Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 68, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1885 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY SENTINEL MONDAY MORNING' MARCH 9 1835.

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We are prepared to famish onr friends of the State press in supplemental form a fall account of the Inaugural ceremonies, the inaugural address, the features of the occasion, with portraits and sketches of all the Cabinet c Ulcers. Pnce, 8" '.0 per 1,05. General Clack's appointment seems to tr've general satisfaction. A Washington dispatch says that young "Will English wants the London Consulship.. Danger signals are up for Republican officeholders over the Washington depart ment?. Emmet "Frit," was taken to a Pittsburg hcspital last Saturday, lie seems tohve te?n on a "high lonesome." Commissioner Clarke, who Is succeeded by General John C. Black, ot Illinois, has been m the Pension Office for ekhteen years. Miss Cir.YELAND held her first reception at the White House Saturday. There was a "crush," of coarse, as it was one of the eytnts of the Washington Eeason. The impression is civen out that Mr. Kiddlebsr--:cr was drunk when he objected to ths confirmation ol Mr. Bayard. Journal. Sho! You don't mean It. Why, Kiddleberger is a Republican. A Republican never gets drunk hardly ever. Governor Gbay determined last night to issue a proclamation (o day calling an extra fctsjion of the Legidature. He thicks tnat ten days or two weeks will b9 all the time needed to complete important measures now pending. JfDGE TiF.riE, tay3 our Washington correspondent, has been tendered the Commissionership of the General Land Ofiics. This is a first css selection. No department of the Government will be more creditably hat died than this office under the Judge. Ik the organs have confirmed the appointments of Mr. Treasurer Manning and Mr. Private Secretary Ea9t, we would like an explanation of the colo3sal steal ot 700,000 acres of Lousiana lands worth .,000,000, perpetrated by the Republican administration upon the last day of Its existence March 'i The Blaine Cabinet, thinks the New York World, would have been put up something like thia: State, William Walter Phelp?, of New Jersey; Treasury, Steye Elkin?, of New Mexico; War, Powell Clayton, of Arkansas; Nayy, John Roach, of Pennsylvania; Interior, Jay Gould, cf New York; Attorney General, B. F. Butler, of Massachusetts; Fcstmaster General, Thomas J. Brady, of Indiana. Thesa would doubtless have sustained that "brilliancy' which fs so eminently characteristic cf everyhing that Mr. Blaine handles. A Washington special says that Hon Jcseph E. McDonald will be tendered the Russian or German Mission. The dispatch concludes aa follows: come of the Indiana Democrats in Washington have laken it upon themselves to assert that Mr. McDonald will dec'ine any position tendered htm ty the 1'res'denL The ceatlemen, ol course, have i:o authority to make such s:ateuients. a :irtclas milieu, considered from a personal standpoint, i worth more than a Cabinet position and is one of t,rcat honor. Then it pays J17,t0C per annum. Governor McLane and ex-Seaator Pendletca are toa spoken of for the French Mission. The Indiana Democratic delezatiou held a meetir.s: iat night to talk over theorlices. The djlettrn cid not come to any agreement as to thfi men !or tne piaces expected to become vacant. Tarsias Paf.teipge, of Sagville, N. Y.t was shaved March G for the first. time In twentyfive years. Partridge bad never been known to vote against a candidate of his party. In iiG0, when Lincoln was elected, he made a vow never to allow a razor to touch his face until a Democratic President was inaugurated. He was ready to have a clean shave in 17G, when Tilden was counted out, bat as Tilden did not take his seat he resolved to wait until a Democrat was installed. Last week his beard reached below his waist and was gray and scraggy. He went to Washington, shook hands with Cleveland, returned home and had the h&ir taken from his face last Friday. Wir.tiiNs predicts another great storm. It is due on the ISth of the present month. He states that it will be mainly an Atlantic atorm, but will be as heavy In the North as in the South Atlantic Its main force will le on the meridian of London, but it will be there thirty six hours before it will reach -America. He hopes no vessels bearing troops to the Soudan will be out In it, especially in the Bay of Biscay. He says that when the storm strikes this continent it ?ill rise and not be felt very heavily. The

derm, will be accompanied by earthquakes, which, however, will only be slightly felt on this side of the Atlastic.: They will appear much stronger ia Western Europe. The earth, he eaj?, had been passing through a serious crisis the last three years, on account of two of the greatest planets in the solar system moving so near tf the sun. He claims to have predicted all the heaviejt earthquakes that have occurred since li2.

AN EXTRA SESSION. There is no long any question that ths Governor will convene the Legislature i extra session. The situation considered, this action of the Executive Is unavoidable. It would le unjust to the. State to psrmit im pcrtant measures before the General Assembly to be left short of conclusive consideration. The machinery o State government must not be stepped or retarded by failure of needful appropriations. The Knlghtstown Home affair should be determined. There has been an attempt on the part of tbe Republican papers ti fix upon the Democratic majority the responsibility of the extra session. The cti.rge will not, however, hold water. Certain it is that in the lest week the Republicans of the House have voted 60lidly against the taking upot the Appropriation bill. Th'y, more than the Demtcrats, have trammeled whatever action might have avoMed a reconvening cf the Legislature. The eventuations of this session have caused serious discussion of the question whether legal provision should not be made fcr looser legislative sessions. It is argued that the present period ws fixed more than thirty years ajo when tee volume cf business before th? Assembly, of geneial public character .was much less than now, when population aad wealth are so much increased and the Stale's institutions so fcieatly amplified. Bat even with lengthened sessions there is pith in the suggestions r.lready made by the Sentinel that the work cl committees upon the various State -charities and properties should be consummated in the early dayä of assembling chat the Appropriation bills be not remitted to the heel of the sessions for censideraticn. If tie more important affairs bd first considerel and local bills and trivial measures be relegated to the clo3in? tffys there will be less' probability of need for extra sessions. A SOLDIERS' MONUMENT. The fittest suggestion 3 et mads as to tbe ruannsr cf collecting a Ind out ot which to build a monument to the memory of the rart enacted by the Indiana soldiery is by Hon. L. M. Campbell, now in the State Senate from Hendricks. ' Mr. Campbell presented himself as one cf fifty citizens of the State, who did not participate directly in the Rebellion, anxious to contribute the sum of $ö0O forthat purpeso. A monument commemorative of Indiana's action in the war would be highly gratifying to every citizen of the State, and built out of a fund collected on Mr. Conipbell's plan, the only possible objection certainly would be eliminated. To a legislative appiopriation there is a reasonable opposition, in that many who did tbe fighting would have to do tbe paying. Mr. Campbell no doubt recognizsd this, and his proposition would relieve the country tf the embarrassment, impesed by taxat on. The same was evidently foreseen by Senator Harrison, who suggested a small individual contribution, but the history of the Morton monument, while perLaps not demonstrating the absolute impracticability of such a method, tells of vexatious delay and an expense in the wt'y of time and treasure, to which the capital actually invested in masonry would be tbq mearest circum-stance-the smallest fraction. Yet haste in the matter is certainly a definable consideration, 'he chapter of oar history when every home in the State was sacrificirg a loved one, nearly every hearthstone bedewed with tears and blood, should be marked. Yet if this must be done at the public exrense, another generation ought to contribute. This durable remembrance of the most glorious epoch in tha history of the commonwealth ought to tower in Military Park while it may bs beheld by thoie who were actors in the drama. The present is an opulent as well ss fast age, and Mr. Campbell's proposition makes the way clear to the peiformance of a greiU duty. THE CROWNING INFAMY OF REPUBLICANISM. We aie gradually getting more light on the last act of infamy of the Republican party, perpetrated as it wa3 stepp'ng down and cut of tower. "The rulicg passion strong in death" ha had one more dazzling and brilliant illustration. We refer to the last land steal of 700.0C0 acres of Government land. The Washington carrespondents are gradually getting at the true inwardnets 0! this big $".,000,000 swindle. We published a dispatch laat Saturday from the Chicago Tribune, which pave out the impression that the matter was all right; quite innocent, in fact; the usual thing expected cf conn e, from a party that had piled up monuments of big and infamous swindles. The New York World's correspondent has been looking the aCair np, and he uncovers some very Intcicitirg details) According to this account, it seems that several weeks ago a large additional force of clerks was put on for the purpose of making cut tbes? patents, so that they could all be signed and issued before the change of the administration. These patents ere ail signed. There never has been, in the history of the Department, any patents issued for laDds where Congress had assumed jurisdiction to raise the question of the propriety cf the title. This backbone grant has been one of the most notorious of all the isolated grants. It was passed by Congress in 171, and was originally made to the New Orleans, Mcksburg and Baton Rouge Railroad. The condition was that this load should be completed within five

years. This company never turned over a spoonful of dirt, and never did anything be3 ond the inning of some bonds, which wee palmed off on a confiding republic. This railroad on paper transferred the grant to the New Orleans and Pacific Road, and here now is where Jay Gould comes in, as we suspected and charged in Friday and Saturday's Sentinel. This road then sold its charter rights to the Texaj Pacific, but reserved the assigned grant and tracsferred it to uthe American Improvement Company." Gould and others owned nearly all this stock, which was a sort of a Credit Mobilier affair. The World's correspondent concludes his investigation as follows: The Backbone Kraut is upon exactly the same footing as tne Txas Faciflc, which was forfeitei by the Senate the other day. l or a number of years the people who held this Dacsbouo grant have triea to get Congress to con2rm it. The Riant has been rejected a number of times, and no tecretary of the Interior before Teller would ever consider what was particularly a proposition to helD steal these lands for the benefit of the railroad lobby. W hetner there Is an iuvetiRaUon of this or not, Mr. Teller will be called upon to explain on the lloor of thf Senate his extraordinary course In this matter. There Is not much doubt that thi Gould and Huntington conspiracy also contemplated the thert of the Texas Paelfic lands, if it had not been for tue benate aciioi the other day in forfeiting hi3 unearned graut there is reason to 6upf cse that the Interior Department would have issued piteuts for the fifteen midtoas of acies of these land;. ibis outrage was perpetrated by the la3t Republican administration the day bsfore Cleveland's ira jguration. It was the culmination of a giant conspiracy and a coloseal swindle all a eng the line. What an ap jrcpriate cap Eton t) the monumental h.famiesof the Repiblican party! And thty hope to cet back into powpr at the end of four years. Not if tha American people are a ate.

THE P2TKOLEUM AGE. In reading of the recent "natural gas1' oxplosions in Pittsburg, ths question "What is natural gas?' " is asked by many. It Is not at all remaikable tfcat the public at large ehould be more or less ignorant of the nature of "natural gas," and even of its uses, for it Is within only the past twelve months that it Las been turned to commercial account in any large way. It is noteworthv that it ' is the last of that natural force which man has undertaken to utilize for his own benefit. Nevertheless it would be ea3y enough to show that natural ga3 is no Eew thing. Indeed it is as old as petroleum, and petroleum is as old as tbe bricks of Babylon. The ancient Greeks used petroleum; Tliny speaks of the Egyptian oil wells, and the thought suggests itself, may not the prophetic fumes ot the Delphian oracle have been natural gas? Here ia a question for the spectacled arcbiologists and the whole trib3 of Dryasdusts. What a discovsry were it made that the Pittsburgers now smelt their "pi.-j" wiih what once inspired the utterances of the Apollian priestesses in the Sanctuary of Parnassus. Natural gas is virtually pstroleuru, or rather petroleum oil in a gaseous state. It ia found as oil is, in soft, porous sand rocks, at various depths below the surface l,C0o 'o 1 ÖCO feet may be taken as the average depth. Wherever cil is lound a certain amount of gas :s obtained-ia fact it is this gas which causes the oil wells to fiow spontaneously. What is known as a "passer" In the oil trade vernacular, is a well which drilled for oil yields nothing but gas. From the very first, of course, these 4 gassers'' have been common in that strange and interesting district known as the Oil Region a district extending in a southwesterly direction from across the New York State line, through Pennsylvania 83 far south as Pittsburg. Thousands of gas wells dot this territory, and until recently have been considered as of little value. It is true, whenever it was possible, the producer, who found himself with a gas well instead of an oil well, as the result of his 1,500 feet of drilling, would endeavor to utilize his loss as far as possible by piping the gas to the boilers of whatever wells he might be drilling in the neighborhood. This saved him the cost of coal or wood. Big "gassers" struck near towns or villages were used far heating and illuminating purposs, and in Titusville, Bradford, Warren, Oil City, Sheliield, and Clarendon, natural gas has long been extensively used. However it was not until gas was struck, a year ago, almost within the walls of smoky Pittsburg that it became of the great commercial value that it i3 now. Natural gas has a great futue before it. Very few people have any idea cf the gigantic industry which has b?en born, or any notion of the imnieme force that man has jrst seized hold cf. We will venture t) ixake a prophesy on this mattpr; that the production of natural gas will b9 as great an industry in three years from to-day as the production of petroleum is at präsent. And moreover it will b9 carried on in very much the same manner. In tbe oil recion to day there about -'3,000 rroducing wells yielding daily about fiQ.000 barrels of oil. This vast quantity of oil is carried from the wells through pipes to buge cylinder-like tanks, where it is stored, ard from whence it is shipped also through pipes to the refineries or to the seaboard for export. Whenever or wherever an oil well is struck, the pipe lines immediately connect it with their main pystsm and issue to the owner negotiable certificates for every 1.000 barrels. Now much the same thing will be done with ga3. From one end cf the Allegheny Mountains to the other, from New York down into Ohio and Virginia, are a number of known undeveloped gas fields. Men have drilled for .oil there and have found nothing but gas, and abandoned the district as worthless. This gas now has a commercial value which it had not years ago. In the future it will be i drilled for, as oil is drilled for to-day. I Where a well is opened It will be connected to huge reservoirs by means of pipe lines, just as is done with oil, and carried wherever it is wanted to Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Cleveland, Chicago. Gas fields, miles apart, will stud the oil regions, all

connected bv pipe lines; for what can be done with oil can be done with gas. Ihe uses of natural gas are manifold and apraient. Its advantages are great. First of all there is its cleanliness and the esss with which it is handled and regulated. At the large manufacturing establishments In Pittsburg, where natural cas is used, one man can do the work of ten. No stokers are required; fires are started instantaneously, extinguished instantaneously, regulated to any temperature by a turn of tbe finger end thumb. There i3 no smoke, no ashes. It is a great boon in private houses, atd where used with asbestos los is alrncst as cheerful as an open grat9 coal fire. In and around Pittsnurg, say within a radius of twenty miles, there are now fully one hundred gas wells, gushing forth hundred? of thousands of cubic feet daily. Perhaps ), 000,00 has been invested in ga3 lands, and scores of wells are drilling. Pittsburg may be said to be built on an immense "ra'ural gasometer." At first the fas wells in and around Pittsburg were owned by a number ot individuals, ar:d the fierce competition which ensued ended in a consolidation of the various conflicting interests into a few strong companies with large capital. A plan to combine these consolidated companies into one large association 13 now on foot It has secured, it is sa d, 500 (KX ecresof gas lands and intends piping s wherever it is demanded. This cas .;3 cue fora cf petroleum, and let ns add enly one. W? Lave oil itself in a rented ttate which is second only to tue sun in Pghtirg darkness of tbe four divisons of th3 world. Tbe residum cf tbe oil (remaining after the refining process), is usd literacy for a thousand purposes. Articles apparently so damaged in nature as chewinggum, candies, butter, hair pomade, lip salve and dye.and really (in some instances) merely different form of petroleum. The heavy cil (oil of low gravity ), found in Franklin, near Titusville, Pa , and elsewhere, lubricates, perhaps, one-half the ica:hinery of tha United State. The oil found in Baku, on tbe Caspian Sea, yields a large amount of (crry matter, which is just bfginning to ba used on steamers and locomotives as fuel. Petroleum is known to exist in a score of 1 laces on tbe world's suiface. Djes it not seem that the "ane of petroleum" 13 commencing But this art: !e is drawing out, aid we have on or two more facts to give about the natural ga3 well. It is said that they :'.re very losg lived. The pas32nger on the railroad in passing Ludlow, in I'ennsylvani a. hears the roar c! the largest ga3 well in tbe world. It was struck in July, ISO. and hss been gsssing with undiminished vigor ever sine?. The daily output of this well has been calculated exac tly and found to be equivalent to l.sOO tons of the best Pittsburn bituminous coal.

In speaking of the inaugural the New Yoik Tiibune thns 1 ids itself of some pent-up venom the Now York Herald dubbs it "Iilaine venom ." Above all the very hoaora'ola declarations of the inaugural in recant to tue protection of the frccdmen ia their rights, if carried Into practical efi'ett by the President in the enforcement of United Hates laws, will put aa end to the great conspiracy sirin;t free government by which two members of his probable Cabinet, Mr, Lamar and Mr. Garland, were lifted to the Senate, and by which Mr. Cleveland himself was made President. It is a bit intricate and may need reading over twice to properly appreciate the mixture of swash and venom contained in it. Tbe Herald, alluded to in the foregoing, copies this same extract, act! proceeds to polish it cfi in the following truthful and vigorous larguaje: As to conspiracies by which President? are made, we have heard of one au'l only one in this cenntry, of which Mr. K. 15. Hayes was the beneficiary. It was a Kc-publican conspiracy, orisicatcd, cotducted and completed by men whose regard for "free government" was such that they intended to hold the Presidential oflice permanently, and would have repeated the Hayes conspiracy lu favorf liiaine if a cowardly spirit ol chicaucry bad beeu asullicieut equipmcut for the occasion, it is an evidence of the demoralization that Republican supremacy has produced that a Republican politician of the Biaine feChool, or an organ ol that school, is alwa' s equal to two criüies agaitiBt free government. One is that it will seat a Ufi:rpT if fraud can do it. Another is that It will thameksftTy declare an election by the people to be the consummation of a "conspiracy." Tun a lady to day, who is an Intimate friend and admirer of the old liomaa: "Irue. he has read J-rencn, and speaks it in a ponderous Oh'o way, but he would be very ill at ease so far as the f-ocial obligations of Paris are coaccned. They are not to his tsste." The above we find in a special from Washircton to the Commercial Gazstte. Tne. "old Roman" refers to Mr. Thurman. The lady possibly dees not remember General Noyes, who represented the Hayes administration at the French Court. If he umierstocd Trench "in a ponderous Ohio" or any other "way," he has been greatly underrated. And so far a3 "the social obligations cf Pans are concerned," we have an idea that ex-Senator Thurman would meet them quite es creditably and much more intelligently than ex-Minister Noyes ever did. The glare and 'fiummery of the court of the last Napoleon disappeared with the new regime. Any well-bred, well educated American of talent and ability can meet all the requirements of any court of Europe, social or otherwise. Rather a queer coincidence occurred, a day or two ago, on one of the trains out of Washington. In one of the car seats next the window sat a tall, thin man, who handed the conductor a pass as he came through for the tickets. Tbe latter read the name on the pass, glanced at tbe p&enger and then said quietly and without changing a muscle of bis countenance : ' Sorry you didn't put rre in your Cabinet, Mr. Cleveland," and passed on. Callinc: a brakeman the passenger asked: "What is that conductor's name?' "Thurman," said the brakeman, surprised at tbe question, and more so at the largbter of the other passengers. Mr. Cleveland, tb hoMerof tte pass, proved to be a Ctntral New York merchant. The New York Herald's London cable of Saturday says that this week's Punch has the best cartoon for years. It represents the Prince of Wale in the dress of the old stage "Irishman" of Barney Williams' time danc

irg with a ahillelaeh raied, while the Princess is in the dress of a Hibernian peasant, wearing a clcak and with an Irish crown on her head. She sits playing the haro 01 Erin, while an English pug and an Irish wolf dog sit on a pile of Iugg:ige. The Prince tays: "It is never to late to learn, mavourneen, though 'tis not so much the dance tbat bothers my feet as the brogue that bothers my tongue." The Trincess answers: "Put your heart in it. acushla. Shure you've pot a month to work at 'era before

; ye start." The Prince is represented as sing. Cruel cowards who blisht Erin's fame are not rUht When thy paint her aolaze. For the l-atüa arrays. Tbe inland of green In .priuz's suu f-hall ba soeu An Arcaiia of peace When our Princess steps in. The Prince is preparing for his Irish, tour. The first morning after Mr. Cleveland entered tbe White House, he had everybody out of bed early. The Washington Critic1 says: President Cleveland introduced pome inr.ovatlonst the White llotiFC yttderday. Tne Executive Mansion bad scarcely ever witues-ed so early a breakfast, and the library, usually controlled until no"U by the sweepers and house cleaners, wis the fcene of aa industrious gatherinff, composed of the President, his Private Secretary and 6tenoerapher, at an iinprecedeutedJy early hour. In addition to this, Mr. Cleveland found time to receive everybody that wanted to see him, and to snow the puMic that their wishes were as importautas his convenience As if this were not enough for cue day, Mr. Cleveland taught the dicuihed Maissal that introductions at a public levee are a rritau'ns'es and 6tnseless formality, and that he would receive tho thousands of Cdllen without prcentAtion. a President who is an early nser and a hard worker, and who reeards c onvenience and common sense as better guides than time-hou-or d ciisiom, etiquette and prtcedent, is indeed a jurrrise. Ihe first day : the new administration wiisonp of surprise at the White House, but one that tnvts the utnjo5t satisfaction to all concerned. cllauaYces. Th Stat of Trade for the l:t-t Week, with the Perneiitacfs of Increase and Decrease. Boston, March S. The following table, compiled from special dispatches to the Post, from the managers of the leading Clearinghouses of the United States, gives the clearances for the week endinz March 7, SÖ. with the percentage c: increase or decrease in comparison with the corresponding week last year: Kcw York Boston Philadelphia., Caicio St. Iov.is Baltimore Sn Francisco Cr.iciunat; Pittsbnrs Louisville Milwaukee .... Kansas City... Providence .... Detroit Indianapolis.. Hartford.... ü in. a CS.9.J,i01 4:2,161,0 J') lV4'13,3?r ii."jii,iy.j 1 1. V!S-, i: .t. 100,000 T.iOO.U'JO 4,776, ;;.40j.ocü u f.v,15. 3,5-1, 500l,rb0.7;;o 1.5:5, 151 2,lt4.S72 1.S77.S11; j.021.c:;7 1 ,122.20:;. 1,35'J.tOl! 7:57,301 002,17$ ;v)7,,.,21 4TG,Sld Cleveland Memphis New HavenColumbus Portland Peoria UpringSeld LowellSyracuse Total ' Outside New York. J 751.'J3l,010 Dec 32.7 22S.91i.010 -c 6.3 Omaha not included in totals. JIISHAPS DY KAIL. Three Urakeineu Thrown From n Train. One Killed, due fatally Hurt anl the Other Bruised. Cincinnati, March S. At - o'clock this morning, a3 a freight train was passing under the Newport bridge on Front street on the connection tiack, a dismantled locomotive, v,hich was on a rlat car, struck the bridge and was thrown from the car to the street. Three brakemen were carried with the Wieck, aud James Hanlon was instantly killed. Michael No'an was fatally injured, while Herbert Cruthers escaped with bruises. Collision of Freight. Lawrence, Kas., March b. Two through freight trains cn the Atchiou, Topeka and Santa Fe Head collid id near this city this morning. No one was fatally hurt. Toe damage to property is estimated at $73,000. Sscjiuoui's Budget of ev, Special to the Sentinel. ülymouk. Ind., March s Mr. Joel H. Matlcck, Secretary cf the Jackson County Agricultural Society, has just attended a meeting of the cflicers of the Southern Ind:ara Fair Association at Greensburg, and through his instrumentality eecured the admission of the Society represented by him as a part and paftel of the circuit, possessing the same rights and privilege as any of the other counties. As new constitntei the fair circuit embraces Jennings, Itipley, Dearborn, Decatur, Kueh, Snelby, Bartholomew and Jackson Counties. The new consolidation is a good one, and our Fair Association will raap rxany advantages and benefits. Mr. Matlock! as been a vigilant and industrious worker in our fairs since their organization, and has done much to make them wnat they are. The Hotel Jonas, under the successful mcnapement of W. C. Heaton, proprietor, has proved to be inadequate to the demands, and Mr. John Jonas has concluded to make a large addition to the building this season. The structure is three stories high, and the additions, when completed, will give the hotel a frontage cf eighty-five fest on the nort and eighty eight feet on the east, and will contain some fifty odd large ud wellventilated rcoms. The work wiP. be commenced as Eoon as practicable. The Jackson County Medical Socie ty met in regular ecssion at Brownstown cn Thursday afternoon, and after transacting some important business, elected officers for the ensuing jear. President, Dr. N; N. Shipman, of Seymour; Vice President, r. W. M. Redman, of Brownstown: Secretary and Treasurer. Dr. II. H. Wocds. Seymour. The eoc'ety beic entitled to five delegates to tbe State Medical Society, which meets in Indianapo:i3 in May next, elected Dis. J. A. Stilwell, T. S. Galbreith. II. H. Woods, V. N. Shiomsn and J. It. Anthony: alternates, D;s. i Hodman, WhitehcaJ, Tirch. Barnes and Charlton. Djs. Charlton, Shipman and Woods were appointed delfgates to the National Med.cal Scciety at New Orleans on Tuesday, April 2, 1n:. with Drs. Galbraith, Whitehead and M. F. Gerrish es alternates. The World If xpoiMtlon.. New Oklean, March The attendance at the World's Exposition to day wa3 larg?. The concert at Music Hall was a brilliant affair. Tbe presentation of a handsome silver cup was made to Signor Incarnacio Payer, the leader of the band. An excursion of Knights of Honor arrived this evening from Memphis. There I were about GOO ia the party. Tne train

conf isted of twelve cars, including sir railman sleppers and buffet cars. The gate receipts at the exposition yesterday we.-a 5,7e3. A monster balloon will soon mak lrequent ascensions. A programme is arranged for "oerman ' day, Sunday next. Arrest for Load Praying. Heading, March . Quiteja stir has been created m religious circles in the quiet township of Warwick, Chester County, by the arrest of Misses Maria Manger and Harriet Dunlap, David Hichards, Wesley Pilchards and others on the charge of misconduct in the Kbenerer Methodist Church, Deacon Lloyd preferring tho charges. He alleges that the young people did their courting while the eervices were in progress; tht they sang and prayed too loud f jr the purpese of ridicule and not with the serious and well-mtaning worship of God. and that thy maliciously disturbed the congregation at various times. On account of the standing of the parties, who belong to the best families in the county, the cace is attracting considerable attention. They claim that th spirit moved them to become so lout in prayer and praise.

Tfce hootlrg ot a hooter." Pitts i;u kg, March S.News reached here to-night of the killing of William Peyton, alias Dick Besckley, the shooter, at Sheridan, Wy. T. Teyton was raised in Allegheny, and went West, where he organized a gang and terrorized Wyoming, Montana and other Western Territories. Last Saturday he rede into Sherfdsn and entered a talcon, wheic he threatened to shoot everybody who refused his invitation to drink. He quarreled with one of the men in tbe saloon, who picked up a Bbo'gnn and fired, killing Peyton almost instantly. He was desperate to tbe last, and aimed a pis'.ol at the man who shot him when falliuir, but was tco weak to pull th trieger. IVytoa had been ordered by the Yigilanca Committee to leave town, but refused. The German Tragedian. lteception. Nr.w Yor.K, March S. At the reception given to the actor Sonnenthal, at the Thalia Theater, "Welcome Sonnenthal" in gas jets lit up the front of the building. Within addresses were made by Manager Amfcery and Julius Ambery, and Max Lube, of the company. Sonnenthal responded with emotion. The tragedian was this afternoon driven to the Leiderkranz Hall. Here a thousand person? atfested the welcome to the visitor. President Julius Hoffman, of the eociety: Oswald Ottendorfer, William St -in way, W. J. Florence. John Drew, Theodore Thomas. Henry E. Dtxer, E. It. Bic?, Osmrin Tearle, and J H. Birnes were eroor.g these present. Messrs. Booth. Barrett, Wallack and Irvine sent letters of rsvitt. Solvation Army Service Interrupted, Chicago, March The sendees of tha Salvation Army were interrupted this afterncon. First ?ome one from the ontJ:de threw a stone through one cf the windows, then a number of roujh characters in tbe re8r of the hall drowned the hymns with ribald Bongs, and finally a hand to hand conflict between them and the oüicers cf the Army tont place, in which the lat'.er cot much the wcr?t of it. bein? borne down by superior numbers. No eerious wounds were inflicted, but th9 eervicss were broken up. One man was arrested. A Church Damaged by Tire. Special to the Sentinel. Yince.nne?, Ind., March bAt 1:30 this afternoon smoke wa3 seen rushing through the roof of the Episcoral Church. An alarm was turned in. and by the prompt action of the department the baibling was saved. Thes'eepers were burned out, the eenctnnry mined, and the total loss will b about cCGO. A defective furnace was evidently the cause. Much damage was don3 by water. After WaitiDC Forty-Elht Year. Tt p.NF.p.'s Station, N. Y., March S. One of the extraordina-y results ci the recent town meetings in Orange County Is the election for the first tima in forty-eight year! of a Democratic Supervisor in the town of Monroe. Since lso three men have represented tbe town the late Hudson McFarland. twelve years; the late Morgan Shuitt, thirtythree years, and Supervisor Seaman, three yetiTH. The Democrat elected on Tuesday is John G. Earl, who had a majority o! 3. St. L.onl.4 Fair Association. St. Lot is, March S The Fair Asiociation has contracted for the construction, in connection with their new race track, a series of ten 6tablesj, which will accommodate 'f0 horees, ard which will be the finest of their kind in the country. They will be finished by May 15, in good time for the June meeting, and will cost K0,000. English and American Vessels Searched. Shanghai, March J There is great excitement here owing to the new3 of the overhauling and searching of several English and American steamers, en route toTonquin, by French rasn-ol-war. Serious losses were canted the owners by the detention of the vessels. Charter Oak Driving Association HAF.TFor.n, Conn., May s. The Charter Oak Park Driving Association give a special puree of $10,C00 for the 2:.';Q class at the current meeting in tbe fall. The association gives a spring meeting on the '..h to the 12ih of June. Lamar's jjncceMor. Neu Oklf.ans, March 3 A dispatch from Yicisburg to the Times-Democrat says news has reached here that Governor Lowry has appointed General E. C. Walthall to succeed Secretary Lamar as United States Senator. COXDEXBED TELEl'KiHS. At Providence, R. I., thirty horses were burned in the fire in the 0:eau Hotel stables. The coal miners of Staunton, 111., to the number of 300 or 400, are on a etrike a?ainit a reduction of wages. The East Montgomery Avenü Mothoiist Episcopal Church, at Philadelphia. Fa., was damaged b? fire this morning to th? extent of S15.0CG." A party of New York State journalists started this afternoon for the New Orleans Exposition. They will slop at points oi interest cn the way. The roisoning cf the Hall family, near Lamoire, Dak., has been ascertained to ba 1 cae of asphyxiation from coal gas. Tos children may recoyer. v John W. Mackay and Herr Sonenthal, 4; the German tragedian, were among tha Pakensers of the European steamers thai -arrived at New York yesttrdiy. i

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