Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 5, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 June 1886 — Page 1

OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. • XVII. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. JUNE 10, 1806. k BYNUM, Editors and Publishers. ===== OFFIOE, over 0. B. MONTGOMERY'S Store, Main Street. NUMBER 5.

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ntOFKSSlOXAl CARDS. A. t norntvcirc*. \ POSET ft HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW PWnmikn**, hi itantl “*■ 4,S0**T core ASs&ifcuSSk.0,4c* overirr“k4 *- P. ItlCHAltPSOX. A. H. TATLOB, i RICHARDSON ft TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law PETER<tBURG, INS. *lTO® *» «H business. A S° ‘siAotly in the office. Office PTcr Adams«Son s drugstore. wM. F. TOWNSEND. MART FLEE NEIL , TOWNSEND & FLEENER, Attorneys at Law, PETERS BURG, IND. ATill practice in ail the courts, Office, ovet »« frank’s store. Special attention giver to Collections, Probate Business, Buying and Selling oands, Examining Titles and Furnishing Abstracts. * *• A. BIT. J. V. W1LSOK. ELY <fe WILSON. Attorneys at Lawf PETERSBURG, IND. A8~Offio, in the Bank Bailding.'fl i t. a a £ sMim ‘ (successors to Doyle A Thompson) • Attorneys at Law, Real Estate, L( an & Insurance Agts. Office, second Boo r Bank Building, Peters burg, tnd. The best Fire and Lite Insurance Companies represented. Mouey to loan on first mortgages at sever and eight per cent. Prompt attention to collections, and al> business intrusted to us. R. R. 1UME, M. D.. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, TND. Office, over Barrett & Sin*s store; residence on Seventh Street, three squares south of Main. Calls promptly attended to, day or night.

«. A. ADAMS. C. H. FVIXTNW1DKR. ADAMS & FULLIN WIDER, Physicians & Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. i i CKBce over Adams A Son's drug store, Office hours day and night. , J. ft. DUNCAN. * Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, . IND. Office, over Bnrgen's City Dru* Store. Office hours day aid ni*ht. C. B. BLACKWELL, M. D., ECLECTIC Physician and Surgeon, Office over Model Drug Store. PETEUSBU8, : INDIANA. WiU practice Modiciuc. Surgery and O^rtetriesrniowu and country, and will visit any part of the eounti y in consultation. Chronic diseases successfully treated. 0. (. Shaving Saloon, J. E. TURNER. Proprietor. PETERSBURG, - IND. Parties wishing work done at their residences will leave order* at the shop, in Dr. Adams' new building, rear of Adams A Son's drug store. HOTELS. UNCO HOTEL, PETERSBURG, IND. THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL IN TOWN. New throughout, and first-class accommo dations in every ipespect. GEORGE QUIMBY, Proprietor - HYATT HOUSE^ Wuhlncton. Ind. Centrally Locaied. and Accommodations f irst-©lass. HENRY infATT, Proprietor. CITY HOTEL, Under new manage nent, JOSEPH LORY, Prop. Cor. 8th and Vain Sts, opp. Court-house. Petersburg, Ind. The City Hotel is centrally located, first* •lass in all its appointments and the best and cheapest hotel uj the city. Sherwood House, Under New Management. BISSELL & TOWNSEND, Prop’rs. First and Locust Streets. Evansville, : ; Indiana. RATES, 332 PER DAY. Sawph Bo—is far CewuMrclsI Mh. When at Washington Stop at tha MEREDITH HOUSE First-Clsss in All Respects. Mas Lavas H tiuus. Proprietress. Wm- H. Nnau Manager. EMMETT HOTEL, square east of Courthouse, cor. of Washington and Naw Jersey Sts., INDIANAPOLIS. . . DUE UStS i. SOtUI. Pra,'r. SATES, $1.50 Pm Day.

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NEWS IN BRIEF. C—jtM fra TiriM S«ircaa> PEKSONAl JmD t'OUTICAL On the evening of the 3d Queen Victoria cabled her personal congratulations to the President, conveying her best wishes for his happiness. On the 22d Henry Havetneyer, the sugar refiner, died suddenly at his jiome near Eabylon, L. I. He participated in the Decoration Day exercises, acting with the Old Guard as an escort to President Cleveland. Comptroller Durham of the Treasury Department has rendered a decision in which he holds that under the act of June IS, 1S80, the double minimum excess paid for lands should be returned to the original purchaser and not to the transferee, where transfer was made after the passage of the act. This decision reverses Comptroller Lawrence, his predecessor. Junk T is the date fixed by Mr. Glad-' stone for a division on the Home-Rule bill in the British House of Commons. On the 3d the Maine Democratic State convention in session at Bangor, nominated Colonel Clark S. Edwards, of Bethel, for Governor by acclamation. On the 3d resolutions congratulating President Cleveland on his marriage were passed by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. They recommended the same course to all bachelor of presidents, including their Own. The Parnellites, it is thought, will prolong the Home-Rule debate ’for the purpose of giving Gladstone' time to better his position. It will be noted that at the President’s wedding Frank Folsom promised to love, honor and comfort (not obey) Grover Cleveland. The recent Home-Rule speech of Mr, Blaine at Portland, Me., is characterized by the London press as a bid for the Irish vote. Secretary and Mrs. Manning leave Washington on the 8th for Hoi! Springs, Va., where they will probably remain about a month. A. Buddenskick, the New York builder of mud houses, who was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment and fined $500 for manslaughter, was taken to Sing Sing prison on the 3d. “Sir Roger” Tichborne, otherwise known as Arthur Orton, of Victoria, Australia, the claimant to the Tichborn estate in England, is stopping at the Madison House in New York. * On the evening of the 3d Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Mrs. Sargent, gave a bri'liant reception at Dr. Priestley’s London residence. The elite of the world of fashion, literature and art were among the

The President and his bride are enjoying themselves quietly at Deer Park. The newspaper eorresponden ts have taken possession of the ladies’ waiting-room at the station, but find little to draw from except their imaginations. The stay of the bride and groom may extend throughout another week. On the evening of the 3d, Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania gave a State dinner to the Supreme Court of the State. Among those present besides the justices of the Supreme Court, were Speaker Carlisle and General Simnn Cameron. On the 3d General Anson G. McCook was married at the residence of his brother, General John G. McCook* in New York. The bride was Miss Kittie McCook, of Steubenville, O., a distant relative of the groom. One of the President’s last official acts previous to his marriage was the pardoning of B. F. Bigelow, the defaulting teller of the National Bank of the Repuhlic of Washington. Three years ago Mr. Bigelow was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Duke Karl of Bavaria, famous throughout Germany as an oculist, has recently beeu ministering to the poor of Meran. steadfastly refusing to receive pay for his services, and, as a rule, confining his practice to those who are unable to pay. He departed on the Sd, and was followed tothe railway station by crowds. Many people knelt in the streets and offerer! prayers in his behalf. The Maxwell murder case in St. Louis was given the jury at 10 p. m. on the 4th, and up to midnight, when they were locked up for the night, had not agreed on a verdict, though how they stood it was impossible to ascertain. William Emmett, the well-known theatrical manager, died at Chicago on the 4th. Governor Bate of Tennessee commuted to life imprisonment the sentence of Allen Herbert, who was to have beep hung at Nashville on the 4th. Frederick Novrse, treasurer of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, who has been missing several months, has turned up all right. The Full Mall Gazette says of Blaine’s correction of his recent speech, that it is quite in accordance with his character to hurl insults and then retract tlmm. Ex-President Arthur sent congratulations to President Cleveland on his marriage. and received a box from the White House containing wedding cake on the 4th. Secretary Bayard, on the 4th, received a telegram from Consul-General Phelan at Halifax, as follows; “American merchant vessels cnn purchase fresh fish of all kinds.*’ SecretarV Manning has tendered his resignation, bat nt the urgent request of the President has accepted a leave of ahsenee until October, his resignation meantime not being acted upon. A coroner’s jury In New York, on the 4th, rendered n verdict to the effect that Frank R. Reed, of Minneapolis, the Yale College divinity student whose body was recently found floating in Gouveneur Slip, came to his death from a pistol-shot wound caused by some unknown person. A hor se became frightened nt a locomotive near Frankfort, Ky., on the 4th, and dragged Mrs. Wm. Hammond, who was trying to hold him, down an embankment Into the Kentucky river. Edward Grant, of Frankfort, jumped from the engine and succeeded in swimming out with the Indy, who it is feared is fatally injured.

Fiftt-ons true bills, charging Hot and conspiracy, were found by the Milwaukee grand jury investigating the recent tabor riot at Bay View and the Socialist riot at Milwaukee Garden. Among those indicted are: Paul Grattkan, editor of the Arbeiter Zeituug, and formerly editorially associated with Spies, of Chicago. * On the 2d, Dr. J. Milton Bowers, convicted at Sau Francisco of poisoning his wife in order to obtain $7,OOg insurance on her life, was sentenced to be hanged. Oh the 3d Marchand’s Opera-house, at Alliance, O., a four-story brick building, 80x90 feet, the" property of Mrs. H. M. Marc-hand and heirs, felt with a terrible crash, and carried with it Wn. Swing's two-story frame building and badly dauiKoeb building. The ruins, and its

Ok the 3d the children of a S| ringfield (Mass.) widow named Richards, attempted to light the fire with kerosene. The can exploded, firing their clothes. A son and daughter, aged respectively nine and ten years, were burned to death. Ok the 31 Henry Durham, aged eighteen, fatally shot Mrs. Waite near Owego, N. Y., and then killed himself. Ok the 3d the store of Joseph flalliotte, at Ecorse, near Detroit, Mich., was wrecked by an explosion, and several persons were seriously injured. Ok the night of the 3d the business portion of the villageof Salem, la., was horned. The estimated loss was 160,000, with $16,000 insurance. Ernest Si Bennett, who, for a dosen years previous to 1884 was the trusted bookkeeper of W ads worth & Co., of Davenport, la., was sentenced on the 3d to two years and five months in the Anamosa penitentiary for forgery. Ok the 3d Frederick Reader, aged sixty - five years, the Schenectady (N. Y.) agent of a Chicago dressed beef dealer, took strychnine enough to kill ten men. He suffered great agony for several hours, when he shot himself in the breast. He can not recover. Ok the 3d a Baltimore & Ohio local freight engine, wnile standing; on the track in the yard at Bellaire, O., exploded the boiler with terrific force, killing Engineer Johnston, Fireman John Vandervoort and Matt Hammond, another engineer, all of Newark,O. Two of the bodies were blown a distance of one hundred yards. Wes Honesty and Tabley Banks were hanged at Winchester, Va., and Jim Baxter at Lebanon, Tenn., on the 4th. M. H. Hancock has been arrested at Austin, Tex., charged with the murder of his wife on Christmas eve last. A robbery of $10,000 has been worked on the United States Express Company between Van Wert and Cincinnati, O. Advices from the City of Mexico say; In a raid of Apaches near Magdalena ten persons have been killed, one of whom is George Sheppard, an American. Mrs. S. J. Johnson suicided at Cedar Rapids, la., on the night of the 3d by drowning. Her husband was foreman of the Gazette office. Domestic difficulty is assigned as the cause. Soon after the dinner hour on the 4th, John O’Brien, a three-year convict in the Joliet (111.) penitentiary from, Decatur, made an attack upon Asa R. Parks, another convict, with an iron shovel, killing him. No known cause for the alfray. Fred Balcom, of Binghampton, N. Y., was arrested by Federal authorities at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 4th, for receiving a letter under an assumed name in ansvker to an advertisement for a young lady secretary to an ice company forming at Denver, Col. A deposit of ten dollars was demanded of applicants. News was received on the 4th of the destruction by fire of the Shell Lake Lumber Company’s mill at Shell Lake, Wis., involving a loss of about fifty thousand dollars. Insurance small. Two hundred men are thrown out of employment.

MISCELLANEOUS. A Brooklyn dentist claims to bare discorered a new anaesthetic which produces something like natural sleep, without any danger whatever to the patients:. The grand juries at Milwaukee and Chicago are still indicting Anarchists. Turkey is becoming alarmed at the naYah and military activity of Russia. On the 2d the United Presbyterian General Assembly at Hamilton, O., decided in favor of instrumental music in church. On the 2d the French Chamber of Deputies agreed to consider the repeal of the law of 1802 regulating the relations of church and state. The Shah of Persia has refused a proposal from the Porte to join in la universal Musselman alliance. The French miners on strike at Decaseville are becoming desperate. They destroyed a grocery store with dynamite on the 2d, aud threaten the mine officials with violence. The committee of the Chamber of Deputies having in charge the bill for the expulsion of the French Princes has decided that the measure be compulsory and not permissive. On the 2d the steamer Siberian, seven days overdue, arrived at Halifax, N. B. It has been decided that the jireliminary yacht races for America’s cup will take place from the middle to the last of August The International race is set from September 1 to 20. Rumors are current of the arrest of some subaltern officers in the south of Germany for high treason. It is stated that one has committed suicide in prison. The German Landtag has (received 445 petitions from Rheinish and Westphalian brewers, against the using of substitutes for malt and hops. The petitions will be referred to the Government fbr consideration. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the Third National Bank of Detroit, Mich., to begin business with a capital of $200,000, and the City National Bank, of Lansing, Mich., with a capital of $100,000. On the 3d the Knights of Labor convention at Cleveland adjourned sine die. The anti-Powderly faction has been sat upon.

Two Canadian cruisers havo been sent to Newfoundland to watch American fishermen. and see that the pool* natives do not acquire any Yankee lucre by selling bait or supplies. As address expressing confidence in Gladstone’s Irish policy has been signed by one hundred non-conformist ministers of Derby and Nottingham. Yellow fever is said to be epidemic on the Isthmus of Panama. The Ottawa (Ont.) JVee JVitss claims to have been informed by the .Master of an Orange lodge in the Western Ontario district that over thirty thousand stand of fire-arms have been sent to Ulster by anti-Home-Rule sympathisers. -r A St. Loots correspondent of the London Times says the statement that twenty or even ten million Americans ape ready to hack the Irish in the Home-Rule fight is a slander upon the American people. Halifax (N., 8.) advices of the fid stated that forty thousand British troops had been ordered to rendenvuos there. Why they are needed there is unknown. Dublin police suprised two parties of unarmed Orangemen which were drilling near Armagh and Portadews on the 3d. The Orangemen made no attempt to conceal their actions, which they believed to be lawful. The police took the names of all who were engaged in drilling. A number of ladies have been arrested at Laconia, N. H., charged with stealing Memorial Day offerings from the Union cemetery. Other arrests will follow. Tag strike of the Journeymen bakers at Buffalo, N. Y., still continues, but fears of a famine have been dispelled by the action of the bosses, who have united and are baking bread in one or two of the largest bakeries. Two thousand women and] children occupied the Rock Island trucks at Cummins’ nail mill, near Chicago, on the 4th, and refused to get out of the way of the cars loaded bv^aon^union In ***** * f ■

Tbs International Copyright bill was j read a third time in the British House of Commons on the 4th. At Vmice oh the 4th, there were reported twenty-two new cases of cholera | and twenty-one deaths. Two cases were reported at Florence. At the meeting: of the Nationol Stovemakers’ Association at Cleveland, <X, on the 4th, the prices of stoves were advanced Seven and a half per cent. When the convention adjourned the members were immediately called to order and formed the Stove Founders’ National Defense Association. RbsoLvtions 'favoring home rule for Scotland were adopted by the Highland Reform League at Glasgow on the 4th. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the seven days ended the 4th, numbered for the United States ICO and for Canada 29, or a total of 189, as compared, with a total of 181 the preceding like period. More than one-half of the casualties are reporte t from the Western and Pacific States. —■ The attornevs in the Pan-Electric case at Columbus, O., have decided to ask Judge Jackson to hear their case this term, and have sent for Joseph E. McDonald and other counsel. The court will insist oh the case coming up in the regular order. The total imports of dry goods at New York during the past week were valued at $l,2$t,934. and the amount thrown on the market at $1,238,942. The Secretary of the Navy says that the vessels of the North Atlantic squadron have been under orders for several days to prepare for sea. They will go easterly as usual, and report for orders at Portland, Me. They will visit the fisheries under instructions from the Department, and it is hoped will help to allay, rather than increase, the existing antagonisms. CONGKESSTONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate on the 1st a bill was Introduced prohibiting Congressmen acting as attorneys for railroads. The bill extending the Eight-Hour law to letter-carriers was passed, and the bill forfeiting lands granted the Northern Pacific railroad was taken up. After some debate this measure was crowded aside by the Bankruptcy bill, but without much progress being made it went over. The bill forbidlng aliens acquiring title to land passed; also the supplemental Chiuese Immigration bill. The Chinese Indemnity bill then came up, but without action the Senate adjourned,..In the House, among the Mils reported from committees and placed on oalendar was one perfecting the land grant of the New Orleans, Baton Rouge A Vicksburg Railroad. -The Oleomargarine hill was than taken up in committee of the whole. Alter the rejection of a number of amendments, and much talk, the House adjourned. In the Senate on the 2d, after some minot routine business, the Northern Pacific Land Forfeiture bill was taken up, but was informally laid aside to aUow Mr. Brown to make a speech on the Bankruptcy bill. The Forfeiture blit was again taken up and debated until two o’clock, when the bill taxing railroad lands crowded It aside. After some debate the Senate adjourned..In the House the District Appropriation bill was reported and a new conference committee was appointed. The Oleomargarine bill was takan up in committee of the whole and discussed during the rest of the day. It was then renorted to the House In the Senate on the Sd several presidential messages vetoing private pensloa hills were laid before the Senate. A petition from Gloucester^ Mass., urging retaliation on Canada amp presented and referred after some debate. The Northern Pacific Forfeiture bill was postponed, and the Chinese Indemutty bill was taken up. After some argument this measure was laid aside and the Dill taxing railroad land grants was taken up and after considerable debate was passed. To avoid delay the House blit on same subject was called up, and the Senate bill made an amendment to it. Then a conference committee wav appointed. This avoids sending the Senate bill to the House as an original proposition. A conference report on the Post-oflice bill was received and laid over. The Chinese Indemnity hill was again called up find debated during the remainder of the eesston..-....ln the House, after some routine matter and reports had been disposed of. consideration of the Oleomargarine bill was resumed, Mr. Hatch taking the floor. After the adoption of some amendments and rejection of others the bill passed, fixing the tax at five cents a pound. In the senate on the 4th the Chinese Indemnity bill was taken up,Dtft was laid aside to allow the Diplomatic and Consular biU to he discussed. At two o’clock this matter went over and the Indemnity hill again came up, and, alter debate, pasapd. Then the Consular and Diplomatic bill was taken up and discussed unt 1 adjournment.In She House a communication from the Secretary of War recommending the expenditure of $>o,oo> on btg guns was laid before the House. The civU-aervlee committee report recommending the dismissal of Assistant Doorkeeper Wade was debated, resulting in the adoption of a resolution condemning hin conduct, but not dism sstng him. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation ■bill was taken up and debated the remainder of the day’s session

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS* I* the Senate on the 5th a resolution was adopted, after some debate, calling cut the Secretary of the Interior tor information as to the authority for the issuance of the recent order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office suspending the receipt of applications tor publio lands vinder the pre-emption, timber-culture and desertland acts. The Oleomargarine bill was received from the House and laid upon the table. After the passage of 230 private pension bills the Senate adjourned.In the House the Senate bill for the erection of a public building at Zanesville, O., was passed, the appropriation being reduced to $100,000; also Senate bill appropriating $100,000 for a public building at Sioux City, la. The House then considered the Pacific Railroad Extension bill, bat without reaching a vote the House adjourned. N*w Tome, Brooklyn and Jersey City street cag were tied up again on the 5th. Jews K*uy was buried trom St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New Tort:, on the 5th. Statistics show an increase to exports of textile fahrics, hardware and ma

cmnery nram uermany. Gxniral Samukl D. Sturgis, of th» United States army, goes on the retired list on Jane 11. On Whitsunday the Pojje will oonter on Queen Christina of Spain the decoration of the Golden Rose. Tbr Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers held their annual reunion at Bearer, Pa., On the 6th. Hok. Dorman B. Eaton has written an open letter to Samuel J. Randall on the Ciril-Service rules. Th* London .Standard, while hoping that the fishery dispute will be amicahly settled, says England is bound to show firmness in supporting the rights of the Canadians. PUttBRN, Fisher, Engel, Lingg, Spies and Behwah, of the Chicago anarchists, were arraigned in court on the 5th and pleaded not guilty to the charge of murTh* London Nev>* says Mr. Blaine belongs to a far from admirable class of American citisena, and that his advice is not required in the management of England’s affairs. Fourtkrn reporters are shadowing the President and bride at Deer Park. Th* indications are that' Congress will adjourn about the second Monday in July. Mr. Chambcmuun, in an interview on the 5th, said that the defeat of the Rome Rule bill in the House of Commons is certain. * Fir* destroyed the works of Urn Pennsylvania Bolt and Rut Company at Lebanon; Pa., on the 6th. Tb* first consular dinner ever held in Loudon was given at the Bt. George Club on the night of

STATE INTELLIGENCE. Miss Sarah Fishrr, a young lady sot* ployed at the Elkhart Paper Mills, drew her pay the other day, quit work, wen* »yer to a hardware store, bought a thirtytwo caliber pearl-handled revolver, and then, going to her brother’s home, shot herself just as she entered the door, the ball penetrating the breast just below the heart. She has been for some time depressed in spirits, but the cause is unknown. . Virgil Bloomfield was run over and killed by a train on the Air Line railroad near English. The north-bound morning train on the Richmond division of the Panhandle, was wrecked at Windfall, south of Logansport, th> other morning. The engine, express and baggage cars were thrown into a ditch. Engineer Charles Luce and Fireman George Burk were injured severely, the latter fatally. The wreck was caused by two flat cars pushed out on the track by miscreants for the purpose of wrecking the train. Twentt-two postal-notes were taken from the Lexington post-office without the knowledge of Postmaster Gladden,, and a number of them have been forged and paid at different offices in the past few months. The dates stamped on the notes indicate that they were stolen during the month of July last, just after A. W. Amick turned the office over to the present incumbent. i Kokomo has just had completed a fine soldiers’ monument of dark granite. The pedestal is twelve feet at the base. On this stands-a highly polished column fifty-one feet high, surmounted by a standard-bearer with furled flag. At the base, on either side, stands an infantryman and cavalryman at parade rest. This is the largest monument in'the State, and-in design and finish one of the finest in the West. This grand memorial will be unveiled'1 July 4, with imposing ceremonies. It will t>e made a great gala day by the people of Howard County. A “trusted” citizen of Marion is non est. Ralph E. Bates, a young jeweler, absconded for parts unknown to escape prosecution for robbery. He had a stand in Fravel’s drug store. The night before he left he borrowed Fravel’s bunch of keys, forgot to return them, and robbed the safe of about $30. The other day while Edward McDaniel, an employe on the I., P. & C. road, was doing some switching near the depot in Logansport, he fell between the cars and was run over. His right ankle was crushed so as to render amputation necessary, and besides being cut about the face and head was badly injured internally. James VaxHorx, an old and well-known citizen of Connersville, and wealthiest colored man in the county, owning a good farm east of that city, was adjudged unsound of mind and placed under guardianship by circuit court. A barn belonging to T. H. Elbert, near Laconia, Harrison County, was destroyed by fire the other night. The entire contents of the building were consumed, and two valuable horses perished in the fire.

The eighteenth annual session of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias, of Indiana, was held in Indianapolis a few days ago. One hundred and twenty four lodges were reported with a membership of 7,850, a net gain during the year of 70ft. Assets of Grand Lodge, *3,30600; total receipts for the year, including $2,6*410 balance, *7,885 36; disbursements, $3,943 11. Officers elected: Grand Chancellor, C. EL HiTely, Cambridge City; Grand ViceChancelor, W. L. Heiskell, Indianapolis; Grand Prelate, J. H. Russo, Lawrenceburg; Grand Master of Exchequer, General Geo. Webster, jr.; Grand Master of Arms, C. E. Pittman, Evansville; Trustees, S, P. Oyler, Franklin; Ben. L. Smith, Rushville, and C. H. Kelly, Jeffersonville, Chas. Ogden, a bar-tender in Jones’ Empire saloon, Lebanon, was found in his room in Zion’s Block, about eleven o’clock the other day, unconscious. It is supposed that he took an overdose of belladonna by mistake, as no other cause can be assigned. His recovery is very doubtful. The Prohibitionists of Indiana met in State Convention at Indianapolis, a few days ago, and nominated the following ticket: Secretary of State, Rev. J. H. Hughes, of Wayne County; Auditor, Sylvester Johnson, of Marion County; Treasurer, P. C. Perkins, of St. Joseph County; Judge of Supreme Court, K. S. Dwiggins, of Jasper County; Attorney General, Judge W. M. Land, of Gibson County: Superintendent of Public Institutions. C.'W. Hodgin, of Wayne County. The State Central Committee organized by electing John Ratliff, of Grant County, chairman, and Sylvester Johnson, secretary. Miss Mamie Giddings, aged twenty-two, and Horace Madlem, aged twenty-six; teachers in the schools, were drowned the other evening in the St. Joseph river, at Bristol, Elkhart County. They were out fishing, and their boat was upset. Being unable to swim, they sank almost immediately. The body of Miss Giddings wqp recovered in a short time, but that of Madlem had not yet been found at last nocounts. Charles Ross, of Lyons, saw three swans flying toward him in a marsh at Bee Hunter Prairie. As they were* about to alight Rosa fired at them with one barrel, killing two and crippling the wing of the third. Rosa captured the wounded one and drove it home before him. The town turned out to see Ross driving a wild swan down the road, and one man was so much interested in the bird that he bought it for five dollars. Henrt Stroteh, who was heavily fined at Wabash for assisting in whipping Reuben Swonk, a wife-beater, at ' \ Manchester, has been granted a ne.. trial. ▲ dozen other cases of a similar nature are vending. Nathan Habgett, an Indiana termer, caught a burglar in his house, and after a fierce fight ovelpowered him, lashed him a buck-board and delivered him into the hands of the sheriff at Marion, ten miles distant.

—me anuquuy oi tne oarp appears in the fact that ancient Egyptian frescoes contain harps that are three thousand years old. Brace gives some copies of painting in oniMtundred* Eted Thebes of a harp in the tomb of .meses, thus showing that before Athens was built the Egyptians used, this instrument. Bible readers know King David’s favorite instrument was the harp called kinnor. It is said that when hung-over his couoh the wind caused the strings to sound at midnight—the principle of the teolian harp. —Chico, Cal., humbly calls Georgia’s attention to the fact that two of its citi■ens recently killed a rattlesnake measuring live feet in length, which had in its stomach five jack-rabbits, besides a number of rats and mice. —It is not generally known that the United States imports every year an immense quantity of potatoes. They come mainly from Germany and sell at about the same price as the American.—Y. Mail. —The suicides*a*t*the Monte Carlo gaming tables are said to average one a day.

HAPPILY PAIRED.

The President Osins a Bride and the Nation a First Lady, i Happy Consummation of the Wedding Ceremony—And They Are G - ad, and We Are Glad'.amt Everything Is Unite Correet — Off to Deer Tark. 4 Washington, June 2.—A notable event, the marriage of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, occurred here to-night,and with it culminated what until a few days previous, had been a matterof doubt, speculation and gossip throughout the entire length and breadth of the country. It was a great event, because of the exalted position of the groom— Chief Magistrate of a Nation of 60,000,000 people—and because it was the first wedding of the kind that ever occurred under the roof the Executive Mansion. Yet, notwithstanding the exalted position of the President, and that the opportunity and occasion almost demanded a great and brilliant state wedding, tt^e affair in alt its preparations, appointments and surroundings Jwas a great home-like wedding. This was in accordance with President Cleveland’s wishes, and in harmony with the democratic simplicity and natural modesty which have characterized Grover Cleveland’s career whenever and wherever he has filled public office, whether as mayot of a city. Governor of the Empire State, or President or the United States. The wedding day was ushered in with aright bean til at weather, and almost with the rising sun came the bride and her kinfolk to the Executive Mansion, after their night journey from New York. The day at the mansion was a comparatively uniet one, when the importance of its dosing events is considered. Of coarse there was considerable stir and activity and excitement on the part of those upon whom devolved the duties of final preparation for the wedding: but it is safe to say that the President, although quite as active and industrious as any around the mansion, vvas the least excited of any. Me was early in the library transacting official business. He directed that three private pension bill vetqes be sent to Congress; had a conference by appointment with Senator Van Wyck; saw Secretaries Lamar and Fairchild about some Interior and Treasury Department matters; had several short conferences with Dr. Sunderland about the details of the marriage service and found time early iu the afternoon to take a drive alone out in his landau. About half-past six o’clock this evening the bustle and excitemeut of preparation for the event began to transform itself Into realization. Invited guests—Cabinet officers and their wives who were not abiding in the mansion then began to arrive. They were at once shown to the state dining-room, where they divested themselves of their wraps, and then repaired to the Blue room, where Miss Cleveland and other relatives of the bride and groom, together with Dr Sunderland were awaiting to receive them. The assembled guests, standing on the eastern and western Sides of the oval-shaped Blue room where the marriage ceremony took place, had but a tew minutes to wait, for promptly at seTen o’clock the President with his bride leaning upon his arm came down stairs, and entering through the northerndoorway, advanced to the center of the room, and there stood facing the back ground of palms, ferns and flowers In the southern end of the room. Dr. Sunderland, assisted hv the President’s brother, Rev. W». Cleveland, stood facing the bride and groom. The invited guests present and who witnessed the ceremony were; Mrs. Folsom, mother of the bride; Kev. W. N. Cleveland, the President’ brother; Miss Cleveland and Mrs. Hoyt, the President’s sisters; Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary of State; Daniel Manning, Secretaiy of the Treasury, and Mrs. Manning; Wm. C. Kndicott, Secretary of War, and Mrs. Endtcott; Wm. C. Whit-, ney, Secretary of the Navy, and Mrs. Whitney; Wm. T. Vilas, PostmasterGeneral, and Mrs. Vilas; L. Q.C. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior; Daniel S. Lamonte, Private Secretary to the President, and Mrs. Lamont; Benjamin Folsom, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Mr. A. and Mrs. Rogers, of Seneca Falls, N. Y.; Mrs. Codman and Miss Huddleston, of Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. Harmon, of Boston, relatives of the bride; Miss Nelson, of New York, and Mrs. Bissel, of Buffalo, N. Y., wife of the President’s former law partner. Immediately after the entrance of the President and Miss Folsom, Dr. Sunderland advftnced and proceeded with the ceremony as follows: Forasmuch as we are assembled to observe the holy rite of marriage, it Is needful that we should seek the blessing o( the Great God, oar Father, whose Institution It Is, and, therefore, 1 beseech you now to follow me with reverend hearts In prayer to Urn. PRAYS R.

»»*«»»*(**1UJ, UVVI) « »ur spirit*, tramer of our bodies, the giver of •very xood and perfect gltt, Thou Who cans* »ee the end from the beginning: Who kuow•st what Is best for us. Thy children has* appointed the holy rite of marriage to be sacredly observed throughout alt generations; regard uow, we beseech Thee. Thv servant, our Chief Magistrate Endow him plenteousty with Thy grace,anil dll him with wisdom to walk in Thy ordinances. ~ _ _.(Ml . _ Be eery nigh to him In the midst of hla many cares anti grave responsibilities. Day by day may Thy law direct him and Thy strength uphold him. and be Thou forever his sun and shield. And be graciously pleased to look down upon this Thy daughter, even as Thou didst favor the ehosen Rebecca and many noble women that have adorned the world. May she Indeed be a precious boon of Cod to her husband, to cheer and help him continuously—a woman gifted with the heauty of the Lord, and s tedding the nweet influence of n Christian Hie upon the Nation In whose •htht she Is to -dwell. Wilt Thou approve what we, Thy servants, come to do In ’I'hv name, by Thlue authority, and under the laws of the land In which we live, and graciously assist them—this man and this woman, who are here to be united In the bou ts of holy wedlock, according to the institution of Thy worth Mercifully ho pleasd. Almighty <ioJ, to vouchsafe to eaeh of them Thy grace, that they may well and truly weigh the unfailing vows which thcy'mrs now abo at to make to each other In the presence of thte company and *«lvre Thte-aod that tlicy may be enabled

hereafter at all times, so to lire together as to rejoice in the solemnization ot this union with Joy unspeakable and full of glory, through Jesos Christ, our Lord. Amen. Alter the prayer, Dr. Suuderland made the following address: Marriage Is honorable among all men, tn that a man shall leave his father and mother ami shall cleave unto his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh. It was first instituted by our Creator in the first Paradise. It was confessed by patriarch an l priest, prophet and apostle. It was confirmed bv the teaching and adorned with the presence of the Redeemer, and has been honored by tbe faithful-keeping ot ail good men and women aince the world began. It la not theretore, to be undertaken lightly or unadvisedly, but soberly, discreetly and in the fear or God. Into tht3 holy state this man and woman come now to enter. If any present can show just cause why they may not be lawfully united in marriage, let him ; now speak, or else hereafter forever hold his peace. “If von desire to be united in marriage yon will signify the same by joining yonr right hands.” Here the President and Miss Folsom joined hands. The clergyman, continuing, asked: “Grover, do yon take this woman, whom yon hoid by the hand, to be your lawfully wedded wife; to' live together after God’s ordinance in the holy state of wedlock; do yon promise to love her, cherish, comfort and keep her, in sickness and in health, in joy and in sorrow, and, forsaking all others, keep yon only unto her so long as you both shall live?” President Cleveland responded firmly;, “I do.” Dr. Sunderland then, addressing Miss Folsom, asked: “Frances, do yon take this man whom you hold by the hand to be yonr lawful husband; to live together after God’s ordinance in the holy state of wedlock; do you promise to love him, honor, comfort and keep htin In sickness and in health, in joy and sorrow, and, forsaking all others, keep you unto him so long as you both shall live?” The lady responded; “I do.” “In token ol the same,” satd Dr. Sunderland, “let the wedding ring be passed.” The President then placed the wedding ring upon the bride’s finger. Dr. Suuderland then pronounced sanction, saying: “Forasmuch as Grover and Frances have here agreed and covenanted to live together after God's ordinance in the holy state ot wedlock, and have confirmed the same by giving and taking a wedding ring; now, therefore, lu the presence of this company. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, I pronounce and declare that they are husband and wife, and what God bath joined together let no man put asunder."

Dr. Sunderland then concluded the ceremony with a benediction in the following words: “God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, bless, preserve and keep you. The Lord mercifully fill you with ail temporal and alt spiritual blessings and grant that yon so live together in this world that In the world to come you may have life everlasting, amen.” Congratulations were then in order, and Mrs. Folsom was the first to congratlate her daughter and sou-in-law. Congratulations from other relatives and invited guests quickly-followed, and the company passing through the Green to the East room, engaged in pleasant and social conversation for some time and then repaired to the family dining room, the President anti his bride leading the way to the supper room. At supper the President occupied his usual place, on the north side of the table, his bride seated at his left, and their guests disposed about the table in a manner best calculated to promote free and unrestrained social conversation. President C evelaud was attired in a full evening dress suit, and wore a turndown eollar, aplain white lawn necktie, enameled shirt studs and cuff buttons to match. The bride wore an enchanting wedding dress of ivory satin, amply garnished on a high corsage with India muslin crossed in Grecian folds, and carried in exquisite fail of simplicity over the petticoats. The orange blossom garniture, commencing upon the veil in a superb coronet, was continued throughout the costume with artistic skill- Her vert of tulle completely enveloped her, failing to the edge of the petticoat in front ami extending the entire length of her full court train. Excepting the engagement ring—a sapphire with two diamonds —and the plain wedding ring which the President placed upon her finger, the bride wore no jewelry whatever. Mrs. Folsom wore a snperb dress of violet satin, with graniture in white faille and crystallized violet drops in pendants everywhere. Miss Cleveland’s costume consisted of an exquisite dress, a combination of Nile green and cameo pink duchess satin, with silver ornaments, low corsage, garnished with pink roses, short sleeves and demilength gloves in light tan. She carried a fan of pink curlew feathers. Mrs. Hoyt, the President’s sister, wore a dainty costnme, en traine, of China crepe in robin’s egg blue, most effectively garnished with rare old lace. Mrs. Manning’s dress, was of white satin, flounced across the front with duchesse lace, trimmings finished with sea pearls, square neckland elbow sleeves, and diamond ornaments. Mrs. Endicott wore satin with silver and white sapphire, draped in black Chantilly lace; red pompon in the hair, and diamond ornaments. Mrs. Whitney wore a bodice of violet velvet, with white satin and tnlle skirts trimmed with violets, and diamond ornaments. Mrs. Vilas’ dress was a light blue silk, With long train strewn with daisies of silver; front of crystal and point lace, and pearl trimming; low neck and elbow 8*Mrsf'jLamont wore an ivory-tinted satin dress, demi-train, with panel of crystal and pearl on left side of skirt; square neck, corsage edged with crystal and yet fringe; elbow sledyes and a beautiful corsage boquet of jacqueminot /firs. Rogers, cousin of the bride, was dressed in a costume of delicate %cameo pink with brocaded front. Mrs. Cadman, a relative of the birds, wore a white satin dress en traine, with black lace draperies and jacqueminot roses. Mrs. Harmon worn a satin dress of light orange. - Miss Nelson wore a handsome costume of corn-colored satin with overdress of white antique lace, cut pompadour, with low corsage and elbow sleeves. Miss Huddlestone was dressed in pink ■ilk with blue trimmings. Mrs. Sunderland’s dress was gray satin trimmed with lace; long train; square neck and elbow sleeves. The Marine Rand was early in attendance at the mansion this evening, and at the proper intervals discoursed suitable music. When the President anti Miss Folsom came down stairs and passed into the Blue Room, the band, stationed in the outer corridor, filled the mansion with the sweet strains of Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March,’’from “Midnight Summer's Dream.” Eater it rendered Wagner’s bridal chorus and march, from Lohenring’s “Marianna’s Bolero to Sou la Rosa;” Weber’s “Invitation a I* Valse;” Mendelssohn’s “Spring Song;” Robandi’s Romance, “Bright Star of Hope,” and Sousa’s Mosaic, from “Desieree.”

Too decorations or tne rsxecoure Mansion, with the exception oi the Bine room, where the marriage occurred, were similar to those used on the occasion oi state or private receptions. The work oi decoration was done tinder the direction of Colonel Wilson, superintendent of public bandings and grounds. The novel features of floral decorations were I confined to the Bine, room, Here the

florist’s art was mainly exercised. The windows at the southern and outer end o( this oval-shaped room was banked with stately palms and ferns extending to the ceiling. In front of this imposing bank of green, fifteen feet in height, and tower down, beautiful foliage plants were arranged,' and at the base of this bower were banks ol roses, while yellow, pink and red azalias,'geraniums and heliotropes, all combined to make the bower a triumph of beauty and fragrance. On one side of the room the decorations were scarcely less elaborate. The mantel above the hearth on the east side of the room was a solid bank of cut pansies in various colors, in which the date of the wedding, “June 3, 1886,” was written In letters of white flowers, surrounded by black pansies. The mantel on the west of the room formed a solid bank of roses, dark and rich colored, in the center of which was the monogram “C. F,” in white moss and hybrid cross. The two large mirrors above the mantels were draped and festooned with garlands of mixed roses. The doors leading to adjoining rooms were festooned with heavy garlands of roses in different distinct colors, and above the corridor door was a scroll composed of flowers in which was the motto “E Pluribus Unum”

in immortelles. ■ __ The main table decoration in the wedding snpper room was a fait rigged ship composed ot pinks centaurea egana, deiphiniams, roses and pansies, bearing the name of “Hymen.” It rested upon a mirror representing a lake which gave it the appearance oi floating. Its shores were of different vanties of setagineiias and tiny pieces of corals; amt the land was represented by a bank of jacqueminot roses. The ship, a three master, was flying on the color spar the colors of the United States, while the other two carried white flags with the monogram “C-F” in gold. At either end of the table were crystal vases resting upon mirrors with long-stemmed hybrid roses. Two mirrors were festooned with asparagus tenuissimus interspersed with loose roses. The corners and windows of the room and the font sideboards were decorated with ths choicest foliage and flowering plants. President Cleveland’s gift to his bride was an elegant diamond necklace, the Stones being set in gold and extending all around the ut-ck. A large number of presents have been received at the mansion to-day. As soon as they arrived, however, they were quickly conveyed out of sight. Members of the Cabinet gave individual wedding presents, some of which were’quite elaborate, but in accordance with the special desire of the President a list of the presents received will not be made public. During the progress of the ceremony salutes were fired, bells were rung, and Prof. Widdows played Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March,” and other appropriate selections^ the chimes of the Metropolitan church. A large number of people gathered in front of the Kxecutive Mansion during the ceremony, and while the wedding party were at supper. No precautions were taken to prevent their admittance, and as they were quiet and orderly, no efforts were made to exclude them from the premises. snpper, the President and his bride were excused, and, as prearranged, directly entered a carriage at the south entrance to the maasiou and were driven to the K street crossing of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, where a special train was in waiting for them. They at once entered President Garrett’s bondnir car “My Maryland,” and the train at 9:60 p. m. moved off for Deer Park, where the President and his bride will remain for a week. Daring their stay at Deer Jk Park they will occupy a cottage especial- • iy fitted for tbeir accommodation near the Deer Park Hotel. The only invited guests who were not present at the wed*1" ding were Miss Bayard and AttorneyGeneral Garland. Previous to leaving the city the President directed Colonel Lamonte to. have all the cut flowers used in decimting the mansion last night distributed among the city hospitals. Boston, Mass., June 3.—Boston business men are surprised to learn that the estate of the late Hon. George C. Richardson la insolvent. The paper outstanding amounts to nearly $1,500,000, mostly Lewiston Mills’ paper with Mr. Richardson’s indorsement. The yearly deficit of the Lewiston Mills has beeu large for several years, and, as Mr. Richardson owned nearly alt the stock of the corporation, he had to tarnish funds. The Richardson building on Devonshire, street was also unprofitable. Tbe executors have two years to settle the estate. The paper is offered at seventy-five cents on the dollar. No one will lose largely. The new ’ firm organised to represent the Lewiston, mills and to sell its goods is Smith, Hogg v - & Garner. This house starts off with a fresh capital of SI,500,000, and its affairs are in no wise ccaniected with or affected by the affairs of Mr. Richardsou. Soon after partaking of the An Insolvent Estate.

Political Reasons Only. Washington, Jane The Senate has removed the injunction of secrecy from the reports in the cases oi Franklin A. Thompson to he postmaster at North Platte, Neb., vice J. K. Evans; J. M. Gil* liland, to he postmaster at Nashua, Pa., vice J. E. 6raw;E. N. Hensley, to ha postmaster at Columbus, Neb., vice H. J. Hudson and E. E. Forbes, to be postmaster at St. Paul, Neb., vice A. Feudal!. In each case the committee on post-officee and post-roads reports that “the suspension seems to have been for political reasons only, and the committee has not found anything in the case reflecting upou the previous record or official character or conduct of the suspended officer. Tha nominee seems to he a person competent to discharge duties of the office.” Tha committee report the nominations favorably. _ The Payne Bribery IttveStlgatlou. Cincinnati, June S.—A special to the Owning Past from Columbus, Ohio, says: Representatives Cowglll, Thompson and Rawlins, Republican members of the Cowglll Investigating Committee, appointed last winter to investigate charges of bribery in electing Henry B. Payne, United States Senator, are lu the city. They meet here for a conference and to see what can be done to stiffen the spinal column of the Senate committee on privileges and elections. Since the committee was discharged its secretary has received a large number of letters giving additional information that will have a strong influence with the United States Senate. Several witnesses told only a part of what they knew, regarding the Ohio Senate** Investigation as a farce, hut they are now anxious to tell the remainder. — •So far as the attire of Eastern visitors is concerned,” says the San Fran cisco Report, “it is not, aU other thin™ equal, as good as ours, into consideration tho v-. in life, the clothes of the or woman are not of as a or as well made as the There is a notie