Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 23, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 October 1885 — Page 1

Pike Democrat KNI&HT & BYNUM, Editors and Publishers. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. OFFICE, orer 0. E. MONTGOMERY'S Store, Main Street. VOLUME XVI. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1885. NUMBER 23.

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ntOFKSSIONil CARDS. ». J». POSEY. A. J HONEYCUTT. roSEr & HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Petoralmrg, lad. “Uthecoturts. Al’ bygincra attended to. A Notary Ihiblic couHoinl'ro 'k'iicUo^ store, ^ ovorFraak* r «‘CaAltI>SON. A. II. TAYI.OB. lifCHARDSON & TAYLOR, attorneys at Law PETERSBURG, DTD. T*romnt attention given to all business. A ary ViubUe constantly in the office. Uffico, aver Adams A Sou s drugstore. a. A. ELY. w. r. TOWNSEND. MART FEEKNER. ELY, TOWNSEND & FLEENER, Jitt’ys at Law & Real Estate Agts, Petersburg, Ind. Office over Gus Franke's Store. Special atwntjonjtivcn to Collections, buying and sell* Abstract!!. ptauii.ung Titles aid furnith nj J. W. WILSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, ZPetersburg, Ind. Will practice in all the courts. Special attention {riven to all business intfostod to his care. Officii, in llank Building-, coiner of Main and Seventh Street. J. *f. DOYLE. W. H. THOMPSON. f DOYLE & THOMPSON, Attorneys at Law, Reel Estate, Loaii&taranee Agts. Office, second floe r in Bank Building, corner Main and Seventh Streets. Petersburg, Indiana. The best. Fire and Life Insurance Companies represented. Mo icy to loan on first mortga^t s at seven and eight per cent. Prompt attend *n to collections, and ali .business int rusted to us. J. R. ADAMS. C. n. FULL1NAY1DRB. ADAMS & FULLINWIDER, PhysleiaissS Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. Office ovi r 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 dky and night. A. R. BYERS. M. D. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, IND. tarofflcc, in his New Building on Main St.'T® CARLETON & WILSON. Physicians and Surgeons PETERSBURG® IND. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. Calls In the city or country promptly responded to, day or night. Office, over Montgomery, Hammond & Ilodson’s store. Q. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E, TURNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, - IND. Purties wishing work done at their residences will leave orders at the (-hop, in Dr. Adams’ new bu.ldinj, rear of Adams A Son's drug store. HOTELS. UNCO HOTEL, PETERSBURG, IND. THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL IN TOW New thioughout, and flrsbclass aecomu dations in every respect. C. M. ROWE, Proprietor.

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Cardinal McCloskt is dangerously ill, and his physician thinks his death is only a question of a few days. Extreme unction was administered to him on the Gtb. Commissioner Sparks of the General Land Office has discovered extensive frauds on the part of several land-grant railways. The Carotins Islands affair is now settled, and Prince Bismarck has written the Pope thanking him for the interest he has taken in the matter. * The President has accepted the resignation of William R. Fleming as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico, to take effect on the appointment and qualification of his successor. The Utah Commission meet in Washington on the SOtli inst., to prepare and submit to the Secretary of the Interior their report upon the operation of the Edmunds act in Utah during the last year. Freeman Barnum has been appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the First Missouri District. A meeting of the Cabinet was held on the 6th, at which all the members were present except Secretary Whitney. Among the questions considered was the Spanish commercial treaty and severed appointments under the Treasury, Interior and Justice departments. Mrs. Brush, who murdered her husband and turned his body at Little Falls, N. Y., has been sentenced to be executed November 25th. Governor F. A. Tritle of ArSsona has resigned. Only £1,610 have been raised for the benefit of James Stephens, the ex-Fenian. When the Senate meets there will be a list of between five and six hundred postmasters, appointed during recess, submitted for confirmation. In addition, it is estimated that during the session of Congress the terms of at least 601 postmasters will expire, so that the nominations of over 1,000 postmasters will come before the Senate during the next session. There are 2,335 Presidential postmasters in this country, and, at the rate observed daring the past six months, all the Presidential postmasters will be changed in two years. It is said that Mr. Foster’s successor as Minister to Spain has been fully determined upon; that hs hails from a Southern State, and that his name will soon be announced. Rev. J. L. M. Curry, of Virginia, has been appointed Minister to Spain. Congressman Collins, ot Massachusetts, one of the gentlemen recontly selected to go to Ireland to assist Parnell, refuses to go. On the 7th Lord Salisbury made a notable speech at Newport, Eng., outlining the policy of the Conservative party of England. The Massachusetts Democrats nominated Frederick O. Prince, of Boston, for Governor and H. H. Gilmore, of Cambridge, for Lieutenant-Governor. Placards have been posted in Philippopolis by order of the Mayor, announcing that the Sultan has accepted the union of Bulgaria and Roumolia under the rule of Prince Alexander. THs Consul of the United States at Guayamas, Mexico, informs the Department of State that the statements made by various newspapers that there are 1,000 Chinamen in his district, an 1 that the same are being surreptitiously introduced in the United States in contravention of the restriction act of Congress are untrue, as the total number of Chinamen in that Consular district does not exceed 125, and these are nearly all employed in shoe and tailoring factories, and have no desire to leave their present profitable positions. Two Bulgarian delegates from Prince Alexander to the Porte were arrested and suhjec;ed to an official examination. A joint debate between Governor Hoadly and Judge Foraker took place at Toledo, O., on the evening of the 8th. Secretary Manning says he is going home to Albany to vote, and thinks the President will go to Buffalo for the same purpose. On the 8th the funeral of the Earl of Shaftesbury occurred in London. His re mains were deposited in Westmiflster Altey. Mrs. O’Connell, of Limerick, has cometo an amicable understanding with her tenants and the boycotting of her has ceased. On the 8th Mrs. Veronica Bull, of Syracuse. N. Y., who had fasted fifty-nine days, passed away. On the 8th Jay Gould and associates started West from New York for a tour of the Southwestern system. E. S. Hawkins, of Frankfort, Ind., recovered $1,5U0 damages for personal injuries against the Evansville & Terre Haute and Evansville & Indianapolis

roads. Thb case of W illtam Haven, ei -Treasurer of the Rutland (Vt.) Railroad, charged with the fraudulent over issue of stock, was finished on the &h. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The defense claimed thatj the over issue of 10J shares was not due to criminal intent The Supreme Court of Virginia has granted a writ of error in the CluveriusFanny Madison murder case. Cardinal McCloskky died a little after one o’clock the morn ng of the 10th. An investigation is in progress of charges preferred against the Omaha Postmaster. Advices from Lima, Peru, state that the Government troops are still pursuing General Caceres, of whose movements very little is known. The Attorney-General of Indiana givos it as his opinion that teachers’ salaries can not he garnisheed. General Stevenson, First Assistant Postmaster-General, was tendered a public reoeption at Bloomington, III. H. Tottenham, who left Meadford, Ontario, in a yacht, was pursued by a tug to Lake Huron, where he was captured and taken back on a charge of lorgery. Correspondence between the AttorneyGeneral, the President and the SolicitorGeneral has- resulted in the dismissal of suits brought by the Government against the Bell Telephone Company. On the 9lh Mrs. Clarence Clark, a once prominent society belle of Wilkesbarre, Pa., but latterly a confirmed opium eater aod dtunkard, committed suic.de at Williamsport, Pa. Lieutenant-Colonel Caleb B. Litton, Twentieth Infantry, and Captain Wm. E. Kingsbury, Eleventh Infantry, have been placed on the retired list. Two ladles from Buffalo, Mrs. and Miss Folsom, are now at the White House as the guests of the 1 resident’s sister, Mirs. Hoyt. As Miss Folsom is the lady rumor said some time ago was to be the future mistress of the White House, there will probably be a renewal of gossip. CHIMES AND CASUALTI ES. Some drunken tramps fired the cattle sheds at the Fort Wayne (Ind.) fair grounds the night of the 4th, and an unknown tramp was burned to death. Another, giving the name of Griffin, was rescued horribly burned. Loss to the Fair Association is slight.

The Texas convicts working on a railroad at O’Brien’s camp, near Lubkin, Tex., made a break lor liberty on the 5tb, when twelve were killed and a large number wounded. Willie Rose, a five-year-old son of a promtnent citizen of Evansville, Ind., whilst playing around a new hous i in process of construction, on the 5th, fell from the second story to the ground and was fatally injured. The schooner Annie Tomine from Muskegon for Chicago, loaded with lumber, became water-logged and oapsized the morning of the 5th about five miles west of Grand Haven, Mioh. Tho crew of six men were saved by the life-saving crew. A train was boarded and robbed by four men near Altoona, Pa., on the Gh. The steam barge R. G. Ingersoll burned to the water’s edge on the 6th at Point au Sable, Lake Michigan. ^ Cras. Davidson, a painter, was killed at Evansville, Ind., on the G .h, by falling from a scaffold down an elevator way. . An attempt was made on the 6th to wreck a train on the Air Line Railroad between Huntingburg and Rose Bank, Ind. Geo. W. Saroknt, a carpenter, was found hanging to a tree in Kansas City on the evening of the 6th. He left farewell letters saying life was not worth living. C. D. Lister, a stock dealer, committed suicide on the 6t-h at Burlington Junction Springs, la. He was a well -known man and an old friend of President Cleveland, having been Deputy-Sheriff of Erie County, New York, when Cleveland was Sheriff. No cause is assigned for the deed. On the 7th Patrick Kennedy was murdered at La Crosse, Wis., by James Kelly. On the 7.h a cattle train on the Northern Pacific Railroad caught fire and several cattle were burned. Dynamiters blew up the residences of a police magistrate and constable at Orangeville, Ontario, on the night of the 6th. Diamonds valued at $8,000 were stolen from the residence of Ex-Governor Claflu of Massachusetts, at Newtonville, that State, on the 7th. On the 7th a collision occurred between a coal and a freight train on the Lehigh Road, near Easton, Pa., and Geo. Ia Fransue, a brakeman, was killed. A fifteen-million dollar conflagration occurred at Charterhouse Square, London, on the 8th. At W oonsocket, Dak., Clarence Bennett was tarred and feathered-and ordered to leave the place for an assault on a woman. S. H. CrocOcer & Co., wholesale stationery and printing, San Francisco, Cal., were burned out on the 8th; loss, $30,000. On the 8th five white men and two Indians, who made a murderous attack on Chinese hop-pickers in Squak Valley, Wy. T., recently,.and killed two of their number, were indicted by the Grand Jury for murder in the first degree. On the 9th, during a gale, two men were drowned by the capsising of a fishing smack off Frankfort, Mioh. On the 9.h George Paxton was struck on a crossing by a Cleveland & Pittsburgh train near Steubenville, O., and instantly killed. On the 9th the American box and shook factory and planing mill, owned.by Thomas W. Thompson, of Williamsport, Pa., burned, together with a large amount of stock. Loss, nearly $69,090; insurance, $28,500. I A row-boat was capsized in Boston harbor on the 9th. Two men were picked up by the crew of a tug-boat, but both died in a short time. There is said to have been a third man in the boat named M. S. Cove, whose body was not recovered. One of the dead m -n is named H. B. Carrier. On the 9th a Cleveland & Pittsburgh passenger train, going east, struck a team of horses and a wagon at Alkana crossing, uear Steubenville, O., killing both horses, completely demolishing the wagon and fa ally injuring George Patton, the driver of the team. On the 9th at the Luke Fiddler breaker at Shamokin, Pa., a Polish boy, employed ns a slate picker, missed his footing and fell headlong into a box in which were swiftly revolving a pair of “monkey” rollers used in preparing the smaller sizes of coal. Before the machinery could be stopped his body was ground to pieces. T A VPATTO

A lawsuit at Waterloo, la., in which t59 was at first involved, has gone on until the fees and costs foot up over $30,000t Tbs New Zealand Government has renewed the mail service between that country and San Francisco. On the 7th the Captain'and thirteen of the crew of the Italian bark Talismano arrived at New York. Their vessel was soinjured by storms that she had to be abandoned. Fighting is reported near Kassala between dervishes and the Abyssinia expedition sent to the relief of the garrison. The dervishes were defeated. The Canadian Pacific Railway will immediately extend its telegraph system throughout the Dominion of Canada. A statement prepared at the Treasury Department shows that the amount of standard dollars put in circulation during the month of September in the regular course of business was $2,700,000. The Postmasters at Pittsburgh and Allegheny, Pa., have had a disagreement, growing out of encroachment by the former on the latter’s territory in delivering special delivery letters, and both Postmasters have communicated their views on the subject to the department. Owing to the warlike attitude of Servia the Porte has been compelled to call out more reserves for service on the frontier. On the 7th the transfer of the silver cargo of the United States steamers Swatara and Yantic, amounting to $10,400,000 in I standard silver dollars, to the United States Treasury was completed. It is said at the Treasury Department that, owing to the trouble and delay in transporting by water, railroad transporation only will be employed in the future. Hog cholera is prevalent in some [parts of Dakota and also in Canada. The Board of Management of the new North, Central and South American Exposition at New Orleans have added to their list of special days an “American Silver Congress,” assigning it to December Uth and 12th, the two days following the “American Bankers' Congress.” Steps have been taken to secure a grand display of products from the silver regions of the United States. The Chicago, Burlington ft Quincy will withdraw from the Transcontinental Association. The French M inistry will resign previous to the meeting of the Cnamber of Deputies. The Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland have passed a resolution condemning violence. On the 23d inst. the gauge on the Vioksburg ft Meridian Railway will be changed to the standard width. The Russian Government has ordered all Russian officers to leave Bulgaria. Franoe has asked for the postponement of the date for the conference of the Latin Monetary Union. It was set for Ooiober 12th. A New Jersey court decides that under the Civil Rights law hotel-keepers are not obliged to admit negroes ty the common 1 dining-room, .

f-2-— =w= An important ta c suit has been decide® against the St Paul & Sioux City Railroad by the Supreme Court ot Minuesota. A reward of $250 each has b'.‘en offered in Arixona for Apache scalps, and many of the old pioneers are on the trail. In Spain, on the 8th. there were 211 new cases of cholera and 119 deaths reported. In Palermo, Italy, t here were 118 new cases and fifty-eight deaths. Yarmouth, Nora Scotia, mysterious assailants are amusing themselves by making targets of policemen for pistol practice, but thus far without developing any great skill in marksmanship. Th* Dominion Government has sent at steamer loaded with supplies to the Labrador coast to aleviate the distress among the starving fishermen. Small-pox continues with unabated virulence at Montreal, forty-three deaths having been reported on the 7th. The scourge has made its appearance at Ottawa. Threk hundred men employed by the Muskegon (Mich.) Boom Company struck on the 8th against being docked tn their wages for time lost by rainy or stormy weather. On the 8th the vicinity of Ringtown, Pa., ratted by a blinding snow-storm. Ice a quarter of an inch thick formed in many places. According to the present registration, Cincinnati claims a population, inclnding the “Over the Rhine” distriot, of 459,000. On the 8th the police of Cork, Ireland, discovered and seised a large number ot rifles which were buried in a field about five miles from the city. The Trades pageant in St. Louis on th® night of the 8th was one of the most notable features of carnival week in that city, and was witnessed by a mass of humani ty entirely beyond computation. Interest was added by the brilliant display made by the Topeka Flambeau Club, which kepIS the air filled with pyrotechnics along the entire line of march. On the 9th the street-car men’s strike in St Louis developed some ugly features. Squads of the malcontents and their sympathisers gathered at different parts of the city, and by making sudden raids on the cars, succeeded in almost entirely suspending traffic by overturning cars and blockading the tracks. The police were kept moving hither and thither, but the available force provod utterly inadequate to afford protection to the lines, and the advisability of appealing for the milita was seriously considered. There wens several casualties during the day, the most serious being the shooting and instant killing of John Harvey, one of the rioters, by Policeman Hannon, who was guarding a car. The Mayor issued a call for 509 volunteer police. The reward for Indian scalps in AriIona has been increased to 5500 each. In a fight between the French and Hovaii in Madagascar, recently, the Frenoh lost twenty-one killed and wounded, and the Hovas 200. The coal miners in Pennsylvania are resuming work at the terms offered by the operators. The Canadian Pacific Railroad will be opened from Montreal to Kioking Horse Pass, a distance of 2,394 miles, on November 2d. All incoming trains are boarded at Quebec by a physician, and all persons: refusing to be vaccinated or who can noli show vaccination marks are quarantined. Pupils in the pubi ic and provincial schools at Buffalo, N. Y-, are to be vaccinated and other precautions are being' taken against the spread ot small-pox. At a conference of glass manufacturers and workers at Syracuse, N. Y., a basis of agreement has been arrived at and work in the factories will be resumed. An ukase has been issued by tbe Russian Government ordering all Governors and other officers throughout the Provinces to use the Russian language exclusively in their official duties. The Treasury Department on the 9th purchased 200,000 ounces of silver for delivery at the Philadelphia mint for coinage into silver dollars. During the seven days ended the 9th there were 207 failures in the United States and Canada, against 196 the week before and 185 the week previous. At a conference of glass manufacturers and workers at Syracuse, N. Y., on the 9th, it was decided to start np the factories substantially on the Pittsburgh plan, which is a reduction of ten per cent, in wages on the present selling prices, wages to be advanced in proportion to the advance in selling prices.

LATE NEWS ITEMS Two warehouses containing 30,000 sacks of wheat were burned at Durham’s Station, near Chico, Cal., on the 10th. Loss, $ 125,000; partially insured. The special delivery system does not work satisfactorily in many places, the limitations for the compensation of the carriers making their earnings so ridiculously small that there is no object in retaining their positions. The blowing up of Flood Rock, at Hell Gate, East River, New York, "was successfully accomplished on the 10th, in the presence of thousands of spectators. The shock was felt for miles around, but no serious damage was done. The daughter of General Newton who, when two years of age, closed the circuit which fired the mine at Hallett’s Point in 1876, performed the same service in the blowing up of Flood Rock on the 10th. It is stated on the authority of Rev. Dr. O’Reilly, Treasurer of the National League, that about £1,000 s'erling per week is being forwarded to Charles 8. Parnell for the Parliamentary fund. George Romney and Wm. Rosslter, Mormons, were each sentenced to six months* imprisonment and to pay a fine 1301 in the United States Court at Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 10th. . Kate Coyle was shot and killed by her husband, from whom she had separated, at Providence, R. L, on the 10th. Coyle then shot himself, but did not suoceed in indicting a mortal wound. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at Olympia, Washington Territory, on the morning of the 10th. No serious damage resulted. During the temporary absence of Mrs. Bartle B< cker from her home' at Dodgeville, Wis., her nineteen-months-old daughter fell into a kettle of boiling water and was literally boiled to death. Victoria, B. C., is said to be full of Chinamen awaiting passage back to China, being unable t o obtain employment. It is thought that 4,000 will leave within a month. Mme. Nevada Palmer, accompanied by her husband, sailed on the Cunard steamer Etruria for New York on tl e 10th. Bulgaria Is receiving large quantities of grain and ammunition from Russia. Rumors are afloat in Paris to the effect that the French troops will totally abandon Tonquin. The report that Turkey bad recognized the Bulgarian Union was premature. The matter is in the hands of the powers. Bishop Taylor’s missionary enterprise in Africa has proven a failure, and the baiyd of Methodists who went out to evange;ise the Dark Continent are dependent upon Charity, Cholera continues to find fresh victims to feed upon in Spaiu and Jtaly, but it it > decreasing in vHruleuce,

SERIOUS TIMES. The St. Louis street.Car Men’s Strike Do. velops Desultory Rioting In Attempts to Stop Traffic On the Lines—One Man Shot Dead By a Policeman, a Number of Other Casualties, and Plenty of Wrecked Cars. St. Louis, Mo., October.9.—This cltj Is In a whirlpool oi excitement over the strike of the street car employes, and mobs assemble, work their deeds ol destruction and death, and dissolve again with great rapidity, excitement and cariosity prompting men, women and children without direct interest In the issues at stake to rnsh hither and thither with the insane actors in the day’s wild scenes. Among the more serions events transpiring with the quick successiveness ol a rapidly revolving kaleidoscope may be noticed briefly: Serious riots on O’Fallon street and Cass avenue; at the Twelfth street bridge; on Chouteau and Washington avenues; at Sixth and Locust streets and along Pino Street; an old conductor on the Union Line reported killed, and several drivers and conductors very seriously hurt; cars wrecked and boxes rifled In various parts of the city, and a striker shot dead at Eleventh and Hickory streets, while the long list of outrages is continually growing. The police has proved itself totally unable to cope with the mob, and the Board is now in session discussing the advisability of calling out the militia. A business men’s meeting, summoned by the following circular, is now in session, with a large attendance: - St. Lou is, Mo., October 8, 1885. Drar Sir: You are invite ! to attend a meeting of merchants at the Mercantile Club at 1 p. m. sharp. Friday, 9th Inst., to consider the street railroad strike and devise a proper remedy. The city is suffering Irreparable damage and the blockade should be raised by prompt action of some kind. ,N. O. NELSON, L IS. IUpuit, Geo. t. Crash, v , C. C. Rais water, A.G. Mermod, C. F. Gauss. II. Daushadat, . Geo. b. Thomson, T. B. Boyi>. The following Incidents are given as samples of others transpiring in many parts of the city: TWO CHOUTEAU AVKSUK CARS WRECKED. Shortly before noon to-day trouble broke out almost simultaneously on the People’s Liue and on the UDion Depot Liue. A gang of men, whom the officers declared were street car men, as they recognized their faces, started in to wreck the People’s Line at Fourth and Chouteau avenue. As near as could be estimated before the crowd of spectators assembled there were fully thirty or forty men in the wrecking force. The first assault was made on car No. 17, which was running down town with a load oi passengers. The me a called to the passengers to get out. Several jumped on the front ptatform, and, striking the driver two or three times, thie.v him off the car, slipped the pin out apt! started the horses on a full run. Two or three others gave the conductor the same treatment. This was accomplished in a brief space, and before the people knew what was up the car was lifted clear and was tossed over on one side, crosswise the two tracks, completely blocking the way. The men did not waft, but as soon as the car was on its side and ihe register bad been smashed, they rushed west on Cbontcau avenue. AT EIGHTH STREET the gang met car No. 1 and put It through the same course of treatment with a liberal dose thrown in for the driver and conductor. The passengers scarcely had time to get out before the car was ou Its Bide. The driver and conductor in both instances skipped away as soon as they could get out of the clutches of the wreckers. Officers Chase and Datzman were on Fourth street and saw car No. 17 thtown over, but the men were-gone before they reached the car. They went in pursuit and reached Eighth street just as the other car was beiug wrecked. Officer Chase was caught by several ring-leaders and was held firmly so that ho could do nothing, so he says. Officer Datzman caught one of the men and was struggling witn him, when he was struck back of the left ear by a rock. He was knocked to his knees and the man freed himseif and escaped. The men started off west. At this moment Sergeant Landers and Officers Scully, Suliin, Treadway and Karl reached Chouteau avenue In a patrol wagon and gave chase. They succeeded In capturing three of the Chontean avenue gang and one of the Twelfth street gaug under the Fourteenth street bridge. Superintendent Shea passed the spot In his buggy a few minutes after the occurrence, and securing teams and men had the cars righted and driven to the stables. The street was packed by a howling mob, and it was fully half an boar before it was cleared.

VALUABLE SCALPS. BIth Gnu For the Arizonians—Apache Scalps Commaudlue a Premium of S50Q —Tho Old Pioneers On a Biff Hunt. Dkmixq, Tits., October 9.—Reports come la from all parts of Arizona that the old pioneers of that Territory, tempted by the reward of $500 for Indian scalps made by several counties In Arisons, bare started out on a hunt for redskins, with a view of obtaining theii scalps. They think this is the most practicable method yet suggested of forever ending the Apache Indians’ war. The $250 Is merely Incidental to the hunt; it pars tor the whisky and tobacco used in camp. It is believed several Mew Mexican cities and counties wltl adopt this plan of exterminates the savages. The light at Gallerp’s ranch Wednesday has thoroughly aroused Western New Mexico, and additional troops besides the squad from Albuquerque which went to the ranch, are now being held In readiness at El Faso, Tex. The Indians are roaming about in small bands, and this enables them to commit crimes and escape or bide much easier than when they proceed in large bands. £J. S. Grant Jr. Indlcruan«; New York, October 9.—Mr. U. S. Grant, Jr., was seen at his farm, four miles from Purdy’s Station, on tbe Harlem Railroad, by a reporter. After carefully reading Ward’s remarkable Statement In the morning’s Herald, he said: “I have nothing further to say about this man. I am far from surprised th n be should lusiduonsly attempt to besmirch the name of the family that he so treacherously ruined. Should Ward eatape a felon’s fate, It would then perhaps be time for me to take more active steps.” Glass-Workers’ Strike. Sandwich, Maas., October 10.—The decision of the American Flint-Glass Manufacturers’ Association of New York not to accede to the demands of the Biass-workers* Union, caused a meeting to be held here Thursday nieht of the local branch, which the President of the organization attended. Reports say that the glass-workers will quit work at noon. Other departments will not be effected until the glass now on hand has been manufactured, which will probably be in a week or ten days. The workmen are reluctant to strike, as they are satisfied with the wages, bnt are obliged to obey tyie behest of the tfatiogal order.

Hell gate open Flood Bock Torn Away and tb« fianti Cleared— Successful Accomplishment of an Heroulean Task of Submarine Eoglm eering — The Explosion Witnessed .By Thousands. New York, Octobar 10.—The most Intense excitement existed in this city this morning on account of the great explosion at lleli Gate,whereby Flood Rock was to le removed at eleven o’clock. Thousands of timid, bnt anxious, spectators were harrying forward to witness the great event Horse cars on the East Side were Ailed to their utmost capacity, effectually blockading the routes, owing to the inability of the horses to draw the heavy weight. Brooklyn Bridge rapidly Ailed with thousand of people carious to see ‘’something,” yet fearful of damages that might occur at towers of anchorages. Every available space On house tops of convenient altitude was secured for the purpose of witnessing the Anal work. The explosion took place at 11:13, vibrations being felt in New York and. Brooklyn. It is estimated that the progress of the vibration was at the rate of seventeen hundred feet per second, in the neighborhood of the Post-office vibration was felt. At 11:16 Brooklyn Bridge was Ailed with people, from Brooklyn and New York, anil, for a wonder, the police did not interfere. As viewed from this point there was a vast cloud of vapor, which was soon wafted away by the wind. Steam launches from the Brooklyn Navy Yard guarded all approaches to the terrible dynamite mine. A bundled neu in bright uniforms of the United States Engineer Corps guarded the river front on the Long Island shore, white a great many of the Metropolitan police were stationed at intervals along the New York shore to keep venturesome sight-seers ont of danger. The beautiful weather and clearness of the atmosphere brought the doomed rock within the vision of thousands gathered at different points for miles around. There was perceptible excitement among the ^inmates of the great pnblic institutions on Ward’s and Blackwell’s Islands, where it was feared the shock of the explosion might cause some disaster. The engineers were just about a thousand feet away from the mine. At 11:12 precisely one of the party touched the little key of the battery. Instantly 12,286 dynamite cartridges, protruding from that many holes drilled in the mine were exploded, and the 240,000 pounds of rack reck packed back of the dynamite cartridges went np a second later. Flood Rock went up too. The report was not as loud as was expected. Threcjrieces of heavy ordnance discharged simnltaneOnsly might make as load a noise. Bnt a second before the report was heard, persons looking toward Hell Gate saw a rare and grand picture. A great mass of foam, white as snow went into the air to a distance of perhaps iwo hundred feet, falling bacsin w>td confusion, to be met by swollen upheavals that came with end after the dull report that shook the biggest buildings in town. Big pieces of rock went into the air in a perfect shower, but were covered an# almost hidden from vie w by tbe great mountain of foam. A vapor covered the troubled waters immediately after the explosion, bnt the.watching thousands could discern plainly that, Fiood Rock was no more. Ail New York, from Harlem to the Battery sonth, and north to Bronx River, felt shocks, for there were three of them, lasting over one minute. The current of electricity let loose by a touch on the little battery went over a single wire under the river to a heavy bichromate battery on the roek, which diffused currents through twenty-four independent circuits into the mine. The inner ends of those wires were united by a bridge of Ane platinum wire. The heat commnincatcd in this way made the Arst explosion in the mine. Mary Newton, daughter of General Newton, aged eleven, closed thekey which sent the current through the wires and Ared the mine. General Newton was slightly injured in the neck by the explosion of a ilulminate torpedo. He claimed the honor ol being the only man hurt. The daughter of General Newton, who pressed the button, Is the same one whose biby Angers brought about the great explosion of nine years ago. - When the water subsided it was of a peculiar yellowish color, and an odor of carbolic acid Ailed the air, which was unpleasant to inhale. The crowd on land and water cheered wildly and waved their hats, and the steamers blew their whistles. Nothing was left oi Flood Rock save a little pile of fragments and stones, on which rested a solitary derrick, wrested from its position and almost covered with rains. Scarcely had the eeettiing mass of yellowish sea became calm before steamers, tags and rowboats made for the scene in an attempt to be first to cross the place where a minute before lay one of the most dangerous reefs in these waters. A stalwart oarsman in a lilli - re I boat was the first to reach the spot. At Flood Rock, where previously there was only from fonr to five feet of water, now is found from four to six fathoms. It was iutended to bnoy the place, bnt Captain Somers, of the Light-house boat, John Rogers, fonnd no necessity for so doing, and vessels can now safely pass.

A Vostlj Debauch. Louisviu e , Ky., October 12.—Dr. J. r. Ladd, of Holden, Mo., who is on his way to visit friends in Henry County, Kentucky, stopped off in Louisville Saturday night and sojourned at the St. Cloud Hotel. Yesterday morning he celbrated his arrival iu Kentucky by frequent visita to a bar-room, and at fire o’clock yesterday afternoon he was gloriously drnuk, when he met one Thomas Busby, a carriage trimmer. Dr. Ladd humorously knocked Mr. Busby’s hat off, and Mr. Busby retaliated by hurling a bowlder against the Doctor’s head that laid him full length on the sidewalk. In the fall he twisted his left leg so sharply as to snap the bone between the knee and ankle. He was taken to the City Hospital In a serious condition. His relatives have been sent for. —No more pungent witticism was ever uttered than that of Charlotte Cushman, who hatl been invited to dinner by a friend, and, rather than disappoint him and the other guests, went, though she had a racking headache. She was seated next an insipid rich man, who plied her with, all sorts of empty small talk, to which she made no response. Finally he said: “ 1 am afraid you are not in your usual spirits. Miss Cushman!” “Oh! indeed!” responded the actress; “and pray why?” “Because you don’t seem to appreciate wit.” “ Humph!” replied the victim. “Try me and see.” —Current Anecdote. —On the sides of the cave recently discovered in Calaveras County, California, are seen huge bowlders, which seem about to fall upon and crush the invader of their grand domain. A closer observation will show, however, that the bowlders, which originally were -displaced from the roof,' have been caught in a fissure in the wall, where they have remained in the same threatening attitude for centuries, as is shown by the depth of the calcareous deposits which ijover them.

UNJUST ARGUMENTS. Grumblers Inclined to Take a Distorted View of the Acte of the Administration Not Entitled to Consideration* > The fierce light of publicity which heats upon this Administration and invites criticism and discussion of every movement and appointment to office is thoroughly appreciated by the President and his Cabinet They know that they are the objects of unceasing scrutiny and discussion, and that their words, motives and actions are weighed and examined with a closeness o£ attention such as never has been applied before to an Administration. Over six months have passed since they were called upon to taKe charge of the Government, and during that time they have accomplished a vast deal of work, and a fair opportunity has been afforded of judging them. The verdict of the country has been eminently favorable, and Mr. Cleveland and his official family have wrung praise from even their political opponents. The President has declared more than once that hi fa pleased, rather than annoyed, at the dose watch kept on his Administration, for, honest and high-minded in his purpose to give the people the good Government they expected from him, he does not fear honest criticism. But there is a class of grumblers in both parties who are inclined to take a distorted view of everything done by this Administration. Some labor under the delusion that offices under the Government belong to Republicans by a species of divine right, when the Administration is Democratic, ami that Civil-Service reform should bo construed so as to bar all Democrats from office. They raise a howl when a Democrat is appointed to a position, and endeavor to give the impression that, being a Democrat, he is unfit to hold office under the Government. If Jits Republican predecessor should happen to have held the position for many years, these carping critics think that he fa entitled to it for the balance of hfo.life, whether he be com potent,, fern Hliitand in accord with the Government or not. The Administration has given abundant evidence of its desire to deal justly and honorably with servants in office, and has, at times, incurred the adverse criticism of members of its own parte, in carrying out its admirable policy in reference to the public service. But no reasonable or fair-minded person can expect it to submit to be saddled with worthless or hostile agents in the work of reform. The carping crit ics we have alluded to are too much in the habit of jumping at conclusions when a removal or appointment is made without taking tho trouble to inquire into the merits <3 the case. The President is not one to act precipitately or contrary to the principles he so fearlessly advocates, and while “lighting the bad element in both parties,” he is hunestly endeavoring to secure the best and most efficient men for public office. When a removal is, made, in some instances, a storm is raised by these critics because the person removed has filled the position for twelve or fifteen years and has been generally regarded as an efficient official. They never stop to inquire what dereliction of. duty and, perhaps, malfeasance in office may have taken place and have been concealed until the impartial tost of reform has Ween applied. In many eases the very length of official life has caused a Government officer to become more lax in his duties and more inclined to make a pernicious use of his opportunit’es anti position. Having enjoyed immunity so long under Republican rule, lie appears to think that a Democratic Administration should be equally lenient. Reform he considers necessary, perhaps, for newcomers in office, but not for an old stager, like himself, who has been so long in the Government service that he lias some sort of lien on it There ts no one more willing to listen to honest, sincere 'criticism than President Cleveland. He can afford to look down upon those who are forever barking at ms heels because their own insignificant influence is not regarded, and on those who are ever prepared to condemn before they have an opportunity of.judging of a question. The recent history of affairs in the New! York Custom House abounds in eases’ of carping criiieisr^ The Administration has no small amount of labor to purge that institution of the evils which years of misrule and comrotion gathered there, and removals and appointments have been made with the oae object in view, the purification of the public service. The Republican officials in the Hew York Custom House have had a long lease of power, and how they used it the oppressed and swindled merchants of the metropolis can tell. Every change there is a decided improvement, as it would be in any den ot thieves.—Albany Argus.

me rrtuort«uuo ouu f n. The Progress Made by the South Despite the Waring of the Bloody Shirt. Nothing excites the rancor of the rabid element in the Republican party so much as the peace and prosperity that characterize the new South. They are deprived of their favorite argument of claiming power in order to protect the Nation against the unregenerated rebels who are plotting again to destroy the Union and nullifying all the results of the war. The industry and enterprise apparent in every part of the South give an emphatic refutation to the slanders daily poured forth by the Republican press, "and the folly of the bloody-shirt policy is pointed' out by' the colored people themselves, one of their most influential organs, the New York Freeman, saying that “it smells most rankly in the nostrils of the race as a counter move by the party, based as much upon barefaced . hypocrisy as the absence of a living issue with which to confront the Democratic party.” As the bloody-shirt policy is alleged t > be inspired by compassion for the negro, the repudiation of it by him should convince the most infatuated follower of Foraker and Shcnuan of the stupidity of maintaining it as an issue in this campaign. Indeed, the Southern people have enough of a pleasureabie nature to occupy their minds without dwelling on the heartburpmgs and bitterness of the past. ' They see the r beautiful country teeming with wealth, and hear all around them the incessant hum of enterprise and business activity. Northern capital is being invested wit'hont stint in manufacturing lines, the construction of railroads and the development of mines. The crops were never so abundant. In South Carolina there will be an increase of 4,000,000 bushels of corn and 300,000 bales of cotton over last year, and in Georgia the increase in the com crop this year is estimated at 9,000,(KX). bushels. Lands which were untilled and consequently unproductive in the days of slavery are now fruitful

i and profitable, owing to the introduction of modern methods of agriculture. Noteworthy progress is being made in railroad construction; the assessed value of property in twelve of the Southern States has increased $892,805,080 in five years; the value of farm products has increased $119,227,000 in the same period; fruit and vegetables show an advance of $8,242,401; stock of $287,587,814; there are 019,428 more cotton spindles in the South now than there were in 1880; 430,278 tons represent the increase in the production of iron and $120,731,226 in the value of general manufactures. The most gratifying progress Is shown in the educational field, in which twice as muoh money is how spent as jn 1880. Listlessness, dullness and despair have given place to energy, industry and goahead spirit lif this grand work of regeneration and prograss the negroes vie with the whites and insure a share in the blessings which result from it. And this is the'section of the Union which the Republican press and Republican orators wish to represent to the people of the North as still brooding otcr the fall of the Confederacy and seeking fin opportunity for revenge. It is mere jealousy. They know the South is hopelessly Democratic and tkeii malignity can nit be restrained.—N. ¥. World. A SILLY FALSEHOOD. Senator Miller’s Statement That the Re* publicans Favor Civil -Service Reform Contrary to History. Mr Warren Miller is the seniot United States Senator from New York, and, a'though it would be a somewhat exaggerated statement to allege that he is the leader of the Republicans ol that State,it not going beyond bounds to say that he is certainly as influential as any of his brethren. In taking th» chair at Saratoga as tbs temporary pre siding officer of the Republican State Convention, he made a few remarks suitable to the occasion, in the course of which he uttered the following sentiment; “When we turned over to the opposition the civil service of the Government, ne better civil service existed under the sum” The-New York Republicans, aDd, fo* that matter, all. Republicans, now that they are out of power, find no difficulty in resolving in State conventions in favor of Civil-Service reform. To this cause they have not the slightest objection to pledging their lives, their forttunes and "their sacred honor. The resolutions look well on paper, sound well when voiced by experienced reading secretaries, and do no harm,because they mean nothing so long as the Democrats have the reins of government. Bat if any one has any' curiosity to know just the sort of civil service Republicans approve, precisely the kind they would set in motion had they the responsibility, all that is necessary to do is to grasp to the full extent of its meaning the quoted utterances of Sen* ator Miller. Ho speaks not alone for himself, not only for the Republicans of New York, but for the party throughout the country. When Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated “no better civil service existed under the sun,” according to this eminent authority. What that civil service was we all know. The Federal officeholders were organized into a vast political machine which sought first to control the Republican party and then the country. Under the prevailing abuses it was as much a political offense to be a Republican, if opposed to the ruling clique, as it was to be a Democrat, no one of eithftr stripe being » allowed to hold office if it were possible to prevent it. These officeholders also were required to pay to party committees fixed percentages." apportioned according to their salaries, to defray the expenses of political campaigns, and were compelled always to vote as the bosses of the ruling faction dictated, and to make political speeohes, if they could, and do such other work as was demanded.under pain of dismissal. Their enforcod votes and contributions turned the scale in 1880, when their aid was so valuable that even General Garfield asked how the departments were doing, and made the contost so close in 1876 as to invite the fraudjwhieh was perpetrated. The civil service which the Republicans conducted, which was in existence, according to Senator Miller, “when we turned it over to the opposition,” and than which “no better civil service existed under the sun,” was the spoils system, pure, simple and unadulterated, under which the country revolted and from which it is to be hoped we are now free for good and all. There is considerable diflerenoe of opinion among Democrats as to the efficacy of the present Civil-Service statutes and the ability of the men who are charged with their execution, but there is none as to the merits of the civil service as it existed priorto March 4, 1885. Democrats are as much opposed to the whole system as Warnei Miller and his Republican friends favoi it There is no trouble about drawing the line and framing an issue right here. — Washington Post.

A Loyal People. As every unprejudiced observer is aware, the manner in which General Grant’s- sentiments of good-will were received and reciprocated in the South signifies much more than personal sympathy with a brave, chivalric and suffering foe. The South believes no longer in slavery, no longer in secession. Some ex-rebels said not long ago: “We are glad wo were whipped, and we are in to stay! Now let us see Massachusetts try to get out of the Union!” One of the leading men of the South lately told, in private conversation, a significant incident He was complaining, he said, to one of the officials of his own State that the official salaries given were not large enough to attract ambitious young men powerfully and permanently to the State Government; that their bright youths would be looking rather to? the General Government for a career, and would perhaps thereby lose the feeling of superior loyalty to their own individual State. “Well, whv not?” was the official’s reply. “We have given up all that idea; tvhy should we want to cultivate State rathei than National loyalty?” This incident and similar ones give color of reason to the theory, held bv one of the most publicspirited of Northern Republicans, that the turning of the intense Southern loyalty of patriotism from the various State Governments to the National Government ►ud flag may yet make the South the most enthusiastically loyal section of the whole country.—Century. —Mrs. George Dawson Coleman, of Lebanon, Pa., owns a portrait painted on a cobweb. The colors are beautifully laid on and shnply perfect as to harmony. It is said to have cost