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The DAILY GAZETTE is published every afternoon except Sunday, land gold by the oarrier at 30c. per fort night, by mail. $8*00 per year $4.00 or six months, $2.00 for three months THE WEEKLY (*AZETTE|i« issued every Thursdry, and contains all the best matter cf the six daily issues. THE WEEKLY GAZETTE is the largest paper printed in Terre Eaute, and is sold for: One copy per year, $1.60 six months, 76c three months, 40c. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. No paper discontinued uutil all arrearages tre paid, unless at the 6ption of the propr^tor. A failure to notify a discontinuance at the end of the year will be considered anew engagement.

Address all letters, WM. C. BALL & CO. GAZETTE. Terre Haute.

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1879.

When Victoria's son was married a little while ago Mr. Gladstone was conspicuously omitted from the list of invited guests. His admirers on the Liberal party, whose honored and trusted leader he if, are disposed to resent what seems to them an insult to them all.

CAPT. POTTER'S reappearance on the stage of politics is an augury of a cantankerous time. Rumors are afloat to the effect that the Republican candidates are raising a fund to send him on an excursion South to be gone until after the election. The Captain's efforts to have the Old Testament adopted as '.he platform of the party brings tears to the eyes of the politicians he actually believes he helps by his support.

THE passage of the army appropriation bill Saturday" by a vote of 140 to 122 with the amendment for ridding United States soldiers and marshals to interfere with or take any part in elections was a triumph for sound principles. The bill should pass the Senate as it passed the House, and if the President coes not sign it then the responsibility will rest with him for any trouble to which that branch of the service may be put.

NEWS comes from theJEast that Jersey City and Newark, two flourishing cities of New Jersey, have taken their places among bankrupt and r- pudiating corporations both having defaul! ed in in the interest or principal of their bonds and the salaries of their employes

It is to be hoped the able editors of the' New York and New England press will turn their prayerful attention to these two cities. Perhaps if they consider these two cases carefully enough they will have no time left for denunciation of the West, which has, to be 6ure, some wild talkers about repudiation, but has not as yet failed to pay dollar for dollar.

THE GAZETTE'S esteemed contemporary, the Brazil Miner, pays the following compliment to the Democratic can didate for Mayor: "The Democracy the city of Terre Haute made a mo6lf happy and appropriate selection in the choice of Ben. F. Havens as a candidate for Mayor in the coming city election. Mr. Havens is a Democrat of the first water, a lawyer of excellent judgment and good practice, an editor of ability and influence, and an orator of singular power, eloquence and strength, and. the unanimity with which he was nominated speaks loudly ol his popularity. He will make an excellent Mayor and reflect credit upon the office. That he will be elected scarcely admits of a doubt."

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A RACINE, Wisconsin, correspondent of an Eastern paper says that the late Dr. De Koven, a prominent minister of the Episcopal Church and President of the Episcopal college at that place, had for many years made it his cjstom to hear confession, though it is not positively known that he granted absolution to his penitents. The correspondent says that adjoining his handsomely furnished library, in the south wing 01 the old college building, was a room barely large enough to 6eat lour persons comfortably, which was known among the students as 'the confessional.' It contained a kneel ing-stool and rack for prayer-book, where the person confessing might kneel, and to the right and adjoining was a hand some carved walnut chair for the Doctor. The room was darkened. A large number of the students, especially those of younger years, were in the habit of^ resorting to it every two or three weeks there to detail to the Doctor their sins of omission and commission. Many made no secret of their business there."

OUR CONGRESSIONAL DEBATING SOCIETY. When all is said the Congressional Debating Society is not much of an improvement upon those of the colleges. The old stock questions come up, and new arguments do not seem to be invented far them. In the matter of amnesty we hear the same things we used to hear in sophormore days about the Duke of Alva and the quality jof mercy being not strained—therein diff.

ering from cocktails. When Hiram Ulysses Grant is mentioned we hear much of Cromwell and Napoleon, Caesar and the Rubicon. Charlet I is sure to be decapitated several times whenever the encroachments of the Executive on local affairs an^the improper use of the army is under discussion. Mary, Queen of Scots, comes to the fore the instant the question amending the relation of Church and State in cur happy Republic is mentioned. Really it seems as if some means could be devised to brighten up these thing a ljttie bit. Of course it is impossible to supplant them. M. Scribe used to say that there were only seven situations all told at the command of the dramatist, and the scope of forensic effort is much more limited thin that of the stage. But the stage does a good deal with its seven situations, and the resources of debate might possibly be economized in a similar manner. When he satirized the manners of the Court of Louis, XIV., La Bruyere supplemented his charming wit with a delightful uncertainty by inventing classical names for the various individuals mentioned. Congress might take the hint. Let it translate the Queen of Scots, say into an Esquimaux heroine the Duke ot Alva might becomc ajapanese Charies I. a prehistoric character or Sun myth, and Hiram Ulysses into a protoplasm.

A SCRAP OF FIATIC HISTORY. A few days before the convention the leaders of the Notion 1 Fiatic party were in a quandary. No one was prepared to sacrifice himself as a candidate of the organization for City Clerk. Not a little trouble had been experienced in etting persons to be the nominees for the other |place6. But finally members 01 the party had been coaxed and wheedeled into it. Still lhe city clerkship went begging. It would never dc for a great party, which, it was claimed held the destinies of the nation in the hollow of its hand, to admit that in a city election it could not get anybody to be a candidate for clerk. But that was the fact. All the patriotic material in the party had been used up for the other places. Finally, not finding anybody in, the party who could be coaxed or bullied into taking it, the managers, who were his personal friends, went to Grove Crafts, who wa6, and is, and always will oe a Democrat, and asked him to help them out of their scrape. They put it on personal grounds. They said they wanted a nominee and wanted him bad. They said t\ey were personal friends of his and would take it as a personal favor if he would get them'out of their fix. It wasn't going to be much of a fight, and they expected to get licked and were not intending to spend any money, so it wouldn't cost him anything. The unpleasant notoriety it would give him would disappear as soon as the election was over, and he could explain how he came to make the race, (This does not pretend to be a verbally accurate account of what they said. It merely gives the substance of their argu ments with him.) Beirg a gocd-natured easy-going, obliging sort cf youth, Grove consented. It was necessary for him, however, to ask them to keep perfectly mum 'about the arrangement. He did not wish his venerable father to hear about it, very properly fearing that if that staunch old Democrat did learn of the scheme, he would reason with him in that mild and persuasive way of his which is perfectly irresistable. Thus it came about that Grove was nominated, and "mighty sorry" he is now that he consesnted to offer himself a6 a sacrifice. .....

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CITY FINANCES.

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At a meeting of Republicans and disinfected Notionals, held at the Court House Saturday night, some resolutions pertaining to municipal matters were adopted. It is customary for a party out of power to criticise that which is in, and find fault with what it has done. This is

to be expected, nor

does, 'the GAZETE, as the champion of the Democratic party in this contest, complain of it. They could do no less than assert that the affairs of the city had been mismanaged, because, as soon as they admit that everything has been conducted well, the unpleasant question obtrudes itself: "Why do you seek to disturb so excellent a condition of affairs?" In the resolutions which they felt themselves compelled to pass as an apology to the people for putting a ticket in the field, they make many wild assertions. It will afford the GAZETTE great pleasure not only to answer and demolish these charges of mismanagement, but, by the presentation of undisputed facts, prove^what is true, viz: that the city under Democratic control, has been wisely and economically governed.

The subject is a broad one and can not be covered in one or in, perhaps, a half dozen articles. But it will be gone over fully and faithfully, and a correct account of the Democratic stewardship be given to the people from whom the party originally received its authority and to whom it acknowledges its responsibility.

The resolutions to which we have re

ferred start out with the following sweeping accusation: if. "Whereas, "lhe improvident and reckless management of the city government by the party in power, anmonishes us hat a change is absolutely necessary."

This wholesale denunciation is altogether untrue.'.jjfjj The management of the Democratic party has not been either improvident or reckless. It has on the contrary been careful, and prudent, and economical. After being out of power for several years, the Democrats gained control of the Council two years ago. At that time the bonded indebtedness of the city was, in round numbers, $260,000. It has been steadily reduced, and by the first of May will" be about $213,000. Of th's amount $75,000 has been refunded at 5 per cent., saving from 2 to 3 per cent, interest. The saving of interest thus effected is sufficient in time without further taxation for that purpose to wipe out the debt. This is neither imprudent nor reckless. .V*-

In 1875

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on the $100. In 1877, when the Democrats came into power, it was reduced to $1.00, at which point it now is, with a a good prospect of reduction in the near future. And it must not be forgotten that this reduction in the rate of taxation has been made in the face of the fact that the assessed value of the taxable property has decreased 6ince 1876, over a half million dollars. With a greatly reduced amount of property subject to taxation the Democrats have lowered the taxes about 10 per cent. This is neither imprudent nor reckless. Other points will be mentioned hereafter.

RAILROADS AND HIGHROADS The shade of the elder Weller, if it still stalks the stables and haunts the sites of the old London coaching houses— Belle Savage or Markiso' Granby—must feel inexpressible comfort, for there promises to be a resurrection of the coach-and-four in England. Nor will this re. vival of an almost forgotten means of transit fail to find imitators on this side of the water. The railways are no linger to monopo. lize travelers and travel. The four-in hand, after an almost total disappearance as a means of journeying, is again becoming familiar, and it has been suggested in many quarters that the road and not the rail will be the chosen way for persons in affluent circumstances going on pleasure excursions. Coaching com panics have been organized in many places and the future is likely to see the formation of many more. It Will be remembered that Dr. Johnson said one day to Boswell, as they were driven rapidly along toward Stratford on Avon in a post-chaise: "Life has not many things better than this." He afterwards said: If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pritty woman." His love of hurry ,, arose perhaps,.,» from morbid anxiety to. be rid of himself, and our expresi trains would, without doubt, have been very much to his mind. Healthy natures, however, will avoid over haste ss they would undue sleep, and those who travel to see a country hardly promote that end by traveling so fast they cannot see it at all. Journeying almost ceases to be a recreation when it is no longer pursued at leisure, often in the night and with opportunity only lor the observation ol distant points of arrival and departure. The ennui, which tardiness engendered may be equally provoked by prolonged celerity, scenery, once for all, we must give up Rural nature an 1 rustic man must remain unstudied. Provincial humor can no longer be observed in the country 'nn. If we are traveling for resuscita tion, the time which morally belongs to that duty—for it is a duty—is cut short, and we are cheated out of half our vacation. We find restlessness and not rest—the long quiet rest with those we love away frorrt pursuits which have overtasked our energies, from objects which have become hackneyed,and from influences, which have ceased to pique our activities. Often we make our holiday a nard-working one, and have nothing in our excursion to brag of except the distances actiieved.

Unquestionably the railway savestime, but it may happen that time is just what wisdom commands us to lavishly squander. Idleness, perfect and complete —a surrender merely to the sensation of living—an abandonment .of all cares and anxieties, and of all duties, except the duty of recovering mental and physical tone—these may be what most we need and can least afford, upon the principle8 of strictest economy, to forego. Then it is that hasie is precisely what we should study to escape. Then it is that time tables should be unto us an abomination Then it is that indolence becomes a virtue, and laziness a sort of religion.

Time is money, if a market can be found for the commodity, but it will go badly with us if we forget that money is not all, whether it be of paper or of gold. If a man's business compels him to travel, for him properly are the swift, tireless, screeching night-trains, with their abnormal waking and their fitful and troubled slumber. Traveling for rest and to gain something better than monev

—health, serenity, contolation, temporary oblivion of sorrows which are weighing down the heart t-aveling for change scene and to divert the mind from thoughts which are a burden, and from apprehensions which are a torture—this is a resource the more likely to-be effective, the more deliberately pursued. If a pleasure tsur is undertaken to ge' rid of business, we shall lamentably fail if we make a business of the tour.

It is curious to consider.that rapid railway traveling should have croa'ed a new luxury, viz., slow traveling by coach for tho«e who can afford it in their own vehicles by those who possess an equipage, this being perhaps the very perfection of •meandering." The immense convenience, the economy, and the comfortable appointments of the railway remain but he travels best who travels independently, resting when he pleases, and going on onlv when he has rested, confined to no positive and fixed route,at liberty to interpolate excursions to' the right or to the left, and making nature as he goes a deliberate and instructive and entertaining study.

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SMILING AT GRIEF.

One of the pleasantries of politics in this locality is the antics of the GAZETTE'S esteemed but erratic morning contemporary. Its comments on election returns ar as the Hobbies play bills have it "burlesque in conception, grotesque in description and picturesque in illustration." Between the election humor of the GAZETTE'S esteemed etc. contemporary, however, and the boisterous fun ot the stage there is thu marked distinction. Whereas the latter is irrepressible and so to speak, ''bubbleous," the fun of the former in forced and unnatural, its laugh hysterical, bound to and mixed with a sob. We are not criticizing its fit of hysteria—for from it. It cannot help it and is not to be blamed. We are not sure but that it is deserving of very high praise for it. _____

Tallyrand brought his fe ingo under such complete and diplomatic control that, it is said, his countenance would not betray the fact if a copper toed boot was forcibly applied to his anatomy. The GAZETTE'S esteem ed, etc. contemporary goes further. When the people, through the ballot box, tread all,over its hopes, a laugh, wild and hysterical, to be sure, but still a laugh, breaks from its pallid lips.

Within the past two weeks there have been local elections in several States. In these elections, with two or three trifling exceptions, the contest has been almost exclusively between the Democrats and Republicans. In some places there have been temperance tickets in the field, or Socialistic, or Notional Fiatic, or Communistic. The various tickets have, ^sometimes been lumped in the dispatches under v, the head of scattering, and made a brave showing of about one vote in ten of those ca6t. All this of course has been gall and wormwood to the GAZETTE'S esteemed but erratic etc. contemporary. To have the rag baby, to which it has played nurse for many months, classed ab scattering and getting one or two hundred out of as many thousand votes, naturally has a tendency to infuriate an organ which has been asserting that this infant has come to save a financially ruined world. This sort of thing seems to point so clearly to the fact that the world positively refuses to be saved on any such plan. Most persons seeing their fondest hopes decay in this fashion, would "cut loose" and have a good cry. Not so the GAZETIE'S esteemed andh gritty. morning contemporary, It is made of sterner stuff. It pursues an ingenious plan.

When Chicago, which is a great city, the greatest in the West, and which has alwas been Republican, went Democ. ratio, the Notional Fiatics appearing no where in the fight, the GAZETTE'S Cheerful contemporary wcoped and hollered" with the noisiest and most enthusiastic Democrats over the event. It said in substance that the Republican party was finished and that iils race was run. People generally were given to under stand that at last the manifold crimes of the Republican party had destroyed it John Sherman and his infamous schemes of robbery and plunder had dug the grave ot a party that was dead„ The people aroused by the arguments of the Notional Fiatics had risen in their might and swept the enemy of mankind from the tace ot the earth. This was the way it took a splendid Democratic vie tory over the Republican party Jin one of its strongholds.

Day before yesterday there was a municipal election in Cincinnati. Cincinnati is a close city ordinarily, but usually goes Republican. It was to have been exoected that the Republicans would carry it, although the Democrats ewre hopeful of success. /Well, it did go Republican. The Notional-Fiatics, in the home of Sam Cary, received a few hundred votes, fewer votes than the So ialists, and about one in fifty of all th votes cast. One would think that thrre was cause for mourning to the organ of the Notional Fiatic party. Not so. It is now assure that (he Demo­

cratic party is dead as it was certain that the Republican party was after the Chicago election. It congratulates the country on the removal of this mocratic obstacle in the path of progress. Roused by the invicible logic of the Notional Fiatic party, the people have risen in their might, according to its theory, and swept this fofsiliferous relic of a bygone barbarism from the fair face of the earth. Thus it raves by the column, trying to convince mankind that death and dam nation reigns and that the only living thing is the Notional Fiatic party.

It takes clear grit to mask a rooted 6orrow, and, standing on the corpse of a beloved baby, hurrah over the vanquished in a fight between two giants. ..

SELECTED PARAGRAPHS. An Illinois girl, With a pitchfork, kils scores of gophers every day. You ought to see her gopher the gophers.

Kearney has one eye single to the happiness of his followers. The other eye is closed on account of a row in the family.

An Illinois dog surgeon advertises nnder the na.ne of "Mahomet." We suppose that if the dogs don't go to him he will go to the dogs,

There i9 a man in the Massachusetts Legislature who has such a bigmouth that the top of his head would come off but for his back collar button. $

A Long Island man being told by his physician that he had a dangerous cold, said he had been in hopes that it was some big thing like pleuro pneumonia.

Chicago Tribune:—-"The New York Herald speaks of the Angel Gabriel's farewell engagement. This is advertising it rather early, perhaps, and, by the way, unnecessarily, for, as everybody will be there it is.bound to be a success any way."

Boston Transcript:—"Scene—A South End horse car. Enter an elaborately dressed lady, diamond solitaires, eightbutton kids, &c. Car crowded. At first no one moves. Soon a gentleman offers his seat. 'Thank ou you are the only gentleman here. The rest is hogs.'

The Texas slayer of the actor, Ben Porter, will either escape 60 as to kill other people, or he will, as he goes to^his hanging, receive bouquets of flowers from sentimental ladies and proclaim to the assembled multitude that he will, in an hour or so, be up head in heaven.

The "Pinafore" is approaching its one hundredth performance at the Broad Street Theatre, Philadelphia, where the excellent jmpany of ord & Zimmerman remain as popular as ever. New scenery was put on last week, representing in a realistic and faithful manner the spar deck of an English man-of-war.

The first choice ticket for Jenny Lind*s first concert in Providence, R. I., .for which $653 was paid by Colonel William Ross, who died there on Febuuary 24, hangs in a frame on the walls of the Ross mansion in that city. It bears the signature of Jenny Lind, and the receipt is verified in the handwriting of P. T. Barnum.

A ccmmedian. ^ho knoft& whereof he speaks, said tbe other day-that when you go into a dramatic agency now but two questions are asked:—First, "Can you sing?" second, "Can you walk?" If you can sing they ship you off with a "Pinafore" party. If you can't sing they match you for $10,000 to walk against the Canadian pet.

The Wagner enthusiasm has spread to Cologne. "Rheingold," one of the parts of the "Ring dcr Nibelungen," was represented there eight times within twelve days, and the receipts of the manager of the Cologne Theatre for these pertormances amounted to £2,000. The

Walkyre," another of the trilogy, is now being rehearsed there and will shortly be produced.

A Scotchman, utterly disgusted with "Pinafore," says:—"Why now, d'ye mind noo, it's pairfectly redeeculous to suppose that the rules o' the navy wad alloo sic fameeriality between the officers and men, or that on man Porter could tak about twa aozen wemeen along wi' him on board the ship. An' the Captain an' Admiral wadna sing sic like songs for hoo could deecipline be presairved? It's nonsensical trash, mon." .Mr.J. H. Haverlyon Saturday COn eluded an engagement with r. Lester Wallack to play one week at the Grand Opera House, Cincinnati one week at the Clympic Theatre, St. Louis, and two weens at Haverly's Theatre, Chicago. Mr. Wallack is to receive $500 for himself alone at eactf performance. An excep tional company of New York artists will be selected by Mr.W. R. Floyd toaccom par.y Mr. Wallack on this his first Western tour.

From Naples:—The five performances given by Adelina Patti at the San Carlo have not been so successful as the gifted lady's engagements generally are. The receipts of more than one fell below the 10.000 fiancs claimed by Patti and Nicolini ever night. During the represen tation of "Rigoletto" there was even some hissing in consequence of certain cuts which had been made. Considering the prices of admission the audience thought they were entitled to hear the work in its entirety. The curtain had to be dropped in the third act, and the money taken was rtturned.—[N. Y. Herald. ...

AS MULES GO SO IT IS. From the Cincinnati Knqulier. For "it's a poor mule that won't work

both ways," in yesterday's issue, please read "it's a poor rule," ifec.

SOCIETY REFRAIN. From the Boston Transcript.

"I know not, I ask not if guilt's in that heart I know thou has money, whatever thou art.

SPORTING ITEM. From tbe Boston Advertiser. A young man in this city boasts that he has kissed his girl 450 times in six hours and one lap, and thinks he has won the match.

JOE BLACKBURN ON BUFORD. Washington Post Interview. "Some years ago Buford bought ai magnificent plantation in Henry County., He made a cash payment of $30,000, and the balance was on time, deferred notes. He purchased from the fuardian of an infant girl, and without the intervention of the courts, of course, the man couldn't fonvey title. This fact was discovered on the maturity of one of the no»es. but meantime the vendor, the man who made the sale,r had died. On attaining her majority the,: ward, or rather her husband, for she had married, brought »uit and received judg-: ment for possession of the property and as an illustration of Tom Buford's character, he barricaded himself in the house —it was a magnificent teaidence, too— and bade defiance to the civil authorities when they undertook to execute the judgment. The Sheriff took a posse and went to the place, but found it barricaded, and Buford was inside with a perfect army around him. He notified, the officer that he would kill the first man who attempted to cross his yardgate, and he would have done it, too

Buford remained there, beleaguered for several days, ani though threatening,' the officers outside, he supplied them with everything to eat and drink and. treated them with the utmost kindness only he would not allow them to dispossess hiip. Finally an arrangement: was tr.ade allowing him to remain in possession of the property until a judgment of tht final court should be teached. The other day the Court of Appeals: affirmed the judgment of the lower court against Buford, and he killed Judge Elliot for doing that, as you see by the dispatches, and he would have killea the Chief Justice, too, only for the^ intervennon of some little children who, in passing prevented him from firing. The man was crazy. His father's plan* tation and that of my father were seperated by a railroad only, and I knew him from boyhood. 1 have known a time when three of the children, two sisters^ and a brother of Tom Buford's were confined in seperate rooms of their father's house'" "What, crazy?" "Yes a vein of insanity has run through the family for years." "Did you know the murdered judge?" "Certainly. He was John M. Elliott, a former member of this House, and one' of the most cultured men and finished jurists of this state." "The decision was juit, wasn't it?" "Oh, entirely so."

MR. BERGH'S VICTORY.

EDWARD BURT PROSECtftli&

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FOR RAT-

AND SENTENCED TO THREE MOOTHS* IMPRISONMENT.

From the New York HeraM.

The Court of Special Sessions WAft crowded yesterday with sporting men, owneis of dogs and members of ther Westminster Kennel Club. The occasion ot their presence was the trial of the persons who were arrested for par* ticipating in a rat fight at the Clinton' Place Stables on the night of March 31. Mr. Edward Burt, the owner of the stables, was fir«t put on trial, charged with letting and hiring the premises for a rat fight. A Scotch terrier, two cages of rats, a heavy wooden trap door, two sections of a rbt pit and an *ron tongs were exhibited as evidence for the, prosecution. Officer Kraus, of the Society tor the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, testified that he visited the above mentioned stables in company with the police, and on reaching the third floor found the trap door leading to the fourth floor do ed and battened down. On forcing it open he found a rat pit in which were live and dead rats. The Scotch terrier was bleeding where it hud been bitten by a rat. About twenty men were in the place. In another room a collation had been pre* pared. The prisoner admitted that he had prepared the collation. Similar evidence was given by Superintendent Hartfield, of the Society.for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Police.. Sergeant Douglas. Mr. Bergh made strenuous efforts to have admissions made by the prisoner in Jefferson Market Police Court admitted in evidencebut they were ruled out, the counsel prov, ing that they had been illegally extract--ed lrom Burt while under duress. The prisoner's counsel then moved for his discharge for the reason that the proprM etorsliipof the stable had not been proven, and there was no positive tvidence to show that a rat fight had taken place. The court denied the motion, found the prisoner guilty arid sentenced him to three months' in the penitentiary. Burt was completely overcome, and the severity of the sentence caused much excitement in courts His counsel made a formal motion for an arreat of judgment on appeal, and asked that bail should be fixed at once. In a very excited manner he declared that the prisoner demanded it as a right, not as a favor, and read statute after statute to impress the same on the minds of the three magistrates. Justice Morgan refused to fix bail and was at once served with a writ of habeas corpus and certiorari. Tht issue will be settled on Monday.

HOW TO WALK. From the Evansville Tribone. The custom is now everywhere prevalent for pedestrians to take the right side of the walk. The practice avoids much confusion, particularly on frequented walks. The rule has been so thoroughly established that any person found violating it, is set down as an ignoramus. People now take the right side as regularly a«.

they

do when driving on a road. Thia being so, common sense sugeests that

ladies

should always walk at the right side of gentlemen when going in couples. If they do that, ladies will never be jostled when meeting other persons— the gentlemen thus being always on the side of contact with people coming from opposite directions. Gentlemen should abandon the habit of walking half around them at every turn of the corner. The old custom of giving the lady the inside of the walk, when walking with her, has no redeeming feature. The lady's comfort and protection is best insured by walking at tne gentleman's right side at au times.

Mr. and Mrs. W. T. McCoskey, of Paris, were in the city last ni^ht*