Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1885 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY SENTINEL MONDAY MORNING MAY 18 1885

MONDAY, MAY 1.

OFFICFt 71 and 7.1 17 est Slarket Streat BATES OF SUBxCKirriOX. Indianapolis Rentlnel for 1883 Daily, San day and Weekly Editions. DAILY. Delivered by carrier, per weet........... 25 30 10 00 Dally, Including Sunday, per weak. Daily, per annum, by nail Daily, per acnnci, by mall, includlnz Sun day, by THa11 - n 12 00 Daily, delivered by carrier, per annum 12 00 Dally, delivered by carrier, per annum, including Sunday. . 14 00 Dally, to newsdealers, per copy & SUNDAY. Sunday edition of eighty-four columns- ?! CO Sunday Sentinel, by carrier..... 2 50 To newsdealers, per copy- . ZY WEEKLY. Weekly, per annum. ..3 1 00 The postage on inscriptions by mail is prepaid by the publisher. Newsdealers supplied at three cents per copy. Postage or ether charges prepaid. Entered a lecond-class matter at the FostoSce at Indianapolis Ind. Mn. Phelps was pie3ented to Lord GranTille cn Saturday by Mr. Lowell. Thb letter T7iU leave England Jone 10 Tiie editors of the London papers say thai if the Old Testament revisers erred, itwa from a desire to be conservative In their translation. The Indianapolis Base Ball Club met with a reverse at Milwaukee yesterday. As the club has been notably lncky this season, it is not probable that the result of yesterday's game will have a demoralizing effect upon them. The score was 5 to 2. It looks now as if Chesley Chambers, the latest arrest made for the ri cant express rob bery near Bloomington, was the guilty man. The indications are all very damaging. The report of his lynching published yesterday is probably incorrect at leaat there has been no confirmation of it Judge Gbesjiam had a pleasant and cordial 'interview with the President last Saturday. He dealt the straight-oat Bourbon Republican organs a sturdy blow wbea he assured Mr. Cleveland that he bad ' the cordial support of all true Republicans in his efforts to purify the public service " That great man Phelps his had a royal welcome la England. Commercial GuzeUe. Mr. Phelps was simply "presented" to Lord Granville upon his airlval in London, but Mr. Lowell dined with the ueen about the same time. The farewell to the latter was more "royal" than the reception ot the former. Tnc Chief of Police of St. Louis has re ceived a letter from Virginia which claims , that the writer can put his hands on Max well, the murderer of Peller, in that State. The letter is written from Sand Bridge, VaM and says: Is there any reward offered for thesrrestol the murderer of Prelle? I see of his arrwt in Sew Zealand, In the papers, but if the description given of him In the Ne York Herald Is correct, 1 am pretty well convinced that I ean place my ' ban da on him In thia gtate. Please furnish me with a correct description of the man Mix we 11 and oblige yours respectfully, A. Br. long a. Superintendent .Life-Saving Station. The twenty-fifth annual convention of brewers will be held in New York this week beginning to-morrow. Representatives from nearly every brewery Id the country will be present, and the quarter centennial of the association will be celebrated in a manner entirely compatible with the size, the festive proclivities, and the wealth of the great so ciety of the Knights of Gambrinus. Last year's convention was held at Rochester, and it was there that they decided to hold the meeting of 1SS5 in the metropolis. Over SO per cent, of all the beer brewed in the United States is represented in its membership. Its objects are the protection and the advancement of the beer interests. A Davenport, Iowa, special cays that an important decision has been rendered in that city bearing on the right of injunction under the prohibitory law, the main question being whether one form of action can be prosecuted against a party when another form of action against him ia pending. The Judgs holds that "neither sense nor justics permits that a plaintiff should harass a defendant by a multitude of suits when full relief can be given in one." The decision was rendered in ao injunction case brought against a Muscatine saloon-keeper by the Temperance Alliance, and its importance lies in the facts that under it, when one injunction suit has been brought against a liquor teller, another can not lis agains him, and that sham suits have been brought against nearly every dealer in Muscatine. The Alliance will appeal. General Badeau being a Republican and having held two or three consulates under Republican administrations, w had concluded that he was a veritable daisy and a Republican daisy at that, but "H. V. B." of the Commercial Gazette rays: "If there is a more unreliable and unscrupulous writer on our military history than General Badeau, his work has not jet been brought to the attention of the public Ever since he begen to write of Generel Grant he has pro ceeded on the theory that he can add to Qez iral Grant's greatness by persistently claiming that the General did things which he did not do and his mistakes were not mistakes. It is fortunate that General Grant's fame deca not rest on B&deau'a voluminous writ Id gs." If a Democrat had written the foregoing he would be stamped a "copperhead," and therefore unfit to fill any position under tha pwsenta dministration. Hello! Here is another story started by tha organs. It Is intimated now that the President and his sister have had & misunderstanding and that she will not return to the Whita Hons3 fron the visit the ia now xaak-

inginNew York Stare. A correspondent contradicts this new lie, and says that Miss Cleveland has dtc'dtd to lengthen her stay, with her brother's approval, until next week. Between the brother and tha sister there ia a perfect understanding, and it is hardly lets than an intuit to both the President and Miss Cleveland to construe her absence that they have dieagreed on the subject of temperance or any other matter. The radical temperance friends of Miss Cleveland may disapprove of her course in countenancing wine in the White House, but she has a sense of the fitne33 of things which is as ucerxiug as her judgment is strong.

SECRETARY WHllNfciY ON THE WARPATH. Secretary Whitney's investigations into the Navy Yards, it is said, are prodncing good results. The Washirgton correspondent of the New York .S;in eajs that these ineatlllons began at Maw I-laiul, and very soon revealed outrageous tardiness there in completing work, and extraoidinary expense in whatever was done. A little f artber study disclosed a cine to the delay and the ex travagant cost. It appeared that incompetent men had been appointed to important places In the yard, and had coerced the votes of the employes. It wai natural that work and wages should be prolocged, under ?uch circumstances, in order to procure vates. The Secretary accordingly cilitd upon Commodore Ratsell; Commandant of the Yard, to co-operato with hiai in turning the rase i'9 out The Lfunq Is'and Yard next came under observation. This wa one Of these in which work was closed hy Secretary Chandler. Nevertheless, ithasnov been ascertained by hi 8uccf99.-r thtt 507eral officials connected with the construction and repairs of wooden ships have continued ever since to draw their salaries with as unfailing regularity a? if work was still going on there. Secretary Whitney has found no difficulty in dispensing with their services. Attention was then directed to the Brooklyn yard, and there, though the circumstances were a little different from those prevailing at League Island, there was found plenty of opportunity for reform. About a dczen heads have recently fallen ia the Conitruction Department, the master workmen aad foremen euffering notably. Employes were also discharged at Portsmouth. It is taid that for years these places have been managed in the interest of political iotiigues. Mr. Whitney wa3 interviewed in New York on Friday night, and the information is valuable and interesting. " You ask me," said the Secretary, "what speoial significance is to be attached to the removal of these foreman bosses. I will tell yea. It means that I intend to introduce a new system into the Navy Department, and I propose that it shall be on business principles in the future. I had not been in charge of the department many weeks before I discovered that is business wr being conducted in a most remarkable manner; that money was recklessly spent and that men were paid for work that woa never done. In fact, that the whole system was rotten. You may Imagine how bad it was when I tell yon that a wooden ship of 1,000 tons displacement that was lately finished at the Mare Island Navy Yard, cost the Government over $'V50,000. It ia not worth $2 for practical war purposes, and it could be built to-day for $250.000. Thia ia only a single instance of many that I could name, and some of them are ten times worsa than thia." Of course the Republican party organs in answering the new Secretary of the Navy will toned the old squeak "the money in the Treasury vaults has been counted and only two cents are raising. Now yoa Democrats had better keep quiet." The 8ecretay gives some further information. "I fourd thatfch navy yeid had anumber of departments for doing the fame work, and that there were altogether too many of these so-called foremen and bosses. The pay roll In the yards wes in this way unnecessarily increased, and an extravagance prevailed in the Government ship-yards that no private ship-yard would tolerate for an instant." The people wid remember that Robeson and Chandler two Republican Secretaries of the Navy are reepon Bible for the irregularities In and this sad mismanagement of our Navy Department. FRUIT AND HEALTH. As the season of fruit draws near it will be ccmfoiting to those who use it to know that very high medical authority declares that if people care to get rid of their family physicians there i3 no easier or more pleasant mode than to eat plentifully of fruit. The Rural New Yorker, after a conversation with . a physician on this topIcrecently, tays that his observation among farmers, especially among these who used Luit freely, led him to say that seldom did they need his services. If this Is true, why doea not every farmer keep his family well supplied with it, and for that matter, the providers ot all families? It is a deplorable fa:t hat farmers' families do not enjoy that robust health that country air and outdoor life with exercise should give. Perhaps, then, the remedy lies in the gaaerons use of fruit It is also a fact that living on farms whose rich acres are aching to produce abundant crops cf the varied fruits, but very few have plenty, and many never have any fruit, except it may be an occasional apple. The standard food in a majority of farmers' houses consists largely of bread, butter and me it (mostly pork) fried in grease, ard where pastry or cake Is used, it has lard in large proportion in its composition; and this food is eaten at least twice, and, in many families, three times a day year in and year out. Is it any wonder th t they are not more healthy, and that their prevailing diseases are such as indicate an ever consumption of greasy food? If fruits were expensive or difficult to raise there would be some excuse, but there is no part of the country without plenty of varieties adapted to its soil and ciimato, find juat such ts are fitted by na

ture to both nourish and cleanse tha body, aad no more skill is required to grow them toan to grow corn or wheat. Why Is it that eo few farmers make any attempt to.provide an adequate supply of what would add much to their pleasure and Sive many times its cost in doctors' bills, to say nothing o! the suffering and loss of their dear one? City people, of course, are not so fortunately situated as the farmer for fruit supplies, but yet they can use more than they do if they would give the niitur proper attention. Eat frait daily and plenty of iU

THE P03TOFFICE3. PosTorncE Department, ) fVasainston, I). C. J To the Editor o: the Sent'nel: Fik I not'ee a report that there i3 rodolilut among Indiana Domocrats because Democrats have not been substituted for Republicans In tie various postcfiices of your täte. The administration sppreclatt 8 how naturil is the detre fjr it ee cbnces, and la anxious to effect taeai as rapidly as is ptaclicable. Hut perhap tno Democrats vil l not be fo impatient wilh the almlniv t'ation f ben ooe or two facts are prewated for their consideration. It sN.'Uld b remembered that there are in round numbers '.1,000 postoflices In Indiana. Ot coarse tbe rcfctmaster General, nor i auy of his assistant?, acquainted with tbe 2.C0D communities in w icn tbese otfices are located. All tbat we know from tbo books of the department is the names of he ollices and of the Republicans occapyin? theca. We aro tcatiy to torn tbe latter out, but do nn deem it advisable to do so until we have accredited tou2,0UJ Democrats to upooint in their itad. Wr tbe latter tue administration nas to rely uoju tbe JJemocratJc Congressmen ana one Demoerific öei a'or Irom your stau. It the respo.vibl i y he equally divided each of t )ce ixentlemea would h?e, say 210 recommend;. '.ion, to ina'ie. row, any oneol these iea KeprcFentA'ive will t?ll sou tht be ban not recommended 2CP Pty.nocrts to us for poftotlice. It ix doubtful If eaber of tlnn has recommended twenty-flve apollc-int for postollices. They cm not decide for tneuselvcs immediately whom to indorse. They fel it rlgnt that they should confer witn their cotmlt ients. In iLStancM there are several application for the same cfiice. Th Con arrets a an, in tbat ca-, needs to weigh the claims or merits of ail before selecting one to recommend. Sotie Po-to(lioe Department could ret bave by this tine made changes at all the oflices, because your Conreis mn have uot made recommendations for all. True, Bomo recommendations have been made to us. and we have appointed, some of them: but it should not be forgotten that there aro tMrty even other States in the Union, besides the Territories, and 6ome 70.CC0 more postoülccs to bo refilled, and 11 equally urgent as Indian. So we are cot, therefore, able to give our eutire attention to applications from your state, lint if tbe Democrats of ep.ch community will co operate in indicating to their Congressman whom tbev would prefer appointed, and if tbe Congressman will then rcake his recommendations to the department, we will give Indiana r qual attention with otber Mates In effecting the desired chancres in tho po&tofhcte. VV. F. Vir. as, Postmaster Genera!. The Sentinel has not received any letter 3uch as the above from the Postmaster General. Bat were he writing in answer to the complaints that tbe oflices have not been refilled, he would, we think, offer about the explanation given in the assumed letter. We aro informed that not more than ten per cent, of the postollices of Indiana havo appiica tions filed at tha Postoilice Department for Democratic appointments. Of these a num. ber have been favorably acted upon. For the larger p3stoices there are, of conrse, applicants pressing their suits before their respective Cohprettmen or Senator Voorhees. Bat the Democrats at ama'Dr offices, with less cornpeneatiou attached, are doinß less to obtain changes. We engtest tbat at these there should be unity of action among onr party friends. If the Democrats at each such office can unite upon one man and unitedly reccmaend him to the proper Congressman, the latter will be greitly relieved and the appointment be, no doubt, more quickly obtained. Should not each community do all possible toward obtaining a charge in its oilice before condemning the administration? A POLISHED AFFRONT. The announcement that the Czir of Russia has presented General Komaroff with a swoid, even an ordinary steel blade with brats hilt and plain leather scabbard, would have Indicated an indignity against Eogland. But tbat the present should be one with & hilt of gold and a scabbard studded with diamonds' meant nothing if not that tbe recipient had won the favor of his royal caster in a marked degree. But the Czar did not stop even there in his effort to affront Oritannia. Accompanying the golden and jeweled weapon was a letter written by the royal hand itself, , thanking Komaroff for his services and praisiDg his conduct in the very affair for which England had virtually demanded that Komaroff be dishonored by Russia. No more insolent a slap in the face was ever given by one power to another, the situation being considered, "I cot only suttain the report of my General as egaictt that of your own General, but I place in bis hand a sword m&do especially to signify that the wealth of my Government and the jewels of my crown will support Russian arn s in resisting your demands and humiliating you," is the language of the Bear to the Lion in this act of presentation. That sword is a piece of satire as keen as any Damascus blade. It speaks more pointedly than any threat can Russia's defiance of England. It is the refinement cf insolence Will England allow it brandished without resentment? If so, she will submit to any insult frcm Russia. Really, the Czar is pol ished in repartee. He has taught the country of Pitt "how to be cevere without being unparliamentary." Senator Dawes was in Chicago last Sitnrdey on his way to Oklahoma. He is Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indien Affairs. In an interview with a reporter, the Senator said that the Oklahoma land was purchased by the Government in 1SCG from the Creek Nation for the purpose of settling friendly Indians and freedmen thereon. It was tbe intention then to give the Indians half of it and settle the remainder with freedmen, eome of whom had been held in slavery by the Indians, but the freedmen were not wilÜDg to occupy the lard. This left about 1,260 000 acres of the land without settlers, this being the half reserved for colored people, the Cherokee Indians having chosen to occupy their half, large portions of which they have rented to cattlemen. "We shall have nothing to do with the boomers." he said. "If they have any busintss with the committe they will hare to come to it." To the question as to the ebject of the committee's visit to the West at thij time, the Senator raid: "What we desire to do 1 to set tbe Indians to agree to

release the land to the Government far a consideration not only the Oklahoma land but the Cherokee (trip as well. The Oklahoma country, you know, can only be reached from Kansas through the Cherokee atrip. It ia claimed 17 Captain Coach that there are cattlemen in Oklahoma, while Senator Ingalls and ex Secretary Teller say there are not. The Cherokee strip has been subleased by a number ot etock companies, the treaty with the Indians interposing no objections against leasing, and the entiro 0,000,C00 acres of the strip are pretty well occupied.' As to tbe sale of the Cherokee land, the Senator taid that the Icdians had already signed an agreement to sell it to the United States nnder certain conditions.. The Oklahoma land has been ceded to the United States by the Indians, but for a specific purpose; and, since the Government had failed to use it for that purple, and chose to cae it for another, the title in case of occupancy by the whites would revert to the Indians, Hence a new purchase wcuid be necessary. The only thing hia committed could do would be to find out from the Indians the conditions upon which a satisfactory purchase could be made. The committee has been divided, and one portion goes to Oklahoma and the other to Dakota. All tbe capitals of tbe .several Indian natioos will be visited and the cbjeta aud other prominent men consulted as to the best policy to be paisntd. ' CURRENT TUOUUI1T AUD OPINION.

The present silver dollar is an honest dollar, and must be accepted as such, but it may be for the best interests of the country to increase somewhat its intrinsic value. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The theory that it :s best to suppress news of a icouge or an epidemic Is a fallacy of criminal magnitude, end should be eo declared by law. Topcka, Kas., Saturday Evening Lance. Ose tning Is established. The President is the head of the administration. He is a bigger man than any one ef hia advisers, and every one of them feels it and admits it, Washington Capital. SccnMmagination a3 is left among authors finds its fi:;ld moat readily in novel writing. The great pcetj are dead or dumb. The wcrld waits for their successors. Will they appear, Boston Herald, i " never was one to fesl good because another rtan felt bad. How would you have liked it if Eomeone had ta&eu comfort because hie boy lived when ours died? '"Silas Liobam" in HovelU' new story in The Century. Ik Biel is a coward Middleton is safe. If he Is not, a terrible dis&Her to the Dominion troops i? in otore. The two leaders are playing a high game, and just now it is difficult to say which of them is bluüing the more. New York Herald. Every few days we notice a plaintive cry from the East for more United States bond?, or at least for a stoppage of tha redemption of the public debt. The Eis turn stock gamblers want more chips to p'ay with. Saa Frjncisco Chronicle. Besides being made illustrious by an unexampled exhibition of American courage, on the battle field of Gettysburg were spoken the most eloquent words that ever fell from the lips of an American orator the oration of Abraham Lincoln Louisville Times, Ocb syetem of paying fair salaries to legislators permits workmen to enter legislative bcdles, and eo care fqr the Interests of labor. If the workers, with their heavy vote and complete organizition, fail to protect themselves at this point they have only themselves to blame. Philadelphia Evening CalL Tnc epiiit of communism in Chicago appears to have about rescLed its limit in the strike of the prisoners confined in the Bridewell for improvement in the quality of their food. The authorities should open their culinary department to competition, and give Delmomco and Pin aid a chance to bid. Brooklyn Union. The scheme of a syndicate composed of ßech men as the Dufce of Argyll for buying up the great tracts of land in England and Gelling them out in small farms "at cost" is one that will be approved by all good men. It will do much toward keeping do wn eo::alistic discontent Richmond State. It is unfortunate for the country that no means exist for disciplining a State of this kind. It has not a republican form of government. It is a plutocracy and aristocracy which develops not American citizens, but "better classes" and "poorer classes," aristocrats and slaves, rulers and subjects. Chicago Herald on Rhode Island's laws. Give European Turkey over to Russia, and she wonld not have completed the assimilation of that acquisition before she would be Intriguing for the Valley of the Euphrates. Give her that and .she would want Persia, And when &he had swallowed everything eLse her hunger for India would be stronger than ever. Waehington Sunday Herald. PERSONALS. Marion Haul nd( Mrs. Terhune of Newark) is about fifty years of age. Vicror. Hugo, with his family, has retired to his seat the island of Guernsey for the summer. The wife of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Fairchild is a niece of Horatio Seymour. Rub C5 stein will write an opera for next year's festival at Leeds, England, and will lead the performance in person. Mb. Lowell will not come home until July. He is going to stay in London and do the social honors toward his successor. Pxlisidzxt Cleveland has been invited to attend the annual fair of tbe Montgomery County (Md.) Association, to be held at Rockville, June 3. . Waldteufel, the famous composer of dance music, once lived in New York. But the coldncrs of Gotham publishers finally forced hixa to leave that city. Not? they

steal his waltzes, and are glad to publish no better productions than they oace refuse (L Mrs Elizabeth Granger, of Pittsfield Mass., who has bf en a widow seventy-fir years, celebrated her ICOth birthdty anni vertary lost Saturday. Mrs. Pitman, "Margery Deane," who ha been ill all winter, is now recovering, an has been asked by Miss Cleveland to becom a guest at the White Houae. That dreadful ei-Seoatcr Dsrsey is believed to have a mmory. A correspondent EAys: "I asked a irieLd of Djrsey what the ex Sanator was doing to cccopy his time. "Making money," v?as the reply. ' He Is pnttingjall his talent aud energy into that effort. He will make it warm for some one before he dies " Clara Morris is a Carad'an be was bora in Montreal thirty-five yean .o Having lost her falheT, he became a ballet girl in the Cleveland Academy of Mus e in that city at 15, to snpnort hr mother. She ro;e so japinly in her profession that at 10 ab- -vs leadir.g larty in one of the Ciocinaui Theatres. Tbe year following she was ngjped at Da'y h. Minnie Hauk. has been sioging with great success at the Imperial Opera House, li'a, in 'Carmen," "Miguon," -The laughter of the Regimpnt," and 'Fdu;t " The Emperor has conferred upon br behonoiarv luie of "Initial Chamber Sinr, a distinction shared only by three other foreign prima d..nien. Adelica Patti, Mrce. Jenny l.lndGoldschmidt and Artot Paiilla. In the autumn she will return to Berlin and create the part of "Manon" in Massenet's opera.

V'fr 'Vurn a mm. TUK NEW MINISTER TO RUSSIA. GEORGE V. N. LVritROP, OF MICHIGAN. The appointment of George V. N, Lothrop, of Michigan, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Russia, was a surprise to the politicians and to tbe country. Even the Congressmen of Michigan, who thought they bad all tho appointments for tha State on their slates, had no intimation of the intention to appoint Mr. Lothrop, until all the rest of the world knew as much about it as they did. Mr. Lothrop was not an applicant for the mission. There i3 no question from any quarter as to his fitness lor the appointment given him, which is one of the four boat of the United States foreign missions. The salary attached to the honor of representing the Washington Government at Sr. Petersburg, Is $17,500. Mr. Lothrop was born in Connecticut, somewhat more than sixty years ago. He was graduated from Browa University in 1833. Thirty five years after, the honorary degree of LL.D. was given him by the 3ame icstitution. Upon leaviBg college he chose the legal profession and entered the Harvard Law SchooL Among his fellow-students there were William M. Evaats, E. Rockwod Hoar, James Russell Lowell and W. W. Story. After graduating at Cambridge, he opened an office for the practice of his profession in Detroit, Mich. He has been a resident of tbat city ever since. Mr. Lothrop has been a Democrat from the time when be first signified his preference in politics. He was attorney General of Michigan in 1318. the only political cfiice he ever held. In 1SC0 he wa3 a delegate to the National Convention at Charleston, and wai a supporter of Douglas after the split in the Democratic camp. He wa9 a staunch Union man after tbe war. He has been three times a nominee for United States Senator from Michigan. The name of Mr. Lothrop stands high among the leading lawyers of his State, and he is a gentleman of superior culture and attainment. He is over six feet tall, aud has gray hair and beard. His manners are polished aud his bearing is courtly and dignified. Mr. Lothrop has superior qualifications es a conversationalist. He will represent his country with credit In the society of one of the most cultured capitals of Europe PERSONAL MENTION. Rev. Martin Lyons has accepted a call to the Baptist Church of Rockville. Bates House: A. C. Athertbn, DasMoInc; W. H. Silvetborn, Cleveland; X. R. Smock, Providence; Frank Lange, Milwaukee; S. B. Moe, Colunibss, O ; W. A. Fcrbe3, Chicago; Robert McMillen and wife, Philadelp&ia; L. A. Gould, N, R. Pierce, Theodore Hewitt, D. C. DeFcrot, New York; X. Martin, Lcganspoit; Walter Bentwoad, M. N. Dixon, C. Jennings, Evansville; F. H. Shively. Wagnestown. Grand Hotel: E. Harrington, Phlla3elphia; W. M. Fwwler, SpringSeld, Mo.; C. F. Ward, Carlisle, Ark.; C. D. Lincoln, Bo3ton; George A. Butler. New York : John F. Pfeffer ana tun. Ed Scitfel, Cincinnati; E. G. Fairmount, Nev7 York; H. Levser, Milwaukee; J. A. Robic sou, New burg, N. Y.; JaySuc?-, Mount Vernon; II. Bamberger, Philadelphia; D. McDocald, Plymouth; George Chandler, Chicago; L. D. Vincent, Hartford; F.C. Kimball, Jackson, Mien.; J. H. Hellr, Rockford, 111.; R. B. Wheeler, W. H, Cly mer, Philadelphia: N. M. Williamson, S. Genteeman. New York: N. Sabot, Jr., Silem; J. R Grant, Pittsburg. A General Fight. Three peddlers who occupy rooms on Georgia street, est of Illinois, we re bantered for a fight by some unknown individualyesteiday morning. The men came out and ft general fight ensued. Three persons were knocked down, several noses were given undue prominence, and some blood discolored the pavement. After the battle the wounded were carted array for repairs, and both slde3 claimed the victory.

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On the Part of the Jail Prisoners ta Escape, Wnlcb. However, la Defeatod and an Harnest Worker Marked for Recognition. A grand compiracy for a jail dsllrery was broken uv yesterday, and some of the features of the aSair are worthy of record. It bss lcrg bt en a custom of the priioners in the coop, oiberwire known as the "Commissioners Folly, ' to make regular attempts to escape, end in the four yrtn past theie attempts ba?e resulted m the cuttiDtf awy of bars, etc , until the building ia ystei jf patch-wcrk from one end to the other. Yesterday afternoon another attempt wai msde to cut a way out ot the coop, which was defeated by the officers, and which would hardly have been worthy of mention but for tbe developments hinging on the incident. About two weeks ago a bolt was ob;erf rd to he missing from the board ceiling of the cell room in the jail, which is the phce where tbe wot criminals are kept. Some of tbe men wre a?scd about it, but they denied all knowled:fc of the matter. Nothing more was Eaidbut a close vaich was kept upon the action of the prisoners. Several itoies their locks and motions indicated raisch-.et. but beyond this nothing was learned. When the alten pted escape from ths co n occurred yesterday afternoon tbe ouud ot a saw catting an Iroo bar was ht ard from the cell too hi of the main building. Oae of the oilis-rs went into the attic above thia part of the ja-l and saw one of the prisoners sawing away at the bars wh:ch, when cut, would admit them o tbe attic, from which the e&cane was to be nude The prisoner was standinz npou a beard, one end of which leaned a?&iat the wall while the other wts held up by another prisoner. The slanting position ot the beard made it necessary that thf man standing thereon should put one of his hands through tbe grating in order to hold himself in position. The officer who had gone to the attic obseved the fing2rs clicgirg to tbe bars, and in order to identify the man, he drew his knife and made a slight cut across thrte of tbfiu. Up to this mo aent the prisoners bed been singing and making ether noise on the inside to pieveDt 'be sound of the caw being heard ia the office, bet tbe iustant the fingers of the pris n er were cat the noise cfastd. aad in a molntnt all evidences of the conspiracy wre put out of sight, each Prisoner appearing as Innocent as pcuible rhen to officials entered a few minutes later. Of coor-e it was the work of but a moment to lesrn who the prisoner wm who bed his fingers cut The men were all ordered into their cells, and a strict search r,b3 made for tools, but tbe hunt for the eaw whch had been csed was unavailing. The Lieners said it had been dropped into the sink, but this is not certain. Among other ibirgs discovered was a heavy mace which bed been manufactured from the leg of a stco), and it was learned that this was to be rsd in another plan if the opportunity oft?Md, which was to give it into the hards of some prisoner who should call for ten tthine at noon, when but one man is on vafct at the office. When he had been admitted to the iron coop between the oilrccm and tbe office ho wai to make an effort to maie tbe officer in charge, release the balance cf th prisoners, and after taking; tbe yelnables from the safe, the entire gtng would walk cnt of the building without n.o!eslalion. The work of yesterday has broken up both plans, and has satisäed the authorities that eotre one from th) outside ie making a desperate effort to secure the relAof certain men by furnishing them with tools. AmjhESlENTS. Tni GRAND OrCRA ROUSE. The Arne Walker company begin an engagement to-night at the Grand Opera House. Cheap prices 10c and 20c, will mle, and matinees will be given every afternoon except Monday. "The Two Orphans" will be given Monday and Tuesday evenincs and at tbe Tuesday matinee; Wednesday matinee. "Pygmalion and Galatea;" Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Thursday matinee, 'Ep.Gt Lynne." Friday and Saturday eveninps 4A Celebrated Case," and Saturday matinee "Pygmalion and Ga'atea." Tha company made a great hit here last seaion. EKGLISU CPEP.A UOl'SK. Through some misunderstanding of dates, the Rice Surprise Party in "Pop, or the Fortunes of a Dramatic Author," werepublishel to appear at English's all of this week. It :s next week they are to appear, and no doubt they will be accordd a hearty welcome. THU DIME MUSSUM. Of oil the showj presented by Manager Sackett, of the Museum, the cue f rrauged for this week is promised the strong! at. The stage programme is especially fine. Ru;ell Brothers' Meteors and Lang fc Bharpe's Magnets combined will appear, and the organization is the largest and best on the road. It includes the Davenport Brothers, Jamei Kelly, W. J. Mills, Sam Lanp, French and Clark, tbe Kussells, Horace Waters, George Delmore, Charles Wilon, Dolly Sharpe, Little Rcsina and other capable specialty people. George Lippert, the three-legced man; MeUouriop,1he tattooed mariner; the Wyandot1 triplets; tho Mormon giants, three ia number; l M. Camei&n, the Missouri midpet, and other novelties will be seen in Curiosity Hall. the zoo. Tbe Zv) management have arranged a new bill for this week, beginning to-night. It is eaid to be the largest programme since Chrietmas. The price of admitaion is ten ctntr, snd two performances given every rJgbL Matinees, as usual, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The North American. Ihe North American Review concludes its seventieth year with the June number. It never had so larpe a circulation, nor greater influence, nor a mora brilliant stafT of contributors. This number dcusses sevtn topics of vital public interest by no less than fourteen eminent writers, not including the short contributions in "Comments." "Shall Silver be Demonetized?" is answered, pro and con, by three dittinfcuisned economist, Sumner, Laughlln and Walker, representing Yale end Harvard Colleges, and the Maa ckusetta Institute of Technology. " The TarrUnees of Justice" Isdiscui.-ed by Judge W. L. Learned, and "Prohibition In Polltlcs' by Gail Hamilton; "The 8rearing Habit" by E. P. Whipple, and "French Spoliation Claims'1 by Edward Everett The policy of the Roman Catholic hierarchy toward our Public Schools is assailed in a learnd essay by a new polemic, Mr. M. C. O'ttyrne, of North Carolina, and defended by Bishop Keane, of Virginia, with equal erudition. It is a most interesting double presentation of an impending Issue. "How Shall Women Dress?" it answered by Charles Dudley Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Dr. W. A. Hammond, Dr. Kate J. Jackson and Mrs. M. Kinjt. the English leader of thadrta reform eweznent.