since Theodore Tilton. And cow her majesty has with her own royal hands bound upon the left leg of my Lord Benconsfield the blue aud gold ribbon; placed upon his head, etc. My lord will soon grow accustomed to this splendid garniture of his leg, etc.—[Experienced CourierJournal. Such detailed know’edge could only come from experience. Sly dog, that Watterson! Who’d a’thought all these years he had a garter on his left leg concealed by those hightopped brigandish boots? In 1860 the per capita circulation of currency in the United States was $6.70. It is now $14 60 per capita. According to the theory of the greenbackers we ought to be twice as prosperous as we were in 1800.— [Philadelphia Record. A most brutal murder comes from Vermont, just across the Berkshire line; roughs and tramps capture a New Haven and Northampton excursion train and abuse the passengers : and from quiet Agawam comes the story of a ra}>e. All this, not in the south or west, but witbin a hundred miles of Springfield, and in the most fastidious portion of New England.—[Springfield Republican. Harvest laborers get from $1.50 to $2 per day now, and with the country full of tramps and men who are howling that there is no work, help is scarce at these figures in Michigan.—[Grand Traverse Herald, July 18. The Duke of Connaught’n Sugar Plum. At a meeting of 26 radical members of the house of commons it was resolved to press to a division Sir Charles Dilke’s amendment to the government’s motion for a grant to the duke of Connaught on the occasion of his approaching mairiage. It was also settled that Taylor, the member for Leicester, should move a rejection of the bill authorizing the grant when it comes np for a second jeading. After the Fleeing Hostilrs. A Baker City dispatch says that General Howard formed a junction with Forsythe’s command Tuesday, and the whole force left camp near Robinsville yester lay

bostiles will be forced to fight ^ troops are coming agmnst them from several directions.

The Muscular Editor. [Wild Oat*.] Arthur—We did think of havsng an assistant literary editor. A man, to hold such a position, must be an atbletc-=so he can sling poets around, you know. Reported Sioux Uprising. The report that the Sionx are preparing to join the hostiles lacks confirmation and is not credited at Washington.

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■ Ay, till the weary life t* done, Though we again miy never meet, Let’a not forget the bygone day* That like a dream, passed swift and sweet; Still let thv knowledge of my lore Thy faith in hnmankiad renew; Let that great love still for me plead. And, to the last, believe me true! —[Chambers’ Journal. SCRAPti.

A bushel of com yields about four gallons of proof spirits. At one point on Rad river 117,000 cattle have crossed srtice April. A fall of one-tenth of an inch per mile will produce a motion in rivers. In dressing salad, mind this law: with two hard yolks use one that’s raw. An emetic saved a Fair Haven (N. Y.) baby by making it disgorge 19 potato bugs it had swallowed. The once famous Mormon temple, at Nauvoo, 111., has utterly disappeared, not a stone of it remaining on the site. The habit of adulteration and imitation has been carried so far that the artistic angler now goes forth to fish for pike with soft rubber frogs. Mrs. Thomas Wilce, of Chicago, who is trying to establish an inebriate woman’s home, estimates that for every twenty drunken men there is one drunken woman. The British society for the propagation Of lue gospel among the Jews claims that since 1813 there have been over one hundred Church of England clergymen who Were Hebrews. A “steeplechase” is announced to take place at CohoCs, New York. Several contestants are to climb a church steeple which is 300 feet high. The victor receives $150, which is half a dollar a foot. Miss Beckwith, who astonished London some time since by swimming ten miles in the Thames before she was 15 years of age, will shortly try to swim twice the distance. Should she succeed, she may try the passage from Dover to Calais. General Miles is at his post, Fort Keogh, M. T., 600 miles from the scene of operations against the Indians in Idaho and Oregon. The Miles who has been doing good service in the latter district is Captain Evans Miles, of the 21st infantry. “I see,” 'said Gen. Grant the other day, “they talk of an empire in France. There in Europe, lope. From ling clearer than that Europe will see a good many more republics before she has another empire.” On the 28th of June, Mrs. G. W. Lantz, residing near Greensboro, gave birth to* a tine, healthy boy, and in a few days the mother was up and attending to her household duties. On the 14th inst., sixteen days after the boy was born, Mrs. Lantz became the mothel'-qfa girl. The case is well authenticated.—^fUittoburgh Com. Gaz. . The Rev. I. S. Kalloch, of San Francisco, (formerly a well known Boston divine) is said to have notified the Lord in a recent prayer that “the Chinese must go, and good men stay,” and clinching his affirmative with the assertion, “Thou must hear our prayer when we pray for that we believe to be right.” A few such instances of pulpit strategy on the Pacific slope would constrain the rest of the nation to indulge iu a high opinion of the heathenism of the Chinese.—[Chicago News. The clergy of Rochester have set their face against extravagance at funerals. Bishop McQu&id publicly announced the following order on Friday last: “No flowers or floral offerings of any kind would be allowed on any coflin or casket brought ihto the church on any iuneral occasion; nothing but the black pall wouItK be permitted as a covering of the coffin except in the case of a child of seven years and under. Then a white pall could be used, and if desirable some pure white flowers.” A great many persons, especially iu Ohio and Indiana, will remember Miss Jennie Smith,the pale young girl-preacher, who had for sixteen years been a cripple, totally unable to move her body or help herself. She was drawn to the different meetings, where she exorted in a little wagon propped up with pillows. On July 17th “she walked into the tabernacle at Ocean Grove, upright and without assistance, and testified with a voice choked with tears of her remarkable cure in answer to prayer. An aspiring colored gentleman of Georgia wrote not long ago to the president that he had labored hard to obtain for him a “plurialities” of his precinct, and asking him for a “local situation or position among your cabinet advisers.” He informed the president that he could obtain “strict recommendations;” that he had attended the university of state for three years, and that he is a “wholesoulcd republican.” He closes with the request, “Give me your ideas upon your circumstancer of this asking.” Wm. Wirt Sikes, consul at Cardiff, reports to the department of state, under date of June 29,1877, some statistics and facts relating to trade and labor in Wales. Farm laborers earn from $L5U to $3.50 per week, varying in different counties more or less distant from railroads; privileges of houseroom and beer may be added to the wages. In towns brickmakera earn $2.50 to $7.50 a week; ship carpenter*, $1.62 a day ; coopers, $1.12; engine drivers,, $1.25 to $2; firemen, $1 to $1.12; laborers, 10 cents per hour; painters, 14 cents; masons, 16 cents, carpenters, 16 cents; plumbers, 15 cents; plasters, 15 cents an hour. The cost of living averages from $3 to $5 a week for a family.” Dr. Ruppaner, the well known Ger-man-American. and president of the Goethe club, of New York, was the hero of an adventure in Paris recently that attracted much attention from those who saw it. He had hailed a cab, and as he was about to step in he was surprised to see another man entering at the opposite side. Dr. Ruppaner demanded of the driver which of the two had hailed him first, and the cocher decided in favor of the New Yorker. He then politely requested the stranger to descend, but the latter answered: “lam Prince giving a known name. Dr. Ruppaner replied: “You are a prince, but I am a sovereign—a citizen of the United Statea;” and without much more ado he gently took the prince by the collar of his coat and seat of his pantaloons and set him down quietly upon the sidewalk. The prince’went in search of another carriage, and the “sovereign" rode off in triumph.

rARis. How ft b Always M«d« Attractive-An IrUh-Ainvrieen Opinion. [C. C. Fulton, ia Baltimore American ] The “dust of ages” is not worshipped by the Parisians nor are smoked and begrimed walls regarded as adding .to the beauty of the city, as is the case in London. If the Parisian has anything that D handsome he strives to keep it handsome, and if possible make it handsomer. He is always rubbing and scrubbing aud polishing old things, or tearing them down to make room for something more modern and beautiful. The bronze lamp posts in the principh! places are polished with a# much regularity as the glasses of the lamps. Men were engaged all last night in scrubbing the iron railings o! a public square clone under our window. If the slightest defect is observed in the asnhaltum or stone pavements of the streets, a repairing party comes along and cures the defect before night. Houses and store fronts are never allowed to become shabby or dingy, and each tenant is held resposible for the cleanliness of the street before his door. The rows of elegant shade trees along all the boulevards now furnish an agreeable shade to pedestrians, having been so carefully reared and attended that they are all fl$one size and all flourishing. Iron gratings surround each tree to give the roots air and water, which ia daily supplied by the city authorities. These trees extend for probably a hundred miles, three feet from the curb' on all the boulevards, and are the pride of Paris. Thus it is that the attractions of Paris are always increasing. No rust or decay is permitted, and old things are swept away as having served their day and generation. The Hotel de ViUe, which was destroyed by the commune, is being rebuilt, and thus will be swept away the only remaining evidence of that period of terror. Antiquity and ruins have no worshippers here, everything being made to yield to the spirit of improvement. New squares, gardens and fountains are following the march of improvement in- the suburbs, and even in these quarters of the city where the poorer classes mostly reside pleasure grounds are fitted up and ornamented as elegantly and elaborately as those in the wealthier sections. Paris is n£t beautiful in spots, but every portion of ii abounds ia attractions. [Chicago Times letter.] “Hullo, What thed—Jyou adorn’here suddenly fell upon Sousslgne's ear like it nasal thunder-clap, scattering his reverie as the advent of a big cat will “flush” a flock of snowbirds, Souseigne turned and saw before him a black slouch haf, with the fi’ont turned down knowingly, so as to partially obscure a pair of grey, small, keen eyes, a red moustache, a long “goatee.” Below were a slim neck, a bony nair of shoulders, a thin waist and a pair of slender legs, ending in square-toed boots. As a whole it w r as a man of about 50, with a shrewd face, restless movements, and a suit of clothes which had evidently been purchased ready-made, and without especial reference to fit or harmony of color. It was the American member of the legislature who had run over to Paris for a three days’ stay, after having given a few weeks to hunting up his relatives and former acquaintances in the south of Ire-

land.

They exchanged congratulations, and information on the weather; and then the member gave Soussigne the latest news from home. “How do you like Paris?” asked the

latter.

“It’s not a bad place to luk at,” said the member as be fell into an oratorical position, and raised his forefinger as if h • wtre addressing his constituents: “it’s by no manes a bad place to luk at, an’ that’s all ye can truthfully say about it. There isn’t a drop of dacent whisky in all Paris, an’ divil a sowl ye can say a warred to owin’ to their ignorance in not under-* sthandin’ English. There’s no bars where ye can walk up an’ take a thimblefull, an' then go about yer business, but ye must sit down to a table, an’ ask a blundherin fool for something he hasn’t at all, in a language which he doesn’t understand. I’m think in’ that the sooner I get out o’ this the betther. And yet what astonishes me is that such mannikins, such hon-o-my-th umbs as these frog eaters should build up such a wonderful city. That bates

me!”

Soussigne took pity on the forlorn condition of the American member. He told him where he could get a toothfull of the. rale ould stuff, and where it could bfe called for in English, and where it could be drank standing at the drop of a hat. The Potter Investigation. Ex-Congressman J. Hale Sypher of New Orleans was before the Potter committee at Atlantic City yesterday, and testified that he saw in D, A. Weber’s possession a document purporting to be the Sherman letter, but could not swear io its genninemss. As near as he could remember the contents were, substantially the same as the published'letter. Secretary Sherman testiOed that he went to New Orleans on invitation of President Grant. On his way to Cincinnati he slopped at Columbus, where he saw Governor Hayes. In reply , to interrogatories by Mr. Hiscock he said that his conversation with Governor Hayes was general about the election, all then being m the dark. His examination will be continued to-day. Butler In Danger. [BaUijnore Gazette.] In a recent speech st Newburyport, Mr. Butler gave the New York coaching club a terrible overhauling, i He should proceed softly, for when the eommunisU conrmence killing rich people for owning four-in-hands, they may not be able to draw the line at nabobs who rejoice in the poasession of luxurious sailboats.”

STEAM’S EAST ACHnCVKMKNY.

Tlie Blind Girl of Pompay. [Cincinnati Commercial.] Senator Thurman should pause before clasping the rag baby passionately to his palpitating bosom. That delapidatedchild can not lead him to the White house. •’Thoroughly Wounded In livery Be-

np«ct. ”

[Springfield Republican.] Conkling and Arthur are comparing notes as to the relative soreness of their respective heads up in the Catskills. Yellow Fever In New Orleans. The Picaynne publishes a statement that fourteen cases of yellow fever have occurred in New Orleans, seven being fatal. The board of health hope to check the spread of the disease.

A Foolish Hoax.

The report sent -by specials from Memphis of the murder of a family of eleven persons named Sample in Tippah county,

Miss., ia a hoax.

Understanding Between Austria and Italy. It is stated that an understanding exists between Austria and Italy concerning possible attempts st demonstrations on the

frontiers.

Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel.

. • [Springfield Union.] Ex-Naval Agent Cornell

his coat and roll up his sleeves

Conk ling’s interest.

Prorogation of Parliament. Parliament will be prorogued on the 20th of August.

iaa*.. to b# Molly Plan. [Springfield Republican.] The Springfield gus company has bought the right for this city to use the Holly system of running steam pipes through the streets to furnish heat and power for adjoining buildings, and the city government will be asked to permit the construction of an experimental line this winter from the company’s work* off Water street through Elm te Main street. This short line will reach a number of dwellings, stores and offices, a large schoolhouse, the county court-house and the First church and chapel, in which, with the exception perhaps of the church, it is hoped that a trial of the system may be made, the most distant point from'the works being the Chicopee bank. It is no new thing oi course to heat more than oae building by steam from a single furnace, this already being done in this city In the armory buildings and in the Boston nnd Albany building and depot. The Holly system, which is owned at Lock port, N. Y., and is in most successful operation in that city, includes numerous improvements in' the protection of the pipes lain in the streets, the arrangement of connections, valves, traps, etc. In the work* at Lock port steam is conducted two mile*, and Mr. Holly claima that a distance of five miles can be reached. The pressure on the pipes in the street is about oO pounds and m the house about 10 pounds, although only one or two pounds is needed for heating. The Lock port company began on the basis of charging for the heat about as much as had before been paid for fuel, but introduced meters as soon as tbe enterprise was fully established, and a similar course will doubtless be pursued in this city. The amount that can be saved to consumers by this system is evidently large, since there is inevitably a waste of fuel in connection with every fir®, and a great deal of dust ami dirt that are injurious to furniture and health. Some of the Lockport housekeepers told visitors trom this city that they hardly considered it necessary to clean house in the spring, while their houses had been heatra throughout so thoroughly that tltey scarcely knew of the changes of temperature out doors. The steam is also used* for cooking, and is equal to almost am culinary operation except frying and broiling. EtP^rilhents have also been made in cfearinc sidewalks of snow by the use of steam, ana the cost of melting a ton of snow is found to be but five cents The steam distributed by this system has not been much utilized for power yet, but there can be no doubt that it is available, since the requisite pressure is kept up on the pipes and engines of considerable size have actually been run by it. It is thought that connections can he made for sewing-machines in private houses, for printing-presses, coffeegrinders and similar purposes. Political, The republican of the third district of Vermont, nominated General Grout for congress. The nationals of the twelfth Illinois district met at Ashland yesterday and nominated Hon. John Mathers, of Jacksonville, on the second ballot. The Texas democrafic convention ended its long session yesterday in harmony after nominating F. K. LubUeck for treasurer, and William Welsh for land commissioner. The resolutions - enclose Gov. Hubhard. * The democrats of the seventh Missouri district took its 44th unsueessful ballot yesterday. Hiram B. Decius was nominated for congress by the democrats of the fifteenth Illinois district yesterday on the 182d ballot. The New York greenbackers yesterday nominated Gideon J. Tucker, for judge of the court of appeals. iced Te*. [Detroit Free Dress.[ At twilight the other evening a thirsty citizen entered anew restaurant on Gratiot avenue and inquired for iced tea. Lie wua handed a glass of liquid that tasted like ten, but was almost warm enough for the table. “I inquired for iced tea,” lie said, as he put down the glass. “And you’ve got it,” waa the reply. “Do you call this tea cold?” indignantly exclaimed the citizen. The man tasted, smacked his lips, tasted again, and said: “Well it isn’t very cold, hut I can’t afford to ice my tea every fifteen minutes, can I? I melted up at least ten pound* of ice and poured it into that jar at noon, and I don’t see what ails it. Bund back and let me fan the tumbler with my hat!” No Work for Tram pit! [Spocial to tbe Milwsukea eteniiael.] Cout’MBUH, Columbia county, Wis., July 22.—Notwithstanding the great storms of late there is still a fair crop in this county and help is very scarce. Farmers are everywhere in search of men to assist in getting in their crops,which are just beginning to ripen. Barley is nearly all cut now. Localities hiving surplus help can send some of it this way.

Beer vs. Gultuah.

(Ikietou Herald.]

One of our largest brewers has recently brought on a man from Cincinnati to siijwrintend his brewery at an annual salary of more than twice that of tfie president of Harvard university. Think oi that, ye callow disciples of “ciiltuah.” Thought It was John Mherinau'x Fault. [Philadelphia Tines.] The fact is that congress made such niggardly appropriations for the signal service that since the beginning of the present fiscal year it has been impossible for it to furnish an acceptable article of weather. A Bill to Punish Trumps. A bill for the punishment of tramps passed (he New Hampshire house, yesterday. It provides for punishment by imprisonment from fifteen months to five years, the former penalty being provided for any person proved a tramp. The Trouble Soon to be 8«titled. [DinUrrille Courier-Journal. J The 100,000 men in Massachusetts who can’t get work have dwindled to 10,000, As the New York Ledger will presently advise these 10,000 to marry, tbe trouble will soon be over.

A Family Bow.

Samuel Hicks and Jones Baxter were fatally shot, Jere Baxter was wounded in the hand, Nat Baxter in the foot, and a negro girl got shot in the thigh, in a little family row at Nashville yesterday.

A HoguN Haasulltch.

It is stated that the person who was feted in Geneva as Vera Bassulitcfa waa an imposter, and that Vera Sasauiitch is now in

Siberia.

It Made a Mockery of Him.

(St. Paul Dispatch.]

Jeff Davis made a mockery of the*star spangled banner by standing uadrr it to make his recent treasonable speech.

A Deficient Cotton Crop.

According to information from the in-

will take off terior, the Egyptian cotton crop is expected eves in Mr. to be deficient in quantity and quality.

The Lerd High Admiral la Dead. Sir Hastings Reginald Yelverton, lord high admiral o! the United Kingdom, U dead.