Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 9, Number 1, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 31 March 1887 — Page 1

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Mark Twain talks of endowing a home for pnmped-out humorists. Brooklyn will raise r monument to Henry W ard Beecher’s memory by popular subscription. Florida fru* men say that the Btrawberry crop this year will nearly double mat of last year. The Czar of Russia receives the largest salary paid any ruler on the face of the earth, and still he is not happy. In China old women instead of the young are the belles of society. The mania for old China seems not to be confined to America. Zenas M. Crane, of Dalton, Mass., who died recently, was the maker of all the paper used by the Government for greenbacks, National bank notes and bonds. >. Coal oil, used as a quiekener in fire lighting, has severely injured nine persons in Norfolk, Ya., within a month past, and a tenth was burned to death there the other day by the same process. —————— ft . < Ferdinand Ward runs a little steam printiDg-press in Sing Sing that prints cigar and tobacco labels. He has a perpetual sneer on his face, and is regarded as a surly, disagreeable ■fellow. James H. Mark, eighty-one years Did, and Judge Lawrenson, aged eightyfour years, are the patriarchs of the Postal Department at Washington. They were both appointed in 1831 by president Andrew Jackson. The woman in Rochester, N. Y., Who recently put strychnine into her husband’s pie explained that she had ■run out of baking-powder. The unfortunate man is considering whether to accept the apology or not. The Chinese Minister at Washington, one of the richest men of his race, took with him to a photographer recently, jewels worth $1,000,000, and a dozen different changes of costume, and had himself taken in different costumes. A bureau of mending has been started in New York, and bachelors ■need no longer sew on buttons with thread of the wrong color and throw away stockings after a single wearing. Mothers, sisters or wives may also find relief there. Major Burke, a New Orleans editor, is said to have an. estate in Honduras containing eighteen thousand square miles, including a big gold district. Major Burke must have a delightful sense of indifference to tho opinions of his subscribers. As A resuit of, the recent decision in Washington Territory, denying the right of women to vote, Judge Hoyt, at Tacoma, set aside all the Chinese conspiracy cases, and all the indictments in that court which were found by a grand jury partly composed of women.

Postmaster Davis, of the town of Solar, Jackson County, 111., receives the very moderate salary of ten'cents a year. The postmaster of Peck, 111., got thirty cents last year, while the postmaster of Lear, Ark., got thirtyone cents. It is said that there are over sixteen thousand postmasters who receive no more than forty dollars a year, and ten thousand who receive about eight dollars a year. The United States Treasury Depart- * ment decides that in all cases where societies and lodges hold United States bonds in the name of trustees, the same must be tiled in the office of the First Auditor of the treasury in the form of certified copies of the resolution of same, giving name and date of election of such trustees, with the certificate of authority for the collection pf the interest on said bonds. There is one feature of the new In-ter-State *Commerce law which Bill Nye greatly deplores, and he indicates what it is as follows: “I had been uniformly courteous to the railroads, in return for which the railroads had been very courteous to me. The pass provision of the Inter-State Commerce bill looks to me like a blow at courted. Can we as Americans afford to sacrifice courtesy when we only have barely enough to squeeze along with? I think no'.” One of the singular objects to whicli the Forty-ninth Congress turned a deaf ear was that to appropriate a sum of ‘money for digging a hole 3,000 feet weep, or as much more or less as the funds might warrant,in each State and Territory. The memorial of the author of this happy thought promised a general revival of industry as one of its results, and only asked for $4,600,000, being SIOO,OOO for each State and Teritory, to carrry it out. Its immediate object was “getting useful knowledge or, discovering valuable minerals.” A well-known expert on heating is of the opinion that the present agitation of the various methods for warming cars will lead to both heating and lighting individual cars by gas on the storage plan, by which some cars are lighted now, the gas flame operating upon the water boiler as a furnace fire does on the plan at present in general use. A suddep disconnection would cause an instant and innocuous escape of gas into the open air. The only objections to the plan are those incidental to the danger of possible explosions. In the “general list of Italian earthquakes ’ 280 serious earthquakes are noted which have befallen the Italian peninsula sineobhe year 1400. The most disastrous ones on record ofeurred in the years 1169 at the foot of Mount Etna, with 15,000 victims; 1456 in the Neapolitan provinces, 30,000 victims; 1627 in the province of Puglia, 4,000 y jeti:ns; 1638 in Calabria, 9,600 victims; 1693 in Sicily, 93,000 victims; 1703 in central Italy, 15,000 victims; 1788 in Calabria, 60,000 victims; 1805 in Terra di Lavora, 6,000 victims; 1867 in Basilicata, 12,300 victims; 1885 in Ischia, 2,515. 5951

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THE NEWS. Compiled from Late Dispatches. FROM WASHINGTON. TnE collect ions of intirnal revenue for the first eight months of the present fiscal year were $74,245,568, being f917,0J7 less than the collections for the same period last year. Tub following Inter-State Commissioners have been appointed: Thomas M. Cooley, of Michigan,*for the term of six years: William R. Morrison, of Illinois, for the term of five years; Augustus Sehoonmaker, of New York, for the term of four years; Aldace P. Walker, of Vermont, for the term of three years; Walter L. Bragg, of Alabama, for the term of two years. Cooley and Walker are Republicans, the others are Democrats. Colonel Lamont on the 22d declared the fears of Dr. Sowers concerning the health of President Cleveland to bo groundless. Ox the 23d the acting Secretary of the Treasury issued the 143 th call for the redemption of bonds. The call is for $10,009,000 of the three per cent, loan of 1882, to mature May 1, The number of distilleries in operation throughout the country was reported on the 24th by the Treasury Department to be 634, Kentucky leading with 15b. the East. James and John Hunter, proprietors of three large print-works at Philadelphia failed on the 231. Ix Connecticut a snow-fall, sixteen inches to two feet in depth, occurred on tho 23d. At Gloversville, N. Y., tho snow in tho streets was on th,e-23d piled as high as the store fronts, and a snow tunnel was used to enter one hotel. In Hamilton County there was ten feet on the ground on the level. The Italian bark Lusiano Serra, en route from Cardenas to Philadelphia, was reported lost on the 23i with her crew of thirteen men. Johx Knepper, a native of Austria, living at Ransom, Pa., died on the 23d aged 103 years, I month and 17 days. At Easton Pa., and vicinity, the worst snow-storm of the season prevailed on the 23d. All trains were snow-bound. The death of Mary Nolan, the twelfth victim of the recent Richmond Hotel lire at Buffalo, N. Y., occurred ou the 23d. A rehearing in the case of Milton Weston, a Chicago capitalist, serving a five years’ sentence for complicity in mining riots, was refused by the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons on the 23d. Mrs. Johx Farxham, who died on the 24th at Utica, N. Y., attained the remarkable age of 10S years. A xixeteex-tear-old boy named John Alexander, of Pulaski, Pa., recovered a verdict on the 24th for 820,299 against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for the loss of a leg. At Hittville, N. Y., the floor of a schoolhouse in which a donation party was being held on the 24th gaveway under the weight, of the people assembled and fifteen persons were severely injured. President Cleveland has appointed Oscar S. Straus, of New York, Minister to Turkey. The death of Eliza Weathersby, the well-known actress, wife of Nat Goodwin, the comedian, occurred at New York on the 24th from the effects of a surgical ojieration for the removal of a tumor. A-. Jtsm Ymu: tnaaM -1 Petersen was fined 8100 on the S4th for selling oleomargarine unlawfully. A report was presented to Uu Legislature of New York on the 24th by the railroad commissioners against the heating of cars by stoves. The death of General Elihu Geer, for thirty-seven years publisher of tho Connecticut Hank Xote List, which was the forerunner of all the modern bank note reporters and other publications, occurred at Hartford, Conn., on the 27th, at the age of seventy years. The Sanderson steel-works at Syracuse, N. Y., were burned on the 27th, causing a loss of £229,030. TnE pork paekery of John Taylor & 1 Cos. at Trenton, N. J., was destroyed by fire on the 26th. Loss, $390,090. James Kearney, an attorney of New York, absconded oil the 26th with from 839,009 to £100,009 in cash belonging to the firm with which he was connectel. The fifteenth death from the recent hotel fire at Buffalo, N. Y., occurred on the 20tb. . , . Ax incendiary fire on the 27th destroyed the business portion of Avoca, N. Y. A farmer named Elisha Snow, agel six-ty-five years, killed his wife with an axe and then committed suicide by hanging at Tolland, Conn., on the 27th. About $110,030 damage was done by afire in W. S. Wood & Co.’s planing-mill and lumber yard at Binghamton, N. Y., the other night. The ton thousand silk dyers on a strike at Paterson, N. J., agreed on tho 26th to return to work as individuals and not as Knights of Labor. Ix the annual rowing-race on the Thames the Cambridge crew defeated the Oxfords by three lengths on the 26th.

WEST AND SOUTH. At Bismarck, D. TANARUS., the water of the Missouri river rose a foot on the 22d, and the stream was six mile3 in width. At Painted Rock the entire Jackson family, consisting of father, mother and two children, were drowned. Five sailors on a 'wrecked schooner in Chesapeake bay were washed overboard and lost on the 33d. It was reported from Detroit on the 23d that forged checks on the “Marlette Ex • change Bank” of Marlette, Mich., have been negotiated in many places. There is no such bank in existence. Carter H. Harrison was renominated by the Democrats on the 23d for Mayor of Chicago. John Arensdorp, charged with the murder of Rev. George C. Haddock at Sioux City, la., on August 3d last, was put on trial on the 23d. On tho evening of the 23d the Grand Army members of the Michigan Legislature had a camp-fire in Representative Hall, at Lansing, which was attended by two thousand persons. The evening was devoted to speeches and songs. The Colby Iron-Mining Company’s board-ing-house, at Bessemer, Mich., was destroyed by lire early on the morning of the 23J, and twelve of the company’s employes perished in the flames. The discovery was made on the 23d that Mr. Gavin, aged seventy years, and his wife, aged sixty years, of Detroit, Mich., had been smothered to death by their insane daughter, aged thirty-two years. Fruit-trees, tomatoes and strawberries were severely damaged by a heavy frost in Mississippi on the night of the 23d. During the twelve months ended with last February 4,425.910 hogs and 1,608,200 cattle were packed in Chicago. Tiie Ohio Prohibitionists will meet in State convention at Delaware June 29 and 30. The death of Philip O’Brien occurred in Chicago on tho 24th, at the age of 103 years. William R. Lyle, an insane Chicago journalist, committed suicide at Fort Worth,Tex., on the 24th by shooting himself. Otter River bridge, twenty miles above Lynchburg, Va., gave way under a railway train on the 21th, and nine persons were reported killed and a number wounded. Owing to high water D. M. Kennedy, wife and threo children had on the 21th been living for six days on Sibley Island, near Red Fall3, Minn., on such food as they could save from the water. They could not be rescued till the tlood subsided. They could be seen through field glasses occupying tiie branches of-trees. Mrs. Jacob Bread, of Newark, 0., while insane on the 21th, threw boiling water oyer her husband, resulting in his death.

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A .jon flaoration at Dunbar, Neb., tie. stroyed the entire business portion o>. tho 24th. A combination of wealty men, including Senator Payne, of Ohio; Erastus Wiman, of New York, and James McLaren, of Ottawa, was being formed.it was stated on the 24th, to control all the valuable iron deposits in Canada, now said to be the richest in tho world. A fire destroyed the female seminary at Frankfort, Ky., on the 24th. The Legislature of Wisconsin on the 24th passed a memorial asking Congress to restrict the immigration of foreigners of the vicious and defective classes. At Youngstown, 0., Miss Alice Hancock, aged seventeen years, was shot dead on the 24th by Ebenezer Stanyard, a shiftless, half-witted fellow, whose attentions to her had been rejected. Ix Tippecanoe County, Ind., horses were on the 24th being attacked in large numbers by a disease closely resembling diphtheria. It was usually fatal. A heavi snow-storm prevailed in Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and other portions of the Northwest on the 27th. At Des Moines, la., the storm was tho worst since 1557. The death of Judge Samuel H. Treat, of the United States District Court for Southern Illinois, occurred at his home in Springfield on the 27th, at the age of seventy-five years. He was tho oldest Federal Judge in the State. Ax old man named John Daine was found frozen to death on the 27th near Mount Pleasant, Mich. Owing to scarcity of gras3 in the Rio Grande districts in Texas thousands of sheep were reported on the 26th to have perished of hunger. One firm lost thirty thousand head. By the upsetting of a row-boat in the bay at San Francisco F. G. Haggett and his three boys and one girl were drowned on the 26th. Mrs. Carrie Corcoran, a widow eighty years old, perished in the flames which consumed her home at Walnut Hills, 0., on the 27th. . A farmer while plowing near Atlanta, Ga., on tho 26th turned up $1,190 in gold, supposed to have been buried duriug the war. Ix the northwestern portion ot West Virginia a furious hurricane on the 26th destroyed and damaged much property. Ix the floods near Legrace, D. TANARUS., five persons were drowned on the £6th. Jackson Marion-was hanged on the 25th at Beatrice, Neb., for tho murder of John Cameron fifteen years ago. Amos Johnson (colored) was executed at Marion, Ark., for assaulting a little white child. The grand jury found seven additional indictments on the 25th in Chicago against officials and ex-officials, the charge being that of conspiracy. Chicago packers slaughtered 163,090 hogs from the Ist to the 26th insts., against 164,000 for the corresponding period last -year. Ix an affray in a crowded court-room on the 26th two prominent lawyers of Newberry, S. C., exchanged nine shots one of them being fatally wounded. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. At Mentone, France, where the people were still camping out under temporary shelters, another shock of earthquake was felt on the 221. Six persons implicated in the recent plot to assassinate the Czar of Russia we re hanged on the 23d. dalene at Breslau, Germany, partly destroyed the structure on the 23d. It was built in the thirteenth century, and contained priceless pictures, carvings ant. windows. Seventy persons were killed and many 'more injured by an explosion on the 23d in a colliery near Lydney, Wales. Three earthquake shocks were felt on the 23d at Travnik, Bosnia. Germany has declined to participate in the Paris International Exhibition of ISS9. Advices from China on the 24th state that the people of a village there inveigled a party of three hundred tramps into a temple, and during the night applied the torch. Only forty of the number escaped. That Russia had made overtures for an alliance with France was semiofficially denied on the 24th. Ex-Secretary Manning and Treasurer Jordan arrived at Queenstown on the 24th. A revolution being feared in Spain orders were issued on the 26th to keep the garrisons at Madrid and the other chief cities in readiness for immediate action. The English yacht Coronet arrived off Queenstown about noon on the 27th, then-©-by winning the ocean race against the Dauntless. The distance is 2,949 miles. Her apparent time was just inside of fifteen days. Her shortest day’s run was 35.8 miles; her longest 291.5 miles. The weather was uncommonly stormy. She carried twenty-nine persons.

LATER. Rev. Rat Parmer, Di D., whose hymns are in every Christian hymn-book in every language throughout the world, died suddenly on the 28th in New York, of paralysis, aged seventy-nine years. The first hymn he wrote was the familiar one beginning, “My Faith Looks Up to Thee.” His wife died two years ago. Fred C. Moon, a grocer, of Warsaw, Ind., accidentally shot dead William Walton, a friend, while out duck hunting on the 23th. Emperor William received 1,648 congratulatory telegrams on his recent birthday. Sixty of the number were sent from the United States. Another Irish priest. Father Ryan, was imprisoned on the 28th on account of the anti-rent agitation in Ireland. Nine horses in a stable at Mason City, la., were on tho 28th affected with epizoot resembling the National epidemic of 1872. The death of Mrst. Mary Manning, of Wakefield, Mass., at the age of 105 years, occurred on the 28th. Harvey L. Leavitt, of Sioux City, la, one of the parties to the conspiracy to murder Rev. George C. Haddock, turned State’s evidence on the 28th and testified that the fatal shot was fired by John Arensdorf. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ended on the 26th was 432,387; during the correspond ing period of last year, 439,493. At Mt Vernon, Ky., on the 28th Will Vowels, aged ten years, stabbed ar<l killed Will Levisey, fourteen years of age. The Canadian Pacific road lost $101,003 through a collision of freight trains on the 28th near Franktown, Ont. In a quarrel over a game of faro in Boston on the 28th Adolph A. Albredht, a druggists, shot and killed Edward Flanagan and David Lanahan. Stlvester Medburt, one of the most .noted civil engineers in the eountry, died 'on the 28th at Columbus, O. Addison, fifteen years old, set her clothes on fire on the 28th while boiling soap near Anderson, Ind., and was burned to death. A riot occurred in Panama on the 28th, owing to a military officer resisting arrest, and three men were killed and several others were wounded. In a panic on the 28th in a church at Mentone, France, many persons were injured. Dr. A. G. Ely, a wealthy physician of Girard, Pa., aged fifty-seven years, committed suicide on the 28th by morphine for fear his fortune would slip away. A heavy snow-storm prevailed in Western Quebec an l Eastern Ontario on the 28th, and nearly all trains were delayed. The yacht Dauntless passed the finishing line at Queenstown at 6:45 o’clock on the evening of the 28th, her actual ti.no on passage being 16 days, 1 hour, 45 minutes, 13 seconds—twenty-nine hours behind the Coronet All on board were well, and the yacht was in as good shape as when she left New York.

NAPPANEE, ELKHART COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1887.

AN EASY WINNER. Tlie Coronet Victorious Over the Dauntless in the Ocean Yacht Race—ln Spite of Severe Gates Throughout the Voyage the Triumphant Vessel Makes the Distance of 3,949 Nautical Miles in Less Than Fifteen Days. London, March 28. —The Coronet arrived off Queenstown at 11:30 yesterday morning and passed the winning point at 12:41 under a full press of canvas, with tho wind blowing hard from west-northwest. The apparent time occupied in the passage is 14 days 23 hours 34 minutes and 46 seconds, and the actual time computed on the Greenwich basis 14 days 19 hours 3 minutes and 14 seconds. The whole number of nautical miles sailed is 2,949. The longest day’s run is 291.5 miles, made on Saturday, March 26,. 'and the shortest 38.8 miles, made on Tuesday, March 22. The weather was uncommonly stormy, seven heavy gales having been met during eleven days of the trip, and for two days the weather was so severe as to make the question of the yacht's living through them somewhat doubtful. The Coronet

THE CORONET.

Behaved splendidly, however, and proved herself one of the stanchest vessels of her size afloat. No accidents happened to any of the sailors, despite the great risks they were compelled to undertake at times. With the exception of three torn sails an l a little broken tackle every thing on board the boat was in as good shape when the anchor was dropped off Queenstown as when it was raised off Tompkinsvillo, Staten Island. It is thought that a much quicker passage might have been made had Captain Crosby carried more sail. On several occasions, when the wind was light but the sky threatening, he-was very cautious, and his judgment was controlled largely by the barometer, which was most of the time below 29 and seldom above 39, the nom inal height in the latitude traversed. The course that was made was a little more northerly than was thought safe, but fortunately no icebergs or fieldiee were encountered. Last Tuesday and . Wo-dnoaduy tha Coronet experienced heavy seas and was hove to ~ several hours each day and made ninety miles in the fortyeight hours. Her average run during the passage varied from 230 to 259 miles a day. The number off persons ou board the Coronet was twenty-nino, including sliteen sailors and five guests. The officers were: Captain, C. P. Crosby; navigator, T. B. C. Anderson; mates, W. A. Whittier and Otto Petersen; boatswain, Augustus Bergholm. It was the first°time that Captain Crosby had ever participated. in a yacht race of any sort, but he showed himself a competent yachtsman by the manner in which he carried the Coroaet. The first Sunday was marked, as were seven of the ten succeeding days, by a gale which came from the northeast soon after midnight. Although fairly moderate, it was accompanied by a strong head-sea, which made the yacht labor heavily. The waves frequently broke over the bows, but she rode it out well under dose-reefed fore and main sails and jib, and averaged ten miles an hour ou the course throughout. Thus early were the sea-going qualities of the Coronet tried. The theory that storms swing around in a circle was thoroughly proved by the Coronet’3 experience on the second Sunday, when sho ran through a revolving gale which was nearly as terriSc as that of the 17th. The wind tirst issued from the southeast about three a. m. and blew seventy miles an hour until seven, when it moderated. At 7:39 hardly a breath was stirring. Half an hour luter there was a light breeze from the northwest, anl at nine o’clock there came a hurricane fom that direction. The cross-waves buffeted the yacht like a ship in a mill-race, and only the most skillful manipulation of the wheel prevented the huge waves froup landing on the deck and crushing it in. She carried only the foretrysail and jibstaysail reefed, and made considerable progress through it. The position at noon was latitude 45:25 and longitude 39:94:53; the distance traversed, 179.4 miles. The distance covered from Sunday noon to Monday noon was 293 miles, to Tuesday noon 18<i miles, and to Wednesday noon 120 miles. At noon Thursday she had sailed 218.0 miles in twenty-four hours, Friday, 225.5 miles, Saturday, 291.5 miles. Mizzen Head, ~on the southwest coast of Ireland, was sighted at 6:27 in the morning and at 7:49 Fastnet light bore north-northwest, nine miles away. At 8:57 Galley Head was abeam and then the Cork pilot-boat Columbia liovo in sight. At 10:08, when the yacht was abreast of Seven Heads, Pilot Robert Welsh came on board with the nows that the Coronet was first to arrive. At 1:30-the Coronet’s anchor was dropped olf the Cork Yacht Club house. Captain Anderson says the weather was the worst he ever experienced in all his 174 Atlantic passages. Mr. Bush, owner of the Coronet, says he will challenge the Dauntless to race back to this port. It was reported on the street last night that a telegram had been received stating that the Dauntless had been sighted off Kinsale Head, a short distance west of Cork, hut no confirmation of the report can be obtained. Death of Judge Treat. Springfield, 111., March 28. Judge Samuel S. Treat, of the United States District Court, died'at .his residence in this city yesterday. LJudge Treat was horn in Otsego County, N. Y., in 1812. He studied law and was admitted to practice in his native State. In 1534 he removed to Illinois, locating in Springfield. He was appointed Circuit Judge in 1838, and filled the oftiee for three years, being then elected Judge of the Supreme Court. He served until he was chosen to the bench of the United States District Court under Pierce's Administration, which office he filled until the time of his death. He leaves no family.l Four Persons Drowned. Ban Fkaxcisco, March 28.—A peculiarly sad accident occurred to-day off the South Pacific coast wharf on the Almeda side of the bay. F. G. Haggett, owner of mining property in Arizona, was paying a visit to his family in Almeda, and took four of his childreu—three, boys and one girl—out in a rew-boat fishing. The boat capsized, and the father, daughter and one boy were drowne I. Two of the boys were rescue!, but one died shortly after. Eiglity-Five Lives Lost. London, March 28.—Eightv-fivo persons lost their lives bv the explosion in the Bulli colliery at Sidney, Thursday. TUd bodies have been recovered.

TO ARBITRATE RATES. Tlio President Announces His Choice for Inter-Stato Commerce Commissioners— Judge Cooley (Rep.), or Michigan, Named for the Long Term and Likely to lie Made Chairman—The Oilier Members are: William 11. Morrison, of Illinois, Augustus Sell o oil maker, of New Vork, ami Walter 1- Bragg, of Alabama, all Democrats, and Aldace P. YValker, of Vermont, Republican. Washington, March 23. —President Cleveland last evening appointed the following as tho Inter-State Commerce Cornmis don: Thomas M. Cooley, of Michigan, for the term of six years. William It. Morrison, of Illinois, for the term Os five years. Augustus Schoonmaker, of New York, for the term of four years. ■jA&tace F. Walker, of Vermont, for the term of three years. Walter L. Bragg, of Alabama, for the term of two years. The commission will meet at Washington at once and organize. Their first duty will be to select a secretary, and there are a number of candidates. The next thing in order will be to discover what the law means, and the railroad attorneys of the country have a number of questions to submit. Tho law does not authorize the President to designate the chairman, but he Will indicate to the other four that he wants Cooley to have the place, and they will concede it to him. The delay in naming the commissioners makes prompt organization necessary. The great railroad systems of the country will have to file their schedules of rates by April 1, when the law goes into effect. Many of them have representatives in Washington now and several important questions involving both the railroads and the shippers need to be promptly construed. That the commission should bo overwhelmed the first few months is inevitable. Temporary quarters for the commission will bo found by the Secretary of the Interior before the end of the next week. Os the five commissioners Messrs. Morrison, Schoonmaker and Bragg are Dem-. ocrats, and Messrs. Cooley and Walker Republicans. Until yesterday the names of Messrs. Schoonmaker and Walker were not decided upon, and it is not yet known whether they will accept, but it is believed they will. The announcement of the appointment was made at so late an hour that it was impossible to obtain any material expressions of opinion beyond the fact that all of the persons named are conceded to be gentlemen of high character and undoubted capacity. It is predicted that great dissatisfaction will ensue because the territory west of the Mississippi is not recognized in the make-up of the commission. Considerable criticism is also indulged that a Republican should be named by the President as first on the commission, but the law creating the commission gives the majority power to select a chairman. It is stated that the President gave Judge Coo ley the longest term as a recompense for his surrendering the receivership of the Wabash system, which is more lucrative than his present appointment. It is believed that the anti-monopolists will consider themselves slighted because none of the appointees is pronounced in opposition tS 1 corporations, and because all aro lawyers. The appointment of ex-Attorney-General Schoonmaker, of New York, is thought to have been accomplished by the Vanderbilt influence. He is a pronounced friend of President Cleveland, and New York men say he is the peer in ability of any member of the commission. Thomas M. Cooley, of Michigan, was born at Attica, N. Y., in 1821, studied law, and removed to Michigan in 1843, where he has since resided. He was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan in 1861, 1869 and 1877. He Is the author of standard legal works. He was made receiver of the Wabash system in December last. William R. Morrison, of Illinois, was born in Monroe County, 111., September 14, 1825. He is a lawyer and was in Congress from 1873 to 1837. Walter L. Bragg, of Alabama, was born in Alabama in 1838, but resided in Arkansas from 1813 to 1861. He was educated at Harvard and Cambridge law schools. He has been the law partner of Senator Morgan and was president of the Alabama State Railroad Commission. Aldace F. Walker is a Vermont Republican lawyer, forty-four years old, who studied law with Senator Edmunds. He has studied the railroad question extensively as a member of the Vermont State Senate. Augustus Schoonmaker, of Kingston. N. Y., was born in Ulster County, N. Y., in 1828. and is a lawyer in active practice. He was a State Senator, and a closs friend of Governor Tilden, and in IS7B was Attorney-General of New York, succeeding Fairchild. He was a delegate to the Democratic nominating conventions of * 1876, 1880 and 1884. LOGAN—ANDREWS. The Son of the Late Senator from Illinois United in Marriage to the Daughter of a Well-Known Iron Manufacturer. Youngstown, 0., March 23.—The nuptials of Mr. John A. Logan, Jr., and Miss Edith H. Andrews were solemnized at noon yes terday by Rev. D. H. Evans in the palatial residence of C. H. Andrews, the bride’s

father. A car-load of flowers and floral dejjjcms were tastefully arranged through tho mansion. During the ceremony the couple stood directly under i a floral bell of ex-i quisite beauty. The i bride was arrayed in ! a wedding gown of j white satin, Marie j Antoinette style, * trimmed with Valenciennes lace. The only jewels she wore were diamonds and

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pearls. The wedding gown cost S6OO. The groom was dressed in a black Prince Albert of broadcloth, low-cut vest and broad pantaloons. During the ceremony, which was conducted according to the Episcopal ritual, an orchestra played the “Romance of Spohr.” Immediately after the ceremony tho bridal

party and guests 'to the number of 159 partook of the wedding breakfast. Over 300 costly gifts were received. The wedding was the most gorgeous social event that has ever taken place in this city. A ; check for $50,000, tojgether with a deed : for a valuable lot in ! the most aristocratic portion of the city, on which will be erected a handsome stone residence, con-

the GiiOOM. stitute the gift to the bride by her father. A pearl necklace with diamond pendant was the groom’s present to the bride. Mr. Logan and the bridal party left in Mr. Andrews’ private car “Youngstown” for Florida at 3:35. Mr. Logan will remain in Florida for a month. Then he will return to this city, where he will engage in business with Mr. Andrews in the manufacture of iron. THE RAGING MISSOURI. Another Rise at Bismarck A Whole Family Drowned at Painted Rock. Bismarck, D. TANARUS., March 23.— During Monday night the Missouri fell twelve inches, but during yesterday morning it began to rise again, and now stands just where it did Monday night. This last rise is unaccountable, as it was supposed that all the gorges and local floods had passed this point. The train for the east was delayed twenty minutes yesterday by a rise in Apple creek, and, should the water in the creek rise much higher, it will be impossible for trains to reach Bismarck. There is no longer any doubt of the drowning of’ tho Jackson family, consisting of fattier, mother and two children, at Painted Rock

THE ARK OF SAFETY. Sermon by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D. * K Compared with the Storm That Is Coming. the Deluge Was But an April Shower-The Open list Leads to rerfcct Security. A portion of the first verse of the seventh chapter of Genesis —“Come thou and all thy house into the ark” —was the text for Mr. Talmagc’i recent sermon at Des Moines, la. The discourse was as follows: We do not need the Bible to prove the deluge. The geologists hammer announcos it. Sea shells and marine formations on the tup of some of the highest mountains of the earth prove that at some time the waters washed over tho top of tho Alps and the Andes. In what way tho catastrophe came we know not. Whether by tho stroke of a comet, or by flashes of lightning changing the air into water, or by a stroke of the hand of ,God, like the stroke of the axe between the horns of the ox, the earth staggered. To meet tho catastrophe God ordered a great ship built. It was to be without prow, for it was to sail to no shore. It was to be without helm, for no human hand should guide it. It was a vast structure, probably as largo as two or three Cunard steamers. It was the Great Eastern of olden time. Tho ship is done. Tho door is open. The lizards crawl in. The cattle walk in. the grasshoppers hop in. The birds fly in. The invitation goes forth to Noah: “Come thou and ail thy house into the ark.” Just one human family embark on the strange voyage, and I hear the door slam shut. A great storm sweeps along the hills and bends tho cedarS until all the branches snap in the gale. There is a moan in the wind like unto the moan of a dying world. The blackness of the Heavens is shattered by the flare of the lightnings that look down into the waters and throw a ghastliness on the face of the mountain’s. How strange it looks! How suffocating the air seems! The big drops of raiu plash upon the upturned faces of those who are watching the tempest. Crash go the rocks in convulsion. Boom ! go the bursting heavens. The inhabitants of tho earth, instead of fleeing to housetop and mountain top, as men have fancied, sit down in dumb, white horror to die. For when God grinds mountains to pieces and lets the ocean slip it3 cable, there is no place for men to fly to. Sec the ark pitch and ttimble in the surf, while from its windows the passengers look o;ut upon the shipwreck of a race and the carcasses of a dead world. Woe to the mountains! Woo to the sea 1

lam no alarmist. When, on September 20, after the wind has for three days been blowing from the northeast, you prophesy that the equinoctial storm i3 coming, you simply state a fact not to be disputed. Neither am I an alarmist when I say that a' storm is coming compared with which Noah’s deluge was but an April shower; and that it is the wisest and safest for you and me to get safely housed for eternity. The invitation that went forth to Noah sounds in our ears: “Come thou and all thy house into the ark. Well, how did Noah and his family come into the ark? Did they climb in at the window or come down the roof? No; they went through the door. And just so, if we get into the ark of God’s mercy, it will be through Christ, the door. The entrance to tho ark of old must have been a very large entrance. We know that it was, from tho fact that there were monster animals in the earlier ages; and, in order to get them into tho ark two and two, according to tho Bible statement, the door must have been very wide and very high. So tho door into tho mercy of God is a large door. We go in, not two by two, but by hundreds,and by thousands,and by millions. Yea, all the nations of the earth may go in, ten millions abreast. The door of the ancient ark was in the side. So now it is through the side of Christ—the pierced side, the wide open side, the heart side—that we enter. Aha! the Roman soldier, thrusting his spear into the Saviour’s side, expected only to let the blocd out. but he opened th 6 way to let ail the world in. Oh, what a broad Gospel to preach! If a man is about to give an entertainment, he issues one or two hundred invitations, carefully put up and directed to the particular persons whom he wishes to eutertain. But God our Father makes a banquet, and goes out to the front door of Heaven, and stretches out His hand over land and sea, -§nd, with a voice that penetrates the Hindoo jungle, and the Greenland ice castle, and Brazilian grove, and English ' factory, and American homo, cries out: “Come, for all things are now ready.” It is a wide door! The old cross had been taken apart, and its two pieces are stood up for the door posts, so far apart that all the world can come in. Kings scatter treasures on days of great rejoicing. So Christ, our King, comes and scatters the jewels of Heaven. Rowland Hill said that he hoped to get into Heaven through the crevices of the door. But he was not obliged thus to go in. After having preached the Gospel in Surrey Chapel, going up toward Heaven, the gate-keeper cried: “Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let this man come in.” The dying thief went in. Richard Baxter and Robert Newton went in. Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America may yet go through this wide door without crowding. Ho, every one—all conditions, all ranks, all people. Luther said that this truth was worth carrying on one’s knees from Romo to Jerusalem; but I think it worth carrying all around the globe, and all around the heavens, that “God so loved the world that Ho gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Whosoever will, let him come through tho largo door. Archimedes wanted a fulcrum on which to place his lever, and then he said that he could move the world. Calvary is the fulcrum and the cross of Christ is the lever; and by that power all nations shall yet be lifted. Further, it is a door that swings both ways. Ido not know whether the door of the ancient ark was lifted or rolled on hinges; but this door of Christ opens both ways. It swings cut toward all our woes; it swings in toward the raptures of Heaven. It swings in to let us in; it swings out to let our ministering ones come out. All our one in Christ—Christians on earth and saints in Heaven. “One army of the living God, At His command we bow; Part of the host have crossed the floqd, And jfart are crossing now.” Sw.ing in, O blessed door! until all tho earth shall go in and live. Swing out until all the Heavens come forth to celebrate the victory. But, further, it is a door with fastenings. The Bible says of Noah: “The Lord shut him in.” A vessel without bulwarks or doors would not be a safe vessel to go in. When Noah and his family heard the fastening of the door of the ark they were very glad. Without thosg doors were fastened the first heavy surge of the sea would have whelmed them; and they might os well have perished outside the ark as inside the ark. “The Lord shut him in !” Oh, the perfect safety of tho ark! The surf of the sea and the lightnings of the sky may be twisted into a garland of snow and fire —deep to deep, storm to sttirm, darkness to darkness; but once in the ark, all is'well. “God shut him in.” There comes upon the good man a deluge cf financial trouble. He had his thousands to lend; now he can not barrow a dollar. He once owned a store in Ne\v York, and had branch he uses in Boston, Philadelphia and New Orleans. ' He owned four horses, and employed a man to keep the dust off his coach, phaeton, carriage and curricle; now ho ha3 hard work t*j get shoes in which to walk. The great deep of commercial disaster was broken up, and lore

and aft, and across the hurricane deck, the waves struck him. But he was safely sheltered from the storm. “The Lord shut him in.” A flood of domestic troubles fell on him. Sickness and bereavement came. The rain pelted. The winds blew. The heavens are aflame. VUI tho gardens of earthly delight are crashed away. The fountains of joy ore buried fifteen cubits deep. But, standing by tho empty crib and in the desolated nursery, and in the doleful hall, once airing with merry voices, now silent forever, ho cried: “The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away; blessed bo the name of the Lord." “The Lord shut him in.” All tho sins of a lifetime clamored for his overthrow. The broken vows, tho f dishonored Sabbaths, the outrageous profemites, the misdemeanors of- twenty years, reached up their hands to the door of the ark to pull him out.. The boundless ocean of his sin surrounded his soul, howling, like a simoon, raving like an eurocIv.lon. But, looking out of the window, he saw his sins sink like lead into the depths of the sea. The dove of Ueaven brought an olive branch to the ark. The wrath of the billow only pushed him toward Heaven. “Tho Lord shut him in.” The same door fastenings that kept Noah in keep the world out. lam glad to know that when a man reaches Heaven all earthly troubles are done with him. Here he may have had it hard to get bread for his family; there he will never hunger any more. Here he may have wept bitterly; there “the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne will lead him to living fountains of water, and God will wipe away all tears from liis eyes.” Here he may have hard work to get a house; but in my Father’s house are many mansions, and rent day never comes. Hero there are death beds, and coffins, and graves; there, no sickness, no weary watching, no choking cough, no consuming fever, no chattering chill, no tolling bells, no grave. The sorrows of life shall come up and knock at the door, but no admittance. The perplexities of life shall come up and knock on the door, but no admittance. Safe forever I All the agony of earth in one wave dashing against the bulwarks of the ship of celestial light shall not break them down. Howl on, ye winds, and rage ye seas! “The Lord shut'him in.” Oh, what a grand old door! So wide, so easily swung both ways, and with such sure fastenings. No burglar’s key can pick that lock. No swarthy arm of hell can shove back the bolt. I rejoice that I do not ask you to come aboard a crazy craft with leaking hulk, and broken helm, and unfastened door; but an ark fifty cubits wide and three hundred cubits long, and a door so large that the round earth, without grazing the posts, might be bowled in. Now, if the arn oi Christ is so grand a place in which to live, and die and triumph, come into the ark. Know well that the door that shut Noah in shut the world out; and though, when the pitiless storm came pelting on their heads, they beat upon the door, saying: “Let mo in! let me in!” the door did not open. For one hundredsand twenty years they were invited. They expected to come in; but the Antediluvian said: “We must cultivate these fields, we must be worth more flocks of sheep and herds of cattle; we will wait until we get a little older; we will enjoy our old farm a little longer.” But meanwhile the storm was brewing. The fountains of Heaven were filling up. The pry was being placed beneath the foundations of the great deep. The last year had come, the last month, the last week, the last day, the last hour, the last moment. In an awful dash, an ocean dropped from the sky and rolled up from beneath, and God rolled the earth and sky iuto one wave of universal destruction. So men now put off going into the ark. They say they will wait twenty years first. They will have a little longer time with their worldly associates. They will wait until they get older. They say you can not expect a man of my attainments and of my position to surrender myself just now. But before the storm comes I will go in. Yes, I will. I know what lam about. Trust me. After awhile, one night about twelve o’clock, going home, he passes a scaffolding as a gust of wind strikes it and a plank falls. Lead ! and outside the ark! Or, riding in the park, a reckless vehicle crashes into him, and his horse becomes unmanageable, and ho shouts: “Whoa! Whoa!” and takes another twist in the reins and plants Ins feet against the dashboard, and pulls back. But no use. It is not so much down the avenue that he flie3 as on the Way to eternity. Out of the wreck of tho crash his body is drawn, but his soul is not picked up. It fled behind a swifter courser into the great future. Dead, and outside the ark ! Or some night he wakes up* with a distress that momentarily increases, until he shrieks out with pain. The doctors come in and they give him twenty drops, but no relief; forty drops, fifty drops, sixty drops, but no relief. No time for prayer. No time to read ono of the promises. No time to get a single sin pardoned. The whole house is aroused in alarm. The children scream; the wife faints; the pulses fail; the heart stops; the soul flics. Oh, my God! dead, and outside the ark!

I have no boubt that derision kept many people out of the ark. The world laughed to see a man go in and said: “Here is a man starling lor the ark. Why, there will be no deluge. If there is one that miserable ship will not weather it. Aha! going into the ark! Well, that is too good to keep. Here, fellows, have you heard the news! This man is going into the ark.” Under this artillery of scorn the man’s good resolution perished. And so there are hundreds kept out by the fear of derision. The young man asks himself: “What would they say at the store to-morrow morning if I should become a Christian? When I go down to the club house they would shout: ‘Here comes that new Christian. Suppose you will not have any thing to do with us now. Suppose you are praying now. Get down on your kr.303 and let us hear you pray. Come, now, give us a touch. Will not do it, eh? Pretty Christian you are?’” Is it not the fear of being laughed at that keeps you out of the Kingdom of God? Which of these seorners will help you at the last? When you lie down on a dying pillow which of them will be there? In the day of eternity will they bail you out? My friends and neighbors, come in right away. Come in through Christ, the wide door—the door that swings out toward you. Come in and be saved. Conte and be happy. “The spirit and the bride say, come.” Hoorn in the ark! Hoorn in the ark! Hut do not come alone. The text invites you to bring your family. “Come thou and all thy house.” That means your wife and your children. You can not drive them in. If Noah had tried to drive the pigeons and the doves into the ark, he would only have scattered them. Some parents are not wise about these things. They make iron rules about Sabbaths, and they force the catechism down the throat as they would hold the child’s nose and force down a dose of rhubarb and calomel. You can not drive your children into the ark. You can draw your children to Christ, but you can not coerce them. The cross was lifted, not to drive, but ta draw. “If Ibe lifted up, I will draw all men unto Me.” As the sun draws up the drops of morning dew, so the sun of righteousness exhales the tears of repentance. “ Como thou and all thy house into the ark.” Bo sure that you bring your husband and wife with you. How would Noah have felt if, when he heard the rain pattering on theroof of the ark, he knew that his wife was outside in the storm? No; she went with him. And yet some of you are on the ship “outward bound” for Heaven, but your companion is unsheltered. You remember the day when the marriage ring was set. Nothin;* has yet been able to break it. Sickness came, and the linger shrank, but the ring staid on. The twain stood uloue above a

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child’s grave, and the dark mouth of the tomb swallowed up a thousand hopes; but the ring dropped not into the open grave. Days of poverty came, and the hand did many a hard day’s work; but the rubbiilg of the work against the ring only made It shine brighter. Shall that ring ever be lostt Will the iron clang of. the sepulchre gate crush it forever? I pray God that yon who have been married on earth may be together in Heaven. Oh I by the quiot blissof your earthly home; by the babe’s cradle; by all the vows of that day when you started life together, I beg you to see to it that you both get into the ark. Come in and bring your wife or your husband with you—not by fretting about religion or dingdonging them about religion, but by a consistent life, and by a compelling prayer that shall bring the throne of God down into your bedroom. Better live in the smallest house in Brooklyn and get into Heaven than live fifty years in the finest house on Madison square and wake up at last and find that one of you, for all eternity, is outside the ark. Go home tonight, lock the door of your room, take up tho Bible and read it together, and then kneel down and commend your souls to Him who has watched you all these years; and, before you rise, there will be a fluttering of wings over your head, angel crying to angel: “Behold, they pray.” But this dees not include all your family. Bring tho children, too. God bless the dear children! What would our homes be without them? We may have done much for them. They have done more for us. What a salve for a wounded heart there is in the soft palm of a child’s hand! Did harp or flute ever have such music as there is in a child’s “good night?” From our coarse, rough life the angels of God are often driven back; but who comes into the nursery without feeling that angels are hovering around? They who die in infancy go into glory, but you are expecting your children to grow up in this world. Is it not a question then that rings through all tho corridors, and windings, and heights and depths of-your soul, what is to become of your sons and daughters for time and for eternity? “Oh!” you say, “I mean to see that they have good manners.” Very welL “I mean to dress them well, if I have myself to go shabby.” Very good. “I shall give them an education, and I # shall leave them a fortune.” Very good. But is that all? Dcn’t you mean to take them into the ark? Don’t yon know that the storm is coming, and that out of Christ there is no safety, no pardon, no hope, no Heaven? How to get them in? Go in yourself. If Noah had staid out, do you not suppose that his sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet,, would have staid out? Your sons and. daughters will be apt to do just as you do. Reject Christ yourself, and the probability is that your children will reject him. An account was taken of the religion* condition of families in a certain district.' In the families of pious parents two-thirds of the children were Christians. In the families where the parents were ungodly,, only one-twelfth of the children were! Christians. Responsible as you are for; their temporal existence, you are alse re- : sponsible for their eternity. Which way will you take them? Out into the deluge,! or into the ark? Have you ever made one' earnest prayer for their immortal so ?1 What will you say in the judgment wueni God asks: “Where is George, or Henry, or Frank, or Mary, or Alice? Where arei those precious souls whose eternal inter-' ests I committed into your keeping?” Go home and erect a family altar. You may break down in your prayer. But never mind, God will take what you mean, whether you express it intelligibly or not. Bring all yoqr house into the ark. Is there one son whom you have given up? Is he so dissipated that you have stopped counseling and praying? Give him up? How dare you give him up? Did God ever give thee up? Whilst thou hast a single articulation of speech left, cease not to pray for the return of that prodigal. He may even now be standing on the beach at Hong Kong or Madras, meditating a return to his father’s house. Give him up? Never give him up. Has God promised to hear thy prayer only to mock thee? It is not too late. In St. Paul’s London, there is a ing gallery. A voice uttered most feebly at one side of the gallery is heard distinctly at the opposite side, a great distance ofT. So every word of earnest prayer goes all around the earth and makes Heaven a whispering gallery. Go into the ark—not to sit down, but to stand in the door and call until all the family com 9 in. Aged Noah, where is Japhet? David, where is Absalom? Hannah, where is Samuel? Bring them in through Christ, the door Would it not be pleasant to spend eternity with our families? Gladder than Christ--mas or Thanksgiving festival will be tho reunion if we get all our family into the ark., Which of them can we spare out of Heaven ? On one of the late steamers there were a father and two daughters journeying. They seemed extremely poor. A benevolent gentleman stepped up to the poor man to proffer some form of relief and said: “You seem to be very poor, sir.” “Poor, sir,” replied the man, “if there’s a poorer man than me atroubling the world, God pity both of us!” “I will take one of your children and adopt it if you say so. 1 think it would be a great relief to you.” “A what?” said the poor mam. “A relief.” “Would it boa relief to have the hands chopped off from tho body or the heart torn from the breast? A relief, indeed? God be good to us! What do you mean, sir?”

However many children we may have, we have none to give up. Which, of our families, can we afford to spare out of Heaven? Come, father! Como, mother! Come, son! Come, daughter! Come, brother! Come, sister! Only one step and we are in. Christ, the door, swings out to admit us, and it is not the hoarseness of a stormy blast that you hoar, but the voice of a loving and patient God that addresses you, saying: “Come thou and all tby house into the ark. ” And there may the Lord shut us in. HINTS FOR WOMEN. A Lady Correspondent Advises Vhem How to Manage Business Affairs. I give you a few business hints for women. They are needed: Always count your change, or money paid you in any transaction, immediately. Any error can then bo corrected and save clerks and book-keepers valuable time as well as the money to make good a loss. Always keep a cash nccouut Make your entries each night, and see that the balance on your book agrees with the cash in hand. Such entries are valuable proofs of payment, and can serve as a basis for future economies. When you buy a draft have it made to your own order, then indorse on the back: “Pay to the order of,” ec. The etc. being the name of the person to whom you send it, and your name written on the face of the draft. This is a full receipt, when paid, for the money sent Never sign a paper unless you fully understand its meaning. Do not be afraid to ask for explanations, and give them your entire attention. Very few men understand all the intricacies of different business transactions, and a clear understanding on your part may prevent trouble and loss. If you own a farm and have property, find its position and description on a map. keep a correct written description, with which to compare the one given in tax receipts, insurance policios or doed3.— Cor. Chicago Journal. Love the art, poor as it may be, which thou host learned, and be content with it; and pass through the rest of life like one who has intrusted to the gods, with his whole soul, all that ho has, making thyself neither the tyrant nor the slave of any man.— Marat* Aurelius. Passions are likened best to floods and streams; tl> shallow murmur, but th% deep are dumb.— sir Water Jtaleiyk-