Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 June 1886 — Page 1

Pike RNlGHT & BYNUM, Editors and Publishers. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. OFFICE, oyer 0. E. MONTGOMERY’S Store, Main Street. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. JUNE 24, 1886. NUMBER 7. VOLUME XVII.

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NEWS IN BRIEF. -W -ICompiled from Various Sources, PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. John Herndon died in the southwest part of Worth County, Mo., on the night of the 14th, at the advanced age of one hundred and four years. He was the oldest man in that section, if not in the State. He was a pensioner of the war of 1812. Congressman B. W, Perkins was nominated unanimously on the 15th by the Third Kansas district Republicans for re-election. On the 18th Lieutenant-Governor Ormsbee was nominated by the Vermont Republicans for Governor. The North German Gazette, Prince Bismarck’s organ, praises Gladstone’s recent manifesto. Hon. A. A. Tyler was nominated on the 16th for Governor by the Tennessee Republicans. j Lord Carnarvon advises the Conservatives to stick to their colors and sink minor differences. Governor Hill of New York vetoed the act of the Legislature providing for cumulative voting in elections for the choice of aldermen in New York. Congressmen Holman, of Indiana, and Hepburn, of Iowa, were renominated on the 16th. On the 17th Judge Hawkins, having been confirmed, entered upon his duties as Assistant Secretary of Inferior. Colonel Campbell Walker ha* been selected by the Conservatives to oppose Mr. Gladstone in the Midlothian district at the coming election. Colonel Corthell’s estimate* of the comparative oost of a high and low bridge at St. Louis a"e as follows: High, $2,279,900; low, $1,242,600. In a speech at the Land League meeting in Dublin on the 16th Mr. Healy said verdicts of murder should have been rendered against Chamberlain by the coroner’s juries sitting on the cases of the Belfast riot victims. On the 16th Governor Hill of New York Signed the act amending the law regarding imprisonment for debf. Hereafter six months is to be the limit of imprisonment on arrests in civil actions and the operation of the law releases within five days all prisoners in Ludlow Street jail, New York, and elsewhere, who have been incarcerated beyond six months. General F. M. Drake, of Centerville, la., has given $12,500 toward the establishment of a memorial professorship in'Drake University at Des Moines;

Parnell is engaged in preparing an election manifesto which will be addressed to the’English people. Documentary and other evidence has been submitted to the Bavarian Diet to prove the insanity of the late King Ludwig. On taking his departure for Scotland on the 17th to conduct his election campaign Mr. Gladstone was met at St. Pancras station by 10,000 people, who cheered him to the echo. He received ovations all along the route. In a manifesto to his constituents Mr. Caine says he will oppose any scheme to buy out the Irish landlords with English money. The American Association of Nurserymen, in session at Washington, passed resolutions highly eulogistic of Norman J. Column, Commissioner of Agriculture. Nikuwenhuis, the Socialist leader at The Hague, has been sentenced to solitary confinement for one year for insulting the King of the Netherlands in outrageous publications. On the 17th John Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, announced in the House of Commons that the govermn ent had decided to appoint a commission to inquire iinto the Belfast riots. At Cambridge, Eng., on the 17th, honorary degrees were conferred upon Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the presence of a brilliant assemblage. Should the Frenoh Senate pass the Expulsion bill, M. Waddiugton will resign the ambassadorship at London, and other French ambassadors will do likewise. On the 17th Hon. Milton J. Durham, First Comptroller of the Currency, was married to Mrs. Margaret Letcher Carter, of Kentucky. The wedding was private, at the house of the bride’s sister in Washington. Miss Coffin, daughter of Commander Coffin, of the United States steamer Quinnebaug, who commanded the Alert in the Greely Relief expedition, was married to Dr. Frank Anderson, of the United States navy, at the Church-of St. Martin’s-in-the Fiftld’s Tiondon. on t.hn 17th.

On the evening of the 17th Secretary and Mrs. Endicott gave a dinner in honor of the President and Mrs. Cleveland. The other guests were Secretary and Mrs. Whitney, Postmaster-General and Mrs. Vilas, General and Mrs. Sheridan, Admiral Rodgers, Senator Sherman, president pro tem of the Senate, Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle, Miss Bradley, Miss West, daughter of the British Minister; Mr. W. S. Endicott, Jr., and Miss Endicott. On the 17th Mr. James A. Bayard, son of the Secretary of State, and Miss Ora Deakins,. daughter ol' Wm. F. Beskins, were married at the residence of the bride’s parents, Fort Pendleton, Md., Owing to the recent deaths in the groom’s family the wedding was a quiet one. Sir Robert Peel, hitherto a Tory, will be a Gladstone candidate in the coming English election. A meeting at Birmingham, Eng., on the 18th, in favor of Irish home rule was addressed by Mr. Cowen, M. P. Mr. Gladstone spoke at Music Hall, Edinburgh, on the night of the 18th, to ah immense audience, who cheered him enthusiastically. The Lebanon (Ky.) Democratic convention nominated Hon. Joseph Barbour for judge of the Superior Court. The Liberal Association of Aylesbury, England, rejected thB address of Ferdinand D. Rothschild, their member, who opposed Gladstone. - Mr. Bryce, Under Foreign Secremffy, stated in the House of Commons on the 18th that France had ordered the French flag to be pulled down forthwith if it had been hoisted over the New Hebrides. Mr. Chamberlain., in an address at the inauguration of the new Radical Union, said, it was some compensation to hfm to know that he still re tained the confidence of a great number of persons. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. On the 14th Mrs. Noah Mossholded, aged sixty-one, attempted to save the life of a little ohlld which haci wandered on a railroad track at Pekin, O., before an approaching train, and both were instantly killed. On the 14th, while Andrew 8. Perry and Leroy Flaisted were playing near a sandbank f6ur miles from Chardon, O., the bank caved in, burying the boys. After diligent digging the bodies were recovered. William B. Thompson, of Kansas City, Mo., shot and killed his wife in the Bturte- ‘ New 'fork, on the 18th, and Eo reason is

A fishing schooner, name unknown, was capsized and lost with all on board in St. George’s bay, N. S., on the 15th. It is thought that oror a do.sen lives were lost by the fire at Vancouver, British Columbia, and out of five hundred houses only a dozen remain. News was received at Nogales, Ariz., on the 15th, that the Apaches had captured Santos Salano in Oroblanco canyon, three miles south of the city, on the 13th, tied him to a tree and hacked him to death with knives. On the 18th a Bohemian named Jumtjer was severely hurt at Racine, Wis., by a dynamite bomb explosion. On the 16th a man named Pritchard, a coal miner, at Lucas, la., cut his wife’s throat and then his own, while erased with liquor. Both will probably die. A tramp named Michael Kelly, has been arrested at Beaver Falls, Pa., on suspicion of having murdered James Kincaide, of Mahonington, Pa., last December, and also for the killing of a young girl near Mansfield, O., in September. A colored man named Jasper says Kelly ^confessed both murders to him. On the 17th a mob took Eli Owens from the jail at Hebron, Neb., and lynched him. On the 17th two six-year old boys, while playing in a coal-bin at Dana, Ind., were buried under the grain and smothered. On the 17th Bill Vaily, a notorious character, shot himself fatally at Superior, Wis., after an unsuccessful attempt to kill his wife. A farmer named John Burnett, living at York, Mich., on the 17th shot and mortally wounded his wife and dangerously wounded Mrs. Jackson, kJs mother-in-law. On the 17th a fire which broke out in the piano factory and salesroom of! Antisel Sc Co., San Francisco, caused a loss of $200,000. to their stock; insurance, $100,000. The loss to the furniture stock of Henry & Co., adjoining, is $25,000; covered by insurance. Josefh Hart, seventeen years of age, accidentally shot and killed himself at New York on the 18th. Geo. C. Charles, an actor and playwright, committed suicide at Philadelphia, being unable longer to endure the excruciating agony of an attack of sciatica. top. S. A. Richmond shot and killed Colonel J. W. Strong at St. Joseph, Mo., on the 18th, and then wounded himself in the head. ‘ r In a recent fight between prison guards and soldiers at Bogota, United States of Colombia, one General, several officers and thirty soldiers were killed. One Jamaican laborer and two sailors were killed and three dangerously wounded by polioe and soldiers while trying to arrest an unruly sailor on board the Amerioan bark Don Justo at Toulon.

At Mingo, unampaign Lounty, u., on the night of the 17th, Minnie Austin, aged eighteen, shot herself with a revolver because her mother refused to let her attend a lawn fete with her lover. The bullet took effect in her head and produced instant death. Henry Anthcs committed suicide on the 18th at Delavan, 111. He bought a revolver, went into a barn, made a bed of hay and shot himself through the head, dying in two hours. He was twenty-two years old and unmarried.^* No cause is known for the act. MISCELLANEOUS; According to the London standard the military advantage of the Canadian Pacific railroad may yet be the saving of the empire. Os the 16th the National I*rison Chaplains’ Association held a meeting at Indianapolis, Ind. Thh United States troops will be removed from General Grant’s tomb at Riverside Park after June 30. * A note has been sent by the Greek Government to Turkey complaining of the manner in which she has permitted the Greek prisoners in her custody to be treated, and reminding Turk ey that such conduct can not be easily forgotten. Advices from Saigon say that two French officers have been killed with poisoned arrows at Thankoa, and there have been fresh massacres of Christians in Anain. The rebels have burned some villages near Tourane. A manifesto has been issued .by the Orange Grand Lodge of Ireland protesting against “the betrayal cf the loyal minority of Ireland at the lidding of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Parnell in the interests of rebels, outrage-mongers and other violators of the law.” The North , American Tuirnerbnnde, in session at Boston, decided to use both German and English in the Turner schools. The New York sheep-butc hers’ strike fs apparently as far from a settlement as it ever was. In the meantime the price of mutton has gone up two or three cents a pound and large numbers of sheep in the slaughter-houses are dying.

uk tue 1 * m a uiimsom oronze siarue oi Daniel Webster, resting upon a solid granite base, was dedicated at Coweord, N. H. -This tribute to New Hampshire’s great statesman was the gift to the State of Mr. Benjamin Pierce Cheney, off Boston. The ceremonies were witnessed by an assemblage of fully 80,000 people, including many of the notable men from adjoining States and elsewhere. Natural gas has been discovered n Lexington, Ind. Cincinnati protests against the new St. Louis Merchants’ Exchange bridge. The Senate at Washington has passed the bill authorizing an inquiry into the claim of the Christian Brothers, of St. Louis. Latest returns from the Nova Scotia elections show that the government will have the support of between twenty-eight and thirty members out of a House numbering thirty-eight. It is denied at Ottawa that orders respecting the enforcement of the fisheries treaty have been canceled. On the 16th a destructive hail-storm passed through Little Horse Creek Valley, fifty miles north of Cheyenne, Wyo. Hailstones enormous in size and ohlong in shape were furiously driven, fences battered down and vegetation obliterated. Iron roofs of houses were pierced an 1 cattle killed. The destruction of crops is complete. The French minister of public instruction, has prohibited the meeting of the Catholic Church congress at Toulouse, and the Archbishop of Toulouse announces that inasmuch as it is merely a devotional gathering it will be held despite M. Goblet’s orders. Terrible mortality is ireported among the British troops at Assouan. One hundred and six men of the Ilorsett regl ment have died within the past two months.1 Of five hundred invalids on their way to Cyprus, ten dropped deed from heat en route. The Canadian Pacific railway contributed $3,000 in aid of the fire sufferers at Vancouver, B. C. The business failures throughout the oountry during the seven days ended the 18th, numbered for the United States d44,

Thirty foundrymen employed at the In* dianapolis Car Works struck on the 18th for an increase of ten per cent, in wages and a reduction of the hours of work from ten to eight. The terms were not agreed to and the men were paid off and left the ■hop. Thb Wisconsin Knights of Labor have called a State convention at Fort Howard, to nominate a full State ticket. A labor convention had previously been called to meet at La Crosse for the same purpose. The cause of the split in the labor ranks is not explained. In deference, it is said, to the wishes ot the imperial government, the Dominion has cancelled the instructions regarding the seizure of American fishing vessels. The Missouri Car and Foundry Com* pany’s works at St. Louis were destroyed by fire on the night of the 18th, together with forty cars and 40,000 feet of lumber. The loss will approximate $'250,000; fully insured. The Milwaukee (Wis.) police arrested W. W. Trainor and T. F. Wyatt, alias Writty, two notorious bunko steerers. About $10,000 in '‘skin” money was found in their possession. As no case could be made against'them they were discharged and ordered to leave the city. Their bogus wealth was confiscated. The public reception at the White House on the night of the 18th was the largest ot the kind ever witnessed in Washington. Though it was not to begin until eight o’clock, before six o’clock an immense crowd had gathered in the vicinity of the main doors, and when they were thrown open, a closely packed line of men, women and children extended from the main entrance te Fifteenth street. There were fully five thousand persons in line, and at ten o’clock the number had not perceptibly decreased. The great Volante-Tyrant match was not run at St. Louis according to programme on the 18th, Mr. Haggin, owner of Tyrant, declaring his horse lame and forfeiting $2,500 to Volante. The ten thousand people present were very much disgusted. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate on the 14th. after some routine business and .committee reports ot small importance, the Northern Pacific Forfeiture bill was taken up and debated during the entire day’s session.In the House the Senate amendments to the Atlantte & Pacific Forfeiture bill were concurred tn. Under the call of States many bills and resolutions were introduced, but none of very great importance. The rest of the day was taken up with District ot Columbia matters. In the Senate on the 15th, after routine business, the Northern Pacific Forfeiture bill was taken up and Mr. George finished his speech. Other speeches were made, and the result of the debate was the passage ot the measure.In the House the Legislative bill was taken up in committee ot the whole and after some debate Mr. O’Neill’s amendment increasing the amount forpay of assistant treasurer at St. Louis was agreed to. Consideration of the blU consumed the session ot the entire day.

In tli* Senate on the 16th a memorial from Massachusetts on the fisheries question was received. The Senate went into executive session, and when the doors opened, th* bill repealing the Pre-emption and other land laws was taken up. but was laid aside, and the Invalid Pension bill was passed. The Military Academy bill was passed, and tne Senate again took up the Land Law Repeat bill and It was debated during the remainder of the session.In the House, after disposing ot some minor business, the Legislative Appropriation bill was taken up and, after consideration in committee ot the whole, reported to the House and passed. In the Senate on the 17th, a number of bills on the calendar was passed, most ot tbemot no general Interest or especial importance. 1 he most notable were: A bill tor the appointment ot an assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Frye’s bill for a congress ot American Nations and several public building bills.In the House the first business ofpmportance was a motion by Mr. Morrison to take up the Tariff bill. This the'House refused to do by a vote of 140 yeas to 1ST nays. Mr. Morrison gave notice that he would renew the motion on the iid. The House then went into committee of the whole on the Naval Appropiation bill. In the Senate on the ISth, after some wrangling over the order of business, the Vance bill, repealing the Olvll-Servlce act, was indefinitely postponed. Resolutions calling on the Postmaster-General tor information concerning postmasters’ salaries, were agreed to after some debate, and the Senate took up the calendar. The Fits-John Porter bill was made a special order for the H4th. Several bills passed, among them one reducing tbs price of postoffice money-orders; also, the Frye bill for payment for cariyIng foreign malls; also, Mr. Logan’s army bill.In the House the Consular and Diplomatic bill was reported from the conference committee with soxhe of the Senate amendments non-concurred In. A resolution lor final adjournment on July 3 was teferred to the ways and means committee. Tne naval bill was considered In committee of the whole daring the remainder of the session.

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Thi Senate was not in session on the 19th. .........In the House a bill was passed authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi at Dubuque, la. A message from the President was received announcing his approval of the Shipping bill, but pointing out defects which called for remedial legislation. The Naval Appropriation bill was considered in committee of the whole, and a fight occurred over the item making appropriation for the erection of the observatory building at Washington, but the clause was finally allowed to stand. v A ba True between a party of Mexicans and a band of Apaches is reported to have occurred in Tecapodepe Pass, near Sarache, in Sonora, in which the Indians were defeated. Archibald Forbes, the noted English war correspondent, and Miss Lulu Meigs, daughter of General M. C. Meigs, TJ.S. A., were married in Washington on the 19th. They left at once for New York, whence they intended to sail for England. Mrs. Langtry is to use the profits of her Amerioan trip in building a theater in London. Thi base ball matoh between the Detroits and Chicagos at Detroit,bn the 19th, was witnessed by over twelve thousand people, over two hundred of whom were from Chicago. The Detroits were defeated by a score of 6 to 4. Ernest David, the biographer of Bach and Handel, is dead. He leaves complete manuscript lives of Mendelssohn and Schumann, which will be published shortly. Bail in the cases of thirteen of the indicted Milwaukee rioters, amounting to $16,000, has been forfeited by the non-ap-pearance of the defendnnts for trial. The French brigantine Michael is reported to have sunk on the Grand Banks, and nine of her crew drowned. The Loyalists of Belfast intend to send fifty men to take tho stump in England and explain the dangers of home rule. A. E. Morse, cashier of the First National Bank of Stevens Point, Wis., was shot and killed by W. W. Hazeltine on the 19th. The fiftieth anniversary of the accession of Victoria to the throne of England was celebrated on the 19th and 20th. It is expected that a call for the redemption of $4,000,009 three per cent, bonds will be issued from the Treasury Department in a few days. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, has been quite ill for several days. Mr. Morrill is seventy-six yeaks of age. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher sailed for Europe on the steamship Etruria on the l#th, accompanied by his wife. He will probably return the latter part of Septem

STATE INTELLIGENCE* Laborers on the new plant tor the water* works at Shelbyville, bare struck for higher wages, and will resist the proposed importation of laborers. Albert Wiler, dry goods, Lafayette, has assigned, with liabilities of $33,000 and : nominal assets of $45,000. At Marion, in a fit of jealohs frenzy the J other afternoon, Samuel Maxwell attempted to shoot his wife and lodged a bullet in his stepmother. The wound inflicted was dangerous but not fatal. Maxwell fled. Hiram Gaston and Wm. Close were killed at Ft. Wayne by a well which they were digging caving in on them. The saloon recently opened at Forest, fifteen miles west of Kokomo, by Wiley McReynolds, was blown to atoms the other night by having a charge of dynamite placed under the building, while the villagers were asleep. The sentiment of the town is opposed to the liquor traffic, and this saloon had been started in the community over their protest; hence the sudden rise of Kentucky sour mash. A team of horses belonging to Philip Crackman ran away in New Middletown, Harrison County, a few days ago, throwing Mr. Crackman and his wife from the vehicle in which they were riding, the lady, it is said, receiving injuries that may prove fatal. Charles, the thirteen-year-old son ol Patrick H. Sheehan, was drowned at Logansport a few evenings ago. He was bathing, accompanied by his dog. The boy conld not swim, and while paddling about the dog got on his back and forced him down. As fast as he came up the dog would rush at him and push him under until he drowned. The body was recovered. Some three years ago the ravages committed by woodchucks in Laporte County became a very serious matter, and in order to furnish an incentive for their extermination, and in a measure protect the farmers’ crops, the board of commissioners offered a bounty of twenty cents for each woodchuck scalp presented at the auditor’s office. For the three years ending June 1, 1886, the county treasurer has paid out $3,177.20 for 15,8»> scalps. The first year after the bounty was offered 2,875 scalps were presented second year, 5,610; third year, 7,371, and the work goes on apace. Some of the farmers spend all their leisure time hunt ing these destructive animals, and realize a handsome profit out of their enterprise. It is amoor woodchuck-day when a hunter fails tto secure at least ten scalps. The franchise granted the Wabash Wa-ter-works Company, composed of Philadelphia parties, by the city council, was revoked the other day, the company having failed to comply with the ordinance. No effort has been made to prosecute the Work since last fall. Sealed proposals for the work will be advertised for at once.

Several months ago Mr. and Mrs. George Williams went to Cass County. Several days ago they eloped with a horse and buggy. Williams was caught with the animal in his possession. The woman escaped, but was arrested at Anderson, and taken to Logansport and lodged in jail. The other morning a serious accident occurred at Laketon, Wabash County.' While climbing a fence a gun in the hands of one of the boys of Fred Martin, who were out hunting, was discharged and a load of shot entered the leg of his companion. A moment later the other barrel went off and seriously wounded the other lad. John Hoover, well-known citizen of Crawfordsville, died suddenly. Burglars entered the general store ot Newton Jackson, of Versailles, the other night, and carried off $200 worth of clothing,hats, revolvers and knives. They gained an entrance by taking out a large pane of glass from one of the front windows. There is a reward of $100 for the a.rrest and conviction of the thieves. No clew. Burglars entered the store of Andy Fountains, at Heltonville, ten miles east of Bedford, and took a large quantity ot goods. At Martinsville, Wm. Lee, a farm-hand, was run over and killed by the West-bound midnight freight on the! and V. road. Paul Sheets, a dissolute character, at tacked Lame Charley, a half-breed Indian w*ith a meat Cleaver, at Columbus, when Lame Charley shot him twice in the head and once in the body. Sheets is still alive and in jail. A serious wreck occurred on the Indianapolis and Evansville railroad, at Salem City, Green Cdunty. South-bound freight No. 29 jumped the track and derailed the engine and three cars. George Spellman, fireman, jumped from his engine and broke his leg; Charles Hampey, brakeman, jumped and badly injured one of his limbs. There were several passengers on the train, but other than a few bruises-and a terrible shaking up they were uninjured. The wreck is a serious one.

aiMtva jygsmiiB avia sessions in Indianapolis a few days agcA&A guarantee association is to bo formed. Steps will at once be taken to extend tbe work of the association to all the States in the Union. The following officers were chosen: President, Geo. Potry, of Kentucky; Vice-Presi-dent, G. F. Talmage, of Minnesota; Secretary, O. L. Rickwood, of Wisconsin; (Treasurer, S. I* Spark, of Kentucky. The next meeting will be held at bake Minnetoka, beginning the third Wednesday in July. 1SS7. Isaac Ash lives several miles from Shelbyville. The other night on coming home from church .his wife told him a man had been trying to force an entrance. Mr. Ash concealed himself outside the house, and soon after the fellow came back. As he got on top the fence Mr. Ash called on him to halt, and as he didn’t 6top Mr. Ash let him have one barrel of his shotgun. The fellow yelled like a Comanche, proving that he got the load, but he managed to get away. G. W. Jacksos, who accidentally shot himself in the head several days ago, near Lexington, has since died from the eSectaof the wound _ " —There are forty-eight women law* vers in practice in the United States, distributed as follows, the States being given in the order in which they first admitted them: Iowa, 3; Missouri, 3; Miohigan, 6; Utah Territory, 1; District of Columbia. 3; Maine, 1; Ohio, 4; Illinois, 7; Wisconsin, 6; Indiana, 8; Kansas, 3; Minnesota 1, (from Iowa); California, 3; Connecticut, 1; Massachusetts, 1; Nebraska, 1; Wash* ington Territory, 1; Pennsylvania, I.— Chicago Journal. —There are neariy 150,000 owners of jreal estato in Philadelphia who pay taxes upon the 885,000 separate properties assessed in the city limits. Thesa figures show a larger proportion of taxpayers than can De found in any city In the United States.— JV. Y. Post. —George Holyland, of Fork, Md., was shearing a when the animal sh< Tii eep the other day eked and drove one of the blades of the sharp shears into George’s abdomen, inflicting i fro

HILL AT THE HUB, Enthusiastic Reception to Governor HW of New York by the Boy State Glnb at Boas ton—The Introduction of the Gneat and Bis Response—Three Cheers and a Tiger. Boston, June 19.—The reception tendered to Governor Hill, of New York, by the Bay State Club at the Parker House yesterday afternoon was one of the largest and most enthusiastic gatherings U the annals of the clnb. Prom one until 2:30 o’clock an informal reception was tendered to Governor Hill, during which time the Bay State war horses were presented to him as they came in. At 2 tSO o’clock the members and guests took seats around the banquet table. Covers were laid for 200, and while the dinner was in progress Baldman’s Cadet band, stationed in the corridor, rendered selections from the “Mikado” and othei popular operas of the day. After the cloth Was cleared. Colonel H. Taylor, president of the club introduced Governor Hill at follows: Ot all the distinguished guests who have been welcomed by the Bay State Club, none have been more deserving of the right hand of fellowship than the sound and fearless Democrat and honest Executive who Is with us to-day. We sometimes think that Boston and Massachusetts are the beginning and end of the world—that we hold the key of the nniveree, and that if we should use it the angel would sound the last trumpet; but when we meet the Governor of the Empire State and realise the extent of his domain, its Intelligence, Its industries, its wealth and Influence in National affairs, then we feel that this is a great country, and that /there possibly may be other keys to the n/nverse beside ours. But we have -never taken oil our hats so easily and gracefully to New York as we do now when she presents us with a Governor so worthv of her as the central figure of this occasion. Asa manly man among men, as a Democrat among Democrats, as an honest, able. Independent and growing statesman, I present to you the Hon. David B. Hill, Governor ot Nbw York. [Prolonged applause.! Governor Hill was greeted With a tremendous storm of applause, and when had subsided sufficiently to be heard he said: I must be permitted to aceept'thls eourte ous welcome and your generous hospitality as your tribute of respect to the Democratic State of New York—the State which gave to the country that venerable and renowned statesman, dear to every Democratic heart, the late Horatio Seymour; the State that furnished the bold champion of reform, the clcar-tblnker.the sagacious patriot, the Sage of Greystone, Samuel J. Tilden; and lastly, the State that presented to the Nation the honored Chief Magistrate of the country, who is now eo ably and satisfSctorily discharging the important duties of his high trust. In times of onr party history when defeat and disaster have overtaken ns, in season and ont of season, In fair weather and in foul, without patronage, State or National, with little prospects of ever receiving the honor awaiting faithful party service, the gallant Democrats of Massachusetts have boldly and steadily upheld the Democratic banner, and fought the good fight. 1 know of, no better place or opportunity to exchange the congratulations of 1SS4, which, for the first time In twenty-four years gave us a Democratic Administration. The country to-day Is better for It. All the predictions of our opponents have come to

uckuguv. nc unv« a rujsmcm wuuoo uuu* esty and sincerity ot purpose to serve the people faithfully is conceded by everyone. He may make mistakes, but what public man does not? Pecmlt me to suggest at this time our opponents can not disturb enr equanimity by intimating that we are disappointed about the spoils of office. There is no such disappointment. The Democratic party has higher alms and purposes than the mere distribution of party . patronage. Our opponents mistake our desires and misrepresent our position. Our party that has flourished for twenty-four years without patronage, and the so-called spoils of office will not destroy itself by any Internal feuds. I admire the patriotism and loyalty ot the Democratic party. We must not forget that the President, in his desire to reform abuse, and to give the country a better government by agents selected by him, has been obstructed by an adverse Senate. Faithful men have been rejected on their nomination, or their nominations have not been acted on because they had been aotlve party men and that was alt I have expressed my views at some length upon the question of the policy of continuing the confirmatory power of the Senate, and I do not intend to reiterate them here. I am opposed to such confirming power being lodged in the Senate of the United States. I believe that with power should go responsibility. When the peoplaelect a President he should be permitted to select, untrammeled by Senatorial fancy, his own advisers It la only what Is called the courtesy of the Senate that reqntres the confirmation of the President's appointees. He can only appoint without the confirmation ot the Senate what are denominated in the Constitution the inferior offioes. In mv judgment he Should appoint them all, ana more especially the more Important positions In the gift ot the Government. IIow else can he carry out and enforce the policy and principle of his administration? A President just elected bv the people should not be permitted to be confronted by the opposition of a Senate elected two and four years before his own election. He represents the people and their wishes more than does the Senate. I am utterly opposed to any policy or scheme which prevents any administration from recognizing faithful party service In the distilbution of the important offices ot the Government. I am not In favor of mere sentimentality in appointments. When Governor Hill finished the entire audience arose and gave three rousing cheers and a tiger, the applause lasting nearly five minutes.

ESTIMATES. Treasury Estimates of Receipts and Expei^itmres for the Next Fiscal Tear—Refunds to be Paid Under the Oberteuffhr Decision. Washington, June 19.—Acting Secre tarv Fairchild, in a letter to Representative Breckinridge, ot Kentucky, in regard to the estimated receipts and expenditures tor the next fiscal year, says that the amounts ot refunds to be paid under the Oberteuffer decision as to the duty on cartons, etc., is estimated at between *4,000,000 and *5,000,000. He says further that the items of *4,000,000 specified in the book of estimates is for the ordinary and usual repayment to importers of excess of deposits upon ascertained duties, or upon duties and other moneys paid under protest; consequently the estimated sum, he says, should be increased to about *8,000,000 or *9,000,000. He explains that the item of *8,600,000 for debentures, etc., can not be used for the payment of claims under the Obertenffer decision or otherwise, except as drawbacks on imported material exported in the form of manufactures. The receipts for the next fiscal year, although given as estimated at *315,000,000, will, probably, amouut to *333,000,000 according to the ratio of increase during the present fiscal year. The Ohio Liquor Laws. Cincinnati, June 19.—Fifty-seven Injunctions were yesterday sworn out by wholesale liquor dealers of Cincinnati against County Treasurer Rattermann to prevent him from collecting the *330 from them, on the ground that they are not retail dealers, and therefore are exempt from the tax. Rattermann has assessed fourteen of the firms *200 penalty each for failing to answer all the questions on the printed list of questions The case will be hurried through on demurrers to the Supreme Court for decision. They Must See the Governor First. Albany, N. Y., June 18.—A very important bill, which has hitherto escaped public attention, has been signed by Governor Hill. ..The bill possesses interest to all officers ot justice in the entire State. The new law takes effect immediately, aud provides that a person charged with crime in another State or Territory shall not be taken out of this State, unless he be regularly extradited, and any person or officer who aids or assists in removing any fugitive from justice out of this State ,without a requisition being first obtained, shall be gailty of^feiony and imprisoned In the Stats

MR. AND MRS. CLEVELAND. “May their Sun Hide High In th« Heavens”—A Simple* Demoerattc Mar* riage. “Give me health and a day,'* says Emerson, “ and I will make the pomp of empires ridiculous.” President Cleveland has been given health .and a day, and he has made the pomp of royalty absurd. Many a splendid pageantry of royal marriage has been potrayed by the pen of the historian and chronieled in the columns of the public press; but more impressive than the pomp and fanfare of royalty was the simple' ceremonial at the White House, when President Cleveland was united in marriage to Miss Folsom. And whatever the political antagonisms which the President may invite, there can be no question that the simplicity which characterized his recent marriage has won the hearty recognition of the whole country. And the spectacle is assuredly an imposing one. Mr. Cleveland is the chosen ruler of sixty millions of people. He is the head of the most intelligent, the wealthiest, and—despite its small army and its paper navy — the most powerful Nation on earth. And yet his wedding at his official residence was so simple as to present a striking contrast to many a wedding which has taken place in our principal cities, whose pomp and glitter and display were depicted in the newspapers the next day from a very different feeling and for a very different reason from those which caused the public press to give to an interested yet deferential and respectful public the particulars of the simple White House ceremony. At that wedding there were no “ gorgeous uniforms. There was no show of the military— the White House was unguarded by a single trooper, or police officer; "the grounds were just as free to the pubne occupancy as ever, and even the doors of the White House were open. A distinguished Englishman, struck with this unusual sight, was constrained to pronounce it on the whole ‘he most notable sight he had seen tn the United States. We are tqld there were bat twentyfivC^tersons, including the President’s and the bride’s relatives, intimate friends, and the members of the Cabinet and their wives, present. But in reality the whole Nation was present; at least it took a deep interest in the event which itself is as unprecedented —no other President was ever married there--as it is important For there can be no question that it is far better that the President should be a married man, although in the present instance.

as to the case of a former bachelor President, the loss was inappreciable from the fact that the social side was so well cared for by the one who up tohis wedding had performed the responsible duties of lady of the President’s house. And let ns say woman has her place in this country and in the home of its Chief Executive, though we have no court, and though there is no circle of royal iainilies on this continent. And the social success of men, we may even say of-Adminis-trations, which counts for so much in public life, is due to no sipall extent to the character of the President’s wife. The people want to see American social life at its best at the White House. They want to see an absence of vulgarity, of narrowness, of any cause for evil report. Recognizing what public duties and official intercourse demand, they yet want to see a timely simplicity, and they want to know thatthe atmosphere ofthat Washington home is pure and sweet. The country will like the President the better for his entering into the marriage state—aid so worthily into it—peculiarly fitting the head of the Nation. And it will like him the better for having maintained the" simplicity so dear to the hearts of Americans, and especially' to the “plain people” whom Mr. Lincoln’s heart so well appreciated. The whole Nation will wish for tong life, happiness and prosperity to the President and his bride, in whom are crystallized the virtues and graces of American womanhood. Mav their sun ride high in the heavens, and their sunset be as calm and peaceful as the morning is auspicious . and radiant with promise.—Christian at Work.

TRYING TO EXPLAIN. The Hard Task Before Governor Foraker, of Ohio—What a Prominent Republican Has to 8a j or Him. Governor Foraker has arrived in Cincinnati. His coming was not heralded with trumpets and “sich,” nor was he met at the depot by the Young Men’s Blaine Club of this city. Of course this failure to properly receive his Excellency has no significance. Some peopf? might imagine that because the Blaine Club went to Springfield m a body to secure his nomination at the hands of the Republican State Convention the same organization would welcome him with outstretched arms. A few persons, and they might be misinformed, say such is the feeling of the Blaine Club. The band of young Republicans has taken no action in the premises. The Governor’s visit to the Queen City is said to be that of a private citizen. It is rumored that he requested that no public demonstration be made, which accounts for what might appear to be a lack of enthusiasm. Report has it that his Excellency will be tendered a reception by the Lincoln Club before his retowTfirColnmbus. There are some peculiar stories floating aronnd as to the cause of the Governor’s quiet Tisft. It is asserted by a number of gentlemen who should be well informed that he is anxion^to make a few explanations. The Governor has always been classed among the smartest and shrewdest of politicians. That he should have occasion to explain might appear strange. Several persons, probably evilly disposed, have, however, likened Little Breeches to an ex-Govcrnor who has the reputation of having made more mistakes in a less time than all his predecessors. In short, he is said to have beaten the record. There is a bare suspicion that the Governor and his friends. Mayor Smith, Sam Bailey, William B. Smith et al., meant to have a conferences as to the proper course to pursue at the coming fall convention ana election. There is also a growing belief that the last named gentlemen have discovered that a screw is loose somewhere in the party machinery, and that there is danger of a revolt— a sort of mutiny, so to speak. That there is something wrong can not be questioned. A reporter spent an entire night doing detective work, but was unable to learn exaotly what was up. He was satisfied, however, that a row panels of terming were down; that tbe pasture *

was unprotected, and that there went grave doubts as to whether the posts could be reset unless the entire Republican herd was given an even chance tor the clover spots. The esteem with which Governor Foraher is held by the Blaine Club is best evidenced by the remarks of one of the officers of that organization as made at the house on Fourth street very lately. Said he: “Foraher is either foolishly inconsistent or else is a deliberate falsifier. One day he declares he will not iuterfere with any of the appointments of his appointees, and the next he states he will see that certain gentlemen are named for position*.”— Cincinnati Enquirer. DISGRACEFUL POLITICS. Under a Specious Pretense of Helping Union Veterans Massachusetts Republicans Attack Ctrll-Service Reform. Some weeks ago the opponents of reform in Massachusetts brought forward a bill in the lower branch of the Legislature authorizing the exemption of every body who served in the Union Army for the necessity of passing a competitive examination iq any case where such examination is required by law. The measure was ostensibly introduced as “the payment of a debt of fratitude to the veterans,” but the ollowness of this pretense was speedily exposed by the veterans themselves. Several Representatives who had served with honor in the war made earnest protest against the idea that their comrades either needed or desired any favoritism, and it was made perfectly plain that there was no demand for the proposed change on the part of the old soldiers. The real .motive of the movement consequently had to be disclosed, and it was openly admitted by advocates of the scheme that they were pushing it* as a means of breaking down tnc-.whole reform system in the State. The bill finally passed the lower branch by a vote of nearly three to one. It came up in the Senate lately, and was discussed at length. President Pillsbury made an admirable speech showing that the change was not needed and not wanted by the veterans, and that it could by no possibility benefit any old soldier except one who was disqualified by incompetencv to nil an office and who had a “pull” on the appointing power. • He pointed out that the bill was supported “by all the members of the Republican party who want to discredit and break down the reform of the civil service,” and he told them frankly that “they can not deal the Republican party a more deadly blow

tuau me w bun uiu. Boston Journal, the leading Republican organ of the State, made an earnest appeal to Senators of its party to reject the measure. “The passage of this bill,’’ it said, “would be a lasting reproach to Massachusetts Republicanism.” It declared that theTbill was “insincere in its purpose and retrogressive in its tendency/’ and affirmed that “the Republican party can not afford to shoulder it.” Yet, in the face of such warnings, the Senate first made the bill worse by requiring instead of allowing the exemption of veterans from examination, and then passed it, thirteen Republicans voting for it and only eleven against it.—«. T. Post. . WAR-LIKE REPUBLICANS. How Former Administrations in Power Have Provided for Protecting the National Honor. The assurance exhibited by various of our Republican contemporaries, in speaking of what would be done and what would not be-done for our fishermen if ifc Blaine were President is , simply submne. It challenges admiration. Would Mr. Blaine, in Mr. Bayard’s place, have done better? “Yes,” say the Blaineomaniacs. The Plumed Knight, we are informed, would have ordered the navy to proceed at once to the Canadian snores, reprisals would have been made, and England would have heard news calculated to make the British lion quiver with fear from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail. But Mr. Blaine in Mr. Bayard’s place, or in the Presidential chair, would have done no such thing. Why? Well, because pitching into Peruvian guano beds and fighting John Bull are two altogether difierent things. Mr. Blaine gave us a specimen of nis method of twisting the lion’s tail when American citizens were locked up as suspects in British prisons. Again, even were Mr. Blaine in office and fully disposed to show fight, he would have nothing to do it with. The Republican party after four-and-twenty years of power left our navy what we see it—an unsuccessful opponent of a coal barge. Untold millions have been spent for a navy under Republican Presidents, and the country has what to show for it? The Tallapoosa and Secor Robeson. Mr. Bayard might never be anxious to vindicate the honor of the flag, yet Mr. Blaine's party has left the country without so muoh as a reliable dispatch boat Wonderful things Mr. Blaine or any one else could do with the American navy as handed down from Republican Administrations to President ' Cleveland! «

aujr uuuuuj wrw wi auru genius of the American people would doubtless rise to the emergency, and provide adequate means of offense and defense. But it would not be because of the Republican party or any of its leaders. They are responsible for our present lack of facilities for pro* tecting the national honor, and they are the last who, without making them* selves ridiculous, eould stand up and teH what a terrible rumpus they would make about England's ears were they in power.—Boston Globe. -Mr. Blaine never could get alojr jf with the stenographers. A man of fluent speech, speaking on an inspiring theme, seldom faces with satisfaction the transcription of his words in cold Type. The stenographer asserts he reported Mr. Blaine's abuse of Lord Salisbury verbatim. Mr. Blaine denies this and furnishes an amended version calculated to show that even in a stump speech he observes the courtesies of parliamentary bodies. And the English papers declare that his correction is no better than the original version. However, Mr. Blaine would be glad of a little abuse from the English press.— St. Louis Republican. -When Mr. Conkling dominated the Republican side of the United States Senate, his voice was wont to fall like a lash upon those who haved themselves. In his i' Ingalls, of Kansas, has fond fanoy that the mantle of Mr. Conkling fell upon him. The result hi a ludicrous exhibition at weak r ’" jug, which he fancies to be Mr. Ingalls should be