Pike County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 51, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 May 1883 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF, Compiled from Various Soorccs, hsbsokaVakd Council. / Attorney-General Brewster has matte format application for leave to take part in the closing argument of the star-route cases. Henry D. McDaniel, the Democratic nominee, has been elected Governor of Georgia. There was no opposition. The breach between the executive nutl legislative bodies in Norway has resulted in a vote to impeach the Ministry. TnE Connecticut House of Representatives has passed a bill creating a Board of Pardons. The pardoning power has heretofore rested with the Legislature. John D. White, Congressman from Kentucky, aud Alice M., daughter of exCongrehsman Harris, were married at East Bridgewater, Mass., a few days ago. ^Captain J.° ,w. Shackeord, of the steamship Illinois, has been appointed commander of Jay Gould’s new steam yacht Atlanta. 1 ' Seven members of the German Ministry, including Bismarck, are reported broken down by overwork. Prince Battiiyany, a well-known patron of the turf, died on the race course at Newmarket, Eng., a few days ago. The Convention of the Irish Land league of America met at Philadelphia, Pa., on the 25th and was called to order by President James A. Mooney, of Butfalo, N. Y. The Swedish Anthropological Society has awarded a medal to Stanley, the Andean explorer, s, Rear-Admiral Baldwin, of the United States Navy, has been ordered with his staff to attend the Russian Csar’s coronation. Mrs. Ada. Russell, General Mafr , cock’s mother-in-law, died a few days ago on Governor’s Island, N. Y.,.of pneumonia, A bill has been reported in the Pennsylvania Legislature taxing petroleum shipped from the State one mill per gallon. The death list on the 26th included Hon. William Miller, ex-member of the Ohio Senate, who died at Columbus, and Charles W. Foster, father of Governor Foster, who passed away at Fostoria. O., aged eighty-three, A prohibition amendment to the Constitution has failed of passage in the Michigan Legislature. - The trial of Ramsay and Foote, palp lishei\jind editor, respectively, of the London AVer- Thinker, for blasphemous libel, has resulted in the disagreement of a jury. , The forthcoming volume of diplomatic correspondence shows that the invi- | tatiou of the United States to the proposed Peace Congress was promptly accepted by nearly every nation to which it was sent. A call has been issued for a Nation id Convention of colored men, to be held in Washington, D. C.,' September 24th, for the consideration of the present and future coir , dition of the colored people of this country, wnd of the best method of securing to them ■*” »full enjoyment of their social and po- ‘ rights. 9 CASUALTIES, a quarrel at Elkhart, lad., • afternoon Noah Bird, an emplo ye ok’s paper mills of that city, was on the head with a board in the ands of William Veach, a colaborer, and died soon afterward. Veach was jailed. Two missionaries of the Presbyterian Church, named Chapman and Kenny, were drowned a few days ago on the northwest coast of British Columbia. There was an explosion in a mine at BcSsiges, France, on the 25th. Nine bodies were recovered. At roll-call, after the explosion, 127 miners failed to answer. Many deaths were feared. ' * • ■ The ship County Aberdeen,from Calcutta, collided off Towner’s light-ship with the ship British Commerce, for Melbourne, a few days ago. The latter sank and twen-ty-flv.e of her crew were lost. The weathccr was thick at the time.

During a futile effort to blow tip the Tower flint mill at Pall River, Mass., the other night James Maguire, the watchman, was killed. Six buildings in Kotin;rhite, London, Eng., belonging to Francois and Jose] h Radart, seed, oil and oil-cake merchants, were burned on the 2(ith. The loss was very heavy, FiriS*' in a cabinet-maker’s shop at Warsaw, Russia, the otiler day burned sixteen workmen to death. Tiirkk hundred feet of the West ■shore Railway track at Hampton Point, New York, slid into the river a few days ago. Anton Urbach, awaiting trial jfor insanity in the County Court at Chicago, 111., the other morning dashed through tin open window of tho second floor, falling to the stone sidewalk below. He was piek .il tip in a dying condition. The store of William Johnson, at Madrid, Iowa, was burglarized the other night, evidently by professionals. A heavy safe was relied to another part of the building, drilled and blown open and $150# in eash and several hundred dollars’ worth of notes were carried off. A clerk sleeping twenty feet distant heard nothing of it. The New Haven (Conn.) Clock Shop, covering an entire block, was destroyed by fire a Jew days ago. During the progress of the Are an employe of the works jum-; >ed from a third-story window, breaking his legs and arms, and receiving internet injuries from which he would probably diio. TjOss estimated at $250,000. Several hundred men were thrown out of employment by the Are. By a collision on the (Traml Trt: nk Railroad at Olivet, Mich., on the 27th, tti life persons were killed and eight others injured. ■Whisky, supplemented by a thn aliened prosecution for theft, caused Wili am Macduff, a financial broker at New Yi rk, to shoot and kill his wife, bis six-year old soil and then himiwjf, at Brooklyn, a lew days ago. f Two boys were burned to death in a sugar house at St. Thomas, Quebec, the. other uight. . — ^_ -y Miis. Jane AntBony, of New York, attempted to cross the railroad track front of an express train at Jersey City J., the other day, when Lawreuce O’Bi en, ‘Switchman, attempted to save her, but she I and both fell upon the track. killed instantly and O’B ien minutes after being ■t, leg a short time *- — cuing a child. MOOT distressing accident happe led "‘ ddleton, O., the other afternooi . A of John O’Connell fell nto 1 on the father and mothei go sseue all three were drowns I. i little village of Elizabethto rn, anty, N. J., on the 27th, He ury was hanged for the mnrde of in August last. Fr rer at Walhalla, 8. 0„ “•ill am

Pint a, Thompson, member- of Congxec* from the Fifth (Ky.) District, shot find instantly killed Walter Da vis,a grocer, at Han-odsburg, Ky., on the 27th Inst, Thompson immediately surrendered himself to Judge Hardin of the Circuit Court, and was released on .$5,000 bail, Thirteen arrests were made at Larimore City, Dak,, the other day for the re^ cent murder of the Ward brothers, formerly of Chicago. MISCELLANEOUS. Three of the tramp desperadoes captured at the bridge fight at Brainerd, Minn., the other day have broken jail. The Jeannette Board of Inquiry in session at Washington found nothing in its later investigation to require a modification of the report already made-. The judges of the Cincinnati (O.) Superior Court refuse to appoint a health officer as. authorized by the law which abolished the Board of Health. They say it is contrary to public policy for courts to make such appointments. . ,. ' Agent Wilcox reported the Rangers hovering near the San Carlos Agency on the 24tli watching a chance to surprise the Indians. He was afraid ^hat his Indians could not be persuaded to remain on the defensive and await an attack. Secretary Teller had notified the War Department and troops wore to be sent to preserve the peace. Janner, the director Qf the Ring Theater, at Vienna, Austria, at the time of the disaster by which hundreds of lives were lost, has been pardoned, after serving half the term for which be was sentenced. It has been’officially announced that the British Government is in favor of assisting emigrants from Ireland, Fifteen witnesses testified in Lublin, Ireland, on the 24th in support of Timothy Kelly’s alibi plea in the Phoenix Park case. Henry T. Wright, Assistant Postmaster at Kacine, Wis., was arrested and taker to Milwaukee the other night owing to a shortage of over $5,000 in his accounts, which he had confes§pd. The prisoner’s friends said they believed he was insane. A dispatch from Kaiserlautern, in Rheinish Bavavia, on thj 25th, reported an explosion in the mail train of a package of dynamite. The Conductor was seriously wounded. The Ohio State Forestry Convention began a session at Cincinnati on the 25th, The attendance was very light. In Berlin, Germany, the other day two thousand five hundred cabmen struck for an increase of wages. Tiie jury again disagreed in the trial of Timothy Kelly, at Dublin, Ireland, on the 25th, for the Phoenix Park murder. Michael Fagin, who is charged with the killing of Burke, was placed on trial. The court fined seventy-five persons $100 each for nonattendance as jurors. Two thousand workmen have protested against the 6ick fund bill introduced in the German Reichstag by the government. The first and second mates of the steamer Tropic, running between Philadel phia and the West Indies, in the fruit carrying trade, were arrested by the United States Marshal upon the arrivA of the vessel at Philadelphia a few days ago upon the charge of violating the neutrality laws in transporting arms and ammunition to Miragoane for the Haytian rebels. The vessel, it was also alleged, conveyed the company of rebels who captured Miragoane, the latter part of March, from Inagua to the port named. The prospect at the San Carlos Res- [ ervation on the 25th was more peaceful. The Rangers were going to their homes and the Indians to their farms. The London (Eng.) Times says it is understood the evidence against Peter Tynan, “No. 1,” from independent witnesses as well as from informers, is such as to justify decisive action by the Government in asking for liiS-extradition. "William Pack was publicly flogged in Annapolis, Md.t the other day, under the new law punishing wife-beaters. The Canada Pacific Railway and certain land companies propose to become security for £1,<KM>,000, to be advanced by the British Government toward setting up 5,000 families op Government lands in the Northwestern British possessions.

Eliza Pinkston, who gained prominence as a witness during the Presidential controvei-sy in 1875 and 1878, died in the Canton (Miss.) jail on the 25th and was buried as a pauper. Estimates on the 25th from thetowns in Mississippi over which the recent tornado swept placed the number of the killed at 188 and of the wounded at 808. The property loss was said to exceed half a million dollars. The British Minister of Agriculture has been urged to prohibit the landing of foreign cattle in England on account of the foot and mouth disease. Two French anarchists were convicted on the 20th and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. James Verlon, James Ryan and Patrick Murphy were arrested in Crashen District, County Clare, Ireland.on the 28th, in connection with the alleged conspiracy to murder by the Invincibles in that district, for which numbers of men were taken into custody some days ago. The sixty-fourth anniversary of OddFellowship (April 20) was generally celebrated throughout the country. The seven prisoners, Dr. Gallagher, Bernard Gallagher, Whitehead, Dal on, Ansburgh, Wilson and Curtin, who were charged with treason and felony in connection with: the unlawful use of explosives, were again arraigned for examination at London, Eng., on the 20th. It was shown that Whitehead had bought 100 pounds of nitric acid, 300 pounds of sulphuric acid and fifty pounds of glycerine. Inspector Boyd said Bernard Gallagher had notified the authorities in the early part of the month that he wished to give information. Gallagher had told.bim he Anew all the conspirators, having seen them in Brooklyn, N. Y. There were about thirty of them. The report of the Illinois Entomologist, B. A. Forbes, describes a newly discovered insect enemy to the winter wheat. It has caused considerable damage in several localities. Chaki.es F. Kking, who had been tried six times for the murder of Dora Broemser in St. Louis, Mo., and thrice Sentenced to death, has been released on $3,000 bail, having recently been granted anew trial by the United States Supreme Court. Newburgh, Frenkel & Co., one of the largest wholesale clothing houses in Cincinnati, O., assigned on the 28th. Their liabilities it was believed would amount to near $350,000 and assets about the same. A. Hill, who absconded from Salt Lake, Utah, some time ago with $10,000 of his wife’s money, has been caught in Michigan and placed in jail. It was reported the other day that the Yankton County (Dak.) Grand Jury was investigatipg certain matters connected with the late Legislature. Chief Clerk Henderson was* summoned to bring his record, and was questioned in regard to the history of certain hills.

Memorial Day (April 26) wh observed at Savannah, Oa., by the entire suspension Of business, large crowds decorating soldiers* graves. At Montgomery, Ala;; there was an immense rOdcOttrse At the cemetery- ... , Trtk Fagin trial in Dublin. Ireland; brou ght out more contradictory testimony from Informers. The defense was an alibi. The Acting Secretary of the Treasury issued warrants for the payment of $8,525,000 on account of pensions on the 80th. Another nitro-glycerine factory is reported to have been discovered by the police at Northampton, Eng, There were 182 business failures throughout the United States and Canada during the Seven day* ended oh the 87th, AS Compared with 80S the week previous. The New England States had 83; Middle States ,88; Western, 58; Southern; 33; Pacific States and Territories, 15; New York City, 11, and Canada, 19. One of the planks in the platform presented at the Irish Convention in Philadelphia, Pa., on the 87th declares that the course of England in first reducing the Irish peasantry to abject poverty and then sending them penniless to America is unnatural, inhuman and an outrage upon the American Government and people. The discovery of a deficiency Of $24,600 in the accounts 0f County Clerk Arch Rowattd, Of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been announced. . . The trial of Michael Fagan for the murder of Burke was concluded at Dublin, Ireland, on the 37th, the jury finding a verdict of guilty. The J udge sentenced him to he hanged May 28. At the Wimbledon international rifle match there will be two competitions complimentary to the American team. The New York police have managed to get Up a diplomatic tangle with Denmark by aiding the Danish Consul to bulldoze an alleged embezzler on bis arrival in that port. At Columbus, O., a few days ago, a“ colored barber made a murderous assault on his wife with a hatchet and then cut his own throat with a rpzor. It was thought both would die. The City Council of Des Moines, Iowa, has fixed the saloon license in that city at $1,000 a year. The Tar River in North Carolina was reported very high from rains on the 27th, The lowlands were overflowed and people were abandoning their houses in boats, Many bridges and dams were washed away. The log books of three Texas war ships were received by the Governor at Austin the other day from a gentleman in Indiana. They give the record of several engagements which occurred from 1840 to 1843. A severe storm of wind arid hail passed through Northwestern Texas on the 27 th. At Belton, Temple, Palo Pinto, Bonhiun and other places a number of houses were blown down and in Beil County sev-eral-persons were killed. In Tarrant County a school-house, in which there were seventy children, was demolished, but only one child was hurt. The stortn extended from Wichita Palls to Belton, Rev. C. D. Boynton, aged seventyseven years, for twenty-five years, pastor oftiha V ine Stree » Congregational Church at Cincinnati, O., and who Bad also served two terms as Chaplainof the House of Representatives at Washington, died in the former city a few days ago. Four inches of snow fell at Quebec, Ont., on the 27th. Sleighing was again resumed. The Philadelphia (Pa.) banking firm of George F. Work & Co. is accused of embearding something like $1,000,000 from the People’s Passenger Railway of that city. Two members of the firm were arrested a few days ago and a warrant awaited the third partner’s return from Florida. Earthquake shocks were experienced in Chili on the 7th, 8th and 9th of March. A large island in the Gulf oi Darien, at the mouth of the river Atrato,. has disappeared in consequence of the convulsion. In the principal cities of Chili a number of famous edifices were damaged. The workmen at the end of the Canada Pacific Railroad, in Manitoba, were threatened by Indians recently, who complained that their country was being invaded. The Indians had shown an unfriendly disposition for six months previous, and trouble was feared.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Green B. Raum, United States Internal Revenue Commissioner, has resigned, and his resignation has been accepted by the President. The explanation was that he would do better for himself in private business. Secretary Forger has appointed a committee to investigate the alleged fraudulent importation of Hawaiian sugar. In consequence of threats the Guildhall at London, Eng., was placed under strong police guard on the 29th. An important arrest of counterfeiters in reported to have been made at New York a few days ago, eight of a gang who had Jieen operating in Pensylvania, New Jersey, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland and New York having been captured. A fire which started in a livery stable at Wellsburg, W. Vav the other morning destroyed half of one of the best business blocks in the city. « In a religious riot at Port Said, Egypt, on the 29th several lives were lost. British troops were called out to protect the Greek Church. • By the capsizing of a man-of-war boat at Tonlgn, France; the other day seven men were drowned. The New York Central Labor Union on the 29th discussed the relation of the labor question to the revolutionary movement in Europe. There was said to be considerable feeling in favor of the use of dynamite. There were eight deathagjfrom smallpox at St. Louis, Mo.,duringtheweek ended on the 28th inst. A mob of disguised men stormed' the jail at Florence, Lauderdale County, Ala., the other night, took George Ware, confined therein on the charge of murdering Robert Bethune, and hung him to a tree. A reward has been offered for the arrest of any of the perpetrators of the outrage. Several more arrests were reported in Ireland on the 28th in connection with murder conspiracies and a number of suspects bad fled the country. TiIe death of Rear-Admiral Edward Middleton, retired, occurred on the 28th at Washington, D. C. At Newaygo, Mich., on the 29th, Brooks’ Hotel, the Exchange Hotel, two churches and fourteen other buildings were swept away by fire, causing a loss of $00,0(0. The Great Works Milling and Manufacturing Company’s saw-mills at Bangor, Me., was burned on the same day, the loss being $80,000. W The Lord Lieutenant of Inland witnessed the departure of a ship-load of emigrants for America the other day. helping i children into the boats and encoujifc^ng Hie older ones. His sympathy was 4>port«d to have “created a nrofonnd impression.’*

Indiana state news. T*b« indianapdiis grain quotations are: Wheat—No. 3 Red^$».t&r«>l.M>S. CornNo. «Me. Oats—43r«H4c. The Cinchili a ti quotations are: Wheat—No. 3 Red, $1.1001.11. Corn—No. S, AGOBONc. Oats —No. 2, 4T04J.Sc. Rye—No. 3, (SOttSc. Barley—No. 3 Fall, 04«t»Sc. Albert Biryant and Henry Robinson, cousins, became involved in a difficulty the other afternoon at Bryautsville, Lawrence County, which resulted in Robinson leing ■hot in the abdomen. It was feared the Wound was fatal: A few qlinutes after the shittltiiig Bryant started for Bedford, as he said, for the purpose of giving himself up, bnt on arriving there he left his horse at a livery stable and disappeared. The trial of Samuel Gibson, ex-Treasnrer of Delaware County, for the alleged embezxlement of $14,000 was closed at Muneie a few evenings ago by the failure of the jury to agree after being out thirty hours. * The body of William Wilcox, of Castleton, 111., was found in the river at Indianapolis recently, and in his pockets Were found valuable papers and a considerable amount of money. He had been missing several days. It was supposed his drowning was accidental: A heavy wind-storm struck La Porte a few days ago, about ten o’clock, and blew with considerable force for a number of hours. The large trestle-work leading from the lake to Tallmage’s ice-house* was blown down, causing Considerable damage; Charles Quinn, a baker of Greenfield: Hancock County, while getting bnt bf bed the other morning, fell heavily td the floor, sustaining internal injuries from which he soort died. He had been Sick, and did ndt have strength to support himself; and attempted td get out of hed unknown to his attendant: Charles Rhodes and A. B. Tinsley started to the country from Muneie a few days ago to blast stumps, taking twenty pounds of giant powder, with fuses and cdps. Rhodes carried the explosives in a paper sack, and when half a mile from the city the powder exploded and tore him all to pieces. His head was found a hundred feet away in a field, and but few other fragments could be found. Tinsley had his j left arm broken and was cut in the head and face. He was still living and niight rerover. Rhodes was twenty years Old and lived with his father. The cause of the explosion was not known. The spread Of small-pox at indianapolis is causing anxiety to the health authorities and citizens generally. Fred Kling, of Harrison Township, Dela* ware County, is the owner of a colt which was born blind a short time ago. The colt is in every way perfectly formed except that it has no eyes.. The eye cavities are completely covered with hair, there being but a slight inden tation where the sockets should be. The colt takes its food, and promises to make a fine eyeless horse, A woman named Mrs, Schultz, living near Morris, Ripley tiounty, was run over and killed by strain bn the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Road the other afternoon. Peck & Abbott’s stave-factory at Lafayette was destroyed bjr fire a few nights ago. Loss, $33,000; insurance $12,-0(X); The following is an invitation to an “sip* i* Warden County; In jim, ■SSrWabast. Cummerci'fil: “too taken'from poly, hiN Ton froM sAllY winNKle, cum over to ower hous to nite as wear agoin to hav a appleculitin an lots and gobs of fnn with the fellers fetch that air citty chap along.” Jackson Wallace was instantly killed and his soli Thomas fatally wounded by Simon Williams, Deputy Sheriff, at Booneville, Warrick County, during a druukeuquarrel, a few nights ago. George Volilef, a restaurant keeper at Rockville, Parke County, was shot and instantly killed l-ecently by Charles Rutledge, a photographer, during a quarrel, At Poolesville, Warren County, Richard Stephens, generally known as “Crazy Dick,” the other afternoon killed his brothel Aaron by sinki ng ail ax in his brain. The deed was aggravated bjr an old grudge held by the perpetrator.

At Terre Haute one day recently papers were filed for divorce iu the suit of Benjamin Taylor vs. Lizzie Taylor, and in tweuty minutes afterward a decree of divorce was entered. This is regarded as the quickest time on record. _y Near Muncie recently a eaj%*of Hercules powder, which was beinc/T&med home by Charles Khoades and Bejach Tinsley, suddenly exploded, blowing Khoades to pieces and mortally injuring Tinsley. The Preachers’ Aid Society connected with the Northern Indiana Methodist Epis-S copal Conference, in session recently a*T Noblesville, Hamilton County, elected the/ following officers for the ensuing year: A. J. Lewellen, President; E. P. Church, VicePresident; J. F. Rhoads, Secretary, and F. F. Simpson, Treasurer. W hile the Van Amburg show was parading the streets in Connersville, Fayette County, the other day a lion in one of the cages became enraged and seized his keeper by the leg, inflicting serious injuries. A large number of hprses and cattle have been poisoned within the past few days in the vicinity of Pekin, Washington County. Several horses had didd and several more would die. At Washington, Daviess County, a few days ago Eli Solomon, a section hand, was run over by a h ami-car and probably fatally injured, A fire a few mornings ago at Geeenfield, Hancock County, destroyed four business houses. Total loss, $10,000; insurance, $2,300. The Hartzell Bros, have forty-eight cows in their dairy near New Haven, perhaps the best four dozen milkers in Allen County. They have one bossy that yields six gallons per day and another that has given eleven hundred gallons in the past year. The firm proposes to add butter-making to other branches of their business. A large bai n belonging to Alexander Thomas, in Union Township, Delaware County, was destroyed by fire the other night, together with four horses, hay, grain and a large lot of agricultural implements and vehicles. Loss, $3,000; no insurance. Near Hazleton, Gibson County, while guests were gathering a few days ago for the marriage of William Galespie and Miss jane Field, her brother-in-law, Joseph Vannostron, took a chill, went to a bedroom and lay down, and in about an hour his wife went to the room and found him dead. The wedding passed off quietly in presence of his sudden death, and the sisters were made one a wife and one a widow it. the short space cf an hour. Alphonso H. Boughtou, residing at Scott’s Station, near Kalamazoo, Mich., committed suicide by cut ting his throat at the Pyle House in Indianapolis a few evenings ago. He was on his way South in quest of health, accompanied tiy a friend. Insanity Wag supposed to be the cause. , In an affray «t Madison, Jefferson County, a few evenings ago, resulting from gambling, Peter Seigel was shot by Samuel Kelso, who immediately surrendered to the Sheriff. The bail entered between the ribs into the cavity of tha left brea it, and recovery was doubtful.

l'arty. a leading . i The Whole Programme iWHarrisburg (£a.> ?>'egmph tetius special home organ of Don Cameron, and, in fact, p£ all the Cameron elan: and its utterances must, therefore, be accepted Mjthe official declarations of the Sl:alwat$ wing of the Republican lay that paper container! ■ le headed ‘1’midential which it- undertakes the of working out a victory the Radical party. of the Telegraph irl reality as affecting ...» . - ,ar Sat-e orie the important contest of next- summer, amt that one is its vifew respecting the part the South will tferii take. Speaking of the Democratic'hopes and the “overweening conlidettpe of our leaders it says: “ They predicate their hopes upon the capture of the States of New York, New Jersey, CouueeHcut and Indiana. Admitting for the sake of argument that these great expectahop next year 1 Now, the I amotints to I in any ] ttons will hblrealhsml, still t>y carrying the States of Virginia and North Carolina, a most probable stinositinn, the Hepnblicans would hate It majorlt} of the Hleetoral vote.” Now, her* we haVe their Whole programme in full; as fe.repianned by the Stalwart Boss of. Pennsylvania; the sot distant Rous of Virginia', who thinks also to tag on to the tail of his little kite N orth Carolina and probably Florida; and in- this also we have the full secret of his declaration to the Committeemen <jf the.Nationai Republican parly of. the South who called upon him; said tot- whouii aetiording to the National bqntblicart, his Washington organ, he gave “some pleasing assurances of sympathy by speaking of * defeating the enemy.’ ” We hake asked repeatedly . what enemy he meant, arid yet have'fciiled to retejve a direct and straightforward answer. but discourse. as there Is but tine enemy to the Republican National party, and that enemy the “Democratic National party,” and the men to whom were given these pleasing assurances were the high representatives of the National Republican party.it follows irresistibly that he meant the “Democratic National party,” and that his declaration was tantamount to” one of full sympathy with the Republican party. Nb other inference can be drawn or is admissible, and so, evidently, hate the Republicans thentseives determined: There was no ambiguity of Speech here. It was no Delphic utterance that could be read in two ways, but a direct and emphatie delaration of sympathy, active and cooperative, with the Republican party, and we do not blame them for accepting it, as they have done, in that light. On this declaration, which, read between the lines,simply says: “Youmay rely upon my assistance in defeating tha Democracy in 1HH1,” the Harrisburg organ of the Stalwarts, Don Canlefoh’s own paper, predicates its belief in the ability of the party iiow iri power; the party of plunder and eorruptioii, to carry Virginia and North Carolina, whereby it will offset a sufficiency of the votes of 'Northern Democratic Statesito elect its President. But, says the paper, “ No one thinks that the people of these Northern manufacturing States named would nip ike risk of a Democratic AdmktfettutvjM National sffiurst,” anti in tjlis WC haw.b further oefrrftf M “ solidity’” vVith that pffrtyTiorm everything he does and says he shows himself the bond-slave (4 theproteetion ninnopolists of those States, and has promised them the vote of Virginia and North Carolina for a tariff that must crush out ail enterprsse and enslave the people to them and their personal interests for yetuS to come, should they succeed in the line marked out by these Stalwarts. And now who doubts longer that Mahone aud his set have Sold themselves fully to the Republican party of the North, and promised, nay, bound themselves, by a strong and unalterablc pledge, to deliter Virginia and other

states of the South over to it in the coming Presidential election? And this being the case, how esto any good Democrat in Virginia, or any one who has heretofore acted with "the “ Boss and his brood,” continue longer in an affiliation so accursed and traitorous to Virginia and the whole South? The proof of the “bargain and sale” is positive, and the treason ean only be crushed by the immediate withdrawal from the imholy alliance they were only induced to make because they desired through that means to rid themselves of a.burdensome debt by''placing it in the wav of a final settlement, on what they believed to be an equitable basis. This object having Been now fully accomplished, Lthese have no longer a single valid excuse for the association they formed with his* gang, and which must be as distasteful to them now as it is degrading.—MicJimond State. A Republican Opinion of Renegades. The Baltimore Herald, which is a Republican journal in its politics, evidently does not take a great deal of stock in the Virgiuia renegades. This paper says that Mahone and Riddleberger, the Virginia Senators, are sad over the small part they will play in the Senate of the United States hereafter. They expected to he the dictators of that body, and to have all their demands on the Admintration honored at sight. _ But they are not so necessary to the Republican party as Mahone seemed to be a year or two ago, at least the party can get along without them; and the Administration is far from being as liberally disposed, in the matter of patronage, as they felt to he a eertainty. The fact is that the so-called coalition between the Republican party and Mahone Repudiation not only did not split the “Solid South ” but has greatly widened the split in the Republican party. That the South has the right to be as solidly Democratic as it chooses is one of the inalienable rights of any section of the country. New England is almost as solidly Republican as the South is otherwise, and no one ever heard the Democratic party, or any prominent individual Democrat,demand that the New Eagand section should be politically split erefor. It would be quite as reasonable to make such-demand, however. Mahono smd Riddleberger are two very small men in all the attributes necessary to greatness; two mean political adventurers! whose every act is inspired by persomd greed of some sort, regardless of the well-being of the State they misrepresent. They will remain ia theSeaate foi the period of their respective terms, but in Virginia, in less than a year, nothing will keep them on the politics! surface but the gases evolved from their putrescent condition. And this is exactly the end to which nil political renegades must come. There is no honesty in politics, is an assertion that is frequently made, but political power is not to be sought as an end only. If it be the purpose of e to get and hold office money that is in it, r party or any other kind < ttarty thus favoring him for the time being! and ' worth to the urn of the 1 man desires to change!

ions, he certainly has a tight to do so. There lijtist, however, be always & clear distinction, it feasoh strung and unmistakable as to the honesty Of purpose if lie hopes to obtain the respect 6f Cither1 the. party he deserts, or the one with which he affiliates. So far as the renegades of Virginia arc concerned, their purposes are too palpable, nor are thC coalitionists of Georgia in a position any the more enviable. Generous Republicans. . The straight-out and so-called Indedeperident Republican papers of the cbuntrjr arc .just at present Very fcttojr giving advice to the beihocratic party, as to' what candidates are Surest for success in the next Presidential eafijpaign, and what issues can best beniade Tooling toward victory. The bland generosity exhibited by'these papers is not more remarkable ‘than the variety of the advice itself. This generosity is all the more remarkable when dissected, ■ because the Republican press have all it can possibly attend to in the next two ! years ih softening the differences trf its own party and in restoring it to public favor and confidence; Vet this generosity is not entirety unappreciated; as it proclaims to the land the fear the g. o. p. have of the Democrats and thg, additional fear, that the people will remember their bitter experience', during the past few years of Republican blundering and misrule. Unfortunately the Variety of advice offered is somewhat confusing, and likliefbtisiy so as' the Republican press itself differs as id the' best poliey, regarding'tlie tariff, for the Democrats to adopt. In fact this difference bf opinion has almost grown to an issue of itself betWeeh the papers ordinarily- devoted to one cause; One paper contains a lengthy editorial oh “Demin cratic Principles;*’ in which the' RepUblican writer advises the Democrats to steer dear of free trade,or anything that approaches free trade, and devote itself to the policy of protection, “to which the country owes its prosperity and present greatness.-’ This advice is defended on the ground that if it is adopted, the Democrats will gain a reputation for wisdom which will-in the end latfd thenl ih the White Hottsc as well as in possession of both branches of Congress; This editor,- ih his generosity,forgets, however; to preafch this policy tt> his own party, probably bfccah.se hfc is one of that great class of Republicans who believe (?) that his party trill be-' come purified by a temporary separation from power. Another paper devotes itself to “The Democratic Opportunity,” in which the Republican editor states that the true policy of the Democratic party is to leave the question of tariff alone and devote itself to such other issues as “may*’ arise. This advice isthonest, because It is undoubtedly suggested by the fact that, had the Republicahs left the RiVer attd Harbor bill and the tariff alone; they Would he better off" to-day. Still another generOtts Republican paper advises free, trade fo"r the Democrats, another moderate protection, and another some new principle of economy not £et discovered. Thhs the Republican press has started quite a. .. ... . te-'giWljtt - more marked. As for the Democrats, they receive this wholesale adyice. with. smiles of gratitude, and with every evidence of still being able to look through the hole in Die grindstone. They Watch the heated discussion . pleasantly and patiently. only stopping to WciUdefi Where it Will all end. The trouble is that the Republican press is devoting its brain to no purpose.—New Hmm Register.

Ia Favor of the Democracy. The general current (it the popular hlifid, iis indicated by the elections, is unmistakably in favor of the Democracy. This is conceded to fee so. Yet our opponents keep up good heart in the face of-all discouraging appearances, based simply on expectation that before another Presidential election sfeall occur the Democrats.will so blonder as to destroy public confidence in their leadership. This indicates our greatest danger, and the time for effectually warding it off is before the ship is near the breakers. One primal fact, deserves to be kept constantly in view. Strongly as men may be .attached, to party, those who lead in the great and substantial business affairs of the country will not allow them to be trifled with at the feebest of any man, however brilliant in leadership or successful in centering the attention of a thoughtless crowd upon lumscH. In the absence of any issue winch takes hold on sentiment the business interest Will be certain to control ' a; Presidential election. Demagogy ami charlatanism or political harlotry may succeed in carrying * local election here and there, but ibis only awakens among wise ami thoughtful men increased vigilance and a more early and determined effort to arrest its progress. and prevent threatened disaster. An effort is to be made, under the plea of danger from corporation and monopoly, to enlist the socalled workingmen of the country into a compact body by means of their organie machinery, and under the form of a great popular movement to nominate a candidate for the Presidency in anticipation of the National conventions of “Democratic and Republican parties and thus force one or the other to adopt the workingman's figurehead. All the discontented elements, the communistic, the lazy, are to be woven into this movement, and the hands of cunning experienced manipulators are al- ! engaged in fusing them so as to m them .an all-important factor in e next campaign. This is emphatically the seed time of political mountebanks. While the people at large are engrossed iff their usual avocations, an enemy is sowing tares all the while, and before the public is aware of it the control of the caucus and convention is liable to be seeured past relief except by open revolt. In this .view, it behooves every honest Democrat to take early cognizance of the basis of hope cherished by the Republicans to which attention has been called, and to guard specially against all entangling alliances with political shysters, however specious their pleas or cunning and skillful they may be in the practice of their art. Let no men be trusted as leaders whose history and record give the lie to their pretensions of special devotion to popular rights and workingmen’s interests. The best protection against imposition from any quarter is every man’s own manhood, and an intelligent control of his own “ion, and this both now and Intelligent business men are Of taking care of'their own in- ' will. They will be slow to leaders who, while loud in for the benefit of other peo~ intent only on grinding axes of own.—Boston fast

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. — There are eleven States In which women can vote for school directors. —Franklin Pierce's old bo’mc, in the outskirts of Concord, N. H,, is to be* transformed into A Fih>tesi»nt Episcopal school for girls, —More than fifty churches in Baltimore are pfoitounced unsafe because their doors open ioust'd, and the hanging of their doors is to be ch®Bjjod. —In the best school in the Statd of New York the pupils have been trying to thrash the master. There seems to be a general misunderstanding as to who is boss in the schools of America. —Louisville Cortricr-'hntrnal. —The number of students in the Presbyterian theological seminaries during the past year is is follows: Princeton, 125; Union, 129: Allegheny, 74; Auburn, 42; Lane, 36; Chicago, 27; Danville, 7; San Francisco, 6; making a total of 446. —Next year, 1884, will be the centennial year of American Methodism. Not that Methodism was introduced here that year, the first society being formed in 1766, but in 1784 the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized, and now the different branches of the church are preparing to eelebra ,e the event. —AreKghms mov ement bearing some resemblance to that of the Salvation Army has begun at Hamburg. Three orthodox clergymen invite people, especially workmen, to meetings by placards with the inscription: "Followers trf Christ, assemble and take up His cross.” The ltie*di«gs are Well attended by men and women of the loWef classes. Free discussion is allowed. —Pennsylvania school-slate makers hate organized an exchange which has advanced prices twenty per cent, all round, The indignation of the juvenile population WiH, doubtless, be arrayed against this protected interest, where a similar action with regard to "’rit kinetics,” “spellers and “grammars” would pass uneritieised. Nervous teachers can lie driven to the verge of resigning by anv.'boy who nnderstands how to drop a slate at the angle moss favorable ttt, Vibration of tone. —The Lowell (Mass.) Mail gives the follow ing statistics for the Congregational churches of that city for 1882: Total Membership, 2,387—659 males, femalesi i,628; absent members reported, 494; dotal additions, 98—7l by profession, and 22 by letter) 44 dismissals and 26 deaths, making a gain of 23; .47 adults and 34 infants were baptized: total -Sunday-school membership, 2,525; total nuffiber of families, 1,238; total charities, $12,045.45} total expenses, $26,520.46; total expenses and charities, $38,565.95. —forty years ago Rev. B. F. Price finished his term as pastor of Middletown and Cantwell’s Bridge (now Odessa), Ya,j thirty-three dollars of his salary being Unpaid, How or why0it wotdil be hard to say, but at the time of the seml-cehtefinial ‘ in January last the salary was' still unpaid. A* the people were then in the debt-paying business, it occurred to spine of the brethren that to $112. 'the Odessa t the Middletown folks not only willing but anxious to joJfl them in this, and so two checks for fifty-site dollars each were at or ce sent,

The C»w Tree.. Sif Joseph Hooker, of London, publishes u description of a tree which has been discovered called the “ cow tree,” whieh gihes tfiilk when an incision is made in the bark. Several of the trees have been brought to England, and they are being watched with much curiosity. Nothing could have been discovered that would more effectually fill the bill, and fill the Wafit lofig felt,"than the cow tree, and we shall herald its introduction into this country with great joy. The parties who are interested in the propagation of the Cow thee eait send ns two or three by express* We do hot waut.fullsized eow trees, but just saplings, or calves. With a few such trees in the front yard the citizen can make up faces at the driver of the Juilk wagon, and bid-him defiance. Instead of going forth in the morning armed with a milk ticket and a tin basin, a man can take his little hatchet and a pail and eut a hole in the cow’tree, sit down under its umbrageous shade and let Nature take its course. The farmer will have no more kieking cows to contend with, but can let his Cow tree milk "itself, while he sits down at the root of his milk-producer and smokes his pipe or piays seven-up with the hired man. “There will be no more hoisting there,” no tail to switch in his face, anu no more will the eow- tree get nervous at having its bag agitated bv the rough id of the fanner, afid k'iek the milkhand < stool through the granger. There will be no more fodder to throw down, no more bran mashes to mix and noealves to wean. The cow tree will take.yvbrk off the tired farmer, and he can*go to town to attend the lodge without hurrying up the milking, as the girls can mind the dairy. It will be a mighty poor girl that can not milk a cow tree. The improvements over the cow will be iffimerous. By building an ice house near the cow tree one can have iee eream. Instead of driving the cows up from the pasture at night "and slopping them, anil sitting cramped up, milking with one hand and fighting mosquitoes with the other, the fanner’s daughter can have a double seat under the eow tree, and take a pail and a lover and | go out to milk, and while the eow tree ; is giving down its blessings the young people can put in the time sparking. No family should be without a cow tree, and we trust the day is not far distant when the old-fashioned cow will only be raised for beef, the ealf that is now more trouble than he is worth will not be tolerated at all, and the cow tree will grow in profusion, always ready to, fill a patent pail full of rich milk, and not hook the daylights out of the milker. In the days that are coming there will be no cow to tie up nights, no danger of a raid on the garden by the horned, four-footed "tramp that unhinges gates, and no cow-bell to keep a whole neighborhood awake nights. We take it lor granted that the eow tree Will not wear a cow-bell, and that it will not bellow mournfully and paw the earth when people are trying to sleep. We hail the eow tree as a brother ind bid it welcome. Good-by, old Brindle. You have been a faithful servant and have fiven milk when you had to, but you ave gone off and got lost vhen most we needed milk, and when you came back you were not worth a continental. You never knew enough to come home without having a barefooted boy sent after yftu, and you would eat leeks when yon knew we were going to have company, and your milk was bad. Step aside, Brinale, and give the sow tree a chance.—Peck's Suit,

FACTS AND FIGURES. —Texas expects to have a population of 4,000,000 in 1890. —The natioual debt of France, #4.683,840,000, is three times as large as ours! ^ —A correspondent of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) tingle says then* are 18,000,000 of spiritualists in the United States. —New Orleans is not generally regarded as a very healthy city, but re-* cent reeonls show the low death rate among the white residents of twenty-one in 1,C£V . \ —It is estnS'ded that Florida’s War product this year WfH ,be about double that of 1883. In that y>V> 41,859,875 cigars were manufacturer), liJKgf which a tax was paid of $251,159.35. —Mr. E. P. Beauchamp, Uniter! States. Consul at St. Galle, Switzerland, raised 10,850 francs for the benefit of the sufferers front the Ohio River fiood. whfich he forwanled to the/New York Hera\i‘. —In the United/States last year thero were publisher! 3,472 books, ' of which 767 were tietion, 836 theological and religious, 2'8 were juvenile, and 378 were on law. Thd fewest number, 31, were on mental and moral philosophy. —The Cable Cdnstrm-tion and Maintenance Company earned almost half a million, clear last year, out of which dividends were paid at the rate of twentv per cent., ami over $300,000 carried over. The laying of» submarine cables evidently is not an unprolitable busi- , nes*. —Investigation shows that iu Utah the Mormon Church has about 130,000 members; in the Western Slates and Territories about 80,000, J»nd in the Sandwich Islands about 7,090. It hai about ninety ohnrebt* in Great Britain, and the denomination is one of the largest in the southern part of Wales. —Probably the largest mass of rock that has ever been transported, not excepting even the bloeks in the Egyptian Pyramids, was that from which was cut the pedestal of the statue of Peter the Great, in St. Petersburg. It was a' block of granite weighing— 8,000,000; pounds, or about 1,500 tons, and wasfound Isolated on marshy ground,about four miles from the Neva. Its shape was that of ait irregular prism, about twenty-four feet high, forty-seven feet long, and thirty feet broad in its largest dimensions. hire, clothing 16 per per cent., eight per ei for lpiscellaneons p matter of food he foui —Heretofore Nevada has furirisbetl moat of the beef consumed in California,! bnfi' It is said thatTexas is making a strong bid for ft, now that railroad com-? munieation has been established therewith- Recently a council of stockmen,* at which Upward of $80,000,000 in cattle were represented, was held at Fort Worth, the object being to devise means to control the California cattle trade. California can no longer be ealled a cattle country, Bs land there is becoming too valuable for other purposes than grazing.—Chicago Times. » —Some one in France has made an estimate of the average cost of living1 among the working classes in that country, and he finds that the expenditures of 16 f .. ‘ ‘ ure registered was 72 per cent., I item of expenditure was thus distributed: 83 per cent, for bread. 14 per cent, for meat, 13 per cent, for milk.' 24 per cent, for groceries and 10 per cent, for miscellaneous ailments. The greatest expenditure upon bread i individual case was 48 per eent. WIT AND WISDOM.

—The theatrical manager is known by the company he keeps.—N. O. Picayune. —It is good consolation to see a plumber compelled to bny something at a retail drug store.—Exchange. —We frequently hear the expression: “ Bee in a bonnet.” Who ever saw bonnet without a B in it?—Boston Star. —First Boy: “Say, do you know why those factory chimneys are so high?” Second^Boy: “Yes, to keep out the water in case of a flood.—Flicgentle Btatief.5 —An old Judge told a young lawyer he would do well to pick some of the feathers from the wings <jf imagination, and stick them into the tap of his judgment. _ —“ How is it that you, a healthy, nw bust woman, come to ask for alms?” “I beg pardon, madam, but I am a poor widow with five or six children.” —Fliegende Blatter. —It gives a New York man an awful start to suddenly observe a clipping : from the Chinese uewspaper which has i been left lying on his table by some mischievous friend. His first thought, | of course, Is that it was a wash bill.Lowell Citizen. —“ Look heah, Thomas Jeflerson, dis heah’s a nice time fo’ you to be gettin’ home,” growled Aunt Polly, as her boy came in long after midnight, “Oh, g’long!” retorted Thomas, “you dunno nuflin. Habn't you nebber hearn dat de darkey’s hour is jes befo’day?”— Texas Siftings. —A New York Judge says cigarette smoking is robbing the young men of their brains. The Boston Transcript complacently remarks that when a young mail says he isn’t afraid df yigarettes hurting him, probably he kikjws what he is talking about. —“Charley,” remarked Jones, “you were born to be a writer.” “Ah!" "replied Charley, blushing slightly at thn compliment; “you have seen some of the things I have turned?” “No,” said Jones; ‘T wasn’t referring to what you had written. I was simply thinking what a splendid ear you hail for cam - ing a pen. Immense, Charley; simply immense!” ^ ‘ —A hungry-looking negro boy, while carrying a bag along the street, saw a dog gnawing a beef bone. “ Whut yer earin’ dat meat right heah on de street fur?” he said. “ Ain’J; yer got no mo’ p’liteness den dis?” and, stooping, he picked up the bone, nut it in his bag and walked away. Alfjk dog looked after him, and the^Hy turning, exclaimed: “Doane yer eflss me; I’se had my eye on yerfor some time.”—Arkansaw Traveller. 8 —A Cincinnati paper says that “one of the most useful yet neglected of all the arts is that of lying in bed.” After a Cincinnati editor, has been lying in the editorial chair all day, or perhaps two-thirds of the night, we shouldn’t think he would worry much about lying in bed. Lying in bed may be a neglected art—especially among tramps—but the mother that has to veil six separate tunes in the morning to get her four-teen-year-old boy out of bed will not be, lieve it.—porristown Herald.