Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 December 1886 — Page 1

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY TJ RMS or SVtUCKlPTHiNt gOUMWJWtt. I, u jjMT si* months.■ H fflar three month#....g UlVARIABL*>tN ADVANCE ADTKSttKlNb RATKSi SQuate (9 tinesi, cp. tnsction at a# i KkitUMMiinst-Mi..*, .... JJ i Kach »mto,*"' iShSUES'1 «**«** *» Pike County Democrat J. L. MOUNT, Proprietor, VOLUME XVII. “Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles of Right. OFFICE, orer 0. E. MONTGOMERY’S Store, Main Street. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 23, 1886. NUMBER 32. PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT JOB WORK or ALL KINDS Neatly Executed —AT— REASONABLE BATES. , NOTICE! Persons receiving a copy of this paper wttk this notice crossed in lead pencil ere notified that the tune of their subscription hascxpired.

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NEWS IN BRIEF Compiled from Various (sources. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Ox the 13th General Sherman, accompanied by General Moore, tie newly appointed Surgeon-General of the army, called upon General Black, Commissioner of Pensions. The call was a purely social one, as the ex-General of the army and the Commissioner are old personal friends. Ox the 13th General Brown , of Indiana, appeared on the floor of the House at Washington for the first time this session. He intends securing some member to pair with him and get relieved from all committee work, as owing to his wife’s illness he will not return to the capital again this session. John Dillox has been ordered to furnish bond for his good behavior in future, or go to prisou for six months. John C. Miller, the patent attorney who was shot by George N. Walker, at the National capital on the 8th, has died from his wounds. In his ante-mortem statement he accused Miller with wilfully shooting him. Gretta. O’Coxnor, of Donegal, Ireland, was given a verdict for *1,500 damages for breach of promise in a suit against Frank Dougherty, a returned Irish-American. It is officially announced that Kev. R, J. McManus, rector of St. Joan’s Church in Baltimore, Md., has been made a monsignor by His Holiness, Leo XIII. Liei-texaxt John P. Finley, who was recently placed in charge of the signalservice station in New York, is said to be the largest man intheUnit^Statesarmy. He is six feet four inches tall and weighs 230 pounds. He does not appear the giant he is, however, on account of being so well proportioned. At the farewell banquet given at Delmonico’s, New York, on the 14th, by Mr. Henry S. Wellcome to Her,ry M. Stanley, who was about to sail for Europe, in response to King Leopold’s summons, Mr. Stanley said he had asked one of his friends to bid good-bye for him to the thousands of Americans for whose kindness he desired to make due acknowledgment. . It is said Mr. Morris K. Jessup, of New York, a Chicago & Alton director, is about to erect a *10,000 building at Bloomington, 111., which he will present to the Chicago & Alton Y. M. C. A. Pkixce Fekoixano or Saxe-Corcro-Go-tua, after a long talk with Count Kalnoky received the Bulgarian deputation on the 14th. The Prince told the deputation that he was willing to accept the Bulgarian throne if the Sobranje elected him and the Powers confirmed his election. Advices of the 15th from Montreal announced that S. Finley Hoke, the defaulting bookkeeper of the Merchants’ National Bank of Peoria, 111., had been remanded for extradition. It is now stated that Congressman Reed, of North Carolina, secured *80,000 by various questionable methods previous to taking his alleged trip to Canada. The President is said to have promised his influence to secure the votes necessary to assure the calling up of ■ Mr. Morrison’s Tariff bill in the House of Representatives. A FRbrosiTtox is under consideration by the Democraticmembers of the Indiana Legislature to resigu in a body, if such action shall be deemed necessary in order to defeat Republican success. The younger members are understood to oppose the plan. Ox the 15th “Boodler” McQuade, the New York alderman on trial for bribery, was found guilty on the fi rst ballot. M. N. Dkoe has been elected President of t he Swiss Republic, The Marquis of Salisbury has reduced the rents on his Hatfield Estate. Ax examination of election frauds is going on before the United States Commissioner at Indianapolis. __ Emperor William has subscribed *1,000 to the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of the lift-saving men of Southport, England, who lost their lives by the upsetting of their boats while engage;} in relief work during the recent storm. Wm. Daily, reported lost among the victims of the Mississippi steamer J. M. White disaster, is supposed to be ex-Unit-ed States Marshal Daily, of Nebraska, his homo being at Peru, Neb. He left homo recently for a Southern trip He was a prominent politician, farmer and cattle-raiser.

juks. Cleveland made her first appearance at au entertainment in behalf of a public charity at an E Pluribus Unum party for the benefit of ithe Garland Memorial- hospital at Washington the evenings of the 16th and 17th. She assisted Mrs. William C. Whitney at one of the booths. The leading spirit in the enterprise was Mrs. John A. Logan. Tub nomination of Mr. T. C. Manning, to be Minister to Mexico, is still in the President’s hand. It was made out at the State Department and was sent to the White Horse for the President’s signature and there it stopped, while the reporbavent out that it would probably go no further. The news that there is an intention to make another change does, not cause much surprise at the capital. The will of the late Richard Perkins, of Boston, provides for bequests to educational and charitable inst itutions of *331,000. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology gets $100.000. 4 , Tiie announcement that Prince' Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg had been asked to accept the Bulgarian throne is officially denied. Ox the 16th Mr. and Mm. Hamilton Fish celebrated their golden wedding at New York. The heirs of the Stewart; estate have decided to sell the contents of the Fif‘h avenue mansion in New York at auction in March. It was considered probable on a review of the field on the 16th, that the proposition to take up the Morrison I'ariff bill in the House for consideration would be defeated by from three to five votes. Tub Secretary of the Navy and the President himself, it is also understood, have given emphatic indication of their desire to have the House pass as speedily as possible the mil consolidating the bureaus of the Navy Denartment. Friends of the late General W. B. Hancock have, as a token of regard to his memory, raised a sum of money with which ihey have purchased a home for his widow. The committee having the matter in charge, after consultation with Mrs. Hancock, have finally decided upon the purchase of a home in Washington, which will hereafter be her home. On the 16th Hon. Mamhall P. Wilder died at his residence at ISoxbury, Mass. He had just passed his eighty-eighth birthday. Mr. Wilder had for m any years been cne of the most prominent pomologists and horticulturists of the country. He was president of the Ameriioan Pomological Society and was making active preparations for a meeting of that society in Boston, in 1887, at the time of Ids death.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. A fire occurred iu Queen’s College in Oxford, England, on the 13th, by which two libraries were completely destroyed. Many of the Tolumes burned can not be replaced. The intrinsic value of the property destroyed is *40,000. On the 13th Patrick Howard was killed and three other men were wounded by the ears at Himick’s Station, P:». On the 13th Geo. Brown was arrested at Hew*York on charge of robbing the mails at Hamburg, la. He had sailed around the world under the name of Forbush since absconding. On the IStn several passengers were Injured,but none seriously, in a smash-up on the Milwaukee road o>»ar Ha warden,

Mrs. Cora Ethbl Stiters is under arrest at New York or charge of passing a worthless check. Os the night of the 13th Homer Head, aged forty years, shot his wife Flora at Ithaca, N. Y.. and then killed, himself. Mrs. Head is still living and it is thought she will recover. They had lived apart for several months jealousy was the probable cause. Jacob Twining, who confessed that he and two other men had formed a plot to burn the city of Findlay, Q., has been held for trial. Wm. Smith and George Ramsey, who were arrested at the same time, have been discharged from custody. Ox the 13th Ida Baldridge, a young daughter of ex-Fostmaster Baldridge, of Greensburg, Pa., was arrested at that place for robbing the mails She was well and favorably known in the town, and her arrest caused intense surprise. Ox the 13th Lycurgus W. Pearson, a rich farmer, living five miles east of West Branch, la., was found hanging in his barn. He was temperate, thirty-live years of ago and highly respected. He leaves a wife and live children. No reason for his suicide is known. Ex-City Assessor and Collector Boyx of Dallas, Tex., is said to be short >17,000 in his accounts with the city. * Fixley Hoke, the Peoria (111.) bank defaulter, will, his attorney thinks, not be extradited by the Canadian authorities. Two locomotives came together with a fearful crash near Moline, 111., on the 14th, and several passengers and trainmen were slightly injured. Captain Braidwood shot and perhaps fatally wounded Patrick Kelly, whom he found in Mrs. Braidwood’s bed-room, at Patchogue.L. I. Avgcst Derdke beat his .wife with a hammer, at Cleveland, O., on the 14th, until he thought she was dead, and then committed suicide by cutting his throat. Tub steamer J. M. White was burned on the Mississippi river at PointeCoupee, La., at a late hour on the night of the 13th, and from thirty-five to fifty of the passengers and crew were burned to death or drowned. Charles Hofferbirth’s saw-mill at Evansville, Ind., was wrecked by a boiler explosion, on the 14th. and Frank Poplin was killed, several others being wounded. The principals in the celebrated Robin, son poisoning ease, Sarah Robinson, Dr C. C. Beers and Thomas R. Smith, were arraigned at Cambridge, Mass., on the 14th. The indictments were two in number—one for the alleged murder of Wm. J. Robinson, and the other for the alleged murder of Lizzie Robinson. Schwartz, the hrakeman who is suspected of knowing something about the great Rock Island train robbery, was held to the Chicago Criminal Court on the 14th in a houd of ¥3,000 on a charge of bigamy. He asserts that the railroad company is pushing the charge of bigamy against him in order to keep him iu custody. On the 15th the seed store and agricultural warehouse of J. W. McCullough & Co., at Cincinnati, was damaged, to the extent of >10,000 by fire. Ox the 15th Rev, A. S. Orvutt, a Baptist minister, lost his life in a hotel fire at Pipe Stone, Minn. Is York County, S. C., an organized band of colored thieves and murderers has been discovered and twenty-six arrests have been made. Os the 15th the walls of a building in process of demolition on the site of the proposed new Congressional Library buildingin Washington fell, precipitating several workmen to the basement, all of whom were more or less seriously injured by the falling debris. Counsel representing ex-Alderman MoQuade, of New York, the convicted bribetaker, will move for a new trial. No more of the "boodle’’ eases will be taken up this month. MISCELLANEOUS. Max dalav advices say that an engagement between British troops and natives has taken place near Pakoka, and that two hundred insurgents were killed. Eleven hundred coopers at Riverside and Cincinnati are on a strike. The Iowa State Medical Association held a lively session at Cedar Rapids on the 14th, whieh closed with a banquet. The Bulgarian deputation of notables will not visit St. Petersburg. England has decided to redueo tfie standing army and the army of occupation in Egypt. The brakemen on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railroad have joined the freight conductors in their strike. Fovr of the Belfast rioters have been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment each.

A joint commission will soon be Appointed to define the boundary between Alaska and the British possessions. « The steamship Alaska, overdue, arrived at New York on the 15th. Kau.road commissioners of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wisconsin met in Des Moines, la., on the 15th to discuss railroad matters. \ On the {5th Wall street, New York, was the scene of an exciting financial flurry, being the result of a combined bear attack on the stock marke% Marks & Co., bankers and brokers, succumbed, with liabilities stated at over $100,000i. Eastern yachting circles are greatly exercised over the secrecy maintained in building the Scotch yacht Thistle, on the Clyde, which is said to be the next competitor from the other side for the America’s cup. Following the lead of the Eastern coal monopolists, Illinois operators have taken advantage of a temporary short supply to advance the price of soft coal twenty cents per ton at the mines. On the 15th a convention of railroad commissioners of various Western States began its session at Des Moines, la. Dissensions have arisen in the British Cabinet in regard to the enforcement of coercion in Ireland. On the 15th the third annual convention of the International Association of Fairs and Expositions began its session at Chicago. Seats for the Patti concerts at the City of Mexico sold enormously in spite of the recent swindle, and at large prices. . Fair women, hot coffee and sandwiches, and the prayers of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union carried the day for prohibition at the recent election in Worcester, Masa. On the 15th the British Court of Appeals rendered a decision setting aside the verdict obtained in the lower court by Cyrus W. Field of $35,000 against James Gordon Bennett. Field is condemned to pay-the costs. The grounds of the decision'Were that Bennett is not a British subject and does not reside in Great Britain. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the payment, without rebate, of the interest—amounting to about $9,000,000— due January 1,18S7, on the four per cent, loan of 1907, and on Pacilto railroad bonds. The North Wales farmers have expelled the church bailiffs and escorted them out of the district. There is thought to he trouble ahead. On the 10th the Ohio Supreme Court decided the Dow law constitutional. , Laborers on Aquilla Laferty’a farm in Pike County, lnd., dug up the headless remains of a colored man, the supposed victim of striking miners, whose places were taken by negroes from the South. A bani> of Daeoits numbering 709 were recently pursued by British troops in Burmah and 900 Of them were kil led. A roRTioN of the letters; stolen from the Ostend express in Belgium, recently, were found in the Grand Hotel at Brussels. The Bombay charges that the French are actively intriguing against the British in the Somali country. East Africa. In the United States Court at Chicago, on the lftth. Judge Gresham appointed Judge Cooley, of Michigan, to he receiver of the Wabash railway,

Ox the 16th a bar qoet was given M Paris by General Pelasier to Minister MoLane and the French delegates who attended the nnvailing of the Bartholdi statue. Os the 16th John Dillon, William O’Brien, Matthews Harris and David Sheehy were arrested at Loughrea, Ireland, while collecting rents according to the “Plan of Campaign." Covsx Herbekt Bismarck asserts that complete accord exists between Germany, England and France concerning the relations between Germany and the Sultan of Zanzibar. The announcement of the failure of Charles Winchester, of Ashburnham, Mass., on the 16th, for $500,000, and the possible embarrassment of several banks in consequence, caused a sensation in business circles. The Washington Star thinks it is probable that Comptroller Durham will disallow the usual expenses of justices of the Supreme Court on New Year’s Day. It has been customary to pay for their carriages and gloves used in making New Year’s calls, but it is very doubtful if the time-honored custom will be countenanced. The statements recently printed in effect that John Roach, the ship-builder, was dying, or in imminent danger of death are denied. At his home, on the 16th, Mr. Roach’s son and physician stated that the subject of inquiry was about the house and extremely annoyed at the reports of his serious condition.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. L The Senate was not tn session on tbe 11th. .In the House a bill was passed extending tbe laws ol tbe United States over certain unorganized territory south ot tbe State of Kansas, known as the “public land strip,” and opening tbe same to entry by actual settlers under the Homestead law. Tbe bill declaring forfeited tbe Ontonagon and Brule river laud grant was discussed and passed. (It forfeits 881,600 acres.) Tbe House then went into committee of tbe whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriations bill, and. pending discussion, tbe committee arose and tbe House adjourned. Is the Senate on tbe 18th tbe credentials of Mr. Edmunds (Vt.) for tbe term beginning March 4,1887, were presented. Mr. Morrill introduced a bill for tbe maintenance of National banks. Tbe Electoral Count bill was ordered printed. Mr. Morrill's tariff resolution was considered and went over A committee was appointed to attend Representative Dowdney's funeral. Adjourned..In tbe House resolutions were introduced by MR Lawler (HI.) in favor ol using tbe surplus for coast defenses. A resolution was introduced by Mr Weaver asking information concerning cancellation0 of treasury j notes. A resolution granting use of the ball to j tbe women suffragists January 85, 86 and 87 was adopted; also a resolution authorizing prepayment ot interest on tbe public debt. In the Senate on tbe 14th a resolution was presented regarding immigration, naturaiiza- j tioa and suffrage, from German citizens of Wisconsin. Tbe bit! tor tbe retirement and recoin- | ago ot tbe trade dollar was reported back ] from the committee on finance. A bill i was introduced to increase pen- : sions of disabled soldiers. Tbe House amendments to tbe Electoral bill were uonconcurred in. Tbe bill repealing tbe Tenure-of-Offlce law was debated_In the Housa resolutions were adopted regarding the interpretation of tbe Tariff law of 1883. Tbe Sundry Civil Appropriations bill was considered in committee of tbe whole and several amendments were adopt® d. In the Senate on tbe 15th a memorial was presented against admission ot foreign built { ships to American registry. A resolution was ; offered inquiring how tbe Missouri River Com- j mission bad apportioned its money. Tbe : Tenure-of-Offlee bill was laid over till the 16th. Mr. Platt's resolution for nominations to be considered in open session was laid on the table. The conference report on the Inter-State Commerce bill was ordered printed. Tbe bill prohibiting Senators or Representatives from acting as attorneys for subsidized railroad companies was discussed. ..In tbe House—Messrs. Caldwell, Eden andCooper were appointed conferees on the Electoral Count bill. Allotment in severalty to Indians was considered. Certain additional cities were brought under provisions of tbe National Banking law. The Sundry Civil Appropriations hill was taken up. A bill to sup-ply a deficiency in appropriations for public printing was reported. Adjourned. Ik the Senate on tbe 16th a resolution was adopted regarding tbe reapportionment of tbo Missouri river appropriations. Petitions were presented from tobacco manufacturers in reference to the packing of eut tobacco. Tbe bill was passed permitting owners of American vessels to sue tbe Government for losses caused by collision with United States vessels. A bill was passed granting a pension to Mrs. Barbara Fuchs. Mr. Beck zetraeted some offensive remarks previously made reflecting on the judiciary committee. Tbe debate on tbo Teuure-of-Office bill was resumed.In tbe House a bill was passed providing for tbe retirement of Admirals Rowan and Worden. Remonstrances were presented against tbe Dunn Free Ship hill. The bill was passed for allotment or lands in severalty to Indians; also, tbe Urgent Deficiency bill tor public printing. The Sundry Civil Appropriations bill was considered in committee of tbe whole.

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Is the Senate on the ITth petitions were presented for reduction of the oleomargarine tax. A resolution was offered for appointment of a select committee of five Senators to investigate the troubles with Mexico. The bill for retirement and recoinage of the trade-dollar passed. A hill extending the free-delivery system passed. A measure was introduced providing for issue of two and one-half per cent, bonds. The bill giving pension claimants, whose applications have been rejected, the right of trial by jury was recommitted. A bill was passed for relief of B» B. Connor of Lou i sville.Bills authorising construction of bridges across certain rivers were passed. The bill repealing the Tenure-of-Ofttee act was passed.In the House an inquiry was ordered into the proposed consolidation of (jeCtaiu offices. A bill was introduced providing for a fisheries commission. The Sundry Civil Appropriations bill was passed. Memorials were presented regarding the .(rights of American vessels in Spanish ports. The bill for the adjustment of the accounts of the McMinnville^ Manchester Railroad Company was passed. The Senate bill was passed increasing the pension of General Benj. F. Kelly, of West Virginia. An eveniug session was held and several pension bills were passed. Junes Tunkmxn's friends say he is out of politics forever. Jamkk D. Warren, proprietor of the Buffalo Cammerrtat, died on the ITth. Tub blooded stock belonging to Fred Archer, the late English jockey, was sold at auction on the ITth for £3,585. The whaling bark Atlantic was wrecked off San Francisco on the ITth with large loss of life. Friday, the ITth, was John G. Whittier’s seventy-ninth birthday, and was appropriately celebrated. Tub sentence of Mt-Quade, the convicted ex-alderman of New York, was deferred to Monday, the 30th. Louisville, Ky., has announced a great stake race for t%,0dU for the spring meeting of 1889. Chahi.es Anderson goes to the penitentiary from Clinton, Hi., for fourteen years for forgery. Ma.ok Nathaniel F. Hurd died at the home of his grandson, H. G. H. Tarr, Esq., in Mount Clair, N. J., a few days ago, as the result of injuries sustained by a fall nearly a year previously. Major Hurd was a native of Ohio, and had.reached the ripe age of ninety-seveu years. He enjoyed the distinction of having shaken by the hand every President from Franklin Fierce, for whom he cast his first vote, to the present iucumbent. Ji’iKiE Cooley has notified Judge Gresham of his acceptance of the Wabash receivership. Gratiot Washburns, son of Hon. E. B. Washburne, dropped dead at the Galt House, Louisville, Ky., on the ITth. Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishops Corrigan and Ryan had a conference at Philadelphia on the V*th, supposably on the labor question.

SOUTHERN PROSPERITY. The Rapid Strides Sm»Ur Made by cities at the South in the W»j of Industrial and Manufacturing Enterprises— Millions on Millions to he Invested. Baltimore, Md., Dec. IT]—The Baltimore .Vanufiusurer*’ Record of December 18, under the head of “The Gigantic Industrial Developments in the South During the last Two Weeks," will say that never before, probably, in the history of this country has there been such an era of industrial development as we now see in the South. A summary of the reports received by the Record from all parts of the South is as follows: In Alabama titers has been reported the Ensley Land Company, capital stock *».- 000,0ft', to build a manufacturing town near Birmingham, establish water and elect* ic-light works, and manufacture iron and steel. Four other companies, with capital running from *100,000 to *800,000, have been organized at Birmingham for similar work. A *3.000,000 company, organized at Florence,has arranged to build three large furnaces A *300,000 company has been organized to purchase and refit an old eottou mill at the same place. At Birmingham there has been organized a *100,000 axe and tool company, and a newrolling mill is to be built. At Sheffield, a *100,000 pipe and nail mill; an additional furnace, and electric light and gas works. A Memphis company has been organized to build furnaces and mine coal near Jasper.' An old furnace at Round Mountain is being put in shape to go in blast again. An ice factory at Montgomery, carriage factory at Meridian, a *300,000 electric light company and a *50,000 waterworks company at Florence. Arkansas reports two smelters, two *3,000.000 mining companies, and one of *5,000,000. In Florida, a *85,000 furniture factory, electric light works and a number of mills. In Georgia, a *30,000 fertilizer company to build factories at nine or ten points, a *30.000 glass factory, a *50,000 iron and machine company, plow factory and other enterprises. In Kentucky, we have had a *50,000 coal and iron company, a *1,000,000 lumber and mineral land development company, and a *50,000 carpet company. In North Carolina a *33,000 tobacco factory, a *13.000 electric light company and a number of large saw-mills. Tennessee has captured a *300.000 stove works, a *3,000,000 company to manufacture iron and steel, a *150,000 light and heat company, a *100,000 marble quarryingcompany, and a *100,000 electrio light company. Texas has a new flour mill company, a *50,000 cracker company and a *100,000 dressed beef company. Virginia reports a *50,000 ear seat company, flour mills, carriage factory, etc. West Virginia has a *300.000 oil and gas company, a *50.000 electric light company, and several dlw coal mining companies. OUR COAST LINES. Report of the Coast and tieodetU* Survey Transmitted to the House of Representatives—The Estimates for Next Year. Wisiuxatox, Dec. 16,—Secretary Manning transmitted to the House to-day the report of F. M. Thorne, superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, showing the progress made in that work during the fiscal year ended June 1886, and accompanied by charts illustrating the general advance in the operations of the survey up to that date. The superintendent says that the form which the work of the survey has of late years assumed is *one that is the natural outgrowth of the needs of the country and of the increased demands, not only for accurate' charts of the seaboard, but also for data upon which the several States gan have accurate maps of their entire territory. As the survey has a score of officials trained by long experience to execute its work in a most thorough and economical manner, it would be in accordance with the dictates of a sound economy that appropriations should he granted by Congress sufficient in amount to push forward the werk to completion at an early date, and to employ to the best advantage the professional skill now at the service of the Government. While the geodetic work in the interior was well advanced during the year, due attention was paid to immediate and pressing demands for resurveys of important harbors and highways of commerce, and special care was taken to give wide publicity to discoveries of dangers to navigation. Surveys involving triangular and topography, astronomical and magnetic work and gravity research were carried on within the limits of thirty-one States, three Territories and the District of Columbia. Special reference is made to important investigation in terrestrial, magnetical, physical, hydrographical and geographical history, which form thesubjt*t of exhaustive appendices. The.estimates for next year aggregate *660^765, and are considerably larger than the appropriation for the current year, but, the superintendent says, less than the average appropriation for many years. The increase relates only to field expenses and is accompanied by a proposed decrease of *71,008 in salaries, thus contemplating more work for less pay than is possible under the appropriation for the current year. The advance toward the completion of the resurvey of the New York hay and harbor, and the studies of tee formation and movement in the Delaware river and bay are given attention, as are also the observation of currents in the Gulf stream and the near approach of a junction of the trans-continental triangulation which will form a geodetic connection between the work on the Atlantic and that on the Pacific. Struck on Rouur Shoals. Hors® Shoe, N. JT., Dee. 16,—The twomasted schooner, Evergreen, bound from Virginia to New York with a heavy cargo of coal, left Delaware breakwater yesterday. During the heavy wind and blinding snow storm about half-past four o’clock this morning she struok on Romer shoals. The captain and three men took to their boat and landed at Sandy Hook railfoad dock, where they were taken on board the Steamer Johns. They were more or less frost Kitten. Jail Delivery at Muncle. Ind. . Muxcie, Ind., Dec. It,—As the wife of Sheriff C. H. Maitler was feeding the prisoners in the jail, one of them knocked the dishes from her hand, leaped through the small door and knocked the woman down. The others followed him, and together they rushed upon the sheriff and heat, pounded and kicked him until he was senseless. Then they fled. One has since been recaptured, but the others—notorious “toughs"—are at large. The sheriff has three ribs broken, and is otherwise seriously hurt. There were twelve prisoners in the jail, all of whom were armed with clubs, and it is supposed a general jail delivery was planned.

MeQuade Will Ask a New Trial. New Youk. Deo. 16.—One of the SieQuade jurymen said last night: “When we went out we took an informal ballot and every man was found for convietiou. Then w'e took a regular ballot and it was the same. 1 think a verdict could have been rendered without the jury even leaving their seats.” McQuade was taken to the Tombs and given his old cell. He refused to see reporters or to send any word about what he thought of his conviction. His wife, brother and lawyers called on him and had a long consultation upon the probability of getting a new trial. Mr. Neweombe said that one would be asked for. mid he believed it would fce fronted

CHRISTMAS. How shall I tell of the ages. When Christmas was never kept; When the earth, in dark revolution. Bided her time—and slept? How speak of the tardy unfolding Of mom in the crimson Bast— When to! for the Heavenly Infant There waited the solemn feast? The shepherds sing In slow accord: “ Is born our King, The blessed Lord. A quiver—as if down ,the ages Mortality's cry echoed still; So long had it voiced every heart-beat. It lingered the daybreak to ail; Each bitter, discordant, low earth-wail Shocked Heavenly air as it rang; the Babe breathed; Divinity woke And the angels in rapture sang. The shepherds say, “ We seek Him, alL Look at the Star O'er Bethlehem's stall. The Babe enwrapped in the manger. His tiny hand folded soft; That hand, to be put forth for others In loving strength, so oft; To be, even in willing submission. Extended from Calvary, Now rests on the Mother's bosom. In beautiful infancy. The shepherds whisper. On each knee, “We bring our gifts, O Lord, to Thee.” That head, on its pillow so tenuer. Must wear a thorny crown. Before, the earth-life ended. Its sacrifice lays down; But now, oh; gracious promise Of kingly power and might. It sends out from the little brow Hays of divinest light. The shepherds vail. Theiriaces now; “ToThee, O Lord, We humbly bow.”' (Mt! now the pseans rolling, The anthems meet and blend “ Give praises, oh! give praises. Forever, without enfL" “ The Christchild ne’er shall leave us The angels soft do sing; “ But always folded in our hearts. The Christmas joy shall bring.” The shepherds then / Stole soft away, * The night has down, Look! break of day.” What does it mean, this Christmas, Down from the ages sent? Out of the lips of a little Child. What is the message meant? Into one word it is prisoned, , Struck into life and light; Love is the Christmas-tide messagv Of Heavenly power and might. The shepherds far Upon the plain. Adore the Lord Of Love again. ^ Sing it in Heavenly chorus. Sing it in earthly strain. Wake the dark places with music. To call down the Lord again. Sing it 'mid Christmas jangle Of bell and childish voice, And sweet confusion, sing it: “ Our Lord is come! Rejoice!’ The Christmas bells O'er hill and plain Take up the shepherds’ Sweet refrain: * The child is born To bring us Love And Light and Peace From God above.” -Margaret Sidney, in N. T. Independent, HOW IT HAPPENED That I Was Proudly Owned as “One of the Family.” [Original.]

O not put such a heapin’ spoonful of sugar in your tea, Elsie. Mind, sugar has rid half a cent on the pound,” said my Aunt Phillis, sharply, as she moved the yellow, cracked sugar-bowl out of my reach. “Growiu’ girls do eat an amazin’ lot,” joined in Uncle Reuben, from the other side of the table. uIt was mighty inconsiderate tor Robert to drop off so sudden-like and leave you unprovided for. With his five hundred a year he ort to have laid away a sight of money. But he never was anything of a manager. It was not in him to say ‘no’ when people came a beggin’, and he alius religiously laid by his tenth for the Lord, no matter how poor the harvest. Now, my doctrine is, if the Almighty stints the crops, »t*s His own look-out if He has to take short toll. I reckon I will be obleeged to give you a home, but you must jump round spry and try to pay your way. Now, if Providence could only have seen far enough forward to have made you a boy, it would have been more to my likin'. Then you could have built fence, dug the cellarwall and sich, which I’ve got to pay for, seein’ you are a girl. If you'd only been a boy, you could have taken hold of the plow-handles and fallowed the furrows, and I wouldn’t have needed to hire a hand to help with the clearin’ or grubbin’—but pshaw 1 what does a girl’s work amount to anyhow! What signifies rubbin’ out a few clothes, sweepin’ the house over once a day, or washin’ a dozen dishes now and then? Cryiu’! It is amazin’ how easy women do cry! Sakes alive! They laugh and cry in the same breath.” “ And that reminds me, Elsie, that your nncle has took the schoolmaster to board, and it is high time his room was put to rights; I am sure I don’t know what possessed you, Reuben, for them school teachers are an overhearin* set. It is a fact that four dollars a week is a circumstance not to be picked up every day, but if he has not an appetite like a saw-mill, I’ll miss my guess.” Aunt Phillis’ steel-gray eyes were still upon me, though her closing words were addressed to uncle, who was too intent upon the business before him to grant her an answer. Though trembling violently, I ventured to inquire: “ Can I go to school, Aunt Phillis 1” She turned on me like a whirlwind, fairly screaming: 5 “Go to school, Elsie! Do you reckon your uncle and me are a-goln’ to keep you up a lady, and never git any pay for our pains? You’re better scholar now than even our John—better than any man or woman in the neighborhood, unless it might be the minister himself. You’ll not sit mopin’ over your books hero like you did when your father was a-livin’.” “ You see what book-larnin’ did for your father,” put in Uncle Reuben. “ He was a sight better off than I was when we started in life, for Uncle Robert Cherry left him five hundred dollars for his name. If he had invested that money in land, instead of a puttin’ it into his head, you would not have been thrown penniless upon me now. Too muoh edication is not good for men, and it ruins women.” Here uncle gave his head a decided nod, n custom be had when peculiarly well pleased with himself. As we arose from the table, aunt returned to the subject uppermost in her mind by hurrying me off to arrange the master’s room. “Tuck ’em big pillows ia4> the chest that stands in the corner. Goodness knows, these college chaps carry their heads high enough without propin’ ’em up with fourpound pillows; and mind, Elsie, take off Hint new blanket. You can slip on that old comfort Instead. He’ll never know the difference.” I, was glad to escape from her harsh voice, but a more formidable foe awaited me in the passage. No sooner had I closed the door than Cousin John, a great, burly lad Of sixteen, called out tauntingly: “Ho, my fine lady) go you expect to pul

on lino airs and lord it over us in errand style. Pretty cheeky for a pauper, 1 should say.” “You are a cruel boy and 1 cried, in anger. “Take that, and that!” he ing me With a whip he he “I’ll teach you to talk back gar.”

‘‘TASK THAT AND THAT!” “You are a wicked, unprincipled boy!” I returned, defiantly, springing behind the door to avoid his second attack. In his fury he jerked the door with such force as to throw hitnself against a fable that stood near. His howl of pain brought his mother to the scene of conflict. “That young viper flew at me like a tiger, and hammered my face into a jelly,” screamed he, wiping the blood from the slight wound. 1 tried to explaimbut Aunt Phillis would not listen to me. Gfnisping me by the arm, she shook me roughly, and then, after boxing my ears, shoved'xue toward the staircase, declaring, that as a punishment for my ungrateful conduct, 1 would not be permitted to speak for a month, except when answering questions. I crept up-stairs as fast as my suffering and blinding tears would permit, and throwing myseH upon my bed, gave.way to an outburst of grief. The pain inflicted by the cruel blows I had received was nothing to the excruciating torture of soul I was compelled to endure. What a sad, sad Christmas it had been to me. Only a fortnight before I had, in dumb agony, listenedlp the clods rattling upon the coffin-lid of ■'my dear father, who ail my life had shielded me from hardships. The dear old parsonage with its vine-clad porch, irose up before me. and in its shadow I beheld my silver-haired father, dozing in his easy chair, the golden rays of a summer sunset touching his sainted face as with the pencil of an angel. Again, his gentle voice thrilled my soul as in days gone by, and, in fancy, his loving fingers were upon my head as we knelt side by side in prayer. tc No doubt he intended to prepare me for the shock that had almost crushed me, but the summons came suddenly, and while 1 slept the angels carried him into Abraham’s bosom. How long I would have wept over my shattered life 1 can not tell, had not Aunt Phillis’ shrill voice called me back to duty. “Take ’em write dimity curtains down from the window, Elsie. lake as not the master wijj spatter ’em with- terbacker juice. Them college chaps is a woolgatherin’ set at best,” she said, with emphasis. 1 obeyed her promptly, but my heart ached for Master- Newville, who expected to find the comforts of his refined homo in this diminutive apartment that was devoid alike of ornament or convenience. What a different welcome was my dear old father wont to give the strangerwithin his gate! That same evening, as 1 was gathering kindling for the morning fire, John came suddenly upon me, and renewed his attack of the morning. “So, Miss Stuck-up, you are to be the lady, and 1 the servant,” he began. “Really, I feel proud of my smart cousin. How fortunate to have your highness counted as one of the family.” “Shame on you, boy, to thus torment a girl smaller than yourself.” It was Master NewviUe’s voice that startled the young coward,pausing him to sneak around the kitchen out of sight. After spehking a few kind words to me my champion went into the house and up the narrow stairs to his cheerless room. John’s taunt concerning my kinship nerved me to action, and from that moment I set my face fixedly towards gaining a point from which- he would feel honored in claiming me as one of the family. This

TAK1N8 VP THE VJtMXlSHEJ) LESSONS. resolution accounted for the tallow dip burning in my bare room long after even Master Newvillo had extinguished his light and sought repose. Before I had closed my eyes that night I had marked out a regular course of study which was to occupy my few spare hours. It seemed to me that I had grown old in the last two weeks./I could not realize that I was the same happy girl who had danced so merrily in and out of the parsonage? door so short a time ago. If I could only have staid with Margaret, dear Margaret, who had taken'me from the arms of my dying mother, and cared for me during all the fifteen years of my life! She would have clung to me faithfully had not the death of my father left her in her old age as helpless and dependent as myself. “Dear Margaret! I will" yet make a homefor you, and we will eat the bread of independence together,” I cried, bitterly. Strong in my determination to succeed, I gathered my school-books from the bottom of the old chest and took up the unfinished lessons that my father had marked the day before he died. Thanks to his thorough method of instruction and the interesting manner in which be strove to present the great truths he taught, I was not only well advanced for a girl of fifteen, but I possessed that inordinate love for books that makes study a pleasure instead of a task. Much as I shall always despise John tdr his cowardly treatment of a friendless orphan, I can not but feel grateful to him for uttering the stinging words that aroused me from my stony grief, and opened a new source of enjoyment to my starving soul. Every moment I could steal from aunt’s watchful eye was devoted to my books. t One evening she came upon me suddenly when I was replenishing my humble light, and taking the old saucer from my hand said, sharply: “Seems to me, Elsjp, you use a mighty sight of tallow. Mind, it costs like sixty. Miss Jones got seven cents a pound for her’n. There is no sense in a great girl like you havin’ to Arry a light up-stairs every night. Betty Robins told me she had seen light in your window all hours of the night, and that folks say you set up to study. If I catch you stealin’ your time to pore over books. I’ll burn ’em every one.” She set the old cracked dish on the upper

shelf of the pantry, and I crawled up-stair*, discouraged but not couquerod. Just at this time I was wholly absorbed in goome- “ try. I made itu point to learn one new theorem every day, which I mentally worked out at night. In this way I devoured the book, reviewing unttf.l could have demonstrated every theorenV it contained without making a single mistake. In a similar manner I became proficient in mauy other branches. Usually I attempted to master but one study at a time. At a very early age my father had insisted on my writing a verse, story or little sketch, at least once a week. This practice I managed to keep up, and after my composition-book was written through, I had recourse to an old time-worn ledger of my grandfather’s. On Christmas Day—it was my birthday, too—I gained courage to send one of my little poems to a paper my uncle had been induced to take. 1 watched its columns eagerly every week until my pride was fully gratified by seeing my own production in print. Again and again my vanity prompted me to write a few verses, which invariably made their appearance in the course of a few weeks. One evening my aunt sent me on an errand to the minister’s wife. She was engaged when I told my business, and gave me a new magazine to look over until sh$ would be at leisure. Among the first articles that attracted my attention was one of my own little poems, clipped from the paper for which it had been written. My heart trembled joyously at this token of appreciation. For a few monwats I was supremely happy, and then ap overwhelming sense of my utter loneliness came over me, and with the bitter thought 1 that I had not a single friend to rejoice over my success, I turned rapidly through the remaining pages, until the words “Five hundred-dollar prize” attracted my attention. I ran my eyes over it hastily, then re-read it carefully, after which I took pencit and paper front my pocket and copied the address. The prize was offered by the editor of the magazine for the best serial for girls. • The story was to be of such a length as to run through the twelve numbers, beginning with the New Year. All manuscripts intended to compete for ate prize were to be in the hands of the editor not later thqn June 30. Before I slept I had written for particulars., and a neighboring lad, passing early next morning, carried it to the office. Assooft as I received the proper instructions, I went to work with a will. 1 have no doubt but that my aunt had good reasons for her fault-find-ing during the next six months, for toy mind was more upon the characters that my imagination had created than upon my work. Aunt had persistently denied me a light in my room during the whole year, but dear Margaret remembered my sixteenth birthday by sending me a dollar. Fart of this I used for oil and paper, and the balance was hoarded for postage. On the 13th of June my precious package was committed to the care of Uncle Sam and the next six months I waited and hoped, yet dreaded to hear the decision that the 30th of December might have in store for me. On Christmas morning my weary watching was changed into a glad song of thanksgiving, for a business-looking letter my uncle put into my hands brought me the five hundred dollars 1 had dreamed of every day fora year. 1 had won the prize, how, I scarcely know, unless my desperate case had nerved me for the conflict. Probably my aching heart made itself felt through my finger-tips. At any rate, I had won the prize and the money was indisputably mine. Five hundred dollars may seem a very insignificant sum to those who count their possessions by the thousands, but to me it meant a peaceful home with my dear old Margaret, and relief from the bitter bread of dependence. “Well, it does seem as if book-larnia’ amounts to something, after all,’’ admitted Aunt Phillis. “Jest as 1 told you,” sail Uuele Reuben. “The gal shows her bringiu’ up.” John looked more sullen than ever, though when he took me to the train a few days later, I overheard him explaining my success to a young lady, and if 1 am not mistaken he proudly owned me as one of the family. X&JUbJt.

Christmas la Canada. The social pleasures which Christinas brings in its trainare characteristic ol the English people anil their offspring everywhere. Canada does not grow the mistletoe or the holly of England, but sho makes up for the absence of those recognised types of the season by availing herself of the wealth of green things in her own forests. Every, house has its bits ef green spruce or cedar, and bunches of $gd-berries in the halls and parlors. This old custom, at all events, is in harmony with modern ideas of home decoration. Even the honse-wife of very pronounced msthetie tastes finds pleasure in placing a bunch of-red or white berries, or some native stag-horn moss, above her mantel. The main features of the celebration of this, above all others, “ the children’s festival,” are borrowed from both England and Germany. Santa Claus, so long the favorite saint of the little ones, has come to us through the worthy old Dutch folks of New York; and we borrow from the German the Christmas-tree, which is every year becoming iSore in vogue, affording, as it does, a pretty way of presenting gifts to both young and old, and of adding a pleasant feature to the evening’s amusements. Still.as an eld follow with decidedly conservative tendencies, and not a few agreeable reminiscences of my own childhood, I have serious doubts whether the Christmas-tree can, after all, compare with hanging up the stocking in the old-fashioned way. How pleasant it was to wake up before the dawn and gently feel whether old Father Christmas had filled the stocking which we had hung up in full youthful confidence that he would do his duty to it and us. What a series of pleasant surprises as we all gathered round the bod and gradually worked the hand into the various treasures that the kindly genius of the festival had gathered for our pleasure. 1 have had my share of pleasures since then; but I am quite sure that I have never enjoyed them as 1 did certainly enjoy those gifts of old Christmas times.

But, after all, Christmas in Canada does not differ in any essential respect from Christmas in other countries of the same race. From one end of Christendom to the othe" the bells will he heard in honor of the day— among the hills that hang above tho gloomy ilords of Norway, as well as in many a village of the island continent of Australia. The good it teaches, the blessings it brings, are recognised tbe world over; in the rude log cabin among the prairies of the Northwest, as well as in the stately homes where wealth and culture dwell. As the world grows more busy every day, and men become more engrossed in the accumulation of wealth and In the pursuit of ambition, many old customs and institutions fall into oblivion; but whatever may be forgotten or neglected, the chief festival of the Christian world continues to remind the nations that they are all members of one great family, still brings old and young together in social and religious intercourse, and ever keeps fresh in our hearts those lessons of love and charity which Christ taught long ago among the hills of Palestine.— Cwrrtml. What He Got. “Ah! Good-morning, Dribelles. How did you fare on Christmas! Quite lucky, 1 presume!” “Tolerable.” “What did you get!” “I got full.” “Full of what!” “Why, JgU «f Signer, toheautV