Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 April 1886 — Page 1

Pike County Democrat. raiQHT h BYFUM, Editors and Publishers._ OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COU^k'Y. ~ OITIOE, over 0. E. MONTGOMERY^Store, Main Street. VOLUME XVI. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. APRIL 22, 1886. NUMBER 50.

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Complied from Various Sources. PKRSONAT. AND POLITICAL. Sir William Vernon Haroourt is said to be opposed to any change in the HomeRule bill whereby the Irish members will be retained at Westminster. An emissary with a proposal for peace from El Mahdi’s successor is said to hare left Khartoum for Cairo. Superintendent Arnett of the Amerl*. can Express Company, died id Niagara Falls on the ISth. The late Mrs. Jane Mercer, of Philadelphia, bequeathed an estate valued at $400,000, to found a house for decayed Presbyterian ministers who do not use tobacco. The Sultan’s yaohtlssiden was expected to sail for Livadla, in the Crimea, with a special mission from the Sultan to the Czar congratulating him on the outcome of the Bulgarian trouble. It is stated on what appears to be reliable authority, that the President and Miss Frankie Folsom are to be quietly married at the White House in June. r On the 13th Sir Wm. Vernon Harcourt resumed the debate in the Rouse of Commons on the Irish bill, and dwelt on the fact that those who condemned it failed to state an acceptable alternative scheme. He was followed by Mr. Goschen in opposition to the bill. The debate was closed by Mr. Gladstone, and the motion for leave to introduce the bill(was carried without a

ui visum. On the authority of a friend of ex-Pres-ident Arthur, who knows whereof he speaks, it is asserted that'the ex-President is in a much, worse condition physically than dispatches from New York indicate. This gentleman says: ‘‘There in no doubt at all that he has Bright’s disease, and his end is only a matter of a very little time.” Mr. Gladstone on the 14th sent a reply to the congratulatory cablegram received by him from the mayor of Boston. SenatprVkst was in his seat in the Senate-on the 14th for the first time since his illness. , Patrick Dunn, who was serving a seven years’ sentence at Glasgow for connection with a dynamite explosion, has been released. His health is completely shattered. Alonzo P. Kendall, seventy years of age, shot and killed a burglar who attempted to enter his residence at Lockland, O., on the night of the 13th. Application was made to Governor Oglesby of Illinois on the 14th for a requisition for the deputy sheriffs who did the shooting at Bast St. Louis, and it was refused on technical grounds. Dr. W. H. Hale, of Washington, who was held at Pittsburgh, on a charge of conspiring to defraud his creditors, has been released through the efforts of Dr. Mary Walker. Mr. McLane, the American Minister at Paris, presided at a brilliant banquet which was given on the evening of the 14th to M. Pasteur. In proposing the health of the distinguished guest Mr. McLane referred to him as a benefactor of humanity,., to whom America was extremely grateful. H. S. Rot, teller ofthe Bank oit Montreal at Stratford, Out., has bee&nissing since the 10th. It is alleged that lie is a defaulter to.the extent of several thousand dollars. ' Matterson, the Australian oarsman, whom Beach defeated, will row Perkins, the British champion, on the Thames at London on May 24 for the sportsman’s cup and the championship. The report of Rev. Dr. Charles Reilly, treasurer of the Irish National League of America, for the four weeks ending April 10, has been made public, March 13 there was on hajud a balance of $21,1(0.73, and the receipts sinoe increased the amount to $(19,885.70. April 8 a draft for $58,682.13 was sent to Parnell, leaving a balance of $$11,283.66. R. G. Dun’s herd of thoroughbred shorthorns were'sold at auction at Columbus, O., on the 15th.

Colonel Taos. M. Rvqsr has been placed in oberge of the department of the Missouri. General Master Workman Powderly has issued a circular to the Knights of Labor throughout the contin ent to give of their substance to aid their striking brethren of the Southwest. Hon. Frank W. Tracey, the millionaire husband of Agnes Ethel, the actress, died at Buffalo, N. Y., on the 15th, aged fortyseven years. Bismarck spoke in the upper house of the Prussian Landtag on the 15th on the bill expropriating the land of the Poles in Posen. Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced the budget in the House of Commons on the 15th, and it was adopted. Sir Charles Dilke has sent to the Queen’s Proctor a denial of the statements made by Mrs. Crawford, and wants the case reopened. Governor Patterson of Pennsylvania on the 15th demanded the re donation of Rev. R. E. Higbee, State Superintendent of public instruction, and removed Rev. J. W. Sayres and Mrs. E. K. Hutter, inspector and assistant inspector of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ school, for gross mismanagement of tha schools and neglect and cruelty to the soldiers. Senator Morrill, who was seventy - six years old on the 15th, has been continually in Congress—House and Senate— for thirty-one years. Senator Sherman entered Congress the same year as Senator Morrill—1865. ■/ On the 16th Bishop Cosgrove of Davenport, la., arrived home from hi visit to Rome. Mr. Glaostoni introduced his Irish land bill to the House of Commons on the 16th. Governor Bate has appointed Hon. W. C. Whitthome to suooe«i Howell E. Jackson as United States Senator lrom Tennessee. _ On the 17th Mr. Gladstone left London' for his country seat at Hawarclen, where he proposed to take a two week’s rest. On the night of the ltth Henry Tissington, the leader of tbs orc hestra in the Union Square Theater, Hew York, died! suddenly in the theater. The late Wm. H. Vanderbilt’s sons have given $S50,000 to thq College of Physicians and Surgeons, to. build and endow a building to be used bxclOsivtly for clinics. The building will cost $110,000. It will be known as the Vanderbl t clinic, in honor of their father. v On the night of the ltth Mr. 8u 8. Cox, the United States Minister, delivered a lecture at the British institute in Constantinople. The audience was composed of the best people in the city. Mr. Cox took tor bis subject: “1 be Poetry of Mechanism, or the Tenth Mtse." CRIMES ANI’-C iiBUALT IKS. Men. L. L. Foster., a weli-dreitsed, good looking woman, thirty two years of age, was taken into custod y at the White House in Washington o n the 14th by Lieutenant Arnold and .Detective Carter, and escorted to the Fifth Precinct station, where she was held on a charge of passing a bogus check for thirty (Hollars on General Roseordns, Reg ister of kite Treas

On the 13th J. A. Earskine killed Geo. Downey at Burnett, Neb. While riding in a carriage in London on the 13th the Earl of Shaftesbury committed suicide by shooting. • A New York broker named Dennis Wilcox committed suicide on the 13th, Stats Auditor Brown, of Iowa, has been impeached by the Legislature. On the 13th John Morse, of Grand Ledge, Mich., attempted to kill his wife and then committed suicide. Oir-the 19th the Oriental Hotel at Merrillon, Wis., was destroyed by fire, and Bert Aldrioh, a guest, perished in the flames. On the'13th Harry Broutx, a farmer, was shot seriously at Omaha by a man named Marcus, who took Broutz for a burglar. A cyclonb In the vicinity of Atlantlo, la., on the 14th, did much damage. A passenger train was thrown into Blue river, Nebraska, on the 14th, and a number of passengers and employes were severely injured. The towns of St. Cloud, Sand Rapids and Reces, Minn., were almost demolished on the 14th by a cyclone. The death list, it was thought, would foot up nearly a hundred. Several small children near Coal Bluff, Ind., were poisoned on the 14th by eating wild parsnips. A flve-year-old daughter of J. H. White died soon after reaching home. The other children will recover. Isaac Rodgers, a clerk in theeraploy of a firm of clock manufacturers in Philadelphia, was arrested on the Wth, charged with the embezzlement of upward of $20,000 belonging to the First National Bank of Chester, Pa., while employed as a clerk of the bank. Rodgers fled to Europe two years ago, and returned home Bometirae since, and, after a short stay in Chester, removed to Philadelphia. Nine persons were killed on theJSth by the collapse of a mansion at A jficcio, the capital of Corsica. ' V A revised list of the casualties from the terrible cyclones in Minnesota on the 14th show that fifteen persons were killed and twenty-eight injured at St. Cloud; thirteen killed at Rice’s Station, and twentyfour killed and sixty-one injured at Sauk H anids.

A verdict of suicide while insane was rendered in the case of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Miss Amelia Morosini, daughter of Jay Gonld’s old partner, and youngest sister of Mrs. Viotoria Schelling-Huelsknmp, was bitten by a rabid dog on the 14th. The steamer Africa burned at her dock at Owen Sound, Ont., on the loth. The vessel was fully insured. The dry docks and other property had a narrow escape. A clerk in a commercial house at Valparaiso, Chili, has absconded with $80,000. At Cedar Rapids, la., George Foust has been indicted for killing his brother. On the 16th Charles Robinson, colored, was hanged at Newcastle, Del., for an outrage committed on a white woman. On the 16th the mills of the Waycross Lumber Company at Waltertown, Ga., burned. The loss is estimated at $150,000; insurance, $25,000. Four hundred persons are thrown out of employment. Allen J. Adams was executed at Northampton, Mass., on the 16th for the murder in 1875 of his employer, Moses Dickinson. On the 16th Dr. Thos. 8. Taylor, a wealthy resident of Merrick, L. I., formerly of Texas, was amusing himself by shooting bottles from the head of his coachman, Tbaddeus Gritman, who had abundant confidence in his employer’s skill. After knocking off six bottles a tomato can was substituted, and on shooting at that Gritman received the ball in his brain, killing him instantly. Cashier Robinson, of the First National Bank of Angelica, N. Y., is a defaulter to the amount of $50,000, and has fled to Canada. He had held his position for twentyfive years, but recently had allowed himself to be drawn into wheat speculation. The directors say depositors will be paid in full. On the 10th reports of a disastrous storm were received from Dakota. No particulars were received, but it was understood that large numbers of cattle were killed. The storm is not classed as a cyclone, but the wind was so terrific as to cut down massive trees, and for over five miles timber along the river bank was leveled. This storm was located 150 miles northwest of Bismarck. In the case of McMullin vs. the Penn Bank directors, at Pittsburgh, Pa., the jury found for plaintiff in the sum of $24,623.41. This was in an action in deceit, plaintiff claiming $68,000, because the directors had induced him to leave his money in the bank when they knew it was insolvent.

MISCELLANEOUS. During the week ended the 10th the total exports of produce from the port of New York were valued at $5,097,580. Thb inquests, both in St. Louis and East St. Louis, resulted in holding the deputies who did the shooting at Cahokia bridge on the 9th responsible for the deaths that occurred. Seidenberg & Co., cigarmakers, New York, have made an assignment, r A meeting at London on the 14th, called by the Loyal Patriotic Union for the purpose of denouncing Gladstone’s home-rule scheme, was largely attended. The Payne investigation committee being unable to agree, will submit two reports to the House of Representatives. An order has been issued for the discharge o( all section or gang foreman in the employ of the Missouri Pacific who sure Knights of Labor and who refuse to withdraw from the order. ut Two hundred employes in the Bruns-wick-Balke-Collender billiard manufactory at New York are on a strike for an increase of ten per cent, in wages. Every hand in the establishment is said to be out. The strikers say that the wages in the company’s house at Chicago were increased twenty per cent., and the strike is based on that fact. It is stated that the British Cabinet is divided on the question of allovring Irish fepresentatives in the Honse of Commons, and that Mr. Morley and Sir William Haroourt favor the exclusion of Irish members. Five out of the twenty-six retail tailor establishments in Milwaukee have signed the scale presented by the men, but the others have refused. Work is accordingly suspended in all shops except those which have signed. The increase demanded by the men ranges from twenty to thirty per cent., exclusive of extras. The estimates of the Canadian Government for the fiscal year 1886 amount to $88,542,009. This is a reduction from those, of the current year of about $9,000,000.' The upper house of the Prussian Diet has adopted the bills for Germanising Poland. Several persons were more or less injured by a collision on the Fort Wayne road, hear Orrville, O., on the 16th. The' French Government proposes to donate S00,000f. to the Pastelr hospital fund. In the New York Senate do the 16th a bill was introduced to annul the Consolidated Gas Company of New York City and to wind up its affairs. This oompaqy ffas a monopoly of the gas businens in New Ytrk, being made up of «r~uqion of ti^^nc m

A slight accident occurred on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad, near Youngstown, 0., on the 15th, injuring several of the crew. 0 The Porte has been notiiied bp Germany, Russia and Austria that they are taking fresh steps to compel Greece te disarm. The acting Secretary of the Treasury has authorized the surveyor of customs at Louisville, Ky., to adopt in regard to the storage, exhibition and sales of foreign articles at the Southern exposition to be held in that city, the^ourse pursued at the exposition of 1885. The Secretary of the Interior has entered a rule on the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company, returnable on the 14th day of May, proximo, to show cause why the order reserving the lands included within its indemnity limits should net be revoked. _ In the New Jersey Assembly on-the 15th a resolution was adopted congratulating the Irish people on their bright prospects of home rule, and approving Gladstone's policy and Parnell’s patriotic efforts. On the Kith, the City Council of Minneapolis, Minn., passed a resolution appropriating |25,000 for the benefit of the cyclone sufferers. A serious overflow is feared in Arkansas, the Mississippi River, on the 10th, being near the danger line and still rising. Pupils in all the public school buildings in New York struck on the 15th for less time in the school-room, and the police were called upon to enforce the orders of the teachers. Thirteen boys have been suspended and the strike is over. In Great Britain the output of pig tron is to be restricted in order to maintain prices. The Liverpool Board of Trade has commenced an inquiry into the cause of the loss of the steamer Oregon. At .Brindisi, Italy, sixty-eight cases of cholera have occurred, ten of which proved fatal. The officials declare that the dis

ease is sporadic. The Ohio & Mississippi railway has made a general reduction of wages of station agents and foremen of departments. The recent development of cholera at Brindisi has caused alarm in France, particularly along the Italian frontier. Precautions of the most stringent kind are being instituted to prevent the scourge from invading France. The visible supply of wheat in the United States and Canada on the 16th, with the amount of wheat at sea for Europe, amounted to 62,842,492 bushels, against 76,638,678 bushels one year ago;and of corn, 20,567,865, against 16,001,392 bushels last year. ' CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Is the Senate on the 12th Mr. Beck was given Mr. Jones’ place on the commerce committee. After a wrangle on the subject of executive sessions the Indian Approprla tlon bill was takeu up and »as3ed..J...In the House Mr. Morrison’s tariff bill was reported. A resolution for a committee to investigate the railroad strike was reported, and after considerable debate adopted. Among bills presented under call of States no measure of great Importance was introduced. In the Senate on the 13th Mr. Platt's resolution to do away with seoret sessions for executive business was debated at length by Mr. Platt, after which tho Prye fisheries resolution was placed before the Senate and passed. The Inter-State Commerce bill was taken up In order that It might be unfinished business...In the House the Ohio contested election case of Hurd v». Romels occupied the entire day’s session. In the Senate on the 14th a memorial of the Wool Growers’ convention, recently held In St. Louts, asking that wool be not placed on the free list, was laid before the Senate. The subject of open executive sessions was then discussed, after which the Inter-State Commerce bill was taken up.In the House the Hurd-Uomels contest was debated and a vote taken, seating Romels. The Agricultural bill was passed and the River aud Harbor bill was made unfinished business. In the Senate on the 13th Senator Logan spoke at length In favor of open executive sessions, and was followed by Senator Riddleberger and others.In the House the bill accepting the presents to tne Nation of Mrs. Grant and Mr. Vanderbilt was placed on the calendar. A bill for a sub-treasury at Louisville, Ky., was reported; also a bill establishing Oklahoma Territory. The River and Harbor blit was then taken up In committee of the whole. In the Senate|on the 16th, after some (bickering as to the order of business, the Indian Depredation bill was taken up and Mr.Dolph addressed the Senate. The Inter-State Commerce bill was taken up and debated, after which an adjournment was taken to Monday.In the House the Senate bill for the sale of certain property In Chicago to the Chicago & Great Western railroad was amended and passed: also< Senate bill creating two new land districts lp Nebraska. A number of pension bills were passed at the evening session.

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Tax Senate was not in session on the 17th.In the House the Tobacco Drawback bill was passed. The bill for relief of Alabama flood sufferers was discussed. Several publio building bills were passed, including a $25,000 appropriation for improvements at Dallas, Tex., and a like sum for Keokuk. Geronimo’s band is reported “discouraged” again. Two ladies were killed by lightning at Newcastle, Pa., on the 17th. The total number killed by the Minnesota cyclone is now ascertained to have been seventy-three and the injured 213. Walt Whitman is to visit England as a guest of the poet Swinburne. Alice, the big elephant from the Zoological garden, London, arrived at 'New York on the 17th, on the Egyptian Monarch. Friendly relations have been restored between Portugal and the Sultan of Zanzibar. A mould exploded at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 17th, severely burning about fifty persons with molten steel. Lake navigation is open, the first propeller arriving at Buffalo from Cleveland on the 17th. Mrs. Adelaide Bartlett was acquitted at London on the 17th of the murder of her husband. John Douthxtt and his wife, of Xenia, 0., an old couple, were burned to death in their residence on the morning of the 17th. There were some suspicious circumstances about the tragedy. Canada has placed an additional duty of seven and one-half per cent, on sugars imported through the United 8tates. Chief or Police Reis of Milwaukee has been arrested on a charge of unlawful detention of prisoners. English criticisms of Mr. Gladstone's Home-Rule measures are moderating in lone. Cable rates from Great Britain to all points east of the Mississippi river are to be reduced on the 1st of May. Chas. Robinson, the Angelica (N. Y.) bank defaulter, is seriously ill in Canada, where he has been joined by his aged wife. Lord Hartinoton has formally and finally severed his connection with English Liberals. Arthur Edwards was killed and James Ringwood and George Storms were fatally injured by »n explosion of giant powder at CUntonville, Wis., on the 17M». The King of Bavaria has “braced up” and proposes to pay his debts on the instalment plan. Robert Smith, who was hanged at Richolasvillejjy., on the 17th, sold bis body to a dootofTlrtwenty - five dollars. John D. Hess was found murdered at ML Vernon,p., on the 18th.

STATE INTELLIGENCE. Ah attempt was made to wreck a fart mail train on the Wabash road, a mile east of that city. A number of ties were piled on the track, but the engineer saw them in time to reverse his engine. The front truck of the locomotive ran up on the obstruction but did not derail the engine. This is the third attempt made within three years to wreck trains at this point. George Weddell, a brakeman on the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis railroad, living at New Albany, had his leg cut off, by falling itnder the wheels of the train, at the water tank, a mile east of Huntingburg. He has a wife and mother dependent upon his support. The Evansville board of health has or dared a fresh supply of vaccine and will require all school-children vaccinated, and advises all citizens to take steps to prevent small-pox from making its appoarance in the city. Although the city is as yet free from the scourge, the precaution is being taken on account of the report that smallpox has assumed an epidemic form in several neighboring towns. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, is building a great hotel at Lake Maxinkuckee. Edward Algire, clerk in the drug store of 8. Mnehl, at lndianopolis closed up the other night, and uext morning his keys and hat were found near the store, but he has not been seen. His absence can not be explained except on the ground of foul play, Mary Harrington, a widow aged fortyfive was struck by a Bee Line train at Indianapolis and so seriously injured that she may die. Mrs. Daniel McCrea, of New Albany, stepped in front of a train on the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis railroad, near that place, and was crushed to

uua tu. In the outskirts of Indianapolis, In conspicuous places, the following placard, printed in heavy black type, and abundantly capitalized and emphasized, was found posted a few days ago. It is the work of a crank, whether a Communist or a plain, ordinary, every-day fool: “Workingmen, to Arms! Woe to the palace, peace to the cottage, and death to the luxurious idlers! The wage system is the only cause of the world’s misery. It is supported by the rich classes, and to destroy it they must either be made to work or die. One pound of dynamite is better than a bushel of bullets. Make your demand for eight hours with weapons in your hands to meet the capitalistic bloodhounds—police and militia—in proper manner.” Du. John Fe.vtherston, of Indianapolis, who has been engaged in the practice of medicine the past twenty years, died the other morning from an over-dose of morphine. About midnight he awakened his wife and asked for the morphine bottle, but as he was in the habit of taking the drug, she thought nothing of it. Later she was awakened by his heavy breathing, but this failed to excite her fears, and she went to sleep again. When she arose his condition was alarming, and he died as stated. F. W. Vokborg has been confirmed as postmaster at North Vernofl. The Supreme Court has affirmed the case of Wm. Kennedy, pickpocket, who killed David Baker at Greensburg, in November, 1884, while attempting to escape arrest, and was sentenced for life. There was a political gathering at the time, and Kennedy was detected while “working” the crowd, and in the pursuit he shot Baker. Henry H. Porter, who purchased the Chicago and Great Southern railroad, under foreclosure in the Federal Court some time ago, has organized a company under the title of the Indiana Railroad Company to operate the new purchase. The road runs from Fair Oaks, Jasper County, to Yeddo, Fountain County, a distance of eighty miles, where it connects with Porter1* new road to Brazil, Clay County, thus giving him a coal road directly to Chicago. At Marion, the case of Elmer Ryan, charged with horse-stealing, had a tragic termination in the death of the prisoner by suicide. The marshal who arrested him stated that shortly after he had taken him into custody the prisoner produced a small bottle which contained a white powder, and, holding it up, remarked: “You would not think that was poison, would you 1” He then poured the contents into his hand, swallowed it, and threw the bottle against a freight car. The officer, supposing the powder was quinine, gave the matter no further attention. Being placed in jail, he called for a deck of cards and played a game of seven-up with his fellow prison-' ers. During the game he remarked incidentally that he had taken arsenic, an«' would be a corpse before morning. He showed symptoms of sickness, but his talk was regarded as an idle jest. Later a physician was summoned, but Ryan grew steadily worse, and expired at elever

Elbert H. Shirk, President of the First National Bank of Pern, an extensive land owner and the wealthiest in Northern Indiana, died at his home, in Peru, of neuralgia of the heart, superinduced by close application to business. Mr. Shirk had a farm in every county in that section of this State and was also engaged in merchandizing. He had been in ill-health for some time, but his death was unexpected. He leaves a fortune estimated at two million dollars to be divided among his three children, the eldest of whom, Milton, is in Eu rope. Patrick Shannon, a prominent resident and banker of Terre Haute, died the other morning from'Smothering, caused by obesity, he being three hundred pounds in weight. He was born in Ireland, and had lived in that city for forty years, amassing a handsome fortune. He was a prominent politician, figured in the State, at one time having been financial agent of the State, and at another time Democratic candidate for the nomination for State treasurer. He leaves a wife and three adopted children. Louis Hilsz, residing three miles south If Princeton, was drowned in a branch on his farm. He was subject to epileptic fits. . —Emptying vacant houses of then furniture in broad daylight is one of the most successful methods of modern thievery. Several country seats in New Jersey belonging to New Yorkers have been stripped in this manner, and when the astonished owners asked Hie neighbors if they did not see it, the reply was: “ Yes, certainly; but they said they were your carts sent to carry the things away, and, of course, we thought it all right,” The boldness of this act disarms suspicion.— N. Y. Tribune. —Minister’s wife (looking over the paper)—“You are referred in this mornings paper, by dear, as ‘a distinguished clergyman.’ ” Minister — “Ifm. I though tth at my sermon yesterday would attract attention. It is published in full or only a synopsis given?” Wife— “Neither. You are spoken of as a ‘distinguished clergyman’ in connection with th^t patent medicine testimonial yon sent TJr. Quack.”—N. Y. Mail. —The cat, horse andlbirds have a third eyelid, which iA^d to protect the eye froth too muchnMit. Man has a third eye-lid in the oofller of the enj

TALMAGE’S SERMON, Discount on th» Trials of News* paper Editors and Reporters. The Sham* They See nod the Temptations They Meet In Their Search for News— An Underpaid Class, as a Rule, and Their Sonls Nobody’s Care. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, in a recent sermon, took up the cudgel for the newspaper men, illustrating their trials, temptations and almost ceaseless labors in the fight for current news in a forcible manner. He took for his text: Behold a flying roll!—fZaehartah 1. Dr. Talmage said: This winged sheet of the text had on it a prophecy. The flying roll to-day is the newspaper. In calculating the influences that affect society you can no more afford to ignore it than you can ignore the noonday sun or the Atlantic Ocean. It is high time that I preach a sermon expressing my appreciation of what the newspaper press has done and is doing. No man, living or dead, is or has been so indebted to it as I am, for it gives me perpetual audience in every city, town and neighborhood of Christendom, and I take this opportunity before Ood and this people to thank the editors and publishers, and compositors and type-setters the world over, and I give fair notice that I shall take every opportunity of enlarging this field, whether by stenographic report on the Sabbath, or galley-proofs on Monday, or previous dictation. I have said again and again to the officers of this church, whoever else are crowded, don’t let the reporters be crowded. Each responsible and intelligent reporter is ten

ui uue«u uuuifues uuui on bo mis cnurcQ. Ninety-five per cent, of the newspapers are now my friends, and do me full justice and more than justice, and the other five of the hundred are such notorious liars that nobody believes them. It was in self-defense that sixteen years ago I employed an official stenographer of my own because of the appalling misrepresentations of myself and church. From that things have miraculously changed, until now it is just as appalling in the marvelous opportunity opened. ” The newspaper is the great educator of the nineteenth century. There is no force compared with it. It is book, pulpit, platform, forum, all in one. And there is not an interest—religious, literary, commercial, scientific, agricultural or mechanical —that is not within its grasp. All our churches, and schools, and colleges, and asylums, and art galleries feel the quaking of the printing press. The institution of newspapers arose in Italy. In Venice the first newspaper was, published, and monthly, during the time that Venice was warring against Solyman the Second, in Dalmatia, it was printed tor the purpose of giving military and commercial information to the Venetians. The first newspaper published in England was in 1588, and called the English Mercury. Others were styled the Weekly Discoverer, the Secret Otol, Heraclitus Bidens, etc. Who can estimate the political, scientific, commercial and religious revolutions roused up in England for many years past by Bell's Weekly Dispatch, the Standard, the Morning Chronicle, the Post and the London Times? The first attempt at this institution in France was in 1631, by a physician, who published the News for the amusement and health of his patients. The French nation understood fully how to appreciate this Vower. Napoleon, with his own hand,« wrote articles for the press, and so early as in 1829 there were in Paris 109 journals. But in the United States the newspaper has come to unlimited sway. Though in 1775 there were but thirty-seven in the whole country, the number of published journals is now counted by thousands; and to-day —we may as well acknowledge it as not— the religious and secular newspapers are the great educators of the country. I find no difficulty in accounting for the world’s advance. Four centuries ago, in Qermany, in courts of justice, men fought with their fists to see who should have the decision of the court; and if the judge’s decision was unsatisfactory, then the judge fought with counsel. Many of the lords could not read the deeds of their own estates. What has made the change? “Books,” you say. No, sir! The vast majority of citizens do not read books. Take this audience, or any other promiscuous assemblage, and how many histories have they read? How many treatises on constitutional law, or political economy* or works of science? How many elaborate poems or books of travel? How much of Boyle, of De Tocqueville, Xenophon, or Herodotus, or Percival? Not many. In the United States the people would not average one such book a year for each

Whence, then, this intelligence—this capacity to talk about all themes, secular and religious—this acquaintance with science and art—this power to appreciate the beautiful and grand? Next to the Bible the newspaper—swift-winged and everywhere present, flying over the fences, shoved under the door, tossed into the counting-house, laid on the work-bench, hawked through the cars. All read it: white and Mack, German, Irishman, Swiss, Spanish, American, old and young, good and bad, sick and well, before breakfast and after tea, Monday morning, Saturday night, Sunday and week day. I now declare that I consider the newspaper to be the grand agency by which gospel is to be preached, ignorance cast out, oppression dethroned, crime extirpated, the world raised, Heaven rejoiced and God glorified. In the clanking of the printing press, as the sheets fly out, I hear the voice of the Lord Almighty proclaiming to all the dead nations of the earth, “Lazarus, come forth I” and to the retreating surges of darkness, “Let there be light!” In many »f our oity newspapers, professing no more than secular information, there have appeared during the past ten years some of the grandest appeals in behalf of religion, and some of the most effective interpretations of God’s government among the nations. ' There are only two kinds of newspapers —the one good, very good, the other bad, very bad. A newspaper may be started with an undecided character, but after it has been going on for years everybody flnds out just what it is; and it is very good or it is very bad. The one paper is the embodiment of news, the ally of virtue, the foe of crime, the delectation of elevated taste, the mightiest agency on earth tor making the world better. The other paper is a brigand afnid moral forces; it is abealimerof reputation; it is the right arm of death and hell; it is the mightiest agency in the universe for making the world worse and battling the cause of God. rhe one an angel of intelligence and merBy; the other a fiend of darkness. Between this Arohangel and this Fury is to be fought the great battle vhich is to deoide the fate of the world. If you have tuay doubt as to which is to be the victor, ask the prophecies, ask God; the chief batteries with which he would vindicate the right and thunder down the wrong, have

hot yet been unlimbered. The great Armageddon of the nations is not to be fought with swords, bnt with steel pens; not with ballets, but with type; not with cannon, but with lightning perfecting presses; and the Sumters, and the Moultries, and the Pnlaskis, and the Bibralters of that conflict will be the editorial and reportorial rooms of our great newspaper establishments. Men of the press, under Bod you are to .decide whether the human race shall be saved or lost. Bod has put a more stupendous responsibility upon you than upon any other class of persons. What long strides your profession has made in influence and power since the day when Peter Schceffer invented cast metal type, and because two books were found just alike they were ascribed to the work of the devil; and books were printed on strips of bamboo; and Rev. Jesse Blover originated the first American printing press: and the Common Council of New York, in solemn resolution, offered forty pounds to any printer who would come there and live: and when the Speaker of the House of Parliament in England announced with indignation that the public prints had recognized some of their doings; until in this day, when we have in this country about five hundred skilled ghonographers, and about thirteen thousand newspapers, printing in one vear 2,500,000,000 copies. The press and the telegraph have gone down into the same great harvest field to reap, and the telegraph says to the newspaper: “I’ll rake while you bind;” and the iron teeth of the telegraph are set down at one end of. the harvest field and drawn clean across, and the newspaper gathers up the sheaves, setting down one sheaf on the breakfast table in the shape of a morning newspaper, and putting down another sheaf on the tea table in the shape of an evening newspaper; and that man who neither reads nor takes a

newspaper would be a curiosity. What rest progress since the day when Cardinal Wolsey declared that either the printing press must go down or the Church of God must go down, to this time, when the printing press and pulpit are in combination, and a man on the Sabbath day may preach the Gospel to five hundred people, while on Monday morning, through the secular journals, he may preach that Gospel to millions. Notwithstanding all this that you have gained in position and influence, men of the press, how many words of sympathy do you get during a year? Not ten. How many sermons of practical helpfulness for your profession are preached during the twelve months?” Not one. How many words of excoriation, and denunciation, and hyper-criticism do you get in the same length of time? About ten thousand. | If you are a type-setter and get the type in the wrong font the foreman storms at you. If you are a foreman and can not surmount the insurmountable and get the “forms” ready at just the time, the publisher denounces you. If you are a publisher and make mismanagement, then the owners of the paper will be hard on you for lack of dividend. If you are an editor and you announce an unpopular sentiment, all the pens of Christendom are flung at you. If you are a reporter, you shall be held responsible for the indistinctness of public speakers, and for the blunders of type-setters, and for the fact that you can not work quite so well in the flickering gaslight and after midnight as you do in the noonday. If you are a proofreader, upon you shall come the united wrath of editor, reporter and reader, because you do not properly arrange the periods, and the semicolons, and the exclamation points, and the asterisks. Plenty of abuse for you, but no sympathy. Having been in a position where I could see these things going on from year to year, I have thought that this morning I would preach a sermon on the trials of the newspaper profe* ion, praying that God may bless the sermon to all those to whom this message may come, and leading those not in the profession to a more kindly and lenient bearing toward those who are One of the gTeat trials of this newspaper profession is the fact that they are compelled to see more of the shams of the world than any other profession.. Through every newspaper office, day by< day, go the weaknesses of ttufeworld^the vanities that want to be pulftt&^jhe revenges that want to be wreaked, ill the mistakes that want to be corrected, all the dull speakers who want to be thought eloquent, all the meanness that wants to get its wares noticed gratis in the editorial columns in order to save the tax of the advertising column, all the men who want to be set right who never were right, all the crack-brained philosophers, with story as long as their hair and as gloomy as their finger-nails, in mourning because bereft of soap; all the itinerant bores who come to stay five minutes and stop an hour. From the editorial and reportorial rooms, all the follies and shams of the world are seen day by day, and the temptation is to believe neither in God, man nor woman. It is no surprise to me that in your profession there

are some sxepucai men. x only wonder that you believe anything. Unless an editor or a reporter has in his present or his early home a model of earnest character, or he throw himself upon the upholding grace of God, he must make temporal and eternal shipwreck. Another (great trial of the newspaper profession is inadequate compensation. Since the days of Hailitt and Sheridan and John Hilton and the wailings of Grubb street, London, literary toil, with very few exceptions, has not been properly requited. 'When Oliver Goldsmith--received a friend in his house he, the author, had to sit on the window, because there was only one chair. Linaces sold his splendid work for a ducat. De Poe, the author of two hundred and eighteen volumes, died penniless. The learned Johnson dined behind a screen because his clothes were too shabby., to allow him dine with the gentlemen who, on the other side of the screen, were applauding his works. And so on down to the present time, literary toil is a great struggle for bread. The world seems to have a grudge against a man who, as they slk7i Kets living by his wits;, and the day laborer says to the man of literary toil: “You come down here, and shove a plane, and hammer a shoe-last, am} break cobblestones, and earn an honest living as I do, instead of sitt ing there in idleness scribbling.” But God knows that there are no harder worked men in all the earth than the newspaper people of this country. It is not a matter of hard times; it is characteristic of all times; Men have a better appreciation for that which appeals to the stomach than for that which appeals to the brain. They have no idea of the immense financial and intellectual exhaustions of the newspaper press. They grumble because they have to pay five cents a , copy, and wish they had only to pay three, ! or paying three, they wish they had only I to pay one. While there are a few exceo- i tions—and some few do make large for- j tunes—the vast majority of newspaper ! people in this day have a struggle for a livelihood; and it in ..their hardship and exasperation they somWtiiqes write things they ought not to write, let those facte be an alleviation. O men of the presa, it will be a great help to you if, when you come home late at night, tagged out anji nervous with your work, you would just kneel down and commend your case to God, who h>s watched *» the fattgat tt^ i

day, and who hat promised to oe you God and the God of you children forever. Another great trial of the newspaper profession is the diseased appetite tor unhealthy intelligence. Ton blame the newspaper press for giving such prominence to murders and scandals. Do yon suppose that so many papers would gfve prominence to these things if the people did not demand them! I go into the meat market of a foreign city, and I And that the butchers hang up on the most conspic- , uous hooks meat that is tainted, while the * meat that is fresh and savory is pnt away without any especial care. I come to the conclusion that the people of that city love tainted meat. You know very well that if the great mass of people in this country get hold of a newspaper and there are in it no runaway matches, no brokenup families, no defamation of men in high position, they pronounce the paper insipid. They say, “It is shockingly dull to-night.” I believe it is one of the trials of the newspaper press, that the people of this country demand moral slush instead of healthy, intellectual food. Now, you are a respectable man, an intelligent man, and a paper comes into you hand. You open it, and there are three columns of. splendidly written editorial, recommending some moral sentiment, or evolving some scientific theory. In the next column there is a miserable, contemptible divorce case. Which do you read first? You dip into the editorial long enough to say: “Well, that’s very ably written," and you read the' divorce case from the “long primer” type at the top, to the “nonpareil” type at the bottom, and then you ask you wife if she has read it! O, it is only a case of supply and demand. Newspaper men are no foolsThey know what you want, and they give

in iu yuu. Another temptation of the newspaper profession is the great allurement that surrounds them. Every occupation and profession has temptations peculiar to itself, and the newspaper profession is not an exception. The great draught, as yon know, is on the nervous forces, and the brain is racked. The blundering political speech must read well for the sake of tha party, and so the reporter, or the editor, has to make it read well, although every sentence was a catastrophe to the English language. The reporter must hear all thut an inaudible speaker, who thinks it is vulgar to speak out, says; and it must bo right the next morning or the next night in the papers, though the night before the whole audience sat with its hand behind its ear in vain trying to catch it. Tltis man must go through killing night-work. He must go into heated assemblages, and into nnrentilated audience-rooms that are enough to take the life out of him. He must visit court-rooms which are almost always disgusting with rum and tobacco. He must expose himself at the fire. He - must write in fcetid alley-ways, Added to all that he must have hasty mastication and irregular habits. To bear up under this tremendous nerve , ous strain they are tempted to artificial stimulus, and how many thousand* have gone down under that pressure God only knows. They must have something to counteract the wet, they must have something to keep out the chill, and after a , scant night’s sleep they must have something to revive them for the morning’* work. That is what made Horace Greeley such a stout temperance man. He told me that he had seen so many of his comrade* go down under that temptation. Oh, my brother of the newspaper profession, what you can not do without artificial stimulus, God does not want you to do. There is no halfway ground for our literary people between teetotalism and dissipation, Your professional success, your domestic peace, your eternal salvation, will depend upon > your theories in regard to artificial stimulus. I have had so many friends go down under the temptation, their brilliancy quenched, their homes blasted, that I cry out this morning, in the words of another: “Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright in the cup, for at the last it biteth like a serpent and it stingeth like an adder.” Another trial of this profession is the fact that no one seems to care for their souls. They feel bitterly about it, though they laugh, People sometimes laugh the loudest when they feel the worst. They are expected to gather up religious proceedings and to discuss religious doctrines in the editorial columns, but who expect* them to be saved by the sermons they pho- s nograph, or by the doctrines they discuss in the editorial columns? The world look* upon them as professional. Who preache* to reporters and editors? Some of them came from religious home-, and when they left the paternal rool, whoever regarded or disregarded, they come off with a father’s benediction and a mother’s prayer. They never think of those good old times, but tears come into their eyes, and they move around this great, roaring' metropolis homesick. O, if they only knew what a helpful thing it is for a man to put his weary head down On the bosom of a sympathetic Christ 1 He knows how nervous / ■ and tired you are. He has a heart ieege enough to take in all your interests in this world $nd the next. O, men of the newspaper press; you sometimes get sick of this world, itseems so hollow and unsatisfying. If there are any people in all the earth that need God, you are the men, and you shall have Him if only this day yon implore His

mercy. Let me ask all men connected with the printing press that they help us more and more in the effort to make the world better. I charge you in the name of God, before whom you must account for the tremendous influence you' hold in this country, to consecrate yourselves to higher endeavors. You are the men to fight back tfiis invasion of corrupt literature. Lift up your right band and k , swear new allegiance to the cause of philanthropy and religion. And when, at last, standing on the plains of judgment you look ont upon the unnumbered throngs over whom you have had influence, may it be found that you were among the mightiest energies that lifted men upon the exalted pathway that leads to the renown of Heaven. Better than to have sat in editorial chair, from which, with the finger of type, you decided the destinies of empires, but decided them wrong, that you had been some dungeoned exile, who, ? by the light of window iron-grated, or scraps of a New Testament leaf, picked up from the hearth, spelled out the story of . Him who taketh away the sins of the world. In eternity Dives is the beggar! Weil, my friends, we will all soon gat through writing and printing and proofreading. What then? Our life is a book. Our years are the chapters. Our months are the paragraphs. Our days are the sentences. Our doubts are the interrogation points. Onr imitation of others the quotation marks. Our attempts at display a dash. Death the period. Kternity the peroration. O God, where will we spend it? Hay# yon heard the news, more startling than any found in the journals of the last six weeks? It is ths tidings that man ia lost. Have yon heard the news, the gladdest that was sver announced, coming this day from tha throne of God, lightning couriers leaping from the palace gate? The new*! The glorious newa! That there is pardon for all and comfort, for all trouble. Set it up in "double leaded” eelumns and dlreotjt to the wh9» _