Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 27, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 November 1886 — Page 1

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVER! THURSDAY. ' TK RMS OS' SUBSCRIPTION I ESSSSUi*.:;:^::::::::'.91 «j ItarUuw nontha.. .. 2 nontha..(A INVARIABLY IN AOVANOBU>VRRTISIN« RATES i Tk.®**55T5Unw'.onoinsertion,,.,.(M <» lOh add! Joiml iuserlion.go jUfflw*, irduetlon marie pn advertlrements tvonlngr three, six, and twelve months. *.lu* transient advertisements prnnt he ss paid for ii advance. J. L. MOUNT, Proprietor. VOLUME XVII. Pike County OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. OITJOE, owr 0. E. MOHTGOMEKT’S .Store, Hku Street. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 1886. NUMBER 27. PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT JOB WORK OF ALL KINDS Neatly Exeouted SEASONABLE BATES. NOTICE! Persons receiving • copy of this paper with this notice crossed in lead pencil arc notified that the time of their subscription has expired

lUOntMIONAl CARDS, ».r. ronv. A. 1 HOKETCUT*. POSEY & HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW P*Urtli»rg, lad. 'WW pie otlcc la all the oourt*. All hualnen itan Hon KKiimk'idlwnuk °“°® 'oW*™** P. WODAItaSON, A. H, TATMdh RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG, END.

V, .1.. eiM-u ui hu Business. r« hotary Pvibtloconstantly in theo|ltoe. Offloo In Carpenter Building, nth noil Main. WSi. IP. TOWNSPND, MART Ft.KKNKR. i • TOWNSEND & FLEENER, Attorneys at Law, 1‘BTERSBURG, IND. 111 pr ictloe In all the courts. Office, over Gas Krai k's store. Special attention Riven to Collodions, Probate lluslness, Buying and polling a, tnda, Examining Titles and Furnish' lug Abst facts. M. A. 1U, j. w. ttimon. . ELY & WILSON, Attorneys at Lawj PETERSBURG, IND. * loo in the.Bank Huildiaa.”®* T. & & E. SMITH, (successors to Doyle A Thompson) Attorneys at Law, Real Estate, Loan & Insurance Acts. Office, second floor Bank Building, Peters, burg, lnd. The best Fire and 1.11© Insurance Companies represented. Money to loan on first mortgages at seven and eight per cent Prompt attention to collections, and all business intrusted to us. k R. K1ME, M. D„ Physician and Surgeon , PETERSBURG, IND. i Offics, ovor Barrett A Sou’s store; residence on Seventh Street, three squares south of Ma n. Calls promptly attended to, day or night. i. II, ADAMS. 0. h. ruM.immute, ADAMS A FULLINWIDER, Physicians & Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. ■V Oft -CC over Adams A Son's drug store. Offics hours day and night. J. B. DUNCAN, Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, . IND. Offlseon first floor Carpenter Building. G. B. BLACKWELL, M. D., ECLECTIC Physician and Surgeon, Office, Main street, between 6th and 7th opposite Model Drug store. MSTEKSBVBG, : INDIANA. Will praotiw Medicine, Surjjery and Obstetrics in town and country, and will visit any part of tne c mntry in consultation. Chronic diseases Mccos&fuuy treated. ' 0. K. Shaving Saloon, r J. E. TURNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, • IND. Paities wishing work done at their r» «ldono s will leave order' at the shop, tn Dr. Adai ts' now t uddiug, roar of Adams A toon's drug store. HUTKIAk LINGO HOTEL, , PETERSBURG, IND. THi; ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL IN TOWN. ■ Now throughout, and first-class accommo dati >ns in every respect. CEORCE QUIMBY, Proprietor hyatt' house,

* „ 'Washington. Inch Oem rally Located, and Accommodations first-class. HENRY HYATT. Proprietor. CITY HOTEL; Under new manat ament, 70!S£PH LORY, Prop. , Cor. Sth and Main S-ta, opp. CourS-bouso, Petersburg, Iiul. The City Hotel Is centrally located, first class n all its appointments and the best and cheapest hotel in the city. Sherwood House, Under New Management. B1SSELL & TOWNSEND, Prop'rs. First and Locust Streets, Evansville, : i Indiana, RATES, 352 PER DAY. Ssmpls Booms for Commercial Mon. When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. , First-Class in All Respects. Mrs. Lavra Harris sand A mhos IIorkau. Proprietors. GRO. K. ltogRKTKR, JlSSRK J. MORGAN, Late of Cincinnati. Late of Washington,Ind. HOTEL ENGLISH, ROsSETEK & MORGAN, Lessees. Indianapolis, Ind. Hon ee Elegant. Table, Service and Genera Keep Superior. Location beet In tine city— On th< Circle. NiacEuimra PHOTO GALLERY, 03CAR HAMMOND, Prop’r. Piet ires Copied or Enlarged. Ah kind* of work done promptly and at mw table rates. Call aad examine kite wurx. dallet y In Kiseit s new building, e var the *-* ■ , Petersburg, lod. Creat Reduction in the prim at SADDLES, HABHISS, ETC., ETC. I The public Is hereby in'ormadthat 1 s my laige stock of Paddles and Harnoa •very! King kept by mo lower than ev< I will sell I Harness, and •very! hint, kept by mo tourer than ever sold ta this place before, If you want anything la r lln s, don't fell to 0*11 oa me M am I oter txrtal be my 1: I bargains. FRED REU08, —_ * I* _

NEWS IN BRIEF. Complied from Various Sources,

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL Judos Tourgek’s magazine company, publisher* of Onr Continent, has had judgment rendered against It for ovej' $18,000 for 0T«r issue of stock by the judge. . . Tbk President and Mrs. Cleveland and the Cabinet officers who accompanied him to Boston returned to Washington on the afternoon of the 9th. Dus. Murphy and Lee performed a remarkable surgical operation on Officer Whitney, one of the vietims of the Chicago Hayraarket bomb, on the 9th. The doctors bored a hole through Whitney’s breast-bone and extracted a particle of the bombshell which was rapidly making Its way toward the officer’s heart. The operation was a pronounced success. Tns Secretary of the Treasury has appointed Louis C. Starkel, of Illinois, to be on analytical chemist in the Internal Revenue Bureau under the Oleomargarine law. _ Tns Russian Cap'aln Nabokoff, who led the recent revolt at Bonrgas, Bulgaria, has been sentenced to death. „ Lieutenant Louis A. Garling, Seventh cavalry, who has been ordered to Washington from Dakota,, has been selected at the request of General Dabney H. floury, Minister to Bogota, for detail as military attache to the legation to the United States of Colombia. Georgs Elder, one of the most noted detectives of New York, died on the night of the 8th. The immediate cause of his death was anuerism of the heart, lie was sixty-six years old. For twenty years no officer of the law was more feared by criminals or more successful in running them dowu. Lieutenant Schuetzs has been detached from special duty and placed on waiting orders. Prince Bismabk arrived at Berlin on the 10th to consult with Emperor William on Bulgarian affairs. M. Branofe, prefect of Sofia,whose dismissal was demanded by General Kaalbars, has resigned. On the 10th Frmoe Waldemar, third Ron of the King of Denmark,was unanimously elected by the Sobranj s to sucoeed Prince Alexander as ruler of Bulgaria. The Marquis of Salisbury’s statement at the Lord Mayor’s bauquet regarding the cccupation of Egypt has made a profound impression In French political and financial circles. It was in effect that England would vacate Egypt when she got ready. General J. R. Chalmers, who was defeated for Congress in Mississippi in the reoent eleotion by Judge Morgan, unnounces his inlontion to make a contest for the seat. On the 10th Prince Komatsu, unde of the Mikado of Japan, called attheWtite House in company with the Princess Komatsu and the members of his suite e nd paid their respects to the President. They werq received in the blue parlor. The presentations were made by £ cored,ry Bayard. On the 10th Mrs. Margaret Carneg ie, molher of Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire iron and steel manufacturer, died at her home at Cresson, Pa., after a prolong ed illness. Mrs. C arnegie was seventy-seven years of age. Andrew Carnegie, who b as teen ill for several weeks, is said to be convalescing. Tns official vote of the State election In Ohio gives Robinson (Rep), 840,895; McBride (Dem.),‘889,814; Smith (Pro.), 28,<E>7; Bonsai (Greenback), 1,903. Robinson’s plurality, 11,581. In 1881 Robinson’s plurnlity forSeeretary of State was 11,243. The Duke of Connaught has been appointed commander-in-chief of the British forces in Bombay. Cardinal HaynalD, Bishop of Kalocia and Baos, Hungary, bas started a subseription for tha purpose of raising funds to defray the expenses of removing the remains of the Abbe Lisat to Pesth. Prince Nicholas of Montenegro, the Czar’s choice for the throne Bulgaria, is a Russian subject. The President’s cottage home at Washington has been christened “Oak View.” It will be the • permanent home of Mm. Folsom and the occasional home of the President and Mrs. Cleveland. Lord Salisbury’s speech on the Buigarlan situation is count rued at St. Petersburg as pacific.

u.v me i7tn Judge 8age in the United States Circuit Court of Cincinnati threw the famous telephone suit out of court for want of jurisdiction. Prince Waldemar states that the decision as to his acceptance of the Bulgarian throne rests with his father. Os the 11th a Bulgarian deputation left for Cannes, France, to notify Frlnoo Waldemar of his election to succeed Prince Alexander. Miss Annie Hoxie, nieoe and adopted daughter of H. M. Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, and Mr. C. Thorne, formerly of New York, but now of Bt. Louts, were married in New York on the llth. * The remains of Fred Archer, the English jorkey, were interred at Newmarket on the 12th. Key. Henry Ward Beecher declines a publio reception in honor of his return from Europe. C. J. Byi.es, freight agent of the Missouri Pacific at Leavenworth, Kas., has mysteriously disappeared. The King of Denmark declines to allow his son. Prince Waldemar, to accept the Bulgarian throne. William O’Brien, editor of United Ireland, declines to sit in Parliament for the South division of Bligo. On the 12th Judge Cowing, in the New York Court of General Sessions, disposed of the oase of “Boodle” Alderman McCabe, holding that he need not be sent to an institution, but that he might be cared for by his wife. The judge fixed hail at $20,000. John C. Eno, formerly president of the Second National Bank of New York, who robbed that institution of several millions of dollars and fled to Canada, is said to have visited his father's residence in New York e few days ago in disguise. It ts now stated that Russia favors the Montenegrin prince. Blase Frovltcb, for the Bulgarian throne. President Cleveland finds that it costs something to be a property-holder in the District of Columbia. He purchased "Oak View” for about $20,000. He got his tax-bill the other dey and found that the plaoe bed just doubled in value on his bands. Next year the assessor w*U add the cost of improvements to the grounds and dwelling, which will make the place worth just one year** salary, or M0,000. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. George F. Davis, a young man of extravagant habits, living in Boston, was Usociated with R. J. Lane in the management of the Baecarrappa Leather board ent erprise, which is said to have absorbed so large a share of the funds of the Abington (Mass.) National Bank. Two weeks ago Davit died eudd»yto,w* It ts now asserted h» ' U v hi orfJO.Wollhfb' \ LL

Os the lftih when the case of Win. Heudersnn, Mins “Carson,” alias “Gentleman George," the notorious safe-burglar, was call eJ in Just ice Naehr’s court in Brooklyn, the prisoner failed to appear, lie had been charged with till-tapping, and was released on J}3>0 ball, which was declared forfeited. On the 11th three men were poisoned, one fatally, by drinking adulterated beer near Saginaw, Mich. Tux rivers Po and Adige In Italy have overflowed the banks and submerged the country along their courses, AT Boston on the night of the 11th thieves went through the pockets of Wilson Barrett’s troupe while performing, taking a lot of jewelry, etc., mast of which was recovered. On the lltb the residence of S. H. Bnk - er, proprietor of the Pennsylvania Car Works atLatrobe, Pa., was first wrecked and then burned by a natural gas explosion In the heating furnace. The family miraculously escaped injury. Loss, $$,- 900.

vn »uc iiw nil onior ui ap|)otu was is* sued stay in? the execution of Daniel Driscoll, -who was sentenced to be banged at New York on the 12tb for the murder of Breesy Garritty. Disastrous Ooodi hare occurred throughout the south of France. Much damage has been none, and washouts along the railroads have compelled the complete suspension of travel. On the 13th A tics Wiley, a young wife, of New Brunswick, N. J., committed suicide. y On the 12th the Chicago Avenue Church, at Chicago, known ns Moody’s church, was damaged ly fire to the extent of 11,009. Ojj, the 12th William Kennedy, aged fifty, fell into a tub of boiling lime-water at-jbe Newark (O.) paper-mill. He was, it is thought, fatally soalded. On the night of the 11th the Harding Casino in Berlin took fire whilo a ball was in progress. Four persous were killed and a large number received serious injuries. On the 12th the steamer Northerner was burned near Sandusky, O. She was valued at $SQ$00 and was insured, both marine or fife losses, for the amouut of $40,OOO. On the 12th Daniel McCormick, a painter, sixty-three years of age, committed suicide in New York by throwing himself into the cistern in the rear of his house. On the 13th a destructive fire was reported in the village of Townshend, Vt. The port-office, two places of business and several residences were destroyed and a number of others were momentarily expected to go. On the 12th C. B. Chatfield’s large flouring mill and elevator at Bay City, Mich, was destroyed by fire, with 400 barrels of flour and 0,000 bushels of wheat. Loss, $88,000; insurance, $22,030. Edward Shields, an ironworker, died at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 12th from the effeots of Injuries received in a saloon brawl several weeks ago, when he received a How on the head from a beerglass, Bsid to have been thrown by ono Henry Ford, who is now in lail. An epidemic of juvenile crime seems to have broken out in Paris. Among the cases brought to publio notice is that of a young girl named Georges, who committed suicide in the Seine because of disnpp ointment in love. About midnight on the 12th a fire broke out in 8t. Peter’s Roman Catholic procathedral, in Allegheny City, Pa. The fire had gained such headway when -the firemen appeared upon the scene that all efforts to extinguish it proved futile. The edifice was totally destroyed. Loss estimated at $100,000, fully covered by insurance. On the 12th Prof. Joseph Bchrenk, the principal of the German academy at Hoboken, N. J., was arrested upon a charge of cruelly beating Theodore Willisich, ono of his pupils. The boy’s body was shown in court and was found bo be covered with black and blue welts. Bchrenk was held to answer to the grand jury.

MISCELLANEOUS. This National convention ot United Presbyterians opposed to the action of the General Assembly on the music question mot at Allegheny City, Pa., on the »th. The following is a summary of the shod distributed by the National Fish Commission during the season ot 1SSC, arranged by river basins: Tributaries of Narragr.nsett hny, 2,534.000; tributaries of Long Island Sound, 749,000; Hudson river, 2,312,000; Delaware river, 21,618,000; tributaries ot Chesapeake bay, 53 580,000; tributaries of Albemarle ‘sound, 1,990,000: streams draining into the South Atlantic, 1,183,000: Mississippi river and minor tributaries of the Gulf of Mexloo, 4,75S,000; Colorado river, Gulf of California, 550,. D00; Columbia river basin, 850,000; total 92,404,000. « On the 10th about five thousand men were at work at the Chicago packinghouses. A cal i. has been issued for the Curtin labor committee to meet at New York November 20. It is reported that Mexican authorities refused to give up the remaius of Hulett Criner, the American killed in Mexico several days ago. The Vatican is preparing an encyclical condemning and stigmatising the Italian Government. Water has been let into the Standard mines at Mount Pleasant, Pa., and the Are Is thought to be under control. The water will be pumped out and arrangements made tc thoroughly ventilate the mines, as they are said to be filled with black damp. At a meeting ot the New York Board of Trade and Transportation on the 10th, resolutions were mlopted tolerant of tariff revision and urging the Government to provide coast and seaport defenses. A Russian engineer claims to have discovered a process of reducing petroleum to the form of crystals, which may be easily and safely transported to any distance and then reconverted into liquid form. The • ■arious companies ot the Second infantry now stationed at other points are to be transferred to Fort Omaha within a few days. The plan ot concentrating troops by regiments In large posts is being carried out as rapidly as the limited appropriations available will permit. The Comptroller ot the Currency has authorised the Alabama National Bank, of Birmingham, Ala., to commence business with a capital ot $500,000; and the Townson National Bank, ot Townson, lad., wi :h a capital ot $50,000. Tan B itish Parliament has been further prorogued to December 5 The sdinners’ strike at Darwin, Lancashire, has been settled, and the operatives will at once resume work. The Cuban sugar crop ot 1885-86, it is thought, will be the largest ever raised on that islr.nd. The First National Bank of Indianapolis, [pd., ban decided to go into liquidation. On the 11th the twenty-first annual nesting ot the M. B. Board ot Church exS ens held in Philadelphia. hmerican woman, who refuses to i her name, has entered upon a Uyt» iMt at Papi*,

A strike is threatened among the coke* workers of the Connellsville (Pa.) region. Hon. N. M. Bill, Superintendent of Foreign Mails, is a warm advocate of an international parcels-post system. The Dominion Government is said to be considering the qu estion of a treaty with the Sandwich islands. A prominent officer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company asserts that the recent rumor that ihe Pennsylvania railroad surplus would be used for the purchase af a oontrollng Interest in the Chicago* Northwestern Railroad Company is without foundation. The Colonial exhibition at London has been closed. The total number of visitors was 3,550,749 and the average daily attendance numbered 33,816. The Cleveland & Pittsburgh freight train men have asked for an increase of wages and for an adjustment of other complaints in regard to hours and service, similar to the grievances lately set forth by the New York, Pennsylvania * Ohio men.

Another flurry has been occasioned in the mysterious 'Frisco express robbery case by the reception at the ofllce ot the St. Louis Republican of a package of papers, documents, etc., to the value of about $10,000 to the owners, from “Jim Cummings,” accompanied by a letter, and also another letter from “John Bronson,” who claims to be ths third party, and to have $27,000 as his share ot the swag. Returns so far received indioate that the conviot labor constitutional amendment, recently voted on in Illinois, has been defeated. The Philadelphia mint is turning out $3,000 a day of minor coins to meet a large demand which has recently sprung up, especially for nickels and pennies. It is stated that the pending negotiations between the British ambassador to Turkey and the Porte, relative to the Egyptian question, will now be completed forthwith. A dispatch from Rome of the 11th stated that three Italian ironclads had been ordered to join the British fleet now stationed at Malta. A tear ago Harrison Loper married Cora Brown, aged thirteen years. He died on the 10th in the village of Shrub Oak, Westchester County, N. Y. The widow, who still wears short clothes, has a twomonths* baby. General Fairchild, Commander-In-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, will visit Nashville, Tenn., arriving Monday, December 6, spending two days. His visit, it is intended, will be made a grand affair. / The Baltimore SS Ohio Express Company has sucoeeded in perfecting arrangements for a through line from New York to New Orleans. The company will begin on December 1, running on their new line. Great alarm ex ists at Madrid, owing to reports ot a threatened outbreak against the government. After filling their New York and Brooklyn engagements the Cameron- Lonsdale opera troupe will return to England. Rain amounting almost to a deluge fell in France for four days ending the 12th, causing great damage to property. Eight hundred pounds of oleomargarine were seised at Davenport, la., on the 12th, by the United States authorities, the stamp law not having been complied with. As a token of the victory his forces had won an Afghan General, sent to subdue the Ghilsai rebels, sent ten car-loads of their heads to Cabul. The Farmers’ Alliance of Chicago adopted a platform favoring a union of farmers with labor organisations, to ameliorate tall evils oppressing both classes in common. In the first half of this month the Government revenues aggregated $12,865,573. The expenditures during the same period, including $630,000 pension payments, were $7,056,063, being $5,306,508 less than the receipts. The equestriau statue of Washington, destined for the city of Philadelphia, has just been finished at Berlin. It will be shipped in December. On the 12th a shock of earthquake was experienced In the province of Belrs, Portugal. Much alnrm was felt in Lisbon in consequence. During the seven days ended the 12th there were 281 failures in the United States and Canada, as compared with a total of 186 for the preceding like period.

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Sullivan knockou”faddy Ryan out o>ld at San Francisco on the night ot the 13th and then picked hint up and carried him to his corner. The set-to was witnessed by an immense crowtr , Tun’Frisco express robbery, continues to puzzle the detectives, notwithstanding the claims continually set up that they will soon have the culprits. Tr> will of Mrs. Stewart was probated in Hew York on the 13th without any objection having been made. The Treasury Department has commenced the issue ot the new two-dollar silver certificates. A Dublin tradesman explains that bis bankruptcy is due to his being boycotted by the National League. According to official figures the army of the United States now consists of 3,103 officers and 33,946 enlisted men. A Cincinnati saloon-keeper was fined fifty dollars on the 13th for selling liquors between the hours ot midnight and six 0*01 cck a. m. A New York jury on the 13th, after seventeen minutes’ delil oration, found Andrew J. Whitman, a private detective, guilty ot blackmail and endeavoring to extort $1,000 from Charles B, Seers, of Buffalo. Mrs. Jane Wheeler was brutally murdered at Cleveland, O., on the morning ot the 13th. Benjamin Wheeler, her hust and, has been arrested on suspicion of' having been concerned in the deed. Congressman W. T. Price, of Wisconsin, is lying seriously ill at his home in Black River, and is not expected to recover. Tb# America s Secular Union, at its meeting in New York cn the 13th, elected the following officers: President, Courtlandt Palmer; secretary, Samuel P. Putnam; treasurer, Eugene McDonald. Colonel Robt. O. Ingersoll presided, Tns Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago railroad was sold on the 13th under decree ot foreclosure for $1,506,000. The bondholders were the purchasers. The entertainment at Sen Francisco on the night of the 18th for the benefit of the Charleston sufferers netted abont $5,500. Mrs. Miriam Putnam, a daughter-in-law of General Putnam of revolutionary fame, celebrated her one hundred and second birthday nt Danvers, Mass., on the 14th. A well-dressed man entered the jewelry store of Charles Upmyer at- Milwaukee, Wis., on the evening ot the 13th, threw a handful of red pepper Into the eyre of the proprietor, eeised a bundle of watches and escaped. The official :returns of the New York City election show that Hewitt received SO,533 votes for mayor; George, 88,110; Roosevelt, CO,43d, and Ward well, 533. ■

STATE INTELLIGENCE. Solomon Letneh, a fanner Hiring near Logansport, was instantly killed by the falling limb of a tree. Tna principle part of Walcott, White County, was destroyed by fire early tha Other ntornihg. An Indiana man mad* a bet of $35 that he could drire a pig half a mile without the animal swerving more than twenty feet from a" direct course. He hadn’t gone twenty rods when the pig swerved around a corner, swam a caual and got in the way of a locomotive and was killed.

inn barn of Marcus Jones, Summit Station, near Lafayette, caught fire the other night and burned to , the ground. In the ruins were found the charred remains of a man. It is supposed to have been a tramp who laid down to rest in tho loft and accidentally set fire to the hay, A small gold ring was also found among the dobris, and it is supposed to have belonged to the tramp. Minxik Helyie, aged six years, only daughter of Samuel Helvie, a leading citizen of Anoka, Cass County, was burned to death a few days ago. She was playing around the fire when her clothes caught, and before assistance arrived she was horribly burned and died soon after. Plkiropneimonia is rapidly increasing in Jasper and Clinton Counties, and the State Board of Health is considering measures to stamp it out. A fight over the election resulted in Reeves Thomas, Republican, in the southern part of Parke County, having his throat cut by John Segwick, Democrat. Thomas is dying, and his murderer is in jail at Carbon. _ Senator Smith, President of the Indiana Senate, and acting Lieutenant Governor, will bring action before the Supreme Court to have Ueneral Robertson's election as Lieutenant Governor declared void. The auditor and commissioners of Knox County have effected a settlement with tho bondsmen of the absconded ex-county treasurer, Spear S. Hollingsworth, who-e defalcation amounted to over ?19,000. Tho commissioners have compromised for $35,000, which the 1 ondsmen will pay with property left by Hollingsworth. Thekb is great alarm among Indiana cattlemen over the ravages of the fatal pleuro-pneumonia. It has been developed at Lafayette, that Wm. Goodin, who was supposed to have been killed while attempting to rob the residence of Wm. McKiuner near that cityi was not shot at all but died of consumption. State Geologist Maurice Thompson has submitted to Governor Grey his report for the year ending October 31. It is qnito voluminous, and when printed will make a book of 400 pages. “The coal fields of the State,” the report says, “though far from Growing adequate development, have been worked with great success for fifteen ye irs, and our building stones have become famous for their beauty and durability. The block coal of Indiana is the best to be found in the world, and our oolitic limestone has no equal in the world asa beautiful, easily worked and durable material.” One feature of the report is the Geologist’s treating of what Prof. Goby has named tho Wabash arch. Mr. Thompson says that a few years ago, while engaged in making some railroad surveys, he noted at a number of points in Northern Indiana, evidences of a line of disturbances affecting the rock strata, and in a direction east to west. Soon after he came in possession of the office of State Geologist the discovery of natural gas in Northern Indiana begau to excite general attention, and he at once began the careful study of the evidences of disturbances mentioned. It is along this apex of this anti-clinal, extending into Ohio, or upon swells of its offshoots that natural gas is most likely to be found. The probability is, he says, that throughout a large area in Northern Indiana both gas and oil may be reached. They are not limit ed to special reservoirs along any given lino and not due to special local agencies. The successful drainage of the vast marshes lying along the Kankakee river is a subject of great importance to the citizens of the State, he says, and is a subject which must largely be affected by the surveys of the department during the next ten years. The line of work has now been carried up to the Kankakee valley, and the next step will be the examination of the river and the territory it drains. The examination should be a survey of sufficient completeness to establish all the facts necessary to a practical knowledge of drainage requirements, and he suggests that xt)te General Assembly should appropriated small special fund of $3,000 to meet the extra expense of such a survey. A ripple of excitement was created at Decatur, a few days ago, over the report that the surveyor-elect would not by statute take his seat until the first Monday in November, which would allow the old surveyor to hold over nearly a year. The statute is one made in 1S53, when the elections were held in October, and provides that the surveyor-elect shall assume the duties of bis office the first Monday in November after the election. As the first Monday in November occurred before the election, the question is one for the decision of the courts.

Mbs. Fbbd Hickman, or New Harmony, was assaulted by a tall, well-dressed, prepossessing man, with felonious intent, in her kitchen, a few days ago. She succeeded in securing a butcher knife with which she wounded the scoundrel. He then left the house, but threatened to call again. Mr. Hickman secured the services of the village constable to watch the house. Two nights later the stranger put in an appearance and attempted to force an entrance into the house. The constable ordered him away, but the man redoubled his efforts to gain an entrance. The constable then shot him twice, killing him. He was probably deranged. Fkank Buchanan, a tramp printer, permitted to sleep in the Democrat office, at Marion, the other night, was found in a dying condition next morning. The coroner held an inquest and returned a verdict of death from hemorrhage of the lungs. Rang the Bell on Him. “Ahthuh, I’ve been insulted; don’t you know. Weal, downright insulted.” ‘•You don’t mean it, deah boy.” “Ya-a-s, weally. But I got w-weal good and even.” “Tell me about it, chappie.” “Why you see it was this way. I was just saying what I thought of T-vulgah people who w-workod, you know, and that g-gweat b-bwute Werkly called me a g-gweat stupid ass, just as plain.” “How howwible! And what did you do?" “ I just w-wang a chestnut bell at him with all my might”—Merchant Traveler. —“I am not pleased with your selections. You play too much dirge music,” said the manager to the leader of an orchestra; “besides, your men don’t play with any larrup-tarrup. You need more guff.” The leader has ever since been trying to find out the meaning of the novel mnsic terms used by his man*

THE THREE CROSSES. Sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D. •‘The Orchard on the Hill**—The Polsontnu Fruit; and the Bitter Aloe*— Glorious Triumph of the • Middle Crose

Bkoorltn, N. Y., Nov. H.—After tho opening exercises at the Tabernacle this morning Dr. Talmage announced as his text Luke 33:33: -‘And when they wore come to the place, which is, called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand and the other on the left” He then said: Just outside of Jerusalem is a swell of ground toward which a crowd is ascending, for it is the day of execution. What a mighty assemblage! Some for curiosity to hear what the malefactors Will say, and to see how they will act. The three persons to be executed are—already there. Some of the spectators are vile of lip and bloated of oheek; some look up with revenge, hardly able to keep their hands off the sufferers; some tear their own hair in a frensy of grief; some stand in silent horror; some break out into uncontrollable weeping; some slap their hands in delight that the offenders are to be punished at last The soldiers with drawn swords drive back the mob which presses on so hard. There is fear that the proceedings may he interrupted. Let the Homan legion, now stationed at Jerusalem, on horseback dash along the line and force back the surging multitude. “ Back with you I” is the cry. “ Have you never seen a man die before!’' Three crosses in a row. An upright piece and two transverse pieces—oue on the top on which the hands are nailed, and one at the middle, on which the victim sat. Three trees just planted—yet bearing fruit—the one at the right bearing poison, and the one at the left bitter aloes; the one in the middle apples of love. Norway pino and tropical orange and Lebanon cedar would not make so strange a grove as this orchard of Calvary. Stand and give a look at the three crosses; just look at the one on the right; its victim dies scoffing. More tremendous than his physical anguish is his scorn and hatred of Him on the middle cross. This one on the right turns half around on the spikes to hiss at the one in the middle If the scoffer could get one hand loose, and He were within reach, he would smite the middle sufferer in the face. He hates Him with a perfect hatred. I think he wishes he were down on the ground, that he might spear him. He envies the mechanics who, with their nails, have nailed Him fast. Amid the settling darkness and louder than the crash of the rocks hear him jeer out these words: "Ah, ah, you poor wretch, I knew you were an impostor. You pretended you were a God, and yet you let these legions master you I” It was in some such hate that Voltaire, in his death hour, because he thought he saw Christ in his bedroom, got up on his elbow and cried out: “Crush that wretch!” What had the middle cross done to rouse up this right hand cross! Nothing. O, the enmity of the natural heart against Christ. The world likes a sentimental Christ, or a philanthropic Christ, but a Christ who comes to snatch men away from their sins —away with Him. On this right hand cross to-day I see typified the unbelief of the world. Men say: “Back with Him from the heart; I will not lot Him take my sms. If He will die, let Him die for Himself, not for mo.” There has always been a war between this right hand cross and the middle cross, and wherever there is an unbelieving heart, thus the fight goes on. O, if, when that dying malefactor perished, the faithlessness of men had perished, then that tree which yields poison would have budded and blossomed with life for all the world. Look up into that disturbed countenance of the sufferer and see what a ghastly thing it is to reject Christ. Behold in that awful face, in that pitiful look, in that unblessed death hour, the stings of the sinner’s departure. What a plunge into darkness! Standing high upon the cross at the top of the hill, so that all the world may look at him, he says: “Here I go out of a miserable life into a wretched eternity.” One, two, three. Listen to the crash of the fall, all ye ages. So Hobbes, dying after he had seventy yetfrs in which to prepare for eternity, said: “Were I master of the world, I would give it all to live one day longer.” Sir Francis Newport, hovering over the brink, cried out: “Wretch that I am, whither shall I fly from this death! What will become of me!. Oh, that I were to lie upon the fire that never is quenched one thousand years to purchase the favor of God and be reconciled to Him again. Oh, oternity! Oh, eternity! Who can discover {-he abyss of eternity! Who can paraphrase upon these words; “Forever and forever!”' That right hand cross—thousands have perished on it, in worse agonies. For what is physical pain compared to remorse, at the last, that life has been wasted, and only a fleeting moment stands between the soul and its everlasting overthrow! Oh, God! let me die anywhere rather than at the foot of that right-hand cross. Let not one drop of that blood fall upon my cheek. Rend not my ear with that cry. I see it now as never before—the loathsomeness and horror of my unbelief. That dying malefactor was not so much to blame as I. Christianity was not established and perhaps not until that day had

inai man neara 100 jurist. cut after Christ has stoodalmost nineteen centuries, working the wonders of His grace, you reject Him. That right hand cross with its long beam overshadows the earth. It is planted In the heart of the race. When Will the time come when the spirit of Cod shall, with its axe, hew down that right hand cross, until it shall fall at the foot of that middle cross, and unbelief, the railing malefactor of the world, shall perish from all our hoartst Away from me, thou spirit of unbelief! I hate thee. With this sword Of Cod I thrust thee back and thrust thee, through. Down to hell; down mosirat^ oursed monster of the earth, and talk to the millions thou hast already damned. Talk oo longer to these sons of God, these heirs bf Heaven. “If Thou be the Son of God.” Was there any “if” about itl Tell me, thou star, that, in robe of light, did run to point out His birthplace! Tell me, thou sea, that didst put thy hand over thy lip when He bid thee be still! Tell me, ye dead, who got up to tee Him die! Tell me, thou sun. in mid bcaven, who for Him didst pull over thy Face thy vail of darkness! Tell me, ye lepers who were cleansed, ye dead who were raised, is He the son of Cod! Aye, aye, responds the universe. The flowers breathe it, the stars chime it, the redeemed celebrate it, the angels rise up on their hrones to announce it. And yet on the miserable malefactor’s “if” how many shall be wrecked for all eternity. That little “if” has enough venom it its sting to muse the death of the soul. Ho “if” about t I know it EcceDeus! I feel it thorxighly—through every muscle of the body, tnd through every faculty of the mind, and ihrough every energy of my soul. Living t will preach it, dying I will pillow my toad upon its consolations—Jesus the God. Away, then, from this right hand cross. The red berries of the forest are apt to be poisonous, and around this tree of carnage grow the red, poisonous berries, of which many have tasted and died. I can see no use for this right hand cross, except it be used as a lever with which to upturn the unbelief of the world. Here, from the right hand cross, I go to the left; pass clear to the other side. That victim also twists himself upon the nails to look at the center cross—yet, not to scoff; it is to worship. He, too, would like to get his hand loose; not to smite, but to deliver the sufferer on the middle cross. He cries to the railer cursing on the other side; “Silence t between us is innocence, is «fony. We suffer for our crimes. Silence I”

Gather around this left hand cross, oh, ye people; be not afraid. Bitter herbs are sometimes a tonic for the body, and the bit. ter aloes that you grow on this treo shall give strength and life to thy soul, This left hand cross is a repeating cross. As men who have been nearly drowned tell t»s that in ono moment, while they were under the water, their whole life passed before them, so I Suppose in one moment the dying malefactor thought over all his past life. Of that night when he Went into ah unguarded door and took all the silver, the gold, the jewels; and as the sleeper stirred he put a knife through his heart; of that day when, in the lonely pass, he met the wayfarer, and, regardless of the cries and prayers and tears and struggles of his victim, ho flung the mangled corpse into the dust of the. highway, or heaped upon it stones. He says: “Oh, I am a guilty wretch; 1 deserve this. There is no need of my cursing; that will not stop the pain. There is no need of blaspheming Christ, for He has done mo no wrong; and yet I can not die so. The tortures of my body are outdone by the tortures of my Siul. The past is a scene of misdoing; the present a crucifixion; the future an everlasting undoing. Come back, thou hiding midday sun! Kiss my cheek with one bright ray of comfort. What, no help from above — no help from beneath I Then I must turn to my companion in sorrow, the one on the middle cross. 1 have heard that He knows how to help a man when ho is in trouble. I have heard that He can cure the wounded. 1 have heard that He can pardon the sinner; Surely in all His wanderings up and down the earth, He never saw one more in need of His forgiveness. Blessed One! I turn to Thee. Wilt Thou look for the moment away from Thy own pangs to pity me? Lord, it is not to have my hands relieved or my feet taken from the torture. I can stand all this, but, oh! my sms, my sins, my sins, they pierce me through and through. They tell me 1 must die forever. They will push me out Into the darkness, unless Thou wilt help mo. I confess It all. Hear the cry of the dying thief: Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom. I ask no great things. I seek for no throne in Heaven, no chariot to take me to the skies; but just think of mo when this day’s horrors have passed. Think of mo a little—of me, the one now hanging at Thy side—when the shout of Heavenly welcome takes Thee back intc Thy glory, Thou wilt not forget mo, wilt Thou! Lord, remember me when Thor comest into Thy kingdom. Only just r« member mol" Likewise must we repent. Toll say: “I have stolen nothing.” I reply: “We have all been guilty of the mightiest felony of the universe, for we have robbed Godrobbed Him of our time, robbed Him of our talent, robbed Him of our services. Suppose you send a man West as an agent of your firm, and every month you pay him his salary, and at the end of ten years you find out he has been serving another firm, but taking your salary, would you not at once condemn him as dishonest? God sent us into this world to serve Him. He has given us wages all the time. One half of us have been serving another master. When a man is convicted of treason ho is brought out; a regiment surrounds him and the command is given: “Attention, company I Take aim! Fire!” And the man falls with a hundred bullets through his heart. There comes a time in a man’s history when the Lord calls up the troop of his iniquities, and at God’s command they pour into him a concentrated volley of torture. You say: “I do not feel myself to be a sinner.” That may be. Walk along by the cliffs, and you see sunlight and' flowers at the mouth of the cave ; but take a torch and go in, and before you have gone far you see the flashing eye of a wild beast, or hear the hiss of a sorpent. So the world seems in the sunlight of worldliness; but as I have the torch of God’s truth, and go doifc-n into the deep cavern of the heartalas! for the bristling horrors and the rattling fangs. Have you ever noticed the climax in this passage of Scripture: “The heart is deceitful.” That seems enough. But the passage goes on to say: “The heart is deceitful above all things." Will you not say that is enough? But the passage goes ou further and says: “The heart is deceitful above ali things and desperately wicked.” If we could see the true condition of the unpardoned before God, what a wringing of hands there would be! What a thousand-voiced shriek of supplication and despair! But you are a sinner, a sinner. I speak not to the person who sits next to yon, but to you. You are a sinner. All the transgressions of a life-time have been gathered up into an avalanche. At any moment it may slip from the cliffs and crush you forever. May the Lord Almighty, by His grace, help us to repent of our sins while repentance is possible. This left hand cross was a relieving cross. There was no guess work in that prayer; no “if” in that supplication. The left hand cross Sung itself at the foot of the middle cross, expecting mercy. Faith is only just opening the hand to take what Christ offers ns. The work is all done, the bridge is built strong enough for us all to walk over. Tap not at the door of God’s mercy with the tip of your fingers; but as a warrior, with gauntleted fists, beats at the castle gates, so with all the aroused energies of the soul let us pound at the gate of Heaven. The gate is locked. You go to it with a bunch of keys. You try philosophy. That will not open it. A large door generally has a ponderous key. I take the cross and place the foot of it in the lock, and by the two arms of the cross I turn the lock, and the door opens.

cross. The crosses^vere only two or three yards apart. It did not take long for Christ to hear. Christ might have turned away and said: “How darest you speak to Me t I am the Lord of Heaven and earth. I havo seen your violence. When you struck down that man in the darkness I saw you. You are getting a just reward. Die in darkness—die forever!” But Jesus said not so, but rather: “This day thou Shalt be with Me in Paradise;” as much as to say: “I seo 'you there; don’t worry. I will not only bear My cross, but help you with yours.” Forthwith, the left hand cross becomes the abode of contentment. The pillow of the malefactor, soaked in blood, becomes like the crimson upholstery of a King’s couch. When the body became still, and the surgeons feeling the pulse said one to another: “He is dead,” the last mark of pain had gone from his face. Peace had smoothed his forehead. Peace closed his eyes. Peace closed his lips. Now you see why there wore two transverse pieces on the cross, for it has become a ladder into the skies. That dying head is easy which has under it the promise: “This day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise.” Ye whose lips have been filled with blasphemy, ye whose hands have for many years wrought unrighteousness, ye who have companioned with the unclean, ye who have scaled every height of transgression, and fathomed every depth and passed every eattreme of iniquity—mercy, mercy. “ The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in Us day; And there may I, though vile as he, Wash all my sins away.” 1 have shown you the right hand eross and the left hand cross; now come to the middle cross. We stood at the one, .and found it yielded poison. We stood ai the other, and found it yielded hitter aloes. Come now to the middle cross, and shake down apples of love. Uncover your head. You never saw so tender a scene as this. You may have seen father, or mother, or companion, or child die, but never so affecting a scene as this. The railing thief looked from one way, and saw the left side of Christ’s face. But from where you sit to-day, in the full blase of Gospel light, you see Christ’s full face. It was a suffering cross. If the weapons of torture had gone only through the fatty portions of the body the torture would not have been so great, but they went through the bauds, and lost, and temples—the meat

sensitive portions. It was not only the spear that went into His side, but the sips of all the race—a thousand spears—plunge after plunge, deeper and deeper and deeper, until the silence and oompostire that before characterized Him gave way into a groan, through which rumbled the sorrows of time and the woes of eternity. Human hate had done its worst, and hell had hurlod its sharpest javelin, and devils had vented their hottest rage, when, with every nerve of His body in torture, and every fiber of His heart in excruciation. He cried out: “ My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me!” It was a vicarious cross. The right hand cross suffered for itself, the left hand cross tor Itself, but -the middle cross for you. When a King was dying a young man cried: ‘-Pour my blood into his voins, that he die not.” Tho vein# of the young man were tapped and the blood transferred, so that the King lived, but the young man died. Christ saw the race perishing. He cried: “Pour my blood into their veins, that they die not.” My hand is free now, because Christ’s was crushed. My brow is painless now, because Christ’s was torn. My soul escapes, because Christ’s was bound. I gain Heaven, because Christ for me endured the horrors of hell. When the Swiss were many years ago contending against their enemies, they saw these enemies arrayed in solemn phalanx, and knew not how to break their ranks; but one of their heroes rushed out in front of his regiment and shouted] “Make way for liberty.” The weapons were plunged into his heart, but tvhile they were slaying him of courso their ranks were broken, and, through .that gap in the ranks the Swiss marched to victory. Christ saw all the powers of darkness assailing men. He cried out: “Make way for the redemption of the world.” All the weapons of infernal wrath struck Him, but as they struck Him our race marched out free. To this middle cross, my dying hearers, look, that you# souls may live. I showed you the right hand cross, in order that you might see what an awful thing it is to bo" unbelieving. I showed you the left hand cross, that you might see what it is to repent. Now I show you tho middle cross, that you may see what Christ has done to save your soul. Poets have sung its praise, and sculptors have attempted to commemorate it in marble, and martyrs have clung to it in the fire, and Christians dying quietly in their beds have leaned their heads against it. This hour may all our souls embrace it with an ecstacy of affection. Lay hold of that cross, sinner. Every thing else will fail you. Without a strong grip on that you perish. Put your hand on that and you are safe, though a world swing from beneath your feet. O, that I might engrave on your souls meffaccably these three crosses, and thrt if ii your waking moments you will not heod,Chei that in your dream this coming night you might see on the hill back of Jerusalem the three spectacles—the right-hand cross showing unbelief dying without Christ, the left hand showing what it is to be pardoned, while the central cross pours upon your soul the sunburst of Heaven, as il says: “By all these wounds I plead for tbj heart. I have loved thee with an everlasting lovo. Rivers can not quench it; floods can not drown it.” And while you look the right-hand cross will fade out of sight and then the left will be gone; nothing bul the middle cross will remain, and even that in your dream will begin to change^untii It becomes a throne; and the worn face ol Calvary will become radiant with gladness and instead of the mad mob at the foot o! the cross will be a multitude kneeling. Anc you and I will be among them. But no, we will not wait for such i dream. In this our most aroused mood we throw down at the foot of that middle cross sin, sorrow, life, death, every thinep. W« are slaves; Christ gives deliverance to the captive. We are thirsty; Christ is the riv'ei of salvation to slake our thirst. We art hungry; Jesus says: “I am the Bread ol Life.” We are condemned to die; Christ says: “Save that man from going downtc the pit; I am the ransom.” We are tossed on a sea of trouble; Jesus comes over it, saying: “It is I, be not afraid.” We are in darkness; Jesus says: “I am the bright and morning star.” We are sick; Jesus is the ‘Balm of Gilead!’ We are dead; hear the shrouds rend and the grave hillocks heave, as He cries: “I am the Resurrection and the Life; he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yot shall ho live.” We Jwant justification. “Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” We want to exercise faith. “Believe in tire Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” I want to get from under condemnation. “Thore is now, therefore, no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus.” The cross —He carried it. Tho fiames of hell—He suffered them. The shame—He endured it. The crown—He won it. Heights of Heaven sing it, and worlds of light to worlds of light all round the heavens cry: Glory* Glory! Let us go forth and gather the trophies for Jesus. From Golconda mines we gather the diamonds; from Celon banks we gather the pearls; from all lands and kingdoms we gather precious stones, and wo bring the glittering burdens and put them down at tho feet of Jesus and say : “All these are Thine; Thou art worthy." We go fort!) again for more trophies, and into one sheaf we gather all the scepters of the Ctesars and the Alexanders, and the Czars, and the Sultans, and of all royalties and dominions; and then we bring the sheaf of scepters and put it down at the feet of Jesus and say: “Thou art King of kings, and these Thou hast conquored." And then we go forth again and gather more trophies, and v#e bid the redeemed ol ages, the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, to come. And the hosts ol Heaven bring crown, and palm, and scepter, and here by these bleeding feet and riven side, and by this wounded heart, cry: “Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power unto the Lamb, for ever and ever.”

A Rich Russian's Whim. Btories are told of persons who have shown their contempt for sup6rabounding wealth by lighting their cigars with banknotes (possibly they took the numbers beforehand) ; and maniacs have been heard of who have shod their horses with gold. Following up these examples in a somewhat more extensive fashion, a St. Petersburg millionaire has just had the walls of his smoking-room adorned with a selection of the bank-notes of the world. After all, the fantasy may not be so costly as it looks. Most continental countries, as well as America, issue bank-notes of very small denominations; and so long as the more valuable issues were used but sparingly it ■would be perfectly possible to paper the walls and ceiling of a fair-sized room with bank-notes for much less than would need to be expended upon pictures or frescoes.— St. June*' Gazette._ The Tree ot Character, [Chicago Interior.] Conduct is said to be a large part of character, but conduct is the fruit of the tree of character. Conduct does not make character; conduct only shows what the character is. Sentiment also is the outcome and the evidence of character; and sentiment is largely the inspiring and the shaping of conduct. Character is the tree; sentiment is the vital sap; conduct is the fruit. Because of what a man it (which is his caaracter), he feels disposed to do in a oertain direction (which is his sentiment), and from this impulse his doing follows as a matter of course (which is his conduct). Sontiment is back of conduct, character is back of wntiment._ gvgRT relation which we occupy hath it# difucs; every hour with which our life is lengthened out hath its Divine purpose. These rotations wore not ordained by God only to please us, and ought notto bo indulged in with that idea; chiefly they are the means for our growth in grace.—jn, Met,