The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 53, Ed. 1 Monday, June 18, 1888 Page: 6 of 8
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GALVESTON, Tex.. May 27. 1S87.
Some years ago New York boasted of hav-
ing the most wicked man in the world. But
now Philadelphia comes to the front and
puts New York completely in the shade by
producing a woman who is certainly the
wickedest in the universe. A woman has
n thatcity who confesses
her only boy baby to get
547 insurance on his life.
LoT That old red ban-
effect on a rabid repub-
: has on a morbid bull.
just neen arrested .
that she murdered
the paltry sum of
to prove that Allen G. Thurman is a sham,
a humbug and a preposterous old nobody.
Yet Mr. Blaine has testified in his book to
Mr. Thurman's worth, and Senator Ed-
munds used to regard him as a very genial
sort of a peer. But the pennyroyal bovines
of politics lind it impossible to restrain
themselves when the red bandana waves.
Let them paw the earth and bellow, but
our advice to all adult American is to keep
cool. The country is entirely safe.
STATE UNIVERSITY. FINANCES.
The comptroller furnishes a statement of
the university finances that is not very re
assuring. The income for the year just
closed was 846,745 74, and expenses $57,137 55,
the difference, $10,i>91 81, being that much
of expense in excess of income. As the
legislature transferred $5000 of tho univer-
sity income to the available fund of the Ag
ricultural and Mechanical college the
actual expense appears to have been
$52,137 55. A first-class university
can not bo maintained upon that
income. Either the available fund from
land sales, leases and interest on bonds must
hi supplemented by annual appropriations
for maintenance until the S,000,001) acres of
laud can be leased or sold, or the university
must drag along as a law school, and with
but two or three other well equipped and
first-class departments. Under this condi-
tion, if the legislature will not provide for
the adequate support of the institution it
would seem unwise to erect new buildings
and go into enlargements requiring a
greater annual income for its support.
The comptroller estimates the univer-
sity income for the ensuing year at
$■7,029 74, an increase of only $384 over the
Income of the past year. Owing to the inade-
quate income the past year the board of
regents permitted an important chair to
ramaiu vacant. This was, perhaps, inev-
itable, but it was a retrograde movement.
It i3 also observed that some $1600 of
the appropriation of $75,000 intended for
c instructing tho central building at Aus-
tin, made at the late special session, has
been expended for maintenance. Evidently
unless a liberal policy is adopted by the
legislature the regents will be compelled
before the close of the two years following
this one to still further contract the opera-
tions of the institution. Monumental
buildings at the capital and branches with-
out sufficient income for maintenance will
not constitute a first-class university.
NEW yoRK
darin has the s
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A mjld-natu
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rtl man took up a
half
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3in. PIIELPS AND TEXAS.
Mr. William Walter Phelps is sometimes
coupled with Gresliam for the second place
on the republican presidential ticket. If a
republican ticket might by any chance pre-
vail the people of Texas would have some
reasons for regarding Mr. Phelps as more
acceptable even for the first place than any
other candidate on the republican side_
Mr. Phelps has landed interests esti-
mated at 2,000,000 acres in the Pan-
handle region and disputed territory
of Texas. A settlement of the bound-
ary question favorable to Texas would
please Mr. Phelps. Such a settlement he
would bo in a position to promote. Then
again, if Tiie News is not mistaken, Mr.
Piic-lps is a large stockholder in the Inter-
national and Great Northern Railway com-
pany, and tho attorney general and other
instrumentalities have released that com-
pany from its complications and restored it
to the control of the stockholders. This
renews more directly his interest
in tho success of this great trunk
railway and in the growth and
development of the state. Mr. Phelps, how-
ever, will understand that if he owned an
area of Texas land as large as his state of
New Jersey, and should grant annual free
passes on the International and Great
Northern to every democratic voter in the
state, Cleveland and Thurman will never-
theless receive the state's electoral vote by
175,000 to 200,000 majority. Mr. Phelps
should move to Texas, liecome a thorough
western democrat and grow up with this
great state and the west.
FVIiNISII1 NO THE STATE CAPITOL.
It appears that the appropriation for fur-
nishing the state capitol and grading the
grounds does not go into effect until about
the 10th of August. As the commission to
be appointed to adopt the plans and style
of furniture will require a month at least
for this work, and then a month to adver-
tise for proposals, it appears that the suc-
cessful bidder will scarcely go to work to
manufacture the furniture until October.
To manufacture the furniture will require
six months' time. This is understood to be
tho estimate of leading manufacturers'
agents as to the time required. So, then,
the capitol will not be furnished until tho
Twenty-first legislature has adjourned.
But it is suggested that the governor has
concluded that, as the money is doing no
good in the treasury and the furniture is
very greatly needed, the commissioners may
be selected without being appointed and may
go to work selecting styles and preparing
to immediately advertise for bids the mo-
ment tho law goes into effect. This appears
to be a business-like mode of procedure, and
clearly within the law. The commissioners
should be able to visit other state capitols,
examine other styles of furniture and learn
something as to the merits of the different
manufactures and relative expense. An old
faded document in the secretary of state's
office has been found which furnishes a
precedent for this course. When the old
capitol was to be furnished Governor Bell
appointed one Kirk state agent, to visit the
various state capitol buildings, examine the
furniture and adopt styles of furniture for
the Texas state house. The old document
referred to is the contract between Govern-
or Bell and this agent, and contains explicit
instructions which were faithfully carried
out. There is no better plan tliau this.
THE O'BIi IEnJj1LLON~I'1IA SE OF
IRISH POLITICS.
"It is hardly necessary to point out the
almost ludicrous misconception formed by
Tin: News of the parts played by O'Brien
and Dillon in the Irish political arena,"
says Mr. Flavin in a communication, which
appears in another place, criticising an edi-
torial that appeared some days ago in these
columns. But in this Mr. Flavin is the vic-
tim of a rather ludicrous misconception
himself when he says that The News re-
gards these gentlemen, if not as blather-
skites, as at least part of the mischiev-
ous element of which tho pope's
rescript promises to purgo the na-
tional league. The News does not regard
them simply as a part but as the head and
front of that element. There can be no doubt
about the exact meaning of tho language
of The News, and it is an unambiguous
piece of absurdity for Mr. Flavin to attempt
to make it appear that there w.as any am-
biguity in its words. The News said that it
believed that Mr. Dillon and Mr. O'Brien
had run to excess in their zeal and had
adopted methods to accomplish their ends
that Ji£d 4p£e gjorp t? iiy^i'V tke cape pf
Ireland with law-abiding and justice-loving
peoplo of all nations than all the de-
vices of tho avowed enemies of Ireland
had ever done. It will not do for Mr.
Flavin to bolster up O'Brien and
Dillon by suggesting that if they are
blatherskites Mr. Gladstone must bo a
blatherskite also, because he aligned him-
self with them in an aggressive warfare
across the floor of the house of commons.
There is a vast difference between the in-
struments used in parliamentary debate and
those employed in the campaign and the
boycot. The News ih not so inconsequent
as to assume, with Mr. Flavin, that because
Dillon and O'Brien were right on the floor
of the commons they must be right in every
word or act which in the remotest way is
associated with the fight for Irish home
rule. When Dillon and O'Brien were
fighting side by side with Mr. Glad-
stone they . were using legal and
moral means to further the cause of Ireland,
but when during tho illness of Mr. Parnell
they took the bits in their teeth and adopted
the course which has received the cen-
sure from Rome, Mr. Flavin knows as well
as any one that Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Par-
nell did not follow them. This fact alone
shows how absurd it is to attempt to blend
their names with the names of Gladstone
and Parnell, either for the purpose of praise
or censure. In conclusion Mr. Flavin has
something to say about homo rule and
Rome rule. With this The News has noth-
ing to do, but it will be greatly surprised if
the result of the pope's condemnation of
the plan of campaign and tho boycot does
not demonstrate that ho has more influence
with the Irish people than Mr. O'Brien, Mr.
Dillon, or even Mr. Flavin himself.
The communication of Abilene County
which appears in another part of to-day's
News will be read with pleasure by all
those interested in the subject of deep
water. Abilene County leaves the well-
beaten paths and presents some new argu-
ments tending to show the truth of what
The News has so long maintained, that the
peoplo in the interior aro quite as much in-
terested in the question of deep water as
those living on the coast. The picture he
draws of tho future of the Pauhandle coun-
try after deep water is secured on the Texas
coast is an inspiring one and should stimu-
late the people of that section to unite with
those of tho balance of the state in their
efforts to secure what Texas must have—
a deep water outlet worthy of the name.
This talk of running Blaine through the
Chicago convention with a grand whoop
and hurrah has excited the fears of the
friends of the other candidates and of the
better class of republicans. The Philadel-
phia Telegraph says:
It is not by any means going too far to describe
the latest phase of the Blaine movement as a
conspiracy to destroy tlie republican party. In-
deed, the movement has been this all along,
although the'destruction of the party was cer-
tainly not tlie aim of a vast, number of the ac-
tive supporters of Mr. Blaine, however muoh
the intemperate utterances of some of them may
have seemed to indicate a party-smashing dis-
position on their part. But a small number of
those who have figured as Blaine's lieutenants
have from first to last shown a more malignant
disposition toward the opponents of Blaine In
the republican party than they have toward his
democratic opponents; and it is well known
that, they care nothing for the party ex-
cept for what they may maka out, of it.
Republican success that would leave them out
in the cold would be valueless, and would bo to
tiiem even lets desirable than the election of the
democratic ticket. Therefore It they can not
win in their own way they (lo not care to win at
all, but would rather that the party which they
can not manage for their own ends should go
out of existence. It is not believed that any ad-
vocate of Mr. Blaine for the republican candi-
dacy believes that lie can be elected, or can
come within many thousands of votes as near to
an election as he did in 1884. Consequently his
candidacy, making defeat inevitable, will mean
nothing more nor less than an attempt to crush
the pari y bv those within its ranks who are bent
o:i ruining if they can not rule. We repeat, with
all possible emphasis, that a serious revival of
Mr. Blaine's candidacy at this time will have to
be regarded as a conspiracy for the destruction
of the republican party.
J. M. Amiott, general corresponding sec-
retary of the Railway Agents' association
of Texas, has just issued a call for a state
convention, to be held in Waco on July 10.
The objects of tho association are outlined
in the call, which says:
The association is organized for tho purpose
of, 1, relieving financially our members, and
upon their death their families dependent upon
them for support; 2, to reduce to a minimum
the premium on our bonds or organizing a de-
partment to furnish our bonds; a, to yield our
employers better service and enjoy tho usual
benefits of co-operation; 4, to build up our
employer's business in all honorable ways, and
not for one moment to clesert the vast railway
interests we endeavorto reprcsent,and to guard
zealously the trusts which we have, assumed;
5. to maintain throughout the entire service
the highest principles of fidelity,
moderation and integrity. Wo are
an association unconditionally opposed
to all strikes or sentiments which tend in that
direction, and to anything detrimental to the in-
terests of the railway property of the country.
Under the abovo declaration of principles wo
propose to organize the Texas division, ami we
invito all agents within the state to unite with
ns. All applications received prior to the meet-
ing will be placed on the list of charter mem-
bers. Agents desiring to make application can
fill out the inclosed blank and forward it to
either of the corresponding secretaries, fees
payable upon organization of the division.
Tiie republicans are much disturbed by
the discovery that bandana rhymes with
Indiana and that both rhyme with ho-
Abvicfs from Chicago contain very little
information as to the real situation there
beyond the fact that Blaine's boom ap-
parently increases instead of diminishes as
the time draws near for the convention to
make its decision. There is a varying in
the strength of other candidates who are
fairly before the convention, but tho man
behind the scenes is evidently the favorite
by a large majority.
It is a singular argument that the friends
of Blaine are using when they say that
his nomination means a refuge from per-
sonal rivalries.
Interesting Indeed.
The Washington correspondent of the
Alexandria Gazette says:
•'On the 26th instant the national demo-
cratic committee will meet hero. On the
same day the committee appointed by the
national democratic convention to notify
the president officially of his renomiuation
will discharge that agreeable duty.
"It is believed that no other suitable man
wants the chairmanship of the national
democratic committee, and that Mr. Bar-
num, though he is tired of it, will be forced
to accept it for another term, and that Mr.
Gorman will again be chairman of tho ex-
ecutive committee of that committee."
And Mr. Barnum ar.d Mr. Gorman are
both weil known protectionist democrats.
[Richmond Examiner.
Questionable Solicitation.
Each clerk in the pension oflice at Wash-
ington has received a circular letter from a
Baltimore photographer, indorsed by Gen-
eral B.'ack, soliciting an order for one of Gen-
eral Black's photographs. It appears that
the general anticipated that lie wouid i
eeive the democratic
vice-presidency, had hi
a large number of cop
There being no pub.... .....,,,
now, an attempt is made to work them ctf
oi) tli? hapless c^erkg. [Kansas Citv .1 on mi i
L'EAU DORM ANTE.
Curled up and sitting on her feet
Within the window's deep euibrnsui'e
Is Lyuia; and across the street
A lad with eyes of roguish azure.
Watches her burled in her book.
In vain ho tries to win a look,
And from the trellis over there
Blows sundry kisses through the air,
Which miss the mark and fall unseen,
Uncared for- Lydia is thirteen.
My lad, if you, without abuse,
Will take advice from one who's wiser,
And put his wisdom to more uso
Than ever yet did your adviser;
It' you will let, as none will do,
Another's heartbreak serve for two.
You'll have a care, some four years hence.
How you lounge there by yonder fence,
And blow those kisses through that screen—
For Lydia will bo seventeen.
_ [T. B. Aldrich.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Dr. A. Ij. Chapin, the venerable ex-presi-
dent of Beloit college, who was recently stricken
with paralysis, was graduated at Yale in 1637,
and seven years later went toMilwaukee, where
he wus a Presbyterian pastor for twenty-four
years.
Mrs. Alice J. Shaw, the whistler, has
walked straight into the inner cirela of society
at tho British capital. She has whistled to the
prince of Wales and has already become one of
the most sought-after lionesses of the season.
Mr. Melville W. Fuller, who has been
nominated for chief Justice of tho United
SI ales supreme court, is reported to have visited
,c.in Francisco recently in secret. He went
there on business, and kept his identity hidden
from the public because he wished to avoid be-
ing talked with by newspaper men.
The son of Senator Butler of South Caro-
lina has just been graduated from West Point
at tho foot of his class. But ho may make a
successful officer for all that. Lieutenant
Clark, who was graduated some years ago with
the lowest average ever made at the academy,
was the only officer in General Miles' last cam-
paign who was mentioned in general orders.
Mrs. Cleveland has grown warmly inter-
ested In lawn tennis. She Is having a court pre-
pared at Oak View. Tennis racquets have no
fascination for President Cleveland, however.
Mrs. Cleveland has tried in vain to make her
husband promise to learn the game. A com-
promise has been reached whereby Mr. Cleve-
land consents to act as referee while Mi's. Cleve-
land plays against an Oak View guest.
Senators continue to treat each other with
that gentle courtesy so befitting their station.
Tiie finance committee of the sonats was debat-
ing a knotty point a few days ago, and Mr. Beck
could not be persuaded that Mr. Vance had been
accurate in a certain statement. "Why don t
you put it, iu writing?" asked Senator Beck
sternly. "What, you say goes in at one oar and
out at the other." "Ah," retorted Vance, "that's
because tbero's nothing there to stop it." There
aie those who point to this as a brilliant exam-
ple of senatorial repartee,
Mr. Alfred Nobel, the inventor and chief
manufacturer of dynamite, is emphatically a
man of peace, and deplores the use of the ex-
plosive as a destroyer of human life. "If I did
not regard it as on the whole a great blessing to
humanity," he said recently, "I would close up
all my factories and never make another ounce
of the stufT." Ho detests tho use of dynamite
by tlio anarchists, and when he heard of the
Haymarket butchery at Chicago, lie exclaimed;
"I would liko to gather the whole crowd of
them into a storehouse full of dynamite and
blow them all up together."
POLITICAL DRIFT.
nomination for the
s picture taken and
ies were struck off,
demand for them
The Irish vote which Blaine undoubtedly
received in this city in 1884 did not go to
him because Pat Ford was yelling for
Blaine and dynamite in the same breath,
but because of the influence of John Kelly
and the Catholic church. Kelly is dead,
Tammany is enthusiastically and loyally
for Cleveland, and the Catholic church no
longer takes any interest in Mr. Blaine.
[New York Evening Post.
Mr. Cleveland, I believe, will be elected,
and elected triumphantly. The campaign
will bo most intense and bitter, for on one
side is the strength of a great principle, on
the other the power of enormous special in-
terests, appealing to prejudice, timidity
and ignorance. [Henry George.
To Ford in the doldrums it doth appear
that folly and selfishness will have it all
their own way at Chicago. In which case
the prayerful editor will in his melancholy
fashion enjoy a season of prayer and politi-
cal independence. Let the stricken deer go
weep. [Chicago Times.
Only idiocy or malico would prompt such
a policy as that proclaimed in the New-
Huston interviews. The Harrison or
hara-kiri programme will not work. [Chi-
.cago Tribune.
Tho New York Times thinks that the
coming campaign will be a campaign of
education 1n tariff matters. We trust that
Mr. Geo. Jones' mind is in a receptive con-
dition and that he will pay strict attention.
[H. C. Journal.
The New York Voice, organ of prohibi-
tion, says that "the great burning issue is
the bloody shirt vs. the red bandana."
In an editorial approving the nomination
of Mr. Cleveland, the editor of Harper's
Weekly says of the Chicago convention:
"There is no commanding figure among the
probable candidates, and the inspiration of
the convention will be apparently hatred of
mugwumps and devotion to Mr. Blaine."
The Commercial-Gazette says: "No rec-
ord would come to light or could come that
would harm Sherman." No. Ha is about
as dark already as a man could be painted.
[Richmond Examiner.
A Fair Sample.
A long lockout is threatened of the em-
ployes in the iron mills. The manufactur-
ers have put their heads together and have
determined to starve the market by reduc-
ing the output within certain limits, that
so'they may be, in a position to heighten the
price of their product,. As a first step to
ward this end, they intimate to their work-
men a reduction of 10 per cent in wages;
and when the workmen object, they resolve
on a lockout. The lockout is part of a pre-
concerted plan, and will extend in the pres-
ent instance, it is said, until September.
That is a fair sample of the manner in
which labor is "protected" in tho protected
industries of the east. The manufacturers
are entitled to starve the market and their
men at the same time, because they them-
selves are shielded from damaging compe-
tition by a tariff of nearly $7 on every ton
of iron and double that amount on every
ton of steel. But it is a terrible commeii-
taay on the much-lauded advantage of a
high tariff to working people. [New Or-
leans States.
An Unexpected Answer.
"Darling," said he, tenderly, "I have
made up my mind to ask you—to ask
you " "Yes," she whispered, breath-
lessly, "to ask you to become my wife.@31
know, dearest, that it is bold, it is pre-
sumptuous for me to do so. You aieso
much superior to me. I am, I feel, un-
worthy of you, bin " "But what, dear-
est?" "Half a loaf is better than no bread."
IBoston Courier.
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City Life. .
The pluck of the three girls at Portland,
Ore., who, being insulted on the street by a
hackman, thrashed him soundly with his
own whip, can hardly be commended to all
young ladies, hut in tlie light of the fact
that in most of our cities a young lady can
hardly walk -he streets without meeting
some insult from low, currish ruffians, often
well dressed, it is refreshing now and then
to sea one of these loafers get something
iijys iiv 4y«?rv<?s- [Chicago %ims.
SPECIAL GOTHAM NEWS.
JOSEPH PULITZER'S INFIRMITY CP
THE EYES ALARMING.
New York, June 17.—[Special]—Joseph
Pulitzer, editor and proprietor of the World,
is blind. He sailed for Europe yesterday in
the hope of having his eyesight restored by
rest and expert treatment. His vision is
practically gone, for he can only see a con-
fusion of black spots. The disease is a com-
plication of myopsy and paresis of the op-
tic nerves, and it has resisted the efforts of
the best oculists in America, who can give
to him only the faintest confidence of bene-
fit from a foreign trip. Mr. Pulitzer
spent several months on the Pacific
coast, hoping to ajleviate the trouble
by a change of air, and trusting that rest
and the character of the climate at Mon-
terey would be productive of some substan-
tial benefit to him. He returned consider-
ably improved in his general health, but iu
regard to his eyesight he had not profited
appreciably. Any trip which he may make
is likely to be productive of ease to his eyes,
if for no other reason, at least, from the fact
that he does not tax them as severely as
when in Now York exercising the fullest
supervision of the World. Largely as he
commits tho conduct of the paper to the
keen astuteness and tremendous vigor of
Colonel John A. Cockerill. he lias all along
devoted a great measure of his own intense
vitality to the
guidance of his .journal.
His doctors constantly tell him, "Yon
must give up work if you want to restore
tho vigor of your sight." Even on bis trav-
els he followed the daily progress of his
sheet by the vigilant optics of a private sec-
retary, who furnished to him a complete
daily digest of its contents. But he had not
his eyes strained as he did when he devoted
hours to work at his elegant private office
iu Park row. On his recent return to town
he resumed his old habits and blindness en-
sued.
The trouble with Mr. Pulitzer's eyes is
not recent in its origin, though the more
acute trouble from which he suffers has
made their failure a source of alarm. A
radical weakness of vision is a congenital
defect with him. It was until now simply
weak sight. One eye has always been de-
ficient in strength, so that if he closed the
other objects were not distinguishable save
in the vaguest way. Yet he did not wear
glasses as a rule except colored ones, which
may soften the action of strong sunlight on
the eye.. This was almost the slightest
measure which prudence
could suggest, and he did so far submit to
treatment for his ocular weakness as to
wear these.
Colonel Cockerill, to-day, said: " The
trouble comes of myopsy. Mr. Pulitzer has
been bothered with this disposition in his
eyes almost all his life. Of late it became
more serious, and he has been obliged to
yield to the positive command of his phy-
sician and the best oculists, who insist to
him that he will only injure his sight if, on
the slightest betterment, he attempts to use
liis eyes again iu daily work. They have
induced him to take this trip to give a pe-
riod of repose to his eyes, and rest, we hope,
will benefit them."
The hope, expressed by Colonel Cockerill
is not shared by many of Mr. Pulitzer's
friends. The paresis is a progressive dis-
ease, and not one which any surgical
operation of the eye, or any treatment of
any kind, will affect. A betterment of gen-
eral health may retard the affection, but it
is feared on good grounds that the blind-
ness wiii soou become total and permanent.
THE PLYMOUTH PASTORSHIP.
opposition of the beechep.s.
new York, June 17.—[Special]—The
widow of Henry Ward Beeclier has
identified herself with the opposition
to the new pastor of Plymouth
church, the Rev. Lyman Abbott. It
was her sentiment, as well as his own, that
Assistant Pastor Ilalliday voiced when he
opposed in a church meeting tho choice of
Abbott to take the place of Beecher. This
is one of the outcroppings of the old Beecher
and Tilton scandal. Before Tilton made his
charges against Beecher, the famous pastor
of Plymouth was ostensible editor
of the Cristiun Union, in which his
Friday night lectures were a feature,
and of which he was tlie figurehead. After
the blow at his reputation had been struck
he agreed with the stockholders of the
journal that it wouid be better for the paper
if he retired from active connection with it.
He was permitted to do so and Lyman Ab-
bott became his successor in tlie editorship.
It is not recollected by those familiar with
the action that Beecher felt aggrieved. He
seemed to take a business rather than a sen-
timental view of the situation, and was ap-
parently glad to be rid of all the load possi-
ble, in view of the grievous burden suddenly
put upon him. Abbott ceased at once to
publish any reports of Beecher's
lectures op. sermons.
That was expected. But Mrs. Beecher, it
seems, felt that the Christian Union ought
to warmly and squarely support her hus-
band through the ordeal of the scandal trial.
That it did not do, and the files of the. paper
will yield no word of sympathy for its ex-
editor in his troubles. Whether this policy
arose from Abbott's personal preference or
not can not be decided. One who has all
along been near to Mrs. Beecher tells me
that she believed Abbott to be an enemy.
On the other hand it is urged that
he simply did the best thing for
the prosperity of the periodical.
At all events, when it was proposed to put
Abbott into Beecher's pulpit, the widow ■
expressed herself in emphatic language
against it. Ilalliday was her closest friend
in tlie church, and he jirocecded to organize
all the opposition possible to the calling of
Abbott. When this movement failed and
Abbott was made the pastor Hal May, in
his staunch loyalty to the Beeehers, re-
signed his office. Plymouth church has not
only lost Henry Ward Beecher, but all the
living Beeehers have gone out of it.
rose ELIZABETH CLEVELAND
resigns her position.
New Yoiik, June 17.—[Special]—Miss
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has gone off for a
summer vacation at Holland Patent, her
old home, in the neighborhood of Rome,
N. Y. She will not return in the fall as a
member of the faculty cf Madame Reed's
school for girls. Her severance of relations
with this institution is not a result of disa-
greement or unpleasantness. Miss Cleve-
land found that the duties were more
exacting than she bad anticipated, and
that she was not inclined to devote her-
self wholly to them, as she felt in
honor bound to do. On the other hand,
Madam Reed became convinced that, al-
though she had secured in Miss Cleveland
an uncommonly able instructress, the en-
gagement wasopento the suspicion of being
an advertising dodge, and, therefore, was
not beneficial to the reputation of a swell
school. There was no departure from har-
mony between the parties, and it simply
amounts lea separation agreeable on either
band. With tho pupils Miss Cleveland was
just
-i TRIFLE TOO AUSTERE
to be extremely popular, although she got
along first rate with tiie young bellesj and
He Has Gone to Kurope for Treatment—
Plymouth Church Imbroglio — The
lieeehei s Oppose Abbott's Suc-
cession—Hose E. Cleveland.
generally considered exceptionally interest
ing as a lecturer on history ami English,
literature. Miss Cleveland will stay a
month or six weeks at home and then spend
the ensuing month with President Cleve-
land's family. Just before she left New
York she did some shipping for liec
brother's wife, anil the things pui>
chased included a fine set of lawn
tennis utensils and several striped
and spotted blouses for Mrs. Cleveland ta
wear while playing the game. It seems(
that a tennis court has been prepared ao
Oak View, and that Mrs. Cleveland has
taken a great fancy to t he sport. The teiH
ills blouses are a new feature of the sea*
son's dress, and will take the place toai
large extant of the jersey waists formerly
worn by feminine tennis players. They arq
loose siioques of fine silk and wool, belten
at the vyaist, and extending over the skirll
several inches below that point.
THE FUNNY PEOPLE.
In Society—He—Ah, Miss Filbert, I hav®
just completed another poem.
She—Indeed, Mr. Peanut? How charming^'
What is the subject?
He (hopeles-siy)—^The same old conceit^'
Miss Filbert,: the same old conceit. .
She (sweetly)—Ah, un autobiography, Mr«'
Peanut. [Washington Critic.
As the last notes of Co:nin' Through thq
Rye trembled on the air she turned to hei/
escort and said: ,
"Is it not exquisite, Colonel Blood?"
"Ye-es," assented tlie colonel in a half-
hearted tone of voice, "the air is fine, butt
down our way, Miss Breezy, we go in mors
for Bourbon, you know." [New York Sun,
St. Gall won only third place in the
Grand Prix of Paris. If General Boulan-
ger is superstitious this will appear om-
inous to him. [New York Sun.
Omaha Girl—Is Indianapolis society lively
just now? Indianapolis Girl—Yes, indeed.
Last week Mrs. Fatcontract gave a grand
ball, Mrs. Divy had a full-dress party and &
5 o'clock, and Mrs. Sim Coy gave a polite
reception and drawing room at the peni-
tentiary. [Omaha World.
Western papers are discussing the vital
question: "What makes a man's trousers
bag at the knees?" and no one has thought!
to advance the theory tha it is because tha
man wears the trousers. We don'tknow o(
anything that will malto a man's trousers
bag at the knees quicker than wearing
them. [Norristown Herald.
"I see by the papers that Maude Jenkin?
son has made a great strike n t :at play,
The Gauzy Spectre." "Yes, In 11 hear she
has met with a severe loss." "vVliat was
that?" "Why, she left foOOO worth of dia-,
monds on her bureau in her hotel." "And
they were stolen, eh?" "No, she found
them justwhereshe left them, and of course
nothing was said about it in the papers.'?
[Springfield Union.
"The bulk of my fortune I wish to be*
queath to my scapegrace nephew George '»
said the dying man. "Why, it was only,
yesterday he called you an old skinflint,,"
said the lawyer. "I'd cut the bny off.",
"That's all right," replied the t s.titorv
"You make the will out the way I tell you.
I know enough about wills to know that if
I leave him all the money he won't get a>
cent of it." [Harper's Bazar.
COMMUNICATION FROM HEMPSTEAD.
.Hard Lines of n News Correspondent lie-
tween Two Local Pactions.
To Tho News.
Hempstead, Tex., June 14.—Your corrc*
spondent from this place doubtless has dis«
covered some law unknown to the writer/
In one part, of his communication published
in your paper of yesterday he intimates that),
if not unlawful it is radically wrong foif
deputy sheriffs to carry arms, while he ap-
proves and justifies the city marshal and lii j
force in committing the same breach oB
moral law. This smacks very much of fa-,
voritism, of which breach of consistent fair*
ncss, impartiality and disinterested motive^
a News reporter should not be guilty, aa
readers of your paper expect fairness iu ail
things.
The inference deducible froni the publica-
tion referred to is, that the two opposing
parties are the sheriff and his deputies, the.
city marshal and his followers. If this is
the case will your reporter inform f lic pubt
lie why he condemns the one and justilieU
the other?
The opinion of the thinking and disin-
terested citizens of this place is that unless
some steps are taken by Governor Ross to
disarm men who walk the streets with shot-"
guns and six-shooters, whether officer on
citizen, who live in this place, war is in-«
evil able; that is, if your correspondent, of
yesterday is posted.
I am informed by Sheriff McDade that tha
reason given by Marshal Pinckney for np\'
pointing several assistants was that liC|
wanted as many as he (McDade) had. Whjv,
did he want them? Was it because he cx\
peeted to force war on the sheriff and hi#
deputies, or was it to regulate them ?
The good people of the vicinity are tire®
of the tone of the communications of youtt
reporter. They bode no good for the quietf
and peaceable citizens or the bad and tur»,
bulent. It is calculated to bring about «,!
collision between the contestants thai!
should be avoided.
It is a mystery to many why the city mar*,
shal and his friends should be so pro-
nounced ngainst the sheriff and his friends,
as inferred from the letter of the correspon-
dent of yesterday, for certainty. The sheriff
and at least some of his friends have in days;
past befriended some of the other partyj.
when friendship was worth more than doW
lars ami cents.
Hoping that you will use your influence
to have your correspondent cast off his wart
paint and don the garb of the peaceable;
quill driver, I am, yours truly, \
H.M.Browne.
P. S.—I write this by request of parties
who want peace and qiiiet, with the request!,
that, you publish the same. H. m. I). '
SAN ANTONIO NEWS SIFTINGS.
Personal Mention—Heavy Kaiiis—1!manci-
pation Day—The Fourth of July.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Juno 19.—Hon. J. F,
Miller and T. F. Howard of Gonzales lefti
here this morning for Galveston to"attend
tlio bankers' convention.
Heavy rains fell last night in the county
southeast of San Antonio and washed away
a bridge and some track on the Aransas
Pass railway.
Tiie firemen will celebrate the Fourth of
July by a grand parade and barbecue, iii
which the public generally will participate.
Cards have lieen issued for the weddinjj
of Mr. Theodore F. Meyers of Dallas" and
Mrs. Ida Herff, nee Kampmann, of this
city. The wedding will take place at tho
family residence next Wednesday morning,
when the contracting parties will leave on
an extended tour of this country and Eun
rope.
Emancipation day will ba celebrated to-
morrow by the colored people on an exten»
sive scale.
Primitive Reasoning1. ;
A little girl who had spent fivo years of}
her life in a very retired place in the coun»
try had never happened to see a colored per-
son. She loved to be out of doors—indeed,
spent the most of her time playing in the
yard—but she never would keep a hat op
bonnet on her head, and her mother often
told her that she would grow black with
sunburn. A cousin who visited her about
that time had some photographs with her,
and among them was one of a little colored
child. Gracie looking them over, paused at
this one, was silent for a little, and then
softly whispered to herself: "So that is
what comes of playing bare-headed out in
the sun."
Tho American is an energetic vandal in
carrying away relics. It is said that "ta
such an extent has vandalism been carried
on at the new court-house in Pittsburg thafj
visitors are no longer admitted. Some ofl
the miscreants chipped handsomely orna-
mented marble pillars and did much other
irreparable damage."
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