Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 97, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1885 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAFOLIS DAILY SENTINEL TUESDAY MORNING APRIL 7 1885

TUESDAY, APRIL 7. OmOli 71 ud 73 West Mark! Street. BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Iodlaotpolln Reatlnel for 1HS. Dally, Sanda; and Weekly Editions. DAILY. Delivered by carrier, per week f 2 Daily, including Sunday, per week 39 Dally, per annum, by mail 10 00 Daily, per annum, by mail, Including suui toy u i & i 1 . ... msmm ... 12 00 Daily, delivered by carrier, per annum......... 12 00 Daily, delivered by carrier, per annum. Including 8unday 11 00 Daily, to newsdealers, jer ropy mmmmmm 3 SUNDAY. Sunday edition of eighty-four columns- f 2 00 Sunday Sentinel, by carrier 2 50 To newsdealers, per copy WEKZLT. Weekly, per annum. .... 1 1 00 The postage on subscriptions by mail is prepaid by the publisher. Newsdealers supplied at three cents per copy. Postage or ether charges prepai 1. Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Indianapolls, Ind. General Lo- an is on the rampige. Dayton, 0., went Democratic yesterday by 300 majority. Th drift of yesterday's elections was with the Democracy. A new French Cabinet has been formed with M. Briaaon as Prämier. Ths Evansville Democracy swept the city like a whirlwind. Read our special. Tub insertions are that Mr. Gladstone will retire with the November elections. The Republicans of Cincinnati pulled their Mayor through yesterday by a small majority. Michigan went heavily Democratic yesterday. A SupremeJudge and Regents of the State University were elected. Calvin ii. Walker has resigned his position in the Pension Department at Washington, and it is probable that Colonel William E. McLean, of Terre Haute, will succeed him. Whu.. Logan was denouncing Mayor Harrison as a liar the latter was reading an aliidavit from a member of the Illinois Legislature sustaining him in the charges that be had inadf. Wi have received many compliments on the Easter number of the Sentinel. It is conceded that it was one of the oest papers ever istued in the country anywhere. Next Sunday's paper will be stiil better. Look oot for it. Those who care to read the serial, "Love or Money," by Charles Reu de, should secure the opening chapters. KawtPAi el correspondents say that in certain circles in Washington a subject that is gravely discussed is whether Miss Cleveland will continue to lecture. The President,as the story inns, has been importuned to interpoee objections to such a step. He replied that be had very little influence with Miss Cleveland, and that if (he wished to lecture he did not see how he cuid stop her even if he wished to do so. which he didn't. American beef for British soldiers stands for much more than what the literal meaning of the words implies. They emphasize once more the long-accepted fact that the United States is the world's provision store, supplying those food necessities that civilization must have. Toe old world's quarrels are onr prosperity, and will continue to be so long as we keep aloof from them, and this will be while the true republican sentiment that underlies our foreign relations is the dominating national force. If ever the enrao of colonies comes upon this country, then will she be swayed by that giant, jealousy, which sits above the nations of Europe, ever impending a conflict of rights fancied or real.

JEFFERSON DAVIS TO GENERAL ORANT. If the prayers and good withes of all those in the South who honor and respect General Urant could a rail be would conquer the dread antagonist with whom he is now contending, jnst at triumphantly as he overcame the antagonists with whom he contended twenty years ago. Could language express more of sympathy and regard? Could ths heart of any former comrade in arms of the dying chieftain pulse with more earnest longing for his recovery than is reflected in the utterance ' In his sick n m on Saturday General Grant received a letter from which the flotation if an extract. The dispatches tell ns that the dying hero was deeply affected by it Tbe inference wouM be that it was from seme friend be' ween whom and himself theie had never been counter lines some party compatriot. Bit the inference was not realized ; the letter was from Jefferson Davis, formerly President of the Southern Confederacy. The Sentinel is no champion of Jefferson Davia Tbe nolitioa! offenses of which he was guilty have no defense in these columns, but we do say that hi? letter to the dying military chieftain who led ths armies whic h disarmed his own and placed his body in iront we sav that this letter has in it the ring of true manhood and noble personal spirit. Driven from place and power to the obscurity of private life, and banished from participation in pub ie affairs in which he was so conspicuous a figure into an Isolation almost as complete as that of Napoleon at St. Helena, it would not have been surprising if Jefferson Davis had beco.ue a soured man, cherishing malice against the leader of the hosts that accomplished his overthrow. But this letter shows him not to be that creatore of disappointment and hate some would make him out. Whatever he nay have done in the ycara long goae, ike emotion that welled from the heart of General Grant when reading Mr. Davis1 ut

te ranees of sympathy will soften many a Northern heart toward the gray haired and falteriEg ex Confederate, who must soon follow the illustrious soldier to whom he has written so feelingly beyond the tide where political animosities are forgiven and forgotten.

THE TELEPHONE BILL. There seems to have been some opposition on the perl of a few members of the House of Repretentatives to the passage of House Bill No. 44, introduced by Representative Williams, reqniring telephone companies to reduce the rental of a single telephone to $"..00 per month, and where two or more are used by one party the rental not to exceed $2 V). Ihe bill further provided that the tolls charged for a single connection with neighboring towns shall not exceed tureen cents. It is not our purpose to offer any suggestions or state any facts pertaining to the subject that would be considered detrimental to the interests of the people ot the entire State. Such a statement of facta as may be given can be substantiated t such an extent as to satisfy all concerned that the subject isone on which we are perhaps better advit I 1 than the few Representatives who opposed the bill. The first objection urged against its iassae wss that as the telegraph company charged twenty-five cents for ten words, it was unjust to reduce teleph ne tolls to I fteen cents. Tbe gentleman objecting should first cousider the cost of building and operating telegraph lines and compare it with the expense of the telephone service. He should further understand that the telegraph company having a monopoly in email Owns charge what they pit .ise. It costs twenty-live cents to telecraph ten words between any two neighboring towns in the State. Bnt residents of Indianapolis can telegraph to any competing point in the Eastern or New England States for a cent a word. If this is practicable where a large force of skilled operators are employed and telegrams handled from two to four times at intermediate repeating offices, is it not consistent to reduce the teteobone tolls or a single connection to a neighboring town to a similar amount, when the customer serve) as his own operator, averting all expenses of manipulators, etc.' Another objection was to the effect that it was the duty of American people to protect a patentee in his rights. The patentee gets his royalty precisely the same, viz., $10 annually for each telephone.' Should the bill become a law there will be 28 per cent, more teierhoLts in cp hence the patentee is protected much more substantially under I the cheap rate than by the preseut tolls. With respect, we veuture the opinion that these several gentlemen lack the requisite information to correct judgment iu the premises. This information is obtainable only in large cities and at telephone headquarters. We think we are i ally advised, and shall endeavor to photograph the si tau tion as it actually exists. The Central I nion Telephone Company is but a link to a monopoly second to none in the world's history. Twenty per cent, of its grcss income is turned over to the Western Union Telegraph Company as their portion of its earnings, aside from the interest held by this gigantic corporation. The oibcem of the telegraph company are among its leaning Directors. The Superintendent of the Western Union at this point is a principal stockholder and Director in the telephone company. Outside of ths stock held by the Western Union Telegraph Company and its officials, we are informed none but foreign capitalists are interested. These shrewd manipulators of American institutions have no other motive in view than to make ail they can out cf their investment, thus bleeding the purses of American c: me, which they will continue to do so long a i legislation does no. interfere. In their own native land the Government regulates telephone tolls. Why should they not meet with similar measures on this side of the ocean? The opinion teems to peva 1 that telephone exchanges are local institutions. The Central Union Telephone Company covers all of the system in the States of Ohio, I udi ana and Illinois. In other States, embracing the entire telephone system of the country, it goes under different name?. This i3 for legal objects, to avoid certain laws bearing against them, and to avail certain privileges obtainable only by becoming State institutions. Yet the entire system comes under the shield cf the Bell Telephone Company of North America. This company has little regard for tbe wishes or interests of the people. They have expended in the neighborhood of t",000.0o0 since their existence in no other cause than in crushing out and keeping down competition. Lesi than a year ago tb- Overland Telephone Com oany applied for a charter. Its telephones were superior to those now in use. It proposed renting telephone fcr $ per month, and make connections with outside points for fifteen cent. The instrument used by them rendered it perfectly mf to converse With points 500 miles distant. Tests were made which proved that wss practicable. The tick of a watch conld be distinctly beard over a circuit of this lergth. They proposed to establish connections at the 8 cent rate to Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo. Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville and other neighboring cities and intermediate points, but they had not the capital with which to fight the Belt Company, which, by the backinz furnished them, expended one round million dollars, in litigation and otherwise, tor the purpose of defeating the Overland Company. Until within the past three years the telephone company , has in many cities been operated jointly as a branch of the Western 1 nion Telegraph Company. The manager ot tbe comany was the manager of tbe Telephone Exchange. The Superintendent of tbe telephone we- also Scperintendent of the telegraph company. The tame system of management now prevails In email cities, snch as Oreencastle and 1 Lafayette. Ths telephone company la to

closely allied with the Western Union Telegraph Company that they are oolged to obstinately refuie profitable business offered them. Hence if their incone is so little as to merit tbe sympathy of the public, we would ask why they do not cut loose from other electrical corporations and serve the public ss common csrriers should. A prominent broker of this oity called at the Telephone Exchange to consult the Superintendent with reference to leasing a wire for obtaining quotations of Chicsgo markets. The mansger of the exchange, in the absence of the Superintendent, sta'ed that their relationship with the Western Union Telegraph Company prevented them from leasing a wire, and, furthermore, if the contract was strictly complied with they would be obliged to "pull" every telephone used in broken' offices, as they were being used constantly for furnishing quotations The gentleman seeking information asked is arrangements cooid be made for telephoning quotations from Indianapolis to a neighboring town every fifteen minutes. He was informed that euch weald be a violation of their contract with the Western Union. "Then," said the gentleman, "you mean to say you are allowea to control conversation when twenty five cents is paid for the connection .'" "No,'' be replied, "but when the connection is a&kcd to be made for the purpose specified, we would be justified in refusing to obey, as we are not allowed to furnish telephones for that purpose, nor are allowed to tike telephone messages to be written at terminal points; the addressee most appear or some on in his stad and receive the information intended Iff him.'' Other contracts bind them so closely in the interest of the Western I n ion Telegraph Company as to cause them to refuse to place telephones in tne cilices of competing telegraph companies, and there are now a large number oi suits pending against them to obtain telephones. I nder these circumstances we would suggest that the telephone company needs no protection. If their lines are not operated at a profit, it is their own fault. Let them accept the business offered them and they will thrive. As to the theory that the bill in question is a move made by tbe telegraph company to cut down the telephone company, we haaten to correct the impreesion by asserting that the Western I nion Teiegraph Company are doing a i m their power to defeat the bill. A tew weeks ago the Superintendent of the Western I nion Telegraph Company warned the people through the interpretation of a News representative that if the bill in question

became a law it would close up all telephone excb mces in the fctate, and further stated on this occ i&ion that the ct oital stock of the company was $l0,0O, but investigation shows that flU 880 is all that is being taxed, and that the royalty paid on ea a telephone is $15 annually instead of $20 as was represented. As to the protection of American patentees, tbe royalty amounts to several million dol lars annually, out of which enormou? sum the patentee expends fully $1,000,000 annually to keep down competing telephones who would g'adly luruish much superior service for half the tolls charged and still acknowledge to be remuneratively compensated. Should there be objections ti the bill when it reaches the s-snate similar to those referred to in the House, let facts be seriously considered. First, are we to protect a monopoly of this kind .' Second, if the telephone company will not serve the people properly and refuse to allow other telephone rompanies this privilege, is it not a stupendous wrong to defend their interests by not legislating against them? MR. BLAINE'S FOOLISH FRIENDS. A local Republican paper, which lifted its skirts indecently high iu tempting James G. B'aine into hie libel suit against this paper, was startN-d the other day by a false special from its Washington correspondent, that one of tbe Sentinel editorial staff had applied for a foreign mission. Referring to the Sentinel man, the organ said he "wrote that Indecent attack on Blaine which the Courier-Journal denounced as the foulest jeb of Ecoundrelism ever perpetrated in a political campaign. ' Continuing, the organ held that if the Sentinel man "should receive the nomination the least thin-the Republican Senators could do would be to refuse to confirm bim." Such garrulity, ucder the light of the termination of Mr. Blaine's libel suit, is exceedingly stupid. There is but one recent pobl ation more blund'-ring - that of Mr. Blaine ordering tbe bringing of the suit in question. The latter denounced the Sentinel's article as "utterly ami abominably false in every statement and every implication" and that the plaintiff would "defend tbe honor of his family, if need be, with his Ilia" And jet, after such observations, the records of tb6 United States Court show that Mf. Blaine voluntarily dismissed his suit against the Sentinel and paid costs therein. According to this same organ, in August last the Sentinel was to be sold under Mr. Blair.e s action and its editors imprisoned. Tne Sentinel never backed out of court, nor cid its editors beat a retreat, nor did they tbrea'en Mr. Blaine with prosecution for falsa swearing. It the charges mad-t at .tinst tbt plaintiff were untrue he bad only to prosecute his suit to have recovered damages. We infer that Mr. Blaine and his Indianapolis friends have never aptly understood each ether. We think the latter were not at the outset apprised of now vulnerable was the bed of their Achilles. It would appear that Mr. Blaine does not understand to this day what blundering dolts are his Indianapolis foot washers. So far as the Sentinel was concerned. tbe libel suit affair was dropped when Mr. Blaine made a virtue of necessity and somersaulted backward from the cs fiant testimony of the defense. But lnce his friends are so ill advitei as to still rant about the matter, the Sentice. has to cay that had one of its staä received an ap

pointment by the President Mr. Blaine would have been in no hurry to have Republican Senators contest the nomination cn his account. He would not have challenged the Sentinel's friends to an issue upon the merits of his alleged wrongs from the Sentinel, even in an executive session of the Senate. But out of sympathy for his misguided Indianapolis adherents, if ior no other reason. Mr. Blaine should give them a significant wink that he has had enough of their championship For them to transfer to tbe Senate executive session the evidence he shrunk from meeting in the court would be rath?r mistaken kindness toward the Plumed Knight It would be like shooting him through the body for a chance to frown at the msn on the other aide of him. There are in this world fcols and fools, but it may be tbat Mr. Blaine will yet be compelled to pronounce his Indianapolis friends as the biegest of all fools.

WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS. Wars snd rumors of ware are rife on every hand. England is making little, if any, headway in the Soudan. General Graham has burned Tamai, and, at last accounts, was marching on Tamanlef, the Arabs, having been driven horn their position, retreating in tbe opposite direction. The British troops have a determined enemy to contend with, besides the disadvantage of enduring tbe beat and unhealthfulness of the equatorial climate. Should England jet become involved with Russia over the Afghan question her complications will he such as to mske the situation a grave one for Great Britain.' General Sir Peter I.umsden's proposed new frontier line has created a stir in India. This would give Chaman-i-Baidh to the Russians, making the new boundary some miles saath of the lowest which Russia has heretofore claimed for Torkestan. The fortifications atChaman-i I laid h can be rendered almost impregnable; this place is considered the key of the Herat. The people of India say that if this town, with its commanding situation, is given up by Kngland, she might as well surrender Herat at the same time. Reliable information as to whether Lord Dufferin accedes to this proposal of General Lumsden is not yet received, bnt it is not probable Kngland will grant so much. The speck of war cloud therefore has not disappeared by any means, and the solution of the 1 'ritiah Russian question is still undetermined. At the I ranco-Chinese seat of war there is little change in the aituaiioB, The Chinese have an overwhelming force on hand, and are strong enough in numbers 1 1 prevent the Fieucn troops from ancestrally moving forward. Tbe Ant reinforcements from France for Tonquin will include 11,888 men with thirty-six mounted guns and other munitions. The inability at Paiis to form a Min.atry because of party bitterness does not help tbe situation of toe French in China and theee internal edicts at home may yot 1' ad to serious trouble there. M. Rocheiort, in reply to an article in an Opportunist pa per threatening that the Ferry majority in the Senate will refuse to vote for dissolution, says that this will be the signal for 10,000 men marching upon the Senate and wiping it out. M. Ferry has the upper hand thus far, and will probably succeed in forming a Ministry of his own supporters perhaps has already done so. On our side of the Atlantic. Itiel's insurrection in the Northwest and the Barrios war on the iathmn are looming up into such proportions that our Government has had to step in. The rebellion in Manitoba is now attracting tbe attention of the State Department at Washington, as a point in international law may be involved attectiug the United 8tates. The uprising of the half-breeds and Indians has filled the settlers, for hundreds of miles thereabouts, with consternation. The news from Winnipeg Is that Riel has nearly 2.0C0 men and six cannon. That they are bent on further mischief is certain. It is not probable that Riel can maintain a successful raid, but he is thus far making quite a stir in that part of the world. Secretary Whitney has sent 088 men and four veisels to Aspinwall to protect the citizens and interests of the United States there. The Barrios war has become of some importance to this Government as well as to Central American States affected. A telegram from 8anta Anna yesterday says Barrios has again been defeated. At this rate the struggle on the isthmus will soon be ended, and our forces return without having taken any ran in sn action. Now comes the rumor that China and Japan are apt to have trouble over tbe Corean Trotectorate penioscia dispute, but a resort to arms is not likely. This ieview indicates that ail the world iinotat pesce just now tbat much of it in fact is considerably disturbed by actual war or tbe prospect of strife. An amicable adjustment of differences and disagreements between nations on questions connected with their mutual welfare is a onsummation devoutly to be wished. The days when "war is a civil izer" are gone by. We hope a more Christian like method will be adopted ard soon put in force by the progressive Caucasians in the settlement of difficulties. THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS. Th- action ot Senator Bei Harrison in cantering to Washington to oppxe the confirmation of Mr. J. O. Henderson for a collectorship is no index to the policy of tbe Republicans in the Senate. Senator Harrison's voice had no weight with tt e brainier, broader and more influential Repubilcsna. He would have had Mr. Henderson rejected by the Senate. This the majority declined to do. The policy decided upon was that no part be taken in the removal of Republican officials, and that the President be left free to make removals and appoint successors during the recess of the Senate. Of coarse this was unsatisfactory to the cht ap and narrew partisans, Ben Har

rison class, but the bigger artillery silenced the small Ben Harrison popguns, and ordered that the administration should go on its way without any hampering. To have done less than this would have been to place the Republican msjority in a mean attitude. The popular vote of the Republic having been cart in favor of a Democratic administration, any attempt at stopping tbe wheels of government would be no less than a revolt by the Republican Senators against the popular will. It is a cause for congratulation tbat there are Senators in the opposite party with more breadth of patriotism and cense of propriety than Mr. Ben Harrison.

Tup theory that General Grant's disease was caused bf the excessive use of tobacco has been thoroughly exploded. One of the mcst eminent physicians in the country says that he has bad in bis time two cises almost exact ly similar, and that the sufferers were persons who never indulged in the weed. An English surgeon estimate? that 49 per cent, of all the cancerous diseases known to the medical profession occur among females, and that the disease is as likely to attack, or rather be developed in, a person who never uses tobacco in any form as in one who does. The use of tobacco is responsible for a great many evils, but it should not be wronefully accused. ( I RREM NOTE AND COMMENT. Tni. diplomatic nominations exposed some mighty poor guessing on the part of the political know-it alls at Washington. Boston Herald. J. Kii.bocrn, Sr , has shown conclusively in the Honeoye Times that the first temperance society in this country was not in Saratoga County at the beginning of this century, bnt in Litchfield, Conn., at tne close of the last century. Moral susslon lecturers will correct their statistics. Rochester Democrat. Tue new liquor law confers upon the County Attorney the powers of Grand Jury, SheriiT, prosecutor, witnes?, Jude and executioner. If the Supreme Court declares it unconstitutional, the extra session next winter will abolish the Supreme Court, if the State Temperance Union so will it. This present Legislature can do anything. Troy (Kan.) Cnief. Comm a: nts from hostesses are manifold and great. At a lunch recently given several seats were vacant, as some of the ladies invited bad sent no acceptances or regrets. To give A handfome lnncheon, perfect in a 1 of its appointments, requires artisti- kill and judgment. Think, then, of spoiling the symmetry cf the oeautlfully arranged table by a vacant chair here and there! The most nnreasonable excuse is preferable to no answer at all. New Orleans Picayune. Tylkr was really bothered with otliceleekers. Cleveland is not not yet. He has c! verly lifted the burden from his own shoulders to the shoulders oi department ekle fa Heedes, all political honors, he says, ceme to him unsought. Hat there is no douht that, es a rule, the big men who have mofct sought oihce and are still hunting have ihe least mercy upon the little fellows who try to get a grain or two of corn from tbe ears in the months of string porkers. Augusta (Ga ) Chronicle. The decrease of late in the number of disputes over wages has been very noticeable, and this would by itself be a very strong argument for improved conditions. The number of failures still continues to be in excess of the number for the orresponding period in lss4, but few large concerns are going under, and the weeding out process is taking a new line affecting Email capitalists who may have been strong when the shrinkage of the values first began, but who have been unable to meet the long -confined stru m This is not a bad sign in itself, for it argues that all "wildcat" Fcbemes have already been weeded out. Whether the change is about to cccur remains to he seen. It is well to direct attention to every favorable factor or indication, for much reliance is placed upon "con&dence.''--New York Herald. PERSONALS. Tur. Czar of Russia is only forty years old. OoseamawMAJ Mii.lkr, of Texas, owns 1 09,C00 cattle. John Roam blushes scarlet when he is contradicted. Cardinal KcCl4WKl was seventy-live years old March 20. K Sk betaky and Mrs. Lincoln still remain in Washington. Ex-8xna7ob OwtV, nearly eighty-one years old, wants a foreign mission. BbUMI WlLUaM was a maa of twenty- ; ve when General Grant was born. The widow Victoria is in her sixty-sixth yesr. That is all, and yet she is no Mirt. ' 1. 1. Mahdi married when he was only sixteen year- old. and now has thirteen wives. K Senator 1'cm'Letoh, the new I'nited States Minister to Germany, has sold his Clnnati residence for &0 0CO. Poor old Dan Rice, who was by many supposed to be no longer of this earth, is running a ten cent show in New Orleans. The Princess Dolgorouki, morganatic wife of Alexander II.. and reported inconsolable at h:? death, is eaid to be about to marry again. Vice President BnMt m has rented the pew in St. John's Kpio jpal Cburcb, Washington, recently occupied by ex-President Arthur. Or Mrs. Phelps, tbe wife of the new American Minister to England, i: is said: "Sie wins the hearts of all wno have the good fortune to know her. and is equsl in all respects to the duties tbat wül com to her ns wife of the American Minister at London." Senator Evarts telle his friends in Washington who express the hope that his daughters, "who used to preside over their parents' tea things at the Capital," will be with h .m next atason, that his daughters are "married

now and busy with teethings in their own households. '' Messrs. Garla.4o aho Lamau are tne two quiet members of the new Cabinet. Neither of them will do anything in the way of entertaining. Mrs. George H. Pendleton was Alice Key, a daughter of Francis Scott Key, the antbor of "Star Spangled Banner," and the niece or Chief Justice Taney. Theki is a great demand for psws in Dr. Sunderland's church, Washington, since the President has decided to worship ther. Prices have advanced. CONHRKSSV AN-BI.ECT RlCH4RP0N, Of Tenneesee, stands eeven feet in his stockings. Whenever he rise? to address the Chair, it will be a game cf seven up. Mn. Phem-s, the new Minister to England, was nce an Old-line Whig, aud as a Whig he served as Second Controller of the Treasury under President Fillmore. William Pctnkm Endi orr, the father of the Secretary of War, is stiU living at Salem, Mass., at the hale hi age of eighty-two. He says he V:eets up his health by walking five miles a day. Nothing illustrates the simplicity of General Grant - nature more clearly than his testimony tbat "it took me two days to believe it was possible that Ward had committed the act he had." New York Tribune. At the marriage of Princess Beatrice nueen Victoria will pive away the bride. This will be V ictoria's most conspicuous act of charity since ehe sent a copy of her book on the Scotch Highlands to a woman whose husband had been smashed to death in a Government foundry. A Paris correspondent says that though Victor Hou'O has ceased to write from increasing age, be is still robust, "with the teeth of a wolf and the storoush of a Hon," and with as many hairs on the top of his bead as when he was one-and twenty, though they are snowy white now. "Postmaster General Vila?, ' writes 8a h Rosa in the Washington Capital, "is one of nine sens, bnt foor of whom are now living. His father, Judge Vilas, was a man of considerable wealth. Nine boys in sncc s on naturally made him wish for a girl. Much to his deli 'ht, the tenth and youngest child was a daughter, who is now a beautiful girl of nineteen, but eadly out of health for a rear past. She is described as a blonde wit1! dark blue eyes, and the perfect complexion having a peach-b'3Som freshness. Colonel Vilas has a daughter who is seventeen and not yet formally out in society."

The Poliliers Home Superintendent. I Communicated. 1 Today the new Trustees of the Soldiers' Home visit Kcightatown for the first time, and among other matleis claiming their attention is the selection of a suitable person to act as Superintendent. oite a lively and good-natured contest is now on, by the several applicants, all of whom seem to be good men. We desire to call the board s attentton to one thing, which all will acknowledge at highly necessary, even alio win the utmost qualification on the part of the Superintendent in and of Mssssalr; thr.t is, tbat he should bavi the right kind ot p. wife. Without such an helpmeet, tbn (election, whoever be may be, will prove a failure. In fact, it is of the greatest importance that the wife should be tbe right parson in such a p'ace. Without disparaging the rights of others we repeat only what other persons have taid and who know by personal acquaintance that the wile of W. W. Rabbins, ot Bunker Hill, is peculiarly fitted by edaca tioD, habits, tastes, appearance and executive ability tor the position. In fact, all who know her :ive her these ret nisi to qualifications. Another thing w- may be allowed to suggest. The board is meant to be non-partisan so Is tbe Uobbins family. He is a l)mccrat and she a Republican, each earnest and pronounced, jet neither effusively so. We hope Mr. Robbins mey b successful Citii:. AMÜ&EMENT&. "Ttl BLACK FLA." AT THK 0B4Mb The talented young ac'.or, Mr. Kiwin Thome, supported by a good company, returned to tbe Grand Opera House laat night with his popular play of "The Black Fla." and he was greeted by a large and enthusiastic audience Among the English melodramas that have been set before the American pnblit "The Black Flag" is conspicuous for ils clever commingling of pathos and humor. The completeness with which the piece is put upon the stsge at tbe Grand is beyond praise. It was admire! to the full by laat night's audience, which laughed and wept in turn, and expressed its approbation at frequent intervals by enthusiastic applause. Tbe "Harry Glvndoa" of Mr. Edwin 1. Thcrne was long sirce accepted as a masterpiece of cbarscterization quite worthy to take rank alongside the ' Bob Br'erly1' of l'iornce, than which there cold be no more favorable rcmpariscn. The "Sim Lszirns" of Mr. L. R. Willard is a ricbly humorons Impersonation, while the Ned ' of MeMer Harry Woodruff :s a ren :i'keb:y clever bit of precocious actmg which will repv a Ion journey to witness. ' The Black PMMf will run two more nights, wirn tbe usaal low priced matinee Weantsday afternoon. heb by cxaanun as "kit" at EK;Lisna A fair sized audience last night at English's wnr.f-sed the first presentation ot ' Kit, tue Arkamaw Tiaveler, ' by Mr. Henry Chantrau and company. The resemblance, voice and style of s ting of Mr. Henry Chanfrau is very mccb like bis dead father; in fact wtre it not known a casual ohsetvr woald not detect but tbat he was bboldinv the senior Chan Iran's impersonation of "Kit." Henry i not quite so lar?- a man, but hi voire is quite as powerful, h stace presence as mmn aocing. His youth is made apparent by quick, agile and uracetul action: this is more plainly seen in the duel cere, which by the way ia tr.e mr; exciting of ita kind on any ste. O. W. Hagle aa ''Manuel 15 jnd," the garr.oir acd atdor or. was exce ler t ; Charles Howard as "Wash .-tubbe." "KUV friend, only fair: Adelaide Alexander in the double character of "Mrs. and M s Rtdding" was very good; "Judg Sog" and "Mjor SquigM aa played bv Mtsars. Williams and Walker is about the cleverest piece of coitedv bo&inees seen here for some nine. Tbe plav will be repeated to night an 1 deserves a large attendance. THE MUSH'M. There wss a perfect jam vesterdiy and last night at tbe Moaeum. The new programme, curiosities, eto., are nnoauaUy attractive. Will try and notice details tomorrow.