Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 October 1885 — Page 1

Pike County Democrat OIGHT] fc BYNUM, Editors and Publishers. official paper of the county. OETIOE, OTer 0. E. MONTGOMERY’S Store, Main Street. VOLUME XVI. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1885. NUMBER 22.

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( noriiSSIONAL CARDS, *. ». ». POSIT. A. J HONEYCUTT. rOSEY & HONEYCUTT. ATTORNEYS AT LAW Petersburg, lad. ■Win practice in all the courts. All business promptly attended to. A Notary Public constantly in tho office. Office over Frank A Horn brook’s drugstore. ■ ■*. P. RICHARDSON. A. H. TAYLOR. RICHARDSON & TAYLOR. Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt attention Riven to all business. A Notary Public co lRtantly in the office. Office, OTer Adams A Son's drug store. *. A. ELY. » F. TOWNSEND. MART FLEENEK. ELY, TOWNSEND & FLEENER, Att’ys at Law & Real Estate Agts, Petersburg, Ind. ’ Office over Gus France's S$ore. Special attention given to Collections, buying and sellImr lands, esamiuhig Titles aid furnishng Abstracts. J. W. WILSON. AnORNEY AT LAW, Petersburs, lml. Will practice in all the courts. Special attention given to all business intrusted to bis care. Offio?, in Hank Building, corner of Main and Seventh Street:

J. M. DOYLE. •W. H. THOMPSON. DOYLE & THOMPSON, Attorneys at Law, Real Estate, Loans Insurance Aits. Office, second floor in Bank Building, corner Main and Seventh Streets. Petersburg, - - Indiana. The best Fire and Life Insurance Companies represented. Money to loan on first mortgages at seven and eight per cent. Prompt attention to collections, and ali business intrusted to us. f. B. ADAMS, C. B. Fn.T.INWIOKR. 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. EP"Offlcc, in his New Building on Main St.-ft# CARLETON & WILSON. Physicians and Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. Chronic and difficult eases solicited. Calls In the city or country promptly responded to, day or night. Office, over Montgomery, Hammond & godson’s store. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E. TURNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, - . IND. Parties wishing work done at their residences will leave orders at the i-hop, in Dr. Adams’ new building, rear of Adams A Son's drug store. HOTELS. LINGO HOTEL, . B PETERSBURG, IND. THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL IN TOWN. I New throughout, and first-class accommodations in every respect. C. M. ROWE, Proprietor. hyatt”housr v * Washington. lad. Centrally Located, and Accommodations First-class. J. M. FAULKNER, Proprietor.

SHERWOOD HOUSE, . WS. SHERWOOD, Prop. *. A. frost, Man. theo. rvssell. Clerk. Cor. First and Locust Stre ts, EVANSVILLE, - - - |N(>. The Sherwof d la centrally located, flrst oat In all Us appointments, and the best and cheapest hotel In the city. Hates, $3 per day. ----iW-— When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Bespeots. MRS. Laura Harris. Proprietress. ' Wm. H. Neal, Manager. EMMETT HOTEL, One square east of Court-house, cor. of Washington and New Jersey Sta., INDIANAPOLIS, - - IND. JAMES S. M0R6AN, Prop’r. BATES, $1.50 for Day. MISCELLANEOUS. PHOTO GALLERY, OSCAB HAMMOND, Prop’r. Pictures Copied or Enlarged. All kinds of work done promptly and at reasonable rates. Call and examine his work. Gallery tn Kisert's new building, over the Post-oIBce. Petersburg, Ind. Great Reduction in the price of SADDLES, HARNESS, ETC., ETC. The public is hereby in'ormedthat 1 will sdll _i! .Srorob FA# .nil UurnAHfl oiul _ Li1*lv W IIncuj IU ui iuvu own my large stock of Saddles and Harness, and everything kept by mr Jowe»_than ever sold in this plane.before If you want anything In my Un^ don’t fail lo call on me as am I otterlag special baigains, / FRED PEtERSBUIiCi. 1 INDIANA.

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. nnoNiii urn political. Consul-General Ewing expects to be sufficiently recovered to enable him to start for Mexioo about the middle of Oo~ lober. Horace G. J acobi, Assistant Supervising Architect of the Treasury, has tendered his resignation, to take effect October 81st. Phesxdint Cleveland has received the resignation of General Beveridge, Assistant Treasurer a,t Chicago. Generali Beveridge’s term expires October 28th, but he has perfected Arrangements for engaging in a private enterprise and desires to be more promptly relieved. The President sent for Dr. Hamilton, Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital service on the 30th, and informed him that he thought the best interests of that service would lie served "by making no change iu its chief, and, therefore, he decided not to accept hit resignation, whloh had been tendered to take effect October 81st. General E. F. Jones, of Binghamton, N. Y., has been, chosen in place of Roswell P. Flower as a candidate for LieutenantGovernor of Ne w York on the Democratic ticket. Earl DurriRiN says necessity has arisen for an armed intervention in Burmah. The tenor of his*ad vlo»s point to an early annexation of Burrnah by India.

Ok the evening of the 29th Lieutenant Greely was tendered a dinner by prominent business and professional men of Pittsfield, Mass. Lieutenant Greely’s health has been greatly improved by his summer in Berkshire, and he now seems to be quite well and hearty. He will leave shortly for a voyage to Scotland. Colonel Bwttslkr, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, is preparing a cod Ideation of the laws governing his bureau, with sundry amendments, for submission to the Secretary of the Treasury with a view of obtaining the latter's recommendat ion for enactment by Congress. Secretary Lamar was at the Interior Department on the 30th, having nearly recovered from his recent attack of hay fever. Prof. Alex. Agassiz has found it necessary to decline the office of Superintendent of the Coast Survey because of the duties already resting upon him. This decision is greatly regretted by the President. Secretary Manning on the 30th dismissed seven employes in the Register's office, including five clerks and two chiefs of divisions, named Charles Neale and N. B. Walker. It is said the vacancies will not be filled. A Kansas farmer had an enemy and offered Frank .'amis $100 to kill him. He was threatened, with arrest, but let off on promise of not molesting his neighbor. The Central union of German manufacturers have petitioned Prince Bismarck to inquire into the subject of bimetalism. The petition is the outcome of Manton Marble’s visit to Germany. Commissioner Gregory, of the Civil Service Board, had a long interview with the President on the 30th, at which it is understood arrangements for his retirement were perfected. Prof. J. E. Da Leon successfully performed the feats on the 30th of crossing the Portage Gorge, at Portage, N. Y., on a tight rope stretched 2X) feet above the rocky bed of the river direotly above the falls. Archdeacon Farrar was at Baltimore, Md„ on the 30th, the guest of President Gilman of John Hopkins University, where he addressed the fellows and students thefollowiag day. Miss Honora I. Harwood, daughter of Rev. Dr. Edward Harwood, rector of Trinity Church, New Haven, Conn., has created a sensation in that city by eloping with Mr. Truman Hemingway on the eve of her wed ling with a Mr. Prayen, a young millionaire of Albany, N. Y. Mr. Hemingway inhorited $300,000 nyear ago. Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, la dead. He was born in 18)1. On the 1st Sir Miohael (Hicks- Beach made a notable political speech at Salisbury, England. W. A. and C. A. Nimocks. of the Minneapolis (Minn.) Journal, have purchased the Detroit (Mich.) Post. William Page, the well-known painter and formerly President of the New York Academy of Design, died at his home near Tottenville, Staten Island, on the night of the 30t h. On the 1st Mile. Emma Nevada was married at Paris to Dr. Raymond Palmer of Birmingham, England. Lord Randolph Churchill has gone to Dublin to confer on measures for the suppression of boycotting. The Csar of Russia has called a conference of the Governors of provinces to consider the condition of the Empire. Franklin J. Moses, ex-Governor of South Carolina, was sentenced at Boston on the 1st to three years’ imprisonment ia the State Prison for obtaining money under false pretenses.

anas Alice Ji j or dir, oc uoiawater, Mich., & graduate of the academio and law department) of the University of Michigan, entered the Yale law school on the 1st. She Is the first lady ever entered in any department of Yale outside of the art school. The firm of Wm. Heath to Co, prominent in Wall street, Hew York,'have made an ass gument. General Black, Commissioner of Pensions, returned to Washington from HImira, 111., on the 21, where he buried one of his children. Tax King of Roumania proposes to remain strictly neutral. Georoe Aunts, an old farmer of Ladonia, Tex., was confidenced out of $400 by a stranger en the 2d. Lord Randolph Churchill Is at Dublin Castle inquiring Into the condition of Ireland and the wants of the people. W. A. Lonqmiru has sued the Missouri Pacific Railroad for $5,000 damages for personal injuries in Texas. On the 2d Charles R. Cillahan to Co. stock brokers of Kingston, H. Y., with several branoh bucket-shops throughout the State, dosed their doors. Bismarck is busy giving counsel to the Sultan, and it 'Is expected the latter will adopt a policy In harmony with the suggestions. William A. West, of Oxford, Miss., has accepted the position of chief Post-office Inspector, and entered upon the discharge of his duties So. the 2d. In his report os the fall| of Khartoum, Colonel Kitchener attributes tbs disaster to the starved condition of the troops and the desertion of their posts by the native contingents. President Cleveland and members of the Cabinet will attend the Virginia State Fair, to be held at Richmond, 7a., on the 22d lust., if the pressure of public business does -not prevent Commander Pkarson, IT. 8. R., whose resignation is announced, has been regarded as the wealthiest man lathe navy, having married a lady of groat wealth. He has been on a leave of absence in Hu - | rope for a year and a halt

Edward McSwkinet, the Irish suspect, who has beea an applicant for a position in the customs servioe at San Francisco, withdrew his papers from the Treasury Department on the SI, and Sara he will make no further efforts to secure an appointment under the Government. The War Department has Ins treated Captain Fred M. Crandall, of the Twentyfourth Infantry, to carry out the instructions of the Secretary of the Interior concorning: the removal of unauthorised persons on the Cherokee lands in the Indian Territory, west of the Arkansas River. The order refers particularly to the removal of "boomers” and squatters. On the 2d Herr Konkel, the German Socialist leader, was arrested charged with high treason in having stated at a public meeting that not only was the army an engine of wholesale slaughter, but to it was chargeable the murder of the public en masse Da. Thornton, of Portland lie, has been appointed Sanitary Inspector, and ordered to report to Sergeant Austin, at. Moose River, Maine, on the Portland & Quebec Railroad. This completes the organisation of the inspection service on the Northern frontier. — Thb President has been elected an honorary member of the twenty-first New York Veteran Association, which honor he has accepted, Intimating that he shall be pleased to assist in the proposed undertaking of erecting a monument to the fallen heroes of the regiment. Thk Chicago Grand Jury has refused to indict Jasper E. Sweet, who shot and killed Dr. Waugh, who, he alleged, took improper advantage of Mrs. Sweet, while treating her professionally.

CRIMES AMD CASUALTIES. A. I* Bauberin, a merchant of Alma, N. M., was killed recently by Indians west of Silver City. Four negroes were lynched near Pittsboro, H. C., tor brutal murders committed last summer. On the 29th Antonio Rivera, a coal miner at Engel ville, near the New Mexican border, while crazy drunk, demanded two dollars from Keyes Garcia, a watermelon peddler, with which to continue his spree. Garcia refused the loan, whereupon Rivera shot him in the abdomen, inflicting a fatal wound. On the 29;h Joseph Martin, an old employe on the farm of Isatah Wilson, near Sulphur Grove, Q., was fatally gored by an angry bull as he was driving cattle from pasture Martin was tossed in the air, and the minute he struck the ground the bull gored him again in the shoulder. The Insane Asylum at Warm Springs, Mont., was destroyed by fire on the 30th, and three inmates perished in the flames. Mendel & Rosenberg ir’s box factory at Cincinnati, O., was burned on the 30th, entailing a loss of $45,000 and throwing 120 employes out of work. The third trial of the Jew, Bitter, and his wife at Cracow, Russia, on the charge of murdering a Christian girl, resulted in conviction and sentence of death. ■ Mrs. Eliza Steel committed suicide at Celina, O., on the 1st. Georgs" You xg has been convicted of wifetnurder at Ennis, Tex., and sentenced to death. On the 1st an accident on 'the Western Maryland Railroad, near Chambersbqrg, Pa., caused the death of two children. At New Britain, Conn., on the 1st, a train of the New York & New England Railway collided with an omnibus and killed two children. Wm. Penland has besn convicted at Ennis, Tex, of a murder committed during the war, and received a life sentence. Highwaymen stopped the mail stage between Abilene, Tex, and San Angelo on the 1st, tore open the mall pouches and robbed the passengers. On the evening of the 30th a handsome young woman took a room at the Morton House, New York, and registered as “Anaie Bennett, New York,” after which she retired. The next morning she was found dead in her room with the gas turned on and all cracks la the windows stuffed with paper. She was an actress. Her mother resides in Philadelphia. On the 1st, while a gang of men were loading coal on a vessel near a railroad track, at Cleveland, O., a train backed down, killing Andrew Devir, sixty years old, fatally injuring Patrick Manamoni and badly crushing James Quilty. Burglars blew open the safe in the store of John Patterson at Amesville, Athens County, Ohio, the night of the 30th, from whioh they abstracted over $2,600 in cash, and $231 in bonds of Para Muthia Lodge, F. A. M., of Athens. Mr. Patterson is Treasurer of his township, and $1,500 of the missing funds belonged to the township. On the 2d Day & Allen's livery stable and contents, including twenty-one head of horses, was destroyed by fire at Nashville, Tenn. While under the Influence of liquor David Vinton, aged fifty-eight years, of Southbr.dge, Mass., attacked his son, aged thirty-five, and was killed by the latter. On the 21 by the explosion of a muddruqi under the boilers of the Salor ironworks at Pittsburgh, seventeen persons were injured, several of them fatally.

■mCBIXANBOUS. The Milwaukee & St Paul Road has sold its Interest in the 8t Paul ft Duluth. Indiana colored men met at Indianapolis on the 30th and formed an association .the object of which is to elevate their race in that States Representatives of Eastern trunk lines, at a meeting in Coihmissionsr Fink's office on the 30th, agreed to restore passenger rates to a basis of $30 from Chicago to New York. Armed bands of Bulgarians, who were preparing to invade Macedonia, have been ordered by Prince Alexander to return to Bulgaria. Great damage has been done by floods in the eastern portion of Bwitserland, the whole of the upper valley of the Rhine having been inundated. A Servian ciroular to the powers demands that Servia be allowed representation in the Roumelian conference. Several protests from the clergy of Washington churches against the special delivery system on Bundajrs have been filed with the Postmaster-General, and it Is satd that the Sunday feature of the service will be attacked and denounced from the pulpit. It Is estimated that there has been a decrease of about $12,000,000 in the publie debt during the month of September. The payments on the account of pensions during the month were about $*,000,000. Immense frauds have been discovered in the Turkish War Department Money voted for military purposes was spent in other ways, soldiaN are poorly equipped, and only a small supply of coal is available for war vessels. The United States Treasurer on the aOth mailed 43,336 checks, aggregating $e,036, • 186, In payment of interest due October 1st on registered four per cent consols of 1907. Information having been received at Washington that employes on the Grand Trunk Railway are in communication with their families who reside in Canadian districts infected with small-pox, instructions have been issued for the enforcement of a strict quarantine on that road.

Thr Chicago* sod New Yorks played the second game of their series at Chicago the 30th and the Chicago* scored their second victory, thus making them morally certain of securing the pennant. Sr. Corns Is in fine trim for carnival week, beginning on the 6th, daring which there will bs a succession of pageants and Startling events that will make It lively and Interesting for visitors. AcrrVR war preparations are being made by the Porte in anticipation of being compelled to adopt extreme measures to settle the Roumellan difficulty. Military manGeuvers on an extensive scale will take place at Lahore,'India, in December. Business is almost at a standstill in Montreal by reason of the small-pox epidemic. The hotels are deserted, and the entire city presents almost a Bunday stillness The authorities are determined to stamp out the disease, in spite of tha ignorant French Canadians and their anti-vaccination prejudices Tax Neenah (Wis.) stove-molders are on a strike. O.v the 1st James Palmer, a murderer, escaped from the officers at Mentor, Ind. Thr exportation of cereals is prohibited by Turkey. Tan window-glass manufacturers held a convention at New York on the 1st. Thr Missouri Pacific has leased the Central branch of the Union Pacific Hallway. Turk&t protests to the Powers against the disarming of Mussulmans in Ronmelia. Thr British squadron in the Mediterranean is reported to have been ordered to Turkey. Appucatiox has been made at Hartford, Conn., for a receiver for tha Charter Oak Life Insurance Company. A tounq couple, whose combined ages will not reach thirty years, eloped from Greenburg, Pa., and were married at Pittsburgh on the 1st. DUusa the month of September the coinage at the mints amounted to $1,420,« 364, of which $2,800,03) were in standard, silver dollars. Thr Supreme Court of New York had rendered a decision ordering foreclosure on the New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railway.

too nr one waits miners in the era* ploy of the Union Pacific at Carbon, Wy, T., and Lnuisvill >, Col., struck against the employment of Chinese by the road. For September the custom receipts amounted to $17 521,261, against $17,662.» 631 in September a year ago. Internal revenue receipts were $10 446,101, or a half million more than in September, 1881; and lha miscellaneous receipts were $200,366,022, nearly half a million more than in September a year ago. During September the total receipts at the National Treasury were $29,971,* 9.6, against $29,2.9,119 In September, 1884. Government expenditures for September were $16,013,054, nearly a million and a quarter less than in September, 1884. Tranquility seems to have been restored at Montreal, and vaccination is proceeding. « At Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 2d, a prizefight was abruptly terminated by the friends of one of the contestants throwing pepper into the eyes of the other. In German diplomatic circles it is generally understood that Austria is secretly supporting Bsrvia. Tbs Government of Greece has obtained a .500,000 loan for defensive operations, in view of the possible spread of the Roumelian difficulty. Advices from Philippopolis state that the Roumellans are greatly angered over the reports that Russia wishes to dethrone Alexander. The State Board of Charities of Pennsylvania has made the discovery that the Allegheny County Home at Woodville is in such a wretched condition that the inmates are dying at the rate of one a day from typhoid feTer and other infectioui diseases. Scrvia'8 hostile attitude with an army in the field and the probability that she will seize contiguous territory, it is thought, will cause difficulty Jn the solu-tion-of the Balkan question. During the seven days ended the 2d, there were 171 failures in the United States as compared with 141 the preceding week, and with 188. 160 and 122 respectively in the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1883 and 1882. About 84 per cent were those of small traders whose capital was less than $3,000. Canada had twen-ty-three, an increase of three.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Civil-Service Commissioner Baton will remain in Washington during the winter. Five hundred villages were destroyed by the recent cyclone in India. Minister Foster arrived at Washington on the 4th, and his successor will probably be appointed soon. Ex-Minister Kasson has collected material for a diplomatic history of the war of the rebellion which he is engaged in writing. Bulgaria is described as being one vast military camp, all the njale population between the ages of fifteen and forty-five being under arms. A St. Petersburg dispatch says the English have taken possession of Herat and ordered the inhabitants to quit the town immediately. Statistics are being gathered by the Signal Service Bureau with a view to predicting tornadoes and giving warning of their approach. The Pope is taking great interest in Irish electoral affairs and admonishes the bishops to prevent their flocks from supporting Nationalists. The political situation in Ohio is said: to be different from any previously kno'irn, the balance of power being in the hands of the Prohibitionists. Five persons were killed and thirty or forty wounded by the collision, on the 4th, of two circus trains on the Fergus Falls branch of the Northern Pacific Philrbad. The people of Crete have sent an address to the powers asking the maintenance of the Berlin treaty; otherwise that Greece be permitted to annex Crete. Mrs. Druse, who murdered her husband at Little, Falls, N. Y., and afterward, cut his body up and burned it in a stove, has been convicted of murder in the first degree. , C. W. Wallace, who killed John Cling ersmith at Glenwood, la., two years ago and was discharged at the examination, has been arrested again on the ground that new evidence has been obtained. THE statement of the Csar that he would endeavor to secure accord among the powers to effect a pacific solution of the Roumeliun difficulty has caused great rejoicing at Philippopolis. Isaac Reynolds, an old hand at the business, was surprised by the police and captured at his home in Indianapolis, Jhd., on the evening of the 3d, while in the aot of making counterfeit half-dollars. The recent census shows Boston, Mitss., to have a population of 391,406, a gain of 27,870 since 1880. There is a preponderance of 10,204 females over the males. Returns of emigration from Germany show a decrease for the past eight mouths of 30,000, as oompared with 1884.

NEW YORK DEMOCRATS. TTatform ana Resolutions Adopted bj the New York Democracy at the Recent Saratoga Convention—A Strong Expression hi Party Principles. Saratoga. & Bepfc At Jrestef* day^g session of the Democratic State Convention the following resolution was presented by General Roger A. Pryor and unanimously adopted, etefy delegate rising to his feet: Jfcsohvd, That with profound sorrow thfc Democracy of the State of New York lament the death of the inflexible patriot and invincible soldier, liiysses S. Grant, of whose illustrious career they recognize the fitting crown and consummation In his dying invocation of peace and good will between the heroes he led and the heroes he conquered. The convention then adopted the following declaration of principles W ithout a disp Renting voice: The platform. The Democrats of the State t f Ntjw Tori; In Convention assembled, congratulate the people of the whble Union upon the election and the inauguration bf Grover Cleveland tb be President of the Unitcd States. We commeud the wise and statesmanlike tone of his inaugural address, and the s gnittcant public recognition, in the selection of Cabinet advisers, of the fact that the Union of thirty-eight indestructible States is at last thoroughly re established. His firm, considerate, and conscientious conduct as President has already proven the falsity of the prediction of national calamity with which his enemies and the enemies of the Democratic party endeavored to alarm the Sublic mind during the canvass. We hereby rader to him our hearty approbation of the public policy which has governed his official action, and w* specially emphasize in our approbation the ettort ho has made to eradicate corruption and incompeteney from the public service by the appointment of honest and capable Democrats. >n order that there shall be a thorough and wholesome reform of the Inethodscondemned by the people who com tided to him the administration bf his high official trust. We heartily approve the administration of the State Government by Governor David B. Hill, its able head, and his efficient Democratic associates in the other departments, their fldclity to principle, devotion to official duty, strict regard for the public interests, unceasing efforts to secure economy in expenditure and efficiency in every branch of the official service, and the benefleent results bf prosperity and good government which have attended the.T efforts have justly comtnended them to the confidence of the people. An enumeration df the inhabitants of the Bta-e. as demanded by the Constitution) is all that is required for the purposes of equitable district representation. The elaborate census taken hy the Federal Government once in ten years affords detailed and complete information as to the progress and resources of the State. To duplicate this work and expense would, therefore, be a waste of public money.

" o reauinu me uwmntuuus ui iae nemo* cratic National conventions of 1876, 1880 and 1881 in regard to the necessity of reforming the civil service, but we condemn the actual administration of the existing Civil-Service law, as the same has been executed by the Republican party. They have abused its provisions for the purpose of keeping Republicans in office; they have, through the machinery of the law, formulated lists of eligibles composed almost exclusively of Republicans; they have extended the period during which, by the provisions of the law, those eligible for appointment to Office should remain on the, registers; bo as to exclude Democrats from all offices within the rule of the civil service. We ask that the Commission at Washington be reorganized, so that its majority shall be id sympathy with the Administration; that both parties be fairly represented on the Examining Board, and that the present lists of persons eligible for appointment be annulled. While, therefore, proclaiming our approbation of the general spirit which inspired the recent legislation of the Federal Government and the State of New York to promote a needed reform of the civil service, we must, at the same time, place on record our wish and purpose that the proper officers of each Government, charged with the execution of that legislation, and empowered to make suitable rules and regulations to carry it into effect, shall take oare that the constitutional power of the executive and heads of departments to make appointments shall not be impaired, and that the machinery, whatever it niay be. for the testing of eligible oandidateit shall not be prostituted to unworthy purposes. The convention believes that the experiment of coining standard silver dollars in the hope of maintaining a fixed ra tio with gold has gone far enough, and can not be continued longer without great danger to the business Interests of the country. The loss in interest alone on the silverdollar stored up in the Treasury is over $4,000,000 per annum. an<L this accumulation of silver, purchased at a cost of $180,000,000, is worth to-day not more thaa $166,000,000, with every prospect of a further depredation. We therefore demand the repeal of the act under which the compulsory coinage of silver goes on, but we will" welcome any- practical measure of agreement with othor Nations by which the ratio of value between gold and silver may be made less fluctuating, but to this end the first step must be the stoppage of any further compulsory coinage of silver dollars. The National Democratic platform pledges the party to “revise the tariff In a spirit of fairness to all Interests.” While it declares in favor of a reduction in taxation and the enlargement of the free list, in order to lessen the cost of production, it commits the party to a due regard for existing interests, “as a plain dictate of justice," and declares that American labor shall not be deprived of the ability “to compete successfully with foreign labor, and that the proposed duty shall be sufficient to cover any increased cost of production which may exist in oonsequence of the higher rate of wages prevailing in this country.” This convention calls for a revision of the tariff upon the principles thus laid down, in order that the market for our products may be enlarged, and that industry may be relieved from unnecessary burdens and the serious obstacles which have paralyzed its operations and narrowed up the field for the remunerative employment of labor and capital offered by the exhauBtlesa natural resources of this country. We also demand that the methods of administration in the custom-houses shall be thoroughly reforme3. and the vexations, annoyances and oppressive regulations which have driven our own merchants out of business shall be swept away, and that the conduct of business between the people and the Government shall be£made as simple and lnexpensve as possible. The people of the State having declared by a large majority their opposition to the contract system in prisons we are opposed to contract convict labor in any form, and we are In favor of a proper substitute that will employ convicts according to the State account item. We favor prohibiting the employment of children in factories and other industrial establishments In the. State under fourteen years of age.

n h inrur iiuiuiuk ine Hours or moor 10 Ton per day for all women employed In mills and other Industrial establishments in the State. We are In favor of such legislation as shall Insure to honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the late war for the preservation of the Union priority In certification under the Clrll-Serrlce laws and regulations of this State and the cities thereof; and upon passing such examination successfully priority in certification and appointment over all other persons. Wo favor lengthening and Improving the locks of the canals, thereby doubling their capacity and reducing the cost of transportation between the lakes and the ocean. The efforts of the Republican Legislature of 1884 and 1885 haring proved inadequate to prevent the manufacture and sale of counterfeit compounds in simulation of genuine butter and cheese, the product of the dairy, we demand the enactment of such laws as shall effectually nroteot the people by prohibiting suoh fraud and deception. We oppose all sumptuary and other laws that Interfere with the constitutional right of personal liberty, and favor the enactment of such exolse laws as shall be alike just to all, considering the claims of all, and protecting their individual rights. —The explorers in the Congo Valley are surprised by the crudity of life there. The natives have no domesticated beasts of any sort, nor do they raise or catch any animals to eat, as they know nothing of flesh as food. Mo semblance of clothing is worn, and diet is praotically confined to spontaneous products of the soil.—Chicago Herald. —No medical man has ever been made a Peer in England. They do not fulfill tho conditions indispensable to ennoblement A Peer mus t be wholly disconnected with trade or the active practice of a profession, and only such persons as have ceased to be engaged m the exercise of a remunerative vocation can be ennobled.—Chicago Tribune. —Submarine telegraph cables depreciate very rapidly, which necessitates the setting aside every yeair of what the Anglo-American Company call a renewal fund. This fund raw amounts to $3,941,6Q-N. Y. Post. —A ball of fire which fell and ex* ploded in a field at Shiloh, N. J., a few days ago, killed tho grass for a space of many yards around the spot—A’. T. Sun. 9

TALMAGE'S sermon, Delivered at the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday, September 27 th. uStormed Hud Taken'*- Any Flu of Attack On tile Stfottglitilds of gin TlMt Sue* deeds of Ptdniisd SrteCcss Id he Favored. fid^niiTXi if. Y., iieptombsr 27.—The Tabernacle was growled this mcfralng Sd thousand: were unable to j{e§ serits. e hymn before the sermon was: Hark the voice of Jesus calling Who will go and work to-day; Fields are white, the harvest waiting. Who will bear the aheaves away? After reading the parable of the talents (MattheW xxV.} i)r. Tdlmace announced his subject as “Stcftrisd anti Taken^’* and took for his text the words! And Abimeiech got him rip to Moririt iiiinon; he arid all the' people that were with him; and Abimeiech took an ax In his hand, and cut down a bough from the tree's; and took It and laid it on his shoulder and said into the people that were with him: whs* e have seen me do. make haste, and do as I _iave done. And all the people Ilk; wise ent down every man his bough and followed Abimeiech, and pnt then! to the hold, and set the hold on tire upon them: so that all the men of the tower of Sheetiem died — Judges lx., 48, 4ft. '

nuuuciuiu a uaiuo ukmvxuiwus *« Bible history, and yet full of profitable suggestion. Buoys are black and uuComely, bttt they tell^where the rocks are. !rhe snake's tattld is hid >ouS. but it gives timely warning. From the piazSa Of my summer home; night by night; I Saw a lighthouse fifteen miles Sway, riot placed there for adornment, but to tell mariners tb stand off frcta that dangerous point, So all the iron-bound, coast Of moral danger is marked with Saul, and Herod,- and Rehoboam, and Jexslael, arid Ahiniele -h. These bad people are mentioned in the Bible, not only as warnings, but because there were sometimes flashes of good conduct ill their lives worthy o’ imitation, kod sometimes drives a very straight hail With a very poor ha<ri(ri >r. The City of Shefcheni had to bd taken; and Abimelech aril his raeri were to do ifc 1 see the dost rising up' from their excited inarch. 1 hear the shouting of the captains arid the yell ol! the b siegers. The swords Clank sharply on the parrying shields, and. the vociferation of the two armies in death grapple is horrible to bear. The battle goes on all day, and as the sun is setting Abimelech and his army cry 1 ‘Surrender!” to the beaten foe. And unable longer to resist, the City of Bhechem fails. As 1 look over the city, 1 can fin l only One brijlding standing, and that is the temple Of the God Berith. Some soldiers Outside of the City i.n a to War, finding that they can no longer defend ShechOm, now begin to look out for their oWd personal safety, and they fly to this temple of Berith. They get within the d ror, shat it, and they says “Now we are safe. Abimelech has taken the whole city, but he can not take this temple of Berith. Here we shall be under the protection of the gods.” Oh, Berith, the god I do your test for these refugees. If you have eyes pity them. If you have hands, help them. If yon have thunderbolts, strike for them. But how shall Abimelech and his army take this temple of Berith and the men who are there fortified? Will they do it with sword? Nay. Will they do it with spear? Nay. Wiih battering-ram roll©! np by hundred-armed strength, crashing agaiust the walls? Nay. Abimelech marches his men to a wood in Zi l moo. With his axe he hews off a limb of a tree, and pats that limb u ion his owu shoulder, and then he says to his men: “You do the same.” They are obedient to thsir commander. There is a struggle as to who shall have axes The whole woods is full of bonding boughs, and the crackling, and the- hacking, an l the cutting, until every one of the host has a limb of a tree cut down, and not only that, but has put it upon his shoulder, just as Abimelech showed him how. Are these men now all armed with the tree branch? The reply comes: “All armed.” And they march on. Oh, what a strange army, with what strange equipment. The}' come up to the foot of the temple of Borith, Abimelech takes his limb of a tree aud throws it down, and the first pi otoon of soldiers come up and they throw down their branches, and the second pl atoon, and the third, until all around about the temple of Berith there is a pile of tree branches. The Shechemites look out from the window of the temple upon what seems to them childish play on the part of their enemies. But soon the flints are struck, and the 8{>ark begins to kindle the brush, and the flame comes up through the pile, and the red elements leap to the casement and the wood-work begins to blaze, and one arm of flame is thrown ap on the right sid - of the temple, another arm of flame is thrown up on the left side of the temple, until they clasp their lurid palms under the wild night sky, and the cry of “fire!” within and fire without announces the terror and the strangulation and the doom of the Shechemites, and the complete overthrow of the temple of the god Beritlu

Now, I learn first from th's subject the folly of depending upon any one form of tactics In anything we have to do for this world or for God, Look over the weaponry of olden times—javelins, battleaxes, harobengeons—and show me a single weapon with watch Abimelech and bis men could have gained such a complete victory. It is no easy thing to take a temple thus armed. I saw a house where, during revolutionary times, a man and his wife kept back a whole regiment hour after hour, beeeuse they were inside the house, a'nd the assaulting soldiers were outside the house. Yet here Abimelech and his army come up, they surround this temple, and they capture it without the loss of a single man on the part of Abimelech, although, I suppose, some of the old Israeliti8h heroes told Abimelech: “You are only going up there to be cut to pieces.” Yet you are willing to testify to-day that by no other mode—certainly not by ordinary modes—could that temple so easily, so thoroughly, have been taken. Fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, what the Church most wants to learn, this day, is that any plan is right, is lawful, is best, which helps to overthrow the temple of sin and capture this world for Clod. We are very apt to stick to the old modes of attack. We put on the old-stylo coat of mail. We come up with the sharp, keen, glittering steel spear of argument, expecting in that way to take the castle; but they have a thousand s pears;where we have ten. And so the castle of stu stands. Oh, my friends we will never capture this world for God by any keen saber of sarcasm, by any glittering lances of rhetoric, by any sapping and mining of profound disquisition, by any gunpowdery explosions of indignation, by shaip-shootings of wit, by howitzers of mental strength, made to swing shell five miles, by cavalry horses gorgeously caparisoned pawing the air. In vain all the attempts on the part of these ecclesiastical foot soldiers, light horsemen and grenadiers My friends, I propose this morning a different stylo of tactics. Let each one go to the forest of God’s promise and invitation and hew down a branch, and pqt

it on his shoulder, and Jot us all come around these* obstinate iniquities, and then, with this pile* kindled by the fires of a hoiy seal and the flames of a consecrated life, We will burn them out. What steel' can not do, fire may. And 1, this morning;, announce myself in favor any plan of religious attack that succeeds—any plan of religious attack, however radical, however odd, however unpopular, hOWerer hostile to all the convon - tionalities of Church and State. It one style of ptayer does not do the work, let us try another Style. If the church music of to-day does not get the victory, then let tfs make the assault with a backwoods cttattis. If a prayer meeting at 7:3(1 in the evening dads riot succeed, let u* hare one as early in the morning as when the angel found wrestling Jacob tflo much for him. If a sermou with the three authorised heads does not do the work, then let let tts have a sermon with twenty heads, or ritf head at all. We want more heart in our Song, more heart In our alms-giving, more heart Id o8r prayers,.more heart in onr preaching. Oh for less of Abimelech’s sword and nfote of Abloielecb's conflagration! I haVe often' heard There is 8 fountain filled with Mocid, sang artistically by four birds perched on their Sunday roost in th> gallery, Until 1 thought of Jenny Lind, and N lssod, and fjoritdgj and all the other warblers; but there came fist one tear to my eye, nor one master Om*»tiou to my heart Bat one night I went dotTuM the African Methodist meeting-house iff Philadelphia, and at the do3e of the service a black woman in the midst of the audience began to sing that hymn, and all the audience Jo ned in, and we Were floated some three or four miles nearer Heaved than 1 have ever been a nco. saw with ray own eyes “that foun filled with blood”—red, agonising, sa ficial, redemptive, and 1 heard the cr sod Splash of the wave down under ft 1 ain iiuas we all Went

For sinners plunged beneath rltfl* noon | Lose all their guilty stains. Oh, my friends, the gospel is not a Syllogism} it is not chemistry r it Is not! polemics, or the science of squabble. It is blood-red fact} it is Worm-hearted invitation; it is leaping! bounding, fly id; flood news; it is efflorescent with all light) it is rubflscettt With all glow; it is arborescent with all sweet shade! i have seen the sun rise on Mount Washington and from the Tip-top House, but there was no feeflhty in that compared with the day -spring on high when Christ gives light to a soul. I have heard Farepa siiig; hot there was no music in that compared with the Voice of Chr st when he said: “Thy sins are fdr* given; go in peace.”-Good news! j Let every one ent down a branch of this tree of li'e and ware it. Let him throw it down and kindle it. Let all the way from Mount Kaimon to Shecbem bo filled with the tossing Joy. Still further, I leafrt front this subject .the power of example. If Abimeiech had sat down on th» grass and told his mod to go and get the boughs; and go out to the battle, thoy would never have gone at all, or if they had, it would haVe been without any spirit of effective result; blit When Abimeiech goes with his own axe and hews down a branch, and with Abimeiech’s arm pats it on Abirnelech’s shoulder an 1 marches on, then my text says, all the people did the same. How natural that was. What made Garibaldi and Stonewall Jackson the most magnetic commanders of this century? They always rode ahead. Oa, the overcoming power of eiamplet Here is a father on the wrong road: ail hi3 boys go on the wrong road. Here is a father Who enlists for Christ; his children enlist. I saw id some of the picture galleries of Europe that before many of the great works of the masters—the old masters—there would bo sometimes four or five artists taking copies of the pictures. These copies they were going to carry with them, perhaps to distant lands, and I have thought that your life and character are a masterpiece, and it is being copied, and long after you are gone it w.U bloom or blast in the homes of those who knew you, and be a Gorgon or a Madonna. Look out What you say. Look out what yon do. Eternity will hear the echo. The best sermon ever preached is a holy life. The best music ever chanted is a consistent walk. If you want others to serve God, serve him yourself. I saw near the beach a wrecker’s machine It was a cylinder with soma holes at the side, made for the thrusting in of some long poles with strong leverage; and when there is a vessel in trouble or going to pieces ont in the offing, the wreckers shoot a rope out to the suffering men. They grasp it, and the wreckers turn the cylinder, and those who are shipwrecked are saved. So at your feet to-day there is an influence with a tremendous leverage. The rope attached to it swings far out into the billowy future. Your children, your children’s children, and all the generations that are to follow, will grip that influence and feel the long-reachin pull lohg after the figures on your tombstone are so near worn out that the Visitor can not tell whether it was in 1875 or 1775, or 1875 that you died.

Still further, I learn from this subjec the advantage of concerted action. I Abimelech had merely gone ont with i tree branch, the work would not hare been accomplished, or if ten, twenty or thirty men had gone; but when all the axes are lifted, and all the sharp edges fall, and al these men carry each his tree branch down and throw it about the temple, the victory is gained—the temple falls. My friends, where there is one man in the Church of Qod at this day shouldering his whole duty, there are a great mary who never lift an axe' or swing a bow. 1, seems to me as if there were ten drones in every hive to one busy bee; as though there were twenty sailors sound asleep in the ship’s hammocks to four men oo the stormy deck. It seems as if there were 50,000 men belonging to the reserve corps, and only 1,000 active combatants. Oh, we all want our coat to get over the golden sands, but the most of us are seated either in the prow or in the stern wrapped in cur striped shawl, hold a big-handled sunshade, while others are bl stored in the heat, and until the oarlocks groan, and the blades bend until they snap. Oh, religious sleepytheads, wake up i While we have in our church a great many who are toiling for Ood, there are some too lasy to brush the flies off their heavy eyelids. You have laid so long in one place that the ante and cati r pillars have begun to crawl over you. What do you know, my brothers, about « living gospel made to storm the world! Now my^Hea of a Christian ia a man on tire wish seal for (lod; and if your pulse ordinary beats sixty times a minute when you think of other themes anl talk about otner themes, if your pulse does no' go up to seventy-five or eighty when you come to talk about Christ and Heaven, it is because you do not know the one an I have a poor chance of getting to the other. Suppose, ia military circles, on the morning of battle the roll ts called, an l out of a thousand men only a hundred men in the regiment answered. What excitement there would be iu the. camp! What would the Colonel say? What hig! talking there would be among the captains, and Majors, and the Adjutants! Snppose word came to headquarters that thei* delinquents bad excused themselves

on tlw ground that the/ had overslept themselves, or that the morning was damp and they were afraid ot getting tnelr feet wet, or that they were bus/ cooking rations, My friends, this is the morning ot the day of God Almighty's battle l Do you not see the troops? Hear you not all the trumpets of heaven and the drums of hell? Which side ar> you ou? If you are on the right side, to what cavalry troop, to what ar.illery serv es, to what g irrison duty do you belong? In other words, in what Sabbath school do you teach? In what prayer-meeting do you exhort? To what penitentiary do you declare eternal liberty? To what almshouse do you announce the riches ot heaven? What broken bone of sorrow have you ever set? Are yon dol ng nothing? Is it possible that a man or woman, sworn to be a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, is doing nothing? Thei bids the boyrlble secret from the angels. Keep it away li*oin the book ot judgment It yon are doing noting, do not let the world find it ont, lest the7 charge your religion with being a false face. Hb not let yonr cowardice an l treason bo heard among the martyrs about the throne, lest they forget the sanctity of the placo a^d curse youl* betrayal of that can so for \rbich they agonised and died. May the eternal Gol routs us all to action 1 As for myself, I feel I would be ashamed to die now and enter Heaven until I have accomplished something more decisive for the Lord that bought me. I would like to join with you in an oath, with band high uplifted to Heaven, swearing new allegiance to Jesus Christ, and to work more for his causo and kingdom. Oil! brethren, how swiftly the time does go by! It 'seern* to mo I never saw such a swift summer^wver a summer that had such nimbi) feet. It seems to me os if the vear3 had gained some new power of locomotion—a kind ot .speed electric I

ie, urn aiternoou, you taite a soon. sle*p, and you are entitled to ic, for God intended the Sabbath not only for rest for the soul, but rest for the body, you will at least hare one or two hours in which to lay out a plan for Christian work in this ecclesiastical year. Hus - band and wife talk with each other. Brothers and sisters resole.* upon some new work for Christ. Oa your knees cry unto God: “Lord, what wilt Thou hare me to do?” and stay on your knoes until you get the answer. A#» you ready to join with me in soino new work tot Christ? 1 feel that there is such a thing as classical piety, that there is such a thiut as insular work, but it teems to me that what we want now is concerted action. The tempi* of Berith is very broad, and it is very high, It has been going up by the hands of ms* and devils, and no human entinery can demolish it; but if the 50,0JO ministers of Christ in this country should each take a branch of the tree of life, and all their cemgre Ration s should do the sams, and we should march on and throw these branches around the great temples of sin, and worldlinesi and folly, it would need po match or oral or torch of ours to touch oft the pile, for, as in the days ~t of Elijah, Ore would fall from heaven and kindle the bonfire of Christian victory over demolished sin. It is kindlin' now. Huzzahl The day is ours 1 Still farther, I learn front this subject the danger of false refuges. As soon as these Sheohemites got into the temple tiey thought they were safe. They said “Berith will take care of ns. Abimelech may batter down everything else, he can not batter down this temple, where we are now hid.” But very soon they heard the timbers, crackling, and they were smothered with smoke, add they miserably died. And you and I are just as much- tempted to false refuges. The mirror this morning may have persuaded you that you have a comely cheek; your best friends may have persuaded you that you have elegant manners; Satan my have told you that you are all right, but bear with ms if I tell you that if unpardoned you are all wrong, I have no clinometer by whioh to measnre how steep is the inclined plank you are descending, but I know it is very steep. “Well,” you say, “if the Bible is true I am a sinner. Show me some refuge; I will step right into it.” I suppose every person in this audience this moment is stepping into some kind of refuge. Here you stop in the tower of good works. Yon say: “I shall be safe here In this refuge." The battlements are adorned; the steps are varnished; on the walls are pictures o? all the suffering yon have alleviated, and all the schools you have established, and all the fine things you have ever done. Up in that tower you feel you are safe. But hear you not the tramp of yonr unpardonel sins all around the tower? They each have a match. They are kindling the combustible material. You feel the heat and the suffocation. Oh! may you leap in time, the gospel declaring: “By the deed: of the law shall ho flesh living be justified*” ■*Well,” you say: “I have been driven out of that tower; where shall I go?” Stop into this tower of indifference. You say: “If this tower It attacked, it will be a great while before it Is taken.” Yon feel at ease. But there is an Abimelech with ruthless assault coming on. Peath and his forces are gathering around, and they demand that yon surrender everything, and they clamor for your immortal overthrow, and they throw their skeleton arms in the windows, and with their iron fists they beat against the door, and

while you are trying to keep them out you see toe torches of judgment kindling, and every forest is a torch, and every mountain a torch, and every sea a torch, and while the Alpe, and Pyrenees, and Himalayas turu into a live coal, blown redder and redder by the whirlwind brhath of a God omnipotent, what will become of your refuge of lies? “But,” says someone, "you are engaged in a very mean business, driving us irom tower to tower.” Oh, no 1 1 want to tell you of a Gibraltar that never ha* - been and never will be taken; of await’ tuat no Satanic assault can scale; of a bulwark that the judgment earttiquake can not budge. The B ble refers to it when it says "In God is thy refuge, and underneath thee are the everlasting arms.” Oh! fling yourself into it. Tread down unceremoniously everything that intercepts you. Wedge your way there. There are enough hound i of death and peril after yon to make yon hurry. Many a man has perished just outs.de the tower, with his toot on the step, with his hand on the latch. Oh! get inside. Not one surplus second have you to spare, Quick, quick, quick! t Great God, is life such an uncertain thine? It I bear a little too hard with my right foot on the earth, does it break i hrough into the grave? Is this world wh ch swings at the speed of thousands of miles an hour around the sun going with tenfold more speid toward the judgment day? Oh, I am overborne with the thought, and in the confusion I cry to one and I cry to the other: “O time! O eternity! O the dead! O the judgment day! O Jesus! OGod!” But catching at the last apostrophe, 1 feel that I have something to hold on to, for "in God is thy refuge, and underneath there are the everlasting arms.” And exhausted with my failure to save myself, I throw my whole weight of body, mind and soul in this Divine promise, as a weary child throws itself into the arms of its mother: as a wounded soldier throws himself on the hospital piUow; as a pursued man throws himself info the refuge; for "In God is thy refnge, and nnd-rneath thee are the eyerlastin; «rmi" Oh, for a flood [ of tears with which to express tits joy of 1 this eternal rescue I