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Extraordinary BARGAINS IN LACE CUBTAINS AM9 "UPHOLSTERY GOODS. We are ealllDf FANCY BINGES at greatly reduced price, tail and sea, A. L. Wright 47 aai 4 1 Boat Serial. St.

The Health Underwear accommodates itself to rapid changes of temperature. B. B. PARKER, 14 E. Wash.

st. YTo Stand at tho Head. Tea win make a lata to tfyon aa Interior machines you permit load claims of nparlority to etand lor teal merit. If yom bay a machine before araialnlng tho IJEIV "0" IIOIVE. add: XH0 I10W0 iliilClllUO A); lea, 96, 17 aad lerta fssaaylvaala WL, Order pure and clean GAS C0EE from DREW WASS0N, dealcrs'in Coal and Coko of all kinds, 11 R.

Pennsylvania st, 126 Indiana avenue. SALE, CIEiP, A complete set of New York Court of Appeals, aecond hand, 89 role. Partly new, all perfectly i aound. Merrill, Meigs 5 lut WuhiagtoB St The Indianapolis Mawa la published evary anarnoon, except Sunday, at tho offloa, Ko. Wart Washington street.

Price, two cents a copy. Berred by earrten la any part of the city, ton cents a week; by mail, postace prepaid, SO eanta a month as a year. The Weekly Hewa la published erery Wednes day. Prloe, 65 cents a year, postage paid. jAdfertlaemeuta, first page, flro oenta a Une lot each Insertion nothing laat than two lines ooanled.

Display advertisements vary la prloe aooordlnc to Una aad position. adiwHssaimn) aaawawf as editorial or news wpeetsaea aambora sent tree oa application. Terma, eaah. Invariably In ad ranee. A munloallans should be addressed to Johs H.

Hoixidat, Proprietor. THE DAILY NEWS. ON DAT, JCLT 17, 1S82. Wi take it to be a miatekea report, that Mrs. Garfield has been aaked by Uubbell'e eOmmltteo for two per cent, of her haa band's aalary, which haa beea paid to her.

So bitter aa iasoU aa that could hardly have catered iatoaay maa'a heart to carry vuw Tub death of Mra. Lincoln brings up tho fact that, of tho husband aad wife aad four childrea, only on aow remains alive. Mrs. Llacoln'i life has beea aad enough, in the days of prosperity as well as adversity, aad since the tragedy of nearly acore of yean ago aho has suffered in body aad mind la a way that matt surely make death ao calamity. Eholasd's job haa probably jast bo fan.

There ia likely to be a weary length tojhia Egyptlaa bnaiaeaa which may lead, ap to freat things. It ia hardly possible that tho statu quo ante brOum ttm or will be reatered, and it aeema probable that any other aettlemeat for tho future will be aoasethiag for ail the powers to decide, aad how such a deciaioa eaa bar reached with ant drarvtn In the "Futin nnufinn" proper will require deft work to answer. COSGkbss ia expected to pus auch plnnderiag billa as tho river and harbor approprlatioaa. It is expected to pay un successful contestants of scats. Itiaex pected to pay private claims that are divided between lobbyists and members.

There are very few inexcusable abases of tho treasury that may aot bo expected, systematically or occasionally. But eerUla' ly nobody ever expected that tho worst of congresses, area a salary grab biag or pensioa arrearige congress, would cat dowa tho iadiapeaaable Bigaal Berviee ia order to pay a month's extra wages to tho employee o't tho House, who are paid regularly twice as much as iaduatrioaa mechanics for half as much work. Tho Signal Service is worth to the country more thaa all tho rest of tho work of tho eeeaioB, aad It la crippled by aredactioa, while tho handy tools of eon greeeioBSi vicea aad abases are to bo paid instead. Thk alaughter of tho Iaaoeeata, which tho fourth of July last year brought about, aeema aa If it would bo repeated this year oa ovea a larger scale. It will bo remeaa bered, or rather it is more likely that it ia fergottea, that but year eomethlar ever hundred death of childrta from lock jaw occurred aa tha raaalt of wounds re ceived from tha explosion of tho eapi of toy pistols.

Whether tbia renlt legiti mate, or whether thcra something ia tha falmisaie that adda malignance to tho wonaa, wo do aot ksw. Wo do knew that thaao toy platola with their pereuaaioa eapa ara tha devil's iaveatioa against tho Urea of children. aad tho stupidity that places them ia thoir handa ia littio ahort of criminal. can aot begin to keep track of a tithe of the re porta which are aow coming from all parti of tho country. Bat for specimens, there ara fire eaaea of lockjaw at Newport, Kentucky, at Lowell, Massachusetts, three boys aged tea, eleven aad thirteen ytara died oa Woda day.

The day before three died ia Boetoa, oao la Gloueoater, oae at Nashua, N. and a little girl at Korthamptoa, Vase. Thcao deaths all were from lockjaw eeussd by wounds received from tho deadly toy pistol. "Shoot" the putoL "Cbristiaa Eld." the aonthera novelist. ia htiaa Frances C.

Fiaher, whoao father, who fell at the head of hie regiment at Bull Ron, waa the first rebel killed in the battles of the rebellion. Item. Statements like thia sometimea lay the foundation of misinformation aa to our eonatry'a history that may giro miadiree Uon or make ooafuaioa of a rood deal of after study. So.it may bo worth while Mt. blunder It Is to day that "the first rebel killed ia the battlea of the rebellion" was at Ball Ran.

That calami tone but oa the whole beneficial conflict took place on the 21tt of July, 1861. Before that there hai bee a fights at a score of plaeea, moat'y ia Weat Virginia, ia which rebels were killed, aad federals, too. Thia list ia of rebela killed. Acquln creek Beallngton SI a July 12 July 1 July lit July 1 July 15 1H July in June 1 Uncertain 21 10 IV) li 2S 4 40 81 Barboursvllle BeTerly mark burs 'srora. Bn lk lan non Bnnker KdSrard's ralJIDR wate Fairfax C.

II. Uncertain Fale's June 2 June 10 July 7 June 14 2 6 100 Great netbel Great Falls Ilaiper laurel H1U Philllppi.v.. Uncertain Uncertain Uacertaln 10 une a rattemmsureea Rich June 56 17 lfiO 2 7 6 July 11 June 11 i Julr in Kerry HilU. Vienna 17 Here are twenty one fights, big and little, before the battle of Ball Ran, with a rebel loee of killed, aa reported at the time, of nearly $00, exclusive of wounded. CURRENT COMMENT.

rrobably the most atrocious instance of 'Gerrymander" on record ia the recent manipulation of South Carolina, by the democrats, lor congressional purposes. Some districts are made ap of parte of coun i tlea aad ia shape are aa much like Aztec picture writing as anything. Tho differ ences of population ia some of these dis tricta la nearly 70,000. It ia simply "in fers al." The alaughter of the Innocents: Eighty eight little children died ia New York city in one day last week. Tho excessive heat was tho eanae of the abnoimal increase.

Halatead, of tho Ciacinnati Commercial is busily engaged defending Bea Batter worth against the charge of indelicacy, ia that retort ea Sunset Cox: "Here's rich Bess," indeed. Some oae writing as a republican to the New Sua touching ita proposal of Bea Harrison for the republican candidate for presidency, says: In the first place, is Ben Harrison "above sua 1 piciooT" tiaa ne ever been aumy of bribery. lor fery or perjury Is he a "machine" politician? Use be Sao relatives ready to step into otfioe he rnonia ie elected ioe lie possea any o( the queliUea of Jeffermn, Calhoun, Dougleii, Dickinson, on the one side, or of Bnmner, Clay, Webster, or Lincoln? Ishis war record sound? Is he boneet 7 loee he love his country better than aeiiT in nesinse irom Duanumeuc tne rot ten rule of "Addition. Divinion and Bllence?" In a word, docs he measure the full night of an uprifchu hooait American dozen 7 If so, in the name of a suffering repablie, pnt his name In nomination ana sues to nim to me ena. We know somewhat concerning tho sen ator and affirm "without fear of successful contradiction" that he could etand ap ii the face of Heaven and tho American peo ple and answer that catechism truly "from send toeend." Sneaking of Yoorheea as candidate for vice president, the Terre Haute Saturday Evening Ledger says: "With Daniel on tho ticket, Indiana would bo sure to the democratic party." The Ledger probably wrote this before it heard that wild ahriek of tho senator's for "protection." The senator may bo ornamental in Indians politics hereafter but aot useful.

Loulsville'a divorce court records ahow that Jhe great majority of each cases based upon marital infidelity cornea from wha may be called tho trades' classes, artisans, mechanics, small shop keepers and the like, aad a prominent divorce lawyer as signs as causes lault in their views ot morality and greater temptation to sin on account of money. Some of the colored republicans la New Turk city intimate that they must have more consideration iu the oDlce holding line If they are to seep on voting me republican ticket. litem. That 'a what the Irish of Indianapelia in timate as to the democrats, Thia glorio.ua weather is worth million! to Indiana. When TUden and Enelbih are counted nnt who will nil Uie democratic barrel (Caicago Hendricks aad the Irish.

The NewYork World congratulates itaelf on the part it played ia getting the obelisk moved to that city from Alexandria, be cause ita old locality daring the recent bombardment waa directly ia the line of fire from the Britiah ships. If tho Asbnry cadets accept the ehal leago of the Quspaw gaarda for a compet itive drill at Nashville in August, they should stipulate that the judgea shall be regular army officers, selected by General Howard, of Weat Point, or else they ought not accept the challenge at alL It ia estimated that about three milee of "the rope which hung Guiteaa" hat beea sold for relics. At this rate a aew rope factory will soon bo etarted, to run oa this line of goods solely. Tho kind ot fame Mr. Kelfer hat wob aiaco ho became speaker is punlshment enongb, and the press might la mercy cease from farther exposing hia Inefficiencies aad deficieaeies.

By the way ho is of tha kiad THB INDIAN AP0LI8 NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 17, 1882. "of material foiated ia high plaeea by 'the atalwart machine. Ia Paria 1,859 working people, male aad by making personal decora tioaa aad habiliajenta for pet don or otherwise paying attention to the eaalne race. The trade doae by them ia estiaaa ted at a total of 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 of razes. Every dog at all well carol for mast ar eotharaea or tall boots whoa ho goes eat wnlkinr, of doeskin, faateaed with rings of India rubber tt l.

1 oa tha aide of Arabl, "Egypt for oa that of tho English, iron clads it mesas fcgypt lor civilisation, laat tneee are too oppoaite terma of the eonteat seeme to bo the tennon nnderstanding of Earopeaa powers, who therefore express their satis factioa with the course taxea oy tne tor liah government Chicago Timea. The republican tarty, haa ant ahowa itaelf ao pare that it can bo implicitly trusted next time to rive the country a righteous government. It ahould ttrst make reforms ia departments whea it baa the power. There ia civil service reform wby not suite a blow lor mat? iet that be adopted la rood faith, and at oae step a mountain of corruption ia removed aot all that exists, bat oae of the moat aetiTe and demoralising ageaciea that attract ad veaturers into public life. Philadelphia iiecora.

The aew party which will come as aa elective popular political force will bea party with politita la it. it will aot come mouthing political generalisations, but strikint for some very positive, definite. and distinctly practical proposition upea some political queauoa too supreme importance of which the country realizea with a degree of intensity sufficient to awaxea popular feeling and transmute it into pop alar action. Chicago Timea. Seriously, do spoils partisans reflect what a lesson ia party morals they have taught colored republicans? They have taught them to demand office as the price of party fealty.

They have taught them that the spoils are the end and aim of political war fare, ibey nave taught them to try tomato a living out of politics. They have taught them to become blackmailers, he slave baa beea made a citixen, and by the same act tsurht to suction off his right of tan rage to the highest bidder for an office! Chicago Tribune. Crlmieavl Fatalities. Richard Garland, of Lanenberz. coantv.

Vs. and Joaeph Addison, a Baltimore drummer. Quarreled over a young lady, ana Addison waa snot to aeatn. A mob of half drunken men attacked man named Fowley, near Homestead, while he waa milking, Saturday nignt. He ahot and killed one of them named Critch low, whoae companions threatened to lynch lowiev.

tdward jicrumey, nomas King, and a man, same unknown, circus employes. were killed at Ly kens, Ps. yesterday, by being thrown under a train. Washington William, a barber of Va Tail's Bluff', voted the democratic ticket, Saturday, which ereatly incensed Charles Savaee.alao colored. He went into Williams's shop, hit him with a brick.

aad beean breaking the furniture, where upon Wuiiama shot and killed him. Two mea, lormeriy from ilicuiean, named Wm. Watson and Peter Stuart, quarrelled on the railroad bridge at Bismarck. Dakota, over the falling of a piece of timber. Both men were precipitated to the ground below, sixty feet, and killed.

Leonard Haynea, eon of Collector naynes, shot and killed District Attorney W. E. Cumminss. at Laredo, Texas, Satur day night, aad then escaped to Mexico. Cummiaga had teduced Haynea'a thirteen' ar old sister.

ueo. Biepcena, ot (Jbicago, waa lataiiy ahot by the marshal of Kalamazoo, who etught him in the act of committing a ourgiary. Zatv Cones Eavay 0ee. Philadelphia Becord.l The finder of hidden treasure, tne heir to unclaimed estates, tho load owner who "strikes oil," the holder of the prize ticket in the lottery, or any other son of Adsm who finds hia pockets full of unearned dol lars, ia in a position of peril all the mere dangerous for the reason that it is unknown and nnthought of. Aa hoaest shoemaker of our acquaintance, who made a good liv log tor tumseii and family by plying his trade, a year ago received $1,600 arrears of penaioa money.

He waa a sober man, with no. vicious appetites to grainy, but be his wife diamond ear ting, hia dsughjter a piano, aad set simseii up aa a shoe merchant, instead of a shoe maker. Tho ah rift sold the poor ieilow out laat we a. ills debts wui follow him for years. This man ia the type of thousands of hia fellows.

There are others who find swifter and readier means of dis sipating the government bounty. It would be a matter ot astonishment to the country to know how little real benefit has been conferred by its unparalleled largess, if lit i unwritten nisiory couia oe irscea irom tne pension office to its remoter bearings upon the fortunes of pensioners. The pensions were withheld at the time when they wou.d have been moat helpful to the aoldier. The accumulation that now aweepa down upon aim la a very aoubuui lavor. Death of Mrs.

Uaeoln. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, widow of the martyred President, died laat night at the residence tol Mrs. N. W.

hd wards, her sis ter, in Springfield. I1L, with whom the had beea making ber home lor some time, she grew worse a few dayt ago, having been ill a long time, aad baturdav evening was stricken with paralysis. Her death oc curred in the same house ia which she married Mr. Lincoln, November 4, 1812, nf f.nil. Fr.

Ak i I 1 Hon. Bobert T. Lincoln, secretary of i i nn i 1 1 we oniy one Jiving, xae remains win oe emlombed ia the crypt in the. catacomb of the Lincoln monument, just adjoining that containing the remains ol ber Mra. Lincoln waa tho dauchter of Hon, Bobert S.

Todd, of Lexington, aad her hiatory from the time "of her husband's election to the presidency, ia one of the moat pathetic in the annalslof the country. t3B waa aixty xour years ox age. Gov. St. John's Victory.

The Leavenworth county (Kanaaa) re publicans adopted the following resolution at their cob veation: Resolved, That out delegates to the convention to be held at Topeka, on August 9, 181, be instructed to use a 1 honorable means to secure the renomination of Uorernor John P. St. John. This prohibition victory, coming as it does from a county supposed to be anti St. John, ia deemed to be very aignificant, aad to mean that St.

Joha will a weep the atate. Eluding the Constables. Searches for srma in Ireland are generally fruitless. The well ereased, are wrapped in what may be called waterproof paper sod buried In a tilled field.the owner alone knowine tha precise sdoL as a crop is grown upon ft. Contemptuous Officials.

A Lead villa specie 1 says: The mayor and city council were arrested and fined $2j0 each and ten days in jail for contempt of court. The police jndge and city attorney were removed aad aew mea appointed in their plaeea. i And Cattle to Drlak of. Boston Herald. Streams of water in congressional districts are now valuable for two purposes for bathing aad for securing aa appropriation.

Largo Land Bales. Dnripg the first six months of thia year tho Government land office at Fargo, D. Tn disposed of 835,960 acres of lead. Masons la Scotland. The greed lodge of Scotland has 523 lodges under ita jurisdiction, aad a total membership ot 111,000 maaeas.

i. BTATK JTKWS. The OawfordsviHe Daily Timea will aow bo issaod aa aa eveaiag instead of a mora lag aewspapor. The Wabash aad Lafoataiaa turnpike company has nod Joha Peebles, a leading Quaker, for two coats toll that he had neglected to pay. Mr.

Wm. Hardy, of Carroll county, died at hia homo oa Friday morning. He was one of the moat prominent citizens of Car roll eousty, aada mas of largo wealth. The temperance eamp meeting which to bavo begun at Charlestowa, tc iw, has beea postponed, as tho arrangements could aot bo perfected ia tune. Gadsden sew gas producers for heating water ia ateam boilers were tried at the DePauw glaaa works, ia New Albany, oa Saturday, aad were considered a great tuccesa, Aa exploeioa la the Jadiaa Creek coal misea, at Bieknell, Knox county, Friday afternoon, resulted ia tho death of Joha a maa ia good circumstances, who leaves a large family.

Joha Colyer. a resident of Shelbyville. aged about thirty, was drowned Saturday while attempting to cross the Bias river dam. He lesvea a wife aad four childrea ia destitute eircumatanees. George Brier's remains were found under White river bridre trestle, a half mile east of Medora, Saturday afternoon.

He lived Bear allonia. it ia not known whether he fell off or wis killed by a train. More people went into Richmond yes terday oa excursion trains thaa ever before in one day. Ten thousand visitors were In town, and Glea Miller waa thronged. The saloons were ia full blast, an did tho big gest business oa record.

Work oa the C. A. railroad haa beea retarded greatly by frequent rains. Track laying at (Huntington will begin thia week. Plana for shops, depot aad hotel at that station have been prepared, the cost of which ia estimated at $300,000.

Jacob Burgamier, aged about thirty six. fell off a coal flat ia tow of tho Buckeye state, near Brooksburg, eight miles above Madison, Friday, Bight, aad was drowned. ue waa a respected citizen of Madison. and lesvea a wile and lour children. Yank High, a celebrated sportman and horse trainer, was kicked in the face by a horse he waa grazing ia the Fair grounds at Columbus, yesterday afternoon, and severely injured.

Several bones were taken out, but it ia thought be win recover. Peter Shindler, one of the pioneers of Wayne county, died at hia residence, ia Boston township, Fridsy. Ho waa engaged in the manufacture of aoao and candies in Richmond far nearly twenty five years, but removed to bis xarm about ten years aince Harvest in Wabash county was concluded Saturday. The yield will bo laree. averse ing not lest than eighteen bushels per acre, ana the quality oi the wheat is excellent.

4uv ss wmjvi vivpa is a vuiioo aaaa iuiu4 tviu. exceeding that of any teasoa for several years put. At a ball at Loorootee. Saturday night. James Seals.a Cannelburg to shoot a railroad maa and had to leave town in a hurry.

When he arrived at Cannelburg he aat down on the Ohio and Mia aissippi railroad, and wae rnn over and killed by the westbound train. A borse disease, supposed to be a aew form of distemper, haa appeared in the northern portion of Wabash couaty, and naii a aczen animaia employed in con structi re the Chicago and Atlantic rail road have died from it. It is not thought that the anection will become general. Wellington Bruner, of Wabasb. assault ed a hotel clerk named Charley Lumaree with a stone, because of an article which appeared in theWabaah Courier reflecting on mm.

pruner labored under tne impression that Lumaree had instigated the article. Lumaree'e bead waa badly cut. Jamee Curlesa. residing at Weat Liberty. eight miles north of Windfall, waa driv ing two horses to a wagon oa the road, when a plank caught and turned tn.

wagon over, throwing him; on hia head, seriously injuring him. The team ran three miles, destroying the wagon aad harJ nets. A party of fourteea geatlemen from St' Louia have been examining the quarries in the vicinity of Bedford, with tho view of. introducing and uaing tho stone generally in that city. The party waa composed of the leading architects, builders aad cob tractors of St.

Louis. They were most favorably impretsed. Tho directors of the Lawrence county fsir association have reconsidered their determination to hold no fair thia year, and have concluded to try it again. They will offer SoOO for the fastest trotter, and all the premiuma will be much larger than ever offered before. Tho fair will begin Sep tembcr 13th, and end on tho lGth.

Officer Schneider, of Evansville. in ar resting a number of drunken roughs, yes terday morning, waa compelled to uje hia revolver in self defense, and shot one of hia assailants named Ivea through the back, the ball passing through the apiue aad coming out at the right aide. Schneider waa leleased on bail. Ives will die. There waa a conference held in Pern Saturday afternoon by the national anti labor party, and considerable interest was manifested.

Dr. W. U. Brentoa was elected chairman of the central committee and A. D.

8tyles, secretary. The nationals expect to control about aix hundred votes in that county. A mass convention ia called for Au trust 1 6th. A man by the name of E. Dillon, liv ing in Hart township, Warrick County, about five miles from Boonville, has dia appeared from home, and hia creditors believe he has fled the country.

He has been a large dealer in live atock, and of late baa been on credit and borrowing money. He left on Friday aad it is believed took as much as $6,000 ia cash away with him. Althoug tho Commissioners of Tippecanoe oounty have appealed to the aupremo court the' case wherein ia involved the question whether or not tbev have the to proceed with the work of construct; ing tne court bouse by day's work, they have directed tho oounty auditor to at enca advertise for contracts for finishing the structure. Bids must bo ia by 2 clock on Tuesday, September 12. ine republicans ot loyd county met in convention on Saturday, but decided it to be inexpedient to nominate caudidatea for county officers snd adjourned aubject tne call oi the central committee.

A resolution was adopted declaring that the re publicans of Floyd county "will neither support nor veto for any candidate for the leeialatore whodoea hot pledge himself to vote for the submission of the pending con stitutional amendments to the direct vote of the people." MrsesFvwler, who hst over ten thousand seres in corn (one field of four thousand acre,) two thousand acrea in timothy, and as much more in oats and wheat, in Benton county, in addition to his pasture landa. ta? sunless there is a protracted drouth corn will be better than last year. The area sown in flsx, oats, wheat, rye, timothy ana ciover, in that county was largely in creased thia year, ana all these crops are bow made and secure. They are just splen oma never Deiier. The suit of John Studebak'er Sl of Blufltpn, against the United Statea Express company, haa juat been decided by Judge Worden, of tho atate' supremo court, in favor of the defendanta.

The suit waa to recover the aum of $5,000 oi tne expreaa company lor the non deliv ery of that amount, aent from the Firat National bank of Cincinnati, to plain tiffs. The evidence ahowed that the pack age had been tampered with after it was delivered to the. express eoransav. and before it was opened by plaintiffs, aad that paper had beea aubatituted for the bank billa. The Color of Pars Water.

A German ecientiat finds that the true color of perfectly distilled pure water is a one, aeep oiue green. Basalt Dry Ooads'Preflts. Boston's dry goods jobbers repor small rvuie uiie spring. 1 "Oft ta the Stilly Klctst. A tal le filled with reading, diawa 1 Before a fireside's cheerful llxnt Dai 'a busy bum haa sunk to rest.

The boor is ten o'clock at night. The tiresome sewlna's put away, And all the household are in dreams, Sere one, who linger o'er the page Where some rare poet's fancy gleams. i By the window pane tho cedar bongha, White tn tbetr snowy plumage glow; The moonbeams shower a mist of pearls O'er downy plumes and wreathe of snow; While from the viewless hand of KIsht Falls many a wizard charm and spell; And chlmtnc thro' her haunted halia. Whispering echoes softly swell. nt time to touch the spirit's chords With stialns the poet's Into hath bronchi! Pit time for weaving into verse Tbe mystic melodies of thought! A witching hour to rerel in Tbe romance, thrilling all tbe air Without, Night silver giory falls: Within, a atlenc.

charmed and rare A voice, like sound of fire bells. Wakes all the echoes oi the room TremoUng, the startled reader hears From some far bedroom's awful gloom Tbe summons peal, the mandate roll; "Will you idt up foretrmore7 on idt up foretrmore. nearlT moraine now: It mat be nearly morning now! Pitch out that book, and lock the door!" Ehe answers, "Is a moment, dears" Then softly to herself mutt say "I'll uste once more this nectard verse, Aad then to bed Til haate away." Thro' an enchanted realm of thought One moment mote ia Fancy led Bark I from tbe 'tomb a doleful sou ml, MPut out that light, and come to bed!" Bbe sleeps. Still, o'er a moonlit se Wlib phantom sails her fancies g'lde; fn troubled dreams wee Bobin shrinks, "Mamma, why can't I go and slide?" Again entrancing silence falLs And all have sunk to sweet repose: A war whoop yell breaks thro' the spell Ma. here's the cat! She bit my noeel" 18N).

Mary A. Leavltt. SCBAPS. "Will anybody bet on the Bey?" Anthony Trollope is doing a life of Lord Palmers ton. A New York police officer has just died worth $200,000.

About 4,000 men are engaged ia tho Sacramento river fisheries. A Bockville, firm have an order for 200,000,000 envelopes. At Coney Island three tons of lobsters are sometimea eaten in one day. i Already seven of the "most noted scout and frontiersmen in Colorado" have died thia year. The European bathing dresses without sleeves sre adopted here by ladies who swim well.

A poet looks unutterable things. So doea the man with a red hot potato in hia mouth. rNtw York Com. Adv. The Newport aldermen have backed down gracefully, and will again great licenses to aell liquor to suitable persons.

It ia said that tho rising generation of the Philadelphia Qaaker families are tho dressiest and gayest of the city's society. Even a thirteenth cousin may be of uto. From inch the present earl of Breadalbaae inherited hia title and the Sneat aeat in all A merchant at Morilla, Mexico, caught a thief in hia store and locked him ia a room with a fierce dog. The thief was mangled to death. Young men bicyclers around Boston go armed with torpedoes charged 'with csyenne pepper, for protection against barking dogs.

It is a glorioua triumph for the American navy that it haa a vessel off Alexaa dria capable of keeping out of the way of the bombardment. Chicago Timea. A monument of marble and granite is to bo erected ia memory of the lata Priaoo Imperial of Fraace, on the green facing tho Royal Military academy, Woolwich. Tho Louisville chief of police has decided that his mea caa not arrest a citizen merely for swearing at them. Loaiavillo is bound to bo tho grea summer resort, Chicago Tribune.

There ia only one butcher to every ir00 people in London. Thia gives a woman a chance to keep 1,499 people waiting twenty minutes while she buys a beef bone. uetroit reo I'ress. Mra. Anna Kinrslord, M.

aa Ea gliaa vegetarian, ia so opposed to the use of any this that caa bo had only by taking the life of aa animal, that she declines to wear ahoes made of leather. Just as a Grand Rapids widower had made ready to marry an1 awfully sweet young woman, hia soa eloped with her. The old maa aaya hia collection of snake teeth ia now complete. Courier Journal. It ia rumored that Bob Bad Charley Ford, tho slayers of Jesse James, will enter William Jewell college at Liberty, next year and take a full collegiate course.

They sre already well up in triggernometry. Courier Journal. BartholdL designer of the statue of "Lib erty Enlightening the World Replaced in New York harbor, ia a man of great wealth, arid haa given $20,000 of his own fortune to defray the expenses of con structing the huge monument. The living akeleton of a San Francisco aide show went out for a walk on a railroad track. A locomotive knocked him dowa and ran over him.

He arose aad eoatiaued hia walk. The four inches between the cow catcher and the tiea had beea sufficient for hia thinness. Friends of Yale college are endeavoring to raise $25,000 for the erection of a build ing ib whica to hold religious meetings of the college and of the branch of tho Young Men's t. nnstiaa Association which has beea established at Yale since Mr. Moody's labors in New Havea.

Daniel Webster made a profound impres sion upon Carlyie, who said of him to an American: "l'ne most remarkable man in appearance I ever saw great, shaggy, taci tura, having the gift of aileaoe yet know ing now to talk a great thing, that, to know when to hold your tongue evidently of great reserved power. I shouldn't like to fall into his claws when ho is excited." Some enemy of Bretty Harte aaya: of the moat intense and unspeakable Englishmen I have seen since I struck London is Mr. Bret Harte. His hair is white aad his face red enough to enrage tho tamest bull in the world. He wears a aectioa of a window pane in one eye.

and talks with a. la de da accent that would infinitely amuse the frienda of the Harte we uaed to know. Thia one traioa with My Lord This aad tho Earl That, aad talks big things of magazines he is going to start." A Boston paper says: It ia aot feared that the wife of ex Gov. Rice, formerly Mrr. Powell, whose mental condition haa beea the aubject of painful aolicitude for many months, will not recover her sanity.

It ia well remembered that thia lady, accompanied by her daughter, went abroad about a year ago, and that the coventor followed a few weeks later, in fulfillment of an arrangement already made, for the purpose of consummating their marriage. Almost immediately after their union in Germany strong evidence of insanity was diaoovered in tho lady, symptoms of which had long before been manifested, but unknown to Gov. Rice, and it was with great difficulty that she waa brought to her frienda in this country. For reasons which concern only the amiliea immediately interested, creditable to all parties and ia tho highest de gree honorable to uov. Rice, the knowledge ot their marriage has until recently been limited to their owa circles.

The lady's recovery now aeema so far hopeleaa that these reasons bo longer remain. Denominational Eegllab, Schools. The church of Eaglaad schools educate at the present moment 1,500.000 children, hue all the board aad deaomlaatioBal schools together have ia them 1,357,000. only about "For a number of years I suffered with rheumatism ot the back and hip," said Mr. Tnomaa Morgan, superintendent of streets, Cincinnati, Ohio.

"I was waited on by physiclana, but tho gave no pennueat relief. It was in fit of dee peration that I resolved to try SU Jacob's oil. sly rheumaiinn began to weaken at the first situ of lis gnat enemy St. Jacob's Oil and soon I was aa well aa ever." I AN EXOI tSH BAIL WAT. How Coanpaay With 130,000,000 Capl tad ta Mstunwd.

The North Britiah railway, ruaaiag principally ia Scotland, is 930 miles ia length, has a capital stock of $150,000,000, and gives emplopment to 13,800 mea. From Edinburgh, which ia tho center of the system, 140 passenger traiaa depart daily aad 130 gooderaaa mineral trail a. Tho most important diviaioa is be two a Ed i a burgh aad Lot don, distance S9 miles. Tho fastest train oa tho road, known as tho "Flying makes tho run ia aiae hoars, making but five stops. Oa thia train Pallmaa cars are hauled, aad, although much superior to their owa coaches, are sot liberally patronised.

Passengers purchase tickets before entering tho ears, aad oa leaving the train hard the ticketa to tho agent at tha atatioa where they get off. Tha conductor of a traia is called a "guardsman," but has aothing to do with collecting faxes, neither have Eaglish roads any trouble wita ticket scalpers. Most of the travel is third class, and pays two cents per mile. Parties who travel ia tho firat class cars psy five cents per mils. Tho company's psy rolls show that the engi neers or engine drivers of tho most important trains receive $L75 per day, aad freight engineers 91.50 per day.

Nona are allowed to run over five days la a week unless in aa emergency. Firemen i $4.25 per week. All are allowed extra time when aay is made, twelve hours being a day's work. Tha general manager gets $10,000 a year: secretary. auditor.

cashier, So general Ireight ageat.S3.750; di vision freight agents, atatioaed seats. $250 to $1,200 a vtar. according to tho importance of the atation. Agents have no house rent to psy, no gss billa, no coal billa or taxes; all are lcoked after by the company. More attention ia paid to keeping road beds ia good condition thaa in this country, one foreman snd two laborers being employed for each mile.

Alabama's Coal Fields. Tho coal fields of Alabama cover 10.80 square miles, aad the coal ia all bitumia one, but differs widely ia quality. The ality. The Sw. 10 rapid a best coal in the state, aad In United Statea, being fully equal cannel coal, ia the Montevallo industry in tho state' baa had ao rapid growth as tho coal Ia 1372 only 10,000 tons were mined in the state; ia 1879 the annual output had been availed to 290,000 tons; in 1880 to 340,000 tons, and in 1851 to 400,000 tons.

New Method ef Transportation. A rail for common roads haa beea in troduced in France. It ia imbedded i a concrete and ia fluab at the edges with tho roadway. From the aidea it alopee down to tho center, so as to enable the wheels of vehicles to retain their place upon it. Tho estimated coat is about two dollars a yard.

Woman'a Political Influence. I New York Herald. The prohibition amendment which Iowa put into her constitution a few days ago was framed, engineered, aad carried almost entirely by tha influence of women, and yet there are lunatica who a till contend that women can have no influence in poli tics until she votes. The Cora Crap. Last year's corn crop was about twelve hundred million bushels.

This year's corn ought to foot up fifteen hundred million bushels. a i Tbo Value of Sumaior Tourists. It is estimated that aummer touriata will leave $7,000,000 in New Hampshire thia aeaaon. Where tho West Is. Half tho butter made la Iowa is aow sold further west.

A TOl'CHIJtO SPECTACLE. What can be more distressing than to seethe frienda we lore wasting away with disease How deeply it stirs the sympathies to note the hecec flush on the hollow cheek, the dull and sunken ere. the' hacking cough, the languid step and the drooplpg spirits that betray thl pretence 01 consumption, it la a saa picture, yet how much sadder ia it to see no effort made to check the ravsgea of disease when science has provided In the Lleblg Malt Extract sueh a powerful restorative ot declining strength and waning vitality. Thia wonderful tonic, which the moat eminent physiclana of the United States and Europe have declared to bo invalua ble In cases of consumption and other diseases Character! zed by debility and impaired nutri tion, ia a pure extract of malt, pleasant to the taste, free from alcohol and agreeable to the stomach, and can' bo taken when the system reiects all tho ordinary remedies and means of nourishment. Many an invalid haa been brought back to health and strength by Its nee, and even tn the last stages of consumption it has proved xtremely beneficial.

A prominent Baptist deacon aaya: "If suf ferings from rheumatism, were awful during several years, until Hunt's Remedy cured me ue m.w.f THE LITTLE PESTS can be circumvented by supplying yourselves with Bcretn Doors, Window Screens and Wire netting, au 01 wbtca we have tn stock at greatly reduced pricea. The neatest Screen Door on the market; aim, the Challenge Refrigerator, Rapid Ice Cream Freeser, or anything you want in the way 01 aaraware or cuuery, ai ootiom pneea. HILDKBKAND FUG ATE. South Meridian st. PATENT TRAY TRUNK.

The best article for ladles And Gentlemen' ass ever made. Bee it and you will buy no other. Bold only at O. H. FOKBT3 Bee Hive Trunk 8 to re, corner Washington and sferlillan streets, and 123 Bouta UUnols st.

M. HANSON, 371 South Delaware St, MAWCVArTCSXB ABB BBALBB ZBT BOOTS and SHOES. A largo stock always on hand, and prepared to manufacture on ahort notice. epairlna neatly done. Only best material used.

BATJSTACTIOM m.w.f. HANLAH'S HOME. the champion oarsman of the world. waa born In Toronto. Canada, and won hia flist amateur race on Toronto Bay.

Afterwards be made hia name famous by his great victor at the Centennial In 187S. Since then he has de feated every osnman of prominence, not only In thia country, but from the antipodes of Austria to the shores of Great Britain, and he now patiently waits for the next man who ia to, attempt to make him lower his standard of rio tory, woicn naa oeen so long waiving triumph. Any one taxing eren a cursory glance at ana who notes his clear, bright eye, hia pure skin and well knit frame, would be convinced that punty ol blood and robust health were hia birthright, hence the bads ot his strength and endurance, rumy or piooa is anquesaonsDiy the aeat of life an id health, end to obtain it and keep it. nothing in the world can, compare to uuraocx niooa mitera. Mr.

J. Marsh. Bank of Toronto. writes: "Biliousness and dyspepsia seem to have grown Up with me: having been a suffeser for Tears. I hare tried many remedies, but with no lasting result until I used your Burdock Blood Bitters.

They bare been truly a blessing to mo, and I C. Bucket ROIT5MK. DTODrietor of fha Can. ada Presbyterian, Toronto, Ontario, writes: "For sereral years I suffered greatly from oft recurring bilious headaches. I used your Burdock Blood tu tiers wua ue nappieat reauita.

ana I now feel mnelf better in health than for rears oaeC I cheerfully recognise the sterling character of your preparation." i Bold by all druggists. (1) OTTTTiA. DRESS GOODS, Our Closing Out Sale i or Summer It now going on. Daring this Special Cheap Sale Ltdies will find in onr rock value seldom offered in this city. Dress Laims, Dress Ginghams.

A laree variety of new styles jmt opened in the above. A. DICKSON TRADE PALAOE. Fnint Tour Shinglo Roofs Wita red or chocolate slate roofing vatnt. tested fifteen years, For new roofa, use rubber roofing: cheaper than ahingiea, aad about hall tbe price ol tin.

Bend for circulars. The Indiana uomsanv In any quantity. No. 28 Kentucky avenue. O.

O. Foratnger, a practical rooter at our store, wui undertake to do the work at a reasonable price rereJrs leaxv roofs and guttata 01 au ainaa. Ueluftax Alba Creamery men Solid, Sweet and Blcn Fiavoret In tha HOTTEST WEATHER Those who desire the beat will one no other. For sale by an tne nrsv ciaaasTpoers, Tbe beat, mild, full cream CHXXSX, White Rise Brand. BBs AfiK FOB IT.

WHOLESALE DKP0T. ARTHUR JORDAN, 79 and 81 East Market Bt. THE CENTRAL TEA I an Dress Goofls Grocery Store now tn full running order. Everything to satisfy the appetite can bo found at this model house. I II II III in ROOTS CO.

A GOOD DRINK! GATES'S BLE ED Java Coffee, rAOXED xi romro iinsiAzL ASK T0UB GROCER FOB IT. ATTENTION II you sre In nsed of Bm Fixtures, Btors danta, Bracketa, Qlobes or Burnora. Plumbing at 8aa Fitting of any kind, you can eavsmonsyby Balling oa Strong 93 Hart reHBsylyania Street, Bew Donlson Hotel Block. Tslephons. HETKERinSTOn EERF.ER.

FOUHK 1 ajtd MACHINISTS. IOBITSOT17KAX, XBOBT WOBK. hast Iron Chimneys aad BVitohso, Tanks aad BoOar Work. hxatt auarzaaa a speoaitF. 19 to 2T West South St, IronWork.

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