Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 July 1883 — Page 1
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J. B. PURCELL,
.ARCHBISHOP OP THE DIOCESE OF CINCINNATI, WHO DIED JULY
5, 1883.
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Patronize Home Merchants.
^'Patronize home merchants. Have little to do with the "squatters" who offer their wares here to-day, and will be found gulling the people somewhere else to-morrow. Our home merchants are h0D0rable men. They have helped to rtnake our city what it is. They bear jtheir proportion of our taxes, and are invariably found in all enterprises which :add to the wealth of our city. Not so with the "squatter." He lives by cheating •credulous people. In nine cases out of ten his wares are not worth the price paid for them. He pays no taxes he has no Interest in our city further than to gull oui- psople. He usually remains in a place long enough to make a "strike" .and then departs, no one knows whither. Those whom he cheats have no redress as *tlie "squatter" merchant is, as a rule, utterly irresponsible. Therefore, our citijrens should guard against him by refusing to buy his wares. We repeat, patronize home merchants, the meD who help build up the town, who assist in keeping the municipal machinery running, who •re ready to rectify any mistakes that •may occur, and who have business repudiations to build up and maintain. Men .do not go about the country for the mere .•sake of accommodating people. They do it because they can dispose of a class of •goods that they could not give away from their stores, after they had been once tried and because they are not at hand to hear the eomplaints that are made .about their wares.
A "Rantankerous" Bus Driver. "One day last week, Lee Greiner, a bus driver in the employ ot C. P. Staub, was .discharged and a balance of $1.75 was due him. Mr. Davis, of the Early House -called to collect a board bill, and Greiner agreed that the $1.75 should be paid by Air. Staub to Davis, Saturday evening
Greiner came in, and Mr. Staub says he .thinks he had been drinking, for they had always been very friendly ana 6reiner had not been dismissed jn any ill feeling. Greiner became abusive, wanted the money which he had already agreed should be paid on bis debt to
Mr. Davis, and finally becoming unendurable was ordered out of the stable. 'Refusing to go, Mr. Staub put him out, and as seen elsewhere in the court .record was sued for it.
Considering that he has twenty employes and that, though many ot them are first rate fellows, there are necessarily .always some hard characters among them,
Mr. Staub manages the force very well, though he has much that is annoying to •contend with. It is a matter of general remark that, with the able assistance of Jiis brother and of Superintendent Will •Griffith, the best bus line superintendent in Indiana, Mr. Staub answers all the calls and conducts all the details ot his jaammoth business with th« greatest promptness and to the entire satisfaction .of the public.
Dr. John A-Warder.
CINCINNATI, Jnly 15.—Dr. John A. Warder, of North Bend, died last night at his residence in the seventy-second year of his age. His malady was paralysis He was a prominent member of the American Forestry Congress and the author of several works on fruit growing and tree culture.
Albert Cobble, of Fayette township' has forty-tour hives of bees on his place and estimates his present stock honey on .handatoae thousand pounds. Mr.C. reports tle present season as having, been a remarkably good one for bees, the white clover blossoms, which constitute their best food, lasting much longer this year than usual.
THE police department keeps a record —a bit of "secret history"—in the shape -*f a book containing the names and addresses of all the fast women ot the town, with changes cf location, the place then came from and other facts that will
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rove valuable when they are needed. like this is "kept in larger cities and it will be found here to be of great service.
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persons desiring to look over the
new residence of John T. Staff, just built on north Sixth-and-a-half street, by W- H. Floyd can do so during the next -week.
CONDENSED TELEtRAMS.
Thero is' considerable excitement in Brown county by the discovery of gold, ten miles from Columbus, at the head oi Bear Creek.
The Eleventh Indiana reunion will be held September 19th. at Tipton, the president of the society having accepted Jap Turpen's invitation to that effect.
The Orangemen of New York and Brooklyn celebrated the day by an excursion.
Patrick Hanlon, arrested for the murder ot Mrs. Smythe, in Ireland, has turned informer.
The other candidates in the New Hampshire Senatorial contest decline to answer Rollins' lttter proposing the withdrawal of all from the race.
Bradlaugh has been notified by the speaker of the Houte that he will be excluded until he engages not to attempt to take the oath in disregard to the resolution of the House. Bradlaugh says he will endeavor to take his seat.
In tbeHouse of Lords to-day Granville was asked if the British forces in Madagascar would be increased. Granville replied that he would not make a public statement that might be misconstrued. He said he thought France was willing to do what was right in the inHtter.
Thirty-five deaths from cholera, at Dainietta during the twenty-four hours ending at 8 A. M. to-day
The Manchester ship canal bill had its third reading in the commons this p. M.
Faance has informed England that she will await advices from Tamatave before replying to Granville's demand for an explanation of the occurences there.
There were 1,110 deaths in New York last week. ^sAn electric storm prevailed in the East Saturday.
The cholera death rate in Egypt shows a slight abatement. One of the Polk City, Iowa, murderers was killed and the other captured.
The United States steamer Pinta has started on a seven months' cruise for Alaska.
There is a report that the marquis of Ripon, viceroy of Indiana, has resigned. Sir Spencer St. John, British ambassador, has arrived at the City of Mexico.
A fourteen-year-old boy accidentally shot his step-sister aged seven, at Jerseyville.
The McGeoeh compromise has been definitely agreed to, the last stickler having signed.
The flood continues to carry away bridges and damage property along the Thames in Canada.
At Gottenburg two persons were killed and a large number injured by a stroke of lightning.
Alfaro, the revolutionary leader in Ecuador, invites the people to form local governments.
Two American horses ran in the Kampton park handicap, England, Saturday, but failed to get a place.
Whether the English stick to their agreement or not, DeLesseps is determined to build the new canal himself.
The Prussian minister ol war recommends an extension of strategic railways on the east frontier on a large scale.
Reports from various points indicate that yesterday's rain was excessively heavy. The crops arq ca'ching it.
The storm area of Friday night covered several states and developed mild cyclonic conditions in a great number of places.
Carey and Farrell, the Irish informers, are reported confined in Newgate pr.son awaiting transportation to some foreign colony.
An article published in Rome with the papal sanction reasserts the principles laid down in the recent letter to the Irish bishops.
Yeintemilla made but a feeble resistance at Guayaquil. An ,effort was made to assassinate Alfaro after he had entered the surrendered city.
The brotherhood ot telegraph operators will make a demand upon the Western Union company to-day and ask a decision in 48 hours.
The French national fete day was observed in Paris by the unveiling of a statue oi the republic. In St. Louis there was a banquet, with fireworks.
Opposition to the canal agreement of the British government increases and the scheme is likely to be defeated in the commons. The ship-owners oppose it.
A Pittsburg company erected a bridge across the Illinois river at Utica, Ills., The two towns interested refuse to pay and the U. S. court says the company can take down the bridge.
A meeting of the representatives of the Wabash, Grand Trunk and Lackawanna roads has been held in Buffalo to make arrangements for the new through line between Chicago and New York.
State Senator Gibbs, of Texas, has been travelling in the far West, and reports that the people there are disposed to deride the reports ot Crook's campaign as furnished to the newspapers. They say Crook was captured instead of the InTJLULS.
J. C. Stanley, of the Litchfield, Ili., Courier, published some strictures on the manner in which Alderman Barefoot trimmed the trees in the public park and a duel is expected to result. Negotiations have been opened and both parties are willing.
The riflemen at Wimbledon have subscribed £40 which will be competed for by the American team, and the British team. The reserve selected to compete against the American Rifle team in the approaching international match has been seledted. The Americans are satisfied with their treatment.
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Beriah Haworth was crushed in a mill at Bloomingdale. A soldiers reunion will be held at West Lebanon, Warren Co., on the 18,19 and 20 of September.
There is great religious excitement at a Shelbyville colored cimpemeeting, con' ducted by Rev.Hsmmond.
Buck Stout, the Montgomery county murderer, is fast nearing his end. The dale set for his execution is August 8th-
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
Destruction by Fire of the Library/the Museum, the Laboratory, Professor Jordan's Collection 'v of Fishes-
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•&..« [From the Bloomington Telephone.] The new University building is in ashes, and only the ragged walls, built so firm and strong, now stand to point to the observer the once magnificent building that was the pride ot our little city and an honor to the Commonwealth of Indiana.
Thursday night, about 10:30 o'clock, the old University bell gegan to peal forth its familiar tones, though strange at that time and under the circumstances. And soon the people were on the streets, wondering what couid cause its ringing) little thinking that the gery flames would so soon visit us again, with such disas trous results. $
It was only a few minutes, however, until the cry that "the new college is on fire" rang out on the night air, and that he second story was in flames.. In the meantime, when the alarm was first given, Engineer Howe and Fireman Sibert were on duty, and the "Sanderson" was preparing for the duty before her. A crowd ot citizens, including the fireman, soon pulled the steamer to the cistern opposite the school-building, and soon the clang of the bell announced that the hosereel was on hand. It was only a few minutes until the thousand feet was stretched from the engine up to the burniDg building. In the meantime the Games had developed so rapidly that ltwas evident that no power could extinguish the fire, as the second story was all on fire and the explosives in the laboratory burning, while the forded blaze was fast running to the top of the building. The hand-engine was placed at the cistern near the building and did good work, while the steamer was pouring out water in a steady stream.
It was not long, however, until it was evident that the new building must go, and at once attention was directed -to saving the old building that joins it on the northeast. Water was poured upon it in torrents, the engine now being at the branch east of the college, and it was only by keeping the roof running with water that it was saved from ca'ching, as a high wind prevailed, and at times it Beemed as if the air wa9 filled with sparks.
It was not long until it 'was evident that this danger was over, as a steady stream had kept the north wall from falling, and it was almost impossible for the flames to get beyond control. By 12: 30 o'clock, the building was in ashes, the woodwork almost all having been burned, and only the smoking-walls and burning timbers, as they lay on the ground, now marked the scene of the disaster.
There were many theories as to how the building caught on fire, but after a very careful investigation by all parties who could have any knowledge of the affair, there seems lobe no doubt that it was fired by lightning, as during the entire evening a severe thunder storm was raging. It is supposed that the electricity was carried iuto the building by a telephone wire that ran into Professor Wylie's room on the second story, for it was here the fire was discovered first. As there was a very close discharge about a quarter past 8 that waB known to have struck near from the terrible report, it is accepted that this wire carried the lightning in the room and slowly it caught, taking so much lime to make a headway. This is substantiated by the fact that a light was noticed in the room soon after the strike by passing parties, but supposed to be somebody in the building with a lamp, as such was often the case. There is no evidence of incendiarism, as all the doors were locked and the flames were confined to this room, and in it was the eleciric battery.
THE LOSS AND INSURANCE. By the time a sufficient number of people were present to do any thing it was too late to save much. The museum was entered, but only a few cases of little value were saved. It was impossible to reach the laboratory at all, aud no one entered the library, soil was a total loss. Museum $75,000 Library 36,000 Laboratory 10,000 Buildimf 45,000
Total The insurance is as follows: Continental London Royal Franklin, ot Philadelphia Franklyn, of Icdianrpolis... Niagara Phoenix
work is still smouldering. The foundation is uninjured, and all the stone-work and much of the brick can be used again.
In 1854 the college building, then but a single structure, was totally destroyed by fire. What Was considered then one ot the most valuable libraries in the West was totally destroyed, and the loss wa greatly regretted, as it included many rare historical works, the editions of which had been exhausted. Temporarry accommodations were found for the college until new buildings could be re
THE DEATH SENTENCE.
The Supreme* Court Affirms Judgment in the Case of "Bock" Stout. 'A
The Supreme court yesterday ruled on the case of-'Buck" Stout, the Montgomery county murderer, who is under sentence to hang at Rockville next month. The Supreme court sustained the sentence of the lower court and Stout will therefore swing, providing there is no executive interference.
THE NHWS AT BQEKVTT.T.W..
Special to the Gazatte:
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$1,500 90 .. 3,863,64 5,0G0.00 4.500 00 2,500.00 5,000 .00 5,000 00
Total $27,454,53 London insurance ot $3,863.64 is on the library and miscellaneous books in the Franklin, $1,500 on the library of law and $2,000 on the cabinet, cases, etc. in the Franklin, ol Indianapolis, on the library in the Phoenix,$3,400.10 on the building, $227.27 on the library, $909.09 on miscellaneous library, and $454.54 on fixtures. There is no insurance on the museum.
This morning (Friday) the walls on the west, east and north are standing, but those separating the rooms succumbed to the heat, and have fallen in. The wood
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RCCKVILLB, July ISth, 1883.
"State of Indian*, to the Supreme Court. To the Clerk of Par.se County—Greeting: You are hereby notified th'at the supreme court, of said state, has, on this 17th day of July, 4883, affirmed the judgment of* the court below In the case of Joseph Stoat against the state of Indiana, appealed to said supreme court by the former.''
The above cola and business-like news arrived this morning and soon had tnecitizens of our afflicted town in every state of excitement. The women-hearted cried, the men looked sad, the children looked amazed and everybody sighed. As yet'the important cl» pher in the case, "Buck"8tont, knows nothing of his fate further than the verdict of the jury read to him it the time, and it is thought that his attorneys have encouraged him in believing tfeat tne supreme court would grant him a sew trial whereby his sentenc^might be commuted, bach, bv the above message it will be seen, can not be had and on Wednesday, August the 8th, Joseph Stout must pay the greatest penalty civilized law fcan inflict. A week ago, oar sheriff and carpenter Bast went to Newport and secured tbe dimensions of the scaffold which hung Watson two years since.
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Another Bad Break In the Internal Revenue Department. WASHINGTON, July 14.—The"administration," as Commissioner Evans calte his office, is in another pickle. The rocfe and rye decision which was made off hand upon a casual observation from the head of the Tobacco Division, is likely to lead to immediate and enormous claims for the repayment of taxes heretofore improperly levied. Rock and rye has been manufactured for years and sold under proprietary stamps. Commissioner Evans has now decided that it is a beverage. Consequently the proper tax should have been that of wholesale dealers in liquors or rectifiers—that is, $200 a year instead of tbe proprietary stamp tax of four or five cents a bottle. The difference of these sums for a series of years will be very great, and the opinion 13 expressed by experts in Commissioner Evans* office that this difference will, under the recent decision, prove a valid claim against the Government.
The rock and rye men are understood to insist that their present preparation is manufactured exactly as it has heretofore been when proprietary stamps were required, and therefore it is a beverage now it always has been a beverage, and tbe taxes imposed should be refunded. The trouble arose from letting the head of the Tobacco Division loose in afield that was new to him. The result was similar to tfie effect, somewhat, produced in the Chicago Press by the horse reporter undertaking to do society work.
OBITUARY.
Death of Rev. Kungisr's Father. Rev. Mr. Kummer reeived a dispatch this morning announcing the sudden death ot his father at Akron, Ohio. He -was taken ill last night and died this morning Mr. Kummer and wife returned from a visit to his father last Friday and found him unusually well so that the announcement of his death comes as a doubly terrible shock. He left town to attend the funeral on the first train this afternoon.
Collett Park.
At the next meeting of the council President Josephus Collett, will deed to the city, twenty acres on the south west corner of the Barbour grove on condition that it be maintained as a public park. The money to extend the street railway has all been raised and the work will be prosecuted at once.
Col. R. N. Hudson has bought 26 acres of Mr. Collett, situated in the meadow immediately opposite the Monninger's for $20,000, which he will plat in lots and offer for sale. *, =.
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UNCLE SAMMY.
He Will Accept the Nomination Bat Make no Effort to Secure, It.
Statement of Mr. Tilden's Views By an Old and Intimate Acquaintance.
He Does not Fear the Onerous Duties of the High Office.
Arthur Over-Feeds Bather Than Over'Works Himself
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PETITION FOB SB-HEARING:
Special Dispatch to the Gazette: ROCKVILLE IHD. July 18th. John B. Courtney, States Attorney, came down at noon to-day and says he will file a petition with the Supreme Court for a rehearing which will yet defer the hanging. Stout received Courtney «nd his face showed stolid indifference. His spirit and his neck will break together.
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Times from Saratoga contains the following: The Times' correspondent came across an old and intimate friend of Mr. Tilden at the Grand Union to-day, and gathered from him some facts with regard to Mr. Tilden's views and purposes which are of interest to the public just at this time. After some conversation the gentleman was persuaded to submit to a formal interview, with the understanding that it was to be published, and it took substantially the following shape: "You are aware that a wide discussion has arisen as to his willingness to undergo the strain of a Presidential canvass. What do yon think are his own convictions?"
am satisfied that he views his public career as a matter so absoluetly in the control of public deciiion that he Will tacitly abide the event of a nomination. In regard to the idea of an
EXCESSIVE STRAIN
upon his physical condition, he has been fully prepared for any contingency of this kind, not merely by his rapid restoration to health and vigor, but by his changed relations to such a campaign, should it occur. At one time, not long since, even his immediate followers abandoned the idea ot his further leader ship and went to seek their fortunes in other directions. Many of them are now somewhat alarmed at the prospect of -his nomination, as they have set up for themselves or joined advene interests. But that Mr. Tilden will respond in the affirmative to a proper demand by the party and the people there is not a particle of doubt. It is also his positive conviction that the time, the opportunity, and the necessity for his identity with a movement for the renomination of the ticket which was elected by the people, but denied by their tribunes in 1876, is now at hand Thte recent course of Mr. Hendricks has, perhaps, given this idea more positive vitality than it seemed to have a month ago. The refusal of Hendricks to recognize the historical justice, as well as the popular expediency, of a renomination of the 'old ticket' bj the last Democratic convention caused the nomination of Hancock and begat the failure of that experiment. This last remark you will please take an expression of my own opinion." ''Is it, then, the willingness of Mr. Hen dricks, as recently indicated, to run on 1*1 THB 'CBD TICKET,' that has changed Mr. Tilden's view's '•He has certainly recognized the significance of Mr. Hendricks' change of plan. It compels him to face a responsibility now which he has heretofore been relieved of by Hendricks' relusal to run. It would be impossible for Mr. Tilden, at this time, to stand in the way of a general or organized demand for a historic vindication of the great wrong and injustice perpetrated by the installation of Hayes as President. Understand me, Mr. Tilden can never be a candidate for office again until the people shall require it for tue purposes of this vindication. He is not a candidate, this is absolute. It is equally absolute that if a demand should arise spontaneously, and the convention should renominate him, he will not repeat 'he personal plea presented in his great letter to the Cincinnati convention declining the nomination. The ball is not set in motion by Mr, Tilden or his friends.
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MB. HENDRICKS HAS AT LAST ARISEN to a sense of the true Democratic issue. The movement
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this way: It must be initiated by Mr. Hendricks, and must reach to the day of election without word or act on Mr. Tilden's part, but resting on their joint responsibility." "It is reported that you and other friends of Mr. Tilden are actively organ. iziDg a movement for the renomination of the'old ticEet'Is Mr. Tilden aware of the fact and the extent to which the movement has gone "Mr. Tilden is perfectly informed of the activity of a great number of persons in the several States to promote the renomination of the 'old ticket' in the next Democratic convention. In this I speak on my own responsibility, as I said before, but you know, and have satisfied yourself, that what I say and do is fully warranted. Mr. Tilden will have no bureau, no accredited staff, and will make ao personal effort whatever in the coming camoaign It is more the difficulty of reconciling interests and factions in favor of any new ticket, combined with the determination of the
BANK AND FILE OF THE PABTT in 1884, that is lifting the
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ly thought of or that would cany with it a vital and definite issue." Conceding, then, that the comparative restoration of Mr. Tilden's health and the assent of Mr. Hendricks to run an the 'old ticket' have changed the situation, what has Mr. Tilden to say of hhr own capability to stand the wear and tear of a four years' administration of the Presidential office? You know tb9 duties of a President are represented to be very laborious, and have proved to bo a heavy strain even on so robust MMI stalwart a man as Mr. Arthur." "Well, what you say is in the nature of a leading question, as tbe lawyers say. You were led to this interview by my remarks which were derived from my conversations with Mr. Tilden. he does not regard the legitimate duties of the Presidential office as so very ardnQUS. As to our present chief magistrate. Mr. Tilden is inclined to think that hia labor is in a large degree
GASTBONOMIC,
and the strain is mainly on his waist band. His immediate predecessor* were greatly oppressed by facetious demands for office. But Gen. Grant demonstrated the fact, which his successors have availed themselves of, that the nation could almost dispense with president, that ii lias apparently superseded the necessity of a capital at Washington. They transferred the seat ot government to Long Branch or New York at pleasure. They have given practical proof that the traditional im~ portance ot the Presidency has vastly diminished. Mr. Tilden appreciates' better than any man the difference between tbe Presidency in Van Buren'k time and tbe conveniences for the discharge of the duties of that office to-dar. There is no longer a necessity for traveling to Washington except in the case ot the big 'injrns' who wish to
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the Great Father. The coble, thetelegraph and the telephone have facilitated government as much as they have commerce. The President can make his appointments at Washington from any point as well as the merchant can sell and get returns in the markest of the world. He can speak directly and receive instant response from his ministers and representatives abroad. A practical business administration from the high* est und most intelligent standpoint, and this would certainly be Mr. Tilden's aim, would present an executive almost as )assive as the great seal of England" laving due regard to the concurrent urisdiction of the legislative and judicial departments his policy and his acts would be far more acceptable to the country, if stable, reserved and conservative, than if
HB HAD A TURMOIL
of passionate and heated partisanship.*" "Is not Mr. Tilden too old to properly administer the office of President "He is old enough to appreciate wise counsel and wise enough te direbt a judicious administration. He is ten years younger than Theirs was as a statesman, O'Connor as the leader of the bar Bancroft as a historian. Judge Black as a jurist, or Fred S. Winston as the master of tbe greatest financial institution in the world." "So yon and yonr friends are actively in the field to rehabilitate the 'old ticket?"' "I will repeat: I am so enlisted with a number of friends. We will, it possible* make Mr. Tilden the candidate ot the Democracy, without regard, however, to his personal desires or intrusion upon hia purpose to remain strictly removed from, any participation in our canvass for the 'old ticket.' That is ouc business in Saratoga, and we mean
TO SETTLE THE QUESTION
right here this season." "To sum up, what are Mr. Tilden's views upon the vital and advancing question of civil service reform ." "Among the prevarications that prevail about civil service reform is the usurpation of the oredit of its origin and management. The conflict in the Democratic party which elevated M^ Tilden ... to the governorship of this state was as much the embodiment of true civil service principles as the constitution of the 1 United States was the offspring of the great revolutionary expression in favor of civil lioerty. When the record of the overthrow of the rings and bosses of this state shall be mature for history, it will be found that the memorable conflict broke up the canal ring and destroyed the dishonorable brigander of the Tweed dynasty and extended like a conflagra- ^r tion to the
GRANT THIRD TEEM RINGS
in Washington. It will be conceded .f that if Mr. Tilden missed his personal inauguration as President, he nevertheless sees his principles enthroned in the places where the other subversive dicta torships were expected to rule. In proof of Mr. Tilden's identity, even with the more restricted idea of civil service reform, it may be remarked that the persons in office and .under his prede— cessor,Gov. Dix, were retained during^ his administration, and also during the succeeding term of his vice-regent Gov. Robinson. It remained for Gov. Cor-r nell to manifest his apostolic dispensation by their unconditional removal. The present official representative and exponent of technical civil servicc reform, '#r" Commissioner J. B. Eaton, was tbe satellite of Mr. Tilden, and was, it will m* be remembered, sand-clubbed for his obtrusiveness in the anti-Tammany fight of Mr. Tilden's. Others, like Geo. W Wm. Curtis, drew their original inspiration from the same fountain. It is, in fact, an absolute and precise deflnitton of Tildenism to say that it comprises perfectly the full soope of civil service reform." .v
Judge J. W. Jones has leit Bowling Green, Ky., and taken an editorial situation on the Cincinnati Newa Journal, one of the brightest of Cincinnati's erf^m bright newspapers. mh,