Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 August 1885 — Page 1

Pike County Democrat volume XVI. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1885. NUMBER 13.

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PIlOFKSSIONAl CARDS F. ». POSEY. A. J HONEYCUTT. POSEY & HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Petersburg, lad. Will practk'C ;n all the courts Al' business promptly attended to. A Notary Public constantly in tho office. Office over Prank & Hoi nbrook's drug store. E. P. RICHARDSON. A. H. TAYLOR. RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG, IND. vProml attention *?lven to all business. A Notary Public co istautly in the office. Office, over Adams o Sou s drug store. E. A. ELY. W. F. TOWNSEND. MAKT FLEENEH. ELY, TOWNSEND & FLEENER,

v Att’ys at Law & Real Estate Agts, s; . Petersburg, Ind. Office over Our »anfee*s Store. Special attention Riven to Collec tions, buying ami **cll- * if an(*3» ©xaudjinf Titles and furnish uj Abstract. J. W. WILSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Peterebavg, In cl. Will practice in all thb courts. Special attention given to ail business intrusted to his care. Oil'o-s over Barrett& Sou s store. J. M. DOYLE. W. H. THOMPSON DOYLE & THOMPSON, Attorneys at Law* Real Estate, LoanStarance Agls. Office, FecoiKtl’o r in Bank Building*, corner Main and Seveuth Streets. Petersburg, - - Indiana. The b^st Fire and l ife In -uranee Companies represented. Mon- y to loan on iirst niortsra&t 8 at seven ami eight p ‘r cent. Prompt. uttenH n to collections, and all business intrusted to us. J. R. ADAMS, C. H. I'U 1*1*1 N WIDER. ADAMS & FULLIN WIDER, Physicians & Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. Office over Adams & Sou's drug store. Office hours day and night. J. B. DUNCAN, 1 Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, - IND. Office, over ltergen’s City Drug Store. Office hours day and uight. A. It. BYERS, M. I). NVM. 11. LINK, M. B. DYERS & LINK. Physicians and Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. CSt"OfBee, over Hauunond & Son's Store.Tl, DR. A. D. CARLET02L Office, in Gu8 Frank's new builiing, onrner Main and Seventh streets; residence in Most'S Frank's new d ■ oiling in Protit's addition to Petersburg. Treatment of • Diseases ol Females & Children a Specialty Chronic and difficult cases solicited. Calls in the city or country promptly responded to (lay or night. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, j J. E. TURNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, - IND. Parties wishing work done at their in stdetiecs wttl leave order* at the shop, in l)r. Adams'new budding, rear of Adams A: coil's drug stoi e.

HOTELS. LINGO HOTEL, l-ETERSBURU, IND. - * THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL IN TOWN. New throughout, and first-class accommodations iu every respect. G. M. ROWE, Proprietor. HYArr'r HOUSE, Washington. Ind. * Centrally Located, and Accommodations first class. J. M. FAULKNER, Proprietor. SHERWOOD HOUSE, WM. SHERWOOD, Prop. b. A. frost, Man. theo. busseu,, Clerk. Cor. first and Locust Stre is, EVANSVILLE, - • - IND. . The Sherwor d is centrally located, first o‘a -8 111 afl its appointments, and the host and. cheapest hotciin the city. Matos, $2 per day. When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. Mrs. Laura Hakuur. Proprietress. Wm. H. Neal, Manager. EMMETT HOTEL, One square east of Coiirt-bouso, cor. of Washington and New Jersey Sts., INDIANAPOLIS, - - IND. JAMES S. MORGAN, Prop’r. BATES, $1.50 Per Day. MI *C ELL A NKOUS. PHOTO GALLERY; OSCAR HAMMOND, Prop’r. Pictures Copied or Enlarged. AU kinds of work done promptly and at reasonable rates. Call and examine his work. Glallery In Klsert s now building, over the I'ost-oiBoo. Petersburg, Ind. Great Reduction In the prioo of SADDLES, HARNESS, ETC., ETC. The public Is hereby in'ormed that 1 will sell s»y large stock of Saddles and Harness, and everything kept by me lower than ever sold l« this place before If yon want anything in ibj line, don’t fati .o call on Ole as am 1 oherl:ng special bargains. FRED REU9S, PETERSBURG. - INDIANA.

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. PEBSONAl AND FOUTICAI. Chabnoet S. Cattox, the original projector of the Chicago. Burlington & Quin* cy Railroad, died on the 28th. Gladstone “looks forward with assured confide ace” to the result of the coming election. Miss Florence M. Coon died suddenly at Etgerton, Wis., on the 26:h, but as the usual evidences of dissolution are not 1 resent, her friends refrain from burying her. A cablegram from Li na, Peru, from Minister Buck, says that Lieutenant Nye, who is uuiler orders to bring home the remains of Minister Phelps, is ill, and that the time of his departure is uncertain. President Cleveland has refused to modify his order for the removal of cattle from leased Indian lands. Protests against the enforcement of the order, and petitions for extension of time ha ve been sent to Washington from St. Louis, Kansas City and other localities. General Hazcn, Cuief Signal Officer, sailed for Europe on the&Jth, to be absent until October. The President has appointed Robert Murray, Surgeon-General United Stats Army; Francis M. Gunnell, SurgeonGeneral United States Navy, and Rev. Byron Sunderland, pastor of the First Presbyterian Churob, to be visiter tb theGovernment Hospital for the Insane. Full confirmation of Oliver Pain’s death is received. Giineual Hazen has brought charges against Sergeant Michael McUirren, of the Signal Corps at Pensacola, Fia., end asked that he bo tried by court-martial for refusing to receive Private Green (colored), who was sent to assist him. Colonel T. F. Barr, Judge Advocate and military secretary of the Secretary of War, has asked to be relieved. He has held his present pos t on for the past five years. It is unders ood that the vacancy to be made by Colonel Barr’s departure will not be filled. Mr. Bedford Mackey, United States. Consul at Rio Grande de Sol, B asil, arrived in Washington on the 28 h on a leave of absence. Mr. Mackeylis the Consul who some weeks since had a shooting affray with a Brazilian editor, the latter having published scurrilous attacks upon him and his mother. The Post-offices are all ordered to be closed between the hours of 1 and 5 p. m. on the day of General Grant’s funeral. The French dramatist, Sardou, is coming over to aee us.

Emperor William’s health is reported greatly Improved.' Carlotta Patti la about toi publish a book of personal, reminiscences of “An Artist’s Tour Around the World.” The Khedive has issue! a decree in which he says $5,000,000 of the new Egyptian loan will be expended in irrigation works. On the 29th Viscount Errington, M. P., croated a sensation in Londo i by denouncing the Government for “truckling to the Parnellite blackguards.” President Cleveland has forwarded a subscription of $250 to the fund for rebuilding Music Hall at Buffalo, N. Y., which was destroyed by fire in March last. T. K. Mills, reported drowned at Cedar ltapids, la., on the 29th, was resuscitated. Brown, Bonnell & Co., of Cleveland, t>.,have signedatho wages scale of the Amalgamated Association. A. W. Coffman, a wealthy citizen of Avoca, la., is in jail at Council .Bluffs for killing a mm The Mahtli, just leforo death, enjoined his followers to keep up the fight against the Cbrlstiaus. At Rome' it is given out that the Archbishop of Bait more will be made a Cardinal iu September. Very Rev. Patrick Reilly, VicarGeueral of the Roman Catholic Church at Wilmington, Del., died on the 30th. The Virginia Democrats nominated General Fits Hugh Lie fur Governor, Jas. E. Massey for Lieutenant-Governor, aud R. E. Ayers for Attorney-General. At a banquet in London -to the Ministers, on the 30th, Lord Salisbury said the foreign i oiicy of Mr. Gladstone would be carried out. Senator Mahonr has Issue 1 a circular to the ousted Virginia Postmasters, containing a series of questions tobo answered by them, which he will use as a basis for a fight in the Seuato. Mrs. Grant desired that in case Union officers like Generals Sherman and Sheridan were selected as pall-bearers, a leading Confederate officer like General Johnston or General Buckner be also included in the list. The President has appointed both the gentlemen.named. A monument to the memory of Rebeccaf Nmrse, who was hanged for witchcraft July 19th, 168i, avas dedicated at her old home iu Danvers, Mass., on the 30th. TnE committee of the Uuion of American Hebrew Congregations has voted that servicos lu memory of Sir Moses Montefiore shall be held in all cities of the country on some day to bo decided upetf. It is reported that since El Mahdi’s death his followers have been continually fighting among themselves. Secrsta iy Bayard has received a dispatch from the United States Consul at Marseilles, saying that the recent report of an outbreak of cholera in Frauee is unfounded. In one small village there has been a few cases of cholerine, which is not epi lem c.

Da. John O’Kane Murray, of Philadelphia, Pa., died at the Leland Hotel, Chicago, on the 39th, of consumption. Dr. Murray was en route to Colorado Springs for his health. He was a Catholic writer of so >ie note, being known chiefly through his “History of the Catholic Church in the United States’* an 1 a “History of English Literature.” Kkv. Jeremiah O’Sullivan, not Father Byrne, is the new Bishop of Mobile. Prinok Bismarck and Count KolnoUy w 11 be present at the meeting of the Emperors at Gastein. The Governor of Connection t has proclaimed August 8;h, the day of General Grant’s funeral, a legal holiday in that State. • 'r Charles L. Skinner, of Baltimore, M 1., has been disbarred from practice as au attorney before the Interior Department for extorting illegal fees. Osman Dias a Is reported to have been killed in the Kassala battle. The Mahdt’s followers are everywhere demoralised. Jacob E ib, arrested In Chicago on a charge of drunkenness, died in his call on the 81st. A post mortem examination showed that the man was not drunk and that death was caused by chronic inflammation of the brain. Colonel Fred Grant has issued a special invitation to members of his father’s Cabinet to attend the funeral. Secretary Bayard received from Lima on the evening of the 33'th a telegram announcing the death of Lieutenant Nye, naval attache to the American Legation at that place. The Lieutenant was instructed to accompany the remaius of ex-Minlster Phelps to the United States, but before the date of departure be became ill and died.

Tax resignations of the six chiefs of di - visions in tho Second Auditor’s office (Treasury Department) have boon requested. They are: Thos. C. Bailey, F. H. Gooda'l, C. Tometl, Thos. Rathbone, H. A. Walton and C. C. Snow. Bcoritary Bata d on the 31st received from tho French Government 13,659 francs, being the amount awarded by thejFrancoAmerican Claims Commission to American claimants against the French Government. Nineteen claim? were presented and all but two were either disallowed or dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Thx President, it is said, will, within a few days, flli the vacant second lieutenancies existing in the lins of the army from civil life. There will be ten vacancies after the non-commissioned officers who are now being examined shall have been assigned to regiments. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Trig propeller Cuba, of Buffalo, N. Y., was damaged by Are at Chicago on the 28th to the extent of $5,001. Thu ship John De Costa, bound from Melbourne to California, and owned by Briggs & Cushing, of Freeport, Me., is reported wrecked off Cookstown, Australia, and is a total low. Ox the 29th Samuel W. Allerton’s steam yacht was sunk at Lake Geneva, Wis., by a storm. Ox the 29th W. J. Hayes committed suicide at Rockport, Ind. A number of aged Indians and squaws were captured and massacred by Mexicans, at Sonora, recently. Ox the 29.h two men were killed instantly and several wounded by the falling of a portion of a rolling mill at South Wilmington, Del. Ox the 29th a passenger train on the Chicago & Indianapolis Air Line, near Delphi, lad., ran into a herd of catlle, killing eight head aud doing $1)90) damage to the company. No person hurt. Sitcrktary T. R. Willis, of the Iowa Legion of Honor, his daughter and her friend, Miss Null, ot Cedar Rapids, wore^ drowned in Cedar River, about fourteen miles below Cedar Rapids on the 29th. During an electric storm at St. Paul, Minn., on the 29th, three houses were struck by lightnlug and badly damaged. Michael Brissler was struck in tho head by a bolt of lightning and instantly killed. Trees wero struck in various parts of the city and demolished. Ox the 29th a destructive fire occurred at Nannsville, N. Y, Every store in the towm, nine dwellings and tho Church of the Disciples were burned. The loss is estimated at $70,099, and insurance $15,

0-0. Os the 29th the Royal Electric Light Company’s works aud Nutter’3 box factory, at Moutreal, Can., wore burned. Four tenement houses were also burned. The Electric Light Company lose about $5),000; fully insured. The total loss will be about $100,000. James Massos, a noted desperado of the Indian Territory, was found guilty on the 30th of murder. A lightning-rod and weather vane sharp named Adam 'Wilson, is found to hard swindled Penusylrauia farmers out of several thousand dollars. While inquiring into the case of the mutilated female remains recently found in the Charles River at Boston, the police of thoeity have unearthed another murder. A diart containing an admission of murder and incendiarism in the failed States, found.among the effects of a man arrested in L >ndon on a criminal charge, is an unpleasant addition to his already had predicament. At Fargo, D. T., on the 31st a violent storm destroyed an iron electric tower and did otherdamago. On the 31st Valentine Wagner was hanged at Columbus, 6„ aud Matilda Jono3, Charles Davis and George Wilson at Plaquemine, La. On the night of the 39th a four-year- old daughter of James Bennett, of New York, a summer resident of Roslyn, L. I., fell into a bath of hot water and was scalded so terribly that she died immediately. MISCELLANEOUS. The people of the Spanish provinces of Huesca are in revolt against the excise laws. Beginning August 1st, the Westinghouse Air-Brake Company have notified the r Pittsburgh (Pa.) employes that they will reduce wages on an average of twenty percent. The report of a Parliamentary committee states that all inlustries in Ireland except linen manufacture ore in a deplorable condition. A scheme is being matured to divide the Territories of Montana aud Dakota so as to make a cattle-raising and agricultural State. The committee which has beon appointed to investigate the Pill Matt Gazette exposures report that ou the whole they find the statements substantially true. A committee has been appointed to Inquire into the condition and education of the blind in England. One of the committee will visit the United States. A CABLE dispatch from tt& United States Consul at Denla, Spain, Jto the State Department announces that cholera has been officially declared at that port Toe Porte has contracted with Krupp for $3,590,009 worth of guns. The July payments made on account of pensions up to the 29th of the month amounted to $7,29 >,090. A split among the Tories in England seems to be imminent. Postage on letters sent from the Uuited States to Australia and New Zealand via England, Brindisi and the Sues Canal, has been reduced from fifteen to twelve cents, making it uniform with therate via San Francisco.

Cho&rua has mads its appearance on the French frontier. One'fourth of the people of Monterguado, in Soria, died of cholera during the ten days ended the 20th. The survivors fled, with the exception of one gendarme, who remained to bury the bodies of the victims. According to the Svet, the Russian military organ, the Afghan force on the Ku^ao-Afghan frontier is 23,000 men, and the Russian force oousists of thirty companies stationed between Penjdeh aud Zu I fle er. Terri bli and destructive storms have prevailed in the Southern provinces of France. Shckmberokr’s iron and steel works at Pittsburgh, Pa., proposed to start up on August 3d, giving employment to 2,000 men. This Italian Iron-clad MarOuini was launched, at Venice on the 80th In the presence of King Humbert and a crowd of dignitaries. Russia fears that the death of El Mahdl and the predominance of Conservative influence in Egypt may result adversely to Russian Interests. Tax Salvation Army marched to the Parliament buildings in London on the 8Jth ond presented a petition a mile and a half long, containing 530,003 signatures, urging the passage of the criminal amendment act. Tub North German Lloyd Steamship Company are earning much Ill-will in Germany by a tricky evasion of the condition that steamers of lines subsidised by thp Government shall he built la Germany.

A vert saver® wine* and rain storm, aocompan.ed by lightning, raged throughout Minnesota on the 29 h. All telegraph wires between Chicago and Milwaukee were temporarily prostrated. Thk committee investigating the coast and geodetic survey claim to have auearthed a good deal of crookedness. Thk belief is gaining ground that British and Indian troops will be sent to Candahar despite all the- protestations made by both English officials and the Ameer that no cantonment by the British has. ever been intended at that point or else® where in Afghanistan. It is affirmed that China will declare war if Russia invades Corea. Tan subscriptions to the Egyptian loan of $13,0(10,OO'O have been closed. They aggregated four times the amount of the loan. As Indian soldier who recently rebelled and shot several native officers was hanged at Bungalore, India, on the 31th, in the presence of the British and native troops. r During the absence of the President, while taking his summer rest, the White House will be fixed up considerably. The walls and ceiling of tho main vestibule will be refrescoed in a style similar to that used in the east room and main inside hall. The building will be painted Inside as well as outside, and some new furniture will be added. Tnsns is excitement at Ashland, Pa., over a water famine which exists at that place. Tax decrease of the puhlic debt during the month of July is estimated at $7,910. - 000. O.v the 81st red hats were given to the new Cardinals at a public consistory at Rome. Great pomp and ceremony marke 1 the occasion. According to Bradstreet’s cotton report for July tho ondition is fully as good as reported for June. f Imports of dry goods at New ~S|>rk during the seven days ended the Sfst, were valued at $1,832,337, and the amount thrown on the market at $2,179,787 O.v the SOth there were 2,918 new cases of cholera in the plague-stricken districts of Spain, and 1,039 deaths from the disease for the same time. Tre only coinage executed at the United States mint in Philadelphia durng July, the first month of the administration of the new Suporinten lent, Daniel M. Fox, 1,800,000 silver dollars. Tiie police of Dublin have discovered some of the missing securities of the Munster (Ireland) Bank at^ Farquharson’s lodgings in that c tv.

Tnx Provost of Glasgow, Scotland, asserts that a system of Corruption of minor females, similar to that in London, exists in Glasgow. , Turks hundred employes of tha* Lake Erfe Bolt-works, at Cleveland, a, &> out on a strike. All the men believed to have been lost In the fallen mill at Wilmington, Dol., have been accounted for. Tub investigation of the Indianapolis Post-office has been concluded, aud the Commissioners have gone to Washington to prepare their report. O.v the Stst the property and franchises of the Bankers’ and Merchants’ Telegraph Company were sold at auction in New York for $500,000 to Edward S. Stokes. At Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 31st a prize fight took place between John Beek and Philip Bulger. Eleven rounds were fought, and Bulg>r was knocked out and terribly punished. A conflict of authority exists between the Governor of West Virginia and the judge of the Federal court over the payment of Chesapeake & Ohio back taxes. On the 31st an amendment to the criminal bill, providing for the flogging of prisoners convicted of outraging children was rejected in the British House of Commons, 132 to 91. An amendment raising the age of protection of girls to sixteen was carried by a vote of 179 to 71. Tub alleged looting by the volunteers in the Northwest is to be brought to the notice of the British Government unless the Dominion authorities take some steps in the matter. Tns bark Hancock from Cyenfugos, July llth, is detained at quarantine at Philadelphia on account of yellow fev.-r, but no trouble is anticipated from infection. Duxukg the seven days ended the 31st, there were 181 failures in the United States as compared with 313 the preceding week, and with 199 135 and 105 respectively in the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1883 and 1882. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Thb jury in the Kiel trial at Keglna, N. W. T., returned a verdict of guilty, aud the prisoner was sentenced to be hanged. Thb steamer Star of the East went ashore near Bath, Me, on the 1st. French troops in Tonquiu are reported to be dying of fevr. General Grant’s body is said to be excellently preserved. Another official of the Munster (Ireland) Bank is missing. Senator Voorhebs, of Indiana, is recuperating at Hot Springs. The Mexioan editors were the guests of the Chamber of Commerce at Denver, Col., on the 1st. Minister Lothrop has presented his credentials to the Czar. Patrick Malonet has confessed to the murder of Patrick Conners near Atkinson,

Mass. Court yon Munster has declined the German ministry at Paris. Chief Shaw of the London fire brigade will visit the United States. General Joseph E. Johnston started on the 1st from Portland, Ore., to attend the funeral of General Grant He is one of the pali -bearers. About 500 boys of tender age avers discharged from the collieries at Shamokin, Pa., on the 1st under the law forbidding their employment Four lives were lost by the burning of a vessel at the wharf at Pembroke, Ont, on the 1st Attorney-General Garland has rendered an opnion to the effect that Indians have not the power to lease their lands. A movement is on foot in Italy for a demonstration in honor of Columbus In in 1892. A Hew York t-upreme Court decision compels the return to France of the gypsies who recently arrived on the steamer Bordeaux. Sudden activity in Chinese naval circles is believed to be caused by the Corean situation. » It is reported that the house in which General Grant was born has been sold for $7,000, and that it will be removed to one of the New York parks. Another member of the Gladstone Cabinet is the oentral figure of a fresh London scandal. There Is no prospect of an Immediate settlement of the strike at East Sagiuaw, Mich. The Peruvian Minister of Justice says a Masonic temple wdl te perm tted to be ereoted at Lima. John Campbell and T, A. Loba have been arrested on charge of murdering Samuel Jones in Colorado. TnRKE hundred scholars at Eton, England, are concerned in a scandalous seusation, and none of them will be permitted to return after the present aessiotv

THE FINAL RESTING-PLACE. Wateh mil. In Riverside Park, Orprlookt»g the Hudson, Settled Upon ns the Hnal Resting-Place of General Grant’s Remains—Preparing For the Funeral Pa, gesnt—TheG. A. It. To he Largely Iteprosented—A Loving Floral Tribute, Mt. McGregor, N. Y., July 29.—It la learned that before ColonePGrant went to New York to select a site for the General’s sepulchre, Mrs. Grant requested him to learn the wishes and opinions of those with whom he consulted on the subject, and If there seemed to be unanimity In favor of any spot which the family had not considered, to give snch Inclination due weight. It is also known that the visit to Watch UiU was not accidental. The spot was known to Mrs. Grant, and bad been spoken of favorably by her, though the ’favored locality with all the family was the mail In Central Park. When, therefore, the Colonel reported a general Impression among the city authorities In favor of Jhe Kiversidc Park, and added his own satisfaction with that site, the decision was quickly land easily arrived at. Dr. Newtnau is quite In earnest in his belief that the memorial to be erected over General Gram’s body should not be conventional and meaningless, like the gigantic shaft of the Washington monument. lie would place in the temple proposed by him all of the gifts of the foreign nations to the late President and General; land all other treasures which have an additional ! interest in connection with the great i hero. There should also be room iu the structure for any statues that may be erected symbolical of the events of the General’s life. The guard of the regular troops are on duty in tho grounds around the cottage, replacing the guard from Wheeler Post G. A. It. of Saratoga. The Wheeler Guard will be ou duty on the cottage porch, beginning when tho body is placed in the casket to-slav. Tho detail frem TJ. S. Grant Post, of Brooklyn, will then take a position Inside the cottago as the Immediate guard of honor.

PREPARING TUK TOMB—Til 15 PROCESSION New York, July 29.—The dispatch from Colonel Fred Grant announcing that Mrs. Grant had decided upon RiversidelPark as the site for the late General’s tomb and monument was received by Mayor Grace a few minutes after eleven o’clock yesterday, immediately thereafter steps were taken to definitely settle the final arrangements for the funeral. Word was telephoned to the Park Commissioners by the Mayor to begin at once on the work of constructing the temporary tomb at the Park. Shortly alter the Mavor received Mrs. Grant’s decision, the Board of Aldermen met and formally presented the site to the family of General Grant for the pur* pose of a burial spot. Superintendent of Police Murray was summoned to the Mayor’s office, and a consultation was held between the Mayor, the Superintendent and General Perry, who represented General Hancock, regarding the arrangements for the funeral in this city. It was the Mayor’s opinion that the procession would start from the City Hall, the different organ, izations falling into line at the side streets aboveJ The line of march will probably be up Broadway to the Boulevard, and along the latter to One Hundred and Tenth street; thence to the temporary vault in Kiverside Park. It is believed that not until the procession reaches Fifty-ninth street will $11 the various organizations be in line. Applications for places in the procession continue to pour in. It will be impossible to grant one-tenth of them. Retired army officers wilt have a position together In the procession. They have been requested to consult General Sickles, who is understood to be the senior retired officer in this city. General Hancock yesterday notified Commander-in-Chief Burdette of the G. A. R. that the different posts of the G. A. R., who take part in the parade, will be assigned a place among the monrners. The General has not yet decided upon their exact location in the line. All armed bodies of troops, including armed G. A. R. Posts, will be embraced in the escort. It is understood that 28,000 members of the Grand Army of the Republic have placed themselves at General Hancock’s disposal, with the urgent request that they may appear in a body on the occasion of the final obsequies in New York A detail of light artillery has been ordered here by General Hancock from Fort Adams, to be nsed in firing salutes on the morning of August 8d and 4th. Yesterday afternoon the most elaborate floral piece yet received came. It is a large pillow of white immortelles, on which Is a sword of colored flowers, crossed by a floral fac simile of the epaulettes of the General. It is inscribed “Comrade U. S. Grant—From Meade Post No. 1, G. A. It, Philadelphia.” The route agreed upon for the transfei of the body from the Grand Central Depot on the 5th, is as follows: Fortythird street, Fifth avenue, Washington Square, Waveriy Place, and Broadway to City Hail. TltE TEMPORARY TOMB. New York, July 29.—At twelve o’clock yesterday Architect Mold, of the Department of Public Parks, had completed the plan for the temporary vantt which is to contain the body of General Grant until the erection of a permanent tomb. It Is to be made entirely of brick. Within It will measure twelve by seven feet. It will be four feet nuder ground and will be surmounted by a barrel arch, with rims of brick In front rises a cross. A large iron door will give access to the plain cemented interior. On each side will be four cross-shaped openings for ventilation. The front will face the river. Tha vanlt can be seen from Haverstraw.

An Injudicious Officer. Brie, Pa., July 28.—Allegations oi brutality were made to-day against Chief of Police Ferguson by the Gazette, which accused him of denouncing Grant and comparing him with the executed cutthroat, Jack Sheppard. Yesterday the Mayor of Erie gave the Chief the option of vindicating himself In' the courts by suing for libel or iu being discharged from the office. Ex-Connty Treasurer Crawford, formerly Post Commander, says he heard Ferguson make the statement alleged. Ferguson dentes It, bat has not brought snit. A Destructive Fire, PniukDiarRiA, Pa., July 29—Five frame and three brick buildings of the plant of the Philadelphia Salt Mannfae* taring Company, situated at Greenwich mint, in the southern part of the city, were Fumed last evening. Five hundred tons of refined sulphuric acid, and about 2,000,000 pounds of crude acid were lost by the explosion of the tanks. The Ore was caused by the explosion of a tank of acid which fell from some unknown cause. The loss will reach 9400,000. The whole plant la valued at 91,250,000, on which there is sn insurance of 9700,000, placed In various home and foreign companies.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Political lloteh-Poteh la England— Eord ChorehJH Grasping tho Reins and Proposing to Straighten Things—Tory Success In the Coming Elections Means War—The Horse Guards Placated. London, August 9.—Political matters hare become badly mixed up in England and chaos seems to reign, all on account ol Lord Randolph Churchill’s defiance ot discipline. The Cabinet Is badly split and demoralized. Churchill Is practically Prime Minister pro tem., and most ol his crew are mutinous. Sir Michael lltcks-Beach as Chancellor of the Exchequer supposed he was going to be leader and spokesman of the party in tho Commons. The first Lord ol the Treasury being in the upper house, he stands stiffly on his rights, but Churchill coolly thrusts him aside aud regardless ol precedent, usage and eTcry thing else, places himselt at the front, leaving Bench and the others to follow as they may feel disposed. Churchill is warmly seconded by Lord Manners and the Duke of Richmond. Lord Iddcsleigh, who has never forgotten that the first step toward his deposition was the selection of Beach for Commons leadership, thereby putting him out of the race for the Premiership, of eonrse gives Churchill his support In everything Involving Beach. Salisbury gives way to Churchill for the sake of peace, although uuablo always to conceal bis resentment at the young leader’s assumption of supremacy. Churchill is bad eaotgh in office; freed from ties he would be simply Intolerable. Beach can be more easily spared, If there must be a break up. Chnrchill is not afraid of provoking a crisis. Far from that he appears resolved to force tho resignation of Beach and any of Beach’s supporters who refuse to bend the knee. He is ready to fill their places with men of his own stamp, active, aggressive and uncompromising. He dictates Salisbury’s foreign policy, and will content himself with Salisbury’s nominal leadership as long as the Premier follows his advice bnt not a day longer. It is allimportant to the Conservative party to go beforo the country In November with a united front, hence Salisbury’s reluctant acquiescence In Churchill’s supremacy. Churchill thinks the Beach crowd ought to bo completely cleaocd out aud the Cabinet completely reconstructed with men of one stripe before the elections. He Insists on the Beaconstieldian axiom that the first element of success Is party discipline. Rather a good joke that from the mouth of a man whoso every step lu life has been taken tu defiance of party discipline. Churchill’s opponents in the party assert that it is chiefly owing to Chnrchiil’s defiance of leadership that the organization has gone so completely to smash.

inurcnurs reinsat to attend tne great Liverpool meeting was the first sign of his reformed views. The Tories are to move like a machine in future at the crack of the party whip, and the whip is to bo wielded by Churchill meu excio. slveiy. Advices from St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Constantinople all point to the certainty of war if a Tory majority is returned to Parliament at the next election. Chnrchill, referring to the Central Asian question, declares that the Tory leaders will neither be cajoled, nor deceived, nor frightened by Kussian tac tics, but intend to preserve peace to gain time to make the northwest frontier of India absolutely impregnable against any Kussian army. This statement admirably defines the Anglo-Russian sitnation. The Cabinet, against their personal predilections, are preserving the peace to gain time. When they are ready, if still in office,'the mask will be thrown off aud war Invited. The oue fltw in the programme is the provoking freedom preserved by the Kussian Generals to bring on a conflict, whenever and wherever they think best. Churchill chafes under what he has designated a situation gravely compromised. The Queen and country have been pledged, he declares, and positions of incalculable military and strategic importance irrevocably ceded to Russia. The Liberals were not a fighting Government. They said'in effect, we can do nothing, we are not a military power. If Russia would oblige ns hv annexing the British West India islands, we should know how to take it. The admiralty would oe up and at ’em in less than no time, but as it is, wc caw only threaten and protest. The Tories take a different view. They argue that an empire containing just four times the population,of Russia and its annexations, and with vastly more money and facilities for waging war at command, ought to have no real difficulty in the time of need in raising four times the military strength of Russia. They say it Is a mere question of cost resolution and necessity. Under the new regime the India office and War Office have been brought into unusually close relations of late. One of the first discoveries Chnrchill made on iooklug over the India office was that nothing effective in the way of military preparations could be done withont the energetic co-operation of the Horse Guards. Under the Liberal Government the relations of the two departments become painfully straiued. , Stories have been pnt into circulation, apparently for pnrely party purposes, that the I>nke of Cambridge, Com-mander-tn-Chlef, and the Secretary of State for War have seriously quarreled. The facts simply are, that through a meddling aide-de-camp, a stupid question of procedure was raised, the permanent officials of both branches of the establishment, Horse Guards and War Office proper, assuming the right of procedure in the exchange of official communication with the India office. Mr. Smith settled the matter by walking over to the Commander-in-Chiel’s room and holding a conference there without formality, hinting at the close that a return visit would alwavs be acceptable. The hint was taken, aud the snobs of the Chief’s entourage have given up the attempt to domineer over the civil side of the house, and there is Deace. -T- - —- —The Fuegians (South America! are the lowest human beings in the scale of existence. Their language contains no word for any number above i hree; they are unable to distinguish one color from another: they have no religion and no funeral rites, and they possess neither "chiefs nor sla\ e . Their only weapons are bone-pointed spears, and, as they grow neither fruits nor vegetables, aud their country is naturally barren, they are obliged to live entirely on animal 1 food. liven these savages possess, however, some social virtues. They are not cannibals; ~ they ill-treat neither women nor the old, and they are monogamous.

—A Boston dressmaker stole sixteen yards of material in making np a dress, but the jury disagreed in the face of plain facts. They thought she was entitled to perquisites and that the shears might have slipped a little.—Boston Post. —The new stone which has lately become popular for jewelry purpo-es, and called tiger-eye, proves to be merely petri Bed wood. It has apeoiliar dull file, and shade? very curiously.— Ckieago Times.

THEIR GREAT TROUBLE. n»« Republican Disposition to ’tppor About the Southern Outntt Issue. The great difficulty in the attempt of the managers of tho Republican party to run it in the next or any other campaign upon the Southern outrage issue is their disposition to vapor about it They find it impossible to lay down any positive, distinct and vigorous proposition with the slightest practical meaning- , Suppose the evils and wrongs of which they complain arc as great and grievous, say, as burglary is in Detroit and other cities,- how d< hey propose to remedy it? Well, says the Cincinr - 'ommercial, one of the most ard- i* them, “we think the enforeemeiv ..4.-the F:ft»-ci, h Amendment would ; oomo a,' tp-ful task, and it woutd to. b; imprs cable to reduce representation in Stat where there has been the unconstitu* ,ial disfranchisement of a race—in some States of the majority of the people—by reason of color and previous condition of servitude. ” But the Fifteenth Amendment has not been passed since the Republican party went out * f. lower. It was in existence under s' ral Republican Congresses and unde Presidents Grant, Hayes. Garfield -nd Arthur. If the Democrats won the iast election by a non-enforce-ment of tne Fifteenth Amendment it was becauso Republican Presidents and Republican Congresses failed either from power or inclination to enforce it How can a new Republican President and a" new Republican Congress do what three or four previous Presidents and Congresses have repeatedly failed to

aa t Under Republican Congresses and under Republican Presidents burglaries have been committed in Detroit. These Presidents and Congresses have been unable or unwilling to prevent them. Burgiaries continue to be committed under Cleveland’s Administration. Accortling to the logic of the irreeouoilable Republicans,' a Republican President and a Congress ought, tnorefore, to bo elected. Then the prevention of burglary “would be a hopeful ta3k.” For there is just as much reason for supposing that Logan would suppress burglary in 1839 as for believing that Hayes did it in 1879. Of .course it will be said that burglary is ditlorent from disfranchisement, because one is an offense against State law, the other against a National law. But, even when that is admitted, the neglect of previous Republican Administrations to treat disfranchisement different from burglary still remains to bo explained. Rut, so far as the fifteenth is concerned, is it very different in its nature? The Fifteenth Amendment relates to conduct of States in abridging or denying the right to vote to any citizen “on account of h's race, color or previous condition of servitude.” What Slate does this? If any State has done so, under a Republican Administration, why has not that Administration enforced the amendment? If no State has done so how ean the present Deniofcvatie Administration enforce an amendment that has not been violated? Flow can a Republican Administration to be elected hereafter enforce an amendment which has not been disobeyed but remains intact and undisputed? If thore are any United States statutes relating to the violation of the elective franchise of c:tizens a Republican Administration with all its officials have long been charged with the duty of enforcing the severe penalties for their violation. If they have not succeeded it is because they have not wanted to enforce them, or because they can not enforce them. Why should the Republicans demand of a Democratic Administration fulfillment of tt task to which the Republican Administrations have been unequal. Why should they ask that a Democratic A'diuinistration give place to another Republican Administration in order to attempt a task which was not fulfilled when the Republicans had the power and opportunity? If the National Government can not suppress the crime of disfranchisement any better than it ean the crime of burglary, then it is plain that it makes no difference, so far as either of those crimes is concerned, whether a Republican or Democratic Administration is in power: and. therefore, it is as fair to say and expect that the next Republican Administration will '*enforoo the Fifteenth Amendment” in every way different from what it is now enforced, as to say and expect that It will enforce the laws against burglary. — Detroit Free Dress- % RETROSPECTIVE. The Good Work Accomplished by the Administration.

i no iiemocrauc Administration is now over four months in office, and it has already accomplished a vast amount of work, not the least being the clear* ing away the debris of misgoverwuent and corruption left in all the departments by its predecessor. The expression, “cleansing the Augean stables,” which was so frequently heard during the Presidential canvass, has proved to be something more than a mere-cam-paign cry. The ■•stables” were found to be fouler than even the most imaginative Democratic orator pictured to his hearers, and the task of cleansing them was one that would havo daunted less resolute men than those President Cleveland selected for hts Cab net. They found the Government so permeated with evidences of swindling and corruption, that it seemed a hopeless task to attempt to reform it without applying heroic remedies. Nevertheless, the President and his Cabinet did not hesitate a moment, but applied themselves to their great work of reform with astonishing vigor and unremitting zeal. For a man who was contemptuously spoken of by the Republicans, as lacking in experience and incapable of conducting the affairs of such a vast Government, President Cleveland has displayed marvelous ability, superhuman energy and an insight late human character and affairs of state which seems almost incredible. r He found in Washington a Republican ring, consolidated by years of misgovernment, and apparently immovable. The spoilsmen had become so bold by long continued immunity that they stoutly resisted the application of reform. A complicated system of red tape and complicated bookkeeping served to bide corruption and disreputable practices. This system was swept away at once from the departments and simpler and honester methods substituted. Fraud which had been so long concealed was unearthed, and every office underwent a thorough process of disinfection. The pension frauds, which were eating away the very vitals of the Government were removed from the roils by General Black and the bureau made'what it was in

tended to bo. for the benefit of those who risfced their live* for their conntry and not for the flock of harpies that had been long fattening on the soldiers’ money. In the Land Office, Commissioner Sparks found an organized system ol robbery which would have, in course oi time, disposed of what was left of the entire public domain to foreign corpora, tions without any reference to the rights of honest settlers. In th« Agricultural Bureau. Commissioner Coleman was embarrassed bv the discovery that the immaculate Dr. Loring, his predecessor, had squandered all the appropriation m sorghum seed an<| other useless materials. The Tostmaa • tcr-General has succeeded in weeding out of his department professed partisans who ^regarded their po-itions as mere rewards for their services during political campaigns. He has made such reductions in the expenses of his ottice that Star-route frauds are rendered impossible fur the future, and instead of dishonest postmasters he will have an efficient, reliable working force. He has also effectually checkmated the schemes of thoso who hoped to draw a nice sum from the Treasury in the shape of steamship mail subsidies In the 'Treasury Department the reduction of expenses has been most notable, and the death-blow has been given to custom-house frauds and intomai revenue swindles. Thorough busiuess men have replaced the professed politicians of the Republican regime, and simpler and more intelligible methods of ao'xmuts have been introduc 'd. The reforms which have taken place in the Navy Department are of tm> most comprehensive kind, and that they were sadly needed tho Mare Island navy, yard and Dolphin scandals bear sufficient evidence. Tho Attorney-General has disposed of tho unnecessary burdens iii the shape of sinecures and useless offices with which tho Republicans had overloaded his department. Secretary Endicott rid tho capital of the young offioers who considered that they could best serve their country in th.i capacity of escorts to ladies and hang-ers-on in salons. The diplomatic service has been'raised to a standard of efficiency by Secretary Bayard, and made more serviceable" and practical. Those who complain that the work ol reform has not been swift enough should bear in mind the vastness of the undertaking. The Democratic Administration has had to deal with difficulties which, at first sight, appeared insurmountable, and it deserves the highest praise for the amount of work it haaccomplished in the short space of foui months. The results of this work are already apparout.—Albany Argus.

REPUBLICAN CHAFF. Mr. Cleveland Delighting His Friend* an* Conluundiug Ilia Enemies. The Republican leaders in tho campaign last fall used as au argument against Mr. Cleveland that his lack o: experience in the affairs of state wotilo render him incapable of condueting tin government of ao,000,000 people. Th« candidate had neVer been to Washington but once in bus life, and then hi made a brief stay, his errand beius solely ou business connected with $ law client. Tho Republican politicians emphasized that fact and tried to make it appear to tho thoughtless that a man unacquainted with the details of Washington political life would be an easy toot in the hands of sharp raseals. Bui the use of such chaff but proved thi hopelossnoss of tho Republican cause* for Mr. Clevoland was known to tlxl Eublic as a man of great insight into uman methods, and great experience in the business of life. He was known moreover as a man of singular strength of character and unflagging energy. He has now occupied the Wbite House four months, and the changes lie has effected in that time prove that his ability was not overrated by his party. Republican leaders who tried to disparage lus record and to belittle him before the masses now slink out ol sight. Republican rule for nearly a quarter of a century had well-nigh disheartened tho majority, who fonnd how hard it was to overturn a ring thal had fastened itself br official machinery on the people. And with each Republican Administration fraud became more open and the spoils gang grow bolder. On the 4th of March President Cleveland entered upon the discharge ol public duties that presented obstacles almost insurmountable. But taking bold of his work with characteristic vim, lie soon made his hand felt, and one by one the rascals’had to leave tho capital; one by one good men were installed as chiefs of bureaus and divisions. The red tape introduced by the Republicans to hide their corruption was cut and flung aside, and busiuess methods were once more to be used in the departments, llis Cabinet Secretaries, reformers like himself, proceeded at once to unearth Republican fraud and corruption, and the Mare Navy Yard and the Dolphin scandals were brought to light. The Pen-*3 sion frauds had been enormous, and the new Commissioner purged the rolls as soon possible. The Commissioner of Agriculture entered upon his duties only to find that nearly all the money appropriated for the Bureau had been squandered and stolen. The Secretary of the Treasury has been busy with the work of reform since the day he took the oath of office, and tho money he has saved the Government by dispensing with the supernumeraries left in his Department by the Republicans amounts already to a very largo sum. The Postmaster-tGeneral has also made steady progress in weeding out his department Ho has reduced tho expenses of the postal machinery, and has made Star-route robbing impossible. Those who complain that reform was not swift enough must remember the difficulties with which the Democratic Administration has to deal, and bea^ in mind the vastness of the undertaking. While the Administration has been imposed upon now and then, a* in the ease of the partisan Collector for the Yorktown District, as a rule tho work of reform, as it progresses, is giving pretty general satisfaction.— AicAmonti (Vo.) Mate.

—The question, "What is a Creole?’ is thus answered by a writer iu thn New York Tribune: . “In the original Louisiana colony there were six classes, r* vU: the European, Creole, Indian, Metis (offspring of white and Indian). Griffo (offspring of white and Indian), and Mulatto (offspring of white ami African). Gradually, however, all native productions came to be called Creole. and so negroes born in Louisiana wen called Creoles to distinguish them from those brought from Africa. —A primrose by any other nuns would smell as sweet, and so Huxlev has taken the liberty of calling it cbrolliflo'ral dicotyldonous exogea.”-* Chicago Inter Ocean,