Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 September 1886 — Page 1

County Democi KNIGHT tk BYNUH, Editors and Publishers. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY* OFFICE, over 0. E. VOLUME XVII. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 30, 1886.

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raorESSIOSAl^ABM, ». *. POSBT. A. 4 RONITCvtt. POSEY & HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW PtUnkai^ lad. yriia practice in all the courts. All bualneea JtanSiv ?nM5S,nded«ito- A Notary Public con- ?,*' the office. Office over Frank A Hornbrook s drug store. P. RICHARDSON A. H. TATLOR. RICHARDSQN & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law v PETERSBURG, END. Tiompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in thootlioe. Offlco In Carpenter Building, 8tli and Main. WM. r. TOWSSKSb. MART KI.KKNER. TOWNSEND & FLEENER, Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. ill practice in all the courts. Office, over Gus Frank’s stoiie. Special attention given to Collections, Brobate Business, Buying and Selling i^ands, Examining Titles and Furnishing Abstracts. K.. A. ELY. J. W. WILSON. ELY & WILSON, Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. iFOffiee in the Bank ItuilUing.*®* T. & & E. SMITH, (successors to Hoyle & Thompson) Attorneys at Law, Real Estate, Loan & Insurance Agts. Office, second tiQor Dank Building, Petersburg, lnd. The best Fire land late Insurance Companies represented. Money to loan on first mortgages at seven and eight [air cent Prompt attention to collections, and all business intrusted to us. ~ R. R. KIMS, M.D., Physician and Surgeon t PETERSBURG, IND. » Office, over Barrett & Son.*s store; residence on Seventy Street, thrive squares south of Main. Calls promptly attended to, day or night. '! I. R. ADAMS. C. n. ITLLINWIDMI. ADAMS « FULUNWIDER, Physicians & Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. Office over Adams & Son’s drug store. Office hours day tind night.

J. B. DUNCAN, Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, IND. Office on first Boor Carpenter Building. BLACKWELL, C. B. M. D., EC-LECTIO Physician and Surgeon; Office, Main street, between 6th and 7th opposite Model Drug Store. PETE as HU BG, : INDIANA. ""ill practice Medicine. Surgin'}’ and Obstetrics in town am) country, and will visit , any part of the country in consultation. Chronic diseases smjcessjfully treated. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E. TjURNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, - IND. Parties wishing work done at their residences will leave orders at the Fhop, in Dr Adams' new budding, rear of Adams * So us drug store. HOTELS. LINGO HOTEL, PETERSBURG, IND. THE ONLY FlljlST-CLASS HOTEL IN TOWN. New throughout, and flr?t«claP8 accommo dations in evei*y respect. CEORGE QUIMBY, Proprietor HYATT HOUSE, Washington. Ind. Centrally Located, and Accommodation. 1 First-class': HENRY HYATT, Proprietor. CITY HOTEL, I’nfier new management, JOSEPH LORY, Prop. Cor. t*th and Main its , opp. Court-house. Petersburg, Ind. The City Hotel is centrally located, first class in all its appointments and the best and cheapest hotjel in the city. Sherwood House, . Under Now Management. B1SSELL & TOWNSEND, Prop'rs. First and Locust Streets, Evansville, } : Indiana. RATES, $2 PER DAY. Sample Rooms (or Commercial Man.

When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. Mrs. 1-aura Harris and -Vmuon Horrall - Proprietors. Gko. K. Kossetkr, Jesse X Morgan, Late of Cincinnati. Late ot Washington,Ind. HOTEL ENGLISH, ROSSETER & MORGAN, Lessees. Indianapolis, Ind. House Klcgant, Table, Service and Genera Keep Superior. Location best In the city— on the Circle. \ --n- ...a. i-Jg-MISCKLLANEOU8. PHOTO GALLERY, OSCAR HAMMOND, Prop’r, Pictures Copied or ftilarged. All kinds of work done promptly and at rjtMonable rate*. Call and examine hit work. Gallery la Klsert’s new building, over the rodeMct, Petersburg, Ind. Great Reduction in the prtoe of SADDLES, HARNESS, STC., ETC. The public ll hereby informed that ] will sell or large stock of Saddles and Harness, and everything kept by me Iowa* than ever sold la thle place before. If you Want anything >a but line, don't fall to call on iae as am I 01 or lag special bargains. FRED REUSS, , INDIANA

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. *-— riSRSOMX AND POLITICAL. The resignation of Prof. Wm. Ferrol, meteorologist of the Signal Service, has been accepted tjy the Secretary of War. Secretary Lamar returned to Washington on the 21st, and In a few minutes after getting off the train he was at the Interior Department, where be remained some time. Queen Christina returned to Madrid on the 21st. She was received with the greatest enthusiasm by the people. Large crowds attended the funeral of the victims of the revolt. All the members of the cabinet were present, and the Queen sent wreathes to be placed on the oofflns. Consul General Porch makes an interesting report on the silk industry in Mexico. Dr. Salmon, United Statos Veterlnarlan,declares the disease affecting the cattle quarantined at Chicago to be pleuropneumonia. Prof. Wiggins predicts that the 29th inst. will witness one of the most terrific subterranean upheavals ever known on this continent. He says the disturbance will be confined to the thirtieth parallel of lat ifude, and extend from ocean to ocean, and that New Orleans, Macon and Mobile will be ruined. The disturbance, he says, will l>e accompanied by violent meteorological agitation further north. The following officers for the ensuing year were elected on the 21st by the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, in session in Boston: Grand Sire, John H. White, New York; Deputy Q)-and Sire, J. C. Underwood, Kentucky; Grand Secretary, E. A. Boss, New Jersey; Grand Treasurer, A. S. Shepard, Pennsylvania. The relations of the Freneh resident Minister with the Malagas y Government are said to bo daily becoming more ^strained. Lord Salisbury, in a speech at Hertfordshire on the 22d, eulogised the Conservative members of the House of Commons for their faithfulness. Engineer Brewer, of the excursion train recently wrecked on the NickelPlate road, has turned*ut> at Buffalo, and was to appear before the coroner on the 23d. The probate of the will of the late Samuel J. Tilder, was again adjourned on the 22d for oue vreek in consequence of the absence of Mrs. Caroline B. Whittlesey. The President and his wife, accompanied by Mrs. Folsom and Colonel and Mrs. Lamont, returned to Washington on the night of the 22d. A crowd of men, women and children assembled to see the Presidential party and welcome them home. James Howe, founder of the New Yorkl Spirit of the Times, no\r Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times, died at Lafayette, Ind., on the 22d, in his eightieth year. Horace Greeley was employed by him on this paper as printer and there formed an intimate acquaintance which continued until Greeley’s death.

general Bullkr is organizing a system under which the houses of suspected moon* lighters in Kerry will be carefully watched, in order that night absentees maybe discovered and the arrest of culprits thereby facilitated. President Cleveland is back at work at Washington. General Villacampa, leader of the revolution at Madrid, has been arrested. Two Gennan-American citizens visiting their old homes in Kiehl have been ordered to leave the empire. Robert general superintendent of theSt. Louis, Keokuk Sc Northwestern and the Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City roads, has resigned. Herr ICroqher, Socialist deputy in the German Reichstag, has been fined 1,501 marks for accepting pay from his party. EdwarJi Solomon, the American composer and husband of!Lillian Russell, has beeu arrested in London on a charge of bigamy at the instance of a former wife. Bishop Woodlock, of the diocese of Ardagh, Ireland, in an address to his diocese, deplores the present condition of affairs and warns the people against the “revolutionary principles of secret societies.” The Sultan gave audience to the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince George of AVales on the 2od. He received his visitors most cordially, and conferred u|x>n both the decoration of the Imperial Order of Osmanie. It is reported that the Czarewitch is about to visit the Sultan. Ex-President Arthur has decided to leave Neve London. He will return to New York and occupy his house on Lexington aveniVe this winter. Sherman W.Knevals ‘spent a day with him recently at New London. He says that the General’s health does not show any improvement, neither can he be considered any worse than when he left New York. Mr. ^israham, M. P. for Limerick, is trying to procure the release of dynamiter Daly. Emperor Francis Josupn«unveiled the column erected to the memory of Admiral Baron Vpn Tegethoff at Vienna on the 24th. S. S. Cox, Miuister to Turkey, now at home on a visit, intimates strongly that he would p: efer a seat in Congress to his present ]>osition. The published report of the dismissal of Mrs. R. A. Johnson, a granddaughter of the late Robert Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is correct. The reason given for her removal is that she was incompetent. Whittaker, of Chicago, in a bicycle race at Crawfordsville, Ind., on the 24th, against time, made one hundred miles in six hours, three minutes and fifty-nine seconds, beating the world’s record by one hour, seven minutes and one second. Right Rev. J. F. Bhanakan, Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Harrisburg, Pa., died at his residence at Harrisburg on the 2tth. He retired on the night of the in apparently good health, hut in the morning had an acute attack of congestion of the brain, which terminated fatally before iioon.

CHIMES AND CASUALTIES. In a pitched battle fought recently between a party of Gros Ventres and Piegan Indians, six Piegans were killed. The Pieganu hare been stealing horses again, and much bad blood bad been engendered. The case of Porter, or Edward Flannagan, charged with the murder of Victor Phalquist iu Jersey City, N. J., in May last, was given to the jury by Judge Knapp on the 21st. In an hour the jurors announced that they had agreed on a verdict of murder in the second degree. Desultory rioting was continued in Belfast throughout the night of the 20th, and was again resumed at noon on the 21st by the Catholic mill-hands stoning the police on duty to keep the Orange Queen’s Island •hip-yard men from coming in contact with mill hands. The stoning was so heavy ^nd skillful that the police had to retreat as far as Shanks’ hill. Joint Mulligan was killed at Beatrice, Nett., on the 224, by a policeman. E. M. Pkacock, w anted at Kansas City for forgery, was captured in Des Moines, I{L, on the 224.

Two cfttzens of Georgetown, the west* ern suburb of Washington, D. C., were fined one dollar each in the Washington police court on the 21st for violation of the Sabbath by doing carpentering wbrk and disturbing the religious meditations of a neighbor. Mrs. David Williams, living on a lonely road near Haddam, Conn., knocked out a tramp with an axe on the evening of the 21st, after having been nearly choked to death by the miscreant in an endeavor to extort money from her. After her exploit she fainted and the tramp escaped. Dr. Buttbrmori:, of Fayette County, Pa., the ex-representative convicted of an attempt to defraud the State of $12,900 for a bogus hospital at Connellsville, was sentenced at Harrisburg on the 22d to pay a fine of $500, costs of prosecution, and be imprisoned in the county jail for sixty days. A freight train on the Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia railroad was thrown off the track at Holland, N. Y., on the 22d by a broken wheel. Thirty-five coal and oil cars took fire, making a terrific blaze. The cars and their contents are a total loss. One hundred pounds of gun cotton and nitro-glycerine exploded at the Giant Powder works near West Burkley, Cal., on the 21M. Two Chinamen were killed and the property was slightly damaged. At Wahoo, Neb., on the 22d, three men, claiming to be agents of a mutual benevolent insurance association, were detected in attempting to dispose of several forged notes signed with names of well-known farmers. Two of them escaped. The one who was captured refuses to talk. The leader of a company of German swindlers has been captured in Hamburg by London detectives. The sums realized by the swindling operations of the gang are said to amount to 1,800,000 francs. Alfred D. Konceray, twenty-five years Of age, son of a former United States Consul at Porto Rico, committed suicide at Washington on the 23d, by shooting himself through the head. He recently lost his position in the Post-Office Department, and took his- life while despondent. Mrs. Alice Titcomb died at Omaha, Neb., on the 22d, from the effects of being burned by a lamp explosion. A gentleman caller and her brother, in attempting to extinguish the flames, were severely burned. She was visiting friends in Omaha. Her husband is chief engineer of Cape Cod canal. Jules Gauvreau, belonging to one of the best families in Lower St. Lawrence, has confessed to a shortage of $8,000 in his accounts. He was employed by A. Goldstein & Sons, tobacconists, of Montreal. Frank S. Humphreys was hanged at Milledgeville, Ga,, on the 24th. Mrs. C. H. Rudolph, a bride of a few weeks at Baltimore, Md., committed suicide on the 24th. Three soldiers were killed and twenty wounded in a railroad collision near Berlin on the 24th.

vuivtais wuuovivu nnu tue v/UIcinnati Board of Public Works have been arrested on charges of embezzlement. Forty-five persons were killed and sixteen injured by the explosion of fire damp in a coal pit near Schalke, Germany, on the 24th. The schooner Mary Ann was cut in two by the schooner Summerset in St. John (Newfoundland) bay, and four persons were drowned. In a fight between moonlighters and policemen at Fealebridge, County Kerry, Ireland, on the 14th, one of the former was shot and twelve taken prisoners. Moritea Fischer, of M. A. Fischer & Co., foreign agents, London, was fatally assaulted and robbed in a compartment car on the London Underground railway on the 24th. The first section of an oil train on the Allegheny Valley railroad ran into the second section near Logansport, Pa., on the morning of the 24th, and both trains were demolished. After the accident the cars took fire and were entirely consumed. The loss will reach >'-10,000. No one was injured. miscellaneous. A receiver for the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company has been asked for by the directors. The Board of Directors of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad have accepted the resignation of President Gowan. TnE Western Nail Association met at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 22d, and after discussing the conditions of -trade at considerable length, decided not to change the card rate. No action was taken regarding the wage question. Trade was reported brisk with the demand increasing. TnE military governor of Madrid has forbidden the press to publish reports of the judicial proceedings arising out of the recent revol t, or comments on news relative to military discipline or public order. The Moseow Gazette urges Russia to appoint a dictatorial commission for Sofia. “England would protest,” says the Gazette, “against the appointment of such commission, but only on paper.” The French military critic connected with the KepubUijne Francaise, who witnessed the late Gorman maneuvers, writes that he thought the cavalry simply splendid. The infantry and artillery, he says, do not excel the same branches of the French service. "l The colored people of Cheyenne, Wyo., observed Emancipation day on the 22d with parade, speeches and grand ball. The contract for a $1,000,000 bridge over the Missouri river at Kansas City for the new St. Paul line waslet on the 22d. The foundation will be pneumatic, the same as those of the Brooklyn and St. Louis

bridges, it win be of the cantilever pattern, eighty feet above low water, anil one of the finest structures of the kind in the country. The plans will be submitted to the Secretary of War, and as soon as approved work will be commenced. A new commercial treaty between England and the United Statss by which Canadian trade relations would be greatly affected is said to be about agreed upon by both coun tries. The Knights Templar parade in St. Louis, deferred on account of the rain on the 31st, was held on the 33d. It was a magnificent spectacle, though on a much smaller scale than had the original programme been practicable. Cholera has broken out among the soldiers in the central barracks at Buda Pesth, Austria, and a general flight f-om the city of the wealthier inhabitants has begun. The fifth annual meeting pt the Union Veteran Army convened at Trenton, N. J., on the 23d. Twenty-three Stater and 218,000 men were represented by about fifty delegates. B. B. Manchester, of Providence, R. I., was elected command-er-in-chief. Washington shop-keepers complain of the stinginess of Government employes, caused by the uncertainty of their tenure of office. The Grand Encampment of Knights Templar, in session at St. Louis on the 28d, elected the following officers: Charles Roome, New York, grand commander; John P. S. Gobin, Lebanon, Pa., deputy grand master; Hugh McCurdy, Corunna, Mich., grand generalissimo; Warren LaRue Thomas, Louisville, Ky., grand cap-tain-general; George C. Perkins, Ban

Francisco, Cal,, grand senior warden; R. H. Lloyd, Ban Francisco, grand junior warden; H. Wales Lines, Meriden, Conn., grand treasurer; W. B. Isaacs, Richmond, Tn., grand recorder. The steerage-rate war between the Atlantic steamship companies is about to be brought to a close, the lines participating having arranged a basis of agreement. An electric and wind-storm was central over Lima, 0., on the 23d, and extended over the counties of Wyandotte, Seneca, Champaign and Allen. At Urbana the wind blew the roof off the Catholic convent and did considerable damage to fruit and shade trees. The railroad station at Bluftton and at least a dozen barns in different sections of the counties above named were struck by lightning and destroyed by fire. , The annual pageant of the St. Louis Trades Display Association on the night of the 23d presented another brilliant and interesting spectacle to the thousands of visitors in the city. The streets were so densely packed along the route of the parade as to be in some instances almost impassable, and along the entire line the beauty of the floats and their appropriate designs were the subject of commendatory comment. Three thousand diseased cattle at Chicago are to be slaughtered by the State Live Stock Commission. A terrific thunder-storm with hail accompaniment, swept over Milwaukee, Wis., on the 23d. During the prevalence of the storm the heavens were almost as dark as night. The house of Robert J. Arthur, on the West Side, was badly wrecked by a thunderbolt, and Mrs. Arthur was dangerously injured. Spain has demanded the expulsion from French territory of Ruiz Zorilla. The Louisiana orange crop is reported as being an almost total failure. The Methodist General Conference concluded its quadriennial session at Toronto, Ont., on the 24th. Arguments in the telephone case at Cincinnati closed on the 24th, and the decision was reserved. A GRAND operatic performance was given at Metz on the 24th in honor of the presence of Crown Prince Frederick William. The DeWitt County (111.) Fair Association has to settle its premiums at seventyfive cents on the dbllar, owing to rains. It is denied that the visit of the Gov-ernor-General of Canada to England is in connection with the fishery question. TUe Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd-Fel-lows, in session in Boston, selected Columbus, O., as the headquarters of the order. No information can be obtained in Canadian official circles regarding the alleged new treaty between Canada and the United States. The acting Secretary of War has received a dispatch from the Indian agent at San Carlos agency, stating that the removal of the Warm Spring and Chiracahua Indians is a cause of rejoicing to the Indians left there, who are relieved of their fears of attack and are afforded a better opportunity for acquiring habits of industry.

the Navy Department is informed that the steamship Atlanta has not gone to sea, as was supposed, upon her trial trip, but is maxing a short trial in Long Island Sound to test her speed. The business failures occurring through* out the country in the .seven days ended the 24th numbered for the United States 165, and for Canada 22, or a total of 187, as compared with a total of 185 for the previous like period. Four retail grocers were arrested at Cincinnati on the 24th on warrants, issued at the instance of Deputy Food Commissioner Gegan, charging them with an offense under the law which provides that imitation butter shall not be sold without having put up a notice that imitation butter is for sale. Many people were unable to secure admission to the Metropolitan Opera-house at Columbus, O., on the night of the 24th, on the occasion of Governor Forakei ’s speech, which was not so much political as an exposure of the brutalities, robberies and outrages at the Ohio Penitentiary under Governor Hoadly’s administration prior to last January. A communication from the French Government was received at the Vatican on the 24th, stating that in view of the decision of the Pope to postpone the sending of a nuncio to China, France will continue to scrupulously respect the concordat, and will maintain the public worship budget on the present basis. -— — —- CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. One hundred and twenty-five thousand strangers Yisited St. Louis during conclave week. , Plkuro pneumonia is reported to have been discovered on a farm in Summit County, Ohio. Thirteen head of cattle had died up to tl^ 25th. Precautions have been taken to prevent the spread of the disease. In the sculling match on the Thames at London on the 25th between Beech and Wallace Ross, for $900 a side and the championship, Beach was an easy winner. Governor Larraree of Iowa has issued a proclamation quarantining against cattle from Illinois unprovided wi th a dean bill of health. The Government engineers sent to Charleston, S. C., to inspect the damaged buildings, estimate the money value of the real estate damaged by the earthquake at from $5,000,000 to $8,000,000. An engine especially constructed to use petroleum as fuel is successfully drawing trains between Alexandria and Cairo,

■cigypt. Eight persons, including three Glasgow magistrates, were suffocated on the 25th while viewing a monster blast at the Lochfyneside quarries, near Glasgow. Seven tons of powder were used in the blast. Richard Bdti.br, secretary of the American committee on Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty, announces that Octol er 28 is the date set for the inauguration of the statue. W. P. Owens, president and manager of the Grange Business Association at Rose* burg, Ore., committed suicide on the 25th by blowing out his brains. He had been speculating in wheat and wool. The Forest City Rolling mills at Cleveland, O., were destroyed by fire on the 25th. The mill had been idle nearly two years; loss, *30,000. Lightning recently started fires in the Yellowstone Park, and immense bodies of timber have been destroyed. The Black Tail mountains are one mass of smoking ruins. Charles A. Hand, a prominent hotelkeeper of Sarnia, Ont., has been arrested charged with having attempted, in June last, to blow up the residence of J. G. McCrae and' Thomas House, prominent supporters of the Scott Temperance act. A Large crop of evictions in Ireland is promised. Lord Hugh Anuesley has issued a hundred writs of ejectment for his County Down estate. Numerous large landlords are said to be taking like measures. 1 Within the past few years 45,000 trees have been planted in the streets of Berlin, and this means of beautifying the city is be ing carried on wherever possible.

TALMAGE’S SERMON. A Discourse on "The Disadvantages of Some People." The Dead Weight of Unfortunate Names— The Strength of Weakness—Suggestions for Morally and Physical* ly Handicapped Men. •Rev. T; DeWitt Talmage, in a recent sermon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, chose for his subject:t,4t4The Disadvantages of Some People,” taking for his text: All these things are against me.—[Genesis *111., 36, and preached the following sermon: Father Jacob, you are wrong! You think your son Joseph is dead, but he is Prime Minister of Egypt, and has the keys of the great corn crib. You think that circumstances are all adverse, but they will turn out well. In all your life you never made a greater mistake than when you said: All these things are against me. A great multitude of people are under seeming disadvantages, and I will to-dav, in the swarthiest Anglo-Saxon that I can manage, treat their cases; not as a nurse counts out eight or ten drops of a prescription, and stirs them in a half glass of water, but as when a man has by mistake taken a large amount of strychnine, or paris green, or belladonna, and the patient is walked rapidly round the room, and shaken up, and pounded until he gets wide awake. Many of you liave taken a large draught of the poison of discouragement, and I come out hy the order of the Divine Physician to rouse you out of that lethargy. 1. Many people are under the disadvantage of an unfortunate name, given them by parents who thought they were doing a good thing. Sometimes at the baptism of children, while I have held up one hand in prayer, I have held the other hand iu amazement that parents should have weighted the babe with such a dissonant and repulsive nomenclature. I have not so much - wondered that some children should cry out at the christening font as that others with such smiling face should take a title that will be the lurden of their lifetime. It is outrageous to afflict chilwith an undesirablo name because it happened to bo possessed by a parent or a rich uncle from whom favors are expected, or some prominent man of the day who may end his life in disgrace. It is no excuse, because they are Scripture names, to call a child Jehoiakim, or Tiglath-Pilesser. At thislyery altar I baptised one by the name Bethsheba. Why, under the circumambient Heaven, any parent should want to give to a child the name of that loose and infamous creature of Scripture times I can not imagine. I have often felt at the baptismal altar, when names were announce 1 to me, like saying, as did Rev. Dr. Richards, of Morristown, N. J., when a child was handed him for sprinkling, and the name given: ‘'Hadn’t you better call it something else?”

Impose not upon that babe a name suggestive of flippancy or meanness. There is no excuse for such assaul t and battery on the cradle whan our language is opulent with names musical in sound and suggestive in meaning, such as John, meaning “the gracious gift' of God;” or Henry, meaning “the chief of a household;” or Allred, meaning “good counsellor;” or Joshua, meaning “God, our salvationor Nicholas, meaning “victory of the people;” or Ambrose, meaning “immortal;” or Andrew, meaning “manly ;” or Esther, meaning “a star;” or Abigail, meaning “my father’s jov;” or Anna, meaning “grace;” or Victoria, meaning “victory;” or Rosalie, meaning “beautiful as a rose;” or Margaret, meaning “a pearl;” or Ida, meaning “godlike;” or Clara, meaning “illustrious;” or Amelia, meaning “busy;” or Bertha, meaning “beautiful;” and hundreds of other names just as good, that are a help rather than a hinderanee. But sometimes the great hinderanee in life is not in the given name, but in the family name. While Legislatures are willing to lift such incubus, there are families that keep a name which mortgages all the generations with a great disadvantage. You say: “I wonder if he is any relation to so and so?” mentioning some family celebrated for crime or deception. It is awondor to me that- in all such families some spirited young man does not rise, saying to his brothers and sisters: “If you want to keep this nuisance or scandalization of a name, I will keep it no longer than until by quickest course of law I can slough off this gangrene.” When the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States met in this building in 187t>, two estimable men of the sweetest disposition stopped at the same house, and one had the misnomer of being Mr. Sour and the other the misnomer of being Mr. Pickle. And your city directory has hundreds of names the mere pronunciation of which has been a lifelong obstacle. If you have started life under a name which, either through ridiculous orthography or vicious suggestion, has been an incumbrance, resolve that the next generation shall not be so weighted. It is no bemeaning to change a name. Saul of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle. Hahassah, “the myrtle,” became Esther, “the star.” We have in America, and I suppose it is so in all countries, names which ought to be abolished, abd can be and will be abolished for the reason that they are a libel and a slander. But if for any reason you are submerged either by a

g»*cu uauju w fjy a muiiiy name that you must bear, God will help you to overcome the outrage by a life consecrated to the good and useful. You may erase the curse from the name. You may somewhat change the significance. If once it stood for meanuess, you can make it stand for generosity. If once it stood for pride, you can make it stand for humility. If it once stood for fraud, you can make it stand for honesty. If once it stood for wickedness, you can make it stand for purity. There have been multitudes of instances whore men and women have magnificently conquered the disasters of the name inflicted upon them. 3. Again, many people labor uuder the misfortune of incomplete physical equipment. We are by our Creator so economically built that we cau not afford the obliteration of any physical faculty. We want our two eyes, our two ears, our two hands, our two feet, our eight fingers, and two thumbs. Yet what multitudes of people have but one eye or but one foot. The ordinary casualties of life have been quadrupled, quintupled, sextupled—aye, centupled, in our time by the civil war, and at the North and South a great multitude that no man can number are fighting the battle of life with half, or less than half, the needed physical armament. I do not wonder at the pathos of a soldier during the war, who when told that he must have his hand amputated, said: “Doctor, can’t you save it?” And when told that it was impossible, said, with tears rolling down his cheeks: “Well, then, good-bye, old hand: I hate to part with yon. You have done me a good service for many years, but it seem< you must go. Good-bye,” '

A celebrated surgeon tol 1 me of a scene in the clinical department of one of the Now York hospitals, when a poor matt with a wounded log was brought in before the students to be operated on. The surgeon was pointing out this and that to the students, and handling the wounded leg, and was nl>out to proceed to amputation, when the poor man leaped from the table and hobbled to the door, and saidt “Gentlemen, I am sorry to disappoint you, but, by the help of God, I will die with my leg on.*’ j What a terrific loss is the loss of our physical faculties! The way the battle of Crecy was decided against the French was by the Welshmen killing the French horses, and that brought their riders to the ground. And when you cripple this body, which is merely the animal on which the soul rides, vou may sometimes defeat the soul. Yet, how many suffer from this physical taking off! Good cheer, my brother ! God will make it up to you somehow. The grace, the sympathy of God will be more to you than any thing you have lost. If God allows part of your resources to be cut off in one place, He will add it on somewhere else. As Augustus, the ■Ei.i'*' peror, took off a day from Febr^ttry, making it the shortest month in the year, and added it to August, the month named after himself, so advantages taken from one part of your nature will be added on' to another. Hut it is amazing how much of the world’s work has been dpne by men of subtracted physical organization. S. S. Preston, the great orator of thg Southwest, went limping all his life, but there was no foot put down upon any platform of his day that resoumlei so far as his club foot. Beethoven was so deaf that he could not hear the crash of the orchestra rendering his oratorios. Thomas Carlyle, the dysp' ptic martyr, was given the commission to drive cant out of the world’s literature. Kev. Thomas Stockton, of Philadelphia, with one lung raised his audience nearer Heaven than most ministers can raise them with two lungs. In the banks, the in urance cbmpauies, the commercial establishments, the reformatory associations, the churches, there are tens of thousands of men and women to-day doubled up of rheumatisms or sulij ret to neuralgias, or with ’only fragments of limbs, the rest of which they left at Chattanooga, or South Mountain, or the Wilderness aud they are worth more to the world, and more to the Church, and more to God than those of us who have uever so

much as had a linger joint stiffenert-by a felon. Put to full use all the faculties that remain, and charge on all opposing circumstances witll the determination of Johii of Bohemia, who was totally blind and yet at a battle cri^d out: “I pray and beseech you to lead me so far into the fight that I may strike one good blow with this sword of mine.” Do not think so much of what faculties yon have lost as of what faculties remain. Yon hare enough left to make yourself felt in three worlds, while you help the earth,, and balk hell, and win Heaven. Arise from your discouragements, oh men and women of depleted or crippled physical faculties, and see what, "by the special help oi God, you cau accomplish! The skilled horsemen 3tood around Bucephalus, unable to mount or manage him, so wild was the steed. But Alexander clutched him by the bridle and turned his head away from the shadow and towards the sun, and the horse’s agitation was goUe, and Alexander mounted him and rode off, to the astonishment of all who stood by. And what you people need is to have your sight turned away from the shadow of your early lot over which yon have so long pondered, and your head turned toward the sun—the glorious sun of gospel consolation and Christian hope and spiritual triumph. And then remember that all the physical disadvantages will after awhile vanish. Let those who have been rhenmatismed out of a foot, or cataracted out of an eye, or by the perpetual roar of our cities thundered out of an ear, look forward to the day when this old. tenement house of flesh will come down aud a better one shall be builded. The resurrection morning will provide you with a better outfit. Either the unstrung, worn-out. Hunted and crippled organs will be so reconstructed that yon will not know them, or an entire now set of eyes, and ears and feet will be given yon. Just what it means "by corruption putting on incorrupption we do not knowj save that it will be glory ineffable; no limping in Heaveu, no straining of the eye-sight do see things a little way off; no putting of the hand behind the ear to double the capacity of the tympanum; l ut faculties perfect, all the keys of the instrument attuned for the sweep of the fingers of ecsta' y. But until that day of resurrection comes let us bear each other’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. 3. Another form Of disadvantage under which many lal or Is lack »of early education. Thero will lie no excuse for ignorance in the next generation. Free schools and illimitable opportunity of education will make ignorance a crime. I believe in compulsory education, and those persons who neglect to pttt their childrenUnder educational advantages have but one right left, and that is the penitentiary. But thero ore multitudes of men and women in middle life who have had no opportunity. Fre9 schools had not yet been established, and vast multitudes had little or no school at all. They feel it when, as Christian men, they Come lo speak or pray in religious assemblies or

public occasions; patriotic, or political, or educational. They are silent, hecause they do not feel competent. They owe nothing to English grammar, or geography or belles letters. They would not know a participle from a pronoun if they met it many times a day. Many of t e most successful merchants of Aim; ica, and men in high political places, can not write an accurate letter on any theme. They are completely dependent upon clerks and deputies and stenographers to make things right. I knew a literary man who, in other years, in Washington, made his fortune l>y writing speeches for Congressmen, or fixing them up for the Congressional Record after they were delivered. The millionaire illiteracy of this couutry is beyond measurement. Now, suppose a man finds himself in midlife without education, what is he da do? Do the best he can. The most effective layman iu a former pastoral charge that I ever heard speak op religious themes conld, within five miputes of exhortation, break all the laws of English grammar, and if Jie left any law unfractured, he would complete the work of lingual devastation in the prayer with which be followed it. But I would rather have him pray for me, if I were sick or in trouble, than any Christian I know of, and in that church all the people preferred him in exhortation and prayer to all others. Why? Because he was so thoroughly pious and had such power with God he was irresistible; and as he went on in his prayer sinners repented and saipts shouted for joy, and the bereaved seemed to get back their -cjead jit celestial companionship. And^tWrefine Imd stopped praying, and as soon as 1 could wipe ont of my eyes enough tears to

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1 lifii there are those who t ke in early life, and that overshadTo^^^H all there days. “Do you not know that that man was once in prison?” is whispered. Or-g^Do you know that that man once attempted suicide?” Or, “Do you know that that man once absconded?” Or. “Do you know that that- man was once discharged for dishonesty?” Perhaps there “■as oniy one wrong deed .in the man’s life, and that one act haunts the subsequent half-century of his existence. Others hare unfortunate predominance of some mental faculty, and their rashness throws them into wild enterprises, or their trepidation makes them decline great opportunity, or there is a rein of melancholy in their disposition that defeats them, or they hare an endowment of over-mirth that causes the impression of insincerity. Others have a mighty obstacle in their personal appearaee, for which they are not responsible. They forg t that God fashioned their features an l their complexion, and their stature, the size%f their nose and mouth, and hands and feet, and gave them the gait and the' general appearance; and they forget that much .of the world’s best work, and the church’s best work, has been done by homely people; and that Paul the. Apostle is said to have been hump-backed, and his eyesight weakened by ophthalmia, while many of the finest in appearance have passed their time before flatteringlooking glasses, or in studying killing attitudes, and'in displaying the richness of wardrobes—not one ribbon, or vest, or sack, or glove, or button, or shoestring of which they have had brains enough to earn for themselves.. Others had wrong proclivities from the start. They were born wrong, and that sticks to one even after he is born again. Thoy have a natural crankiness that is two hundred and sgvouty-five years old. It came over with (heir great-grandfath-ers from Scotland, or Wales, or Prance. It was boru on the hanks of the Thames, ojr the Clyde, or the Tiber, or the Rhine, and has survived all the plagues and epidemics of many generations, and is living today on the banks of the Hudson, or the Androscoggin, or the Savannah, or the La Plata. And when a man tries to stop this evil ancestral proclivity he is like a man on a rock in the rapids of Niagara holding on with a grip from which the swift currents are trying to sweep him into the abyss beyond. In the way of practical relief for all disadvantages and all woes, the only voice that is worth listening to on this subject is the voice of Christianity, which is the voice of Almighty God. Whether I have mentioned the particular disadvantage under which you labor or not, 1 distinctly declare, in the name of my God, that there is a way out aud a way up for all of you. You can not bo any worse otf than that Christian young woman who was in the Pemberton mills when they fell some years ago, and from tinder the fallen timbers she was heard singing? el <&g.Bg’gS’S*ggggg*3ftSsag-Q*g _MS-tJSBgass-sciB.SSS-'SsrS- g£?8-P S B asstt-ss* 2* £ SB s.

t I am going home to die no more. Take good courage from that Bible, all of whose promises are for those in bad predicament. There are better days for you, either on earth or in Heaven. 1 put my hand under your chin and lift your face into the light of the coming dawn. Have (lod on your side, and then you have for reserve troops all the armies o* Heaven, the smallest company of which is 20,000 chariots, and the smallest battalion '114,000, the lightnings of Heaven their drawn swords. An ancient warrior sa.w an overpowering host come down upon his small company of armed men, and, mounting his horse with a handful of sand, he threw it in the air, citing: “Let their faces be covered with confusion?” And both armies heard his voice, and _bistory says it seemed as though the dust thrown in the air bad become so many angels of supernatural deliverance, «ud the weak overcome the mighty, and the immense host fell back, and the small number marched on. Have faith in Clod, and though all the allied forces of discouragement seem to come against you in battle array, and their langh of defiance and contempt resounds through all the valleys and mountains, you might by faith in God and importunate prayer pick up a handful of the very dust of your humiliation and throw it into the air, and it shall become angels of victory over all the armies of earth and hell.'’ Ihe voices of your adversaries, human and Satanic, shall be covered with confusion, while -#ou shall be not only conquerer. but more than conqueroi, through that grace-which has so often made the fallen helmet of an overthrown antagonist the foo'ftool of • Christian victory. - « v rro a, (CC-I cr » g o <r « > to* B ffi