Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 December 1885 — Page 1

Pike County KNIGHT & BYNUM, Editors «h1 Publishers. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE OOTTNTY. OITIOE, over 0. E. MONTGOMEBY’S Store, Main Street, VOLUME XVI. PETERSBURG. INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1885. -immm mi ■ linn m - ■ - rrrrr'iTii , — ■ , .. 7 " NUMBER 32.

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professional cards. A. 1 nO.MTC ox*. POSEY ft HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Peton^ori, lad. J praotice In all the courts. All builnnu SSSVW& SSiUV.thderuS?d. "«*£>*'* ■. ». RICHARDSON A. H. TATLOBa RICHARDSON ft TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law Petersburg, nn>. NotS?%.!55 ~on.#V8n to »« business. A •sate ssyffi&s* °mccVA f\, TOWNSEND. MART FLEKNER. TOWNSEND & FLEENER, Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. „'V1‘! practice in all tiie courts. Office, ovei ■uua i' rnnk s store. Special attention givei to Collections, Probate llusiness. Bavins ant JSn "b l':UU 8' ks'M“lui“S Titles ana Furnkb *. A. ,'O.V. J. W. WILSON, ELY & WILSON. Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. <a-Offloo i»L the Bank BuilTing.-®! B. R. KIME, M. D„ Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, IND. Office, over Barrett & s, n*a store; r of M°XU ?S?nt» Str6et- ti>r«e equatesso night"" 0808 Promptly attended to, da; T. & ft E. SMITH, (successors to I>oylc & Thompson) ^..vw^v.o w a i iiuiupsoii; Attorneys at Law Real Estate, Loan&Iiisiiraiice Aits. Office, second Coot Bank Building, Pelt burg. lud. The best Fire and Life Insurance,Com nies represented. Money to loan on f moi tgaj^ s at seven and eight per cent. , Prompt attention to collections, and business intrusted to us. i. B. ADAMS. C. H. STnXINtnMB. ADAMS ft FULLINWIDER, Pfaysisiatis & Surgeons PETERSBURG, INO. Office over Adams & Son's drug store. Office hours day and night. J. B. DUNCAN. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, IND. ov?r Rergen's City Drug Stow, 'Office hours day and night.

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NEWS IN BRIEF Compiled from YtffcMft Source:*. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. L{>rd Randolph Churchill lias drafted a scheme for Irish home rule, using s,J it basis the formation of four provisional councils, with a central council at Dublin, to deal with local legislation. John Hackay and James Flood are said to be on their way to New Mexico in connection with some rich mining property discovered there. On the 7th the condition oi Congressman Nicholas Muller, df New York, was gcmS'dered critical. He was suffering gVeat agony from erysipelas, and his appetite had entirely failed. His physicians held a consaltation in the afternoon. Mp.. Gladstone, in a published letter, says the Liberal party will be the only party independent of unworthy motives to court the Parnellites for supper!. William H. Vanderbilt, the millionaire railroad Inagnate, dropped doad at his Residence in New York on the afternoon of the 8th. Winthrop Watson Gilman, one of New Vork’s oldest merchants, died at Gilmati Station, Sullivan County, N. Y\ Mo was born at Watorviile, Me-.-, ill 1808. Tub seventieth birthday of the celebrated painter, iierzel, was observed in an elaborate manner at Paris on the 8th. The report that Minister Pendleton and his family are dissatisfied with Berlin, and that his resignation would be tendered shortly, is denied by Mr. Elliott H. Pendleton, of Cincinnati, O., who says Mr. Pendleton and his family are quite ^well satisfied with the German court and people. Victori a Morosini Schilling has scored a success in the title role of the opera of “Amorita” at the New York Casino. Sen ok Canovas Del Castillo, ex* Prime Minister of Spain, has declared n Open rupture with Premier Sagasta. Rumors were current in London cn the 8th of the resignation of Lord Salisbury. The worldly possessions left by the late William Hi Vanderbilt are estimated tb be valued at *200,000,000. Prince Alexander sent an answer to King Milan on the 8th in which he rejected the Servian peace proposals.

general Lew Wallace, ex-Ministar to Turkey, arrived at New York on the 8th. Congressman Bland criticizes the Pres* ident’s message as being sectional. Nadjid Pasha has been entrusted with a special mission from the Porte to Prince Alexander, the object of which is to assist in arranging peace betwoon Servia and Bulgaria. -J On the 9th the ten-year-old daughter of James Dunn, of Xenia, Ind., died of trich- - inosis. F. A. GhaNning, Liberal, elected! to Parliament in Northamptonshire, England, Was born in America. Gladstone’s desire is said to be to conclude his public life with the production of a home rule measure for Ireland. The London rimes says Mr. Vanderbilt sacrificed his health and even his life to maintain his proud position. On the 9th the will of the late President DonJ. ltufino Barrios of Guatemala was fllod in the Surrogate’s office at Now York. Prince Augustus of Portugal will ask the hand of Princess Augusta, daughter of Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany. Secretary Manning has instructed the Collector of Sitka to refuse clearance to vessels laden wholly or in part with the timber which has been taken illegally from the Government lands. The President has recognized Lamar C. Quiuterd as Consul of Costa Rica at New Orleans; Horatio N. Cook, Consul of Greece at San Francisco; Frauk S. Collins, Consul of Greece at Baltimore, and Churles Ducloux, consular agent of the Swiss Confederation at |£uoxville, Tenn. The term of Mr. Acton, Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, will expire in January, but Treasurer Jordan says there is no truth in the report that he is to be made Assistant Treasurer at New York. He would not take the office he says, notwithstanding the fact that it pays $1,0 >0 per annum more than his present position. John Langdon Sibley, librarian at Harvard University for many years, is dead. Geo. W. Tovvnsley, Postmaster at New Holland, Pa., has disappeared, and a short - ago in his accounts has been discovered. On the 10th official funeral services for the late King Alfonso were held at Havana, Cuba, and were very impressive. On the 10th Senator Cullom introduced a bill in the Senate authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi, at or ;near Alton, 111. The assignee of the estate of the late Archbishop PUrcell at Cincinnati, J. B. Mannix, has given up his position. The shortage in his accounts reaches $200,0;0. The remains of Riel have been taken to the home of his mother at Winnipeg, and have been buried beside those of his father at St. Boniface. A man recently gave himself up to> the polloe nt Dublin for protection, who turns out to be Joseph Smith, the Invincibie, who informed on the Phoenix Park murderers.

iii»: immediate cause of Win, H. Vanderbilt’s death is pronounced to have been cerebral apoplexy. According to the terms of the will of the late John J. Newberry, of Chicago, the North Division of Chicago has now to its credit $2..V)9,OOi) to be devoted to the foundation and equipment of a public library, while an equal amount will be divided among forty heirs. Mr. O’Ksefe, a Nationalist, has been appointed High Sheriff of Limerick, Ireland. King Milan will abide by the decision of the powers if compatible with Servia’s interests and dignity. Queen Victoria has donated $2,500 toward the relief of the wounded Bulgarians. Mr. Gladstone says the present has been a wonderful election, and will prove t hat the Liberals have gained on the Torie i since 1880. Mr.. Thomas Bower O’Connor defines the Nationalist view of home rule for Ireland as like that of the Government of CanadaCRIMES AND CASUALTIES. On the 7th Patrick Slattery and Wil liam Baker, the principals in a prize fight at Rochester, N. Y., last August, were sentenced £o be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for one year and to pay a fine of $500 each. This is the full extent of the law. The dead body of Mrs. F. Rockstrok was found in the cistern at her.residence in Appleton, Wis., on the 8th. It was supposed she had fallen in accidentally. The Daisy Roller Mills and the Empire Mill at Milwaukee, Wis., burned on the 8th, entailing a loss of $250,000. Henry King, a farmer of Delphi, Ind., was killed on the 8th in a runaway accident. -i A flour-mill explosion occurred at; Milwaukee, Wis., on the 8th, in which four persons were injured. Two more men lost their lives on the 8th at the Croton aqueduct at Merritt’s Corner, NY. On the 0th four men were killed and three others seriously injured by the caving in of I • sewer at Akron, O.

On the 9th ad explosion of natural gas i, nt GadOdsburg, Pa., wrecked a dwelling and blew the family into a vacant lot thir - ty feet distaut. On the 9th Allen J. Adams was found guilty and sentenced to death for the muri dor of Moses B. Dickinson at Amherst, Mass., ten years ago. On the ,9th the body of George Boyd, ua inmate of the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, O., was found in a field near the Home, supposed to have frosen to death, lie was ninety-eight veirs of age, a member of Company B, One Hundred and Second Pennsylvania Volunteers. On the 10th the saw-mill of Burnham & Still at Hast Saginaw, Mich., with a large quantity of lumber, burned. Miss Alice Bryan, of Zanesville, Ohio, committed suicide at Charleston, S> C., on the 10th. On the 11th Mrs. Pauline Cafferata, of Hoboken, it. J;, attempted suicide on account df the death of a son, On the 11th the repair shops, engine and freight-houses of the Toledo & Ann Artior Railroad at Toledo, O., were burned. On the 11th Benjamin Miller and Join D. Boron was arrested ia Indiana and carried to Evansville on charges of counterfeiting. On the 11th a colored woman left her two children in the house at Chadbourn, N. C., while she went to church, and they were burned to death. A colored woman named Millie Colburn threw herself under a train at Peach Tree Creek, Ga., on the 11th, and was tom to pieces by the wheels.

MISCELLANEOUS! Returns up to 3 p. m. on the Sth indicated the election of 324 Liberals, 243 Conservatives and seventy-five Nationalists. Cholera has become epidemic ih Brittany, and is committing frightful ravaged. In his message the President strongly opposes further coinage Of silver. European advices indicate that Germany has become reconciled with Austria and Russia. The Queen Regent of Spain will sign a decree granting amnesty to all political and press offenders, except those who were guilty of rebellion while holding military commands. The Home Insurance Company won an important test suit at Indianapolis, lad., arising out of a purchase of policies front .the American Insurance Company, of Chicago. Henry W. Taylor obtained a verdict at Indianapolis, Ind., against Harrison j. Rice for $10,000 for malicious prosecution. The Servian Government, in a note to I,he Porte, admits the suzerainty of the Sultan over Bulgaria. At the opening of the Munster assizes on the Sth the judge said that the increase in number and gravity of the crimes in Ireland was alarming, and the government must act forthwith to suppress them. The London Daily News editorially says: “President Cleveland’s message seems to place him in true succession to the- greater men who have occupied the Presidential chair rather than to the late Democratic line. It is conceived in a most just and friendly spirit toward all foreign powers and contains no words to tickle the ears of American ‘jingoes.’ The message expresses a sentiment of internal good will. It is equally wise and prudent on all domestic topics.” The Western Union Telegraph Company has declared a quarterly dividend of one and a quarter per cent. The London Times says: “The President’s message reflects in tranquil and unexciting paragraphs the happy detachment from international jealousies o.nd quarrels, which it is the peculiar good tortune of America to enjoy.” Turkey protests against the seizure of Massowah by Italy. E. B. Heath, the Kearney (Neb.) Postoffice embezzler, has been captured in Arizona. The President will shortly send a special message to Congress on the subject of rivers and harbors. The French General DeCourcey has been recalled from Anam and General Negrier succeeds him in command of the troops. At a meeting of the Board of Directors on the 9th, Robert Garrett was re-elected President of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Of the new British House of Commons 332 members were never before elected, to Parliament. The inhabitants of Crete have sent a petition to the powers requesting the union of Crete with Greece, if Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia are united. Tiie Porte has informed the German ambassador that Turkish troops will invade Eastern Roumelia should Prince Alexander oppose the Turkish Commission. Qn the 10th the University of Nashville Tenn., celebrated its centennial anniversary. Judge Bicknell has rendered a decision at Washington, Ind., concerning the authority of school trustees, holding that their powers are strictly statutory and people deal with them at their own peril. It is stated on high authority that the British Government has abandoned the policy Of concilitating Parnell, and will endeavor to form a coalition with the Whigs.

WKiciiLs ol too interior Department state that the orders are that everyone should be removed from Oklahoma, and that the latest reports from the War Department are to the effect that all the boomers are out of the couutry, and that all the cattle, with the exception of some 5,000 are also gone and those remaining are ou the move. The Montreal papers announce that the health of the city has not been better for ten years than right now. On the 10th several Bulgarian outposts were attacked by the Servians, but without success. Doccmentary evidence was discovered by the British at Mandalay showing that an alliance existed between France and Burmah. At the meeting of the federation of trades unions at Washington on the 10th, the eight hour law was discussed. By order of King Milan, forty Servians have been shot for disabling themselves for military duty. In consequence of Austria’s acting with Servia, Russia, it is said, is preparing to effectively-eupport Bulgaria. The Bell Telephone Company has won a patent suit at Pittsburgh, Pa., against the Western Pennsylvania Telephone Company. On the 10th a miners’ riot occurred near Elizabeth, Pa., in which sticks and stones were freely used and several men were severely injured. Active hostilities have been resumed between Bulgaria and Servia, the latter bavins refused to acknowledge that she has been defeated. In the first onsets by the Servians, Alexander emphasised his former successes. On the 10th a meeting was held at Pittsburgh, Pa., of the Classification Committee of the Western and Middle States Freight Agents’ Association. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland refuses to interfere in the sentences of prisoners engaged in the Crossmagien outrages. ON the 10th the Supreme Court of Ohio decided a case against the Lake Sliore Road in which it was charged with discriminating in favor of the Standard Oil Company.

An organisation calling themselves the Iforth American Union of Radicals met at Milwaukee, Wis., on the 10th. and sent a memorial to Congress asking that the office of President be abolished. The New York Chamber of Commerce has decided to support President Cle veland and the Secretary of tha Treasury on the stand they have taken in regard to the suspension of the silver dollar coinage. Thb Petti Matt Gazette advises Mr. Gladstone to make terms with Ur. Parnell and return to power. On the 11th John Alexander, a negro, was hanged at New Orleans, La., for wifemurder. The German Bundesrath unanimously approved the bill for the construction of a ship capal between the Baltic, the Kibe and the North Sea. The next aflmt&i convention of the Federation of Labor Unions will be held in St. Louis. The London Times says the Eastern question may be considered as virtually settled. Advices from Panama report favorable progress being made on the inter-oceanio canal across the Isthmus. During the year, up to the 11th, the business failures in the United States numbered 10,554; for the last seven days of that period, 221. The modified contract with Captain Eads for the Tehuantepec ship railway has been approved by the Mexican Congross. At the closing meeting of the Americau Public Health Association on the 11th, Toronto, Out,, was selected as their next place of Meeting. There is a threatened faminine in iron Ore in the East, the only district accessible in winter months'being the Pilot Knob region in Missouri. Twenty-three thousand Turkish troops are massed in the Epirus and the inhabitants are fleeing from their homes. The State authorities at Monterey, Mexico, have surrendered to the Federal forces, and martial law has been declared. Several changes in classification were made by the Middle and IVesteru Freight Agents’ Association in their convention at Pittsburgh. On the 11th the Interdenominational Congress, which has been in session at Cincinnati, adjourned to meet at the call of the permanent committee. SeHvia wants a line of demarcation between the Servian and Bulgarian troops beyond which neither shall pass pendiug the negotiations. The Ute Indians in Utah threaten trouble on account of the refusal of the Union Pacific Road to pay for one of their number who was killed by the cars. Advices received at Ottawa, Out., confirm the reports of lawlessness among the Blood and Blackfeet Indians in the Canadian Northwest. Owing to the activity of the rebel forces under the new Mahdi, the British Government has decided to send a new expedition to the Soudan.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate oh the 8tb, after the reading of the Journal, the President’s Message was delivered by Mr. Pruden, his assistant private secretary, and the reading thereof occupied the remainder of the session.In the House, after the reading of the Journal, the President’s assistant private secretary was announced, who appeared on the door and delivered to the Clork the President’s annual message. The Speaker laid the document before the House, and at the close of Its reading the House adjourned. In the Senate on the 9th, after the transaction of some routine business, a number of bills were Introduced and referred, am eng them one to provide arms and ammunition for the militia; to prohibit mailing news].a* pera containing lottery advertisements; to provide for the sale of the Pottawatomie lands In Kansas; for the rel ef of the heirs of colored soldiers; to provide for the readjustment of compensation of fourth-class Postmasters.In the House Mr. Springer presented for immediate action the code of rules prepared by him, and a lengthy debate followed thereon. TUey were finally referred to the Committee on Itules. A resolution was adopted providing that the House shall be governed by Jefferson's Manual as modilied by Parliamentary practice. Messrs, lfandall, Morrison, tfeeu and Hlscock were appointed a Committee .on Rules, and the House adjourned until the 12th. In the Senate on the 10th a number of bills were introduced, among them to provide for the establishment of a postal telegraph; providing for the settlement of claims of offleers and soldiers for loss of private property in the military service of the United States; to relieve commercial travelers from license taxes; to promote peace among tho nations; to establish agricultural experiment stations In the several States; to open to settlers certain portions of the Indian Territory; to lmprovo the efficiency of the militia; to suppress gambling In tlie army, etc.' An executive session was held; and when the doors were reopened the Senate adjourned until the 14th. LATE NEWS ITEMS. In tho House, oh the li'th, the Speaker laid before that body a large number of Executive communications, including the annual reports of the Attorney-General, the Secretary of the Treasury and Comptroller of the Currency. A resolution was adopted for the printing of the compilation of the revision of the rules of the House ia the Thirty-sixth and Forty-sixth Congresses. A resolution of the Connecticut Legislature asking that a suitable law be passed for the ascertainment and ^punting of the electoral vote was laid on the table and the House adjourned.

jnjNisTUK iiox seems disgusted vim me at Constantinople, and has written that he intends to return home next year in time to secure the nomination for Congress in his old district. The Second Comptroller of the Treasury has disallowed the claim of Samuel Archibold for compensation and expenses amounting to $1,542 for services' as a civilian member of the Naval Advisory Board from June 16th to September 30th, 1885. Second Comptroller Maynard, has given an opinion that pensioners who live in the United States can not give other persons power of attorney to receive and receipt for their pension money. Rev. W. W. Downs and Mrs. Annie Taber have been indicted by the Boston Grand Jury on three counts for adultery. Sofia was decorated with flags on the 12th, and the people were rejoicing over the news that the Roumelian union with Bulgaria had been otticinlly recognised. Kino Milan’s acquiesonce to the demands of Bulgaria was announced on.the 12th, just in time to prevent an assault on Nispa. The Catholics of Paris are greatly exercised over a municipal order expelling all nuns and Ejjsters of Charity from the hospitals. The bi-centennial anniversary of the introduction of printing was commemorated at Philadelphia, Pa., on the 12th, by an exhibition illustrating the progress of the art during the past 200 years. The “Hendricks Monumental Association” was organised at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 12th, and a committee of over 5,000 citisens representing every county and town in the State was appointed to canvass for subscriptions. An additional $10,000 of fraudulent In diana township warrants signed Ernest Kits uas been discovered in Chicago. Kits maintains that the signature of bis name is a forgery. Vienna is agitated over one of the boldest jewelry robberies on record in the Austrian Empire, in which the burglars secured 300,000 florins’ north of diamonds and pearls, cutting through three safes to get at them.

Washington,©. C., December & To the Congress of the United States: .Your assembling is clouded by a sense of public bereavement, caused by the recent ?udd«m death of Thomas A. HendrUjks, VicePresident of the United States. His distinguished public services, Ills complete integrity and devotion to every duty, and his personal virtues, ■will find honorable record in his country’s history. Ample and repeated proofs of the esteem and confidence in which ho was held by his fellow countrymen were manifested by his election to Offices of the most important trust and highest dignity, atod at leugth. full Of years and honors, he has been laid at rest amid universal edvrow and benediction. , $b'e Constitution, which requires those chosen to legislate for the people to annually meet In the discharge of their solemn trust, also requires the President to give to Congress information of the States of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures which he should deem necessary and expedient. At the threshold of a compliance with these constitutional directions, It is well for us to bear In mind that our usefulness to the people’s interests will be prompted by a constant appreciation of the scope and character of our respective duties, as they relate to Federal legislation. While the Executive may recommend such measures as he shall deem expedient, the respdnsibility for Legislative action must and should fast upon those selected by the people to inake their ldws. Contemplation of grave jmd responsible functions assigned to iho executive branches of the Government under the Constitution will disclose the partitions of power between our respective departments and their necessary independence, and also the need for the exercise of all the power intrusted to each, in that spitit of comity and co-op-eration which is essential to the proper fulfillment of the patriotic obligations •which rest upon us as faithful servants of the people. The jealous watchfulness of our constituency as great and small supplements their suffrages, and before the tribunal they establish every public servant should be judged. OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS—NO QUESTIONS OF DIFFICULTY* PENDING YFItH ANT FOREIGN PdYVEfc. it is gratifying to announce that the rel i - tions of the United States with ail foreign powers continue to be friendly. Our position, after nearly half a century of successful constitutional government, maintenance of good faith in all of our engagements, the avoi lance of complications with other nations, and consistent and amicable attitude toward the strong and weak alike, furnish proof of a political disposition which renders professions of good will unnecessary. There are no questions of difficulty pending with any foreign government. THE ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT has revived the long dormant question of the Falkland Islands by claiming from the ! United States indemnity for their loss, atI tributed to the action of the Commander of the sloop Lexington, In breaking up a piratical colony on those islands In 1S.11, and their subsequent occupation by Great Britain. In view of the ample justification for the act of thfe Lexington and the derelict condition of the islands before and after their alleged occupation by Argentine colonists, this Government considers the claim as wholly groundless.

THE KEILY CASE. A question has arisen with tl?e government of Austro-Hungary touching the representation of the United States at Vienna. Having, under my constitutional prerogative, appointed an estimable citizen of unimpeachable probity and competency as Minister to that Court, the Government of AustroHungary invited this Government to the cognizance of certain exceptions, based upon allegations against the personal acceptability of Mr. Kelly, the appointed Envoy, asking that, in view thereof, the appointment should be withdrawn. The reasons advanced were such as could not be acquiesced in without a violation of my oath of office and the precepts of the Constitution, since they necessarily involve a limitation in favor of a foreign Government upon the right of selection by the Executive, and required such an application Of a religious test as a qualification for office Under the United States as would have resulted in the practical disfranchisement of a large class of our citizens, and the abandonment of a vital prlnc.ple in our Government. The Austro-Hungarian Government finally decided not to receive Mr. Keilyasthe envoy of the United States, and the gentleman has since resigned ills commission, leaving the post vacant. I have made no new nomination, and the interests of this Government at Vienna are now in the care of the Secretary of Legation acting as Charge d*Affairs ad interim. CENTRAL AMERICA. Early In March last war broke out in Central America, caused by the attempt of Guatemala to consolidate the several States into a single government. In these contests between onr neighboring States the United States forebore to interfere actively, but lent the ait^of their friendly offices in deprecation of wat to promote peace and concord am -ng the belligerents, and by such counsel contributed importantly to the preservation of tranquility in that locality. Emergencies growing out of the civil war In the United States of Colombia demanded of the Government, at the beginning of this Administration, the employment of an armed force to fulfill its guarantees under the T-irty-fifth article of the treaty of 1848, in order to keep the transit open across th« Isthmus of Panama. Desirous of exercising only the powers expressly reserved to us by the treaty and mindfql of the rights of Colombia, the forces sent to the Isthmus were instructed to coniine their action to “positively and efficaciously*' preventing the transit and »ts accessories from being “interrupted or embarrassed •* The execution of this delicate and responsible task necessarily involved police control where the local authority was temporarily powerless,but always in aid of the sovereignty of Colombia. The prompt and successful fulfillment of its duty by this Government was highly appreciated by the Government of Colomb a, and has been followed by expression of its satisfaction. High praise is due to the officers and men engaged in this service. The restoration of peac ; on the isthmus by the re-establish-xnent ot the constituted Government there being thus accomplished, the forces of the United States were withdrawn.

rt-iiuiug uieae occurrences a question or much importance was presented by decrees of the Colombian Government proclaiming the closure of certain ports In the hands of insurgents and declaring vessels held by the revoiu ionists to be piratical -and liable to captive by any power. To neither of these propositions could the United States assent. An effective closure of ports not. in the possession of the Government, but held by hostile.*, partisans could not be recognized. Neit ior could the vessels of insurgents against the legitimate sovereignly be deemed liostes human* generis within the precepts of international law, whatever might be the definition and penalty of their acts under the municipal law against whose authority they were in revolt. The denial bv this Government of the Colombian proposition did not, however, imply the admission of a be ligeivn- status on the part of the insurgents. The Colombian Government has expressed Its willingness to negotiate conventions for the adjustment by arbitration of claims by forei >n citizens arising out of the destruction •>. the city of Aspinwall by the insurrection:! . v i roes. The interest of the United States in a practical; transit fof* ships ucross the strip of land separating the Atlantic from the Pacific has ' e n repeatedly manifested during the las ; n i century. My immediate predecessor i-iii s *d to bo negotiated with Nicaragua h nvu?y to* the construction by and at the HOiem-d of the United States of a canal through the Nicaraguan territory, and laid It belor 5 the Senate, but pending the action of that body thereon withdrew the treaty for re-examination. Attentive consideration of its piovlsions leads me to withhold it from resuomission to the senate. M-> nmining, as I do, the tenets of a line of precedents from Washington’s day which nrosm iSo entangling alliances with foreign Stato.'s 1 do not favor a policy of acquisition of new and distant territory, or the Incorporation of remote interests with our own. rise laws of progress are vital and organic, and we must be conscious of that Irresistible tide of commercial expansion which, as the concomitant of our active < ivllizatlon day by day, is being nr. c i onward by those increasing fa ditties of production, transportation and comlnimh ution to which steam and electricity have given birth. But our duty in the present instructs us to address ourselves main.y to the development of the vast resources of the great area coinrnitie i to our charge and to the cultivation of the arlsof peace within our border, although sea*nu.siy alert in preventing the American hemisphere from being Involved in the political problems and complications of distant Governments, therefore I am unable to recommend propositions involving paramount privilege of ownership or right outside of our own territory when coupled with abs into and unlimited engagements to de* fen f the territorial integrity of our State wh»-rsuch interests lie. While the general pro, > t of connecting the two oceans by ■leans oi a canal Is to be encouraged. I am of the opinion that any scheme to that end to be considered with favor should be free from the features alluded to. I

THE TKlitfASTRPSC KOtrfel is declared by engineers' of th5 highest. repute and by competent scientists to afford an entirely practicable transit for vessels and cargoes py means of a ship railway from the Atlantic to the Pact®®. 'The obvious advantages of such a route, It ffilffftWe. oyer ot ers more remote.from the axial liriOs of traffic between Europe and the Pacific, ana particularly between the Valley of the Mississippi and the western coast of North and South America, are deserving of consideration. Whatever highway may be constructed, across the bafrier dividing the two greatest maritime dreas of the World# must be for the world** behest—atnist fdr mankind to he removed from the charge of..domination by any single power, not become a point qf Invitation for hostilities or a pride for warlike ambition. An engagement combining the construction, ownership and operation of such a work by this Government, with an offensive and defensive alliance for its protection with the foreign State, whoso responsibilities and rights we would share, is, in my judgment. Inconsistent with such dedication to universal dud neutral use, and would, moreovet, entail measures for Its realization beyond the scope Of our National politics or present meads. The lapse 6? years has abundantly cohfirmed the wisdom and foresight or those earlier administrations which, long; before the conditions of maritime intercourse were changed and ei larged by the progress of the age, proclaimed the vital need of interoceanic transit across the American Isthmus and consecrated in a lvauce to the common use of mankind by their positive declarations and through the formal obligations of treaties. TOWARD SUCH A REALIZATION the efforts of my administration will be ap-^, plied, ever bearing in mind the principles on which it must rest, and which wore declared HI- no uncertain tones by Mr. Cass, who, while Secretary of State, lii 1*8. announced that “what the United States wants In central America, next to the happiness of its people, Is the security and neutrality df tile inter-oceanic routes which lead through it.” The construction of three transcontinental lines of railway, all in successful operation, wholly within our territory and uniting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, has been accompanied by results of a most interesting and impressive nature, arid has created new conditions, not in the routes cf commerce only, but In political geography,which powerfully affect our relations toward and uecessariiy increase our interest in any transisthmian route which may be opened and employed for the ends of peace and traffic, or in ether contingencies for uses inimical to both. TRANSPORTATION is a factor in the cost of commodities scarcely second to that of their production, and weighs as heavily upon their consumer. Our existence already has proven the great importance of having the competition between land carriage and water carriage fully developed, each acting as protection to the public against the tendencies of monopoly, which Is inherent in the consolidation of Wealth add power Iil the hands of vast corporations. ThC4dPfengge8tl0rls may aerf «* to emphasise what I. have already said on the score of the necessity of a tietitralizatidn of any inter-oceanic transit, and this can only be accomplished by making the uses of the route open to all nations and subject to the ambitions and warlike necessities of none. The drawings and report of a recent..survey of the Nicaragua Canal route made by Chief Engineer Menocai will be communicated for your information. The claims of citizens of the United States for losses by reason of the late military operations of Chili in Peru and Bolivia are the subject of negotiation for a claims convention with Chili, providing for their submission to arbitration. The harmony of our relations with China Is fully sustained in the application of the acts lately passed to execute the treaty of 1880 restrictive Of the immigration of Chinese laborers into, the United States, individual cases of hardship have occurred beyond the power of the Executive to remedy, and calling for judicial determination. The condition of

THE CHINESE QUESTION . In the Western States and Territories Is, despite this restrictive legislation,far from being satisfactory. The recent outbreak in Wyoming Territory, where numbers of unoffending Chinamen, indisputably within the protection of the treaties and the law. were murdered by a mob, and the still more recent threatened outbreak of the same character in Washington Territory, are fresh in the minds of all, and there is anpre - hension lest the bitterness of feeling aAgnst the Mongolian race on the Pacific slope Jnay find vent in similar lawless demonstration. All the power of this Government should be exeited to maintain the amplest good faith toward China in the treatment of these* men, and the inflexible sternness of the law in bringing the wrongdoers to Justice should be insisted on. Every effort has been made by this Government to prevent those violent Outbreaks and to aid the representa tives of China in their Investigation or these outrages, and it is but Justice to say they are traceable to the lawlessness of men not citi - zens of the United States engaged in comSetition with Chinese laborers. Itace prejuiee is the chief factor in originating these disturbances, and it exists in a largo part of our domain, jeopardizing our domestic peace and the good relationship we strive to maintain with China. The adulitted right of a Government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace arid security may not he questioned even where there is no treaty stipulation on the subject. That the exclusion of Chinese labor Is demanded In other countries where like conditions pre vail is strongly evidenced in the Dominion of Canada, where Chinese immigration Is now regulated bv laws more exclusive than our own. If existing laws are inadequate to compass the end iu view, I shall be prepared to give my earnest consideration to any farther remedial measures within the treaty limits which the wisdom of Congress may devise. THE CONGO. The Independent State of the Congo has been organized as a government under the sovereignty of His Majesty the King of the Belgians, who assumes its chief magistracy in his personal character only, -Without making the new State a dependency on Belgium. It is unfortunate that a benighted region, owing all it has of quickening civilization to the beneficence and philanthropic spirit of this monarch, should have the advantage and security of his benevolent supervision. The action by this Government last year in being the first to recognize the flag of the International Association of the Congo has been followed by formal rec ognltion of the new nation ality which succeeds to its sovereign powers. A conference f of delegates of the principal commercial nations was held at Berlin last winter to discuss methods whereby the Qongo basin might be kept open to the world’s trade. Delegates attended on behalf of the United States on the understanding that their part should be merely deliberative, without imposing to the results any binding character, so far as the United States were concerned. This reserve was due to the indisposition of this Government to share in any disposal by an international , congress of jurisdictiona questions In remote foreign territories. The results of the conference was embodied iu a formal act of the nature of an international convention, which laid down certain

oongauons [nrp L-1 ue miming on the signatories, subject to ratification within one year Notwithstanding the reservation under which the delegates of the United States attended, their signatures were attached to the general act in the same manner as those of the Plenipotentiaries of other Governments, thus matting the United States appear without reserve or qualification as siguatory to a Joint international engagement imposing on the signers the conservation of the territorial integrity of distant regions where we have no established interests or control. This Government docs not, however, regard its reservation of liberty of action in the premises as at all impaired, and holding that an engagement to share in the obligation of enforcing neutrality in the remote valley of the Congo would be an alliance whose responsibilities we are not in a position to assume. I abstain from asking the sanction of the Senate t that general act. The correspondence will be laid before you, and the Instructive and Interesting report of the agent sent by this Government to the Congo Country and tils recommendations for the establishment of commercial agencies on the African coast are also submitted for vour consideration. THE SOUTH AMERICAN COMMISSION. The commission appointed by my predecessor last winter to visit the Central and South American countries and report on the methods of enlarging the commercial relations of the United States has submitted reports which will be laid before you. No opportunity has been omitted to testify to the friendliness of this Government toward Corea, whose entrance into the family of treaty-making powers the United States was the first to recognize. I rogard with favor the application made by the Corean Government to be allowed to employe American officers as military Instructors, to winch the assent of Congress became necessary; and I am happy to say this request has the concurrent sanction of China and Japan The arrest and Imprisonment of Julius It. Santos, a citizen of the United states, by the authorities of Ecuador gave rise to a contention with that Government in which his right to be released or to have a speedy and impartial trial on announced charges, and with all guarantees of defense stipulated by treaty, was insisted upon by the United States. After an elaborate correspondence and rupea'ed and earnest representations on our part. Mr. Santos was, after an alleged trial and conviction, eveutually Included in a general decree of amnesty and pardoned by the Ecuadorian Executive and released, leaving the question of his American citizenship denied by the Ecuadorian Government, but Insisted upon by our own. The amount adjudged to the late French and American claimants on account of injuries suffered by them during the war of secession, having been appropriated by the last Congress lias been duly paid the French Government,

*BiENClf SPOn*ATIOS CLARIS. •the act of February 33,1893* provided for a preliminary search ol tlftf tecoTds of French pvlco courts for evidence bearing on the claims df American citizens against France for spoliation committed prior to 18)1. xhfr duty has been performed, and the report oil the agent will be laid befo'id you. AM KU LOAN FORK. I regie* to s^y that there are restriction** upon the impcrtidion of our pork interests In France, notwttnst^nding the abundant demonstration of the absent of sanitary danger in its use, bat I entertain strong hopes that, with a better understanding of the matter this vexatious prohibition will b*6 amoved. It would be pleasing to be able to say ds ranch with respect to Germany, Austria ana cftbtfr countries where such food products. a,re absolutely excluded without present prospect of reasonable ehauge. NU R A LIiiX'flfihs KH'S'TRICTK/YS. The interpretation of existing treaties of naturalization by GenCa-piy during the pas? year has attracted attention, by reason of an apparent tendency on the part c* the“ Imperial Government to extend the sedr^of the residential restrictions to which returning riftttirhlized citizens of Germany are asitOTted to be liable under the laws of tho Empire. The tetrtperate and Just attitude taken by this Gonerrtment with regard to this class of questions will dortfcUess lead to a satisfactory understanding. TrtR CAROLINE ISLANDS DISPUTE. The dispute of Geniiany dnd Spain relative to the domination of the Caroline Islands has attracted the attention of tllift Government by reason of extensivo interests df Am -rican citizens having grown up iu those parts during the past thirty years, and because the question of ownership involves Jurisdiction of matters affecting the status of our own citizens under civil and criminal law. Whilst standing wholly a'oof from the proprietary issues raised between powers to both of which toe United States are friendly, this Government ex pee s that nothing In the present contention shall unfavorably affect our citizens carrying ort business there, and has so informed the Governments of Spain and Germany. FISHING IN BRITISH-AMERICAN WATER*. The marked good-will between the Uiliteo States and Great Britain has been maintained during the pest year. The termination of the fishing clauses Of the treaty of Washington, in pursuance of the Joint resolution of March 3, 188;!, must have resulted In the rbriiDt cessation on the Fourth of July of this y ear; hr tho midst of their ventures, of the operations of cHi^ens of the United States engaged in fishing It; *k!tIs'|i:American waters, but for a diplocmftic jfrttderatanding rcaehed , with Her Majesty's Government in June last, whereby dsmrancc was obtained that no interruption ctf these operations should take place during, tffo current tisning season. In the interest of good neighborhood and of the commercial intercourse of ad)are$rit cOn^glunlties the question of the Ndrtft Aurtenchn fisheries is one of much importance. Following out the intimation given by mo when the extensory arrangement above described was negotiated. I recommend that Congress provide for the appointment of a commission in which the Governments of the United States and Great Britain shali bo respectively represented, charged with the consideration and settlement, upon a just, equitable and honorable basis of the entire question of the fisning rights of the tvVo Governments, and their respective citizens, on the coasts of the United States and British North America. The fishing interests being Intimately related to other generd! (iuestions dependent upo i continuity anu intercourse, consideration thereof in all their equities might also i^rpp.erly come withiu the purview of such commission, and latitude of expression of both s'dfes should be permitted. The correspondence in relations to the fishing rights will be submitted. RETURN OF THE ALERT. . The Arctic exploring steamer Alert, which was generously given by Her Majesty’s Government to aid in the relief of theGreoly expedition, was, after the successful attainment of that iiumaue purpose, returned to Great Britain in Dursuance of the authority conferred try the act of March 3d, 1883. EXTRADITION TREATIES.

The mu lequacy ot existing arrangement for extradition between the United •States and Great Britain lias been long apparent. The tenth article of the tre ity of l<4i, one of the earliest compacts in this regard entered into by us, stimulated for surrender in respect of a lira ted nuuiber of offenses. Other crimes, no less inimical to tHe social welfare, should be embraced, and the procedure, ot extradition brought into harmony with present international practices. Relations with Her Majesty’s Government for an enlarged treaty of extradition have been pending since-1870, and I etittrrtain strong hopes that a satisfactory result may fc?o soon attained. TIIB ALASKA FRONTIER. The frontier line between Alaska audtfrli. ish Columbia, as defined by the treaty of cession with Russia, follows the demarteition assigned in a prior treaty between Great Britain and Russia. Modern exploration discloses that this ancient boundary is impracticable as a geo *rapideal fact. In the unsettled condition of that region, the question has lac'ced Importance, but the discovery of mineral wealth in the territory the line is supposed to traverse admonishes us that the time has come when an accurate knowledge of the boundary is needful td avert judisdictional complications. I recommend, the efore that provision be made for a preliminary reconnolssance by officers of tne United Siat-s to the end of acaulring more precise information on the subject. I have invited Her Majesty's Government to consider with us the adoption of a more convenient Htie> to be estao ished by meridian observation Or by known geographical features without the necessity of an expensive survey of the whole. * iiavti. *• The late insurrectionary movements in Hayti liaving been quelled, the Government of that republic has made prompt provision for adjudicating the losses suffered by foreigners because of hostilities there, and the claims of certain citizens of the United States will be in this manner determined The long pending claims of the t wo citizens of the United States, Pelletier and Lazato; havo been disposed of by arbitration, and an award in favor of each claimant has been made, which, by t e terms of the engagement, is final. It remains for Congress to provide for the payment of t ie stipulated mo etv of the expenses. A question arose with Hayti during the paso year by reason of the exceptional treatment df ha Amndcan cltize 1, Mr. Vhn Iioskelen, a resident of Port au*Prmce, who. on suit by ere iitors resi lingiu the United States, was sentenced to imprisonment an^i, under the operation of a Uaytian statut \ was denied relief secured to. a native Hiytiau. ThlsGovernmeut assorted his treaty right to equal treatment with native * of II ivti in ail suits at law. Our contention was denied by the Uaytian Government* which, however, while still professing to maintain tho ground taken by Mr. Van B isketeu’s right, terminated the controversy by setting him at liberty without explanation. C HOLER l. An Juternational conference to consider the me ins of arresting the spread of cholera and other epidemic diseases was held at Rome in May list and adjourned to meet again on further notice, and au expert delegate on behalf of the United States has attended Its sessions and w.ll submit a r - port. MEXICO.

Our relations w;tu Mexico-continue to »>* most cordial, a9 befits those of neighbor* between whom the strongest ties of. friend ship and commercial intimacy exist, as the natural and growing consetuence of oar similarity of Institutions :yid geographical proximity The relocation of the bonn lary line between the United States and Mexico eastward of the RioTlrande, under the convention of July 23, l$$», has been unavoidably delayed, but I apprehend no difficulty in securing a prolongation of the period for it j accomplishment. The lately concluded com moroial treaty with Mexico still awaits the stipulated legislation to carry its pr ivisions into effect, for which one year’s additional time has been secured by a snpplemmtary article signed in February last, and since ratified on both sides. As this convention, so. Important to the eommerc.al welfare of the two adjoining countries, has been constitutionally confirmed by the treaty making branch, I express the hope that legislation needed to make it effective may not long be delayed, The large influx of capital and enterprise to Mexico from the United States continues to aid in the development of the resources and in augmenting the material well-being of our sister Republic Lines of railwavs, penetrating to the heart and capital of the country, bring the two peoples into mutually beneficial intercourse* and enlarged facilities q( transit add to profitable commerce, create new markets and furnish avenues to otherwise iminted com munities. 1 have already adverted to the sugges-ion for the construction of a ship railway across the narrow formation of th* territory of Mexico at Tehauntepec. pkuu. With the gradual recovery of Tern from the effects of her late disastrous conflict with Chili, and wifcn the restoration of civil authority in that distracted: country, it i* hoped that pe nding war c alms of our citi zens will he adjusted. In conformity with notification given by the Government of Peru, the existing treaties of commerce and extradition between the United States a*i l that country will terminate March 31st, 1»' >* RUSSIA. Our good relationship with Russia continues. An officer of the navy, detailed for the purpose, is now on his way to Slberi i. bearing the testimonials voi6 l byOongres* to those who generously succored the survivors of the unfortunate “Jeannette” expedition. SPAIN. It is gratifying to advert to the cordiality of our intercourse with Spain. The ion pending cla m of the owners of the shi » “Masonic,” for loss suffered through the admitted dereliction of the Spanish autho ities in the PUillippine Islands, has been a’, justed by arbitration, and an idemni / awarded. The principle of arbitration in suoh cases, to which the United States ICoHti/wed <w* Fourt* Faaa.l

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. —Homer R. Sprague, who was grad' Dated at Yale in 1852, has been appoint' p(l to the Presidency of Mills College. California. —The Sabbath is held in such great respect, at Thurso, Scotland, that the cemetery is not allowed to be opened on that day. Even burial is considered a iesecration. • —Mrs. Rev. John S. Inskip raised and forwarded 88,000 'for the Girls’ School in Calcutta, of which Miss LayIon has charge, and the British Government duplicated the sum. —Manitoba is tilling up with people. The number of schools there in 1871 was 16; in 1881 it was 128, and in 1884 it reached 859. The school attendance was 816 in 1871, 4,910 in 1881, and 18,I 841 in 1884,— Chicago Herald. —A Correspondent traveling in Normandy tells Londoii J'ruth that in the Church of Elboeuf. the other Sunday, the cure, after his sermon, «aid: “My dear parishioners please put oi?l>’ silver id the plate, as it takes such a long* time to count coppers.” —A royal decree has been promulgated in Spain ordering the corporations of all towns whose popnlation exceeds lUO.OOO, on the request of the local educational committee, to appoint a medical inspector of schools. The salary is to be lixed by the corporation. —The University of New Mexico has for one of its departments an Indi&n Industrial School. The American Missionary Association has voted it an annual appropriation of 880,000 for the support of teaehers. Congress has voted $20,0W) for the erection of buildings. Considerable amounts have been given by private persons.—Christien Union. —Mr. Moody does not approve of church fairs. “I think they are an abomination. The idea of raffling and voting for the best looking man, and having girls sell cigars. I saw a church fair advertise that a man would kiss any girl for twenty-five cents. I had rather that, you would worship in a barn than resort to any of these methods.”—N. ¥■ Post. —Colonel Homer B. Sprague said, in his address of assuming the presidency of Mills College, in San Francisco, that **s thorough understanding of the three great English classics—the Bible,Shakespeare and Milton—would be better than the entire education given in ninetenths of the colleges.” —Dr. Bertel's report on the condition of the Danish schools shows that the children in Copenhagen are suffering from what has long been considered an unfortunate feature of our American education—too many branches and too much work. The tendency in Denmark, as in other parts of Europe, is to overcrowd the children, with a natural consequence of a large increase in the number of men ancr women of feeble constitutions and bad health. Intellectuality is good, but as an exchange for continual suffering it is hardly an equivalent.—Chicago Journal.

WIT AND WISDOM. —Uncle: The baby has its father's nose. Mother: And my mouth. Unde: Yes; and with papa’s nose and mamma's mouth there is precious little room left for forehead.—AT. Y. Independent■ —Boys are sometimes very bad, and sometimes parents are no better. If boys have any inalienable right it is to a good home and a decent example.— iV. Y. Herald. ]_ —“Here, Professor, how do yoH like my new tragedy?” “Very much, indeed. Especially the robbers—they are tirst-rate. In fact they are the best thieves I ever heard of; even the words they speak are stolen from other books.” —N. Y. Journal. —“Ephlum, what makes so many cattails grow in dis heali pon’?” “Well, I would say! doan you know? Why, dey grows up from kittens dat people hez drowned in de pon’, of course. Peah’s like you wifnmen folks doan’ know nuflin’ ’bout agricultshaw.”—Life. —Sensible men are very rare. A sem sible man does not brag, avoids introducing the names of his creditable companions, omits himself as habitually as another man obtrudes himself in the discourse and is content with putting his fact or theme simply on its ground.— Emerson. —Little Johnny Fizzletop got a scolding for tearing his new pants. He fell while running and split them at the knee. "Oh, you bad boy,” .said his mother, angrily, “how did you come to be careless as to tear your paths?” “I couldn’t help it, ma. I fell so quick I didn’t have time to take them off,” replied Johnny.—Boston Globe. —“ My husband is so poetic,” said one lady to another in a, Seventh street car the other day. “Have you ever tried rubbin’ bis jints with hartshorn liniment, mum?” interrupted a beefy-looking woman with a market-basket at her feet, who was sitting at her elbow and overheard the remark. “That’ll straighten him out as quick as anything I know of, if he hain’t got it too bad.’ —Washington Republic.

—‘‘No, I never could remember anecdotes,” said a busy merchant to a man bf leisure who called on him at his office; “I’ve too many other things to think of.” “That's queer; why, I could sit right down and tell you stories for a week, without stopping.” “Indeed’Will you excuse me, as I am going out now?” “When will you be back?” -“In about a week. Good day.”—N. Y. Journal. —Menny people spend their time trieing to find the hole whar sin got into the world. If two men break through the ice into a mill pond, they had better hunt for some good hole tew get out, ifither than enter into a long argument about the hole they cum to fall in ... Thare iz sum pholks in this world who spend their whole lives a hunting after righteousness, and kant find enny time tew practise it_Lazyness is a pood deal like money—the more a man haz of it, the more he seems tew want.— Josh Billings. A Cold-Blooded Vagabond. A tramp strolled into a Texas billiard saloon, and solicited alms. He was indeed a pitiable object. “I haven't had anything to eat for a week,” he said, plaintively. The gentlemen who were playing pool felt sorry for the man, and raised a dollar and' a half for him. Jingling the money in his hands: “I believe I’ll come into this pool, if the gentlemen have no objections.” The generous donors were somewhat : i urprised, but not so much so as they were | when he. having utilized their subsidy to j t ome into the game, got away with the i pot, and invited the crowd to step up to [ the bar and irri | Texas Si/tings.