Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 46, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 March 1887 — Page 1

OITTGE, oyor Our Motto is PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY ARCH 31, 1887, NUMBER 46 Pike J. L MOUNT, Proprietor. VOLUME XVII.

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT rUBMfiHED EVERY THURSDAY. TERMS OF hUUSCRIFTlOK i Tor one year M For sir months. 73 For lirre months.. M | INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE ADrKRTUSTNG RATES 1 Ow square I* ll.tesv. roe Insertion.|| a ■act) additional insertion . ID A liberal redurt mu made on advertisement* sunnlnr Ihrt-e, six. and twelve months. Levs I sal t-unfent adTeitiseraeut* must be Raid tor m advance.

PIKE COUNTY DEIHOCRAT "job work Of ALL KINDS 3sfe«tly Sxeouted SEASONABLE BATES. NOtlCK! Persons irrelvinsr a copy of t tita paper with Mils notice ermwed In lead pencil are notified t tilt the lime of their subscription has expired.

ntoruMoxAz. cards. w. d. ronr. a. i aoaiTcm. POSEr A HONEYCUTT. ATTORNEYS AT LAW P*tonknr|, lad. WiR practice fa all the court*. All botlnera pr.mp.ljr cuvndod to. A Nutcrj Public con•tsntfjr lo the unite. office over Freak A awawedk's drufttore. j, At. »■ aiC«AMD*Oe. A. H TATLOIt, RICHARDSON * TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG. UVD. Prompt attention ^ven to nil bti*ine.*s. A Notary Plbllcoonittiintijr in the olllw. office In t arpanter Bunding. «V ami Slain. | WM. V. TOW\SKM» MVKT I'LKKXKR. TOWNSEND & FI.KEN ER. Attorneys at Law., PETERSBURG. IND. Will practice In alt tbe court**. Office, ovet ■Gun Frank**' at ore. t Special attention given t«» i oilection*. i*robate llti«irieas, Buying and Selling t*aad». Kxamiutng TUlea amt Kurninh in# Abstract* ' It. Ac VLT. J. w. WILSON. ELY & WILSON. Attorneys at Law, ^PETERSBURG, IND. . 4*"‘OlU«: * in thv» Hank Huil«li»ur.-^i " i T. SL & lw SMITH, t*ucfe»«or» to IH>yk» A Tbotnpaon) Attorneys at Law, Heal Estate. Loan J Instance Mts. \ ofper, m• oint !l<» r llank HutMinwr IVPts biity. *nd 1 H»(* l»,«t Fire and l ife In^urame I'eaipNHie* represented. Vo i»y to loan on first tMiinwi ft'at seven and eiirht pprtWBi. Prompt attend-»i to roUevUom, And all* tniNKt x* intfwdfj to lift. R. R. KiME. M. 1).. j Physician and Surgeon PF.lT*'SBURO HD. n.hcc, I.'.cr 41. rrtl « «■ n’t More: rt«!- : d.n c ■>« Bcvi-n«i< Mrett, t...re .« |U«rc8»outh of Mam. I All* Jir6ui|>il> afti-uded .o, dey or uutbi. J, U. DUNCAN. r Physician and Surgeon PKTERSntRO, . ISO. Office on first d w»r Carpe1****1* Pudding.

V. D. ULMUIVTVtLL, m. U.y KC LECTIO Physician and Surgeon, INHct, Mfitn Rintt, bef<*N n *'t'» Mid 7th Model Drug More. PKTKKSltt 1HJ, : INDIANA. ■ s Will pwr-ilw* .VftHcinf. Huwn’ and ric-* <o town amA country, a,id will visit any < f Ibe country In om^uiuttoo. Chronic Iteaama » K < < uli> tr>-*u**'l 0. K. Shaving Saloon, «J. E. TURNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, * IND. Pattsea within* work done lit their outil*nera vilt leave order* at the .hop, .n !>r A.lam- cr, UUd.n*. rear or .U«ra- A run ■ wtnijC nor* MoniA ! LINGO HOTEL, I i PETERSBURG, ISO. .THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL IN TOWN. »w thiouvhouT. ami first «*iasa ireommo <l»iU)iil in pvrrjr ***ai*not GEORCE QUIMBY, Proprietor HYATT H OUSE! Waakiactom. UL Oemmlljr lx> a-•M. and Aorttmmodationk t im rlau HENRY HYATT. Proprietor. PIKE HOTEL, PETK«t*BiKit. - - Indiana. CHARLES SCHAEFER. Proprietor. local it* In the bnalnca. part o! toon. Tei vn« rea-onabtc A tewl Bar. ehoice IJ.juora. Tobacco and Clyara. Corner Sevetnh and Walnut street*. CITY HOTEL' Voter ne» manage nent, W. J. SHRODE, Proprietor. Cor. Jth and Main , opp. Cour;-houaes - Petersburg, Inti. The City ti de! la centrally located. Orsc *1... In all it:. appo ntm-liu and tae bcot and «d>ea|ieat hotel in the city.

Sherwood House, Vnder New Mtntp raent BISS ELL & TOWNSEND, Prop’r*. , First and Locust Street*,' EvnnMllIf, : : Indiana. RATES, $2 PER DAY. Ship)* Rooms for Commoroia! Mon. When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. Mb*. Ltm ILvbbi* and Albion Bob ball Proprietor*. UBix K. Koitmt. JksskJ llonat, J Late of Cincinnati. Late of tVasiilnftton.lad. | HOTEL ENGLISH, R08SETER & MORGAN. Lessees. Indianapolis. I ml. House Kintant. Tatde. Service and lien era Keep Superior. Location beat la the city— OB the Circle. MIMEl.LVNKOl'S. PHOTO GALLERY; 1 OSGAR HAMMOND, Prop’r. - Pictures Copied or Enlarged. AU kind* at work don* prompter end el reaasaaM* rates. Cell and era nine hi* work. Gallery tn Kite.tt aew buidinp, over the SM-alke, Petersburg lad. Great Reduction sin Sm,na Una kept bp me lower than ever place before If you want anyth! *. eoa-thA.ecell on ***** *■ I FRED REUS8,

TOPICS OF THE DAY, News from Everywhere. PKBSOXAL AND POUTICAt. General Saletta, successor to General Gene in command of the Italian forces at Massowah, has Issued an order expelling all journalists from within the military lines. Amono those favorably mentioned for judge of the Bupreme Court of the District of Columbia is M. V. Montgomery, who soon retires from the offlee of Commissioner of Patents. A sensation has been caused In 8t. Petersburg by the removal of Colonel Sassoulttch from the command of the grenadiers to a regiment on the Siberian frontier. The grenadiers. It is said. tVere becoming imbued with rcVolutirnary ideas. Colonel Bassoulitch is a brother of the famous Vero Sassouliteh. On the 21st Hilary Pfrengle, the new Abbott of St. Mary's Abbey, was installed h» St. Mary's Church. Newark, N. J Eighty priests were outside the sanctuary. Bishop Wigger acted ns celebrant, auistod by Monsignors Doaue and Stone. President Cleveland's family and friends, deny that there is any trouble nbout his health. Consi-l-Genekal Phelan at Halifax, N. t H., is at Washington, and had interviews on tho 22d with the President and Secretary Bayard. ^ The Kmperor's birthday was celebrated in grand style throughout Germany on the S.'d; also at several European capitals. A Connecticut woman, at the home town of P. T. Baraum—Bridgeport—has given birth to a baby which Is part boy and part elephant. John A, IAuan, Jb., and Miss Edith A. Andrews were murried at Youngstown, iV, on the 23d. The bride received tlOO,000 worth of wedding presents. The Inter-State Commerce Commission, as announced by the President, U: Tho a M. Cooley, of.Michigan? William R. Morrison, of Illinois; Augustus Schoonmaker, of New York; Ah!are F. Walker, of Vermont, and Walter M. Bragg, of Alabama. Tisza, the Hungarian prime minister, is negotiating with the Rothschilds for a loan to caver the extra credits, recently voted, for the expenses of the Landslurm. Mas. Emma Nickerson was granted a divorce at Washington on the £M from Major AtorH. Dickerson. U H. A , a previous divorce obtained by her husband through fraud having been set aside. She is given alimony and her former uarne. The case has been a notod one, ‘ United States Attornet Roeert B. Smith, of Montana, has advised Commissioner Sparks, through the AttorneyGeneral. that tho Supreme Court of that Territory has reversed the decision of the District Court in the case of the United States vs. Williams and Smith, in which the Government sued for 1112,000 for timber trespass. The lower court decided against the Uoyernnaeut.,

nsvriTUKK acuMsx nas rrturnwi w Patrick Fonl a check for MIS.Si, which was presented him by Michael Daritt. The money was the net proceeds of M. Davitt’s last lecture in America, and was sent Dr. MoUlyan by Mr. Davitt’s direction. While acknowledging Mr. Davitt’s generosity. Mr JletHynn said in his letter of declination tjt>at the money can be bettor used in relieving the suffering poor of Ireland. Pi'rrn have been issued for the arrest of Father Ryan, the Irish priest, who, like Father Keller, refuses to testify. JrmiE Coolst writes his sou virtually saying that he will accept his Inter-State Commerce Commiaaionership appointment. Tns Pae»nvfcNT baa summoned the members of the Inter-State Commerce Commission to W ashington for the purpose of organisation. Magoa Ricraki* U. Silvester, of the Washington Critic, formerly of St. Louis, is a candidate, for secretary of the InterState Commerce Commission. , - Tns representative of Austria at the Emperor’s birthday festivities at Berlin has been ordered to Vienna to gure an official report of hit impressions regarding Germany's intentions. Ommtosi cabled his thanks to Charles A Dana for the resolutions of sympathy and encouragement sent him by. the recent New York meeting and indorsing'the attitude of himself and associates against coercion. Secretaut EvnicoTT has awarded the contract for the construction of an iron bridge across the Potomac River at WashingtoSj D. C.. to the Mount Vernon Iron Rn3ge Company gt Mount Vernon, O., at their bid of £*0,915 It is learned on good authority that Secretary Manning’s successor will not be appointed before April 1, the date upon which Mr. Manning s resignation takes effect The belief still prevails that Assistant Secretary, Fairchild will receive the appointment. ‘ , LlEt'TEXAST A. G. WlNTERIlAl. TEE. Of the navy, has been ordered to Paris to represent the United States at the international congress of astronomers, which meets in that city April 1& j After the congress adjourns he will go to London, Kew. Greenwich nnd Hamburg to inspect the observatories. Taa Democrats of Cincinnati have nominated Judge Isaac R Watson for mayor. > ConuissioNrfa Five speaks very unfavorably of the new lntor-State Commerce law. Isaac R Wueote. father of ek-Govern-or Warmoth of Louisiana, died on the 94th at Salemv 111

powerfully earnest speech In the British House <flf Commons against the proposed Coercion law. A tovnu actress pained Agnes Folsom, whose whereabouts has been unknown to her family for some tune, has at last been discovered by her father in New York, and. a court and domestic scandal is pending. Henkt R Dixta is reported to hare bought a half interest in the Bijou Theater, New York, and will act there permanently in burlesque. Taa House committee on apportionment of the Pennsylvania Legislature has de-cided-to let Mr. Kan (tail's district remain as it te. Mas. Jobs Fabnbam, aged one hundred -and eight years, died in the St. Elisabeth Hospital at Utica, N. Y., on the night of them Tbsks seems to be but little doubt Jh at Secretary Fairchild has been informed by the President that he is to be Secretary of the Treasury after April 1. This will prevent any disturbance in financial affairs probably. Ob the 9tth United States Consul Jordan and a number of American residents of Liverpool went to the month of the Mersey in a special steamer, and heartily greeted ex-Secretary Manning on his arrival by the Arisons. Msnosial exerei sea in honor of the late President Arthur will take place in the Assembly chamber at Albany. N. Y., on the evening of April 9X Ex-Attorney - General Brewster, of Philadelphia, and Chauncey M. Depew will deliver addresses. a A combination of wealthy men, inclnd iug Senator Payne, of Ohio; Krastns Wtman, of New York, and James McLaren. of Ottawa, Oak, is reported as being formed to control nil the valuable iron deposits in Canada, now said to bathe richest in the world. A rsoFocxn sensation has been caused in Canada by the receipted a cablegram from London, announcing that Sir John A. MacDonald, Premier of Canada, is to resign sod go to England as Canadian High Commlaakmer, and that he will thau be elevated to the peerage and return as Gov-ernor-General, to succeed Lord Laas- «

Ox the 34th the President appointed O. S. St raus, of Sew York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Turkey! Harold Marsh Bewail, of Maine, Consul-General of the United States at Apia, Samoan Islands, and S. J. George, of Tennessee, Consul of the United States at Uarlottetown. Prince fed ward Island. f OX the 34th a eable dispatch was received from Rome announcing that the Holy Father, motu proprio, desiring to show honor to the Most Rev. Archbishop Corrigan, has named him prelate assistant to the pontifical throno. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. A Rcssux policeman, recently arrested in St. Petersburg on suspicion of being implicated in the plot against the Cxar. tried to Commit suicide on the 21st, but was prevented from killing himself outright, though he is mortally wounded and must toon die. It is said that he has made a full confession of the plot, admitting his connection therewith, disclosing the names of the leaders. ABort two O'clock on the afternoon of the 21st the powder factory of E. C. AnthooyAituatod near Negaunee, Mich., exploded, killing L. H. Stanley and his son Albert, aged eighteen years. The building was blown to atoms.A Coicaco man confessed to the police that ha had murdered a man that had been missing for a long time, and had sunk him in the river at a certain point The river was dragged and a totally different body'than the missing one was, found, which makes the mystery stiii more complicated. Ox the night of tho 30th Thomas McBain's tannery at Napa. Cal., was destroyed by fire. Loss over $30,000; partially insured. The death sentence of Janitor Titus for the murderjpf Tillie Smith has been commuted by tie Governor of New Jersey to imprisonment for life. THE-lndian who killed Lieutenant Mott and wounded Frank Porter has been captured, and is now in the guardhouse at Globe. Aril. ' .. Ueoroe Minx, a notorious character of Louisville. Ky., was sentenced on the 23d : to the penitentiary for life for the Blue der of his mistress, Annie Mann, in August, 1S80. Ax Italian named Franzini was arrested at Paris on the 33d- on a charge of mar-dering-Mmc Rcgnault and her maid. A quantity of bloody clothlgg was found in his apartment. Franzini has confessed. Cbari.es B. Trescott, salesman for the < Springfield Silk Mills Company of Spring- | field. Mass., was arrested in New York on j the 23d on the charge Of embezzling $1,815 belonging to the company which be had collected. William Armstrono. secretary ol the Fireman's .Insurance Company, of Baltimore, Md., is reported $3,000 short in his accounts. He admits a shortage of $1,500. Experts are at work on the books. Armstrong's bondsmen shave’expressed a willingness to make n nt he defalcation.

There was a mistrial in the Cleary trial at New York, the jury standing 6 to 8. On the morning of the 23-d twelve laborers were burned to death in a board-ing-house fire at Bessemer. Mich. Six more plotters against the life of the Ciar have been executed. Another den of dynamiters has also been discovered. Ox the 23J John Arensdorf was put on trial at Sioux City, la., for the murder of Rev. Geo. C. Haddock. a The confession of Janitor Titus to the murder of'Tillie Smith was read to the Now Jersey Board of Pardons; and on this his commutation of sentence was granted. Apvhes from Sydney. New South Wales, say that an explosion occurred in the Buiti colliery, near Sydney, on the 23d. killing seventy persons add injuring many more. Ox the 23d the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons refused a rehearing in the case of Milton tVeston, the Chicago capitalist, now undergoing imprisonment in the Riverside penitentiary for complicity in the Murraysville1. gas-well riots. The United States Supreme Court at Butte. Mont., on the 23d. refused a stay of proceedings lathe case of Thomas J. Hardiag, the stage robber and murderer, who was to be hanged at Dillon on the 23th. Commissioner or Penmox* Ri ses is informed of the arrest at Kansas City and the impaneling trial of one Bragdon, alias St Clair, who has been fleecing pension claimants by representing himself as an officer of the bureau and receiving money for a promise to promote action upon their claufts. Ox the 23d Maggie Nolan, one of the servants at the Richmond Hotel, at Buffalo, died, making the twelfth known victim of the Richmond Hotel lire. Mrs. W. J. Mann, wife of one of the proprietors, was rapidly sinking, and will undoubtedly dlo. The Italian bark, Luciano Zeria, which sailed from Cardenas on January St. for Philadelphia, has been given up for tost, together with Captain Imperato and his crew of twelve men. She had on board a cargo of sugar, valued at about $32,000. and the vessel herself was worth about W.000 The confession lately published as coming from Janitor Titus, the New Jersey murderer, concerning the killing of Tillie Smith, is pronounced bogus Ox the 24th Mrs. Bread, of Newark, S J., in a fit of anger, scalded her husband so badly that he died. She is now a rav ing maniac. The United States authorities claim to have a case against the Missouri Bald Kucbbers tor their recent murders, and are watching proceedings in the State courts closely.

one of tne proprietors of the Richmond Hotel, at Buffalo, N. V., died from injuries ahe received during the recent hotel fire. This makes the thirteenth known victim. Pxtkh Smith, who is to be hanged in the Tombs prison-yard. New York, on Hay &, for the murder of John Hannan, is accused of being guiltv of an even worse crime, namely, the killing of his father a year before he shot Hannan. Ox the night of the 281 at a Methodist Episcopal donation party held in a schoolhouse at Hittville, near Utica, N. Y-, the floor gave way and ten or fifteen person* were severely injured, being bruised, burned and scalded, and sustaining free - turns of the limbs. None of the injured persons haring died thus far. Tnx evidence given in the case of the fifteen Anarchism on trial at Vienna, charged with being implicated in a conspiracy to burn the city, is causing great sensation. It is becoming evident that only the failure of the plot saved the city from almost total destruction. As a reason for the delay in the appoint* meat of a Secretary of the Treasury, it is hinted that the President may still be dickering with Speaker Carlisle. Tup Comptroller of the Currency has authorised the First National Bank of Tyler. Tex., to commence business with n capital of *101,000. and the First National Bank of Ogalalla. Nob., with *8X00a Objections are being made to the plans for reconstruction of the old 8t Louis post-office, it being regarded ns n mistake to turn it simply into n warehouse, when more office room is needed for Federal officials. Thr OJtrisi Gazrtu of St Petersburg censures Russian papers for the so vers attacks they are making on Germany. A jtwtTixo of dry goods dealers was held on the -1st at New York to protest against exorbitant freights established by by trunk lines. It was determined, if foand necessary tor relief, to appeal to tee Inter-State Commerce Commissioners when appointed. & A. PxaKT cables to the Boston BerM that precedence in the British Commons is definitely settled la favor of tee Coercion hill over tee new Land hill

I'm German Physicians’ Union Of Berlin ha* it sued * Jiapor advising young men against entering the medical profession* as the pros pests of doctors are becoming worse jroarly; DtrKixo the week ending Itarcta 19 the issue of standard silver dollars from the mints wait #406>8(K>; during the corresponding period of last year #113,451 Tile shipments of fractional silver coin since March 1 amounts to 1332,038, Tn* Brew masters' convention at Chicago adjourned on the 33d to meet October 8, 188$, at Sew York. Tut British House of Commons remained in session daring th e night of the 3lst,and untH 1:25 p. m. of the 23d, before Obstructions from Irish members to certain measures codld be overcome: Tat snow was twelve to fifteen inches deep in Central New York and in the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania on the 23d. • A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Mentone) Italy, on the 23d, where tile people are still camping out under temporary shelters. Tut alter service recently stolen from 8t Stephen’s Roman Catholic Church in New York, was carried by John Taylor, of No. 50 Emftteld street. Brooklyn, to the Second precinct police station of that city on the 23d. He said he found it hidden in a pile of castings in Adams street, Brooklyn. \ Tut collections of internal revenue daring the first eight months of the fiscal year ending June 93. 1887, were #74,3*8 S8S, being #S»17,9(>ness than tho collections during the corrOsoond ng period of the last fiscal year. There was a decrease of #3,735,598 in the receipts from spirits; an increase of #389.273 on tobacco; an increase of #1,873,798 on fermented liquors; an increase of I14.9IW on miscellaneous and adecroase of *54.754 on penalties. The receipts for February, 1887, were #8),065l less than the receipts for the same month of 1886. A receiver has been asked for the Equitable Gas Company of Baltimore. Md. Russia has informed Turkey that she is displeased with Turkey’s policy in Bulgarian affuirw 1 Philadelphia continues to be excited over the forgeries and failure of the Hunter Brothers. A strike of the telegraph operators is threatened: at Ogden, Utah, on the extra pay question. k Statistics show a decrease of half • million-hogs slaughtered at Chicago the past year. Anotueu ten million three-per-cent, bond call has been fnade by the Government., maturing Mar 1 next At Berlin on the 33d the Oberhaus began discussion of the new Ecclesiastical bill, and Bismark made an earnest speech in fsTor of the measure. Ox the 25d word eras received that three Delaware, Lackawanna ft Western passenger trains were snow-bound on the Pocono mountains, and that the snow was five feet deeD.

The Comptroler of the Currency ha* »«- i thor'ired the LaGrnnd National Bank of ' LaGrand, Ore., to commence business with a capital of HiJ.OlW: also the First National Bank of Aberdeen, Miss., with *>0.000 capital. On the 3td the snow was sixteen inches to two feet deep in the western part of Connecticut. The Connecticut Western road could get no trains through. A drift at Boston Corners toMount Riga was over a mile long and 100 bo 135 feet deep. The rumors of an alliance between France and Russia are denied. Peace between France and Germany is not considered assured at Vienna. Cholera is disapjtearing from the principal ports of the Argentina Republic. The Prussian Oberhans, on the 24th, passed the Ecclesiastical bill substantially as it was desired by Bismarck. Canadians are much displeased with the financial affairs of the Dominion Government, the already heavy debt being increased *5,000.000 the past year. On the :34th the strike on the Mahoning d ivision oti the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railway was declared off. The men, where they can do so, will return to work at the company’s terms. lx the Rhode Island House of Representatives. on the 34th, the resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution abolishing the registry, tax and the property qualification was unanimously passed. The steamer Beotia, of the Fabre French line, with a thousand Italian emigrants aboard, is long overdue at New York, and it is feared has beep lost. Dcxing February past exports from tin [ United States were valued at 854.7632:8, and imports to the United States at 858,» 1176.755 For the twelve months ended ; February 38. R87, exerts aggregated | 8729,807,539 and imports 4#7tX,257,51l Duri ing February past 14,817 immigrants ari rived in the United States, against 9,‘-68 in February, !V4i CONDENSED* TELEGRAMS. Mr. Biaixe ia~making a tour of the West. CaitU Harrison has reconsidered, and positively refuses to run for mayor of Chicago. , Tux Jews of Tunis are still protesting against the discriminations of the new burial laws. Amos Johnson, colored, was legally executed at Memphis, Team, on the 25th. , tniuisToJs & Waddell, agricultural implements. New York, have failed. Liabilities. 8200,0(0; assets, nothing. A »i»TE*of the Princess of Wales has tecome dangerously demented and has been sent to an asylum. Dr. McGltnn is announced fora lecture in New York on the *C'roas of a New Crusade."

1 MArxicit Umar, me opera manager in I jail at Quebec. Can., makes an appeal, stating the financial misfortunes which precipitated his troubles. Jambs III. Taoma, the new Recorder of Deeds at Washington, D. C., is so ill that it his life Is despired of. Atoms railway accident occurred at Laetonia, O . on the 35th, in which one person was killed and a large number injured. Govern os If asm a dc as of Missouri has issued his proclamation calling the Legislature together in extra session May 11 next. Remrljcaxs are claiming to ha re made some sort of deal trith Mr. Randall on the tariff question and hare called off the fight on hi m In Pennsylvania. Kxrr On Li ASA exports for the month of February reached SMHS.08&, nearly doubts either Boston or Baltimore for the mum month. Birria til-feeling baa been ren*5w<kl in Germany at the severe tone of criticisms in French papers on the Emperor' s birthday and kindred topics. W»r tall: is very common. Emilt Boldine. the operatic arils*. has sued John McCanll for breach of contract, he having discharged her the other day, after hiring her for the whole season. Mrca opposition is manifested throughout Mexico to the National administration's tariff reductions, which are lie tiered to be exceptionally beneficial to American enterprises. Cardinal Ontdfs took Jformsl pceitessiou of his titular church at Rome on the S5th. The proceedings were very impireasive and elaborate and made up a most memorable day for Americana at the liely city. Yiscxsir dx BAt xRsrxxD, an Austrian, who served under Kossuth in tie Hungarian revolution and came to this country as an exile, died on the 85th at Kolia, Mo, Astute Fabbx, M. D., F. R R, a c elebrated suigeon and writer, physician extraordinaiy to Queen Victoria, pltyaiciaa and accoucheur to the Princess of W.idaa and her sisters. died on the 18th Ue had just reached hi* ssventy-seventii year.

THE COM MISS ON, Th« Anxiously Lookrd-rar ppotntinenta Made—Cooley, of Mlchlcti Morrison. o| Illinois! Behooamaker, t New York; Walker, of Vermont, and ' "are, »< Alabama, the Appointees. Wsauixorox, March 2a— se President 'has appointed the followii ' Inter-State Commerce Commissioners; Thomas M. Cooley, of Mic gan, for the term of sia years. William R. Morrison, of 1 nols, for the term of fire years. Augustus Schoonmaker, New York, for the term of four years. Aldace F. Walker, of Ver oat, for the term of three years. Walter Is Bragg, of Alat nt, for the [ term of two years. Thomas M. Cooley was b n at Attica, N. Y., in 1824, studied law a l removed to Michigan in 1813, where he its since resided. He was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan iu 1S6*. 188U and 1877. He is the autho of standard legal works, and is now r> eiver of the Wabash railroad. William R. Morrison wa born inllhrois, is a la >vyer, and wa: in Congress from 1873 to 1887. Walter L. Bragg was bor in Alabama in 1888, but resided in Arka: as from 1813 to 1861. He was educated a Harvard and Cambridge law schools. H has been the law partner of Senator Mor »n. He had been president of tho A1 aama State Railroad Commission. Aldace F. Walker is a Ve nont Republican lawyer, forty-four ye -a old. who studied law with SenatorImunds. He has studied the railroad g. estion extensively as a member of the srmont State Senate. Augustus Schoonmaker raa born in Vis ter Countv. N. Y., in K. and is a lawyer in active practice was a State Senator and a close frier of Governor Tilden, and in 1878 Attorr y-General of [ New York, succeeding Fair uid. Be was a delegate to the Democra ; nominating conventions of 1878, 188) an' 188L Of the five commissioners Messrs Morrison, Schoonmaker and Br jg arc Democrats, aud Messrs. Cooley a 1 Walker Republicans. Until yesterday he names of Messrs. Schoonmaker and Walker were not decided upon, and it is >t yet known whether they will accept, 1! it it is believed they will. Considerable criticism if ndulged that a Republican should be imed by the President as first on the co mission, but the law creating the commi non gives the majority power to select a ,airman from their number. It is stated lat the President gave Judge COoley th longest term as a recompense for his sui enderirg the receivership of the Wabas railroad system. Which is more luo: tive than his present appointment ]§ j

KAISER WILH ZLM. >inMnln at Berlin (tending tha Celebration or the Empc >r's Ninetletii Birthday —Bismarck ami >n Mottke Rewarded and Prominent f ttesmen Decorated. Berlin', March 2i—The luthoriiies of the municipality of Berli proceeded in procession this morning 1 m the Town Hall to the Church of St. J h >lus to participate in tha comrnem ative service celebrated in that edifie The procession was accompanied by tnds of music, trumpeters, etc., and presented a gorgeous appearance. As he clergy and members of the municip government, each attired in his robes o office, entered the church, the organ peal forth a. hymn of thanksgiving and a gre t shorn: went up from the crowd snrrou ling the building. The musical part of t » service were strikingly appropriate, a: the iestival sermon a panegyric of the ged Emperor. At noon a royal salute as fired in the Koenig’s plats, and at one t’clock Prince Bismarck and General Voi Koltke arrived at the palace and cor ratulatcd the Kaiser. They were c thusia9tically cheered on their way t and from the palace, and acknowledged he ovation by repeatedly raising their head-covering and bowing to the mnltitr S. The day is being cele ated in every town in Germany. From tl ee o’clock until six this aftarnoon a heavy ■ain prevailed, but this did not dampen t 9 ardor of the people, and no diminutior of the number ot persons in the streets as observable. The scenes during tb evening were magnificent beyond desc ption. The entire city was illuminated, large number of luminous decorations dug costly and unique, and the sky seer id ablate with rockets and every conoe able species of fireworks. The moat am rb spectacle of all was exhibited in front f the Academy of Arte, and consisted of i huge picture 5)0 feet long and sixty f ;t high, depicting some of the most int resting and important events of the Em- ror’s life. Prince Bismarck and O -.at Von Moltke, it is said, have received oat munificent reward a for their invalv hie services to the State, the character t which, however, is as yet unknown t the public, and all the secretaries of dep tments (ministers of the empire) have 1 sn deco rated. The Emperor received 1 deputation of the imperial household t is evening, ana in a speech of thanks for - eir congratulations said: “I have rear id this age by the grace of God. If th Lord helps me and wants me to, I may lve to see another year.” The Emperor conferred decorations on Herren Von Puttkamer, on Bxstticher, Von Gossler, Von Schell dorf and Von Scholx, Dr. Lucias. Gene: l Von Capnvi, Count Nesselrode and C< nt Herbert Bismarck. After the reception t > Emperor and Empress attended the far ly dinner given by the Crown Prince F deride William at his palace. Rain fell during the nip t, but It did aot suffice to interfere with e rejoicings ot the people who crowded le streets until a late hour, cheering, ain ng amt admiring the illuminations, wfe h wen: unquestionably more brilliant tl n any hitherto Witnessed in the capital.

Honored Their ' St. Pmuii-M, Xaret rrgimeat of which tho ' man; is honorary Colonr in his honor last ereni' drank to the health of t tie Cxar. A handsome s gift of the German Kn tributed among the mem monk 3.—The Kaluga nperor of Gergare a banquet % Toaaits were > Empuror and n of money, the eror, was diairs of the regiMystenc CsieiM, March a-L man Kuebler, who was i.rrest, suspected of the ( rick Wirth, the missing the Twenty-second the formed the officers th would be found in the ri bridge” at Archer ayent were weights fastened reliance was placed u} Kuebler had the appear man. Officers were a bridge” this morning, rtrer in that ricinitr, at in finding a body, but they were looking for. o last night Her>r a time under nurder of Frodto Wirtilt’a body ir near the “Red He raid there 3 it. H ot much a the ttory, as tea of n insane A to the “Red ad dragged the they s ucceeded was not the one W» VuaiTOTOt, _ IState Bayard has lien. United States liras, Mexico, afeet that there exists particularly the principal obstacles in t relopment at our trade says is found to be * tained by a large propt cans toward omr people of a better class of Am a change for the betu ■ '■ ores that before kr the place of distr of a comm unity 2.—Sec retary or ad front Mr. Allot Pxdras location to Utoeft increasing deTicultural tools, an plow. The j way of tho deMexico., be diatn st emterof '.he Mexithe incoming ss fcr. effecting and the Consul confidence will and full recog

TAIMAGE’S SERMON. Words of Cheer and Consolation « for the Disheartened. % Christ the C rest Exempli r—He Who Asks Shell K« -rive—Drlaji Are Du|tc o» ■ —'Thrilling and Apt Illustrations. .Rev. T. Dt Witt Talmagti preached on a recent Sab lath in the Second Presbyterian Chm oh at Kansas City, Mo., being on a visit tc that city. His subject was “Cheer for the Disheartened,” his text being: No man c& ed tor my soul. —Psalm, exlll., A Mr. Taint ,ge said: David, tl e rubicund !lad, had become the battle-t 'orn warrior. Three thousand armed men u pursuit of hiim, he had hidden in the carrot Engedi, near the coast of the Dead sea. Utterly fagged out with the pursuit as you have often been worn out with ti e trials of life, he sat down and cried oat: No man ca -ed for my soul. If you should fall through a hatchway, or slip through a scaffolding, or drop through a .■ kylight, there would he hundreds of people who would come around and pick up your body and carry it to the home or 11 the hospital. 1 saw a great crowd of pi ople in the street, and I asked: “What is the matter?” And 1 foi nd out that a poor laboring man had fallen under sunstroke, ai d all our eyes v ere tilled with tears at the thought of his distracted, wife and desolated home We are a l sympathetic with physical disaster, b st how little sympathy for spiritual woes There are men in this house who have tome to middle-life who have never yet 1 een once personally accosted about their eternal welfare. A great sermon dropped into an aud ience of hundreds of thousands will do its work; but if this world is eiverto be brought to God it will be through little sermons preached by private Christians to an audience of one. The sister’s letter, postmarked *. the village—the word uttered in yoitr hearing, half of smiles and half of tears—the religious postscript to a business le tter—the card! left at the door when you had some kind of trouble—the anxious look of some one across a chur oh aisle while an earnest sermon was being preached, swung you Into the kingdom of God. Hut them are hundreds of people in this house who will take the word that David used in the past tense acid employ it in the present tot so, and cry out: “No man cares for my souL”

I ou iee as you go out uay uy usy m the tug and jostle of liife that it is every man for himself. Ton can endure the pressure of commercial affairs, and would consider it impertinent for any one to ask you whether you are making or losing money. But there have been times when you would have drawn your check for thousands of dollars if some ono woud only help your soul out of its perplexities. There a?e questions about your higher destiny that ache, and distract and agonise you at times. Let no one suppose that, because you are busy all day with hardware, or dry goods or groceries, or grain that your thoughts aire no longer than your yard-stick and stop at the brassheaded nails of the store counter. When you speak once about religious thin gs you think live thousand times They call you a worlding. You are not a worlding. Of course you are industrious and keep busy, but you have had your eyes opened to the realities of the next world. You are not a fool. You know better than any one can tell you that a few years at most will wind up your earthly engagements and that you wilt take residence in a distant sphere where all your business adroitness would be a superfluity. You sometimes think till your head aches about great religious subjects. You go down the street with your eyes fixed on the pavement, oblivious of the passing multitudes, your thoughts gone on eternal expedition. You wonder If the Bible be tru«; how much of it is literal aud how much is figurative; if Christ be God; if there is any thing like retribution; if you are imraortai; if a resurrection will ever take place; what the occupation of your departed kindred is ; what you will be tea thousand yean from now. With a cultured placidity of countenance yon are on fire with agitatio ns of souL Oh, this solitary anxiety of your whole life-time 1 Yon have sold goods to or brought them from Christian people for ten years, and they have never whispered one word of spiritual counsel You have passed up and down the aisles of churches with men who knew that you had no hope of Heaven, and talked about the weather, and about your physical health, and about every thing but that concerning which you most wanted to hear them speak, namely, your everlasting spirit. Times without number have you felt In your heart, if you have not uttered it with your lips: “No man cares for my souL" There have been times when you wore especially pliable on the great subject of religion. It was ao>, for ins tame, after you had lost your property. You had a great many letters blo wing you up for being unfortunate You. showed that there ha.! been a concatenation of circumstances, and that insolvency was ao fault of yours. Your creditors talked to you ss though they would have a hundred cents on a dollar or your life. Protest after protest tumbled in on your desk. Men who used to take your hand with both of their5s and shake it violently, now pass yon on the street with an almost imper

cepuoie nou. juwr or boars of scalding business anxiety yon go home, and you; shat the door, and throw yourself on the sofa, and yon feel in a state of despair. Ton wish that some one would come in and break np the gloom. Every thing seems to t» against you. The bank against you. Tour creditors against you. Tour friends ttuddenly become critical against you. All the past aigainst you. All the future’ against youo Ton make reproachful outcry: “No man cores tor iny soul.’* Thera was another occasion wh ;n all the doors of your heart swung open for sacred influences. A bright light went out in your household. Within three or four days there were compressed sickness, death, obsequies. You were so lonely that is hundred people coming into the house did not break (be soli Urines*. You are almost killed by the domestic calamity. A few formal, perfunctory words of consolation were uttered on the stain, before you wont to the grave, but you wanted some one to oome and Ulk over the whole matter, red recite the alleviations, and decipher the lessons of the dark bereavement. No cue came. Many a time yon could not sleep until two or three o’clock in the morning, and then your sleep was a troubled dream, in which was re-enacted all tie scene of sickness, and parting, and dissolution. (A what days nnd nights they were. No man seemed to oare for your soul. There was another occasion urban your heart was very susceptible. There was a great awakening. There were hundreds of people who pressed into the kingdom of God; some of them acquaintances, some business associates, yes, perhaps some members of your owa family were buptteed by springing or immentton. Christian people thought of you and they called at your atom, but you wore out on bu&in<as. They stopped at your house; yes had gone around to spend the evening. They seat s kiudly measure to yon; somehow, by accident, you A||ot get it _■ ■■v

but you. Every thing seemed to escape you. One touch of personal sympathy would have pushed you into the kingdom of God. When on communion day your friends went in and your sous and daughters went into the church, you buried your face in youir handkerchief and sobbed: “Why am I left out! Everybtidy seems to get saved bat me. Ho man cares tar my soul.” Hearken to a revelation I have to make. It is a startling statement. It will so surprise you that I must prove it as I go on. Instead of this total indifference to ail about you in regard to your soul, I have to tell you that heaven, earth and heil are after your immortal spirit—earth to cheat it, hell to destroy it, Heaven to redeem it Although you may be a stranger to the Christians in this house, their faces voull glow and their hearts would bound if they saw you make one step Heavenward. 8b intricate and far-reaching is this web of Sympathy, that I could by one Word rouse a great many prayers in yonr behalf. Ifo one care for your soul I Why, one signal of distress on your part would thrill this audience with holy excitement If a boat in any harbor should get in distress, from the men-of-war, and from the sloop, and from the steamers, the flying paddles would pull to the rescue. And if now you would lift one signal of distress, all these voyagers of eternity would bear down to"ward you and bring you relief. But no. You are like a ship on fire at sea. They keep the hatches down, and the captain is frensied. and he gives orders that no one hail the pass mg ships. He says: “I shall either land this vessel in Hamburg or on the bottom of the ocean, and I don’t car* which.” Yonder is a ship of the White Star Line passing. Yonder one on the National Line. Yonder one of the Cunard Line. Yonder one of the Inman Line. Bat they know not there is any calamity happening on that one vessel. Oh! if the captain would only put his trumpet to his lip and cry out: “Lower your boats! Bear down this way! We are burning up! Eire! Fire!” No. No. No signal is given. 'It. that vessel perishes, having hailed no one, whose fault will it be! Will it- be tho fault of the ship that hid its calamity, or will it be the fault of the vessel that, passing on the high sons, would have been glad to furnish relief if it had been only asked! In other words, my brother, if you miss Hea ren it will be your own fault. No one care for your soul! Why, in all < the ages there have been mon whose entire business was soul-saving. lu this work Munson went down uador the knives of the cannibals whom he hod come to save, and Robert McCheyne preached himself to death by thirty years of age, and. John Banyan was thrown into* dungeon in Bedfordshire, and Jehudi Ashman endured all the malarias of tihe African jungle; and there are hundreds and thousands of Christian men and women now who are praying, toiling, preaching, iivin er vi n r» Vn aauo anil 1 a

No one care for your soul! Have you heard how Christ feels about rtl I know it was only five or si* mites from Bethlehem to Calvary —the birth-place and death-place of Christ—but who can tell how many miles it was from the manger to the throne! How many miles down, how many miles back again? The place of his departure was the focus of all splendor and pomp. All the thrones facing his throne. His name the chorus in every song and the inscription on every banner. His landing place a cattle pen, malodorous ' -with unwashed brutes, and dogs growling in and out of the stable. Born of a weary mother, who had journeyed eighty miles ita severe unhealth that she might find the right place for the Lord’s nativity—born, not as other princes, under the flash of a fchandelier, but under a lantern swung by a rope to the roof of the barn. , In that place Christ started to save you Your name, your face, your time, your eternity, in Christ’s mind. Sometimes traveling on mule's-back to escape okl Herod’s massacre, sometimes attempting nervous sleep on the chillr hillside, sometimes earning his breakfast by the carpentry of a plow. In Quarantanls the stones of the field, by their shape and color, looking like the loaves of bread, tantalising his hunger Yet all the time keeping * on after you. With drenched coat, treading the surf of Genessaret; howled after by a blood-thirsty mob; denounced as a drunkard; mourning over a doomed city, while others shouted at the sight of the shimmering towers. Ail the time coming on sud coming on to saTe you. Indicted as being a traitor against government. perjured witnesses sweanng their souls away to insure his butchery, flogged, spit on, slapped in the face, and then hoisted on rough lumber, in the sight of earth, and Heaven, and heii, to purchase your eternal emancipation! i' From the first infant step to the last htop of manhood on the sharp spike of Calvary, a journey for you. Oh, how he cared for your soul? By dolorous arithmetic add up the stable, the wintry tempest, the midnight dampness, the abstinence of forty davs from food, the brutal Sanhedrim, the heights of Golgotha, across .which all the hatreds of earth and all the furies of hell charged with their bayonets, and then dare to say again that no one cares for your soul. A young man might as well go off from home and give his father and mother no intimation as to where he has gone, and, crossing the seas, sitting down is some foreign country, cold, sick, and huugry, and lonely, saying:

••My lamer ana mower uusi »ujr thing about me.” Do not caro anything about him! Why, that father’s hair hits turned gray since his son went off. He has written to all the consuls in the foreign porta, asking about that son. Does not the mother cart anything about himt He has broken her heart. 8he has never sailed since he wentawsy. AU day long, and almost all night she keeps asking: “Where is hot Where etna he be!” He is the first thought in her prayer and the last thought in her prayer—the first; thought in the morning and the last at; night. She says: “Oh God, bring back my boy! I must; see him again'before 1 die. Where is he!! I must sea him again before I die.” Oh, do not his father anil mother can: for him! Yon go away from your Hear eniy Father, and you think he does not care for ypu because you will not eren read the litters by which i he invites yon to come back, while ail b«»ven is waiting, and waiting for you to return. A. young man said to his father: “I am going off; I wild write to yon at the end ot seven years endtell you where Ism.” Many years have passed along sines that son went away, and for years the father has been going to the depot in the village, on the arrival of every train, and when he hears the whistle in the distance he is thniiat with excitement, and ho waits until all the passengers have come out, anil then he waits until the train has gone clear ont of sight again, and then ha goes home, hastening back to the next train; and he will be at every train natiL that son comes back, unices the son waits until the father be dead. But, oh! the greater patience of Oodi Be has been waiting for yon, not seven years, net nine years, but Cor some of yon twenty years, thirty years, forty years, fifty years—waiting-, calling—waiting; calling, until nothing hut omnipotent patience oould have endured it Oh, my brother I do not take the sentiment of my text es your sentiment. We do care Sc your sod n One Sabbath night years ago, is * j church in Brooklyn, a jetusg man «>

f peared al; the and of the platform, and bo snid to me! “I have just come off the sea." I saul: “When did you arrive!” Said hei: “I came into port this afternoon. I was in a great ‘blow’ off Cape Itatteras this Inst week, and I thought that I ought as well go to Heaven as to Hell. I thought the ship would sink; but, sir, I never very seriously thought about my soul until tonight *t you feel that Christ is able and willing to save vou!” “Oh, yes.” he replied, **I do.” “Well,” I said, “now you are willing to come and be saved by Him I” “1 am,” ho said. “Well, wilt you now, in the prayer we arc about to offer, give yourself to God for time and eternity!” “I will,” he said. - 'y Then we knelt iu prayer, and after we bad got through praying ho toll me that the great transformation had taken place. I could not doubt it. Ho is on the sea now. I do nqtt know what other port he may gain or lose, but I think he will gain the harbor of Heaven. Sta r of peace, beam o’er the billow. Bless the soul that sighs for thee; Bless the sailor’s lonely pillow. Far, far at sea. It was sudden conversion with him that light. Oh, that it might be sudden conversion with you to-day! God can save you in one moment as well as he can in. a century. There are sudden deaths, sudden calamities, sudden losses. Why not sudden deliverances 1 God’s spirit is infinite in speed. He comes- here with omnipotent power, and he is ready here find now, instantaneously and forever to save your soul. I believe that a multitude of you will.to-dav come to God. 1 feel you are coming, and you will bring along your familes and your friends wi th you. They have heard iu Heaven already of the step you are about to take. The mews has been cried along the gulden streets, and has rung out from the towers: “A soul saved! A soul saved!” But there is some one here to-day who will re ject this gospel. He will stay out of the kingdom of God himself. He will keep his ’family and his friends -out- It is a dreadful thing for a man just to plant himself in the way of life, then keep back his children, keep back his companion in life, keep back his business'partners—refuse to go into Heaven himself, and refuse “to let others go in. A young man, at the close of a religious service, was asked to decide the matter ot his soul’s salvation. He said: “I will not do it tomight.” Well, the Christian man kept talking with him, and he said: -- “I insist that to-night you either take .God or reject him.” “Well,’.’ said the young man, “if you put it that way, I will reject him. There now, the matter’s settled.”

un 1119 H aV UUU1U UU uwi W, Urtva, MO nuv u not that a tree had fallen aslant the road, and he was going at full speed, and he struck the obstacle and dropped lifeless. That night his Christian mother heard tho rider .ess horse plunging al>out the barn, and mistrusting something terrible was the matter, she weut out and came to the place where her sou lay, and she cried out: ' “Oh, Henry ! dead and not a Christian. Oh, bit son‘ my son l dead and not a Chriftian. Oh, Henry, Henry! dead and not a Christiau.’’ God keep us from such a catastrophe,LATENT FORCE, The Storms of Life Bring 'Chat a Strength •f Character Often lus impeded In IVnrefuIness. \ Borne events seem purposely sent for the dive opment of character, fu’ little r - st ream'murmuring along itis way, dreamily and l>app;ly, through green meadows and sunny slopes, makes no change in its course until it meets some impediment. Then it rouses and wakes to action, roaring and gathering itself into white foam, wholly Changing its current and character. So with ourselves, lives move on calmly and evenly, with scarcely more than ripple to show that latent force ia there. Some business misfortune comes with a crash, almost without warning. The first sensation is paralysis of aU the energies, then the reaction, and we find ourselves strong to do snd dare. Ilie death-an gel enters the home-circle, the one place we bad considered too sacred for its intrusion. Both brain and body seen s.bout to sink beneath the terrible crushing weight; suddenly the dormant faculties awake. We must do or die. “ The gods la bounty work up storms about us. That give mankind occasion to exert Their hidden strength, and.throw out Into Virturttbntshun the dav, and he concealed In, the smooth seasons and the calms of life.' The easiest places in life fail to draw out the richest part of our nature, we are even capable of better things. The most precious metals are found deeply imbeddeci in the dark, cold earth, and much toilsome action ia required to force her to yield up her treasure. Yet each stroke, though laborious, causing great drops W start, brings us nearer the coveted prise. The experience of others may be brought g bear upon our lives, but only as signposts indicating the right row! No great achievement can be accomplished by fol lowing aimlessly a beaten path. We are , cowards doubting our ability outside of our daily routine. We are fearful of the world, its smile or frown means so much, almost more courag than wo possess is required to buckle on the armor of independence nnd make war on this very cowardice.—Maria Surrey, ia Chrtitta* st Work,

A Dan with the reputation of r.ehes is beseiged with applications for support of such a kln l that ha wUl soon understand why tha poor think better of mankind than the rich. Circular follow s circular, point11; out in tha most attractive manner how h; may become richer, by investing his mossy in plans and shams of ail kinds- A rich person, however worthy, can never feel sure that h« In respected or loved for himself. In Dr. Guthrie’s “Autobiography” there is a good illustration of the unhappy stats of cynicism into which the rich are prone to fall. Thera be relates how, in a winter of extraordinary severity, he made an appeal to a lady who had succeeded to a prodigious fortune, an behalf of tha starving poor of his parish. Ou bring ushered into her room, she turned round, and showing her thin, spare figure, and a face that looked as if it had been cut out of mahogany, grinned sud&tieid: “1 am sorry to see ye. What do yon want! J suppose you are here seeking siller?”—“The very thing I have come for,” was the doctor’s . trank reply. Her next remark demonstrated how little power her riches had of conferring happiness, add with nil her wealth of flatteries, what a poor, lonely, desolate, miserable creature this possessor of more than a nuTOon sterling was. “Ah!” she said, “there is nobody comes to see me or seek mo; but it’s money, the money they are after.” When White field was preaching on on* occasion, and just as he stood up to pray, the clerk at the desk below read out the intimation: “The prayers of this congretty requested in bnhh ' is just fallen heir I deem him, vbo, thinking stale is blest, rejoices in security; fortune, Ukn n senses, leaps now this way, is always foirium -—«♦ ...acECsexiethe ?oi< the voice