Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 142, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1885 — Page 1

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WHEN INDICATIONS. TOU FRIDAY, Local rains and partly cloudy -weather; stationary temperature; east to south wlcdf, becoming vaxiable.

There are seme vocations that require Clothing that must; ba submitted to severe tests of service. Clothing that is not expected to be of the very latest crazo with regard to pattern, style and cut, but that looks respectable, is guaranteed to be strong and durable, and doe3 not cost much money. We offer such combinations in this direction a3 no other house in this city can. We begin at 3.50 lor a splendid wearing Suit, and between this price and S10 we-show hundreds at the TP L3 Clothing Stars. Eichmond CIOAUETIK Smokers who are willing to pay a little more for Cigarettes tnan the price charzeti jor tbe ordinary traue OiParette, will find the RICHMOND STB AIT CUT No. 1 SUPERIOR TO 'ALL OTHERS. They are male frota tne criecttt, Most delicately Flavored, land nighest Cost , Cold Leal erown in Virginia, and are Absolutely ;Withont Adulteration or Drugs. We use the i GENUINE FUENCU RICE Straight Out WTO. 1 FAr-üItoi our own direct importation, which Is r made especially for u. watr marked with trie I name ol therand.RICHMOND STRAIGHT CUT Ilo. 1. on each Cmarette. witaoat wmca none jCaie genuine. 1M1TATION3 of this brand have . . . . rt a 1 c Deen put on f&ie, ami Jgsreno raoscr arecau t:oned tbatthisis the olu ana ukiui.na.Li Dmna, 'ana to obseive that each package or box of (Richmond Straight Cut Cigarettes bear ithe signature ol oigaiettes ALLEN & OINTiSE, MANUFACIURER3, BICHM02TD, VIRGINIA. mhm & colbmak, MANUFACTURERS OF IIINERAL WATERS, feparkllng Champagne Cider, Western Pride GinEirer Ale, Seltzer vtater and Little Daisy Soda. VFortable Fountains charged on short notice. Fountains for rent. 3 Scs. 22C. 228. 230 ana 232 S. Delaware St.. INDIANAPOLIS, ... INDIANA. M. R. 8TYER, Manager. BEMOVAL. ' During this week wo will close the itore at 5 "East Washington Street, and remove the stock fnto our building at 16 and IS West Washington treet, where we will be eiad to ace all our friends .and patrons. Respectfully, E0OKSELLER3 AND STAT105 S. I HEADQUARTERS' J FOR Hear Pine Sh roles. I - E. H. F.LDRIDGE &CQ., 6 ftrflrr Alabama and Maryland Sts. v. n 4 u 9 Norfolk or Bicyclef ckets n plain blue, fancy plaids, for the new close-fitting Jersey Coats,the most popu lar garments of the season, n prices from $5 to $10, it the d7Evprv Roller Skater or Ht.

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GENERAL NEWS.

Doings and Gossip at the Nation's Capital Various Appointments and Suspensions XaTj-Yard Inquiries. Several Lives Lest In Cincinnati by I a Short Blazo Through a Fatal Blunder. A DEMOCRATIC EDITOR Now Postmaster at Delphi Capital VIltors. Special to the Sentinel. V7ashix(;ton, ilay 21. "No appointment jet made yields me so much pleasure ag that cl Ciompton'e," T7aa an observation that rippled from tbe heart o Ed Hawkins this afternoon. Crompton, editor of the Delphi Times, is well known to all the Democratic workers of Indiana, havicg long been identified with tbo Central Committee of the State. His management Is always sensible and adroit, and I think he z regarded as one the ablest advisers. He has a way of putting everybody in a good mental mood, and keeping in the middle of the read. In no Indiana man with whom I am acquainted is there a tiner development of humor. He is a practical printer, and quit a case in Lo panspcrt to take chargeof the Delphi Time?, a property acquired largely on a promue to pay. The paper at that time was suffering from a relapse, and the Democratic party in Carroll Ccunty was without a future. Crompton laughed away the jealousies and harmonized the machine. Eclipsing any man in the faculty of fixing things up, he at once became a leader. He would have avoided tbe cecessity of conquering the peace that lately required the shedding of blood in tbe Northwest, for he could have talked those half-breeds into submission. FIXING CT A LICSL SUIT. During CromptoL's first mcnth at Delphi, a fellow with a grievance brought suit for $10,C00. Scratch a majority of those fellows who sue a newspaper for character and y u will find a crank. They are universally enri0U3 creatures, to say the least. Crompton meeting tho offended individual manifested serious concern. 'lThis is a very embarrassing circumstance," he said. "I am a new man here and to be proven a slanderer will work me great injury. In short it will surely ruin me. It is fatal to a paper to make a retraction in the early days of its existence". Being a man of heat and judgment you cm tee and understand that; but I snppcsa the principal thing wanted is the money. That I do not happen to possess. I am not rich in the sense tnat a great many editors are full handed, and taking chargs of this establishment has wholly exhausted my means. I could not without the greatest embarrassment pay you $10,000 to-day. I would evan picfer standing suit, and that would be disagreeable, as it would reveal things in the life of you and I that we would b3th rather have concealed. A slander suit is one of the worst things in the world. I don't be lieve that you could possibly afford it; I would have to trace your history, and all your past would be required to yield op its secrets. It is an ordeal through which I hope never to be called to pass. Now I will tell you the better plan. Come to me again in a month or eo, and If by that time nothing more acceptable occurp, I will just give yon my check," WHAT TnEY ARE DOING. The mission of n great many visitors is wholly innocent of political significance. I presume that Ed Hawkins feels fixed. He has spent every day of the last week at the Land Office running titles. He hopes to have satisfactorily traced the record by to morrow evening. George Shanklin moves around with tin atmosphere of a man who fully accords wi'h the eternal harmony of thing3, and has the wealth to back it. The Washington reporter who asks the news from him elevates his eyes as if looking at the godde33 of liberty cn the dome of the Capitol. Then comes the answer from a head towering far abova the fcg: "Well, I guess it's all right." Enabled by tremendous bnild to tike a bird's-eye view of the National Capitol, without having to labor to the top of the Washington monument, explains why he is the biggest journalist of the Pocket. Looting -down Irom his azure height, be telescopes aflair3 with the accuracy of the photographic art. "How bis? as Alexander, pa, Tbat people called him great!" There is n venerable gentleman in the War Department who became afixture during tbe administration of peace, but worse, he edited a Demccratic paper at Vicksburpr. Misi., and was appointed by Jeff Davis. He voted for Douglais, McClellan, Seymour, Greeley, Tilden, Hancock and Cleveland. Many a time they would have tct him adrift, bat tho difrlcultv was in finding a man to take his plnce. There is no use;of calling him an unreconstructed rebel and raising a racket now. It is not always convenient to make a change. Jap Tuki zn. Indla&lans at the Capital. Epcdal to tbe Sentinel. Washington, May 21. Hon. D. D. Dykeman, who has been to Hartford, Conn., in the interest of Lozansport with a financial Institution of tbat city, arrived this evenIng, jpctlng to meet Hon. Joseph E. McDonald. A telegrem from Mr. McDonild announces that he wlllarrlve to-morrow, having missed connection at some point. At no time since the inauguration has there been so great a number of ludianlani in the city as there Is to-night. (SoYcrnor Gray has spent the most of the Uy In tho company of Senator Vorbecs. He is in good htalth. Republican journalists are actively Inquiring on what recommendation was Ileum appointed Postmaster at Terr lUute. Dr. 8. J. Edwlr, of Madlon Cjnnty. arthid iu tlmv to be conducted by Mr. Hen

dricks through mffny cf the departments t day. j John Scott, of Terra Haute, arrived today. SEWS OF NATIONAL INTEREST. Presidential Postmaster Appointed and Kcasons for. Suspensions Other Appointment. Etc., Etc. Washington, M.y 21. The President ' today appointed the following new Presidential Pastm asters: . L. W. Caldwell, at-War-renton, VaM vice yillliam A. Pattie, suspended; WillianiH. Ititenour, at Harrisbarg, Vf., Tics Jarxes ßalllvan suspended ; John A.B. Varner, at LexiDgton, Va., vice C. E. Deaver, suspended Georgs 8. Head, at Leesborg, Va., vice O. '?. Holmes, suspended ; A. P. Bibb, at tho University cf Virginia, vice R. H. Fife, suspended; Bruce Gibson, at Winchester, Va., y-ice J.H. Dran, suspended; Mrs. Mary H. Lon j, at Charlottesville, Va., reappointed; John F. Rpan, at Terra Haute, Ind., vies Joseph ). Joats, commission expired. ; The President appointed Collectors of Internal Pte venne: ? William C. Thompson, Second District of Jowa; Byron W. Webster, Third District of It)wa; Collector of Customs, labert T. M. Hun(er, District of Tappahanncck. Surveyor ol Customs, Daniel O. Barr, District of Pittsburg, Pa. Attcrnevs of the United States: Hiary C. Allen, West District of Virginia 5 Cyrenius P. BJacs. Eist District of Michigfii. Marshal of the United States, Albert C. Cnbson, District of Louisiana. ? The following explanation is offered for the suspensions aribve noted. The suspensions wero made ii the exercise in the President's power of removal, and the removals were made becaosetthe postmastera were partisans of uch kind; as satisfied the President that they ought njt to continue in tbe service under this administration. In addition the Postmaster jit Leeebarg has threa times upon an inspection been found to have applied the aonies of his office to his personal use, so tht his cas was tirice deficient, on inspection in 18S4 and once during the present spring, although ia each instance mad good fter th shorfage was discovered. Ee has : so an:elated remittances m ether caaes. The President oday appointed ). V. O'Leary to be Post; Taster. Secretary of the Xavy Whitney propoioa to make a prompt inctiiry ino all matters relating o the Mare Island Navy yard. A d legation representing the. Grand Arc y of the Republic) of tue department o Pennsjivanie, anf. the Veterans' High's Union, called on Ithe President, S3cretar Manning and jieneral Bl&cfc, Cormistioner of Pensions, to-day, in the interest ofi the enforcement f tbe laws relating to tbe appointment ana retention of ex soldiers in the civil service of tbe Uniled Slates. ln their interview witb the President, tbeelegatlon asked that tbe law giving the preference in appointment to ex-Union soldiers s'iall be enforced wherever

removals are rnacv9, ana tnat wnerever rpductions of force w made, the law of 1S7G which provides thfjft in the m&kinc of any reduction of force in any of the departments preference may ber;iven. The President aspired the delegation that he desired to do all that can be done for tbe old veterans, and that ha recognizes the claini3of the old soldiers upon the Government, but he said i.'. was impossible for him to give his attenticii to individual cases. The delegation ftext called upon Colonel Lamont, the President's private secretary, and informed him bf what had been eaid at the interview with, the President, and obtained from him tb s assurance that he would lay before the Prcs-dent promptly any communication irom t Jem. The Dalphin will have another trial. Mr. F. R. O'Neill, of tbe St. Louis Po3tDispatcb, who is one of the agents of the State of Miisouri commissioned to no to Auckland, New Z aland, to bring back to 11, the Englishman who arrived in this city togningof the extradition this country Max murdered Preller, day, to await the papers, me papers State Department. have not reached the CIXCINXATIff FIRE HORROR, Seventeen Lives Leist in a Ten Minutes Fire Ali Avenneof &scape Close at Hand Unheeded.

Cincinnati, May l. This city has had its share of shocking! disasters, but never tai one happened wheje such a pitiful loss of Hie has occurred askhat of to day with so little occasion. In les than fif ecu m nutes after the fatal blunder began, sixteen or seven teen persons perished. Looking over the scene after the eveft, it is plain that every life could have beeh easily saved. Short as the time was, there :were displays of thoughtfuyi6ro:sm that saed t;70 lives, but one of the heroes lest his own life. At 1:30 this afternoon, Mr. J. Ai Green, city editor of tbe Times-Star, upon fioing up tbe stairway to his office, saw denf;'cloud3 of smoke issuing from the rear winowscf tbe bnhdingNo. 19 and 21 West Sixth street,and immediately telephoned to the fire department. An alarm o! fire brought the engines almost instantly and as th firemen eouid reach the buildiDg from frcnt and rear it was not fifteen minutes uoMl the fire was so much under control tba Chief Engineer WIsby was able to reach tlja fifth or top tlcor. Hut he was too late to rftcub the girls employed there, and to his horror he found ten dead bodies lying with tAeir hands to their faces, ami faces blackenct and distorted in death. The Chief said, iij speaking of it: uThe house is not burrreii out. In fact, the fire was chleflv iu tho lith story. In the smoke I counted Un gir'.s lying upon benches, tables and other tttngs some on the tbor. Their clothing ias not burned, but the skin on the xbacks ol their hands wasicorched.9 It was eyterrible sight, tbe worst I ever law in .mv experience." It has now been f iirly ascertained tbat the tire started from a cfn of benzine on the second lloor, near tbe I evator shaft. Th shaft reaches to the top of the building, and from the third story to te fifth, It was encircled by a wooden stairway, which was tbe only nieans of acceis to t?eee lloor. The elevator ebaft. to add to its ombostlbillty, was surrounded with a thtu wooden lattice work. The fourth floor wi a storage and w&ite room, and the fifth vwas the folding room. An soon as the tire mrtid, John Saltlvan, a young man, comln.if tbe proprietor, ran up tbe stairway to the wfth floor to give warnlog to tbo glrli. Instantly, almost, he found he was too at to gt them down tbe stairway, an that bit own retreat wat cut lofT. What ne dl fcr tie it fchttnji girls conti oif

be fold by the glinpsea that conld bs seea of bim at the smskinc window, whence four of the girls had alrdy leapel to their death. J. 11. Kinsley's sorsand his foreman had goes to the roof of their building, adjoining this on the west, and knowing the girls were imprisoned on the flexor below, they procured a rope and lowered it to the window where Sullivan was. HeUnstantly grasped It, and fastening one of tfcti girls to it, helüed her out of the window, iad Kinsley, and Shrader lowered her to tMr sidewalk. The rope was brought up and Sullivan again quickly fastened it to another girl and sent her down safely. The ropo cano a third tinis, and as the ether girls br this time were all sutf 3cated or were afrd to venture, Sullivan fastened the rope & his own body and was being lowered when, as he was half way dotyn, the flaues shot out of a window and he tell head foremost to the sidewalk in the presence of a horrified crowd of people who had witnessed his heroism. When the girls jere jumping from the window a large coll red man heroicailv tried to catch them, andlso break their fall. Ho nearly lest his lifeün the attempt. Within ten minutes after vaq fire began the patrol wagons were called into use to carry away tho wounded and !-ill d. As well as can bf? ascertained there were about fifty occupants of the buildings, of whom twenty or twenty-five were girls, iu the fifth story. Tb. boj3were on the second and third floors, atxithis accounts for their escape. All agrce that the spread of tue flames was almost instantaneous. Mr. Kinsley, who ran to his upper floors iu the rear, where the flames were in danger of ccming through &is windows, found the smcke so dense he bat he had to crawl on the floor to reach JNs window and close it. All this while therfc was an ayenuc of e3caps which the panic strecken girls did not think of. It was an opining in the roof which they could have reached from a bench standing beside the wall,. and once on the roof they could bave Reached other buildings with perfect ease iThe lack of ready access to this place lost all these lives. Tbe fire was almost insignificant. That wooden stairway around te elevator shaft is not burned so as to be useless or evert unsafe, yet the flames seem. to have pervaded all the fleers and to have rained all the papsr and other light and contbnstible-material. frnllivnn estimates his loss at $J 000 to $10,000, with an ample insurance. Tbe loss to the building ix slight. The scenes at Habig's undfrttikiMg establishment, where the dead bedics w,t:re taken, and where friesds and relative;; csroe to identify tnem, were of tbe most ppinful character. In one case a policeman of Covington identified his sisters, Lizzie andDolly 'Handel, who were twins. Mr. Mier ifoand tb bady of hsr daughter, and haot to be led away from tae terrible feijrht. Mm! Lehan had the awful exfenonce of finding !her throe aushtp" among the dead. : The fatal list as now made up is: anna Bell, agril twenty-four, wife of David Bell, 2G Lock wood street; Dollie and Lizhe Handel, twin sisters, lwnty years, 71 Scctt street, Covington; Fannie Jones, tyfenty-two years, Liberty and Freeman; , . Delia, Katie and Mary 8eda.x, sisters, aged twenty-three, fourteen and sixteen respectively, 2C0 Sixth street; K Tie Lowry, twenty years, Newport; Li.ife Meies, sixteen years, 315 Broad wa ; Annie McIntirp, twenty years, 00 Ei t S'xth street; Fannie Norton, thirty-four year; Katie and Marv Putnam, sisters, twentytwo and nineteen respectively; John Sillivan, twenty-two vears, 393 Broadway; Lillie Wynn, twenty years, SS Ea9t Fifth street. The injured are: Will Bisnor, printer, twen'y-three, 20: Fifth street, Covington, crushed and burned, will probably die; Josie Brocks, broken leg; Nannie EiiEniERr, head badly cut, Harrison street. Already preparations are in progress for tte relief of the familie3 of the victims, rncst of whom were the support of dependent parents. Set-tief and IocidoutH tt ttie Morgne Interesting Htorles of Survivors. Cincinnati, May C. Braam, who had charge of the paper cnttirg machine in the building, located on the second floor, made tbe following statement; I was working at my machine when the fire started. It broke out at the elevator, right b3low the dry rack, wfcere the freshly printed sheets ar hung to dry, on the second floor. Whea 1 saw the blaze, I ran up the stairs as high as the fourth floor, when ihe flames were so hot tbftt tbe drove met back, but not before I yelled to the girls not to jump out ut the window. Wbn I eot own to tbe pavement, however. I saw the flaues anl smoke rushing out of the wlndowi and the girh trying to make their escape. Mrs. Ball, Dollie and Annie Handel, jumped from the window, and I tried to catch them, injuring mjEelf doing so. The two girls were killed outright and Mrs.' Bell was dreadfully injured. She died at the hospital. Josie ilawfcs, who was one of the saved, was tally burned cn the face and arms, and by a fill just befcre she reached the sidewalk broke her leg. The first thing I found myself surrounded by smoke. The fire seemed to come up the elevator. I dropped on my hands and knees and crawled to the window. After a while somebody threw me a rope. I started down, and would haye '"alien, only Bomebody cacght me. T Miss Shepherd jumped apparently safe to a tarr aulin held out to catcb hnr, but she Was afterward found to be Inland. Theodore Hardin, another employe, said: 'I was on tbe second floor when I saw 'tommy Glesson run past with his clothes on fire. I rushed up, butcculd not reach the girls. I saw at once that they would be cut off. Their cries were terrible," and the boy's feelings overcame him so that he could not proceed. Mrs. Leban, who lo-t three daughters, appeered at the morgue to identify tbem. Her features weie strained with grief, bat with s'ree gleam of hope she passed body after body until a sharp cry, and the wordi, My Cod, here is Mary," showed that hope had iltd. In a moment her eyes' rested oa the otber two daughters, and then the pnr woman was wild with grief, and was taken In cbarco by a kind spectator. The Sullivan were quite yonng printers, banning a short tlmo ago with almonno capital. They had used economy, uad bslng well trained in the art, had increased tbelr bntlnets until they occupied neirly ths entire building. 1 Tlmt Ktilnnplni; story Utnttri. Ml'Mnii. Tenn., May 21. U.illrotd csn trictors and larorerv, now in Memphis, but recently employed on railway woki In uuatf mila, where It is aMeged by ttcent dis

patches to the New York Herald that laborers were kidnaped from the United States, robbed, beaten and otherwiee mistreated by Arcen can contractors in Guatemala, emphatically deny all such allegations. They eay their pay was prompt, treatment good, and the only difficulty encouut3red arose from sickness, caused by climatic influence?. Messrs Dun a van t Sc Kelly, large railroad contractors, publish a card injjthe Memphis papers vindicating J. P. Bouccbaren, whose name was mentioned iu the press dispatches.

GEXfcRAL UKAXT. He reels Bricht and Dictates Matter for Ills IJook What the Medical Record Says of Ilia Condition. New Yobk, May 21.General Grant slept five hours last night. This small amount of sleep WQ3 not owing particularly to pain. This morning and to day he has felt very bright and has dlc!ated some matter for his book. At 1 :30 p m. he went out far a drive. The Medical Kecord of Saturday next will say, under the caption, "Ihe Condition of General Grant:" Duilng the past week Gcnere.1 Grant has been ia a comparatively tcoinlortable condition. Ue ob talcs his full amount of sleep, takes his nourishment without idlßicnliy snd Is quite free irom pain. At the copsultation. May 17, Dr. Smds, tshredy and Douglas beinsr present, it was found that the swelling under tbe angle of tbe jaw on the right side had incrfased iu siza fo that tbe glatd8 were Etill inducted end deeply fixed; also itat there was a tendency toward diffused infiltration into the adjoining tissues of tfco upper and anterior portions of the neclr. There was consequently some rißidity of the jaw?, preventing: the wide opening of the mouth, thus in a measure interfering with the examination of tbe thtoat. l?o chance had been noted in the appearance of the right tonsillar region, nor in those of the posterior r-art of the pharynx. The ulceration on the right side of the base of the tongue showed a tendency to extend tackward, was more excavated, aud had an elevated and indurated border. At the examination cn Wednesday, made by Drp. Doucjlas and eihrady, the lecal conditions were found to be unchanged. Women Sentenced for Perjury, Madison, Wis., May 21. In the Municipal Court yesterday, Mrs, Rebecca Merraot, of Baraboo, and Mrs. Margaret M. Cooley, of Mitchell, Dak., sisters, plead gailty to the charge of perjury. They have now each been sentenced to two years in State's Prison, Each woman when sentenced had an infant in her srms. Kneeling at the feet of the Ju?ge, they pitcously pleaded for mercy, "for tbeir babies' sake." The scene was a heart-rending oae. Judge Biilev, with tears in hia eyes, said tbat the law was inezorable, but he would fix the lowest penalty pre ftiibed. The women then prayed and sob bed, and uttered terrible shrieks as they were fie ally removed by the officers. They taid tbat a man named Kirby had threat ened their lives if they did not sweat as tbey did, and that they had for years Iiv6d In mortal fear of bim. Both are respectable women of gocd local repute. Their babies accompany them to the Penitentiary. An effort will be made to secure an executive psrdon in the esse. These women are sisters of the wife of James Kiiby alias Simmons, a well known cracksman, who with a man named Edwards, was last November sentenced to the State's Prison in Wisconsin for five years for burglary in Madison. At tbe trial of Kirby these women swore tbat they werf in Baraboo at Mrs. Merraot's home, the Kith of July last, the nisht of the burglary, and that Kirby was also there. They also f aid that that night Mrs. Merraot gave birth to a child. The attempt to prove an alibi was unavailing, however, and Kirby was found guilty after a most exciting trial. The women were then arrested for perjury in the cate. It was proven that the child wai born May G, and that Kirby was not present even at that time. Iron, Steel and Coal Statistics. PiiiLaDELniiA, May 21. The annual ra port of Secretary George W. Cope, of the American Iron and Steel Association, has jnst been completed. The production of pigiron In 1S1 was 4,5S9,;i:j tons; of all rolled iron, v including rails and excluding nails, 1.931.74S .tons; Bessemer steel rails, l.liC.021 tons, and rails of all kinds. 1,144.851 tons. The irapcrts of iron and steel aggregated in value $08.211,800. and the exports $19,932.150; altogether 4S7.S20 tons (gross) of iron ore were imported. The statement also gives the total product of coal at 99,81."S,870 gross tons, including ü047C$,K;0 tons of anthracite. The balance of trade in favor of the United St&tes in tbe first eight months of the fiscal 3 ear of 18S5 was $159,592 359. Onlet Restored. Louisville, Ky., May 21. Adjutant General Castleman returned from Painesville, Ky., to day, where hs went to look into the cause of the recent killings and armed disturbances. He saw Andrew Johnso, tbe dctpeiado, who, about two weeks ago shot ana killed Tbonias Napper, Jos'ah Haskins and his little daughter, and pe:suaied him to suirender himself to the officers of tbe lsw. All is now qaiet at Painesville, which was but recently held by force of arms by Johnsen and his friends. Democratic Da 11 jr Fajter for Sale. Atchison, Kas , May 21. Owing to tb.9 death cf one of tne proprietors aid publishers, and in order to wind up the affairs of his estate as speedily as possible, the Atchison Patriot, the oldest Democrat dally, aud one of the most prosperous and influential papers in Kansas, Is offered for sa!e. Futile Attempts. Wilkesbakhe, Pa., May 21. For two weeks past seveial attf mpts have been made to resume mining operations at the Beaver Meadow and Jedtfo Collieries without the aid of the striking miner. All efforts, however, bave proved unavailing. Dropped Dcnd. Wheemxo, W. Va., May 21. James Max well, President of the National Bank of Weit Virginia, and for many years cngnged in tbe wholesale grocery bntinesv, in this city, dropped dcnd in the street this evening, aged teventy. INDICATIONS WAMiiPQTO, May 22. 1 1. in. For Us Ohio Valley tnd Tennwsco-Local ratm rd rHly cloudy weather, stationary teiaperatutc. except In tho Upper t)hlo Valley slUhtly icoitr, cMttoioüth wimli, becotnliiR tarUblc. Kot the Upper Lake Kion Fair weather, A i!ab:c win?', nightly warmer.

NATIONAL POLITICS.

Tho Attltudo and Political Sarround Id 8 of President Cleveland. Vice President Hendricks tho People's Friend and the Teer of Any Man In the Nation What the People Want and What They Should Have. Decent Republicans Will Not Bob a Strongo Udder for Milk. The Democracy Will Not With tho Preaidont. Break M. W. Carr Furnlthea tho Sontinol With Fact, logic and Interview, All Tending to the Same End the Information of the People. Special Kditoiial Staff Correspondence. I Since my return from the National Capi tsl my time has been largely devoted to the cotsumption of quinine. Between time?, however, I have called up my impressions of the new administration, and have found them not much at variance with those of well informed aud thinking men in eeveral State?. It does not require very great ability to compas the situation. We all know what is 'tbest to be done in times of comparative prosperity and peace, but they are few who take the trouble to think how difhsult is the doing part. The machinery of our Government is vast and intricate. At times fn tho past it hai been tampered with by officials in charge. Wheels have become clogged through inattention; journals have burned out for want of the oil of honesty. Department people have patented special informa tion. Unpatriotism and selfishness obtruded themselves so uublusbingly that the people ordered a change of hands and called for the substitution of Democratic principles in the stead of the centralized notions of the liepublican party. HAS THE ORDER BEEN OBEYED? The voice of the people has been heard and, in part, oteyed, but there is yet unmst in regard to the matter. There is no question as to the order for a change. Xo Democrat or sensible Republican gaineaysthe need there was for such. It Is the elo wness, 8rr.&ckingcf listlesness,in doing the people's bidding that is.now complainad.of. What are the grounds for this delay? Doe3 Mr. Cleveland loid it over his CaDlnet, or is he advised by the members of that body? Are the brads of departments forbidden to exercieo theefheeof headihip? Have we a Patent Office, and offices tbat are patented as against the wish of the people? Are there no pesitiona in the Government that can be filled by competent and deserving men, whese greatest misfortune teems to rest on the fact that they are Democrats? Th e6 are tho queries heard above the general murmur and over against them, and not unfrequently drowning them out of hearing is the whining of Republican leaders, who claim tbat President Cleveland is killing their party by inches, and quietly but eflec tively placing Democrats in office. This is tbe situation at present, and both sides are correct This paradox can be accounted lor cn the theory of both parties being censitlve and sei lieh, and having a consuming greed, THE TBEslDEXT EXCEEDINGLY ClECUMSriCT. Mr. Cleveland is undoubtedly anxious to do tbe bidding of the people in "turning the rascals out," but he is advised, and wisely, too, that anything looking like haste in the matter would merit disapproval. In attempting to be careful, however, he falls into the extreme of comparative slowness, and deterves both praise and blame, of both cf which he daily receives a liberal share. Eo bides his time with remarkable calmness, stands firm under ImmeDce pressure and shows himself to the people as we know him. This showing may not evidence statesmanship bat it is a concomitant of greatness. Few of our Presidents have been statesmen. The material and surroundings were not of the kind. In tbe instances where statesmanship budded forth the showing was owing largely to the warming and nurturing inliuence cf cabinet cfficials acting wisely and unitedly. In very truth, nearly all the administration? tbe past that attained to any great degree of suecets, were indebted chitlly to the way In which the public pulse was felt. Mr. Cleveland, tbongh apparently ignoring it, is et attentively noting the speed of the national heart, aid in time his public acts will be regulated by its beating. I do not eay that this going with the tide implies leadership or greatness, although at tlmei it is wise to drift along. Statesmanship is leadership, and not foilowing. It is wiso direction and forethought, and calls for large experience and lirmncss. The President, to say tbe 'east, bas an average Cabinet He has had eme little experience for a comparatively young man, but is noted chiefly for his integrity, stamina and it solution. His acquaintance with that mysterious something called New Yoik politics may possibly ba a drawback to him, but with the rock cf Democratic Erinciples beneath him acd the historyot ?s predecessors like trodden ground around him. his administration can not help but be an improvement upon the corruption of the piit twenty years. vici rnrsiDLXT ue.ndkicks attitlti One of the happiest features of tbe prestnt administration is the cordial relation existing between Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Hendricks. The advice of tbe latter is often sought, and there are thoie who lay that much of the prcgress made In putting Democrats into places Is due. In great part, to Mr. Hendricks' attitude toward tho "office f eekers." This terra, as applied to seekers after positions, tf calls the way in which the wife of the Vice Prall dent recently defended that eis of our citizens spalnst the slurring of thoss who now hold office, or who have grown wealthy while in the pay of tbe Government. .ie demonstrated that to seek a place under the Government was no more diicrt dttnbl than tontek one under a corporation or frotnkti individual. In any cass It told of a deiire to work and was to he commended In conMqutnce. The Hcfficeekr,, uow urn mainly Dtmocinir, and tbit fact alone .