Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 5, Number 49, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 June 1874 — Page 2

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TPE farmers of Sullivan county will attend the 10th of Juhc Indianapolis convention, in force. At a recent meeting a set of resolutions were adopted, which have the true sound about them. They declare their opposition to laud grants to railroads, insist that the salaries given to public officers be reduced to something like a just recompense for the actual labor performed, as ascertained by the salaries received for similar work in business, favor free trade, demand equal rights for the farmers, and denounce all monopolies. Vigo should not let her sister counties outrun her in the raoe for the readjustment of .Governmental affairs. The 10th of June convention will in all probablity be the largest convention of tho State. All the signs of the times point unmistakably to that result. Vigo should be represented there.

OUB steadfast and firm President is credited with the remark that he would not remove liichardsou while under fire. Translated from the phrasdblogy. in which it is set# this means that Richardson, having been proven to be an Incompetent knave, and an addlepated foOl, should not be displaced until the newspapers ceased to repeat those unpleasant trqths about him. Now let us try Qrant by the code of military honor •which ho has himself elected. Cluss, the engineer of the Washington Board of Public Works, produced vouchers before the Committee of Investigation, proving that Shepherd had paid Architect Mullett $5,000 in the year 1872, while the record shows that Shepherd has sworn that lie only paid him $1,000 Now, it so happens, that Cluss himself is on the record, as testifying also to the fact that Mullett had only received $1,000. Shepherd, upon this fact, requests the President to remove Cluss, as a perjurer, utterly forgetting, both he aud Graut, honest souls, that the same evidence proves Shepherd to be no less a perjurer. Now does Grant stick to his rule of not removing an officer when under fire? Not at all. Does he remove both of these proveu perjurers Not at all. He removes Cluss, who, if he did perjure himself, at least made nothing by it, and retains and sticks by Shepherd, who perjured himseir aud did make money by the operation.

We repeat what we have said often before, and what the country must already begin to recoguize as the truth, that the only way to stop tho stupendous knavery which permeates our whole bod^ politic, and .makes all rotten, is to remove Grant. He is tho stauneh friend and support«r of knaves and tricksters. Let him be impeached.

Abandoning tho Sinkiug Sliip. Iu a burst of virtuous indignatiou, J" the Iudianapolis Journal is moved to speak out as follow*:

The District of Columbia disclosures .grow worse from day to day, and fumJsh cubiulative evidence of tho criminal .1 looseness and gross corruption which '""have prevailed there. It has taken a good while to get at the facts, but of lato they aro coming out pretty lreeljr, 'and the deep' probing of the last few days has been followed by copious dlsr cbarges of tbe blackest kind of pnatter. 'There is no longer room to doubt tbat the operations of the District Government have been carriod on in a criminally reokless rtianner and that a scheme of plunder scarcely covered by tbe forms of law, has been systematically practiced there, to the greaten rlchmeOTtff-i lew individuals and tho soandal of the nation. There is evidence enough of fraud on the part of I- aorae, and when actual fraud was lacking, the management has been so grossly bad, and the mode of doing .business so loose, as to justify tho suspicion that all the operators were equal sharers in the spoils. •*.

The country wants the matter probed .to the core. No political party is strong enough to defend such an administration as that now beinn exposed, and, speaking for itsolf, the

Journal respectfully declines to at tempt it.

We should "like to inquire of the Journal if :*he removal of Cluss fo probable perjury, by Ibe President and the failure to remove Shepherd for proven perjury, is not evidence sufficient to convict Grant of crimi-

al connection with that band of political harlots aud knaves known to the world as the Washington ring, the defence of which the Journal ""'•"ftVgpgmTOTly declines tb attempt Is

W ft hot-President Grant a member of tbe*^Wbhlngtort ring, in full comjnunioa, ai»a Will not the *™5»'tirna1 respectfully decline to attempt his defence? Is or Is not

Grant the chief member of that administration in regard to which the .at Journal says that it is one which no political party iastrong enough todefend Does or does, not the Journal

Mre\s with the GAZETTE ih Its belief tha' the impeachment of Grant is a necessity?

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Hiuradny, June 4, 1874.

JOHN EDOAK THOMPSON, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, died at his residence in Philadelphia, ls*t night. Mr. TIIOMPION was one of I JIB greatest

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round (rip tickets to the ]0th of June Farmers' Convention. The T. H. A I. Railroad will take delegates, in numbers of twenty or more, at half fare. Twenty or more must go each day, within reasonable limits to secure these rales. There will undoubtedly be a delegation go from Vigo.

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IN view of the disturbance that in being raised in this city over the license imposed by the Couucil, it may be well to know what action some of our sister cities of the State have taken in regard to it. Fort Wayne hnB imposed a licensc of $300 Warsaw, one of $200 South Bend, $300 Valparaiso and Plymouth, $200 each, and Michigau City one of $50.00. It will thus be seen that the action of the City Couucil of Terre Haute is not an unprecedented outrage, if outrage it be.

d'Evans.

Despairing of even getting along 111 the world with the ponderous tittle* of Evansville, the Courier of that bedridden city, convinced, apparently, that everything is in a name, has set about agitating the question of a name. It proposes Lamasco, as a happy blending of mellifluous vowels and sturdy consonents besides it think9 that, whereas there are so many villes that non'e could hope to rife above the dull level of mediocrity, there would be a proud exclusiveness about Lamasco. It would be copyrighted and there could be but one Lamasco. This latter precaution, however, would be altogether unnecessary, for probably no other town in the world would undertake to tempt Providence by infringing on the river town's patent, and adopting tbe name. It has too much the sound of the name wherewith infant sheep are known of men, to be adopted in this wicked, wolfish world of greed and gain, and go-ahead. There is but ono thing for Evansville to do. It is plaiu that the name has gone back on the place. A file of tbe Courier, wherein is stated the fact that Evansville is known in the East, when it is known at all, as a station so many miles south of Terre Haute, proves this. Now, since the name has gone back on the town and retarded its growth, why not go back on the name, literally and metaphorically, and, as a natural consequence, grow. Not plain,commonplace, dull, prosy, backwoods Evansville, but, henceforth, Ville d'Evans. Now, that is a name worth having. It has a foreign flavor, as of some one who has traveled. It sounds French.

Begorra it is French. It is European, and, no doubt, with that name it would flourish perhaps its people would learn to walk Spanish. In hoc signo vincet.

AMASA WALKEK, of Massachusetts, labors under what our contemporary, the Journal, would call, we suppose, the disadvantage of being a theorist. In the leisure hours of an active business life devoted to manufacturing, in which he has amassed a comfortable fortune, he lias taken occasion to make a study of the question of national economics. The result of this mingling of practice and theory is a decided opposition on his part to the patent methods of making people and nations rich. Iu speaking, recently, of the disastrous eflect produced upon many important branches of industry in this country by our dishonest system of forcing up prices and making times good by issuing irredeemable currency, he said "Our exports of cotton fabrics, for example, has fallen to a fifth of what it was, and many other things in equal proportion. We once bad a flourishing boot and shoe trade with the Provinces, but sinco wo have raised prices so much wo can 110 longer supply them and what is more deplorable, they are now establishing large boot and shoe factories in Montreal, in St. Cohn's, New Brunswick, and in various other places, and we shall probably never recover our trade in that line."-

Ho further takes occasion to utter some very solid truths in the following way "Our redundant curroncy acts like a protective tarifl to tho people of the provinces, and for that matter, to the people of every other coantry who produce any commodity that would naturally come into competition with our own. We had a flourishing trade in the shoe line with Australia, and it was constantly increasing at a rapid rato. It is now almost annihilated. A reciprocity trade with the Dominion is highly desirable, and, with a high standard of value, would bo largo and profitable but, with our present monetary system, it must bo much loss than it ought. Our mechanics and manufacturers are passing over the boundary and establishing their several trades, because they can benefit themselves by

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and is the result of tho short-sightod policy of our Government iu forcing the people to use a currency which for the purposes of home production is not worth, at the furthorest, more than sixty-five cents on the dollar."

AT a meeting of the representatives of some of our Indiana colleges^ last week, at Indianapolis, a constitution was framed aud au organization effected for the purpose of ar-

The 10th of June Convention. 7* The farmers' and laboring men's convention will meet at Indianapolis on Wednesday of next week. There is every reason to believe that it will build a platform, nominate candidates, and inaugurate a reform movement which will sweep the State. It will be composed of persons who have acted in the* past with one or tbe other of the old parties, but are thoroughly disgusted with them. Such persons in this county should not fail to take advantage of the present opportunity, and try to inaugurate a new party. A choice of tbe least of two evils, it is always best to make when neither of the two things presented is entirely satisfactory, but better than that is it, to undertake with all ones power to mould a new organization into exact conformity with ones views. Neither of tbe old parties is at all likely to advocate just the measures or nomi nate exactly the men that will be satisfactory to that large body of men, whose scratched tickets and sudden changes from one side to the.other, Jiave indicated, during the past four years, bow nearly evenly balanced were the two evils, and made the politics of our

State an exceedingly uncertain matter. For these men, the times are ripe, the occasion inviting. One long pullj strong pull, and a pull all together, made now, may be the means of raising a standard that honest aud intelligent men may follow with enthusiasm. If the farmers' convention should not enunciate sound doctrine, or should fail to

The Crusade.

For a time last week the crusaders were despondent over the thought that if the Bronson case went against them it would be necessary for them in order to prove a violation of the 9 (, 'clock provision of the Buxter bill, to go always equipped with a bank defector, telescope aud stomach pump. With the first two they could discover money ^nd prove Its genuineness with the third they could pump out thoe last installment of liquid refreshment from the late drinker, and ascertain by chemical analysis if it was really beer, and intoxicating. The decision of the case, as rendered last night by the jury, would seem to indicate that, in their opinion, beer can be told by a crusader when it givetli its color in the mug, notwithstanding there are several harmless compounds, such as Weiss beer, ginger ale, aud sarsaparilla soda, which closely resemble it iu outward form and workiner. though totally different in their inward action, "rue crusaders have won their first legal victory. Will they carry the war into Judea? Will they take Jerusa. leua

ranging a series of annual contests in (j0jUg anything with the finance A. .1

A WONDERFUL amount of energy seems to be expeuded daily by the orgauic press of the

State, in concoct

ing schemes whereby theludianapoiis Sentinel is to pass out of the bauds of its present management and become an orgau of Democracy once more. The persous least concerned about this rumored change, seem to be the managers of the Sentinel. They turn neither to the right nor to the left, uor notice these carefully predicted convulsious whieh are expected to knock them -'sky west and crooked," but jog along in the rut they have made for themselves 011 a new road, apparently at peace with their ledger and its showing, and quite absorbed in making the best newspaper Indiana ever had.

AN amount of enthusiasm is being developed in this country over Rochefort, which really appears to be uncalled for and unwarranted by tbe history of tbe man. A man whose political principles are of that fiery and explosive character tbat, no matter what kind of government France is under, he is considered an unsafe individual to have around, may, perhaps, be a lion, and Jght to be lionized, but until he succeeds iu gaining some converts in his native land to

some

THE action of the House in defeating tbe amended Senate finance bill, was exactly what might have been expected. The country will do well to give over all idea of Congress

oratory aud other branches of po- qUe3tion this session, and may con litfe learning, between tho difldrent colleges.. The organization has been christened "The Indiana State InterCollegiate Oratorical Contest Association, which, to say the least, has an Imposing sound, and is not altogether unlike the method of nomenclature in vogue among the titled sons of nobility abroad. But the association, despite its ponderous name, will do a great deal of good among the collegians of the State. Contests of the kind proposed will stir up that generous rivalry between the members of different institutions which is the life and soul of college life. We are glad that our Indiana colleges have resolved to make tha contests between their members ihatter^ of tbe brain rather than the muscle, as their Eastern brothers have made theirs, in their boat races and base ball matches. The members of the I. S. I. C. O. C. A. at present, are Ihe State Ashury and the Northwestern Christian universities. Provision, however, is'made, for admitting other institutions of learning into the association, whenever they may express a desire, and are ready to subscribe to the constitution. May tbe good work go on.

lHnn/\hn(1 Af tlA. •_ gratulate itself upon the fact. At the elections next fall, the people will express their will upon the question of violating the national honor by issuing illimitable greenbacks, and refusing to redeem its promises. We may confidently expect of of the next Congress that the country's face will be turned in the direction of resumption of specie pay ments, and of a returu to the honest and simple system of sticking by our promises, whatever they may happen to be. Then, having regained the confidence of the world, and our own faith in our own national integrity, an era of sound business and safe prosperity may be relied upou. Once over the idea that national wealth is a mere matter of legislation, and back again to the belief that hard work is the Aladdin's lamp to light the nation by, noihingcan retard the developmeut of our resources, or hinder our growth.

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appreciate. If a fool -and rlijlit 'J here we wish to say that neither iu this suggestion, uor in the former, do we desire to detract one iota, from

West a chance.—we point with pride to our Indiana Insane Asylum, as filled with persons eminently fitted 'to fill Cabiuet offices. We will guarantee them to ifive the President frequent opportunity of remarkiug t'UaVbe will not remove an officer while under, fire though, of course, it would be reckle-ss in us to promise that they would or could re quire as frequent use of this military maxim as tbe very excellent gentlemen have by whom our worthy Pres*ident is now surrounded.

THB figures presented. by Councilman Henderson, in his speech in the Council, showing the disadvantage a city labors under, and the increased amount of money it has to pay, when it tries- to stave, .oft the payment of present or prospective indebtedness by au issue of bonds, should be read by every tax-payer. He thows up in. clear" light an axiom of govern-

converts u. u.» mental policy, seldom uuderetood, hUnninion* we shall continue to be- not often followed, and at present belleve Vhat he ouijht to be eag^d. One ing disregarded by us, that it jiays to is never a majority, except iu a page, pay as you go. Let tl^city adopt There Rochefort could r^le^

WITH more and handsomer theatres already than any other city In the West, and that, too, after a fire that wonld be naturally expected to drive out of this world the keen relish for the festive drama, the Chicago newspapers have begun to complain about the meagerness and meanness of their theatrical accommodation, and advocate the erection of the finest and largest theatre in world. If anybody can find anything that will destroy Chicago pluck, we wish he would let the world know what it is so that every body can avo doing that thing.

OUR American Catholic pilgrims, whose departure from this country occurred some two weeks or so ago, are in Rome, to-day. They will pay their respects to His Holiness Pope Pius, IX, visit the shrine of Our Lady of Loundes, and inspect shrines and holy places generally, throughout Europe and in the holy land, during tbe summer.

Editorial Note?.

BJSMABCK is better. THERE is no place like home. RICHARDSON has not resigned. NAST has not yet turned on Grant. Now long, O Lord, how long

CROPS of the Pacific coast are reported in a flourishing condition. MR. ANJD MRS. SARTORIS have arrived at Queenstown, and the observing reporter of the Associated Press reports "all well."

THE Government will erect a custom house at Lamasco, for the national son-in-law, Sartoris, when the name of the

place is settled. tn™wHi...t

put forward good men, the situation done for Sartoris and Lamasco. THE people of Evansville will petition their City Council to order an election to decide on the relative merits

will be nonet lie worse than it was be fore. A cardinal doctrine of this, as of all new movements, will be the sacred privilege of individual opinion and the inalienable right of bolting and scratching. The farmers' convention must sue ceed or fail, rise or fall, according as glycerine in re Richardson. N.-g it shall do rifiht or wrong. It must live in the present and the future. It has no past of its own. If it points with pride to no past, no blush shame mantles its cheek at recollection of misdeeds. It finds a reason for Its origin in the misconduct of its adversaries, and asks only for support at the hands of the people as it shall give better promise of good government than either o(% the perjured wrecks that with palsied hands clutch at office for its perquisites. The farmers aud laboring people of Vigo must make their arrangements to be represented at Iudianapolis next week, if they desire to have a hand In shaping the future policy of the State aud nation.

Something should be

of Evansville and Lamasco as handles for that village. WITH Mr. Bergh's consent wo should bo pleased to suggest a keg of nitrois a good vacuum creator and we must be cruel to be kind.

THE ladies of Vincennes are jubilant 0f

over their success in prosecuting certain iutemperate parties, and will now push all offenders to the utmost extremity of the law.,

APPROPOS of Richardson, this of the Worcester (Mass.) Press is not bad Prof Schneider composed a grand march for Miss Nellie. Would it be asking too much to request hioa to coippose one for Richardson

As NEARLY as we can ascertain, from a careful perusal of the editorials in Harper's Weekly, Curtis likes Gxant, but dislikes, with one or two exceptions, everything he is doing. This must be a comfortable belief.

CINCINNATI is considering the suggestion of tho Commercial's London correspondent, that Huxley might be induced to make his home in Porkopolis. Why should not the Terro Haute A. A. S. invite Darwin here. It might be the means of finding the missing link. Lamasco is not far from here.

AT last tho secret of Sartoris' wedding trip -to England has leaked out. Algernon C. F., etc., Sartoris is empowered by the President to offer the Secretaryship of the Treasury to Joe tbe wonderful Gorilla of the Zoological Gardens, London. Richardson will not resign until Joe has signified his willingness to accept tho place.

A SMALL hurricane in St. Louis, yesterday, scattered tin roofs freely on Main street, blew down fences in the suburbs, and shattered considerable glass in various parts of tho town. We suppose this is the Brooks and Baxter breeze working its way north. We dare it to come here. Two days of summer weather makes us sigh for a wind.

OUR readers will be pleased to learn by an advertisement in the New York Tribune that there has been a great reduction in tho prices of fine carriages in Now York. Laodauletes. No. 1 size, are going oft aire cheap, at from $1,100 to $1,200. Before buying, however, we would suggest to prospective purchasers to put themselves in correspondence with the Department of Justice at Washington. A nice second haud ono is for salo there, as also an Attorney General, both cheap.

TIIE GAZETTE is not up, so to speak, in administration tactics, hence does not know the provisions of the law Which requires the President to give his choice of all the other offices of the Government to an addle-pated knave, caught in his foolish trickery, but it would like to suggest that Richardson be appointed night-watch of the bigest powder magazine in the country. He might fool around and neglect hia business all ho pleased, for there would be compensation for the explosion that would iuevitably ensue, in the thought that Riohardson would be the most Inflated man iu the country.

THE Clay county Herald very sensibly advocates an increase of the currency.— Express.

Yes, that kind of sense which enables its unfortunate possessor, after a ten minutes' iuvestigation of a most abstruse subject, to take position against the combined wisdom and experience ol the world for centuries that kind of sense which knows that the earth is flat, science to the contrary notwithstanding that Icind of sense by which a man may make $1,000 in as many seconds by simply marking up his stock that kind of sense which slakes the burning thirst of intemperance wi.h more liquid fire that kind of sense which would make us all rich had *ve a paper mill apiece. We want a name tor this kind of sense—for the

WHAT sin has the country committed that it must have Rich&rdson iu office, either as Secretary of the Treasury, resigning that, as pret- lack of a stronger word we call it non ty muoh anything else he may be pleased to ask for? If it is a knave

sense.. ''UiiJ AT tho dose of an article condemn-

Grant, wants, we beg leave to suggest ing in rounded and merited phrase the city

the fact that a very likely young i8li ana designing mou vciihhUitrm in a slinir snobbery oxhibited at the marriage of housesof the midnight burglar. Streets horse thief, with his arm^lu a sling,

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Ill© eminent abilities of feecretray gftr^orjSf pere, will eogage a private flagraiit violation of a niunioipai law Richardson it is a mere question of tutor to' teach her something besides of the city. Let tbei .. elinnaro ann fiiull fnt* an inDaaf.ioftt.inn. Tn

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rotation in office, and of giving the how to count her slippers and sigh for a^inv^ugauon

more. Our cotemporary is wrong, here. Nellie should couut her slippers, less, and learn to cypher more. There ought to be a vacancy at the head of the Treasurv Department soon, and Nellie might fill it, if she would only learn the multiplication table.

A MAN may be a philosopher, a phi Untbropist, and a humauitariau he tnnv spend his week days in looking after and caring for the world's welfare, and Sunday in developing his own soul's wealth he may love agriculture as

than his sweetheart he may de- it

voto tweuty-three hours out of the twenty-four, during a drought, to sighing for a refreshing, vivifying, generous rain to help the crops, and the other hour ih praying for moisture but let him get caught in a shower as he aoes home from cbnrch on Sunday morning with his best, his only clothes on, and he will swear like a pirate at tho whole human race, »nd bless granges aud grangers with their everlasting need of rain, for all the world like a grasping railroad monopolist. It is not human to be good, or mild, or gentle

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THB lightning express train froia Terre Haute to New York, over the 1 H. & I., P. C. A St. L., and the Pennsylvania R. R., is the one for live travelers to take.. The train leaves here at 2:03 P. M. one day and arrives at New fork tbe ensuing evening. Tbe time is so arranged tbat the beautiful scenery between Pittsbnrgand Harrisburg can be witnessed. This is important. The track is double from Pittsburg east, and no delay is occasioned by sidetracking for other trains. The road bed is ballasted with stone, and passengers are not annoyed with due*.

These advantages, when taken in connection with the elogant coaches and magnificent Pullman palaces run over tbe line, should not be overlooked by parties who wih to go to New York, Philadelphia and intermediate points If Washington is to be taken into tbe eastern teur, the tourist not having been over either line, it would be well to either go or return by the Baltimore & Ohio route. That line is also a good one, and the scenery wild and beautiful. Having been over both routes, the one first mentioned is the one for the traveling public to tie to.

IN one sense, the hack drivers on the leading thoroughfares of the city of New STork, are an honest set. They are so honest that they frankly confessed that they had been in the habit of stealing. It came about in this way. Automatic collectors were placed in the hacks, and they no longer had tho handling of the fares. The proprietors

THE anonymous ass who has hereto-

fore descended from his high estate to

slander his fellow-men, through the

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WHILE the weather was very .warm here last week, the very reverse was the case in the East. The ladies there wore wearing their winter and early spring suits. Vegetation east is three or four weeks behind that of Terre Haute. Even so far west as along the Ohio river the apple and pear trees are just blossoming.

THE Ladies' Temperance Union, of Indianapolis, has had printed and are now distributing broad-cast over the city the names of all who signed liquor petitions for the Jane term. The ladies of Terre Haute contemplate, tho saino course, we understand.

THE passenger engines of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and its innumerable leased lines and connections, are all draped in mourning in respect to the momory of the late President, John Edgar Thompson.

REV. DR. C. W. STEWART, closed his pastoral season at Pence's Hall, last evening, mm win BOOB, (MATURES HOT. and green. Ho will not find greener fields than he found at Pence's Hall.

Tms Indiana editors will be warmly welcomed if they rendezvous at Terre Haute next year as they now contemplate doing, prior to going west or south, on their annual excursion.

Soino Sonnd Sense.

To the E Ji tors of the Evening Gazette: I am glad to notico tho financial soundness of the GAZETTES, whether as affecting the national, State, or our own municipal government. Nothing can be gained to a newspaper by advocating a loose, unsound and impaired system of finance. You can not undermine business, shatter integrity, and involve a people iu a dishonest debt, without bringing a most lamentable scandal on the press and the people. Editors should study finance they should study and compare. Past experience in the history of men and of States, is a more safe criterion for correct judgment, than are the opinions of Senators or pettifoggers in the House of Representatives. Y«ar condemnation of useless expenditures, of frauds upon the treasury, of rings and of illegitimate monopolies, meets the hearty approval of every honest man. As treason is looked upon as a high crime, and in conviction works a forfeiture of many civil rights, so ought it to be with every man who in any manner defrauds a treasury, whether it be that of the United States, of a State or county or city, that he shall forfeit the right to hold any office in tbe gift of the people. Let us look well to it that no man be trusted who has once, by tricks or by shrewd management, succeeded in robbing a treasury to enrich his own pocket. We are living in a time of great demoralization in respect to moral integrity. Our treasury is more danger of the lurking avarice of selfish and designing men than aro our

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lowing stylo ^,. .. Well, the farce "is over,"arid we aro glad of it. Miss Grant was an uneducated aud uncultured girl, and it is to be hoped that when sho gets to England,

being improved, graded and:gn.v-

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are being improved, graded and gnv eled at the expense of the public treasury, when it was expressly pro, vided that such work shall be done at tho expense of the property owner. And it is not tho first time tbat this injustice is placed upon the tax-payers —it ain't for me to contradict,

there be, forthwith,

Thocounty treasury

bas had many bold and ingenious attacks during the last few years, and once has it suffered a large loss of many thousand dollars. I was liighiy pleased and encouraged by reading the business-like speech

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ul's wealth be may love agriculture they can to honorably remarks a friend who has read the item __ the apple of his eye, and grangers gUsta}'H

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stances and everything that wears Sunday clothes is pretty much human, on an average.

itself to be so imposed upon

A MERCENARY CORPSE.

A Charitable Party Gives 814 Toward Bnrying a Poor Woman's Husband, and Shortly Afterward Catches the

Corpse Examining the Money. From the New Orleans Picayune. A day or two ago a most abject and poverty stricken female called on oua'ofour most prominent merchants, well known for his liberality aud kindness of heart, and after unfolding an appalling tale of misfortune and wretchedness, stated, that her husband had died forty-eight hours before.

The merchant was profoundly moved by this revelation of distress, and when his visitor, graphically describing her horror of public burial^ stated tbat she was uuabls to defray the expenses herself, and tbat the body was beginning to decompose in the room inhabitad by herself and her orphaned family, bis pity rose to an extreme pitch. Hastily putting on his hat, he led the women into the street, saying he would accompany her to tbe place, and not only see to the funeral, but make some arrangements for the comfort of the afflicted ones thus left desolate iu a colli aud heartless world. They were soon en route, the benevolent gentleman caring nothiug for the glances of surprise aud suspicion with which his friends regarded this rather incongruous companionship, and the woman alternately weeping and adding further particulars of the woeful history whose culmination they were about to wituess.

Arriving at the house, which, by the way, was a specially forlorn and

nanuiinK oi iuo IUCI. unclean establishment on the river at once raised their wages seventy-live front of the Second District, the woman's actions were confused, not to cents per day. This the dH say peculiar. She seemed overcome, ed did not compensate them for the

crazetj

loss of appropriating fares, and tbey olently on the door, then jerking an for fifty cents more per day, old mildewed bell-handle, and final

struck which would have made $3, per diem. This demand not being conceded to, they struck in a body, and are still on strike. This frankness is commendablo

THE managerial ability displayed by ous children, crouched near the fireMr. C. W. AlnB.ortl. on the I*. odltorial excursion east is a good guaran corpSe

teo of his fitness for the position he ^jue

and to impose a bur- is not extensive!

CITIZEN.

A MAN is apt to boast when he has had the good fortune to go round iair.it world but he is seldom talkative o*v

tbe subject when the world has gone around him—as is occasionally the case with some.—[Brooklyn Times.

INDIANAPOLIS, May 30-— Prank Perry, a fireman on^ the J. M. & 1. K.

with grief, first knocking vi-

ly entering without waltiug for an answer to the summons. They went up a rickety, rotten stair case, and on the fourth floor entered a room whose door consisted of a blanket hung on nails. Two dirty cadaver-

face was unclean, aud

an(j re(j 8p0ts

holds as manager of the Reform School and moutli seemed to indicate that at Plainfield. He was promptly select- decomposition had already set In ed for a third term, and will continue The gentleman was horrified. This dU„»gr behavior-™ tie »»'a Mgbt part of those whom he serves. Long

contaet wjlh an

been stripped of his lion's skin in $14, toUl her to call again and he full view of the public. He owes this would do more for her. Then he to the leniency of the editor of the Express, who would not destroy what of usefulness there may be in the fellow. It were better had the editor not promised the service, however.

THE national nuisance, base bailing, may yet be abated if always attended with such results as are reported from Hartford. Three players wore injured, and the game ended with the fifth inning. One had a finger broken inning. One Had a linger oroKen

?14

about the eyes

almosphere

may he waive—but not as we all waiv- p0Verty sickened him. He thought ed wHten on board tho Providence, off he would go. He felt sorry he had Point Judith. come. It would have been so much better to have given the woman

of death and abject

wUhout

himself in

this horrible misery,

t00jj out

Talk column of tho Mail, has not handing tbe woman the contents,

hj9 pocket-book, and

fled. But at the foot of the stairs he found that he had left his umbrella— a handsome $20 affair, presented on Christmas by his most intimate friend—he positively recoiled from entering tbat room again, but it seemed unreeling to call the woman down, nnd be must return. He did so. He hurried quickly but softly up stairs, tip-toed to the door, lifted the blanket, and saw the corpse set ting up in the coffin counting his

oV^ very deliberately

another his jaw broken and six teeth He clutched the umbrella without knocked out, and the third received a severacut in tho head which threatens a fatal result.

a word aud returned to his place of business, a specially discontented aud sheepish-lookiug mau. i^I

Riddles.

Prof. Win. Matthews, in the Chicago Tribune. A ltior vry tritl) U3 wlii-sh v.Ht amount of time and ingenuity has been expended, is the riddle, lliddle-mak-ing has been popular in all ages and countries, and not only the small wits, but tho big wigs, of Greece, Home, France, Germany and England, have amused themselves with it. Schiller, the German poet, was on adept in this art, and some of his riddles are marvels oHhgenuity. Hero is one by Fox, the great English orator:

Formed long aeo, y«t made to-day, Ard most employed when others sleep What few would wish to give away,

And none would wish to keep, The answer is—a bed. Dr. Whewell, the lato Master of Trinity College, is credited with the follow ing, which was often on his lips. It would baffle a phynx 0a0.batIjOtbee. ..

O 0 no 0, DUt O 0 nife Then let not my 0 a 0 go, But give a 0 010 thee so.

Yon sigh for a cypher, but I sigh for thee, O sigh lor no cypher, sut O sigh lor me Then let not my sigh for a cypher go, D..I .LOTTCIEII t'or blsh, for I sigh lor thee so.

Whew—well done! we hear a punning reader exclaim. Iho following is inferior to the sighing riddle so often repeated to bis friends by tho author of tho "History of Inductive Sciences," but it is not the device of a bungler

Stand take to takings,1 you throw my I understand ...

You undertake To overthrow My undertakings.

Prof. De Morgan, author of the celo brated work on "TheTheory of Probabilities," is tbe author of a cunning punning riddle: How do you know there is no danger of starving in the desert? Because of the sand which is there. And how do you Kow you will get sandwiches there? Because Ham went into the desert, and bis descendants bred and mustard.

We close with a specimen of the puzzles in letters: .i oc :J. is "The season is backward." (The C's on is backward.)

Truly the bumau mind is like an elephant's trunk—capable of grasping tbe mightiest objects, and of adapting itself with equal facility to the meanest and most trifling. There is but one thing to which we can compare the labors of this whole tribe of triflers— it is to the toils of those unwearying imps who were set by the magician to twisting ropes out of sea-sand.

)t,

us! .*•

Breaking it Gently.

"Yes, I remember tbat anecdote," the Sunday school Superintendent said, with the old pathos in bis voice and the old sad look in his eyes. "It was about a simple creature named Higgins, tbat nsed to haul rock for old Maltby. When the lamented Judge Bagley tripped and fell down-the Court House stairs and broke his neck, it was a great question how to break the news to poor Mrs. Bagley. But finally the body was put into Higgins' wagon, and he was instructed to tako it to Mrs. Bagley, but to be very discreet and guarded in his language, and not break the news to her at once, but do it gradually and gently. When Higgins got there with bis sad freight, be shouted till Mrs. Bagley came to the door. Then he said: "Does the widder Bagle.v live here?"

The widow Bagley? No, sir I'll bet she does. But have it your own way. Well, does Judge Bagley live here?"

Yes, Junge Bagley lives here." I'll bot he don't. But never ulind Is the

No, not at present." "I jest expected as much. Because, you know—take hold o'suthin, mum, for I'm going to make a little- communication, and I reekon may be it'll jar you some. There's been an accident, mum. I've got the old Judge curled up ont here in the wagon—and when you see him you'll acknowledge your

of Councilman Henderson at self tbat an inquest is about the only the last sitting of Council. I call thing that could be a comfort to Ann.' UDOU him to move for an investigation —Mark Twain into the improvement now gota^ on,

street, and on the A SECULAR reporter avers tbat "some

street runnine past Col. Dowling's on one took advantage of Air. Beecher's the east of bis premises. The other absence from Plymouth Church last

hasset hia hand to are right, Suuday morning to distribute among and the citv taxpayers will thank him the worshippers, circulars extolling to BO ahead The water works enter- tbe virtues of a certain patent corn nritfl is one' all irood citizens will ap- piaster.- "This must be an error," i. „n »ka«n'in tn hAnnrnhiw remarks a friend who has read the item that the reporter is not extensively familiar with deu on the citv" treasury of'more than theological literature, and mistook an 25 Der cent in its cost. Has not this advertisement of a well-known and alreadv been done A good business highly esteemed religious classic for Council never would have suffered an announcement of a cure for "Bunions on thepilgrim'a progress.

but who is going to sanction to us,-and suggests

CUSTOMER (worried into it)—"Well, I don't mind taking a small bottle Barber—"Better 'ave a two-shillia'one, sir, it 'olds four times as mncb as the other ." Customer (turning upon him)—"O, then if I take this shilling' fcottle I shall be out of bait my money's worth Then I wont have any (Escapes in triumph.)—

otlJer

Parrv a fireman on tne j. m. ai. n. iuuuS ioui« was killed at Friuklin, Ind., this good examples, for the young men folmorning, by falling under tho cars. low them. if -"it

Yonng. ladies should be first to set

MASONIC. .gr

Second Daj's Sesbon. v:

WTat Was Done Yesterday at tbe Gtwad Lodge-Committees' Report—The Closing Proceedings.

From the Indianapolis Sentinel. The Grand Lodge convened at 8:30 yesterday morning, and was opened in the regular form.

Tbe committee on credentials reported, showing representatives present from 490 loagos.

A number of other reports upon routine matters were submitted and acted upon, and then the Grand Lodge proceeded to the election of officers for he ensuing year, with the following result:

Grand Master—Luclan A. Foote, Crawfordsville Deputy Grand Master —Daniel McDonald, Plymouth Senior Grand Warden—Frank S. Deval, New AlbaBy. At this point the Grand Lodge adjourned until half past one.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

Tbe convention opened at 1:30 P. M. with tbe proper ceremonies. The lodge proceeded to elect tho remainder of the officers for the ensuing year. A. J. Hay was elected Grand Junior War den Charles Fisher was unanimously elected Grand Treasurer, and John M.

Bramwell, Grand Secretary. Several committees then reported on different subjects, all of which were accepted. Past Grand Master, Harvey Hazelrigg. was appointed trustee of the Grand Lodge property. Col. R. M. Johnson presented a report in regard to tbe contemplated improvemets in the Grand Lodge Hall. On motion tbey wore concurred in. General lodges that had been burned out during tho past year, 'had their dites to tbe Grand LoUge remitted. The report of the committee on pay roll reported 5312.70,which was drdered to be paid as remuneration for tho services of tbe standing committees. Tho newly-elected offlcors The Rev. Thomas H. Lynch, Grand Chaplain Robert Van Valzah, Grand Senior Deacon John A. Young, Grand Jnnior Deacon William Black, Grand Tyler. The officers elect were installed, after which the Grand Lodge adjourned sine die.

QENERAL AND PERSONAL MENTION. ROBERT VAN VALZAH, OP TERIIE HAUTE, is one of the working Masons of tho State, uenial and industrious, he occupies a prominent position, and, no doubt, will continue to do so In the Grand as well as subordinate bodies.

The attendance ot tbe Grand Lodge all told, has perhaps run up, during the briet session, to one thousand members of the order. A large amount of bdsiness bas been done in two days, the credit of which should be largely attributed to the standing committees who have been at work for the past week.

A Novel Project.

From tho Indlanopalla Sentinel. The citizens of this enterprising city are constantly developing the resources of not only their own metropolis and surrounding country but extending various projects into the inmost recesses of the State. The developing of resources hitherto unknown is one of the most marked features of this go-ahead spirit. Yesterday anew ascodiation was formed in this city, which has in view a plan deetiued to revolutionize the trade in a hitherto uncultivated field as it were. The capital stock is

for

tiling

hte v&ble

P5SlSc

e^c^To'Se^^r'L'e S ^"n'e'i", S

Thfl Held from whence

is Boone coEnty. The system of

the most remunerative projects yet attempted. Can not an assorted lot of crawfish holes be sent over here? Holes of some kind are required for the many politicians horoaboato, who are CraWfishing on the Baxter bill, to enter into fOr a season.

Rochefort.

A Terro Hautean in Salt Lake Gity, writes home as follows: "I saw Itocbefort, the great edftorial villian of Fiance, last Sunday at the Walker House. He told General Morrow, at Camp Douglas, that the Napoleon Dynasty was dead forever, and that Thiers would again be called to power, perhaps a dictatorship. "In personal appearance, .Rochefort is of about the medium height, rather slender, piercing black eyes, moustaebe and imperial, and with bis bat off, looks like a smart fellow. His manner is nervous, and after watching him awhile, I concluded that be looked about as a man of his peculiar talents should. Iu my opinion, he is responsible for thousands of murders, and richly deserves hanging."

Feminine Frivolity.

From tbe Indianapolis Sentinel. A rather strange little drama was enacted on an Indianapolis & St. Louis train, yesterday, near Stockton, in which a young girl, an inmate Of the boarding school at Stockton, was the principal actress. The train was filled with a merry lot of school girls en route for Charleston to Embarrass river on a picnic. Before stopping at Charleston, a well-dressed woman carrying a fine young infant, approached'one of them,(Miss X.) and requested her to be so kind as to hold the baby while she went on the platform. To tbe apparent surprise of Miss X., the mother failed to return, and it soon became evident that she intended to abandon tbe cbild, the young lady appeared to be greatly perplexed by the care of the little stranger. Bnt this trouble waa settled by the principal of the school offering to adopt it. Tbe strangest part of the story, however, came out afterwards by Miss, X.'s own

nal.

w*l°

dredging is an entirely new one, and sympathy got the better of his jtidg

it is expected that au immense sav ing will be the result of the new pro cess. After the holes are taken out they are to be packed carefully and shipped to this city, *^hd then conveyed to different parte of the country. The Block has already been paid in, and rates at par. The present season will doubtless be a favorable one, and there is every reason to suppose the new1 enterprise lished will be successful from the start. If asked the demand increases, as it is likely it will, the oompany will probably

erect a'large warehouse in (his ctiy for the storing of the holes. There Is but little if any competition at present in the business the association propose to embark iu, and that it will prosper, is almost a foregone conclusion. The organization carries with it sufficient capital, talj eut

and

ooterprise to mRK6 it one

-j am

BeBgions Hamor.

A clergyman at Springfield, who has a bad habit off adding "ab" to many of his .words, told last Sunday of thorn wbo.liad been brought up on the Lord's side-ah.

At an examination of sorao girls for the rite of confirmation, in answer to the question, "what is the outward, visible sign of confirmation one of them replied: "A baby, sir."

A Pekin, 111., woman was asked by the preacher if her husband feared tbe Lord. She replied "Fear him? Bless you, he is so feared of him that he never goes out on Sunday without taking hi9 gun along with hm."

A Sunday-school teacher, desirous of waking the dormant powers of a scholar, asked the question: "What aro we taught by the historic incident oHf Jacob wrestling with the angel?" The cautious reply came: "Duuno/'aactly, but s'pose 'twas to tell us we musn't rastle."

Hearing tbat bis pastor intended to preach on the recognition of frieuds in heaven, a parishioner suggested that he should preach on the recognition of friends on earth, since he had been sitting in his pew for twen ty years without being recoguizedby the occupant of the next pew.

Dr. Guthrie, in his inimitable au tobiography, referring to the affected address of certain modern young ministers, speaks of one particularly, who, instead of calling children by the wholesome old Sootch term, "bairns," spoke of them aa "those sweet and interesting biped that call man father."

A bright and interesting little girl of our city, pot long since was, urgiug her mother to go up stairs aud hear her say her prayers before jjetiriug. Her mother, not finding it convenient, told Iter that Jesus could hear them Just as well. "But, mother," responded the little doubter, "JeauS can not turn off the gas."—

Bedford Mercury.

One is not bound in all cases to be as funny as he can. Use a wholesome discretion. Thus, when your worthy clergyman, who may be honest and deserving, if not brilliant, confides to you. )u fx moment of overwhelming modesty, that he sometimes thinks that ho has mistakeu his calling, it is far fironv necessary

UI9 CalllUg) it iai nviir utvcoowi 6llU6r WlllMlOr UUiOrOU MVMUUIO) UtJ that you, who are one of the pillars tored into by School Direotors, and by nf hia linrnh. reDlv that vou nlianrvlncr this suetrostion much com-

of liis church, reply that you thiuk so as often as every Sunday. A distinguished professor, residing iles from Andover, to

not a thousand miles from Andover was recently on au excursion Europe. Being in Edinburg one

Little Johnny wanted to go to church. His mother was afraid he would make a noise, but his father said tbat Johnny kuew better than

and Treasurer, Mr. Louis Lang. Tbe H« kept very stj 1 Otttill lli. IMt

*va3 *,ie next seat

l» to b. der™ [«wed /"J""*

ment. He leaned over aud eaid tothe lady iu a tone that was meant for a whisper, but which was only too plainly heard: "Poor lady! What ee matter? Does oo stommut ache?"

This is said to be a specimen or the graduates of some English schools: A lad of 11, who had been four years'in a parish school of the estab-

Church of England, when by the school iuspector to

write out au answer to the question, "What is thy duty toward God?" wrote as follows: "My duty toads God is to bleed iu him to feriug and to loaf withold your arts, wit hold my mind, withold my soill and with my 8ernth to whlrchip and to give thanks to put my old trash In him, to call upou him, to onuer his old name, and his woild, and to save him truly all the days of my life's end." Another Wrote o'lt his belief as follows: "I believe in God the allm'ghty maker of Heaven and in Jesus Christ the only son of God who was couseved by the holy Oost born of the vurgsn Mary srifted under paushed nlited was Scjuest fied ded aud bedeu he descended Into heel and the third day he rose agalu from the ded he descended into Heaveh and setted had the right hand of God the father all might rfiaker of Heaven and earth the see and oil tbat is in them is and rested on the Seventh day and Howard It." -,4,

,y ••••.:» hid 'y' Brevities.' A great object in life—a giant. If your brain is on fire blow it out. The tailor's b:ll of fare Is "hot gooee" and "cabbage." Customers furnish tbe sauce.

A matter-of-fact old gentleman thinks it must be a very small base ball that can be caught on a fly.

A good little Bangor boy refused to spell cider, because he hadsigned the pledge. That excuse1.hadn't the requisite thickness, and the boy was sent to his seat to learn his lesson.

Canine reasoning powers are a favorite topic, with naturalists, but there is no denying that nine-tenths of the dogs one sees are miserable thin-curs.

Women are fast becoming fami/far with politics. We, have heard of woman who believes so thoroughly in inflation that she blows her husband up three or four times a day.

Recent Importation—"Av yeplase, sur, is this a dliry goods store?" Salesman—"Certainly, ma'am." It. I.—"Ocb, begorra, wbere'Il I be afther goin' thin for a wathered silk?"

Dodger—"Hullo,

confessions, to the effect that the babe cusable—in fact, every bet Is a sin, was indeed her own, and the means as

Had she not let out the secret of her

high in80ciety, besides being one of

the wealthiest and most beautiful pu-

well

taken to restore it to her were siaiply a nothiug to do, young gentlemen, ruse to deceive her acquaintances.

wjth

gUpp08e,

own accord, no one would have ever frjen(j tbe alphabet," exclaimed one snspected the fact, as she bad stood

Free Trade and Hard Money. incident: Miss Bradford has a boy From the Indianapolis Sentinel. jn her school who combines keen If tbe Sentinel's advice weighs perception with ready speech. The with the people who meet here on other day, while endeavoring loexthe 10th of June, sound currency plain the difference in waterfallsand free trade shall be explicitly not the kind that makes the ladies stipulated In the platform. There round-shouldered, but the waterfalls has^beeo a good deal of misunder- of nature—she gave the class to unstanding among the farmers derstand that a large waterfall'Was a as to the actual effect of expansion, cataract. "Now," said she, "whatIs but the veto of tbe President, and a little waterfall?" "Kittyract»" the sober maturer thought of tbe bus- blurted out a tow-headed youngster, iness community have wrought a who sat chewing the corner of his wholesome revolution in the senti- primer on the front seat. ment of the country as well as the mh. iftV Timps teller this- A cities. The farmers are not given to

the heresiesiof finance implied in the

incoberc teaching theinfla ion

school, and it is hardly possible^to

rnsli anything like a doubtful The city boy took the cue and ran

a »•, ^Tub.s-a.rTre LS, IE.'K

that hoye shall inspire it to the energetic rapport of the reformers, until they shall prove by unwise measures, or uncertain speech, unfit to be trusted. u-

how are yo,u? bis p~

Tbe Nevada Journal relates thisi

gniart Troy

biliiardist picked up a

C()lU)t.ryraaU) at

a First street place,

Saturday, aud induced him to

a game Qf

billiards—100 points,

cue and. started for the door. "Here, said tbe billiardist, "come back and pay for this game." What game asked country. "Why, the game we just played." "We?" said sountry, "we I han't played no billiards as I knows on. I guess, Mister, se'n as

TH1B people should not insist on Sec- how yer played the game alonei retary Richardson's resignation. It you'd better pay fer't alone!" were better, perhaps, that be should Whereat the countryman walked embarrass'the operations of the United ou^

States Treasury than that he should be turned loose to wreck the finances of m&wn, some peanut stand.-[Courier-Jour- Axiom forthe^itehen—things rub-

1.2 ft f.

and the smart city boy cogitated.

.bed against a greator become less.

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Telegraphic News,

Special Dispatch to the Evening Gazette. PLAINFIELD, IND., May 30, 2:45 P. M. •The jury in the case of the State of Indiana versus the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad, on trial in the 6vfih Circuits Cfourt, have disagreed and are discharged. Case continued until tlft October tertfi. President McKeen and attorneys Thompson and B*Jrd are ca route l|6mo.^i% j^.

ST. LOUIS, May 29.—A special to tb'o Republican, from Charleston, Mo., sayB that a terrible shooting aflfray occurredat Jamea BaronT"*' *w days ago,, between to parties qt, men known as tbe Coleston crowd and tbe Helms crovtd, between whom old grievances bad existed. Ho belt Howard was cut nearly to pieces and died within a short time, Andy Parker was mortally wouded, and seven others badly Injured. No arrests.

NASHVILLE. May 28.—The following circular appears iu this morning's papers: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC -INSTRUCTION,

STATE SUPERINTENDENT'S OBFICE, NASHVILLE, May 27. To County Superintendents and Public

School Direotors Throughout the State of Tennessee: The civil rights bill pending before the United States Congress, in Its provisions concerning the public sohools, is in direct confltCt wltlr the laws of Tennessee, under which the public school systeua of the State is organized, and by which its officers are governed. It is furthermore in conflict with the 12th section of article 11 of the constitution which provides that no school established or aided under this section shall allow white and negro children to bo received as scholars togother in the samo school, so that what tho bill commands, our SCate constitution and public school law forbid, and that tho bill bas already passed tbe Senato and all indications point to Its passage by the Honse of Representatives, Tn view of the fact that in many of tho counties the schools aro now closed, and are expected to be reopened for the summer season In the month of June, and inasmuch as it is desirable to avoid, as far as possiblo, tho embarrassments tbat will necessarily follow the enactment of the civil rights bill, I deem it a part of prudence to suggest that for the present, aud until further endorsed ho new contracts with teachers, for either whiteor colored schools, be en-Oil*

observing this suggestion much complication and unnecessary expenso may be avoided. Should the civil rights bill fall to pass, then no serious harm can have resulted from this adnioniton, but should it booome a law in its present shape, thon furthor in-

its present

shape,

wet Sunday, and desiriug to go to „tructlons from this office will becomo church, ho hired a cab. On reaoh ing the cliur6h-door he tendered a shilling to cabby, the legal fare, and somewhat surprised to hear the cabmau say, "Twa shullen, sir." The professor fixed his eagle eyes upon the extortioner and demanded why he charged two shilliugs, and the cabman dryly answered "We wish to discourage traveling on the Sawbath as much as possible, sir."

onough,

°f/

thon furthor in-

necessary, and will bo promptly given. Respectfully, [Signed, JOHN M. FLEMING,

State Superintendent.

NEW YORK,"May 30.—Oat of seventynine asplrahts for military honors, at West

Point,

thirty-two wore sent back

to school, yesterday, because thoy could not write, spell or oypher, or were not familiar with maps or grammar. Tbe colored candidates all failed, yesterday. The list of successful candidates was made public. Tho whole class was drawn up in line. The namos of those who missed were called out, and they stepped two paces to tho front and were ordered to break ranks and go ihome, while their moro fortunate companions were lod to their futuro quarters. Most of the unfortunate applicants bear their rejection very philosophically. A few do not. One young gentleman said he had got

and had missed on purposo.

Those who failed will, at tho option of the Senators or Representatives who nominated them, have the privilege of presenting themselves for examination in September,when the autumn studies begin with those who are appointed to fillVho vacancies which may then exist. Charles McClure, of Illinois, passed the examination, but as ho was nominated by mistake, there being no vacancy in his district, he will have to wait until next year, when he will be admitted without examination. Tho new cadets will take the*fcfirot-4essons, putting them in form as it is called, to-day. The

first

class which Is now to be ex

amined, numbers tn all, forty-two members, but ono for some delinqnency has boen suspended and will nave to wait another year, before boing graduated. This class, when first its monribers sought admission, four year3 ago,' numbered otie hundred and forty-four, of whom one-half, or sev-enty-nine, were rejected. From a class of sixty-five in tbat year it has dwindled down to forty-two.

Bocheiort has been interviewed by a repoiter, who telegraphs from Niagara Falls the following, a part of what ho said When MoMahon and DeBroglio heard tbat I had escaped, they said it was impossible. The news was, however, true. DeBroglio'fell sick, and McMahon tried to conceal the fact as long aa-possHgfe. Poor Marshal, he has a mortal droad of me Ho thinks I wield some accult power. It is ridiculous that such a man should rule France. He was put forward by tbe Bight to advance the Interests of Henri Cinq, but tho Left will never submit to his rile. They have too many able men, real statesmen, to oppose this bungling General. What conld be expected from a man who had spent'thirty years In the Bureau Arabe, of France, governed by McMahon? From events it appears tbey are marcbihg rapidly on Europe, and within three- months McMahon shall be overthrown. France cannot continue to be ruled by that Btupid soldier. Rochefort asked anxiously about tbe chances of the recognition of the Cuban. belligerancy by tbo European powers, and expressed ah opinion that an IflteWtttlOtrffTTtfiVOlutionary Junta should be established for tbe purposo of aiding all struggling nationalities to achieve their Independence.

NBW YORK, May 80.—The Grand Jury this morning handed in four Indictments against Oliver Charlack and Hugh Gardner, Police Commissioners, for illegally removing an Inspector the day before the election the others were for illegally removing election watchers.

DETROIT, May 801—Last night as the Atlantic Express which leaves Chicago at 5:15, was passing between New Buffalo and Niles, two unknown men pried open the front door of the express car, knocked down S. B. Heath, messenger, who was assorting his money packages for the different stations, one of whom, grabbed packages containing twenty-seven hundred dollars, jumped from the car and escaped, leaving fatie other robber struggling with Heath for the mastery. In the darkness, the candle having been extinguished, Heath finally drew bis pistol and shot the scoundrel in

Can't stop, though, or I shan't miss the head, and then himself fell insen mv train Codger—"Catch it, you Bible from his'injuries. As the train mean." Dodger—"No, I d9n't. I approached Nili#,'he redovered suffialways miss the one before it, and cieajly to^caU lor help# tut. get home .n ..me for dinner! T. U4», •,£

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east of the'city? at daylight this morning. His head was beaton into a shapeless mass and his body was stripped almost nude. He sold some property yesterday, and left the city last night at 9 o'clock, with about 9150. Suspicion attaches to two negroes who were seen with him. Detectives are. trying to work -wjrths ease.

On last Saturday at Frenchman's Bayou, Mississippi county, Arkansas, two brothers named Clair, went to the house of a planter named Campbell, aged 60, and in the presence of his family shot1 MA iftlled him, using a shot gnn an&rifleJF They were arrested and,taken t° Areola and committed to jail.' The murder created gi^at exciteirentin the neffehborliOtttk"'

PARI* MRFY SW—It Is'-rumored in semi-offioiaLquarters thai, the German diplomacy is working to annul the London treaty setting the neutrality of Luxemburg.

PJUCBKOKB) ONT, May 30.—Tbe steamei ,, Forest. (}uet was burned to the wifer's edge this morning. Mar-garet-Carahaugft, cook, was bartied to a

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