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I THE SUN MONDAY APRIL 2Ut Itfifl JOTVlMff FOIL OUTONBURG aRr 1m JJtm IUClll 0 I 11 filM lIMA TIlk tHfftfft Mw it UMlf fu I I fl fl CtffiI aI II 1 thta senIea Jn 1 1 WIe Hlt Irtmen th 1lndon Ihe rlWItmel II Jhlhon Ti4 mII OnHflMitiM ree truck nn0 it Ihl Untlnbuf rlN trlok 1111 at fln tlllnl M4 gambling there I Km tlttl on with VIgor std diternil 1 PffinH hut ffoml fstilts A ma meeting lon tonIght 1 In the TAb roaole Jersey pill A41t0 will fid nVIIvaf by the Her I ill AIM tie IloY Dr emphll ot Rlh t61IJlIt ll tb th Ilde te lir 1 lowan of Orovo 14th lb le of the fl barth oaion Illll tlio otlglnntor lGOb minister rimenl snd other I 21 runions Rne whlflli wero ont to all the SnMhUlMt Tb ptlton Hiinilny hato rrelnd many slg htobt dr Oownn to whom thy wer red ItUt1 nM jetenlny that seventyfive of Ihimhidb b1 returned to him Ho had not Ibt least 25000 but at ISaated thi llunsturos 10Rlt Iwrnont 1re represented In some Instances MMcMIr In the I Episcopal churches the war da4 and vestrymen had signed for their 1peetlvl churches by direction ol the church Intended to form a tir Oowan saId It was loteodld per eDeD ortnl7atlon after the meeting to IIDeD Lawyers Collins and Corbln have been ugh Iauel Collnl albl conduct the contest It will de ncaeed to Ionluet contclt wi rtdiiron their adMcowhat legal stops will I Staken to closo UI tho Uuttenbonc track I c01J method most In favor at piosent is to Tie Justice Knapp for Buprem Court KORpP 110 lupreme JUltce Jlneh warrants for tne arrest of the man bch of the track and tho book aiker er i nod pool sellers under the Dlsor deity Ilk House nd I has also been suggested i I tht nn appeal be made I to Gov Abbott I eouawl so advises I complaint will be laid bo fa hr the Grand Jury not that th agitators of fr movement expoot the Grand Jury to take order that Ur action Br Cowan says but In the local authorities may not have It to say that the proper authority was not applied ton te law erR can get ready In time nn A rrtuBlve movement will be made tomorrow Complaint will mado to the Grand Jury nob warrants will be applied for aid bnh Rrraull wi opple ad At the morning service In the Tabernacle TMterday Dr Bcudder preached a sermon sterda Lttnat gambling In general and the Outten burg track In particular He took his text from Chronicles bUl 16th chapter 36th verse Save DO 0 h03tben Clod of our salvation and deliver us from the ou need not go to foreign I lands I he said find the heathen we have our share In ti nld Jer er City and lust at present we suffer CIJ ln Irom an unusual Inundation from Nw leelrom Inundaton I lurk We are iieru to protest against the dally eooBregalon of gamblers thieves and black ooelrol lwblers especially the IMIi in Hudson county aud eSIIRI upon Guttenbiirit raw track which hue become rhenomfnallS fe popular since the other race racks In tIe State have been closed I am glad to we that the churches are banding together throughout tbo county to light this Increns ingle Dernicluus nuisance that Christian wople ore taking a greater Interest in current events and propose to ourelt real force in social and political III Our churches are not Bleeping Jars iu which we lay doze 1 the way to heaven They ore regiments ol commissioned to Uitht against the wrong and destroy tha works of Satan We are minute men notice to seize our arms ready at a momonts lel aml and do battle in the name of Christ 1 do not believe the Christian people of this county will lie duwn and allow thia gambling cur of Juggernaut to run over their necks They are determined to drive this horde of lawbreakers out of tbs county even as they have boon compelled to move off the tracks at Clifton and Linden As thn groat majority of these criminals belong to Now York we propose to send them bore where that belong We have no use for them on tbls side of the Hudson The race track at Uuttenburg has always been a tlaoe of moral corruption but It has multiplied its virulence ot late for the gamblers sharks and swindlers who used to distribute i themselves over various tracks In the I Btata are now massing themselves In this locality This track Is like tbe man wo read ot In Scripture who was possessed of the devil and who after walking through dry places took unto him seven other unclean spirits more wicked than himself The last state was worse than the first Within tho last month Omtentaarg has bocomA tbo headquarters of the honeracing fraternity In all thcso dumping ground for the moral filth of these three cities Now York Brooklyn and Jersey City Among all forms ot gambling this race ck gambling with Its attendant pool selllne I our cities is by all means the worst It mvms to have numberless patrons and has grown In popularity In recent years This and other forms of gambling such a policy Louisiana Intteiy bucket shops and regular gambling hells such a Johm Morrlssy used to run In Saratoga run their roots down into the general betting custom of society which are so prevalent In America as to make Chauncey Uopow declare that wo tire I nation of gamblers Boys play marbles lor Keeps and pitch pennies on every corer Vouny men bet cigars and oung Indies bet candy and kid gloves Al aon everybody bets on elections and even church members gamble at their fairs with their sauctlfled rallies and lotteries The sanctfed vholo nation with the exception of a few ro malulnc 1uiltans Is supplying the raw material out of which ilrstolass gamblers Bro tnajufauuird The people us a whole are to tlimn for much of this Uugrant wickedness otalnst which wo Inveigh Now what are tho results of this race track eaiLtillngf Ono is to make tho frequenter of tIe 110 fndiutrially worthless and another to ruin his moral character beyond the power I of red ml tau Men who give their time to I such excitements not of watching races which is nn lii ocent pastime but of betting on their Mills gradually unlit themselves for busl Ole purnits Industrial life appears stale and intlplJ compared with the tingle of unbar tainty connected with tbe act of gambling In time tie guinblsr craves this excite pent as much us tho drunkard longs If allhi ups Little by little his use fiilneMi a an employee declines and eventually hts emplojer informs him that his lervkts arena longer needed He naturally drl is luto the ranks of Idlers and swindlers and determines togilna living by doing no ork hn one ibis disposition becomes tIIH dlspolon i Milled habit be degenerates Into a parasite vpoijsocloti Uhoq Ida funds run low and his credit Is gone ho develops into a thief or icnjer or tricktor of somo sort Vutch the crOWllH that leave the ferryboats ferbontB after Vn race Is ow and study their faceR ine tamp of the criminal Is on them all Chicanery and greed nut dissipation Is writ If ad i their countenance ralk about the IUKUO lalleiy In New York rltyl What aro tioe Pletuie oompaied with tho realities that eweru in and fin eor aT cross tho Hudson thlnd fl9 tlr Icr08S Uudfan htivor Ilaud I 11 br I real tugueS gallery Is the grand at Guttcnbttt UticnbiTf vo respectable man vtm a be seen Ihor und ho would rather mal Rel Idauchter In her crve lliau In such vlllain vlaln ou tompanv JSjiJ110 the mon that run horses on iM triicK inspector Dvrnes has 1lspclol llyrcl 118 given us tb Ir rtcoril Auiona them I monl are highwaymen tnnco Itil ffiftf exemivlcti miirjsrors gold sWindirs saloon kootieruand owners of i koiiies IrI keelorlaod owoorl ouses or Jllfnme Tlie are the menour Bth1 touch rn a mingle with and there II contagion 1 know 01 many instances whore young SufoS I ottnI tbl iutlnubtrg track have UUlnIr trck tftIloe to I IIU fnter than tboTorriea they wertt the i habit of waichiin could rm This beck i a tt 01llrtOf schii 1 fur prison and a iriueicai OIollblarelo hell It is our right Indlita 0 Ioo UII this Ink of corruption Vend lf the Ytrltlhl can detain and quarantine boa 5fldetttits ii stqini yacht i beuun ono tuna on I the mullpox should not such IO mllIX lot a PttifOious Cong of moral Iters be placed pllod tOlOfld lb losIIIIY 01 i Inootihattug the lfg llntlDI tie 5inu Tills rutlJ with their satanic virus I UCut to ho hone this must and r1 I I el IQlu tha Ilthorlls whoso tleirto runish these lawbreakers fall to iiii ini if nfii II i fal lUlI sir Oi4iILuiflfl5 lnn let ho citlons com tint 11 IR thf bICorgftiu lt ols COl elii rC ftJ llll111 attend to this matter them ell hivs abk loriuo Iew InI 1 we desire existing laws oniorcoL ot rmJV IIII norcod Tho people clsies iroloctari against thoce UIIII ft ie criminal tloritfes bOo under tbo Connivance of our an tlorilv Mo groan unUHtial flint I i ununal pert and de dlct ono th failtuo 01 our hand Jury to In lrffi OlOfliier I i0mHt have recourse to mUlt ll i other lutitiod hodol TlWiSnr efferting IOllhOd eUtnl our purpos In mwwS in no mtua to be trifled with tbla mOul trilod wlb ILort mater They 1 are aroused upon this GOd itliB I nn tboy must be obeyed I thank at Interest nsusp1 ors ate taking so deep esiaest ir vl Ilia jJOtter and coming to our u1 llltaIC urn gtr neeii their help for oureno br eiroig hike water anj are maintain nihilnu to their pour pros out L18IQfl I weaitli I ut their eom tJ and ealh Imo ered lud the aiS1 I low rl Pclallv when 1111 ftvurage iJOliiiclati tcJ1 tir IUrle toll elll of Hudson lutUh ereater oump than all rl8e Is public Mnt LI ldy banlbiIIi once I thorougtly tb rl WUJiMl It hast ue gamblers from other etr5 lllu r1elrak in I IroQ QIOutenb the 1 Stuto and I can 110 the bame Lot every ltus one turn out 10 the an1 mass tueetiig to morrow ra luotll rvening SOur reioiJco prOh Hellnl lttsuL rl atcainet cOllol UUISOOCO a011 help to aOllhlllte lalnht It lll lie Io Kuptlr The Jortl ltlharjjed Anchor lln 5teeisbi Alexandria storJay from Mediterranean 3Iedltrrnen1 letl Ola Iased In fcebr 90 feet high aDd 400 ne alf I11014 longitude 4tci This lunuu wh luiy for Ice lt this season ant Is I1nrQut II A i charted us the bar MClm I aico passed three I lslel rl ill 001111 11 IR not iieii for 11lrol the Jiediterraneen to allce Islnl zJOJ A1 WAOKIt The Kalffe 4rln Vena ITaloa TTn MOM We1lKnar4 Pali tor Politics being la Miht James Archibald came to the front at the meeting of the Central Labor Union yesterday He ffered robin tfons opposing the Bajton amendments to the Electoral Reform law and he made some remarks marks about political machines Delegate 3 Sullivan made some remarks about Archi balds connection with political machines and paid was working the labor movement for all It was worth Mr Archibald In reply called Sullivan one ot the snarling cure who hang at the heels ol all labor organizations Tho delegates were all on Archibalds side and passed the resolution There are rival Pavers Union and at tho Instance of one of them tho appointed a committee to ask Commissioner Gllroy to llnd out whether some of tho rules enforced eoforod In city paving work are union rules or non union rules which will be a pleasant job for a public officer Delegate McLanghlln reported that nonunion men were employed on Meiers excur 1Ieerl Mon boats at the foot ot Christopher street Ald that unless they are discharged ateet Itilko will bn ordered Delegate Callanan ot the Painters Union said that the men who were employed In repairing the damage In the general Post Office Ienerallost Ofce building orcRslanod by tbe lire wero getting only from 11 to SI60 a day Tho doors finding ledlnl Into the loom ho said wore kept locked and no walking delegate could enter A committee of three will wait on the Postmaster today and ask him for a pass to enter the rooms 1 ho Knife Grinders Union presented Its credentials nt thin Control Labor Federation IederRton meeting yesterday There arc about 70 Knife grinders In this city aud neighborhood and a the union starts off with uu of them it has every prospect of ultimate success It will resist the cutting of rates The Federation voted to boycott Joshua Gregg the luinlturo dealer ut Fourteenth street and rlftn avenue because ho bought upholstering material of Tolt Brothers a nonunion firm on the Bowery The brewers reported that Peter Bnokel Rents fcpplg Ibert George Bechtel nnd Weldmann Bans had signed a agreement Ireemont with the union for a year Th FttrgeraM Brewing Company Lelblnger A Illernl1 I Molordlerok refused to sign nnd Behmltt Bchwauenfluegel and Valentino Loewnr said they halnt quite decided The Federation I decided that should these firms not sign thin ageement rl ed the boycott on pool beer will be On May 1 there will eighthour demon strations In Union square this city Fort Greene Brooklyn and Union Hill JrRI or The delegate of the Cloakmakers Union said that A 49 Knights of Labor had tried to get his union Into the order Secretary Mc hnlr bad come around and staggered Baron dose by offering to let 110000 for the cloak makers within two weeks Two weeks passed and not a cent came in and then MoNalr advised Bnrondess to join the cloakmakers to A 4f Several labor men who knew all about the Knights explained matters to Barondess In fuoh a light that he decided to let Mr Powderleyn organization alone Thn membership ot A 4J Is between 0000 antI 8000 I was 80000 in the palmy days Quinn The cloakmnkors number at least 7000 The delegates of the Federation looked upon this as evidence of tho weakness of tho Knights In this city for no labor organisation unless it were hard pressed would go to nny trouble to capture the cloakmakem Tho delegate also told how James 1 Archibald had hobnobbed with Barondesa for woeks to get hIm to join tbe Central Labor Union THE BOOK 4GKYT TJ1OUSSEAU Kr McDonald Mother Urine a Bill Acatnct Her A Eed Sonloluw Estate DAKBUBT April ID One of the oldest and most respected citizens of Danbury was Allan McDonald a retired blacksmith and a man who owned much real estate in this and surrounding towns He was an active church member and every Sunday in storm and sunshine he hitched up his old horse and drovo to Starrs Plain five miles south of here and conducted religions services In the little red schoolhouse Jlr McDonald was 80 rears old He burled his wife late In the fall of 1883 One day In September 1889 there entered his library brary a pretty young book agent Miss Addle Bowne of New York The old man refused at 1 first to look at her book but her engaging I manners her gentle persistency and her I pleasant laugh had their effect and Mr McDonald finally subscribed subscrlbel This was a turning point In the lives of both The old man felt young again as he sat talking with Miss younl thon and there be fell In love For three months he courted the book agent and In December he sent for the Rev Dr Hubbard to come to his house where May and December plighted their vows After a short season of happiness tho aged bridegroom was taken sick He urged the young wife to send for her mother and that lady oame For over tbreo months the mother inlaw assisted her daughter In caring for Mr McDonald and then he was gathered to his fathers After the funeral the will was read Ator The young wife faired fairly wall though she by no means received the property oho and her mother expected Yesterday afternoon in the Court of Common Plea this odd marriage was brought before the public again by the suit of Urs Alvina Downe of West Eightyeighth street Now York to recover Elhtyellhlh administrator of her BonfnIawa estate the Bum of 200 for the wedding onttlt of her daughter and JDS for services as nurse during his last lllnesn Mrs Downo testtlled that ono day the lain Mr McDonald testlld on her at her residence In Now York and Introducing himself stated that ho had met her daughter loved her and they were to be married soon He told her or his circumstances that he owned much land but bad very little ready money and be asked tier to provide the wedding outfitter her daughter promising that when he could sell Fame of his promlslnl tbt real estate be would repay her He wanted I everything to new and cay as beflttedlthe youth and beauty of the bride Mrs Bowne agreed and expended the money Mrs McDonald corroborated her mother She received the clothes from her mother but had nothing to do with buying them Bhe tried on the garments at Couches on Sixth avenue and saw the bill for the goods but It had been destroyed The easels being con hR tested by A Wildmau the administrator and owing the opposition to the marriage by Mr attention McDonalds friends It Is attracting much aloo ton tonA A TKRT SIC XTOBE3S Kitty nan Coninmptlon and I TJjrlneShe Lick Her Medicine From Her Paw Mrs Kitty is very sick She Is the most respectable and the gentlest tigress that has I ever smiled on the public from behind the bars i of the Ironbound cages In the Central Park manugerie Thousands of persons called yesterday to enquire after the health of this royal Bengal tigress and Keeper Tom McGlnnls was busy all day answering questions about his charge Some Insisted that she had the grip and others the rheumatism but her keepers to Hove aha has consumption Hhe lay crouched In the comer of her cage with eyes half closed hue would moan pitifully fully at times when a convulsive shiver passed over her body and Quid look appoallngly at her keeper Last nlcbt she wile no bitter montb and thu keepers think she will not Ihe another Tom Donobue the night keeper is much attached to Kitty blue has been in the meuag erie for five years and has given birth to several cubs Thy have all died hmulnion of cod al oil Is the chief medicine given her and In order to make her take It the Htuff IB poured oa her body and paws so that shin will lick It ofT Milk and dainty food 1 1 Irk of have been placed before her but she has eaten very little for savtrul days A Valuable Library Gift to John Hopkins BArnMOBE April 10The Johns Hopkins University has received from Col Thomas Hcharf the Maryland historian one of the most valuable private collection of Americana In this country The collection Includes a I groat number of books more than 60000 pamphlets several hundred unpublished man ubcrlpts materials for a history of New York city and vicinity and of Missouri Pennsylvania Maryland and the Southern btates and fouthlrn Mallaod several thousand rare autoeraehs and broadsides elou Includes tho library of the late Thompson Westcott on Philadelphia history Frederick Jillloiisa library on Missouri the valuable up published manuscripts mostly on the Houth era Confederacy of the late James McCabe and 11 part of the library of the late Henry 1 Ibrlr Dnwson LL On Maryland history tbN Is LL 01 the best private collection in existence The greatest value of coleotoo lies however In the abundance of valuable Daterllil for a history of the Southern Confederacy Dun Lament Call on Gay Hill I Gov Hill received a few callers at the hoffman House yesterday among them Eugene Kelly Joseph ODpnobup and Col Daniel 8 Lament At 8 KM he paid his bill 1 the hotel and departed with Speaker Uheoban They tuok the 159 train to Albany Hyrilp or Flat I Frodut from tho laxative ant nutrition jclet of iifoniurfi combined with Ihl nitdtolnil virtue of plunii known lo be mist bn 1clAl to the human irs fm icti nllr on Ihi kldnir liver and howell Bio tuullr cle Liluir Ihiirilcm ilxnellin cold and bal I nch end rurluf habitual ccuitlpilloD 4dn Bom people Mr Flint Tot I4lb IM low prices I Vlo prc I others thlni li I the wear of their hrnllor that olhe I lies Inn 110 i a great demand tilt MiM a Att 4 6 SCROFULA eczema totter bole ulcers sores rheumatism and catarrh cured by taking AVERS Sarsaparilla it purifies vitalizes invigorates and enriches the blood Has Cured Others will cure you GOETHES VISIT TO CARLSBAH I I Sits Ella flronlly Prolomced II I Thoro is no doubt that tho life ot tho groat poet wns groatly prolonged by drinking tho wators of tho Sprudol Spring In our day wo have tho Sprndol Spring brought to us in tlio form of Bal which is obtained by evaporation from the wators of Carlsbad Tlio Natural CARLSBAD SPRU DEL SALT powdor form is in no Bonao a moro purgative but is a altornrtivG and eliminative remedy which dissolves tenacious bio allays I irritation and obstructions lays irritltion removes ob 1 structions by aiding nature I acts soothingly and without pain and i therefore far suporior than all pills purgatives and other remedies It is best taken during tho Spring and Summer months Dowaro of imitations I Tim genuine article baa tho signature of EISNER MEN I DELSON CO solo agents 6 Barclay Street Nnw York and the seal I of tho city on every bottle I I GirlRSchulfaa PUIENA AND KIHHINGENBITTKK WATKB rUIU II Hit itroniceil Both are eScrvMorat sad ftrrefabli to Ilk aD Ttit cauipl anilritf of each wtttr li oo UiS kattl and lb water au gUntiDtU5 to arss with UM tt acal7eiDDSES ORDER 40 1ST AT I 0 AN EAST SIDE IXCJDKXT Te SnsponderMaa nt Oat red aad the Women Who Set Him Free Agate Through their tribulations Elias Omstead and his wife have beoome famous In all that thickly habited region In the neighborhood of the corner of Hester and Ludlow streets Ellas Omit a and his wife live and have lived In 29 Ludlow street for the past six months or ever since they reached this country from Ilusslo No one either In the tenement or In the neighborhood know alias by name Thoy call hIm the suspender man that cot arrested When the Omsteads reached America they wero not In very good health nor did they havo any money Somehow or other probably by Mrs Omsteads endeavors with a washboard they got together a few cents and Kilos went Into the general notion business That Is be bought few shoo strings a few cheap gaudy handkerchiefs pocket comb or so a few DB Ir of flowered suspenders and some I cheap brass rings and pIns With an Investment of a dollar or two Ellas entered the trade as a notion dealer Ho chose the corner of Hester and Ludlow streets as his trading place because be did not know Now York well and was timid about venturing far from home Ho he took his stand there lay after nay with his tray suspended from his nock and sold what be could When ho madn fifteen cents It was a good days work and IIRI Iteon his Wile wore happy In tho evening When he only sold seven or eight cents worth whIch moro often happened they thanked God In ortbodox Hsbravv fashion and were content When he didnt sou anything ho nol bin wife still thanked Uotl but fait quite blue all tho lame The wife meantime was not Idle him went out to work every day and made fifty and sixty cents They live on the thud lhor of 29 They do not occupy a whole apartment Thov inn at lord only tho back room a small place with no window In It Here they cook and eat and Bleep and pray they do a good dell of praying 10 nt times and very little of the other things Last Friday afternoon Elias stood as usual at the corner 01 Hester und Ludlow trying to foil bin wares He stood too long tlIU place a the result was hat he was arrested Ho was taken to Essex Market fined 1 and sent thojlsland great crowd of the neigh bors saw the arrest and followed the policeman and his prisoner part of the way to the police court When the woman got home In tbo evening sho heard tie news The children saw her afar off and ran to meet her as she dime along slowly trod out Your man got taken in they said in chorus In i Hebrew 1 he omol Wan dazed at Stht and did not understand Ho many children talking and wdlol to get near her confused her Then the women explained And when abe began to sob and scream they sobbed and screamed with hpr bo all that neighborhood learned about It and mourned with her For It Is a terrible misfortune to arrested when every cent you make means life for two people and to make nothing moans next door to starvation Tho woman didnt know what to do She had vague ideas on the subject of the law and Its operations Bo she wept and filled tho street with the noise ot It and tho other women cried and said I is sad and the children cried because them wns so much weeping The men lucked savage aud cursed the police ourset Whon the woman found out how much the fine was Mho was stunned Five dollars was more than she had over had nt ono time Bhe went to the little room above an a Bat In the darkness on the floor with her bead covered I moaning and rocking to and fro In the mornIng she went to tho police court and when the Justice found that she couldnt pay the line for her husband he sent him to the Island Bbo stood outside and screamed and IRnd him an they were putting him In tho When they wrenched her away she fainted and fell to the street When the Jubtloe boar all this he remitted the flue and the woman coming to had tbe order for her husbands release thrust Into her baud She wept again and started but to get him released for ho had reached the Island by that time Now she tme that she had not a cent of money Bo she went to tho tenement house and told tbe women about It And one of them canvassed the house from top to bottom to get tbo money to take her over and bring her husband bock 20cents There Isnt much money In 29 Ludlow street although there are lots of people especially children But tbe woman worked hard and told tho story so pathetically that she got thu money cent here two cents there live cents from the man who keeps the shop on the ground floor She found her poor husband half dead with fright Tbl came back together and when they turned into Ludlow street the nows turne a great crowd gathered almost as big a crowd as tho sounds of sorrow bad collected the night before Thank God I Shes got her man again Shes a good woman said evervbody But the man still looked sad Ho was not well when he was arrested The fear and the confinement had made him worse Be went up to his room and lay down and has not been up since ns it was baturdav when this occurred the woman lost no washing money Yesterday she was out at work But the man lay In tbe darkness of the dirty back rom TITEATRICAZ CEXSOUSIIIP Iff PAl Attacked for Being Aatlqnatttd and Inadequate Home Hatlcfled with It The riotous demonstrations attendant upon tbe presentation of Thermldor Paris have started a new agitation against the theatrical censorship In the French capital This censorship was abolished with the tall of the empire but was revived by MacMabon In 1874 I has I been long denounced as an Inefficient and antiquated Institution and Its complete Incapacity ltv for fulfilling the expectations of the Mac Mahon nglme has been conclusively shown It Is declared by the scenes at the production which bad been read of Thermldor a piece rea and approved by all six censors Antonio Iroust Minister of Arts under Gam betta leads the attack on the censorship and beta In tbe Parliamentary Commission appointed to consider a bill for tho abolition of It he has presented at length his reasons for opposing the continuance of the Institution He argues that the Hoard of Censors directly responsible I for all tho obscenity prevalent as never bo 1 fore In tliecafefl chantants of Paris The censors I art kept so constantly occupied with the rending oT now plays be says that they find little time for watching the caM chantaut performances and even their sporadic efforts to cleanSe theoe resorts are rendered futile by the ease with which a variety programme can be altered Whon the police moke an effort to alterd stop Immoral songs and indecent dances moreover the proprietors of the variety shows full back on the position that they are under the supervision ot the censors and nothing can then be done Prousts plan 1 la to organise a theatre police force from which mon shall be detailed to attend In person all plays and variety snows In the city regularly As soon as anything Immoral or likely to create a disturbance shall be Piescntod the policeman In attendance will be expected to stop the performance Curiously enough such playwright as Pardon and DumnH and such critics aiBarcoy and Virtu nre in favor of the censorship and say that the present state of affairs IH fairly satisfactory A SPRING VYDA Flint SPBIO SrDY lint with a MldHummer Temperature for Htroller In Winter larmenl I The windows of the town wore raIsed yesterday and tbe houso fly crawled ont on the sill basked the radiance of tbe nun and looked around smlllnglr for a baldbeaded man to begin his spring campaign on There were lots of baldhoadod mon out and I was so warm that some of them couldnt keep on their hats Tho mercury In Perrys thermometer went up and tho soda In his fountains went down Almost everybody who owned ae overcoat woro It on his arm or left It homo At midday the temperature was hovering about 70 degrees and at SM oclock I went up to 71 Thats summer beat as almost anybody out walking In winter flannels knows without being told At night tho temperature took tumble of 15 degrees the season and tie ulr was more in accord with In afternoon the walk loading to the Mall In Rtornooo from the Filth avenue entrance at FUtynlnth street was scarcely IIB Sable at tlmfe and even more secluded path or promennders ways had a raldsummeranotaof WiY sorts and conditions of vehicles bowled alongtbe diliarentdrive The only difference lierent drvo between the visitors and these of a regular summer hundsy was In fbaljelnthlng bile the temperature was that of June most persons wore winter garments Hcurcely ever bud the grass dotted In spots Icarrely with the white lleeie of sheep a more eraer aid hue and a green halo beautiful to look upon hovered around the trees and bushes Which had not yut budded into full leaf World Fair Iuhorrr Threaten Htrlke CHICAOO April 19The laborers nt the Worlds Fair grounds will bold a meeting tomorrow adjusted between morrow and unless matters are tween them and the labor unions ol Chicago a general strike will probably take place on Mondar The men to the number of 000 are very bitter against MoArtbur Bros who they soy have abused and bamboozled them from tho start The men say McArthur Bros fom them 1175 per day of hours until April paid since that date they have Ignored their promises and men who nave been compelled Iromloe on account of sickness from other causes were obliged to wait from 10 to 40 days for their money or else accept from 3 to 10 percent discount ou their orders CUSTOM HOUSE GOSSIP ASSISTANT APPltAJHEna AffD XXAX mrna I DAUBER Republican Merchant Will Not Chip In for Campaign Fnn4 TJaleM the Vnder valuations Are StoppedThe Chief Clerk All 8ecnreA Chlaeie War The forthcoming reports ol the Investigating Commission headed Solicitor Hepburn are awaited with the deepest Interest Secretary Foster while In town last week said that he would take no serious steps In unravelling the Casom House tangle until all of these reports had been sent to Washington and thoroughly conned Mr Hepburn rays he believes all the reports will In Washington before May 1 A number of preliminary reports have already gone on Mr Hepburn smuts the scope of Ibo Investigation has been extended from time to time the Washington authorities A first Mr Hepburn thought he and his associates would in New York only a month as they wore djreoted to Investigate the workings ot the Appraisers stores only Since then the Treasury Department has forwarded special oases which called for the Commissions probing and as these special cases have Increased the Importance of the Investigation has er rianded Solicitor Hepburn of course would not reveal tho nature of the reports already sent to Washington Ho declined also to Intimate In any way the nature ot the consultations between him the Secretary Senator Hlscook and Collector Krhardt at the fifth Avenue Hotel and the BubTreasury I was said yesterday that these consultations had to do entirely with the final reports of Mr Hepburn and his coadjutors I Is believed that two and possibly three assistant appraisers will removed If the Secretary decides to accent the evidence submitted In the Uommlsslont reports This evidence It Is claimed reflects on the competency and industry of the assistant appraisers It IB believed though that the greatest sweep will be among the examiners For many years the examiners clamored that their salaries were too small and Incidentally scandals cropped out In the Appraisers stores The salaries of the examiners were advanced very materially about a year ago but from the evidence before tho Commission the efficiency of the staff has not Improved As the salaries have ben rained to the limits current In dry goods and commercial houses generally there will now be no difficulty In fllltng vacancies Politicians ticians eminence behind the delinquents will not lift their hands to stay the Impending crash They say very rRokly that Ibis wouh1 be folly in view ot the Hepburn reports I these reports HO rollout on the assistant appraisers praUors and the examiners A to warrant tbo removals there would be no sense In attemptIng to Interfere I Is declared that there Is a good deal ot dead wood not only at the Appraisers stores but In all the departments attached to the Federal service at this port I Is stated that there are nearly one hundred employees who have long since outlived their usefulness in the words of one close to Secretary Foster He Is a hustler and the business methods at the Appraisers etoresmust be vastly Improved 11ty They are antiquated and often obsolete but tbo old fogies continue Rnt stick to Ihe letter of the Treasury regulations regardless of changed conditions and systems which call for discretion based upon broad Common sense It looks as baeol I old foules and the careless ones among the younger element would have to Ko Secretary Manning started the severe Investigations of the Appraisers stores On assuming the portfolio bo was shocked at certain discoveries and he applied himself diligently to revolutionize the business methods ut the stores On his sickness and death the woilc was left as a heritage to Secretary Fairchild W1 lef a who faltered when be should have struck and struck hard Mr Windom developed a more determined spirit and now Mr Foster hal demonstrated I determination In the matter which all his friends say will bring about solid results Home of the healer New Vorl merchants belonging longing to the Kepubllcan party are Hold to have announced that they will nut bo on hand when this bat Is passed around for campaign funds It the ells at the stores are not remedied The undervaluations they add of certain wellknown Importers as shown by the deliberations of the Hoard or ieneral Appraisers are sufficient oar them They cannot compete they declare with these undervalued Invoices and unlets the men who are charged with conniving at the nudervalna tions are turned out of office and straight business methods are adopted the National Kepublican Campaign Committee need not come to thom for funds when the battle is on People chose to the Secretary seem to think that the vexed chief clerk question which has so greatly agitated the local 1 machine baa been permanently Rotted In favor of keeping the places in Chinese shackles A man eminent In Republican councils said I would not advise the 1resldont to tako theso places out of the civil service rules 1 am glad ho has not regarded the Collectors petition concerning them Tbesn men know their business and I dont mind If they are Democrats We cannot afford to tumble In outsiders and have the Custom House upet wile new men are broken In This is repeated merely to show the drilt of sentiment among eminent Republicans who believe that Secretary Tracy was right In his famous order concerning the big places In the Brooklyn Navy Other Uepubllcans of equal Yard 11publcoR elunl renown say though that there will come a day ot reckoning and that men In high places who bar the doors against the rank and file of the 1 will be struck by lightning Morn employees have been suspended In the last week or more than In months It Is reported ported that tboso employees thought to take advantage ol tbe agitation over tbe reports of a change In the Collvcturablp and were absent without leave and otherwise negligent Tho Collector ha come down upon them all and even while sick at home he prom oiy suspended from duty all delinquents reported to him No matter what might happen the Collector pcomiil determined to maintain discipline and the efficiency of the force All hands will have a hoarlngbut It looks nl thelrconduot would meet with severe punishment The friends of the Surveyor say that Mr Olbbss friends In the Surveyors department are quaking They fear that the Vlcked One of the Thirteenth may go too far with hlsiokes about tho ages of the burvoyors state and anger the Surveyor nnl The Appraisers stores and the little Chinese mill In the Custom House are at tar Capt Pierce of the Chinese Board Is the champion of the ChInese folks and he his forwarded to the Mandarins at Washington a report that an liglblo candidate with Ecoro of US and two war veterans were set aside In two requisitions for samplers and a candidate employed In tbe stores a relative ot prominent official thrrogot one of the jobs Meanwhile the war vxierans aro waiting their turn Under the Chinese lawn they have the first call To DID With Their Friend the Enemy The Third Georgia Confederate Veteran Survivors Association arrived last evening from Kovannah by tho steamship City of Augusts They coma as tho guests of their old opponents the Hawkins Zouaves of tbe Ninth New York Volunteers The City of Augusta reached her pier at 7 I A committee often of which William Thompson was Chairman from theHawklnsZoua received Drnnswlck the visitors who were driven to the Hotel The Hawkins Zouavoswlll give a dinner to their guests this evening at the Brunswick when a banner will be presented to the zouaves br tbe association 1 Is the regulation United States flag and Is tb work of Miss Unite Itatellll Lizzie Bneed the daughter of Col Claiborn Snood with the exception of the stars which wore painted by Miss Julia Lester of Augusta Uo Miss Speed who accompanies the party Is known as the daughter of tho regiment Tbo members 01 the party are Col Clalborn Raced of Augusta 1resldent the association Boeel Bneed Miss Lizzie Bneed Miss Julia lsI Btarr MIB Bessie Ballard Miss Lizzie Jooeb Str 11 Major 1 IIIWhortr Captl Htarr Col MaQf 1 Wynn Cant I arwel CRpt Ii Hymen the lion I UOIlsey Capt Starr the lion 0 0 McCabe Ur Capt I Anderson brEl unoyJ 67 Gates Commodore pester Capt Baclpy Capt liam Walter Korsb A Vt hey I A Harper and Wil tihe Preferred Death to Fear Insanity SIOUX FALL April 19Wben Frank Hyde returned to his home last night he found his young wit lying on tbe floor of a front room stupefied and breathing heavily In the crib his livemonthsold baby was dying and on the bed lay hU twoyearold daughter dead After a search tbe husband found a note written by his wife declaring that she felt insanity which was hereditary In her family creeping upon her that her children were destined to cbldrQo the same fate and that rather than live to burden her husband she bad decided to die An mpty bottle which had contained morphine fay near Mrs Hyde hhe hai always been of a happy disposition The family stood hUh so daily When Mr Hyde left the house in tbe morning his wife kissed Dim and appeared to In tbe wla spirits bJI one saw her until biB return OUR GREAT EXPORT or FLOUR A Comparison With the Export Wheat Sine 18 SB The amount of flour that Is exported from this country Is I growing larger every year According to the last report of the Produce Exchange tho export of flour has been In proportion portion to the export of wheat up to the year 1887 a the following figures show A xortefPeaai ValueS Ktata peru ill Jbrete count TI CS 1114 IM45 1555ta I8H87 Wheat Rio 7n84RUIl MO5I7I1 577ftH2On IOI07IM9 riourbbU UIOA2DU 10648143 H1T9J4I 11318449 0162 t721 t3180 I will be Men at a glance that the proportion of the export of flour to the of wheat Iport Inur export remained about the same for these four years For the following two years the table reads 1R87R IRKAft Whnt IbDhh CSTOHVHJ1 40414129 rOD bnrrall 11 C5574 B374H03 8 that In 18R78 when we exported 65000000 bushels ot wheat we sent along with I more flour than we did In the year when we exported nearly 102000000 bushels of wheat and In 18889 tho proportion was about 1 barrel ot flour to I bushels of wheat while in 18845 was 1 barrel of flour to 8K bushels of wheat People who a not familiar with tho grain market mny ask Why not convert fran olr wheat into Hour before exporting It Wo hove plenty of labor to dQ it and plenty of natural and artificial power to do It with True enough and here is tie answer whloh prominent member of tbe Produce Kxchange made to this very question In the first place wheat Is much easier to handle than flour The elevators can scoop up a ship load of it In less than no time while to load a cargo of flour often takes several days Then again in making tour you get shorts and bran which are very desirable as food for animals In Europe the people like to make their own Hour In order to cot these shorts and bran for their own use Besides I all thin they usually mix our wheat with some ot their own to make thn flour that they like bAr For Instance they will mix Russian wheat with our wi winter wheat or with our Northwest spring wheat to get the color or the degree ot strength that they desire Nevertheless Americans are beginning to arc the shorts and bran that fall off In the manufacture ot Hour themselves and this la one of the causes of the increase in the manufacture and export of flour Whan the next report of the Produce Exchange appears we shall be In a better position to tell just to what extent this increase has taken place From Sept 1 18H to April 4 1891 the figures showing the amount exported from this country are Wbnt bunholi 8e2MM3 Floir ibmrrU S7U722S These are very encouraging figures and I am convinced that this proportion will be maintained THE DETIZ WOH8TJSD He Bet Five Tonne Men to Drown the Voice of FIT PIous Women There was a battle ot song between Christians and sinners on the Pennsylvania Railroad ferryboat Hudson City on her 10K trip from Jersey City last night It was a train boat and was crowded with passengers Among tho last to got on wore five welldressed women They live In Now York and they had been in Jersey City aiding in establishing the first ot the dozen missions that are to be established in the lower part ot that city They walked through the cabins to the front of the boat When the boat was in midstream they pegan singing the hymn Walt for Jesus They had strong and musical voices In a moment the passengers began to crowd out of the cabins to the forward deck The singers were surrounded When they bad finished the second verso of the hymn some of the crowd joined in the chorus and then the tnuxlo could be heard from shore to shore The devil beard It accepted the challenge and chose five young men from the crowd to do battle for him With his usual cunning ho armed his agents with ridicule knowing well that that would quickest destroy any good that might be done by the hymns The women began singing the third versa of the hymn Ono of the agents cried Now and In deep bass voices the other agents sang Tony been drlnklnr rour been drinking JTOUT been drinking just now Just now TOUT ten Snaking yonv bin drinking uat now They sang It to the tune of Come to Jesus just now Such a shout of laughter went up from the crowd that the voices of all the singers wore drowned When It died out a little the women could bo beard singing How blessed to kneel at the bavlours feet They had won the first battle The young men were silenced for moment Their effort had winded them Timer began singing again I bought a chicken for fifty cenls The voices of the women could be heard over them Satan changed the tune again and his agents sang Yourrn a liar youre a liar also to the tune ot Come to Jesna The women stuck to the hymn they were singing The crowd was divided The boat was In the slip when tbo devil made dome one shout Three cheers for hull Weak ones were given while the women sang Glory to God In the highest Bo the battle ended The women certainly had the advantage as well as the sympathy of the crowd who admired their pluck A MUle Cut with a Bazar Tse got a little cut hero boss said a colored man who entered Police Headquarters in Newark just before midnight on Saturday and addressed himself to Lieutenant Bergen He was drenched with blood and could hardly stand He bad been cut with a razor from the centre of the breast bone across the right breast to the shoulder and down the right arm to the elbow The wound went clear to the bone through a coat a waistcoat and a heavy shirt Eighteen stitches were put In the wound by the police surgeon and the man was sent to Ht llarnahoa Hospital He was Robert Van 111 per a carman 62 years old and living at 3 Maple place lie said ho was attacked and cut by a mulatto named John Deugl In McDonald saloon In Academy street near Planer and had walked six blocks to the Police Headquarters Beagle was arrested at his home an hour later There was an old feud between tao two mm and It was revived when they met The only blow struck was that which out Van BIper Told the Me Her Mother Hud Taught Her Elble Elblen a young Swede was arrested last Thursday on complaint of his wife Julia Who charged that he bad assaulted his eight yearold daughter Annie In August last bus band andwlfe separated the former taking the little girl and another child to live with him at 610 East Sixteenth street Mrs Elblon with the two other children went to live at 9049 Second avenue where she was known as Mrs Alexander Lost week Mrs Kiblen called at her husbands rooms while bo was out She took Annie to the office of the Oorry Society and them made the charge against br husband The child told a story which pointed to the fathers guilt At Jefferson Market teeter dar the child told Agent Finn that br mother bad Instructed her what to say Annie repeated her story to Justice McMabon in a straightforward way The Justice discharged Libien and lectured the woman severely Her Captain Buried nt Hen Tb Norwegian bark Nooch VI came in yesterday from Javajafter a voyage of ninetytwo days with her mate Vaaland In command Cant Sandred dieilcu Feb 8 ot Java fever and was burled at sea His widow and two children are on the baik He was 81 year old orarvAJtT John Thompson who had been confined to his home at 395 Madison av nui with a Revere Illness tof the past four months died at 230 oclock yesterday morning On Saturday noon he was token with a severe chill from which he did not recover Toward evening ho sank Into a comatose condition and mf sod away as If falling to deep At his deathbed wore his wife his daughter Mrs Endoi Adams his son Frederick Thompson ol the First National Bank a few Intimate friends and the family physician There arc few men more widely known in the commtrclal world of the United States than John Thompson His journal ThomjHont 7anV Note Jtrpoitrr Is to bo found In every bank In the country and In many business houses John Thompson was born ot Puritan ancestors near Ioru lines on Nov 27 1802 His father was a farmer When lie was 20 years old he became a teacher lu the common ionN TUOMPSON schools Hampshire county A few years later be secured a school in Albany Than lie went into Yates Mclntrros lottery at Puughkoepsl for the benefit ot Union Oollego At the end ot three years ho had IJUinl In has the result of his first llnauctal ventui This was in 1832 lie came to Now York and tool an nfllco In Wall street Two years before he hud married hloctu Ferris of Ulster eonniv This was thn day of State banks and wildcat currency Tho country was flooded with paper motley which was good at par only In limo neighborhood of the Issuing bank roil which depreciated rapidly In alue as tIme distance Increased This gave Mr hompson I the Idea which made his fortune He founded 7Viomp 1011s Rank Role Iteportrr tho only journal of Its kind then In existence It has boon issued ever slnco under the old name the Nlgnlflciuifo of which has been almost lost oven to memory The civil war with Its complicated financial questions found Mr Thompson In a position of influence Hocroiory nmso had grnat confidence In bin judgment audllstenod to his suggestions with attention Mr Thompson was then CO years old but his intellect was never moro alert Ho was not wholly In sympathy with tbo proposed national banking system He had In mind apian for a Hoard of Currency Commissioners who might Issue circulating notes Ho regarded this as a alerts democratic scheme Hut when the national bunking system was determined unoit ho aided tho Secretary by suggestions Ho It was who In 1HIS3 established the First National Bank the idoneor bank under the now system His son lion Thompson was mad President Mr Thompson held his interest until Ih77 when he Hold out his stock and retired from the directory Ou Oct 1 of that roar ho organized the Chase National Rank and malt his son ten Thompson President But lion Thompson died la 1MR4 and his father took the Presidency for a while Tho work was too confining and he retired in favor of Mr Cannon who holds the position at present Mr Thompson became VicePresident Last summer his slender vigorous lorm with slightly stooped shoulders and keen face that told plainly why he bad been so lone befora dubbed Fighting John Thompson wart seen In Wall street frequently In the fall he caught a cold which proved fatal He sat ont late on the porch ot his country place near Poughkeot Ho hud not heen so well as formerly during the summer and hN constitution hustalned him but feebly through the malarious tarOt which followed this im prudence The middle of November found butt siuking but his gripomi life was xn tenacious that only within the last few days has It been certain that Ills life was tory neat Its end He was Vlcc1iesidont of the Chose National Bank until Nov lf since last Slav ho tied been at work upun an autobiography which will be published before lone It Is tuba entitled Sixty Yearn in Wall titreot This period of active life In thai plaao whoro men are supposed to hurry themselves into an early grave is another point which suggests the great vigor of the man Mr Thompson loaves a widow and one son Frederick Rear Admiral Alfrnl Taylor 8 retired died at his apartments In Washington yesterday afternoon from pneumonia and acute bronchitis following an attack of the grip his children were with him at the time of his death having been summoned several days ago He was born in Fairfax county Vn in 1KIO and entered the navy as a midshipman lu 1820 Ho reached the grade of lieutenant in 18J7 and In the Mexican war djurlni time blockade of Vera Cm7 und the other naval operations along limo Moxlcan coast he served With the frigate Cumberland From 184H to 1H51 he was detailed to duty in the Washington Navy Yard Ho was on duty in the steamer Mississippi with Commodore Perrys expedition to Japan in 185l05 In the latter year ho wan promoted to Commander and when the civil war broke out was stationed on the const of Africa In charge of this tloop Saratoga In 1HG2 he became a Captain and was attached to the Bo ton Navy Yard remaining there until 1805 He was promoted to Commodore and In 1872 to tho gradoof Hear Admiral with which rank ho was retired soon after by operation of law Ho leaves three sons and an unmarried daughter Two of the sons hold conmissions In the army arid the third lives in Now York cityAmong Among tho deaths last week In Southern central New York of persons 80 years old art over wore thin foljowlng Mrs Isabella Pock Ellenvllle H3 Mrs Polly heavIes IalnbrM HI Ears Thoytir Onconta H4 Mrs Oliver Reynolds hherburno 85 Michael Mullen Vernon BO Mrs riiebs Iodio Uullford 86 George Green Clinton 83 Mrs Hulda Knapp Bethel 01 Mrs Julia A Terwilllcer Kllenvllle 81 Coriper Hollenback IJeltuytur 80 Mrs Mary Maloney Florence 80 Ovorgo Cantrell Monticello HI Mrs Mary Vim ValenCortland8j Mrs Knrab JJtggur BInd gett Mills HO Mrs Hannah Smith Mc iranvllle 82 Albert benedict McLean 81 Lnnslng Mnrkloy Cortland 83 Mrs Jonnnn OUbea lllnghamton uu James Hiunion Clnclnnatus b3 IsaaoJacksou Now Berlin Ui Mrs Abigail Crist llowells Depot 8H Mis Mary Peck Grlfllns Corners 81 Nearly all died of grip or ot pneumonia Asbury Fountain Is dead at his home In Mutawan He was 91 years old For thirty years he had been President of the Farmers ft Mechanics Bank and also a large shareholder In a California gn mIne I He was one of those who were Instrumental In having tho Central llallroad run through Matnwan lilj three sons William Ja nes ami Luclan ore all connected with banks In New York and Brooklyn Bolomon Gordon a prominent lawyer of this ity died at his home In Hprlnglleld Mass yesterday He was born In eymouthilas Sept 21 1820 graduated nt Harvard In 1S17 practiced law for a time In Boston and then came to thin city Here he secured a large practice and bad beimenuaged lu many important patent suits Alderman Cornelius 8 Gilib dIed today a his home In Nowburgh aged 45 He was nn active Itopubllcnn politician and a leading Mn non lie loft a wife and four children nIt a few days ago bo attended the funeral of Oeoruo Yern ol President of the Common i uucll Their de ith reduces tbe number that body from nluo to seven Ulysses RT ler senior member of the firm of Tyler ft Hull extensive manufacturers or wood alcohol and acetate of line nt liead Greek elnware county died last week aged 60 Ho belonged to the Tyler family conspicuous In the history of the Delaware Illver valey since Its first settlement He leaves a family Baron Christian Von Bplegel died at his residence In Barat iga on ftunday from the eflects ot the grip aged years His wife who died from the same dlieat was burled on Saturday Baron Von Kplegel watan eminent jiliy slclan with large practice Mary Battorthwalte widow of Nathan Patter thwalte died at Oroeswjcks near Bordentown on Friday fine was OI years old Her husband Who was a prominent member of time Friends Society died two years ago In bin 100th year John Mulligan 101 years old Is dead at Me rhanlcsville and was buried on Sunday with military honors He was a menibur of the It and vas thu oldest enlisted veteran of the late war in Saratoga county Mrs Elian Hewitt aced 74 weighing 350 pounds died at AuMlntown on Saturday of apoplexy By lesson of her groit nclght she bud not been able to walk much during lao last twenty yean Theso Saratoga count old people dlod during the past nook Sirs Julia 1mver Saratoga Springs 83 James Anderoon 80 William Molrod 91 and Mrs ilaruh iS Cololeey HO all of Galway Leonard A fox late member of the milling firm of 1ot ti llddy at Yiimpbllle May Icon county died of consumption tin Thurs day rated 34 Ho loaves wile and two thu dren Miss Matilda Mellugb a midget 23 years old and i7 Inches tall having grown nonu since two years of age died on Saturday at i onnga town after a brief Illness Mrs Dodge the widow of the late United Stains Senator A Dodge died In Burlington Iowa on Saturday aged 72 years Martin WIlcox the oldest oltleen ot Sims bury Comm Is dead aged US year and i months CKNTttAT AMIiniCATt XKTT9 Item of All Sorln from he Progressive Ilttle ItriiubllrH BAN Jose April 8With the conclusion ot Holy Week business nt thin capital revives The doleful past three days have not been calculated to inspire any newcomer with a sense of progress In the country The procession have acted out nil the old legends of the Lords death burial anti resurrection and crowds have thronged the cathedral and the churches from morning till midnight But with rare exceptions the prominent men time representative minds ot the republic havo all been bountifully scarce that Is they have vanished from the capital during those solemn hours and the ceremonies have boon witnessed by limo women and children and the people of the humbler classes Crowds have gone down to the seashore It IB now FO easy to travel over tho completed railway lino other families have ro tired to their haciendas others still have gone oft on excursions to the volcanoes Ho that it may truly bo said that although rollclon and the ultrarolluious party have grown stronger since the beginning ot President Rodriguezs administration the moro advanced and liberal thinkers who protest against too much of a good thing are unchanged and unmoved la their own beliefs Hardly hnd I arrived nt my hotel when Don Ascension Ksdiilvol camo to look me up Thin Illustrious and patriotic Central American is looking well and contented moro so perhaps than ho would look had ho been elected to the Presidency with Its cores and anxieties Th enthusiasm of his party IB as strong as It was eighteen months ago But IJsqulvel will be disinclined to reappear as a candidate for many yotrs however his followers may Insist The Union question slumbers Will It reawaken in September It was Costa Rica that last yoar postponed consideration until September 1801 Can she main postpone or must she face limo problem 1 No ino that I have yet spoken with seems able to reply Private Information from Guatemala says that a daughter of President Barillas will marry a prominent Balvudornnlan before long This should do something toward quieting any beginnings of the old trouble In foot there does not nt the present moment appear any likelihood of war Guatemala in busy importing Japanese labor by tho thousands These are said to provo excellent in plantation work Mr Donne the English companys now man acorof lImo Lostu Rica hallway to whom Mr Keith will turn over time road In May has been hero some months with his family and appears to fool quite at home It IH hoped that Mr Keith and his dimming mid lovely wife a daughter of oxPresident Castro will not go from thn country for some time yet Considerable Interest manPested here la Don Fiourico Morns now review which ha publishes In Now York lu SpnnMi fll Ayrirut tur Uispaiui AwrtriHiu It devoted to the subftct of agriculture lu Spanish Aiicrica and is lavishly Illustrated cstordny 1 wont up to the Ialaclo Naolonal to pay my respects to the Minister of Foreign Aflalrs Jon Lsoiiuiol Gutlerror and In the course of a pleasant little chat I learned time It expected that the PreMont and directors of the Nicaragua Canal Company after vie ItlriK Cioitovvn und tidally would come to bun Jos as time guests of the Costa Hlca Government Thu journey from Simon up to thn capital is now such an easy ono because ot the railroads completion and the nc nery la HO woll worth viewing tht the gontlemen will certainly not regret thin time spent That will thus have an opportunity to see something a little known but really progressive country 8 for lutiorro remarked apropos of the canal that vvn have nettled our little difficulty with Nicaragua and theme will bo no war Jut tallied qulotly as hn said It romem boring possibly how often these little dlfll cultlea had arisen and httOv quickly a good many oxcitabl and shortsighted mortals had boon to predict war The Idea of two United Slates Ministers to Central Amnrica ono to Guatemala and Honduras the other lo the three other republics Is very favorably roeolved I ilml tbo Costa Rlcans unanimous lu tludr sympathy with Mr humor amid their appreciation of the dlflloul ties that ha oneoimterud Gen Antonio Stucco time Cuban revolutionary exile and horo is here In behalf nt an immigration scheme for Talumancn where the Planting of tobacco Is now permitted thnt part of time monopoly having been abolished Ills Idea I to Import Cuban labor Tobacco culture has never yet been cirrled on In that part of thu republic but small experiments Imve promised well In other localities time plant was grown and exported to JuroiK In President Guardlas time A cood denl was rained In the hauta Clara dlitilrt Altogether with cost of cxportiitloa and various other dlfTlciil ties the prli It brought In European markets was not MifTlilently hluh tr oucotirago the cultivation The Telamnnca laud appears better adapted for limo purpose Mr Rlattl a niiturallod Italian has just obtained a largo concession to exploit cocoa at a point on the railway about thirty miles from thn cnast Mr Keith has obtained another twelvemonths In which to arrange with English carl allele for tlio liallway of tire North From 1 New York to Han Jos thn journey may now be made In about nine days salllnu from New Orleans drrmnn Itutlrond Hnlllo The report of thn Gorman railways for 1890 has just appeared According to it there are 24000 nillm of railway In the empire with 7121 station Thoro woro In 1150 list year 12C20 locomotives manufactured at an average cost of 11000 each 2000S passenger coaches with accommodations for 1070000 parsons and jRssi freight cars with a total capacity of 2088400 tons P7r825tM1 person were carried 2uslMi travelled first class 8s4i2iiii second class J3blS2OOU third class i0182ooi fourth class The receipts from theso four classes were respectively 15 80 1A and 34 million dollar The gross receipts of all the railways wer tSNlOOOtiiiO and the running expenses were tl70ouoiXK There were Clb Xin olllclals and orkltjcimn fl Thoro worn la Fill 30t accidents of which 121 were derailments and 301 wero collisions Forty nasKoncnra vvere killed and 174 wore Injured that is time douths were 11 to the million and time Injuries 1C to the million nn sengorB Of railway wnrklngmoa and officials SitS were killed anti 1 HOD wero Injured construction all Gorman railways cost originally 2441UOOOIK while the total capital llxed In them by time present owners amounts to 2r40W iO.