Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 6, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 August 1875 — Page 4

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LADIES' LINEN SUITS. ^LADIES' GRASS CLOTH SUITS. ^LADIES' WHITE LAWN SUITS.,

LADIES' POPLIN SUITS. All marked down to cost and below, to cloM.hW,r|.

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#A!£ASOLSand SUNSHACIjSln all file NEW STYLES, BONE, IVORY and PEARL HANDLES, to close at coet. fif grt 11 UI ii T-" Ii s. $

DRESS GOODS! J)RESS GOODS

PERCALES, LAWNS, GRENADINES, WASH POPLINS, MOHAIRS. PONGEES, 8UMMER PLAIDS, SUMMER SILKS, WHITE GOODS, PIQUES, MARSEILLES, FRENCH CHINTZS, FRENCH ORGANDIES, *c. AU these •will be sold at a great sacrifice to close them oat.

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Seasonable Goods!'

Genuine Turkish, Russian and Crash BathIns Towels, Prints* of Wales ttad Baud ring* ham Bath Glove*, also friction Glove* and Brashes for dry use. Fragrant Magnolia and Florida Waters for the toilet and baths, and Colognes of the best Imported brands. and their own unexcelled "Ililaug Ihlang and "Hedyosralax." The English "Plate ClothM" for cleaning china and removing tarnish from Silver plate, gilt ornaments, etc., etc. rBUNTIN & ARMSTRONG,, DrsffliU, Cor. «lk and ilrMls.

Wanted.

ANTED—THE FARMERS AND ALL I'ee raisers to know that I huve a perifoth protection for Bee Hives. Call at WHEAT4:MERRILL, Office between 4th

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feet Moth and 5th slreets, on Ohio—or address Past office box 1810, Terre Haute, Ind.

(BOn P«f Day at home. Terms

3 90 «PZ\J free. Address G. BTINSON" A Co* Portland, Maine. Jau38-ly

ANTED-ALL TO KNOW THAT THE HATUKDAY ETKKINO MAIL has a lai*oblisn-

W circulation than any newspaper pi ed in the Htate, outside of Indlonapolli that It is care hilly and thorou the homes of Its very best advert: Indiana.

spoils. Also hly read in it Is

patrons, and that It Is the Ming medium in Western

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MALE-A HOUME AND IX)T ON Htroet. south side, between 5th

and 6th streets. Will be sold Ju whale or part, to suit purchaser. Apply to C. F. FROEB. may»-8m

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)R RALE-HOUSE AND LOT ON south street, east side,between Willow and Grovnr—the property must be sold. Apply to MRH. LOUIBE WKTERMEYEK or H. Helmkamp, corner of Ohio and 4th street*. mayg-tm

For Rent.

JR RENT-TWO NEW HOUSES OF five rooms each—new, never been eccnpled, eomcr 1st and Chestnut streets. Enquire first house north.

To Loan.

fflO LO AN—ONK HON "RED THOUSAND A IX) LL A Its— For pa rtleulars apply tothe undersigned. J. H. DOUGLASS. [mat®ftf

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SATURDAY EVEmast widely circulated late outside of Indianap*

nlng Mall Is the mast widely circulated newspaper lu Uiosr oils.

HJND—THAT WITH ONE STROKE OF pen you can rvaeli, with an advertisement In the Saturday Evening Mail, almost •vary reading feraiiy la this cdly, aa well as the residents of the towns and country sorroanding Terrs Haute.

FILL STOCK AND LOWER PRICES.

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Spanish Comba, Beits, ^Buckles.

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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, AUG. 7,1875.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this paper are published. Ibe l&RgT EDITION, on Friday Evening has a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where It is sold by n^wsbo^s, and agenfs. \T ij

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The si0O2h EDITION, «u Saturday W liig, goes lb to the hands of nearly every reading peisuu iu ibe city, and tiie farm ers Of this Immediate vicinity.

Every Week's Issue Is, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, la which all Advertisements appear for

ONE CHARGE. IT costs (10,000 to graduate a boy at West Point.

FLORIDA raised a crop of ten thousand alligator hides last year. ELEVSS hundred dollars is the amount it cost Edgar coonty U* bang Casey.

IT'S sickening to think of, but Theodore Ulton's counsel are nfoving for a new trial. _________ 1".

CATHOLIC farmers, by a recent decis ion of the Pope, are allowed to become Grangers.

TENNESSEE soil covers the remains of three ex-Presidents—Andrew Jackson James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson.

IN picking out your Presidential can didates bear in mind that in the last three contests New York's candidates have been beaten.

WB see it stated that there are fortyono American firms who are getting rich by making better "imported" liquofs and wines than can be made in Europe.

VICKSBVRO negroes continue to throw old bomb shells into the fire to see if they are loaded. They've all been loaded aa far as the experiments have gone

TEN yean in the penitentiary is wfcat Henry Thompson, of Iowa, got for marrying his step-daagbter, but he says that is better than having a mother-in-a

FRUIT 1B neither plentiful or cheap this season. Nevertheless eat of it plentcfully, and it will be found a most acceptable and healthful substitute for meat*. ___________

ANNIE LOUISE CART attempted to sing "Sweet Home" at Unity Church conoert, Chicago, the other night, but after singing the first few bars was 00m pletely overcome by emotion and had to retire. Fanny J. Kellogg did that same thing in our Congregational church.

PERSONS suffering with a cold in the head, or with olfactories impaired from whatever cause, should be careful how they take silver dollars. In New Yerk spurious coin is in circulation so perfect an imitation of the genuine in weight, ring, and general appearance as to be received without question at the banks. It is only by the sense of smell that one can discriminate between the real and the bogus, as the alloy in the latter has a peculiar odor by which ita proaonce may be detected.

THE notorious Bill Rndifer made another unsuccessful attempt to eaoape tram the Jeffersonville prison, on Monday. It's a pity that some guard wouldn't plant an ounce ball in William's anatomy and put an and to his highly sensational performances. He's getting to be considered among the dime-novel boys of Indiana, the moat diatingulahed hero in history sinoe Jack Shepherd* time and his influence la ten thousand times worse, advertised as be is, than if he were at large.

TOUCHING the Baker ease in England, an exchange truthfully remarks that a modest woman can travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific without the slighteat fear. She will meet with kindly help, with delicate attentions and universal oourtesy, but she will not be insulted, or if she should be, she can have the ear soundly castigated juat as quickly as the neareat American gentleman QUI lay hands on him. Ttfcrefore we say that in the guardiamhip of female honor "we do thfagp better in this country."

TRWDOM TK.TON, through his oounsal, baa notified Mr. Beecber's representatives of h)a intention to move tor a new trial In September. Thia, the prise of the country ought by every msana in ita power to diaoourage and oppose. Theoountry la sick of the whole baasegttng business, and it is contrary to good riiotmh and the public weOhre that it •bould be reopened. If it la brought up it la to be hoped that the newnpapm will ooveoant with each otter to iMtve It unnotioed and unreported. They wtmM certainly earn the gratitude of all isspsotsMepeople bysuchacourse.

AN astonishing number of are being granted by the council against property liable for atieet impcovementa. If this Is aa evidence of hard tUnea, it to a very melancholy one, aa the expenae ofaaoh work la vary mveh Uiunasil by the inaMmUon ef legal proceedings to foreeaesUectiooofthemoney. It would be nwdh belter to borrow the noesssary fandi at two p«r eent*a month and pey ttebOt a ben preaented, Khan to allow it to tatethis eouma. Two-thirds of the oouncU have Ml power to order anefr work done with or without the content of property ownet*aiMl collection for canndt %e successfully restated. It la

W*I Etrr.Phltnfi better Wpay «ad have done with it.

The fact must be confessed now, that it was rather disheartening that nobody was drowned by the flood, and no damage done, worth speaking about, inside the city limits. True there was evidence constantly before the eyes of all, that immense destruction to crops was taking place, north and south of us, that many people were being broken up and the busintss prospects of tne country ruined for this year, but still it was not like haying it happen right where it could be peen. Consequently, everybody went on!watching the river and innocently lying about how fast it was rising. Each fresh shock of wheat or stack of hay that hove in sight, was hailed with enthusiasm and delight, and kept alive a pleasant glow of hope that worse calamities would follow soon. A delicious thrill ran through the crowd when it was announced that the water works building was about to go, and the ecstacy was intensified when, soon after, it was learned that the gas works and the distillery were also in great danger. About this time a man appeared at the bridge who claimed to have seen a telegram from Lafayette stating that there was a seven-foot rise there, still to come. He was a hero at once. The crowd surrounded him and wanted to hog him. Nothing but the semblance of a graveyard decorum, which all seemed bent on keeping up as something appropriate to the tremendous occasion prevented his receiving "three times three and a tiger." He was a popular man till another breathless individual arrived with the inspiring news that the Clinton bridge was "comin' a-huinpin' itself," and then the crowd deserted him for the new attraction.

Men walked out the grade and oalled other men to come and see how the water lacked only an inch or two of being over it, and their eyes glistened and their bosoms heaved and every tone of their voices said plainer than any words: "There! didn't I tell you so!" If measurements were resorted to, these "inch or two's" generally turned out to be foot or two's, but they went on prophesying all the same that the water would be all over it in an hour and a-half, "or less time." Other men came to the river, cast one wild, big-eyed look over things and rushed back home for their wives and children^nd when they got them on the bric^b frightened them almost to death by telling in perfect seriousness that they wouldn't be surprised any minute if the sewer should burst and flood the whole east patfof town. Young men walked down with their sweethearts and led the timid, trusting things on to the "draw," trembling but happy, and told them In bravest words aa they looked upon the rush of angry water and listened to Ita roar, how If the bridge tAotdd go while they were there, they'd clasp the darlings to their manly hearts and save their predoua Uvea though all the monsters of the vasty deep conspired against it. And then Uie tremblers dung a little closer to the manly arms—and ohl It .waadelietous!

The crowd was there at daylight and continued to Increase till dark and only began to notldbly diminish an hour or two before midnight. This lasted through Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, when the river began to fill, and the last hope of a horrible accident waa abandoned. The bridgfca are safe, the water works uniqjured, John's logs and lumber yard all right, and not even a stick of oord-wood carried away. On tte whole, far a flood of ita pretenand wmiilng promise, It must be voted a feilure—a tame insipid fraud— and we feel relieved now that we've expressed the sentiments of this people regarding It.

Aaaoownra the dispatch with whfcsh sutwptiass are pot thiougu now-a-daya, notice the narrow gauge railroad recently built between Bo*.. and Lynn, Msaasi imsstts One bundled days before the rohd was opened, the iron of which it la built waa lying on the •horea of Lake Cbamplain the lumber •f which the can are made was piled at T»oy, and thetieewese growing in North Carolina forests. It was built to be nwf an the cheap flue prinelpli thing becoming just now vary popular in the East and which will without doubt spread It ahonld, over the whole country. The fere 00 all ttaics will be about one cent per mile.

Au. the euatomafj matfca of respect wore shown to the meu*ory of ex-Pied dent Andrew Johnson the early part of this weak. Government boiidlugs were

Ad, flags hung at balf-mast, minute The body w» HUerwd In the pmasnesof an Immense crowd a» Greenville, Tennessee, on Tuesday. Jfrfs iswwfls torn*

TOKRB tWTTB SATTJRDAy/ EVJENXN9'J&AIh,

ABASE FRAUD.

Tbk river and high-Water exdtement have subsided. The ftra was splendid while it lasted and was intensely enjoyed by the entire population. Of oounp some disappointment was felt because more damage was not done, but then In tills world we cant expect always to have things Just as we want them. It was only the more sanguine ones, anyhow, that stood on the bank and longed with any degree of hope to see the Clinton bridge come surging down the river, lock horns with the A SLL L., both charge on the Vandalia and all three sweep down with resistless Airy on the county bridge and carry it away with a thouwttid shrieking horrified and helpless lien, Woinfcn and children, clinging to its shattered timbers. Many people would even have been satisfied with the destruction of one bridge, and the loss of say a hundred and fifty lives but, reasonable as were these hopes, they were not rewarded by a fulfillment

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THE Louisiana ccnsus will make the population of New Orleans about205,000. LET us hope that, quoting from the Song of Solomon, "The rain to over and gone."

THE destruction of forest trees doesnt seem to have produoed drouth quite eo much this summer aa formerly.!.

A FAST mail train la toMbe ran from New York to Chicago which will make the entire distance in twenty-six hours. Pretty ftst time that.

IT is a fact worthy of notioe and com mendation that, for the first time since the war, the South has raised sufficient bread-stufih for home consumption. This circumstance will neoessarily divert the surplus of the North to European markets, where it is badly needed.

SPEAKING of the Philadelphia variety theatres, a correspondent states that less than three hundred performers of various kinds earn an honest living in these places, many of them women with families dependent on them for support, who oould not get much more than starvation wages in any other business.

AT the last election in Indianapolis 811 spedal policemen were appointed and put in the day working for the Democratic ticket. They have just been al lowed $500 for this service. When will the bill be brought in for the twelve who were appointed for similar duty in this dty at the late Sixth ward election

THEODORE TILTON ia engaged in writ ing a novel which will be ready for the press in about two weeks. His daughter Florence is teaching school in Brooklyn and keeps house for her father. Mrs. Tilton has applied for a divorce, but many people affect to believe that she and her husband will come together again.

OFFICERS of the' signal service corps at Chicago attribute the exeessive rainfall to the rapid evaporation of the enow on tho mountain slopes of Montana and the Northwest. Another theory Is that the continuous south and southwest winds have brought immense quantities of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, which, coming in contact with the cold er air of this region is condensed into rain. This may be the correct theory for we know that the temperature has been unusually low during the whole rainy season.

JUDOS PEARSON, of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, recently rendered an opinion which is interesting. In this case the parties having made a contract of marriage, on the day previous to marriage the woman executed a deed of gift of her real estate to the value of 93,000 to her step-mother without the knowledge of the man. After the marriage the husband sues for the recovery of the land back to the wife upon the ground of fraud. The court held that the deed was fraudulent, intended to deceive the man, and the step-mother is ordered to convey back the land tothe Wife.

THE rapid increase of crime in tho country is alarming. We cannot recall a time when the oolumns of the press generally, so teemed with horrors aa at present, or when these accounta wero of auch a varied and generally atrodous character. Murder, arson, robbery, child stealing, wife beating, stealing, swindling, cheating and all sorts of vil Islnlee, are rife on every band, and acccounts of them All the columns of the dally papers. Who can explain it? Who can tell us why theoountry la overrun with tramps, or give us the cause of this tidal frave of crime? What eonnectlon Is there between the twoT

THE St. Louis Globe-Democrat thinks that a second Adventlst who is a good preacher, and can abake the people over a certain plaoe not usually mentioned by name in good society, would now find afield everywhere white to the harveat. What with disasters by water, by fire and by flood, by hlnch-boga, grasshoppers, and army-worms, by sword, pestilence and femine, the whole world ia pretty well scared, and about toady to approve ef any madman who prophesies the end. America, England and France are suffering from floods. Portugal Is afflicted with drought Spain Is scourged with the sword, and Turkey is harassed by her rebellious children. Let the prophet oome, the world Is wait^^^ansnasanat

Tni oldest residents are authority for the statement that the rise of 1828, In the Wabash river, was' the highest known. That of July 1844, came next to that of. MB, than that of June 1868, exceeded that of 18(4, and the prsasnt rise exceeds that of 1888. In 1898, the

Idge opposite Ohio tfiett was einied down. The embankment now owned by theoounty wan oteiflowed and eut tnplaoea. There was no trestle or outlet In the bottoms aa now, and the water was towed In the main channel, and we seemed to be mm water than at prsasnt, on that aecount.

There have always oocurred rises tn Juneof eech year, that overflowed the baaka, exeept in the years 1871, 18W, UTS and 1874. It requine a riee of 18 feet to ovvritow the bottoma. Januaiy 1871, was the highest rias tor that year, being 14 feet. The highest riee for 18H, wae in February, feet. In July 1878, the high sat tor that yew was If tost. In Januaiy and February of 1874, the riaas sttained nearly 18 feet* [he pnoent rise is the most deatruotiveof any that baa occurred. Than were morsacrea In cultivation. It wee more sudden. It cameatassmon when the craps wore so tor advanced as to make the destruction more marked.

SEVERAL weeki ego our T. T.% had occasion to my some plain words in regard to the Indeoendee of the daily pnas. Sinoe then the Journal hasdosely scanned the oolumne of ^he Mail that it might my "you'reanother.'* The time haa tome. The mountain baa labored and a littl* fnouaehaa peeped out. This morning, after rolling the morsel underlie tongue tor an entire week, the Journal says:

That moral paper, The Mall, has been lecturing the dally pram of thia dty vulgarity In a square way, of late. S if anybody can .find anything in the dailies one-half so low as the account of that little Brooklyn girl, in last Satur day'a Mail, we wtllsuccumb.

And here is the terrible "account of that little Brooklyn girl," as it appeared among the miscellany in last Saturday's Mail:

A lady of Brooklyn* Who isn't a Plymouth Churcber, has a little girl four or five years of age, who, when she felt pain in her abdominal region, would say aha had the bellyache. Her mother told her she must not say "bellyache," but "stomaobachc," and a tow days afterward she ran to her mother and said "Oh, ma, I've got ouch a pain in my stomach, where my belly used to be!"

WOMAN suffrage Is the grind regenerating force that all our social philoaophers have been seeking so long In vain, if we can plaoe any faith in the glowinjg summary of its results published to the world by the Laramie Sentinel. The Sentinel keeps watch over the fortunes of Wyoming Territory, where woman's suffrage has for some years been an accomplished toot, and it may be preeum ed to know something of the operation of the system. And it endorses it thoroughly. There never was a term of court held there deeently, In a decent place, It says, until the ladies took baud in. They never had a Grand Jury that did its duty honestly and fearlessly until they had one partially oompoeed of ladies. They oould scarcely obtain a conviction for the moat hdnous crime until ladies found a place in the Juty box. As for the elections, drunkennees, rowdyism and bloodshed were the prin dpal coacomitants until "our wives, mothers, sisters and daughters were permitted to accompany us to the polls." Now, thanks to the beneficent influenoo of the fair electors, the elections go off ss quietly as any sodsl gathering. Verily the golden age has dawued in Wyoming, or the Sentinel sends fitlse tidings from its Western watch-tower.

AT the last meeting of the coundl it was agreed that the dty should bear onehalf the expense of anew fence around the Normal school property. The kind of fence proposed is a cheap wooden affair with some iron about it—the nails probably—and is not at all the kind of structure that the property should bav6 Its estimated cost is 91200. Now it would be vastly more sensible tor the Normal school to erect a substantial stone fenoe, something after the style of Colonel Hudson's fence, on soi^th Sixth street. Such a fence could, we understand, be built for $4,000. If such Is the feet, it would be the sheerest folly for the trustees to build one of the former kind because it was 12,800 cheaper.

The Normal school lot has boen grad ed two or three feet higher than the streets bounding it. During the recent rains it has "washed until the pavement on Sixth street Is covered with earth to the depth of afoot or more. Nothing can prevent ita washing, or preserve the beauty of the lot, exoept some improvement of the kind we propoee.

We therefore urge the proper author itles to reoonsider their recent determin ation and vote for a respectable improvement of a permanent kind. The dty will pay her portion of the expense good deal more cheerfully than If the money were wasted in something cheap and worthless.'

THE NEW WAITER.

A somcwbat novel but wholly agreeable and commendable custom has sprung up in the hotels at Northern wa-tering-plaoee of employing school-teach-ers and students from the neighboring oollegee to do the serving st table. At many of the hotels the hack waiters have been discarded permanently, and the guest Is surprised to find himself served by a young gentlemen or lady of intelligence and refinement. The proprietor of the Twin Mountain Houae, received an offer from the misses in a Western female college to come and do his table waiting for the summer on aooeptable terms. Many such arrangements were made at places of popular resort and they serve to give the students a ohance to learn something of the world, to see the notabilities of the time, to enioy whatever Is enjoyable at the mountain-aide of spring, and to earn something for self-support. The Idea to exceUtntT It ought to be made still mora lamely practical another aeaeon. Itgiyeatotbem Ratable youtha some needed ftands and experience, and It blesses the traveling public with mora sgreeaUe table servfce thai It everbefora enjoyed. It, bowaver, this sporadic ralation to to haveanyjavgeandperaMtieot results, somHhing must be learned by both the servants and the served.

The waitm most learn the honorable leaning of the Prince of Walee*s Gor»n. "Tek diesM serve. They must learn that, in this world, work is note curae but a blessing that it to the priee of health, wealth, •irtue, eontent«nent, culture. AU should partkipate in it. In table esrviee then much of mutual kindliness that cannot be paid tor. To render human servtee tonotlgooble but honorable—one of tho moat gracious

bot ara quite aa likely to their aopariora in hrtf llH*, virtue, and refinement. A gosotwbols well served Is underobUnations which he can never pay, and a mmm who Is capable of traaUng a servant rudely or contomptoously on account of the relation is essentiafly avulbrate. When they who ara served uoitormlv rwpecttal, It may be

American ladiee will mora freqpenthr prefer a neighbor's kitchen or a hotel dining-room to the stifling air and pestilential infloonemof toetoryllto.

HE COULD NOT ST A Y.

-r A iiiniwsota Htuband Run* Avay From a VenleiM W\fe. j.

The St. Paul Pioneer says: llome llays aince we gave the fhets of the mysterious disappearance of E. N. Wood, who was employed at Sqiith Parker's sash, door and blind manufactory. He waa subsequently reported ss having taken the train for St. Paul, and tbere.all trace of him was lost. Facts that have just oome to light go tor toward clearing up the mystery.

Reports derogatory to tho.character of Mrs. Wood have been in drculatiou in her neighborhood, it seems, but she asaerta her entire innocence—that the stories were invented by her e'*ntnies, and were not the cause of any difficulty between herself and her ndsband, who knew then to be felse. She waa jealous of her husband, however, and goaded him until he couldn't or wouldn't endura it any longer. On the day of his departure no addressed the following:

MINNEAPOLIS. July 10, 1875.—Dear Kate: Aa much aa it has pained me, I must leave you. I am strongly attached to you, but you have acted so to me that I am nearly erased. There Is $7,50 due .me at Smith A Parker's pet. You can draw that. I have a few tools there. I should like to have you send ipy tools home. Let them pay the freight. I may want to uae tools some time again, but now I feel like dying in the streets like a dog. You have lost a good homo by your foolishness. I have warned you time and again not to abuse nie eo.

I think you had better sell tho house and lot and all the thlnga but a few that you may want to keep. You have my consent to eell the place and thon go home to your folks. The Lord only knows where I shall go to or what I shall do. I have 970 in money but no dothea or tool*. Be a good girl and try and think kindly of me. I have tried to be good to you. I have nover been guilty of the things you have charged me of. You may aee me again some time. I again my, be a good girl and think kindly of me.

In case yon eend my tools home, have the lid sorewed down or it will come open. Good-bye.

It will be foolishness to follow mo. Try and do as I have asked you to. I shall keep from bad company and do the best I can, and I may have something some day.

I can never forget you. Good-bye. .•?«: .-•« 1 Your husband, E. N. WOOD. Mrs. Wood now wishes he would come back again. If he would, she would exert herself to make the Wood home one of the brightest and happiest spots on earth.

HARD TIMES.

The Hartford Times' spedal letter from Now York says: Last winter was a hard one, and led to muoh suffering but the spring and summer have been worse so, at least, I hear workingmen my all around. Wages are lower and employment actually harder to obtain. Ono conseqnonco ia a disinclination to remain on the part of unemployed persons who have the means to get away. All tho Europoan steamers take out large numbers of steerage passengers. One of those leaving on Saturday last had over eleven hundred passengers of this class.

Tho exodus of labor is the greatest that has yet been known at tbe port ?f New York. Tho newspapers clo not say much about it, but it is important and significant. The increase that has taken plaoe In psssago ratos does not check it. Last winter the steamship companies got up a fight for passengers and reduced the price of steorago tickets to fifteen dollars. Tho price is now up to twenty-eight dollars, yet tho demand does not diminish. We still bavo plenty of workingmen remaining, a great many more than we can give employment to, but the departure of so large a number and tbe great falling off in Immigration are too significant to be overlooked. nsnssBBsan

TREASURER NEWS POPULAR^ ITY. [Washington Cor.to Chicago Times.] Thojolliest official in Washington 18 the now Treasurer. He has an easy, dash way about him that captures his visitors. He is very activo and energetic, always ready with a cordial handshake and a breexy smilo between the intervals of business. He is bound to be very popular here, and ho has sucb an Insinuating way with newspapermen that he is bound to be puffed and repuflfod during his term of official existence. He Is a man wise In his generation. He has studied the short and easy road to official popularity, and so is certain of obtaining il.

A MARVELOUS LEAP. A dispatch from Dresden, Ohio, an* nounoes that Robert Stiokney, the celebrated rider and acrobat of Itobinson's drcus, aocomolished last Saturday evening at that plaoe tbe extraordinary foat of turning a double-somersault over twenty-four horses. Hitherto tbe greatest number of horses over which "a double" had ever been turned was dghteen and the event is exciting much tsllc among circus men. Uncle John offers to wager that no other man living can turn even a single somersault over twenty-four horses. Certainly the feat of Stickney deserves record in acrobatic annals aa the most marvelous in drcus history

SEA BATHING AND WA TER. John Paul facetiously says: Well, I don't blame others for not bathing. Individually, I would rather see bathln' than sea bathe. Being in tbo undertow hss no charms for me I'd aa lief be underhand as undertoed. A oommon bath tub answer* very well for ind soap does the work thoroughly enough Without the aid of sand. There's no moat fun In getting wet ail over unless one needs washing. If I made a practice of am bathing, I think I'd have 1 in India-rubber suit made and take an umbrella In with me. Water, as tbe old Frenchman remarked, bra so tasted of sinners since the flood.

A BAL MASQUE IN BATHING COSTUMML (Front the Cape May Wave, 17th.]

The Philadelphia Evening Star suggests a bal masque In bathing costume. The suggestion Is a novel one, and would no doubt bo largely shared In and serve aa an amusing change from the general order of bop*.

HUNGRY FREEDOM. [Viclutrarg Herald.]

A Northern female philanthropist^ •making to a Vftcksburg negro tbe other oay. inquired:

Isn't it pleasant to be your own maater?" "Irakouit la," he replied. "And how do colored people generally feel about it?" she continued. •'Well, I don't 'metly know, but I guem moa' ob 'em fools putty hungry,"* waa the answer.