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THE BROOKLYN EAGKLE MONDAY. PAGES. 4 PERSONAL MENTION. for personal reasons. Personal politicians in CIVILLY DEAD RAYS OF LIGHT abundant evidence that the desirability of putting the Civil Service on a reform basis is becoming more generelly recognized every day.

Much of the opposition to which the merit system has been subjected ia attributable to popular distrust of the Commissioners. While the body entrusted with administration of the Reform law has contained some good men, it has not been above suspicion of occasional or incidental surrender to the spoilsmen. To the effective enforcement of the law public confidence in the Commission is indispensable. Thus far the present Board has exhibited every evidence of good faith. With such a vigorous reformer Ireland, Scotland, Australia, India and South Africa being represented by delegates who have journeyed from these distant points to participate in tho proceedings.

The meeting will occupy ton days. LYNCHED BEFORE DAYBREAK. Port Huron, May 27. At 2 o'clock this morning about twenty masked men forced tho county jail open and took the mulatto Martin out and hung him from tho Seventy Btreet Bridge, whore his body still hanga. They dragged him down the street, not an officer being in sight.

Martin is the tramp that ontorcd tho farm house of John Gillis, four miles west of this city, and brutally assaulted and outraged his wife. She has boon in a precarious condition ever sinoe. Sho is not expected to live. SOUTH DAKOTA'S SINGLE TAX PARTY. MONDAY EVENING.

MAY 27. 1889. Thin Paver has the liiurrot Clrcula tlou of any Evening Paper i'ublitibed In ilie United States, fts value as an Advertising: Medium in therefore apparent. Eagle Branch Office Hertford Arcane, Near Fulton Street, 433 Fifth Avenue, Near Ninth Street, 44 Hroad Mrooklyn, E. and Atlantic Avenue, near East Now York Avenue.

Advertisements for the week day editions 'willbe received up to 11:30 o'ctoclc A. and for the Sunday edition up to 10 P. M. on Saturdays. are engaging in an ungraceful "straddle." Whatever the result, it must necessarily redound to the credit of the Democrats.

While the outcome can hardly give Pennsylvania to the party of the Constitution it will strengthen the Democracy in New York and reinforce them wherever considerations of enlightened patriotism are valued above tho obtrusion of cranky and meddlesome fanaticism. liad Advice for Rarthman. Counsel for Mr. William Barthman advises him to withhold his resignation from the Board of Education. Barthman, it will bo remembered, is accused of attemptiug to use his public office for private gain.

The accusation goes further than that. Unless the witnesses summoned on the recent investigation have deliberately perjured themselves, he has cast a wholesale imputation of dishonesty on his colleagues. The charges have been officially inquired into by a special committee. The investigators were admittedly free from partisan or personal bias. A majority of them belong to the party with which the defendant is identified.

Prior to the exposure of his alleged rascality they never differed will him to the extent which would impair their judgment or create a prejudice detrimental to his character. Testimony against him was submitted by reputable citizens. The defense, conducted with signal ability, was' allowed the widest latitude. After hearing the testimony tho committee encountered no obstacle in arriving at a satisfactory conclusion. They decided uuauimously that Barthman was culpable.

Without a dissenting voice they recommended that he resign from the Board. Since the report was submitted the Mayor has spoken. His Honor evidently understands the merits of the case. He says frankly that Barthman ought to get out. Moreover he lias announced that if the culprit does not retire he will be suspended if, as the Mayor believes, he has the power to suspend.

To most men this intimation would be sufficient. On a sensitive person it would act like an electric shock. But Barthman has signified no disposition to submit to the verdict of his associates. In defiance of the municipal executive, the recommendation of the special committee, the comments of the reputable press and the unmistakable dictates of public opinion, he clings to his place. Although his thick skinned indifference to propriety has not permitted him to retreat, he seems to think some sort of demonstration necessary tp the maintenance of his untenable position.

Hence the statement put forth by his counsel. In itself, the statement is about all that could have been said for the accused. It will not, however, carry much WRITING FOR THE PRESS. Do Not Seek a Personal Introduction to the Editor. In reply to the question, "Aro personal intra, ductions helpful to young editor of one of the great magazines said the other day: "Thero is no fallacy bo great as tho idea that bo oauBoan editor is introduced to an aspiring con.

tributor ho will be moro favorably inclined toward his work. I only speak, of course, of my own case, but I boliove tho experience of others in my unhappy walk of life is about the same. If I were giving advice to a young author, whose success I had much at heart, I should Bay: Pre paro your manuscript and havo it copied by a typewriter, and in reading it over yon will havo almost tho aamo sensation whioh comes from reading proor cold print or cold typewriting, for that matter, is a wonderful help in getting a correct viow of your work; if vour correc tious aro many or complicated have it copied afresh and send it to tho magazino which to your mind it is best fitted for. Don't go to a friend who knows tho editor and got a letter of introduction. It Will boro the friend, the editor and ovontually yourself, it yon suggest tho value of a friend at cemi remember that tho editor has met this schenn 1 thousand times.

It meanB that you ask hi to make exceptions in your case against his iuagment, and this annoys him to begin wit! Tf you want to sell a firm a bill of goods yor not feel that you need a let. ter of lntroductio! tho buyer, and an editor ib in exactly th position of ono who is always buy. ing what he thinks is salable. I havo become something of a cynic, I fear, because I never make an acquaintance without saying to myself, Some day this man or a friend of his will want 1110 to 'consider favorably' a manuscript. I always feel that I make ten enemies a day, but I confess I do not seo why an editor should be put in au embarrassing position any more than other business men who cannot possibly accept all things offcrod to them cvon if the would bo sellers have some personal acquaintance with them." Continuing in tho same strain tliid editor wiid: "Mr.

James Payn, a man of the greatest experience not only as a writer but as an editor, who has filled many important positions on periodicals, says in a recent article entitled Getting into 'Solomon tells us that there is nothing new under tho sun, but ho spoke from insufficient data. "'When lie enumerates the various vaniticB to which human nature is subjected he omitted to mention the desire of seeing one's self in print, for that desiro was born a good many years after his time. The exact date is not known, but it was probably not much after 15', in which year printing was He goes on to speak of the most universal characteristics of the race vanity and of tho young writer who, being decorated with his first proof, receives the congratulations of his female friends aud emerges from the ruck of mankind aud becomes an author. I believe if the vanity was removed instead of receiving about Hix thousand manuscripts a year as we do now, we would not receive one thousand. It is the opportunity of displaying one's clever iiess to one's friends that is mainly attractive to the would bo author; if it were not so he would write because he had something definite to say and hiB satisfaction would exist in writing and publishing it and not in the glory it might bring him among his small circle of friends.

Editors aro like readers; they are attracted when they are interested and the moral of this should be, therefore: Begin your story in the first paragraph, clothe your plot only with the words which help to tell the tale: attempt no byplay only great writers can do this and be sure the interest of the subject will hist until tho end, or you waste your paper. A great deal is said nowadays about magazines having enough material to last for years in the safe. I think there is a great deal of humbug about this statement, for if an editor admits this ho must admit that much of this overstock is of little or no value; but let this bo as it may, you never hoard of an editor refusing a really good story or article on a subject which is fresh aud of public interest because his safe is full of manuscripts. Tho more good contributions offered tho higher becomes the standard that is the only result." Philadelphia Times. TO STAMP COLLECTORS.

A National' Force or "Personal Politic Our local Republican friends are not learning, apparently, thelesaons which local Democratic mistakes about the Federal patronage should have taught to them. Two Brooklyn Republicans of unlike characters are proposed for offices of dissimilar magnitude. Mr. Theodore B. Willis is influentially urged for Surveyor of the Port of New York.

Mr. Ernst Nathan is persistently pushed for Collector of this Internal Revenue district. The appointment of Mr. Willis would be the identification of Brooklyn Republicanism with State and national Republicanism and a recognition by the party throughout the United States of the 70,000 Republicans of Kings County. The appointment of Mr.

Nathan would be the selection of a ward leader for local office. Both selections are possible and both may be said to be quite probable, but if either is prevented, or if neither is made, the result will be chargeable to errors of advocacy, to the unskillful shape in which representatives of the party here have placed the matter before the President, or to the suspicion of the fidelity of some of the so called "leaders" to the interests of oiks of the men to whom they have professed the utmost devotion. The right way to have proceeded was obvious. The Willis appointment is the hardest to get, is the biggest one sought, is most stoutly contested, is the most desirable to have and is the most representative and significant in issue. Manifestly Unit was tho one on which to lay stress, the more evidently So because the Nathan appointment was the one which, so to speak, would come without effort unless so much emphasis was put upon it as to create a suggestion of the not complete disinterestedness of those seeking it or to establish an impression that other considerations, not of a public or a party character, but of a personal and business nature, were at tho bottom of the prodigious zeal for the silent and subtle candidate for the lesser place.

For illustration, the Willis appointment stood in the same eclipsing relation to the Nathan one that the intention of tho merchant to buy a large bill of general goods at wholesale for his country store, when he comes to town, the tender insistence of his thoughtful wife that he must not forget to bring home a nice little present for the baby. If tho Eagle has correctly read the signs of the times, this order of comparative iniport ante and this inculcation of the application of common sense to political strategy have not been invariably followed. The President appears to have derived the idea that, to some positionally prominent Republicans in this county, the appointment of Mr. Willis, if not a matter of aversion, is, at most, matter of indifference, while the of Mr. Nathan is an object of transcendent importance, to which every other subject and interest can well be subordinated or sacriliced if only that selection be made.

The present for the baby has been urged in season and out of season. Tho wholesale bill of general goods has not, perhaps, been unfavorably characterized, but it has been only incidentally referred to, even if it has not been pur ignored. Is it any wonder that a man of such polar clearness as President Harrison is reported to have formed a belittling estimate of the sagacity of sundry local Republican leaders, or to have suspected that they would be very easily reconciled to the defeat of Mr. Willis' respectablcaud meritorious as pirations, if only they could secure the success oftheir uncommon anxiety on behalf of Mr. Nathan Tho Eagle thinks the President's conclusions present no occasion for sur Secretary Bayard will wed Miss Mary Clymer on June 13, in St.

John's Church, Washington. Peter B. Sweeney haB arrived again from Paris. Senator Evarts will shortly repair to Ins Ver mont homo lor tho Summer. W.

D. Green and wife, of Arkansas, have had twenty three children, of whom eighteen aro living. Laura Bridgman was buried yostorday from the Boston Institute for the Blind, where she had spent her life since childhood. George Francis Train has backslidden so far as to shake hands for the first time in fourteen years. It was with a tranco performer.

The Duchess of Cambridge has left Tosti, the composer, an annuity of $1,500 as a reward for singing to hor overy day during the last ten years of her life. Sir Sponcer St. John, tho British Minister to' Mexico, has returned to London after an absence of forty one years. He iB the recipient of a great deal of attontion at tho British capitol. RECENT EVENTS.

Dr. Cronin was buriod in Chicago. He now appoarB to have been put to death on sentence of a Clan na Gaol court. A hoy of 4 years was killed in Now York by pile's carelessly dragged around a corner on a derrick. Tho sheriff of Grayson County, was killed by desperadoes who resisted his posse.

Scranton, has a plundered bank, but the cashier says he is innocent. Soldiers are stilt employed in maintaining order among Oklahoma laud claimants. Rev. H. G.

Schorr, of St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, Bhot himself fatally yosterday morning under theimpression that ho was responsible for a friend's death. Tho destructive cignrctto was near being responsible for the death of a young lady in Orange, whoso clothing was fired by the lodgment of ono on her bustle. There was a spasmodic closing of tho saloons in Cincinnati yesterday. Now York had ninety eight excise arrests.

There is a genuine Cossack in tho office of the KuBsiau Consul, and "a learned one, Dr. Petor Popoff, a graduate of tho University of St. Petersburg. King Humbert and son left Berlin for Italy, after attending mass incognito. Decoration services began yesterday in some cemeteries.

Colonel Charles B. Tappan, father of Presidont Tappan, of tho Gallatin National Bank, is 03 years old, has lived in New York seventy seven years, and, though ho has not taken 50 cents' worth of medicino in fifty years, is "as Bound as a dollar." An impostor, on being arrested at tho Knickerbocker Club's rooms for begging for "a sick swallowed his subscription list in pieces. Tho sheriff of San Miguel County, N. has brought infix horso thieves who had stolon 500 horses. Two largo bombs were found under a streot in Odessa generally used by royal visitors to tho palace.

POLITICAL POINTS. Tho postmaster of Bloomfield, N. has boon suspended for a deficiency in his accounts. No better evidence of the character of tho "Civil Service policy of the Administration need be desired than the changes which have been made in the railway mail service. Tho triumph of tho partisans and spoilsmen is complete Tho assurances of the campaign and the pledges of tho platform have alike bean disregarded.

General Harrison was right whon he said in his inaugural address that retrospoct would be a safer basis of judgment than promises. Chicago News. CONTEMPORARY HUMOK. Hemy Georgo Sustained: Miss Cultuie What do tm think of Henry Georgo's single tax idea? Miss Gnuhington Why, I boo no reason why ho should not tax single men, but I don't think ho ought to tax single women it isn't our fault iVeto York Weekly. A Fat Thing: Mrs.

Ward Whoro is your husband working now? Mm. Precinct Ho ain't working. He has got an oilicc in tho City Goy mont. ISoston Courier. Poetry and Prose: Kissmeoiiick (airily) Ah, Beatrice, lot 1110 light me cigarette at the fire of your eves.

Observant A'cws boy Touch the snipo to your nose, old man Epoch. THE CENTRAL LABOR UNION Decide to Asl Governor Hill to Appoint Female Factory Inspectors. The Central Labor Union met yesterday afternoon in the Labor Lyceum, Myrtle street, and transacted considerable business. A delegato from the Bakers' Advance Club occupied the chair. Thero wero six organizations that sent in credentials and fifteen delegates were obligated.

The recording secretary stated that MiBs Ida Van Etton, of the Workingwomen's Society, had called on him and requested him to aBk the Central Labor Union to send a latter to Governor Hill, requesting him to sign the bill for tho appointment of six women factory inspectors, which Blie understood Factory Inspector Connolly was opposing with nil his might. She thought it a shame that a man like Mr. Connolly, who poses himself as a friend of labor, should act in such a manner. A delegate If such is the case as stated I think Mr. Connolly ought to be condemned by thiB body for his opposition to the weaker sex.

Wo need women as inspectors in the different factories of this town. They can do good, and aro better able to look after the sanitary conditions of tho places where women work than men aro. On motion it was decided that the corresponding secretary send a letter to the Governor, asking him to sign the bill in favor of six women factory inspectors, and condemning the action of Factory Inspector Connolly for his opposition to the bill. The delegato from tho Waiters' Union complained that tho Long Island Labor Club was monopolizing all of tho work in this city. They aro attached to D.

A. 49 of New York and their men have to go idle. It was rcBolved that the matter bo inquired into. IUriD TRANSIT IN IYKXTY SIXTH WARD. To the.

Editor or the Erooklun Baale I have read the request for rapid transit beyond the city lino in tho E.uile, May 23, 1880. Would you also kindly inform your roadorH of tho easterly section of the Twenty sixth Ward why tho Fulton road do not build their lino and stations to the city lino They managed to got tho consent of the. adjoining property owners, through their authorized agent, under promise of building their line, to tho laBt city station. Grant avenue. They also got tho consent of tho Common through Alderman Pickering, under the same conditions.

Nevertheless, thoy intend to stop Bhort at proBent at a point which can bo called absolutely nowhero. Would it not be more reasonable to run their road through tho entiro ward, and not omit tho easterly section, which is certainly tho most healthy and beautiful locality 1 TuEd. Smith. Enfield SinEr.T, keak Liberty Avenue, May 24, 183U. A 10NRH THIEF CAUGHT.

While tailor Conrad H. Beck, of 15!) Court street, was busily engaged in a room in tho rear of his storo a young man entered tho building and made off with a coalT and vest belorigiiig to one of his customers. 5fr. Beck saw tho thief as he was closing the door on his way out. He made an attempt to catch himybut tho thiof was too quick for him and got away.

Ho related the occurrence to Patrolman Farrell, who in turn told Detective Italeigh. Tho latter noticed a young follow with a coat and vest on his arm standing outside of a pawishopafcw blocks abovo tho tailor's store. He accosted him, and the boy said that the property belonged to his father, who had sent him ont to pawn them. Raleigh took tho boy to the tailor shop, where Mr. Beck identified tho property.

Tho prisoner, who is about 17, gave his name as Edward Holland, and said that he lived with his unolo at 210 Myrtle avenue. Ho admitted his guilt when arraigned boi'oro Justice Tighe, and was remanded until to morrow for sentence. STRUCK WITH A BRICK. Ambulance Surgeon Starr was called last evening to attend John Dice, 20 years of age, of 027 Hancock atrcet, whom ho found suffering from a contusion of. the skull.

Dice said that ho was accidentally strnok on the head last Tuesday with a brick which was thrown by Frank Kane, of 931 Hancock street. He paid no attention to the wound until yesterday, when it began to pain him. A BRUTAL SON SEM UP. John Hempling, aged 17 years, cnterod tho apartments of his parents at 106 East Third street, New York, in an intoxicated condition last evening. Whon upbraided by his father ho lifted up a chair to strike him, but fiin mother Bprane betwocn them and.

reooivod a blow with the chair on her head. Tho son waB arrested, and at tho Essex Market Police Court this morn ing was eentoncod to the Island for Bix months. STOLEN BY A 8NEJK THIEF. A sneak thief entered the hallway of the residence of Ingolf Flood, 547 Henry Btreet, last evoning and stole an overcoat, valued at $25, from tho hatrack, belonging to Mr. Flood.

The thief gained entrance by means of false keys. FIRE IN A TKNEHE.YT HOUSE. Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out in tho apartments of Vincent Ainorella, on the third floor of tho four story brick tenement, 83 Sackett street, canaing a damage to furnituro and building of about 150; insured, The cause of the fire is unknown. ft 8ENT TO ME JJRUANT HOME. Twolve year old JosoDh Gloster, of 356 Baltio stroet, was arrested late on Saturday night on complaint of Daniel Fox, of 358 Baltio streot, who charged him withl'stealing a silver watch and charm from hs apartments.

Joseph admitted his guilt and was scht to the Truant Home by Justice Tighe. REFUSED TO PRESS TUB COMPLAINT. Catharino Ryan, of 145 Nineteenth Btreet, caused tho arrest of her husband Thomas a few days ago upon a charge of assault. Whon Justice Tighe called tho tcaso this morniue Catharine failed to put in an appearanco and Thomas was discharged from custody. 1 JIB.

LUKIF0YT1I BELGHTS. Gardiner 13. Lukdjfoyth, who resides at the foot Seventeenth that he was severely beaten a few daysaKo by his nephew, Charlos Swift, and ho causoii his arrest. Tho complain. ant failed to anpefr when Justice Tigho called the case this mornUig and the defendant was ais charged.

both parties are his partners and comrades. Personal advantages and personal revenges are the study, code and object of personal politicians, alike in Democracy and in Re publicanism. Tho politics of one party is just as feasible a field for the personal poll tician as that of tho other. They have status in one camp, but allies in both. Any result reached, in favor of any side, is likely to be to their gain, when the balance is struck or tho facts got at.

Often their apparent defeat and the success of their supposed opponents are necessary to their real interests. Moral revolutions within parties may throw them on theii backs, but tho orderly machine methods of either party never inures to their loss. Mr. Nathan is just as true to the cause of personal politics, whether in Republicanism or in Democracy, or confederately in both, as Mr. Willis is to the cause of Republicanism vs.

Democracy. Mr. Nathan is not to bo censured for living up to his standard any more than Mr. Willis is for living up to a higher one. Beside, a number of the Executive Committee that were at first for him have lately opposed him, just as Mr.

Nichols and Nathan themselves, who at first opposed Mr. Woodruff for chairman of the General Committee, afterward accepted him and subsequently captured him. Mr. Nathan, from the Nathan standpoint, is entirely natural in his willingness to make of Mr. Willis' neck, just as he did of D.

W. Tallinadge's neck, one moro ning in the ladder on which to climb to personal power. Nor is the unseemly, not to say the coerced "petition" of his fellow tobacconists for Mr. Nathan's appointment to be wondered at. Tobacconists are tho subjects of Internal Revenue administration.

They can be made the victims of Internal Revenue maladministration. They follow both fears and interests when they indorse the petition of any probable appointee that is suggestively or menacingly thrust at them. Mr. Nathan's course in this is just as natural as was the summary adjournment, tho other night, of the unadvertised and well "bossed" meeting of the Twenty third Ward Republican Association, until mid August, too late to let in those partisans, with views of their own, who were seeking membership. Tho Eaglc is not criticising Mr.

Nathan. He acts according to his lights and methods and for his interests, as he understands them. When action is accounted for criticism is unnecessary. The Republican and Democratic machine managers and interests, with whom and with which Mr. Nathan thriftily and impartially acts, are well known.

His equal loyalty to each is unimpeachable. The question remains, however, should the Executive Committee, in trying to lift the party up to the plane, of Mr. Willis' candidacy, be sustained by the rank aud file, or should the reported singular efforts of Messrs. Wood 'U ruff, Quarantine Commissioner John A. Nichols aud Mr.

Nathan, to make the hitter's desire for a lesser place supersede, in the President's mind, the endeavor of the Executive Committee and of Messrs. Tracy and Piatt, be sustained by the rai.k and file of the party According as local Republicanism enlarges to take in the national opportunity presented to it or ensmalls to the limits of Nathanistie personal polities, will its status in President Harrison's mind, and, what is of even more importance, its status in the minds of the people of Kings County, be. determined. It is a very important question. The selection of Willis and Nathan both ispossibIe; their selection, unless conditions change, is, indeed, quite probablo.

Nevertheless, the order of importance or the, degree of urgency to be respectively attached to each will go a long way toward securing either or losing both and a long way toward defining Republicanism here as a national force or as a power of narrowing and corrupting personal polities. Prohibition in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is in the throes of a mighty conflict between the advocates and opponents of Prohibition. Less than a month hence the Commonwealth is to vote on the. amendment submitted by the last Legislature.

The campaign has been opened with great spirit on both sides. Advocates of tho amendment are in the field on every hand. It is evident that the Prohibition canvass will be moro thorough than in any of the recent New England contests. The teetotalers have learned something by their work in Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. They propose to turn their knowledge to profitable account.

The adversaries of sumptuary measures, on the other side, inspired by their successful resistance in the East, are resolute, active and confidently energetic. During the interval before the voting the country will be supplied with the usual "claims" from the respective (lamps. These "claims" should be accepted with ample allowance by those who would intelligently comprehend what is necessarily a mixed and very peculiar situation. While the conditions which govern the contest are extremely interesting, their influence on the future of parties can easily be overestimated. To suppose that the adoption or rejection of the amendment will permanently destroy or more than temporarily impair Republican supremacy in the Commonwealth is preposterous.

Pennsylvania is the keystone of the Republican party arch on this continent. Its majorities in Presidential years mount to the tens of thousands. The Democracy have not secured its electoral vote since they carried Buchanan through by a slender plurality thirty three years ago. The slight reaction in favor of Tilden and the generous minority support accorded to Hancock were merely incidental. They in no wise illustrate the tendency of public opinion in the State.

Blaine swept Pennsylvania by over 81,000. Harrison beat Cleveland there by 79,000. So long as the Republican party as tho avowed upholder of "Protection" survives, it is reasonably certain to retain its hold. Pennsylvania, under the present revenue system, is profiting largelyattliee.xpen.se of the restof the eountry. Its industries derive an unmistakable advantage from the one sided discrimination of tho existing tariff.

There is no likelihood that this advantage will be voluntarily surrendered. The agitation of moral issues or ethical questions is not, in this generation at least, going to wipe out a healthy respect for the pocket nerve. For this significant reason it is improbable that the managers of the Republican party are so perturbed over the struggle that they despair of retaining the reins of power. The Prohibitionists are encouraged by the assurance of Senator Quay that he intends to vote for the amendment. Governor Beaver has assumed a similar attitude.

But Mr. Quay shrewdly qualifies his position by announcing that he does not look on the issue as one of party politics. What this means is not that he encourages his adherents to up. hold the Prohibitionists, but that they are at liberty to follow tlteir own inclinations. This is equivalent to granting permission to the Republican legions in Philadelphia, Pittsburg and other cities to oppose Prohibition.

If that is the conclusion of the Republican machine regulars something narrowly resembling a miracle will be required to overcome tho enormous urban majorities against tho amendment. That the Democrats are united is improbable, but the greater proportion of their number can be safely counted in opposition. The Democratic strength in the cities will certainly exert itself adversely to the cold water men. The party declaration of devotion to personal liberty and antagonism to sumptuary laws is proof enough that the large proportion of its voters are steadfast. While the prospects of a Prohibition victory at the present stage are not reassuring, the advances made by its supporters in the Keystone State are undeniable.

It is especially significant that the Republican majority in the Legislature have been forced, by the pressure of public sentiment, to submit the amendment at this stage. Pennsylvania is now experimenting with a carefully framed and intelligently administered high license law. The agitation for Prohibition cannot fail to operate against the undisturbed application of the high license principle. That agitation, even if successful, is destined to produce a return wave which cannot fail to sweep away the landmarks of moderation and regulation. If, after moro than thirty years of trial, Prohibition has failed to prohibit in the insignificant State of Maine, how can it be enforced in such a vast cosmopolitan constituency as that of Pennsylvania Whatever the outcome the Democracy are on the only logical ground visible in the controversy.

The Republicans, in conformity with their usual custom. lar emergencies. But Not Incompetent as a Witness. Frank Brophy, Who Is Senrlnfr a Life Sentence Tor Murder, aj, Judge Cullen Says, be Examined in Sin? Tho murder of Constable Wood, of Mount Vernon, by Frank Brophy, nearly a year ago, was recalled to day by a decision handed down by Judgo Cullen in tho Special Term of the Supremo Court and which Bottles an interesting point. Wood had a warrant for Bro pliy's arrest for some offense and was shot down by the desperado without warning.

It was a brutal murdor, but when Brophy was brought up for tho crime ho escaped with a conviction of murdor in the second degree. This sent him to State prison for lifo, and ho is now in Sing Sing. Ho was sontenced laBt December. Brophy ownod two lots iu East Mt. Vernon, in tho Town of Eastchester, tho two measuring about 320x205 feet, aud worth several thousand dollars.

Just boforo ho received his Bentcnco ho convoyed tho land to hiB mother Barbara Brophy. Ho had a wife and two children. A suit has been commenced by the wifo to sot aside this conveyance, on the ground that it was fraudulent, and that sho was induced by false representations, fraud and coercion to sign the conveyance. She aBks that the property bo set aside for tho support of herself and the two children, as Brophy made no provision for their support before he wont to prison. She alleges that after tho conveyance tho elder Mrs.Brophy put two mortgagos on the property, for which no consideration was received.

Ono was for JU.000 to Georgo V. Augermeyor, who afterward transferred it to ono Francis Lar kin, an attorney. The wife says these conveyances were made to put tho property out of her reach. Hor lawyer wants to examine Brophy in Sing Sing by commission and adtc.d tho Court for an order for that purpose. Judge CttUun made the following decision: Under section Codo of Civil Procedure, and tho doeiaion of the Court of Appeals in Avcrv vs.

Everett, 110, N. p. 1 think that Frank Brophy, though sentenced to Stato prison for life and therefore civilly dead, is a competent witness. If his testimony is to bo takon, how over, it is not by commission, for ho is within tho State, but by deposition under Hcction 872 of the Codo. The effort made does not comply with all the requirements of that section.

This motion, therefore, must bo deuied, $10 costs to abide event, without prejudice to an application under the section last cited. The fact that a man in State prison for life can be a witness is tho interesting point in tho case. WHY NOT TAX MOSQUITOES? Mr. V. II, maxwell I Has Entered (be Field of liuinor.

Ex llogistcr Hugh McLaughlin, Judge Pratt, Judge Mooro and other woll know hunters and dog owners have taken ont licenses for dogs. Mr. McLaughlin is tho possessor of a lino black and white setter. Judge Pratt owns two dogs. TIiub far there have boon about twonty ttvo hundred of this class of licenses issued by the City Clerk; a much largor numbur than that covering the corresponding period of last year.

City Clerk Shanley has received a letter from W. H. Maxwell, who had been notified to take out a dog license. Mr. Maxwell wrote: Ah I have just bought a houso in and movod to the Twenty sixth Ward, the children must have a dog and, as the old song ran, "I bought a whistlo for nine pence and that was Irish too," I purchased an Irish setter pup eight weeks old, on condition that I could return it in four weeks if not satisfied.

Well, two weeks satisfies mo and tho notice I got gives me a chanco to return the dog without breaking, up the faiuily.aslwas about to hire a boy to steal it. Thoroforo 1 comply with the law by not harboring or keeping a dog. While I like dogs I think it only right that thoy should be taxed. What about mosquitoes? Is there no law, human or divine, to compel those who harbor them to muzzle them 7 If you will call and sec mo Home Sunday afternoon, Glen more avenue, near Powell street, I will show you some healthy specimens. Yours respectfully.

II. THE MURDER OF Oil. CKOXIN. Wliat Brooklyn Irinhmeu Ilnvc to Say About It. Tho late Dr.

Cronin, of Chicago, was well known to a number of Irish Nationalists in this city. A leader in Lish matters in Brooklyn said yostorday that Cronin was a very obstinate man, anil to differ with him on any point meant almost to quarrel with him. With reference to the minority report made by Cronin, aud published in Saturday's Sun, ho Haid there were no proxies from Brooklyn at the Pittsburg Convention; there were two from Staten Island and somo from Now York. These men were brought there by John Dcvoy, and wore objected to as belonging to districts that had no existence. They did just as Devoy aud his party asked thorn to.

Mr. Patrick Hynes, of 145 Green street, Seventeenth Ward, said that ho was a delegate to tho Pittsburg Convention; thero was only another man from Brooklyn there hosido himself, and there were certainly no proxies, as stated in Cronin's report. Among tho Irish Nationalists in this city whom tho reporter saw, here was a general feeling of deep regret over Cronin's murder, but none of them thought that tho difference with Sullivan was the cause. His intimacy with Kirley, the British spy, was much more likely to have been the reason that led to his murder. A CAT IN DISPUTE.

The l'xirty Charged With Stenting 11 Alley. a that He ia the Owner. Mr. Charles Turner, of 58 Devoo streot, was produced before Justice Goetting this morning on complaint of William F. Miller, all the way from 2 Hill place, Maurice's Point, Maspeth, charging him with the abduction of his so Maltese cat and collar.

Miller dopoBod that 111 April last, while he was stopping in Devoo streot, the animal was kidnapped and carried off in a covered basket, aud that he has reason to believe that the person who carried her off was the defendant. "Arc you guilty?" eaid the justice to Turner. "No, your Honor, I am not guilty; the cat belongs to me." "Then yon admit that you havo the cat?" "Yes, your Honor, and I'm ready for trial this morning." Tho complainant not beir.g ready with his witnesses tho case was adjourned till Monday next BOTH CHILDREN' ALMOST SUDE. Their jflothcr Found in a Drunken Stupor on tho Street. Officer Shea, of tho Tenth Precinct, at o'clock yesterday morning found Kate Loary, of 50 Underbill avenue, lying in a drunken stupor on tho sidewalk on Carlton avenue, with an infant olaspod in hor arms.

Hor apartments wero visited and her other two children, Sadio and Carrie, aged 3 and 5 years respectively, were found in tho basement almost unclothed and Buffering from oxposurc. They wero taken to the statiou house, whero they wero provided with sufficient clothing. Their father was not found. Sadio and Carrie were tnrned over to the caro of the Society for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The baby waB allowed to remain with itB mother, who waB this morning committed to the Penitentiary by Justice Walsh for six months.

TOO GOOD TO BE A CAR DRIVER. "Tho man thct kiu work at this biznCBB an' not swear the Boles of his shoes said a Brush street car driver, as he Bmote tho nigh horse a vicious blow with the knotted end of his lines, "ought'er bo a fnrrin missionary. Now, jest watch! Hero I am bowlin' along two minutes late. Now, jent's quick as I get worked up to a good speed, some woraan'U kum tearin' around a corner a block behind, wavm' a persawl. There Look et thct! Didn't I tell ye Whoa: dang it.

whoa!" "Vcb," he resumed, as tho woman gained the rear platform, and there were two taps of the bell above his head, "yeH, Bill Smith's the only man I over Bced who could stan' up to it an' keep his flesh without Bwcarin' right an' left. I've knowed thot man to Btan' up all day an' haff the night uullin' the ribbons an' twistin' the brake, sinilin all the timo as though ho was readin' one uv In gerHoll's sermons." "Good natured, eh "Good natured? well I should whimper. I never seed him strike a horse or speak a harsh word to the potters. But he allers made time." "Is ho driving on this line now." "Oh, bless you, no. He's been dead five years.

Only drove six months when ho caught cold, an' died of quick consumption. He was too near an angel for a street car driver." Detroit Tribune. TENEMENT HOUSE AJIESITIES. Before Justice Gootting this morning two re Trtr.l.irrt wnnlAn fi.ncrilv Pf1 pntltp ill fcp.ll other. Ono was Mrs.

Catharine Karcher, and tho other and older lady was MrB. Elizabeth Gootting, both denizens of 105 Soholcs streot. Mrs. Karcher deposed that Mrs. Gootting caned her a vile name and MrB.

Goetting doposcd that nr.a ni in )ir face. A large number of the neighbors of both wero greatly disappointed wflen the cose was adjourned to Friday next. OnARGED WITH ATTEMPTED BURfiljARY. David Chrystie, a young man who refused io give his address, was arrested yesterday morn ing by Patrolman Keevan, of the Eleventh Precinct, whilo in the act of entering tho resideuco of William Wellerqermen, 13 8 President street, by meanB of falao keys. Ho was hold upon a charge of attempted burglary by Justice Tighe and remanded to Jail for examination on Juno 1.

SENT TO THE INEBRIATE'S 110 HK. LomuclB. Kniffen, a well dresBcd young man, was arraigned before Justico Tigho this morning upon charges of burglary and habitual drunkenness preferred by his father, who resides at 2 14 Sovonth street, at whoso request ho was committed to tho Inobnatcs' Homo. MRS. LAWRENCE GETS A DIVORCE.

Mrs. Lawrence has obtained an absolnto divorce from her husband, Effingham E. Lawrcnco. Mrs. Lawrence was formerty MissJonnio Kincsland Travis, daughter of B.

T. Travis, of Great Neck, L. I. She and Mr. Lawrence were married nearly three years ago.

Mr. Lawronco's relatives wcro greatly opposed to the marriage. PROFESSOR OOATE'S CONCERT. The Dtipils of Professor W. B.

Goate havo ton dered that distinguished musician a concert, which will take plaoo to morrow evening in the Calvarv Episcopal Churoh. Maroy avenue and South Ninth street. An excellont programme haa been arranged. Piercing the Gloom of the Cronin Mystery. The Police Now Beliere that They Are on the Track of All the Murderers An other Detective Suspended.

Chicago, HI, May 27. The arrest of McGcchan, it is behoved, will eventually land all of the participants in tho foul Crime. Wliero tho prisoner is located could not be learned, but it is behoved that ho is buried in one of the deepest dungeons under headquarters in the City Hall. Thero wore many viBits made to that quarter yesterday by police officials and several by Assistant Superintendent Frank Murray, of the Pinkerton Agency. On ono of his visits to the central station Mr.

Murray was accompanied by "Bill" Gallagher, whoBO oxtensivo acquaintance with all classes and characters in Philadelphia is well known. Certain friends of Dr. Cronin, who claim to havo been instrumental in bringing about tho arrest, say that tho prisoner is no othor than the miBsing J. B. Simonds, who rented the rooms at 117 Clark street, opposite to Cronin'B office in the Chicago Opera House building, purchased the furnituro and tho houBO at Kevells, and after keeping them in tho rooms for a while disappeared with all the traps found last week in tho 'Carlson cottage iu Lake View.

They further claim that ho decoyed Dr. Cronin away, assisted in the awful struggle that resulted in Cronin's death, and then aided in the disposal of the doctor's body. There was somo mysterious telephoning going on between the police station and Captain Van Schaack shortly after the visit of Murray and Gallagher. The detectives are said to bo in possession of the real names and actual identities of threo of tho men implicated in the assassination. Thoy aro tho two Williams and Simonds.

They also know that the three men skipped to three different parts of the country, and three officers havo boon aont to locate them. But so far no encouraging reports havo boon received. Thero aro also under constant detective espionage six or eight people in Chicago. The police profess to know that McGeehan iB noither Simonds nor the man Williams, who rented the Carlson cottage, but admit thoy know nothing about his being tho alleged Smith named by Dettctive Conghlin. Thero was a rumor last night that a Chicago barkeeper was also under arrest, but while tiie city police denied this they assert that the principals and accessories aro Chicago people with not more than two exceptions.

All the suspects will be rounded up for the Coroner's inquest. It is reported this morning that Petor McGahan has been identified as tho occupant of the Clark Btroot flat aud purchaser of tho furnituro from Rovella. Neither the police nor tho furnituro men will talk. If this is correct one half of tho mystery is cleared up and the only questions to bo solved aro who wore tho other participants and who ia behind tho gang. Detective Whalon, who accompanied Detcetivo Coughlin in his search for the man Smith from Houghton, for whom Coutshlin hired a white horse on May 4, has been suspended from duty pending further investigation.

Officials at tho police department say this morning that P. O. Sullivan has not been arrested, as was reported last ni'Jiht. Judge Longcnccker will to day moot W. J.

Hynes and Luther Laflin Mills and will ho shown the incriminating papers and affidavits loft with Mr. Hynes by Dr. Cronin some time ago. On tho contents of these documents will depend whether the State's Attorney will order the arrest of any of the persons so often alluded to by Dr. Cronin's friends as being in the conspiracy to assassinate him.

The present Grand Jury will close their labors early this week and the Juno body will not bo impaneled under tho sepond Monday of tho month. "It will make 110 difference," said Judge Long cneeker, "whether tho Grand Jury acts or not. Any person against whom thero is sufficient grounds of sns icion can bo held to await the action of tho Grand Jury." A reporter this morning visited the icehouse of P. 0. Sullivan to inquire what Mr.

Sullivan knew about tho reported disappearance of Tom Tier ney. Mr. Sullivan was not homo but his housekeeper was. She declared that Tom Tiernoy had not disappeared; on tho contrary, ho was Btill working for Sullivan and this morning took out ono of tho ice wagons. DESPERADOES KILLED THE SHERIFF.

Then Tlicy Surrendered nnd a inchin(r is jr.ookeil For. Siieujiax, May 27. Sheriff May, of this (Grayson) county, was killed yesterday in a battlo with threo desperadoes whom lie was trying to arroat. Warrants had been placed in the sheriff's hands for their arrest on the charge of disturbing the peace. Knowing their desperate character ho took a posbo with him and located them at Howe.

When called upon to surrender they fired at tho posbc lulling the sheriff. The tiro was returned, but tho desperadoes wero not hit. They surrendered when their ammunition was exhausted, and they wero lodged in Jail here. The murder has caused great excitement, and the Grayon Guards were called out to protect the jail, as it was feared tho desperadoes would bo lynched. RENO HAS A BIG FIRE.

Hotels, Business Mouses and Railroad Build injrs Destroyed. Reno, May 27. A fire started yesterday afternoon iu the old theater building just opposite the Depot Hotel. It soon burned down tho hotel and six othor houses and offices near and then in succession burned to the ground the Pioneer Hotel, Lafayotto House, Pollard Houbc and Pyramid HotiBe. Tho N.

C. Depot was also partially consumed. On Center streot tho fire broke out again and destroyed five business houses and ton residences. In one block overy building except one was in ashes. Fire in another direction burned the round house and turn table of tho Central Pacific, two houses and ono cement house.

Tho Silver State Flouring Mills were next consumed and af ter that Fogus Flouring MillH. It is impossible to securo correct list of losses, but thoy will probably be between $250,000 and $300,000. Tlfe insurance amounts to about $125,000, being quito evenly distributed among twenty or twenty five companies. THE LAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY SAVED. Chicago, 111..

Msy 27 The financial crisis in the affairs of tho Lako Forest University haa at length been mot. The trustoos of the univcristy at a meeting Saturday were enabled to report subscriptions amounting in all to $400,000. The raising of this sum bo cures an additional gift of $100,000 offered by one of Chicago's uhilanthropic citizens.ou condition that tho $400,000 should be raised. As $200,000 was paid in early in 1888, the amounts added to the permanent fund of the university during tho last threo cars reaches the respect able sum of $700,000. The future of the univer sity is now assured.

IMPORTANT RAILROAD CIIAXGKS. Evansvtlle, Msv 27. Tho consolidation of the Louisville, Evanuville and St. Louis Railway with the Mackoy systom, which was concluded Wednesday last at Belleville, has niado quito a number of important changes necessary. Tho first of thoBe was the appointment of G.

J. Grammer as traffic manager of the entiro system, which went into effect on Wednesday. Another important appointment is that of Colonel G. F. Evans as general manager of tho entire Mackey Bystom.

TIIE PRESIDENT'S ACTIOS NOT RELISHED. Indianai'Olir. Mav 27 The "Executive Committee of 100 are displeased over the action of tho President in remitting tho fine of Sim Coy, the Domocratic politician who is sol ving a term in the penitentiary for frauds, and they havo expressed their dissatisfaction in resolutions. They think that they should havo been consulted. DISTINGUISHED RAILROAD HEN MEET.

8au.lt Ste. Mabie, May 27. General Manager Van Home, of tho Canadian Pacific, accompanied by Sir George Stephens and Sir Donald Smith, carao through on a special from Montreal Saturday. Thoy woro met hero by General Manager Fitch, of the South Shore, and Goneral Manager Underbill, of the Soo. The en tire party loft last evening for St.

Paul on a special train. FRIGHT DROVE HIH TO HIS DOOM. St. Maiiy'8, May 27. The residence of Emanuel Smith near this placo was dostroyod by fire early yesterday morning.

A boy named Copscy, who had been stopping over night with the Smiths, had been rcs cned from the' flames, but whilo overcome with fright and before he could bo caught rushed back in the midst of tho fire and perishod. THE SUNDAY LAW ENFORCED. Indianapolis, May 27. Per tho fiMt time in a decado tho Sunday law was rigidly enforced hero yesterday. The barber shops, saloons and all places of amusement were closed.

a WHITE FROST IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. Doveb, N. Mav 27. Thero was a heavy white frost in this vicinity this morning, doing groat damage to crops. WIND AND RAIN IN ILLINOIS.

Quincy, 111., May 27. A torrifio wind and rainstorm passed over this vicinity yesterday afternoon. The storm was cyclonic in its natnro and considerable damago was done. The blaok, funnol shapod cloud swopt at a furious rate from northwest to southeast, descending to tho earth at irregular intervals. Several houses and barns wore unroofed and trees woro pnllod up by the roots.

The full force of the Btorm struck a comotery in the southoru part, of the city and nearly every monnmont in tho grounds was demolished. So far no Iosb of life or sorioua injury has been reported. THE GOOD TEMPLARS' CONVENTION. Chicago, May 27. Headquarters for tho great world's convention of the Bight Worthy Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars, which commences to morrow, ware opened this morning hi tho entresoi of the Palmer House.

Ovor four, hundrod delegates have already arrived, England, as Mr. Roosevelt in its membership something more than empty platitudes may be looked for. He is not a man of promises alone, but a man of performances. A Cloud Upon the Eastern Horizon, Before Secretary Blaine has disposed of the Samoau question he has another foreign complication on his hands, the particulars of which are reprinted in to day's Eagle from their original channel of publicity, the Philadelphia Press. The difficulty grows out of the bill of a dressmaker and the summary measures adopted to collect it from traveling Americans in the South of France.

It would be a mistake to underestimate the importance of clothes as an international factor. If not tho chief they are a very powerful stimulant to intercourse between the New World and the Old. The number of passengers across the Atlantic increases every year. 1 At some seasons a stateroom cannot be had unless secured long in advance. Shipbuilders are constantly adding to the ocean fleet and aiming to cut down the time record in order to accommodate the thousands of impatient voyagers.

People are constrained to go abroad by various motives, but next to the soro throat of the overworked clergyman dress is the most efficient impulse. Whole families close their fine city homes, abandon their attractive country seats and betake themselves to the other side. Often they do not stay long enough to make an extended tour of the Continent and sometimes are content to remain for a few months in London and Paris. The sudden exodus would be puzzling were it not known that they go to get clothes. Although statesmen have directed their energies for many years to the protection and freedom of American industry, the women of the Republic are still largely dependent upon the pauper labor of Europe for dresses.

Wraps and gowns and bonnets, therefore, have much to do with the cordial feeling of our friends beyond sea toward the United States, and any rude disturbance of this condition of peace might easily suggest a foreign quarrel. Mr. Blaine, as a diplomatist, will bs likely to consider the Dorr Van Nostraud Marvin incident in this way and will be inclined to act cautiously in regard to tho dressmakers of Nice and the police authorities of Mentone. But the Secretary may also regard tho matter from the point of view of a domestic politician and a protectionist leader. Ho is suspected of meditating "an aggressive foreign policy." His attitude toward tho more or less decayed governments of Europe is supposed to be that of old fashioned "gay and festive defiance" spiced with a flavor of modern "jingoism." He may look upon this matter of clothes as a rare opportunity to show the nations of the world that we are not to be trifled with.

In such a controversy ho might rely upon the support not only of the Republican party but also of the feminine half of the Democracy. As a student both of maxims and markets he knows that the intelligent and well paid needlewomen and purveyors of "tailor made" garments at home are outsold and undersold by the starving artificers of dry goods in Free Trade countries. Compensating duties are ineffectual through the remarkable skill of the clever ladies of our own laud in wearing" an astonishing number of imported dresses before they are inspected by sharp eyed Custom House officers. Here is a rare chance for an effective appeal to the wage earning class." Beside there is no doubt that Mr. Blaine could write brilliant letters on the tradesmen of Europe who, though servile and sycophant beyond parallel, can be sufficiently insolent nnd unscrupulous toward the American customer whom they have made their prey.

Evidently tho Secretary will find himself in a delicate position. Naturally enough, confronting England on the question of the fisheries and Germany in the Samoa matter, he does not care to offend France. On the other hand, it will not do for him to truckle to a foreign power or forget our infant industries. He cannot treat the dressmaking case so boldly and summarily as another popular and dashing leader handled the Van Nostrand box issue in the Academy of Music several years ago. "I will wait," said Conductor Theodore Thomas, of the National Opera Company, as after repeated private remonstrances he rapped a halt to tho performers on the stage aud in the orchestra, "I will wait until the conversation is concluded." And it was concluded forthwith.

Much red tape may be unrolled before the later Van Nostrand incident can be considered as closed. Seriously, it is hardly probablo that Secretary Blaine can lift the dressmaking affair to the level of a grave international dispute. It is 110 part of the function of the United States to give Frenchmen lessons in civility or to amend the laws for the collection of debt or any other European statutes. The most the Administration can insist upon is that American citizens abroad shall receive the full measure of justice under the domestic regulations of the country where they may happen to be. The practical prevention of such disagreeable experiences is to buy clothes at home.

The prelude to the celebration of Memorial day occurred yesterday. Services on the Sunday preceding the anniversary are customary and they seem to be growing in interest. Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic are invited to attend the churches. Some societies, hitherto disinclined to whatever maybe even suspected as sensational, because unusual and outside of the religious routine, seem to be adopting the custom as in the case of the Church of the Pilgrims, where Post Rankin gathered last night and listened to a sermon by Dr. Storrs on a text aptly significant of the war for the Union and its results "Other men have labored, and ye are entered into their labors." There were also suitable ceremonies at tho graves of soldiers, at the Lincoln monument and at the Martyrs' Tomb on Fort Greene.

The speaking of tho day was up to the average, and the only qualification suggested is whether there is not a tendency on this and other public occasions to too much talk. The resignation of the Rev. Dr. Bancroft, for twenty years rector of Christ Church in Clinton street, is a distinct loss to the city. That the long re3t which ho says in his letter ho is compelled to take may be so restorative of health that the resignation can bo safely withdrawn is a wish by no means confined to Dr.

Bancroft's own parish. The promise of a brilliant racing season in this neighborhood is borne out by the progress of turf events. With the present week the meeting of the Brooklyn Jockey Club will be brought to a successful close, only to be succeeded by the races of tho American Jockey Club, at Jerome Park. Apart from a few unimportant exceptions the racing at Graves end has been excellent, tho management good and the attendance sufficiently large to en conrage lovers of the noblest of sports. The running at Fordham begins on Decoration day, coincidentally with the termination of the pastime at Gravesend, Later on will come the grand gathering at tho beautiful and spacious grounds of the Coney Island Jockey Club at Sheopshead Bay, tho glorious contest for the Suburban and the manifold minor events which fill with expectancy and animation the turfman's cup of pleasure.

There is every reason to believe that the early Summer of the present year will be more prolific of pleasing diversion for admirers of equine competition than any preceding period in the history of the country. Within proper limitations racing affords exhilarating relief from the ordinary cares of life, and is, therefore, when conducted in compliance with law and fair play entitled to all reasonable encouragement. Our venerable and vigorous fellow citizen, Dr. Edward Beecher, will be congratulated on the fact that he has so far recovered from the effect of the painful accident borne with heroic fortitude as to preach yesterday a characteristic sprmon mhis ParfcyjUQ pulpit. Yankton, May 27.

A now party has been formed in South Dakota, known as the Single Tax party. It was orgahizod at Huron Saturday and a Central Committee appointed. It is the purpose of this party to open tho campaign in tho new State of South Dakota with tho ultimata viow of incorporating tho single tax principles into tho State Constitution. The advocates of tho now theory maintain that all public revenues should ultimately bo raised by a singlo tax on the value of tho bare land. ATTACKING PREMIER 0RKENWAT.

Boston, May 27. A special from Ottawa says it is lcarnod on reliable authority that tho Liberal party of Manitoba aro demanding tho resignation of Premior Grcenway and Attorney General Martin on charges of maladministration iu the conduct of public affairs and an investigation into the manner which public interest havo been guardod Binco tho Groonway government camo into power. BOUC1CAULTFICHTIKO AGNES ROREKTSON. London, May 27. Recontly Agnes Robertson, tho former wife of Diun Boucicault, secured judgment against the actor for alimony which lie had not paid, and tho court gave hor permission to sell Boucicault's English copyrights.

Boucicault has entered an appeal in tho case, and tho court prohibits, for the present, tho seizure and sale ot the copyrights. A GEORGIA TOWN BURNED OUT. Macon, May 27. A special to tho Telegraph from Dublin says: "Dublin was visited by the most destructive Urn in its history yesterday. Tho fivo originated near the Post Offico, iu the heart of the business portion of the town, and raged until eleven business houses were consumed.

Only one of the firms carried any insurance. Tho total loss will reach $40,000." LABOR MEN PETITION THE GOVERNOR. Buffalo, N. May 27. At tho meeting of the Central Labor Union yesterday a memorial to the Governor, urging him to withhold his signature from the KiiBsett Crosby Convict Labor bill, which repeals tho Yates bill, was indorsed.

A resolution was adopted, requesting the Governor to sign the bill amending tho factory laws. FREIGHT CARS DERAILED. Elmma, N. May 27. Thirteen Erio freight cars wero dorailod near Chemung yesterday afternoon by a broken brake boam.

The track was blocked for some timo. Michael Whalon, a tramp, was fatally injured, and two other tramps wero slightly hurt. SHAKING UP SOUTHERN CONDUCTORS. Birmingham, May 27. A number of conductors on the upper divisions of thoLouiBville and Nashvillo Railroad woro recontly discharged, aud yesterday throe on tho Montgomery and Decatur Division wore dismissed.

No reason is assigned. LINCOLN MEETS THE PRINCE OF WALES. London, May 27. United Statos Minister Lincoln was presented to the. Prince and Princess of Wales at Lord Salisbury's reception Saturday evening.

EX MINISTER MC LANE RETURNING. Paris, May 2 7. Mr. Robert McLanc, tho retiring American Minister, haB sailed for Now York. His wifo and daughter will remain in Paris for the present.

OBITUARY. Mrs. Blatlie A. Vox. Mrs, Hattio A.

Fox, widow of tho lato Colonel H. O. Fox, died yesterday at hor residence, 170 Hall street, of pneumonia, after an ilin bb of only nine days' duration. Mrs. Fox waH the daughter of tho lato P.

Y. Newman, of Hollowell, editor of the Ilollowt'll Journal, aud during her younger days learned the printer's trade. After hor husband's death she turned this knowledge to account aud took a position in the composing room of tho jVcjo York Intlepewlenl. Her next engagement was in the composing room of tho Brooklyn Daily Eaolk, in which service she continued until her death. This evening tho members of tho Eaole Chapel, connectod with Typographical Union No.

i)H, will hold a meeting and take appropriato action. Mrs. Fox waB 42 years of age. She leaves no children. Two sisters residing in this city and a brother, of Rutherford Park, N.

with a large circle of friends, will mourn her Iosb. The funeral services will bo conducted by tho Rev. Mr. Harding, assistant pastor of the Church of tho Redcomer, at hor late residonoc to morrow evening at o'clock. The body will be buried beside that of tho late Colonol Fox, at Monmouth, Mo.

John Vlict. Tho funeral services tho late Vliet wero held at bin family residence, G38 Monroe stroet, on Sunday afternoon and were attended by the War Veteran Association of tho Fourteenth Regiment, N. Y. S. Clinton Lodge No.

2,000, Knights of Honor; RidL'owood Council No 078, Royal Arcanum, of all of which associations ho was a member. There woro also present General McLeor aud staff, Colonol Michell and othor officers of tho active regiment, and a largo number of relatives and friends. Services were held by tho pastor of tho Hoid Avenue Methodist Chnroh, of which deceased was a member, and also by the lodgo and council. Tho deceased was connected with Company of tho Fourteeut Begimout as far back as When tlio regi ment took its departure for the war ho was first sergeant of his company. Ho was promoted to be second lieutenant late in 1S01 and to first lieutenant iu October.

1SG2. In the early part of 1863 ho was appointed adju tant of his regiment, in which prominent position ho won the respect and esteem not only of his snporior officers but of lovery officer and man in tho regiment. He was fortunate, having been present with the regiment in nearly all of its engagements, iu not being wounded un til a few days before the return of tho regiment. When in Grant's campaign of tho Wilderness he received a wound, disabling him, which, howover, proved not to bo serious. Since his return from the war ho has been act ive in business aud faithful to the interests of all whom he represented.

His hoalth has been fail ing for tho past year or more, although his ambi tion kept him actively to his duties until six days before his death, which occurred upon tho twen ty eighth anniversary of his muster into tho service of tho United States with his regiment. For the past two yeara ho has been the treasurer of tho War Veteran Association of the Fourteenth Regiment, N. Y. S. M.

His remains wero interred at Pcckskill, N. in the family burial plot. He He leaves a widow and ono child, a boy, born on the Centennial anniversary, July 4, 187o. ERASTUS T. TEFFT POST.

An Impressive Memorial Service in the Wilson Building'. On Sunday afternoon the comrades of Erastus T. Tcfft Post No. 355, G. A.

held a niOBt im pressive and interesting public service at their rooms in the Wilson Building. Tho opening of the sorvico was announced by the Bounding of the "assembly," on the cornet, after which tho prescribed form of service for Memorial day wan gono through in a most satisfactory manner. The musical part of tho programme was rendered by a quintet of gentlemen who volunteorod for the oc casion, and whose excellent performance could hardly have been excelled by the best professional talent. Tho exquisite and artistic rendering of Sohnbert'8 "Scronado," and "Home Circle," tho latter piece written for the occasion, will long bo remomborod by thoso who had tho pleasure of hearing them. Tho oration.delivored by Colonel P.

W. Ostrander, a comrade of the post, iu his nsual eloquent and lorciblo manner waB notable for its departure from tho stereotyped form of Bnch addresses. His opening wab devdtcd to a brief Birm mary of tho crubcb which lod to tho lato rebellion, after which ho gave a thrilling account of tho trials and Bufferings of tho men who born the brunt of the battle iu its suppression. He thon pointed out tho good results whioh had followed from what had at first seemed disasters and closed with an exhortation to ramembcr the lessons deduced from tho hiBtory of the struggle. Tho prayer in tho service was road by Major General O.

O. Howard, who waB tho guest of the poBt on this occasion, and who supplemented tho oration of Colonel Odtrander with a brief but eloquont address. Tho arrangement of flowers was tastoful and elegant, tho portrait of tho late Erastus T. Tofft being framed in a beautiful wreath of white blos somB and ivy, the othor floral decorations boing distributed about tho room iu tho most artistic manner. CORNER LOUNGERS SENT TO JAIL.

Gcorgo 8hortcll, a young man who gave his. reBidonco aB 144 Summit Btroot, was arrested yeBterday afternoon by Patrolman Muldoon, of tho Fifteenth Precinct, for lounging on Emmett Btroot. Ho ploaded guilty to tho charge boforo Justice Tighe and was sentenced to ten days in jail. Michael Dwyor, of 348 Van Brunt stroot, was arrested for tho Haino offenso by Patrolman Fogarty, of tho Eleventh Precinct, and rcceivod a five days' sentence. PLEADED OUILTI TO A CHARGE OF ASSAULT.

Patrick Dunn was arrested yesterday on com plaint of Richard Plummor, of 160 Washington street, who charged him with striking him with a stono and boating him about tho face with his fists. Patrick eutorod a plea of guilty whon arraigned boforo Justice Tigho this morning and was remanded until Saturday for Bontonce. TEN DOLLARS WASHE COST. f.2'4 Oei Iglfc this 1 (hrTof 150 Owon Brannigan, of Centre street, was fined $10 by Justice Tigl morning for as Bamting Edward Murpl Garnot eireot, a fow days ago. Any other conclusions, indeed, would be a cause for wonder.

Let no injustice be done. The Eagle has no grounds for believing that the members of the Republican Executive Committee who lately went on to Washington to see the President and others, touching the claims of Mr. weight either with members of the Board or upright citizens. Tho officials who have regarded it as their duty to purge tho educational branch of the city government of the suspicion of corruption can afford to pass over unconcernedly the uncomplimentary allusions of the attorney who carries Barthman's retainer in his pocket. It is the lawyer's right to defend his client.

But the lawyer can find no fault if the people remember that he is acting as a lawyer and not as a citizen. As for counsel's intimation of the introduction of political influence, the least said from Bavthimm's standpoint the better. We know that the gang" have apologized for the defendant. With characteristic promptitude, they have sought to relieve him of the odium brought upon him by his own acts. The Mayor has even been exposed to criticism because he objects to having his administration compromised by the machinations of unscrupulous men.

But that any upright leader of either party has interposed to shield the accused from the legitimate consequences of his evil behavior we do not for a moment believe. No politician who expected to retain the confidence of any considerable number of followers would for a moment think of stepping in to interrupt the orderly course of justice. That Barthman is anxious to utilize everything which promises to break his fall is easily comprehended. From the inception of the scsm llal his conduct has tended to confirm the impression of impropriety on his part. But in trusting for his salvation to the politicians he goes too far.

Neither the Board nor tho Mayor can afford to protect him through considerations of partisanship. There is no visible reason for believing that they desire to do anything of the kind. If Barthman persists in his determination to afflict the Board with his unsavory presence Mayor Chapin will doubtless do his duty in the premises. It may be advisable to defer summary proceedings until the committee's report has been acted upon in Red Hook lane. After that, if the defendant holds his ground, suspension will be in order.

Apart from the individuality of Barthman it will be well, perhaps, to have the case carried before the Supreme Court in order that the sufficiency of the Mayor's prerogative may be adequately tested. It is a prerogative that his Honor is not inclined to exercise hastily. He is satisfied that he occupies solid ground in his expressed disapproval of Barthman's position. Consequently the ultimate retirement of the offender, voluntary or involuntary, is reasonably assured. Service Progrens.

Popular confidence in the new Civil Service Commission is being justified by its acts. Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt's explanation of the chango in the rules providing for publication of the eligible list will satisfy and gratify all sincere advocates of the reform. When Mr. Roosevelt accepted the appointment it was expected that he would impress his views on the Commission. The expectation is verified by tho first important step taken since his induction into office.

When, a. Mr. Roosevelt explains, the Commission was first established, it was deemed expedient to keep the eligible list secret. Privacy, it was hoped, would prevent politicians from bringing pressure to bear on public officers to secure the appointment of a given man on the list. The hope, in practice, has been disappointed.

It has frequently occurred that political managers were able to get hold of the standing of applicants while the outside public and all but the favored candidates remained in ignorance, of it. Consequently the Commission is convinced that the regulation has not produced the results intended. Commissioner Roosevelt and his colleagues exhibit commendable readiness to be guided by experience. They are now persuaded that in our form of government publicity is a good thing unless special reasons to the contrary can be shown. Hereafter they will endeavor to "drill into the minds of the public belief in the absolute honesty and fairness of the present system of selecting public employes and of the way in which it is carried out." Commissioner Roosevelt is very strenuous on this point.

The Commissioners, he avers, intend to have the enforced honestly and with out the least reference to the politics of the applicant. They believe that perfect candor will strengthen public confidence in the merit system. That there are still many obstacles in the way of reform Mr. Roosevelt sensibily admits. His moderate views are comprehensively embraced in these words Of course, while I believe implicitly that the merit system, aa opposed to the old spoils eyBtem, has come to stay, I realize that many methods are more or Iosh on trial even yet, and the Commission haa to make experiments all tho time; and it is absolutely inovitablo that there should bo occasional mistakes.

When we find wo have made such a mistake, wc shall simply reverse our action. Now it is exactly bo in this case. It was believed, with what seemed good reasons, by the original Commission that secrecy in tho matter of the eligible lists would work well. Now we are inclined to think that on tho whole it has worked injustice, and tho Commission is going, therefore, to make the eligible lists and the standing of each applicant public and try how it works, reserving to it aolf liberty to alter tho courso if it is found to work badly. We recognize at the outset that there aro cortain disadvantages connected with publicity whUo the certification for appointment includes throo nameB at a time.

There is a chance that people will bring pressure to bear upon tho appointing powers to have them chooso some particular favored one of tho throe. But oven when the lists wcro kept secrot it too often happened that tho politicians found' out what tho public remained ignorant of and broughtpressure to boar anyhow. So tho Commission thinks that the numerous advantages of publicity moro than counterbalance its disadvantages. The experiment is well worth undertaking. If it does not succeed the Commissioners are at liberty to reverse their action.

What is of more consequence, however, than any question of method is the good faith of the Commissioners themselves. If they adhere to the courso laid down the result cannot fail to excite the approvalof reformers. There 19 What the Cancelled Article is Worth 10 Student. The National Society of Stamp Collectors holds a convention here next October, and the presence of so many enthusiasts will naturally revive interest in this craze among St. Louisaus.

Collecting stamps lias become such an art that it requires a long novitiate to understand the inwardness and value of stamps. Within the lust five years tho collection of proprietary stamps has become the chief interest of collectors. Proprietary stamps camo into use in 1 by an act of Congress, ami in IHHIS they were abolished. During that time collectors know of varieties of match stumps, of playing cards nnd 800 of patent medicines. A firm would send a design of its own to the Government, which, upon approval, would print anil sell to the firm these peculiar stamps for its own separate use Since thoy wine abolished they have become interesting to collectors, and, odd as it may ncem, nobody has been able to obtain a complete set.

An enormous value lias been placed upon some of them. For instance, there are two varieties, of which only one stamp of each iH known to ho in existence, and $1(10 would not buy either of thorn. One of these is Morehe.id Ncuradine, the other a stamp of Dr. Wilson, of Louisville, Ky. They were stamps printed when the law first wont into force, and the proprietors soon failed.

As they were not collected in those days thoy easily passed out of existence. A stump collector knows that the United States turns out the best stamps in the world. They are not only admittedly of the most handsome design, but tho workmanship unit tho paper arc unequaled by any othor country. 'J show yon what stamps are worth I havo only to say that the collection of J. K.

Tiffany, of this city, could readily bo sold for $10,000. Ho began to collect in 1852 and he has fully different varieties. You know that the first stamps were only issued in 1840. Yet there arc somo which arc not to bo obtained. Louts (1 lube Democrat.

TEMPERANCE I.KOISLATION I.OtAI, OPTION. Under local option, then, we have prohibition in all those places whore we can hope to have it under a Stte law, while in tho remaining places wc still have the benefit of tho usual restrietivo laws, which are of necessity all swept away by the of general prohibition. The fact that non onforcoment of prohibition means tho removal of all restraints usually imposed by law on tho liquor business is too often forgotten. Tho law cannot placo minor restraints 011 a traffic the existence of which its own self respect forbids it to recognize. Tho business for the Stato prohibitionists, if they would prove their enso against local option, is to examine the laBt recorded votes on tho question of prohibition in the several towns of prohibition States, mark those that voted against it, and then try honestly to find out in what proportion of those towns it is a success.

It iB on the record of those towns, and of those only, that tho merits of the question between local option and prohibition can be" decided. Where local option, but not prohibition, has been tried, significant facts also appear. For instance, in the past few years, several cities in Massachusetts have changed back from prohibition to liconse, finding that they lacked the energy to enforce tho stricter system, in spite of a small majority apparently in its favor. On tho other hand, tho City of Cambridge furnishes a striking proof of what a small majority can do when willing to work for prohibition well as to vote for it. Such instances, however, count nothing in favor of a Stato law, while every case where majority fails to maintain the law it has itseli passed telle with double effect against such 0 law.

Atlantic Monthly. A PARIS EXPOSITION IN DISHABILLE. The three domes aro the three leading features and salient points of departure for the eye. They aro elaborately framed up in iron, and faced with colored encaustic tiles. I acquired a taste for domes colored in encaUBtic tiles in Mexico, where they are a fine old Spanish tradition, and hardly expect now to get ovor it.

All around the front of the Palais dos GroupoB Divers, or, as we should Bay, the main building, runs a two storied arcade, abutting tho two high tranverso gallerieB, the Galerio Rapp and the Galerie Dessaix, which form a division between the wings of tho main building and tho Palaces of tho Fino Arts and tho Lib oral Arts respectively. Its upper story is formed into a frieze, some fifteen feet high, in the Renaissance manner, which is of tho richest and most original description. It is fretted in very high relief with a tossing foam of leafage, scrolls, andchcrtibim supporting escutcheons. Thefigures are of more than life size. The work is simply in plaster, to which a general tone of ivory haB been givon, whilo portionB, snch as tho borders and the shields, were being picked out with gold and colors.

The part whero this mingled sculpture and mosaic was already complete, Berving as a specimen of tho whole, was liko a dashing, lovely sketch, which you would liko to keep in its present condition. Plaster is naturally not the most durable of materials, but, treated as this is with something to harden its surface, it can easily last its six months' exposure out of doors during the plcaBant season. It will be a great pity if, after that, somo means be not found for reproducing this remarkable friezu in stono or terra cotta. Atlantic Monthly. BUSINESS NOTICES.

SOLID SILVER Jp'ORKS AND SPOONS. Any quantity, from half dozen to full outfit chests, fiied (and exceedingly low) prices per ounce. THEODORE B. STAKR, FIFTH AVENUE. MADISON SQUARE.

BETWEEN TWENTY FIFTH AND TWENTY SIXTH STREETS, NEW YORK. JAMES H. HART, LIMITED, 530. o41 and 543 Falton st. and 152 Gold at.

Juuctioti DeK(dh twv, BROOKLYN. OUH NEW ESTABLISHMENT IS NOW FULLY OPEN. WE ARE SHOWING A MAGNIFICENT ASSORT, GOODS SUITABLE FOR THE WEDDING SEASON. DENTISTRY. rvR.

J. HOYT, DENTIST LARGEST, mJ and roost complete osttbHehmoAk in Brooklyn. 395 Fnlton at. dixeotly oppoatt Otfar HaIL Hoado.uartoTa for the palnleaa extraction ot testa wltk ImighiDg gas. Beautiful uot rum, toeth, 810, Willis, acted with any want of earnestness or good faith on behalf of that gentleman.

It is due, also, to say that Secretary Tracy was and is keenly aware of the importance of Mr. Willis' appointment and is heartily in favor of it. So, also, is ex Senator Thomas C. Piatt and the assertion cannot bo too explicitly made or too strongly Uie committee, Mr. Piatt and General Tracy are to be acquitted of any lukewarmucss, wavering, indecision or want of intelligent appreciation in the matter.

Not the shadow of a shade; of questionable faith attaches to them. The Eagle is glad to say this, with knowledge, for it redounds to the reputation of sound politics, and to the credit of eminent politicians, as well as clears the situation of the possibility of misconstruction so far as these Republicans are concerned. How or why is it, then, that the Executive Committee, the Brooklyn member of the Cabinet, General Tracy, and the leader of the Republican party in the great, Empire State, Mr. Thomas C. Piatt, find that, sume how, in the President's mind the impression reportedly has been formed that there are Republican influences in Brooklyn which would rather have the Nathan candidacy take precedence of the consideration of Mr.

Willis' claims and would much rather have the Nathan appointment made than the Willis appointment made if only one of the two can be granted Is the settled Brooklyn belief that Mr. Franklin Woodruff, in his capacity as chairman of the Republican General Committee, and as an unsent and un Bummoned political visitor to Washington lately threw the whole assumed weight of his official position in favor of ''urgency" for Mr. Nuthan and, without actually antagonizing Mr. Willis, "damned him with faint praise" or with none at all Are the words as to Mr. Willis which Mr.

Woodruff exudes here in Brooklyn much warmer than those which fell from him in Washington Is it a fact that Mr. John A. Nichols and Congressman W. C. Wallace have adopted the same frigid position toward Mr.

Willis and the same tropical attitude toward Mr. Nathan Is it a fact that Mr. Nathan is likewise superlatively for himself and nominally, if at all, for any one else? There can. with truth, hardly be any other than one answer to these questions. The accomplishment of a petty object for the Third Congressional District appears to be considered of greater importance than the accomplishment of a large gain for the collective Republicanism of the entire county.

If the President, as reported, is disgusted, he certainly has a right to be. It is certainly in order to inquire why the preference of Mr Nathan for a little office to Mr. Willis for a great one is so evidenj, Why so called leaders are so desirous to get a small position for a ward worker of theirs that they are apparently willing to let slip a post of national importance for the conductor of the late campaign of the whole party in this county The reply can only be suggested, the causes only surmised. The building up of a persona! autocracy in a single district, with tho effjct of belittling the party ever3'where else in the county and of belittling the Republicans of the county as a whole, in the eyes of the party in the State and nation, is beneficial to personal interests, while disastrous to party and to public interests. The personal interests to which it is beneficial are such as can be helped or hurt by an administration or by an maladministration of the Internal Revenue office here and at Washington.

The Internal Revenue office, significantly enough, is exactly the office sought with such concerted, suspicious audalmost indecent urgency for a ward worker to the postponement or defeat of the selection of a county leader for a national trust. For this Mr. Nathan is hardly blamable. He is a personal politician. Ho is.

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