Daily Arkansas Gazette from Little Rock, Arkansas • Page 4

A tho man who sits daily on a beer keg AT MARY'S. in the Arkansa'i, which has obstructed navigation for years. The channel to' be made two foet deep and seventy (re Cfazette. at Memphis, and It was eo highly satisfactory that there was no trouble in getting the contract. This granite Is pronounced by experts to bo of a very superior quality, and it is said to be the equal in every respect of th-i famous high-standard Quincy granite.

A great deal of interest Is maniffsteJ in the city hall as to the results of Mayor Jacob's trip, as on the test tho awarding of the contract emirtly depends. Although some of the bidders on granite contract are still in the city, is hardly probable that the letting jeolouslr, and by all man who represented th. Government, it waa Isabella De La Hunt. Fearing, however, that some person might be mean enough to misrepresent her for the eaka of obtaining this little office, she wrote to the honorable Fostraastei General in March last, expressing her apprehension, and asking him. in case charges should be made against ber, to do ber the favor of giving notice thereof, so (hat she could refute them, and also informing him ot her husband's service and death, of her financial necessities, and the further fact of her husband's politics.

Mrs. De La Hunt ra removed, and neither to that appeal nor to a later appeal to know the character of the vile charges that had been preferred against her, wag she given (he simple recognition of an an ewer. Poree-Wtaf pleads that he acted without 'knowing the-facta', yet all the facts were sent him with Mrs. Hunt's application. He cannot offer such an excuse, which is simply a convenient though weak form- of falsehood.

The fact remains that Clarkson wanted a man for partisan Work, and Zimmerman can be relied on; and by not instantly turning Zimmerman out and putting Mrs. Hunt BY THE GAZETTE POBLISHINO COMPAITY. GEO. WK. CASDTB, Freildeat.

JACOB SOBT. A. LITTLE, loa.rrniMni, Bwtrtary and Mmgr. Lady, par month bf 1.00 Daily, tix month, by 8.00 Daily, cne'year, by mail. 20.00 Sunday, on tear, by mad.

2.00 Sunday, tix months, mail, IJOO Meekly, tix month, bp mail. .30 Weekly, cntyear.lv J'. 00'; Communication! aoitettea from ait parta of Ibf State on topic or general tntereat. fatrtai dOmr te ebUIi tit Guett tron Bw fnUon Iht railway tnla leator ent from Uttlt Beck will aoaiw a Jaw by promptly rcDortic? tba Mot, in Oiiett datermfnrt la tsppiy ut otrnana aaoa aiittatm wltma tbt state. FRIDAY MORNING.

JUNE -11. 'The indication? for Mkansas today ore Fair weather; cooler in the in terior i variable winds. Thb Patriotic Sons of America have Just informed the world how they de- sire this country governed. Their views were telegraphed from. Washing- ton last night.

Cocnty Judge Hill forwarded yes terday $21,600 to the Union Trust of New York, to pay off the second annuaLinstallment of interest on Pu laski County's blessed carpet-bag gov ernment indebtedness. Palmes, the new publio printer, has begun to discharge printers. He says the funds are low, and redaction must be made. By a elngular accident Palmer's guillotine fits the necks of only Democratio typos. The new publio printer knows what he is there tor.

Thb latest confession bearing on the Oronin murder comes from Patrick O'Sullivan, the ice man who is now in jail at Chicago. It has nob yet been made publio. He should not be mis taken for Alexander Sullivan, Ex President of the Irish National League, who was released on bail some time ago. There does hot appear to be any necessity for the fierce fight some of the sensational newspapers are making on Gov. Hill of New York.

Harmony and not skull -cracking is the work in hand, for Democrats during the next three years. Let us all pull for Dotn ooracy, and at the proper time the de sired leader will be found. Joseph IS. Forakkb nan been, and is, an earnest, honest and emcient official, be Buckeye Htate cannot do better than make him Governor for another two years. St.

Uioue-uemocrul. In its management and tendencies the Republican party in Ohio has so retrograded as to give poor little foraker the semblance of a great man. AFTEB a three years' trial the prohibition amendment to the Constitu. tion of Rhode Island has been re- pealed. The majority against it was 5469 more than the necessary three- fifths.

The opposition to the amend ment was based on the generally accepted belief that drunkenness had largely increased during its existence, and a sweeping popular condemnation of the offensive methods employed to render it effective, 'Ex-Gov. Aloer of Michigan Is credited with desires not wholly un connected with the Presidential race of 1892. The capacious "bar'l," some, what depleted in Chicago last year, has heen refilled, with a newly patented bung so adjusted as to fiy pen with i great celerity on the ap. proach of 'an infl uentlal Republican open to conviction. Why not Alger? By 1892 the Republican party ought to get down to about his size.

TiLATimmense majority in Pennsyl- vania against the prohibition amend ment does not mean that the -citizens in no alley; wondering why the Gov ernment so Blow la beginning to dls tribute the treasury surplus among the tollers 1 who work" only with their months. The Nevada County Picayune refers to" the calling of ft special election in the Twentieth Senatorial District to fill the vacancy caused by Senator Thomp son's resignation as a useless expense, in view of the fact the "new Senator will never serve, unless a special ses no doubt appeared the same way to the Governor, but the law is imperative. It compels him to order a special elec tion whenever officially notified of a vacancy; and his oath of office requires him to obey and not ignore the la w. According to a contemporary, this is cue Texas style oi oscuiatory enter' tainment: Keep perfectly cool aifd collected) gently insert your rigut coat sleeve about her directoire costume, and turn her ceutly to ward yoar manly form. Place your other ana as yet unoccupied arm mi such a posi.

tion aa the exigencies of the occasion aeem to demand, and give a gentle and soulful pull. By this time the "rosebud mouth." as you see tit to call It, Is turned toward you. Lean over gently aud let nature do her work. That's all. Girls don't like it any other way, boys.

The average Arkansas youth is more anxious for opportunities than methods ne gooa old style, in which, kissing a pretty girl sounds like hitting a cow on the back with a clapboard, ts good enough for him. NOTHING FOR THE LABORER. This, from the Indianapolis News, in dicates that even a Republican organ may grind out of tune in an off-year: So lone as manufacturers can have tariff laws to enhance the Dnce of their Droducts. it is reckoned as orouer: but a soon aa a law enhances the price of a laboring man's product to-wit; his work, like the iwo-uoiiar-a-nay law just passed in new York then we are told that the foundation of things is being unsettled. While a large class of workingmen can be kept in line as supporters of the great monopolies built up by Repub lican legislation by repeating the "pro Lection" catch-phrase, the Republican party managers will not find it neces sary to legislate for their benefit.

They compel the em Dloved on Dublio works to riioefc the closest competition, while enacting laws to these manufacturers from competition. Did not Senator Plumb say in Foster's famous "fat circular of last year that the protective tariff was maintained chiefly for their benefit, and that they should be compelled to furnish the money necessary to win the Presidential election? And one method employed to create these great fortunes is found in keeping wages as near the starva tion point as possible. But if a work ingman protest he is frightened by the cry that tariff reduction will force him to accept Europe. the "pauper wages" ofj THE HAVE PROBLEM. In a recent address to the colored conference in Mississippi, Ex-Senator Bruce takes a cheerful view of the future of his race in the United States.

He cites the progress which the freed men have made in the last thirty years, ana assures tnem that, oy patient effort and by wisely husband ine their resources the time will come, and will not be long delayed, when their political and social rights will re ceive just and peaceful recognition from all. Ex-Senator Bruce is one of the com paratively few men of his race able to rise above the weakness of irritation at being considered negroes and not whites. Instead of acting as if ashamed ot his race, Bruce takes the more sensible view that in proportion as they prove themselves entitled to all kinds of recognition now denied them it will be accorded; but that this rec ognition cannot be forced by means offensive to the whites, who will always draw tho line between social privileges and legal rights just where they desire it drawn. If the colored people Bhould follow the advice ot Ex-Senator Bruce, who never forgets that he belongs to tho African race, and who enjoys the re. epect and confidence of the white people of Mississippi generally, their progress in citizenship would be much more rapid.

That which we call soci ety Is a law unto itself. It cannot be changed by declarations of race equal ity, and the various foolish methods now used by those who show by their conduct that they are ashamed of their own race, and who do nothing to ele vate it but prate about being the equals of their white neighbors: A DISCREDITABLE BUSINESS. The action of the Administration toward Mrs. De La Hunt, who Served as Postmaster of Oannolton, Ind. under Arthur, but was removed on the charge.

of "offensive partisanship" after Cleveland became. President, reflects most discreditably 6n Assistant Postmaster-General Clarkson. Even the President does not escape, for Clark son is his creature. After having as Senator denounced the Democrats for her removal In 1885, he should not have pormitted Clarkson to ignore her application for "reappointment, and give the place to a henchman of Ex Cohcressman Heilman, who backed the successful Zimmerman. As Sena tor Mr.

Harrison thus spoke of Mrs. HunUn 1885: If there waa in all this country one per soa who, by reason of her sex; who, by reason of her widowhood: wno, by reason of the sacrifice ahehad. made in Kixinir tbe arm on which she leaned Jo Jiecountry'a i wm euuijim mj uo kept xir umuv. WMtttiUtled to have her reputation guarded feet wide at low water, through sand stone and rock. Plans and specifications being prepared' lor a ninety-foot quarters boat and for a fleet of ten barges, all for work on the Arkansas.

Work will soon begin on Rad Reaoh, above Fort Smith on the Arkansas early iu July. An Improvement party to open the channel fom Buffalo City on White River to tfatesville ten feeti deep at eatrczafttejfJ. water, is-now ganized and will begin work about the first. The snag -boat on the" St. Francis River has opened the channel from Greenville, to Poplin where the 0.

A. T. Road crosses and is preparing to work betweeu that point and the State line. ASliAKSAtf MELANGE. Col.

M.Ti, Chicago. Bell of Pine Bluff is In Rector is to have a S5000 college building. With its last ieyuo the DeWitt Oa telle began the sixta.year of its publica. tion. The citizens of Jmisonia are begin ning to work for the success of the fair next fall.

Up to date this seascn the Chief of Police of Eureka has collected $310 dog tax Helena announces that she will take a band in the effort to secure tbe Pat terson cotton mills. The output of a single min at Hunt ingdon laat Tuesday was 663? tons, or thirty-six carloads, of coal. Hon. Frank M. Thompson, the new appointed Superintendent of the Reservation, went, to Hot Springs Tuesday to take charge.

Hon. W. S. Eakin of Washington is serving as special Judge in the Wilier Circuit Court in several, cases where Judge C. E.

Mitchel is disqualified. The Coroner's Jury in the case of William Leonard, who killed James Wells in Miller County last Saturday, returned a verdict of justifiable homicide. The Banner is very anxious that a female seminary be established at Magnolia, alleging that there are L'OO young ladies in that section to attend it. State Senator Henry A. Crandall of Harrison, Boone County, has been granted a patent for a compression extractor, aud Leandor F.

Rojss of Searcy for a bedstead brace. The fruit-growers of Carroll County have formed an association for their mutual benefit and entertainment. II. Karnes is acting President and W. H.

Crawford, Secretary. The Tesarkana Democrat thinks there is no danger of dissensions in tbe Democratic party of Arkansas as long as Powell Clayton is the highcocka-lorum of the Republican organization. The Crumpton murdor case which was tried at Jonesboro la3t week re sulted in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter, and punishment three yeare in the penitentiary. Thirty-two witnesses were examined. Ben Hughes of Jonesboro says the Paragould Times, has been seutonced to imprisonment in the Green County jail by the Craighead Circuit Court for 444 days for selling liquor without license and for carrying pistol.

He has entered on tho discharge of his sentence. Joe Jordan of Sevier County recently plowed up a skeleton, which was remarkable in some particulars. The bones were very rotten, with the exception of tho teeth, which were sound, though much worn. There was a small earthen vessel placed at nis head and a big flat rock at his feet, but no date oi his death, name or anything else. The Sheriffs of certain counties in the Twentieth Senatorial District complain that they have not been properly notified of tbe special election to be held July 6 to elect a successor to Hon.

F. M. Thompson, resigned. In this case it is the duty of the Sheriff of Hempstead County to notify the Sher iffs of the other counties of the vacancy and the special election. The Commercial thinks "Pine Bluff oueht to send a committee "of three gentlemen to seo Diamond Joe, and, if necessary, aid in money and lands in getting the road from Malvern to Pino Bluff." It advises further, thus: "It may be that if Pine Bluff doesn't act pretty quick Jay Gould will act for her and get possession of tho what it will be called: Little Rock and Monroe Railroad." Officer Wiley Cox, says the Fort Smitn Journal, made a discovery on the banks of the Poteau River Tuesday morning in the shape of a corpse of a young white child, probably a few days old.

The infant had apparently been strangled and then bidden' under a log in an out-of-the-way place. There was no clothing or othr marks of identification on it, but the officers believe they are on Che right clew. Some progress has already been made, says the -Helena World, by the Phillips County Memorial Association, looking to tbe erection of a monument over the graves of our Confederate dead, at the Evergreen Cemetery here. Several gentlemen have already subscribed a bale of cotton each to the fund, and others have made. promises liberal.

aiJjo case there is a good crop made this season. Tbe Tesarkana News says: Dick Moores of Paris, brother of Mrs. Charles A. Hooks of our city, tbe young man who was shot from a window by Mr. Ownby, an attorney of that city, from whom he was endeavoring to collect a judgment ot 14000, was married last Sunday to Miss M.

God bold of Hope, whilst still confined to his bed, and not yet out of danger from his wounds. It appeaya-that Miss Qodbold nursed him through a similar confinement from wounds received iwo years ago, whon his brother1 Dave was The young manfis improving real" nicely, but has noc passed the danger point. The young lady is well known to many in is of by Thirty-eighth Commencement of the Academy In- Charge of the Sisters oT Marcy. An Interesting Programme and a Large Number of Visitors Witness the Exercises. Five Fair Graduate Keceivo Elploraas Music, Becitattons, Essays.

the Order The recitation -room of St. Mary's Academy was crowded last night with visitors, and besides there were witnesses in large numbers peeping through the windows looking on at the commencement exercises of that insti tution, the successful closing of the thirty-eighth year of its existence. The graduates upon this occasion were Misses Willie Clock, Mary Sprick, Sadie Scamans, Florence Davidson and Annie Loufketter. The programme consisted ot music, recitations and an operetta, participated in by all of the pupils of the convent. Misa Laufketter was the salutatorian and Miss Davidson tho valedictorian, both literary Beloctions being well selected for the occasion.

Tho programme given below was very lengthy, but successfully carried out. St. Mary's, under tho direction of tbe-Sisters of Mercy of this City, is a most worthy school of learning for young ladies and its steady growth and usefulness is its recommendation. The exercises opened with music, St. Alban's march; three pianos used in the selection presided over by Misses E.

Hawkins, N. Ciieany, L. Fowler, A. King, M. Smith and A.

Wells; then, "Ave Maria" was ren dered by the senior and junior pupils. A very pretty vocal duet, "Tis the Woodbird's Song," was rendered by Misses J. Carlton and B. Owens. Miss Mary Sprick read aa essay, "The Wonders of Memory" of consid erable literary ability.

An instrumental piece was given with threo guitars with piano accom paniment, by Misses Bolle Owens, Mary Smith, Georgia Forgeo and Jennie Carlton. 'Songs of Seven," an original composition was rendered by Misses Murtaugh, Smith, Davidson, Carlton, McCIuro, Laufketter and Vaujrino, Af tor several moro musical se lections Miss Seamans ono of the fair graduates read an interesting essay on the "Beauty One See3 is Largely in Him Who Sees It." Then came Gorman dialogue entered into by Misses Loufkutter, Perry and Forgeo aftor which another instrumental selection with two pianos and an organ by Misse3 Loufkutter, Perry and Forgeo. isext on tne programme was a con versation in French, tho personages represented by Misses Saudidge, King Vaugme, Smith and Perry. was followed by an instrumental trio, participated in by Misses F. Gur- M.

Honan, A. Doyle, B. Perry, A Fow'ler, E. Hawkins, R. Smith, ft and M.

Poival. Then tne little ones or tne junior class a cantata, entitled "Grand ma's BArthday." "The Changed Cross" was the title of a reciuitiou given by Miss Davidson, one of th graduates. "Gems From tho Emei'ald Isle," a piano solo by Miss louowen Dy moro music closed that part of tho programme. "Maud Irving," an operetta, was ucxt on the programme, very nicely-carried through, with four pretty little children assisting ill its rendition. "Convention of Realistic Readers," an after-piece, constituted a part of the programwo, including a lengthy cast of characters, composed of many of those already mentioned, was interesting and mirth provoking throughout.

Miss Florence Davidson delivered the valedictory, after which tho distribution of prizes was made, and a farewell song closed tho very pleasant and entertaining event. The pupils and tho Sisters of Mercy deserve much credit for the exceUent manner in which tho entertainment was arranged and finally concluded. MORE ABOUT ARKANSAS GRANITE The Mayor of Louisville Goes to Washington to Have Specimens Tested. Mayor Jacob, Capt. Schultze of the City Engineer's Department and Mr.

Phil Bate left Louisville at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon," says tho Courier-Journal, for Washington and tho East, and consequently the contract for furnishing 30,000 tons of granite to the city for the reconstruction of Btreets will not bo awarded until their return, probably tho niiddlo part of next week. Mayor Jacob goes to tbe East to subject the specimens of granite filed with the bids to the Government test, wliich will be made Washington by tho Ordinance Department, of the and all. the granito samples wero taken East with him. The test for and stone used in the army is a vory simple and ingenious one, and ia of the strength and durability of th 9 material. A machine to put the pr fesaure on the stone 9 1.

.1 proviaeu, anu bija wmj is usually made on a block- atbout two inches squire, which shouki. stand a pressure about 84,000 ads before being crushed. V' When it became yesterday that Mayor Jacob ad decided on having the different' ttinds of granite tested in Washington 'there was some dissatisfaction expressed' by some, of tbe bidders on contract. The Arkansas Granite Co mpany's representatives were Jubila nt over Mayor Jacob's decision, and express themselves now as confident of ultimately receiving tbe Their granite has been tested on numerous occasions the Government officials, and each time the result most Ing. The was tested fo)TiheJ railroad bridge, across the Aliasissippr get the it will go to Arkansas Granite Company.

Were letting reopened, it would glvo opportunities for jobs and of all kinds on the part ot contractors and bidders. THE MURDER OF'CROMN. Charle McDonald nnil John J. Who Ware Arrested In VorU. Charles McDonald, who was arrested in Now York as a suspect in the nin case, has been released.

He is blacksmith 33 years old. He is a powerful man, broad-shouldered, p-chested and muscular. His moiHtacno is big, black and drooping. Acorn- panying Is an excellent likeness of thi man. JNot much Is known of lam.

To his credit bo it said that he is an industrious and hard working man. Ho doe's not deny that ho is a member of the McDonald is a North of Ireland man, and nn intcnsn hater of Orangemen. A New York paper gives currency to tho story, truo or false, it docs not pretend to know, that while living in Ireland thebrawnv' blacksmith brained an OniiicpiiKiii with a pair of forgo tongs. Luke I) 1-lon is the man, it appears, whoso ewer getic investigations led to McDou ikl's arrest. Z'Jf: JOH.V J.

MAROiVEV is a dry goods clerk, in tho employment of a New York house, and is years old. His birthplace was Ireland, but he spent bis boyish and youthful days in London. In this coun try ho first camo into notice in Philadelphia, thru known as tho Irish Nationalists. Ho was an ambitious man, and chiefly on account of" his turbulence, it is said, tho'camp to which ho belonged waa suspended. It was reorganized with him and his followers left out.

After the election of Alexander Sullivan as L'hairman or tho lixecutivo body of the Clan-na-Gacl. In Maroney was reatorod and appointed a district member. Ho was subsequently driven out. The "triangle" set bim up in business in 1SS0. By this term is meant Sullivan, Roland and Ket ly.

lie traveled the country as nn "organizer" in tho intercuts of theRO tiiiro men as leaders of the' organization, and when tho business "fizzled out'' they paid his bills. At the Pittsburg convention, IWu, he was proxy for Boland. Sooa fter he removed to New York. KEEP AT WOiLK. Occupation as a Moral Force IdleneM CrnelH Alijicliiof.

(lialtlmoro Sun. Occupation aud industry are so of ton recommended merely for the material gains they bring that their moral force is not always recognized at it should be. Yet occupation that brings no material reward, ahd is, by comparison with work, the merest trifling, may bo, It innocent in itself, a moral force simply because it keeps tho individual out of temptations and gives employ ment to hia energies. Idleness is a fruitful breeder of mis chief. The mind, if not the body, must bo at work during idle hours.

It is difficult to a period of junction for the brain except during Sleep or insensibility. Thoughts conns unbidden; thoy may be mischievous or merely idle, but occupation scpplanti them with ptljer thoughts relating the work pr play In which ono, is engaged, or stirs the mind to speculation or planning. It is not possible, even thougfi'it might appear to be desirable, to keep men at work during all their waking hours. They must have ro-t and recreatio and.it is during period that th ey need some occupation, harmless In itself, to keep thorn out mischief. It is for these otherwise i din hours that pood amusements should be provided hooks or papers to bd rea societies, literarv entertainments, con- oerti and thejatrlcal performances, of an improving aina 10 oe auciiaeu.

in, the President has proved that he was less moved in 1885 by a desire to honor the widow of a Federal soldier than to make partisan capital out of the action of the Domocratic administration. It is a very discreditable business all around. ONE OF MANY FAILURES. Mr. Edward Bellamy recently read an essay on compulsory education before the Nationalist Club in Boston.

He is quoted as demanding a law raising the age of compulsory educa tion to 17 years, extending the school year to thirty-five weeks, and providing for the support of children whose parents are too poor to feed clothe them while they are at school. He argued that the poverty or negli gence of a parent was no reason why a child should be condemned to a lifelong serfdom of ignorance, and concluded by saying: "The duty a parent cannot or will not do toward his child the state must do." Ohio has a compulsory education law, and we believe one or two other States have similar enactments. The fact is known to few persons, even in these States; for attempts to enforce such legislation are rarely made, because it is obnoxious to the people generally. The man who would seek to force his neighbor to comply with the law would be voted a meddler and nuisance, and would bo more likely to retire fronu his venture with a black eye or bloody nose than with the desired school children. There is a prejudice against interference with one's family affairs that few care to excite.

And this explains why compulsory education laws are dead-let ters. The law has done its whole duty after providing means ample for educating all the children in the State. Everything beyond that is offensively meddlesome, and an unjustifiable attempt to wrest from parents the personal control of their families. THE DUDELET. When all the house with interest irlows, And ears are strained to catch each word; When music like a torrent flows.

And singers struggle to be heard, Unmoved, tbe butt of all tbe wits, The Dudelet in the boxlet sits. His milk-white hands, with costly Uphold a jeweled opera-glass; Sometimes a languid glance he flings Upon tho crowd of "middle-class," Unbeedful of the jokes that pass Upon his stvle and lack of wits This Dudelet who in the boxlet sits! The massive prima donna's sleeve Would fit him as an overcoat; Tbe basso's cuff, one can believe, vvouia nt arouna nis sioauer mroai. He thinks the girls upon him dote This creature quite devoid of wits, This Dudelet who in the ooxlet sits. Where is the strength, where is tbe life. Where' is tbe brains of such a man? What kind of girl will be bis wife? Explain him, Darwin, you can i He's built on some ureoosmio plan; Nor nain nor treasure stirs the wits Ot the Dudelet who in the boxlet sits.

Pittsburg ISuUeltn Work of the Wits. He May I see you home? She Is your eyesight good. Epoch. The only way to get a hen out of the garden is to go slow but ehoo' or. Merchant Traveler.

Mr. Younghusband Darling, you have been weeping. What is it, my sweetest love? Mrs. Younghusband Horseradish. Detroit Free Press.

"That's is Tom's yacht off there on tbe horizon, Harriet." "Why, how elegant! I'll ask bim when he comes In what tho horizon looks like when be is close to it. Mun-teyt Weekly. Detroit Free Press i "Hey, you I ne shouted from an open window at 1 1 o'clock at night to a boy whistling in front of the house. "Well?" "If I had a shotgun I'd pepper your legs shot." "Then you'd throw your time and ammunition away," replied Ibe lad. "I'm A messenger boy, and they've tried worse than that to make me go faster, but without any luck." New York Sum Teacher: "Ben jamin, how many times must I tell you not to snap your fingers? now put down your baud and keep still.

I shall hear what you have to sa presently ive minutes later. I jnow, men, uen- Jamln, What is it that you want to-say?" Benjamin: "There was a tramp in tne ball, awhpp and I saw him go off with your goldsheaded parasol." River Improvement. Capt. Taber has been engaged for the past tew weeks in preparing his annual report oi river improvement In Arkansas for the fiscal year closing June SO. The snaeboat Sheldon has worked from Popular Bluff to the Arkansas State Hue and is now ready begin work In the Arkansas next week, the work to.be done in Black River.

Everything- Is in readiness to oom mencs excavating through Moore's, I of the State want the rivers to flow v.tvith whisky and tho streets to run beer. It is an emphatic popular verdict that the prohibition method, as understood and sought to ba en. forced, is less potent than other methods in decreasing tho consumption of intoxicating fluids. Ilieb license and local option steadily grow in favor all over the country. Pension Commissioner Tanner's Chief; Clerk, Geo.

B. Squires, was "guilty of scandalous behavior toward a female clerk in the Pension Bureau. He was dismissed as unfit for a Government place, and then quietly ap pointed timber agent in with better pay. If in improving'the morals of Republican employes lb become necessary to Increase the pay ot every mother's son of them the Harrison ad. ministration possesses he Jacksonian nerve necessary for the Job.

5 IT Is shown by tba annuhL report of the Director of pro duotion of gold during the' calendar year 1888 was about $33,000,000. That of silver. during the same period was 59,000,000. The gold production has remained pretty steady since the 1880, while silver" production has risen $20,000,000 during that period. The set exports of gold during the year "Were $33,859,000, leaving, as an addition to the stock in the country at the end of the year at a little more than Facts like these prove that therejgrateal lofmonsy in the coWry; but they fail to satisfy i.Vt M.

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