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St. Ipoms Mtbntsoan, HJart 21, 18SS. waukee containing this: "Patent fire-escapes waited to see the whole fabric of the Repub RUN BY A RING. fell on her dress, igniting it. The lady was so badly burned that she died the next morninjr.

NEB, ALT, ErTJEGGEMAX, EOSE, DOSK, Dieckman, Bkockmeiek, Schubebt, Bqttcheix, Kaiser, Gaktexbach and Schaefeb. When the "bould McEx-tibes" get together to-morrow they will probably give us a ticket carefully apportioned as to the districts of Leinster, Munster, Ulster and Connaught in the appanage of Ireland, and then well, we presume it will be in order for the Scandinavians to meet and hoist an independent ticket. FT JOSEPH PTTLITZETV. lEntcndM the Pot-Ofllc at St. Loau.

Mow aa recoiid-class mail matter. TEKMS OF TIIK DAILY. Cue year, postage paid 00 flxmonths Three months. One month (delivered by carrier) kj the week (deUvered by carrier) XII WEEKLY. One year, postage paid tlx months, postage paid All business or news letters or telegrams should be addressed: POST-DISPATCH.

815 and 517 Market Street. provide means of exit from every floor in case of emergency. The hotel employes are Kept in con stant training as a nie department ana every ntjur is supplied with water and hose." Want Rest. From the Chicago Times. The British Lion is willing to accept an engage ment with any reputable American circus.

Salary not so much an otnect as congenial employment. A manager who can offer this amiable and interesting animal the advantages of a quiet and unmolested cage may secure his services on applying at his residence in London, either in person or by letter. Most Probably. From the Boston Post. Colonel Tngersoll says: "If the Mississtrmi and its tributaries were filled with pure whisky if the banks were loaf sugar, and all the low lands covered with mint, there would be no more drunkenness than there is to-day." Perhaps not; but mere ue a naues oi an emigration to the est! A Poor Showman.

Erom the Rochester Post-Express. Mr. Wm. M. Salter will soon lecture in Pliipacn taking for his subject The True, the Beautiful the Good." Unless lie has a pack of trained dogs and some kind of a Japanese juggiing act in connection with hi Ifief won'L uulifTir- enough to pay for gas.

Easter Economy. From the News. My dear." said a Philadercbia husband the other morning, -we must reduce expenses. Instead of buying a new Easter bonnet, see if you fix over tiie old one; and, by the way, don iorgei 10 nave ueorge lane tne uemijohu around to be filled. It is about empty." Bankers Hate Silver.

From the Louisville Courier -Journal. A bank official can easily carrv awav a million dollars in paper without crowding his satchel; but when he seeks to clone with a thousand ftllver dollars, some one discovers his dray aud hands him over to a aetective. MAGOOCIX AND THE MAYOR. The Talking Policeman Has Been to Indi ana to Fix t'p the Mate. he top the mornin' to ye, Fopi," said Officer Magoogin as he came smiling up to the banana stand and immediately engaged ia a coilar-and- elbow wrestle with a good-sized peanut.

Ye're lukin' well, me bouchal, an', be heavens, I'm glad to foind ye so. To save ye the throuwe av axin' me the kustion, I'll teil ye now in advance, Fopi, that I've bin away wud the Mare to bis farm in Injeanny, where we wint to escape the attintions av the office-saikers bad luck to thim for a blackguard crowd that they are, an' they're nothin' else. v'ry murtherin' Republi-kin in the city is ruunin' afther His 'Anner fur a job, an', be the coat tails av the lasht King av Connaugnt, aff there was tin toimes as many places to be gev away, the divil a wan would the Mare have left afther he had raiched the man at the ind av the loine." Fopiano made some remark about Magoogin having promised to secure him the monopoly of the fruit trade in the neighborhood of the Post-office when the Mayor returned. "Arrah, dou't worry anny more about that, Fopi," said the officer. "I fixed that wud the Mare fwhin I was in Injeanny, an' be the same token I'll have ye put me up a noice bag av popcorn an' paynits that I'll take to His 'Anner to sind to his gerl for an Aisther egg, an' that'll warm his h'art to ye, d'ye see? Fhwat tuk tne over to Injeanny? pian i leu ye.

ye mouanaoowi, mat tne Mare did. 'Magoopin' sez his 'Anner. fwhin he had sint tur me; 'I did't loike to excoite auny suspi cions be takur a man av your lunooeuce away from the city, an' I might have got along well enough wud sargint Magrew, hut he has too thiet a brogue, an' is uot only a Con-naught m.in. but a Galway slugger at that, an' aff the native Americans saw mehuvin' aniiything to say to nun tne nue an- cry 'ouia ne raisea inni i waz in the nanus av the l.hmmycrats, an' linn there'd be the ould to pay in rale airnist; but you bein' longer in this couiithry an' harm' more av the refoinemint an' polish that Is requisoite to make an Irishman pass fur a RepubiHtin In day-loight, I thought I'd lave the Sargint at home an' have you wud me. An' that, Fopi, is how kem to go to the State av Injeanny.

Fwhat did I do there? Well now. Fopi, aff ye'U ax me no qustions I'll tea ye no lies, but pro- vidin' ve wants to know very bad I'll pwhisper ye that aff the Mare follies mv advoice niver lave the Foorth nur Twelfth Ward at all, at ail, in distribulin' his app'intinents. I've given him a lisiit av desarvin' au' honest citizens that kem over fruru the Imerald Orie in the days av sailin' vessels, an' that are now aither Justices of the Paice ur office-bowlders ur polaicemin, an' bev won glory an' distinction in uv'ry walk uv loife mat there was nttie wurn an' Dig pay in. i am proua to say that Mare tawing an' me iriena Jverwin are loiKe tne iairies, gua to to the Irish, an' it woultlu serproise me a bit, Fooi.to foind His 'Anner make a claue swape av the Dutch an' fillin' lus slilate wid the names av ivery mother's son av a Dimniy- crat in Kerry fatcu irom snaiuy tsrien up to Jack Sheehan. the King himself.

There, now, Foui. I'll Eive this bac av corn to the ire this aftliernuue, an' take my word for it, by this toinie next wake, I'll have thim other Ightuiiaus thrun away from the Fosht-ofhs. an', be heavens, ye'll oe uavin' May aay uown mere aoiu- an ine paynui an' banany biziiess be yerself herealther. Over the riservoir." BARCLAY'S BATCH. I.ecal Problems Sol-red ly tho Coart To- Day nauiaKs lor Arrei.

Judge Barclay to-day rendered several decis ions in matters taken under advisement. lie overrules the motion for judgment in the Gai-neau case against James J. Harmon. Judgment was asked on the ground that the answer stated no defense. Judge Barclay says: "Such a mo tion cannot be sustained unless it is directed at a pleading which is so defective as to be frivolous or obviously interposed for mere delay; that it does not stale a cause of action or defense is not enounh to warrant immediate judgment thereon.

Insufficiency should be met by demurrer or nun son to strike out." This was a suit to recover $5.19 belouciiisr to Mrs. Garneau. The case referred to an agreement for the establishment of the Har. mon-Garneau cracKer lattery. The court sustained the motion to vacate award in me suit of Gruel against the Protectorate.

The affidavits show that there was no consultation of all the arbitrators together before the award was decided upon. The law expressly requires that there shall be a meeting ot the arbitrators alter the conclusion of the hearing iu cases ot that kind. The motion for new trial in the case of Corpman agaiust the St. Louis Coffin Company will sustained unless the plaintiff remiu a iuui reducing the verdict to $783. T11K LAW 0f ARRESTS.

The motion lor a new trial is overruled in the case of Husbands agaiust Henderson. This was a damage suit in which a verdict ol $o00 was ren dered 111 favor of the plaintiff, the lather of a young girl in the family of Fx-Jddge Henderson, of the County Probate Court. One day during the temporary absence of the Henderson family from home Mr. Husbands and his sister visited the do mestic, his daughter. hen Judge Henderson re lumed home his gold watch was missing and sus picion teh pou the girls visitors.

11 resulted 111 the arrest of her father and aunt, but it was subsequently discovered that Judge Henderson's sou had placed the watch in a saie- ty-drawer. The officers testimony for Judge Henderson iu the damage suit brought bv tue girl's father showed tiiat they had reasonable ground, for suspicion, based ou the farts pr- senteu 10 mem, out juugc nenuerson owu evidence disclosed that no felony had been com muted. This cut off his own defense, except as to thr theory that he had no 01 her connection with the arrcut than to make the statement of facts to the officers, ex press his suspicious and leave them Ire 10 art 011 their own responsibility. This raised the real is sue of the fact in the case. The officer's own evidence that their official entry at the station had been inane: -Held lor the Cap tain" tended to aid the plaintiff case.

When the arrest without warrant wm shown a prima facie case was made out aud the burden shitted to defendant to iustifv ills action, lliat the i.ei sons making the arrest were officers I of itself no justification for the delendant. While an officer may arrest for felony without warrant where uon "ha been committed, if lie has reasonable ground tor his action, a private citien can only so arrest ou suspicion when a felony has been committed. He niay arrest without warrant on the spot. personally or by cailtng an ofllcer. but he can only justify for arrest on suspicion by showing that a felony had actually ix-cn committed aud that he had probable cause for the arrest.

Several authorities are quoted supporting the verdieu MR. W. SrEIGERS, Of the Poht-Dis patch, will eaM upon ties who Irish rate lor aUvertislns ia paper. partus lic fall in ruins. As this result refused to materialize, and as his' pants were thin, he got down and went into the business of making steel by wind; then he got a job as roving inspector of navy yards and a few weeks ago he read John Kxapp's explanation in the Bepublican of the wrong done him by a misplaced comma.

Mullett rushed to look at his letter of dismissal as he suspected there was a misplaced comma. He takes the ground that he was not legally dismissed, but that he is, de jure, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, and as such entitled to all the pay which has accrued since his dismissal, seven years ago. We hope he will get it Our sympathies are with every man who is a victim of a misplaced comma. The six Republican nominees for Council are fair, average men. but they have no strong claim upon the public.

Mr. Jos. Stebx has served long and honorably in the Lower House. He is a capable man, and in looking after the city's business he is both zealous and watchful. Mr.

J. K. Cummixgs is a prominent manufacturer. He belongs to Citizen Fixk's committee. The other nom inees, Huse, Hill, Nolte and Coxbades, have nothing in particular to commend them.

Coxbades is a melancholy survivor of the old County Court ring. It is understood that the ticket is' a Silk-Stocking production, and that it is not likely to receive an enthusiastic support from the Fillet wing of the party. In fact, the chief strength of the ticket will lie in the weakness of the ticket which the Democrats are expected to nominate 'tomorrow. It would be very funny if the Democrats should astonish the entire human family by putting up an exceptionally good ticket. As the President of the Chicago Board of Trade, in introducing Gen.

Diaz, made the same speech that was made by President Ewald, of our Merchants' Exchange, in introducing Mm here, it is fair to infer that others will follow the same good example, and that everybody who has to make a speech of introduction ha cut out Ewald's speech and pasted it in his hat. It is a mighty good speech, but after Diaz has heard it eight or nine times he will begin to wonder if we are a nation with fifty millions of citizens and only one speech. If the Democrats want to weaken their ticket to-morrow let them nominate Mr. James T. Roach for Council.

Mr. Roach may be a very nice gentleman, but as the Su perintendent ot a street railway he has no business in the Municipal Assembly. The street railways have too many favors to ask aoout tms time to enaoie one ot their employes to pursue an unprejudiced and straight forward course as a member of the Council. The Post-Dispatch will support no street railway representatives for Council, Ix the House of Delegates last night a substitute was adopted for the water meter ordinance which destroys the effectiveness of the measure as originally drawn, and leaves nothing in its place. It is in effect a pro posed reenactment of an old ordinance on the same subject.

Metrs are to be placed in au tne puonc institutions, but as no pro vision is made for determining the amount of water to which each is entitled before th6 waste begins, we do not see that this proviso will amount to anything. It has long been a marvel in art how Tub- xeb produced his Turneresque effects, but in a notice of one of his palettes recently given to the national gallery in London, the New York Times says "It is not unlikely that some of the pictures with which the palette will be exhibited were painted with this identical This disposes of the theory that Tubxeb may have laid on his colors with the leg of his easel, or with his mahlstick or other eccentric substitutes for the brush. THE SEW YORK PRESS. What the Journals of the Metropolis a a 1 Editorially To-Iay. By Telegraph to the Post-DisDatoh.

New York, March 21. The Herald, speaking of the Socialist demonstration in Cooper Un Institute, says: "There seems to be but one pur pose in the life of the professed Socialist; viz to get his fingers on money which- belongs to somebody else. He floods the community with his prejudices or his ignorance, and calls it logic. He is the advocate of theories which vanish Into thin air the moment you apply the smallest grain of common sense to them. So tar as tins country is concerned wan its tnousaud ana one opportu nities of advancement within easy reach, Social ism is tne apouieosis oi luioey.

THE tribtxnk. The Tribune says: "A sincere desire for har mony and cash explains the threatening invasion of this country by the Irish leaders. Mr. Egan should not be over-sanguine touching the support ne wouiu get here lor a Ttivsicai movement against England. He is reckoning without his host the United States Government." THE TIMES.

The Times says of Rhode Island politics "Spraaue's nomination is the apotheosis of the ephemeral popularity which he enjoyed more than twenty years ago. The Rhode Island Democrats are in such desperate case that they hone to win in lt3 with the battered wreck of the gallant cuevaiier oi isai." PERSONAL FOISTS. Mr. Gladstone is said to be willing to become a Lord, with the title of Liverpool. Vanderbilt's grandson, now three months old, has been presented with forty-two silver mugs.

The Chinese at Shanghai have contributed $300 toward the Garfield memorial hospital fund. Mrs. Alexander Carlyle has bought the birth- place of her uncle, Tbouias Carlyle, at Ecclefe- chan. Mr. Carlisle's friends now claim that he has all the Southern State delegations pledged for him for Speaker except one.

M. Vignaux. the obese French billiard Cham pton, has not created the sensation which both he and his managers anticipated. Mrs. Ella K.

Trader, who spent $100,000 of her own money in aiding wounded soldiers during the war, now lives in poverty at Abbeville, X. Friday evening, while Mrs. Ana Roland, of Bridgeport, was kneeling in prayer, a spark Ex-Treasurer Spinner, who went to Florida to find the fountain of perpetual youth, seems to have been successful in his quest. He is now eighty-one and about as tough and spry as ever. The mistress of the deceased Prince Gortscha- koff had a written promise of marriage from him.

Unfortunately, the Prince died at the early age of pi, and was therefore unable to fulfill the engagement. The trip to the Yosemite which Gen. Simon Cameron had arranged to make with Mr. Charles A. Dana has been postponed on account of the injury Mr.

Cameron received recently by a fail in his own house. Hickory' Jackson's home, "The Hermit age," is reported by a committee oi me Tennessee Legislature to be fast going to decay. The house is the home of Mrs. Jackson, the widow of the General's adopted son. Patrick Egan.

the treasurer of the Land League, is a man of small stature, well built and quite muscular. He has blue eyes, a sandy mustache and chin whiskers, with a scattering of beard on his cheeks. The Key. Dr. S.

F. Smitn, who wrote "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," has returned to Chicago from a long tour through Europe, the East Indies and Burmah. He wrote the hymn while he was at Harvard College, fifty years ago. Gotham's millionaire widows at present are Mrs. Paran Stevens, Mrs.

Marshall O. Roberts, Mrs. Griswola Gray, Mrs. Albert Gallatin, Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt, Mrs.

Alexander T. Stewart, Mrs. E. T. Morgan, Mrs.

William E. Dodge, Mrs. Thomas Hicks-Lord and Mrs. Cutting. We are not informed how many of them are verging upon that giddy s.eco nd girlhood which has swept the Baroness Burdett-Coutts and many other aged spinsters and dames into the vortex of mat rimony.

Answers to Correspondents. Two Headers Edwin Forrest died December 12, 1S72. 2. Lotta never played "Heart's Ease" in St. Louis within our memory.

Modoc A boy fourteen years old who is five feet two Inches high is a stunner for his age. He should be in a dime museum. Hkset Wood The proper thing for pall bearers at a funeral, when riding, is to go in front of tile hearse. This Is the St. Louis etiquette, at least.

Theater-Goer It Is given out now that both the Ford and Hess comic opera companies will play at the Pickwick and TJhrig's Cave Gardens during the coming summer. Dos Jovexes The phrase "almost Infallibly" is not good English. It is as bad as "seldom if ever." A thing which is almost infallible' has none of the elements of infallibility about it- WAger Abet made on the last election "or Congressman In the old Third District, with the proviso that "the money ia to be paid after the decision of the courts," Is won by the man betting on Sessinghaus, for the only court competent to decide (the House of Representatives) has declared that Sessinghaus was elected. OCR MAIL POUCH. A Card From Senator Heard.

Jeffersox Citv. March 20, 1SS3. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch in your issue oi yesteraay you state that, as a member of the Legislature, in 1 voted for the bill authorizing the creation of the Crafton Commission to audit the war deot of the State. In this you are egregiously mistaken opposed said legislation from it sincep- tton, and at one stage of the consideration of said Diil I triea to susbstitute the woras "certificates of adjustment" for the words "certificates of lnaeoteauess." wnere tney occurred therein; and finally, I assisted Hon. A.

H. Edwards, then Representative (and now Senator from SU Charles county, and Hon. Is. H. Bell, member rom St.

Louis, in preparing an amend ment whicn was offered by Mr. Bell and adopted by the House, saved the State from liability for the fraudulent claims allowed by Crafton. Said amendment reads as follows: "Nothtuz in this act shall hold the State of Missouri responsible for the payment oi uie ceriiucaies oi liiueuieuness issuea unuer the provisions of this act: Provided, the Govern ment of the united States does not allow and pay to the Statu of Missouri the claims auowea under tms act." onnosea said bill be cause I had no confidence in the inteirritv of urafton. who. under that act.

had ex. elusive power to consider and audit claims for military services, and the result of his actions proved the justice of my suspicions. My i resent recollection is that I was temporarily ueiii ironi my seat wnen me voie was laKen on saiaoiu: out my opposition to it was oneu and avowtd, aud fully understood by my associates. xrusi you win give place to this denial of a statement wmcu you must have madi by mistake. Respectfully yours.

J. T. iltED. Irish Land Laws. St.

Loos, March 19, issx To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: For the benefit of vour mnnv renders win vnn please explain what Kuglisu laws, applied to Ire land, seem so objectionable to many oi the laiter people? Are not similar laws regarding the occu pancy or tne sou appnea aliKe to both countries and have we not the very same laws our own free land? If you cannot satisfactorily answer the above, please publish it that we mav near from Rev. Dr. Betts, Dr. O'Reilly or some other noted Laud Leaguer. James In the first place, all the laud titles in Ireland originated In robbery, and the country is held as a conquered province.

There is very little differ ence in the tenant laws of England and Ireland, but there is a vast difference in the administration of the systems. Au English landlord living among his tenantry at home, and an English land. lord who never saw his tenants in Ireland and who squeezes the last farthing out of them through a conscienceless agent, are two very dif ferent institutions. Perhaps Dr. Betts or Dr.

O'Reilly can enlighten you further. Ed. The Washington Park Heirs, St. Louis, March 20, 1883. To the Editor of the Post-Disoatch: The Globe-Democrat of Saturday last made statement to the effect that the heirs to the Wash ington Square property numbered thirty or forty.

I thereupon informed the editor that this asser tion was untrue, since the only heirs are the three children of the late Thomas F. Smith: L. Chou teau Smith, now of Denver; Thomas F. Smith, Pewee Valley, Oldham county, Ky and Mrs. S.

Larned, widow of the late Col. C. T. Larned and now a resident of this city. 1 ins correction he has seen lit to ignore, lour issue of last even mg was strangely guilty of a like misstatement.

You would comer a favor upon the interested par ties by rectifying what appears to be a very singu lar U1USIOU. t.VPU3ITlO A Ticket Suggested. St. Louis, March 21, 1883. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: Having noticed the nomination of the Republi can ticket for the City Council, I think it a timely suggestion for the success of the Democratic ticket one that would "carry the day," as it wer and herewith beg to mention the follow in names: R- M.

Parks. Wm. H. Stone, P. G.

Ger hart. J. B. C. Lucas.

Samuel Clubb and Cant. D. F. Slattery. If the above-named gentlemen are nominated, ana should accept tne nomination their election is almost a certainty.

Old Citizen. A Small Correction. St. Louis, March 20, 1883. To tne Editor of the Post-Dispatch: Please to correct the statement in yesterday Issue concerning the increase in the minister salary of Lafayette Park Presbyterian Church.

The members of said church who pay the salary are the only persons competent to make a change In It, and up to this date the matter has not been presented to them. Ikl ih A Hollow Mockery. Front the Boston Herald. A 'Western trade newspaper Is still publishing an advertisement of the ewhail House at ilil- Khode Island Politicians in a Bad Way. The Secret of Spraue's Nomination--Mud Slinging to Prevail in the CampaignMoney to be Used by the Barrel.

By Telegraph to the rost-Dlsnatco. Providence, R. March 21. The excitement over the coming gubernatorial election was great, ly intensified by the action ot the Democrats ia the State Convention. The greatest recent political campaigns were tame affairs compared tj this.

During the past five years much dissaiisfao. tion has been expressed with the dog In the manger policy of the ring governing the State. The rinj is to a few narrow-minded, arrogant headed by Senator Anthony and backed by his newspaper. This ring has dictated evi a the management of elections In small towns, always with tho view of electing men who could le used in the futura In support of its schemes. Owing to tlm limited franchise in the Slate the ring has had little ilitll-cuity in running things much as it pleased.

Men who dared to espouse equal rights have been mere), lessly abused. Of late the young Irish Americans have become awakened. 'Die Democrats hav taken a new lease of life, ana Kepnl'lteaiis, tu cl of bossisin, have signified their wiliinness to a new deal. 1 lie only way to get one was to wnr for the destruction of the riiis, regenerate tti General Assembly, and remove from tne the statute nullities the Constiiuiimi the Uuitfd States iu restricting the ight of ui. frage.

'William Sprague, the War Governor of Raode Island, had long been ground down hy in He has been pushed to the, wail ith biica severity and heartlessness that PfBI.IC SYMPATHY WAS AR(H'SEI) in bis interest. The people who were eatlii about for a candidate around whom tiny could rally, Irrespective of their politic tl pioi l.u-ties, selected ex-Gov. Sprague as their stami.i i. bearer. The Republicans held their Stale on the 15th ot the uiotitb ami nrm-il a bargain made a year ago.

This trade was in eoderation of allowing the rin t' elect a favorite candidate to an office, Bristol county have the choice oi Governor mis year, so th it fur months people liAve been referring to Aug'iislui O. Bourn, of Hristol, as Khode Island's not Gov. eruor. Mr. Bourn received the niMittnatiou.as been pre-arranged by the the convi -m adjoin ued, leaving the Jtcpu'lMican elector wuh liobson's choice only.

On Friday the Democrat held their caucuses and astonished everybody I'V the unusually large attendance, especially of young voters. Sprague delegates were chosen ant the Democrats went into convention aud nomi nated Sprague, only seven delegates opposmc. The reinvention was a great success. ot was Sprague nominated out, A TIOKKT WAS SKT I which, for strength, is without a parallel durln the past twenty-live years, for Lieutenant-Governor Clms. 11.

George, ol Provideuce, wasrcnoiu. luatea. lie is a numware mercnaut ot spoue-i reputation, commercially as welt as social. and is highly esteemed in the city and the, nr. ren it.

Perce, a Providence lawyer of umpiestiuii-able character, was nominated for Secretary of State. Willard Sayles was nominated for AUor-ney-Grneral. Mr. S.iyles resigned me ofiu-e 4 year ago on account of ill healtu. Jas.

B. of Xew poit, was nominated lor General Treasurer, lie is extremely popular as au A.ldei inan.aui no political rambinalioiis have succeeded iu defeating him in hi own ward. The- greatest I rouble the Independents are likely to experience la electing Snrague will be the lack of registered voters. IlaU the boom been started in Deccmoer, in lime to have allowed a lull icisiial the ring couid have beeu bwe)if from tne board. To meet ti.

desertion from their own lines, the ring manager! propose to buy men from the opposition rauks, so that the very thing they have beeu decry iug they are themselves about to resort to. All along theis has been a great deal said against the. lorint-r Sprague campaign and the money expenued purchasing bis election. To-iay the ring nets ai out, draggiug for campaign lunds. An appeal is to he made to the manufacturers lor coulriLiu-Hons.

A hint baa, been dropped mat A CUKt'K FKOM THE tMllX COMPANY, alias the Post Office syndicate, would come amiss. The byudlcate is part aud parcel ol th ring and has lxiuHht In all the v.ilu.tlile portions oi the Sprague tiust estate for uexl to hoili-iug. Mr. Zachariah CuaOee. who has ui a wealtuv out ot the management of the Sjira trust estate, is to be invited to couirioiito 10 tim fund lor Win.

tpraguc's deleat. There are foul towns iu the State where the inoiny is to be used: Johnston, Fast Green vv.c.., South Kingston aud Warwick, ll is iu those places mat the young men have reeistcn-J up well lor tne purpose ot shelving some ui inu tyrannical ring managers, especially 111 Johnston, where a paiticulai Iv big battel ot money will be unloaded. Hundreds 01 men are goiim to vole for Sprajiue for two especial reasons. One is neeuus the ring convention openly and liaoie i Gov. Sprague.

The oliier Is because the Join needlessly copied a scurrilous article seriously its ttecttug upon the reputation ol Gov. spi-aau-'i bride and gave the articic undue prominence. is asserted that a letter is now he.d 111 atwyatKO 111 mis city hich will be published if occasion 0i mauds it, aud hlch will lui tner ATTACK GOV. SI'KJia HOl SEIIOI.n. In short, the campaign will be aecoiiipau.ed wits -10 end 01 muorsiiiigiug aim unuciy.

tveij-thing depends upon the extent the deicv lions in the liepuoiican ranks anil upon ihe nur her ot voters who prove ante to withstand the uv ffueuce of money on election day." TWO tLOPEMEMi. A Married tVoman and a Girl liau Awy illi Lover. By Telegraph to the Pout-DUoatch. Sew York, March 21. The usually quirt vil lage of Gleuwood, L.

Is in a Stale of mcnt which the local gossips are making tin most of. Two elopements have been added to the social history of the village. On Monday Mr. Jas. Batterson, who is a prosperous uyiiiT planter, came home for dinner at the usual hour.

To his surprise he found the house locked aul asserted. An examination of the place showed ilut his wife had taken away a cousiderabl sum 0 money and other valuables, and even lit clothing. His astonishment was so great Ja.it at once made, haste to learn the cause of this rtitii.ii nf and he learned that Mr. tit sou and one Win. Clark, accompany 1J the woman's child, had e.ui Tnunderstruck, the indignant husband iiurrn-tt i the railway station, where lie was i1 the runawayparliesi had taken a train for ii'iui-er's Point.

They had driven to the buggy which was hired lor the occasion. Mr K.ittersoii returneti home he loiiud a let from his wile, in wturli she confessed th.it had gone away with dark, her lover. He i years of age. Mis. Katteisouhas always highly resjiccted by the people of at the step she ha taken ha given llif'm from which they have not yet lecovered.

"vvi. ni ,1.0 nil ilht a the last i- would Hunk would leav her husb.u Still BIK AWAT WITH ASOTHEB IX, but she's doue it. I P'iy "oin the torn of my heart." Sue wa one of prominent memliert of the Methodist Umr They came here to live about U.r vears ago. Mr. Batterson is 2 year of and is a blonde, very attractive, and has lieen in circle ever since t.er iesii 1 iu Gleuwood.

ClarK wa a mutual Inetid ot faintly aud ha been a boarder iii the lion'- the lat three month. It was believed mat 1 and the faithless wife had stalled for Noi The other elopement Involves Charles pn: -of Seat'iiil. a youth of eighteen year, and Smith, of Gleuwood. of biuslrtng tiixtaen, a tne of 1 apt. Char leu P.

Miiith, formerly ol tho Hi bleainooal Seawanhaaa. -How did mey manage it?" asked the rrpcrt" of several villager who stood in front of a diiiciissiug the novel Httuailou of affairs. "Well, jou see," said one of the uumtwr; I -hired a carriage and drove twenty mile b'l" they found a luinister to spin tiieui. At they caught 011 "to Key. Ctias.

Clark, pastor Kpiscopal church there, and he txed tiiei" mighty quick." il was lurinrr ascertained mat. ii brldn. He vow he will hav Uer at nil haaiJ nd habeas eorru proceeding ar likeit cur. Much Indignation felt ry the against P.cv. r.

CUrk for performing the nago ceremony. rthmtni Mtork. St. Paci March 2L Advicea from van P01D19 III 1 CliW 1 past winter ban been favorable for stock niea. ine os irwn esjtosun' i mated to uot eatocu fit per cent for eat A.

CIAahVl the vouiig Benedick drove to the reti of the btide pareni. wliere tho youthful was welcomed. KuiftUu. however, a r. th umi not since s'u Ox Friday next the Post-Dispatch will print reports from Missouri, Illinois, and Nebraska relative to the condition of the winter wheat in the great wheat-producing region.

We have received postal card reports from more than two hundred trustworthy correspondents in the States named. This publication will be of great interest to both farmers and grain dealers. Agents should increase their orders for the paper of the 23d. RAILROAD) LEGISLATION. Senator HorcK, of Cape Girardeau county, is not so bitterly opposed to railroads as not to understand that almost any kind of a railroad is better than none at all.

He thinks that the bill reducing the maximum rate of fare to three cents a mile for passengers will have the effect of preventing the building of railroads in that vast area of our southern and southeastern counties which lie undeveloped, and he argues very correctly that capital is not likely to undertake to cut ew roads through the rocks and over the steep grades and through the woods of thtjse counties for the chance of collecting three cents a mile from the stray passengers along the line. There is a great deal of hard sense in Senator Hottck's remarks. A great part of the State of Missouri remains undeveloped and valueless because it has no railroad communications. We cannot wait until our outlying counties are filled up before building railroads through them. Missouri must compete with the other Western States in which railroads are built through the fertile wilderness in the sublime faith that, popula tion will follow.

But railroads will not be built if the legal limitations for freight and passengers are such as to make it certain that the railroad investment will not pay. me state oi -Missouri certainly nas no desire either to prevent railroad building or to confiscate railroad property. On the contrary, its aim should be to encourage such railroad building as will develop the whole area of the State and to give a railroad property that stability which will make it a valuable contributor to the State revenues. No fault has been found with the existing regulations, and no com plaint has been made that they do not sufficiently protect the public, yet the present session has seen half a dozen laws introduced, each of which, if passed, would bring on the consequences ascribed by Senator IIottck to the three-cent bill. Perhaps the best the Legislature can do is to let well enough alone, and pay attention to the proper enforcement of the existing laws.

A SICK STOCK MARKET. There is woe in Wall street. Broad street has contracted its smiling countenance into an expression of sour disgust, aud around the Rialto the gentlemen who have long been giving the public pointers in stocks with lavish generosity are left with a large line of pointers on hand which not even the country cousin will accept as a gift. The stock market is very sick. In spite of tne large ana vanea assortment of new stocks that have been added to the list, the public show a criminal disregard of the at- tractions of the list.

They refuse to buy at the very lowest prices, lest, perchance, the stock still drop lower, and they refuse to sell at the very top of the market, as their experience has taught them that stocks have a tendency to go higher when many people sell them short. So the brokers buy and sell stocks with each other, and bewail their stupidity for not having shorn the public closer when they had a chance. Day after day the market slips and fails, rallying occasionally, but always gaining less than it loses, until finally the croakers assure that we are going to have a panic, like even unto.that of '73. This, however, is not likely to happen. We have built more railroads than we need, and have unquestionably loaded them with more certificates and bonds than they are worth, and the very unwise owners of these certificates have divided up dividends that have not been earned but if the crops are good we shall have no panic tni3 year, and if they are not good we shall have a great many railroads put in the hands of receivers, but no '73 panic Then all values were on a false and fictitious basis the standard of value itself was uncertain and fluctuating, aud all values had to be readjusted, the operation lasting until 187S.

But now our banks are safe, our currency is sound, mercantile credit is what it pretends to be, and we can afford to see a few big railroad corporations go into bankruptcy without experiencing any of the sensations of a panic. Weary of waiting on the tardy action of our unjust Congress, our old- friend Mcllett has gone before the Court of Claims with his modest little demand for compensation in the sum of $23,000 for work which he did not do, but which he was quite wlllina to do when an ungrateful Administration bounced him from his position ol Supervising Architect of the Treasury. The story of Mcllett is sad In the extreme. After the first shock of his removal he sat on the fence of the Treasury building and just STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. and each ot us, the undersigned do solemnly wear that the following Is a true and correct statement of the actual regular and bona fide editions of the Daily St.

Ixmis Post-DispaTCH for the days enumerated in the following table: February IS February Ternary 15. February February 17 February 18 February IS February 20 February 21 February 22 February 2:1 February 24 February February February 27 24.400 23.WW 24,020 25. 24 .410 24 24.670 24 XH 2S.8S0 24.X.:i0 February 28. Maroh 1 25.060 March 2 March 3 zoaw March 4.. Sunrtav.

March March 6 March 7 March 8 March 9 March 10.... March 11 March 12.... March 25.1KH) 2o. 1U0 25,550 25.870 27 020 Sunday. 25.820 25ji20 Total 630,65 Average 25.226 JOHX M.

McGUFFIX, Business Manager. I. G.KAPPXEB. Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of WWitn'ets mv'hlmd and the seal of the Circuit Court Citv of St.

Louis. -CHAg- F. tL. S. Clerk Circuit Court City of St.

Louis, Mo. WEDNESDAY. MARC II 21. 1883. If the Democrats manifest a little wisdom and put forward six good names for Council to-morrow they can sweep the city.

If the usual stupidity prevails the usual accident will occur at the polls. Ix Chicago, yesterday, there was a fine parade of militia for the benefit of Gen. Diaz. The Chicago military turn out on slight provocation. They recently went down to the depot and received Chas.

Wyxdham, the actor. Maj. B.ill IIaixes. of the Lindell Hotel, would make a stronz Democratic nominee for Council. He is popular with all classes, especially with the river men.

The very alli gators from below would come up and vote for him if it wasn't for the inhospitable na ture of our climate. Bliss and Merrick, the Star Route prose cutors, like little Miss Flite, "expect to get a judgment at the day of judgment." Until then they expect to get $150 a day. There is a danger that the jury may get confused as to the Identity of the thieves. There isn't a better man in the city than Joseph Temple, of the Pacific Express Company. He is a practical, honest, thoroughgoing business man.

We are pleased to hear that he is spoken of as a Democratic candidate for Council. We hope that he will be nominated. We did Senator Heabd an injustice in stating that, while a member of the Legislature In 1874, he supported the bill authorizing the celebrated "Crafton Commission." We have a card from the Senator to-day in which he explains his position touching that ancient and fish-like measure. Mb. Samuel C.

Cltjbb is somewhat spoken of as a Democratic candidate for Council. Mr. C. is a substantial, clever gentleman, but they do say that he has large interests in the St. Louis GasLight Company which might prejudice him as a municipal legislator.

No Gas Company men are needed in Council. Among the gentlemen named suitable candidates for the Council on the Democratic ticket are Wm. R. Doxaldsox, Aug. W.

Stbaub, Joseph Temple, Pat O'Mallet, Chables Hoyle, Dr. Jos. Leslie, Maj. Wm. Haixes and Ed.

Devot. The convention to-morrow could make up a good ticket from this list if It felt so disposed. The Senate at Jefferson City yesterday showed itself to be as partisan a body as the House, by the passage oi the registration law givmg the Recorder of Voters an authority over elections not possessed by any other official in our whole political system. It was about as dirty a piece of political work as has been put through the Senate in many a day. St.

Louis importers and shippers should bear in mind the fact that we now have a direct steamship line between New Orleans and Liverpool, established for our special benefit. It remains for us to say whether the line shall be made a permanency. There is a direct saving in shipping by this line. Information will be furnished by the Freight Bureau. If it should turn out that Lady Flobexce Dixie bad been attacked only by herself and that the wounds in her corset were self-inflicted, it would be the duty of the Queen countermand the order she gave for the portrait of the faithful St.

Bernard Who confirmed his mistress' story by appearing on the scene with a patch from a pair of Fenian trousers in his teeth. Br way of proving their superiority over common folks, the Silk-Stocking yesterday nominated only two rum-sellers -out of six candidates to sit in the Upper House of the Municipal Assembly. As the new high license law is to come knocking at the door of the Municipal Assembly, the selection of two such impartial arbiters for such a question was very genteel and high-toned. The Silk-Stock in gs ought to have their photographs taken. Or the twenty-four candidates for the House of Delegates placed in nomination by the Republicans yesterday, nineteen are Germans.

Their names are Schwackeb, Haas, IIabtmax, Ameluxg, Schoex- BKECK, GCXDLACH, LOFFHAGEX, WaG-.