Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 April 1887 — Page 1

Pike County DeiIocr t. L. MOUNT, Proprietor. *Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principl es of Right.’ OjfTlOB, over 0, E. MOHTQOMEBT’S 8taBS, Main Street. VOLUME XVII. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. APRIL 28, 1881. 1 ' T "■ ■■ ■ 1T1II I ... I, n T HITIliMMMMMMWM— _ NUMBER 50.

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, tkrms or SUBSCRIPTION t For one jr«r...$1 M For Mi month*....... 75 For three month*........ M INVARIABLY IN ADVANCtADVERTISING RATES ( One square (9 line*), on* Insertion.|| 00 Bach additional insertion . . 10 A literal reduction mad* on adrert'senient* rauninr three, mix. and t arrive months. Local and transient advi itiacmcnta mutt be paid tor to advanoe.

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT JOB WORK OF ALL KINDS WTeatly Executed REASONABLE BATES. NOTICE! Pomona receivinir a copy of thf« taper with this notice crossed in k*d pencil lire notified that the time of their subscription baser pined

ntnrr.«io!f»i cakM. B. ». poset. a. » aomcvn. POSEY A HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT UW PeUnVurf, lad. 'Will practice ia all the courts Al! trainee# pmmntiy AttMxh'l to. A Notary Public con* at mtjjr la tlie office Office over Frank A Hoi corook's druf store. %*• WniABWO!*. *A. B. TAYLO* RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG. DVD. f' »-mpt attention given to all business A Notary Public constantly in the office. O'Bct In i arpemtcr Building, nli and Slain. k. A. ELI. J. W. WILSJS. tLY & WILSON. Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. #i*< )fHc •* in the Hank Huiltlivu* .’%# ~V' ~f. S~ & E. SMITH. (»ncce»»or» to l>o,le A Thompson) Attorneys at Latf, Real Estate, Loan & Insurance Aits. Office, second lkmr Bank Building. Peter#- >; l*urjr. Ind *Yh«* b-»«t Fire and life )n*un»neeCompanle« r* presented. MOtj to loan on flrtt irort.a., s at seven amt Hjrht percent. Prompt attend >n to. collections, and mil ' f l*«a n s IntruMrJ to us. IV 1 JyW>?KM». MiKTfUKSIE Komis but 1 h » T0WN8END, FLEENEB 4 SMITH, Attorneys at Law ARD REAL ESTATE AGENTS. PETHIUSBUlU*. - - INDIANA. office, over tins Frank’# afore, Special at-, t*oi ion jrtven to Polled tons, Buy In r an*l SellImr i and#, Kiamni.n;- Tit lea and lurnlililnjf .Wsiracti. \L R. KIME, M. I).. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG. WD. office, itv‘*r llnrrdt A S* n#* ►tore. resir , «l. n* e on >evcntli >treet. t»>r«£ aquavea w*uth.; oi Main. « ah« promptly attended to, day Or Might. * J. a DUNCAN. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, - IND. office on first floor Car|M*»ter Building. C. B. BLACKWELL, M. D., W’LMTIC Physician and Surgeon, Office, Main reel.. between *t:» and tth opposite Model |>tuir More. | t :teh.hhi;bg, : Indiana. V11 pr irUr* tlnlMw. •‘onr^rv an! ( *m«n- » * mown and enuntiry. .nd will vtoli any r >' I !»' numrv in e .n.ii llattnn. < hrr.nk.jix.^rull; irvat .1, B. J. HARRIS, o i

Resident Dentist, rETEKSBl RU. IM> ■ALL WORK WjUttHTOi. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, • J. E. TURNER* Proprietor. PETERSBURG, IND. Ptrt»ei wUhln* work don* at tb*ir r kd ncr* will Iwvf onbr* at th* ia Dr A»lara»' nr« Lu *4 n*. rrar of Adana £ Son • d ruf no. • CITY HOTEL. Cadar Maw Hutpaut. IjEWIB KATT,, Prop. («. Eighth an<l Nile St». opptonrthouae, PETERSBCRM. IXl>. The I'ttv llo' rl is centrally lacsiej. Br»t fUwW all li* appointments, and the best an I cheapest hotel is the cl tv.

Sherwood House, t'mW N>w BISSKL^ a; TOWNSKX4). Proper* Firjt i!Hl Locust HrvfU, KvanRvillr, : : Indiana. RATES, S2 BER DAY. Samplt Rooms for Commoroial Mm. HY ATT HOUSE, Washiactara. lad. Centrally Lortifd. and Accommodation* First-class HENKT HYATT, Prarritiw. Fmiil HOTEL, Petf.ksbVrg. - - Indiana. CHARLES SCHAEFER, Proprietor. LonM In the- business „part of lown. Term. rea.onabte A rood Bar. choice LK|Uor». 1 oboera and Clears. Corner See- ; rath and Walnut streets. When at Washington Stop at th« MEREDITH HOUSE. : ' First-Class in All Respects. Mas Lara. II mat. and Albion Hobball Proprietors Gao. Jk**kJ Homii, Late of Cincinnati. late of frasblagton.Ind. HOTEL ENGLISH, ROSSETEK * MORGAN. Lessee*. Indianapolis, Ind. Rouse Kleaaut.Table. Service and Genera Keep Superior. Location best la the citron the Clide. ' Great Reduction SADDLES. HAMS,' ETC., ITU TV public a hereby ta'onoed that I wi# sag ~ Mk of WaMW. and Harness and rapt by aw knew than onr soM before If yoa *aat aaytbtre ia FRKO REU59, tmUBSUROh. a. ray More n STWrrtkin* I la tb a piece

NEWS IN BRIEF CwuiM trm Yarleas Secrcca. PEMOm ARB POLITICAL. Bioocrxet Botlee, or Boston, ha* been appointed Second Comptrole# of the Treasury, to succeed Judge Maynard General Siiekmax has written to the New York Herald that be is willing that 'all letters between himself and the late General Logan snould be made public. OBrien and Kilbride are booked to sail from Ireland oft the 23d for Canada to carry tbe eviction warm to Lord Lansdowne’s home precincts. The Secretary of the Navy issued an order on the 19lh detatching Commodore McCann from the presidency of the Naval Advisory Board and ordered him to command the Boston Navy Yard. Ox the" IVth. funeral services over the remains of Chief-Justice Csrtter took place at his late residence in Washington. The remains were taken to Cleveland, O., for,burial. Jon* Bhiort, of England, in a recent letter to a gentleman in Washington, says: ••I hope your future Presidents may be as wise and firm and patriotic as your present chief magistrate.” « Alexander Mitciell. president of jthe Milwaukee ft St. Paul railroad, died’ on the afternoon of the 19th of pneumonia, at the Hoff man House New York City. His death caused much excitement in Wall street. Loitn Sititsnr, In his Primrose speech on the •JOth. was Terr severe in his criticism of Gladstone's course on the Irish Crimes bill and his former home rule record. General Terkt will temporarily assume command of the Department of the Missouri until a successor to General Wilcox is appointed Charles P. Yocno. of New York City, has been appointed secretary of th: Pacific Kailway Investigating Commission. General Wesley Merritt. whose promotion has been announced, will not retire for age for thirteen years, as he can remain in active service, under the law. Until June Id. hJOQ There Is a very strong, chance, therefore, that he will be promoted to Major-General before retireine it. The Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom arrived at San Francisco on the ‘JOth, en route to Europe. Mr BiiiGAR proposes to sue the London 7tSA'» for libel ia connection with the alleged Parnell letter and kindred publications, thus bringing the question of genuineness of the letter before the courts. Dr. Hosea Ballot EaTox di“d at Rock ■ port. Mo , on the night of the 19th, from ! blood-poisoning, rohtracted five years ago while engaged m his professional duties. He was president of the Maine Hbmaev pathic So-iety aid' vice-president of the American Institute of Unmce > pa thy. Dk Warren, of Baton, is at Rome, studying the practicability of establish mg an American institute of Roman history and archie ilozy, toward founding which, be says, an American lady has contributed HO.OOI. The remains of Lieutenant . Danen- ! bower were shippel from Annapolis to Washingtoo on the Jlst. Land Commissioner Spares has ordered i a resurvey of the Las Vegas land grant in New Mexico. I Colonel Moore, Consul-General to the City of Mexic o, leares for his post of duty os tbe tMh. Ox the Jlst Major John E. B'.aine. "paymaster In the United States army and brother of James G. Blaine, died at Hot Springs, Ark. „ Ox the Jlst a French official was decoyed into German territory and arrested by German police, charged with membership in the French Patriotic League. Great excitement is reported to exist in AIsac.'-Lorraine ovrr tbe affair. It has also created a profound sensation in Paris. Ox the Jlst James Russell Lowell sailed from Boston for ;I£urppe on tbe steamer Pavonia. It is understood that he declines to be s candidate for overseer of Harvard University, for which he has been nom- | mated.

at iu session m n uniifton on the 2lit th) National Acs l«*mr of Sciences elected throe new members. The scientists thus honored are Prof. Bowditch. of Harvard: Prof Mendenhall, of Terre Haute, Ind, and Prof. Oearfe H. Cook,-of Brunswick. Ila Toe Lord Major of Dublin has called a meeting for the purpose of taking steps toward the erection of a National memorial to Mr. Gladstone. Xuoi F. W Bent.in. of the Ninth cavalry, was recently sentenced by a courtmartial to be dismissed from the service for drunkennesa The President has commuted the sentence to one year's suspension from rank and duty on half-pay. SxvxxTkK* years ago Btnj. Zimmerman strayed away from home in Reading, Pa. On the Slat be*re’.uroed and found his wife, who believed him dead, living with »eecond husband. It la said he wild And Mrs Zimmerman willing to be reclaimed. Ms lluMTOti aays that be doos not desire a general election to Parliament nntil the English mind is as ripe on the Irish question as the Welsh and Hootch minds are, but that time is rapidly advancing. “Anyhow," he aays. “I am prepared to face anything to defeat coercion.'’ India* Aosst Os bos ns. who recently killed E. J Smith, the Indian farmer at the Otoe agency, has had a preliminary trial before a United States commissioner there. The testimony brought out at the trial exonerates Osborne, and the commissioner says he has no doubt Osborne was fullv justified in his action. Jt-srick Woods, of the United States Supreme Court, is terionsly ill at Ksnsas City, Mo. Tna statement comes direct from the President himself that be does not want and will aot accept a nomination. A Letts a has been received from Prof. Qoldwtn Smith, of Oxford University, favoring a Commercial nnion between Canada and the United States. AacRamuor Coaaieax has "warned" the CatUa'te Her ild to cease its defense of Dr. McGlymn and criticisms unfavorable to those who removed him. Wm. O'Beixn, editor of United Ireland. was to sail for Caaada on the 34th, to speak against Lord Lansdowne's ten an tcy evictions.

nil AiiDRSv i LKNioii, me millionaire, of Pittsburgh. Pa. wu nailed in marriage on the iii to Miss Louise Whitflold* eldest daughter of Xn Fan nr D. Whitfteld. at the residence of the bride's mother, tn New York. They left for a European tour oo the eteamship Fulda Bin Ricasansux. who owns about half of Harlem, and is sereral times a millionaire, is the man who was recently swindled by the "gold brick trick” in New Y ork. The gilded copper bars which he thought were worth *10.000 are bow at the assay oAce on exhibition. W* B Kitcsiu, president of the Exchange Bank, of Detroit, Mich., has disappeared witt all the funds of the concern, 'earing an anxious lot of creditors sad depositors behind him. A Toarapo exploded under the torpedo leunch hall on the 10th in the harbor of Annapolis, Md., aad sunk her in one minute and a half. Ensign Mair was in charge, aad sereral aural cadet* were oa board, hut they were all taken off in safety by an oyatermaa. Li* cross XT Joxx W. Dsxxxaowxs. of Arctic fame, committed suicide at the Naval Academy. Annapolis. Md . oa the 10th. D. ft Bcsdstt, a ranchman, was killed at Betas Rtve-s. N. M-, oa the 30th. by two courts, Darned Fwoe**? had BnsItf.

Os the night of the lSth the barn of John Griffiths, four miles south of Baileyrille, Kas., was burned, together with seventeen horses and thirteen head of cattle. This is the third year in succession that Mr. Griffith has loot his barn and stoek by Are. Tub Chicago limited express struck John Becker, his wife and two-year-old child at the Manheim crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad in Lancaster, Pa., on the 10th, killing both parents instantly. The child was found on the cowcatcher uninjured. Al». Cvxxisonal*, one of the murderers of Captain Six-Killer in the Indian Territory, has been caught and landed in jail. - The jury in the case of Napoleon B. Metcalfe. for the killing of Miss Frances Fox at Middleton', Conn., last January, returned a verdict of acquittal on the 30 th, on the ground of insanity. He was ordered to be confined for twenty years in the State Hospital for the Insane by Judge Terrance. Tiis elevator owned by the Northwestern Elevator Company of Minneapolis, located at Wilrnar, Minn., was burned on the 30th. Twenty thousand bushels of wheat were destroyed; loss about <31000. The preliminary hearings in the postponed Pan-Handle railroad robbery cases came up at Pittsburgh on the 30th before Deputy Mayor Gripp, and all the prisoners waived the preliminary examinations and were held for trial at court. The cases will probably be tried during tbe present term. Ox the 31st Benjamin Sisson, of Bissonville, IF Va., killed hiv wife with a hatchet A HiaVT gold-brick swindle is said to have been success fully worked on a wealthy gentleman of New’ York. Jennie Bowmen, a servant girl, was beaten to death in her employer's residence at Louisville. Ky., on the night of the 3Hb. by unknown men. Tub United States authorities are after T. L Gardner, of Chicago and Cincinnati, for sending bogus publications through the mails. /’ On the 21st George Miller, of New York, determined on suicide, cut his wrists open, stabbed himself in the breast, and jumped down two stories, finally succeeding in killing himself. On the 21st, while-walking on the track of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, near Everson, Pa., two ladies, Mrs. Gettemy and Mrs. Anderson, were struck by a shifting engine and terribly mangled. Tho former died in a few hours, and Mrs. Anderson is in a serious condition. Goverxob Kokckrr of Ohio has commuted the death sentence of Delaney Jefferson Bowling to imprisonment for life. Bowling was convicted of murder m the first degree for the killing of John Douglass, and sentenced by the Common Pleas Court of Licking County to be hanged. A urRates nb swept over portions of Arkansas. Missouri and Kansas on tbe 33d. A large number of people are reported killed, many injured, and avast amount of property destroved. Feans M. Scott, the bookkeeper Of Webster & Ca. Kew York, who embezzled 1101,ots, received a sentence of six years on the 33d. Wotr Pise, a Polish pawnbroker, was enticed from his placeof business at Lead City, Dak., on the 33d, and while he was out his place was robbed of <3.500 in jewelry. Five men have been arrested on suspicion. A raioRT train going west on the Grand Trank railway m»* Ihromsh tha. bridge over Nash’s creek, near Morrisburg. Ont-, on the 23d. The engineer and fireman were killed and a brakeman was badly injured. Thirteen loaded cars were piled into the gorge and smashed to atoms A chobisteb in the Military Academy church at St. Petersburg committed suicide on the 31st by jumping from a window of his house. On being searched the bouse was discovered to be a Nihilist rendezvous A quantity of dynamite, arms and revolutionary documents were found. Samvel D. Conner, a wealthy gentleman. owner of considerable mining property in the West, principally in Colorado, and a step-son of General William Lilly, of Canton County, Pa., committed suicide in the Monument cemetery, Philadelphia, on the Sid. by shooting himself through tbe heart. He had been married the dav previous.

MISCELLANEOUS. El Hum has written letter* to the Khedive of Egypt, the Saltan of Turkey and Queen Victoria, statin; on what terms he will make peace. Ir Parnell does not bring action against the London Tima Lord Randolph Churchill intimates that the House of Commons may. Os the 19th the old Sixth Massachusetts regiment celebrated its memorable march through Baltimore’s streets and the pav-ing-stones showers in 196L They were showered with Baltimore flowers this lime. Six more plotters against the life of the Cxar hsve been sentenced to death. Tux Northwestern Lumber Manufacturers’ Association was in session at Minneapolis on the 39th. Tun Inter-State Commerce Commission, in reply to the St. Louis millers, who complained of rate discrimination in favor of Minneapolis, refuse to act unless upon regular proceedings in which all parties may be heard. Tax commission which, is to investigate the accounts of Pacific railroads which have received Government aid met at Washington on the 19th and organized. Tux San Francisco Chamber of Commerce on the 19th memorialized the United States Secretary of the Navy not to have the war ship Hartford destroyed, but repaired and kept in the service, owing to her historical character, Tex town of Lexington, Mass., celebrated on the 19th the one hundred and twelfth anniversary of tho revolutionary battle There was a procession in the morning, an oration in the Town Hall and a children's entertainment. The affair concluded in the evening with n grand ball. Tax Colonial Parliament of Newfoundland only defeated prohibition of liquor by one vote ArroxMT-Gisxnii. Gouxd has reaffirmed his former opinion that the Secretary of the Treasury does not posses the power of remission in the case of the American schooner Ban Diego, seised for taking seals at the Alaska seal islands in violation of law.

A DiariTom, which is locked upon at Washington as • "feeler," has been sent hr Lord Salisbury, to the American Gorernfnent concerning Canadian lishIt is expected that another call for three percent, bonds will be made in a few days. There are now outstanding 919.SJt.6O0 three per cents., of which 919.491,900 are held by National banks, lU^lW by residents of the United States, and 97,000 by foreign residents. Firry-rom German priests of New York bare written to Archbishop Corrigan, taking sides with him against Henry George and Her. Dr. MeGlynn. A BTinsm was filed on the 90th, in the county clerk’s office in New York, showing that the directors of the Western Union Telegraph Company, by a twothirds vote, had increased its capital Ol.aOUOOQ. making n total capital of 9*1,Ths Protestant ministers of Montreal are protesting against the hill now before the Quebec Legislature, proponing to place crucifixes in all courts of law for the purpose of strengthening the oaths of Tan sixteenth annual meeting of the Woman’s Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the Middle and Eastern States convened in Pittsburgh, Pa. on the 90th,

Th« threatened strike ol carpenters at Milwaukee, Wis., has been averted, the master carpenters agreeing to keep their shops open only nine hours after May I4 and to pay the men present prices per hour. The masters will not recognise a day's work hereafter, and will pay by the hour. Tub Legislature of West Virginia met in extra session on the 30th for the purpose of passing appropriation bills, to legislate against excessive charges in criminal cases, and te pass laws relating to the equalisation of passenger and freight traffic over the railroads operating in the State, and to abolish free passes to all persons. Thet are killing cattle again in Chicago for plenro-pneumonla. Last year Gorman emigration decreased 23,ooa Tux Jesuits in Canada are preparing te contend stubbornly for the restitution of their confiscated estates. Indications accumulate that there will be do extra session of Congress, and that the President will visit St. Louis in the autumn. On the 21st the new ecclesiastical bill was debated in the German Reichstag and Prince Bismarck took animated part in the discussion. On the Sint a sharp shock of earthquake was experienced over the whole of the island of Jersey. The tremor proceeded from west to east. No damage was done. Tub Pacific Railroad Commission adjourned on the Slst for a week or two, after addressing letters of inquiry to the department of Washington covering the subjec t of t heir proposed inquiry, On the Slst representatives of the transcontinental lines, sugar refiners, San Francisco Board of Trade and other interests were heard by the Inter-State Commerce Commission. Tux Secretary of the Interior has rescinded an order issued some tJime ago, directi ng a sus pension of survey of land in the Turtle Mountain reservation in Dakota, and in a new order directs a continuance of the survey. Italy, Roumania and Denmark have definitely decided not to participate in the French exhibition to be held in Paris in 1888. Belgium has not yet decided, but has intimated that she will follow the course purs ued by England in the matter. Tax weaversof the Hamilton mills at Amesbury, Mass., are still out The question of an increase of wsges has beenreferred to the board of directors. Unless the trouble is settled at once a thousand persons will be thrown out of work.

i hi Apaone Indians are to De removed from Fort Marion, Fla., to Mount Vernon, Ala. Two counterfeiters, Michael Hammer and James Fox, have been captured at Indianapolis. Startlin® developments of fraud are made in the legislative investigation of Michigan assessment insurance com* panics. A great flood was raging in the St. Law* rence river on the 23d, and parr, of Montreal was inundated. Additional arrests of conspirators against the life of the Czar are reported. The Czar has retired to the palace of Qatochina for safety. Till Inter state Commerce Commission expected to lente Washington oa the 3Sth for a short trip to the South, going to Mohile, Hew Orleans, Memphis, eta. Til; excitement over the arrest of 0 French official by Oenaaa authoriUee over Biorope, sad all the P——* incident. Thk Comptroler of the Currency has declared a dividend of twenty-five per cent, in favor of creditors of the First National Bank of Pine Bluff, Ark. Thk total number of trade dollars redeemed Up to the 33d was 5,343,000. which number will be increased 400,000 by recent importation at San Francisco from China. Thr Secretary of the Interior has directed the consolidation on Julv 1 next of the Tnle River and Mission River Indian agencies in California, with headquarters at Banning. A dispatch was received at the Indian Office on the 32d from the agent at Crow Creek. Dak., in which he states that a detachment of United States troops had arrived there to assist, if necessary, in carrying ont the President’s order requiring the settlers to leave the reservation. Six thousand Belfast shipbuilders threaten to strike unless they are paid weekly instead of fortnightly. It is expected the masters will accede to the demand. The over-due steamer Salerno arrived at Queenstown on the 23d in ’tow. She broke her propeller March 31, within eight hundred miles of Sew York, for which port she was bound, and was competed to take the back track by adverse winds. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. A srspiNStoN of the fourth section of the. Intor-8tate Commerce law has been ordered on the transcontinental lines for seventy-five days from the 33J inst. London continues excited over the ParmeUTetler and the persistent attacks Ot the Time*. Kweeboh William of Germany will lay the foundation of the new ;palace ot {satire in Berlin on May '.5. Tnx Toronto (Ont.) Oluie in in h'gh dudgeon over Lord Salisbury-* proposition for the settlement, of the fisheries question, and goes so far as to intimate that a fight would be preferable. Tax Americus Republican Club of Pittsburgh, Pa., will celebrate the sixty-fifth birtltdar anniversary of General G. S. Grant by a banquet It is thought in England that the Coercion act will be materially modified before its final passage through Parliament. Suekht, the Pinkerton special who killed a-boy in Jersey City, N. J., last January at the time of the coal-handler’s strike^ has- been indicted for manslaughter Muxob-Gknikal C. C. Arcrit has accepted the position of command snt of the cam p during the National drill at Washin eton.

It is anticipated that s general strike of store molders it ill ocenr throng bong the coticitry OTer the endemror to forefe the St. 1»bis patterns into the various foundries. Vat 5 will be observed as a national holiday in Mexico, the occasion being the distribution of prues won by Mexicans at the World's Exposition at Mew Orleans. Ciiaxs Yes Hook. Chinese Minister to Washington, sailed front Mew York on the 131 for Havre, accompanied by fonr secretaries of legation. Tti recent cyclones that swept portions of the Northwest were predicted in Prof. Irl B- Hicks’ astronomical chart published inlSSt. As attempt was made on the -Si to assassinate Oesrgo H Kulp, a promin >nt lawyer of Wilfcesbarre, Pa, by L. W. DeWitt, another lawyer. His aim was defective, and be faded in bis attempt, and was lodged in Jail. DeWitt is Ihonght to be insane. E. T. M Simmov«, who was manager of the Hotel del Monte, at Monterey, CaL, antili it was rticent.y destroyed by fire, was arrested aa the 31 on a charge of having set Are to the building. Joss Mxtx, a Sooth Bend (IwL) policeman. who shot n tramp a few days since la a fight with a gang of them, was held by the coroner's jury on n charge of manslaughter. A rxnniBi.il wreck was caused at Paterson, H. A, on the 231 by the explosion of a rotary rag boiler ia the Ivnnhie papermill. A large portion of the bunding was demolished, and Booth * Co’s silk mill, ■cross the street, was badlydrinocatiiod by the flying boiler crashing into that strut lure. About twenty persona wort Injured, aooio of them severely.

TALMAGE’S SERMON* Special Discourse tc Store Clerks and Their Cut omers. Th« Early Trials of t hr I utarr Halrsmaa —Patimer and Suhmla* ion to Ditelp. Unr Xecemary—Tbr F alto of Employers—Some Mean Customers. For the subject of a rec nt discourse at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Hsv. T De Witt Talmage chose! ‘‘Behind the Counter! or, Trials and Encourag ments of Salesmen and Bales women.’* He took th^tWo following passages as his textAnd a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the City of Th; atira. which worshiped God. heard ns; whose heart the Lord opened.—Acts XvL. 14. Seen though a mu dilige nt in his business? He shall stand before King .—Proverbs, xnL, 1 le first passage int reduces to you Ly ia, a Christian merch ntess. Her bust no i is to deal in purple lotbs or si lks. Bhd is not a giggling nonentity, but a. practical woman, not ashame to work for her li» ig. All the other women of PtnUppi an Thyatira have been forgotten; but Get has made immortal in our text Lydia, thet Christian sales worn a . T^ie other text shows you a man with hep), and hand, and heart, and foot, alt busy toiling on np until be gains a princelyauccess. Sees! thou a man diligent in his husineis?,He shall stand before Kings. it encouragement to these two passages for men and women who will be bu»T. but no solace for those who are waiting for good kick to show them, at the foot of the rainbow, a casket of buried gold. It is folly for anybody in this world to wait for something to urn up. It will turn down. The law of thrift is as inexorable as the law of the tides. Fortune, the magician, may wave her arm in that direction until castles and palaces come; but she will, after awhile, invert the same wand and all the apleuc :>rs will vanish into thin air. There are certain styles of behavior which lead to usefulness, honor and permanent success, and there are certain styles of behavior which lead to dust, dishonor and moral default. I would like to fire the ambition o young people. I have no sympathy with those who would prepare young f >lks for life by whittling down their expectations. That man or woman will be worth nothing to church or State who begins life cowed down. The business of Christianity is not to quench but to direct huffiin ambition. Therefore it is that I come out this morning and utter words of encouragement to those who are occupied as clerks in the stores, and shops, and barking houses of the country. Ia the first place, I counsel clerks to remember that for the most part their clerkship is only a school from which they are to be graduated. It takes about eight years to get one of t he learned professions. It takes about eight years to gaf to be a merchant. Some of you will bWcierks all your- lives, but the vast majority of you are only in a transient posiAfter awhile, some December day. ,ead men of the firm will call:you ine back office, and they will say to have; ow. you have done w ell by us; we o well by : au. We invite an interest ir Bur concern." You will bow to that ec let very gracefully. Getting into a street car to go home, an old comrade wil . meet you and

‘•What makes you loo'i so happy tonight I” “Oh," you will say, “nothing, nothing." But in a few days your name will blossom on the sign. Either in the store or bank where you are now, or in some: store or bank, you wilt take a higher position than that which you now occupy. So I feel to-dav that I ain standing before people who w 1 yet have their hand on the helm of the world's commerce, and you will turn it this way or that^ now c orks, but to be bankers, importers,' insi-ance company directors, shippers. contractoVs. superintendents ot railroads—ytur voice mighty “on ’Change’’—standing oremost in the great financial and relig :ius enterprises of the day. For, though we who are in the professions may, oi the platform, plead for the philanthrop os, after nil the merchants mast come wi h their millions to sustain the movement. Be, therefore, patient and diligent in this transient position. Tou are now where you can learn things you can never learn in any other place. What you consider your disadvantages are your grand opportunity. Tou see an affluent father seme day come down < n a prominent street with his son, who tas just graduated from the university, and establish tag him iu business, pt ting (100.000 of capital in the store. Weiyou are envious. Tou say: “O, if I only had a nance like that young man—if I only had a father to put SiUU.000 in a business for then I would have some chance in the -ofld.” Be not envious. Tou l ive advantages over that young man which he has not over you. As well might t come down to the docks when a vessel a about to aail for Valparaiso, and say: “Let me pilot this ship out of the Narrows." “Why, I would sink ere v and cai-go before I got out of the bar or. simply because 1 know nothing about pilotage. The second counsel I ha re to give to the clerks who are here Uh ay, » that you seek out what are the lawful regulations ot your establishment, a: d then submit to them. Every well ore red bouse has its usages. In militar; life, on ship’s deck, in commercial life there must be order and discipline. Tt se people who do not learn how to obey, will never know how to command. I wi tell you what young man will reach ru a, financial and moral; it is the young ma who thrust* his thumb into his vest and s ys: “Nobody shall dictate to <ne,Ism my own, master; I will not submi to the regulations ot this house.’’

Between an estabiishr ant in which oil the employes are node thorough disciplme and the establist meat in which the emplojes do about m they choose, is the difference between r access and tail* ure—between rapid ac umulation and utter bankruptcy. Do cot come to the store ten minutes after tt 9 time. Be there within two seconds afte . Do not think any thing too insigniftcan to do welL Do not say: Again, I counael clerks in this house to scorch out what are tt :i unlawful and dishonest demands of *1’ establishment and resist them. In tt 3 six thousand years that has passed sere has never been an occasion when it was one'H duty to sin against Bod. It is ever right to do wrong. If the head me expect of you dishonesty, disappoint tfc m. “O,” you Bay, “I Shou 1 lost my place then.” Better lose your pine than loss your* soul. But you will not lose your place. Christian heroism ia i ways honored. You go to the head maar f your store, and mor: "Sir, I want to serve you; I want to oblige you; it is from no ack of industry on my port, but this thin 7 seems to me to be wrong; and it ia a air against my conscience. It is a sin afainst Bod, ana I beg you, air, to excuse m%” He may Hush up and s' ear, hut be will cool down, and he will b re more admiration for you than for then* who submit to his aril dictation; and while they sink you will rise. Do not, l cause of seeming temporary adverai! r, giro up your character, young maa. tinder Sod. that » Um eal]'Uiaf jw to toOUw.

Hive up that, you trite uft every ttlrig. That employe! asks a young man to hurt himself for til le and for eternity who expects him to make a wrong entgft or change an in mice, dr Say goods cost so mtich when th sy coat less, or impose lipOO the verdadcy < f a easterner, or misrepreaent a style' o fabric. How dare ht demand of you a >y thing so insolent 1 There is one style of temptation that comes on a grt at many of our clerks, and that is upon t iose who are engaged in what is calle<l 'Strumming.” Now, that occupation is just as honorable as any other, if it be conducted in accord with one’* conscience. In this day, when there are so many rifalri *s in business, all. our commercial es ablishmen ts ought to 'have men abroad n ho are seeking oift for opportunities of merchandise. There Ca n be no objection to that. Bnt there are professed Christian merchants in the weeknight prayer-meeting who have clerks abroad in New York, conducting merchants of Cincinnati, and Chicago, and St. Louis through the del aucheries of the great town, in order to secure their custom for the store. There are in stores in New York and Brooklyn drawers in which there are kept moneys which the clerks are to go and get whenever they want to conduct these people through the dissipations of the city. The head men of the firm wink at it, and in some places actually demand it—professed Christian merchants. -One would think that the prayer would frees j on their Ups and they would fall back dead at the sound of their own sdng. If hat chance is there for young men when Commercial establishments expect such things of them.! Among all things infernal I pronounce that the most damnable. Young man. how will that firm treat you when you are utterly despoiled and dragged out with sin, going through the haunts of iniquity for tho purpose of getting customers for their store! How will they treat you! O, they will give you a pension! They will build you a" fine house! They will get vou a horse and carriage! Will they! No. Borne day yon will go to the store, shabby, intoxicated, worn out in tbeir service, and they Will say:

".loan, you ;ire a disgrace 10 our nonse. Now, just look at yourself. Accountant, how much do we owe this maul” “A dollar and thirty cents." "Well, now, here—hero it is, one dollar and thirty cents. Go olf. Don’t be hanging round the store." Magnanimity superb 1 They stole the luster from his eye, anil the color from his cheek, ami the honor from his soul, and then they kicked him out. If such professed Christian merchants do not go straight to hell. I don’t know any use of having such a place. O, young men, disappoint the expectation of that firm: disappoint those customers if these things are expected of you. You may sell an extra case of goods, you may sell an e xtra roll of silk, but the trouble is you may have to throw your soul to boot hi the bargain. Again, I counsel all clerks to conq uer the trials of their particular position. One great trial for clerks is the inconsideration of customers. There are people who are entirely polite everywhere else, but gruff and dictatorial and contemptible when they come into a store to buy any thug. There are thousands of men and women who go from store to store to price things, without any idea of purchase. They are not satisfied until every roll of goods is brought down, and they have pointed out al!l the real or -imaginary defects. They try on all kinds of kid gloves and stretch them out of shagie, and they put on all styles of cloaks and walk to the mirror to see how it wou ld look, and then they sail out of the store, saying: “1 will not take it to-day;’’ whictTmeans: "I don’t want it at all,"' leaving the* clerk amid a confusion of ribbons, anJ laces, and cloths! to smooth worth of goods—no'! one cent of which did that man or woman boy qr intend to buy. Sow I call that » dishonesty on the part of the customer. If a boy runs into a store and takes a roll of cloth off the counter and sneaks out into the street, you all join in the cry petl-mell: "Stop thief!” When I see you go into a store not expecting to buy anything but to price things, stealing the time of the clerk and stealing the time of his employer, I say, too: “Stop thief!" If I were asked which class of persons most need the grace of God amid their annoyances, 1 would say: "Dry goods clerks.’’ All the indignation of customers about the high prices comes on the clerk. For instance: A great war comes. The manufactories are closed. The people go off to battle. The price of goods runs up. A customer comes into a store. Goods have gone up. "How much is tbat worth!" “A dollar." "A dollar! Outrageous A dollar!” Why. who is to blame for the fact that it has got to be a dollar! Does the indignation go out to the manufacturers on the banks of the Merrimac. because they have closed up! No. Does tbe indignation go out toward the employe-; who is out ut his country seat. Na It comes da the clerk. He got up the war! He levied the tnxesT He pats up the rents! Of course it’s thp clerk I J TUB PARSlWOXIprS SIDK. } Then a great trial comes to the clerks in the fact that they see the parsimonious side of human nature. You talk about lies behind the counter—there are just as many lies before the counter. Angustine speaks of a man who advertised that he would, on a certain occasion, tell the people what was in their hearts. A great crowd assembled, and he stepped to the front and said: * "I will tell you what is in your hearts: To buy cheap and sell dear!" O, people of Brooklyn, lay not aside your urbanity when yon come into a store Treat the clerks like gentlemen and ladies —proving yourself to tie a gentleman or lady. Remember, that if the pricea are high and your purse is lean, that is no fau&ef the clerks. Amt if you have a son or n daughter amid those perplexities of commercial life, and unch a one comes home all worn out, be lenient, and know that the martyr at the stake no mors certainly needs tbe grace of God than onr young people amid the seven-times heated exasperations of a clerk’s life. Then there are ail the trials vrhich come to clerks from the. treat ment of inconsiderate employers. There are professed Christian men in this city who hare no more regard for their clerks than they

nave lor me scales oa wunu me sugars are weighed. A clerk it no mora than so much store furniture. No consideration for their rights or their interests. Not one word of encouragement'from sunrise to sunset, nor from January to December. But when any thing goes wrong—a streak of dust on the counter, or a box with the cover off—thunder showers of scolding Men imperious, capricious, cranky toward their clerks—their whole manner as much as to say: “All the interest I hate in yon is to see what I can get out of yen.” Then there are all the trials of incompetent wages. Some of yon remember when the war broke out and nil merchandise went up, and merchants were made millionaires in six months by the simple rise in the value of goods Did the clerk get advantage of that rise! Sometimes, not always I saw estates gathered in those times over w hich the corse of Qocl has hung evar since. The cry off unpaid men and women in these storm reached the Lord of Sabaoth, and the indignation of God has been around those establishments ever since; rumbling in the carriage wheels, Hashing in the chandeliers, glowing from the crimson upholstery, thundering in the long roll of the ten-pin alley. Such men may build up palaces of merchandise heaven liigh, bat after awhile a disaster will come, and win put one hand on this pillar, and another hand Midst pUlar, M toil itatU tewi

until flown will coma the whole structure Crushing the worshipers as grapes are mashed in a Wing -press. Theln there are boys iti establishments who are ruined—in prosperous establishments—ruined by their lack of compensation. In hew many prosperous stores it has been for the last twenty years that hoys were given just enough money to learn them how to steal! Some were seiiecj upon by the police. The vast majority of instances were not kuown» Tae head of the firm asked i “Where is George no#'?" "O, Ihe isn’t here any more.’' A lad might-better starve to death dn a blasted heath than takq one cent from hts employer. Woe be to that employer who Unnecessarily puts a temptation in a boy's Way. Them have boea great establishments in these cities j building marble palaces, their owners dying Worth millions and millions and millions, who made a vait amount of their jestate out of the blood,land muscle, and nerve of half-paid clerks. Such men as—well, I will not mention any name. I»4!t I mean men wh o have gathered up vast estates at the expense of the people who were ground under their heeL “Oh,’’ say such merchants, “if you don’t like it here, then go and get a better plade.’*

As in lien as to sa.v: ‘Tto got you in my grip, and I mean to hold you i you can’t got any other place.” O, what a contrast we see between such men amd those Christian merchants of Brooklyn and New York Who to-day are sympathetic with theig clerks—-when they pay the salary, acting. in this way: ‘•This salary that li give you is not all my interest in you. You are an immortal man; you are an immortal woman; lam interested in your present and yotir avoilasting! welfare; I want you to understail 1 that if II am a little! higher up in this store. 1 am beside you in Christian sympathy." I Go back forty years to Arthur Tappen's store ini New York—a man whose worst enemies never questioned his honesty. Every morning, he brought a!l the clerks, and the accountants, and the weighers into a room for devotions. They sang. They prayed. They exhorted. On Monday morning the clerks were asked where! they had attended church en the previous day, and What the sermons were about. . It must have sounded strangely, ,'that voice of praise along the streets where the devotees of mammon were counting their golden beads. You say Arthur Tuppen failed. Yes, he was unfortunate, like a great many good men; b|ut 1 understand he met all his obligations! before he left this world, and I know that lie died in the peace of the gospel, and that he is before the throne of God to-day—forever blessed. If that be failing, I wish that you may all fail." There are a great many young men in this cilty—yea, in this house-who want a word df encouragement, Christian encouragement One smile of good cheer would be worth more to them to morrow morningllu their places of business than a present of $5UXp ten yeafs hence. O, I remember,' the apprehension and the tremor of entering a profession. . I remember very well the man who greeted me in the ecclesiastical coutst with the tip ends of the longjfingers of the left hand; and I remember the other man who took my hand In both or his ana said: “God bless you. my brother; you have entered a glorious profession; be faithful to God anid he wjill see you through.” Why. I feel thjs minute the thrill of that handshaking, though the man who gave me the Christian grip has been in Heaven twenty-fiye years. There are old men today who can look back to forty years ago, when some oneAaid a kind word to them. Now, old; men, pay back wbat you got then. It |n a great art for old men to be able to encourage the young. The re are many young people in our cities whoi: have come from inlaud counties olf our own State, from the granite hills of the North, from the savannahs of the South, from the prairies of the West. Thiey are here to sret their fortune. They are km boarding-houses where every body seems to bethinking of himself. They want companionship, and they want Christian encouragement. Give it to them. My word is to all clerks in this bouse. Be mightier tham your temptations. A Sandwich Islander used to think when he slew an enemy ail the strength of that enemy came inti} his own right arm. And I have to tell ybu that every misfortune you conquer >vAo much aided to your moral power. jfTith omnipotence for a lever andl the throne of Ood for a fulcrum, you can move earth and Heaven. While there are other young men puttiqg the cup of sin to their lips, stoop down and drink out of the fountains of God, and you will rise up strong to thresh the mountains The ancients used to think that pearls were fallen raindrops which, touching the surface of the sea, hardened into gems, then dropped to the bottom. I have to tell you to-day that storms of trial have showered imperishable pearls in to many a young man’s Sap. O, young man! While you have goods to sell, remember you have a soul to save. In a hospital a Christian captain, wounded a few days before, got delirious, and in the midnight hour he sprang out on the floor of the hospital, thinking he was in‘ the battle, crying: "Come on. toy pi Forward! Charge!” Ah! he was only battling the specters of his own brain. But it is no imaginary conflict into which I call you, young man, to-day. There are ten thousand spiritual foes that would capture you. In the name of God up and at them. After the last store has been closed, after the last bank has gone down, after the shuffis of the quick feet an thej custom-house steps has stopped, after the long line of merchantmen on the sea have taken sad or flame, after Brooklyn apd New York and Loudon and Vienna have gone down into the grave where Thebes and Babylon ond Tyre lay buried, after the great fire bells of the Judgment Day have tolled at the burning of a world on that day, all the affairs of the banking-houses and stores will come up for inspection

u, wnat at opening .01 account docks. Side bj side, the; clerks and the men who employed them—the people who owned thread-and-t!"edle stores oe the same footing with the [Stewarts, and the Delanos, and tljue Abbott*, and the Barings. Every invoice made out—all the labels of goods, all certificates of stock, all lists of prices, all private marks of the Arm, now explained so every body can understand them. All the maps of1 cities that were never built, but in which lots were sol I. All bargains- All gougings. AU snap judgments. AU false entries. All adulteration of liquors with copperas and strychnine. AU mixing of teas, and sugars, and coffees, and sirups, with cheaper materiaL All embezzlements of trust lands. AU swindles in coal, and iron, and oii, and stiver,, and stocks. On that day, when the cities of this world are smoking in the last conflagration, the trial will goon; and down m an avalanche of destruction wiU go those who wronged rana or woman, insulted God and defied the judgment. U. that wiU he m great day for you, honest Christian clerk! No getting up early; no retiring late; no walking cround with weary limbs; hut a mansion in which to live, and a realm »r light, and lave, and joy, over which to hold everlasting dominion. Hoist him up from glory to glory, and from song tci song, and front throne to throne; Ifor while others go down into the sea with their gold like a millstone hanging to their nieck, this sue shall come up the heights of amethyst and alabaster, bolding ini his right hand, the psarl of great price in a sparkling, glittering, flaming casket.

INTEKrSTATE COMMERCE Important Ruling)* ;aod Conclusions of the Ctommuii! on. Mia taken Notion* Corr*»xi-IlM Commia•Ion Powerteaa to Act Cotl Complaint* tfcat the :(** Hu DtoM Viola teal Are Pwmtat 1

Washixotojt, April l&—The Inter-State Commission sent to-cay to several railroads, whose officials iiave applied for rolls! Against the short-haul provision of the law Without jnaking a Satisfactory showing of their grievance*, hitters calling attention to the fact that before tho commission can act upon ]Wt»*ions they must in all cases be properly yerilied. The letters also det forth that— The law under which we are adtlws lays down a genemldaw, which is presumably jus* and which must be applied in all cases, unless facts am proveq which make a particular case clearly exceptional. Those should be shown b the petition which Is presented for relief, and the commission, before it cm grant the relief, most satisfy itself on investigation that tho facas ttv as stated, aihd that they render the ordinary operation of the law oppressive to an extent that warrants so exception being made in petitioner'll favor. *.■**• The commission does trot grant (Mieral suspension as to any road, but gives relief only as to the traffic between specified points. [fHgfiedj T. M. COOLIY. Chairman. The commission to-day also made public a document which, they state, is the most important yet issued by them, bearing on certain classes of the Inter-State law. The document, white generally applicable, is in reply to petitions of the Order of Hallway Conductors ■nd the Traders' and Travelers’ Union, Those associations ask: “Are railway companies prohibited from issuing free transportation to the immediate families of employes of their own railways ; from issuing free or reduced transportation to officers of an association composed exclusively of railway employes, while those officers are temporarily' out of railway service an5 exclusively employed by those association! May railway companies issue passes to employes of other roads on application of the employes, or must such application come from the officer of the company by which he is employed! May railway companies Issue free or reduced transportation to those who make railway serTice their business of trade, while torn- ’ porarily outof employment and in search^ of situations! May railway companies provide free transpor tation for delegates to the annual conventions of an asfiorfa- , tion composed exclusively of railway employes, including those who may be temporarily put of employment as well as members of the immediate families of delegates! The application on behalf of the Traders’ and Trave'ers’ Union states the system under Which an additional allowance of free baggage has beep heretofore carried by commercial travelers, subject to written agreement for registry and indemnification, which system the commission is requested to examine carefully “and advise ns if there is any reason why a rai road company desiring to do s6 should O enter into such an arrangement to grant, under stated terms, an increased allow ance of free baggage I” These two petitions are representatives of a large number of similar applications* which have been made to the commission, and have been selected simply because they Indicate the general character of all, and enable the commission to announce certain conclusions to which it has arrived respecting its jurisd iction and its powers. It is obvions from the tenor of sucb applications that the impression is prevalent that this commission has power to construe, interpret and apply the law by preliminary judgment. We are continually appealed tci for decisions in advance as to whether common carriers, said to be willing to adopt certain methods o! dealing with respect to inter-State commerce, can do so without subjecting themselves to the penalties announced by the statute for violations of its provisions. A careful reading of the “act to regulate commerce,” under which this commission is organised, will show that no jurisdiction has been given ns to answer questions like those under consideration. It is obvions that applications like those of the conductors and Traders’ and Travelers’ Union "'have no relation whatever the duties imposed u pon us by section 4, and this is the only section of tho law which the commission has power to suspend or relax. Sction 13 anthorisea complaints vo the commission and confers jurisdiction to entertain the same. It provides that “any person, etc:,, complaining of any thing done or omitted to be done by a common carrier subject to the provisions of this act, in contravention of the provisions thereof, may apply to said commission by petition, which shall briefly state the facts”; bat neither the railway conductors ter the Traders’ and Travelers’ Union complain that any common carrier has violated the law. On the contrary they both aver that the railway companies do not violate the law and do not wish to. If a railway company should issue a pa ss to a candidate and his family to attend the approaching convention, or should transport three hundred pounds of baggage free for a commercial-traveler aider the registry and indemnity system, and some person, feeling aggrieved, should make complaint of unjust discrimination, it would then be proper for the commission to entertain the question whether such conduct was or was not in violation of the law, and if so, whether it was or was not with

In the exceptions stated in section 23. Complaints may also bo presented if the charges made by the car riers are not considered reasonable and Just, but antil questions of this kind come before us in the way clearly indicated by the statute, it would be worse than useless for us to express opinions or give advice. We should not only lay ourselves justly open to the charge of assuming unwarranted authority, but should also run great risk of involving all concerned in what the courts might afterward hold to be breaches of the law, by hasty and illconsidered conclusions, based upon ax parte statements and arguments. Congress has not taken the management of the railroads out of the hands of the railroad companies. It has simply established certain general principles under which inter-State commerce jpist be conducted. It has enacted In motion 1 that aU charges for inter-State transportation “shall be reasonable and just;” has prohibited in section 3 all manner of unjust discriminations; baa forbidden in section S all undue and unreasonable preferences and advantages; has required In' the same section reasonable and equitable facilities for the interchange of traffic and las prohibited in section S the tooling of freights. That, in substance, . ,1_numnnsAA tear TlinvA pooling oi ire ignis, mat, in suwmuui, is the Inter-State Commerce law.. There is nothing novel in tkeee provisions Thoy simply bring bade the business of the common carriers to the well-settled principles of the common lsw, yet so one can dent that there was orgeat need of their statutory formulation. Alleged difflcultie . in patting them in operation only disclcsod examples of the extent to which they have been violated in the pest. These sections «f the set are expressed in plain words. A construction mast be given to them ta the first instance by tike owrisrs and their patrons. ____ Avxsntmr, Mass, April l»--Aboat four Hundred weavers, employed at 1*0. 445 nill of the Hamilton corporation, came sot yesterday morning m account of disistisfaction arising fqm a change o! -—* . —-'“-jsoeratitap ■a