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The Washington critic., 1886-02-16
WASHINGTON CRITIC
UEATHER INDICATIONS.

For the Middle Atlantic States colder,
fair weather winds becoming variable, ris-
ing barometer.
For Wednesday fair, colder weather Is In
dcatcd for the district bordering on the At
lantlc and In the lower lake region, and
fair weather with slowly rising temperature
In all districts east of the Rocky Mountains
Thermometer Readings.
Thermometer readings for February 10,
1876; 3 n. M, 3ioS; q. m, 9D'S; ! a., m,
$3.50. . p. M, - February 10; Mean
tcmperat,irc, 500 o.: maximum, GO, %; mini
mum, 8se g: mean relative humidity, II 3;
total precipitation 0.3 iuch
The Washington critic., 1886-02-16
Heal Estate Transfers.

ALL our city fathers say fuse Salvation
OH, the greatest cure on earth for pain 1t
costs only % cents.
The Washington critic., 1886-02-16
SUCCESSFUL

SUCCESSFUL
PURSUIT OF WEALTH
Involves judicious expenditure. No
man will ever get rich unless he knows
how to spend. "Sparing, TO Spend"
was the title of book TO instruct for.
mer generation in the correct princi.
pies of moral and political economy,
and 1t were never more applicable than
now. OF course you know all about
the sparing, and our part is to indi.
cate how TO spend.
We have opened this week
choice bargains in trowscrs.
Docs this notice find yours
thrcadbarc? If so we cX-
pect you to give us chance
to substitute. Whatever
your expectations, we are
in position to justify them.
We begin as low as SO for
all.wool Trowsers, and have
them up to IS, all equally
cheap; from SO to Ss, per.
fectly fitting.
Our efforts shall always be
directed to aid our friends
in judicious expenditure, and
that is why we are always
calling your attention in
these columns to our mutu-
ally beneficial offerings.
Nothing is cheap unless you
want it. but men are always
needing Trowsers, hence our
provision.
The Pantaloons we men.
toned above, just received,
were intended to fill some
gaps in our stock. 1t is true
we had already an enormous
quantity on hand, but no
matter how large, our ideas
of deficiency keep pace
with quantity; hence these
purchases and these prices,
S2.95, $40, S3.10, $500
and $3.50.
We wish il understood that
these are only additions. We
have great many more on
hand at various prices, and
just how many styles and
prices there are of them, a
look into one of our large
show-windows on the Sew
enth street front will disclose.
This is also the season for
party dress. We can give
you good Black Trowscrs as
low as SO, and those at IS
are as good to wear as any
l. &C Gt;11 I,
them higher yet. To go
with these we have nice
Black Cloth Vests, very low
or very high cut, for 81, $5
and SC.
After the Trowsers and Vest
have been purchased, If you
haven't one, full dress Coat
is necessary TO complete the
outfit. If you need q low
priced one for the dining
room servant we can sup.
ply you also.
Ours run from $40 to sea
per garment in price, and
we think that not only arc
our prices the lowest, bu
The Washington critic., 1886-02-16

Our efforts shall always be
directed to aid our friends
in judicious expenditure, and
that is why we are always
calling your attention in
these columns to our mutu-
ally beneficial offerings.
Nothing is cheap unless you
want it. but men are always
needing Trowsers, hence our
provision.
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make the dsmigsals and appointments In the
Pension Office, when he thought II necessary,
knd none were to be made without his order.
The facts In the leaked out among thescierks
who were all uncertain Of their positions, and
feeling ot relief exists among them.
1t seems that good deal of civil-service mis-
sionary work is necessary in this city. Attention
has been called TO the fact that the local civil
service boards, except that connected with the
Treasury Department, have not held any regu-
lar sessions for months and an inquiry has been
made to ascertain the reason of this. The in
curry has proceeded so far the Interior Depart
ment. IL appears that the president of the
board of civil-service examiners for that depart
ment is a clerk in the Pension Once under Gen.
Black, who is not counted among the most ar
dent friends of civil-service referm, and that
some other members Of this board are clerks In
divisions the heads of which openly denounce
the civilseFvice law. IL has also been ascer-
tanned that the 2ersons assigned TO these local
ctvil-service boards have, in Some instances oeen
given to understand that clerks who found
IL necessary to be absent from their
desks to attend to civil service or any
other outside business would be in danger of
losing their places. and that the condition of a
sure tenure was strict devotion TO routine duty.
In other words, whether with good reason or not,
the clerks who have long been assigned to these
local civil-serviee boards, with the conspicuous
exception OF the Treasury Department, have
considered themselves as under system OF ter
rorism. and have not performed any duty as
members of the boards. The President of the
Interior Department civilservice board has not
called any meeting of it. Statements of this
general character have, at all events, been
brought to the attention of the President within
a few days. and there is some reason to think
that the offending under officials will be informed
that it is not their duty to decide which laws Of
the United States shall and which shall not be
ebeyed that the civil-service law is the law of
the land as well as the policy of the administra-
lion. and that any officials, whatever position
sfev may hold who do not care TO execute this
law in letter and spirit under their oaths. will
do well to vacate their Offices. This at all
events. is the Information of who is we'll in
formed rs to the intentions of the President and
of the Ciyil-seryiee Commissioners.
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observation-disclosures Ideas.

ST. LOUIS, July 1S-The Greenpack. Labor
convention for the Thirteenth congressional dis.
trict of this State in session at Pierce City yes
terday, nominated Col HI. f. Fellows, of Spring
field, by reclamation. In addition TO the regular
county delegates, the-e were entitled to seats in
the convention one knight of Labor for every
one hundred membera of Knights of Labor as
semhlies in the district The resolutions
adopted were taken largely from the platform of
the Knights OF Labor, aud declare that the gov
eminent should own and control the railroads,
telegraph and telephone lines; that non interest
bearing money should be issued instead of
bonds; that not another acre of public domain
should be given to the railroads or any other
corporations, and that after 1890 no alien should
be allowed to own land or other real estate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-19

What the Financial Situation Win BE if MIR.
Morrison Succeeds.


Morrison Succeeds.
Washington Special.
An interesting story is told of an interview to.
day at the Treasury between Mr.. Randall and Mr.
Falrchild On Wednesday afternoon, just be-
fore the passage of the Morrison resolution Mr.
Mckinley, of Ohio, sent to Acting Secretary
Fairchid the following dispatch:
The Hon. 9. s. Fairchild. Acting Secretary of the
Treasury:
If balance Of So. 0o0, 900, as shown by Treasur
ers report of June 30 last should be used to pay
ing balance besides fractional silver coin! An imme-
diste answer win eblige.
The Secretary wrote, in answer, precisely
what he believed. as follows:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, July ID
Tie Hon William Mckinley. jr. House of Repre-
sentatives:
In reply to your telegram of this date asking what
the Treasury would have left for working balance be-
sides the fractional silver coin if the balance of
900 600 as shown by the Treasurers report of June
30 last should be used in paying bonds beg to state
that nothing would be left but trust funds which it
would be dishonorable and dishonest to for that
paFpose. G. S. FAIRcHILD,
Acting Secretary.
Mr. Randall objected to the dispatch as unpar-
liamentary. and suggested that it struck Mr..
Morrison just as 1t did him. Mr. Fairchild ex-
pressed regret that he should have failed to put
his reply in language courteous to the House.
and his willingness to have the language changed
in any way so long as the sense of the dispatch
was preserved. Then, questioning Mr. Randall
he desired to know whether he and Mr.. Morri-
son were prepared TO assert that it was honora-
bic or honest TO use trust funds for other pur-
poses than those to which they had been devo-
ted Mr. Randall was not prepared to assert
that trust funds could be honorably diverted.
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CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
Proceedings of the Third Days session-Dis-
cusSion Of the Reform-SchOol Problem.

ST. PAUL. Mimi, July 1.-THE third days
session of the conference OF charities and correc
tons was opened this morning at the State Cap
itol by prayer, and, after some miscellaneous
business, several reports were read from States.
The most interesting question was whether the
insane could be better taken care of in asylums
or private residences. It was shown that in
many cases selection might be made of those
who could be safely aud comfortably boarded
out. During the reading of papers Mr.. and Mrs.
r. B. Hayes entered and took q lively interest
in several papers written on the subject of kin
dergartens. The papers gave an interesting
history Of the inception and development Of
kindergarten schools in St Louis, Chicago. San
Francisco and other cities, and benefits to chill
dren taught in these schools.
Miss Clara Barton. of Washington, was intro
duced by the chairman as the Florence Nightin
gale of the Red Cross Society. She spoke at
length on the part she took in the formation OF
the society.
1.-THE Reform school Problem of To-day It's
Object and Possibilities was the subject or L.
Caldwell, of Louisville. He eloquently pictured
social life IA the South. where yellow-c covered
literature is Leading so many boys to destruction.
n j. c. Belt. 81 Lancaster, o., spoke on Moral
Elevation ia Reformatories and What Is Re-
quired TO Produce IT, In the afternoon visits
were paid to the reform school ard the Catholic
Orphan Asylum. In the evening Hon. George
Hoadly, ex Governor of Ohio read q highly in
structive paper entitled 'The Pardoning Power,
or Power to Pardon and Commute Sentences,
and to Parole Prisoners He described and earn
estly commended the parole system as practiced
in Ohio. where it diminishes the work Of the
Governor one half to two-thirds, and relieves him
as to doubts of error. AS Governor, the most
satisfactory exercise of this discretion has been in
transferring youthful criminals to reform
schools. He transferred everybody for whom
anything could be said OF eighty thus trans
ferred seventy-four proved worthy. Governors
are subjected to much private solicitation for
pardons. The matter should be argued in omen
court Parole is not pardon. Constant police
supervision is needed over such.
Ex-Governor Marshall OF Minnesota, was in
clined to take more lenient view, and locked
back with satisfaction upon every prisoner he
had pardoned.
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LOGAN AND EDMuNDs AT ODDS.
Disputing About the Relative Importance of
Chicago and Burlington.

DtepuAuS ABOUT TIE Getaftve Importance OF
Chicago and Burlington.
WASHINGTON Special
Two Republican presidential candidates frank
~ expressed their personal opinion of each other
tn debate in the Senate to-day, to the great
amusement of their colleagues of both parties
Pending the % per cent horizontal reduction of
the river and harbor bill, General Logan tried to
get the items increased for several Illinois har-
Dors and streams. His amendments met with
strong opposition, Mr.. Edmunds being par
tibularly severe in his criticisms. He wanted
fair play. and il one item was restored to it's
sormer figure all should be treated in the same
wav
General Logan retorted with much warmth
that the Senator from Vermont had secured for
his little State more than its due proportion,
citing several items TO show that as between
Vermont and Illinois there had been discrimina-
ton in favor of the former. He alluded to Mr.
Edmunds as the assistant chairman of the
committee, and sarcastically confessed that Bur
ington. VT. was a more important town, with
more people and more business, than Chicago.
Mr.. Edmuads replied that the Senator from
Illinois never told an untruth, and what he said
must be true. He continued that although Bur
lington might be smaller. it was certainly more
peacsable and orderly than Chicago. This pro-
voked General Logan to a caustc rejoinder, in
the course of which he said the people Of Chicago
were as good and honorable and law-abiding as
the Senator from Vermont, and more of them
were as .pestiferous" as he was in the Senate
chamber
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A Red-Hot Place.



The fire of partisanship is kept burning at
Indianapolis by throwing in any stray dry limb.
or bit of chaff, or stubble that either party can
rake up Aquila Jones and his Democratic post
Office clerks blaze up brightly, and even the
inoffensive cow is almost as much of an issue in
Indianapolis as, with her three acres, she became
in England The Republican organ recites the
history of the letters that have gone astray be-
cause of incompetence at the postoffce-there
seems to have been good many of them-and
the Democratic esteemed contemporary counters
with the story of letters that were lost before
Jones's reign But the exploiting of the COW as
partisan issue was left for the City Council.
indianapolis with a population considerably
above $4,000, has an ordinance forbiddng cows
running at large in the streets. Thas ordinance
the Democratic members sought the other night,
to repeal, and there was long parliamentary
struggle, full of motions to adjourn and co lay
upon the table. At last. when all the Repub-
licans but two had voted on these motions
against the promiscuous COW. Sim Coy, no
torious Democratic leader, jumped up and
shouted, Sim glad we've got you on the record"
Coy was in a majority, and would have freed the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-19
THE FIRE RECORD.
Twenty-Five Million Feet of Lumber De-
stroyed, Involving Loss of 800, 900.

Twenty Five Million Feet of Lumber De-
stroyed, Involving q Loss of 800, 900.
ST.. LOUIS July 18.--A fire, which proved to
be the largest and most destructive of its kind
that has ever occurred in this city, wat 5cov-
cred at about o'clock this afternoon in the ium
ber-yard of Knapp, Stout & Co, at the corner of
Angelica street and Bremen avenue. An alarm
was Immediately turned in, and two engines
were soon at the scene. They were, however
owing to the poor water supply, unable to cope
with the flames, which were driven by a strong
wind, and soon communicated to the nearest
lumber piles and were making rapid Roadway
toward the Union Stockyards. the destruction of
which seemed for a time, inevitable. The wind
soon shifted to the opposite direction, however,
and the stockyards were saved, but the lumber
yards were doomed In the meantime, more
were called out. Tho water supply, how
ever, was entirely insufficient for
the emergency. and the flames leaped from pile
to pile of the dry lumber with incredible swift
ness. The fire was not confined to any one por-
ton of the yards, for sparks and burning splint
ers were carried in every direction by the wind.
and the whole territory of the yards, covering
thirty-fve acres of ground, seemed to be one
mass of blazing lumber. The efforts of the fire.
men, which would evidently have been fruitless
if directed towards subduing the flames, were
from this time employed in keeping them from
spreading, and in this they were successful. The
fire was allowed to burn itself out, and at the
end of four hours %, 600, 900 feet of lumber
a total loss. The contents of the yards was
mostly lumber of superior grades. and the loss
on this account is very heavy-$400, 900. The
company's stables were also consumed. but the
horses were rescued. The total insurance can
not, at this hour. be ascertained, but it ID esti
mated at $275, 600.
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Iiterary Notes.


cousin Ponsr will be the fifth volume of the
Balzac transations.
Robert Louis Stephenson's new Robinson Cru
soc book, Kidnapped, viii be published by the
Scrihners.
A Life Of Schuyler Colfax,g by his brother
in-law, j. O. Hoister, is announced by Funk q
Wagnalls.
The lives of Edwin Booth and Adelaide Neil
son are IN preparation by William Winter, the
dramatic critic.
Letters from Donegal in 1885," detailing the
effects the anticipation of home rule is having on
the life of the people in Ireland will be published
at an early date by Macmillan e Co.
Macmillan & Co. have in preparation cata-
oSue of their publications. which they intend
making the most elaborate and most useful cata-
logue they have issued for the American market
Celebrated Songs of Scotland" by j. D. Ross
embracing 700 of the most popular songs from
King James to Henry Scott Riddell. with me-
moirs, notes. glossary, and indexes. is now nearly
ready in London.
The FIVE hundredth anniversary Of the found
ing of Heidelberg University will be- celebrated
at Heidelberg ip August of this year. An historI
ical sketch of the old town. the castle and the
university. by Mrs Lucy Nj. Mitchell will APP
pear in the midsummer Holiday" Century, the
August number. Seventeen illustrations from
drawings and photographs will accompany the
article.
The Popular Science Monthly" for August
will open with richly illustrated article of great
economic value, entitled Woods and Their Des-
structive Fungi The author, Mr.. p. H. Dud-
Icy, civil engineer of rising reputation, has for
several years been studying the structure of
those woods most commonly employed in the
arts, with reference to the agencies concerned in
their deterioration.
An interesting biographical sketch of Joe
jefferson, the most beloved if not the most ia
nous of American actors. appears in the August
Harper's. The writer. William Winter, traces
his dramatic talent through long line of illus
trious ancestors who followed the same
profession, and shows how well the
player Of Grip Van Wrinkle deserves the
astonishing success which enables him to crafty
his fondness for painting on his Louisiana estate
with only small exercise of his stage talents to
interrupt his study of the other art The excel
lent portrait of Mr. Jefferson as Bob Acres, by
j. w. Alexander. which excited unusual atten-
ton in the Academy exhibition, two years ago,
accompanies the article as the frontspiece of
this number of the magazine.
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Fatal shooting in House Of Ili-Fane

CHICAGO July 16-Early this morning the
police of the city were notified that a shooting
had occurred st disreputabe house On Merid
ian street Officer John Flanahan was found
lying on the floor, breathing his last A bullet
had entered his abdomen and imbedded itself in
the intestines. He lived about fifteen minutes
after the officers arrived, but was unconscious,
and unable to make statement. The two men
the murdered man and his assailant-were in
innate friends of the proprietress of the house,
and the quarrel arose from her refusal to 60 out
in hack with the man who did the shooting
The man threatened TO shoot the woman, at the
same time drawing his pistol. Flanahan stepped
between them and attempted to turn the weapon
aside. Instead, ne received the ball in the alb
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-19
MINOR MATTERS.

How Very Near Fitz John Porter Came to
Being Shot Traitor.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. July 18-I had talk day or
so ago on the Fitz John Porter court-martial
with gentleman who sat on that great tribunal
and he gave me bit OF very startling imforma-
son, which do not think has as yet been pub
iished
"Pecple outside said he. "of the great
military circle knew nothing about how
near Porter came to being condemned
to death. When we took Cur ballot whether to
have him shot or not, there was one vote lack
ing the requisite number for death Had this
been made public while the bill for his relief was
pending / think it would have made somewhat
of STIR Porter never knew of this, and / i'm
igne he would have been somwhat uncomforta-
Die had he been aware of the fact how near he
was to being shot traitor to the Union"
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Baseball,

NEW YORK July 18.-The st Louis club de-
feated the Brooklyns to-day by score of to o.
follows Score:
Brooklyn. ...-...--....0 O o o O O 90
st. Louis ...-----O 2 3 3 0 o OIL SO
Earned runs-Brooklyn, O: St Louis s. First
base on balls-Brookyn. 5; St Louis, 2 Two
Brooklyn. 5; St. Louis: IL. Passed balls
Clark. 2
ST. Louis. July 19.--The baseball game
played here to-day for the benefit of Daisy Muir
dock an actress, now very i'll in New York be-
tween two teams-one composed of newspaper
men, and the other of members of the dramatic
companies now playing here. great sue
cess, and TO night check for 5000 was forward
ed to the actress. The game was won by the
pressmen by score of to 4, and abounded in
amusing incidents.
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Memphis Avalanche
The minority Republican report sets out tbs
law and the political right rule Of the case clearly
ana beyond all contrary argument The case is
not whether SIR. Payne can be proved guilty Il
Is whether the Legislature of a State, and its
Governor. and its members of Congress, or even
respectable or reputable citizens, making serious
charges, affecting Senator. can have them in
quired into by the only tribunal that can inouira
or act If not, then there is no remedy SIR
Payne is the only Senator who ever sat still and
failed to demand inquiry when charged with
bribery by citizens.
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Bnsiness Of the Postoaice

WASHINGTON, July ia special count was
made by the Postoffce Department of matter
mailed at twenty of the leading postoffices of the
country during the last week of June. 1886 and
the results show an increase compared with the
same period in 1885 of 21.7 per cent in letters
mailed. SO. per cent. in sealed parcels, 40 per
cent. in unsealed parcels and 3 per cent in cir
culars. There was an increase of LOG 900 in the
aumber of letters mailed. During the last fiscal
year there was all increase of l52 1877. 781 In the
number of postage stamps issued, and of 81, 1885,
zoe In the number Of stamped envelopes
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attended, but nothing Of an alarming nature
TRANSFERRED The business OF the session was the
election of officers for the ensuing year THESE
were elected as follows: President, Charles W.
Rowan. of the Cigar makers Union; vice presi-
dent. Thos. j. Lyons; financial secretary. VIM.
E. Thornton; treasurer, John Foley. The cleo
ton is victory for the conservative element.
which will iRterfere considerably with the re-
ported intention of the Anarchists to get control
of the allied trades affairs.
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Civil Service In the Railway Postal Service
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
When J. B. Gwin, the superintendent of the
railway mail service. wants to transport few
Democratic politicians to Chicago he gives them
permits to ride in the mail ear. 1t is expected
that this system OF transportation will be ex-
tended over all the lines This is one Of the
beauties that comes in under Cleveland's civil.
service reform. We shall soon have the mail
cars teeming with the Democratic brethren.