Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 21, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 October 1886 — Page 1

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Pike County Democrat. J. L. MOUNT, Proprietor. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. OPTIOE, over-O. E. MONTQOMEBY’S Store, Main Street. VOLUME XVII. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 7, 1886. NUMBER 21.

PIKE COUNTY DEWOCRAT J0B WORK OF ALL KINO! Neatly Executed —AT— SEASONABLE BATES. NOTICE! Person* receivin'? a ‘copy of this paper with this notice crossed in lead pencil me notified that the time of their subscription hasexpired.

PROFESSION At CARDS. ». n. rosKV. A. J nONErCUXT. FOSEY * HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW PtUntuc, Ind. "Will practice In all the courts. Al! bvatncs* STJ???***? attended to. A N otarj Public coni K Office over Frank A ■ioinbriij&k s drug wore. *. R1CUAKURON. . TAYI*0!W RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public; constantly in the office. Office In Carpenter building, (sth auil Matn. «M. P. TOyVNSKSP. MAttT KI.KK.NKR. TOWNSEND & FLEENER, Attorneys at Law, IND. PETERSBURG, •tVttt practice in all the courts. Office, over Gus Frank’s store. Spec I at" attention given to Collections, Probate business, buying ami Selling i.amls. Examining Titles and Furnishing Abstracts.

J. W. WILSON. ELY & WILSON, Attorneys at Law* PETERSBURG, IND. Bj'Ofi’rH in the Haul; Baililiirtt;.*®* T. S. & E. SMITH, (successors to Hoyle A Thompson) Attorneys at Law, Real Estate, Loan iterance Alls. iiflice, second tlorr Banl; Building, Vetersburg, Ind. The best Fire and Life InsiulanceCompanies represented. Money to lean on tlrst mortgages at seven and eight per cent. Prompt attention to collections, and all business intrusted to ws. 15. 15. KIME, M. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG. Otlice, over ltarrctt Sin* a store; resi* denee on Seventh street, threesUtaressouth td Main, t ails promptly attended to, day or night. J. R. ADAMS. IN'WIDEB. ADAMS & FULLINWIDER, Physicians & Surgeons Office over Adams A Son‘8 Office hours day and wight ND. drug store. J. a DUNCAN, Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, Office on tlrst floor Carpenter c. B. BLACKWELL IM. D., ECLECTJ ,'ICp Physician and Sc DfiiCe, Main street, between opposite Model Drug St PKTEKSBUlUi, : I? IND. bidding. rgeon, th th and >re. DIANA. M id practice Medicine. Sttrger lies n ow-sy and e nuttry, and part of the country in e iasuilat diseases successfully treated. and Obstetiviit visit any n. Chronic 9. K* Shaving Saloon, J. E. TURNER, Proprietor, PETERSBURG, IND. Vs ties wishing wow done a| defiers will leave order; at the i Adams- new budding, tear of Ai drug stoie. ; tludt_m ntn, hop, in Dr. aim & Son • HOTKI.S. LINGO HOTEL, PETERSBURG, INI THE ONLY FIRST-CUSS HOTEL IN TOW I New throughout, and first-class aecomm dations in every .respect. GEORCE QUIMBY, Proprietor HYATT HOUSE, Washington. Ind, Centrally bora ed, and Aecoi First-class. nmodations HENRY HYArtT, Prrprietor. QITY HOT ° Vn lor new inana*. © nonjf, JOSEPH LORY, Cor. Sth and Main t ts, opp. Coulrt-house. Petersburg, Inti. The Citv Hotel is centrally located, first class in ad its appointments and t ie best and cheapest hotel in the city. EL, Prop.

Sherwood House, 1'iutor New Mana*. menf. DISSELL & TOWNSEND, First ani^Loeus^tr XSvnnsvilUV : : . RATES, 82 PEIpAY. Sample Rooms for Commeroial Men. Prop’ is. Intliitnit. When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. U«9. Laura Harris anti Albion Horkall Fropiietors. GKO. E. tlOSSKTKH, JKSSB J. hate ot Cincinnati. I .eta of Washing HOTEL ENGLISH, ROSSETER& MORGAN, Lessees. Indianapolis, Ind. House Klesrant. Table. Service ahd Genera Keep Superior. Location best Inltho cltvon tbo Circle. MHCKLUNCOCS. PHOTO GALLERY, OSCAR HAMMOND, Prop’r. Pictures Copied or Enlarged. All kinds of work done promptly ar.d at fensowablo rate*. Call and exn nin<fhis work. (JaUery | i Eisert's new buiMing.! over tho rost-ofDee, Petersburg, Ind. Creat Reduction in tho price of SADDLES, HAKHISS, ETC., ETC. Thepuble Is hereby inormedthut 1 will sell my large stock of Saddles and Harness, and everythin* kept by me lower than ever sold In this place before. If you want anything m my line, don’t fail to call on me as am I oter tog fpecan baigsins. \ FRED REUSS, WgfSRSeUNO. 1 • jwmna.

NEWS IN BRIEF, Compiled from Various So irees. PERSONA!, AND POLITICAL. Frank H. Hurd was nominated for congress by the Democrats of the Tenth Ohio district. Judo* Robert Green, of Union, was nominated for Governor by the New Jersey Democratic convention. E, £. Trobridge, of Cleveland, the young man who recently disappeared at Niagara Falls, leaving a note saying he intended to commit suicide, wan arrested in Buffalo on the 28th. He claimed that when he left the hotel he fully intended to throw himself over the fails, blit that he changed his mind and went to Buffalo in the hope of getting work. ■ Miss Mammik Gannon, whet publicly cowhidod a newspaper reporter at Jersey Cit’f, N. J., formaligning her through the columns of the paper he represeute 1, was arrested cm the 28'h for assault and battery at the instanco of the reporter, and was held for the grand jury. Oliver Ames was nominated lor Governor by the Massachusetts Republicans. Prof. Riley, of the Agricultural Department, who went to the Sta ie of New York to investigate the condition of the wheat orop, has returned to Washington and will prepare an official report. He finds that the crop is almost e, total fail

Henry E. Abbey, the well-known theater manager, was married in St. Paul’s .Church, Boston, on the 38th, to Miss Florence Germ'd, actress. ' j \ Secretary Manning will not take his plaoe at the head of the Treasury Department on October 1, but, it is t sought by those who ought to know, he will bo found at his desk as soon as reasonably cool weather sets in. General Kaulbars has removed' the Russian Consul at Sofia, because of his | lack of firmness in dealing with the Buli garran Government. ! Tub Secretary of the Interim; has allowed $3;750 of the claim of Jose E. Albino Baca, of San Miguel County, New Mexico, out of the original claim of ifS.filU for depredations committed by Indians in . 1881. All that was mortal of Bishop Shanahan was laid iu the tomb on the 39th, at Harrisburg, Pa., after eeremojiies at the Cathedral of the most solemn nature. Archbishop Ryan celebrated the requiem mass and Bishop O’Hara of Scranton delivered the Culogy. TflE Secretary of the Int jciar has reversed the decision of Commissioner Black on the claim of Lila May Pavv, widow of Dr. Octave Pavy. under contract with the Greely expedition, who died of starvation at Cape Sabine about June tl. 1S81. She is granted seventeen dollars per month. 0Rkv. J. H. D. Wingfield, missionary bishop of! Northern California, has been ejected Bishop of the diocese of Easton, Mo., to succeed tne late Bishop Lay. Dr. Wingfield is the fifth selection, the others having declined. Acting Secretary Fairchild has authorized the reopening of the miut at Carson City, Nev., as an assay ojfice for the receipt of deposits of bullion. This action was taken on the recommendation of the Director of the Mint, and with the full approval of yie President. Ex-Senator Withers, who presided at the conclave at St. Louis, is now at Lynchburg, Va., on a visit to l.is daughter, Mrs. G W. Smith. Coionejt Withers is reported in poor health at present, owing to tho fatigue of his long journey from Hong Kong to St. Louis. The President’s reception oil the 29th was attended by nearly four hiiudred persons, including the Grand Gen eral Chapter of Koyal Arch Masons in convocation In Washington. Tho President shook ''bands with them ail uifd had a pleasant j word for each. The Illinois Supreme Court has dented the release of Joe Mackin on a writ of habeas oorpus. The visit of the King of the Belgians to Emperor William has caused much comment at Paris. p j - The Nebra ka Republican State convention at Lincoln nominated General John

Ju. i haver for Governor, The Bulgarian Government has decided to postpone their reply to Russia’s demands pending negotiations w|th General KaulbArs for dome other method of settlement. In the lower house of the Hungarian Diet, on the 39th, Prime Minister Tisza said that Austro-Hungary .intended to prevent any single power from establishing a protectorate over Bulgaria. A deputation composed of lit prominent and influential Bulgarians called on General Kaulbars to endeavor to Induce him to withdraw or modify his circular, but their mission was fruitless. The Massachusetts Democratic State convention nominated John F. Andrew, of Boston, for Governor by acclamation. Diplomates at Vienna believe that Austria’s attitude againsttdussia’s occupation of Bulgaria is more prohmmced since the return of. Couut Kainoky/Austrian Min'sler of Foreign Affairs. General Miles, in his report thdhe War Department, acknowledges that tfc hostile Apaches surrendered conditionally' and that he promised them they should uot be turned over to the civil authorities of Arizona. TnE entire domain of Chantilly with ity magnificent castle and all its depend^ encies, the value of which, at the lowest estimate, is over sixty million francs, 1 as been presented by the Due d’Aumale to the Institute of France, to be held by if in trust for the French nation. Sproule, the American under senthnoo of death in British Qolumbia has be^n respited to October 29. General Bulwkr is to be sent tof Ulster with powers similar to those givdn General Sir Redvers Buller in County/ Kerry. Secretary Manning is torosuiim, for a while at least, the duties of his office at Washington. He will not return \o his post, however, before the 10th. Senators Saulsburt, Edmunds and Frye of the Senate fishery committee arrived at Provinceton, Mass., on the let, on the revenue cutter Gallatin, and 'took testimony regarding the effect of reciprocity in flih in Capo Cod’s interests. Commissioner Colman of the Department of Agriculture has received a report froni'Dr. C. K. Dyer, the veterinary surgeon, who was sent to ascertain what disease had broken out in the comities of JLoudon, Farquier and 1’rinci: William in Virginia, communicated by cattle obtained from Chicago, in which he says the disease Is Texas fever and not pleuropneumonia. CRIMES AND CASCAf.TIlES. . Three miners were buried finder a mass af falling rock at Wiuthrop mine, near Iiihpeming, Mich , on the“9th, and instantly killed. Their bodies were recovered during the day. Their names are Maurita Shellman, Paul Braszo and Peter Pojjpa. Two of the men were married and leave families. E. E. Henry, a druggist at Oimro, Wis., died on the 33th from the effects of a dose of carbolic aoidi taken by mistake for beef Mtract,

George Axtsm., who on May 3D, 1888, shot and killed at Deposit, N. Y., 'Elias Freetnau, Freeman French and WillifimB. Berry, aj»d who was in jail at Binghamton under sentenoe to be hanged, was found on the 29th lyin^ iu his cell ;in an unconscious condition and breathing heavily. The murderer died within an hour. The safe of the post-office in the New York Produce Exchange building was open'ed the night of the 28th by some person who knew the combination and S8,200 in cash stolen from it. Judgment has been given by Judge V/alee in the United States District Court at Trenton, N.J., in the case of the Mechanics’ National Bank of Newark against O car Baldwin, the late cashier, who is now serving a term in State’s prison for defaulting, in the enormous sum of $2,482,798, the amount of the indebtedness of the bank.

An explosion at the Bay Chester (N. Y.) powder works on the 30th killed four men, demolished the buildings, and scared the people for ffille3 around. The Virginia Supreme Court has denied a rehearing to T. J. Cluverius, convicted of having murdered his consin, Fanny Lillian Madison, at Richmond. John H. C. Bowen was convicted at Romney, W. Va., on the 30th of murder in the first degree and sentenced to imprison* ment for life, for the killing of Frank Heatwole on April SO last. By the caving-in of an icehouse in the levee at Omaha, Neb., on the 80th, three workmen were injured, one of them fatally, whose name was Mr. Yeakley, from Illinois. He died on the way to the hospital. Anoi.pn Gordon was discharged ’from the Michigan State prison !on the !K)th at the expiration of a five year's’ sentence for counterfeiting. He was immed iately arrested by a deputy United States marshal on a charge of counterfeiting while inside the prison. Moulds and tools were found on his person and in his cell. Fire broke out on the 3)th in the basement of the Cliff House, a very large boarding-house, at Lenox, Mass., which was crowded with guests. There was a panic among the boarders, and some of them had narrow escapes, but no lives were lost. The furniture was near ly all destroyed. The guests losWargely,, mainly in money, clothing and jewelry. The grand jury of the Kings County (N. Y.) Court of Sessions on the 39th indicted Supervisors Gallagher, Larkin and Carroll, for alleged irregularities in relation to the bills of Plumber Williams for work done in the Court-house while they had charge of it, and ex-Nurse Chas. M. Edgarton for manslaughter in the second degree, in scalding to death Patrick McCarthy, a patient in the Flatbush insane asylum. The hearing of the motion for a new trial in the Chicago Anarchists’ caSes was commenced on the 1st. Charles Edwards, alias Charles Gorham, colored, who murdered his mistress in Algiers, La., on June 20, was executed on the 1st. Shaxkusg & Kearns’ store, at Bringhurst, Ind., was wrecked on the 1st. A clerk was weighing out powder as ho smoked a cigar. He was badly burned and nearly killed. 8. S. Hamilton, a prominent citizen and pork packer at Louisville, Ky., fell down the stairway of his office on the 1st and broke his neck. He died almost instantly. Five boys were out in the barber at Lvnn, Mass., on the 1st, in a small boat, when the wind capsized the boat and three of them, Henry Sears, Michael O’Neal and Darby Green, were drowned. A startling story is given to the world by a St. Paul, (Minn.) paper to the effect that the late Emory A. Stories was poisoned with digitalis to prevent him telling the secrets of the Chicago gang, which he had obtained as Mackiu’s attorney.

EDWARD &OLOMON, the husband Of Llllian Russel, charged with bigamy, has been remanded by the London liiagistrates pending the arrival of witnesses from the United States. David M. Chadwick, aged sixty-five years, was caught by secret-service officers and local detectives at Albany, N. Y„ on the 1st, manufacturing counterfeit coin, large quantities of which have been shipped to New York and other cities. MISCELLANEOUS. Work has begun on the high bridge across the Mississippi river at Dubuque, la. It is semi-officially announced at St. Petersburg that international complications over the Bulgarian question aro imminent. A serious riot occurred at Carcsis3one, France, on the 28th, during the unveiltng of a statue of Armand Barbee, the Red Republican colleague of Blanqui. Russia’s demands, made through General Kfulbers, are still being discussed by the Bulgarian ministry, but it is understood that they will decline to comply therewith. Owing to the fact of pleuro-pneumonia existing in certain portions of Illinois, Governor Raton of Colorado hag issued a quarantine proclamation forbidding the importation of cattle from that State into Colorado. \ Reports to the .Veto England UniMstead Indicate a short onion crop and higher iprices. Ox recommendation of the Nebraska Live Stock Sanitary Commission Governor Dawes has issued a proclamation establishing a quarantine against all cattle from the State of Illinois. Rioting between Catholics and Protestants was renewed at Belfast on the 29th, with serious results. The synod of the United Presbyterian church of Iowa convened on the S9th at Cedar Rapids. In a duel at Montpelier, France, on the 29th between an editor and a captain of the French army, tho latter was seriously wounded. The coal agents of the Pennsylvania railroad coal companies have advanced the selling price of coal on an average about fifteen cents per ton. The demand or the company’s coal is extremely heavy ab<| exceeds the transportation facilities. |E Salvation Army festival, in connectionlwith General Booth’s visit at Toronto, Ont/, was continued on the 2t)th, A grand stretet parade was held, in which 2,500 offlceits Siid soldiers took part. This was followed by a banquet at the temple. A violent circular has been sent to Russian consuls in Bulgaria by General Kaulbars, which, it is thought, will cause the Bulgarian Government to resist the demands of the Russian ultimatum. It has been decided to offer $29,000 in prizes for the National military drill for all arqfs of the service at Washington next May. ' Dissension has broken out between the only two Germa^kAuarchist clubs in London. 1 The firm of A. 8. Gage & Co., wholesale millinery and fancy goods, Chicago, hag failed for $730,000. Military pickets have again been placed on duty at Belfast. One thousand five hundred and eighty-seven lives have been saved by the German Lifeboat Association during $he past twenty-years,

The General Grand Council of royal and select Masons finished their second triennial convocation at Washington on tbe 19th by the olection of the following officers: George U. Pinker!, Lonisina, G. G. M.: George W. Cooley, of Minnesota, G. G. D. M.: O. A. B. Sen ter, of Ohio, G. P. C. W.; Frank H. Bascoro. H. G. G. treasurer; Henry W. Mordaurst, of Iudiana, G. G. recorder; Rev. J. W. Dadnum, Massachusetts, G. G. chaplain; John Coburn, Now York, G. G. C. of G.; Henry S. Orrne, California, G. G. C. of C.; George McCahan, Mary laud, G. g. marshal; Bradford Nicol, Tennessee, G. G. steward. The yacht Mayflower has gone out of commission, and the race with the Galatea is off. Cause, no wind. At Racine, Wis., on the 30th, the State Woman’s Suffrage Association, at the instance of Susan B. Anthony, decided to besiege the next Legislature for woman’s suffrage in municipal elections, with the understanding that such legislation

should be repealed if found impracticable. Tub funeral of the late Joseph Neal, maternal uncle of President Cleveland, took place at Baltimore, Md., on the 3Jtb, fora his late residence. A large throng gathered, expecting to see the President, but he did not appear. A manifesto declaring in favor of a republic and signed by the Duke de Seville has been circulated in Spain. There was a sudw storm at Marquette, Mich., and vicinity on the 30.h. The promised severe earthquake having failed to connect, the people of Charleston, S. C„ espocially the colored, profess the most profound contempt for the false prophet Wiggius. A Slight shock of earthquake was felt at Charleston on the 1st. Trade in Russia is said to be paralyssl owing to the Bulgarian crisis. A stock company proposes te complete the old St. Louis & Western railroad. The Congo Free State has refuse 1 a railway concession to a firm of Englishmen because they were too exacting. The London Times says England has reason to be satisfied with the statements made by .the Austrian Premier. The effect in' Bulgaria of Premier Tisia’s speech, it is thought, will be to encourage the government to resist Russia. A general impression prevails at Washington that the authorities are dissatisfied with the terms made by Qeuoral Miles with Geronimo. The total coinage executed at the mints of the United States during September was $5,070,055.50, of which $3,810,100 was in standard silver dollars. The extension of the special delivery system of the Post-Otfioe Department to ail post-offices and to all classes of matter went into effect on the 1st. ' Land offices havo teen established at Chadwin and Sidney, Neb. The land office at Bayfield, W is., has been removed to Ashland. A great lockout of packing-house employes is threatened at the Union S ock Yards, Chicago, in order to settle the Eight-Hour question. The Roman Catholic clergy in Canada have been forbidden by Cardinal Taschercau from taking any part or exercising any influence over their parishioners during the coming elections. A committee of the Union Veterans’ Union called upon the Public Printer on the 1st, in behalf of their comrades who ^jiad been discharged from the Government printing office. Mr. Benedict assured them that tbe Union soldiers in his office need not fear discharge if competes! and attentive to duty. The total coin and bullion in the Treasury September 38 was f243,608,018, as eompared with $32o,430,ti3"> on the 3tst of the previous month. The net gold in the Treasury, after deducting gold certificates in Treasury, cash and ip circulation September 30, was $157,917,210, as compared with $157,732,388 on the 81st of the previous month.

a i.e.TTKit pumsued in tuo han Francisco Bulletin , under date of Rodick, Alaska, September 16, says: . “A yoleanic peak of Pabloff mountain, three hundred miles southwest on the Alaska peninsula, is in eruption. Slight falls of yoleanic dust resembling emery powder have been observed.” The Corcoran Gallery of Art at Washington has just completed the purchase of the “Hunter’s Home” by Knauss, of Berlin. The size of the picture is 3 1-2 by 41-3 feet and the price paid was 4-16,000. It is now on exhibition at the Academy in Berlin and will be on exhibition at the Corcoran galley after November 12. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Beach cl <ims to hare made $50,000 out of his boat races, and intsnds to retire to bis Australian farm the unconquered champion of the world. The British Government has sant Colonel Majendie, chief inspector of explosives to America to inquire into the laws regarding the storage of explosives in the United States. Three English publishing houses have offered tempting inducements to Trince Alexander to write the story of his experience in Bulgaria, and it is thought he may be induced to comply. Seventeen boys escaped from the Reform school at Waukesha, Wis., ou the night of the 1st. They gained egress by means of a key made out of a comb by an eleven-year-old hoy. A defalcation of nearly $20,000 in the Union Dime Savings Bank of New York has just come to light, Otto Baumann, the receiving teller, being the defaulter. The bank is thoroughly solvent. The Kings County (N. Y.) grand jury has found an indictment against Charity Commissioners W. H. Ray, Thos. W. Hines and Joseph Reeve for misdemeanor in wiifully neglecting to provide safe and suitable accommodations, care and attention for certain insane persons under their care. Prnuc Printer Benedict decapitated seventy more employes of the Government printing office on the 3d, making in all 460 discharged to date, among them being thirteen ex-Union and two ex-Confederate soldiers. The President will visit the fair of the Virginia State Agricultural Society at Richmond on the 21st inst. Mrs. Cleveland will probably accompany him. Admiral Porter is reported as lying very ill at Newport, R. I., as the result of a carriage accident at Milford, Mass., several days ago. Violent earthquake shocks were felt throughout Thuringia and other parts of Central Germany on the 2d. The court-martial of General Villacampa and other officers implicated in the recent emeute at Madrid, began on the 3d. The court condemned the General and thirteen others, to death, and it was expected the executions would take place on the 4th, General Master Workman Powderlt and Messrs. Bariry. Hayes and Bailey, of the general executive board of the Knights of Labor, have gone to Richmond, Va., to attend the general assembly of the order at that plac9. At the St. Louis Exposition Saturday, the 5tb, was designated as Irish day, and Gilmore’s baud programmes were made to fit the day. The result wes the largest and most enthusiastic attendance pince tiie opening,

STATE INTELLIGENCE. A foultky show on an extensive seals WU be held at Shelby ville the secoud week in Jfovember. Skteex sheep on the farm of W. B. MoKibbeii, near LaGrange, "were killed by a •ingle bolt of lightning, daring a storm, a lew days ago. The clerk of Vigo County has issued 313 marriage licenses so far this year, against '813 for the same time last year. *Makexgo is having an epidemic of a disease resembling dysentery or flux. A large number of deaths have occured there recently.

: «**«* -i\iiui>tKT nan ms necK oroKeu by %ta 1 from his torso while riding home Hear Brownstowu. * Rainy weather earned a small attendance at the Indiana State Fair. I New post offices wei-c established the other day as follows: Payne, Monroe County, Elizabeth Payne, postmistress; t'issel, Franklin County, Conrad Bissel, - Pituss Nelson, a German girl, who has Seen employed as a domestic in Indiauapo■8 for the past six months, has been notifM that by the death of an uncle in the Failerlatid, she has inherited his estate, the #timated value of which is *?jO,0(X). Miss Nelson and her sister and two brothers left for New York, where they will take steamer immediately. >A post-office has been established at Koro, Carroll County, with S. C. Rodkoy, jr., as postmaster. Bextonville has a new postmaster in the person of Benjamin F. Rea. John Michael is the new postmaster at Zanesville. Harry Spray, aged fourteen,, climbed into au inclosure on the farm of J. H. Peter, near Seymour, in which were some pel deer. The buck attacked the boy, stabbing him in the abdomen] with his antlers, injuring him seriously. -S Mrs. Mary McCool, of Kokomo, whose husband was killed while drunk by a train, has brought a damage suit of $9,000against the saloon-keepers who sold him the liquor. The county commissioners at Logansport, awarded the contract to erect the soldiers’ monument to Schuyler Powell, who bid $S,9t>8. -Fnos. Cummings, a constable, was shot and killed at Birdseye, the other afternoon, by Alfred Kaylor, a member of the Iowa IX'tect:re Association. It is reported the constable attempted to arrest Kaylor, who escaped. On the occasion of presenting the Odd Fellows’ fountain to the city, a few days ago, Madison enjoyed a big parade aud holiday. The city was filled with strangers. The fourth-class post-office, Winamac, has beeu raised to the Presidential elass. A monster antler was found by persons who are engaged in cleaning out Yellowcreek, near Decatur. The antler is five feet long aud has six prongs, each measuring sixteen inches. The antler is well preserved, yet has doubtless been there for ages. Earlham College, Richmond, has opened with an attendance, in all departments, of 315 students. ^gT. Lons capitalists contemplate the erection of a large woolou mill at Jeffersonville, to employ 1,300 men. Two Elkhart sportsmen went to Hudson Lake, recently, to hunt ducks. They failed to find any until the day of tho big hail storm, when they saw a flock of about fifteen take refuge in a pond near by. After the storm had passed away, they picked up nine of the fifteen ducks—all killed by the large hail. These they took home with them, intending to pass them off as tronhies of their skill, but a nost-mortem

animation by skeptical friends revealed no shot marks, and the hunters were compelled to explain matters as above. Jonx Lewis Gentry has received a life sentence in prison tor killing Dr. C. J. Agee during a political quarrel at Boonville last June. A- new G. A. R. Post was instituted at Chauneey, Tippecanoe County, the other evening. The officers installed were: P. C., W. A. Gaddis, Fourth Indiana Cavalry; S, V. C., S. M. Aiken, Tenth Indiana Infantry; J. V. C., Zachariah Upp, Thirtyfifth Indiana Infantry; Surgeon, J. D. Wright, Seventy-second Indiana Infantry; Chaplain, B. K. Magee, Seventy-second Indiana Infantry. Jas. Cctti e, his wife and three children miraculously escaped instant death the other night while crossing the Vandalia road at Brazil in a two-horse wagon. The wagon was struok between the wheels by a freight train running at a high rite of speed. The wagon was hurled from the traek and demolished, its occupants being scattered in its wake. Mr, Cuttle was badly shaken up, as was the rest of the family, but the only wonder is all were not killed. The horses escaped without serious injury. Dciuno the heavy storm which prevailed in the vicinity of Wabash the other night, a huge ball of Sre entered the residence of A. L. Rohbock, Wabash, and, making the circuit of the bronze molding on the coiling, fell to the floor, whore it exploded with frightful violence and a report like that of a small cannon. Airs. Rohbock was thrown to the floor insensible, and the house was filled with smoke and flame. The molding on the ceiling was burned entirely off. Mrs. Rohbock was seriously shocked. Wiluam H. Gkeen, an extensive Howard Couuty contractor and highly respectable gentleman, was attacked the other night by four masked men on the public highway, one mile west of Kokomo, and robbed of f41T. Mr. Green had went to town after work hours and had drawn the money of the Ditch Commissioner with which to pay his hands. Mr. Green at the time had no means of defense, and has no clew to the guilty parties. The engine that runs the planing-ma-ehine at the Insane Asylum grounds at Logansport, exploded the other evening. The employes and engineers had iust passed out, and were badly scared. —Nothing pays as well as an amiable bearing. We do not mean in money merely, for there are much more important tilings to be gained. The person who cultivates gentle manners can’t help but cultivate gentle feelings at tho same time. He makes himself iikod, and that is a large training in making one’s seif likable. One is morally improved by his own courtesy.— Montreal Star. —A great deal of talk has been caused at Dunkirk, N. Y.. by the untimely and unexpected return, after seventeen years’ absence, of three married fishermen. They had been cast away in Greenland. Like three Enoch Aniens, they have returned to find three Philips in their places, or, as the reports put it, “their wives in the meantime had taken other husbands.” —No. no, it is not egotism; it is just a way the Ohio editor has of talking. Instead of saying “it rained here yesterday,” he says: “We were pleased to see it raining in ottr town yesterday.” — Washington Post. —The Pittsburgh Chronicle knows of one humorist so conscientious that he p ill not ride a chestnut horse.

DISEASED CATTLE. The Work of the lllino's Hoard of IJw Stork Commissioner.-:—United Stales In spector* Still WatohhiK DevelopmentsSnspectwl 11 rtls Ouan»ntine<l--Cases o Texas Fever. Chicago, Oct. 1.—The State Board o Live Stock Commissioners has practical!] completed Its labors, and l“rof. Salmon Chief of the Burean of Animal Industry left last night. The members of tin board, however, will remain here anti watch the progress of the disease, aivl the inspectors will be kept on duty to de tcct new cases. The board, is a waiting

some set ion on the part of the State million ties. Prof. Salmon thinks there arc about 2,400 cattle quarantined, and not 3,000, as stated. If the disease spreads ti healthy cattle they will, of course, be isolated, as the diseased ones no-v are. A strict watch is being kept at the stool yards for signs of flTe disease, but no evidences of it have been discovered. A few cases of Texas lever have beer noted, but no pjenro pneumonia. Tin disease reported in the dispatches Iron Virginia, as existing among cattle of that section, is probably Texas fever. Prof Salmon investigated the disease some weeks ago ago and pronounced it fever, which is as serious as pleuro-pneumonia, although it disappears in cold weather. five of the six government inspectors "'ho, tinder l)r. Salmon’s direction, will co-operate with the State Board in ex terminating pleuro-pneumonia, are in the city. They are Drs.Herr, rtf New York; Trumbower, of Bdtimore; Rowland, ol Jersey City, and Drs. Rose and Murray Dr. Hawk, of New York, is on his way here. It is now understood that the quarantined animals in infected places will not be immediately slaughtered, The government inspectors will probably make a careful examination of every animal in each quarantined place and separate all the healthy ones from those that show signs of the disease. It is believed that under tlris arrangement the quarantine can be kept tip several weeks, if necessary, anil the heaithy animals will be no more exposed than they have been already, Veterinarians of other States express themselves as satisfied with the arrangements that are being made to suppress the disease. Though the State is embarrassed by a lack of funds, they think the Live-Stock Board is acting wisely, and, with the aid furnished by the government, will make every effort to exterminate the plague. The experts secured by Dr. Salmon are said to be among the 1 best in the professioh Two cows were examined at the l Phoenix distillery sheds. One was killed j and the other d led. They were declared i to he well-marked ca-es of contagious pleuro-pneumonia. Among those who were present at the post-mortem examinations were Drs. llerr, Rowland, Hopkins, Salmon, Atkinson and Baker. They agreed that both were genuine cases. A boil which died at Stiulfeidi’s distillery was found te have had Texas fever. Two herds oi ; cattle on the Klston road were quaran titled yesterday. One, belonging to D Beckham, numbered seyenty-tive head, ! and the other, belonging* to G. B. Bttrkj lev, contained twenty-seven head. Boil owners had cattle in the Phcenix distillery last spring. They were-1 taken out, and ran with the present herds in June, when they were sold. Nc indications of pleuro-pneumonia wen found in these herds, but as -the animals had been exposed they were isolated as a precaution. Drs. John F. Ryan anti Joseph Hughes, assistant State veterinarians, appointed by the Live .Stock Commissiotit.arrived at the stpek y arsis yesterday and inspected 45*) head of cattle to be shipped to outside points.

Twenty-Five Bulls Die from Fleuro-Pueu-iiioniu. Kankakkk, III., Oct. 1.—Twenty-fit* out of one hundred bulls have tiled from what is supposed to be pleuro-pnen-monia, near St. Mary, Kankakee County, on the Triplet ranch, recently purchase*! by Miller & Pogue. The bulls were shippetl to the ranch recently from Klee’s distillery, Chicago, some say because they were not doing well, ami others that they were sent to be reduced to steers. The symptoms ate the same as described .in Chicago. The ranch is on the State line and joining the largest stock farm of Indiana, neighboring with the large ranches of Cooley ami Gregory, of Chicago: Lemuel Milk, of Kankakee, andf J: W. Gaff, of Cincinnati. More definite details are not now obtainable, as the ranch is sixteen miles from the nearest telegraph or telephone station. The Disease at Decatur. Dkcati'R, 111., Oct. 1.—Three weeks ago A. C. Traughber, a leading farmer and stock breeder of Mount Zion township, this county, sold a lot of cattle in Chicago, and while there bought forty head of heavy feeders for his farm, lie got them at the Union Stock yards, fresh from Iowa. The cattle were brought here, and one-half of them are now atfected with Texas fever. Six have died anti twenty are in a dangerous condition. It is known that the Iowa cattle were free from the disease when they arrived in Chicago, and Traughber, who is an old cattleman, believes that his lot were exposed to diseased cattle in the Chicago yards. Thr Ninth Victim of the Huy market Biot. Chicago, Sept. 80.—Police Officer Bennett, who dropped dead at his post, Tuesday night, when pulling the patrol box at the corner of Center avenue and Adams street, is evidently the ninth victim of the Havmarket massacre. Before the night of the riot he was as healthy as any man in the station, but when the bomb exploded he was knocked down, ami some one dealt him a tremendous kick in the side while he la? prostrate on the ground. He contracted a slight cold, and ever since that time he lias been spitting- blood. The day before he died he said he had ahvavs experienced a severe pain in his side since lie was kicked on that fatal night. He attributed the spitting of blood to the injury lie received. * He Should Kce Merritt. Nkw York, Sept. 30.—The attention ol Colonel 1). Grant was called to an article iu a morning paper about the sail brought by on undertaker to collet payment for embalming the body of General Grant. The Colone) said that he knew ol the bill in question ami of the efforts made by Holmes to obtain the money. The demand, he said, was considered extortionate at the time, and the firm wadirected to deal with Undertaker Merritt, The bill was included in that of Mr. Merritt and paid. “I audited the bill,” saitl the Colonel,” “and saw it paid.” Soothing Syrup. «■ Washington, Oct. 1.—An er.ttou raging circular was sent around £> s Government printing office yesterday morning. It iuiormed the employes that tiiert would be no more dismissals for tin present and requested them to settle down to work without fear. It is rumored among the men, however, that many more changes will be made in the near future, and that new men will be appointed to fill vacancies which are tc be created. Every Kepnblicauin the office has turned Democrat, and all are hustling for influence to be retained. Mr. Beuedlct says that he wants pone bq Dewoctfats in the office,

j DEMOCRATIC STATESMEN. ! What Has Been Held by the Lights of the Democracy ltegardiug Civil-Service KeThe opposition of the New York Sun to Civil-Service reform leads it into forgetfulness of certain pledges made by the Democratic party in reference’' to principles. It designates President Cleveland’s adherence to this reform as an attempted reversal of the Democratic' system of politics, and pertinently asks: “Where does he Sad the authority for under

taking it?” The answer to this is very simple. In the Democratic platform on which he was elected. “But,” argues our luminous contemporary, “ turning to the National Democratic platform, we find the sum of the Democratic declar ttion regarding the reform of the civil service to be for ‘an honest Civil-Service reform.’ If the Democracy had intended, upon assuming the control of the Government, as in 1884 they hoped to do, to make the civil service non-partisan, as Mr.Cleveland had proposed, and to establish a permanent tenure of office, the inevitable result of such a system, it can not be supposed that they would havo failed to record their intention.” The Democracy, in that platform, offered to the venerable statesman, whose memory is dear to his party, and also to the New York Sun, “the pledge of our devotion to the principles and cause now inseparable in the history of this Republic from the labors and the name of Samuel J. TiUlon.” Eight years before, that illustrious statesman was nominated and elected on a Democratic platform which said: “Experience proves that efficient, economical conduct of the Governmental business is not possible If its civil service be subject to change at every elec-' tion, be a prize .fought for at the ballotbox, be a brief reward of party zeal, instead of posts of honor assigned for proved competency, and held for fidelity in the public employ; that the dispensing of patronage should neither be a tax upon the time of all our public men, nor the instrument of their ambition.” This, the Sun will acknowledge, is explicit enough and sound Democratic doctrine. On this Mr. Tildeu was elected, and on this the Democracy, in 1884, renewed to him the’ pledge of their devotion to the principles and tiie cause they fought for in ISft>. On the 28th of Jnue, 1882, Senator Pendleton, whom the Sun must acknowledge to be very excellent Democratic authority, closed one of bis most brilliant speeches in favor of Civil-Service reform with the words: “To-day, the Democratic party is putting itself at the head of that return: Civil-Service reform is writ on its escutcheon and emblazoned on its banner. By its strength, and, in order to perfect it. the Democratic party will, sooner or later, come into power. When that time does come, when we take possession of this Government, when we shall |>«t in the high places of power our worthiest and best, the President of the United States, the Chief of the State, under the people, the source and fountain of honor and power in the country, will be able tosayto all as Van Arte veld said, in response to Vanclaire, who vv as thanking him for his promotion: “4 Supremacy o! merit, the sole means And broad'high way to power. * * * - * 4 * meritoriously administer'd. White alt its instruments, from first to last. * * * chosen for their aptness to those

Which virtue meditates^ ” If this is not sufficient to convince the Sum that Civil-Service reform is a Democratic institution to which the party is pledged, perhaps our esteemed contemporary will hearken to the' words of our grandest statesman. I» Mr. Tilden’s li tter accepting the nomination, in 1876, written in this city, on the 81st of July of that year, he says: “The convention justly’ affirms that reform is necessary in the civil service, necessary to its unification, necessary to its economy and efficiency, necessary in order that the ordinary employment of public business may not be a prize fought for at the ballot box, a brief reward of party zeal, instead of posts of honor assigned for proved competency aud held for fidelity in the public employ. Two evils infest the official service of the Federal Government. One is the prevalent and demoralizing notion that the public serviiSe exists not for the business and benefit of the whole people, but for the interest of the officeholders, who are, in truth, but the servauts of the people. The other evil is the organization of the official class into a, body of political mercenaries, governing the caucuses and dictating the nominations of their own party.” Further on, Mr. Tilden recommends “the patient, careful organization of a better civil service system under the tests, wherever practicable, of proved competency and fidelity.” Is it fair, then, for the Situ to characterize Mr. Cleveland’s Civil-Service reform policy as belonging rather to the Republican platform than to tho Democratic? The Sun's hatred of the President should not lead it to the extreme of falsifying the records of the Democratic party.— Albany Argus. POST-OFFICE AFFAIRS. A Department Which Republicans Saitl Coultl N«fc Do Managed 1‘roperly Kx<H‘pt by Themselves* The Republican newspapers at this time are watching closely the Democratic postmasters, and taking everyopportunity, and making many of them, to find fault with the management by Democrats of jthe post-offioes of the country. In many cities and towns it is very noticeable. When members of their own party were postmasters, these Republican newspapers had very little if any fault to find, and were generally ready with excuses for any actual faults of error or negligence, but now they watch closely and eagerly seize upon the least error, and magnify it. This may bo human, or rather Republican party nature, but at the same timtj it is neither fair nor just. While] there may be more or less frietion^cudsed by the changes made in postmasters all over the country, the fact remains that the first eighteen months of this Democratic Administration shows a general advance all along the line in the efficiency of the mail service, while at tho same time there has been a large saving in expenses. The official figures show these facts. - Another matter has had much to do with the efficiency of the service. This was the election of President Cleveland. Before his election many Republican postmasters regarded themselves as perfectly independent of the people and the patrons of their office. So long as they were all right with the Republican Senators or their own member of Congress, too many of them regarded

that they had a sure thin? on the office* they held, no matter how careless or inefficient may have been their management of it. The moment the election of Cleveland was assured there was a decided change. Postmasters paid much stricter attention to the business of their offices, and were much more accommodating and considerate in their treatment of the people. Their Democratic successor have preformed their whole duty, and have taken pride in the promptness and efficacy of the service, and their assistants and clerks have for various reasons been spurred on to increased zeal and enersrr in their

work. While the changes in postmasters and their assistants and clerks have not been as general as is generally sup-posed-thousands of Republican postmasters, clerks, etc., yet remaining in the service—it is a matter of congratulation and honest pride that Democrats all over the country have .shown themselves capable of taking hold of tho mail service and running it without a jar or break and with in creased efficiency. At the commencement of this Administration many foolish Republicans Jinoered and proclaimed that Democrats were not capable of managing the intricate affairs of the Post-ollieo Department. That matter has now been fully tested. The mail service is better to-day than it was when the Democrats took hold of it.—Dcs Moines Leader. ADDITIONAL FIGURES. The Speaker of the Last House of itepre* seutatives on Democratic “-Extravagance.” As in some sort a response to the accusation of extravagance on the part of Mr. Cleveland’s Administration, which has found a place in most of the Republican platforms this year. Speaker Carlisle 'has made public, in the form of an interview, a summary of the expenditures of the Government during the past year, which is instructive through its conciseness. The liscal year ending June 30 last is tho iirst complete year of this Administration. In the usual course of things, it should have been a year of large expenditure, by reason of tho addition of $7,302,000 to the pension list. A comparison with the year preceding, however, shows that, notwiyistanding this increase, there was a net saving of $17,743,000; or, regarding tho ordinary expenditures only, the reduction in the cost of running the Government amounted to more than $25,000,000. It is further notable that, while Mr. Cleveland is denounced in most of the Republican platforms for his vetoes of private pension bills which are clearly improper and often fraudulent, this great addition to the pension list was caused by the prompt abjudication, and allowance of claims under the new Administration. A larger- number were thus disposed of than in any preceding year. This, moreover, was accomplished at the same time that a considerably saving was made in the cost of operating the bureau. Every department, in fact, showed economy in expenditure over the figures of the year preceding. For the year that has now opened, July 1, 1886, to Juno 30, 1887, the %?n appropriation bills which provide for the regular annual expenses of Government look to a still further reduction, the amount appropriated for the departments being $6,486,000 less than last year. It remains to be seen whether the result will confirm this expectation, or a large deficiency be found to be provided for; but the experience of the year just closed justifies the belief that the estimate will be found correct Tho appropriations, indeed, would have been much greater if the Senate could have had its way; but the additions made by the Upper House to the amount of $13,000,000 were chiefly in the shape ot river and harbor jobs and unwise pension bills, and had no relation to the legitimate expenses of the Government. Mr. Carlisle refers with reasonable pride to the fact that the House threw out $10,000,000 of these Senatorial extravagances. — Boston Post.

Will Work to Beat Blaine. The overwhelming success achieved by Senator Edmunds in the election of a Legislature made up almost unanimously of that gentleman’s friends, and, therefore, assuring his re-election to the Senate of the United States for another term of years, has already had the effect of crystallizing certain elements opposed to a renomination oi Blaine in 1888. The fight against. Edmunds by the Blaine managers in Vermont rallied all the opposing strength which could be _ mustered. After such an indorsement^ as Mr. Edmunds received he will take an open and advanced stand against the Maine candidate. Between Edmunds and Conkling there exist the closest political and personal relations. In the contest over the formation of the Electoral tribufaal to count Hayes into the Presidential office, Edmunds exerted every effort to make Conkling a member of that body. Conkling had aroused the distrust of his party by his apathy after the doubtful result of the contest became established, and increased that feeling later by the announcement that one of the Oregon electors belonged to 'JTiiden. The support of Mr. Conkling on that occasion by Mr. Edmunds came very near breaking up the Senatorial caucus. It was only through the influence of Senator Simon Cameron and a few others that an open rupture in the party was avoided and Frelinghnysen’s selection as a member of the tribunal was accomplished.—Philadelphia Times. -The builders of Republican platforms at the North have this year omitted two planks which in other times were regarded as an essential part of the structure. Indeed, to exhume an expression which has now passed into ancient history, we might call them the very “mud-sills” of the Republican political edifice. We refer to the “negro resolution,” and the “view with alarm” plank, which have heretofore played such a prominent part in the compilation of principles when “our friends, the enemy,” were wont to air their political faith. It would seem from these omissions that the Northern Republicans are no longer in such awful dread of the bold, mid Confederate brigadiers, to whom they ascribe the full purpose of doing many awful things to the Government and the country, when the Democrats gained the political ascendancy.— Jialeiqh (N. (7.) News. -The people are with Grover Cleveland because he is just, fearless and mindful of the obligations of his office, and because he has risen above the level of a mere politician.—W'twAs inufon Posh