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Connecticut western news., 1885-11-25
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Another of Those Intelligent Dogs.
Tomaha Republican,


''This dog" said the Judge. belonged to
friend of mine, who used always to take him
out with him. The dog used to wait outside
for him when he went in to call on a friend.
One night they were very merry party and
they kept it up late. My friend got very
drunk. The dog finally got restless and be-
gan to howl A champagne bottle flung at
him from the window just passed his nose,
and he smelt it and shut up. About clock
in the morning my friend came out. He
said goodnight, shut the door, walked III by
the garden gate all over the fower-beds, and
finally unable to get out, he lay down on
rosebush and went to sleep. The dog
watched by HIM till the milkman came
along in the morning, picked him up and
took him home"
That's nothing said the doctor.
"YOu Just wait minute. Two or three
nights later he went and called on his friend
again and took the dog with him. The dog
visited outside a little while and began to
howl. Another champagne bottle was
thrown at him. he smelt it, winked to him.
self, and trotted off He went home
scratched at the door till the servant girl
opened it, attracted my friends wife's atten-
ton. made her follow him to pile of planks
and whined till they got out a very long and
broad one Then he directed Thorn to where
his master was, and when the door-bell rang
and the door opened, the jewellers found the
dog my friends wife, the servant and a
stretcher. The dog knew what was needed,
you bet
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
Our Weekly Illustrated Budget From the
National Capital
Appointment Clerk Higgins-First Assistant
Postmaster General StevenSon-DIc-
CaImont, Commissioner of
Customs.

WAsHNGToE, July 10.-There have been
some very busy men in Washington this
week despite the hot weather. Probably the
busiest of the busy ones have been the new
First Assistant Postmaster General, the
much written of appointment clerk OF the
Treasury, and the Commissioner of Customs,
who is doing double duty in the closing up
of the years work and in keeping an eye to
the appointments of his Bureau The busiest
part of the Treasury month ago was the
Internal Revenue Bureau, where the Col
lectors were being turned oat and the new
ones put in. Most of these, however, have
been attended to, and there is comparative
quiet in this part OF the Treasury. In the
Customs Bureau however, there are good
many "rascals' yet to turn out" There
are Collectors or Surveyors of Customs at
nearly all the important interior cities, and
at all the ports of any importance. These
have a large number of assistants under
them, making the Customs force number
many thousands of employees. These
are now being turned out" Col
lectors and Surveyors of Customs
have been appointed at a number of
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-15
A SUMMER SONG.

Oh, lovely sunbeams through the meadows dane
ing.
On golden pinions. all the liyelong day.
Kissing young leaves, on crystal streamleH glanc-
Changing to living gold their silver sprayl
wooing the daisy in her grassy bed.
Till the Shy flower unconsciously uncloseS
Her dewgemmed leaves, and bushes rosy redl
Gliding gray rocks, on rugged mountains stream
Bidding the flowers in sheltered hooks awake.
Calling Young song birds from their happy dream
Waking the laughter of the dimpling lake
Playing '.Bo-peep" amid the white buds blowing
In pearly clusters ON the hawthorn tree.
To the round eyes of wondering childhood show
The rapid journeyings of the wandering bee
Shedding a halo bright on youthful tresses.
Bidding young hearts for very rapture sing,
Touching the brow of care with kind caresSes,
Or glinting lightly on the skylark's wingl
In the glad footsteps of the rustic lass.
On sun-tanned cheeks and snow white kerchief
TwinKIing7 like freflies in the emerald grass.
Oh, lovely sunbeams, like blest angels gliding
Through courts OF squalor, sickness, want and
Telling of clouds like golden chariots riding
Proudly majestic DER world OF bloom;
OF winding lanes, and milk-white hOmesteads
Like modest virgins from secluded bowers:
vi SudllON pOOiS. anu DdDH slIcdullttc lcdplnS
In giddy gladness meath housekeeping flowers.
Dance. lovely sunbeams, through fair country
meadows,
Battle hill and cottage in your holy light.
From city siums go chase the mournful shadows
That fill poor homesteads with eternal night.
To those who pine in ignorance and sorrow
May all your tenderest, hottest gifts be given.
That sorrOwing hearts one ray of hope may Dor
I In the sweet knowledge that We come from
heayen
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the First Assistant must give his attention
runs considerably over As. 100. In many of
these the contest is just spirited as in the
larger offices which are left to the President
and Postmaster General to take care of.
The First Assistant has fine, large room
on the second floor OF the Post
Office Department. adjoining that OF the
Postmaster General himself, and there are
consultations between them on kNotty sub
jects. On the door Of his room is posted
notice: THE First Assistant Postmaster
General will see visitors between the hours
of 10 and u daily" During the hours his
room is crowded with visitors. Most Of
these are members of Congress or others in
terested in the appointment of small post
masters. Occasionally there are some OF the
aspirants themselves, but they are compare
hundred dollars year is scarcely worth q
trip to Washington, though it may
be considered subject for a
pretty stiff neighborhood contest. Mr.
Stevenson has happily q very able assistant
in Mr.. Fowler his chief clerk, who has been
for quarter of century in the department,
most OF his time in this particular work.
Often in the absence of the First Assistant.
Mr.. Fowler is left in charge of this work
and Is therefore very familiar with it, and of
great assistance to a new official in ASSUMING
this tremendous load of distributing 45.OO0
Offices Mr.. Stevenson has a warm summer
before him. Indeed some people suspect
that he has q tOlerably warm winter in store
too for OF course he will not have disposed
of his 1900 offices when Congress reassem-
bles. Every Congressman, when the new
session begins, will come with long list of
POstmasters in his district which he wants
displaced for some Democrat. The result
viii be yeE of very hard work for Mr.
Stevenson
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WON HER HEART.
An Accomplished Girl Elopes With a Rail-
road Hand.

LOCK HAVEN, Pa, July 11.-During the con-
struction of the Beech Creek, Clearfield and
Southwestern Railroad, a branch of the Wander
bilt system, two Italians worked in a construction
gang at Wayne who were OF better class than
the average, and, being good scholars in their ma
tive tongue, were DESTROYS OF exchanging their
knowledge for like accomplishment in English.
Living at Wayne was the daughter OF a. S. Stab
ley well-to-do merchant and Postmaster of the
village. No pains or money had been spared
upon this young lady's education, and at
the age OF twenty-five she was bright,
pretty girl of many accomplishments. To her
the ambitious Italians went and a mutual eX-
change of knowledge was agreed upon. The rail
road was finished and the Italians took their
leave. Miss Stabley afterwards received letters
from one of the Italians, but this course was not
thought irregular by her parents and no heed
was taken OF the future until last week. when Miss
Stabley came to Lock Haven ostensibly to attend
the Normal School Commencement, but as she did
not return that night her father came here, and,
on investigation, discovered that she bought a
ticket at the Pennsylvania station for Newark y.
j., and had her satchel and other baggage which
she had smuggled away from home checked for
the same place. To-day letter was received by
the parents telling of their daughters marriage to
the Italian at Newark.
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WALES NAME SMIRCHED.
RumOr duplicates the Prince i'm the Reveia-
tion Made by the Gazette.

NEW YORK. July 1.-the Worlds London cable
gram this morning is as follows: The origin of
the Pail Mall Gazettes articles was in the arrest of
woman known as 'Mme. Jeffries' for the abduc
ton of young girl from Holland. She occupied
one of the handsomest residences in Piceadilly.
but is understood to have owned and used for her
purposes some twenty other houses in various
parts of London. In her residence the police
seized a number of large and handsomely
bound volumes, in which she kept regular
debit and credit accounts OF her business
The entries embraced hundreds OF names
from the most exclusive circles in London. and
among them were those OF several wcllknown
II Is whispered that the original establishment
was founded through the direct patronage of the
Prince OF Wales ana the sllusio1 in the Ga5ettes
editorial yesterday afternoon: Let those who do
not wish TO shake the very foundation OF social
order think twice before compelling to con-
blood and prominent public men with victims of
their awless vice" gives foundation for this
rumOr.
the custom of only men of the highest rank or
social position. No one could enter
except as introduced by a person well known
her agents in various parts OF Great Britain and
the continent-and 3e apparently had many
agentS-yOung girls thirteen or fourteen years old
of lowly parentage. bring them to London. and
put them in charge of the best masters, not only
They were never allowed 10 go upon the streets
except under the charge of governess or maid,
and when duly educated and refined they would
be introduced TO her establishment.
Ii a rich patron happened 10 know of or hear
of some girl of the lower orders in whose betrayal
he did not wish TO be known. the woman would
send agent, generally female to her, and
by deception or persuasion, only too often
managed to secure her as a victim.
Her books show she was the in
termediata well for many women of good and
even the highest social position. The exposure in
this respect furnishes a shocking commentary
upon the condition of morals in the "better cir
cles'' of the metropolis. The entries in her books
go to show that she kept regular accounts with
some of her male patrons the amounts charged in
some instances reaching thousands of pounds.
Some of the entries show that she would tempo
rarily rent one of her houses to such patron.
with the furniture servants, and a skilled cook
an elegant and complete encourage in fact. No
money was paid by any patron directly. She
would render her account to him at regular inter
walls. and he would send the amount due by 4
messenger.
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Avenue Theater by ALA Norman, the new
American prinla donna. An undressing
scene in Era Diavolo" she makes the prin-
cipal one of the opera. Only beautiful wo-
men could do this, and Alta Norman has one
of the most beautiful forms that ever was
seen upon the stage. While singing of her
lover she removes the pins from her Italian
headdress and the apron, and then she grad
ually unfastens the laces of her bodice This
comes off and is gracefully folded on the
chair at her side. The warbling proceeds. and
the band about her waist is undOne. and she
steps out of her skirts for all the world like a
young girl at her mirror. But this is not ALL
for there is still q sort of Italian underwaist
of white muslin to remove. 1t takes some
time, for there are buttons and lacing to it
without end. The audience hold their breath
until il comes of, but il reveals shoulders
and arms that would make the glory of any
woman BY the time this is done ''Zerlina''
stands in aspecies of Princess chemisette and
all in white-not the slightest bit of lace or
furbelow-just what peasant girl would
have. Yet, withal, there is much less dis
played than one sees in any ballroom.
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How Civil Service Reform Works.


The case of young Mr.. Harley of Queen
Anne's County illustrates how civil servic
reform works when administered by Repub-
Hcans. Mr.. Harley is a Democrat. fresh
college graduate, and bright young law
yer, who made application to the Civil Ser
vice Commission for examination for the
postal service. He made the highest re-
cord among all who were examined at that
time-over ninety-six in possible 100. His
name was sent four times to Mr.. Adreon,
the Postmaster at Baltimore, but every
time Mr.. Adreon passed him by and APP
pointed Republican with lower exami-
nation record, and Mr.. Harley was then
ruled off the list of eligibles because he had
been rejected four times! Fortunately, Mr..
Veasey was able 10 correct the injustice
that had been done to Mr.. Harley. We
have not observed that the civil service
journals which come to this Office have
ever made any comments i'll the case OF
Mr.. Harley.
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SELF-DESTRUCTION.
A Young Man Kills Himself at the House of
His Beloved.

FOWLER. Ind, July 1.-THE death OF Charles l..
Deem by his own hand near TempletOn, this coun-
ty this morning. is the final and tragic ending OF
an affair that has excited the comment OF our
people for the past three days. Deem, who came
from Louisville and was visiting his cousin.
James Bell, of oxford. met and fell in love with
Miss Matte Pitman, of Virginia. who is stopping
with her uncle, Mr.. Jacob Harman.a wcll-to-
do and influential citizen OF this coun-
ty Deem had planned an elopement with
Miss Pitman and came to Fowler to get married.
but arrested upon his arrival here by the
authority of Mr.. Hartman. This happened last
Tuesday. This morning about O'Clock Mr.. Har-
man was awakened by some one shouting Miss
Pitman's name, and upon going to the door be
held Deem, who drew revolver and shot himself
twice through the abdomen and head and died al
most instantly Miss Pitman is a good-looking
and well-educated young lady Deem had never
met Miss Pitman until week ago Deems uncle,
who arrived to-day from Louisville, says his
nephew was only nineteen years old, and had a
wife and child in Louisville. The COr0ners YER
dict death by suicide. The remains were
taken to Louisville
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The Atchison Mystery.

ATcHIsoN, Kan, July n.-Excitement over the
murder of Miss May Baldwin grows more intense
as time passes. The mother of the murdered girl
returned from Ohio last night at II O'Clock, and,
although greatly shocked by the news OF her
daughters fate, consented to an examination,
which lasted until ! o'clock this morning. The
jury continued in session till O'Clock this morn
ing when they adjourned until tomorrow. 1t Is
now certain that robbery was not the intention oil
the murderer. 1t is supposed he cut out the
panels of one of the doors and ritied the bureau
drawers to disarm suspicion. The jury sat with
closed doors, hence it is difficult to gather
news of their session. Ii is certain however, that
information has been elected which points
strongly to an individual who can not now be
named but upon whom the public have singular
IN settled as the criminal. IL may he only sus-
picion but there are some strong reasons Tor IT,
The victim was buried to-day, the funeral services
being held at the residence and attended ey !,
great crowd. The prisoners at the county Jail
were terribly frightened last night by crowd
that gathered in front of the building upon a
rumor that an arrest had been made The jury
are making most thorough examination and a
verdict may not be reached for several days.
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places already, but there are still a good many
TO be looked after. In many of the cases
where charges have been made against officers
now holding these positions il has been found
necessary to investigate them, to look up the
character and especial fitness of the appli-
cants for place, and these. with the work of
finishing up the years wOrkeOf the most inn
pOrtant revenue branch of the Government,
keeps Commissioner McCalmont an extreme
ly busy man. The contests growing out of
some of these applications for office under
the customs bureau are very bitter. Talking
South Carolinian said: Il doubt if the Bit
terness that has been engendered in our State
over the distribution of some of the offices
will disappear in a whole generation. We
have never known anything like it, Why,
in one case the fight against a man who was
a candidate for position was so bitter and
so much excited his wife that she became i'll
and died. 1t was nothing but the direct re-
suit of this fight for office and the bitter per-
sonal attacks that were made upon her hus
band"
A buster man, however, than Mr. Nc
Calmont is the man nearer to the appointing
power, appointment Clerk Higgins. He is
the center of good deal of attention this
week. The New York Times, which aspires
to run the Cleveland administration, is at
lacking him bitterly day by day, and the
fight against him is about as hot as the
weather. He takes ii good naturally. how
ever. He is not especially thin-skinned, and
has no difficulty in getting his regular
amount of sleep, SO far as the newspaper at
tacks upon him go. Indeed it seems some
times as if he rather enjoyed it. He talks
smilingly of it, attends strictly to business,
and appears to be about as comfortable as
any man in Washington. He is a terror
to all Government employees, and sort of
jumbo to curiosity seekers. People who 90
to the Treasury all want to see Higgins. His
room in the southeast corner of the Treasury
building is always the center of attention.
Thousands who want office are obliged to go
there; thousands of others visit him through
curiosity. Some of these go boldly in to pay
their respects but the most of them are con-
tent with a peep at him through the
half open door. looking at him as they would
a museum curiosity. He is a worker.
and must be person of patience besides. He
has from 200 to 400 visitors every day. They
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The Administration Indorsed.
[Harper's weekly.l

1t is mere partisan fury to deny to a Presi-
dent who has done these things and who
was not elected upon declared party policy
of adhesion to reform, the strongest principle
and the highest courage Nor will any sin
cere friend of administrative reform deny
that such Executive action is of the utmost
service towards the final overthrow of the
OdiOus and un-American spoils system which
deprives the great body of American citizens
in both parties of free and equal chance to
secure a place in the employment of the
Government Certainly no voter who sup
ported Mr. Cleveland because he believed
him to be sincerely resolved upon reform
has yet had reason to regret his action.
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What Made Him Take His Feet Down.
[Chicago Herald

'Charles," said sharp-voiced woman to
her husband, ''do you know that you and L
once had a romance in a railway caro-
''Never heard OF il" replied Charles in
subdued tone.
II thought you hadn't but don't you re-
member that it was that pair of slippers 1
presented to you seven years ago last Christ
mas-the Christmas before we were married
that led to our union? You remember
how nicely they fitted, don't you? Well
Charles, one day when we were going TO a
picnic you had your feet up on seat, and
when you wasn't looking took your meas
ure. But for that pair of slippers / don't be-
lieve we'd ever been married"
A young, unmarried man sitting near by
Immediately took his feet down from seat
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them a prompt answer, and gets rid
of them. Sometimes the experienced
visitor asks for private audience, and when
this is granted Mr.. Higgins takes the privi-
legged person behind a little screen which is
stretched across the corner OF the room, and
there, in very low tones the case is gone
over.
Probably the man who has the biggest con-
tract on his hands, however, is the First As
sistant Postmaster General, Mr.. A L. Stew
enson. He is fairly installed in his new
position, and finds it one of very laborious
duties. There are about $1,000 Postoffices
which come directly under the hand and eye
of the First Assistant Postmaster General.
Only the offices which pay $1,000 year or
more counted worthy the attention of
the President or the Postmaster General
And there are only about 1000 of these, so
that the number of minor offices to which