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to umbo our purchases for the
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THE WE&THER.
aicteorologlcal report received at Galveston
April 11,1887, at 3 p.m. Observations taken
at the same moment of time at all stations.
Locality. I Bar.
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last
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Galveston 30.15' 73
Brownsville. ..i29.fc8 74
Itlo Grande —120.97| 82
Corpus (Jliristl 80,14 73
JPttlestlue 130.10] '/0
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WHOLESALE ARREST AT DALL IS
Of rallies who are Charged with Swindling
in Land Transactions.
Dallas, Tex., April 11.—W. A. Sims, as-
sistant county attorney, Kenyon Cammack,
W. E. Taylor, and C. P. Scripture, all well-
inown citizens, were arrested to-day on in-
dictments found by the grand jury, charg-
ing them with swindling in land transac-
tions, in which it is alleged money was bor-
rowed from L. C. Dessaint on a misrepre-
sentation of consideration. Cammack was
also arrested on an indictment charging
liim with forgery Qf a draft purporting to
toe drawn on the Dallas National bank
for $7000 by his mother, Mary Graville Cam
mack of New Orleans,in favor of J. N.Elam.
It is charged thatJDessaint believing in the
genuineness of this draft advanced $0000 to
■Elam and others. Xu all about ten parties
are indicted, but the above are the only
arrests yet made. They all gave bond.
•Kims disclaims any connection with the
Kransactions beyond that of a lawyer trans
acting business between lenders and bor-
rowers. 1'. H. McDuffle was also arrested
on the charge of forging jan instrument
for $400 currency. The deposition was
made by S. S. Floyd & Co., of the Texas
Bucketshops company. He too gave bond.
Hearne.
Hearnh, Tex., April 11.—-The drouth still
continues. No indications of rain yet.
Farmers are feeling apprehensive of a short
crop.
The Central pay-car arrived to day and
paid off the employes here.
James Cosby opened a new livery stable
here last week with a fine stock of horses
and carriages.
Business is very fair for this time of the
year.
The big ball which comes off here next
Thursday evening promises to be a grand
affair. A large crowd from surrounding
towns is expected.
The Prohibitionists will meet here to-mor-
row in convention. Delegates from every
portion of the county will attend and a gen-
eral pl8n of campaign will be formulated.
General Hamman will address the conven-
tion, which will be the opening gun in this
county.
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PALESTINE POINTERS.
A Family Row Ends in a Shooting Scrape-
Sudden Death of a Negress.
Palestine, Tex., April 11.—Thi3 after-
noon a difficulty occurred between Hamp-
ton Maj field, who is employed in the rail
road shops, r.nd John Dyne, an engineer, at
the residence of Mayfield'3 father, on Syca-
more street, which resulted m Lyne being
shot in the left side of the neck, the ball
going through and coming out at the back
of the shoulder. The parties are brothers-
in-law and a family difference, the particu-
lars of which can not be learned, brought
on the difficulty. Mayfield asserts that
Lyne threatened to knock his brains out,
and attempted to strike him with a chain
before be used his pistol. Lyne is badly
wounded, though not necessarily fatally,
and is now at the Gould hospital. Mayfield
is now under arrest. He has heretofore been
a modest and industrious young man.
Yesterday morning tho wife of Houston
Booker, colored, who lives two miles south
of town, was reported by Hooker to be
down with a sudden spell of some kind.
The neighbors collected, but the woman
never rallied and died in two hours. A large
biuise over her left eye and Hooker's for-
mer brutal treatment of her gave rise to
suspicion, and he was placed in jail and a
jury of inquest summoned. After a partial
investigation, in which a physician testi-
fied that the bruise over the right eye was a
blister, and that he had treated the woman
several years tor heart disease, the jury ad-
journed until to-morrow.
TEX4RKANA.
A Boy Killed While Hunting-Enforcing the
Pistol Law.
Texaricana, Tex., April 11.—While hunt-
ing to day in the forest a few miles from
town Willie King accidentally shot himself
through the head, dying instantly. The fa-
tal accident occurred by placing the stock
of the gun on a log, the muzzle held up-
ward. The gun was half cocked and the
jolt sustained by its fall loosened the trig-
ger which fell, causing the explosion. The
boy was a lad about 10 years of age, the son
of Commissioner John King of Bowie
county, and brother to J. J. King, county
attorney.
Sheriff Dixon of Miller county, Arkansas,
made a raid to day on sixteen persons who
carried concealed weapons, jailing them
all. __
Eonham.
Bonham, Tex,, April 11.—To day, while
trying to catch ahorse, Mr. John Coonrod's
little 7 year old boy was kicked and in-
stantly billed. He turned suddenly as the
horsekicked and received the blow in the
back, breaking the spinal column.
TRAIN THIEVES ARRESTED.
PLUNDERING THE PANHANDLE SYSTEM.
The Crews Break Open Freight Cars anJ
Steal Every Conceivable Article—A Large
Number Now in Jail.
Pittsburg, Pa., April 11.—A gang of train
robbers on the Panhandle system has been
detected. The first arrosts were made
about 2 o'clock this morning, the police
surprising eighteen men at their boarding
houses. The men were taken at once to
jail. Further arrests were made betwcea 2
o'clock and daylight when forty-six men,
all railroad employes, conductors, brake-
men, firemen and engineers, were behind
the bars. In speaking of the arrests a
prominent officer of the Panhandle road
said: " For three years past the Panhandle
road has been systematically robbed. Cars
on sidings and cars in moving trains were
broken open and goods stolen, including
every description of merchandise. It i*
estimated that at least $300,000 worth of
goo(is have been taken for which the com-
pany had to pay. In August last wo got a
clew. Detectives were employed}who fol-
lowed up every scent. When everything wa3
ready we decided to make a move all along
the lino from Columbus to Pittsburgh, and
2 o'clock this morning was fixed to strike
the blow. About eighty warrants were is-
sued fcr men in Pittsburgh. I can't tell
bow many for other places, but it was at
every point along the line. It will run up
into hundreds. It is the biggest thing of tho
kind that over happened in Pittsburgh or in
railroad matters in the world, for nothing
iike it lias ever happened before. We sus-
pect outsiders of being implicated in the
robberies, but know nothing positive."
Early one morning some months ago at
Bheridan station, near this city, a train
was stopped for water. An attack was
made on the crew and in the fight a fireman
was tilled. Two cars were broken open
ar.d their contents stolen, Baker is accused
cf firing the shot that killed the firemsfc,
and this is understood to be one of the
thirty-eight charges against him.
crooked crews.
John H. Hampton, Esq., attorney for the
Pennsylvania company, said: " In Septem-
ber there were eighty crews of freight
trains on the Panhandle railroad coming
into Pittsburgh. No less than seventy-five
were fonnd to be crooked. A crew consists
of conductor, flagman nnd two brakemen.
In most cases all tho men were involved.
The statement that the engineers and fire-
men were mixed up in the robberies is
wrong. Not a single one is Involved, The
goods were obtained by the thieves in va-
rious ways. In many instances the seals
were broken and in others holes were cut
in the end of the cars. Then they report-
ed the car in bad condition, claiming that
the hole had been made by accident. The
thing which alarmed us more tnan any-
thing else was that they stole large quanti-
ties of whisky and drank it in the caboose.
Men were continually reported drunk on
duty, and the probability of disaster was
something frightful to contemplate. All
kinds of goods were stolen, including sew-
ing machines, guns, revolvers, cutlery, sil
verware, cigars, clothing, liquors, grocer,
ies, furniture, and in fact every imagin-
able article that can be carried on a car
were frequently removed. " Fences " were
established in this city where the stolen
property was sold and the money evenly
divided among the crews.
a bad man.
Among those arrested was a man named
Baker against whom there are thirty eight
charges. Early one morning some months
ago at Sheridan station, near this city, a
train was stopped for water. An attack
was made on the crew and in the fight the
fireman was shot. He afterward died from
his injuries. At daybreak it wa3 found
that two cars had been broken into and
their contents stolen. Baker is accused of
firing the shot that killed the fireman, and
this is understood to be one of tne thirty
eight charges against him.
the attorney talks.
John H. Hampton, attorney for the Penn-
sylvnia company, was seen this morning in
the office of the detective agency,where, sit-
ting around a heterogeneous collection of
plunder,he said: "These robberies have been
carried on sytematically for several years.
The company has long been aware that
there was a leakage somewhere, and a3
early as September, 1880, they quietly com-
menced investigations. Detectives were
placed on trains where the goods could be
watched. We had already discovered that
the culprits were employes of the com-
pany. In September there were eighty
crews of freight trains on the Panhandle
railroad coming into Pittsburgh. Of these
eighty crews, no less than seventy-five were
irooked.A crew consists of a conductor,flig-
man and two brakemen. In some cases all
the men were involved; in others only part.
The statement that the engineers and tire-
men were mixed up in the robbery is
wrong, not a single one is involved. The
goods were obtained by the thieves in
various ways. In mauy instances seals
were broken, while in others hatchets were
used to cut a hole in the end of the car,
through which the men could crawl and
take the goods they coveted. Then they re-
ported the car in bad condition, claiming
ttat the hole had been caused by accident.
The operations were all the result of com-
bination. Arrangements were carefully
made and each rascal was assigned to his
particular part of the work in much the
same way as a bank robbery is conducted
by professional cracksmen. I do not know
that tlie members ot the combination
were oath-bound or anything of tbat kind,
but it is certain that a thorough under-
standing existed among them, and they
acted in concert to cover each other's mis-
doings. The thinjiwhieh alarmed us more
than anything else was that they stole large
quantities of whisky and drank it in the
cabooses. They needed vessels to hold the
liquor, so they stole milk cans and kept it
in them. Not daring to keep whisky open-
ly on the cars, they tore up the flooring
and hid it underneath. Men were continu-
ally reported drunk on duty, and the proba-
bility of a disaster was something
frightful to contemplate. AH kinds
of goods were stolen, including
sewing machines, guns, revolvers,
cutlery, silverware, cigars,clothing, liquors,
groceries, furniture, and Jin ft*dt every
imaginable article that can be carried on a
car were quietly removed. The depreda
tions were committed all along tho road,
and the losers reside at points as far west
as Denver. Fences were established in this
city where the stolen property was taken
aid then sold, the money being evenly di
video among the crews. It is impossible to
give what the aggregate value of the pro-
perty stolen is, but it will not reach $300,-
000, as reported."
railroadmen excited.
The arrests have created the greatest ex-
citement among the railroad employes in
this city. The scenes about the jail doors
this morning, where tho relatives of the
prisoners had gathered to learn the cause
of the arrests, were of the saddest descrip-
tion. Wives, children, parents, brothers
and sisters, with tear-stained faces, stood
eround the entrances to the prison eager to
hear the latest developments and pleading
with tho officers for admissiou to the jail to
see the prisoners. At 1 o'clook ten moro
arrosts were reported. They were captured
at the pay-car while receiving their wages.
This malies a total ot fifty-six now in jail
leie, and it is supposed as many mora have
been apprehended at other points along the
lite.
the fences demoralized.
Consternation prevails among the pro-
prietors of the fences and dens where the
goods were secreted and sold. Iu one in-
stance the proprietor of a notorious den
was detected in the act of burning stolen
property. A telegram just received from
Denison, O,, states that J. II. Dunlap, leader
of the gang, was arrested there this morn-
ing. Nearly two hundred warrants are still
out, and it is expected tho list of arrest3 in
this city will Be swelled to eighty before
night. A number of houses in various
parte of the city were raided to-day, and a
large quantity of goods recovered. Every
man arrested had stolen goods somewhere.
some of the prisoners.
Among the prisoners are several desper-
ate characters who are wanted by the po-
lice for other offenses. They were all
armed, and when not taken by surprise re-
sisted arrest. Numbers overpowered them,
however, and all are safely lodged in jail.
A special dispatch from Denison says
the officers have arrested James and W.
Collis with several thousand dollars worth
of velvets and high priced dry goods in
'heir possession, articles taken from the
United States bonded cars en route to Chi-
cago, St. Louis and other points west.
One Busby, the worst man, slipped his
handcuffs and recklessly threw himself
from the train while it was going and es-
caped.
The most important arrest made here was
Brakeman Young. He called at the jail to
see one of the prisoners this morning and
was immediately locked up. At first he
protested his innocence, but finally admit-
ted that he had a large lot of stolen proper-
ty at his home, and told how the goods
had come in his possession. His confession
will, it is said, convict thirteen crews. Tele-
grams from Cadiz, Steubenville and points
west of Columbus report the arrest of a
large number of railroad employes impli
cated in the robberies. A preliminary
hearing will be held on April 18.
how it was done.
To Joseph Hue, special agent of the Penn-
sylvania railroad, and Detective Gilkerson
of this city, is due all the credit of running
tho thieves down. In an interview with
Rue this afternoon the following account of
the inception of the robberies, their detec
tion, modus operandi of their execution,
etc., was [given: Two years ago we
decided to dispense with locks on
the cars and introduced our pre-
sent system of seal. The seal
is of lead, is about the size of a 5-cent
piece, and is about an eighth of an inch in
thickness. The wire use in connection with
it is 1-10-inch iron wire. There are curls in
it to prevent its being pulled through the
lead seal. The method of using it is as
follows: The wire is pushed through the
seal, then through the hasp of tue
car doors, then back through the
teal again, forming an uubroken
circle. An instrument then is used in im-
pressing the seal. That in use, say in
Pittsburgh, stamps upon the inverse side the
letters Bg Tr and upon the other side P. &
St. L., thus indicating that the car is intact
when it enters the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati
and St. Louis railway bound westward.
The two wires are imbedded at the same
stroke as the letters are imprinted. This
understood I will give an idea of the incep
tion of the robbery and its discovery
by the officials of tho road. Eastern bound
trains were not molested. Western-bsund
trains have been the sufferers. As near as
we can estimate it, these robberies have
been going on for two year8. At first there
was timidity, and they only occurred at
long intervals, then daily growing bolder
and more general, until just lately every
train was a sufferer.
We were puzzled a long time by the rob-
beries, as our reports from western points
showed that tho seals were almost seeming-
ly intact. For a long time we blauiod ex-
tractions of goods upon roustabouts at
peers 27 and 28 in New York and the dock-
ttrcet's section at Philadelphia, as nearly
ail our western-bound freight was put in
the ears at either one or the other
ot these three places. We em-
ployed detetives and all imaginable devices
and found finally that our employes at
ibese points were above suspicion. As I
em in charge of all crookedness on our
road east of Pittsburgh it then became tny
duty to follow the robbers up to this city.
After the most exhaustive search of the
entire division of the Pennsylvania railroad
up to Pittsburgh, I came to the conclusion
that the robberies were committed we3t of
Pittsburgh. We then deyoted ourselves en-
tirely to tho western division. After
two months' work we found that
the robberies were committed between
Pittsburgh and Denison; that out
of eighty crews, seventy-five were prac-
ticing the great game of robbery. We were
badly stalled at first by the fact that the
eeal3 on the cars were generally found in-
tact when the cars reached Columbus on
their way westward. Then commenced a
system "of espionage on every mile of
siding between here and Denison. Day
aid night the watch continued. Meanwhile
marked and decoy goods were used. We
found that local freight was generally un-
touched ; tbat the robberies wore committed
onithe Union line shipments. Well and good.
One dark night one of our brightest men
stumbled against the mvsterv of seals, and
the method by which they were successfully
tampered with. Concealed behind a car he
saw a freight crew come to a Union line
car. The wire was pulled out of the seal,
the door was thrown open and the car en-
tered. In a short time tho men emerged
carrying a lot of plunder. They made
off to the caboose and the conductor
pulled back the door, ran the wire
through the seal where it had been pulled
out, and with a board struck it a blow. The
wire went back to its place, the blow united
the soft lead again without destroying the
lettering on the other side, and the seal was
apparently untouched. I saw one of these,
and it was only by the closest scrutiny that
a person could detect the sign of tamper-
ing with it.
All was made clear and our course was
much easier. The individuals of those
crews were then each of them tracked
cown, and I may say here that so closely
were the stolen goods located that out of all
the arrests we made last night and this
morning there was not one man but had
stolen stuff either upon him or in his room.
Of course you understand that our methods
used in ascertaining all this can not be
made public. Suffice it to say that we have
ur hands on every thievish employe, and
we are in easy reach of those
who are not arrested. When I say we, I
n;ean, of course, Mr. Gilkerson first, as to
bim belongs the exclusive credit of the rich
haul that filled the drag net.
stole anything.
I can give a few illustrations of the spirit
of these employes. In one case, just late-
ly, the pursuit was so hot that twenty-five
boxes of fine cigars were hastily burned in
a caboose stove. In another case
a tip resulted in two bolts of fine
silk being thrown from a caboose
into the llonogahela river, while crossing
the Panhandle bridge. In another instance
a crew broke open a car and found it full
of organs. One of the men was so enraged
at finding nothing of the stealable kind that
he thrust an iron bar into an organ and
ruined it. We have evidence that a freight
corductor broke into a car, opened a piauo
and sat and played it all night, stopping at
midnight to eat his supper off of the
polished top. The same fellow wa3
thumping piano in a dive last
night when captured. Another brakeman
who lives on Wylie avenue stole a bolt of
cloth, had a snitmade for himsel' and gave
the cloth for two other suits to his friends.
Another man has become an expert on a
stolen accoideeyj. In all my experience of
twenty years 1 never saw such a taste for
miscellaneous stealing. Everything except
a coffin and a blacksmith's anvil has
been stolen and made use of. Some
of cur detectiveb assured me this morn-
ing that not a uian was arrested
but had from half a dozen to a dozen pairs
of clean socks of the finest quality and a
1m ge assortment of shirts of all kinds. The
thieves who were not arrested at their
homes were taken from their trains. To do
this it was necessary to display the red
light at the Second avenue crossing and
side-track the. trains as they came in. This
was so quickly executed that when the
thieving crew mustered on to the little plat-
foim to ask what the red light me'ant,
they could see glistening ou the wrists
of each other tho fearful implements
of justice, by which the officers gathered
them together. Conductors and brakemen
locked aghast at each other as the guilty
knowledge of their crimes came before
them. Train after train was sidetracked
until the alleged thieves were pulled and
tbe caboose cars, contain'ng many evi-
dences of their long-continued depreda
tiens, were cut loose and searched.
all well planned.
The combination to rob a freight train
necessitated the guilty knowledge and ac-
tual participation of the conductor, the mid-
dle brakeman, and one or more head and
rear brakemen.or flagmen. It did not of
necessity take in the front brakeman or
flagman, nor the engineer or firemen, but
the others had to be in to make it work and
it did work. It was not required that they
should wreck trains to rob. They were finer-
fingered operators than that. They were
no mere gatherers up of scattered
goods, like the mob who carried one of the
hams at the riots Not they. Every ex-
cuse which they knew could not well be de-
nied was given for the broken cars when
they neglected, which they frequently did,
io seal or lock them up again. The govern-
ment bonded cars were broken, perhaps,oft-
ener than the ordinary union line or com-
mon freight cars. In these they always knew
they could get choice goods. Silks, cigars,
rifles, all kinds of imported firearms and
caddies of tobacco seemed to become
their necessities, boxes o£ shoes and
general merchandise were found openly in
the caboose cars of each train. Hundreds
of boxes which had contained tho finest
imported cigars were found on these trains
boldly used by the men to hold their caps
and overalls and lanterns and waste stuff.
So bold had they become that the United
States regulations, strict as they are,
had lost all terror for them.
Whilst the custom house officers
were trying to trace the goods,and the mer-
chants here and elsewhere corresponding
with the shippers, and the special agents at
special pay were wondering how this could
possibly be, and loading down the letter-
books with theories which flew around as
indefinite as smoke, the operators smoked
their havanas within the very shadow of
the court of custom house and laughed at
their masters who suffered the loss.
destroying evidence.
Fires were in progress to-day all along
the line of the Panhandle road, made of
stuff taken out of the caboose cars, so that
evidence of things not seen may be want-
ing when the trial comes. Word was
telegraphed all along the road
for the particulars of each case.
Freight trains have hauled up at water
stations and a delay made till the caboose
was swept and garnished, and in doing so
evidence has been procured against unsus-
pected railroad men which it will be
hard to overturn. Almost every man
arrested had from one to ten pawn tickets
for all sorts of articles on his person. It
is alleged that every pawnshop in the two
cities is represented on the tickets. Au
amount of several thousand dollars is said
to be recoverable in this way alone.
rather deserted.
About the Panhandle yards to day there
was a scene of quietness that indicated that
something unusual had happened—where
there is usually a scene of noisy
bustle. The crews of men that
had been arrested had left a
laige number of trains deserted. There
were twenty-four of these trains piled
closely together on the side tracks in the
yards. The detention of freight, however,
was only temporary. The railroad officers
had taken special precaution to continue
moving their freight promptly. An Extra
force of sixty men had been employed.
These were put on the deserted trains in
place of the arrested employes. When it
became generally known that a large num-
ber of men had been arrested, applicants
for positions commenced to flock to the
depot by the score.
MARITIME MATTERS.
arrived, sailed, etc.
New York, April 10.—Arrived: Steam-
ers Seer via and India, from Hamburg;
Acadia and Athens, from Mediteranean
ports; Normandie,from B*avre.
London, April 10.—The Eutruria, from
New York for Liverpool, arrived at Queens-
town to-day.
The La Bretagne, from New York April
2, arrived at Havre.
The Lessing, from New York March 31,
for Hamburg, arrived at Plymouth to day.
New York, April 11.—Arrived: Steamers
Arizona from Liverpool and Huugaria
from Hamburg.
Southampton, April 11.—The steamer
Elbe, from New York for this port and
Bremen, arrived off the Lizard at 10 a. m.
to-day.
Philadelphia, Pa., April 11.—Arrived:
Steamer British King, from Liverpool for
Philadelphia.
g London, April 11.— Arrived: Steamer Er-
rin from New York.
Havre, April 11.—Arrived: Steamer
Marseille from New Orleans.
Southampton, April 11.—Arrived: Steam-
er Wallachi, fromNew Orleans for Bremen.
Point i>e Grove, April 10.—Arrived:
Nantes, New Orleans, for Antwerp.
Stornaway, April 10.—Arrived: Laures-
tlna, New Orleans, for Elsinore.
Hamburg, April 10.—Arrived: Ardan-
righ, New Orleans.
Liverpool. April 10.—Arrived: Soltrain,
from New Orleans.
Rough on Peoria Men,
St. Louis, Mo., April 11.—A special tele-
gram to the Post-Dispatch from Peoria,
says: Patrick Connors was run over and
killed in this city yesterday by a freight
train. To-day a letter was received stating
that his brother had been killed in Pennsyl-
vania at the same hour, and in a like man-
ner. A short time later it was learned that
Mike Shelley, also of Peoria, had been
killed at Fort Scott, Ks., by being run over
iy a railroad train. Three months ago
Shelley's brother met death in the same
manner. _
Tyler.
Tyler, Tex., April 11.—Real estate trans-
fers to-day, so far as filed, amount $15,700,
WEIS BROS.,
Strand, Galveston, Tex.
Wo thank morchants throughout th«
Stoic for their support in onr now on>
terprlse, which nssciro-. ns of buooes«.
a, o<\}oC^' *our ""lorn for DRY
nwss-*-"11 >KS, BOOTS, SHO £0,
AiA'i'S, CLOTHING, Eto.
It will pi-y to call upou uswbeu yoa
visit Ctiilvcitoii.
SOME EXCELLENT IDEAS.
PERFECTING THE POSTAL SERVICE.
Postmaster-general Vilas on an Inspecting
Tour—Star Route Contracts—Other
Washington News,
Washikgton, April 11.—Postmaster Gen-
eral Vilas and General Superintendent
Nash of the railway mail service will leave
Washington to morrow on a tour of inspec-
tion of the fast mail service between New
York, Chicago and St. Paul. While absent
they will consider the feasibility of estab-
lishing depots at Chicago, St. Louis and
Atlanta, for the distribution of postal
cards and stamped envelopes. Under the
present system these supplies are sent out
from the manufactory at Caselton, New
York, in registered pouches to indivdual
offices both great and email, making the re-
quisition therefor. The rapid increase
in the number of postofflces and steady in-
crease of business at nearly all of
the larger offices has rendered this system
veiy cumbersome, in fact the business ol
the country has outgrown the system; hence
the necessity for supplying distributing
offices, as contemplated by the postmaster-
general. Tho experiment will probably first
be tried at Chicago. Nineteen of the largest
postofflces, which, it is said, consume about
42 per cent, of all postal cards used in
the United States, will be supplied
from the manufactory, as now,
but by freight instead of registered mail,
as is now the custom, thus making a large
saving in the matter of transportation.
These offices are Baltimore, Boston, Brook-
lyn, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleve-
land, Detroit, Kansas City, Louisville, New-
York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis,
San Francisco and Washington. These ar-
rangements will be perfected and put into
operation as speedily as possible.
contracts awarded.
Second Assistant Postmaster-general
Knott to-day began the award of contracts
for carrying the mails on 843 miscellaneous
star and steamboat routes, for periods
ranging from one to four years. All of the
states except Delaware, and all of the ter-
ritoiies except Alaska and Arizona, are
represented in the list.
HAPPY CHILDREN.
the egg-rolling.
Washington, April 11.—The grounds im?
mediately south ot the president's house
presented a very pretty picture to day.
Thousands of children were gathered there
engaged in the pleasures of Easter egg-
rolling, a custom which has prevailed in
this city for ever so many years. The partici-
pants were of all ages, sizes and condition
of life, from the pampered child of luxury
with the French nurse to the poor black
picaninny with bare feet. All had eggs,
boiled and dyed, and made the air ring
with their happy shouts and merry laughter
as they rolled their eggs and themselves
down the grassy knolls and chased each
other across the lawns. The president en-
joyed the spectacle very much. His office
window opened directly over the scene and
he frequently paused in his work to gaze
upon it. Mrs. Cleveland spent the morn-
ing at her country home, and so failed to
see the children play. While the presi-
dent's public reception was in progress in
the east room in the afternoon the children
heard of it and flocked in great numbers
to shake hands with the president.
POSTAL MATTERS.
orders affecting texas.
Washington,April 11.—The following are
among the recent orders of the postoffice
department which affect the service ia
Texas:
Postoffices Established—Berg's Mill, Bex-
ar county, on route 31,033, San Antonio
eight miles north, Elmendorf ten miles
south.
Changes in Star Schedules—Route 31,223:
Bertram to Gabriel Mills; leave Bertram
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 1
p.m., arrive at Gabriel Mills by 5 p.m.;
leave Gabriel Mills Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays at 8 a. m., arrive at Bertram
by 12 m.; from April 1,1887.
"Route 31,231: Georgetown to Corn Hill;
leave Georgetown Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays at 3 30 p. ru., arrive at Corn
Hill by 0.30 p.m.; leave Corn Hill Mon-
days, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 a. m,,
arrive at Georgetown by 11 a. m.
Route 31,495; Honderson to Stevens;
leave Henderson Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays at 12 m., arrive at Stevens by
0 p. ru.; leave Stevens Tuesdays, Thursdays
ar.d Saturdays at 7.30 a. m., arrive at Hen-
derson by 2.45 p. m.
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.
a foolish request.
Washington, April 11.—A delegation of
Irish-Americans called at the White house,
to day, to invite the president to attend a
meeting to be held in this city to-night, to
protest against the coercion policy in Ire -
land. They saw Colonel Lainont, and were
informed that whatever the president's
views on the subject might be, it would be
maniiestly improper for him to attend
such a meeting in his official capacity. The
committee were convinced of the wisdom
of this reasoning, and withdrew without
iurther effort to see the president.
robber captured.
Paymaster - general Rochester has re-
ceived a telegram from Chief Paymaster
Terrell, reporting that G. Parker, who sev-
eral weeks ago robbed Paymaster Nash of
$7400, has been captured.
to remove the indians.
Special Indian Agent H. S. Welton, now
in the city, will leave for the West to-night
to superintend the removal ofthe JeycarHl*
band of Apaches, numbering about 700
souls, now on the Mescalero reservation,
adjoining the one now occupied by the
Utes in northern New Mexico.
postmasters appointed,
Amorg the appointments of postmasters
made to day by the president are L. H.
Harrison, at Sulphur Springs, Tex., vice
Wm. A. VVortham, resigned; Charles E.
I-'ramble, at Texarkana, Ark., vice Walter
W. Shaw, removed.
will review them,
The president to-day accepted an invita-
tion to review on Monday next a procession
of colored people on the occasion of the
25sh anniversary cf the emancipation of
slavery in the District of Columbia.
Another Election Fraud.
St. Louis, Mo., April 11.—J. J. Pender-
gast, another of the deputy recorders
indicted for committing frauds at the elec-
tion held last November, was convicted ia
the United States Court to-day.
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