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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, "WEDNESDAY MORNING MABCH 26, 1879 WEDNESDAY. MARCH 36. leislativb eossir. TVKSDAY, XABCH 18. Another lively time In the Senate occurred yesterday upon the Introduction of the con gressional apportionment bill.; The bill Is known as the Davis bill not such a one as the Democrats -would have if they could get a bet ter one, as It gives the Republicans six of the congressmen, to which they are not fairly en titled. This , made no . difference to them, however, and they began the same sort of a "rumpus" over its passage as they evidently determined to do long since on the passage of any Bort of a bill which looked to the overthrow of the present Republican ger rymander, so odious in its provisions that the Republican governor ' (Baker), at the time of its passage, . refused ; to sign and never did sign it. . Yesterday ,x the Davis bill advanced to engrossment, where it remains lor the present. . The general appropriation bill , , Anally cleared the Senate yesterday afternoon, and was reported to the House. The House began its consideration immediately, and after a . very little debate it passed the House In the same shape In which it lea the Senate. It now only needs the governor's signature. We have published the items of the appropriation several times. The specific appropriation bill also passed the Senate yesterday afternoon. The Item of 882,000, appropriating that amount for the purchase of the State fair ground, which provoked a long discussion, was not stricken out, as was proposed. The Sen" ate agreed to the appropriation by yeas 25, nays 22. - The entire bill passed with no material change as reported from the finance commit tee. Some few items were added, but the main atures are as we published in yesterday's entinel 91,000 for the finishing of the Insane Hospital, $ 10,000 to furnish it when finished. Twelve, thousand dollars each to the Deaf and ' Dumb Asylum, and the Female Reformatory, $2,000 to the Asylum for Feeble Minded Children, and (52,000 to buy the State Fair grounds. Mr. Harris offered an amendment appropriating Sl,310.5O to the Normal School, for heating apparatus, if certified as correct by certain officials, and Senator Taylor offered claims to the amount of 12,265 for ditching done 10 years ago these claims only to be paid when the secretary of state is satisfied with their correctness. With these additions the bill passed to engross ment. The old claim of the Journal Company for the 51 sets of Indiana Statutes bought by the Senate, and for which at one time S3 per set was voted, came up again before the Senate. It was explained by several senators that 512 was the regular price everywhere, and that the $8 per set already agreed upon would leave the Journal - company out oi pocket; so the Senate generously added the other 8100. The House will doubtless ac quiesce when it understands the full situation. The state librarian was allowed J100 extra for removing the State library and performing other extra labor. Tne Senate was feeling rather generous yesterday after noon, and good feeling prevailed until the congressional apportionment bill appeared; after that their great grandmothers couldn't ' bave procured an appropriation big enough to get calico gowns at a "bit" a yard. TJ9 bill of Mr. Overmeyer, creating a "board of pardons," passed the House, yester day. The board is made to consist of the governor, secretary, auditor and treas urer of State. This board must agree unanimously to be of any effect in the pardoning of criminals, reprieves or remissions of fines. Applicants for pardons, etc., must give notice to the county prosecutor of intention to apply for such pardon, and must also publish the inten tion, for three weeks, in a newspaper of the county where the conviction was made. The expert witnesses in the State House' n vestigation case had made out their bills at (20 per day, and some had been living high at leading hotels. The Legislature, proposes to allow them 11.25 per day for attendance as wit- The Senate yesterday accepted its commit tee's report on the amendment to the prison bill. If the amendmentgoes through with the bill the troubles in the Northern prison di rectorship will be settled without any further trouble, and the old board with the warden now holding the position, will give way to the new board and the new warden. The Senate decided yesterday in favor of Smith holding the seat in which he and Mr. Sansberry, of Anderson, were the contestants. The vote stood 37 to 8 four not voting. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19. . The fee and salary bill occupied tilt atten tion of the Senate all of yesterday, and was not finished at the time of adjournment. It is now perhaps attracting more atten tion than any other bill, except perhaps the "congressional apportionment" bill which for the present remains "in statu quo," as no ticed yesterday. "Economy" is the name of the hound used in the fee and salary hunt and he was partly present yesterday bead and tail up. The first game started was the governor's clerk, to whom the bill gave S600 per year. He was run down in about an hour and the money recov ered. So the governor will have no clerk only a plain secretary at f 1,500 per year. The audt tor's salary was changed from 51,500 to 52,000. The salary of the deputy secretary of state was fixed at i 1,500. These were the only changes inade among the State officers, except in the case of the adjutant general. His salarv had been fixed at $1,250. "Economy" tackled him, and reduced the salary to tl.GOO, saving $2:30 apparently, but the time used in the discus sion was worth every cent of it. The salaries, then, of the State officers and their assistants, as settled by the Senate, are as follows: Governor . ; $5,000 Gevernor's secretary .... 1,500 Secretary of State .. .., 2,000 Secretary of state's deputy ... 1,500 Secretary of state's clerk 70n Clerk of the printing bureau..... l,auo Audi tor of state .. , 2,000 Auditor of state's deputy 1,600 Auditor of state's insurance clerk...... 1,500 Auditor of state's land department clerk- 1,500 Adjutant general ..... 1,000 Quartermaster general . 300 Treasurer of Btate . 8,000 Treasurer of state's deputy ........ 1,600 Treasurer of state's night cratch . 600 Attorney general , , "min Attorney general's cierk .. 600 Superintendent publio intructlon. 2,000 Two cl-rka each 600 Law librarian . . 1,000 Htate librarian ...... 1,400 State librarian's assistant ............ 75J Some changes were made In special items of fees connected with county; clerk's business Marriage license was fixed at $2. Heretofore nearly every clerk in the State had a different price ranging from $1,25 to $3.50, and In some instances even higher, liow a man can get married the State over for $2. Dan Ransdell our clover county clerk, thinks the bill will mite him to the tune of about 20 per cent.,and Senator Coffey gave the same per centage in a few remarks to the Senate ysterday, adding that it would leave the county clerks In small counties with a little or nothing. This ought to be remedied before the bill gets too far long. Sheriff Pressley thinks also that It cuts the fees of the sheriff's office more than it an stand. The Senate bad hardly pro- : . v : i ... I eeeded - half way through -the wu ii ..n.1 iftnnmlnir lump.-- Th bill will probably occupy a day or more longer of the time of the Benatev That body Is giving the bill very careful attention, and. as the members of the House seem very anxious to get through and go home, It Will probably not undergo many changes there. The Davis congressional appropriation bll1 was laid aside In the Senate yesterday, for the purpose of pushing forward the "fee and sal ary" bill. Senator Keene will probably oe present to-day, and there seems to be little doubt but that the bill will pass. The House will doubtless Indorse the action of the Senate, and we notice that the long headed ones of both parties begin to think that it will soon be a law. We therefore give the Congressional districts as provided for in the bill as follows: First district Posey. Gibson, Vanderburgh, Warrick Pike, Spencer and Perry counties. Second district Sullivan, Greene, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Lawrence, Orange, and Du bois counties. Third district Jackson. Jennings, Washing ton, Scott, Clark, Floyd, Harrison and Craw ford counties. Fourth district Union, Decatur, Franklin, Ripley, Dearborn, Jeflerson, Ohio and Switzer land counties. Fifth district Putnam, Hendricks, Morgan, Johnson, Owen, Monroe, Browu and Bartholo mew counties. Sixth district Delaware, Randolph, Henry, Wayne, Rush and Fayette counties. Seventh district Marion, Hancock and Shelby counties. Eighth district Warren, Fountain, Mont gomery, Vermillion, Parke, Vigo and Clay ounties. Ninth district Tippecanoe, Clinton, Tipton, Boone. Hamilton and Madison counties. Tenth district Lake, Porter, Newton, Jas per, Pulaski. Fulton, Cass, Carroll, White and Benton counties. Eleventh district Miami.Wabasli, Hunting ton, Wells, Adams. Howard, Grant, Biackiord and Jay counties. Tweirth district Lagrange, Steuben, Noble, DeKalb, White and Allen counties. Thirteenth district IDorte, St. Joseph, Elk hart, Starke, Marshall and Kosciusko coun Ues. A bill passed the House yesterday, doing away with coroner's jurors. As a member ex plained, "one man was as good as a dozen to find out what was the cause of death." If the Senate is in an annihilating mood it may do away with this last man. The "loan bill" passed the- House yesterday, It authorizes the State officers to borrow 1510, 000 to pay the debt due April, 1879, and 1200,000 for a like purpose on December 1, 1879. Five acres of land, used for agricultural pur poses in cities and towns, are exempt from taxation through House action yesterday. The Senate will hardly reach any of the bills passed by the House during the last few days It does no harm, however, and keeps "the boys" busy. As the old man said when his old woman was licking him, "It dont hurt me, and it does her a power of good." THURSDAY, MARCH 20. Tlie congressional apportionment bill was passed through both Houses yesterday and now only requires the governor's signature to make it a law. Ac cording to the figures furnished in an .article yesterday by the Journal, and which figures we reproduce to-day in our edi torlsil columns, the bill shows a clear Repub lican majority in five of the districts upon the vote of 1876, and in the Thirteenth district a meagre Democratic majority of only 151. This central district, composed of Marion, Shelby and Hancock.counties, is as likely to go one way as another. It will be close enough to force both parties to bring out their best men. The Nationals will hold the balance of power in many ot the districts. The Senate resumed the consideration otthe "fee and salary" bill, getting nearly through the section in relation to the auditor; It leaves the matter about as reported by the committee, which is as follows: The salary allowed is, $1,300. a When the population of the county exceeds 15,000 and does not exceed 20,000, the additional sum of $125 for each 1,000 inhabitants in excess of 15,000 shall be allowed, in addition to the sal ary of $1,300. If the population is over 20,000, then he shall receive $100 for each 1,000 inhabi tants in excess of the 20,000. The fees, as we have stated before, have been reduced from 15 to 25 per cent. There Is quite a difference oi opinion upon the "fee and salary bill." Some senators claim that the reduction is entirely too great, and the Republicans are charged with a desire to make it so great that the county officers will hold the Legislature in odious remembrance. The Democratie senators generally profess to want only a fair reduction made. The auditor's insurance clerk's salary was reduced to $1,200 from $1,500 yesterday. The day before it was put at the latter figures, and o published in the Sentinel yesterday morn ing. This was the only change made in the list as published in the Senunel. Senator Poindexter voted twice with the Democrats yesterday In the preliminary ma nipulations to get the "congressional appor tionment bill" well before the Senate for final passage. He went hand in hand with bis Na tional colleague, Mr. Davis, who is the author of the bill, to the brink of the political Rubi con, but did not have the "sand" to make the final plunge. His Republican antecedents would not allow him to vote on a bill prepared by a National, although a .National will hold the balance of power in many of the districts provided by the bill. The governor yesterday approved House bill No. S67, an act 'supplemental to an act entitled an act to authorize cities and towns to negotiate and sell bonds to procure means with which to erect and complete buildings for school purposes, etc., passed March 8, 1873. Eleven House and 24 Senate bills passed by the special session have been signed by the governor to date. Mr. Hubbard, when the "dental bill" was "up" yesterday, said he had never htd the toothache nor lost a tooth in 35 years, seldom missed a meal, and that he was mentally, phy sically and religiously sound. He is a Quaker. Moral Be Quakers. ' He did not speak so un reservedly of the soundness of his politics. Without saying much on this point, he rather let it be inferred that he was not so enthusi astic as upon the other portions of his creed. He is one of the cleverest members on his side ofthe House. FRIDAY, MARCH 21. The Senate contlnned to be the point of at traction all day yesterday, as the "fee and sal ary" bill was still under discussion. It passed to engrossment yesterday close upon tbe time of adjournment. As it proved to be from the very first moment in the House a difficult matter of legislation, so it continued to be throughout its consideration in the Senate. Tae bill as passed the Senate in its main fea tures remains as we gave it In Wednesday's Sentinel, although unimportant changes were made in certain lees of the clerk, auditor and sheriff. There is no telling what may be its fate in the House, as there seems to be a wide diversity of opinion regarding it. The Senate passed a concurrent resolution to adjourn finally on next Monday at 6 o'clock p. m. After the House has decided what It will do with the "fee and saiary" bill the ques tion of adjournment can be very readily solved. A resolution passed the House yesterday providing for the codification of the State in surance laws, with amendments, sections, eta., which will provide for the regulating of foreign insurance companies and all matters connected therewith. These are to be In readiness for the next General Assembly and the governor Is - Instructed to ap point the auditor, - attorney general and some - third person, : commission to take the matter In charge, The third person ft 1m presumed will be an adept in Insurance matters, and foe his services will receive not more than 1200. ..' '": ''" The House refuted to concur in the Senile amendments to the-; water ; works bill, and a conference committee on the part of tbe House was appointed, consisting of Messrs. Sleeth and Fleming. The party who accompanied Mr. Bearss to his home in Pern.were Mr. Speaker Can thorne, Senators Kahlo and Leeper, Representatives Taylor of Daviess county, Herod, Brlggs.Owen, Mlers, Thayer, Van Valzah, Robeson, Reed, English and Campbell, with some others from this city. Ladies were present from Fort Wayne, Rochester and other itles in that section of the State. The Indianapolis party named In the forego ing left here at 60 Thursday evening, arriving at Peru in ample time to join In the festivities, had Just simply a magnificent time ' and were back to the city between 9 and 10 o'clock yes terday morningi Representative Briggs says "he never had so much fun In all his life," and at noon yesterday looked as young and fresh as a spring daisy. Representative Sleeth adds his testimony also to that of Mr. Briggs, and thinks it will mark one of the brightest mo ments In his life's Mstory. Speeches were made by several members of the party, that the belles ot Northern Indiana might bave samples of the -eloquence . which rings out from our temporary capi tal from day to day. "They danced all night till broad daylight," and would have gallantly "gone home with the girls in the morning," bat only had eight minutes in which to make the train, and so gathering their "grip-sacks," they fled from the hospita ble mansion without calling the yeas and nays On motion to adjourn. As the delegation from here was a juicy one we conclude that there must have been some humorous incid sn ts, and therefore one of "the juiciest;" but the only sporttve feature of the trip that we succeeded in capturing was that one of the party a married gentleman was trying to pass him setf off upon a very fascinating Fort Wayne belle as a single man, and was succedlng at a fairly moderate sort or gait when one of his companions made the third one of the party spoiled it all by saying, "Look, here, my good fellow, I'll tell yonr wife about this."- He gave his name, but perish the thought that we should ever reveal it. The governor has signed the congressional apportionment bill, and now that the child is born is shapely and comely we hope that it may never disgrace its parentage. The bastard which has been enjoying a heritage to which it had no decent claim, died with the former's birth. The following card, published by request, re quires no explanation : General charges of incompetency against the engrossing and enrolling clerks ofthe Legisla ture haviug been made through some of the citv papers, the undersigned committee on enrolled bills on tbe part of the Senate cheer fully testify to the incorrectness of the charge so far as it applies to the clerks of the Senate. Their work has been uniformly correct and neat, and there has been no complaint nor eause ot complaint against tnem. Richard L. Coffey, Y. W. VlEHE, Geo. W. GKUBB3. March 21, 1879. Continued on Fourth Page. A CREEL FATE. General Slocum on tbe Harder of Mrs Sarratt. Rochester (N. Y.) Union. General II. W. Slocum, one of the most distinguished brigade, divsion, corps, and grand division commanders of tbe war, re cently delivered a lecture in Brooklyn on events of the great struggle, during the course ot which he expressed tbe opinion. always held by the Union, that Mrs. Sarratt was a murdered woman. He said : I am going to speak to you one word about the execution of Mra. Sarratt at the close of the war, for I think some good lessons can be learned from the story of her trial and death. I believe any people situated as we were ought to De cauuonea against placing implicit conn' dence in evidence given at a time of high ex citement. I could stand here to-night and re late to you fifty incidents that would serve to caution everybody against taking evidence against others when the people .were all ! a state of intense excitement.- There never was a day, there never was an hour, that I did not believe that Mrs. Surratt was as innocent a woman as there is in this hall. Applause. She was tne Keeper oi a Boaraing-uouse lu Washington, she boarded Wilkes Booth and half a dozen other rebel sympathizers, and she had a son, John H. Surratt. Wilkes Booth was guilty of shooting - Mr. Lincoln, and this poor woman was brought to trial in connection with Wilkes Booth, and through the excitement of the times her neck was brought to the baiter. Her daughter, a yobng gill of 18 or 19 years of age, on the morning of the execution went to tne pres-.u. tit s room and begged permission to say a few words to him on behalf of her mother, and a United States senator from our own State, wbo acted as door-tender, repulsed her. saving. "No: no. you can not go in." Worse than that, meaner than that, the poor girl three or four years afterward married a clerk in the treasury de partment. No charges were made against mm, but because this cierK naa married tue daughter of Mrs. kurratt he was discharged. Let us brag of our achievements, but at the same time let us learn to loos at our tauits and errors fairly and squarely in the face and acknowledge them when we nave cause to. The murder of Mrs. Sarratt was the most cruel and cowardly act ever committed in any civilized country. It is a curious and suggestive fact that all wbo were chiefly re sponsible for the execution of that innocent woman bave felt the nnseen hand of the Great Avenger. Stanton, secretary of war, who. was perhaps the worst of the number, committed suicide in a fit or remorse, ai though the fact was sought to be concealed. Preston KiDg, the senator from New York, who repulsed Annie sarratt at tae presi dent's door, in like manner ended his own life by deliberately jumping from a ferry boat into the .North river at iSew York and drowning himself. Andrew Johnson, wbo signed tbe death warrant and despotic ally suspended the writ of habeas corpus that had been granted by the court, was stricken suddenly with death upon his re turn to the Senate alter he had leit the presidency. Judge Advocate Holt, who conducted the prosecution, long ago disap peared from public view, and whether dead or alive nobody knows ana noooay cares. And John A. Bingham, who assisted Holt, was driven from Congress in disgrace aa one of the Credit Mobilier bribe-takers, and sought refuge in Japan, where, we believe, be now is. Dime Necklace. The' craze for dime necklaces has broken out and promises to be a greater scourge than were the dreadful button strings of 10 years ago. The dime necklace la built by levying tribute by one's friends. A voumr ladv . concludes to -possess o e. She asks every soul that she can call a friend to contribute a dime with bia or ber monogram engraved upon it, After she collects some 25 or SO mono- grimed dimes, she has a jeweler string them together, and the necklace is an incontrovertible fact. As it coats 50 or 75 cents to have every dime polished and en craved, the voting lady with necklace inten tions ia avoided by those who have brains as well as cash. Mr. Longfellow, How Conld Ton? IMarie Roze to a Graphic Reporter.l "I carry away with me many pleasant memories ot charming incidents ana sur prises given me by kind fiiends while here, but the greatest comoliment I have received. I think, are the lines written to me by the classical and spirituelle poet, Mr. Longfel low. Let me repeat them tc you in my 1 1 . in(. . vnn .til MnlAn Here Mme. Rose recited with an exquisite timbre and tenderness of tone half a dozen verses of the poem, one of which ran thus:" "In vain to try the double spell By which thou wouldst ensnare ; Alas I thou stngest all too well, - -Or else thou art too fair." OLD BEAU HICKMAN., A Celebrity of ; ",Ye ; Olden Time." Bow He Held Sway on the Social II I Kb- ' way by His Wits Tbe Only Debt He Ever Paid Loafing Be . . , daeed to Science. . , i I ' ' ' J : '. - j Washington Post. Besides being the capital of the United States, Washington is an old curiosity shop, crammed from floor to ceiling with the oddi ties of human nature. It can not very well help being. Owing to tbe peculiar political and social life of the place, it is the paradise of specialists. Sometimes these people want sympathy, sometimes they want advice, sometimes they want the social stimulus of the life here, not unusually they want an appropriation from ' Congress. As a rule, they get into an outside eddy of tbe mael strom and drift out again, but sometimes, from pure inertia, they remain and become permanent institutions of the place. Among the social bric-a-brac of tbe Capital city there has been no more unique speci men of humanity than , "Baau" Hiokmaa, who, it he did not achieve fame, achieved a notoriety which caused him to be pointed out to strangers as one of the celebrities of the town. A man who lived by wit instead of work; who never paid a debt in his life till he paid the debt of nature; who kept his books with the world by that severely single entry system in whizh the entries are exclusively on one side. One would cill him a prince of Bohemia, bat for respect for those good Bohemians who pay their debts and keep most of the ten commandments, and who might decline the doubtful honor of allegiance like a pretender. A man who floated on a summer sea of success till he was dragged down at last by the undertow of death. Too proud to work and too hon est to steal, he betook himself to the social highway, and by pure address anil an 18 carat impudence, on which there was no discount, he held his right of way. There must have been something of the eclat of a royal pronunciamento to "stand and de liver" with which he made his "assess ments," for we are told that in the heyday of his fortunes not to be patronized by him was considered a slight, and to refuse to pay the dues which he demanded was to be nig gardly. He was Bsau Brummel's American cousin, and there is a strong family resem blance in their two lives. Both were born of respectable parents, were pojsessod of moderate education, had inventive genius and executive ability, which, otherwise ap plied, might have led to brilliant results; both had their share of the roes and cham pagne of life, and both died at last in penury and disgrace. There was this difference: Beau Brummel practiced his arts and aired his elegances in titled drawing-rooms, a car pet knight without fear and without re p roach in his toilets a sensitive soul, to whom a discord in the color of a glove was positive pain; while Beau Hickman, cast in a sterner mold, and in a republican society. made himself popular by his good humor and courteous manner?, and was the hero of saloons and hotel corridors, where he won his victories. But both belonged to the go nus dead-beat, and, barring the local color. tbe recording angel must have found an aw ful monotony in the record of their two lives. .Robert S. Hickman began life with $10,000 and the instincts sucb as they were of a Virginia gentleman. He ran through the $10,000 in two years. The instincts clang to him as long as be lived, it was by virtue of them, no doubt, that to the last he retained something that commanded the liking of many people, that be never broke a promise, never told a lie, and with a feeling of delic acy that did honor, never alluded to his fam ily, who felt themselves disgraced by his career. There is something pathetic about this phase in his life which reminds one of Hale's "Man Without a Country." He came to Washington in 1833, when about 21 years of age. Washington was the gay metropolis in those days, and he touna himself, welcome in its best circles, nattered and feted, attrac tive alike to woman and to man. He bad all the elements of sosial success good looks, fortune and the talent of pleasing. After- ward.when his money was gone, the problem of life stared him in the face, and found him absolutely without resources. Then he made up his mind. He deliberately went to work to reduce loafing to a science, and dignify it by adopting it as a proltssion. He used to live, whenever it was toasioie, at hotels. finding there a good field for his experiments of human nature. His diagno sis of the disease oi statesmanship is so accu rate and so equally adapted to the congress man of to day that it will bear repetition. A young man from the country wa com plaining of the mistreatment he bad re ceived from bis "member," and .Beau Hick man eave him soothing svruD as follows: "My dear sir, Washington ia a new world to representatives. As soon as they reach tbe capital they feed on Caesar meat. That is why they are grown so great, The obesity of their political importance becomes wheezy. The air here seems to be imprest nated with a kind of gold dust which makes them asthmatic. Wby, bless you, sir, as a rale, they are all light weights,' or tnev wouldn't have 'run' so well. Did you ever hint to your representative that yon were well acquainted with bis people at home, and ask him to take a drink'. Try it, and well. thank you. I do sometimes indulge." Bsau Hickman never was a politician. He pro fessed to belong to tne i-.ist irginia school of Whigs, but he never allowed his political prejudices to stand in the way ot business. and never hesitated to "assess" a man be cause he happened to be a democrat With a zeal worthy of a better cause he devoted himself to bis profession.. Many of the most noted men in the pro fession contributed regularly to his de mands, and those wbo would not have en couraged any other form of dealing paid their assessments without remonstrance. Perhaps they thought as he did, that they owed it to him as a pension for services ren dered in his palmier days. For he never presented his "bills for quarterage" in a begging manner, but as though it was a just due, and entitled to instant consideration. To a wealthy Southern member, who, at one time, complained that the bill was exces sive, "My dear sir," he replied, "your assess ment is strictly in proportion to your means; and, sir, knowing that I am no d d Hebrew, you should not expect me to com promise myself by entertaining such un businesslike propositions of compromise. Why, sir, if I reduce tbe ratio of your as sessments that d d stickler from the other side of the House would refuse to pay one cent." Such an argument, of course, could be answered in only one way. When Washington appeared to him a pent bp Utica. he used to go over to New York or Baltimore, stop at the best hotels, and affect the companionship of wealthy sporting men. One day, in New York, after a stay of some weeks, a hotel bill was presented to him, which be was utterly unable to pay. He borrowed a thousand dollar bill of a friend for a few moments, and asked the clerk to deduct the amount of his bill. The official, reduced to obsequiousness by the sight of a bill larger than he could change, begged Colonel Hickman to make himself perfectly easy about the matter, which ha undoubtedly did, t, He want over to Baltimore to the races one day, and worked his way home thnsly: Placing an old card under the brim of his high white beaver (he always had a hat as individual and as well known 1 as Horace Greeley's he took a seat in the gentlemen's car, and on the approach of the conductor leaned out of the window. being tapped on tbe shoulder bv the con ductor, he jumped back, knocking the hst off out of the window. A scene followed. Great rage on Bean's part at the rudeness of tne conductor tbe train should be stopped to recover his hat and ticket; apologies from the conductor and the promise of a free passage and a new hat, which was ful filled. How be beat the tailors out ot fash ionable suits by urging that his patronage would bring them valuable custom; bow he once overawed the ninth part of a man with me noncnaiant remark that "his friend. President Jackson, who, by tbe way, was a d d good fellow, no matter what some folks might say about him, had bor rowed a thousand dollars of him last night, and it would really be im possible to pay that little bill Jnst now;" now he got a pair of boots by ordering two pair sent to his room, and then, sending back one right and one left, to bave it stretched on tbe instep, walked off with the others. All these exploits live in the mem ory of those who laughed at them. He chaperoned strangers, and charged them for it j lae a Niagara nacKman; ne aispiayaa a marvelous ingenuity for getting free drinks, but was so little addicted to dissipation that he would rather have tbe 10 cents than the drink. He was charitable when he could be, and otten showed a kindness of heart that won him friends. In ail the years that he postured in his grotefque gentility on the social boards of Washington, be is not ac cused of low or vicious haoits. It was only the burlesque of villainy. Gratitude was a strong trait; he never forgot a favor and never betrayed a friend. In 1871, when the finishing of the pave ment on Pennsylvania avenue was celebrated by a carnival, tbe prince of bummers, on a gallant pony, was a notable figure in the raca. It was among his latest triumphs. Old, infirm and poor, he was rapidly going down. Old friends were no longer on the scene to testify to his early preotige. New comers knew him only as the shabby bummer. It was increasingly difficult to make "assess ments." He had fooled fortune to tbe top of her bent. He had made the fatal mistake of living too lone, and at last, one afternoon, in the Sisters' Hospital, with neither word nor moan, be passed away. And so ended a life whose comedy was sadder than tragedy, and over whom the daily press of the city pronounced brief funeral honors when it said he "had no friends, but he died with out enemies." A WIFE'S RIGHTS OF PROPERTY. A Plea for tbe Wnman'a Share or tbe Property Earned Darlna; Marriage. Cincinnati Gazette. What are the rights of a married woman in the property which has been made dur ing marriage? A wife wbo has done ber part of the family duties has managed the household, has brought forth and brought up the children, and has devoted the same zeal to the making of tbe home that the man has to his part of the business, is in fact the earner of one half of the property, and is in justice the owner of it. That is to say, she has tbe same right to it as he. end what she spends of it in her reasonable wants is no more his gift than his personal expenditure ts her gift. Yet there are men whoe wives have man aged their province with as much zeal and capacity as their husbands, have managed the family expenses prudently, bave made their household run smoothly, so that no annoyance from their troubles reached the busband, bave brought forth and brought uporooasoi cniiaren, ana trained them m tbe right way during all the years while property was accumulating, who do cot per ceive that their wives have done anything in this, and do not recognize that thev have any rights in the property which has thus grown; who think that they made it all, and that their wives are paupers living on their charity: who actually talk of their wives' raiment and food and personal furni ture asthinga whicn they, the husbands, had given them; who commend themselves for giving something to their wives a dress, a jewel, a piece of furniture; who bring home at rare occasions things they have bought with the common property, making presents of them to their wives, and com mend themselves for their liberality, and think they gave their wives so much to make them happy that they are quite too good for this world. And, on the other hand, these complacent husbands tbink it such a farce for their wives to make them presents. In their views it is making them presents out of their own money. And they make the poor, subdued creatures think the seme, and regard it as a childish playing at giving presents to tbe man who has to pay for them. The man simply lays his robber hand on all tbe prop erty of the firm on the joint earnings of the two, in which she has in reality been as efficient as he, and doles out driblets to her as if she were a beggar, and, as a special favor, allows her to take a little of his money and buy him a present with it, just to go through the motion of owning something. In justice she is as much the owner as he. She has tbe same right to the control of ber personal expenditure as he, and she is enti tled to a share in proportion to the greater expense which custom and his wishes impose on her in clothes. And tbe money which she spends is not his, but hers. In payiog over to her what she needs, and what is her reasonable share, he is not giving her his money, but paying her own. He is not doing anything liberal or generous, but that which is simply honest He is an Ananias if he utters it as a gift. This is not a matter of political rights, nor of the subversion of the marital relation ; it is simply a matter of the just rights of the wife in the common property during the life of both parties. - Matcb-Xakina; aa a Bnalneaa. Marriage-brokers are quite important busi ness men in Genoa. They have pocket books filled with the names of the marriage able girls of the different classes, with notes ef their figures, personal attractions, for tunes, etc. These brokers go about endeav oring to arrange connections, and when they succeed they get a commission of 2 or 3 per cent, on the portion. Marriage at Genoa is quite a matter of calculation, gener ally settled by the parents or relations, who often draw up the contract before tbe parties have seen one another, and it is only wben everything is arranged, and a few days pre vious to tbe ceremony, that the future hus band is introduced to his intended partner for life. Should he find fault with her man ners or appearance, he may break off the match on condition of defraying the broker age and any other expenses incurred. A Sand unity Cinderella. .Detroit Free Press.1 A young lady in Sandusky can probably boast of tbe largest feet in the world. A Detroit gen tlem m, who was in a shoe store in that city when tbe lady left an order for a Dair of shoes, brought back a "chart of the foot which was taken to secure proper lasts. Tbe young Udy is 17 years of age, is four and one-half feet high, and weighs 110 Eounds. There is nothing remarkable about er except her feet, an idea of the immensity ot which can be obtained by the following accurate measurement: Length, 17 inches; size around the heel, 22 inches; around the instep. 18M inches; around the ball of the foot, 19 inches; around the smallest part of the ankle, 1614 inches. Tne feet are not nnsymmetrical, and the only discomfort the lady. experiences is from the muscular exer tion required to carry them around. When other and good remedies fail to re lieve Coughs and Colds, Dr. Boll's Cough Syrup will give instant relief. Obviously because it is the best remedy. Fries 25 cents a bottle. -..-,.(. X-A.-W-R'r8 2EU9-CSXX--lf. Honi THUHI0T7 WEED ndonrtng Dr. Radways R. R. R. RetnedU alter using Them for Several Tears. Nxw York, January i, 1877. Dear Sir Having for eeverei years uis your medicines, doubttngly at first, but !; experiencing their efficacy with full corn, dence, it Is no less a pleasure than a duty ; i thankfully acknowledge the advantage w have derived from them. The puis are resort ed to as often aa occasion requires, and always with the desired effect. Tbe Ready Relief can not be better described than it is by its name. We apply the Liniment freanentlv and fiwlv. almost invariably finding the promied "Re Uei." Truly yours. (Signed) .THTJRLOW WEED. Dk, Radwat, ' , Dysentery, DiarrliQBa, Cholera Morbus, -FTer and Ague, CURED AND PREVENTED BY RADWAVS READY RELIEF. BbenEuatlsm. XcnraZgia, Dip-tiherla, Influenza, Sore Throat, BIQcnlt Breathing RELIEVED IN A TEW MESDTE8 BY RADWAYS READY RELIEF. COHEL C0-.PLA.XT3, IXKMenetH, Dlarrbana, Cholera Morbus painful discharges from the bowels are stoppe In fifteen or twenty minutes by taking Hu way's Ready Keller. No congestion or inflan mation, no weakness or lassitude, wUl tallow the use ol the R. R. Relief. RADHAY'S READY RELIEF CURES THE WORST FAINB IN FROM ONE TO TWENTY MINUTES. Not One Hour After Bending tbla AdTrrllwrnnil Seed Any One SnBer with Patn. KiDWAY'S READY RELIEF Is a Cure for Every Pain. It was tbe first, and is the n-TT "vr nx vsr vs-nwiri-T-n-w wiji --n-n c.--it --Jut x that Instantly stops the mrmt excruciating pains, allays infiatnmation and cures congew tlons, whether of the Lungs, Stomach, Bowels, or other glands or organs, by one application, IM FROM fiwr Tf TUCHTV MI-IITre Bo matter how violent cr excruciating tea Ealn, the Rheumatic, - Bed-ridden, Inarm, rippled. Nervous, Neuralgia or prostrated with disease may suffer Radway s Ready Relief WILL AFFORD INSTANT EASE. Inflammation or tbe Kidneys, f nOamrnailon of the Bladder, Inflammauoa of the bow els, Congestion of the Lungs, Sore Throat, Difficult Ereathing, Palpi tation of the Heart, Hysterics, Croup, Diphtheria. 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Purifier. For tbe Cure of Chronic Disease, Bcrofnl or Syphilitic, Hereditary or Contagious, Be It seated In the Lunar r titatnaeb. Skin Banes Clean, or S ervea. Corrupting tbe Solids and Vitiating the Fluids Chronic Rheumatism, Scrofula, Glandular Swelling, Hacking, Dry Cough, Cancerous Af fections, Syphilitic Complaints, Bleeding of the Langs, Dyspepxla, ater Brash, Tie Dolo reaox, white ewelllngi, Tumors, Ulcers, Skia and Hip Diseases, Mercurial Diseases, Female Complaints, Gont, Dropsy, Salt Rheam, Bron chitis, Consumption. Xlver Complaint, Etc Not only does the Sarsaparillian Resolvent excel all remedial agents In the cure of Chron ic, Scrofulous, Constitutional and skin Dis eases, but it is the only positive cure lor Kidney and Bladder Com plaints. Urinary and Womb Diseases. Gravel, Diabetes, Dropsy jl Stoppage of Water. Incontinence oi Urine, Bnghi's Disease, Albuminuria, and lu all eases waere there are brickdust deposits or the water is thick, cloudy, mixed with sub stances like the white of an ee. or threads like white silk, or there Is a morbid, dark, bil lons appearance and white bonedust deposits, or when there is a pricking, burning senfcaUon woen passing water, and rutin in the -mail of the back and along the loins. Sold by Drug gists. PRICE ONE DOLLAR. OVARIAN TUMOR OF TEN YEARS' GROWTH CURED BY DR. E AD WAY'S REMEDIES. Dr. RADWAY A CO. 82 Warren st, N. Y. DK, BADWAVS REGULATING PIUS Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet gum, purge, regulate, purify, cleanse i strengthen. Radway's Pills for the cure of a diseases of the Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kid neys. Bladder, Nervous Dasea, Headache Constipation, Costlvenem, Indigestion, Dyt pepsia. Biliousness, Fever, Innammation c the Bowels, Piles, and all derangement, of th Internal V'lf-nera. Warranted to effect a pet feet euro. Purely vegetable, containing nc mercury, mineral, or deleterious drugs. -jberve the following symptoms result ing from Disorders of the Digestive Organs: Constipation, Inward Piles, Fullnew of the Blood in tbe Head, Acidity of the Stomach, Nausea. Heartburn, Ditgtut of Food, Fullness or Weight lw the btomacn, Sour Eructations. Slnkluics or Fluttering in tbe Pit of the Stom ach, Swimming of the Head, Hurried and Dif ficult Breathing, Fluttering at the Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sensations when in a lying posrarf. Dots or Webs before the Sight, Fever and dull Pain in the Head, Deficient of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin an Eyes, Pain in tbe Side, Chest, Limbs, ax Sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning In the Ktes! A few dosee of Badway puis will freets , system from all of the above named disordd Price 25 cents per box. Sold by druggists. "FALSE AND TRUE.1 Bend a letter stamp to RADWAY CO Jt n Warren street. New York. uuun-Hioa ,vau snonsanr-i WXU, ba ana