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'utte 7, 18,87. ern', too 1 1 I I BEAtrrartrlo DRESSES. I works Breadstreet-blil London. and ball undergone a tnorounb trial by BEAtrrfirtrit DRESSES. works.

Breadetreet-bill. London and ball Undergone a thorough trial by Mr. LitisMittthz Indeed, have fallen short of those of hree years ago just. 1,361,331,959. Activity in speculation is not necessarily an evidence of brisk or profitable trade, as these figures proves for general business was depressed 1n1884 to an extent hardly surpassed at any time during the five years of industrial and commercial torpor -which have recently ended D.

X. Clark. C. the testing en. stineer to the Smoke i Abatement In stitutiOn.

The varieties Of coal sevrallY Oust at 7 6 01ds s1 lje ar Lou. i per ton, used wereBambton small, at 12s tid per ton; Thompson furnace proved very effective for the prevention of smoke In the combustion Of arenscit uWite glle the bitumininous small coal used the density being redueed from a maximum of NO. or No. 10 smoke-shade, as in' an ordinary furnace, to a maximum ot No 234 or No- which are very light shades. Tne duration of visible smoke was reduced from a practioally continuous discharge, as in an ordinary furnace.

to from 6 to 7 per Cent of the time. making a clear chimney for fifty-six minutes In every hour. It was. moreover. proved that a mixture of Welsh dust and household, small coal could be used with I practically complete prevention of visible smoke.

The cost of this mixture Is Ss ed per ton. and when this price is compared with that of tile We coal ordinarily used at Wet, establishment and which costs In London about les per ton the economy will at once be apparent, added to which there is the greill advantage ot a smokeless chimney. Upon -visiting Messrs. Clays works during tb trial'', It was observable that the steal pressure was easily maintained with the bituminous small coal and with the mixture of that coal and Welsh Mum- the Com' elusion of the trials witb the Thompson sys. we may observe, requires only simplehand-ftring.

Messrs. Clay had a mechanical stoker under test by Mr. Clark, the same boiler and the same kinds of coal being used as In the previous trials. In the resull the firm nave accepted the Thompson fur. nace in preference to the mechanical stoker as being proved to be the more economical of the two.

The Thompson furnace has been to several other land boilers.notabiy at the Lambeth Water-works Pumping Station. Brixton Hill; at Messrs. Beardshaw'l Steelworks. Sheffield, and at oilier establishments. with every suceess.

A Marked economy is stated to be effected in every case, owing to a cheaper fuel being used and thorough combustion beingeffeled. Is Silld pet pared with Ned at Waist In London at once be the great ay. Upon luring the the stomp with the' tte mixture the con. tapson mires only had a me. Clark, the coal being' the result vpson fur.

ical stoker knomical of bas been rsnotabiy iplug Staardshaw'S her estabA Marked in every veins used talked. AtN HEREDITARY CURSE. Statisties Showing 'That the Drink Habit Is Transmitted from Father to Son frrom the Philadelphia 3tedica1 Reporter. The latest investigations of the subject of drunkenness ana its effect upon humanity have been made by Dr. T.

D. CrOthere. the Superintendent ot Walnut Lodge. Hartford, Conn. He quotes Dr.

Huss as relating that the miners or Westphalia. who live away from their wives are generally intoxicated when they come home on visits. The result is that a large proportion of the children born of these families are Idiots and feebleminded. "Galen," he says further, "has pointed out some very curious facts coacernlug the children of professional men. which indirectly relates to my topic.

He found from a study or tne heredity Or the mem. hers or some of the largest scientific societies of London, that the legal profession presented the most eminent men and the fewest idiots. The medical profession came next, andi lastly, the clergymen, who produced the smallest number of eminent men, and the largest number of idiots and feeble-Minded. The lawyers gave origin to six times as many more eminent men as the clergy. The clergy gave origin to six times as many more Idiots ana feeble-minded as the law.

yers. This curious fact evidently applies to Europe, where the clergy do not represent the brain vigor of the educated classes. It also indicates that the orcupation of the parent prior to the child's birth, as well as Physical vigor, has a power over the future of the child. In the study of the heredity of inebriates many cases appear where the parents were greatly disturbed in health and their social relations prior to the birth of the child. which grew up and became an inebriate without any special exciting cause." In a number of cases which he cites.

Dr. Crothers has directly traced inebriety back to the parents at a time prior to the child's birth. In one instance the father was a sea captain a healthy robust man, who never drank except on shore, and then in great moderation. His ship went to China and the South seas, and was away twelve or fourteen months at a time. He married In middle life, and, on returning from a long voyage.

would go to his country house and be intoxicated with his wife for a week or more on winesthen recover and start away again. His wife would drink with him and be partially intoxicated. Several children were born. all or whom died in infancy except one. a boy, who grew up and became a periodic drinker.

and came under Dr. Crother's care. Ile was a nervous, melancholy young man, who could not follow any steaay work and every two or three months be would rush away to join the most dissolute companions. with whom he would remain In a room, and for days drink to a condition of continuous stupor. would become exhausted aud be attacked with gastritis.

Under the care of a physician he would quiekly recover, and then he Lwould go back to the shipping-house where lie was employed, and exhibit great energy and industry for a long time. His mind was unstable, and he was incredulous of all things outside of his business. If he became angry and excited he would stagger and talk like a man drunken. his face would grow rea, the pupils of the eyes dilate anti the lids swell. and he would be more or less stupid for a long time The approach of the drink paroxysm was marked by great business activity and anxiety to help some one.

Then suddenly he would end an evil companion and go away and drink as before. His early life, the doctor found, was uneventful. He was a good student, of quiet, retiring manners, and held up as a monel for Ms companions. When about 14 years of age be suffered from a low, nervous fever or several weeks' duration. Ile in hie uncle's family, and had the best.societv and the most temperate surroundings, when suddenly one day be disappeared.

A week later he was found in a low den. where he had been Intoxicated from the time he came in. lie gave no reason why he did this and seemed Indifferent to all counsel and advice. For a year after he was temperate and exemplary In every respect. Than he disappeared as before, and drank wine in a room to stupor for a week or more, then came back.

Then from this time these arink paroxysms were noted by the great secretiveness to go where He could not be found and also by never drinking until be found such a place and an evil companion to Join him. He was 2.5 years of age when placed in Dr. Crothers charge. who finally, so far as appearances went, effected a cure. The young man inherited a large property, married and went to the West 'utiles.

"In this case," says Dr. Crothers, "a most striking similarity was apparent between the drink paroxysms of his parents, which were marked by continuous use of wine to stupor for days in a room alone. In his case, beginning at youth, It Seemed to burst out as an Inherited impulse, using the same spirits and lasting about tne same time. Wily he shoulg suddenly and without premonition go drink to great excess In a Harty unusual way for a boy, and ever after keep it up at Intervals under the same circumstances, can only be answered from a study of the heredity." In another case the physician cites the father as a temperate man. Toe mother had drunk beer at meals all her life.

After their weeding, however, both were Intoxicated, and remained in that conaition for a considerable period of that time. The first child was a little, fretrul creature. which cried night and day for toe first year. By accident whisky was round to produce the most perfect relief. From this time nothing but some form of spirits would allay the nervous Irritation, and as be grew older he would cry for It, and refused to be satisfied with any other fluid.

At 10 he drank beer regularly every night, and at 15 be drank to great excess. In appearance lie was feeble and imperfectly developed. His mind was uncertain and changeable. lips taste and effects of spirits gave him, he said. the greatest pleasure.

When he could not get spirits he was delirious, and after using two or three glasses he became stupid and laughed at everything until he fell asleep. He was placed in the care of a physician, who tried to withdraw the use of spirits by reducing it from day to day. After the spirits were withdrawn be developed mania and delusions of persecution, nuring which be escaped from control and drank to stupor, The mania disappeared. Again the effort to break up the use of spirits was tried, but the mania returned more violent than ever, and the spirits were resumed and continued up to death, at 20 years of age. Three other children were born to this couple, who were temperate and of average strength and vigor.

The parents never used any spirits after the first year of marriage. A man was placed in his care who had occupied a very respectable position of trust, and who, with an insane indifference, had arunk to great forfeited all honor and respect. lie was educated, and was a man Of talent and great energy. He was temperate up to 40 years of age, when suddenly he drank to intoxication, and he was seen on the streets shouting in a delirious way. In two or three days he became temperate, and seemed to have no regrets or sorrow for the past.

He manifested no interest In the advice and counsel or his friends. and made no remarks of explanation. nor gave any reason for his conduct. Several months later he drank as before. and returned to his work with the keine cool indifference as to his conduct: and its consequences.

He was forced to resign his post. Lion as officer of a bank, and gradually went down lower and lower, until brought to Dr. Crotners. He drank periodically. the free interval being rrom three to eighteen months, the drink Paroxysm lasting from three to six days.

During tills paroxysm he was mau lace', and reeled up and down the street, or was seen in an open carriage, always going where he was most prominent, ancilmaking public speeches. He seemed possessed with delusions or powerand grandeur, and placed himself in the most prominent places, interpreting the attention he received as evidence of his greatness. When he recovered be seemed to have a paralysis of all conception of the nature and character or nis conduct. On all other matters he was clear and intelligent, but on this he was silent and reserved. He recovered and went to the far West to live on a cattle ranch.

Investigation of this man's history revealed the fact that his fattier, who was a temperate, healthy planter, married for the first time at 40. Soon after he drank to great excess, and was alter tills a periodical drinker untli his death. ten years later. The father was aellrlous during these paroxysms. and spent his time on the street and In prominent places, preaching and lecturing In a maudlin way.

When be recovered lie was strangely oblivious to any past conduct. and did not remember or believe he was Intoxicated. The latter years or -his life he was very angry if talked to about drinking, and would not listen to any counsel or believe be rank to his Injury. Referring to this ease Dr. Crothers says: "The remarkable imilarity of the symptoms of rather and son, coming on at the same time of Ilfie and following periodically, noted by delusions of power and grandeur and desire to appear prominent, and the loss of consciousness of the past or its relation to the present in his own case, seemed to indicate a direct heredity from rather to son." Some of Those Worn at the Queen's Drawing-Room.

Mem the Louden Telegraph.1 The Duchess or Westmlasters Court gown' was as purely white as though she had been a bride or a debiltante. Tile was ot with soft and cloud-like draperies either side or the white gauze0 and in these large branches of tiger-illy Iblooms were bait burled. The train was or white striped brocadet lined with satin and -bordered with a ruche gauze; on which little butterfly leaves of white velvet were laid at Irregular The Countess Grosvenor was also In Whitti and wore tiger lilies on her dress. Her train was Of white moire, lined with satin; but save for this difference, her gown was In' every respect a counterpart of the one worim by her Grace or Westminster. Tile color of Lady train and bodice was of the new water-blue called Ir was so heavily embroidered with bullion that In some lights It appeared a mass of shimmering gold.

Her skirt was of pale pink carded silk, with an embroidered front. In which gold. silver and delicate shades or blue and pink were so blended as to give' an effect like the changing surface ot mother-of-peturl. Tbe train was lined with Niagaraaaue satin, and was without trimming. Indeed to trim so magnificent a fabric would be as thankless a task as to paint the lily.

beautiful Dresden-china-like dress was that worn by Lady tialsbury. The skirt was ot cream-colored satin, prettily draped with' lisse and old Aiencon lace, while clusters Of pint and yellow roses with shaded green and brown leaves, were cleverly arranged in the drapery. Tile-train was of pale pink Ottoman silk, lined with yellow satin, and sell In a Watteau plait from the middle of the bodice. At the end both corners were turned back, showing the yellow lining, and on it were laid trails of yellow and pink roses, tied with pink satin ribbon. Lady Londesborough's two bride daughters, Lady Sitwell and Lady Codrington, were presented on marriage.

Lady Codrington' dress was of sort white silk, arranged with Brussels lace In beautiful undulating folds, A long trail or stephanotis, was carried the whoie length of the skirt from the left side of the waist, and the train was of white moire, with trails or stephan- otis at one side, and drawn obliquely acrose one corner. Lady Sitwell's dress was' of white Ottoman silk. draped with point de gaze lace, along which branches of cherry blossom were laid. Her train of striped velvet was lined with satin and bordered with a' raised tulle ruche and sprays of cherry blossom. The young Countess of Airlie looked the embodiment of a poem in pink.

Her train of pale pink satin had a large floral design embroidered with silver thread; the lining was of satin. exactly matching incolor the ground of the train, and the dress was a mass Of' Velvet-petalled pale pink roses embedded in crepe the same shade. Lady Airlie carrierl bouquet or roses matching her dress, and wore pearl and diamond ornaments. The Countess of llopetoun was another of the many brides attending yesterday's Court. She seemed to be enveloped in a masa won derful lace, which was cleverly arranged over white satin, with crests of ostrich feathers showing at intervals.

The train, of white brocade was almost entirely veiled beneath fold after fold of nimy lace, here and there softly topped by feathers. The effect was deligatfully pure and softthe sheen or the satin, almost' entirely hidden beneath the lace, was suggestive of placid water under a frosted tretwork. Gold and cream color is always Much worn In Court dresses; It is, indeed, a regal combination. Isabella, Countess of wore a very lovely gown of this description. The front was a network of gold over cream-colored satin.

while ropes or pearls strung on gold thread were hung on either side; reaching from the front to the bacg draperies, which were of cream-colored wrought witti gold thread. The outer fold of each of these was bordered with drooping tassels or gold and pearls. The train struck a note of decided color, being a beautiful shade of bronze velvet. It was laid over on one side, snowing a fold or two of gold and cream-colored brocade, while the (neer side was bordered with lace. the design on which was shown up splendidly by the dark velvet over which it was stretched.

The bodice was of brocade. with straps laid over the shoulders of bronze velvet. Charming little epaujets were of chains of pearls, and gold hanging on Cream-colored net. Mrs. Plunkett's dress was original and very handsome.

The front was a mass of, tiny pieces of mother-or-pearl applied as a design on cream-colored net with gold thread, and this was draped over satin. The back of the dress was a well-arranged mass of floniton lace. which was also prettily festooned over a train of cream-colored and gold brocade. The most remarkable of the colored gowns' was a contrast of terra cotta and pale blue, carried out in silk and brocade. Through' every detail the object seemed to be tnat at-, tention should be directed to the bold juxta- Position of two such different and decided tones.

Seen in the midst of a glow of Various tints, it looked curious; but seen by itself, the effect would probably be most startling. Another dress which did not pass without attracting to itself maqy critical glances was a duet In bright grass-green and yellow. Groups of feathers of the two colors utterly refused to assimilate; they seemed to utter mute protest against so indlocrimating. a combination. Gowns so conspicuous as these rather swallow up their So much, attention is claimed for the dress that there is generally none to spare for the lady inside.

bait. The debutantes Were tintiSeally prettily attired yesterday. Some of them seemed to be carrying the summer, as a mass of white lowers. Into the presence of the Sovereign. Cherry blossom and white rhododendron appeared to be the newest floral garniture for white millinery.

Guelder roses are alsvays pretty, but when carnet' straight down each Bide of a skirt and then brought upwards to a point in the center. they are particularly charming. Princess Henry of Battenberg's dress yesterday was as fresh and bright as It was appropriate to the first summer drawing room. The train was of white silk, brocaded In silver with marguerites. The 'dress was or white lace, and along it long sprays and trails of marguerites were laid.

Tapas were white, yellow and pale pink. The bodice was of brocade, with trails of marguerites and lace arranged around the shoulders. The Princess carried a bouquet of roses, repeat. lug the color of the marguerites, the flowers being beautiful beyond all description. They spoke of man's ingenuity in manufacturing for his flowers the summer weather denied, until tile last three nays.

to himself. "Let Her Go, Gallagher!" From the New York Sue. "Let her go, Gallagher!" said Mr. William Kepley, ot Chicago, as be sent a lignum vita ball down one of the bowling-alleys at the White Elephant the other night. lie scored a strike.

He was asked why he made use of the expression, "Let her go, Gallagher!" "It's sure good luck." he said. "It's better than meeting a man with a straight tip before the races. I saw by the papers out West last summer tnat was all the go on 'Change here. And I saw a lot of runny stories as to where it started. All wrong.

every one of 'effnaline said It came from a New Orleans car-driver, another gave the credit to a Chicago roller-coaster, and others said that It began In Troy and Baltimore. The Gallagher laalo gave rise to it was Thos. J. Gallagher. formerly Sporting Editor or the St.

Louis GLOBE-DEMOOICAT. lie Is well known all over the West, He Is one of the best horse reporters In the country. He used to be a first-class sprinter. and he is a fine billiard player. George Slosson says there are only two or three-cushion-carom players besides Schaefer and the Other big ones who can beat Tom." "Tom Gallagher used to playa geed many billiard matches in Mussey's old rooms at Fourth and P.ne streets.

St. Louis. Whet he was practicing a crowd would always be on hand. They all knew him, and liked him. Now Tom has a deliberate way of walking around the billiard table and viewing a bard shot from various points, and then with his cue reflectively before he -Moots, not nervous-like, but it's his way.

Sowiten the crowa got tired waiting some one would call out, as Tom sawed with his cue. 'Oh, let her go, Finally It got to be a common phrase around St. Louis. Then It got Into the pool-rooms and on the race courses. Afterward the billiard Mayers with whom Torn had marches carried It away with themMaggioll to New Orleans, Carter to Cleveland, Lou Morris to the Coast and so on, until it worked Its way East.

two years ago and struck 'Change here contagiously last summer. "Trist's all there Is to Let her go, Gallagher I' Smoke Abatement. k'rem the London Tintes.1 Upon a previoils occasion we recorded the successful application of Lhe Thompson furnace to boilers of the marine type, by which the, cheap coal can be used and smokeless funnels preserved in steamships, except at the moment of nring up. Since that time Thompson's Smoke-Consuming Furnace Company. of 165 Queen Victoria street, London.

have applied tee principle to land boilers. several having been fitted and being now in regular work. Briefly stated. the Thompson system consists in tile use ot hollow nre bars, through which air passes from front to back. This air becomes heated on its way through the bars.

and, together with the air passing upwards through the furnace from underneath it, mixes whit the combustible gases from the furnace at the bridge, completing their combustion. The system has been applied to a Lancashire steam boiler at Messrs. Richard Clay is bons printing send the case for trial or at any rate applied to the Attorney General, as a of the woman wee eimply outrageous. In reply to the Judge, the accused said she was now living in lodgings at Coalville. Proceeding to pass sentence, bls Lordship said prisoner was married in -1879 to a man named Riley.

22 yeers of age. who treated her very cruelly. He was entity of about as cruel an outrage On her as man could possibly be guilty of. He got into gaol. and when be came out be deserted her.

Afterwards she married another man named Robinson, who also treated her cruelly. and then, according to her statement, they arranged together to prosecute ner for bigamy. Now there were cases In which be (the Judge) had passed sentence of penal servitude for this Offense but he was convinced that the law against bigamy was never intended to apply to such cases as hers. Formally he ordered her to be imprisoned for five minutes. The effect of that was that she would be discharged instantly.

Suppressed applause. The woman was at once released frotu the dock and left the court. 1 JOSIAH PRINGLE'S SNAKE. AS Dig Around as a Bar and as Long as Over to the Meeting ITrem the New York Sun. LAKE LINDEN.

June 2. --When the forest fires in this vicinity were at their Worst old JOslah Pringle moved out Ot bis cahln In the woods, and made a camp on the railroad right of way as near the track as It was possible for him to get without being in danger. The clearing at that point on one side or the track was wide, whereas on the other the timber came within a few feet of the rails1 and stood thick and heavy, with a dense undergrowth. then as dry as tinder, fringing the margin. Josiah imagined that be bad round a refuge from tile names, for tha lire was then on the timbered side or the track.

and if it came up to the cleared side Le was confident that be would be able to get out or the way by taking to the track and "legging It like the devil," as tie expressed it. Just at dark one evening when the weather was hottest, the smoke most dense, and the fires were raging with unexampled fury in all directions, Josiah came into town on a seen Jump. fairly reeking with and his weather-beaten face ablaze with excitement. "All you fellers that want to see a snake more'n a mile long, just come with me be yelled. darting off.

Seeing that nobody following him. and hearing the cries or the boys bidding him to bold returned. and was made to explain things. "Now, I'll tell you, what it Is." he gasped. 'Last night when I turned in there was a Sight of lire over to the east of me, and I thought to myself that like's not I'd have to move before morning, but I never dreumpt that it would be a snake that'd do it.

Weil. some time along in the night, about morning. I guess, I rolled over and felt something hot like a coal on my race and all along the side or me, up, I says to myself the fires has come up to me and I must be a kitting. Well. It only took me about three seconds to pick up my things, hot and smoky as it was.

but when I looked out of my tent my eyes lit on the all-ilredest snake that man ever see in this State. It was bigger than anything that the old-timers used to tell about on the Tittabowossi--a regular boa constrictor. with a tall and rattles, and shining along his back like a peeled hemlock. Hot as it was, It turned me cold in a minute. I'd heard or fires driving the reptiles out of the forest to) the clearings, but this one was a whale, With stripes on him, lying there alongside or us, and hissing like a tugboat at Saginaw.

Sow, maybe you think I didn't climb. I Could smell my clothes and hair burning. and the tent was In flames, and it wan't more'n a minute before I was humping it for town' af a seven-mile gait. Just as I got out of the fire a little, and had time to breathe without sucking in flame, I looked back to the place that I had left and I could see the snake through the fire and smoke making up the' track like lightning. Ite's bigger around than a salt barrel and as long as from here to the meeting-house yonder.

You don't want to be going down there hunting him unless you've got a cannon or something. That'll-what I came up tor." When the old man finished his story the boys laughed and persuaded him that as the fires were so dangerous it would be folly to go out until they bad subsided. Once assured that there would be a grand snake hunt as soon as the burning had stopped. Josiah contented himself tor a week with the narration or his remarkable adventure. At the end of that time several or the boys shouldered their guns and set out with Josiah for his camp.

When they arrived there they found a construction gang at worK replacing the warped rails with straight ones, and It became evident to everybody but the old man that the snake he had seen through the flame and smoke was made up or about a dozen lengths of rail which had been warped into various fantastic shapes oy the Intense heat to which. they were exposed, and he was more remote from very near choking him alive. At first he would not accept this explanation, but a who saw hint yesterday at his cabin, which was not burned, says the old fellow Is now convinced ot his error, and is feeling very sore about it. It it had been a snake," Josiah said, "I'd have made my everlasting fortune with it in a side show in the copper The Financial Outlook. 'From the New York Thnes1 Such a bank statement as we had yesterday Is chilling ta bull expectations.

tor it rouses again the apprehension that tne Treasury will absorb enough money to make a squeeze possible at any moment. By yesterday's statement the surplus reserve was reduced 11,400.000, bringing it down to about 14.300.000. The loss was mainly through the operation of the Treasury.but the statement, being of averages only. makes the banks appear poorer than they are. as in the latter part ot the week they were gaining money from interest and pension payments.

Bank officers are usually timid and naturally not averse to rousing fears which help to keep Interest rates high, but until the Government announces its policy in respect to letting out the surplus moneys there will be an uneasy feeling In financial circles generally. It is believed that the Government will buy bonds month by month in the open market it such a course becomes necessary. Otherwise an extra session will have to be called to release the surplus by legislative measures. The former course Is favored by most financiers. being at once the simplest and most efficacious way of avoiding possible danger.

Outside' of these tears of trouble In the money market, conditions are undoubtedly favorable to the bull side of speculation. The crop reports from the southern section of the winter wheat belt are excellent. and all the region tributary to St. Louis promises a splendid harvest. For the Northwest, It Is still to early to count on the outcome of the season, but the dry weather recently complained of has been succeeded by such abundant rains favorable growth tor this month is certainly assured.

It Is said that the European harvests are likely to be scant, and certainly late, because of cold and wet; winch, If true, insures higher prises good demand for our grain In the foreign markets. The partial corner which has been run In the May and June options for wheat shows conclusively that the surplus now remaining over is not so large that it can lot be handled speculatively, which has not hien the case for two years past. This, at tiny is good news to the agricultural classes. who have long been complaining tnat the prices of the things they- had to buy were rising what they had to sell Was quoted as low as rover in the markets of the world. The Choctaw Troubles.

1 Special Dlepatch to the Globe-Democrat. I EUFAULA, I. June lion. J. W.

Walker private secretary of Principal Oiler Thompson McKinney of the Choctaws, le, IS learned that the reported trouble In Toweou County, Choctaw Nation, Is not, as stated. a trouble between whites and Indians. but purely a personal difficulty. The trouble Is strictly between two families and ttnair friends, and all parties to the artay are Indians. It Is no more than any other family trouble or vendetta.

Gov. McKinney has stone to the scene of the trouble to endeavor to suppress it and at last reports 4111 parties were anxious for a speedy settlement. and will act as the Governor may elrect it the matter. The Result of "Firewater." Los ANGELES, June 6.Gen. Ifis, speaking or the latest Indian outbreaks -gin Arizona.

said: "It is the result of a drunken row1 which led to a feud between' two bands Indians In the San Carlos AgenZy. Troops are 'In pursuit and Will continue until the Indians are capturzd or destroyed. Thus far butone white wan; is reported as being kilted. Up to Friday the trouble bad been entirety among tile Indians. Tbese indians are in no way connected the Apaches who were out last year, and who have all been remoted.

The disturbanCes are liable to occur as long as they an get llquor." or at any rate applied 'neva. as a the dozen years before 1861 eXpended only a very small amount of money on military or naval appliances, and such as we had were either placed by traitorous Federal officials where the rebels could readily get them, or sent to foreign seas -where they could not be utilized until after secession and rebellion became facts. Great Britain. however, spends large sums every year on its military and naval 'establishment, and if it has failed to receive an equivalent it is because contractors are careless or inefficient, or the Government officials who are paid for exercising a supervision in these matters are lax or corrupt. In either case it is an unpleasant and humiliating predicament for England to find herself in at this moment.

t. The Grab-Bag In Politics. It is every American statesman's ambition to be elected President; and the ambition is certainly a 'worthy, and commendable one. But it does not follow that such an honor is within the reach of any person who shall strive for it with proper ability and perseverance, or deserve it by long and noeful public service. The lessons of our history go to show, rather, that such men almost, if not quite, invariably fail to achieve that conclusive distinction.

Apparently, the fates delight to circumvent and disappoint the great party leaders who climb laboriously and steadily to the place where the Presidency is just ready to be grasped as a well-won prize. No one et them has ever yet succeeded in escaping this bitter irony of fortune which so readily turns to ashes the fruits of a lifetime of honest and splendid statesmanship. Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Douglas, Seward, Chase, and many others, were logically entitled to the office, so far as personal fore and devotion were concerned, but they went to their graves, nevertheless, with hearts burned to cinders, as it were, by the sorrow and mortification of failure in 'that respect. They did all that was required of them in point of individual effort; and yet not one of them achieved the real hope and purpose of his career. Our Presidents have been selected, as a rule, in utter disregard of the claims or desires of particular persons, however competent and deserving.

The whole course of party strife and development has tended from the beginning to thrust aside the most conspicuous party champions and give the Presidency to men who can not truly be said to have earned it. That was the case, in a greater or less degree, with every President before Lincoln, and even with Lincoln himself in his first election. Jackson, Harrison and Taylor were chosen by reason of their military services alone; Van Buren owed his success to special conditions; Polk and Pierce were mere accidents; and Lincoln was preferred over the elder soldiers of his party without any definite assurance that he would prove the better than the best of them. In all these instances, as in all succeeding ones, with the single exception of Lincoln's second election, the surpassing statesmen of the countrythe candidates of well-established claims and prolonged waiting and watching for the one supreme reward were passed by; and popular judgment or selitim en made Presidents -of persons otherwise more acceptable, or, as it is ordinarily expressed, more available. In a certain sense, it may be said that the selection of Presidents in this country is a matter ot chance and of the play of immediate circumstances.

The unexpected is not only liable to happen. but more apt to happen than the thing calculated and anticipated. A mere freak of sudden passion or fancy may at a given moment upset all preconceived ideas of the situation, and compel a result that astonishes even those who help to bring it about. In such a contingency, the ambitions of party leaders are regarded with perfect indifference, and the foundations upon which they have built their plans crumble to useless and mocking dust quite as a matter of course. The process which seems to be so well adapted to logical and exact ends is in fact analogous to the grab-bag which reveals its secrets only in the form of surprises.

An arm is inserted, and a name is drawn out; and that is about all there is of it. The wisest observer does not dare undertake to predict, by any known rules of analysis and experience, what the bag will yield when the final test comes. He can not so much as know, indeed, what it contains. It is all confusion and mystery; and the only thing to be safely counted upon is the fact that the conditions always favor the defeat of those who have most reason to look for success. The explanation probably lies in the nature of our system of government and the peculiar character of its highest office as distinguished from all other offices.

Surely our history teaches that, whatever may be true of offices in general, the people do not believe that any one man can have a superior and complete right to the Presidency. Only once has it happened that national necessity called for the election of a particular man to the exclusion of everybody else; and that was in a crisis which is not likely ever to be repeated. Perhaps in that case the election of some other man of similar views would not have proved disastrous, but the risk would have been a serious one at best, and the people very sensibly refused to take it. At all other times full sway has been given to the idea that the office of first importance in this country is one which no Man may properly claim as a deserved honor and reward, or as a matter of absolute safety and prosperity either to the Gnvernment or to his party. The task of earning the Presidency, therefore, is an impossible one, since no man can attain the point of convincing the nation that he has accom plished it.

It is easy for a statesman who has made his name respected and familiar, and who knows he is popular and influential, to think that he ought to be President; but It does not follow that the people can be induced to agree with him. He can his name in the grab-bag with those of many moresome able and prominent like himself, others less worthy in all particularsand take his chances; and his great prayer should befor strength to bear disappointment with booming patience and dignity. PI7BLISIMD IT GLOBE PRINTING COMPANY. D. M.

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WHATEVER the interstate commerce bill has done or has not done, it certainly does not appear to have hindered railroad building to any great extent. The total from January 1 up to the close of May has been 2351 miles, which has not been equaled in the corresponding period of any year since railroad construction was begun except in 1882. In that year 11,568 miles of ngsy track were laid. The figures of mileage this year, it is now probable, will exceed 9,000. Tam President's wife went with a party of lady friends the other day to visit the grave of old John Brown, while her husband and his male companions were engaged In trout ftshing.

It is by acts of this gracious and tender character that Mrs. Cleveland commends herself to the favvr and admiration of her patriotic Vountrymen. Lad thus, also, are we touchingly reminded that the soul of the grim and splendid martyr of Harper's Ferry still "goes marching on. MR. CONIELING is quoted as predicting that in case the Labor party shall nominate a candidate for President next year, enough Republicans will vote for Cleveland to give him New York in spite of such a drawback; but he does not tell us why Republicans can be expected to be.

have in that singular manner when it Is so fauna more reasonable to think that they will do otherwise. The distinguished ex-Senator, we are sorry to say, is not at his best when posing as a political prognosticator. Tax fact is not to be denied that the present Administration has systematically discriminated against Union soldiers. That is what a Democratic Administration II for, it may be granted; but it does not follow that the Grand Army of the Republlo is bound to wave its cherished banners and "toss high its ready caps in air" for the special glorification of President Cleveland. To show proper respect for the exalted office which ho holds is one thing; to lionize him as an individual is another and a very different thing, and the veterans have a perfect right to refuse that sort of service.

CoL.13aAntart,the Republican candidate for Governor of Kentucky, is making a very vigorous and determined canvass, and his revelations of Democratic extrav, aganoe and corruption in that State can hardly fail to win him the support of all good citizens. He shows, for instance, that the 'State sinking fund amounted to $7,638,498 when the Democrats came into power after reconstruction, and that it has been frittered away until it is now only $711,000, while the indebtedness of the State reaches $2,386,340. It is worth adding that Col. Bradley's competitor, Gen. Buckner, makes no attempt to refute these figures, or to justify the proceedings which have brought them about.

JOIM SHERMAN18 views on the sugar question seem to meet with a hearty indorsement from most of the Republican journals of the country. Tariff laws have been trying for a good many years to develop this industry, so that it would keep 'with the country's growth. The failed to accomplish this, because climate and soil in this country are not favorable to cane sugar production on a large scale. This la unfortunate for the country, but it represents an economfo fact which no legislative enactment can modify. The country's income will be $100,000,000 a year too great to be pro fitably used after the last of the 3-per-cent bonds are Canceled, which will be done practically about the beginning of July.

The country collects a revenue of about a year from duties on imports. It sugar is placed on the free list, half the surplus will be wiped out. Trim untrustworthiness of bank clearances, as.evidences of general trade. has often been revealed in instituting comparisons between weeks, months, quarters or other periods and the like periods In preceding years. It is not often, however, that a more striking Illustration of this fact is shown than Is displayed by statistics just given In Bradstreet's.

These figures indicate that the total clearances In theleading Cities reached $21,224,469,272 In the first five months of 1884 and but 21.1.330.500.370 in the same months of 1887. This shows a falling off of 4198,908.902 In these transactions, although the cities referred t9 have Increased materially In business and population in the interval. Of course the great cause of this decrease Is the virtual absence of speculation In New York City within.the present year 'as compared with the corresponding -time in tzu, The New 'York clearances this veer, I MC, ot her most am down Varner was xs the jolly riot. Once rated; be no brought pensed the and played les of prats. when life pear mugs.

coasts pop. ot a new acHis answer had a lot of a thing or know the wn here on Wall street It to. But. that Slim. listed, the fun.

And he winners fly." as he het called of riches 3 made Jay py a practi. pta and kit. ler. In his times that 3opularity. co0, cat ha eu mliked oer ice Osgood, alth, Charlommodoro prishoffer's brokerage 0 rs hands.

Excnange. party. Ile vnsolidated an invest. airs WOO as vorth sour NEM erteet again. Ills was once t.

Joe Rail. 6res of that tilt prouder ed-att old to match 9. 11.1 mono, a ooi. tnday. The a slave he and was blacksmith ave faults.

'fulness, a Insatiable anger he the Pace hs the run-dually the rho owned him thole in the cars instruct. pnry again st at dusk. Ate house. 1. lowing the vay.

Capt. selessly as about 30 suddenly Ho was pot. hut he nd the gun 1 ortubately, lag race of 'derer was was lodged Le in some ever after long after turned and ksruithing, vorking tor Ineologist I a twenty. In must gee the newsaner has be enlightp. re a clearer people now.

respects. mod arches-. civilization 'iyanza, for ad, poking sacon List wnere a buried at discov-umbled MS at aztracta rat-column secret so. tmlnent Sir 'tent Gen. "13upremo tines Reg-Superex-and so On.

pa Nyanza 'notified In impression an republic) I greater. sites any. pll he will te subject. essential ng. Scanlinc a out riding Oaktown.

ail outward happy as iorning his onnd of a and found. Scanling tt breast. 6ched sister a fess pee that life here would Ile said 11 no alarm left a )411. and his Coro'. ay.

Broadway, ren'solotti Poor. et her most earns down Warner was the jolly District. Once rated; be brought dispensed the and played of prat, when life beer mugs. guests pop. rails ot hiS a new His answer bad a lot of a thing or know the here on Wall street to.

But, that Slim. speculated, the fun. And the winners as he wasn't called of riches made Jay by a cats and In his times that popularity. liked good humor, the men Osgood, Smith, Commodore Woerishoffer's brokerage hands. Excnange.

property. lie Consolidated an heirs $8000 as worth lour Wall erteet again. His was once St. Joe shares of that whit prouder old to match Sunday. The a slave he and was blacksmith grave faults1 usefulness, a insatiable anger.

be the Pace the finally the who owned hint that In the instruct. Henry again at dusk. the house, Knowing the Capt. noiselessly as about SO suddenly He was shot. hut he and the gun fortuuately, race of murderer was was lodged he in some never long after returned and blackstuithing, working tor Archteoiogisil I twenty.

must get the news Listener has a the a clearer people respects1 civilization Nyanza, for and, poking Beacon Hill. dust wnero a buried MO attracts secret Sir Potent "Puproine "Prince and so On. Nyanza justified impression republic) a great tpossesses he will subject essential Living." Scanling, a Out riding OaktOwn, ail outward happy as morning WS sound of a and found, Scanling 81-canbeil left breast, reached him. sister a few that life there would Ito said it no alarm Scanting left a and his Broadway-e Broadway Tam welcome and invigorating news is wafted from Prospect House that on Sunday "there was no departure by the gentlemen of the President's party from the rule of plain dressing that they have adhered to." True, it is added, the President's' boots were polished, but this, we are assured, was an unhaispy and provoking error on the part of a servant who is obviously nothing if not a Mugwump. The country can not be too thankful for the careful press, arrangements which cause facts of this interesting and 'picturesque quality to be sent forth for the gratification of all classes of citizens and the promotion of the great cause of reform in American politics.

ANOTHER Southern outrage is reported, from Huntsville, where the colored principal of the State Normal Institute boarded a railroad train-with fifteen of his pupils, who, being supplied with first-class tickets, insisted upon riding in a first-class car, and thereupon the white passengers retired en tnasse to the second-'class car provided for persons of African descent. The question now is, shall the white people of the South be compelled to take to the Jim Crow cars in order to preserve their self-respect, or shall parallel lines of railroad be constructed throughout that section for their special accommodation? Thus does the work of the Interstate Commerce Commission continue to increase in novelty and perplexity. THE fourteen railroads whose earnings are made public for the fourth week of May show, with a single exception, a gain over the corresponding week last year. The road reporting a falling off in income Is the St. Joseph and Grand Island.

The aggregate increase is a fraction over 18 per cent, which is the largest gain revealed, we believe, by any considerable number of roads in any week this year. Even more favorable, however, is the exhibit for the third week of May, now that most of the big roads in the country have made their reports. The figures for sixty-six lines in that week reveal an expansion of receipts, when compared with the same week in 1886, of a little more than 19 per cent. The business of the country, its revealed by a very reliable index, seems to be in a most prosperous condition Just at this moment. FOR the first time in many months the volume of money in the country outside the Treasury is on the decrease.

At the close of nearLy every month since the beginning of the present fiscal year an increase of currency in. the hands of the people or in the banks was reported. The total expansion between the 1st of last July and the close of April was, in round figures, about $70,000,000. In the month ot May, tendency changed, and a contraction took place. The circulation in the month lessened to the extent of nearly $4,500,000.

A good deal of interest, of course, will be felt regarding the statement of circulation which will be issued about the beginning of the next month. If the contraction goes on a howl will go up from the advocates of an extra session that Congress must be called together at once to save the country from a financial stringency and business wreck. THE meeting of the three Emperors is again predicted as about to take place at an early day. This is considered an augury of the maintenance of peace in Europe throughout the year. Happily, the prospects for harmony in the political affairs of the old world just now seem favorable.

France and Germany apparently have tacitly agreed to postpone the inevitable conflict about the Rhine provinces until a later day, and if Ruisla is pushing any mew schemes for national aggrandizement in the Balkan region or on the Afghan frontier, the world has not learned of them. It will never be prudent, however, to count with confidence on the maintenance of peace during three months in the future until the people of the European nations acquire the power to control their own destinies Independent of the caprices or ambitions of princes. A GREENBACK journal has the news that a "significant movement is being in adgurated that, if carried out, will elect a majority of the Fifty-first Congress and the President and Vice President. The "movement" consists of a project to unite all the so-called "reform" organizations in one party, and defeat the Republicans and Democrats. There are twenty-six of these factions or juntas mentioned by name, the Knights of Labor, the Anti-Poverty Society, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Woman Suffrage Association being conspicuous.

The scheme is certainly a picturesque one, and if all these organizations could be marshaled for the occasion under one banner, it would form the most bizarre and grotesque combination which was ever injected into any canvass in any country since the world began. ttlitzss Lord Randolph Churchill's statementA aie false the boasted war power of Great Britain on the bea or land is a myth. The tales which he tells of formidable-looking frigates without any cannon at all mounted in them, and cannon balls too small or too large for the guns for which they were intended.with frowning fortresses in important strategic positions throughout the empire destitute of proper arms and ammunition, as well as of provisions to supply garrison if the exigencies of the day should compel a garrison to be put in them, reminds people inithis country of the predicament in which thil Government found itself at the outbreak Of the civil war. This state of affairs; however, ill much more discreditable to England than the similar. one 'was to the United AStates.

Our country I. nee Rich, but Died Ilerom the New York' Times.) Wall has just lost one notewortby characters. News town yesterday that "Tom" dead. For twenty years be was man of the Stock Exchange be, was richa millionaire be was died pool. But change of fortune no change of t.lisposition; be same boundless treat of anecdote the Mime varied and reckless eeries Meal Jokes In the latter days.

ebbed ever Eberlin's basement as wben he kept a ot ping champaigu corks over the own "Tell me your history." said acquaintance to Inm not long ago. was this: IlistorYI Haven't got any. I money once and thought I knew two about the stock market. You rest; there's a hundred men clown every block just like me. A chestnut.

that's about all I arnount friend. but I've had fun." There was no lack Of truth in glary. Be had money, he money went kiting; but he had that's more than most losers, or either, get In NYall street. "Tommy," was always called when he Tom," was m4ght113 irreverent and rich men. It is related that he Gould miserable for a week once practical joke which kept delivering kittens to that distinguished financier.

palmy days. as in the threadbare came later, lie maintained his Wall street men or consequence him for himself. his capacity for Rile all-embracing "Aim" Amoug who were his intimates were George Charles F. Woerishofier. Elijah Charlie Osborn, Henry N.

Smith and James D. Smith. Before Mr. neath a good deal of that leader's business passtid through Warner's He used to have a seat in the Stock but that went with his other invested 5400 in a seat lu the Stock and Petroleum Exchange. investment that paid well; it gives his a life insurance policy, and Is times now what he paid for It.

It will be many a nay before sees the like of Thomas Warner 50 years or lire were amiable. He Treasurer or the Hannibal and Railroad and owned thousands or company's stock. Ile wasn't a than when, a month ago, he stopped-au friend in Wall street and wanted for a quarter. The Career of a Slave. iirrom the Atlanta Constitution-1 Ga.i June 3.Henry blackstuith, died here last News, speaking of him.

says: "As was the property Of Davis Pace, most accomplished and ingenious and wood-workman. He had though. that Impaired his most ungOvernable temper and an thirst tor drink. In 1862, In a fit of killed one of his fellow-slaves on place and Ilea. For several mouths runaway eluded all vigilance, but house boy of.

Capt. J. A. Davis, Henry's slave wife, confined to Henry was in the habit of sleeping carriage-housenu big lot. Tilt boy was ea to notify Capt.

Davis when came on the lot. One arternoon.just the house boy came cautiously in as if he was afraid to breathe, Henry In the carriage-house. desperate character of the runaway, Davis took a gun and went as Possible to the lot. When within feet of the door of the house Henry opened the door and bounded out. ordered to stop or rie would be paid no attention to the warning was quickly leveled at him.

but, it talked to fire. After an exciting several hundred yenta the overtaken and Henry In jail. tried and sentenced, but way effected his escape and was afterwards seen In this section until the close Of the war, when he has since beau engaged in and at the time of his death was Mr. W. O.

Watson. Something for the Future irrom the Boston Transcript. Speaking of the impression theta first or a twenty-Ilfth century Man of the men of this generation from papers and magazines, the cynical friend who believes that enlightened person of the future may have Idea of the real sentiMent of the nowadays. In certain important social than we have ourselves. The learned archaeologist from the great capital of on WO shores of the Victoria instance, comes to Boston1 Around among the ruins on cliances to come upon the the Athenceurn, In crypt there he makes a great discoverya few sheets left intact in of tile Daily Globe for 1637.

Wilat his learned eve there is a several-column report of the Meetings of certain societies, in which snail titles as Kniglit John Q. Smith, "Most Generaiissinto Peter itobinsou.1' Grand Dictator Tompkins," Regnant Jonathan P. Greatscott," "Superexcellent Grand Master Jenkins," occur in every line. The Victoria archteologist will be perfectly assuming, will he not. that the that society in the great American was essentially dettiocratio was error? If this scientific person thing or the German turn of Mind.

write volumes on the and draw a brilliant picture of the servility of our institutions. is Not Worth Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat. VINCENNES. 6.John yOung man of 21 years of age. went with Die sweetheart yesterday.

at this coonty and seemed from appearances to be as Cheerful and poisible. However, early this parents were startled at the pistol elm; in the woodshed. upon examination. that young had shot himself with a Smith Wesson in me and, was aead before they Scanting had remarked to his minutes before he left tee house was not worth living, and that be a funeral in that, house soon. I with a smile.

and the sister felt over the unnatural remark. note which only said: Farewell. friends; I am tired of We. The young man was well liked, family are very highly esteemed. Corenerheld an this afternoon.

Auction Sales This O. J. 417 North Boots. shoes and slippers. Adler, Frank 415 North Men'.

boys' and lug, 930 a in U. 1005 Olive street. Sale extraordinary of artistic piano, carpets, at 230t Fin. street, 10 a. tar tar Five Minutes tor Bigamy.

From the London Times. At the assizes for the counties of Leicester and Derby, which were held at Derby on Monday, before Mr. Justice Hawkins. Mary Ann Riley (on ball), a respectable-looking woman, pleaded guilty to an indictuient charging her with marrying William Robinson. at Leicester, In February.

1883. her former husband, to whom she was married on July is. 1879. being then alive. Mr.

Sills was instructed for the prosecution. and In reply to his Lordship said that there were undoubtedly circumstances of provocation. His Lordship said be thought the magistrates might have exercised a diseretion and declined to .1 1.