Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 8, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 July 1885 — Page 1

• W, P. KNIGHT, Editor and Publisher. • OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. over 0. E. MONTGOMERY'S 8tore, Main Street. NUMBER 8. VOLUME XVI. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1885. Pike County

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PROFKSSiON.il, CARDS. F. B. POSEY. A. J HONEYCUTT. POSEY & HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Petersburg, lad. Will practice in all thecourts. All business promptly attended to. A Notary Public constantly in tlie oflice. Othoo over Frank jt Hornhrook g drug store. E. P. RICHARDSON. A. H. TAYLOR. RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt attention (riven to all business. A Npjtnr Publloj.’0 > s an tly in the oiBcc. Office, over Adams & eon's drugstore. E. A. ELY. w. jp, TOWNSENP. MART YLEENER. ELY, TOWNSEND & FLEENER, Att’ys at Law & Real Estate Agts, Petersburg, Ind. Office oyer Gus Franke’e Store. Special attention Riven to Collections, buying and -e'llAbst'a''{S' FUles and furnishing J. W. WILSONi ATTORNEY AT LAW, Petersburg, Ind. Will practice in all the courts. Special attention given to all business intrusted to Liis care. Oflio\ over Ham.tt & Son's store.

J. M. B0YI.K. W. U. THOMPSON. DOYLE & THOMPSON, Attorneys at Law/ Real Estate. Loan & Insurance Aits. Office, second flo r in Bank Building, corner Main and Seventh Streets. Petersburg, - - Indiana. The b‘st Fi»e and life Insurance Companies represented. Kory to loan on tirst mortga*. s at seven ami eight per cent. prompt atteotl >n to collections, and all business intrusted to us. —*---—- J..R. ADAMS. C. H. FIT t.UN W1DKR. " ADAMS & KULLIN WIDER, Physicians & Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. Office over Adams A Son’s drug store. Office hours day and night. J. B. DUNCAN. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, IND. Office, over Ilergen’s City Drag Store. Office hours day and night. A. R. BYERS, M. D.( WM. H. LINK, M. D. BYERS & LINK. Physicians and Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. {^“Office, over Hammond & Son's Store. ~ DR. X bTcARLETON. Office, in Gus Frank’s now building-, corner Main and Seventh streets; res dunce in Moses Frank’s now dwelling. \n pl0at’s addition to Petersburg. Treatment of e Diseases oi Females & CMldren a Specialty Chronic and difficult cases solicited. Calls in the city or country promptly responded to day or night. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E. TURNER, Proprietor. % PETERSBURG, - IND. Parties wishing work done at their residences will leave order, at the shop, in Dr. Adams’new hu.ldinr, rear of Adams ,t Son g drug stoie. HOTELS. LINGO HOTEL, PETERSBURG, IND. THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL IN TOWN. New throughout, and first-class accommodations in every i-espect. C. M. ROWE, Proprietor. HYATT HOUSE, 'Washington. Ind. Centrally Located, and Accommodations first-class. J. Iff* FAULKNER, Proprietor. SHERWOOD HOUSE, WM. SHERWOOD, Prop. E. A. frost, Mun, thro, russell. Clerk. Cor. first and Locust Stre ts, EVANSVILLE, - - • IND. The Sherwo< d is centrally located, It rat claw in aM its appointment* and the lest and cheapest hotel in the city. Rates, #2 per day. When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. Mrs. Laura Harris. Proprietress. Wm . li. Neal, Manager.

EMMETT HOTEL, One square east of Court-liouse, cor. of Washington and New Jersey Sts., INDIANAPOLIS, - - IND. JAMES S. MORGAN, Prop’r. RATES, $1.50 Per Day. MISCELL A NEOIJ S. PHOTO GALLERY^ OSCAR HAMMOND, Prop’r. Pictures Copied or Enlarged. All kinds Of work done promptly and at reasonable rates. Call and examine his work. Callery la Rise it's new building, over the 1 ost-oifice, Petersburg, lnd. Great Reduction In the prioe of SADDLES, HARNESS, ETC, ETC. The public Is hereby informed that I will sell my lar-re stock of Saddles and Harness, and everything kept by me lower than ever sold In this place before If you want anything fa try line, don't fill to call on me as am 1 otering special ha g tins. FRED REMS8, PETERSBURG. - INDIANA.

NEWS IN BRIEF, Compiled from Various Sources* PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Vice-President Hkndrick3 delivered an address to the law department of Yale at the anniversary exeroises on “The Supreme Court of the United States." ^ In settling the accounts of Mr Hallett, Supervisor of Elections in Boston, the First Comptroller of the Treasury has disallowed items amounting to $3,200. The accounts, as rendered, amounted to about nine thousand dollars. A full-length, life', sizeportrait of exPresident Arthur, painted by Huntington, has been received at the White House, having been purchased by the Senate Library Committee for assignment to a position in the collection of portraits of Presidents. On the 24th the new English ministry visited the Queen at Windsor and formally received the seals of office. On the 24th Dr. Samuel David Ferguson, colored, was consecrated a bishop of the Episcopal Church, at Ur ace Church, New York. On the 23d Sitting Bull and fifteen bravos in war costume, together with Buffalo Bill and Major Burke, called at the War and other departments and finally on the President. There was a general shaking but nospeechcs. The Bull said he wished he oould have seen all he was now seeing when a boy. < Ir is sa d that Lord Garmoyle has settled down at bis father’s residence, at Bournemouth and has resumed correspondence with MiSs Fortescue. It is expected that they will be married within a year. On the 24th Colonel Denby, United States Minister to China, had an interview with the President and Secretary of State prior to his departure for China. Mr. Burcharb, Director of the Mint, refuses to resign, and will test the power i of the President to remove him. Ths Pope has appointed Dr. Walsh, President of Maynooth College, Archbishop of Dublin. Tub marriage cif Mr. Adam3 and Miss Coleridge took place in London on the 24th. The other members of the bridal family were conspicuous by theirlabsence. Advices were received at the State Department announcing the death on the 24th of S. L. Phelps, ex-United States Minister to Peru. Mr. Phelp3 died at Lima. He was about sixty years of age, and outered the. navy in 1841, continuing in its service until 1804. Steps are being taken to place John McCullough, the tragedian, in an insane asylum. The Postmaster-General has had the degree of Doctor of Laws conferred upon him by the Wisconsin State University. Commander Kountz of tbeGrand Army of the Republic, in. his annual address, states that the Adjutant-General’s report showed a membership of 287,637. Prof. Tyndall has given $16,000 each to Columbia, Harvard and Pennsylvania Universities to maiutain American stu - dents of physics at Europoau Universities, and Robert Treat Payne has given Harvard $250,000 for astronomical research. Rev. Wm. Din Witt Hyde has been chosen President of Bowdoin College. Admiral Courbet will be buried from the Hotel des Iuvalides, Paris. Iowa Democrats will held their State Convention at Cedar Rapids Augfist 19th. Jas^bs Allison, of Cincinnati, is the new President of the Master Plumbers’ National Association. Blkbcker Banks, Mayor of Albany, is Baid to aspire to the Governorship of New York. Admiral Gai.ibkr, French Minister of Marine, threatens to resign. El Mahdi h is ordered ail foreigners to be killed unless they become Mussulmans. Judge O’Connor, of Cincinnati, O., has brought suit for damages against Judge F.tzgerald for language used in ourtLord Randolph Churchill, the liidian Secretary, was the first memh>r of the Salisbury Cabinet to assume the duties of office. Sir Nathaniel Rothschild, Sir Evelyn Baring and Mr. John Morley are to be raised to .the peerage in E igland. James L. Stanton, general agent of the Department of Justice, has tendered bis resignation, to t ike effect June 3lth. General Grant, is growing weaker and losing flesh. His difficulty in breathing increases, and he gets no sleep except by the use of morohine. Walker Blaine, son of Hon. James G. B aiue, is to be married this summer to Miss Ettie, daughter of ex-Governor D. T. F ij'ns worth, of Buchanan, W. Va. A court-martial has been detailed by the Secretary of the Navy to tgy Pay-master-General Smith on charges of scandalous conduct and inefficiency. Hon. S. H. Buck, the Director-General of the North, Central and South American Exposition, has established at Washington a bureau of inf< rotation for the press, the public and foreign legations, in regard to the plans, purposes and progress of the New World’s Fair, to be opened at New Orleans in the fall. The Cabinet meeting on the 25th Was attended by all the Cabinet officers except Secretary Endicotb, who had not returned from B stun. - It is understood that the case of Minister Kieley was up again and that bis recall fro u the Austrian mission was practically determined upon. ... / The officers elected by the National Encamp neat, G. A. R, at Portland, Me., were: Commander-in-Chie", S. S. Burdette, of Washington; Senior Vice-Com-mander, ex-Governor Selden Connor ol Maine; Junior Vloe-Commander, John R.

Lewis, of Atlanta, Ga.; Chaplain, L. H. Stewart, of Ohio: Surgeon-General, J. C. Tucker, of California. Mrs. Sarah E. Fuller was elected President of the Nation'll Woman’s Relief Corps. Ex-Prb sidknt Fish of the defunct Ma- j rine National B inf, New York, has been denied a new trial. On the 26th General Grant said he had spent the best day he had experienced sinoe leaving New York. The jury in the case of E. T. Johnson at Greenville, Tenn., acquitted him of murder in the killing of Major Henry. Admiral Porte ■, under an invitation from Secretary Whitney, is planning a new steel cruiser. Lord Salisbury gave an official reception on the -6th to diplomats* accredited to the British court. The Pope gave an audience to the Bishop of San Francisco at Rome on the 26th. The statement is repeated at Berlin that Austria objects to Kiely as Amer.can Minister. He has been recalled. In his last crop report Talmadge, the Milwaukee statistician, estimates the shortage in winter wheat of the country at 160,000 bushels. General Wolselky has been notified by the Marquis of Salisbury that the Soudnn expedition must be abandoned. Letters patent have been received by James ]|. Freeman, formerly of St. Louis, Mo., on a telephone based on principle not now employed in such ius rutuents. On July 6th Lieutenant Schuetse willsail for the Lena Delta, to carry the rewards of the Government to the natives Sr ho aided the survivors of the Jeannette expedition.

Henri Rochefort has received con* firmation of the report that Oliver Pain died of fever while in the camp of El Mahdi, where he is said to have been held as a prisoner. Additional appointments have been made in the British Government as follows : Under Sscret ary for the Colonies, the Earl of Cadogan; Under Secretary for War, the Earl of Duntnore; SolicitorGeneral for Scotland, Mr. BannermanRobertson. CRIMES ANO CASUALTIES. A Pqlish potter named Kiffl >r at West Wheeling, W. Vs., attempted to cremate bis dead child on account of poverty, but was prevented. He then attempted to kill his wife. An American, who bad lost all his money by gambling at Monte Carlo, committed suicide at Nice on the 22d by taking morphine. Durixo the procession of Forepaugh’s circus at Flint, Mich., on the 22d, John Riley fell from a lar^e chariot and was instantly killed by a wheel passing over his head. On the 23 1 the trial of five Italians for the murder of Filippo Caruso was begun at Chicago. ' This is Chicago’s trank tragedy. On the 23d a sensation occurred at Rock Island, 111.,... by the poisoning of about twenty families from eating diseased beef. ^ While resistin'* arrest a desperado named Frisco was shot dead at Graysville, Ga., on the 23d. On the 231 Adolph Loevy, a St. Louis cigar packer, fifty years old, died from the effects of an overdose of morphine— supposed suicide. On the 23d John Payne, au escaped murderer, walked into the police sta1 ion at Chattanooga, Tenn., and, stating who he was, surrendered. Payne killed J. F. Barnes in Marion County five years ago.

l he jury m the case of J. spencer Smith, at ex-gas trust clerk at Philadelphia, charged with embezzlement of the trusts funds, rendered a verdict of guilty, there are five other bills against the defendant charging similar offenses. Ox the 23d at Funfkirchen, Hungary, Herr Llsch, the inventor of new dynamite patents, which have been sold in America and elsewhere, was killed by a fearful explosion which occurred in his house while he was packing boxes. His mother was also kilted and the roof of the house was blown ,pff. At New Haven, Conn., on the 24th, Cornelius B. Demarast cut his throat from ear to ear with a oarvin ' knife. Temporary insanity from nervous prostration is the alleged cause. W. W. Colb’s elephant Samson went on the rampage at Lapeer, Mich., on the 24th, at a circus performance, stampeded the audience, played havoc generally and got five bullets in his hide for his fin. Os the 24th Adrian Johnson and John Melin fell Irons a windlass at the Ludington mine at Iron Mountain, Mich. Melin was killed and Johnson fatally hurt. Melin was falling and Johnson tried to save him. On the 24th a fearful explosion occurred in a powder mill at Lucca, Laly. A number of people were at work at the time and very few escaped death or serious injuries. The bodies of twelve of the killed were recovered. A family named Durst was accidentally poisoned at Plymouth, Wis., on the 25th, by the accidental use of arsenic for baking powder. One death resulted, and others were in a precarious condition. Treasurer Anderson of West Hob >kea, N. J., is charged with being $25,000 behind in his aceonnts. A man named Carpenter, on trial at New York for wife murder, tried to commit suicide on the 25th, but failed. The Pacific mail steamer City of Tok o, ashore near Yokohama, J&pau, will be a total loss. At Bairdstown, Ky., oh the 21th, an explosion of a boiler killed three negroes and seriously injured auother. On the 2lith James Arcine and William Parchmeal, fall-blooded Cherokee Indians, were hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., for murder. On the 26th John MeKbmer, a colored murderer, was hanged iu Memphis, Teuu., and Jordan Taylor at Hopkinsville, Ky. A. boy namel W.lliam Hayes, s xteen years old, was found h anged with his hands and feet tied, on the 26th, in Harrison County, Iowa, supposably the work of trami s. He was a harmless lad and left home on the 22d to go to church. After four days’ work a jury has been Obtained to try the five Italians, charged with he murder of CafusO, a fellow countryman, in Chicago. On the 26th Milo Jump, a porter at the Whitmore House, at Northumberland, Pit., was shot by John Cox, proprietor of the Palmer House. Jump lived but a few minutes. On the 26th the building occupied by the Dickinson Urass and Field Seeds Company at Chicago was partially burned. Loss, $25,000; fully insured. ■uoillIniovs. The Australian contingent which took part in the Soudan campaigu arrived at Sidney on the 23d. They were given a tremendous ovation. The day was made a public holiday. Delegates were preseat from all the colonies in Australia, and all the available troops were drawn up to welcome the returning soldiers. Russian gun factories are reported to be in secret operation at Batouin, in Asia Minor. The annual convention of the American society of civil eng neors began at Deer Park, Md., on the 24th. News is received at Cairo that Kassaia has not fallen. The garrison, it is asserted, still refuses to surrender to the forces of the Mahdi.

un tne 24tn the Treasury Department purchased 295.000 ounces of silver, for delivery at the Philadelphia mint for coinage inti silver dollars. The Master Plumbers? National Association held two business sessions at 8t Louis on the 24th, and enjoyed a steamboat excursion on the riveri in the evening. The strike among the carpet-weavers at Yonkers, N. Y., which has lasted several montns, has ended. The operatives resume work on the basis of a ten per cent, increase of wages. Notice has been received by the Department of State, through the Belgian legation at Washington, that an international congress of commercial law will he held at Autwerp in September. An invitation is tendered tothis Government to send a representative to the congress. In the city of Madrid on the 24th four sporadic cases- of cholera were reported; in the town of Valencia, thirty-seven new rases and sixteen deaths; in the provlnco of Alicante, forty-eight new cases and forty deaths. There were also some deaths In Saragossa. At the annual meeting of the Harvard alumni at Boston on the 24th Hon. James Russell Lowell was unanimously elected President. J'welve hundred persons sat down to the alumni dinner. On the 24th Henry A. Myers, the Baltimore wife-beater, took his twenty lashes. The number of cases of wife-beating in the Monumental City is steadily decreasing. The present Indian troubles In Colorado are now generally attributed to eowboy cussodaes*

This season ocean travel is reported as extremely light, while American watering places and summer resorts open np with an unusually heavy run of business. The Harvard-Columbia beat race on the 25th was won by Harvard by six lengths. Earthquake shocks were experienced in Scotland on the 2otb. Off clAii reports of the ravages of chol* era in Spain on the 24th show a total of l,020new cases and 512 deaths. In Alioante a Ions on the 25th there were forty* eight new cases and forty deaths. Both Houses of tbe British Parliament adjourned on the 20th until July Uth. The Commercial Travelers’ Protective Association began its annual (convention at Buffalo on the 23th. Thirty-six deaf and dumb immigrants arrived at Montreal, Can., on the 25th. The contest for Territorial offices seems to bo the topic, of chief interest now at Washington. The differences between Turkey and Kussia have been amicably settled. A temporary agreement has been eutered into between the American and English governments as to the fishery questions. The Bell Telephone Company at Bes'on declared an extra dividend of two per cent, on the 23th. This is in addition to the re alar dividend of three per cent. Fifty Irish detectives who have been doing duty in London have been ordered back to Dublin. A committee of importers of New York and Philadelphia waited on Secretary Manning on the 25th and presented a memorial in regard to undervaluation and reappraisemeut. The Commissioner of the General Land Office has ordered directors and receivers at district land offices not to furnish blank forms for homesteads applications except upon personal application by actual entrymen.

Important <'ub'e nnd telegraph privileges have been granted American parties in the Argentine Republic. The Secretary of the Treasury has been informed that the recent investigation of the condition of the sub-Treasury at New Orleans shows that the total defalcation of the runaway clerk, Aufd.-morte amounts to a little over $25,060. The Controller of the Currency has extended the corporate existence of the following named banks for a period of twenty years: The First National Buuk of Fort land, Ore.; the National Branch Bank of Madison, Iud.; the Harrison National Bank of Cad z, O.; the People's National Bank of Jackson, Mich. Serious talk of revolution pervades the air in Spain. No ex-Confederates will be appointed on any of the pension examining boards. France having raised the blockade, trade in Chinese waters is now free. The Secretary of the Navy has asked for plans and specifications for four new naval vessels. Contributions to the Pusey fund at Oxford, Eng., amount to £31,010. A vessel from Cienfuegos brought two rases of yellow fever to Lewes, Del., where one patient died. The President says he koows of no “agreement” to let the offensive partisans in S. . Louis hold the offices. Bradstrket’s reports iudicate that the number of failures lor the first half of this year w.ll exceed all previous records. At Quebec the French Canadians have banded together and subscribed funds to defend' the half-breeds in the coming tr sis. It has been decided by the Commercial Travelers’ Associat on of the United States to ibauge its headquarters ifrom Cincinnati to Chicago. A school for sailors will be opened at the Navy-yard, Washintton, D. C., on July 1st. The objectis instruction in modern ordnance. In deference to the popular feeling, the persons arrested during the recent cholera riots in Madrid have been released. The .Spanish Minister of Marine has dec de l to permit the inoculation of the offi .-era and men of the Spanish navy on Dr. Ferran’s system. On the 26 h official reports from. the various provinces of Spain slu^wbd that there were 454 new cases of choMira and 208 deaths from that disease on that day. The thirteenth annual National Soldiers’ Reunion will be held at Caldwell, O., August 13th, 14th and 15th, for the purpose of raising funds to complete the Garfield Memorial Hall and statue at that place, under the auspices of the Grand Army of the R (public. LATE NEWS ITEMS Des Moines, Ia., according to a census just taken, has a population of 36,000. Cable telegraph rates to Chicago have been placed on a level with those of New York. There is a great rebellion in ChineseTnrkistan against Chinese rule. Large numbers of Chinamen are leaving the Pacific coast for <Jhe Eastern Stales. The President has made the anxiously awaited appointments in New York city. Eighteen miners were killed by an explosion at Dudweiler, Germany, on the 27 h. The Southwark woolen mills, Philadelphia, Pa., have shut down, throwing 1,000 men out of emplyment. Bids have been received at Washington for the erection of a floating dock at Brooklyn. Rev. Mr. Spurgeon has created a great sensation in London by a sermon against vice in high places. The Standard Oil Company has obtained possession of the Continental Oil and Transportation Company. A London rumor says the Queen is desinus of ending her reign on its fiftieth anniversary next year.

James D. Fish, ex-President of the Marine Bank, New York, was sentenced to ten years at AuLurn Penitentiary, and has been taken to that institution. Miss Shaffer, a youn; lady'at Clarksville, la., was brutally whipped by two women named Forney, one of whom was her rival in love. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is in lavor of home rule, but has his own ideas as to what the term means. General Schofield says he lias information that the Ute Indians in Southern Colorado are behaving themselves. BurChabd has been suspended and Dr. Jas. P. Kimball, of Pennsylvania, is appointed Director of the Mint. A special effort is to be made to defeat Lord Kandolph Churchill’s re-election, with fair prospects of success. Another of the murderers of Mrs. Has 11 at Elkhart, Tex., has been lynched. He was caught in Grayson County. Complete stagnation exists in financial circles in London. A ore at strike of weavers, at Lyons, France, is imminent. It is now said Mrs. Frank Leslie is to marry Albert Pulitser. Kev. C. IS. Lauqhlin and sister were drowned near Lenox, la., on the 28th, by the upsetting of a skiff. General Bolanoek, military commander in Tunis, has resigned, A LAW has been passed allowing the free manutacture'in France of weapons of war. John McCullough has been placed in the bioomingdale XnsuQe Asylum.

THE G. A. R, The Present Status of the Organisation— Over a Quarter of a Million On theRolls —Resolutions of Sympathy For the Old Commander—General Logan Talks to the Boys- -Seeing the Sights. Portland, Me., June 24.—Among the prominent candidates lor tbe office ol Commander-m-Chief of the Grand Army for the year ensuing are Generals Barnum and lieynolds, Post Department Commander Estes, Of New York, and General Burdett, of Washington. The movement was started yesterday to elect General Grant Commander, with some active senior Vice-Commander who coaid perform the duties of the office. Cpmmander Kouutz opened his address by greeting the comrades as the representatives of that patriot array which accomplished more for the advancement of civilization and the rights of raeu than any other army in the history of the world, and of an organization which is to-day accomplishing more to relievo the distress and sufferings, caused by tbe war, than all other associations combined. He congratulated his auditors upou the gaiu of 136,000 in membership over last year. The report of the Adju-taut-General shows tbe membership to be 267,837. On June 9th. there was on hand a cash balance of $15,224. The misuse of military titles was referred to and earnestly deprecated. The organization, known as the “Veteran Bights Union,” was heartily indorsed. The Commander recommended that the order known as the “Sons of Veterans,” should be independent of the G. A. K. Of General Grant, the speaker said: “We give our heartiest greetings and fraternal sympathy to thegUoble chieftain whose heart grandly rreponded when duty called, and melted in compassion when mercy pleaded.” Of politics, he said: “Comrades who love the Grand Army will not permit the

use oi me organization, as sucn, even in the most remote degree, for partisan purposes. Let us not forget that it has taken many years to recover from the deathblow the order received In -consequence of posts participating in politics. At the close of Commander Konntz’s address. Commander Brown offered a resolution that the G. A. U Encampment, representing 300,000 ex-soldiers and sailors, tender to the distinguished comrade, soldier and statesman, . General U. S. Grant, profound sympathy in his continued illness, and extend a soldiers’ greeting to our beloved commander aud comrade, who has for months endured unspeakable agony with that aharacteiistic fortitude that has challenged the admiration of the world. This was received with loud applause and cheers, and in a moment half a dozen comrades rose and offered resolutions of sympathy to the General. Efforts were made to refer all resolutions lo a {special committee, but the convention would not listen, and by a unanimous vote, amid the greatest enthusiasm, the resolutions \vere adopted, and the AdjutantGeneral was ordered to telegraph them at once. Following this came the communication from the department for the appointment of committees, and then followed communications from individuals. Comrade Lor mg, of Boston, offered a resolution asking the encampment to support the §800 universal pension bill, called the Loveriug bill, which was referred to the Committee on Resolutions. This practically completed the business of the preliminary session, and loud calls were made for GENERAL LOGAN, who arose and spoke of the pleasmre he felt at being present at. the largest encampment ever held; but it canned him sadness to think that iu a few years they would not be here. * They should so Jive as to read a lesson to the youths of to-day, so impressive that they would always remember what their gatherings meant and the story would always grow in interest. P At the conclusion of his remarks the convention took a recess till four o’clock. Several posts left for home yesterday. The veterans spent the day on excursions down the harbor or to the White Mountains over the Portland & Ogdeusburg Railroad. Many posts have made no report of amounts expended or comrades relieved, hut so lar ast reported the departments have expended $170,292, relieving 11,883 comrades and 3.438 others. SERIOUS ACCIDENT. Collision On tho Wabash Railroad Near St. Louis—An Engineer and Conductor Killed. Sts Louis, Mo., June 26.—-A fatal accident occurred on the Wabash Railroad at Woodstock, a few miles this side of Ferguson Station, aud just outside the city limits. The Ferguson accommodation due in St. Louis at 12:25 collided with freight train Np. 23 at Woodstock. Engineer Stewart, Jof the freight, was canght under the wreck, being unable to clear himself, and was killed. Conductor Mann, of * the accommodation, was also crushed^ so badly that he survived only a short time after being taken out. These two, as far as is known, are the only ones killed, aud the injuries to others on the trains are only scratches and bruises. No passengers, as far as canid be ascertained, were either killed or severely wounded. The freight conductor’s watch was exactly six miuutes behind time. As soon as the information was received at the railroad offices the wrecking outfit was at once dispatched to the scene with surgeons, and left the Union Depot at 12:20. From that on physicians were telephoned for from ail over towu, and at 2:30 another special was sent out bearing another crew of surgeons. THE FERGUSON ACCOMMODATION carries usually a large number of people Into the city, as it is put on for the benefit of suburban residents entirely. The result, If tiie meagre reports received may be trusted, is a very fortunate one.

What Shalt We U» With the Deal)? N*w York, June 25.—Sexton Wells, who yesterday interred another body in a vault in St. Paul Church-yard at Broadway and Vesey streets, says there is no room for any more except as the crumbling bones from time to time create a vacancy. “I think I believe in cremation,” said he, “what we are going to do for space to bury our dead, I don’t know. Greenwood Cemetery already has a population of 200,000, and will soon have noToom at ail. It will soon be necessary to go far away from the city for burial.” Another Wife Beater Flogged), Baltimore, Md., June 24.—Henry A. Myers paid part of the penalty to-day at noon for having brutally beaten his wife. The sentence of the court was that he should receive twenty lashes and undergo one year’s imprisonment. The twenty lashes were laid on by Sheriff Airey, the Instrument being the same as that used upon Byers’ back last week. Myers received the flogging without crying out, but squirmed considerably. Each lasb left a bright red mark upon his back where the leather struck. When It waa over Myers seemed utterly overwhelmed with shame, and was led back to his eel? will) boyred head.

■.- -- " Sfl' — AN EDITOR'S PERIL. Attempted Assassination of Hon< Georg* A. Dunnlngton, E-iltof of the Grafton (W. Ta.) ••Sentlnef*—The Result of Political Animosities. -The Culprit at Large. Grafton, W. Va.* June 25.—This place has been greatly excited over the shooting with intent to kill, of the Hon. Geo. A. Dunnlngton, editor of the /Sentinel, and one ot the best known men in the State. The cause of the dastardly crime is supposed to be set forth in the following anonymous letter received by Mr. Dnnnington a few days ago, but which he at the time kept secret! “Grafton, June 15. Dunnington:—We don’t want any damued traitors in our party. If you have made a bargain with McGraw, come out and say so, so we will know which side you are ou. We don’t want to take a paper which pretends to be Republican and is published in the interests of Democrats. McCormick is right, and you are a reuegade Democrat. I believe you had belter leave town, or you might wake up some moraine and find yourself In hell. I see by the Eagle that you talk private to McGraw. You had better sell out to him and be done with It. A man who will kick a Republican out of office ain’t a stood Republican, and ought to be ruu Out of town. Damn you, go, or we will make you! Rkpubu£in. The McGraw referred to in this epistle is the recently appointed Democratic Collector of Internal Revenue for this State, vice McCormick, Republican, ousted by the exertions of Dunnlngton and the Wheeling Intelligencer. Dunnington saw fit to treat the letter with contempt. Last night he attended the Temperance State Convention as reporter for the Wheeling Intelligencer. After the adjournment he remained’ in the telegraph office until'after midnight. On returning, to bis hotel a imd sprang out of an alley way and leveled a revolver at his head. Dunnington struck down the pistol just as the trigger was pulled, and the ball passed ihioUgh his leg. The w'ould-be assassin fled, and despite the closest search, has not been found.

CABINET -GOSSIP. A Weak Leg in the Cabinet Said to be Cans* iQg Anxiety in the Mind of the President —Hints That Bayard May Retire. New York, June 25.—The Sun’s Washington special Irom an occasional correspondent says: “All Is not harmony in the Cabinet, and the President Is troubled. He is not at one with- the Secretary of State, and the differences that have arisen will not be mitigated by time or obliterated in the progress of tho administration. Bayard’s course in regard to appointments and the general spirit In which he has conducted the de- ' partment, have been a great disappointment to the President, and to some other members of the Cabinet. Bayard, they say, has proved capricious and uncertain; his course has not been guided by any Used policy or logical purpose, and he is declared to be the one dissentient and permanently Inharmonious element In the administration. The objections to Bayard are cumulative, and no degree of patience, leniency or ingenious explanation can conceal either the present drift or ultimate result. That result is that Bayard will presently leave tho Cabinet. The President is kindly disposed and by nature a very tolerant man, but in respect to what he regards as unjustifiable obstacles he knows no amenities whatever.” Washington’, D. C., June 25.—In reply to an inquiry to-day respecting his probable retirement from the Cabinet, Secretary Bayard said: “It is Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet. You had better go aud sec him about it. 1 have nothing to say in regard to the matter.” DEATH INTERPOSES. A Washington Wedding Prevented By the Death of the Bride-to~Be. Washington, D. C., June 26.— Dr. Emil Bessels, the well-known Arctic traveler, and Madame Ravenna, the singer, were engaged to be married. Last Saturday was the date fixed for the wedding. But the doetdi- was suddenly.taken ill on Satnrday, so the wedding was postponed until last Monday. On Monday, wh n the bridal party reached the residence of the. minister they met with another disappointment the minister, the Rev. Mr. Schneider, having unexpectedly gone to Baltimore. Subsequently all arrangements were made lor the wedding to take place on Wednesday. Yesterday the expectant bridegroom drove to the house of his bride to take her to the minister’s, but was shocked to learn that she bad been taken suddenly and seriously ill. The progress of the disease was so rapid that by night Madame Ravenna was dead. She was to have been married at twelve o'clock, and this termination of what was looked upon as a happy affair Is inexpressively sad. Madame Ravenna has had quite a varied career. Since her arrival in this country she has been a concert singer. ! -;■* • »■ ARGENTIFEROUS. Dlasovery of Silver at Mlnersvllli-, Pa. - Great Excitement, Pittsburgh, Pa., Jane 25.—Much excitement prevails over what is claimed to be the discovery of a riph mine of silver ore at Minersville. John Hackett, a mining engineer, Who came here, from California, while examining the ground found surface indications of silver. He worked quietly at the place for several days and convinced himself that there was a fortune there f >r him. He leased the ground, and has made sa'islactory arrangements with the owners to begin digging. Experts examined specimens of the rock, and say it is quite rich in what is known in Colorado, as white iron, which is found where gold and silver abound. Prospectors are already arriving. People are more enthusiastic than wheu the great oil wells were struck.

A Gallant Colonels Daughter. Narragansktt, R. I., Juno 26.—Lieu* tenant Edwin St. John Greble, Second Artillery, of Little Rock, Ark., was married to Miss Gertrude Poland, daughter of Colonel J. S. Poland, D. S. A., here Wednesday, by Rev. Dh W. Babcock, of St. Peter’s Church. The marriage ceremony was couducted in a* marquee erected on the lawn at the Fiat Rock Cottage. After the ceremony a reception was held at the cottage. The newly married couple left on a special train for Boston, and will sail from there on July 2d for a six months’ tour. Not a Very Good Day, Either. Dallas, Tex., Tune 26.—The citizens’ posse from the Texas and Indian Territory side of the Red River, in the neighborhood of Delaware Bond, who have for several weeks past been chasing the gang of outlaws who have been stealing horses and stock, yesterday overtook the gang and captured eight of them near Washita and hanged them to one tree. They then went a few miles further and captured four others, whom they also lynched. About two weeks ago three others were Ivnohed, making a total of fifteen. Fully twenty members of the gang have h*eq ■lain the past spring, and half a close* farmer* and citizens have tost their Uem

I A POLITICAL REMINISCENCE. How Senator McPherson Prevented the Republicans from Capturing New Jersey. Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, has remained in Washington dining the spring. He ig a very intimate., friend of the President, and is probably as near to him as any of the Senators. Mr. Cleveland is under special obligations to him. The story of the occasion for his special gratitude has never been told. If it had not been for the Senator the Democrats ; would not have elected ft President. It was he who discovered a secret conspiracy to carry New Jersey for the Republicans. During the latter part of the campaign he went over the State with one or two trained men for the purpose of seeing how the election was going. In the northern part of the State one of his agents came to him and said: “The Republicans are strangely confident. I do not understand it. I know a Republican, a hard-working man, who has scraped together nine hundred dollars, the savings of three or four years. He told me only last night that he intended to bet this money upon Blaine’s carrying the State.” This report caused grave apprehension in Senator McPherson’s mind. He thought it. very strange that this man would be willing to risk his savings upon anything less than a certainty. So he sent for him and cross-ex-amined him. By promising to make good . to him the amount of his bet this speculative Republican was induced to tell the reasons for his confidence. After some hesitation the man Jold the story of the trade that had been made. Three of the leading candidates for c uuty positions in the northern part of New Jersey had made a definite arrangement with the Chairman of tho Republican State Central Committee to throw overboard the National ticket iu return for help on the local ticket. The Senator instantly saw the importance of the story. Such details of the t-ade were given him as to make him positive that it could be carried out unless the conspiracy was exposed. If the trade should stand, New Jersey would go Republican by about 2,500 majority. The Senator doe* not care to mention the names of these Democrats who were detected iu this conspiracy. He visited them very prothptly after he bad heard the story. He charged them directly with the intention of selling out the National ticket. He was able to so convince them of his knowledge of this conspiracy that they fotnd it useless to even attempt a denial. He warned all of the Democrats in the communities where the trade had been made, and notified the traitors that

ii miBy iutetupiea 10 carry out their plan they would never again be allowed to live in the State of New Jersey. Terrified by this awful threat, they rallied to a sense of duty and did not sell ont. The dav of the election about noon Senator McPherson met the Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. He said: “McPhersou, lain about sending out dispatches to the chairmen of the State Central Committees in New York:, Connecticut and Indiana. I have no objection to your seeing them.” "What have you told them?” said McPherson. "I have told them,” said he, “that this State will go for Blaine by twenty-five hundred majority; that nothing on earth can prevent it. I am sending this "out to encourage them to pile up good majorities in their States.” Senator McPherson smiled at this bragging statement. He said: “I am too good a lri nd of yours to want to see yon make a fool of yourself. I have no doubt what you have written would have been true if the election had taken place a week ago. But we discovered your little game. It ha3 been headed off. This State will go Democratic by four thousand majority.” The Republican Chairman looked at the Senator a moment ns if in doubt. The tone of his voice perhaps convinced him of the truth of his declaration. He tore up his dispatches an! walked away looking very much chagrined.—Cor. m r. World. REPUBLICAN BAD BLOOD. The Christian Statesmen of New Jersey at FrelhighdVsen's Grave. It was very unseemly that so solemn au event as the funeral of ex-Seeretary Frelinghuysen should have excited bad blood among the “Christian statesmen” of New Jersey. But such unfortunately has been the ease. It appears that in arranging for the obsequies of the departed ox-Secretary his friends remembered that he had been defeated for the United States Senate some years ago by. Senator Sewell, who now holds the position to which the deceased had aspired. It should be supposed that death would have smoothed the asperities and molliiied the harsh feelings resulting from sueh a contest. ' But it seems only to have intensified them. The managers of the funeral thought it would be a good opportunity to show Seweli what they thought of him, and accordingly they refu-ed to extend to him those funereal courtesies which are customarily extended to the leafing statesmen of a State when one of their number shuffles off his mortal coil. Senator Sewell was pointedly omitted from the list of palt-bearers, anil to give addit onal acerbity to the slight the Democratic Senator McPherson was prominent among those who had the handling pf the coffin. With a Christ an determination to overlook, so obvious a snub Senator Sewell, however, determined to attend the funerab and in company with a frSthd walked up the aisle of the church, but was politely told that there was no seat few him, as they had been reserved for the friends "of the deceased. The Senator walked out of the church and went home, no doubt with feelings such as he should not have en* tertained on so solemn an ocoasion. One of the managers afterwards chuckled over the manner in which they had beaten the “Sewell gang.” That sueh bitter disagreements should exist among Republican leaders is something to occasion painful surprise to those who regard them as the representatives of the higher moral sentiments. How can the Grand Old Party expect to repair its damaged fortunes if its statesmen—Christian statesmen, too, at that—carry their biokerings to the' verge of the grave?—Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot.

WHY SHOULDN'T THEY SHOUT? Logan's Kleotlon Such a Piece of Rare Good Fortune That Republicans Can’t Let Go. 'JLIt is one of the amusing signs of the disheartened condition of the Republican party that it is still talking and exulting over the re-election of a Republican Senator in the Republican State of Illinois. Three years ago such an event would have been taken as a matter of course and dismissed after three days. But the re-election of a man wiio has “the credit of winning the first distinct Republican victory during the Cleveland Administrat on” is suoh a piece of rare govd fortune to the overthrown party that its organs can not let it go. They are still nursing it with the pathetic ferocity of a bereaved tigress over her last remaining cub. The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette rejoices that the Logan powder fund has resulted in such a “resounding demonstration,” and it moutlis savagely over the fact that “the solemn sound jarred the windows of the White House”— where a Democratic President holds authority. But let us not complain of these poor people. Their very “resounding' demonstration'’ over so small a victory is a proclamation of the r lost cause. They are in a condition to make the most of a small favor. They must spread the butter thin over their hitter blaok bread and make it go as far as possible. They

ought to be pardoned for their long and savage exultation over the election of Logan to the Senae, for he is the man they failed to elect to the Vice-Presi-dency. Matters have been going from bad to worse with them in such a headlong fashion, since last summer, that it would be cruel to mock at their present rejoicings. Their victories nowadays arc/So rare that when one comes it im^t be made to last as long as posst j ble.^6'1. Louts Republican. -•-*-•-i— A REFQRM ADMINISTRATION. Mr* Cleveland Carrying Oat the Fro* gramme of Reform Successfully. All fair-minded men agree that the new Administration is carrying out th« programme of reform conscientiously and successfully. The Republican party can not be expected to rejoioe at th< good government that Mr. Cleveland has given the country. But all intelligent, honest and patriotic men—th< great masses—do rejoice. Mr. Cleveland has inade mistakes, as a matter ol course, for ho is but human. But when the difficulties that he had’to encounter upon assuming office are taken into consideration, the reform brought about in three months is almost marvelous.

On the -ith of March tue President foutul a State Department tilled with diplomatic agents who were drawing good salaries without rendering any equivalent service. Under Secretary Bayard the consuls are to be employed in obtaining valuable commercial information m .the respective countries where they are stationed and transmitting it'periodically in the shape of intelligent reports for the benefit oi the 'Jiteiness interested this oouutry. On the 4th of March the President found the Treasury Departmaut filled with part:san ■ supernumeraries and worthless henchmen. Secretary Manning began the work of investigation at once, and fraudulent me'hoas were broken up and honest men were employed to do the Work of the Department. It is under this department that the internal revenue is conducted, and tljo work of removing the partisan col- - lectors and their deputies will-of itself result in a saving of hundreds of thousands to the country. On the 4th of March the President found John Roach virtually in possession of the ship-building branch of the Navy Department Secretary Whitney is chief of all the branches of the navy now, and Mr. Roach has given up all hopes of ever imposing upon the Government again. On the 4th of March the President found the army conducted on the plan of favoritism. The officers who had influential friends and political backing had the soft places in Washington and New York, while more capable officers were made to serve with their regiments in the Indian country beyond the line of civilization. Seeretaryjjjndicott is changing all this, and puttrfig officers of the same grade on an equal footing, without regard to “influence.” On the 4th of March the President found the Post-Office Department tophcavy t with inspectors holding their places on account of party service. Postmaster-General Vilas immediately discharged all surplus employes: and. better still, he began at once to till tho post-offices with Democrats in the place of offensive partisans. The Secretary of th ■ Interior likewise has reformed his department and few departments needed reform more. But, above all. President Cleveland lias, removed all sectional barriers. On the 4 th of March he found Mason and Dixon’s line still marking the boundary between North and South. The Republicans had kept it standing, but the new Admini-tration immediately wiped it oft' the map. The . country is reunited and Mr. Cleveland is determined that it shall remain so.— Richmond (Vo.) State.

A SAGE'S OPINION. Ex-Governor H»r.itlo Seymour on the - New Administration. On the 81st of May Horatio Seymour tilled his seventy-fifth year, haring been born on May 81, 1810. In a letter to a close personal friend the venerable statesman refers to his advanced age, and expresses his gratitude that his mental faculties are still vouchsafed to him unimpaired, although the crowding years press heavily on his sight, hearing and his limbs. The efe-Goveruor says that he continues to fake, an active interest in the political movements and public questions of the hour, and he believes that, standing apart from the strife and the turmoil of active political life, he can view matters more calmly than in former days, and perhaps with more impartiality. Ho rejoices that he has l.yed to witness the return of the Democratic party to power in the Nation— not that Democrats may enjoy the spoils of office, but because it is a vindication of the principles of Democracy, and proves to the country that the party is capable of governing wisely, and is sincerely desirous of making an economical, honest Administration. Mr. Seymour expresses entire confidence in Mr. Cleveland and believes he will make a successful aud in the end a very popular President. The Administration moves slowly, says the ex-Gov-ernor. but is it not wise and prudent to do so? He might himself some years ago have preferred more active party measures than have yet been adopted, but he contents himself now with the Knowledge that honest men are at the head of public affairs and that in good time all the minor offices will be filled by those whose honesty is above suspicion and who are imbued with true Democratic principles. On one point Mr. Seymour expresses him-elf emphatically. He can see no single event of President Cleveland’s public life which casts a doubt on his genuine Democracy, and he believes that as aiman of brain and judgment the President must recognize the necessity of strengthening the Demoeratio party, and the folly of putting dangerous weapons into the hands of any men whose sentiments prejudice them against Democratic traditions and who may at any moment be found in opposition to the Democracy. Mr. Seymour speaks of his dosing life, his entire happiness, his affection for his old associates arid friends and hts confidence in the/ American people in language of touching simplicity. The venerable statesman Vnd staunch Democrat ends an honoJab’A public career with a dignity, amf kindliness which prove that the peoplewere right to trust and honor him. The sunset of his ltM presents its most attractive and beautiful colors.—N. Y. World. —The first American almanac is believed to have been issued in 1687 by William Bradford, in Philadelphia The celebrated “Poor Richard’s Almanac" was published iq 1732, and continued until 1757.