Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 82, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1885 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY SENTINEL MONDAY MORNING MARC1T 23 1885.

MONDAY MARCH 23. OFFICE. 71 and 73 West Market Street. KITES OF MJBCRirriOIY. Indianapolis Rentlnel for 1883 Dally, San day and Weekly Editions. DAILY. Delifered by carrier, per wcek.............l 25 Dally, Including Sunday, per week........... Daily, per annum, by xnalL Daily, per assum, by mail. Including San day, by mall.... Daily, delivered by carrier, per annua Jj&lly, delivered by carrier, per annum. In S3 10 00 12 01 12 CO II CO 3 eluding Sunday.... Dally, to newsdealers, per copy.... 8U9DAY. Bunday edition of elghtvfour columns- 9 2 CO Sunday Sentinel, by carrier... . . 2 50 To newsdealers, per copy .. zy WEEKLY. Weekly, per annnra. S 1 00 The postage on subscriptions by mail la prepaid by the publisher. Newsdealers supplied at three cents psr copy. Postage or ether charges prepaid. Entered as second-class matter at the Postoface ot Indianapolis, Ind. Ilr.BEEXTATivE Brow sino died lsst nizht Colosii. Tcm Brady personally manages the Washington Critic. He has long bed a ita owner. GroRcE Spki.no, a wealthy larmer of Howard County, dropped dead very sudden'y yesterday. The President will have thirty pos'mafers to appoint before 1h 1st of May and 20 within a year, by reason of the expiration ot the tenure. The "always with us," that grand army of American croakers, have already killed otf He wheat and peaches. They have kindly left us the strawberry crop. Tia: President and Cabinet think the Gay eminent can be run with 100 lees men than were employed by the last adminijtration. The saving will amount to not les9 than SC0.C00. Save It! Referrisq to the Republican Legislature of Pencs?lyania, now in session, the Wellsboro (Fa.) Gazette tays: "Wanted, a solitary newspaper that baa said anything good of the present Legislature." Eo much talk about cigars in connection 'with General Grant's malady is eaid by retail dealers to have a bad effect on their trade. Now if it would but frighten the thirteen-sixteen-year cigarette smokers! A Washington special of Saturday says: "There teems to be a better feeling among the Indiana Democrats to day. They are taid to have had some asm ranee that Indiana is scon to come in for a share of consideration and patronage." A bare case ot heroism is reported this rrcrning by our Mount Carmel, 111., correspondent. A domestic, left in charge of a child, yieldtd up her own life in preventing the little one from being burned to death. Details in telegraphic columns. A Nebraska tailor haj coined a new word, s w 11 be seen by his advertisement, read irg; Just received the most complete assort ment of suitings and aifij." ever offered," etc. And why is it not a good term? We have "suitings," "shirtings," -"stockings," etc why not paitings? An item the ''bloody shirt" organs have lailed to utilize is that of the lynching of Jake Doss, colored, at Artexa, Miss. Doss murdered his wife, and upon the discovery 1200 men, all his own color, formed a lynching party and Doss was stretched by the neck from the trestle work of a railroad. Had the lynchers been white, what a howl the organs would have raided! Tizrx Is some desire among Democrats that Lyman Trumbull should be the next Senator from Illinois. Mr. Morrison's chances seem to be waning. , Mr. Trumbull would be a decided improvement on John A. Logan, and he probably haa rid himself of all the republicanism he ever hat The truth ia that Mr. Trumbull never fancied the bogui article of recent years. Wi join the Post Diapatch und all the admirers Of Charles Gibson, of St. Louis, in saying that a better selection aa Minister to the German court is difficult to be made. He is a brainy American, courtly in man ner, a complete master of tue German language, and once let him get Bismarck's ear in behalf of the American pig, the old Premiere's mouth will water to try it. Ik Mr. Senator Van Wyck, of Nebraska, ieeps up h.3 present stride he will find himself ere Ions: in the Democratic camp, bag and baggage. The mane er in which he is uncovering and prosecuting official rascalities ia so foreign to the spirit and example of the republican party that he will toon be ex communicated from iL Bot his reform work has brought him so near to the Democratic iold that he haa only to knock to be admitted. REPUBLICAN INCONSISTENCY. Rhode Island ia a Republican State by a tc und majority. Ehode Island Republican papers have ever been conspicuous in de nouncing the South for an imaginary opposition to a "free ballot." Even the registry laws of some of the Southern States requiring pjyment of poll tax as a condition precedent to voting have been held up by Rhode Island Republican paper as an outrage. And yet the Republican majority in Rhode Island maintain to this day, and Intend maintain ing, a law denying the right of voting ta any foreign -borr. citizen not owning real estate in Rhode Island. There is very little real estate in Rhode Island, and to dense ia the population, the territory being well nigh covered with manufactories, that one must have a

mall fortune to be able to purchase even a i mall lot. The consequence is that a considerable per centage of the men of that State are denied the ballot in toto. And yet the Republican party there refuse to see this wart on ita note, though looking through a field-glass to dUcover a speck on the face of another State.

OPENING THE BOOKS. Many Republicans and their organs had alrxcet persuaded themselves that "open the books" was quite a joke, of the rank of "320" and "3C0 " Ferbaps some of the more hilarious would like to chalk it over their backs, as they did ' 329 ' after the Presidential election of 10. Secretary Manning, whom the organs htye familiarly called "Dan" end "the boss," "a ard politician," etc , evidently means to ' open the books." In his department it is not regarded as a joke. As announced in the Sentinel within a oay or two Mr. Manning proposes to give the entire department such an overhauling as it has never had before. It leaked out in Washington on Saturday that an expert accountant frcm the Third National Bank in New Yoik hss been engaged by Secretary Mannirg, and baa been assigned a large icom In the Treasury Department, where he has been at work two days in examination of certain Treasury books. The knowledge of this fact has added much to the uneasinets in department circles. In regard to the commission recently appointed by the Secretary to overhaul the Treasury, there is but little else talked about in that department. The Hitter among the employes is described as "lively." A Wai V f ington special says that this commission mi ans "business." It Is composed of capable, energetic and Indu3triou3 men, who are known already to be thoroughly convinced 'that changes of methods, reductions of force and in a considerable number of cases removals of officers Bhould be made. The new Assistant Secretary, Falrchild, is taking hold of his werk with vigor, and, as a member of the commission, he is already gathering from every available source information relating to the condition of the department Assistant Treasurer Graves, another member of the commission, is a man of large experience in the department work, and has for years been an open, emphatic advocate of a reorganization of the department and a thorough weeding out of incompetent and superfluous e'erks. He is an independent in politics and voted for Cleveland. Assistant Secretary Coon, the third member of the commission, is a Republican. He has been many years in the department, Laving been promoted frcm the lower grade clerkship step by step to his present office. He is disposed to favor a policy of reorganization, and will doubt less aid his colleagues in tbc importantduties assigned them. Secretary Yhitney, of the navy, thinks that his department needs a similar Investigation and has accordingly employed experts to make it. When the public get an inside I view of the Washington departments as they were conducted by the Republican party, we imagine that the organs will have something else to engage their attention than picking at Mr. Cleveland's appointments or criticising his breakfast hour. QNAT STRAINING AFTER OULPING CAMELS. Tbe local Republican organs, advocates of the "I am holier than thou" party, which was so badly beaten at the pells last fall, and nowhere, more signally than in Indiana, where their defeat was a Waterloo, are greatly exercised and travaileth much because our Legislature is in extra session. Notwithstanding the fact that their own members organized into a solid phalanx to bring anout this result, and at every point obstructed legislation daring the regular session, yet are the organs entirely blind to the truth, so patent to all, that the Republican members were as anxious for the ?G per diem as their Democratic brethren are or can be. With characteristic clamor the organs cry out vigorously, laying the whole blame of the extra session upon the Democratic ma jcrity, and hint at how differently the Re publicans would manege were they numerically in the ascendant. Well, what would they in such case do? Have they ever, at the State or National Capitols, in all the past long years of their power, organized movements in the direction of retrenchment and economy? Have they done aught looking toward reform and the cutting down of expenses in the conduct of county. State or national legislation? No, they have not. On the other hand, they have plundered and robbed the treasuries of all they could steal, never missing an opportunity to absorb all the people's money they could lay their hands on. Any pretext for doing this served their purpose, and was indorsed by the leaders ot the Republican party almost unanimously. And these are they who would pose now as saints, horrified at the spectacle cf an extra session of tne Legislature, because, forsooth,' it would cost 50,C00. But there is method in their madness always, and so it is now. The present hue and cry cf the organs is for a well defined double purpose, a hope to create discord in the Democratic ranks, and at the same time keep public attention from their own scandalous record, now being shown up at Washington in its ugly blackness. The organs refrain from criticism of that outrageous land grab perpetrated by the late Secretary Teller, the lat act of his official life a steal of 700,000 acres of Uncle Sam's land, worth from $2.000,000 to $3 000,000. These big Repub.ican robberies are too insignificant for the organs to notice much. They know that the evidence against the late Secretary (now Senator) Teller is overwhelming. But what ia that to the organs? Mr. Teller is a Republican and a Senator; therefore, a saint who can commit no sin! The people have bad abundant examples of what the Republican party would do if in power, and will not soon again frust it. Its whole history is one of steals, pillage aid

plunder of the peep ea money and lands. The jobs successfully worked up and put through by Republican offic'ali are a shams and disgrace to our country; and whenever a Republican criminal has been brought to trial justice has been defeated, a in the case of Dorsey, at an expense to the Government far greater than woold be the cost of several extra sessions of the Legislature. Yes, the Republicans would do many things if in control of affair, aa they have always done when in power. We well remembar as an instance, that in ls6, they "counted in" R. B. Hayes as President because they had the power numerically of eight to seven. If the organs will torn their gaze occasionally beyond Indiana's borders to Washington and watch what is being developed of Republican rascality there, it may enlarge their ideas of what a big steal really in. Then, when they again look at the Indiana Legislature, they may be able to notice that the cost of the extra session is not so large after all, and that the Republican members are drawing their $G per diem "allee samee Dem erratic man," a fact which seems hitherto to have escaped their observation.

The Paris Figaro gave currency to a report, doubtless started at the United Statei Kmbassy, that President Cleveland had solicited "Monsieur Mortong" to remain as the representative of this Government in .F.ance. The Washington state ollicials say that the story of the Figaro is aafourCed. and that the President has not yet given any con ideratlon to the foreign missions or consulship?. New York World. The report, as wired West, was to tbe effect that Morton had been requesed to "stay in Paris." During the lirst year of Mr. Morton's residence at the French court this would doubtless have been a very correct instruction -"stay in Paris." He spent his time, or large portions of it, in one continuous round of junketing expeditions in the south of Europe. Mr. Arthur should have cabled him frequently, "stay in Paris." An applicant for a Postoffice held the following conversation with the President: "How soon does the incumbent's term expire''" inquired the President. "On. in about three years, unless it Is cut short." 'Are there anv charges against him?'' "Well. yes. We Democrats don't like him.'' "But ou what ground do you ask for his removal?" "On the ground, Mr. President, that 11.000.000 of people-decided last November that they wanted a change." PERSONALS. Sir Eras Mrs Wilson states that, all exaggerations or contradictions to the oontrary, the human hair can turn white in a very few hours. General Grqsvenoi:, Judge Advocate General Swaim's counsel, says ex-Secretary Lincoln kept, much of the time, a "hard, poker playing gang about him." A Pres r yte r t a n elder in Kankakee, Iii., who is a great domino player, closed his prayer the other evening not with "amen," but with "domino." Philadelphia Press. Beacregaro and Early are showing the marks of age. Early is bald and graywhiskered. Beauregard has white hair and mustache, and speaks with an uncertain yet harsh and metallio voice. Austin Blair, who was Michigan War Governor," has been nominated for Prosecuting Attorney of Jackson County, Michigan, by a nonpartisan convention and has accepted the nomination. Mr. Hay, the new First Ass'stant Palmas ter General, will go to Florida for the benefit of bis health in a few days, leaving Mr. Crosby, the inenmbsnt of the office, in charge dnring his absence. Mr. Laroichere. in London Truth, accuses the Northern States of giving the cold shoulder to the New Orleans Exposition, and observes that that fact is "hardly calculated to encourage a friendly feeling between the two sections." Senator Sherman bought the lot on which bis Washington house stands when there were few Imp-ovements in that neighborhoed and ground had only a nominal value. Now property there is said to be worth close to f 10 a square foot. The President's manuscript is said to be positively painful to decipher. The style is sharp and decisive, and many of the words end in marks that are little more than nervous shakes of the hand. He writes with almost a telegrapher's rapidity. Attorsiy General Garland will not ßever his connection with the Virginia coupon cases, in which he was retained as com sei before his appointment to his present position. The United States is not concerned directly or indirectly in the cases. Dean Irvine, an Episcopal clergyman of Quincy, 111., who was recently suspended from the ministry for a year for immorality by Bishop Burgess, has decided to Ignore the Bishop's sentence. Last 8anday be preached in the Cathedral to about 10 people. The editor of the New York Sun nominated Alexander McCfure, of the Philadelphia Times, for President in 1S3S, but the man who can issue as good a paper aa appeared in twenty-eight pages or the Times on Saturday last, don't receive small favors thankfully. Exchange. Princk Fernakdi.no Colo.nna was the ideal of a bridegroom at his recent marriage with Miss Eva Mackay. He is handsome in the soft, refined, gentlemanly, Italian style; has dark eyer, which are well adapted to express tender sentiments; a soft voice, that soothes the car; suave manners, and haa not mentally, morally or physically an angle about him. New Palestine Newa Items. The sale of tbe personal property of the late Benjamin Freeman, of this city, takes place on Tueiday. It will be the largest sale of tbe kind ever had in this township. Mox Hurlic, of Indianapolis, has started a saloon at this place. Mrs. Henry Smith was visiting her son at Indianapolis the past week. Riding Bailiff George Johnson, of Greenfield, was at this place on Thursday last inviting the boys to the Grand Jury to Rive in their personal knowledge on certain matters. We see in the last issue of the Hancock Democrat that Richard Simour, one of Ma rion County's prominent stock traders, Intends making Palestine his future home.

FROM WASHINGTON.

Tbe Manager or the Sentinel Returns Home, Alii Give His ImpreiMobs of President Cleveland, the Cablnt, aod What the Administration Will lie. On the 14th Inst, a party comprising exSenator McDonald, State Senators Magee and Bailey, Mr. John P. Frenzel and Mr. John C. Shoemaker, left Indianapolis for a visit to the National Capital. Mr. Shoemaker returned on yesterday, and in the afternoon, in conversation with several callers, including a member of his editorial staff, gave his impressions of the new administration and its purposes. The party, under the escort of Senator Yoorhees, visited the President and tbe several new Cabinet officers. Referring to Mr. McDonald Mr. Shoemaker said tbe ex Senator must have been heartily pleased with the very cordial reception accorded him at Washington. On every hand he met unmistakable evidence of th high regard in which he is held, not in Washington alone, but by the representatives and prominent citizens from ail parts of the Union. "What of Mr. Cleveland?" Mr. Shoemaker was asked. "My impression of him," he answered, "was on a line with about all we have seen stated from those who know him. Unquestionably he is a strong man one of capacity, honesty and nerve. His manner is that of a plain, straightforward business personage. He looks like one who had accepte i the great trust of tbe Presidency not to make a show, but to perform well the daties of it." "And of the Cabinet?" "Whatever we may have preferred in the selection of the Cabinet from a eeoraphical standpoint, it will be found that tJi President has called about him able, zealous and honest gentlemen, admirably adapted to cooperate with the Executive in accomplishing the work of reform which will be the characterizing feature of Mr. Cleveland's administration. They aie cleanhanded men who will exact clean-handed work: to the utmost limits of the Government service. "I can best give my impression of the coming four years of Governmental affairs by saying it will be eminently a business administration. Unlets igns fail the several departments will be conducted as eo many businees institutions. Efficiency and reliability will be the first considerations in making: decisions upon appointments, and if any man devoid of these, or either of them, gets into office it will be because the administration has been deceived by its information concerning him." It was suggested by a gentleman present tbat there had been several disappontrmnts where applicants had been backed by formidable indorsements. "Yes," was responded, "outside pressure appears not to have had any influence upon the appointments so Izr as made. Indeed, one might conclude that the selections had been made with an eye to men who were under little or no obligation to others for their appointments. But it is universally agreed that the appointees are men thoroughly equipped for the work to which they are respectively assigned. Among applicants for office one meets in Washington, none are seen who feel confident of success. All are impressed, however, with the idea that appointment means work, and that if they are not chosen some other good men will be." "Yon met the Indiana Democratic delegation ?"' "Yes, and Mr. Hendricks. Our Representatives, as well as Senator Voorhees and Mr. Hendricks, are giving considerable time to efforts at securing patronage for Indiana. Wfcat success they will meet I cannot, of course, say. There are a good many Indianians there in quest of olfic. Doubtless some of them will be favored; but, necessarily, others must be disappointed. But whatever appointments or disappointments Indiana may realize, everyone may rest assured that Mr. Cleveland's administration will be one of reform and honesty." THE ST AT IS 1" K ESS. It will be admitted by all fair minded perEons tbat, as the Democratic party is to be held responsible for its administration of the government, it should nave its own men in every important place. Seymour Dimosrat. Hon. George W. Julian should be remembered by the new administration. The brave old man has spent hfs life in battling for the rights.pf the people. He has been a Whig, Abolitionist, Repnblican and Democrat, and from conviction. He has invariably advocated causes which triumphed, and has been the first to lead the way in every instance. He should be given the consideration dae a man of his sterling worth. Miami County Sentinel. Governor Gray has appointed James Morris Thompson, of Crawfordsville, 8tate Geologist to succeed Professor Collett. Mr. Thompson is a man cf rare ability, having gained quite a reputation in the literary world as a writer of romanc e and verse. He has given much thought and study to ko1ogy. snd we feel Eafe in raying bis reports will lake high rank in tbe scientific world and give tbe country a correct idea of the resources of Indiana. Fort Wayne Journal. The Legislature has been a goad one. It has passed none but gaod laws and has defeated a number of evil ones, ot which there is alwajs a plentiful crop. We could have wished that its labors bad ended with the regular session ; but the frequency with which extra sessions have been found to be neceshary in the past decade is almost conclusive on tbe point that sixty days in two years which was sufficient years ago is not sufficient now when the State has quadrupled its population and wealth and in the variety and To'ume of its business. Cleveland's appointments have thus far surprised a good many persons. The gentlemen selected for the positions respectively cf Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Commissioner of Patents and Assistant Postmaster General were not mentioned in connection with the several places until their ram es were sent to the Senate for confirmation. One tbioe will be noted, however, and that is that they are all men ot character and ability. Few of the men thus fur appointed have formerly been Federal officeholders Logans tort Pharos. The Republican pre-i ot the whole country, but mora especially ot this State, is just now with Hon. Joseph K McDonald on account of the bad treatment they say he ha3 received and is receiving at the hands of Vice President Hendricks. Of course this tory of ill treatment is all a myth. Hr. McDonald himself has never pretended that Mr. Hendricks has done anytthlng to his political detriment or disadvantage with the new administration. But the Republicans must have something to carp at, so they get hold of his myth, shake it up into a mare's

nest, with the old xcare on, and dance around it with as much jubilation as though they had gotten npa real fi-ht between two of tbe most distinguished members of the Democratic party in Indiana. Enjoy youreelves, es best you cm, in your quarters away up Salt River, for it will be a long time befor you are allowed to come down. Lafayette Dispatch. An order has been issued forbidding clerks about tbe White House to smoke or read newspapers during business hours. This is at least one step toward reform. We had a conversation with an ex-navy officer a few days zo who had held a position in the navy for a numbrr of years, and in the course of his remarks he said: "It was very embarrassing to transact any buMne-s with the War Department, for the reason that clerks, as a general rule, put in a large portion of their time reading newspapers and sruoiirg their cigars. It made no difference bow urgent the business was, the applicant was forced to wait until tbe clerk was pleaded to attend to it Deca'ur Democrat.

Clerk Higijins setms to have drawn the entire fije of the Republican batteries. In the meantime, eate the Baltimore San, he is quietly discharging the duties of his office to the entire satisfaction of his chief, Secreretary Manning. His personal mail grows larger and larger every dy, and letters of congratulation and expressions of confidence in his ability are ba'.nsc received from all parts of the State of Maryland. Tne following is from Mayor Latrobe: JlAYou's O.TirE, C:tv Ham., i Baltivork, Maren 17, 1SS5. t My Dkar Mr. Ur-ciss-i nave lately read so much about you and your appointment, that I have almost concluded that you are either one of the best or one of the worst men in the comtry. I can only say for myself, and I take pleas are In say In e it to you, that I consider your appointment a most excellent one, and I an sure that the Secretary of the Treasury will have no reason ever to rtiiict his choice. 1 think we have known each otPt-r lot inany yearn. Hud I have lil opportunities lor knowias your qualifications for such a position. If yon make as good an olticer under Sec-rt-tary Maunine as your brother, the City Collector, has made for Baltimore and I have no doubt you will, from what I know of you the Treasury Department may be congratulated ou securing your services. Wishing you success in your department, and knowing that you will win it by your own merit, I am very sincerely yours. Febdinabi C. Latrohe. In a recent lecture Carl Schurz described bis first sight of Lincoln : I was on my way to Quincy, 111., to attend a debate which was to be held there between Lincoln and Doupias. When the train stopped at a small station near the city there was a great commotion at the end of my car. Kverybody was trying to sret to a tall man who was putting oat a great nand, first in one direction and then in another. Krerybody seemed to know him and he seemed to know everybody. It was "Old Abe." they told me. After the crowding was over a little 1 was introduced to him. lie wore a battered hat, a rusty bleck coat, with arms almost ion? enonuh to cover his wrists, and pintaloous that almost reached his well worn shoes. He carried a gray woolen shawl in place of an overcoat. He begn to talk to me in a high-pitched voice as if he had known me all my life, and at once made me feel as if I had known him as Ions. The Evaasville Courier says: The tariff organs in every quarter loudly exult over the appointment of Joseph S. Miller, of West Virginia, for Commissioner of Internal Keveuue. which they attribute to Mr. Randall's wonderful lLttutvce with the Administration. They are catching at a straw. 1 1 may moderate their joy to know that Vice President Hendricks was an earnest tupporter of Mr. Miller, and doubtless a much more effective one than the ex-Speaker. After the last campaign noboly doubts the devotion of Mr. Hendricks to tariff reform. Ju every Eublic meeting whica Mr. Hendricks addressed e eloquently denounced and exposed theahu-es 8nd iniquities of the tarifr ßystem. Senator Kenn, of West Virginia, an able and resolute advocate of tariff reduction, also supported Mr. Milkr. So th?re is email room for protectionist rejoicing ovfr this appointment or over the great victory of Mr, Randall. This is the shape it took as it strayed into New Castle, Ind. We quote from our enthusiastic and hilarious Republican contemporary, the Courier, of that burg: Wood on the moon ! Hendricks and Voorhees are about to declare war on the President because he won't turn the Republican oflice-holders out in a bunch, ana threaten to array the Democracy of . Indiana against the administration. Cleveland quietly sent for McDonald, and it is now understood that Joseph will rule In Egypt. Higglns Appointment. There seems to be a misapprehension in the minds of some nervous people about the nature and importance of the "office of Appointment Clerk" in the Treasury Department, says a Washington telegram to the New York Herald. Secretary Manning a few days ago put into that very unimportant place Mr. Higgins, of Baltimore, and thereupon several newspapers, some friendly and some unfriendly to the administration, cried out in horror that quite a terrible thing had been done; and this ignorant and absurd cry, curiously enough, continues, as though these who are complaining had got it into their heads that an Appointment Clerk is "a person who makes appointments." Tbe truth about the place is that it covers merely a part of tbe work which th private secretary of the Secretary of the Treasury would do if he had not his hands fall enough without, and it would be as sensible and just to complain that Secretary Manning had not kept Secretary McCallough's private secretary as to cry out against the appointment of Mr. Higgins. The appointment clerk in the Treasury Department keeps the record of all the appointments made in the department the names, dates of appointment, with any reports, favorable or the reverse, which may be made about the different clerks or officials. The Treasury employs a great number of people, not merelj here, but in Cu&tom-houses and other public offices all over tbe country. It is nectary that eoaie record shonM be kept of their name?, occupations talaries, dates of appointment, place of service and efficiency. Few persons probably imegined that the Secretary of the Treasury does this himself, or carries tfceee lists about in his hat or bis coat pocket. Possibly there are people who suppose that ihe Secretary's private secretary does it; but he has his hands full otherwise. The labor of keeping this necessary record is therefore given to a special clerk, who is called an appointment clerk, net, as some gullible and suspicious persons imagine, because he makes all the appointments, but because his duty is to keep in orderly fashion the record of the people who hold office under the Treasury Department. Tnere was a time, before the civil service law went into effect, when this oftice of appointment crerk was liable to abase, becaisa favorite Senators, Congressmen and politicians had private access there to see who of the officeholders sn their States they could persuade tbe President to tura out in order to put their own followers in. Bat under the civil service law even this abuse, which was never eerious. has, of course, disappeared, and Mr. Higgins, the new appointment clerk, has the duty to keep an orderly record of the persons employed under the Treasury, and no power whatever. As Mr. Higgins is an efficient and capable person for tbat work, and as the work has no political importance wbatever.bat is simolya part ot tbe Private Secretary's duties, all the complaint and fuss about his appointment ia absurd. There is an appointment clerk in each of tbe other departments whose duty is precisely the same as that of Mr. Higgins. They are the custodians of the roster of all persons In the Government service under their respective departments, whether confirmed by the Senate or doing laborer' work in

.ome Government building. Ttu dstles are merely clerical, and now that civil service rr gulates promotions as well as appointments the influence of an appointment clerk is not greater than that of any other salaried employe in his 'epartraent. He b simply the bead of a division of clerks whokeep tbe rolls of the names printed every, to ears in the blue book.

SEYMOUR IlEUS. Two Jackson County Scoundrels A Social Kent Nw Organ Proposed Caanlng; Factory Celebrates Ilia Ulrtb-Uay. special to the Sentinel. Seymouh, Ind., March A tale of horror haa just come to light, and it reports arttrue, is one of the most revolting that has ever occurred in this county. Ou Sunday afternoon last Misses Ida M. Bolton aad Josie riummer, bright young ladies aged some fifteen years each, and residing lire miles tonth of here, took a waik in the woods in search of gum-wax. They had not proceeded far -till they were overtaken by James Pence and William Wilson, who reside in the same neighborhood. One of them drew from his pocket a llask cf whisky highly sweetened with candy. They being well acquainted the men began imbibing, and soon became intoxicated to insensibility. It is believed that while in this condition the men outraged them. Upon being restored to consciousness they returned home and revealed the horrible story to their parents. Warrants for their arrest were placed in the bands of two special Constables, who found them in tbe southern part of the connty and brought them to this city last evening, when they were arraigned before Justice Mills S. Reeves, when they entered iBto bond for their appearance before him for trial on Saturday next. Tue defendants are some thirty years of ags and married. The affair produces no little excitement. William J. Robertson, of Shields, and M'e s Yicla Pfaffenberger, a leading young '.viy, wore married this evening, at the residence of her mother, at Brownstown. Mr. C. W. Pilcher, of Louisville, has jnst placed in position a tine pipe organ In the First Presbyterian Church, which was used at religious eervice to day for the first time. Mr. Pilcher Is an accomplished musician and theoran gave perfect satisfaction. Negotiations are in progress for the erection of a large canning factory here this Eea80n. This would be a paying investment as tomatoes and other vegetables are ra'eed here in great abundance, and transportation is as cheap as in any city in the State. Mr. Andrew Pfaffen oerger, assisted by a large circle ot relatives and friends, celebrated his eighty-seventh birthday anniversary yesterday. He is very active for one of his ape, andbid3 fair to live to become a centenarian. A Woman linriied to Death he Saved the Child. Ppr!ial to the Sentinel. MorKT Carmll, 111, March 2l Last nh bt the clothing of Mils Belle E.Collins, a domestic in the family of A. M. Stern, i aught hre from a spark from the stove, near which she and one of the children were half asleep, and before she knew they were both enveloped in flames. She stripped the child and saved it, and before help reached her ehe was burned to a crisp. Tne only words she spoke were to the effect that she perished for the child's safety. She died about .". o'clock this morning. Most of the family were absent at the time. Dropped Dead. Special to the Sentinel. Kokomo, Ind , March 22 George 8prlng, one of our wealthy farmers, residing one mile west of this city, dropped dead this afternoon of heart disease. He formerly resided In Fayette County Itutcbered Prodacts to Cheapen at Indianspoils and Other I'oints ::0 Per Cent. St. Louis, March 22. A dispatch from Waco, Tex., fays: "An eßort is to be ma le to divert the cattle trade of Texas from St. Louis and Chicago to Cincinnati. Gentlemen interested in the Texas and St. Louis Narrow Gauge Railroad have ioined other buunees men at Cincinnati to run Texas cattle over the narrow gauge, getting special rates from Cairo east. It is thought this arrangement will enable meat dealers to reduce the price of butchered products very largely, while it will be a good arrangement for Texas cattle men. Louisville, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Columbus and Pittsburg will be supplied, after this arrangement is completed, from Cincinnati, eaving in both time and freight as much as 20 per cent, over the present prices. Prominent bankers and business men here are in th scheme, and are very sanguine ct its ultimate suc cess. General Grant's Condition. New York, March 22. General Grant slept part of the time last night in a chair. A consultation was had at 2 o'clock to-day by Doctors Sands, Douglass and Sheridy, and it was generally considered that the patient's throat looked much better. There has been no pain or sensation of uneane?s about the throat for a week. General Giaat tooksDiue food to day, but be has no appetite, and only eats as a matter of necessity. When Doctor Douglass called to ee General Grant to-night h found his patient in tbe parlor. General Grant immediately walked up stairs to his room, and said be felt tired, as there had been a great many visitor daring the day. He retired shortly after 10, and Doctor Douglass thinks he fell into a refreshing slumber. The General is very anxious that tbe weather should moderate, so tbat he may taae some out-door exercise in his carriage. Drowned While Dnck Hanttns;. CnicAGO, March 22 Tie InterOce&n'i Keokuk, la., special says: George Wilson and George Dickinson, of Hamilton, III., were dnck hunting in a canoe near this city, to-day, when they were struck by a cake of ice and upset Dickinson rank at once, bat Wilson floated upon the cake of icstoth--bridge, a short distance below, where he grasped a rope let down to him, but not beingable to retain his hold, and falling into the water, was also drowned. Had he remained on the ice he would have been rescued, as some men in a canoe were waiting for him some distance below. Burglars' Work. Burglars broke Into the saloon of Jacob Boes, in theMczart Hall building, at an early hour yesterday morning, and secured f 150 from the safe, which bad leeDj:eft open by the proprietor. The tools with which the gophers fcrced open the back door were probablv taken from the carriage ahop of George Shover, which was alo broken into on Saturday night. Of the above sum but ?40 belonged to Boss, the remainder being the prcceeds of a ball given by the Bakers Society, of which the ta'.oon keeper is & member.

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