The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-05-23

edge of the volcanic surges that smoulde
beneath the sartorial scores of Mr.. Oscs
Wilde. Perchance, at this very moment
in the lesfy suburbs of the gay capital
but will not think of I'll
EMBEzzLEMENT IN TEE GRAPHIC.
The Graphic has been unfortunate il
some of its most truted servants. II i
only two or three years ago that the cashie
OF the stamp department defaulted in tn
sum OF So 900 or so, and now it is suddenl,
discovered, to the CONSERVATION of Mr.
Goodsell, that the treasurer of the establish
ment, Mr.. Dunckby, is nearly SAC, 600 short
The revelation has been kept out of tht
newspapers, though some scores of mer
have known it for more than q week.
don't know where Dunckby Is now. Or
Saturday was told that he was in LudloN
street jail, but yesterday it was said that ht
was simply under arrest, and that detectives
were trying to find out what he did with
the money. / asked for him at the desk
yesterday, and was blsndly told that he
was tout of town Tor q week" Dunckby
came in as treasurer some two or three years
ago-from Canada, think. He seemed a
business qualifications His appearance
would beget confidence anywhere. He was
not loud about Sunday schools, but, on the
otker hand, he drove no fast horses, smoked
few cigars, drank not at sll, did not gamble
or speculate in Wall street, and had only
one wife and lived with her. He was phe.
nomenally quiet and respectable. But he
stole $40, O0O in three years and put it into
houses in Brooklyn, lithogrsphic establish.
ments, grocery stores, wild land, etc.-buy-
ing an interest in everything that offered
and officiating as ""silent partner" There
is less sympathy felt for him than there
would be il he had been the prey of some
overmsstering temptation. 1t is queer
case. And the trouble comes at time when
the Graphic had Just lost Its great contract
of stamp. printing for the Government aud
has been compelled to reduce its force
more than two thirds. 1t seems
as if daily illustrated paper
ought to be supported somehow, and it has
thousands of friends who hope it will pail
through.
THE UNION COLLEGE ROW.
Grow" rhymes with "now, mot with ''go,"
and slludes to quarrel not boat race.
Have you any Union College boys out your
way? 1t is in heap of trouble. Family
quarrels are VIGOROUSLY odious and bitter
The Union squsbble is no exception to the
rule. The fight has ragged for years, now,
between the president, Rev. Z. N Potter,
and his faculty. The faculty, with two ex-
captions, Foster, senior professor, and Ash.
more, recently appointed, resolved to make
an effort to get rid of the president at the
last commencement in June. Formal
charges of incompetency and unworthiness
were made against him. The Board of Trus-
tees held many and protracted sessions dur.
ing the summer, and msj ority asked DR..
Potter to resign his office. At y subsequent
meeting, when more of the presidents
friends were present and one of the opposi-
ton was absent in Europe, the vote was re-
considered and revoked. DIR. Potter read
q formal letter in which he re used to resign.
Matters went along thus until a few weeks
ago when one of the board, Mr.. ID. q. Rob-
inson, staunch opponent Of Dr.. Potter,
had introduced and passed through both
Houses of the Legislature q bill "to relieve
the State officers of certain trusts" This
was a little trick. 1t seems that during the
presidency of DIR. Eliphilet Mott, the grand
father OF the present incumbent, grand
lottery was devised for the benefit of Union
College, and, to excite public confidence in
1t, State Officers were made ex-officio men,
bers of the Board of Trustees. They have
eminent, and probably some of them were
ignorant of the existence of the institution.
Mr.. Robinson, with their concurrence, un-
dertook this winter to legislate them
out of Office, and provide that the
vacancies be filed by the alumni associa-
ton next June. Among the alumni Presi-
cent Potter is in q minority of two to one.
The bill was discovered on the Governors
table the other day just in time to rescue it
from his signature and it was recalled BY
the Senate and killed. What next2 No
body knows. Dynamite perhaps. The
faculty and alumni assert that the Presi-
dent has tempered with the treasurer's books
without authority; that he is incompetent,
both as an instructor and discipliDsrisn !;
that he has wasted the income of tie Co..
lege in various ways. Rev. DR.. Backus and
Judge Potter Of Schenectady, who have been
Trustees for generation, are leading the
opposition. What the next move will be is
uncertain, but the President is arousing such
snimoesties on all hands that he will prob
ably be pushed out st last.
FUN FOR NEXT WINTER.
1t looks now as if next winter would be q
star season in New Yol drama and oper q.
Booth will be home again; Irving, Miss
Terry and company of fifty will sail from
London to New York on October IL;
Mspleson has engaged Patti, Gerster, and
probably, L1cca; and Abbey has contracted
| with Nilsson and Sembrich. one of the
worlds greatest Lucas. If the twJ impress
ssrios can be kept in quarrel, New York
is sure of COED time in opera. Mapleson
has the Academy and the new Grand Opera
House on Broad way at Fortieth streets TO be
finished by September, and lighted with cleo
tricity. In style it is English renaissance,
and it Is so awkward in its present contour
that do not see how any finish can make
it dignifed or impressive. 1t occupies one
of the most eligible and adaptable sites in
the city; it is a pity that it is to be, at least
externally, plebeian.
BERGH AND THE RED RAFT.
Bergh manages to keep busy some how.
It is q cold day for him when he can not find
dog that requires protector. Francis B.
Cooke is in the business of supplying steam.
ers with air mattresses, put together In
small sections like pillows, and blown
up separately. These may be used for
RATS in case eff shipwreck, each one
having bouysncy of a ton. Mr.. Cooke
sdvertises to take an excursion party of re-
porters ten miles out at sea in the evening.
and then put overheard an air mattress, and
q man, woman and dog, and then steam
back, leaving them in the dark TO get ashore
as they can Mr.. Bergh has come TO the
rescue Of the dog, and insists that only the
human beings shall be subjected to the i'm
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