Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 9, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 July 1886 — Page 1

i§*ft KHIGHT & BYNUM, Editors and Publishers. Democrat. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE ('< ) TIN TV, OFFICE, otst 0. E. MOETOOHEBY’S Store, Main Stmt. VOLUME XVII. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. JULY 8, 188& NUMBER 9.

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ncOFESaiONAt CARDS. i. PORT. 4. - HONKTCU1T. POSEY ft HONtl'CUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Petersburg, hi. S1 f11 theoovirta. All hvslnw, •tatltlvtl^« tv?Sdeii,t0' A„S°k7 Public con0,BO* 0WftMlt* 1UCHARD30.’*. A. H. VAYtMW ^ RICHARDSON ft TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law i _ PETERSBURG, UVD. ever Adams A Son's drug More. WM, r, TOWNSKKP. MART VLRKNKR. TOWNSEND & FLEENER, Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. sa^SJKSS1*0?ln aU *h® courts Office, o\e» S*SA{225* ®tore. Special attention giver 5£«HS?I?^Jl8*/rob^ BuiiJaeM, Staying and Sag Abstract a!bxumiuin^ WMm and FurnishX. A. SLY, J. W. W1LSOH. ELY & WILSON, Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. *y~Offlo , in the Bank BuildinE.tl T. a & E. SMITH, (suocossors to Doyfe .fc Thompson) -iv i v jl uv>ui|>auii) Attorneys at Law3 l?eal Estate, Loan & Insurance Agts. Officer second floor Bank Building, I'etors burg, lncl. The b"st Fire and Life Insurance Companies represented. Money to loan on flrsi mortgages at seven ami eight per cent. Prompt attention to collections, and all business intrusted to us. R. R. K1ME, M. D., Physician end Surgeon PETERSBURG, IND. Office, over Barrett & Sm»a store; rest, wence on Seventh Street, three squares south »fgh* °*')a promplly “Wended to, day 01

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources, PERSONAL AND POLITICAL Judgk David Davis was burred at Bloomington, 111., on the 29th. Jambs W. Fonttn, Consul-General to Mexico, hue seat a long report to the State Department in regard to the remarkable growth ot the silk industry in that country. Representative Bowden, of Pennsylvania, presented to the President as a wedding present a fine steel hOrseshde, which was made by Mr-. John Sohaadt, of Allentown, and intrusted to Mr. Bowden for delivery. On one end of the sVoe are the initials “G. C.” and on the otter “F. F. C.” In the center is the word “Gluck,’* which in German means good luck. Mrs S. B. Cushing, of Michigan, a clerk in the Post-office Department, has been dismissed at her own request. She was an efficient clerk, and When her request to be dismissed was refused she absented herself from her desk until the debartment was forced to remove her. The special convention ot Philadelphia on the 29th, for the purpose of electing an assistant Bishop of the Protestant; Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania, chose Rev. Oal William Whittaker, of Nevada. THK'ceremoRy of presenting the scarlet beretta to Cardinal Gibbons occurred at Baltimore, Md., on the 30th, - George Gill Whitelaw, the Harvard student who was injured in the recent Bght at the Miller House, Boston, on the night of June 19, is believed to be out of danger. Representative Dockery has received a letter from J. T. Child, the new Minister to Siam. Mr. Child mails from Hong Kong, and doesn’t express himself as if he was sick of the job, as has been reported. “So far we have bad a pleasant trip,” Mr. Child writes; “the fastest on record.” « Up to June 30 President Cleveland had vetoed sixty-eight private pension bills. A grand ball was given by Sir Spencer St. John, British Minister to Mexico, on the night of the 30th. It was a brilliant affair; Honoray degrees were conferred on the 30th on Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and John Bright by the Oxford (England) University. General James A. Beaver was nominated for Governor of Pennsylvania on the SOih by the Republican convention at Harrisburg.

xv. -vi. a.elley, recenuy u mtect states pension agent at Louisville, Ky., was apparently $51,000 short with the Governraent, but has paid up. On the 29th George W. Varney, one of the pall-bearers at the fun eral of Mrs. Baker at Dover, N. H., sank down as he was helping to carry out the casket and died instantly of heart disease. ON the 30th the French Academy of Science admitted the first lady professor to their body. She is Miss Sophie Kowlewska, and is a professor of mathematics. On the 30th the President rent the nomination of Hugh Smith Thompson, of South Carolina, to the Senate, to be assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice William E. Smith, resigned. In announcing the resignation of General Ls,ussier, military governor of Paris, the Itepvblique Franchise takes occasion to accuse General Boulanger, Minister of War, of aspiring to a dictatorship. On the 30th President Cleveland sent to the collector’s cffice and paid his dog license for the present year. This is the first instance of a President of the United States buying a dog tag'in Washington. Secretary Lamar was present and represented the Cabinet at the ceremony of imposing the beretta upon Card inl Gibbons at Baltimore on the 3Jth. President Cleveland sent by Rev. Dr. Chapelle, pastor of St. Matthew’s Church in Washington, a personal letter congratula ting the Cardins). Among those who shook hands with the President on the 30th was Lieutenant Greeiy, the Arctic explorer, and he was accompanied by his father-in-law. “I was here fifty-two years ago,” said the latter to the President, “and shook hands with General Jackson.” Henry Ward Beecher is the latest social "lion” in Lemdon. It is widely rumored in Tory circles that he intends to make home rule one of the chief subjects pf his lectures. Unlike Mr. Spurgeon, whose sudden attack on home rule caused such a surprise the other day, he Will take strong Parnellite views of the Irish situation. On the the 30th the Lower House of the Bavarian Parliament, by unanimous vote, gave 200,000 florins to Prince Lultpold to enable him to maintain a royal establishment consistent with his rank as Regent. President Cleveland has signed the Kitx-John Porter bill.

wiunouiuui, IUO JOUgllSU JIWV, yuuusuos a vigorous Unionist campaign song. T. Sullivan and W. Murphy, Parnellites; John Bright and Joseph Chamberlain, Unionists, were re-elected to the British Parliament without opposition. On the 1st Frank H. Brown, a prominent grain merchant, was arrested at Boston, charged with forging bills of lading. Experts are busily engaged on the books of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Company to discover the extent of Treasurer Kobinson’s defalcation. The usual woman appears rn^he case. In the case of Mrs. Roxanna Druse, Who was convicted of the murder of her husband in Herkimer County, N. Y., the general term decision is adverse to her appeal, and she will be sentenced to death. On the 1st Prof. Timothy Dwight was inaugurated presiden t of Yale college, to succeed Dr. Porter. The exercises were held in the Centre Church. On the 1st Dr< Amos N. Bellirger, who killed Stephney Reilly, a prominent colored Democrat, in Charleston, 8. C., in October, 1885, was acquitted of the charge of murder after a second trial continuing three days. Secretary Endicott has designated Major Richard 8. Vickley, surgeon, as surgeon in charge of the army e nd navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark. The hospital is now ready for patients. A naval medical officer will be detailed for duty there. Acting Secretary Fairchild on the 1st sent to the Senate a letter from the Commissioners of Fish and Fisheries, asking (or an appropriation of $37,5)0 for flttlng out the Albatross with a view of investigating the fisheries of the Pacific coast. CRUCES AND CASUALTI ES. A sensation was produced in Buffalo, N. Y., on the 38tb, by the publication of sworn statements by eleven members of the Court of Sessions grand jury, setting forth that a lawyer named Charles T, Wh ltober had attempted to tamper with

Stone Binmu shot and fatally wounded bis lather near Windsor, Bertie County, B. C., on the 29th, and then robbed the safe of $600and fled. The police of Memphis, Tenn., received information early oh the morning of the S&th, bt a double murder having been per* petrated some three miles east of the city. The victims were Paul Justice and his wife. They kept a grocery, and It is said they were shot and killed by parties who were detected in robbing the store. While four workmen were raising a frame house in Nashville, Tenn., on the 29th, it fell, burying David Rucker and Charles ftah&om, both colored, in the ruin s. When found, Rucker was dead and Ransom, who was lying on top of the corpse, was severely bruised. At McAlister, I. T., an eight, year-old son of W. Bell started out to lariat his pony, when the animal became frightened and in his maneuvers entangled the lad in the rope, dragging him fully two hundred yards. When found hcwas badly mangled fthd after a couple of gasps expired. The Koenig cotton mill, in St. Petersburg, Russia, was destroyed bv fire on the 29th. The loss is |275,000. Jack Keef, a local sport, was shot and killed by Morgan Anderson, of Alliance, in Wooster, O., on the night of the 29th. The shooting was the result of a quarrel about a woman. Anderson escaped. Frederick Jutt, an imbecile son of Charles Juty, a well-known Pittsburgh (Pa.) coal operator, attempted to kill bis step-mother on the 29th, and, failing, committed suicide by shoot ing himself through the head. The entire business portion of Alturas, Cal., was destroyed by fire on the 29th. Loss, $61,000, partly insured. John Hardin, of Brasil, Ind., murderously assaulted Levi Leash on the 29th while both were at work at the Central rolling mills, striking him on the head with an iron bar eight feet long. Leash's skull was crushed. He can not recover. On the 30th eight persons were instantly killed by an accident to a mail train from Belfast to Dublin. The train was going at a high rate of speed, and left the rails at Knockbridge. Twenty persons wore wounded. The train was completely smashed. On the 30th Mrs. John Schick, aged fiftyfive years, committed suicide at Davenport, la., by severing her jugular vein and a small artery with a small pair of sharppointed scissors. Mental aberration was the cause.

uosuvjrw wo susu, uuur noa uunu factory of Briggs, Wharton & Bevera ge^ at Appleton, Wis., on the night of the 29 th. Loss, 155,000; insurance, $30,000. On the 1st Edwin Bellows shot and fatally wounded his wife at Wilkesbarre, Pa. An express train on the Erie reod was wrecked by a misplaced switch near Susquehanna, Pa., on the 1st. While resisting arrest Seymour Darling was shot and killed at Circleville, O., on the 1st. Several others were wounded. Miller & Lawrence’s tub and pail factory at Leominster, Mass., burned on the 1st. On the night of the 30th Augus Lindt’s residence, at Chicago; was burned and the sleeping inmates were saved by a dog barking furiously until they were awakened. On the 1st Peter Zingerle, a crank, vrho went from Pittsburgh to Washington for the avowed purpose of killing the French Minister, was arrested while prowling around the latter’s residence with a loaded revolver. The city of Independence, Cal., was almost entirely destroyed by Are on the 1st. Ltfcs, $200,000; insurance, $40,000. At the Black Diamond colliery near Minersville, Fa., on the 1st, two miners named Abbott Russell and John Kelly Were engaged in tapping the water from an old breast when a great volume of wpf ter suddenly burst in, drowning both mbiL and completely flooding the mine. \v On the 1st an express train on the Stuttgart & Berlin railway ran into a local train, demolishing the latter and killing and wounding a large number of persons. Nine are known to have been killed. None Of the passengers on the express were fatally hurt. MISCELLANEOUS. A reunion of the “Iron Brigade” will be held at Oshkosh, Wis., August 81 and September 1 and 2. Generals Sherman, Gibbon, Bragg, Fairchilds and other noted officers will be present. The local committee, in their circular, state: “Comrades are requested to bring with them their wives and children, for we expect to give you a day of pleasure on the most beautiful island in the United States.” The French Senate has adopted the bill authorizing the city of Paris to issue a loan of $50,000,000 to inaugurate and carry on public improvements for the purpose of furnishing work to the unemployed, striking out, howevor, the clause interpolated by the Chamber of Deputies forbidding the use of material obtained outside of France.

f he window-glass factories or the country shut down on the 30th, according to agreement. The red flag was hoisted on the over the effects of the late Court of Alabama Claims. The buildiug was filled with buyers, and the different articles were run up as a rule pretty near to the figures that they brought when purchased by the Government. This was especially the case with Ok 'hairs, desks and wardrobes. Four emissaries from the striking Lake Shore switchmen arrived in Toledo on the 29th from Chicago and endeavored to induce the 110 Lake Shore switchmen at that place to join the strike. They were coldly received, and it is authoritatively stated by influential switchmen that they will not go out. The long-pending troubles between the proprietors of the Philadelphia rollingmills and their employes have come to a crisis. There is a general shut-down, resulting in the banking of the fires in four large concerns in the city, which Willi directly affect 1,300 men. A force of British troops, with two batteries, has had a severe fight with 1,500 Burmese rebels, strongly entrenched, near Tummoo. The fight lasted five hours. The British, failing to dislodge the rebels, retired. Several officers were killed and wounded. On the 30th there was a narrow escape from another riot among the striking switchmen at Chicago. On the 30th an explosion of sewer gas in the British House of Commons led to sensational rumors about Irish plots and. dynamite outrages. The guard of United States troops at Lakevlew cemetery, Cleveland, O., which has watohed Garfield’s tomb for nearly five years, was withdrawn on the 80th by order of the War Department. The soldiers returned to Fort Wayne, at Detroit. The Tale College statement for the past year shows receipts of $187,470, and expenses of. $1«7,285. The Congregationalists throughout the United States are to make an effort on Sunday, July 4, to pay off a debt of ${10,000 carried for the past two years by the American Missionary Association, the Rational benevolent society, through which they are doing a great educational work _ dltWmM ___

Statistics show ;hat last year 19,667,180 imperial gallons ot beer were exported from Munich, BaVaHa, or4,646,630 imperial gallohs more than in 1884. This is an increase of 33 per cent. The consumption of beer in the town of Munich during the year was 84,985,683 imperial gallons, or 95 4-5th gallons per head. Ths proprietors of five rolling mills ah Youngstown, O., hare refused to sign the iron*workers' scale, whfch went into effect on the 1st, Brown, Bonnell is Co;; who sre in the halids of a receiver, agreed to pay the scale price, though they could not sign the scale. Thu Conservative candidates for East Toxteth, Everton and West Toxteth divisions of Liverpool have been elected without opposition. * On the 1st everything was quiet in the Lake Shore yards at Chicago. It was reported on the 1st that the American Ashing schooner City Point had been seised at Shelburne harbor, Nova Scotia, by a Canadian cruiser. A recently issued directory of Chicago indicates, it is claimed, a population of 750.000 for that city, an increase of about 50.000 in the past year. The rumor that the Baltimore & Ohio and the Western Union Telegraph companies are about to consolidate is denied by President Bates. In the case of Schilling, charged with boycotting at Milwaukee, the jury disagreed and Were discharged. The Mexican Government has extended for three years the concessions to tha Texas, Topolohampo & PaciAc railroad. The imperial revenue of Germany for the Ascal years 1885-86 it is estimated will fall 17,000,000 marks below the estimate. For the Arst six months of 1886 the busness failures amount in number to 5,158, as against 6,004 for the first six months of 1885. The liabilities amount to $50,434,000 for the first half of 1886 as against $75,» 722.000 for the first half of 1885, showing a decline in the number of failures of 848, and in amount of liabilities, $24,388,000. The debt statement issued on the 1st shows the following: Debt less cash in treasury, June 1,1886, $1,308,198,281; debt less cash in treasury, July 1, 1886, $1,389,136,384; reduction of debt in June, $9,061,« 897.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. IM the Senate on the 28th the Legislative Appropriation bill, with amendments, was reported from committee. A bill regulating terms In court In Colorado passed. The River and Harbor bill, with amendments, was reported. A conference report on the Pension bill wus presented, the nouse receding from its disagreements. The report was adopted. The bill giving the widow of General Stanard 1100 monthly pension passed. The Senate decided to stand by its amendments to the PostOffice bill.In the House, under the call of States a great batch of bills was dumped Into the House, among them one giving the Hot Springs reservation to • the State of Arkansas; also Mr. Randall's tariff bill. The sundry civil Appropriations bill was taken np in committee of the whole, and the debate ocoupted the rest of the day’s session without any great progress being made. In the Senate on the 29th the hill quieting titles of settlers on Des Moines river lands was passed over the President's veto. The conference report on the Army bilk was agreed to. The Legislative bill was discussed at length, and some amendments were adopted. The conference report on the Agricultural bill was agreed to.In the House Mr. Glover (Mo.) called up the Lancaster matter, and moved to discharge the committee considering the case, which motion was lost. The conference report on the Pension bill was agreed to. The General Deficiency bill was reported and referred. The House took up the sundry Civil Appropriations bill In committee of the whole. After some time devoted to this measure, conference reports on the Post-Office and Army bills were agreed to. In the Senate on the 30th the resolution for open executive sessions was considered, Messrs. Morrill and Hoar making speeches agatnst the resolution. The conference report on the Diplomatic bill was agreed to. The Legislative bill was then taken up and discussed.In the House the report of Chairman Boyle of the PanKlectric committee was submitted; also two other reports from tho same committee The Sundry Civil bill was taken up and material progress made with its consideration. The conference report on the Diplomatic bill was agreed to. lN"the Senate on the 1st the Oleomargarine hill was reported back and will be called up after passage of the appropriation bills. A bill for the reduction of salaries of Cabinet officers was Introduced. The House resolution extending appropriations was amended and passed, and the consideiatlon of the Legislative bill was resumed In committee of the whole. After a lengthy debate; the bill was reported back to the Senate_In the House a motion to pass the Des Moines Lands bill over the President’s veto was defeated. The Sundry Civil Appropriations hill was taken up In committee of the whole. After considerable debate and the adoption of several amendments, the olll passed. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. In the Senate on the 3d the Legislative Appropriation bill was passed after a lengthy discussion and voting on amendments. The River and Harbor bill was taken up. Resolutions on the death of Representative Hahn, of Louisiana, were adopted and the Senate adjourned........In the House the bill for an additional justice for the Montana Supreme Court was passed. The Senate amendments to the bill repealing the land laws were non-oon-curred in and a conference committee .was appointed. The General Deficiency bill was taken up in committee of the whole and voting on amendments occupied the rest of the session, the work not being completed.

piVBi'cew xorx uoyconers uave oeon convicted and were sentenced to the penitentiary on the 2d. • Queen Victoria reviewed the troops at Alder-shoot on the 2d. During the fiscal year just closed the pension office, Washington, issued 81,422 certificates. General dissatisfaction is caused in Germany by the new telegraph rules. It is rumored that Minister Cox will return from Turkey and resume his old place in Congress. Parnell and Maurice Healey have been elected to represent the City of Cork. The Irish League has sent, so far, from headquarters at Detroit, Mich., $85,000 to Ireland to aid in the parliamentary campaign. The Servian peasantry refuse to pay their taxes, ill treat the collector, and are rioting generally. King Milan is roundly denounced, as a result of the disastrous Bulgarian campaign. There will be an adverse reporton Randall’s tariff bill by the ways and means oommittee at Washington. . Gladstone has bee n elected in the Midlothian district and also in the district known as Leithburgs. Parnell Is escorted everywhere he goes by a body-guard of personal friends, all stalwart young Irishmen. Ten men were killed and many injured on the 2d by an explosion in the Atlantic Giant Powder works, situated between McCainsville and Drakesville, N. J. The London Times rejoices because John Bright remains firm and uncompromising in opposition to Gladstone’s Irish scheme. General Negrete, who, the authorities say, is insane upon th< subject of revolution, has issued a circular calling upon the people to arm and overthrow the present Mexican administration. Watson’s spinning mills at Kidderminster, England, were destroyed by fire on the 2d. The loss is $500,000. One thousand persons are thrown out of employ

state Intelligence. OwntBus ha* been over-run by thieve* lately and many private houses have been broken into and robbed of watches, jevelry and some money. The other monainf, jnst about daylight, the police run toqv of them in, and some half dosen stolen watches, which were easily identified, were found on their persona Three of the parties are strangers. The other; Ol Socket; iM frfim Columbus, aild a hard case, hating served a term in the pen South for robbery. Mbs. William Lasts, in company with Mrs. Ira Chapman and infant son, started out in the country, driving a blind horse hitched to a buckboard. On arriving at the bridge near Waldron, Shelby County,, the horse became frightened and jumped over the abutment, dragging the vehicle and its occupants with him to the ground, fifteen feet below. The horse fell on Mrs: Lants, inflicting injuries which wiil probably prove fatal. Mi's. Chapman was injured internally, how bad can not yet be. ascertained. The child escaped unhurt. A big damage suit against the county will probably result on account of there being no guard-rail on the abutments. Both ladies are wives of prominent and weil-to-do farmers. George F. Nevitt, well known farmerot Dearborn County, died from the effects, as is supposed, of drinking water from ah old and disused well while harvesting. About eight miles east of Goshen a two-year-old child of a family of the name of Clawson was playing around her home and strayed near the pig-pen. She climbed a light fence surrounding the pen, and was either pulled in by the hogs or fell in, and was almost devoured before she was discovered. One side of her head was eaten off, the arms were torn in shreds and the intestines were protruding, She was dead When discovered. At Evansville, Edward Kratx, aged ten years, stole from his brother’s shot-bag a quantity of powder, which he packed in a can and a bottle, then in company with another lad named George Walters, he went to the commons near their home and proceeded to build a small bonfire. After getting it fairly started they threw the powder in the midst of the flames. A terrific explosion took place, and the boys were burled in different directions. Kratx bad bis face and hands horribly burned and full of splinters of glass, and suffered Intensely. Walters was also badly burned and scorched, and it is feared that his eyesight is entirely destroyed. Physicians were summoned and every thing possible done to alleviate their suffering, but no hopes of Walter’s recovery are entertained. Aftek a chase of nearly two years, Joseph Hawkins, an alleged notorious horse-thief, fell into the hands of Sheriff Gorman, of Richmond, a few days ago. The wheat crop of Central Indiana has been harvested iu splendid condition. It is the heaviest for years, and the grain is of excellent quality. The fruit crop is large, and grass, oats and corn never were better. The era of better times seems to be dawning on the farmers of that section of the State.

Ben Springs, who has just got out of the Reform School at Plainfield, was found the other morning trying to sell a lot of goods he stole at a grocery in Terre Haute. He was arrested, pleaded guilty, and in less than three or four hours had a sentence of ten years in the penitentiary. General Lew Wallace has settled down to literary pursuits at his home in Crawtordsville. Albert Johnson, of New Albany, has entered West Point Military Academy, having passed a very creditable examination. While harvesting, the team of John Buckingham, a well-to-do farmer living near Osgood, ran away, smashing the seifbinder and seriously injuring the aged farmer. County Clerk Myer, of Floyd, has just finished and sent to the Adjutant General of the State an enrollment of the soldiers, their widows and orphans of the late and Mexican war, numbering over six hundred names. W. J. Smith, fifty years of age, a farmer three miles south-east of Larwill, Whitley County, was struck dead by lightning the other afternoqoriqhile working in a field. He leaves a wifa«sd)five children. Thbre never wifi in the history of Lawrence County duch a crop of wheat as is being now harvested. There are very few acres thatwill yield less than twenty bushels and /the majority will run over thirty. The corn crop is very flattering. Thomas McTague, a farmer of Lake Township, Allen County, while driving home to his farm, eight miles from Ft. Wayne, the other nighty ran his wagon into a ditch. McTague, falling underneath the wagon, was instantly killed. The accident was not discovered until next moming. He leaves a large family.

James B. White was nominated as Republican candidate for Congress from the Twelfth Indiana restrict against Judge Lowry, present member and a candidate for election for the third term. Is the Federal Court -at Indianapolis Judge Gresham decided the case of the Brst mortgage bondholders against the Lake Erie and Western railroad, foreclosing the mortgage and ordering sale. The decree will be entered as soon as some minor matters in the case are disposed of. The case involves $4,600,000. The remains of an Indian supposed to be a chief killed in battle in 1813, were found, a few days ago, on the banks of the Mississinewha, near Wabash. By order of Chief Peconga, of the Miami tribe, the relics were properly reburied. The infant son of F. W. Hill fell in a well on his grandmother’s place, near ShelbyTille, falling twenty feet into eight feet of water and going to the bottom. His father rescued him in time to save his life. Thebe" carrier pigeons belonging to the Falls City Club were started from Indianapolis the other morning, and reached their lofts in New Albany in three hours, makin over thirty miles per hour. ■—A correspondent tells a story of Congressmen gathering around a pond in front of the Capitol and throwing dimes and nickels into the water to see the fish dive after them. The thing is preposterous. If the correspondent had told us that the fish stood around the pond and threw dimes and niokels into the water to tee the Congressmen dive after them we might have believed it —Cincinnati Enquirer. —Madame was recounting that her husband was ill the night before, and it was necessary to send for a doctor at three o'clook in the morning. “But I thought vou had a doctor in the house, your eldest son?” said a neighbor. “True, but we only let him doctor the servants.”—From the French. —A druggist in Philadelphia who supplied medicine for the poor-house, has been detected in putting up colored j"»ater and bread pills for tne paupers. . ong with this is the strange fact that ! Jj» patients improve under his treatblent—Philadelphia Press. —“Hallelujah Hitch” is the name of a bonnie Salvation Army captain st^ Honed at fort Colborne, Can.

PUBLIC FINANCES. The Redaction at the Public Debt for Jape —The Receipts end Expenditures of the 1 Government During the Fiscal Year Just Closed—A Surplus of •48,000,040 for the Year. Washington, July 8.—Th« redaction in the public debt during June, as shown by the statement issued from the Treaadiy Department yesterday; is 98,061,898, aiid fbr the fisCdl yb'dr eiided iiiiie S(tt #96,097,768,; against #63,494,708 fbr the’ preceding fiscal year, ttie total debt now, less cash In the Treasury, amounts to #1,389,136,383. The total net cash in the Treasury is now #75,191,109—a falling off of about one million since May 31. The gold certificates outstanding amount to #76,044,375—an increase of #4,000,000 during the month of June} silver certificates outstanding, #88,116,225—a decrease of nearly #3,000,000 during thb past tnonth; The treasury gold oalance bn hand Is #156,793,748, of abotit halt a million mbrb than a tnonth ago, and the silver balance is #96,829,537, ah increase of about three millions during the past month. Standard silver dollars are steadily accumulating, and the treasury now holds #181,253,566, about #3,000,000 more than on May 31. One year ago the store of silver dollars in the treasury vaults amounted to #165,481,112. There are now in circulation 53,469,720 standard silver dollars, against 89,000,000 one year agb. Customs receipts for jhiib were #17,934,122, and internal revenue receipts were #10,406,395. The total receipts of the government from all sources during the fiscal year were #336,144,290, or #16,000,000 more than the expectations of Treasury officials as shown in their estimates last December. Customs receipts were #192,747,722, against #181,471,939 during the preceding year. Internal' fevehde receipts were #117,034,628, against #112,498,725 the previous year— an increase in both instances, while receipts from miscellaneous sources amounted to #27,361.945, a decrease of #3,000,000. This shows an increase In revenues compared with the preceding year of nearly #13,000,000. With an increased revenue, there Is reported a decrease in expenditures amounting to about #15,000,000. The total expenditures of the year amounted, in round numbers, to #245,000,000, against #260,000,000 the year before. Ordinary expenses for the year just closed amounted to #130,000,000, or folly #22,000,008 less than the previous year. The interest charges for the past year were 850,680,679, about one million less than the previous year, while #64,703,454 was paid out for pensions, against $56,102,267 daring the preceding year, with total receipts amounting to 9336,000,000 and total expenditures (including #45,000,000 sinking fund) of #290,000,000. 'he Government’s surplus for the past jear will reach #45,000,000, against #18,000,000 during the fiscal vear ended June 30, 1885.

THE IRON BAND. The Railway Building of 1888 Promising to Kxceed Former Tears—What Has Already Been Bone and the Indications of Further Work. Chicago, July 1.—The Railway Age will say to-day: It is now certain that the railway building of 1886 will far exceed that of the two preceding years and, indeed, surpass that of most years in the history of the country. A detailed record from January 1 to June SO, 1886, compiled from exclusively official statements, shows that track-laying has already been in progress in thirty-two of the States and Territories On ninety-seven lines, and that no less than 1,755 miles of new main track, not counting sidings and additional track, have been added to the railway system of the United States since January 1. The mileage laid during the first three months is less than one-third of the total for the entire time; and it may be surely predicted that the total new railway mileage of 1886 will not fall short of 6,000 miles, and may considerably exceed that. The greatest activity tens far has been in Kansas, where 301 miles of track have been added on twelve different lines. Florida follows with 207 miles on eight lines; Texas with 195 miles on six lines; Wisconsin with 181 miles on four lines, and Illinois with 171 miles on five lines. Nebraska hah added 91 miles on six lines. In none of the other States have more than sixty miles been laid thus far, but in many of them, as well as in those just named, preparations are actively going on for track-laying to a large extent during the next few months. The indications are that the greatest activity will be in Kansas, Dakota, Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. It is to be seen that this construction is mainly going on in new parts of the country, developing regions in part with railway facilities. BILLS APPROVED.

Measures That Have Received the Executive Sanction and Thus Become Laws. j Washington, July 1.—The President lias approved the act to reduce the fee on domestic money orders for sums not exceeding five dollars; the act making allowances for clerk hire to postmasters of the first and second-class post-offices; military appropriation bill; post-office appropriation bill; army appropriation bill; aot granting leave of absence to employes in the Government printing office; act providing for the completion of the public building at £1 Paso, Tex.; act providing for completing the public building at Hannibal, Mo.; act providing for a public building at Savanah, Ga., relating to the public building at Peoria, 111.; act relating to the public building at Des Moines, la.; act for the relief of the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Bailroad Company; act authorizing the Cheyenne & Northern Bailway Company to build its road across the Fort Bussell and Fort Laramie reservations; act providing for additional barracks at the southern, northwestern and western branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; act for the relief of the officers and crew of the light-house tender, Lily. Doubts His Ability to Aeeept. Washington, July 1.—-The Missouri delegation in Congress waited upon the President to-day and extended to him an invitation to attend the fair and exposition at St. Louis in September. They also presented to him a programme of exorcises printed on satin, in a handsome plush box trimmed with silver. The President expressed doubt as to bis ability to attend, owing to the probable length of the session of Congress, but stated that he hoped to be at liberty to visit the West, and especially St. Louis when the fair Is held next year. Arrested for Forging Bills of Lading. Boston, July 1.—Frank H. Brown, a prominent grain merchant, was arrested last evening on the charge of forging bills of lading. H. C. Harkins, of Michigan, shipped eighteen cars of oats to this city, consigned to Burton & Brown, and the bills of lading, with drafts attached, were sent to the Fourth National Bank ot this city. Burton took up the drafts and obtained the bills of lading. Brown, it is alleged, made duplicate ones, took them to the grain eTevator of the ^Boston & Albany railroad and obtained the grain. The railroad discovering later that the bills ot lading were lorged, caused Brown’* arrest,

if Vet rankles. The Outrage of ISIS by Which Fraud Triumphed—General Haneoefc’a Manly, Patriotic, Statesmanlike Attitude, At a recent meeting of the Military Service Institution, held to honor the memory of Winfield Scott MsdcOck, there were .-read or spoken a great many interesting letters and addresses from persons of weight and eminence in Civil add military life. But none of these tributes bears such impressive and enduring witness fof the virtues of the dead, or establishes 9d strong a title to the national respect Slid gratitude, as a letter sent by Hancock himself to Genera! ^Sherman in December, 1876. Here thfi writer s«ts forth, modestly but firmly, his conception of t the duty of the army, and especially ot officers intrusted with high command, in the event ot grave commotions being excited by a failure of the Senate ftud HmlSe of Representatives to agree in declaring the result of the Presidential election. 111 Hancock the country lost rt soldier who was first of all a patriot, a soldier Who would have let no fiction of deference to military orders supersede his fundamental oath| to obey the constitution, and who, ini such a conflict of technical and real Obligations, would have stood forth a bulwark, and not a betrayer, of our liberties, What were the fights and duties of the House of Representatives in the event of the Senate’s refusing to con* cur in pronouncing Mr. Tilden the choice of a majority for President, is now plain enough to all men of sound brains and honest hearts. By General Hancock they were recognized with unerring exactitude in December, 1876, and in his letter to Sherman they are incidentally defined with rare simplicity and cogency, “If,” he writes, “the Senate and House, Oil the occasion of the count, do not Unite' in declaring some person legally elected by the people, there is a lawful machinery already provided to meet the contingency and to decide the question peacefully. It has not been recently used, no occasion presenting, but our forefathers provided it. It has been exereised, and has been recognized as lawful on every hand. That machinery wcfukl probably elect Mr. Tilden President and Mr. Wheeler Vice-Presi-dent.”

uenerai Haneocsc proceeds to masce more unmistakable, his meaning, which is that, should the House of Representatives, as he plainly thinks it, ought to do, pronounce it'irreconcilable with its conscience to bestow on Mr. Haves the electoral votes of the three States of South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana, or the votes of any one of them, then there would be no election by the people, no candidate having a majority of the Electoral College, and the right to choose a President would by the constitution devolve npon the House. “Some tribunal,” says Hancock, “must decide whether the people have duly elected a President. I presume, of course, that it is the joint affirmative action, of the Senate and House, or why are they present to witness the count, if not to see that it is fair and just? If a failure to agree arises between the two bodies, there can be no lawful affirmative decision that the people . have elected a President, and the House must then proceed to act, not the Senate. The Senate fleets Vice-Presidents, not Presidents.” No wonder thar Secretary Bayard, who had read these imperishable words, should have commented upon them in a letter read before the Military Service Institution in terms that reflect honor at once upon Hancock and himself. “I take leave here to say,” writes Mr. Bayard, “that no wiser, abler or more patriotic deliverance, no sounder conception of constitutional duty and function, or solution based more solidly upon law and justice, can be found in the history of that period than is contained in the letter of General Hancock to General Sherman.” But there is something else Seducible from the frank and pregnant text of Hancock’s communication. From his conception of the powers and obligations of the Honse of Representatives in ■ the crisis then at hand there were for him, as being an officer in high command, certain practical corollaries of the utmost gravity and moment. From these Hancock did not flinch. Whom was he, Hancock, to obey in the event of the nonagreement of the Senate and House, and a consequent miscarriage of the election by the people? From whom was ho to take orders on March 4, 1877, providing the House of Representatives had not yet discharged its function of naming an occupant for the Presidential office? He bluntly tells General Sherman that in his judgment General Grant’s term of office would cease with the expiration of March 3, and it followed that not for an hour afterward would Hancock have taken orders from Grant in the capacity of President and Commander-in-Chief. He ‘did not doubt that General Sherman’s authority, such as it was, would continue, and he acknowledged that the President of the Senate would be on March 4 “the legitimate person to exercise Presidential authority for the time being, until the appearance of a lawful President.”

ihese admissions are qualified by the firm notification that neither in the President of the Senate nor the General of the army would Hancock recognize a right of influencing in any degree by military measures the selection of a President, and that any orders apparently directed to that end would be construed and treated by him (Hancock) in the light of reason and of conscience. “Should,” he says, “the military authorities be Invoked, it is necessary in such great crises for the superior officers of the army, and especially for those near the head of it, to dare to determine for themselves what is lawful and what is not lawful under our system." Would that words so righteous and courageous as those of Hancock could have wakened echoes in the hearts of the pusillanimous majority of the House of Represcnatives! We should not then have seen the sacrifice of a paramount and vital constitutional right to the bugbear of coercion bv the military arm. We should then have been sparod the spectacle of fraud triumphant in the chair of the American Executive.—N. Y. Sun. - —. a ■■-5—--The political scheme of making a State out of Southern Dakota, concocted by a few politicians, without consulting the wishes of the people of the Territory, has been nipped in the bud by an adverse report of the House Committee on Territories. A Republican lament naturally follows.—Albany Argus. -The trouble with Mr. Blaine is that he says too many things which need explanation, and has done too many things that can’t bo explained- - Boston Etraif.

JOHN KELLY. A Cartons Tetter that Ha tv rota In IMS Just Before HU Speech In Lowville. When our townsman, Mr. George J. Mager, Was a resident of Lowville and treasurer ot the Lewis County Agricultural Society in 1882, he secured a premise from the late Hon. John Kelly and Mori. Thomas F. Grady to speak at the annual falrof the society. Shortly before the date fixed for the fair he wrote to Mr. Kelly for a few facts in his history and Mr. Grady’s for publication in the Lowville papers. In reply he received the following letter, marked “confidential,” and which he still has in his possession. Mr. Kelly’s death having re moved the injunction of secrecy, Mr. Mager has consented W let us publish the letter: tConflclentiaLj Grasp Union Hotel, Saratoga, I August IS, ISSi. | Mr Dear Sir: Y'Onrs of the 15tb U at hand, and contents noted. Jlr. Grady and myself will leave here or New York on the 12tb prox. for Lowville, arriving the same svening-barriug accidents. Hon. Thomas F. Grady was born la New York, Served four years In the State Assembly, and is at present in tho Senate. He is of Irish parentage I consider him one of tho ablest young men of his age in public life. As a speaker he Is very superior in argument and style to most of his colleagues in the Seuate. He is abont twenty-nine yoars ot age, height five feet seven inches, squareshouldered. attd weighs one hundred and seventy pounds. Ho has a thorough command ot his temper. His analysis of difficult subjects is natural. John Kelly is sixty years of age, and was born in New York, of Irish parents. He served twb yoars in the Board o# Aldermen, four years in Congress, six years as' sheriff of the County of New York, and four y'aars as city comptroller. Ho is five feet nine in'sbes ana a half In height and weighs two hundred and thirty-six pounds. I have given you Grady’s history and my own, and yon wtll probably laugh at tho description, but as you requested me in your letter to state our pedigrees, I might add that we aro clinker built and coppered and fastened, sound in wind, and well up on our pedestriar oints. Grady is good for a long race, at is well broken to double and single harnesf and trots well under the saddle, stands rithout tying, and, is not afraid of locomotives or other vehicles of doubtful structure. Fof myself I am nothing to brag ot and have passed the meridian: too old for a speedy gallop and fair for a long race: not easily scared and very docile under trying and difficult circumstances. When (he drivel Is tyrannical, usually take the bit and kiok clear of traces. Usually halt when there appears to be a willingness to give and admteister fair treatment, but will lead by halter onlj for short distance. Will drive with a curb bit long enough to breathe stentoriously. -Yours truly. Joun Kei.lv. To G. J. Mager, Esq., Treasurer and Score tary. « —Cortland {N. T.) Standard.

DEMOCRATIC DROPS. -Mr. Halstead wants to know if Mr. Tilden is not eligible to the Presidency. The Republicans didn’t seem to think so when he was elected.—Chicago Herald. --The New York Tribune suggests that “may be the President would think better of a scheme to pension those patriots who sent substitutes to the front.” If the Tribune wants Blaine pensioned why not come out sqoarely and say so?—Detroit Free Press. ——The Omaha Bee is not the only great newspaper that finds in Senator Van VVyck, of Nebraska, constant food for complimentary discourse. The New York Herald is the other admirer. Bounded on the west by the Omaha Bee and on the east by the New York Hearald, the pestiferous little gadfly of the United States Senate has reason indeed to fancy that ho is the power that makes the wheel of American politics go round.—Chicago News. - -r'The Detroit Journal quotes Jay A. Hubbell as saying: “Blaine can be nominated if he wants it, but the party can not afford to go into another defensive campaign. I told his man■agers two years ago that they must ignore all charges and make an offensive campaign, but they knew better.” Mr. Hubbell is guilty of his first mistake. The campaign was one of the most offensive to admirers of honesty ever conducted in this country.—Chicago News. -Mr. Cleveland is a good enough President for us. We believe thoroughly in, his patriotism and incorruptible honesty; we believe he has the best” good of the country at heart, and aims to execute the laws as he finds them. Further, we believe that no President since Lincoln has sympathized lfiore earnestly than Mr. Cleveland with the hopes and the aspirations of his colored fellow citizens. We say this after having seen and talked with Mr. Cleveland, after reading his public utterances on questions affecting us, and in weighing tne measure of official recognition hf has given the race.—N. T. Freeman. -—I did not vote for Grover Cleveland, but 1 am free to say he is making a splendid record and doing a noble work for the conn fry. He is a man of downright honesty, principle and independence, as his refusal to expel faithful officials for party favoritism and his correction of extravagance, national and social, shows. I am in thorough accord and hearty sympathy with President Cleveland, and last summer, when I was in England, John Bright said to me: “Your new President seems to be doing grand work, for all the Americans whom I see over here tell me so,” and I answered that in my opinion they had only told him the truth —Rev. Dr. T.L. Cugler. - ^ 1

Ought to Blister the Tongue. ’ There is a rumor in Washington— the source is not official, however—that Attorney-General Garland is likely to resign within the next thirty days and that the office will be tendered to Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, a representative in the House, one of -the best and most briiliantjawyers in the countity. It would be a burning'shame to see an honest and able man like Garland f^pfced to resign to appease the venomous press, bought and owned by the Bell Telephone Company. There is not a reputable citizen in the country who does not know that no act of Garland’s has been prompted by the fact that he is a stockholder in the Pan Electric Company. At the time Garland bought the stock he was a Senator. President Cleveland had not been spoken of for Chief Magistrate and there was nothing the company could appeal co Congress for. To say that this sturdy honest man, who is as poo r to-day as the first hour he entered the Senate, sold himself for the worthless stock is to utter a despicable falsehood which ought to blister the tongue that repeats it. No matter What may be said of Southern Congressmen no pitch dings to their skirts and no scandal-monger dare accuse them of selling their votes or influence. It is the duty of the Administration to stand by Garland, for this attempt to drive him out is prompted by malice and is pushed only for the purpose of stabbing the President and his Cabinet. The time to stand by an honest man is when he is- unjustly accused by the jackals of society.— Suf,