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THE NE ORLEANS DAILY DEMOCRAT. OFFIOIAL JOURNAL OF THE STATE OF LOUIIANkA AND OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEAW8. VOL. III-NO. 109. NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1878-DOUBLE SHEET AND SUPPLEMENT. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. KEEP COOL ! KEEP COOL ! The way to do It in by one of our celebrated KING REFRIGERATORS, TrIIIE BER1IT IN Trri. W(I)TID. THEIR CONSTRUCTION INVOLVES. THOROUQH VENTILATION, GREAT MECHANICAL SOLIDITY, INCREASED FRIGIDITY OF TEMPERATURE, WITH A LARGE SAVING OF ICE. !CALL AND EXAMINE THEM. . SOLD. NOWIIERE Iý: SI E. WARRANTED TO GIVE PERFECT SATISFACTION. IN 13 ArII rrU. t I . We have a magnificent line of Solid Zinc and Japanned Plunge, Shower, Sitz, Hip, Sponge and every and all kinds of Children's Bathing Tubs. Our stock of COOLERS is the largest in the city, from the cheapest to the finest Porcelain-lined and Silver plated and mounted on fine Etruscan stands. Our stock is the largest and most complete in ALL KINDS OF HOUSE FUllRNISHING OODS, 'Which we will sell cheaper by 20 per cent. tha. you can purchase anywhere in the Southwest. BE SURE YOU NOTE THE RIGHT NAME AND ADDRESS, E. OFFNER & CO., 174 ..... CANAL STREET .....174 Oppomsite the Varieties Theatre. HAMBURGl EMBROIDERIES, FANS, PARASOLS, AND LACE NOVELTIES. TILE LEAI)IUIG )Al ýtICLLE - FOR THE - Spring Season of 1878, -IN WHICH - LE VY'S PALAIS ROYAL BAZAR, 137 C.MAL STREET, Takes the Lead. 400 NEW PATTELINS OF EMBROIDERIIES, Begin from two cents, up to $3 a yard, in JACONET, NAINSOOK AND SWISS. Ladies passing the Palais Royal windows will please notice the prices attached to the Embroideries exhibited, and they will speak for themselves. FIVE HUNDRED PIECES COLORED EDGE EMBROIDERIES expected in a few days, and will be displayed in the show window as soon as received. IF'ANS. SIXTY-FOUR STYLES OF JAPANESE, from 15 cents to $1 25 each, just half of last year's price. (No common fans sold in that line at the Palais Royal.) SILK AND SATIN FANS, llain and painted (thirty-three styles), begin at 25 cents, up to $10 each. \ FEATHER, PEARL AND ACE FANS, the largest assortment in New Orleans, begin at $1 up to $50 aphece. MISSIES' FANS, in silk, satin and feathers, from 25 cents to $3 apiece. Palais Royal Price List of Silk Parasols and Umbrellas. Black and brown plain handle,'Silk Serge Parasols, plain han- Silk Serge, pearl handle. boiled silk Umbrellas. ' dies. 18-in 20-In 22-in 24-in 14-in 16-in 18-n 2o-in 20-in 22-4-in 18-in 20-in 22-in 24-in $3 00oo $3 50 $4 $4 50 1 00 $1 25 $1 50 $ 75 $2 00 $2 25 $2 00 $2 25 $2 50 $2 75 Do. fancy handles, 250 extra. Fancy horn and bone handles. 50soc extra. -Canopy Silk-lined escalloped.i Misses' Parasols, in all new fancy handles. Matelasse or twilled silk, of the colors. 16-in 18-in 20-in canopy styles, same price. 500 600c 85 and $1. $3 o $3 s $4 ao o Twenty-four new styles of With fine French lace, $1 5 parasol handles. LACES, by the yard, three cents a yard up. LACE NOVELTIES COLLARS AND CUFFS, in Valenciennes, Italian and Russian laoes, sixty-four new styles. ALL LINEN COLLARS AND CUFFS, plain and embroidered; selling out at 25 cents a .set; worth 65 cents. Reduction in Ruchings and Skirt Protecting Ruchings. SEND FOR CATALOGUE - OF- LEVY'S PALAIS IROYAL. Address E. LEVY, mh31 Im New Orleans, Ia. THE SU(GAR TAlt'FF. THE NEW YORK IMPORTERS GONE HOME TO BIDE THEIR TIME. echlur Full of Wrath Towards Carter Howard and HsnCrew on the Anxious Bench - Radical Caucus - Ignorlng Hayes. [Special to the Democrat.] WARIIINGTON, April 8.--The New York sugar importers after a month's campaign here against Randall Gibbons' sugar section in the tariff bill, have gone home to walt until the bill is placed on the calendar, when they will muster again in force. One of them raid to me that the bill in its present shape was as as good at ten million dollars of subsidy to the sugar planting Interest. Schurz Is Terribly Exercised about the developments in the timber cases, and Invelghs bitterly against Carter for get ting into such a serape, and bringing disre pute on the reform policy of the Interior I)e partment. The Lottery Men are getting anxious at the delay of Devens to decide the points present&l to him. The mat ter seems to have been pigeonholed In the department, for the present at least, and it is evident that Devens hesitates to dispose of it. Howard's heavy political swell around here did him no go(l. The extra Item for the restoration of the river channel at Vicksburg will probably be reported in the hill at $80,000. The Radlral Joint Caucus of the House and Henate to-morrow night, hids fair to be interesting. Indications arc that the usual congressional address to the country will ignore Hayes entirely. BUEIL. NOTES FROM THE EAST. A Russia After the Turkish Fleet and the IBophorus Positions. hi LONDON, April 8. -Russia is urging upon id the Sultan, with the vigor of desperation, that M he surrender the Turkish ironelads and turn (e over to the Russian forces, for occupation, the positions on the Bosphorus now held by the 71 Turkish troops. cl Antl-Russlan Feeling of the Turkish G(ov ernment. LONDON, April .--The latest reports from Constautinople announce a change in the u, feelings of the Turkish government toward t, Russia. The recent favorable inclination no fr longer exists; the current is setting the other g way, and the sentiment of the Porte is now strongly anti-Russian. al British Designs on Crete. LONDON, April 8.---A rumor comes from Athens that it is the intention of the English ti government to seize andt occupy the Island of ti Crete. u_ Austria Defines Her Position. qi LoNDON, April 8.--A dispatch to the Timen s from Vienna says that in addition to the com munications made to Ignatieff in person, Austria has made a more extended and do- al tailed statement of her position to Prince (lortschakoff, which reached the Prince short- re ly after Ignatleff's return to St. Petersburg. o0 Austria Forbids Importations from ier via. LONDON, April 8. -A dispatch from Belgrade ai says that in consequence of the prl'valenlc of a spotted typhus and rinderpest in Servia the w Austrian government has forbidden importa- p, tions from that country. Austria and the San etefano Treaty. S LONDON, April .--The Pera correspondent a of the Telrepgrrph dispatches that he is in- A formed that the, Porte has received notice from Austria that the latter is flxed in her opposition to any attempt to enforce the stip- r ulations of the ban Stefano treaty. a English Preparation-How Russia Can Be a Met. LONDON, April 8.--In the House of Lords " this evening Earl Beaconsfield, in speaking ri on the Eastern question, said that the treaty of San Stefano had reduced Turkey to a met e vassal, and it now became necessary to show how the attitude of Russia toward Turkey could be met. r P He said that the greater part of Turkey was h now occupied by Russian troops, and as the whole world was armed, England could not remain disarmed. Lord Beaconsfield in clos ing his remarks appealed to the House to a vote for the protection of England. Alarming Increase of Mysterious Disap- h pearances. p NEW YORK, April 8.--There has been an r unusual number of cases of mysterious dis- t ) appearance in the past few days. The man- n ner in which people suddenly drop out of n sight of their friends is remarkable. No one b can find out where they go. Their friends g give the names and descriptions of the miss- u ing ones, and a general alarm is sent to all ti the station houses, and read to all the mem- o bers of the police force; then 2500 pairs of a eyes are engaged in the search, but the ab sent persons in many cases cannot be found. h Some times they run away or are drowned, Ior are locked up in prison under assumed names, while still others are off on a debauch. Among the saddest cases reported are those of the Murphy children, Maggie and Susan, e respectively tifteen and thirteen years of age, and Millie Lummis aged fifteen. They 1 Sstarted for school about ten days ago, since d which time they have not been seen. One of the strangest cases of disappearance f was reported last night. A handsome young woman named Mary Kidd, left her home in t Greenport, L. I., a few days ago for this city, and, although her friends and private detec p tives have been diligently searching for her, f she cannot be found. She is said to be a n young woman of good character. Sarah McCarthy, aged foruy-two years, of Brooklyn. has been missing for a few days. When last seen she had $112 in her possession. William Vefht was reported missing by his mother and sister, who wept bitterly as they told of their fears. There are numerous t other cases reported. At the Morgue are seven dead bodies, all of men, who are supposed to have committed suicide by drowning. Some of these bodies explained the mysterious disappearance of men who have been absent from their homes for several weeks. Blown Down-A Narrow Escape. BROOKLYN, April 8.-A two-story frame house in East Brooklyn, was utterly demol ished by wind yesterday and the occupants n had a narrow escape. John Slay, his wife, five daughters and one son, occupied the I a building. One of the girls came down stairs I and was opening the rear door, when one oif timbers above fell down, narrowly mis ~l er head. Obse hat the house was swayed by the wind, s larmed the rest of the family, who quickly made their escape. The last member of the family had hardly lelt the siouse, when the building fell in ruins. The East River Collis'en. NEW YORK, April 8.-As the Rosevelt street fe ryboat Superior was making her trip to Wdliamsburg Saturday at midnight she was ua intoby the eoiooner ouston and three of her passengers severely Injured. The cap tain of the schooner says he hadr no headway on his vessel, and thinks that the pilot of the ferryboat was at fault, and that if he had put his helm a-port the collision, though unavoid able, would not have been so serious. He heard the signals given by the whistle, but could not then change his course. No body is known to have been lost overboard or killed. A FIERY HORROR. BURNING OF THE STETBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK, POOR-HOUSE AND INSANE ATLUU. Fifteen Unhappy Beinga Perish In the Flames-Scenes Sickening Beyond Dea.rlp Iton. BATH, N. Y., April H.--A dlsaster of the most shocking description occurred here at an early hour yesterday morning. About 1 o'clock a. m. L. C. Ford, an old man who was sent to the Steuben county poor-house from Hornes ville, set fire to the building used for the In sane department of the county poor-house, in which upwards of sixty insane people wore - sleeping. The fire spread rapidly, and made the ren cue of the inmates a matter of great difficulty and danger. About forty were rescued by the ofilcprs and citizens and some others escaped, but it is certain that fifteen of the crazed un fortunates perished in the flames, and one is injured shockingly and probably fatally. T'he scene of the disaster Is too sickening for description. Five males and ten females are Sdead, and in the ruins lie the horribly charred human remains, mingled with the debris of of the building. Ford had been considered trustworthy, and 9 was allowed liberties which enabled hin to destroy his own life, together with fourteen others. The fire department was called to the scene of the conflagration too late to be of much service. The building was of brick, with Iron-grated windows and doors, which rendered it impossible for the inmates to es cae. c The following is a list of those who perished in the lire, together with their ages and the 'auses of their confillnement: (. U. Ford, fits, aged 48; Daniel Curtis, cripple, aged 79; John Alvain, cripple, aged 53; John Messenger old age, aged 84; Buel M. Page, fits and blindness, aged 40; Betsy Smith idiot, aged 03; Julia Davis, Idiot, aged 38; Rosa Welch, idiot, aged 20; Amy Ranger, Idiot, aged 27; Mary Stone, Idiot, aged 26; Chloe Mudge (colored). Idiot, aged 68; Abigail Shultz, okl age, aged 63; (ath!riine kullivan insane, aged 71; Jennle Mills, child, aged 4; Mary Hewitt. child, aged 1. Menesl-Appiicatlon for a Writ of abeasm Corpue. NEw YORK, April 8.-Ex-Gov. Moses is still under arrest at thoCentral Police Station, and no one has been allowed tosee him except two friends for whom he sent, and Col. Charles Spencer who acts as his counsel. No one saw him last night. Col. Spencer appeared this afternoon before .Judge Donahue of the Su preme Court and asked for a writ of habeas corpus on Moses' behalf. The petition claims that there is no requisi tion signed by the Governor of South Carolina, that forgery, if it be! the forgery of a name upon a usurious note, which is In itself void, dies not constitute a felony, and that no re quisition can legally be issued. The writ was granted and was made returnable at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. Col. Spencer said that there is a peculiarity about the position. My client is locked up but there is no war rant, no offclter and no record. The only paper on which he could be held is Gov. Hampton's requisition and that Detective Connor has taken to Albany with him. Superintendent Walling is therefore holding him without any authority whatever. Still I shall not take any advantage of that fact, and so have made my writ returnable to-morrow morning,which will wgive thrn ptlnty of time to get their papers from Albany. i.s Irte oiuilera started for Albany to see Gov. Robinson early this morning, and Col. Spencer could not follow them in time to have a hearing before the Governor, he sent the following telegram: "His Excellency Lucius Robinson, Albany: "In the matter of Gov. Moses, he is ar rested for forgery of a name upon an usurious and void promissory note, and so there is no crime, nor is any pecuniary obligation cre ated." The papers which Detective Connors brings with him show that the note to which Wood ruffs signature is alleged to have been forged. bore interest after maturity at the rate of l' per cent per month. It is, however, stated that the laws of South Carolina admit of a rate of interest under the contract in excess of legal rate. The ex-Governor is still at police headquarters. A Brave Act. PORT EADS, April 8.--This morning at about 9 o'clock the towboat Wicaco, with the French ship Emma In tow, when about five miles from land lost overboard a fireman named French Louis. There was a very heavy sea, running at the time, and the ship passed clean over the man and the towboat rounded to as soon as possible. Mr. Geo. Uhler, the second engineer of the Wicaco re marked that he believed he could save the man, and seizing a life bouy jumped over board, and swimming to the exhausted man gave him the buoy and helped to sustain him until the towboat could get close enough to throw a line. Both were saved. The bravery of the act can only be appreciated by those who saw it. Pass George bhler's name around with a hip, hip, hurrah, all the honors and a tiger. DR. J. H. STOCKLEY, CAPT. W. S. LUMBERD, CAPT. JOE. AVERILL. Reconciled-Theodore and Elizabeth. NEW YORK, April 8. -The Tribune says: The reports of a week ago, that Theo dore Tilton and his wife had become reconciled, and were living together again, t found a repetition in various newspa pers yesterday. It is believed that these re ports are originated by Mr. Beecher's friends, who naturally consider that the reconciliation of Tilton and his wife is all that is required for the full justification of Beecher, since such a result would be universally accepted as a withdrawal of all charges of unchast- L ity against his wife and consequently o against Mr. Beecher. The reports are given 1; in great detail, even to the naming of the i place in New Jersey. to which the reunited couple had retired preparatory to a bridal a tour in Europe. f THE COL.ECTOR.HIP. The President Very Desiraous to Appoint t Anderson Collector. t [St. Louis Republican.] WASHINGTON, April 4.-Madison Wells ar rived here from Louisiana to-day at the sug gestion of the President, to consult regarding the New Orleans collectorship. Wells urges Anderson's appointment. He says that An derson and himself have made greater sacri flees for the Republican party than Packard has. There is no doubt that the President is amicably disposed toward Anderson, and would appoint him Collector if he thought the Sena would confirm the nomination. The President has stated that if he did not appoint Packard Collector he should tender him another office equally as honorable and lucrative. "oo Pinch at the White House. iWestern Assoclated Trees.l WAsHImovon, April 5.-Ex-Gov. Pinchback, i of Louisiana, had an interview with the Pres ident last night, and took occasion to give his i yiewa oouacuung the needs of that State. He represents the interview as both pleasant and eat isfb ctorv. Pinchback says Iouisiana has now the best Governor within his recollection. People are better satisfied than heretofore with public affairs although as elsewhere they complain of hard times. 'heonly thing of which Pinch back complains is that a few children, nearly white in the p tblie schools In New Orleans have 6mn req llred to leave. His own chil dren were included in the number removed by theschIod l authorities. .0 IWO~~-·-J- J. IhA. WELLS. The Patriareh of the Loulalana WeturninI Beard Promises to wue a Philadelphia Journal for Libel. [(Chicago Times.l PHIIrADmPHIrA, April 4. - An extraordinary but characteristic document came in to-night malls from New Orleans, on a scrap of paper that seems to have been torn from the regis ter of the Parish Prison, in which the signer of the note is now a boarder: NEW ORIlEANs, March 29, 1978. Editor PIhiladrllhia Times Newspaper. Phila doluhi, Pa.: Before Instituting suit against you for doe famation, I sHnnd my reply to your scurrilous article, as it fully fits your case. J. MAFnSON WELLA. The accompanying "reply," which s cli pped from a New Orleans journal, is more to the point, although somewhat objectionable in grammar and orthography. It is in these words: "Nsw OMRfEAN5, Feb. 11, 1878,- To the, pub lic: The reports going the rounds of the news papers of my being a defaulter and atxom pllce in a disreputable mule transaction comes from the fruitful imagination of the brains of the progeny of a harlot, and it would seem that those engaged In their re p.retuction are but worthy scions nurtured in a similar bed of infamy. "d. MADrISON WEL~tf." The Times, in its leader to-morrow which closes as follows: "Mr. Wells should let us hear from him again; write soon," refers to the article complained of by Mr. Wells as fol lows: "Mr. Wells seems to object in his quiet and dignified way to the s lcifleations that he was a defaulter and a receiver of stolen mules. A reference to our files will show that much more serious charges were made in thoarticle that has attracted his distinguished attention. The theory advanced in that article was the generous one that he is insane. It was urged that no other defense could cover the record of his crimes other than the forgery for which he now stand indicted. It was stated that many years ago he was a defaulter to the parish of Rapides in the sum of $20,000 or thereabouts; that he now has a claim of $F56,000 before the South ern Claims Commission, which the Legislature of Louisiana has pronounced fraudulent and based on perjury- that he murdered in cold blood an amiable and un armed neighbor, one Matt. Despaliler. And to descend to minor matters, and simply as an illustration of character, the story was re called that a few years ago, when two stolen mules were traced to his plantation, his over seer, on being requested to point out theani male, replied: 'l)em mules is on de place, but I ain't gwine to pint 'em out for no money. Massa Madison is a great rascal, but he is good to all. Robin and I a'ntgwine agin him; and I tell you dis, if all do mules on dis place was pinted out dat don't belong here, dare wouldn't be more nor three left.' Mr. Wells does not mind being called a forger, a perjurer, an election thief and a murderer, but when it comes to receiving stolen mules, he rises to remonstrate. This is defamation of character, and the law must be invoked for his protection." MARINE NEWS. SoUTHWEsT 'PAR, April 8, 6 p. m. Barome tr 29:30. Wind south, blowing very hard. Weather hazy sad cloudy. No arrivals or departures. f'oRT EADs, April 8, 6 p. m-Wind south, blowing hard. Weather cloudy and stormy. Arrived: British steamship Vanguard at 6:25 a. m. Gell master, from Liverpool, to Decan & (Jo. British steamship Roumella at 6:40 a. tn., Theyle master, 17 days from Liverpool, gen eral cargo to E. J. Forstall's Sons. German bark Mozart Inticher master, 19 days from New York, je ballast to Ranger, Fatman & Co. Norwegian bark Monark, Halversen mas tar, 72 days from Portgrund, in ballast to master. British bark Carron, Ward master, 13 days from St. Thomas, to master. French ship Emma. Lepere master, 54 days ] from Havre, in ballast to Hoffman & Co. No departures. Office seekers. IN. Y. Herald.] WASHINIITON, April 3.--The new Blue Book, lust published, a cumbrous and utterly use less but very costly publication, which con tains the name of every person employed in the Federal service, gives 85,880 as the total number of Federal office-holders of all kinds and degrees. This is about one in 450 of the total population, or one for every ninety votes. The vast number of office seekers ceases to excite surprise when these figures are known, for if there were but five applicants for every place this would make one in every eighteen of the voting population a Federal place hunter. But when the State and local officers are added to the Federal the number of persons who are paid for attending to the business of ruling the remainder be comes frightful to contemplate. Counting school officers, constables and justices of the peace, with the more important placemen, it is probable that the State and local office holders are at least as numerous as those in Federal employment, and at that rate one man in forty-five voters would be drawing his support from the public purse, or in other words, every collection of forty-five voters thoughout the country is obliged to support one man by their labor in order to maintain such government as we have. But we allow five place-hunters for every State and local place, as well as for the Federal offices, the result would show that every ninth voter in the entire Republic is an office-seeker. Custom Butles wNt Collected. WASHINGTON, April 3.-Speaker Randall, in conversation about the tariff bill, said this morning that the duties under the present law are not faithfully collected. He said that if duties amounting to $140,000,000 annually were collected, and they were distributed so as to protect the manufacturing interests, no further protection would be necessary. He added that, of the 60 per cent duty levied upon silks, not more than 45 per cent is col lected ; that of the revenue on kid gloves alone the government losses annually $500,000; of the $40,000,000 that should be collected on sugar there is a loss of $5,000,000. The classi fication of Iron and steel in the Wood tariff bill is satisfactory to the manufacturers of Philadelphia. The committee changed the duty from ad valorem to specific to please them, and that portion of the bill relating to this matter was copied from the printed slips prepared by the iron and Steel Association of Philadelphia. Speaker Randall said that he had these slips now in his possession. The Canadians are discussing an ambitious scheme, by which they propose to greatly al ter, if not entirely change, the climate of their country. This proposal is for the hstopping up of the Belle Isle straits, and though this scheme would involve an immense expendi ture, yet the advantages to be derived are so great that the pro being seriousnaly dis cussed in Canada,' ay yet be cared into effecte t 5 The flee beetles d great damagte to i bacco l ertail Temeaeeee disalcs. TIIE POSTOFFICE. A EMWO4.IAT REPORTEI TURNS fIT IN IDB1E OUT FOR THi InNF@OMA TION OF THE PUBLIC, And Shown the Manner in Wehie the Malln Are Handled. Realizing the fact that the average oltizen, especially those who send and receive letters or papers through the mails, was not conver eant with the postoffice system or manner of handling the mall matter sent or received, and desiring to acquaint the general public with all the details of the workings of a poet office of the first class, a member of the Dam t OORAT'sR taff on Saturday called at the Poet r ofnoe to secure the necessary information. Proceeding to the. rear of the money order office, our representative noticed, seated on & stool in front of the Postmaster's private office, an elderly colored Individual, whose hair was tinged with gray, and whose long experience in offce (as doorkeeper) had probe bly tLught him that he was one of THE IMPORTANT PER5ONOAGM I upon whose shoulders the fate of the nation rested. Addressing him, our representative In quired if the Postmaster was in and if he was at leisure, at the same time presesting, for the Postmaster, the Interviewer's card. "Wait till I see." was the reply,and the doorkeeper disappeared through the double doors that lead from the money order office to the Postmaster's private sanctum. Now, if there is anything that the Post master dislikes, it is to be interviewed. Be ing connected, as he Is, intimately with one, at least, of the leading politicians of the East (whom some of the Washington correspondents style the Statesman of Essex), he thinks, of course, that every newspaper representative who calls upon him desires lnside Infarm-. s tion as to the political lay-out and the pros pective chances for a new slate in Federia officers here, and fearing that the Informa I tion pumpers might get in a leading qleeticm r or wo that would bring out an unguarded answer that might reveal something, the f Postmaster is more than reticent when one of 4 the aforesaid press-gang is signaled by b,: - lookout at the door. e Knowing this fact from unfruitful visits 1 after news, the representative of the Dwo e (MRAT thought it better to announce to the - P. M. the moment he got in, if hegotinat .a 3 that he had not come to put leading politlea s questions, but simply to inquire as M to thei:: postofiloe, and thus at once set at rest tb. e mind of the postoflice chief. After a moment's delay, the outside guard. - Ian of the Postmaster's sanctum door re..: peared and announced that we would w: admitted. Stepping In through the half open s doorway, the Postmaster was noticed seated on one side of his desk in a comfortable s looking chair, tipped back at anangleof about. ,, thirty degrees, with one foot resting on the r. top of his desk and the other resting on the a floor. On the opposite side of the desk sets it young man who mighthave been his pri.vat e secretary and at the nd of the desk sis a f huge six-footer, a real strawberry blonde, who r had the appearance of having for some time been engaged IN A ABRVYRT FKlr D, where he had, from the appearance of hic face, fought many a hard battle with bumble [ bees, hornets, yellow jackets and the like, san [ he might even have been taken for a "oultsva tor" of the domestic honey bee, whose pet work was gathering the honey from the hirev - Sto be sold at a dollar a po'und, with the sting marks on his face thrown in. It Taking in the surroundingsat aglne, and Sfeeling that the presence of that six-footer would preclude the possibility of an attempt to intimidate the P. M.. our representati. stepped forward and addressing Mr. Parkes stated the object of the visit, prefacing th statement, however, with the remark that the r, "call" had no political significance whatever. Our man of notes then inquired of the Post master if he was fully conversantwith the de p tails of the workings of his office. Postmaster-Yes, of course I am. 'S Reporter-Then you can tell me all about it in your own way, and that will save me the ' trouble of rummaging about through the office for the information I want. P. M.-Well, hold on though; I Rep. (interrupting)--About how many hun dred tone of mail matter do you receive ila year ? P. M.-Just wait a miante. Now give me & chance and Rep.-Did I understand you to say that yes n employed seventy clerks and carriers? n P . -Not much. You didn't understale anything of the sort. I see you want some thing of a detailed nature, and I will turn you over to Mr. Maguire, the Ads sPostmaster. Rep.-Why, I thought you were conversunt: Swith the details of the office. I won't trouble you with questions a moment longer thea four hours and a half. P. M.-Well, maybe I.am; but then we have assistants, you know. e Rep.-Of course, and it's their duty to do Sthe work. I eee itnow. SP. M.-Glad of it. SThe auburn-hued six-footer at this ttime Speeped over the top of the DMOOsAT he held in his hands reading, and his glance was sut Sficient to indicate to our modest Inquisitosr that he was either an applicant for o1e, Sseeking influence, of one of those Western special agents hunting up the Marie matter, r and knowing that our tlime just then, was Sprecious, we inquired f the Postmaster asto the whereabouts of the Arsistant Postmaster from whom all the desired light was to be ob tained. al "You'll find him outside somewhere," te " li the genial and ruddy-comple~soned "That's definite," soliloquized our inquisitor. but the big man with tne DxMocaAT in ble hand, with his two big red eyes askpeering a, ance at our small frame, settled the mater jf far as pushing inquiries further was con-e t cerned, and bidding the P. M. good evenig t our public benefactor, taking good care to re y tire from the room backwards, that hemg o by a sudden inclination of the head or quek o change of pseition of the body avoid tcoo Ke tact with any inkatand, ruler or paper weight. d which the now spunky P. M. might see fi to' 1 heave at him, or to dodge a charge from sir e or seven or seven OAT IN AI'rACKMENT TRA3TXI -. which we were satisfied were concealed in the tops of the pair of No. 16 portable tanyards that adorned the pedal extremitles of the aforeeald six-footer. Making his exit, then the searcher for fats and figures tripped along the marble floor a the corridor tothe "box rent" window, aeidM of which sat a handsome ,ooklh yoigmr n - adorned with a huge bnfe atl Si.ar shirt collar of the latest p~ttern, and a. whose shoulders sat a Byronic head almL covered with a huge growth of curly b r1 slightly inclined to the blonde, and who seemed to be calculating theamount l the box rent aoount for the next quarter. SAddressing him, the news hltter laulis if Mr. Maguire was in. "Yes, sir, I believe he in," pol.tely .lie( the clerk, adding that he would callatm,. which he did. Mr. Maguire soon ere at the window, when the reporter's i.sins was made Ikown, with the fact that the reporter had been coe s-iderateay.r iArry' to him by the Prtmastrw. '" Qbýs, rVgied the AUI m ii u Pstmms 't. '"~