Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 21, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 October 1885 — Page 1

MIGHT & BYHUM, Editors and Publishers. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. OFFICE, over 0. E. MOHTGOMURY’S Store, Main Street VOLUME XVI. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1885. NUMBER 21.

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rr FltOFESSIONAD CARDS. R. POSMT'i A. J HONEYCUTT. POSEY & HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Pet«nbarc« Ind. / If HI practice in all the courts. All business promptly attended to. A Notary Public constantly in the office. Office over Frank A Wombrook’s drugstore. ^1. F. RICHARDSON. A. H. TAYLOSU RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG, IND. .Prompt attention Riven to all business. A Votary Public constantly iu the office. Office, tower Adams A Son’s drug stoi e. m. A. SLY. W. F. TOWNSEND. MART FLESNER. ELY, TOWNSEND & FLEENER, at Law & Real Estate A Petersburg, Ind. .Office over G os Franke's Store. Special atJention Riven to Collections, buyinR and seil- “* lands, examining Titles Rid furnishing Abstracts. J. W. WILSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Petersburg, lntl. Will practloe in all the courts. Special attention Riven to all business intrusted to his care. Offloal in Bank Building, corner of Main and Seventh Street. —---r1—'

J. M. DOYLE. IT. H. THOMPSOJ 7 DOYLE & THOMPSON. / /fttorneys at Law, Real Estate, Loan iMrance Aits. Office, second floor In Bank Building, corner Main and Seventh Streets. Petersburg, - - Indiana. The beet Fire and TJfe Insurance Companies represented. Monty to loan on first mortgages at seven and eight per cent. Prompt attention to collections, and aii business intrusted to us. ft. R. ADAMS. C. H. FUI.LIN WIDER. ADAMS & FULLINWIDER, Physicians & Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. Office over Adams & Son's drug store Office hours day and night. J. B. DUNCAN, Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, - IND. .Office, over Bergen’s City Drug Store. Office hours day and night. A. R. BYERS, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. tyOffloe, in his New Buildingon Malu St.*®# CARLETON & WILSON. Physicians and Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. Call* In the city or country promptly responded to, day or night. Office, over Montgomery, Hammond ft Hodson’s store. Q. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E. TURNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, - IND. Parties wishing work done at their residences will leave orders at the shop, in Dr. Adams’ new building, rear of Adams ft Son's drug store.

HOTELS. UNCO HOTEL, PETERSBURG, 1ND. THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL IN TOWN. I New throughout, and first-class accommodations in every respect. C. M. ROWE, Proprietor. tiY-A/TT HOUSER Washington. Ind. Centrally Located, and Accommodattont First-class. ■ J. M, FATJLKMER, Proprietor. SHERWOOD HOUSE, WM. SHERWOOD, Prop. S. A. FROST, Man. tiwo. kussklp. Clerk. Cor. First and Locust Stre ts, EVANSVILLE, - - IND. The Sherword is centrally located, first c'a*s in all its appointments, and tho best and cheapest hotel in the city. Kates, f2 per day. When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Glass in All Respeots. Htus Laura Harris. Proprietress. Wu. H. Nral, Manager. EMMETT HOTEL, One square east of Court-house, cor. of Washington and New Jersey Sts., INDIANAPOLIS, - - IND. JAMES S. MORGAN, Prop’r. (BATES, $1,50 Per Day. IISCELL ANKOC8. PHOTO GALLERY, OSCAR HAMMOND, Prop’r. Pictures Copied or Enlarged. All kinds of work done promptly, and at reasonable rates. Call and examine hta^ork. In F,l8ert's new building, over the Gallery In Risert's new bi Post-allce, Petersburg, Ind, Great Reduction In the priee of )LES, HABHESS, ETC, ETC. that I will sell and Harness, and than ever sold it anything In am I oner

NEWS IN BRIEF Compiled from Yorioos Sources. mtSONAt AND FOUBOAL' Captain Lee, the agent o( the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian Reserv ation, has telegraphed Commissioner Atkins that only- 23,000 head of cattle remain on the reservation, and that these will be removed by the end of the month. The citizens of St Thomas, Ont., propose to erect a monument to Jumbo, the king of elephants, recently killed by accident at that place. - General Robert Toombs Is reported seriously 111 at Washington, Ga. General Baird has been appointed In-spector-General of the arlhy. On the 23d Commodore Alex Semmes Commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, died suddenly at Hamiltoh, Loudon County, Va. Prince Alexander of Bulgaria has asked the Czar of Rnssia to approve hia c tion. At the Neoga (111.) reunion on the 22d, Colonel Fred Grant read some touching words from his father, concerning the restoration of good feeling between the sections. Chairman Eaton of the ,Civil Service Commission declares that the statement that he had charged his expenses at Washington to the Government is a wanton falsehood. Prince Alexander has issued a circular to the powers announcing the uniop of Eastern Roumelia and Bulgaria. On the 23d ths Post-office Department was informed that Inspector Morphy had started with Hibbs, the defaulting Post, master at Lewiston, Idaho, and the stolen papers and money recovered for the United States.

*»• J uris uas issuea a circular calling the attention of the great powers to the action of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria, and giving notice that the Saltan will tajre energetic action. Secretary Manning will make a per* onal investigation of the case of Mr. Sterling, weigher at the New York Custom-house, who was suspended, but will take no further action in the matter until after Collector Heddena reports to him all the circumstances attending the removal of Captain Bacon and the appointment of Mr. Sterling. Oh the 23d P. Cl McCount, of New York, a well-known Irish Nationalist, had an interview with Secretary Whitney in relation to the claim of Mrs. Parnell to a pension on account of the services of her father, the late Admiral Stewart, known as “Old Ironsides,*’ in the war of 1812. The Secretary promised to give the matter cons ^deration. i Governor Him. of New York was renominated by the Democrats of the Empire State at Saratoga on the 24th. Tax Cacerista are becoming more active in Peru, and several plaoes have fallen into their hands. Secretary Lamar and Attorney-Gen-e?M Garland were the only absentees at the Cabinet meeting on the 24th. Russian officers who resign id from the Bulgarian army are called traitors by the Bulgarians and Prince Alexander has been asked to expel them. In a manifesto issued by Prince Jerome Napoleon he says he neither desires the restoration of the monarchy nor the adoption of utopian plans of reform. Minister Cox denies the report that he accepted presents from the Sultan of Turkey for himself. He says the jewelry and books received from the Sultan were for Mr. Hewitt. Prince Alexander begs the powers to compel the Sultan to say whetherlhe refuses to accept or agrees to the Bulgarian union, and refused to postpone the disarming of the Mussulmans beyond two pays from the 24th. Trouble appears to be brewing in India over the Franoo- Burmese treaty, and the various chambers of commerce are protesting against it, alleging that It seriously affects British interests. Edward P. Brown, the Boston lawyer who gained fame in the Tewksbury oase, has gone to Canada, and charges of crookedness of many 'kinds are being made against him.

uftVRB iAKi is improving ana is now able to transact the more important business ot the department at his home. It is now stated that the death of Admiral Bemmes was the result of poison administered by his own hand while laboring under temporary aberration, consequent upon a severe malarial attack. The 1 President has appointed Arthur Bainbridge Hoff, of Washington, to be a cadet-at-large at the Annapolis Naval Aoademy. He is a son of Commander William Bainhridge Hoff, of the navy, grandson ot Beal-Admiral Henry N. Hoff, and great-grandson ot Commodore Wm. Bainbridge, who commanded the old frigate Constitution when the captured the Java, St. Petersburg advices state that Russia will demand that Prince Alexander be deposed and will suggest Prince Earageogrlevltch, son-in-law of Prince Nicolas ot Uontenegro, as his successor. It is understood that the President has decided not to make a change In the office of Surgeon-General of the Karine Hospital service, and accordingly will not accept Dr. Hamilton’s resignation. A crank signing himself “Henry N. Kerp, President-elect ot the U. S. Phtb Dr., M. D., Professor of Military Jurisprudence, National Military Home, Virginia,” has written a letter to the President calllug upon him to resign October 3d, as his functions will no longer be required. Tax Pope has agreed to arbitrate between Germany and Spain. On the 25th State Senator Galbreath of the Thirty -second Illinois District, died suddenly at Hattoon. A rumor was current in Vieuna on the 25th that the King of Servia has been murdered. Mona frauds have been unearthed in the New York Custom-house, principally undervaluations. On tire 25th the public school children of Allegheny City, Fa., held memorial service in honor of General Grant. Hop-pickers on the estate of the Duke ot Edinburgh, County of Kent, England, .struck on the 25th and carried their point. Judge Wm. B. Fleming, Chief- Justloe of New Mexico, is seriously ill in Kentucky and has resigned his position. Colonel Brady telegraphs from Santa Fs, N. M., to Leavenworth that Lieutenant Ciruse, of the Sixth Cavalry, is following an Indian trait Puo O’Leary has been turned over to the Chicago Chief ot Police by the Kansasa City authorities. He was w On ted for murder. The Governor and Supremo Court of Ohio have both refused to interfere with the santeaee of Patrick Hartnett, to be hanged oh the 80th for wife murder. The mission priests, Bat. Fathers Davis, Dupont and Martin, wore among the victims in the recent massacre ot Christians in Cochin Chinn. Tan German Government has expelled from ihruasla Count Za.moyski, a Polish nobleman and one ot the largest land owners in Posen,

Ox the 25th Hoses Harrendeagh, a Christian Jew, died at the County Poor House ot Duchess County, N. Y., at the advanced age ot 106 years. The complete ticket nominated by the New York Democratic State Convention is as follows: Governor, David B. Hill; Lieutenant-Governor, Roswell P. Flower; Secretary of State, Frederick Cook; At-torney-General, Dennis O’Brien; Treasurer, Lawrence J. Fitzgerald; Engineer and Surveyor, Nathan Sweet. CRIMES AMD CASUALTIES. At Silver Creek, near Pottsville, Pa., on the evening of the 21st, Mrs. Sarah O’Neill, while drunk, chopped Mrs. Keefe’s head off with an axe. James B. Green, a railway mail dark, was killed by anaccidenton a carat Vandalia, 11L, on the 224. Five Chinamen, implicated In a murder at Pierce City, Idaho, were taken from jail on the 22d and lynched. William Jons, captain ot a life-boat, was drowned at Racine, Wis., on the 224, while out practising. Robert Fowler, on trial at MorganHeld, Ky., charged with killing his niece, was convicted of murder in the first degree. Dolph Draughn, a Deputy Sheriff, Sam Cook and Wm. Francis, were killed in a faction fight in Letcher County, Kentucky, on the 224. Mare W. Townsend, a school teacher, living near Lancaster, Wis., shot and killed His wife on the 22d and, with his babe in his arms, surrendered himself to the authorities. The Chinese quarters at the Black Diamond Mine, in Washington Territory, were burned on the 21st by a body of masked men. The Chinaman fled. Edward Earnest, engineer in Fabel’s soap factory, Louisville, Ky., was instantly killed and the building damaged to the extent of $>5,000 on the 22d by the explosion ot a boiler. Jno. Ostrrmibr, aged fourteen, a rockfeeder at Sankey Bros.’ brick-yard, at Pittsburgh, Pa., fell into the rockcrusher on the 22d, and before the engines could be stopped his body was literally ground to dust. On the 23d Thomas M. Clements and his sister Susie were murdqred near Saguache, Col., by members ot their own family.

UN the Ida lour miners at work in a low part of the Franklin mine at Houtzdale, Fa, were drowned by lettidg in upon them a rash of water from an old mine on a higher level. Fifteen acres of water five feet deep mnst be pumped off before the bodies can be recovered. The victims are John Mehan, Peter Folk, Joseph Hampce, a Hungarian, and John Forsythe. On the 22d W m. Winter and his wife left home at Point Pleasant, Va., and locked their two children, aged three and five in the honse. During their absence the house took fire and was entirely consumed. The two children were burned to death. _ Joseph Fisher and three of his children burned to death near Cedar Rapids, la., on the 24th. Twenty-mve persons were wounded, many of them seriously, by the collapse of a circus tent at Martinsburg, W. Va., on the 23d, during a storm. The town of Sanborn, Dak., was almost totally destroyed hr fire on the 24th, which is supposed to have been started by tramps. On the 25th Katie Garner attempted rto commit suicide at Kansas City, Ha, by shooting herself in the breast The schooner Bertha was wrecked off the coast of Labrador. The crew were saved. Frankie Mitchell, a mulatto woman, was murdered by some unknown party in Chicago on the 25th. On the 25th the yards and buildings of the Niagara Pressed Brick Company at Evansville. Ind., were destroyed by fire. A number of incendiary fires, believed to be the work of an organised gang, have occurred at Babylon, L. L, recently. The Board of Supervisors have offered a reward of $1,000 for their capture.

■OSCELLANKOCS. On the 21st alarming reports were received at Paris to the effect that China is massing a large foroe ot troops oa the Tonqain frontier. An uprising is expected to occur in Albania and Macedonia. Ir is thought that Germany will see that Turkey is fairly treated. On the 21st repeated shocks of an earthquake were felt in Benevento, Italy, causing a panic among the Inhabitants, many of whom fled from the town. A large portion ot the populace camped out In anticipation ot further shocks. It is not considered probable that Turkey will accept pecuniary compensation for the loss ot Roumelia, because the Balkan frontier is necessary to defend Constantinople. The fourth annual meeting of the American Forestry Congress convened at Boston, Mass., on the 22d. Notice has been given to the settlers on the Crow Reservation that they must remove therefrom by October 7th. All is quiet on the Afghan frontier. The Commission is in the vloinltT ot Herat. Austria Is mobilizing her army for possible action in the Balkan provinces. Bulgaria is putting all able-bodied men between the ages ot eighteen and forty into the army. It Is reported in Constantinople that Turkey intends to fight for the restoration of the statu quo in Roumelia. The Government of Turkey has made a firm protest against the systematic persecution ot Turkish subjects in Southern Russia. In the yacht race between the Genesta and Dauntless, from New York to Newport and return, the Genesta won by six hours, running home to New York before a sixty-mile gala Hog cholera is prevalent in Summit County, Ohio, as many as 100 swine in one township being afflicted. The City Council ot Akron has been asked to prohibit the sale of pork in that city for thirty days. On the 23d snow fell In portions of the Northeastern States and Canada. For the week ended the 19th the total number of hogs handled by Western packers was 103,000, against 73,000 for the corresponding time last year. The total from March 1st to date was 3^15,000, compared with 3,270,001 last year. The movement at the principal points since March 1st is as follows: Chicago, 2,015,000; Kansas City, 65,000; Milwaukee^ 168,000; Indianapolis, 147,000; 8k Louis, 145,000; Cedar Rapids, 148,000; Cleveland, 114,000; Cincinnati, 83,000. The National capital is suffering a water famine. ▲ break of seven or eight feet in size has occurred in the principal main in Georgetown, and the materials not being at hand with which to make immediate repairs, the city is receiving only half a supply of water, all ot which is absorbed by the occupants ot the lower portions. The Canadian volunteers who served In repelling the Fenian Invasion in 1866 want to be put in the same oategory with thane who aided in suppressing the Riel rebellion as regards honors and emoluments. The National Assembly of Bulgaria has proclaimed a union of the two Bulgaria*.

Tax sixteenth annual session ot the Fire Insurance Underwriters' Association ot the Northwest began at Chicago on the 234. The President, J. L Whitlock, in his address, cited that the insurance loss during the year had exceeded $1(W,JX>,000. He claimed that State laws were generally favorable to incendiarism and should be modified. Thb American Forestry Congress concluded their session on the 24th and adjourned until 1886. Bra.CDLa.DGH, Moriey, Chamberlain and others addressed an immense popular meeting in London on the 24th. Thb order for the removal of settlers from the line of the Missouri, Kansas A; Texas Railroad has been suspended pending a further investigation of the settlers'' rights. Thb Union Pacific has decided to build! a new bridge at Omaha, to take the place of the present structure. Bulgaria has voted £3,000,030 for the purpose ot carrying out the unity programme between Roumelia and Bulgaria. Thb Cleveland Rolling Mills Compan y has acceded to the strikers' demands, anti work has been resumed. Thb London Standard says law and order can only be upheld in Ireland to the extent that the National league allows, and urges the alteration ot the land law at any cost. Thb Porte is awaiting the answer ot the signatory powers to the treaty of Berliu before taking action on the Roumelian question. Qrkat damage continues toJra done by the prairie fires in Dakota. The Town of Tower City narrowly escaped destruction on the 24th. At a meeting of the leading wire manufacturers of the country, held at New York on the 24th, the prices were ad - vanced ten to fifteen per cent. SmcLTAHBOC3 with the publication of an order at Panama announcing peace throughout the republic, a riot occurred between rebels and the police, in whi cb one policeman was killed and several re If els were wounded.

Rev. Edward McColgan, Vicar-Gen>-rral of the Arch diocese of Baltimore, hat been invested with the title of llonsignor in the Catholic Church. '* Goldsmith Maid is dead. A permanent Exposition building is to be erected at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the site of the one burned three years ago. A new ministry has been organized in Turkey. This year Tale College has the largest freshman class on record. The Canadian Cabinet has been reor* ganizsd. Duri.no the seven days ended the 23th, there were 140 failures in the United States. On the 23th the Sovereign Grand Lodge, Independent Order ot Odd* Fellows, was in session at Baltimore, Md. Heavy rains and railway washouts are reported in Mexico. All Servians in Germany have been called home for military duty. Several vessels are reported to have foundered in the Bay of Bengal during; a recent cyclone. Italy will send representatives to the International Monetary Conference to be held at Paris, October 21st. One ot the Chinamen recently lynched at Pierce City, Idaho, is said to have been a wealthy merchant St. Petersburg dispatches say that Russia will sustain Bulgaria in the union with Roumelia, even to the extent of going to war with Turkey. A dispatch from St. Johns, N. F., of the 23th says: An unusual portent ap*. peered in the sky in the northwest region last night A huge red meteoric body rose over Couoeptton Bay and within seven minutes traversed an area of between thirty and forty degrees. The Swatara and Yantic, engaged in transporting silver from the New Orleans Mint to the Treasury in Washington, arrived at the Washington Navy Yard t,he night of the 25th. The Captain of the Dauntless does not take his defeat with as much equanimity as the oommander of the Genesta, but excuses his defeat and boasts that he can beat anything afloat, the Genesta preferred, on a trip across the Atlantic for ducats. A seaman of the Italian bark Excelsior, Captain Longobardo, from Marseilles, which arrived at New York on the 25th, died from cholera three days after the vessel sailed. With this exception all on board were well. The bark was detained at quarantine.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Grasshoppers are ravaging Northern Mexico. Mart Anderson embarked at Queenstown on the 27th for Amerioa. Two convicts were whipped at Newcastle, Del., on the 26th in the presence of 200 spectators. Boycotting as practised In Ireland is causing serious trouble. Roswell P. Flower declines the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant-Gov-ernor of New York. It is reported that England is about to cede Heligoland to Germany. Advices received at Evanston, Wy., on the 26th, and believed to be official, sta ted that there would be no shrike ordered on the Union Pacific by the Knights of Labor. Kino Humbert made a tour of inspection of the cholera-stricken section of Palermo. A four -year-old daughter of Mrs. Parsons, living near Xenia, a, was killed and partly devoured on the 26th by a bull-dog, which had to be killed before the body could be recovered. Sir Edward Trornton. former British Minister to the United States, is to be made a peer. Cola Stove, the famous St Louis bicyclist, died a little before midnight on the 26th. He was sick O' ly a few hours. The doctors pronounoed his trouble congestion of the stomach. All the defendants in the Armstrong abduction case at London, including Editor Stead of the Pall Jfoff Gazette, have bsen committed for trial. The British Whigs and Tories are disturbed over the American plan for raising a fund to pay the salaries of Home Rule members of Parliament. Russia has proposed an immediate conference at Constantinople of ambassadors of all the powers, with a view of patching up a peace in the Balkan states. A new Roman Catholic Chnreh was dedicated at Keokuk, la., on the 27th. The Roumel tan and Bulgarian Parliaments have asked the Csar of Russia to protect the unio-» A wreck on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad near Fullerton, Pa., on the 27tb, caused a loss of $35,000. A MEETING in behalf of Louis Riel was held at Montreal on the 27th. A Great Socialist*demonstration was held at Lintehouse, London, on the 37th, and parsed off quietly. The Cleveland rolling-mill strike has ended and work was resumed the morning of the 28th at the prices of June. Benator Palmer is building his residence at Washington of wood from his own saw-mill, selected by himself. A German officer named Strieker has been appointed chief of staff of the Turkilb army corps ti Adrianopie.

HILL FOR GOVERNOR. Ih« New York Democratic State Convention at Saratoga Nominate Governor Hill for Re-Election By an Overwhelming Vote. Saratoga, N. Y., September 24.—At 12:30 p. m. Chairman John O’Brien, ol the State Committee, called the Convention to order and nominated George Baines, ol Monroe, as temporary chairman, who was chosen by acclamation. He thanked the Convention lor the honor, and said: We have assembled to consider and declare the policy ol government the most conservative ol the public welfare, and to nominate officers in harmony with such a policy. Vast interests are at stake, and we invoke wisdom and moderation in speech and action. The Democratic party of New York has engaged the observation of the whole country. Moral and political forces which challenge the favor ol the American people have been created and fostered by the Democratic officers of onr State Government; a rigid application of constitutional provisions against special Legislation; a stern nse oi the veto powers; the prosecution of plunderers without regard to station; the reduction of expenses, in every department of the Government, have created the sentiment that elected Tilden as President. A steadfast regard for these standards of public duty by Governors Bobinson and Cleveland kept the sentiment of 1876 living, and drew the moral forces of American politics to the aid of the Democracy in 1884. The references In Mr. Baine’s speech to Mr. Tiideu, the patriotic patience of the Democratic party in 1876, and the election ol Cleveland, were vigorously applauded. An allusion to President Cleveland’s policy was more demonstratively received. An eulogism on Governor Hill elicited an outburst ol approbation. After Mr. Batne’s speech temporary organization was perfected by the appointment ol secretaries. The Convention adjourned till 7:30 p. m.

oakaiuua, a. x., oepiemoer zt. — right session-.—The first remark ot the Chairman was a request that smoking be stopped. [Applause.] The Committee on Contested Seats reported recommending the contesting and regular delegates from West Chester be both admitted with a half rote for each; also that the contesting delegation from Chautauqua be admittce as the rightful delegation. The report was adopted. The Committee on Permanent Organisation reported recommending that the temporary chairman, Hon. Geo. Baines, be made permanent chairman. This was agreed tp with applause. A list of vicechairmen, one from each Congressional district, was also reported and agreed to. Hon. D. Cady Herrick, from the Committee on Besolutions, stated that that committee-had been unable to complete its report, and requested to be allowed fu&her time until ten o’clock a. m. totnd^ow. The request was granted. Senator Ecclesine, of New York, then offered the following resolution: llesolrtd, That this Convention proceed at this session to nominate a candidate tor Governor and Lieutenant Governor. [Applause.) Mr. Herrick, of Albany, moved to strike ont all after the word “Governor.” Senator Ecclesine opposed the motion and said: It must have become manifest to the gentlemen composing this Convention that tpe sentiments of the Democracy have so fat centralized that it is entirely safe to proceed to the nomination of the two most important offlees iof the ticket. It is unusual, 5 know, to proceed to nomination; until the platform Is adopted, but the distinguished statesman who in all probability will receive the nomination of this convention for the head of office will be a platform fh himself [applause], and I think we can safely proceed to nominate the man, who is to ably second him and who is to be second In command. Mr. Herrick said that whatever reasons might exist for nominating a candidate for Governor to-night the same did not apply to the nomination for Lieutenant-Governor, about which there has been no such crystalization of sentiment nor sufficient deliberation among the delegates. He urged the convention to exercise good judgment in adopting bis amendment. , Mr. Griffith, of Jefferson, deprecated the railroading of a ticket through without discussing the merits of the candidates. He moved to adjourn. [Great confusion, derisive shbuts and .cries of “no! no!”] Motion lost. Luring the vote a sleepy delegate in the back of the hall caused much amusement by answering David B. Hill when his name wds called.

j. j. uxonnor nominated uavia u. Bill amid an uproar ol applause. Three Cheers lor Hill were called for and given with a will. Daniel Lockwood, of Buffalo, announced that Erie County Instructed him to second the nomination ol Governor Hill. [Great applause.] A delegate here moved to nominate Hill by acclamation, but Senator Ecclesine and Downs, of Brooms, also seconded Hill. Colonel John R. Fellows opposed the nomination ol Hill, but added: 1 need not say to the Democracy ot the State of New York what the Democracy of the Republic has learned, that file County Democracy of the city of New Yqyk is an organization that never bolts, but always sustains the candidate of the party when th at nomination is fairly expressed. I name Abram 8. Hewitt. |Great applause.] Bourke Cochran, on behalf of Tammany Hall, seconded the nomination of Hill. Three cheers for Hill followed, and the ballot was then taken. All of the County Democracy delegation voted for Hewitt, and he got a few scattering votes outside. Only one follower of Mr. Flower had sufficient courage to name him as his candidate, whil»- eight of the Kings County men cast their votes for General Slocum. The vote was then announced as follows: Hill, 338; Hewitt,' S3; Slocum, 8; Flower, 1. Whole number of votes cast, 380; necessary to a choice, 193. Governor Hill was thereupon declared, amid great enthusiasm, to be the nominee of the Convention, and the Convention then adjourned till eleven o’clock to-morrow. The Murder of Miss Clara Hough, Woostkr, O., September 25.—News of the murder of Miss Clara Hugh has caused the greatest excitement here. Her people, though not wealthy, have the respect of the entire community where they live, and the young woman was highly esteemed by all who knew her, being of agreeable manners, unusual intelligence, and unimpeachable virtue. Her independent life was far more the result of choice than of necessity. Her mother is almost insane from grief, and there are fears that her reason is permanently shaken. Reception to the Sir Richard Sutton, Nkw York, September 25.— A reception was tendered by the New York Club last night to Sir Richard Sutton, owner of the cutter Genesta. The club room was handsomely decorated for the occasion, and conspicuous among the bunting were the racing colors of the Genesta and Puritan. Among the guests were Sir Wm. Levlnge, Mr. J. B. Webb, Dr. J. M. Woodbury, Admiral Jouette and several members of the Eastern Yacht Club. Tinowner of the Genesta was much pleased with his reception, and responded in a> appropriate speech to the toast “Qe Guests.” I

CIVIL SERVICE REFORM Commissioner Eaton’s Letter to the President Tendering His Resignation of the Office—The President’s Reply Thereto— Mr. Eaton Will he Relieved November 1st. Washington, D. C., September 24.— The following correspondence, embracing Dormin B. Eaton's resignation as a member of the Civil Service Commission, And the President's acceptance of It, was made public last night l Washington. D. C., July 27th, l&ft. Sir—In execution of a purpose of which I informed Vou several weeks since, I very respectfully tender illy resignation, as Civil Service Commissioner : but out Of deference to your wishes I will not urge its acceptation until such time In the autumn as you may find convenient for a new appointment. It may not, I hope, be thought misappropriate If I add some words of explanation. Prior to the passage of the civil - service act of January 16th, 1$S3, 1 had held under three earlier Presidents, and was then holding under Pres dent Arthur, an official position closely analogous to ttty present Office aS Civil Service Commissioner. FOstoearly the Whole period I had served Without compensation, and had been compelled to bear my ofn traveling and other expenses, including those of jourfiey to Europe and the preparation of bn extensive report made at the request of one of thqse Presidents, but printed by Congress. I had taken an active part; by which my time was largely taxed, in cdiP nectlon with the preparation and passage of that law, and when the time arrived for executing its|provisions. It seemed to me that 1 dnlti not fairly be called upon to make a further sacrifice of my private Interests In aid of civil service reform. Resides, the enemies of reform were so kind as to charge that I had promoted the act for the treble purpose of gaining notoriety, an office ahd d salary. But President Arthur, without the least intimation to me of his purpose; nominated me* and t was confirmed as Commissioner. When I Was about td decline, the friends of refotm, With Whom I had labored for manv years In Its behalf, Insisted that 1^ was in duty bound to accept; and these enemies with amiable consistency, made clear their purpose of , charging any refusaj on thy paft, as a cowardly shrinking frdm the speedy and disgraceful failure §ure to fdllow any attempt to execute so chimerical aiid impractical a statue. In snob a situation I had htirdly a liberty of choice, but I entered updn mf official duties with the declared purpose of , remaining hardly more than a year, within which at least the constructive work of making rules and regulations and of enforcing a new system at its most difficult stage could be accomplished. At the end of that time I had become more deeply than ever interested lh the practical application of the new system. Its great utility and easy processes had gained the commendation of the President, united more largely the party In power in its support, and secured from a committee of thirteen members of the Democratic House of Representatives a unanimous report declaring the great usefulness of the law and rules, and commending what It desc ribed as the “Intelligent, efficient, non-partisan and conscientious Work Of tile CIVil Setvlce Commission. I r.iMilrl than saa nn Ahllirn

longer. That had been done which the enfitaies of reform nnd declared to be Impossible. Thd law and the rttles were vindicated. But there were important practical methods which were not fully matured, and I remained to take part in their further development. When, a few months later, I was about to insist on being relieved, those friends dissuaded by urging that there would be a critical period in case a new party should come into power; and I saw plainly. from hostile journals, that 1 should be charged, if I resigned, with fleeing from the perils of that crisis. It was clear enough that no excuse from my long service, and no declaration of my confidence in the reform policy of the Presidential candidate and statesmen of the Democratic party, would, relieve me from the damaging plausibility of such a charge. AS a private citizen I could scorn the imputation, but as A public officer, arid as being In a private way somewhat iueritlH$tl with the cause of civil service reform, t had no light to make an opportunity for its hatura! enemies in either party to uSe such a charge to its Injury; There was another reason why I oould not tender my resignation—and should have refused to do so had it been requested—at or near the time of your accession to office. For I should regard it as a pernicious precedent—utterly repugnant to the spirit of the civil service act—to treat the office of Civil Service Commissioner as political; and hence as one to be filled at the beginning of each Presidential term These consideratlonsconstralncd me tpcontinue in my place. The reform policy of your administration, so clearly defined In your declarations, should be as unmistakably developed in your acta ns lhresident as it had been in your irc|a as Governor of New York. llmt time has arrived. No candid man can longer pretend to regard that policy as Indefinite or doubtful. Every One of the five months of your administration, during Which the civil service act and rules have been enforced with as much breadth, firmness and fidelity as under that of President Arthur, lias not only added new evidence of the utility of the now system upon which lie congratulated the country, but lias made more definite the settled purpose of your administration to faithfully enforce both the law and the rules in the future. The few changes you have made in the rules have but added to their justice and efficiency. So far as 1 have been able to learn there is not a member of your Cabinet who has not, as the result of his experience in office, a higher sense than before of the need of enforcing that merit system in the public service, which the civil service act and the rifles have established, and from those at the head of the many offices in the postal and customs service, to which the examination extends in all parts of the Union, and whether they be Bepublicans holding over, or new officers from the other party, there has come no reason for believing that the merit system Is not welcomed as a great benefit to the public service; a great influence for hQnesty in politics, and a great relief to the head of the office. Now that the principles of justice upon which that system is based, its tendency to suppress patronage—monger!ng and official patronage; its great encouragement of the public schools and its support of high character and manhood In politics arc being more rapidly comprehended by M6‘* the people than ever before, I feel sure that It is in the near future to have not only a greatly enlarged, but an almost unchallenged enforcement. It is really an Issue between the people an-1 lie politicians—a contest for a spo ls av mu of office on one side, and for a merit system of office on the other.

The friends of the latter contend for the free opportunity of every citizen to win an office for himself by his own merits; of the former for the exclusive right of great officers and great politicians to use ail of the hundred thousand places they can control and all the assessments they can extort to bribe voters, to bny the press, to elect themselves and keep their past}’ in power against the will of the people Between these extremes there is unquestionably a large number of candid a id patriotic citizens. 1 don’t refer to these facts, so decisive of the perpetuity of the merit Bystem, with the vain conceit that If they were otherwise or the prospect was dlsconraging, my remaining a commissioner would avail anything. But 1 wish to leave no doubt of my absolute faith in the continuing triumph of a reform policy, and no friend of reform has the least reason for thinking I ought to remain In my office. Indeed, the triumph of that policy is now absolute, and the contest already over in tiiat part of the Government to which alone all iegtmate authority and responsibility for appointments and removals rest, and in which alone the thorough information needed for a correct Judgment as to the utility of the new system exists. In other words, were it not for the interference of Congressmen and politicians with the constitutional functions and Intended liberty of the President, and of other officers having the appointing power, there would now be no opposition worthy of notice to a merit system of office. Those who oppose it will, with few exceptions, be those only whose participa • tlon In appointments and removals is an absolute usurpation and intermeddling by which tile counterpoise of the Government has been impaired and its perpetuity is heIne threatened. To that usurpation; to the selfish aims of those who nromote It: to the gathering of the spoils and the distribution of offices, which are its motive force, open competitions of merit for appointment and the suppression of political assessments are fatal. President Grant approved a civil service rule to arrest that intermed - dling. Concede to the President and other appointing officers the liberty which the constitution and laws contemplate—all those who have the best means ofQmaking a wise choice between the spoils system and a merit system to be ludges—and I repeat the final decision Is already given and the contest Is already over. President Grant declded that issue, and his last official declaration to Congress on the subj ect declared it “a Bource of mortification” that Congress had refused an appropriation he had in a special message requested In aid of the continued enforcement of the merit system, which he declared to have been bene tfclal. President Arthur in eaoh annual message after the civil service act reaffirmed that Judgment of the Executive Department—a Judgment which be declared expressed the view of every member of his Cabinet. In the dally acts of the present administration the same Judgment is approved and Indorsed. It is possible that a number of Congressmen and politicians of the dominant party with a considerable following of office-seekers may, notwithstanding the vastly augmented strength of an enlightened public opinion, repeat the folly of those of my own party In 18,4 by resisting the well-matured Judgment and the definite policy of their own administration on the reform issue. If such is to be the tact, this is not the place for showjag why such attempt would be far iftor?

disastrous than the Republican restoration of the spoils system against the advice of President Grant. Such a course, and the conflict It would precipitate, would be regardless of the civil service act or any experience In its administration. In any part I might have In such a contest, I could far better serve the cause of reform in the exercise of that fall liberty which is hardly compatible with the proprieties of my. present office. And I have the honor of being, with tht highest respect, your obedient servant. Dorman B. Eaton, To the President PRESIDENT CtBVRLANDlS REPLY. ElXECirrtVB Mansion, « Wa$hiNqton, D. C., September 11. \ To Bon. Dorman 6. Eaton. Mr Dkar SIR?—1 dm in receipt of yonr letter tendering yonr resignation as a member t»f the Board of Civil Service Commissioners. 1 cafl not refrain from expressing my sincere regret that jot! have determined to withdraw from a position In thp public service where your intelligent performance of duty.has been of inestimable Value to tbe country. The friends of civil service fefflrspu and ail those who desire good government fully appreciate your devotion for the causfl in which you early enlisted, and they have seen with satisfaction that yonr zeal and faith have not led you to suppose that the reform In which you were engaged is unsulted to the rules which ordinarily govern progressive human affairs, or that it shbuld at once fedch perfection and universal acceptance. You have been willing patiently to accept good results os they, step by step, cduld be gained, holding every advance with unyield trig steadfastness The success- which thus far has attended the work of civil Service reform Is largely due to the fact that !ta practical friends have proceeded upon the theory that real and healthy progress can only be made as such of the people who cherish pernicious political ideas, long fostered and encouraged by vicious partisanship, are persuaded that cmmggs contemplated by the reform offers substantial improvements and benefit. A reasonable toleration for old prejudices, a graceful recognition of every aid, a sensible utilization of every instrumentality that promises assistance arid a constant effort to demonstrate the advantages Of the new order of things are tb# means by which this reform movement wifi in the future be further advanced, the opposition of in*ori»rigibie spoilsmen rendered ineffectual, and Hhe cause placed upon a sure foundation. Of copree there should be no surrender of principle ndr backward step; and all laws for the enforcement of the reform should be rigidly executed; but the benefits which its principles promise will not be fully realized unless the.acqUiCsc4fnee.of the people is added to the stern assertion 6f a doctrine and the vigorous exemption of the laws. It Is a source of congratulation that there are so manj- friends of civil service reform marshaled on the practic U side of the question, and that the number is not greater of those Who profess friendliness for the cause arid yet mischievously and with supercilious 8elf-righiedilsTiess discredit fcvj&ry effort not in exact accord With their .attenuated Ideas, decry with carping criticism the labor of those actually in the field of reform, and. Ignoring the conditions which bound and qualify every struggle fora radical improvement in the affairs of government, demand ewhnltttft And immediate nerfection.

The reference In your letter to the attitude of the members of lay Cabinet to the merit system established by tho civil servloe law, beside twins entirely Correct exhibits an appreciation of hOnCst. ehdoavor In tho direction of reform add si disposition to do justice to proved sincerity, which i# most gratify - ing. If such treatment of those upon Whom the duty rests of administering the government according to reform methods was thO universal rule, and If the embarra-aments and perplexitiesAttending such an administration were fairly regarded by all those professing to be friendly id f*t»ch methods, the avowed enemies of the cause would be afforded less encouragement* I believe in civil service reform, and its application In the most practicable form attainable, among other reasons, because it opens the door, for the rich and tho poor alike, to a participation in public of-fiee-Ublding* And I hope the timers at hand When all our people will see the advantages of A reliance upon Such an opportunity; upon merit and fitness, instead of a dependence on the caprice or selfish interest of those who Impudently stand between the people and the machinery of their govern • merit In the one case a reasonable lllteiligen ce and the education which is freely furnished or forced upon the youth of our land are the credentials to office; in the other, tho way Is found in favor secured by a participation in partisan work often unfitting a person morally, if not mentally ami physically, for the responsibilities and duties of publlo employment. You will agree with me, I think, that th€ support which has been given to the present administration in its efforts to preserve and advance this reform by a party restored to power after exclusion for many years from participation in the places attached to the public service; confronted with a new system precluding the redistribution of such places iu its interest ; called upon to surrender advantages which a perverted partisanship had tattght the American people belonged to success, and perturbed w ill suspicion always raised in such an emergency, that thelt rights in the conduct of this reform had not been scrupulously regarded, should receive duo acknowledge* meat and should confirm our belief that there is a sentiment among the people better than a desire to hold office, and a patriotic impulse upon which may safely rest the Integrity of our institutions and the strength and prosperity of our Government. I have determined to request' you to retain your position until the first day of November next* at. which time your resignation may becomcgnjifrative. I desire to express my entire f<^3uence in your attachment to the cause ofrntvil service reform, and your ability to render it efficient aid, and 1 indulge the hope and expectation that, notwithstanding the acceptance of your, resignation, your interest in the object for which you have labored so assiduously, will continue beyond the official term which you surrender. Yours very truly, _ _ Grove« Cleveland. MISHAP FOLLOWS MISHAP.

Barnaul's Circus Teat Struck By a Tornado and Several Persons .Injured. TiTtrsviLige, Pa., September 23.—Barnaul's show arrived here yesterday, and daring the afternoon performance a cyclone struck the tents carrying, them up on shape. The canvas afteron the'many people in atteornQPl There were 10,000 tickets sold, bat many persons perceiving the storm approaching made for the open air leaving about 3,000 people under the canvas. No one \y*s killed, bat many were Injured. Ambulances were Immediately sent to the circus and all the doctors In the city were seen on the ground. The majority of those seriously hurt are persons living within two miles of this etty, while a few live here. The storm was similar to that which occurred at Cortland, Y., last year. The tent was torn Into shreds, and the center poles fell breaking arms and limbs, cutting people’s heads and cansing a terrible stampede. The seats ware thrown about; women fainted, children screamed, and even strong men realized that it was a case of life or death. Many were Injured from falling and being tramped cn. by the crowd. Among those seriously injured are: Elder J. T. Gaglcy, of Ltncolnsville; Mrs. M, Ross, Titusville; Wm. Megabey, Titusville; James Hasson, Venango; Mrs. Chase, living north ol the town; Frank Smith, Cherry tree; John Noyes, Pleasantyille. SUICIDE. A St. K.oals Policeman Deliberately Ends His Own Life With the Pistol Intended for Criminals. St. Looib, Mo., September 23.—Officer Wm. B. Myers, of the Central District, blew ont his brains opposite the Four Courts at 10:40 this morning. Meyers was thirty-seven years of age, and resided with his wife and three children at 2313 South Tenth. Daring the past few months he was beaten and cut while making arrests, and his mind is said to have been slightly affected by his injuries. Yesterday he complained of feeling unwell, but this morning appeared to be iu good health. He walked from the Four Courts in company with Officer Doc Price, and when opposite Nick Karr’s saloon, on the southeast corner of Eleventh and Clark avenne, diagonally across from the Four Courts he remarked: “I’ve forgotten my keys.” He then stepped Into Karr’s saloon, walked up to the bar, called for a glass of whisky, drank it, and, without saying a word, sat down on the window sill facing Clark avenne, pat his revolver to his right temple and Bred. He fell to the ground In a pool of blood and died in four minutes, without having uttered a word. There: was only the bar-keeper and two customers in the salopn at the time, and nothing strange was noticed In bis conduct until he fired the shot,

SUCCESS SEEMS ASSURED. Tfce North, Central and Sonttt American Eipotitioa Given Promise' of a . Sneeee.fal Undertaking—The HOjma •> Enhanced Trade Heins Bnllt Upon ItWashington, D. C., September 38.— Special Superintendent Anderson, in charge of tbe Washington headquarters of the North, Central & South American Exposition, which opens In New Orleans on NoTember 10th, and who Is also in charge of the “special days” celebrations, which will be a conspicuous featnra of the Exposition, is mneb elated at Its rapid strldsa in popularity and magnitude. He predicts that It will be the most remarkable Exposition known to American commercial history, and that It will create a trade revolution which will secure the libia’s share of the SpanishAmerican markets for the surplus manufactures of the United States. Among the recent eridcnces of the immense proportions it is assuming, he mentions the following applications for space t From the city of Chicago, an application for 43,00b square feet. From the State of Missouri, 18,000 square feet. A From Ohio, 18,000 square feet. From Iowa, 11,000 square feet. From tjie Southern Pacific Railway Company,15,000 feet. From the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, a telegraphic order for a large space, the dimensions of which have not. yet bOen announced. From the Pullman Palace Car Company, an application for 15,000 square feet, which will contain an exhibit of unnsual attraction. , From Great Britain, an application for 26.000 square feet. For an exhibit of Bohemian glassware, 5.000 square feet. For machinery exhibits, enormous applications from various sources. These are illustrations of tbe prog rest tbe Exposition is making. The Exoosition neither asks or expects financial aid from the general Government being liberally aopported by the Illinois Central Railroad, th§ Louisville & Nashville, Mr. Pullman, of Chicago, and the merchants and-bankers of New Orleans. The revised list of special days—thirty-six In number—just announced, insures a large attendance and a liberal supply of gate paoney.

THE EASTERN IMBROGLIO. D'plomaey and Events Rnmtaf s Been In the Solution of the ITOhlene Presented By the Boumellan Revolution—The Porte at the Merer of a Powerful Combination. London, September 27.—Diplomacy mores fast In the Ronmeltan business, but erents more faster. Bismarck’s call for a convention Is flashed through wires burdened with echoes of armed legions on the march. Salisbury’s note to the powers is answered by fighting between Turks and Boumellans. Blood is shed on the frontiers and in the streets of Roumelia. The borders of every Turkish province resound with the clash of Christian arms. The holy war is preached again in the highways and byways of Russia, and yet everyone hopes for peace. The Forte 4s powerless before so overwhelming a combination of foes. The time for crushing the rising, if it was to be crushed, has gone. A strong Turkish division launched in Philippopolis on the morrow of the revolt might have made short work of the Fringe's deeplaid plans, but the Forte was caught napping and lost the chance. Roumella now is one out of many to De reckoned with. Behind the lost province and Bulgaria, Albania and Macedona are \fontenegro, Servia, Greece, Austria, Russia—all eager to let slip the dogs of war. The Porte had better let well enough alone and recognize accomplished facts. If Bismarck and Salisbury can induce the powers to compel the recogni;ion of the Caliph’s nominal rights over lioumella and throttle further risings for the present, the Sultan may bless his stars at being let off so cheaply. It will be no easy thing now to quiet the warlike spirit aroused on the Turkish frontier and postpone the inevitable dismemberment of European Turkey and the absorption of the remaining provinces by neighboring Christian nations. It remains to be seen whether the great powers are willing to do it, and whether, being willing, they are able. INDIAN TREACHERY.

A United States Surveyor Thrown From u Frcclpice and Killed. Portlasd, Orb., September 28.—A few days ago a well-known United States Surveyor named James Harrington, while ont rnnning lines through the mountain* in Skagit County, Washington Territory, assisted by a party of Indians, was reported to have been killed by accident. The Indians claimed he fell over a perpendicular bluff several hundred feet high, that overhung the Sauk River, and was dashed to pieces. Search was made by a party of white men at the spot pointed out, but net the slightest trace was ever found of the body. Suspicious circumstances were connected with Harrington's sudden disappearance, and the authorities made a careful investigation. It is now conceded by all that he met a dreadful fate through the treachery of two Indian guides, who were with him at the time of his death. It Is told among the Indians that the two guides watched, took him off bis - guard, {then seized, threw him over a precipice, and In the desperate struggle to save himself he came near dragging one of his assailants with him. The two Indians were openly accused of the deed by their comrades, and did not deny their guilt The murderers have suddenly disappeared and can not be found. The motive for the fearful deed la supposed to be cupidity. The authorities are determined to ferret out the mysterious murder, and bring the perpetrators to prompt punishment A Successful Revival. Lynn, Mass., September 28.—Evangelist Moody is conducting a very sue- 7” cessful revival service here. At 10:3d' yesterdays service for non-church goers at the Grand Army Coliseum drew 3,000 people. During the sermon many wept. An invitation to remain for special prayer' was accepted by 400 people. At a special meeting for ladies at 3 p. m. Mr. Moody preached on “God is Love,” and 3,000 remained for special prayer. Sixty requested prayer. A special service for men in the evening was attended by 4,000 persons. . Paying Honors To tile Puritan. Marblehead, Mass., September 28.— This sleepy old town awakened with a start Saturday, when the announcement was made that the Puritan would arrive that evening. Powder enough 7 to blow np the town was collected, and a great quantity of boxes, barrels and hogsheads for a bonfire were procured. At S a. m. the Puritan arrived. All day yesterday multitudes flocked to the harbor to gaze at the boat. The ferry-boats made frequent excursions to her anchorage, and every boat that could be put in operation was kept busy from the morni ing until 6 p. m. The number of visitors is estimated at 3,000.