Pike County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 November 1883 — Page 1

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WS IN BRIEF. piled from Various Sources. P ERSONAL AND POICTICA * On tie 20th a decision was rendered e celebrated contest over the will of late Governor Washburn, of VisccnIt is asserted that O’Donnell, Carey’s ••layer, was a Mollie Maguire chief i:a Pennsylvania, Admiral Courbet has all the men lie ‘Wf ; wants in Tonquin. At least hedoes not ask for any more. On the 20th Queen Victoria r. :turned v to Windsor Castle. Extraordinary piecautions were taken to guard the train and line of the railroad. Representative Phelps, cl New .‘Jersey, js made the spokesman of tepublican members of Congress in an effort to secure harmony. He wants ex-Speaker ■ Keifer to decline renomination. In his annual report Admiral Porter criticises the new cruisers lately contracted •for, and recommends the construction of BWift strips with heavy guns end good going qualities under sail. Also, he recommends increased attention to lake defenses. A reprieve Is asked by a nu mber of ‘leading citizens of Newark, N.J., for Chisholm, tins murderer, and Leoft Abbott, Go v-ernor-elect, has-joined in the request. Ex-Senator Augustus C. Dodoe, formerly United States Minister to Spain for eight years, died in Burlihgton, la., the •afternoon of the 20th, after an illness of four days. He was seventy years i)f age. On the 21st Commodore Jbhn M. Berrien, retired officer of the United States •Navy, died at Philadelphia, Pfc., from

paiaijBis. Prince Frederick Willi aji qf Germany will not visit the King of Portugal. On the 21st Commodore Kbuutz, pn> •prietor of the Alleghany (Pa.) Mail, was found guilty of criminal libel. \ A cablegram from Vienna Las been Ireeeived by Theodare Thomas confirming contracts with Frederick Watter ta, Her-,, ipiann Winkelmann and Ejnil Sc jria for [fifty representations of Wagner’s music in i America. Their first performance will lie in Boston in" April. On the 21st Curio Van Troths, who [lately sued the hong Island Railr^jd Company for $50;06(5 damages for iuji rie^ received, was awarded $7,BOO by Ifee Oourt. Prince Frederick Wiliam of Germany has landed at Valencia. James RussEll Lowell was elected Rector of St. Andrews’ University, Eng., 'on the 22d. , Horatio G. Billings, lumbe dealer, "Chicago, has suspended; liabilities $100,000. QN the 22d Secretary Chandler testified in the Proteus investigation. General Hazen was recalled and outlined he testimony he wished to produce in lis own behalf. The Italian brigands who son e weeks - ago captured the Duke of Castlen onto obtaiued $30,000 ransom money. The Quebec lumber firm of S harpbs -Sons A Co. have asked for an extension. Editor Dawson, of the Cha leston, (S. C.) News and Courier. has beer made a Knight of St. George by the Popi: for the stand he has taken against duelling. Surgeon Robert Murray has been appointed'Surgeon-General of the Vrmy. On the 22d the Crown Prince of Germany arrived ig Madrid and was given an exceedingly- cordial reception by all classes of tho populace.* The city was in holiday v attire, the buildings, both public and priv- - ate, being profusely decorated with Spanish and German flags and flowers. It transpires that A. B. Johnson, the Utica (N. Y.) lawyer who suicided recently, was a defaulter for $300,000 to she McDonnell estate of Rochester, N. Y., of which he had entire charge. A DEMAin) has been made on all members of the Canadian Civil Service to take the oath of allegiance, the i ttention of the Government having been ctraWh to the fact that several members had record-' ed their nationality as that of tho United States, while in other cases they have reason to believe an element hostile to British interests is being introduced iu soi oe of the recent appointments. On the 23d a convention of t he hefrs of Waldron, Thomas, Dclavill and others, to whom Governor Nichols, ip he year -1068, granted a large tract of land, which is now known as Morrisiana Flats in New York City, was held in Mansfield, O., and attended by i00 persons. A syndicate has been formed and tho heirs are confident that they can prove their title to his land, wljich embraces 1,000 acres, and is worth $800,000,000.

CRIMES AND CASTTALTIi 3. While drank John W. Bonv ay blew Up John' Long’s house at Dedhai t, Mass., with a keg of powder on the 20th. On the 20th somebody put a dynamite blast under the Delaware salooi: at Danville, Ind., and blew the building o pieces. The steamer Manistee is sup posed to have been lost on Lake Superior with all on board. On the morning of the 21st Edward Payne, cashier of the Rushville (Ind.) National Bank, was shot through th > lung by a burglar in his own house. On the 21st throe firemen wire injured by the fall of a roof at the t lrning of Stickney & Poor’s Spice Mills, B aton. , On the 21st George D. Baur, of Portsmouth, O., a clerk in the railway nail service between Columbus, O., and Ashland, Ky., was arrested charged with: ifling letters. On the 21st George Darrell ind Godfrey Brand were arrested at P ttsburgh, Pa., for attempting to wreck % passenger train on the Pittsburgh & jake Erie Road. An effort to rob Dougherty’: jewelry store at Camden, N. J., was mat s by four men on the 21st, just as the prop ietor was 0 closing up. The attempt failet and one man was captured. At Manistee, Mich., an e [-Deputy Sheriff and a night watchman rho were caught in the act of setting fire 1 > a store have confessed that they were hr ed by the owner to do it It is reported that the Fre »ch brig Vocaberg sank. October 30 in co isequence of a collision. Eighty-eight lives were lost. The American ship Thomas Da a landed twenty-one survivors at Faysl. On the 22d the woollen a id cotton mills at New Albany, Ind., wer partially burned; loss $100,000. V Dispatches of the 22d si, .ted ttmt portions of the cargo of tbe%teai ier Manistee had been found on the sho e of Isle Royale, l#ke Superior, and li tie doubt was felt that she was lost w th all on board. On the 22d, ,at Ashland, a., John Bteinhilber killed Thomas Kerns a boy of Be was hustled into jail justin ape lynching. ttaete

At Columbia, Pa., on the morning1 of the 21st two freight trains collided. David Mower, a brakeman, was fatally injured and an engine, a caboose and se ven cars were wrecked. On the night of the 21st Jacob D. Crouch, his son-in-law. and daughter, and Moses Policy, a Texan who was staying with the family, were chloroformed and murdered in bed at Jackson, Mich. Crouch and Polley bad both received large amounts of money, which the murderers are supposed to have secured. A negro who lived in the house has been arrested. A collision caused by an open switch occurred on the Alabama Great Southern Road the morning of the 22d. Several persons were killed. The British Superintendent of the Nicobar Islands were shot dead by a Sepoy officer recently, who immediately committed suicide. On the morning of the 28d an old man and his wife were found murdered near Hiokman, Ky.' Robbery was the motive. An expresg train on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Philadelphia on the night of the 23d struck a wagon, killed Mrs. Christiana Frey, aged fifty-two years, her son William, aged twenty-four, and fatally injured William Frey, Sr. MISCELLANEOUS. . It is reported that the mines in which the strike occurred at Menominee, Mich., will shut down for the winter. In Thorn, Prussia, fifty persons have trichinosis. Tffe American hog is vindicated again. On the 20th Tom Blake a%d Edward Gearing, noted thieves, escaped from the Penitentiary at Rirersidg, Pa. . A scheme to swincfle tax-payors has been detected among the clerks in the Auditor’s office at Cincinnati. The Northern Pacific Railway stockholders have ratified the action of the board regarding the new 120,000,000 loan. The trial of Poole for murder in Dublin resulted In a conviction on the 20th, On receiving sentence the prisoner called for !, three cheers for the Irish republic. On the 20th the speech from the throne in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies was coldly received, and the financial measures brought forward were severely criticised. It is reported that L. M. Fnmford, dealer in buggies and agricultural implements at Kalamazoo, Mich., who failed a few weeks ago, has been arrested on complaint of an Auburn, N. Y., firm who charge him with embezzlement. ^ The people of Toronto, Ont., continue to protest against the influx of pauper immigrants. They want , the British Government to refund what it will cost Canada to take care of these people. The system of government railways in Prussia is making money. A bill providing fqr further purchase of roads is to be brought forward.

On the 20th Jacob A. Nebmger wsa convicted in the United States Court at Philadelphia of embezzling Government funds while Postmaster at Steeiton, Pa. On the 20th H. H. Shepley, Fred Erby, J. H. Cook and B. Frank Moore, who represented different lotteries in Chicago, found guilty" of sending forbidden lie mails. Sentenoe was 30th the breaking out of war with China was apparently only the question of a few hours. During the yellow fever epidemic the total number of cages at Brewton, Ala.,was seventy-five; deaths twenty-eight. On the 21st thirty thousand chests of tea were sold in New York. United States Marine Hospital Sturgeon Van Zandt, at San Francisco, Cal., reports two cases of yellow fever at. that institution. It is reported that the Mississippi Valley Bank at Vicksburg, Miss., has suspended. Recent proposals made by China on the Tonquin question are not acceptable to the French. The injunctions against the issue of Che Northern Pacific Bail way second mortgage have been dissolved. It js reported that the Core an Embassy arS short of funds, and trying to borrow $10,000 from the United States Treasury. * It is now proposed by the Canadians to send back undesirable immigrants to the places from which they came. A wealthy farmer named Johu A. Lihe, living near Vincennes, Ind., is reported as having eloped with a Mrs. William Antler. He leaves a family and is supposed to have gone West. On the 21st an exceedingly severe storm prevailed over a wide area of country. Railroad washqpts were numerous and telegraph service was i miieded. At Piedmont, Mo., two women and three children were drowned and much property destroyed. At Fredericktown, Mo., the freshet was the highest known in seventy years. Serious damage is reported from many towns. At Indianapolis ill is estimated at $350,000. A circular letter has been sent by China to the powers setting forth that if the French invade Northern Attain they will be opposed by Chinese troops. The suits of the Governn\ent against Star-route Contractor Fnnk, of Philadelphia, have been compromised for $928. A demonstration will be made by the French f eet on the Chinese coast during the advance on Bac Ninh. An address, has been issued by a Spanish republican society threatening revolution it universal suffer&go is not

granted. The Coke-vr^rH property of Mount Pleasant, Piu, have been bought by H. C Frick & Co. The Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia and the West Shore Roads are to form part of a new trunk line to Chicago. In the inquest on the Wisconsin State-house disaster the Coroner's Jury holds Contractor Nolan responsible for gross negligence, and Architects Jones and Koch for designing the interior without due regard to safety during construction. s Captain Obid Huey, of the bark Florence, is held under bail in Boston, Mass., on a charge of fatally beating the vessel's steward, John Dibbold. The National Cotton Growers’ Convention' assembled at Vicksburg, Miss., on the 21st. The delegates were fowneilly welcomed by Governor Lowery; ex-Chief Justice Simrall. ot the Supreme Court welcomed tljem on behalf of the city of Vicksburg; Colonel F. C. Morehead delivered the annual address, and the venerable fxC+overnor JL Patton, of Alabama, responded on behalf of the Convention to Governor Lowery’s address. There were a bout BOO "delegates present. CWjtho 22tJ a cave 700 yards ilong ooat the Logan colliery, Ashland, Pa. Th^ Peruvian Government, recently organised, has had a ministerial crisis aliancis has been informed by China that an attack on Bac Ninh will t« considered catvt belli.

On the 22d the new Importers’ and Grocers’ Exchange opened in New York. It is now said the Northwestern Land Company will only buy 2,500,000 acres of Canadian Pacific lands. It is not thought that an early adjustment of differences between the windowglass manufacturers and blowers at Pitts-, burgh, Pa., will be reached. It in probable the factories will not resume this year. All restrictions on delivery in pitching have been abolished by tie League Base Ball Association. On the 28d extensive forest litres were reported near Huntington, Fa. For duplicating pay accounts Captain McKibban of the Fifteenth Infantry is to be court-martialed. On the 2'2d' the police and military were called out to suppress an an U-German demonstration at Prague. On the 22d a new process for the manufacture of Bessemer- steel was begun at Homestead, Pa.

xor the year 1883 the receipts of bituminous coal at Pittsburgh, Pa., will be about 1,400,0% tons, a falling off of 100,000 tons from last year’s receipts. Shipments show a decided increase. On the 23d Andy Taylor, the last of the three notorious Tennessee desperado brothers, who killed two shoriffs, was hanged at Loudon, Tenn, He made a desperate effort to murder another Sheriff on the 22d. Further reports of flood damages cothe in from all quarters. The Wabash Valley is inundated and small streams eveywhere are swollen to rivers. Recent reports of the utter rout of the army of Hicks Pasha by the False Prophet in the Soudan are confirmed. A force for home deienseis being organized in the Province of Yun Nan, China. A war-ship of the revolutionists has been destroyed by the Haytien steamer Dessalmes. The police arrested a Socialist in London on the 23d and found two infernal machines in his house. The Presidents of the Boston banks have held a meeting and decided that they want a bankrupt law passed. The forces of the False Prophet in the Soudan are said to have been organized by a Frenchman named Soulier. On tho 23d J. Phipps, a condemned murderer, escaped from the jail at Sandwich, Canada. The British squadron in the Mediterranean has been ordered to support Egyptian interests cm the Red Sea. On the 23d another Liverpool cotton firm succumbed in consequence of the Morris Ranger failure. It was reported on the 23d that a hundred sacks of mail were undistributed at Portland, Ore. There is a complaint of mismangement in the postal Service over the Northern Pacific. It is proposed by the Egyptian Government to send a strong force to open communication with Khartoum. At Kingston, Canada, nine Salvation Army constables have been sworn in to preserve order at the army meetings. Several of the inmates of tjje Indianapolis Blind Asylum were slightly poisoned recently by some unwholesome food. A Paris digpgteh says the Chigesq sign Secretary that war between France and China is unavoidable. On the 23d Andy Taylor was hanged at Loudon, Tenn. It was the first private execution in the State, the gallows being hidden by screens. For the seven days ending thp 23d the business failures throughout the United States and Canada, numbered 247, against 235 for the previous week. A manufacturer in Pennsylvania, who neglected to put up a fire escape when notified, has been mulcted for $10,003 damages by an employe who was crippled in escaping from his burning factory. The effect of tho recent massacre in the Soudan has been to call in question the propriety of the proposed withdrawal of British troops from Egypt. In the year ended November 1 there were 202 National Banks organized; the total number in operation, 2,522. Charters of 976 banks expire in the next two years. In Siberia political prisoners are represented as going mad and committing suicide on account of the treatment they receive."

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Sergeant Mason was pardoned by the President on the 24th. Roux de Froissinet, a Paris banker, has failed for 18,000,000 francs. Charles Trum shot himself on the 25th at his sweetheart’s grave at Pittsburgh, Pa. About 1,200 street lamps in. Boston havo been displaced by electric light. The American Bishops at Rome were given a banquet by Cardinal Jacobiui on the 24th. The German Government has recently ordered 100,009 tons of railroad material. i The Khedive of Egypt wants to discuss the boundary question with King'John of Abyssinia. John W. Mackey has been inspecting the railroad and harbor facilities of Galveston, Tex. 1 O’Donnell, Carey’s slayer, took out his naturalization papers at Youngstown, O., October 19,1876. The new Manitoba railroad bridge across the Mississippi at St. Paul, Minn., is of stone arches. It is 2,100 feet long and cost $600,000. A grand military. review of 15,000 troops, with seventy-five guns, was held at Madrid on the 25th in honor of the Crown Prince of Germany. The fiftieth anniversary of the running of the first locomotive on the Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad is to be celebrated early next year. The Viceroy of Nanking has been ordered to begin hostilities against the French in the event of an attack on Bac Ninh. Gaunter won the billiard match witn Daly at Brussels on the 25th by a score of 3,000 to 2,839. Another match: is to be played at Lyons. The adoption of the new time standard is only preliminary to the adoption of a uniform code of signals among the railroads. -t The hoisting works of the Sumner Mining Co., burned on the 25th in California. Loss, $750,000. * The production of steel rails in Austria will reach 193,000 tons this year, an increase of 50,000 tons. ,, Electric light wires are being placed underground on one of the principal avenues Hi Philadelphia, Pa. Tests of American and English steel rails, laid side by side for thirteen years in Pennsylvania, show that the former aro the more durable. Minister Wallace has made fresh complaint to the Porte because oi delay in bringing to justice the assailants of American missionaries, .

THE CHARGE IN TIME. The New Time Adopted by Moat of the Railroads of the Country at Noon on November IS—Only Five Instead of (as Formerly) Fifty-throe Kinds of Time— The Arrangement la Divisions—The Difference Calculated for Many Cities. We are indebted to the ■'courtesy of the Chicago Tribune for the’map given below, explaining the standard time which has been adopted by the railroads of the North American Continent . In connection with the map the Tribum also published the table given below, showing the difference between the new time and the local or solar time of the leading cities of the country. A change in time, says the Tribune, somewhat similar to that which is now effected in America, was brought about in England as long ago as January 13, 1848, and a reform could no longer be delayed in this country owing to the complications arising under the old dispensation. It may not be generally known that the railroads of t&is country have been conducted of late years under fifty-three diflerent kinds of time, the difference between the times being very slight in some instances, but enough to make people miss trains repeatedly, besides causing other inconvenience. FIVE GRAND DIVISIONS). The fifty-three kinds of time were represented on the old railroad maps by an elaborate system of colors which would confuse an ordinary observer. Under the new system there are five

Central time. Pacific time, based upon the 120th meridian, is two hours slower than Central time. The several meridians are indicated upon the map, as well as the territory included in the different divisions. The irregularity in the boundaries is caused by the various roads wishing to adopt as their standard the time of the meridian nearest to which the greater number of their lines are situated. VALUE OP THE TABLE. It may be stated that many of the towns in Illinois and Iowa are run on Chicago time, which the railroads running trom this city introduced. The tables herewith printed show the difference between the solar time of those towns and the standard time. This explanation may prevent the towns in question from confounding the Chicago six hours: the 105th,seven hours; and the tirife, which they now use, with their solar time. STANDARD TIME-TABLE. U.S. INTER-COtONIAt, TIME. 14 2B faster than Halifax, N. S. 31 4S faster than St. Johns, N. P. 24 14 faster than 8t Johns, N. B. EASTERN TIME. 18 ATM slower than Portland. Me. 15 46 slower than Boston, Mass. 14 24 slower than Providence, R, L 14 431-5 slower than Newport, B, L 8 IT slower than Hartford. Conn. 8 14 slower than New Haven, Conn. 15 5 slower than Quebec, Can. 5 44 slower than Montreal, Can. 2 40 faster than Ottawa, Can. IT 24S faster than Toronto, Can. 3 5'.' slower than New York City, N. Y. 5 52 slower than Albany, N. Y, 15 40 faster than Buffalo, N. Y. 0 40 faster than Philadelphia, Fa. T 20 faster than Harrisburg, Pa.

10 88 faster than Hudson, Wis. 8 48 Flower than Waupaca, Wis. 4 20 slower t'mn Dartfcrd, Wls. 4 84 Blower ihan£Berlin, Wis. 6 12 slower than Neenah, Wis. 4 48 slower than Ripon, Wis. 5 4 slower than Watertown, Wis. 5 8 slower than Waupun, Wis. 5 48 slower than Depere, Wis. 2 ,32 slower than Madison, Wis. 12 28 slower than Craw’fdrdsville, Ind. 16 4 slower than Elkhart, Ind. 9 44 glower than Evansville. Ind. 19 24 slower than Fort Wayne, Ind. 16 40 slower than Goshen, Ind. 12 32 slower than Greencastle, Ind. 15 28-islirwer than Indianapolis, Ind. 17 4 slower than Jeffersonville, Ind. 12 24 slower than Lafayette, Ind. 15 28 slower than Kokomo, Ind. 14 28 slower than Logansport, Ind. 18 24 ,slower than Madison. Ind. 12 28 Slower than Michigan City* Ind, 18 24 slower than Muucie, Ind. 16 38 slower than New Albany, ind. 14 41 slower than Plymouth, Ind. J5 40 slower than Peru, Ind. 9 40 Blower than Princeton, Ind. £0 24 slower than Richmond, Ind. 16 20 slower than Seymour, ind. 10 24 slower than Terre Haute, Ind. 11 48 slower than Valparaiso, Ind. 11 20 slower than Washington, Ind. 13 24 faster than Albert Lea, Minn. 13 24 faster than Anoka. Minn. 11 40 faster than Austin, Minn. 8 16 faster than Du uth, Minn. 12 56 faster than Faribault, Minn. 11 12 faster than Hastings, Minn. 9 4 faster than Lake Citjtf Minn. 15 48 faster than Mankato, Minn. 13 0 faster than Minneapolis, Minn. 10 0 faster than Red Win#, Minn. 9 44 faster than Rochester, Minn. 11 "4 faster than Stillwater, Minn. 12 8 faster than St. Paul, Minn. 6 28 faster than Winona, Minn. 29 28 faster than Yankton, D. T. 28 b2 faster than Fort Gary, Man. 1*86 faster than Dubuque, la. 13 16 faster than Des Moines, la. 4 24 faster than Burlington, la. 5 82 faster than Keokuk, la. 23 £0 faster than Council Bluffs, Ta. 12*40 faster than Mason City. la. 9 9 32 faster than Ottumwa. Ia.

divisions of time on the North'American Continent: Intercolonial, embracing Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; Eastern, taking in the New England States, New York, . Pennsylvania and the States south of Pennsylvania; Central, including Illinois, O&io, Indiana, Missouri and the States north and south of them; Mountain, comprising the roads west of the Missouri River m the mountains; and Pacific, taking in the lines on the Pacific coast. THE FIVE COLORS. The five colors can not be 'given in the map presented above, but the divisions are marked by shades, and the change will be comprehended at a glance when these facts are recalled. The time in which the earth revolves upon its axis Is divided into twenty-four equal parts, termed hours, and for convenience in measuring distances the distance around the earth from East to West is divided into 860 parts, called degrees of longitude. The surface of the earth, therefore, travels as many degrees in one hour as twentyfour is contained times in 360, or fifteen. From this it is seen that there is a difference of one hour actual time between each succeeding fifteen der grees of longitude around the earth, faster going east and slower going west. FIFTEEN DEGREES AN HOUR. The railroad officials of the Continent decided to adopt as their standard of regulation the time of the Greenwich Observatory, London, England, and as the longitude in which their roads were situated was so many times fifteen degrees westward from Greenwich, they made their standard of time that many hours slower than Greenwich time. Hence the 60th degree of longitude is four hours slower than Greenwich time; the 75th, five hours slower; the 90th, 120th,eight;hom 3—thus makiry -e different standards between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. These five standards are shown on the map in the order just mentioned, viz.: Intercolonial, Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific time. MERIDIANS. The 90th meridian, on which Central time is based, is nine minutes slower than Chicago solar time. The 75th meridian, which gives Eastern time, is one hofir faster than Central time, or four minutes slower than New York City solar time. Inter-colonial time, being based upon the 60th meridian is two hours faster than the Central time. Mountain time, which is based upon the 105th meridian, is one hour slower than

20 10 8-15 faster than Pittsburgh, Pa. 6 28 faster than Ba.timore, Md. 8 11-5 faster than Washington, B. C, 9 60 faster than Richmond, Va. 22 48 faster than Wheeling. W. Va. 14 40 faster than Raleigh, N. C. 19 48 faster than Charleston. S. C. CENTRAL TIME. 9 30 slower than Chicago, 111. 1 28 slower than Springfield, til. 6 44 slower than Aurora; 111. 7 44 slower than Joliet, 111. 8 44 slower than Waukegan, 111. 6 66 slower than Elgin. 111. 3 40 slowor than Rockford, 111. 1 36 slower than Freeport. 111. 1 40 faster than Galena, 111. 2 4 slower than Dixon, 111. 3 32 slower than Mendota, 111. 2 12 slower than Prlncoton, III. 2 16 faster than Rock Island, I1L 2 92 faster than Galesburg, III. 6 32 faster than Quincy, 111. 2 44 faster than Macomb, 111. 4 40 slower than Streator, 111. 1 32 Blower than Peoria, til. 0 66 fuster than Jacksonville, 111. 3 52 slower than Bloomington, l1* 5 24 slower than Pontiac, 111. 7 8 slowor than Urbana. 111. 2 28 slower than Lincoln, 111. 4 8 slower than Decatur, 111. 9 28 slower than Danville, 111. 3 32 slower than Vandalia, 111. 3 20 slower than Cairo, 111. 27 48 slower than Detroit, Mich. 24 16 slower than Saginaw, Mich. 30 16 slower than Port Huron, Mich. 24 48 slower than Flint, Mich. 17 20 slowe£than Grand Rapids, Mich. 15 8 slower than Grand Haven, Mich. 21 48 slower than Lansing, Mich. 28 48 slower than Pontiac, Mich. 25 4 slower than Ann Arbor, Mich. 22 20 slower than Jackson, Mich. 21 24 slower than Hillsdale, Mich. 20 6 slower than Marshal, Mich. 19 8 slower than Battle Creek, Mich. 17 40 slower than Kalamazoo, Mich 14 66 slower than Niles, Mich. 23 56 slower than Adrian, Mich. 19 62 slower than Coldwater, Mich. 25 28 slower than Ypsilanti, Mich, 15 4 slower than Muskegon. Mich. 14 18 slower than Pentwater, Mich. 14 40 slower than ManiMee, Mich. 1 12 Blower than Mackinac, Mich. . 12 20 slower than Escannba, Mich. 13 50 slower than Manistique, Mich. 14 00 slower than Marquette, Mich. 2 44 slower than Ontonagon, Mich. 6 48 slower than Eagle River, Mich. 8 24 slower than Milwaukee, Wis. 8 52 slower than Racine, Wis. 6 56 slower than Oskpsh, Wis. 6 20 slower than Fond du Lac. Wis. 9 24 slower than Manitowoc. Wis. 6 16 slower than Menasha, Wis. 7 62 slower than Green Bay, Wis. 1 52 slower than Stevens Point, Wis. 1 24 slower than Wausan, Wis. 3 32 faster than Ashland, Wife 9 12 Blower than Sheboygan, Wis. 6 8 slower than Oconomowoc, Wis.8 16 slower than Geneva.-I.ake, Wis. 3 66 slower than Janesville, Wis. 4 66 faster than La Crosse, Wis. 5 52 faster than Eau Claire, Wis. 3 54 slower than Beloit, Wife 6 44 slower than Waukesha, Wis. 8 44 slower than Kenosha, Wife 9 20 slowor than Menomonee, Wis. 8 8 slower than Oconto, Wife _ 3 16 faster than Black River Falls, Wis. 8 12 fasten than Superior City, Wis. 6 28 slower than Appleton, Wis. 4 S3 faster than Prairie dn Chlen, Wis. I 8.slower than Baraboo, Wis. 5 24 faster than Chippewa Falls, Wis.

6 36 faster than Cedar Rapids, la. 9 12 faster than Waterloo, la. 1] 33 faster than Marshalltown, la. 6 4 faster than Iowa City, la. ® 2 18 faster than Davenport, la. 25 33 faster Sioux City, la. 33 2 slower than Cleveland, O. 27 54 slower than Columbus, O. 21 48 6lower than Cincinnati, O. 25 48 slower than Toledo, O. 20 36 slower than Frankfort, Ky. 16 66 slower t han Louisville, Ky. 21 48 slower than Lexington, Ky. 12 48 slower than Nashville, Teno. 24 20 slower than Knoxville. Teun. 19 0 slower than Chattanooga, Tenn. The same as Memphis, Tenn. 36 40 slower than Savannah, Ga. 22 0 slower than Atlanta, Ga. 22 48 slower than Tallahasseo, Fla. 34 40 slower than St. Augustine, Fla. 14 52 slower than Montgomery, Ala. 7 44 slower than Mobile, Ala. 23 40 faster than Omaha, Neb. 26 44 faster than Lincoln, Neb. 24 0 faster than Jackson, Miss. 3 8 faster than Vioksburg. Miss. 6 16 faster than Natchez, Miss. 0 8 faster than New Orleans, La. 4 28 faster than Baton Rouge, La. 29 8 faster than Austin, Tex. 33 52 faster than San Antonio, Tex. 19 12 faster than Galveston, Tex. 19 36 faster than Talequah, Ind. Ter. 8 41 faster than Little Rock, Ark. 1 0 faster than St. Louis, Mb. 8 40 faster than Jefferson City, Mo. 18 28 faster than Kansas City. Mo. 19 24 faster than St. Joseph, Mo. 19 44 faster than Leavenworth, Kan. 21 44 faster than Topeka, Kan. 30 40 faster than (Atchison?) Kan. MOUNTAIN TIME. 6 4 slower than Deadwood, D. T. 16 56 slower than Bismarck, D. T. 23 59M faster than Fort Benton, M.T. 27 46 faster than Virginia City, M. T. 112 slower than Cheyenne. VT. T. 27 36 faster than Salt Lake City, Utah. 0 2 7-15 slower than Denver, Cbl. 5 4 faster than Leadville, Col. 4 40 faster than Sauta Fe, N. M. 23 40 faster than Tucson, A. T. 29 44 faster thau Presoott, A. T. , 1 213-15 slower than Chihuahua, Mex. 20 53 faster than Guaymas, Mex. PACIFIC TIME. 12 0 faster than Olympia, W. T. 9 60 faster than Portland, Ora. 14 40 slowor than Boise City, Idaho. 1 40 slower than VirginiaCity, Nev. , 9 37 faster than San Francisco. Cal. 55 44 faster than Sacramento, Cal. —A curious provision appears in the will of John Gilpin, probated recently in Kittauning, Pa. He bequeaths one hundred dollars annually to St. Maryfs Catholic Church, of Kittanning, “to be given on Christman day, each year,provided the bell of said church is rung for one hour on October 8 of every year, and on failure to ring said bell for three cousecutive years the bequest ceases.” October 8 is the dead man’s birthday.— Philadelphia Press. —The meanestTnan has been found in Atlantic City, N. J. He pulled his daughter’s teeth out to keep her from going with a voung man.—If. Y, Sun,

Republican Pretense. There is nothing new in the attempt of the Republican press ancl leaders to perpetrate a fraud on their readers respecting the result of the late election. They are, perhaps, only a little more than usually shameless in this instance. They rest their pretense on this occasion on' the outcome in New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. As to New York, on the general ticket the Democratic majority will be above the average given successful Democratic candidates—except that given Grover Cleveland last year—for a period of thirty years. This’ leading and controlling fact is attempted to be obscured because Mr. Maynard, the Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, who-for special and known reasons ran thirty thousand behind his ticket, was possibly defeated. He was a Prohibitionist, and the liquor men and others of his party determined to defeat him, and to that end raised and expended a very, large sum of money. The contest which showed the real strength of the parties in New York, as. every Republican knqws, was in the election of . Comptroller, State Treasurer, Engineer and Surveyor and Attorney-General.' Each of these State officers the Democrats elected by majorities probably as large as that given Mr. Tfldeh over Hayes in 1876. But the Republicans, we are reminded, have wiped out the Democratic majority in the Legislature and claim to have control of that body. But they do not mention the fact that on account of the wretched local dissensions in New York City between Tammany and the county Democracy there were two Democratic pandidates against one Republican In each of seven Senatorial districts and in twenty-four Assembly districts, and that thus divided, the Democrats threw away the Legislature, if that body is r.eally lost to the Democracy. There is, therefore, every reasou to believe that in a Presidential year the State will vote Democratic, as if has just voted on the general State ticket.

as to rennsyivan a, tne. known .Republican majority of 37,000, as shown in the last Presidential election, was cut down to one-third that amount, the re-’ suit having ho other significance than to show that Republican power in that State is gradually and surely waning. The i;esult in Massachusetts, so far as it shows anything of party strength, indicates that that State is also tending toward the Democratic party. The last time the Democrats ran a ‘candidate of their own party for Goverftbr was in 1881. Thompson, Democrat, was defeated that year by 42,000. Last year tlfe Republicans—except for Governorelected their candidates for State offices by majorities ranging from 17,000 to 25,000. In the present Legislature— elected a year ago, the Republicans have sixty majority oh jo'nt ballot. The dispatches say this majority was much reduced on Tuesday. This is not a matter of much consequence, but it shows which way the political current sets even in New England. The defeat of Butler has no sort of relevaney to party divisions. There were 40,000 votes difference between his vote last year and that of Democrats on the sasne ticket. , a.... - in Virginia and have the obvious and important meaning that no effort-, honest or dishonest, with or without the aid of Federal patronage, can wrest even one Southern State, by any possibility, from the Democratic column. It effectually snuffs put the last* vestige of rational hope of Republicans that they can get one single electoral Vote from the old slave States. This is by far the most important matter involved in Tuesday’s election, and it in effectually settled in favor of the Democratic party. The Democratic victory in Maryland, in New Jersey, in Chicago, the groat reduction of the Republican majorities in Minnesota and Nebraska are lightly skipped over and intentionally obscured for the characteristic purpose of deception. Such tactic^ are the unerring evidences of weakness, V These facts show that the Republican leaders are never above the perpetration of a fraud in connection with an election. If they can not achieve success by fraud they will not hesitate to put up a fraudulent claim to success. Fraud is a factor they instinctively rely uppn. —St. Louis Republican. What Has the Democratic Party Done l Before the Ohio election the Cincinnati. Commercial Gazette askgd what the Democratic party had done for the country during the past twenty-live years. Of course, it is easy to ask a question like that, and in connection with the fact that the Democrats have been given very limited opportunity to do much directly for the eountry in that time, the question is comparatively a safe one on the eve of election. But it is not intended for thoughtful men. They know that in the mad riot of Republican passions immediately succeeding the war, the result that the war brought about Wduld have beeu thrown away, and a condition of affairs but little better than anarchy would have ensued had notlhe Democratic party been a constant cheek upon constitutional encroachment and upon the wanton wastefulness that was

•one of the dominant resultant evils of the war. We are glad that Senator Bayard in his speech at Orange, N. J.,Tuesday night, dwelt upon the true service and value of the Democratic party since the war. It fully answered all such foolish andimpudent questions and sneers as that which stijtplies the reason for this article. Mr. Bayard said:" “ The Democratic party has had great usefulness simply by standing upon the principles of restraint upon power. What will history say of the events of the last lifteen years? It will say that those men who, in minority and defeat, held fast to the principles of constitutional liberty, are the men who really saved the Union. There is not to-day a problem of finance or economy which gives us trouble or calamity that can not be traced b&ek to a violation of the limitations on power placed by the Constitution. Do you believe that the giving of the vote to the negro immediately after his enfranchisement—without education, without preparation—was* anything else than to obtain an e*t£usion of power in those States where tne negroes were numerous? It was a hypocrital act. Sa was the Civil-rights bill, which was a disingenous attempt to interfere with the police duties of the States for the purpose of binding the negro to the Republican political car. If these laws were not being every day declared unconstitutional this Republic wouliL be doomed. Instead of a United State * we would b&ve a United State—a unit instead of a Union.” This is a sharp, strong and discriminating presentation of important facts. It is this restraint upon power that has won by sure degrees the confidence of a people embittered and demoralized by the most tremendous internal strife in the world’s [ history, until at last twenty-six of tho

United States have Democratic Gover* nors and the American people have solid ground for the now general expectation that the next President will be a Democrat. Yes, within the last twenty years the Democrats have done their full share to preserve the integrity of the Unions and though they have struggled against great odds and a des- * perate opposition, with many mistakes, no doubt, they have made constant progress, and the party will stand again as it has stood before, and as it ought to stand, the party of the Constitution, the party of the people, the party in whose abiding principle alone lies the perpetuity of our republican form of Government. —Boston Post. Democratic Arithmetic. ^ Under the new Congressional apportionment the Electoral vote in 1884 will be as follows:

Alabama...... Arkansas. California.. .. Colorado. Connecticut... Delaware_ Florida... Georgia.... Illinois.. Indiana.. Jowa.. Kansas.. .... . Kentucky.. Louisiana... Maine.. Maryland...*. Massachusetts. Michigan. Minnesota. Mississippi.. 10 8 3 m 3 4j 12 5 18 9 13 8 « 8 £ 9

Missouri...;. Nebraska. Nevada. New Hampshire_ NewJersoy...;. New York.A. 36 North Carolina. 11 Ohio...*.. 23 Oregon. *. 3 Pennsylvania..... .. 38 iihode Island.:. 4 South Carolina*. 8 Tennessee_V.. 13 Texas.(A. 13 Vermont... 4 Virginia. J3t West Virginia.:...,.. 8 Wisconsin... . 11 Total. .401

ine ooutnern otnies, moso wuicn in the campaign of 1880 were classified for partisan purposes, as “the solid South!’—are Alabama*. Arljfinsas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia. Kentucky, Louisiana,-Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. They will give the Democratic candidates for President and Vice-President 153 votes, which is 48 less than the number necessary to a choice. The Northern States to which t^e Democracy must look for these 48 tiefes are the following:

iUifornia__ 8 >lotado. 3 Dimecticiit..6 idiana.15 evada. 3 Now Jersey......... 9] • Total..

New York. 38 Ohio. 21 Oregon. 3 Pennsylvania. 30 Wisconsin..'.. 11 .14fv

Of these States three (California, Nevada and New Jersey) cast their Electoral vote for Hancock in 1880. Several, of the others, more importanton account of their Electoral strength. •have since been in Democratic line,"and still others have shown rapid Demf jr cratie promise. With National issues iA' the balance and the factional quarrel^v ^ engendered l]y local questionsout of the X way, there are strong Democratic ’ probabilities in a majority of the eleven Northern States tabulated^ above, and Democratic possibilities in all of them. Ohio leads oft' with a Democratic majority of twelve thousand in a full vo1 in tire year immediately preceding tty of the Presidential election. The sig of Democratic promise in this Stai were never before so brilliant. The head of the Republican ticket is elected in New York, flut the Democrats have the larger share of State o8i< and the Legislators is Repu largely through the manner in the State is districted. New Yi Republican party." The Repub have not regained their ground, an New York is left a battle-ground to 1881. with the advantages in' favor of the Democracy. New Jersey' rqmqihs Democratically steadfast, aruN^iay be counted on for 1881. We may also look for Nevada and California again. The comparatively unimportant election in Pennsylvania this year does not obliterate the warlike attitude and tri-f a umph of the Democracy in 1882, Indiana is a Democratic Stahg^brfl the performance in Connecticut tm^^^ year does not leave us in despair as to the land of wooden nutmegs and steady habits. Then there are fighting chances In Colorado and Oregon, and it is worth the trouble to keep the Democratic flag floating in Wisconsin, and even in Massachusetts and two or three other States which are not mentioned in the possible eleven. * The vote of New York and New Jet's—' sey added to that of the Southern States wqnld lack only three votes of ^ giving the Democrats tho President. Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey and California can do it. New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Indiana, all going. Democratic, would - give the Democratic candidate a majority, and thirty-five to spare. Indiana, California, New Jersey, Nevada, Connecticut, Colorado and Oregon, united for Democracy, would “come within one of it.” This leaves out New York and Ohio. If New York and Indiana" cast their fifty-one votes for the Democratic candidates they will be elected, without regard to what other Northefn States may do. sJ * •' All this, of course,.on theyheory that the “Solid South” will be solidly Demo- ® cratic, and we may certainly count on that as reasonably as we did in 1876 and 1880. . ■ ’ ;; s The great battle-grounds will be New York, Ohio and Indiana. These are the States'in which tho Democrats have ) greatest hopes, and if their campaign is wisely managed they will be careful to maintain for contingencies, the Democratic hold on such States as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California and Nevada, and cultivate the seed which has been sown in Connecticut, Massachu

setts, etc. > It will be observed that there is scarcely any way of stating Jit6 situation to make it look unfavorable to the Democracy. There is much in the^_ arithmetic of the case that invites th^fie^ publican partv to fold its tents and nrhe pare to meander.—Cincinnati Enquirer. —A kiight of the jack-knife is George Hancock, of Suftield, Conn. ,He has recently linished a piece, made with a common jack-knife, 2J inches in diameter, representing three stars, and containing 63 pieces. The points are all inlaid. He has in construction a box which has already -1,052 distinct pieces, and it is only about half completed, and has many other specimens of his handiwork with which he whiles away a spare ■ - hour or so.—New Haven Register. jf —The deepest sea-sounding cvet made, says the Seienlijtc American, was made in the Pacific Ocean, near the entrance to Behrings Sea. Bottom was struck at 4,655 fathoms. The cast was made from the United States school-ship . jTuscarora. The shallowest water in the middle of the Atlantic, 731 fathoms, shows the subsidence of mountains 10,556 feet. —The Kmpcror of Austria has been visiting. Szegedin, which, wfepked by the Hoods three years ago, has arisen from its ruins far finer than before. There have been 2,638 dwellings built, ■worth 23,000,000 florine.