Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 March 1887 — Page 11

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WASHINGTON LETTER.

APPOINTMENT CLERKS AND THEIR NEVER ENDING LABORS.

4 Curious tetter With Many "lints" In the Interior Department—A Singular Sort of Cabinet Used by the rostoflP.ce

Department-Photographs of Applicants. [Special Correspondence.] WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—So much was said et the beginning of Mr. Cleveland's administration about the throng of office seekers, -and so little is said nowadays that people think, •possibly, that the pressure for oflice has ceased. •Of course there is nothing liko the crowding and jamming there was in the spring of 1.SS5 At all of the departments, but at the same time if any good business man had to endure the aiumber of calls daily which the office seekers -alone impose upon the heads of the various departments in "Washington ho would tbinlc biaiself sorely abused, and that he could do •very little business under such annoyanccs. The fact is that so many vacancies occur from clay to day by reason of death, expiration of service, resignation and necessity of removal for cause and misdemeanors, that in nil the departments the appointment clerks lind their hands full.

The appointment clerk is a curious official. His business concerns nothiug but the work of receiving applications, filing them, and issuing commissions. Necessarily it is a very important trust. Whenever a vacancy occurs, or one is expected, scorcs and sometimes hundreds of applications will be made in a single day. With each application como petitions, letters and telegrams of indorsement, often photographs of the applicant, •sometimes special recommendations from the head of the department or even from tbe president himself, all of which must bo filed •away so that at a moments notico a demand for any paper by any one having authority to see it can be complied with. These appointment clerics have under them a select number •of clerks, each expert in the work, and, above all, faithful and discreet, s® that all papers intrusted to them may pe kept absolutely •confidential.

Many applicants send their photographs, •thinking, doubtless, that their good looks will bo a recommendation. These are always •carefully kept, and in some offices are stuck op on the wall in tapes, where they remain year after year. A curious variety of faces appears in these collections.

A FEW PICTURES.

The largest appointment division is tn toe treasury department, under Eugene Higjr?is, whoso nomination to the important position of appointment clerk caused so much criticism. Mr. Higgins is an excellent character for the place, whatever his antecedents as a politician may be. I haye seen liim at his desk with a room packed full of men, women and children and with a large crowd standing out in the hall who could not gain admission, and for hours he would listen patiently to each applicant's story as it came, in turn noting methodically the points of merit in each case, sprinkling his questions with jokes and keeping everybody in good spirits, at the samo time hustling tuem along rapidly, as was necessary to give all a fair chance, until finally the last weary, waiting place hunter had been heard and sent away feeling that if there was any chance at all for him in that lottery of emploj'ment, he would have a good square show for it.

Higgins has under him a force of twenty clerks, who occupy the large apartment just west of the rooms allotted to the secretary and his assistants. To the south the windows open out on the beautiful White Lot, the white shaft of the monument and the tawny Potomoc, stretching away southward, dotted with white sails. If the hundreds of thousands of papers and letters, all nicely indexed in this office, could be made accessible to the great American novelist of tho future, he would find here romances that would make a new era in American literature. Human nature was never photographed anywhere by any on© as these records portray it. Every motive, every ambition, every fear, every hope known to the whole gamut of human passion, may hero be found. Here are stories of the poor, of the powerful, of the ambitious, of the desi)era-te. If Washington should ever bo the Pompeii of a later age the antiquarian of that far distant time will find here in this collection of papers the history of the American people.

After the treasury, the postoffiee department, arid then the interior, make the greatest number of appointments annually. In the, state department it is a more simple and choice affair. Much of tho work of selection, if not all, comes within he attention of Mr.

Bayard and his secretary, Mr. Bryan. In the interior department rhaps the most important appointments in the whole civil service are made. The secretary of the. interior touches our national life more intimately and effectively than almost any other cabinet minister. He lins charge of un army

CLERK FOWLER.

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liave to deal with the public lands. The Indian service, scattered from one end of the land to tho other, is in his hands. The endless ranks of pension officials are marshaled under him. Ho has also the bureau of education to direct. He appoints the governors and the minor officials of the territories. What surveillance the general government maintains over the railroads of the couutry cotfl'/s within his manifold duties. Upon him also rests largely the responsibility of appointments in the agricultural department. The geological survey is one of his trusts with all its large corps of scientists. There is hardly a branch of American industry that does not in some way depend upon his department for control and guidance under the laws of the land. In the bulk of apppintments tho secretary of the treasury has more to do, but in variety and importance the secretary of tha Ulterior bears the heavier burden. The treas­

ury department deals with the appomtments of customs and internal revenue officers and has under its special chargo the coast survey and lighthouse service of the country.

The appointments made by tlio head of the postoffiee department reach down among the people in finer ramifications than those of any other of the department*. Fifty-three thou* sand offices depend upon tho judgment of tfee postmaster general and his assistants for tho appointment of good officials. The appointing of this great host of postmasters has always cut a large figure in tho politics of the country, and it has been an important matin every administration that in the selection of the postmaster general not only administrative ability, but some sense of the political needs of the party in power be considered. The postmaster general appoints presidential postmasters. His first assistant appoints the fourth class postmasters, who number something like 50,000. Most of the work of selection in this great branch of the appointing division in this department is under the charge of Mr. Edwin Fowler, who has been in the department fifteen years. Few men have established for themselves such a record of judicious, discreet, confidential service as he has in this time. His predecessor in the main work of selecting this great number of small officials, Mr. Marr, now chief clerk in the first assistant postmaster general's office, has been in the department fifty years. He now retains his place, although incapacitated by old age from rendering active service. No one of the thousands of clerks is more regularly at his desk than Mr. Marr. Mr. Fowler appoints annually between 15,000 and 16,000 postmasters, a larger number than any one man has to do with. It reflects great credit upon him that his work provokes so little criticism, seeing that it deals with small communities where petty jealousies and rivalries so often cut a figure in tho selection of the postmaster.

A great many curious things happen in the correspondence which comes before the appointment clerk. An applicant for an important office under the secretary of the Interior wrote a letter to the president after the place had been filled by the appointment of another applicant, expressing the hope that something less important might be given him In his letter occurred tho following sentence: "I shal live in hops althow I di in despare." One of the antiques in the interior department records is a letter written by a citizen of Missouri to the Hon. Thomas Ewing, in September, 1849, applying for an office. It is one of the most curious letters probably that was ever written. There is no evidence in the records of the departments that the applicant ever received an appointment. It is as follows:

Dear Sin.—'This is to inform you, and through you to inform the president, that I am willing to accept of an office under his administration, provided it pays well but I have very little expectation of getting one.

I consider myself qualified to fill almost any office but there are hundreds of others who are as well qualified as I am, and perhaps better.

I consider myself an honest man but there are thousands of others equally honest. I am a political friend of the president but that is no good reason why I should receive an appointment.

I am a stranger to fame and fortune but that is no good reason why I should not receive one. I should, of course, like the best oflice but "beggars must not bo choosers."

I should like to have an office near home but 1 do not wish any honest and capable officer turned out to make room for me, who am untried.

I am a poor man but I do not wish to plead poverty. I am a farmer but that argues nothing for or against me.

I am also a surveyor but there may be a great many better ones. I am a self taught man but I have much yet to learn.

I have the reputation of a great mathematician but I do not wish to boast of it. I have a small family but everybody else either has, or wishes to have.

I have lived soveral years in Missouri but I am yet unknown to fame. I have sought office, it is true but I have seldoil been successful.

I see a great many offices bestowed at Washington city, either with or without merit but none have fallen to my share.

This looks somewhat strange but how could it be otherwise? The great probability is that I never will obtain one but who knows?

You may perhaps think I am jesting with you in thus applying for office but I assure you I am in earnest.

You may accuse me, toe, of egotism and arrogance in thu3 addressing you but how can I expect an office unless I ask for it?

You may perhaps wish to have my character before appointing me to office but indeed 1 woiild not exchange my character for any office whatever.

I could perhaps get a good recommendation from my neighbors but I do not wish to ask them to tell a lis for me.

If you wish a reference to some person high in office, I will refer you to the Hon. John F. Ryland, of our supreme court but he knows very little, if anything, about me.

If you can do nothing for me in the way of office, please write and say so but make no apologies.

I shall await anxiously a reply to this letter but I shall be agreeably disappointed if I get one. My address is Pleasant Hill postonice, Cass (alias Van Buren) county, Mo. but what of that!

In looking over this communication I see as many personal pronouns as if it had been written by Col. Benton himself but I assure you it was not.

I could write more but I fear it would be wasting time to no purpose. No more but remain your?, etc.,

Sept. 10,1849. Martin Scott. To the Hon. Thomas Ewing,

MR. NASH'S INGENIOUS CABINET. In the postoffiee department, in the chief clerk's room, there stands a small, neat, black walnut cabinet, in the slanting lid of which is a large pane of glass. Under this, on a broad canvas belt revolving on rollers, aiTanged in the interior of the cabinet, is a great number of blue and i-ed and buff slips of cardboard. On these slips are written names of various clerks, their salaries, age, sex, occupation and, possibly, previous condition of servitude. This is called the civil servico reform cabinet. It is simply a device by which, at a glance, the entire official list of the department can be seen. It is tho idea of the chief clerk, Mr.

THE GAZETTE TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA THURSDAY. MARCH 3,1887.'

Nash, and has nothing to do with the political character of the clerks selected for service in tho department. Mr. Nash has to stand a good many jokes over the affair, but, notwithstanding this, ho takes a great deal of pride in it. Some of the other appointment clerks are seriously considering tho advisability of providing themselves with similar cabinets. JOHN ATE.

"THE FINEST.''

A RKCIN1SCEXCE.

When Twas ft giddy girly, and my ravcE !ocSB were curly, And my eyes were bright as diamonds and my figure was petite, I was very prim and proper, and no man, much less a "copper,"

Ever caught mo making eyes at him or flirting .on the street.

Yet somehow it happened, whether it was bright or stormy weather, Or whether in the twilight dusk or by the light of day, That when I was young and pretty and lived in

New York city

I never crossed the street alone—I wasn't built that way. •,

When I chanced to be belated, if beneath a lamp I waited Just a moment, while I tried to look afraid and at a loss Boon a member of the finest saw me, and bis royal highness

Pure, would tuck mo underneath his arm and pilot me across.

Or if old Broadway were sloppy, I would pause beside a coppy, And with a look of pathos fit to melt a heart of stone, I would view my boots so dainty, and look so distressed "and feint, he

Just couldn't—why, how could ho—let mo wade across—alone. Or when vehicles were speeding, if I, thoughtless and unheeding,

Right before the plunging horses silly made

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Down my guardian, angtlio, swooped and caught me, and in Gaelic Accents cursed the careless drivers while he pressed me to his heart. —J. C. Davis in Judge,

Jttr. Grady Asks a Blessing. A gentleman recently returned from Atlanta tells a good story at the expense of Henry W. Grady, of Tho Constitution. Grady was telling a story about a celebrated vendetta at the tea table, concluding by saying: "The two men approached each other with bowio knives. Simultaneously they plunged the gleaming blades into each other's heart" "Henry," interrupted Mrs. Grady, with a meaning giance, "the blessing, please." "With a meek face the orator said: "Oj Lord, make us truly grateful for what we are about to receive—and, Mr. Blank—the blood spurted out and both men fell dead in the street."—"Washington Gossip in Boston Traveller.

A French Opinion of Cocktails. Baron de Selliere became very attached to the American cocktail before he left this country. I think it was the Manhattan brand that slipped easiest under the little waxed mustache. "Zee cocquetail ees one paradoxe," I heard him say in Delmonico's one day. "Zey puts in zee bitairesto mako himbitaire, zeo sugairo to make him sweet, zee viskey to to make him strong, zeo ice to make him weak. I say 'here's to you,' and drink him myself! Vair funny! Vair drole! Waiter, another paradox."—New York Star.

As to the Course of True Love. The course of true love may be traced in the eight letters produced at the hearing of a breach of promise case. Tho first, letter com menccil: "Dear Mr. Smith," then followed "My Dear John," then "My Darling John," "My Own Darling Jack," My Darling John," "Dear John," "Dear Sir," "Sir," and all was over.—Jackson (Ga.) Times.

Little Xiaughs.

A prominent lawyer in this city recently secured a client in the person of a man charged with counterfeiting, and receiving four new $50 bills as a retainer. When the legal light 1 went to deposit them in bank he discovered that they wero bogus, and with remarkable presence of mind he withdrew from the case. —Chicago Inter Ocean.

This is ono washed up by the waves of society: Caller (at the MacQuiggan residence) —I hear your daughter has taken up painting. Mrs. MacQuiggan (proudly)—Yes, indeed. She goes to the Corcoran Art gallery every other day. Has ju3t finished a copy of that lovely Charlotte Corduroy.

When wo talk about mean temperature in New England nowadays, we mean what we say.—New Haven News.

Why is it that the newspapers never say anything about Mrs. James Brown Potter? Here is a lady who is celebrated for—by tho way, what is she celebrated for?—Philadelphia Call.

A guest who was walking out of a Chicago hotel a few mornings ago absorbed in a newspaper he had just bought stumbled and came near falling over somebody who was down on the floor. "Hello! what's this?" ho exclaimed, hastily, as he recovered himself. "I'm a scrub lady, sir!" replied a bedraggled but proud female, who rose to a kneeling posture, scrubbing brush in hand, and looked at him with a withering glance*—Chicago Tribune. "I have noticed with some surprise," says Mrs. Baglcy, "that a gentleman always takes out his cigar, bites off the end, lights the match and takes two puffs before ho asks, 'Is smoking disagreeable to youF "Look here," said a man this morning, going into his grocer's, "those eggs you sold me Now Year's were bad." "Well, that wasn't my fault" "Whose fault was it then?" "Blamed if I know. How should I tell what was inside of them! I'm a groceryman I'm no mind reader."—Washington Critic.

Ernest Amient, a Swiss resident of Indianapolis, is about to introduce and attempt the tale of snails for use as a delicacy upon epicurean tablea

-BATON ROUGE.

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LETTER FROM THE CAPITAL

H'-.' LOUISIANA.

OF

That Cozy Southern City Considered from the Standpoint of Resident. Some Peculiarities of the Place and the Great Sugar Cane State Generally.

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[Special Correspondence.]

BATON ROUGE, La., Fob. 21.—Baton Rouge, the capital of the state of Louisiana, is situated on the first highlands that rear their heads above the swamps and alluvial lands that sweep in an unbroken level from the delta of the great Mississippi up to the bills and plateaus, which rise higher and higher until they lose themselves in the far off Alloghanies.

Gayarre, in his history of Louisiana, tells us that Baton Rouge was one of the first settlements made in tho state, having been used as a depot of contraband trade by the English. Ib was afterward captured by the French, and iield alternately by tho French and Spaniards, who built a fort and established a garrison there.

On the 1st of December, 1849, it became the capital of the state, and. a castellated building, in imitation of the Anglo-Norman style of architecture, was built and used as a state capital until the beginning of the late war between the states. In December, 1S62, this building was burned, but not entirely destroyed, while occupied by Federal troops and used as a prison for Confederate soldiers. For many years it remained a picturesque ruin, covered with an emerald tangle of ivy and Virginia creeper, and was likened by many to the poetic ruins that overhang the river Rhine. It was remodeled and rebuilt in 1881-2, and the seat of government removed from New Orleans and re-established in March, 1882.

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THE OLD CAPITOL.

Baton Rouge was incorporated in 1820, and has a population of 10,000 inhabitants. It is sufficiently near the gulf to enjoy its refreshing breezes in summer. The winters are rarely severe and snow and sleet are seldom seen. The thermometer rarely rises above 90 degrees or falls below 20 degrees, Fahrenheit, and when either extreme is reached only a few days of disagreeable weather is experienced before a change occurs.

The soil is admirably adapted for the culture of flowers, and camellias and roses grow to such perfection as to excite the wonder of strangers visiting here. They flourish so that they grow to be trees instead of shrubs.

Baton Rouge is the county seat of tho parish of East Baton Rouge, which has a population of over 25,000 inhabitants. It has a river frontage of nearly forty miles. The lands along the Mississippi are alluvial, about one-third being under cultivation, the remain-der-pasturage and woodland. The other portions of the parish are highlands that is, they are not subject to overflow from the Mississippi river, even in extreme inundations. This lands produce all the staple crops, viz.: Cotton, cane, corn, rice, potatoes and a great variety of vegetables.

Among the forest trees is the live oak, a wide spreading evergreen, one of the most graceful and beautiful trees of the southern forest the magnolia, with glistening, green foliage, bearing its burdeu of snow white blossoms the elm, several varieties of oak and gum trees, tho poplar, beech and cypress. The orange, fig and grape yield plentifully, and the pear, peach and plum are cultivated with advantage.

The Mississippi river, navigable at all seasons of the year, affords regular traffic between New Orleans and the western cities. The Texas and Pacific railway and the Mississippi Valley railway, one on either sido of the river, ran daily trains to and from New Orleans. The former furnishes a through line to Texas and California, the latter going north to Memphis. The distance from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, via Texas and Pacific, is ninety-eight miles via Mississippi Valley, eighty-nine miles. The distance by river is 130 miles. The southern portion of the parish carries on an extensive trade with New Orleans by steamer across the lakes and up the Amite river to Hope Villa.

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THE NEW CAPITOL.

The planters are compelled to rely mainly on the colored population for their labor as there exists abroad a false impression that few white men can endure the heat of the southern summers. Tho contrary is the case as statistics show that more cotton is being raised by white laborers throughout the south, than by negroes the latter seeking employment in the towns when practicable.

In the northern part of the state the cotton lands are worked on shares, that is, an interest is given them in the growhig crops. The planter generally furnishes tho laborer with a house to livo in with small garden attached, stock and implements to work the crop, the laborer feeding himself and family. In tho sugar districts, the southern portions of the state, daily wages are paid, varying from sixty-five cents to $1 a day, except during tho grinding season, when tho sugar mills are running night and day, the wages are nearly double and the laborers work in relays.

The first agricultural convention ever held in the state of Louisiana assembled in the agricultural hall of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical college on Wednesday, Jan. 26. The convention was the outgrowth of the Farmers' associa­

tion ui lilt) ptU iSliLXS Oi i_,U3t JtllU cou Ut.kUll Rouge. The convention held two sessions daily, morning and night. The delegates,, numbering more than 100, represented thirtyone parishes, and comprised delegates from the Sugar Planters' association, Colored State Fair association and the State grange. Several of the colored delegate* were property

owners and one, T. T. Alias:!, of Therville, represents large landed interests. The delegates were a solid and substantial looking body of men, their faces showing the types of many distinct nationalities, a large percentage being the Creole clement from the southern portion of the state. It was whispered among the ladies present that tho most dudish looking members were the "sugar planters,'-' while those who showed an utter disregard for fashion in dress and headgear were the "cotton planters."

A series of resolutions adopted by the convention declare in favor of a department oi agriculture and the establishment of agricultural experiment stations, indorse the adoption of a pleuro pneumonia bill to present the spread of that infectious disease among the stock of the country, and encourage'? the holding of agricultural fairs in various portions of the state.

A portrait of GOVERNOR M'ENERY. Governor S. D, McEnery, who delivered the state's welcome, is hero given.

Morganza levee, situated in the parish of Pointe Coupee, the largest in the state, has just been completed. This mammoth earthwork has a length of 0,256 feet, and at one point abase of 204 feet, and a height of 24 feet. The levee has a broad berme along its entire front, and a roadway in its rear. It has been well sodded and is pronounced by experts to be of most substantial build. The levee has been built bv the convicts from the state penitentiary, the force employed numbering over 600 men. Dr. Peter Treyevant, of Shreveport, La., is the contractor.

The Morganza crevasse occurred during the overflow of 1874, and the waters from this point overflowed portions of the following parishes: Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, St. Mary, Therville, Yerrebonne, St. Landry, Avoyelles, Theria and St. Martin. It was rebuilt in 1882 at a cost to the state of from $80,000 to $90,000, only to be swept away by the great flood of that year. The restoration of this great levee for the second time, at the cost of nearly $100,000, has brought a feeling of relief and security to many planters, who are rebuilding fences, plowing long neglected fields, and who feel for the first time that the boom of the new s^-ith has at last reached them.

FRANCES BYTHEL (ITN.

Altogether!

,• Yo1 keep yo' grip on be's tail, Rastus, en Bose"'ll tek car" ob de bed. Den I'll gib him a swat. Now! One, two,

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—Tid Bits.

RIGHT REV. ETH ELBERT TALBOT.

The New Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Wyoming and Idaho. The Episcopal church missions in Wyoming and Idaho have reached the dignity of a diocese and the Rev. Ethelbert Talbot has been elected bishop thereof. Mr. Talbot was born in Fayette, Mo., in 1848. He was one of six brothers, his father being an eminent physician. He prepared for college in his native town, then entered Dartmouth in 1866, from which he was graduated in 1S70. os ing the ministry for a calling, he entered the

General Theological Seminary of New York and carried off a prize for his knowledge of ecclesiastical history. In 1873 he

REV. E. TALBOT. was ordained a deacon in "The Little Church Around the Corner," in New York city. That same year he was ordained a priest in St. Mary's church, Fayette, Mo., where he had previously received baptism, confirmation and first communion.

Mr. Talbot's first ministry was at St. James' church, Macon. Mo., where ho remained until his election as bishop. While there he opened what is now a flourishing diocesan school. Mr. Talbot is an energetic worker, possessed of vigorous health, and admirably adapted for the arduous journeys ho will bo compelled to make among the missions in his new diocese.

Abraham Lincoln's Abstemionsr ess. A reader of The Times, of Philadelphia, heard a man say that "Abraham Lincoln frequently went upon sprees in tho company of Stephen A. Douglas," and wrote to COL McClure asking if this was true. The answer was: "No man who knew Mr. Lincoln ever accused hhn of indulging iii sprees. He was always a very abstemious man, and he was never accused of intoxication during his lifetime."

A Working Girl's Mail.

One of tho girls working in tho mills at Biddoford, Me., gets more letters thai any other woman in town. She is the yowngest of thirty-two children born to the same parents, and twenty-throe brothers ar sisters who still live write to her every week. How she manages her share of the correspondence has not yet been printed.—J)*ew York Sun.

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WILLE.MLISH.

Arrested as He Was Abont to

Leave

for Europe.

An Indianapolis Widow Makes Some Serious Allegations.

NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—WM. E. English, son of Wm. H. English, of Indiana, the Democratic candidate for vioePresident in 1880, was arrested on board the steamer Etruria just before it was time for her to sail for Europe Saturday. The order of arrest was sued oat of the Hupreme Court by Mrs. Lucy

A.

Case, formerly of Indianapolis, tha home of the young man. Later in the day, and too late to oatch the steamer*. Mr. English was released ou bail, which, was furnished by Dr. Norvia Green, President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and J. H. Rodgers, proprietor of the Coleman House.

Mrs. Case has been a widow six years and has a child seven years old. She is of prepossessing appearance and attractive manners. For several years she was *a saleswoman in the store of A. Morrison, of Indianapolis. Whila there she was introduced to young English in January, 1886. She was then boarding at a small family hotel in that city. She alleges that he visited the store daily paying her attenioo, eacortng her home from work, to places of amusement, Jfce., and that he professed great love for her, and called on her at her home that his attentions became matter of public notoriety, and it was generally believed that they were engaged. She charges that in July, 1886, on one of his visits, after entering, he looked the door that she begged him to open it and let her out, bus he refused. She charges that he then assaulted her criminally. She alleges that through fear of disgrace and exposure she did not make publio tha offense,but refused to again see him. Sha subsequently informed him of her condition and alleges that he took her to a physician and had an abortion performed. She claims that English promised to make amends by marrying her and that he threatened to kill her in case she married any one else. She was oblige! to leave her position, and asserts that he has since supported her. A few days ago, she says, he sent her $100 to pay certain expenses. On December 10th she removed to this city. He refused to marry her. She sues for damages to the amount of $25,000. She applied for the arrest to compel English to furnish bonds to appear.

Mr. English says: "This is a case of black-mail. I have been followed and annoyed by this woman before. She offered to settle the matter for $1,60% but I refused. I am going to right tha case, and propose to remain here for tha trial. My relations with her give no cause for this complaint."

What the Senior English Thinks of the'

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Case.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 28.—Mrs. Case made her home in this city until two months ago, having rooms in the Stewart place. She is rather attractive in appearance, and is about thirty years old. She came here a widow about three years ago. She was regarded by her acquaintances as a respectable woman until her intimacy with young English became a subject of general gossip. He began paying attention to her several months ago and! called on her nearly every evening and always 6pent his Sunday afternoons with her. Mrs. Case frequently remarkel to the chambermaid in the Stewart place that she and Mr. English were to be married and go to Europe together. Two months ago Mr. English, left the city for New York to sail for Europe. Mrs. Case, it

seemB,

went on

the same train and left word she was eoing to Washington with Mr. English. A letter received by some of her friends at the Stewart place the

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they hod gone stated she was in Washington City with Mr. Euglish. Nothing: more was heard from her until the news of her having Mr. Euglish arrested this evening was received.

Hon. Wm. H. English said tonight: "L heard of the arrest soon after it occurred. Mrs. Case is an old widow woman who got infatuated with Will, and he could not get rid of her. I know he has been trying, for some months to shake her, but she would not let him alone. When she learned he was going to Europe and was not going to take her she was half crazy and worried tha life out of him. She has followed hint over the country and he has been unable to evade her. She was determined to go to Europe with him, and when she found he would not take her sha trumped up the charge of adultery against him and had him arrested. She put off his arrest until the last moment in order to make him miss his steamer.

She even waited until the steamer had left the landing before she sent the officers aboard. As to the charge of adnltry, there is not a thing in it. The whole af fair is only apiece of unpleasant scandal. As for there being any criminal assault, I know that is false, for I have numerous telegrams from New York which, state that the charge is seduction."

Railroads and the New Law. BOSTON, Feb. 26.—S. F. Pierson, of New York, assistant commissioner of the Trunk Line passenger pool, visited this city yesterday, and met the New Eoglandrepreseutatives of the Trank lines. About four hours were occupied in considering the various previsioas of the Inter-State Commerce bill as affecting the passenger business. Tbe general idea se»ms to prevail that tbe law will necessitate very few changes in the conduct of the passeBger business of tbe Trank lines and that a very broad common sense interpretation ot its provisions will be allowed.