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fact that both political parties of the State, in their platform, pronounced in favor of arbitration of labor troubles, he says: “Now, therefore, by virtue of the power vested in me as the Mayor of the eity of Minneapolis. I hereby call upon all the said parties to Such differences to at once agree and to appoint a fixed number of arbitrators, and that until the aaid differences be by them adjusted, the former relations be resumed by the parties so that the public interests no longer suffer. I further earnestly request that no provocation be given bv any one, that no act of violence or expression of ill-will be made by any one, in the hope that harmony be restored.” The Mayor held a meeting this morning with tie officers of all the railroads, who replied to his proclamation calling for arbitration, that there was nothing to arbitrate. All they wanted was the opportunity to resume business, and they asked if they would be protected in doing •o. The Mayor’s answer was evasive, but he •aid in case of a riot it would be put down. He Subsequently had meetings with the jobbers’ association. and afterwards addressed a meeting of the strikers, advising arbitration. This afternoon be visited the Manitoba yards, in East Minneapolis, and saw au engine “killed” by the Strikers. Mayor Ames has issued a second proclamation regarding the strike, taking somewhat stronger grounds on the question of maintenance of order and declaring that the laws will be enforced. In the St. Paul yards the day has been uneventful. Every road moved some freight, and It is said all roads will resume operations toInorrow morning under protection of their own speoial officers. So far the St Paul strikers have confined their efforts to moral, suasion. Neither side, however, shows any disposition to arbitrate. Activity In Dodging Responsibility. Bpecial to tus Indianapolis Journal. Minneapolis, Minn., Oct 17.—There is a Strong suspicion that the strike movement was inaugurated by Republican political leaders for the purpose of injuring the chance for the election of Ames. When the strike was first made Ames was in the country, running his campaign, and in his absence, Clough, president of the Council, was acting Mayor. Clough is a candidate for Senator, and the county attorney and Sheriil are both candidates for re-election. Consequently they refuse to take any steps iu the matte-, for fear they will hurt their chances for election. Ames came home yesterday and notified the acting Mayor, wherenpon that official packed his grip and fled to Chicago. Unaware of this fact, Dr. Ames went back to Anoka to continue the campaign work. Later a special train was sent out to brine him back to the city. He is in a peculiar position. If he champions the cause of the strikers the upper classes will bolt him, and it would be sure political death to go against the strikers. Brackett, the candidate for sheriff, is a Republican, and is ready to leave town as soon as there is a prospect that he will have to interfere. THE FIRE RUCORD. Fowler, Ind., Damaged to the Extent of $15,000 by an Incendiary Fire. Special to the Ir dlanaDolis JournaL Fowler, Ind., Oct 17.—At fifteen minutes before 9 o’clock to night fire was discovered in the rear of Jones Bros.’ drug store, and, owing to the chemicals, spread so rapidly it could not be controlled. The adjoining building, occupied by James Bream as a shoe store, was also totally consumed. The fire is still raging, and the shoe •tore of Eli Douglass and the saloon of M. Carr We now burning. The approximate loss is 112,000. Later. —The fire is under control and no further danger is apprehended. The Odd-fel-lows' Hall, in O. C. Brockway's building, is damaged $500; insured. P. E. Hitze, jeweler, Will lose $1,500; insured for SSOO. The total loss On buildings and stock is $15,000, about half of which is covered by insurance in the Phoenix, the North British, the Royal, the Northwestern and other companies. The fire was evidently the work of en incendiary, as the floor of the drug store was saturated with coal oil.

„ Wharf-Boat Burned. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Evansville, Ind., Oct 17.—The mail-line wharf-boat, jointly owned by the Louisville & Evansville Packet Company and the Evansville, Padncah & Cairo Packet Compaiy, burned at 10:30 o’clock to-night The boat was valued at $5,000, on which insurance of $2,000 was carried. There was between $3,000 and $5,000 worth of freight on board. Nothing bat the hull of the boat was saved, the fire being so intensely hot that the department could do nothing. It was with the greatest difficulty that the southern wharf-boat and the steamer Evansville were saved. Two watchmen, Joseph Link and Herbert Rubl, were aboard when the fire broke out, which was originated by the explosion of a lamp which was being carried by Link. He was seriously burned aboui the face, arms and hands. Ruhl, who was asleep at the time, is believed to be lost, as diligent search has failed to reveal his whereabouts. Link was so badly injured that he barely got out of the boat, being unable to awaken bis fellow-watchman. Heavy Lose in a Maryland Village. Salisbury, Md., Oct. 17. — A fire which started in a small frame stable, about 7 o’clock tonight. swept over the entire business portion of the village. A brisk wind from the southeast spread the flames rapidly, while the inhabitants stood by powerless to prevent the destruction, as the dry frame buildings burned too fiercely to be Checked by the small tire apparatus. Assistance has been asked from Crisfield and Wilmington, Del., but at a late hour to-night it looks as though the entire village would bo destroyed. It is impossible to enumerate the property lost at this late hour, but a rough guess places the damage at a very large figure. Stores, with their cou tents, were licked up by the flames, and the streets to-night are full of people whose homes have been destroyed. At midnight the fire is still burning fiercely, and there seems to be no hope of staying its progress. Stocks of Goods Seriously Damaged. St. Paul, Minn., Oct 17.—The Sherman Hall block, ja. three-story brick building, was partially burned this afternoon. It is owned by H. B. Sherman, of Buffalo, N. Y., whose lo*s will be $5,000. The firms doing business in the block sustained losses of $26,000. All the losses aro fully covered by insurance. Peter O’Kerman, a fireman, while groping about in the smoke, walked into an an open elevator way and fell three stories. He died in a few minutes. Thirteen Business Houses Burned. Charlotte, Mich.. Oct 17.—Fire was discovered this morning about 3:30 o’cloek in the Woodbury & Pinch wire hammock raanufactury. The flames spread rapidly, and before the fire could be got under control it had destroyed thirteen business houses. The loss will probably reach $15,000 to $20,000, with little or no insurance. Several families living over their places of business lost everything, even to their wearing apparel, and barely escaped with their lives. Part of a Utah Village Burned. Salt Lake, U. TANARUS., Oct 17.—Tho east half of Stockton, U. TANARUS., was burned to-day by supposed incendiary fires. The loss will be $25,000; insurance about one-tbird. The suspected party is a Mrs. Provost, who threatened a few days ago to burn the town unless the saloons quit selling liquor to her*husband. Steamship News. New York, Oct. 17.—Arrived: Umbria, from Liverpool. Glasgow, Oct. 17.—Arrived: Devonia, from Now York. Havre. Oct. 17.—Arrived: La Bourgogne, from New York. Plymouth, Get 17.—Arrived: Rugia, from New York, for Hamburg. Queenstown. Oct 17.—Arrived: British Prince, from Philadelphia.

BOARD OF PENSION APPEALS The Reorganized Force Will Begin Active Operations Sometime This Week. How the President Will Placate the CivilService Reformers Exact Terms of <xeronimo’s Snrrender Not Yet Ascertained. PENSION APPEALS. The Board Enlarged and Reorgani zed—New Rales To Be Form is lated. Special to the lndianacolis Journal. Washington, Oct 17.—The reorganized and enlarged Board of Pension Appeals, for which provision was made by the last session of Congress, will fairly enter upon its work this week. The board consists of nine members, instead of three, as originally composed. The nine members will be apportioned to three divisions, each embracing three of the members and each being perfectly independent of the other. The new members of the board were recently appointed by Secretary Lamar, and it ia expected that the new and increased board will, in good time, clear the docket of the vast accumulation of business by which it has been long incumbered. The necessity for the increase in the membership of the board arose from the rapid multiplication of appeals from the decisions of the Pension Bureau within the last three years, iu consequence of which the original board of three got behindhand 3,000 cases. Anew and improved set of rules, based upon experience, has been formulated for the government of the board, by which its work will be greatly facilitated, and this, it hoped, will meet the demands of the numerous claimants upon the beneficence of the government. The Sternly-Virtuous Black. Washington, Oct. 17. —Commissioner Black, of the Pension Office, having received a number of letters asking consideration of cases on account of the political affiliation of the claimants with the administration, has prepared the following circular letter: •‘Sir —I return your letter of inst., and request that hereafter, in making inquiries relative to your pension claim, you will confine yourself to the subject-matter of the inquiry. I cannot consider pension cases on political grounds, nor can 1 allow a statement of the politics of claimants or witnesses to enter into cases. You are. therefore, respootfully requested to puree vonr communication of the references above designated, and to return your amended statement., setting forth the facts material to the case, and year claim will then receive every attention.” CAUTIOUS CLEVELAND. How Civil-Service Reformers and Politicians Are To Be Placated* Washington Special. Asa candidate for renomination, Mr. Cleveland’s relations with his party are somewhat changed. It is evident, since the bee has begun to buzz more fearlessly, that he is less disposed to openly and boldly affront the politicians. He has a difficult feat before him to balance himself between the independent voters and the rockribbed Democracy. Tbus far he is all right with the first-mentioned class. Now he is trying to placate the politicians. There will be more politics in the air this winter than is usual even in Washington. Some of the hardened spoilsmen Democrats are beeinning to speak of Mr. Cleveland as a better politician than any of them. He ia crowded into close quarters by the numerous violations of the order of federal officers to keep their hands off politics, under the penalty of losing their heads. It will be difficult for him to satisfy the demands of the independent Republicans withont affronting the Democrats. There is a well-founded impression that very few of the many who have committed offenses against the President’s July order will be punished. Very few will be found guilty as indicted. There is to be no wholesale decaDitation to avenge the activity of district attorneys, postmasters and marshals at the primaries. It is positively asserted that the President will back water a little, but it will be done gracefully. A few active Democratic partisans will probably be made examples ot, but they will be men who are offensive in other wavs besides politically. They will be such as have something else against them, so that when their friends complain of the injustice of tbeir dismissal for simply “doing a little for the party” the President can put his finger on other charges and say: "Well, how about this?” There may be now and then a case, too. where chargee are brought by Democrats who are stronger than the supporters of the perniciously active officer. Then there can be no party complaint against vigorous action by the President. Avery few cases like this will be enough to assure the believers in civil-service rerortn of the President’s good faith. Asa rule, unless they are guilty of some terribly objectionable conduct, the charges against the active officials will not be positive and definite euough to warrant any action by the executive.

KNOTTY INDIAN PROBLEM. Exact Terms of Geronimo’s Surrender Not Yet Ascertained. Washington Special. The President is still awaiting more definite information from Gen. Miles before settling the case of Geronimo. General Miles has not given yet his reasons for not keeping the Apaches at Fort Bowie, nor has he given the details of the terms of surrender. The version of General Miles’s report regarding the surrender of the reneeade Apaches, published yesterday, does not settle the question as to what were the exact terms under which the Indians surrendered. This account gives the story of the termination of the campaign correctly in a general way, but it is not quoted from the original report, and does not give General Miles’s exact laneuage, which has not as yet satisfied the President and the Secretary of War. It is known that General Miles, in his report, does not say in so many words what the conditions of surrender were, but a careful consideration of his language leads to the conclusion that the Indians were given certain assurances as to their future treatment. It may have been, as stated, that they surrendered as prisoners of war simply, but even then there would be conditions attached out of which grow many knotty problems. If they should be considered prisoners of war, they could not be turned over to the civil authorities to answer for tbeir crimes, and the only means of punching them would be the verdict of a trial by military commission. In attempting to proceed in this direction difficulties would be met with. They could not be tried under the Modoc precedent, because the Modocs were punished for a “violation of the lawß of war," the overt act being the treacherous killing of an enemy during a truce. They could only be tried by a military commission an a public enemy, but to do this it would have to be proved that the Apaches as a tribe were at war with this country, for it has been held heretofore that a military commission could not legally be convened for the trial of Indians for violation of the laws of war on account of thefts, robberies and murders committed by them upon incursions into the State of Texas, where said Indians were mere raiders, with whose tribe, as such, the United States was not engaged in war. Moreover, it has been decided by the Supreme Court that a detached band of marauding Indians was not au “enemy.” As the renegade Indians were simply a detachment of one of three bands of the Apache tribe, they could not be considered as subjects for trial by a military commission. _ IfOOSIKRS HOODWINKED. Efforts to Keep the Rank and File of the Tarty in Indiana in Line. Washington Special in Cleveland Leader. A prominent official of the government, who has just returned from a trip to Indiana, tells an

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amnsine story of the efforts of the leading Democrats out there to make the rank and file of the party believe in the administration of Cleveland. Some months aeo a party of leadine Democrats from the place which the official had just visited came to Washington for the purpose of getting Secretary Manning to do something for them, and, in the event of his refusal to do so, it was intended to go to the White House and ask tho President to interfere. Senator Voorhees was then in the city, it was determined to engage him to act as escort to the White House, if the call there should be found necessary, Voorhees would have nothing to do with the matter, and declared that nothing but a political necessity would induce him to go to the White House so long as Grover Cleveland occupied it. He said some hard things about the President, which, if interpreted in the most favorable manner for Grover, would make him out to be a hypocrite; but Manning gave the callers what they wanted, and the call at the White House was rot found to be necessary. But the Indianians, tutting their cue from Voorhees, could not find words in the English lanenage emphatic enough to condemn the President. During the recent visit to Indiana of the official first mentioned he met a number of those who bad come on tc Washington, and, rememberine what they had said of the President, was surprised to find that they weresoundine the praises of Cleveland and comparing him to Lincoln and Jackson, and others of distinction who occupied the White House. “How is this?” he asked. “I find that you damned the administration up-hill and down when I saw you in Washington, but here you are praising him to the skies.” “Well, you know that when I was damning the administration,” replied the Indianian, ‘T was in Washington, but now I am in Indiana, and an election is pending, and we need the solid patty vote.” INDIANA PENSIONERS'. Figures Showing the Number by Counties and the Amount of Monthly Payments. Washington “ pedal. The following statement shows the number of pensioners in each eonnty of the State of Indiana. also the amount of monthly payments made on account of the same. The statement is made from the official records of the Pension Bnrean: Z? K I* ST ■ud mo ’pc i-no SS §S COUNTIES. 2-S dS COUNTIES. h £ §* S' §3 gS* •5 o ® © 5Adams 160 $1 358.08 Lawrence... 429.54.676.50 Allen 352 3.710.25 jMadison.... 264 2.500.33 Bartholo’ew 409 4,726.83 Marion 1300; 13.978.16 Benton 90 962.50 Marshall.... 290 1 2,658.50 Blackford.. 82 793.50 |Martin 208 2.718.00 Boone 329 3,245.25 Miami 262| 2.290.58 Brown 160 1,769.50] Monroe 282 3.164.25 Carroll.... 172 1,551.501 Montgom’ry 347 3.729.25 Ca 55....... 301 2 952.58 I Morgan .... 427 4.336.75 C1ark...... 302 3.122.751 Newton .... 105 909.75 Clay 380 3.677.00! Noble 302 3,371.50 Clinton 353 3.477.00 j jOhio 78 724 90 Crawford... 371 3.107.50 !Orange 318| 3.128.50 Daviess.... 295 2,749.501 |Owen 3881 4.310 75 Dearborn... 327 3.1751.751 Park 187 ! 1,718.75 Decatur.... 317 3.147.501, Perrv .. a... 209 2.583 50 DeKalb 274, 3,000.08 Pike'. 884 3.717.25 Delaware... 266 2,432.83 Porter 129. 1,313.00 Dubois 212: 1,847.75 Posey 223 2.016.50 Elkhart.... 308 2,983.25 fPulaski 194 3,124.58; Fayette 111?: 1,140.25 Randolph... 351 3.368.75 Floyd 201 1,912.08 Ripley 388 3.169.50 Fountain... 259 j 2,436.75 !Rush 153 1,584.00 Franklin... 220' 2.015.50! St. Joseph.. 224 2,062.41 Fulton 176 1,500.751 Scott 127 1.302.75 Hibson 292 2,648.25, Shelby 292 2.800.50 Grant 302 2.601.25] Spencer 384 4,041.50 Green 535. 5,593.58 iStarke ... 68 594.00 Hamilton... 310 3,055.00 jSteuben 318 3,293.00 Hancock... 237] 2,264.25 Sullivan.. .. 320 3.199.50 Harrison... 261 j 2.416.00 ]Switzerland 196 1.814.00 Hendricks.. 280] 2.74s.oo](Tippecanoe. 507 5,607.75 Henry 303' 2,935.75] i Tin ton 249 2.230 50 Howard 278; 2,614.25 Uni n 49 468.00 Huntington 20Ri 1,798.75 ! Vanderburg j 350 3.446 83 Jackson.... 426 4,714.50 jVesmillion.. 179 1.740.00 Jasper 15G, 1,518.00: Vigo 648 6.745.75 Jay 272 2,313.25] Wabash 281] 2.676.08 Jefferson... 370] 3,753 50] j Warren. 122] 1,205.55 Jennings... 342 j 3.724.00 Warrick-... 258] 2.243.50 Johnson —. 236] 2,441.50 ;i Washington 244: 2.440.75 Knox 306 2.870.50 Wayne 407 4.082.83 Kosciusko.. 278 2,591.25]!Wei1s 149 1,396.00 LaGrange. . 196 2,094.75;iWhite 221; 2,089.00 Lake 150 1,353.50 ] | Whitley 134 1,169.25 LaPorte.... 1901 1.724.25]

Base-Hall. Cincinnati, Oct. 17.—Theclosine gajneof the season was played here to-diy between the Louis yilles and Cincinnatis, before a eyowd of about 1.800. Some unknown umpire. wn was a straneer to most of the players and whose identity has not been learned, furnished the chief amusement of the day by his faitering decisions, some of which were miserable. Browning carried off the honors of the day by making a one hand jumping catch of Pechiney’s lone fly in the eighth inning. According to agreement, the Louisvilles won the series, they having scored the most runs in the two games. Score: Cincinnati .0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 o—2 Louisville 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0-5 Earned Runs—Louisville, 2. Three-base hit —McPbee. Passed balls —Boyle, 1; Cross, 1. Wild pitch—P*>chinev. First base on balls—Off Pechiney. 5; off Hecker, 3 Base hits—Cincinnati, 7; Louisville, 8. Errors—Cincinnati, 3; Louisville, 2. St. Louis, Oct. 17.—The St Louis American Association base-ball team, popularly known as the “Browns,” left to-night, in a special car, for Chicago, where, to-morrow, they will play with the League champions the first game of the world’s championship series. The club was accompanied by a laree number of admirers, who took with them pockets full of money to piece on their favorites. Wagers to the amount of $50,000 have been made in this city by those that are confident that the Browns will defeat the veteran champions • Tlie Head on the Gulf Coast. Beaumont, Tex.. Oct. 17 —lt is estimated by persons who have been over the scene of the disaster at Johnson's Bayou, Sabine Pass and Taylor’s Bayou, that tho death list will amount to 250. Eighty five bodies have been recovered and buried at Johnson’s Bayou, fiffcj four at Sabine Pass, and about seventy-five white and colored persons are still missing at Sabine Pass alone. Hundreds of thousands ot acres are still submerged, rendering the search for the dead very difficult. Over sixty peorde still remain to be accounted for at Johnson’s Bayou. It is thought that many of the dead have been carried out so sea by the tide. Fatal Affray in a Gambling Den. Pine Bluffs. Ark., Oct. 17.—Last night, at a very late hour, the gambling-room of John Young, on one of the principal streets, was the scene of a terrible affray, in which four men were wounded, one of them mortally. Gyp Clark, a white sport, went into this negro gambling den, and after a brief exchange of angry words with Pat Cole, a negro gambler, the firing commenced. Clark wa3 shot badly in the mouth, and Cole in the arm. John Bailey, who hail nothing to do with the affair, and Jim Jones, were struck by stray balls, the former in bis hip, and the latter in the left side; he will die. All of the wounded a:e negroes, except Clark. Beaten to Death with Coupling-Pins. Baltimore, Oct. 17.— John Curran. John Burke, jr.,and James Kennedy were, this afternoon, engaged in a political discussion in a saloon, which ended in an invitation from Burke to Curran to fight. Curran threw away his pistol and followed Burke to the street, where he soon got the better of his antagonist, but Kennedy picked np a car-coupline and struck Curran on the head, knocking him senseless. Burke then got a coupling-pin and the two beat the insensible man to death. Both were arrested. Curran was at one time a member of tho State Legislature, and was quite a well-known politician. Vessel and Crew Lost. Erie, Pa.. Oct 17.—Reports were received here, yesterday afterneon, that a vessel had gone to pieces off Manchester, ten miles west of Erie. The life-saving crew, and the United States ship Michigan, and the revenue cutter Perry, went at once to the rescue, and, with other steam vessels, have searched in vain for the unlucky craft. Nothing has been found so far except a laree amount of wreckage. The farmers who reported the vessel say thty saw the crew aboard, and when they returned from giving the alarm both crew and vessel were missing. Ayer s Sarsaparilla is the quickest cure for all blood diseases. Its effects are felt immediately.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. Lawsuits Growing Out of Robeson’s Alleged Irregularities—Fatally Kicked by a Mule —Gleanings from State Exchanges. INDIANA. Lawsuits Growing Out of the Alleged Irregularities of Ed Robeson. Special to the Indiauacolis JournaL Lafayette, Oct. 17. —Iu the Superior Court, last evening, suit was brought by Langdon & Gaylord on behalf of John Robeson to set aside a judgment for $301.25, granted last week to Benj. F. Ray against John Robeson and his son, E. Robeson, on the ground that the proper summons was never given, and that he had a valid defense to the note sued on, which, it was claimed, was executed by himself and his son, Ed, in this: “That he did not sign or execute said note, nor did he authorize any one to in any way to execute said note for him, or to sign his name to the same.” Later in day three similar actions were commenced—two by Jos. S. Perry and one by Samuel Brand. These cases are an outgrowth of the rumors regarding the reported defalcations of Jno. Robeson, of Dayton,:last week, and will bring out the facts of the case. The case looks bad for Robeson, but he claims that his father is old and childish, and has forgotteD giving permission to use his signature. Fatally Kicked by a Mule. Bpec!al to the Indianaoolia Journal. New Castle, Oct. 17.—James Whittington, a laborer on the farm of Stephen Laboyteaux, wa3 kicked by a mule, at noon yesterday, and, it is thought, fatally injured. He had just put the team in the stable, and was probably passing behind the animal when struck, first in the stomach, and knocked down; he was then kicked on the head and the skull fractured. When found he was uuconscious, and stiil remains so. Minor Notes. The residence of Robert A. Critchlow, in. Boone townshin. Harrison county, was destroyed by fire on Friday. Loss, $400; no insurance. A barn belonging to Robert Glaze, eleven miles west of Fairmont, was burned on Friday morning, together with a quantity of nay and farming implements. Loss, $1,008; insurance, SBSO. L. H. Lyster, of Medora, caps the climax in animal eccentricity. He ha 6 a pie which has six feet and walks on all of them. The animal is stoneblind and deaf as a post. It is eight months old, and is healthy and thriving. It was raised by bottle. ILLINOIS. Movement to Place Petrified tinman Remains on Public Exhibition. Vandalta, Oct. 16.—Since the discovery of the petrified remains of Miss Jennie Fulton, near St. Elmo, in the eastern part of this county, some three months ago, the relatives have several times been prevailed upon to allow the body to be disinterred and exposed several days, in order that those who desire could have an opportunity of seeing the strange transformation. The friends disapproved of such action all along until just recently, when they finally consented to have the body taken up again on condition that a 6tone vault be provided for its reception. It is understood that there is a movement on foot to raise the necessary funds for this purpose. Should this project be carried out, there will be hundreds of people from the surrounding country to see the petrifaction. Brief Mention. Thirteen men and women are on trial at Monmouth for swimming together in a nude condition in Cedar creek, last August. The court will permit no young persoas to hear the testimony. William Clemons, an aged and well-known resident of Lane Station, fell dead on Saturday while crossing the railroad track near his home. It is presumed heart disease caused his death. He was eighty years of age. Theoublic schools at Homer have closed indefinitely on account of the prevalence of diphtheria. Twenty cases are so far reported, and a number of deaths have occurred. The schools of Hoopeston, Vermilion county, have also closed for the same reason. Upon his own request, S. H. Vandorn. a physician of Buckingham, was locked up on Friday night at Cincinnati. He said he had lost $40,000 in speculation in three months, and that he was strongly tempted to commit suicide, having been drinking heavily for six weeks. Charles Gerstkemper, sheriff of Washington county, died at his residence in Nashville on Saturday morning of jaundice, after an illness of onlv a few hours. By the death of Mr. Gerstkemper the coroner. Dr. E. B.erner, becomes sheriff, and that gentleman has been sworn in as snch officer. The Circuit Court and grand jury adjourned through respect for the deceased.

An Object Lesson in Faith. Boston Record. At an island on the coast of Maine, which is much resorted to, there is an esteemed local clergyman who is known to the summer residents, nearly all of whom are Bostonians, as the “hen minister.” This is by reason of his habit of telling, in season and out of season, a certain story which qneerly illustrator the idea of faith. “I preached a sermon one Sunday.” the good minister will say, “on the doctrine of faith, in which I taught my hearers the good Christian doctrine that all things may be brought about by faith, instructing them that faith is the evidence of things not seen, the substance of things hoped for. There was a farmer’s wife in the congregation who was greatly edified by the sermon, and came to me and told me that she now understood just what faith was. “Next Sunday morning I overtook her on the way to church. “ ‘See here, parson,’ says she, ‘I don't think much of your teachin’ about faith.’ “ ‘Why not?’ I asked. “ ‘Why,’ says she. ‘the other day I heard my speckled hen a cacklin’ like all to pay. “Now,” says I, “here is a chance to show what faith is. That speckled hen’s egg is tho evidence of things not seen; the substance of things hoped for. I navo faith that she's laid an egg. and I'm sure that when I’ll go out to the shed I’ll find it.” So I goes out and looks for ir. and there wasn’t any egg there, and that speckled hen hadn’t laid any. Now, what's your faith good for, I’d like to know?’ “And then." the minister will saw, “I told her what was the matter with her faith. ‘lt was meant for a rebuke to you that you didn’t find au egg there,’ said I. ‘You’d ought to have truoted in God, and notin the hen!’” Dr. L. W. Bacon on Prohibition. From Hartford o<mrnt’B Renort of a Talk to the Hartford Congregational ' lab. The Pharisaic pretensions of the Prohibitionists to a solo and exclusive morality fail on exposure. It will be a happy day for public morals when this Pharisee of the statute book has to step down and be judged like the rest of us by it? fruits. Only in Maine has it had a loug run. It has been rejected in all other States, notoriously because it was miserably ineffective—repealed in the interest of public morality. How does prohibition work? Generally, after opening successfully, it stops working. Nothing about the whole business is so certain as that a monstrous amount of lying has been done in the name of prohibition. An honr that be (Dr. Bacon) once spent in Portland convinced him that when the law does work the State becomes the purvevor to those who use liquor to excess. He stepped into the public place of sale and watched the customers. and be was sure some came not for me chanical. r medicinal, nor even sacramental uses. Ali -uee would have refused to sell to some of these; the city can’t refuse. The law is prohibitory in that it forbids refnsine to sell. Tho only applicant he saw refused was a grave, elderly old gentleman, evidently a member of the A. B. C. F. M., which was ia session there.

He was doubled up with the colic. He was furnished the dose he desired, but when he asked for a tumbler to take it in, as he needed it at once, he was told no, that it was against the law. It was a long time before a temporary lull in the traffic which was there being extirpated gave him a chance to talk with the man who was selling the liquor. When the chance came he asked how business was so brisk, when from eminent authority he heard that the traffic was suppressed. ‘'Oh, you mean Neal Dow,” was the reply, “we always make allowance for him.” The man went on to say that saloon dealers were let alone by the law so long as they stuck to ‘‘soft drinks.” The conversation was less important than the visible evidence that Portland itself was supplying the drinkers. Gen. Neal Dow is a stockholder in a large and successful liquor dealing concern, his interest measured by the amount of his tax list. The results of the law are that generally it doesn’t work; when it does the becomes the purveyor to the drinkers; fid there is crave evidence to show that when a prohibitory law is most effective the enforced effect upon the moials is worst. Governor Chamberlain, of Maine, said the result was less drinking and more drunkenness. Os course, said Mr. Bacon, this is a good result for those who think that drunkenness is bad, but that moderate drinking is worse. THK HOUSE OF LORDS. A Notable Speech by the Lord Chlef-Jastice of England. Albany Law Journal. In responding at the Cutler's Feast to a toast to the House of Lords, Lord Coleridge said, arnone other things: “I have not disguised—why should I disguise?—that I am of opinion, with thirteen years’ experience of its working, and of the renewed flow of things that goes on all around us, that it cannot be expected that the House of Lords, any more than any other institution in this country, should be saved forever from change and reconstruction. But I will be equally frank, and I would say that I do hope that it will be dealt • with in the way of change and reconstruction, and not by the way of abolition. In every free country, I believe—l am eure in most —it 13 found necessary, or it is believed to be necessary, to have a second chamber in the legislative machinery of the state, and I am certain that in the English House of Lords there is the most admirable material for the reconstruction of the chamber. The English House of Lords never did want, and it does not now want, grand, commanding ability. A debate in which —to go no further than four names —a debate in which the Duke of Argvll, Lord Salisbury and Lord Selbourne, and the Bishop of Peterborough mingled, is a thing, let me tell you, worth a man’s while to go many miles to listen to; and we find that still to great men of all sorts, to great contractors, to great brewers, to great bankers, to great men of commerce, to great soldiers and sailors, and. mav I say, excluding myself, great lawyers, not only to men who are remarkable for nothing but the number of acres and the quality of stock or consols they may own, the position of a seat in the House of Lords is still an object of ambition, and I would undertake to say, speaKing with all reverence in presence of some of the foremost men in the House of Commons, that a man might now take up fifty men out. of the House of Lords who, man for man, would be the equals in ability, with perhaps one enormous exception that will occur to every one, on whichever side of politics he may sit, absolute equals of any fifty men in the House of Commons. It is not in eloquence, it is not in learning and ability, it is not in Knowledge, it is not in high character and noble ambition, nay, it is not in a certain sense in currency with affairs that the House of Lords is deficient. The House of Lords has lost its weight in the country, if it has lost it, from other causes, because, unfortunately, a vast majority of the peers never come near the House of Lords at all, and never take any part in its business; because those who do take part come there because they choose to come, and are responsible to no one but themselves, and it is impossible, with all their ability, that they should not, to some extent, lose touch of the people, and get out of harmony with the times. But let this be altered. Let men sit iu the House of Lords because someone thinks them fit to sit there; let them be sent there by some system of choice, some mode of election—l do not sav necessarily directly from the people, but speaking roughly and offhand, and I pray you remember, after dinner, by some such svstem as is so successful in the American Senate, and I will venture to say that the English House of Lords would not be onlv the most ancient, the most venerable, the most illustrious body, but one of the most powerful and most popular legislative assemblies which the world has ever seen. But do abolish the House as a law court, in which regard it is of no credit to itself and no use to anybody else.

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