Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 16, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 August 1885 — Page 1

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. terms of subscription i For one year . ....*1 50 Fop bix months.. . 75 For three months....... 68 invariably in ADVANCE advertising RATES* One square (9 line*), cnr* insertion.fl 00 Kacn additional insertion. 50 A liberal reduction made on advertisements running three, six, and twelve months. Legal and transient advertisements mu6t he »aia for in advance. VOLUME XVI. County Democrat W. P. KNIGHT, Editor and Publisher. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. OmCE, oyer 0. E. MONTGOMERY’S Store, Main Street. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1885. NUMBER 10. PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT JOJ3 WORK OF ALL KINDS Neatly Executed —AT— REASONABLE BATES. NOTICE! Persons receiving a copy of th). paper with this notice crossed in load pencil arc notified that the time of their subscription has expire*.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS ». I». POSKV. A. J HONEYCUTT. * POSEY & HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Petersburg, Ind. WiU practice in hJI the courts. AT bvsinoFi promptly attended to. A Notary Public constantly in the otliee. Office over Frank A Hombrook’s drugstore. E. r. RICHARDSON. A. II. TAYLOR*

UHil.UviihUN & XAXL.UK, Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt, attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. Office, over Adains & Son’s drugstore. B. A. ELY. W. F. TOWNSEND. MAHT FLEENER. ELY, TOWNSEND & FLEENER, Att’ys at Law & Real Estate Agts, v PETEltSBUHa, Ind. ' Office over Otis Frankc's Store. Special attention given to Collections, buying atul sell* inK- lands, examining Titles a id furnish n? Abstracts. J. W. WILSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Petersburg, lnd. . Will practice in all the courts. Special attention given to all business intrusted to his care. Offio.*, over Parrott & Son s store J. M. DOYLE. W. H. THOMPSON. DOYLE & THOMPSON, Attorneys at Law, Real Estate, Loan & Iusnrance A£ts. Office, second t’o' r in Han’t Building, corner Main and Seventh Streets. Petersburg, - - Indiana, The b-st l i e and l ife Inuiranee Companies represented. Mo « y to loan on first mortgages at s von ati«l eight per cent. Prompt attontim to colic‘lions, and all business intrusted to us. „ J. R. ADAMS. C. II. FULLIN’WIDER. ADAMS & FULLINWIDER, Physicians I Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. Office over Adams A Son's drug £tore. ; Office horn's day and night. J. B. DUNCAN, Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, - IND. Office, over Ilcrgon's City Drug Store. Office hours day and night. A. 11. BYJEKS, M. D. WM. H. LINK. M. D. BYERS & LINK. Physicians and Surgeons PETERS BURG^IND. t^g^Office, over HammonH A von’s Store. DR. A. B. CARLETON. Office, in Ous Frank’s n^w building, corner Main and Sevouth streets; resdonec in Moses Frank's new dwelling in Protit’s addition to Petersburg. Treatment of Diseases of Females & Children a Specialty Chronic and difficult cases solicited, (.’alls 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 r, si dences will leave orders at the thop, in Dr. Adams- new building, rear ol' Adams & Son? drug store.

HOTELS. LINGO HOTEL, PETERSBURG, IND. THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL IN TOWN. New throughout, and flrst-ciass accotnmodatious in every respect. G. Wl. ROWE, Proprietor. HYATT TLOUSK~ Washington. Ind. Centrally Located, and Accommodations First-class. J. M. FAULKNER, Proprietor. SHERWOOD HOUSE, WM. SHERWOOD, Prop. E. A. FROST, Man. tiieo. uusskll; Clerk. Cor. First an<l Locust St re ts, EVANSVILLE, - - - IND. The Sherwoi d is centrally located, first c a^s in all its appointments, and the best and cheapest hotel in the city. Kates,! 52 per day. ‘ When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. Mrs. Laura Harris. P.-oprietress. Wm. II. Neal, Manager. EMMETT HOTEL, One’squjfre east of Court-house, cor. of Washington and New Jersey Sts., INDIANAPOLIS, - - IND. JAMES S. MORGAN, Prop'r. BATES, $1.50 Per Day.

MISCKLLANKOIS. 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. Gallery In El sort'8 new building, over the Post-offlce, Petersburg, Ind, Great Reduction In the price of SADDLES, HARNESS, ETC., ETC. . The public 1* hereby informed that I will sell my large stock of Saddles and Harness, and everything kept by me lower than ever sold in thin place before. If you ♦ant anything in my line, don’t fall 10 call on the as am I oner- „ fng special baigains. FRED REUSS, PETERSBURG. • INDIANA.

NEWS IN BRIEF Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL John McCullough is reported sinking into absolute imbecility. Thb British Embassy at Paris is guarded by police in consequence' of Anarchist threats against Lord Lyons. At Martin’s Valley, Fa., three brothers, John, Jason and Wyman Truby, lost their lives by separate .accidents within about twelve, hours. Hon. Dan. Manning has resigned his position as Chairman of the New York Domqcratic State Central Committee, and John O’Brien has been chosen his successor. The State convention will be held at Saratoga, September 231. John M. McMullen, a wealthy cattleman having 39,009 acres of land illegally fenced near Pueblo, Col., was shot in the leg and jailed on the 18th by Deputy United States Marshal Sweet. McMullen attempted to use his shot-gun on Sweet, who had just notified him Of the President’s proclamation in regard to fences. Mr. Gladstone is at Bergen, Norway, and ig improving physically. C. D. Hess, the operatic manager, has sued his wife for divorce at Chicago. The stock of goods left by the absconder, Smith, at Omaha, Neb., was sold on the 19th for $78,099, cash. On the 19th Robert Lowry was renomiuated for Governor of Mississippi by the convention at Jackson. Hon- Horatio Seymour was elected chairman of the Erie Cana! Conference, which beian its session at Utica, N. Y., on the 39.h. Jos. L. Morgan, Secretary of Legation n Mexico, is temporarily acting as Con-sul-General of the United States, pending the arrival of Consul-General Ewing. John A. St. John, of St. Louis, Gnu* daur’s backer, says there is no truth in the reported arrangement of a race between Gaudaur and Teemer. On the 19th the Czar celebrated the fifty-fifth anniversary of the birth of the Emporor of Austria by a grand banquet. The resignation of W. H. H. Llewellyn, Indian ageut of the Mescaliiro agency In New Mexico, has been accepted to take effect October 10th. Commissioner Upshur of the Indian Bureau has awarded the contract for furnishing 22.3,090 pounds of beef and 119,000 pounds of flour tolthd Northern Cheyenne Indians to Thomas C. Powell, of Chicago, the former at $3.4(3 and the latter at $2.70 per hundred pounds. Edward Morrissy, now of St. Louis, formerly of Hyde, Cheshire, England, says the man now in jail in St. Louis for the Preller murder is Hugh M. Brooks, whom he knew in the old country. Elias Doty announces himself as Greenback candidate for Governor of Iowa. Minister Phelps is reported ill at London. Admiral Courbet’s remains will be landed at Brest. Governor Hoadly and LieutenantGovernor Warwick were renominated by acclamation by the Ohio Democrats oh the 20tl>.

On tbe 20th Annie McKean, daughter of the President of the Vandaiia Railroad, eloped from hor home in Terre Haute, Ind., with'her father’s horse trainer, V. 1* Shuler. They were married at Evansville. ' The Queen and Prince of Wales started on the 21st for Norway. Governor Hoadly of Ohio has appointed Hon. Gibson Atherton to fill the vaeancy on the Supreme bench of the State made vacant by the death of Judge Joha W. Obey. Parnell has called a conference on the 25th inst. of the Irish Parliamentary party. - King Alphonso is in high dudgeon against Germany. He has resignedtho honorary Colonelcy of a Uhlan regiment. A story is current that Mr. Keily, who was not received as a representive of thi<j country to Austria, is to be made D.strict Attorney for the District of Richmond, Va., or be given the position of Governor of one of the Territories. The Acting Secretary of the Treasury gave an audience on the 20th to a number of safe, lock and vault companies in regard to the award of a [contract in their line by the Department ^during the present year. Only two companies put in bids. ON the 20th Acting Secretary Fairchild telegraphed to Mr. Brooks, the newly appointed Assistant Treasurer at San Francisco to take possession of the sub-Treas-ury there at once. Physicians advised Emperor William not to attend the recent unveiling ceremony at Potsdam on account of the inclemency of the weather. The Emperor replied that a King unable to go to his soldiers to fulfill his duties ought to resign. The rumor that thh Emperor caught cold is not true. Cardinal Guibsrt, Archbishop of Paris was said to be dying on the 20th. Ho had been unconscious since the day previous. Ex-Congressman D. J. Morrell, of Pennsylvania, died at Pittsburgh on the 20th. He was General Manager of the Columbia Iron Company. In the double-scull race on the 20th, at Pleasure Island, N. Y., between Hosmer and Gaudaur and Courtney and Conley he latter pair were winners in 17:57 1-2, beating the former record, which was 17:50. The reported illness of President Cleveland is contradicted. Mr. Taft, ex-United States Minister to Russia, passed through London on the 21st, on his way home. * Mjl Hendricks and wife w»re tender“d a.reception at Waukesha, Wis., on the 21st. At a banquet to a Catholic Bishop at Belfast on the 21st, the usual toast to the Queen was ignored. The Marquis de Mores has been indicted at Mandan, Dak., for murder. The French Government has ordered that the most minute inquiries be made into the circumstances of the death ol Oliver Pain. The result will influence France’s attitude toward England. Secretary of State Bayard has received from the Consul-General at Montreal a statement of the number of deaths from small -pox in that city since April 1st last BAj follows: April, 6; May, 18; June, 46; first two weeks of August, 85. On May 18th eighteen houses in Montreal contained small-pox placards. King ALPONSohas Instructed the Spanish Ambassador at London to proceed to Berlin and entreat Emperor'William to delay the occupation of the Caroline Islands. He fears that he will be deposed by his subjects. The Secretary of State has, at the request of the acting Secretary of the Treasury, applied to the President of Mexico for the extradition of Autdomorto, who ii charged with forgery and with embezzling funds from the New Orleans snbtreasury. It is rumored that the President intends to reorganize the Soldiers’ Home at Hampton, Va., Dayton and itilwaukee, because of mismanagement. General Pleasanton is spoken of for commander at Hampton.

A child of Charles Sullivan, of Detroit, sifter having been apparently dead for fifteen hours, began crying in the coffin and is now in good health. Mr. Clifford Lloyd, late a special British Magistrate in Ireland, publishes a statement advocating local self-govern-ment for Ireland, the establishment of elective county boards, the abolition of the whole system of Irish beaurocracy, and the incorporation of Ireland as an integral part of the United Kingdom. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Investigation' of the recent steamboat explosion at Wilmington, Del., show3 that dynamite was used. Five employes of . H. Berland & Co., at Pittsburgh, Pa., have been arrested for extensive robberies of good3 from the firm. On the 19th Wm. Smith, alias C. P. Weibuscb, a noted robber, was placed on trial at San Francisco, Cal., on a charge of robbing the mails. John Cotjrberti has been arrested in London under the new criminal law for abducting young girls. A collision of coal cars on the Cabin Creek Railroad, near Charleston, W. Va,, on the 19th, killed four men, including the President of the road. • On the 19th Hannah Stokes, who was intoxicated and abusive, was pushed down stairs at Cleveland, O.j by Lucy Robinson, and her neck was broken. Firt destroyed the round-house of the Providence and Springfield Railroad at Providence, R. I., the morning of the 19th; loss, $4o,000. On the 19th a fire in a lumber yard- at Minneapolis, Minn., communicated to Zesbaugh Bros’, picture-frameworks, and to the factory Itself, which was partially destroyed. Lots about $30,000; insured for $7,000. On the 20th Kitty Williams, daughter of an ex-Mayor of Cedar Falls,* la., died from burns. Her hair caught fire at a gasoline stove. The Canadian Bank Note Company and the Bell Telephone Company lost $130,000 between them by the burning of the building jointly occupied by them at Montreal, Can., on the 20th. Nathaniel Bradley, a night watchman, was suffocated in his bed.

On the 20th Joseph Zitka and Charles Blazek were drowned at Cleveland, O., and a man named Cruskel committed suicide by drowning at the same place. At Iowa Station, Pa., on the 20th, Jacob Group was fatally injured by his horse running away and throwing him down a declivity. His wife was also wounded. Fire destroyed the spinning, drawing and combing department of Richard Williamson & Co.’s worsted .mill at Camden, N. J., on the morning of the 20f.h. The loss is estimated between $71,031 and $103,000. The Standard Oil Company lost $10,000 by fire at Sharpsburgh, Pa., on the 20th; fully insured. Patrick Carroll is charged at Chicago with the murder, some time ago, of Mrs. Walsh. Franz Joseph Petmkky was hanged on the 21st at Auburn, N. Y., for the murder of a woman. At Norbert, sixteen miles from New Orleans, La., on the 21st, five rice harvesters were killed by lightning. Jack Brady, a brakeman, was killed, and t wo other brakeinen named Thomas and Linde Sehned, seriously injured in a railroad wreck near Shenango, Pa., on the 21st. Two brothers named Colbert have been arrested near Lincoln, 111., for a. murder committed at Shawneetown. A freight train consisting of eighteen cars, including six cars of oil, was burned near Cleveland, O., on the 21st, and two tramps are supposed to have perished in the flames. The report of thejwreck of the German corvette, Augusta, is confirmed. Her Trew of 238 officers and sailors were lost. Her value was $1,76(3,030. She was lost in a cyclone in the Red Sea.

MISCELLANEOUS. The Indiana State Board of Health is taking active measures to enforce the health law. Experiments were made at the torpedo station at Newport, R. 1, on the night of the 18th with a movable 15,000 candle power electric search light for use at sea. It was found to work perfectly, minute objects being discernable at a great distance. Ellis & Lessio have notified their roll-ing-mill employes at Pottstown, Pa., of an increase in wages and a prospect of plenty of work. There is talk of a glass-workers’ strike at Pittsburgh, Pa. Cholera has made its appearance among the garrison at Toulon. It is said the death rate of Europeans on the Congo is fully fifty per cent. Germ any has consented to let Austrian hog3 be imported. In the future, dissected bodies from the Paris hospitals are to be cremated. Spain is greatly irritated over Germany’s grab of the Caroline Islands. At a meeting of the Western Export Association held at Chicago 6n ‘the 19th, it was decided to admit California to the association. The Sarinaw (Mioh.) strike is practically ended, nearly all the mills having started up at the old terms, or at ten hours with a proportionate reduction in payThe transfer of gold coin from the subTreasury at San Francisco to the subTreasury at New York through the malls has beou resumed. A package containing $310,000 arrived in New Yorki'on the 19th. Suit has been filed by the Central Iowa Railway Company in the Court of Claims against the United States for damages in the sum of $4,080, for balances alleged to bo due under a contract for carrying the mails from Albia to Northwpod, la., for a period of four years, beginning July 1st, 1875. On the 18th there were 4,271 new cases of cholera reported in Spain, and 1,338 deaths. Eight cases were reported on the 19th among the garrison at Toillon, and twenty-three deaths at Marseilles. Fifty girls employed in the stitching department of Bradley & Metcalf’s boot and shoe manufactory at Milwaukee, Wis., put on their hats and went home on the 19th. They declared they would not return to work until an objectionable assistant was removed. The Bosphore Egyptien of Cairo says that the Cabinet has decided to place Egypt under the regular protection of England. The British Foreign Office has received no information of such action on the part of Egypt and the report is not believed. A proclamation Is to be issued to the Arabs urging reconquest of the Soudan for Egypt. In Notre Dame Church, Montreal, on the 18tb, grand high mass was celebrated at 8 . Roch’s altar, invoking the Almighty to grant a cessation of the small-j>ox epidemic prevailing in that city. Over-production Is said to be demoralizing the anthracite coal trade in the East. The expulsion of Russians from Eastern Germany continues. The Egyptian relief expedition to Kassala wtll march in October. A Valuable collection has been stolen from ttie royal armory at Tori%

Tn strikers at Cleveland have decided by an overwhelming vote to hold out for the scale fixed by the Amalgamated Assoelation. A regular pitched battle occurred on on the 20th between the miners at Shenandoah, Pa., and some Hungarians and Poles, imported there to supplant them. On the 19th there were 4,100 new cases of cholera, and 1,541 deaths from ..that disease in Spain, and three deaths In Toulon; and on 'the 20th sixty-five deaths were reported in Marseilles, and fourteen in the Pharos Hospital. The epidemic Is spreading northward. The proposed alliance of Turkey with England agairi3tjftussia is said to be opposed by the Sultan. Reports have been received at Cairo confirming recent reports of rebel successes Id the Soudan. On the 20th the anniversary of the bat - tie of the Fallen Timbers, where “Mad A'nthony” Wayne broke the power of the Indians in the Northwest, was celebrated on the battle ground near Toledo, O. The Mexican postal authorities have informed the Superintendent of Foreign Mails at Washington that a reciprocal exchange of closed mails via New York will shortly bo put in operation between Paso del Norte upon the northern border of Mexico and Spain. The Marine Hospital Bureau has, through the Secretary of State, called on the Canadian authorities for more detailed Information concerning the character and extent of small-pox at Montreal and other cities near the border. Ar Widnes-on-the-Mersey, England, on the 20th, a girl seven years of age died of English cholera of the worst type. The American Export Association’will hereafter be known as the American Spirit Company, and it is proposed to organize a chartered company under the laws of Illinois for the purpose of regulating production and prices by consolidating fhe distilling interests m »re firmly. Texas has quarantined against yellow fever in Mexico. Walton & Co’s., miners at Pittsburgh, Pa., have resumed work. r- I A panic prevails on the Canary Islands, caused by fear of cholera. The National conference for the protection of girls held a meeting at St. James’ Hall, London, on the 21st. Zanzibar claims indemnity from Germany for the loss of native troops in the East African expedition. Throughout Spain on the 2)th there were 5, lt’4 new cases of cholera and 1,644 deaths. At Marseilles there were twentyfive deaths-during the night of the 20th, and on the 21st, between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m., there were 100 deaths. The St. Loup quarter is the center of the epidemic in Marseilles. During the seven days ended the 21st there were 158 business failures in the United States and n neteen in Canada, making a-total af 177. The case of yellow fever reported in the Pennsylvania Hospital at Philadelphia is pronounced a mild one. Relations are strained between Spain and Germany on account of the latter’s seizure of the Caroline Islands. At a meeting in New York on the 21st of the trunk-line passenger agents it was agreed to advance passenger rates to Chicago and other western points. On the Afghan frontier recently there came near being a collision between Russians and Afghans. An officer of the former was accidentally shot. The Russians were encroaching. The Mill Creek Distilling Cqmpauy reduced the price of whisky to $1.06 at Cincinnati qq the 21st, on the irumor that Peoria distillers were selling in Chicago at $1.08.

The General. Superintendent of the Life Saving Service has directed the Superin* tendents of the several districts of the Atlantic and Golf c lasts to open and man all their stations on September 1st. The stations will remain in operation until May 21st, 1886. The firm who purchased the stock of Smith, the Omaha absconder, discovered, concealed about the store, valuables amounting to from $10,000 to $15,000. Third Auditor Wiuiass on the 21st certified and passed the pension accounts for the quarter of July, August and September. The total amount of money to be paid for pensions in this quarter amounts to $11,730,000. Of this, $1,000,000 will go to the Chicago offic>, $1,005,000 to the Columbus (O.) office, $1,000,900 to Indianapolis, $700,000 to Des Moines and $601,000 to Milwaukee.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Throughout Spain on the 23d there were 5,673 new cases ot cholera and 1,723 deaths from the disease. Since the beginning of the epidemic there have been 356,007 cases and 61,521 deaths. On the 13d there were 4,637 new cases and 1,789 deaths. The imports bf merchandise at New York for the seven days ended the 22d were valued at $6,012,192. An oil well yielding twenty-live barrels an hour has been struck Jnear Washington, Pa. A P’tiBST at Cairo, Egypt, is positive that Olivier Pain died of fever. Bishop Keans, of Richmond, Va., has written a letter of condolence to Minister Keily. 5 The Mudlr of Dongola says the Mahdist movement is killed. The tobacco crop in portions of Pennsylvania has been seriously damaged by recent hail-storms. China has contracted with an English firm for the building of 100~miles of railway. Antonio Daring was suffcoated in a burning house at Cincinnati, O., on the 23d. A yacht, the Kalafisb, was run down off the Coast of Scotland on the 221, and all the crew but two lest. Hon. M. V. Montgomery, Commissioner of Patents, is afflicted with hay fever. Lord Wolseley denies that the British Government offered a reward for the head of Olivier Fain. In a (juarrel about a dog, near Xenia, O., on the 23d, George Holvorstatt shot and killed Joseph Wolf. Dongola has been captured by 4,000 dervishes. According to the St. Petersburg Herald, Russia has determined to give up the Zulfikar Pass. Shields, the receiver of stolen horses at Des Moines, la., had $1,"00 on his person when arrested. The Pall Mall Gazette publishes a copy of a letter from O’Douovan P.ossa to his agents in Havre and Antwerp, urging more explosions in England. HatmaKers and finishers are endeavoring to prepare a union label to be placed on all manufactured goods. The International Telegraph Conference at Berlin has confirmed the modified tariff proposition. Fred. Berkley, in a drunken fren»y, at Salem, Ind., on the 231, shot a number of persons and then killed himself. It is estimated that France will be required to import 15,030,000 hectolitres of wheat to make us for the shortage in this year’s crop. The Burlingtou & Missouri Railway at Omaha had a big lo.-ce at work on the2od laying track, supposabty making a point against the Union Pacific,

A BAD BREAK. Th© President nod Secretaries Manning and Whitney in Disgrace at Greystone— Failure to Take Mr. Tiiden’s Advice In Regard to Certain Appointments Said to Be the Cause—How Manning Wa» Snubbed. New York, August 23.—The Mail, and Express says: Rumors ot a bad break between eXGovernor Tilden aud the administration have been rile for several days. They first gained currency early in the week at Saratoga, and now are openly discussed in this city. Yesterday a reporter for the Mail and Express succeeded in obtaining more than a confirmation. He found that Mr. Tilden had not only turned his back on the' administration, but had actually snubbed both President Cleveland and Mr. Manning. This information was obtained from a thoroughly reliable source on a promise not to divulge the name of the informant, who is a loyal Tildenite and promlnenl In both local and; State politics. “The story is an old one by this time,* said he, “and 1 am surprised that it had not leaked out before, aud there is no desire on the part of Mr. Tiiden’s friends to suppress it. In tho first place the appointment of Postmaster Pearson to suceeed himself did not meet with Mr. Tiiden’s approval, but he eventually became reconciled to it as a necessary concession to the mugwumps with the understanding that nothing more would be bestowed in the same quarter, until the oroper demands of the | Democracy should be satisfied. The President subsequently sought Mr. Tiiden’s counsel regarding successors for Collector Robertson, Surveyor Graham and Naval Officer Benedict, and seemed desirous of showing some regard for his recommendations. President Simmons of the Stock Exchange was accordingly named for Collector, aud Smith M. Weed for Surveyor by the Greystone sage, who also suggested that it would be good policy to select a representative Brooklyn Democrat for Naval Officer. “How did the President appear to rej cetve those suggestions?”

j.uu ausvYci »vaa iuiu ut' uiu iioi» seem to regard them otherwise than favorably. '• At this point ^be narrator was joined by another gentleman, who, although of lesser prominence, stands quite as high in the estimation of Mr. Tilden. He freely joined in the conversation, and furnished some points which might otherwise have been overlooked. From the two it was learned that after Mr. Cleveland’s departure Mr. Tilden, to make assurances doubly secure, wrote to Secretary Manning and Secretary Whitney to urge the President to carry out his suggestions. According to the siory neither of the Cabinet officers thus appealed to by their political creator made any response. Mr. Tilden afterwards wrote to President Cleveland himself with the same result. TAis was on the eve of the appointments. When the selection of Messrs. Heddcns, Beatty and Burt was announced, the old man’s indignation knew no bounds. It proved to him that Cleveland, Manning and Whitney had no regard whatever for his (wishes. Furthermore, Bart’s selection was additional evidence of Cleveland’s disposition to pander to the mugwumps.

When President Cleveland came to this city to attend General Grant’s funeral, it was loudly announced in advance that he contemplated a visit to Greystone, and a conference with Mr. Tilden. He started in due time, but arriving at Youkcrs, was met by, a messenger from Greystone who told him tnat Mr Tilden wa^ indisposed and conld not be seen. Thus.rebuffed the President proceeded to Albany. He immediately telegraphed to Mr. Manning, whom he had left in this city, to visit Greystone and sec what ailed Tilden. Manning did as directed, but found the Greystone atmosphere uncomfortably frigid. He made his way to the library with confidence and there encountered Mr. Tilden and Smith M. Weed, both of whom methim in the most formal manner. Finding the atmosphere of the room too chilling Mr. Mannlng'sauntered ont in the veranda, followed by Mr. Weed. Once out of earshot of the exGovernor Mr. Weed proceeded to pitch into the Secretary. He reminded him that he owed his present high position most to Mr. Tilden’s friendship, and that without the same influence Mr. Cleveland could never have been elected. In like manner he paid his compliments to Mr. Whitney, and gently jogged his hearer’s memory regarding' the liberal contributions made by Mr. Tilden and himself to the cause when campaign funds were needed, and as to his own personal efforts in Mr. Cleveland’s behalf. Manning tried to explain that Cleveland alone was to blame, but did not succeed. Mr. Weed proceeded to add to his discomfort by telling him that Tilden would henceforth be found arrayed against the administration, saying in conclusion: “In such a fight Mr. Tilden will come ont on top every time.” The interview was ended by the appearance of a servant who summoned the pair to dinner.' The master of the house was notat the table. Mr. Manning inquirefrlor him only to be informed that he was indisposed, and had retired to his room. The Secretary expressed a desire to see Mr. Tlldeo before leaving. “He does not wish to be Interviewed,” was the lackey’s reply, “and instructed me to tell all who might Inquire for him that he could not be seen.” Thus dismissed, Mr. Manning exchanged parting courtesies with Mr. Weed, and was driven to the depot. How nnd'When he reported his humiliating experience to Mr. Cleveland is not known. Smith M. Weed has for years been a devoted follower of Mr. Tilden At present he is under a cloud on account of hU connection with the 187t» business. He is knSwn to be a most liberal campaign contributor, and desired the office of Surveyor more as a vindication and personal compliment than for its pro fits. Ireland's Need. Dublin, August 22.—Mr. Parnell yesterday entertained the Dublin Mnnicipal Council at Arklow. In au address the Irish leader said It would be impossible to revive (he native industries of Ireland without a free elective National assem bly, possessing the power of control over all the political and economic affiirs oi the' country. He hoped that a few months, or at furthest a few years, would restore to the Irish people the right to govern Ireland at home, and English misrule would be banished forever from the land. It Won’t Affect the Retail Market. Cincinnati, 0., August ‘ 22.—There was great excitement In the whisky comer on ’Change yesterday. Prices took a very large drop, and everybody was thrown out of balance in consequence. Early reports were that Peoria parties had sold in Chlcaco at 8108, whereas the pool price is $1.13, and before long the Mill Creek Distilling Company Issued a circular stating that they wonld sell at a 81.06 rate September 1st. An effort was made to sustain the market, but under the circumstances it was impossible. The break is all the more unfortunate at this time, as the njarket has been unusually firm

MAXWELL IN COURT. The Unse Postponed Until the lletnrn M Judge Noonan, the Presiding Judge lining a Partner of Maxwell's Counsel—The Rush to See the Grand Trunk Artist Continues—A Lawyer's Opinion. 3t. Louis, Mo;, August 21.—The preliminary examination of Maxwell, the alleged murderer of 1’reller, was set for this morning in the Court of Criminal Correction. No evidence was heard, however, and the case was continued on motion of the State, Judge Bauntleroy, owing to his connection with the prisoner’s attorney, being disqualified from hearing the case, and if any preliminary examination takes place it will have to be after the return of Judge Noonan. By that time it is anticipated that the Grand Jury will have indicted the culprit, thus doing away with the necessity of att examination in a lower court. The rush to sec the only original trunk artist is still unabated. His reception yesterday Was not as large in numbers as Wednesday, but this was because the jailer failed to fathom the motives of a large number of Callers and barred them out without further ado. Nearly a score of ladies called, but as it was not ladles’ day the fair ones were doomed to disappointment. They were politely requested to call Saturday afternoon, when a regular matiuee will be given. The Maxwell matinee will doubtless become a popular feature of the jail. He received a uumber of donations yesterday in the shape of food and money, His mall Is increasing, many of the letters Coming from cranks and morbidly sentimental women. He chirpped the whole day, but avoided the Preller subject as much as possible. He claims to have considerable m(fsi-cal-talent, and says the flute Is his favorite Instrument. He was asked what had become of the trunk he had brought from England, as the one he had abandoned at the Southern with Breller’s corpse in it was an American-made trunk. lie refused to answer, and to the question what he meant by “So perish, elc.,” he replied with a stare.

auunivy e.iovur auu uis assistant, Mr. McDonald, have made arrangements for the return of the I’reller trunk held at Port Huron, Mich., for customs duties. The trunk was shipped West by Prcller previous to leaving Toronto, and has been held at Port Huron since the murder. Maxwell has the liberty ol the jail rotunda and spends most of his lima Hear the desk vviih the guards. Wheu Visitors are admitted chairs are brought from the neighboring cells and placed a few feet from the ;desk, where the guards congregate. The visitor is asked very politely to sit down by Maxwell and a gentleman in his narlor could not be more courteous. If conversation lags, he will immediately introduce a subject in such a way' that it is interesting and eutertaining. Regarding his defense he said: “I intend to have a full and free conversation with my attorney. I am alone. I need advice. When I get it and think over it, I will give the world the whole story. In talking of the curiosity that seemed to be manifested regarding himself, he said: “1 don’t care for it. It, does not affect me. It was not so in Auckland, because the people were not allowed to see me. But I felt perfectly indifferent to it in San Francisco where I first observed it." Mr. Jonas, who saw him day before yesterday, having been sent for as a partner of Judge Rrum by Maxwell, said: “He reminds me in mauuer very much of Anton Holme, whom 1 defended a few years ago. The constant changing of the subject of conversation; the shifting of the eye, and the restlessness- of manner are all like Holme. Holme was insane. 1 believe that from Maxwell’s history his case is this: He was once steady, led a, quiet, studious life, but from dissipation he ha& impaired what was never a strong mind. Think of his course after he left the Southern. No man if he wanted to advertise his whereabouts could have done so better than he did. His talk to the waiters at the Southern after the killing—his talk on the cars—a'.l go to show that he did not fully realize his situation. This may have come from drunkenness, but it could have hardly kept up all the way to Sau Francisco.” When Mr. Jonas went to see Maxwell he was taken in by Chief Harrigan. Maxwell did not or pretended not to know the chief, whom he has seen many times since his arrival. Mr. Jonas referred to this and said: “I believe he was sincere in not recognizing the chief. He certainly appeared sincere. The cliief had to introduce himself.”

-s> Terrible Encounter With a Maniac. Oxford, Pa., August 21.—Robert H. Hodgson, a well-to-do farmer residing near here, has two grown-up daughters who live with the family. Thursday night, at about midnight, VVm. Pearce, a lunatic living near by, escaped from his keeper and went to the Hodgson mansion. He climbed upon the portico and entered the bed-chamber of the young ladies through an open window. The girls were sleeping soundly at the time. Pearce seized one of them by the arms and dragged her to the floor. She gave a loud scream, and in a moment her sister, who was lying in the same room, awoke and shrieked loudly for help. Mr. Hodgson, who occupied an adjoining room, heard the cries of his daughters and hastened to their assistance. The maniac, however, bolted the door on the inside and for a time prevented his entering. Mr.. Hodgson quickly' forced open the door and entered the room. The madman sprang at him like a tiger end a terrible struggle ensued. The terror-stricken girls In the meantime escaped and gave the alarm. The neighbors quickly responded and after a severe struggle the insane man was securely bound. Pearce was taken to the asylum yesterday. Mr. Hodson was severely cut and bruised in the encounter, and when rescued was about being pitched out of a second-story window. Homeward llound. London, August 21.—Alphonso Taft, retiring United States Minister to Russia, arrived in London to-day, en route to the United States. He will sail from Liverpool on the Cunard steamer Servia, to-morrow, for New York, accompanied by his wife and daughter. In an interview with a Central Neios representative, ex-Minister Taft stated that he presented his letters of recall to the Czar on July 31st, and during .his audience with His Imperial Majesty he was treated with the greatest affability and kindness by 'loth the Czar and Czarina. A Belligerent Actor. New York, August 22.—Abe Ehrlanger, who acted last season as manager of Havlin’s Cincinnati Theater, and who has recently been engaged to manage Miss Louise Balfe, an 'actress who is to star the country in a play entitled “Almost a Marchioness,” was assaulted by E. Leonard, a young English actor and husband of Miss Balfe, on the corner of Fourteenth street and Fourth avenue yesterday. Ehrlanger was severely pounded, but offered little resistance. Leonard say,s that Ehrlanger sent him a grossly insulting letter, but added he would not show it unless forced to <to so.

REBUKED BY THE PRESIDENT. ii Dignified Ijetter from Mr. Cleveland to si Democratic Suppofter. One of the fecent incidents in tlio President’s experience Sritlt the deceivers of his own party seems (fids fat to'have, escaped observation and report in Washington. It is an interesting one, as the correspondence given below, nnd about the authenticity of which no question heed be asked, will show.When the President made the appoint-' ment of the Judge referred to-—whose name can not be mentioned—he did it upon recommendation. He is eitreiflbiy cautious and has > disregarded a good many Well-signed petitions, his experience having taught him that, it would be possible, ahhost to get a list of good signatures to a petition to hang the best man in the best city in Christendom. The indorsement of the applicant for the Jlldgesh p referred to in this correspondence was UU usually largo and was described as extremely honorable. It was not a case that could be easily investigated, and, largely Upon the alleged careful character of the signers, the President appointed the man about whom the lirst letter below was prepared. It seems that the candidate would have been so bad, so thoroughly unlit, that everybody felt free to sign for him, and the result of adopting this way of thinking was that an unlit man was appointed and litis received his commission. Those persons who have interest enough in the matter to hunt? up the appointments made about the date of the lirst letter are at liberty to gttesS who this man is. The writer is not at liberty to do more than present the following letters sightly mutilated. That of the President is certainly delightfully vigorous and diveeri t. ■

—^31,1885. Tii.tlw PrrsiilcM, VjasKmgtmu D. C : De.vk Sih: This oommuiiify rha<j the «n* nouncement of the appointment of -*=- to the* -Judge-ship with astonishment and regret. if not pain. And none were more astonished than those who had signed his petitio'h. And 1 regret to say that my name is to be found Upon it. I have refused several whom I knew to be unfit, bui I signed this one thinking it woitld never be considered find not for one moment believing the appointment was possible. When first presented tc« me I put him off and hoped to escape, but he came again with it, and, with others. I signed it thinking thPre was no chance for its reaching even a consideration. 1 think not a man whose name is on it lmd the remotest idea that his appointment was possible. Net one upon it would have appointed him had he the appointing power. He is not qualified morally or professionally. He ifl scarcely a lawyer at all, while the pi bee will ‘require a good lawyer. 1 do not wish to ray more than to put you upon, inquiry. We are friends and do business with one another, and it is Unpleasant to have to sajvthls.v But it is due your responsibility, and from everyone that signed that petition. And it was signed by many prominent men who hated to refuse, and hoped and thought it would result in nothing. I do not wish you to take any action upon tliy representation, but if you wish to know the real opinion of the signers of the petition, cause some of them to be addressed privately, and I think they will confess the objections to the appointment greater than 1 have intimate 1. The petition is signed by two of our Supreme Judges (-). Let them both be privately addressed, if It is not too lave, and I think you will learn the facts. i do not wish to sueak behind a private letter, but at the same time I would prefer that my, name bo not given to :— for obvious reasons, and I do not suppose it will be thought necessary to dp so. ——is au applicant for appointment as—-s I have written to you before about him. He,‘ too, has a petition s:gned by reputable men (my name is not on it), not one of whom would appoint him to any place whatever or any trust whatever. He is wholly without character, even if he had other qualifications for the olliee. and he has not./His would most emphatically be an appointment not fit to be made. Yours very respectfully,-, Executive Mansion. ) W.\SHINGTON,~AUgUSt 1. 18*5. f Dear Silt: i have read your letter of the „ 24th ult-. with amazeingnt and indignationThere is but one mitigation ip the peyttdv which your letter discloses, and that is found in the fact t hat you confess your share in it. I -don’t know whether you are a Democrat or *not; but if you are the crime which you confess is the more unpardonable. The idea that this Administration, pledged to give the pco- > pie better government and better officers, and engaged in a hand-to hand tight with the bad elements of both parties, should be betrayed by those who ought to be worthy of implicit trust is atrocious; ami such treason to the people and to the party ought to be punished by imprisonment. Your confession comes too late to be of immediate use to the public service, and I can only sav that while this is not the 11 ret time I have been deceived and misled by lying and treacherous representations, you are the first one who has so frankly owned his grievous fault. If any comfort is to bo extracted from this assurance, you are welcome to it. Yours truly, TJrover Cleveland. —Washington Cor. N. Y. Times.

THE DEMOCRATIC GUILLOTINE. President Cleveland Moving with Praiseworthy Rapidity, All Things.Considered. A good many ins have gone out lately, and a good many outs have gone in. Even the Suit says the Democratic ' guillotine’is working splendidly. ‘There is a general impression that few Republican officials can deem themselves safe. Some time'since Mr.* Manning’s organ, the Albany Argus, said that the Civil-Service law would be adhered to by the Aifuunistration, and there would be no removals except for cause; but added that, as far as investigation had gone it was found that there "was a surprising amount of cause. That is undoubtedly the casq hi every instance. Offensive partisanship is cause, and all partisanship that is opposed to tile verdict of the people last November is offensive. To this complexion it must come at last, if that complexion has not beeu reached already. The Republican party has been in power a quarter of a century, With all the . coiruption that that fact implies. It proposes, if possible, to keep in power twenty-four years longer, and howls discordantly with every effort to unfasten its claws. During the quarter of a century that lias gone by it gave no Democrat official positu>n. It used the olliees as means to further success. It ignored the CivilService law throughout every local and NationaLcaiupaign. John Sherman notoriouslyinsed the Treasury-ship to secure his nomination to the Presidency. Hayes went West pending the election of 1880 aud did not return for weeks, and meanwhile there was no CivilService law that any Republican official knew of. Last fall the assessment committees worked their local and National machines without hindrance for Hlaine, and, though Arthur was not a Blaine man, he did not 1 ft his tinger in behalf of the law in question. The ery for Civil-Service reform is at this moment a cry, merely to keep Republicans in office and Democrats out of .office.' It is a hunibug, and, as it is unconstitutional besides, it deserves no man’s respect. The Democrats have won the victory and are entitled to the fruits of it. Let the reform he tried under their Administration. They are as honest as the Star-Route party, to say the least, and the people have voted them in and the Star-Route party out. : President Cleveland is moving quite rapidly, all things considered. He will doubtless movo more rapidly as the fall elections come near. He knows very well that he needs to be indorsed by the Democratic party, and that he can not afford.to endanger success by responding to the wishes of a,few thousands of mugwumps against those of hundreds of thousands of Democrats.

[t is the Democratic party whose sup« port is valuable—not the support of the mugwumps, who will act for their own personal interest however the two groat parties may shape themselves. The President can not afford to support a law that is both unconstitutional and bad and tjiat aims to bring humiliation to the plgtii office he tilts. He is doingwell eno'{J<fU< He will doubtless do better without #ny unreasonable delay. The rascals musJ go. They must go for cause. The ciuT*c Republicanism, which is offensive partisanship from every rational point i.a view.—A. y. Graphic. REPUBLICANS WINCE. Convict ten That the D.'inocrary Is ths True Tarty- of Keform. Nothing scents to make the Republicans wince more than to realize that it is tho,settled conviction of the people that the Democracy is the true party of reform. To eombat . belief all their batteries of misrepresentation Slid slander are leveled againsf the Administration. Under Republican auspices,, pnblio office was regarded as a mere qtlesfitiji of spoilt —1 and Civil-Service reform \t>* regarded as a pleasant ante-election fiction.Every department of the Government’ was permeated with this belief, and thej natural result was corruption of Wig most shameless description. President Cleveland’s famous utterance: “ Pub-f lie office is a public trust,” has proved something more than empty assertion under his Administration. The people are. now convinced of the sincerity of his professions of reform, and the Republicans see their hopes of a departure on his part from the policy be laid down at his entrance into public life fading away. All the misrepresentations, lies and sophistries in the world can not blind the people to the logic of facts. They can see for themselves that the Democratic party agrees with the President that offices under the Government are to be held only as public trusts and are not to be monopolized as the rights of a favored ela-s of politicians. The President has won universal praise by his selections, giving the preference in every case to the man best tittSU by his record, business qualifications and reputation among business people, be higher test of capability could be required. ft is nonsense to say that in such a course lie departs from the doctrine of iiis party. The Democracy hay maintained its high principles of resistance to tlie spoils system for twentyfour years, without the assistance of a single office and the attempts of the Republicans to disturb tlic harmony of the party by engendering dissatisfaction can onlv result in ridiculous failure. Another cause of worry t<? the Republicans is the constantly accumulating mass of evidence of the fraud arid corruption practiced by them while fbey were in possession of the Government. They cry in vain: “What discoveries have been made? Nothing, absolutely nothing.” The relentless testimony of facts is against them. The systematic, long continued frauds in the New York Custom-House, by which the Govern- _ ment was swindled out of millions, tbe i naval frauds, the Land Officsirauds, the Agricultural Bureau frauds, the Starroute frauds and the Malione frauds surely count for something. The DeirA ooratie Administration is a little over four months old, and yet enough has been discovered to condemn the Republicans from ever being entrusted with office again. These are not idle assertions, but are backed by irrefragable official evidence. The Republican party may well use the language- of Lady ' Macbeth: ‘'‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. ” Corruption and base uses of the people’s money hare destroyed it and all the howling of its purblind organs will not avail against the settled conviction of the people of the country that it is not fit to be trusted again in office.—Alitany Argus.

THE SOLID SOUTH. The Material Advance of All Sections of the South. The Republican and Independent papers of the North are continually saying that so long as the South lit solid for the Democracy the majority of the Northern States will remain Republic^ an; ‘a ml they tell us that the best thing for the Democratic party would be a split in “the Solid South.’’ But this gratuitous advice has no effect, for every representative man in the South knows that Democratic success means material progress and social harmony; whilst a Republican victory would mean just the reverse. Which State would bo expected by the Northern Republican press to take the initiative in giving up' Democracy ? Georgia ? Well, that should hardly be asked, even the most pronounced Republican. For Georgia casts a Democratic majority every year—a majority ranging from' forty-five to sixty-five thousand; and( certainly no State in the Union' is making greater' strides in indus-; trial progress than Georgia- No, Georgia will not abandon a certainty simply to please the Republicans. Will Alabama' try the experiment? To-daylAlabama' is astonishing the world with*~-its iron and coal, and the smoke of furnaces in and around Birmingham reminds one of Pittsburgh, and Birmingham is only three or four years old_. Capital is flowing into Alabama, and, despite the general business depression, industrial enterprises in that State are fairly booming. Alabama is Democratic by an overwhelming majority, and no argument can induce the people there to change their polities. Texas is a great State, and is growing rapidly in population and increasing in wealth. And the Lone Star State has been awarded the Democratio banner, because last' year it gave Mr. Cleveland a majority of 132,000. There is no probability of Texas changiug her politics because the Republican papers urge the experiment of breaking the Democratic solidity. Virginia, North Carolina and, indeed, all the Southern States are reaping the benefits of their vast resources, and it is true, as a rule, that the larger the Democratic majority the more progressive is the State. * Virginia has suffered under Republican rule and bossism oftener than any other Southern State. But Virginia will never more allow a man like Mahone to get possession of her affairs. Democratic in 1883, Democratic in 1884, Virginia will remain Democratic so long as the Democratic party represents the people.—Richmond State. —The Goshen (N. Y.) police force has been supplied with rawhide whips, to be carried during the day-time, instead of the ordinary locust clubs. Owing to the ease and safety with which they can be wielded, it is said they inspire more terror among evildoers than the old-fashioned clubs.— Troy Times•