Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 June 1885 — Page 1

W. P. KNIGHT, Editor and Publisher. VOLUME XVI. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. OFFICE, over C. E. MONTGOMERY'S Store, Main Street. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1885. NUMBER 7.

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PROFESSIONAL CAROS r. B. POSEY. A. J HONEYCUTT. POSEY & HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Petersburg, Ind. Will practice in all the courts. All business promptly attended to. A Notary Public constantly in the office Office over Frank A Hombrook's drug store. JS. P. RICHARDSON. A. H. TAYLOR. RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public to is amly in the office. Office, over Adams A foil’s drugstore. K. A. ELY. w. F. TOWNSEND. MART FLEENER. f * ' ELY, TOWNSEND & FLEENER, Att’ys at Law & Real Estate Agts, Petersburg, Ind. Office over Gus Frarike's Store. Special attention given to CoUeetions, buying and selling lands, examining Titles and furnish ng Abstracts. .. 'J. W. WILSON, iAnORNEY AT LAW, Petei^bm-g, Ind. Will practice in all the courts. Special attention iriven to all business intrusted to his care. Offoover ffarrett& Son's store. .1, M. DOYLE. W. H. THOMPSON DOYLE & THOMPSON,

Attorneys at Law, * Real Estate. Loan & Insurance Agis. Office1, >'ecuiul Ho: r in Hank Buildingr. corner Main and Seventh Streets. Petersburg, - - Indiana. The b "t R e and l ife Insurance Company's represented. Mo i y to loan on first mo,rtyux» s at s ve 1 and eurht per cent. Prompt attenti n to collections, and all outness intrusted to us. J. It. ADAMS. C. H. Fl’LMX WIDER. x ADAMS £ FULUNWIDER, Physicians & Surgeons t PETERSBURG, IND. Office ovtr Adams & Son's drug* store. Office hours day and night. J. R WJKOAN, Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, - » IND.; Office. .over Bergen's Cttjc. Drug Store. Office hours day and night. A. It. BYERS, M. 1). WM. It. I-INK, M. D. BYERS & LINK. Physicians and Surgeons PETERSBURG, INDt IS^OSce, over Hammond & bou's Stole. ■ DR. A. B. CARLETOX. Office, in (Jus Frank's new hull ling, corner Main and b'eve uh streets; tes deuce iu Moses Frank's new deeding in Pro tit's addition to Petersburg. Treatment of Diseases ol Females & Cite a Specialty Chronic and difficult cases solicited. Calls in the city or country promptly responded to day or night, -i 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E" TURNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, - IND. parties wishing work done at their residences witlieave order- at the shop, in Dr.. Adams’new budding, rear of Adams & bon s drug store.. HOTELS. LINGO HOTEL, PETERSBURG, IND. THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS,HOTEL IN TOWN.. New till out-bout, and first-class accommodations in every respect. C. M. ROWE, Proprietor. HYA1T IIOTSli i 5 Washington. Ind. „ Centrally Located, and Accommodations First-class. J. M. FAULKNER, Proprietor. SHERWOOD HOUSE, WM. SHKKHOOB, !‘ni]i. ' E. A. FROST, Man. THEO. Kt ssKi.L, clerk. Cor. First ami Locust t>tre ts, EVANSVILLE, - - - IND. The bhcrwoi d is centrally located, first oia<s in ail its appointment-, and the best and cheapest hotel in the.city. Bates. #2 per day When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. Mri. Laura Harris. P.-oprictress. W m H. Neal, Manager.

EMMETT HOTEL, One square east of Court-house, cor. of Washington and New Jersey Sts..* INDIANAPOLIS, . - - 1ND. JAMES S. MORGAN, Proa'r. BATES, $1.50 Per Day, MISCBLL \ NKOt'S. PHOTO GALLEKY^ OSCAR HAMMOND, Prop’r. Pictures Copied or Enlarged, .All kinds of work doue promptl,- and at reasonable ra'es. Call and examine his work. < allery In Eisert s new building, over the i ost-offiee, Petersburg, Ind. Great Reduction In the price of SAMIS, HARNESS, ETC, ETC. The public is hereby informed that 1 will sell my large stock of Saddles and Harness, and everything kept by mo lower than ever sold in, this place before. If you want anything in i.iy line, don't fail to call on me as am I ottering special ba- gains. FRED REUSS, PETERSBURG, =• INDIANA

NEWS IN BRIEF1 Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND POLITICS la Another mau was interrupted1 while making preparations to jump from the Brooklyn Lridge on the 15th. This one Tave h>s name as Parker P. Daly, a corset ist, of Jersey City. Donnelly, the much wanted witness >efore the Illinois legislative investigatng committee, is in Washington. At the meeting of the Cab net on the 16th it Was decided to recognize Mr. SnnSor, now held as a prisoner in Ecuador, as an American citizen and demand' his release. The President is said to have made up his mind to appoint Colonel Mor ton Postmaster at Augusta, Me., no matter if Senators Frye and Hale do threaten opposition in the Senate, On the 16th Isaac N. Hibbs, ex-Post-master'.'of Lewiston, Idaho, who issued money orders to himself for over $20,000, was arrested at Harriston River, British Columbia. Ten thousand five bund ed dollars was found on his person. Minister LotHrop sailed for Russia on the 17th. . \ J. B. STALLO,’of Ohio, is appointed|Minister to Itaty. President White of Cornell University has resigned. Baron Von Maxteuftel died at Carlsbad on the 17th. Richard H. Stoddart, the well- kno wn poet of New York, gees as Consul to Athens. Chauncey M. Depew was elected President of the New York Central. On the 17th Queen Victoria arrived at London from Balmoral, and proceeded to Windsor Castle. The French press shows fierce hatred toward the late Prince Frederick Charles, of Prussia.

ai. jboukke win replace Koustan as Minister from France to Washington. It is said the Queen will insist on Gladstone accepting a peerage. If he again refuses she will confer & ti tle on Mrs. Gladstone. The insurance companies and societies in which Baum, the famous cotton swindler, carried policies, doubt his death in Chatham, Oat., and insist on proof. M. Roustan, present French Minister at Washington, will be given the Chinese mission, replacing M. Patenotre at Pekin. President Cleveland has amended rule 19 of the Civil-Service Commission so as to include deputy Naval Officers and deputy Surveyors of Customs iu the class of officers exempli rom examination. Ex-Senator James N. Nesmith died at his couu ry place, Deery, Polk County, Ore., at noon on the ITth. Ernot Rkdburg, an ex-Mexican war veteran and the oldest member of the Grand Army of the Republic in the United States, died at the Sisters’ Hospital, at Vancouver, W. T., on the 17th. Ex-Congressman George H. Jenksi, of Pennsylvania, who was tendered the Assistant Secretaryship of the Interior Department, and has had the matter und er consideration for several days, has decided to accept. Hon. Roscoe Conkung will sail for Europe on the 20th. He is going to visit Carlsbad for his health, which' has been sacrificed to hard work as a lawyer since he left the Senate. Emperor William was completely prostrated when he heard of the death of Baron von Manteuffel and said in a mournful way: "All my friends are dying.” Ex-Minister Lowell is spoken of for the Presidency of Cornell University. The case of Ferdinand Ward at New York was again postponed on the 18th until the 22d. Indian Agent Tafts, at Union Agency, Indian Territory, has resigned. , General Wesley Merritt is to b» transferred from West Poiut to a new field of duty. Mr. Parnell will visit America to raise funds for the coming campaign. Norman J. Colman, Commissioner of Agriculture, has been elected President of the American Association of Nurserymen, Florists and Seedsmen. Aa on 8. Colman, of New York, has been appointed chief of the special examination division of the Pension Office, Washington. Bernard Magoonaugh, an armless veteran of the ordnance service, has been designated by the Secretary of the Interior as custodian of the Detroit arsenal property at Dearborn, Mich., vice J. A. Patrick, resigned. Rumor says that General Alfred Pleasanton will be, appointed Govern r of the Soldiers’ Home at Hampton, Va., to succeed the present incumbent. Ex-Secretary Lincoln, who has resided in Washington since the change of the Administration, has gone to Fortress Mouroe. After a short stay there, he will go to Chicago and resume the practice of law. It is said that Mr. Gladstone will withhold his assurance that the Liberals wifi assist the Salisbury Government, and the Marquis of Salisbnry persists in his refusal to take office in the absence of such assurance. The result is a complete deadlock. Queen Victoria has sent Sir Stafford Northcotean autograph letter thanking him for h s high services and offering him an earldom. He wifi assume the title of Earl of Iddlesleigh and Viscount St. Cyres. Wilfred de Fonville has published at Paris a thrilling account of the Greely expedition under the title “Les Affairs du Pole Nord.” Mr. Fonville was acquainted with Dr. Pavy of the expedition. Politi s are running high in the Indian Territory.

i £rt auui^nu vuurm wiu ue uunetl at Abbeville, his birthplace. A grand banquet was given at Paris on the lfbh to retiring Minister Morton of the United States. Herman G. VViebkr has been appointed United States Marshal fear the Southern District of Illinois. The Irish are satisfied with the appointment of the Bari' of Carnarvon as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. General Edoarton, Post-office Inspector at St. Louis, Mo., has been transferred to Boston. He will be succeeded by Inspector Crowell, of Kansas. Fred Lewis has been expelled from the tit. Louis League team tot insubord inaction. \ NIames T. Fanning, an old actor, Jhas been sent to the House of Industry at Boston as a vagrant. Pressure of official business kept the French Minister away from the Bartholdi statue ceremonies at New York. Wm. A. Dat, of Illinois, has been appointed Second5 Auditor of the Treasury at Wa-hingtou, vice Orange Ferriss, resigned. The Marquis of Salisbury denies that the Conservut ves desire war with Russia. It is reported that Miss Marie Van Z tudt is engaged to be married to a Russian Grand Duke, who met her in St. Petersburg and followed her to London, where the betrothal was agreed upon. General Von MaicTEurrsL will be buried witbou: military honors, in accordance with hie own wish. Emperor William has thanked Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria for the honor shows the General’s remains.

A BANQtrsT in honor of United States Senator Payne was given in Liverpool, Eng., the evening of the 19 h, by Mr. Gilley. A brilliant company was present, including the new American Consol, Mr. Charles T. Russell, and many prominent merchants of Liverpool. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. The residence of Matthew Reddy, near Mason City, la., was completely blown away by the storm on the night of the 14th, and several members of his family were severely injured. A special from Pittsburgh, Pa., Says; A riot of railroad laborers occurred at the west end of the, Kittanning tunnel oh the loth, in which ftwo of the participants, whose names could not be learned, were seriously, and it is feared, fatally injured. While unloading iron pastings at the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway freight-house at Cleveland, (X, on (he 16th, Frank Butterfield was instantly killed and John Albright was terribly injured. Os the 10th John Mullen was arrested in Detroit, Mich., on an indictment of the Grand Jury of Pittsburgh, Pa., for embezzlement of $31,000 from the estate of William Moloney. Muilen was th > senior partner of the firm of Mullen & Moloney, iron dealers, and on the death of the latter was confirmed sole executor of the estate. On the 17th a powder magazine in Pueblo, Col., was blown up by a man shooting with a rfie at a mark on the door. 1 j • ■ J. J. Correy, of St. Louis, Mo., was seriously injured in a stage runaway accident at San Angelo, Tex., on the 17th. Robert Lang, a Canadian official, has practiced extensive land frauds on the people of the Northwest and has left for the Unieed States. Others are supposed to be implicated. Latest particulars of the recent tornado in Plymouth County, Iowa, gave two men and a child killed and a number of persons more or less seriously injured. Immense damage was done to stock and crops, many orchards being irreparably ruined.

Us toe 18th York, tug., was shaken up by earthquake shocks. * Os the 18J» Joe Barbour and Horace Terrill were hanged for murder at Charlottsville, Va. Barbour confessed. Os the 18sh a hundred miners were killed by an explosion of fire damp in the Pendlebury colliery near Manchester, Eng. Os the 18th George A, Pyers was sentenced In Baltimore. Md., for whipping his wife, to receive fifteen lashes and to be confined four months in jail. During a cycloue in the Indian Ocean the French dispatch boat Renaud foundered and 127 lives were lost. Os the 18th a colored man and an Italian had a difficulty at Evansville, Ind., over a bottle of whisky and mortally wounded each other. On the 18th C. A. Buddenseick, whose row of tenement houses on Sixty-second street, New York, fell some time ago, killing one of his employes, was found guilty of manslaughter in the second degree by a jury. In the Pindlebury co'liery explosion, near Manchester, England, 149 lives were lost. The Davenport (la.) woolen mills were almost wholly destroyed by fire on the 19th. Georg® Schneider was hanged at Hamilton, O., on the 19th, for killing his mother. A couple of attaches of Cole’s circus killed each other in a fight at Houghton, Mich., on the 19th. SaSuelH. Wa d, of Minneapolis,Miun., has been arrested on charge of land swindling in Berlin. Nine men hare so far been killed in the Jones-Hall faction war in Knott County, Kentucky. > In the case of Johnson for the killing of Heury at Greens ille, Tenu., the evidence was all in on the 19th and argument began on the 20th. T. J. CtuvERius was sentenced to death at Richmond, Via, for the murder of Fannie Lillian Madison. Eighty Bulgarian brigands have been captured and fifteen killed in Roumelia, where they were stirring up a rebellion. Charles Campbell was hanged in Plaquemine Parish, Louisiana, on the 19th for murder. Arthur J. Clover, wanted for murder in Wood County, Ohio, has been captured near Menominsa, Wis. Link Banks, an outlaw, was killed at Whitesburg, Ky., oa the 19;h, by Jas. R. Frazier. j William Pattison is dead, He made an ascension in a balloon at Charleston, W. Va,, on the 19th, the air ship caught fire and a fall took place. He never knew what “struck” him.' Perry and William Milton, father and son, were hanged at Farmersville, La., oa the 19th, for the murder of John W. Cherry. MISCELLANEOUS. On the 17th the Treasury Department purchased 280,000 ounces of silver for delivery at the Philadelphia mint, to be coined into silver dollars. The Secretary of the Interior, in contracting for supplies for the Freeduiau’s Hospital for the next fiscal year, has made a saving of $1,599 from the prices paid for supplies during the present year. In the Pension Bureau there are at present 139 special agents whose terms of office will expire on June 30th, next, but the new appropriation bill allows their reappointment for another year at a reduction i of salary for $1,6J0 to $1,400. These appointments come under the civil service rules, and it is not probable that the entire number will be reappointed. The editors from Iowa were royally entertained during their tour in Washington Territory.

Wednesday, the 17;h, was observed as a holiday at Boston, being the anniversary of the battle of Banker Hill. Rumor says the naval board appointed to test tbfe Dolphin recommend the rejection of the vessel. Russians regard the Conservative ascendancy in England with suspicion and displeasure. A serious labor riot occurred at Brunn, Austria, on the 17th. A delegation of French physicians will go to Spain to study the origin and progress of the cholera epidemic. Efforts are being made to suppress pool-selling in New York. Officers attend the races to get evidence of the law’s violation. On the 17th local Eastern passenger agents in Chicago met and agreed to abolish commissions and all outside ticket offices and to retain one depot ticket office for each line. The Italian Chamber of Deputies discussed the subject of an increase of consulates in the United States, for which a pressing necessity was asserted to exist. The Michigan Legislature adjourned sine die on the 17th. The Cuban sugar crop this year, according to a statement of a reliable sugar house np to June 1st, amounted to 647,000 tons against 530,000 tons to the same date last year. The weather is still unsettled. In the south coast of the island, however, grinding has commenced again. The eane still in the fields is estimated at 100,000 tons.

Aveairb at Plymouth, Pa., are improving. The relief committee announce that no more money is needed. Negotiations are progressing between the Dominion and the United States on th» fisheries question. The English Court has gone into mourning for Prince Frederick Charles, of Prussia. The members of the Italian Ministry sent their resignations to King Humbert on the 18th. A war of freight and passenger rates is1 beieg waged at Lon sville, Ky., on roads to the East. Racine, Wis., has a mad-dog scare, and has it bad. France proposes to send reinforcements to Madagascar. On the 18:h the American Train Dispatchers* Association was iu session at D nver, Col,, and elected officers for the ensuing year. Economy in running expenses being absolutely necessary, the Southern Pacific Railway Company will dispense with the services of several important officers. A company has sent a schooner from Philadelphia to Vigo, Spaiu, to attempt to raise treasure sunk there in 171)2. The strike of laborers at Brunn, Austria, is spreading, though the riots have been suppressed. The sunken dredge in the Sue* Canal has stopped traffic and caused enormous less to shipping interests. General Cacerks, with 4,000 men, is reported near Lima, and a battle with the Government troops is imminent. The postal authorities at Washington are negotiating with the Mexicau postal 'officers to facilitate the transfer of mails across the border. The uncomplimentary expressions of the French newspapers on the death of Prince Frederick Charles have greatly irritated the Germans in Paris. Business men in Madrid have held a meeting and expressed indignation at tfie course of the Government in declaring that cholera had appeared there. A need of economy has resulted in the retirement of many clerks op the Wabash Railroad, and it is said more will follow. The next annual meeting of the Association of Railroad Tele ;raph Superintendents will be held at St. Paul, Minn., June 18th, 1886.

at umtiarn, Eng., the cotton mill owners have decided upon short time and a reduction of ten per ceut. in wages. The operatives agreed to the former, but not to the latter. A strike on a large scale is expected. The Builders’ Laborers’ Union in Toronto. Ont., at a meeting ou the 18th, resolved'to strike if their demand for an increase in wages of from sixteen to eighteen cents an hour is not complied with. The strike will stop all luildiug operations and throw 3,000 men out of employment. The miners’ strike in Jeddo, Pa., has collapsed. The Exeter (N. H.) mills are shutting down until September. A boy named Kipp at Newark, N. J., is suffering from hydrophobia. The French Chamber of Deputies has refused to exempt priests from services in the reserves. There were 170 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended the 19th, as compared with 197'the previous week. It is stated that Caceras, the Peruvian insurrectionist, has asked a suspension of hostilities. The Ameer has massed his army in Afghan-Turkistan, and is said to be menacing the Russians. Employes of the Para Rubber Shoe Company’s works at South Farmington, Mass., have struck. According to reports direct from the fields there are splendid prospects for a good cotton cropJack Dempsey aud Charley Mitchell are matched to fight to a finish with small gloves for $5,099. In the Sa rerne Court of New York on the 19th the citv of New York obtained judgmmt against Nathaniel Sands for $143,062. Tut re were ten cases of the Plymouth fever at Warrior Run, Pa., and fourteen cases at Sugar Notch on the 19th. However, none of them were considered serious. At Plymouth there were 280 cases', many of them dangerous, though the situation in that town is improving greatly. There were 698 new cases of cholera reported in Spain on the 19th, and 249 deaths. LATE NEWS JTEMS Locusts have appeared in great numbers on Long Island, N. Y. Mrs. Barton, of New Brunswick, N. J., gave birth to triplets on the 29th. This makes seven at three births. The Afghans are sending reinforcements to Herat. „ Miss Cleveland’s book is promised to to the public by June 25th. Russia is organising a brigade of Cossacks for service in Turcomania. The planing mill of McNown & Sons at LaGrace, Ind., burned on the 20th. Exports of specie for the week ended the 20th from New York, $543,378; imports, $114,657. Severe earthquake shocks were felt at Berne and Geneva, Switzerland, on the 20th. United States Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, is dangerously ill at Stillwater. Two miners were killed and another seriously hurt by a cave-in in a mine near Richmond, O., on the 20th. It is said First Assistant PostmasterGeneral Hay is to resign, and that Nick Beil, of St. Louis, will get the place. A boundaby line has been agreed upon in New Guinea between England and Germany.

* rank W hite was arrested at New York on the 20th for having m his possession counterfeit standard dollars. Owing to extensive building in Berlin the masons have struck for an increase of wages. General Joseph K Johnston, Kailroad Commissioner, will start West about July 1st ou a tour of inspection. It is said tile Conservatives and Liberals in the British Parliament will agree on the budget, so as to close up the session. John R. McKee, ofLogtown, Pa., killed bis wife and hiiuself on the 20th. He was a r ver pilot. Jealousy was the cause. It is proposed to appoint medical inspectors at all Cuban consulate* to keep cholera out of the United States. Loro Salisbury says if he assumes office he will not object to votes of censure as it will give his party something to go before the county with. Imports of merchandise for the week ended the 2tth at New York, exclusive of dry goods, were valued at $5,206,178. The Dublin Fretman's Journal publishes an interview with Bishop O Connor of Nebraska and Wyoming adv.sing against Irish emigration to the United States. Louis Schxrti recently died at Cincinnati, O., and $75,000 in gold and silver coin was discovered unexpectedly about his premises. The Irewery of Valentine Loewer, at New York, has been 36ued, and the proprietor bound over on the charge of using bogus stamps on his barrels,

AT MT. MAdGgEGOrt; Th« Condition of General Grant In Hli New Quarters—Results of Over Exertion —Preparing For the End—Opinions of thf Phjsicians-—The General's Visitors. Mot'.\t McGregor, N. Y., Juno 18.— Teaterday afternoon General Grant) during his walk with Harrison up to the brow of the mountains, several times paused to rest, and at length sat down on a rustic settee. When . a chair Was placed for his feet he removed the handkerchief from his mouth and essayed to speak, declining the support for his feet, but his voice was not audible. A breath could be heard, but no words, and the General, recognizing the fact, shook his head. The fact that a mess, of frogs had been caught daring the morning at one of the little mountain lakes near by was mentioned to the General, and be was asked If yon would attempt anything so tender as frogs* legs. Again the General tried to speak, but the attempt did not succeed in words that were audible, and again he declined by shaking his head. His attention was directed to the monument that marks the surrender of Burgoyne, twenty miles away, but the elevation of his head to gaze so far away seemed painful, and his head bowed, his chin dropped to his breast, and his eyes rested on nearer objects. The neck and diseased portions ,are strained and pain follows when he holds his head erect. Five minutes passed while the General sat on the bluff, and he then arose by steadying himself With the arm of the Settee and his cane, and with Harrison at his side, retraced his steps to the cottage. When he reached the cottage he was much exhausted and sank into a chair in the parlor. Very soon he Indicated by signs that he wanted some writing materials, which were procured for him, and he then wrote for nearly half au hpur. The result was two letters or papers. One was headed:

"MEMORANDA FOR MY FAMILY’." In it the General had written that he ibonght he was failing, and for certain instructions that he desired carried out he referred his family to other and more definite memoranda, prepared by him a iittle while before leaving New York. The other note he foided and addressed to Dr. Douglas. He handed both the pa1‘1 rs. to Colonel Fred Grant. That addressed to the physician is understood to have been of similar import as that to the family. The afternoon wore away with the General sitting outside on the piazza. The sunset found him still there, and when the dusk deepened on the east side of the mountain he was sitting silently on the porch alone, by the side of the front door of the cottage. When lamps were lighted inside, and the light streamed out into the growing darkuess, the sick man was yet -outside, though the air was chilly and a stiff breeze was swayiug the pine tree tops. Colonel Fred Grant was by his side, and Dr. Douglas was near at hand. At length, after eight o’clock, the General went inside the cottage, and Dr. Douglas wrote and sent a message to Dr. Sands in New York. He asked him to come here, if possible, to-night. At nine o’clock the General retired, and Dr. Douglas then thought that his throat and neck appeared better than on Tuesday night. It is possible that the General’s walk tested his waning strength too far, and the reaction has brought him to a sense of weakness that he himself (eels is not to be lightly disregarded. Whether his weakness is the iramedate result of undue exertion or whether it is the weakness of reaction after his journey, is a question that the doctor onl£ may presume to answer. At ten o’clock the General appeared to be sleeping in his room. The family at that hour, as during the entire evening, were gathered in the parlor, and Dr. Douglas was with them for the night. At eleven o’clock they retired and the cottage Avas dark. Dr. Sands left New York at eleven o’clock last night. Saratoga, N. Y., June 19.—The physicians during their examination of General Grant yesterday found the patient's pulse to be seventy-two; that his voicejwas 4 trifle stronger, and that he was perceptibly weaker. Dr. Sands said that General Grant was much better thau tvhen he first went up to the mountain. This, together with the assurance of Dr. Douglas that there was no immediate cause for apprehension, allayed the fears of the family. The physicians informed Genera! Grant that he had indulged in -too much exercise the previous day, and that he had atso developed too great an appetite, and acting on their suggestions he confined himself to the limits Of the cottage and piazzas. The General passed a portion of the afternoon on the piazza, and occasionally in a brief promenade. He also filled in the time by perusing newspapers. 1 photographer took a picture of the General and family on the piazza during the afternoon. Among the callers upon the General was Dr. M. N. Babcock, of Saratoga Springs, brother of the late General O. E. Babcock.

Juate in the aiternoon the members ol the New York State Pharmaceutical Association paid their compliments to the General. lie saluted them from the piazza with his hand. Two bright young girls tripped up the front steps and offered General Grant some handsome flowers, which he received with a bow. Dr. Newman reached Mt. McGregor in the afternoon. He passed the night there and will probably leave to-day: Whenever the General was oujpf doors his visitors felt reassured that he was gaining strength, but when he disappeared within the cottage and was obscured from view, apprehension seemed to increase. At miduight everything was quiet at the cottage. Helping Himself to His Share. ° Brooklyn, N. Y., June 18.—While watching from behind a pillar, after the congregation had dispersed, the sexton of St. Patrick’s Church to-day saw a German take a whalebone out of bis hat, pul some adhesive substauce on the end of it and thrust it through the small opening in the poor box. In an instant the whalebone, to the end of which adhered a nickel, was withdrawn and the coin detached by the thief. In this way he dexterously abstracted $1.79. He was arrested and pleaded guilty, saying that there were others in the business. Across the Continent. . Council Bluffs, Ia., June 19.—The pacific coast delegates to the National Grand Army of the Republic Encampment at Portland, Maine, passed through this city yesterday morning, in charge of Department Commander Warfield, of San Francisco. The delegates numbered fifty, and occupied two sleeping coaches. On the car was the inscription, “From San Francisco toPortland, 1885.” “Frcm Portland to San Francisco,11886.” They go to Portland with the express determination to secure the next encampment at San Francisco. General Bosecram and General Logan will join the delegate! •n ronte.

fcOAGH’S DOLPHIN. Report of the Board ot ExariiItier►—They Declare That She Does Not Fill the BillSecretary Whitney's Dilemma—He Submits the Question of the Government's Responsibility to the Attorney General. Washington, D. C., June 19.—The Secretary of the Navy yesterday transmitted to the Attorney-General a copy ol the report of the Board which recently examined the new dispatch steamer Doiphiri, with a request that the AttornevGeneral advise him what, upon the law applicable to the case, is his duty Id the premises. The Board, in their report, consider three general subjects: speed, strength and general workmanship. iTirst, as to speed—The Board says the law authorizing the Construction Of the Dolphin called for a “'sea speed at tlfteeu knots per hour,u and adds: “That * boat of her size should possess this requisite speed. It is absolutely ^dispensable that she shoul! have great strength and stiffness. That the Dolphin has not the requisite strength and stiffness to enable her to make the speed required under the conditions she must be prepared to meet, adrdtts of no doubt in the opinion of the board.’’ They say that during her trial trips, under most favorable conditions in smooth water the speed attained was not in excess of fifteen knots per hour, a result very far from promising a like speed on the sea under conditions she must always be ready to meet in actual service. As to strength it seems from the report that the evidence upon this subject is somewhat mease?, and rests considerably upon opinion in the absence of a sufficient sea trial. The Opinion is that the Dolphin has not the requisite j stiff, ness. This is based on observation of vibration of the ship when under way, and the yielding observed in her floors, and the effect of an unequal load as seen when a small quantity of pig iron was loaded on her forward, causing her machinery to get out of line and hef journal to heat. The last two trials, according to the report, were accomplished only with streams.of water pouring upon her journals during the trip. These facts seem to indicate to the Board great structural weakness, to what extent only a sufficient sea trial will demonstrate. The general workmanship and finish-of the Dolphin is criticised by the Board, bat the contractor has been steaiiily at work at this, and has made the Dotphiua much better-ship than the Board found her on their first inspection. Secretary Whitney, iu submitting this matter to the Attorney-General, observed that the Government is not securing what it expected aud had a right to expect from the construction of this vessel, and asks whether the Department has in the matter a bad bargain, simply, which, as between contracting parties, it must stand to, or has it a broken contract entitling it to insist upon something better? In this connection he inquires “what is the effect of the circumstances that the construction of the Dolphin has been supervised by Government officials, who » from time to time have approved the materials used as weil as the workmanship. If this Government supervision and inspection is a bar so that the Department can not go back and examine work passed upon and approved by the Naval Advisory lioard, that,” the Secretary adds, “ends the consideration of the matter.” If it is not-a bar, then he asks, how far is the contractor responsible for speed, strength and general workmanship, and what are the remedies of the Department under the cireums’->>v'<-<

FEARi-ul. tVii. ^a^cOSION. Over a Humleeci Lives Lost By an Explosion of Fire Damp In an English Colliery. Manchester, June 18,—A terrible explosion of fire damp occurred this morning at Clifton Hail Colliery near this city. There were S50 men in the mine at the time, 120 of whom have been rescued. Two hundred and thirty are entombed aud it is feared they wilt be either suffocated or burned to deaftj^ if indeed they are not already dead. Great excitement prevails, and the scenes in the vicinity ol the mine are heartrending in the extreme. Wives mothers and other relatives and friends are congregated near the entrances, crying, shrieking and imploring God to save their loved ones imprisoned below. Manchester, Jane 18.—The cages nsed by the exploring parties got stuck ib the descending shaft, and delayed them ifulty two hours. They have not yet succeeded in reaching the imprisoned miners. ' The j-espoed men say that at the time of the explosion they rushed to the bottom of the main shaft, and barely got therewith their lives. They are ignorant of the fate of thuse left behind. London, June 19.—A dispatch received late yesterday afternoon from Manchester says that up to 2:30 p. m. 100 additional miners had been rescued from the colliery, or about 250 in all. Eighteen dead bodies had been taken oat. It was thought that at least 100 men were still in the mine, and probably hit of them were dead.

The Oat Crop of Illinois. Springfield, III., June 19—The Department of Agriculture will soon issue a report concerning the prospects for the growing crop of oats which, next to corn, is entitled to precedence in extent of yield and the value of the product, The annual production of oats in Illinois of late years has exceeded 100,009;900 bushels. The area of oats is much larger than last season and the prospects are favorable for nearly an average yield per acre. The oats crop of the State in 1884 was 105,314,158 bushels. Returns for June make the present area of oats about the same as last year on the northern division of the State, eleven per cent, larger in the central division and twentytwo per cent, larger in the southern, division of the State than in 1884. Will Quit Sunday KaciugrChicago, III., June 19.—ffm. Emmet, who is the lessee of the Chicago Driving Park, aud is the principal in the Sunday horse-racing projects, regarding which there has recently been so mnch agitation, has had, iu relation to the latter, an interview with Mayor Harrison. Emmet promised that hereafter he would do away with the Sunday hippodrome, excepting, perhaps, next Sunday, and he would then,'if he could obtaiu release from contracts already entered into. The decision was arrived at through the representations made by the Mayor. - Canada's Imapd Sea. Montreal, Can., June 18_John Bignell, late head of the Government exploring expedition to Lake Mistassini, who has jnst returned to Quebec, states that his son in no way exaggerated the facts in regard to the Big Lake Mistassini, the great unknown inland sea of northeastern Canada. He says the situation of both Great and Big Mistassini, as laid down in the maps is'erroneous. The little lake, instead of being a mere arm of the big one, is a separate body of watef, 100 to 180 miles long and eight wide. Bigneil says he believes the soil of the country will be found admirably adapted to hardy cereals.

SECRETARY BAYAffP* 4n Eluqnent Eulogy on the Father of nOolMrMT by the Secretary of War. At ttte fdeent ecmimeDcement exercises of the XJhiywfeity of Columbia, Mo., Secretary Bayattl tj^liTCred an elaborate oration. The occasion was rendered interesting by unveiling a tablet on which was inscribed the memorable epitaph of Thomas Jefferson. Mr. BSyflrd said: , There is hut (hie Wsjrd pfoper for mo now; !t is a grateful aeknbtvledgmeiut that I have been permitted to attend these eakreiaes here in the center of Jli-shuri anti among the people of Missouii a«*J permitted to tvitneS- the progress of the great(M weirk iff Missouri— the raising of the minds and hearts of her people. This is edification in its tfuesetfse. It is the building up of the strength of ouf Nation, and I, a humble worker, coming from a Post somewhat of fatigue and anxiety, am thankful that my ifeps have been allowed to waBdef here. I come hptm a moat interesting occasion, for it is not merely the transplanting of this mdte memorial of Thomas JPffefsotfs life and death, but also the transplanting of the meaning of his life, of the lessons of niS lit?: and df his services, and what more proper than that the tablet, inspired by his own pen, with his own essentia! modesty, and yet his own true sense of grea!t?e*t—that tablet commemorating the name of the Statesman and patriot who added the Louisiana purchase to the foiled States—should find its Huai place in the gTcStes* State carved from that Louisiana purchase"? It Is peculiarly fitting that this tablet ft* the memory of Thomas Jefferson should find its lasting home among the people of Missouri. As my eloquent and valued friend, your honored Senator, in thhse tones of eloquence which have attracted Senators jtnd have so bound the people or the State to" Sin*, w»g telling you the history of Jefferson'S H*e he mingled with it. properly and historically. tbP name of another, not of Mr. Jefferson's school of politics, but still a patriot longing, iu his own way, for the advancement and safety of this country though h:s theories of government were not those of Mr. Jefferson, nor those which happily have become the rulingt'orce of this country, yet It seems to mo that eli| there is no task so delightful, no task more honorable, than that of blending the powers, the names, the principles of two great men Into the common cause of this country’s adVadeemcut, so 1 desire, with much humility and some hesitation, to point out. if I may, the true relations of ' Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. I have perhaps some hereditary right to speak of this. There is correspondence to-day in my possession to show that to the infiuenco of no man in the United States itas the election in Mil of Thomas Jeffersou to th’if Presidency of the United States more due than to the personal counsels and iiifiuence of Alexander Hamilton. I will tell you how this was: The election in 1S0L as Senator Vest has portrayed to you, left the vote of the Electoral College at a tie. Neither Jefferson nor Burr had that majority jn the joint meeting in the two Houses of Congress which was necessary to be declared in order to proclaim the President. Theu1 the machinery of our Government was called in, aud it became the duty of the House of Representatives to elect the President of the United State#. Each State voted as a unit and equally as a unit. There were fifteen States In that vote some were balanced by an equality of their representatives. and they were obliged to select from the two highest candidates voted for the President who should be by them elected. Tbe.-etwo highest candidates were Thomas Jefferson aud Aaron Burr—the one now the synonym of patriotism, the other of treachery, but not so at that day. Mr. Burr stood closer in his alliance because less devoted to principles. He stood closer to the Federal party than did Mr. Jetferson. who was considered its arch-opponent. Ballot after ballot was taken, but no election resulted: either' the votes of State# were silenced by their having equal numbers on either side, or the vote was withheld, or there was a tio. All that time the fate of this country hung almost upon a thread. There was no feeling of concentration A few poor and broken States lay along the range of the Atlantic and your great West Was a thing almost unknown. Means of communication scarcely existed. Opportunities of intercourse there were none. Bailways were unknown, telegraphy undreamed of. In those days it was almost a rope of sand that held together the confederation Of the American Republic. There seemed to be the probability that our Union would fall to pieces for want of eoneentratlve power. There was no feeling of consolidation, but everything tied from the renter to the circumference, and nothing but dissolution seemed at hand. Then eame the letters that 1 have held in my hand and read from Thomas Jefferson to the theu Representative from the Stale of Delaware whom l have the honor to call my grandfather. [Applause.] He held the vote of that State, and it counted as much in the ballot as the State of New Vork or the State of Virginia Each State had its single vote under the Constitution, and this one man, and he a member of the Federal party, and an oppo- ‘ - ' held nent, politically, of Thomas Jefferson,_ that vote in his hand. He took counsel with Alexander Hamilton. What counsel did he receive, and what did he obey? It was the counsel that the country is greater than the party. It was the counsel that the Union was worth preserving. The Federal st from Delaware, instructed by Alexander Hamilton, east his vote for Thomas Jeffersou. Therefore, when we look to the past for lessons and true history, let us not fail to respect the dignity of the men of that day. They did differ in counsel, they did differ in theory, blit they did not differ in the one great end for which alt governments were intended—the happiness, the adVhueement and the welfare of the human species. Therefore, while we may and ought to draw fearlessly the truth from every lesson iu the past and look at its teachings unflinchingly, let us also remember with thankfulness and pride that in this American Nation there lingers something stronger than parry, that overrides personal ambitious, that, where a dread crisis approaches, teaches the Amer.can man to pat beneath his feet unworthy and small thoughts and to rise to the dignity of his country’s demands. lApplause.l The spirit that existed iu MM showed itself In Isfa. There was a time when more then one-hatf of this people felt that they had been wrouged in the results of the election, but between them aud the otjects of their wrath rose the form of their mother country, and. it a hand was raised to strke the form of their country, lorbade it, and they sacrificed party demands to the existence of this Union aud to the progress of the people of the United States. [Applause:^ I refer to these things in no narrow spfrit. as you see, of party success or of party failure, but only in view ol such an address as we have just heard—in regard to a man now recognized everywhere as a patriot. “ sage, true founder of wise and liberal a uup iDuuupi v/4 *ri«j luiu uuonu principles in the Government of this country. It is, ns I say, always pleasant to remember that whatever may Ik- the differences between men s opinions, whatever may be the differences betweeu men’s personal ambitions, the American people have recognized and they do recognize that there is a point beyond which they can not go, and that point is National safety. [Applause.] That is the guard, that is the boundary, that is the work which 1 trust all education in this country will teach us to observe. Our education in its form is simply to end in making us higher, better, more self-subordinate, to teach us that we are the humble instrhrueuts in the advancement, not of mere selfishness, but of Something far beyond it—the glory and welfare of our entire country.

THE VIRGINIA REMOVALS. Offensive Partisanship Illustrated in the Bailiwick of Mahone. The removal of the Mahone postmasters in Virginia is acknowledged by all fair-minded Republicans as a beneficial measure to that State in her present ' extremity. No one can question the infamy of the system introduced by Mahone and his followers in a State which was once the proudest in the Union. It was the result of a bargain struck between him and the Republican Administration by which all the machinery of the Government offices was placed under his control and pliant and unscrupulous Federal officials appointed for the purpose of delivering Virginia bound and gagged into the hands of the Republican party. So ruthless was this system that Mahone has frequently searched the departments at Washington lest there should be some clerk accredited to Virginia who was not of the right stripe of obedient, partisan. The sharp remedies applied by the Democratic Administration excite the blind wrath of the New York Tribune, its “me too” in this eity and other rabid organs of the same kind. They wince under the lash of reform and threaten the President with the vengeance of the Republican Senate. They evince tearful sympathy for the “antiBourbons.” as they call Mahone’s “heelers,” who have been turned out of the positions they disgraced, and declare that their dismissal is a clear violation of the principles of CivilService reform. Their ridiculous assertions afford considerable amusement to those who know that under the late Administration the public offices were

used fop bargain and sale in the vain enil ay or to tear the State away from the Detitperatie party. \ The President would be false to h>y professions add policy of adm nistering the Government ou the principle of reform were he to leave Virginia at the mercy of the harpies thrust into the Federal otKees by Mahonc. There was 0t> jwetense made at the time of their appoirtfrtx»qt of their fitness or eapability. or even beequ-e they were Republicans, trusted a»d respected by their party. They were apyointed solely on the understanding that Jhey would be ready at a moment’s not'Jcg to prostitnte their otlicial posit ons id i>nv nefarious scheme concocted by Mahitne. Decency and justice required their iflsini«*1 when the reform Administration canto into power. The howls of the Tribune Sod the other jackals of the disunion pres;* only excite contempt and derision, fof the true character of Mahone’s tools in Virginia'is too well understood by the Country at large. The retention of such shamele®?. creature* In office would be a standout reproach to the Administration. Many Republican newspapers, respecting the laws of probity and justice, applaud the determination of the President to rid the Old Dominion of the crowd of of-fice-holders which Mahone introduced and to replace them with respectable people. In no part of the country daes the term “offensive partisan” receive such significance as in Virginia. Mabon*t has brought the State to the verge of financial ruin by means not less disreputable than those which characterized the carpCf-bag Governments in other Southern'' States. President Cleveland proposes to gXp the State a fair opportunity to redeem herself by depriving her ex-boss of tlf^se very means. —Albany Argus.

MR. CLEVELAND'S INTENTION 111.9 Object Is to Render Efficient the Civil Service the Government. Although it is but little more than three months since Mr. Cleveland was Inducted into the Presidential office, it is already apparent that one of the chief objects of his administration will be to a bring the civil service of the Government up to its highest possible stage of efficiency, no matter how much time and deliberation the carrying out of this programme may require nor how much impatient and unfriendly criticism it jnay provoke. No more important subject could engage his attention from now on to the assembling of Congress, nor is ally other so essential in its preliminary relations to the great work of administrative reteym, while all candid observers of thf? »|uation must admit that the President, in spite of a few questionable appointments which he was deceived into making, has shown an admirable aptitude for the responsibility which he has assumeu and made a most auspicious beginumg. But the duty thus set before him is one that no man, whatever his physical strength or mental vitality, should be asked or expected to perform singlehanded and alone. To thoroughly aeeompiish the grand results proposed— the reorganization of a service made up of more than a hundred thousand distinct official factors—will involve an amount of laborious investigation and exhaustive detail simply overwhelming to the contemplation anti the President, resolute and ambitions tie he is to succeed, will need all the eo operation that can be made available to the consummation of his purpose. The conservative public sentiment of the country is already with him. bte has able and conscientious associates in the Cabinet, upon whose assistance he can rely.} He has the approval of the masses of the Democratic party, and hoshould have the active, earnest and honest support of the leaders of the .party. Our Democratic fr’euds should bear in mind that the election of Mr. Cleveland meant something more than an indiscriminate distribution of offices among th - voters who elected him. The scheme of political salvation is not so simple and easy a#this. rWe are wont to speak of the enange of'.-administra-tion as the dawn of a new era in the Government; but this depends entirely upon the wisdom and honesty and ! sound statesmanship with which the affairs of the Government are to be administered. The majority by which the Democratic party ascended into'power is not ■ so overpoweringly large n T permanently assured that wjteseSft afford to trifle with our victory. The new era has dawned, but will' it reach the high noon of our anticipations? This njr mains to, be seen. The Republican party is by no means dead yet, and we have first to convince the people that they have profited substantially and largely by the defeat of that party before we can have any definite guarantv of an extended lease of power. Hence the necessity, not of parceling out. the spoils in hot and reckless haste, but of laying broad and deep the foundations of the civil service as a tower of strength to the Government under Democratic rule, and not begrudging the time that ifmay require to do it. This is the burden which Mr. Cleveland has taken upon his shoulders, not as a work for this year or next year of his own official term, but for all time and for the glory ot the Democratic party-—Washinyloh Post.

THE OBSTRUCTION POLICY, The A (ministration lUsim-Uued to SIlaifna Its Tolley to Suit Republican Senators. The truth of the announcement that the Administration docs not intend to shape its policy in subservience to the Republican majority in the Senate is so strangely probable that it need not be questioned The course of the Senate is scarcely leSs doubtful. Its policy is sure to bo one of obstruction if' its wishes are disregarded, and there is no disguising the fact, that, settingshself up as an oligarchy, the Republican Sea- 4 atorial majority can temporarily ‘succeed in a policy of obstruction. So far as the patronage quest on is concerned, the Senate, however, can neither keep f Republicans in nor Democrats out of office against the wishes of the President. They may and can keep out any particular Democrat in any given case; they can create a disturbance, can refuse to pass Appropriation bills and other Administration measures; and, to sum it all up, can make themselves so odious as to greatly exaggerate tho feeling that the Senate is a purely oligarchic body which ought mot to be allowed to exist under its present conditions. But while they can da all this, they can do no great amount of harm, except to themselves. On the other hand., any policy these Republican Senators might dictate cbuld, if adopted, only become"' successful through the disorganization and disruption of the Democratic party.—Sf. /-««»» Republican;