Pike County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 6, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 June 1887 — Page 1

1< L. N0UH1, Proprietor. VOLUME XVIII. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. .LINE 23, 1887. “Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles of Right.” OFFICE, over

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVKUY THURSDAY terms or bl UsCIUITlOW i gwtraaj-aar. ..J..,fl Par six month*.j.%.... tor three months.. INVARIABLY IN AOVANC*. r ADvr.ttnuisr. maiksi ©»e square (I Uae*1. ooe Insert tun.........II ot Each additional insertion. .. M A liberal redoctMn made on »<l vert‘d menu nnnl'ir three, *u. and (wire months. LrrtJ ami t-anseot tdvntlKoirnU mast be I for In adranue. SM

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT TJOIi WORK or am. mi D3 Neatly Kxeouted SEASONABLE BATES. NOTICE! Person* recoivinx * copy of this piper with (Ms notice crt shed in lend pencil nr? nnttfled that the time of their tuteenption has expired.

nonMIOKAt CAKM, ».». n»5t. a. a noitorcrr*. , rosET a Honeycutt, ATTORNEYS AT LAW I ^ Pitanhuf, I.iid. ' WO! prapti c la all theoourti At! buaioeea promptly ntMndod to. A Notary Public conjt»nt!y in the note* Offlen orar Prank A Honijioul'l deux Rtopp. ■l p. wratifonon. a. a. TATi.no. j RICHARDSON * TAYLOR* Attorneys at Law PUl'LHSBVltO. did. Prompt Attention Klren to ill bttAlneke A Notary Public constantly In tlieolBce. O'Bco In rnrprnter Building. etli on I Main. 1. a. kltT~ ; A wTwiiaoIi. ELY & WILSON. , Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. •iptOfflo » in tlie Hank BuiUlins.'ft

T. & «t K. SMITH. I (suocaaaors to Doyla ft Thompinn) Attorneys at Law, Real Estate, Loan & Insn raice Aits. pe,*ond fotf Bank B a lid Inf, Peer*l>ur*r, lud m l rb*' tv*t Kin* mid life* h<u#BCt Colapa *>!♦?« rt pwMn*ntp«l. Noorjr to loan on flmt - 0 tit *ev»*p and eurhl per t Prompt axt#*n»l >n to collection*, and all )4ji;n •<» IntruftMtous. _ * M vftT Fi.r.KXEa i K»>wi\ SVIIN. C TOWNSEND, FLEENEB 4 SMI rH, * Attorneys at Law AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS, PETERSBURG, - - INDIANA. Olflo ^vrr tlni Prunk j* Ptore. S|H*cta! att<*nKion|rh’f>n toilolli'i't unt, Buying and *»«lU lit* a-*ai\!h. l. vam.u iift Title* and Furnloiilng Afomrmi*. > It Kv K1MK, M. i).. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG. TND. unief, over lturnll A !■ n*i More; rwl,1. nro on -n > till, Mrert, ti ire *|U»rr» oomh •if At Ain. « alia promptly attended to, iltjor tiuilit! _ ___ J. a DUNCAN. . * I! Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, - IN D. t ; tltBcf on ttrwt fl >or Carpenter Building. | C. B. BLACKWELL, M. D., , f.clkctic 1 Physician and Surgeon, Office, Mrtin “tr^eti boHnpn *t.‘i and Tt-b opIMwltn* Mo lei 1» V1K More. i*kti:hsi!i;i«;. :,j iximaxa, "111 pr >• Hr* Medlr-tne. Surfer, uni iHnwr r- n n>wn and emii|try. aid will x tall any part i f iso c. yrnri in rmiultattou. 1'bronto •ttwree* « n.^.,1 nllj rroat'it.

Resident Dentist, -t i PETERSBURG, INI) ALL WOKK WARRANTED. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, j J. E. TURNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, - INI). I'»rt.e« wtshtnf work done at their r. atd*neea will Ime order. at the .hop, n I»r. A<!»-!!« n*w tu Id nx. mu- of Adam* * .-on a druf nto 9 CITY HOTEL. > Under Haw Maaaianaat. I1EWI8 KAXXj. PrO)p. < or. It* tub an t Main Sta.. o,*p. Court-house, PKTKRSBI’IIO. INP The City Hotel la rrttlratly located. fli>t all It, npi>ntM<men(*. and the Vat an I cht-apest hot. I In the city. Sherwood House, Under New Mnnar* m'n* BISS ELL & TOWNSEND. Prop r*. Flra! and Ux-uitUtrrrtu Eiunavtllr, : : Indiana. RATES. $2 PER DAY. Samp!* Rooms for Commorcial Man. TTVA'rr HOTJB]E~ Warhlafloa. lad. Centrally I/ocatcd. find Accommodaltioaa >trnt-C:a»s. HENRY HYATT. Proprietor. PTKT1 HOTEL, pETKRSBCKti. - INDIANA. CHARLES SCHAEFER, Projriiitor. Located In 'V Outlines* part of town. Trim- reasonable A good Bar. eooieo Uin«n. Tob .ceo and Ctgara. Corner Seeentn and Walnut street*.

When at Washington Stop at tl« MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Glass im All Bespeotii. Mu Lach lUutm imd AUiox Boi bau Proprietors. On. t. ltuMtn«. Jsm* Homo, Late ot Cincinnati. Lit* of Washtnarotijad. HOTEL ENGLISH, ROSSETER * MORGAN, Lmmm. Indianapolis, Ind. Rouse >:i«traat. Table, Serelee and (it non Keen Snperioc, Loca lise bant In tt» city— oa ton l ire!*. __ Great Reduction la its prim ot

NEWS IN BRIEF. GwpM Aw Ysartoo* Rmmsi PE8501AL AND rOUttfiAI. Tn» wamlllw of the International Tvf 'graphical Union, who remained at Buffalo to straighten outHocretarj-Treas-urer Pascne’a accounts, said before leaving that they bad no reason to think there is anything wrong with the accounts, the jumble occurring simply from iooompss* icncc. It ‘a reported that the tjritish O ivern mret intends to prosecute Michael DaCitt and Mr. Joseph Richard Co* (National* 1st), member of Parllam *nt for Eist Clare, for their conduct, in inciting the Body he tenants to res'st eviction. General Howann has iuformed the War Department 'that only sixteen Apache warriors have left the Ban Carlos agency, aud that the others are not in sympathy with th- m Secretary Lamar has resriudel his order of March 26, 1886 withdrawing from ’he operation of the public land laws fractional range 41 in the Stats of Oolj orado for the purposes of a National cattle ; trait. Tub committee in charge of the petition to Koine for the restoration of Dr. McUlynu to his parish in New York, announce that the nnvenuit hat been abandoned at Dr. McGiynn's request. President Cleveland, since his return from Saranac, drives but to Oill V.ew at half past four in the afternoon, regales himself tor an hour or mo-e with country air a id returns to the White' House at seven where ho eats s solitary dinner. The Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany arrived in Ragland on the !5 h. On the 18th an order was issued by General Sheridan for the garrisoning of Fort Moyer, near Washington. The post wi I bo commanded by M ijor Lewis H. Carpenter, of the Fifth Cavalry, who is stationed at Fort Supply, 1. T. Advices from Kio tie Janeiro represent Doni Pedro, Kmptror of Brrr l. as suffering from adaugcroos att ca of diabetjs and iring in s critical rood tlon. The Sutte Dipirtment has received, through the Krilith Minister at Washingion, an invitstioa to this Government to take part n the Centenniul International Exhibition, wh ch is to be held at Melb< urue, Australia, th 1844, and will be kept open for six months. Ample space Will l*e reserved for American exhibitors. Kr»tx proposes to lot all Cubans vote by the payment of forty dollars each for the privilege. On the 15th th; oas hundred and nineteenth annuaVonimencemsat of Brown University St Providence. R I.. was hold. The degree of Bachelor of Arts, was conferred opoi th rtr-eight men. Degrees were conferred as follows: Doctor of P.vinitr, Frsderlek O. Wright; Doctor of

Luvi, Itnc G Wilson, of Ihcago, and James P Biyce, of l^uiirille, Ky. Ox t-'io 13th the Princess of W »'« and her family visited the Wild West show, together with a score of foreign royalties, all of whom rude in th* Dea l wood coach, the Princess bet ig sente! on the bo* by the side cf B-.iff do B ft, who drove the horse* attached toth > vehicle. C x iTEn Huns Coxst’i.-Q * \*kal Raixis at Berliu has sent an able report to the Government on Herman trade and manufactures Qt aax Vicxoaia is repirtsd to be very much alarmel over the alleged discovery of adynam.ts plot to be carried out during her jubilee. James G. Bi srvt arrived In England on the 16. fj. He declined to atterid the jubilee banquet at Southampton. ■Tut President has made the following appointments: John G. Nelson, of Mmpesol I, toT» receiver yf public monsys at Fergus Fills Minn.; James Greeley, of Minnesota, to be register of lha la id office at Red Wood Falls Minn. Da MM'Kbvik exam mod the German Crown Prince's throat on the 16th. The doctor reported that lie found that the fu igus growth htd not enlarged and that - ihere were no aigns of congestion. Tna social event of the season at Ottawa, Ont„ was Lord • Lansdowne's State ball on the night of the 15;h Six hundred prominent people attended, but a noticeable feature was the conspicuous absence of Irish citixenn Miss Axxix Brooks a handsome young brunette.tweoty-three years old, wholives in East Orange, N. Y . awoke the other morning^;ch A wealthy uncle, Patrick Brooks die! last March, leaving her 661.000. TUe young heiress has been working in a silk factory and in a dressmaking shop to earn her living. Tna returns from the local elections in Wisconsin, which are nbw all received, show tbit several thousand women voted for city, village and township ofB.-ers under the new law which enables them to do so at any election where officers are ch >sen who have any connection with the schools Bvkxts have recently transpired in Milwaukee. Wis, which premise to clear up the mystery surrounding the abduction of Willie Dickenson, ot Commonwealth, Wis, six years ago. Tht boy. whowasaix yean old at the time, was kiinapel white on his way bom > from school on the evening Of November 1, 18S1. Tux President has withdrawn his assent to the action of Sacretarv En dicolt and Adjutant-General Drum in the matter of returning captured Confederate flags to the Southern States, having discovered that Congressional warrant was necessary. It is reported that Sir John Macdonald, the Canadian Premier, has threatened to resign if the House of Commons adopts the reaoullion in favor ot total prohibition.

A mtxoiiT sensational story » brought to Uadon hr a British officer returned from Russia, to the effect that the Cs.tr is ‘constantly “hiltng drutk,” frequently in the most freas.ed stats of jimjams, and that he trill soon drink himself to death, unless some high official kills him for insults and indignities offered when on one of his whirlwind sprees. W ti.i.1 tsi O’Buies arrired on the 17th at Queenstown, and was given an enthusiastic reception. A RKsoiCTios of impeachment of State AwfflW Walker was introduced in the Missouri House of Representatives on the 17th, and it was set for argument oa Wednesday, the 3d. Mixisrsn McLans has demanded of the French Government the release of- at) American citisen confined in n French lunatic asylum. Da Roswsu. Dwiout Hire n corn, president of the Union Theological Seminary of Row York, died athts summer residence at South Somei set. Hass, oa the night ef the 1ft:h, of peritonitis Mur Fr-t-cn-lUoi was granted a verdict for tft.7»i and coate in hor suit at New York agaiast Charles K Locke, of the American Opera Company, oa the 17th. There wss no defense. Jon* F. linn, well known throughout the country as a baritone la various opera companies, died at hia home la Pittsburgh. Pa, oa the lTlh, of Bright's disease ef the kid sera The deetased was la the ferty-fffth yeer ef his age. cumn ard'cascalt^rs. Ok tee 13th, while e aamber of men were eaemlning e blasting charge which failed la Rahn A Kauffman’s stone quarry, near Lees port. Pa, it exploded with great force, fatally injuring Francis Kauffman and Phillip Schaefer and severely injuring three others Tam trial of Jeseie R Brown, colored, at Westminister, MO., for the maruer of her infant child, was terminated oa thl 14th by death The women want into a Incline after her isenreeration and was tar gone with consumption when the trial togas. Oi the morning la question she was found d*sd in her oeU.

0*» the ISth tl» crash anted; tha whtat tflla *t Chicago continued, ant K^rshaW £ Ox, with nlany Other Arms, Were added to the list 6f suspedded wheat clique Br Jkerx Os the 15th a young woman was executed ic France for matricide. A nx< bxt revolutionary uprising was suppressed in the Argentine Republic, with the lost of four hundre 1 livea Da 8. H. Batbmax, of Alabima Centra, N. Y., fell from the platform of an excursion traiit leaving Sanborn on the ISth, and was killed. Ox the 15th a strike of-all the building trades employes in itv Atnl, limn., began, In sympathy with the carpenters, who are out for nine Honrs. News has been receive! bv the American Ron id of Foreign Missions ei a terrible famine in Asi > Minor. The harvest time has passed, but not a single ate f of grain will be cut in alt the ptaias ordinarily so fertile, save In a few Helds artificially rra'e.e 1. Thn drought has been the worst for centuries Ox the 14th while J. A Ryan and Harry Tro'oar were drilling out a blast wh ch missed fire in the Paint R ver mine at Crystal Falla, Mich., the blast went eff, blowing oS the heal and arms cf both men, and horribly mangling their bo Hex Ox the 15 h Rot in M. Smith, who was jointly indicted with Maurice B. Flynn, for betrayal of his trust as Pubtic Works Commissroner in Now York, sailed for London on the Irava. H s counsel say that he will be back in time to stand trial in November. Tub Fulton furnace at Jackson O, ownel by the Globe Iron Company, was destroyo 1 by fire on the nig'lt of the 15t h, originating from the stack bursting. T..e fl imes spread so rapidly that John Martin, the Slier at tbo furnace, was cutoff and was b irned'at the top of the stack. Loss. SVijOOO; no insurance. Tur Pensrres murder trial at Buffalo, N. Y, which has occupied feur weeks, came to an end at noon on the l#th. The prosecution finished summing up in the morning an I the judge charged the jury, who retired at 13:35 p. m. The jury returned a verdict in ths evening of murder In this second degree. A .mi Hoin tres’l* gave way near Newport, Kyi, on the 17th, and four men were fatally injured. Tbs steamer Champlain wns burned off Charleroi. Mich., on the 17th, with considerable loss of life. Jobsxy Beall, twenty years old, of Eaton. O, is charged, by the coroner,with the murder of his mother. Ax ettens ve paper factory at Kief, Russia, was destroyed by fire during the night of the H.h, involving a loss of <150,0U0.

Du. CiRvna, the rifl! marksman, had hi* eye* ba.tly hurt on the 27.h. by the explosion of a cartridge. He will be laid up for some time. SrErnjEX Wasiibcrx, a well-known citiirn i)t Wilton. X. V., committed suicide on the 17th by hanging. |Ie had been mentally deranged for. some time owing to gangrene. A boot ten o’clock on the morning of the 17th two eastern-boned freight trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad collided at Rohrestown, P*. An engineand five cars were demolished. No pefson was injurol. |. The bridge across Will’s river in Hyersvil'.e, O., gave way under a team of four horses on the 17th. and fell through with a crash. Joseph Deal. M. L. Pyles and a boy named Keith went down with the structure and were probably fatally Injured. The bridge had been built torty years. A roLListos occurred, on the 17th, between a passenger train and a freight train on the Schuylkill Valley railroad at Parker’a Lending. Pa. Charles Dehaven fireman ot the passenger train, was instantly kill'd, and Onorge Paxson. the engine vr, wasstriouslv inj trod. Fiax broae out in the Cleveland Carbon Works on the 17th and spread ao ra pally that many of the workmen escaped bareheadei ond injihirt-slesves, leaving their tools and clothing behind. The works Were entirely destroyed. Loss, about 130,000; m-.uriuc; unknown. The Whitcomb Cedar Post Company’s yard at Chicago was burned on the 17th, and the lumber yards in the vicinity were seriously threatensd. There were 4.030,000 feet of cedar lumber in the yaad. Ten steamers and the geyser were at work on the flames, and the fire was finally got under control. MISCELLANEOCS. Sichetsrt Bavaao is informed ov the Minister of Spain in Washington that foreigners visiting Cuba, who remain beyond one monlh,must provide themselves with p,-sports. Spanish consuls in the United Sla’es are now instructed to affix a visa to United States passports, at the coat of one do lar. The Worst break ever known in the his tory of the Chicago Bo'ard of Trade occurred on the fMth. June wheat declined twenty cents a bushel, the clque wont to pieces and n number of ths principal brokerage firms were thrown into bank rnptcy. Lon don reports from Afghanistan indicate that Use fate of the Ameer ia critical aad the success of the revolt very probable, in which event most serious complicating t are likely to fellow between Great Britain and Russia. Eff >|rta are still being made in London and Rome to bring about a friendly un.'eratandmg between England and the Vatican. One hundred asylums in the United States aad Canada were represented in the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, which began its session at Detroit, Mich., on the 14th. This ia the forty-first annual meeting. Exolisb trades’ unions are opposed to the proposed international congress of workingmen.

Tin naval Acaaenr visitors nave recommended that thirteen iaeScient cadets be dropped, and four re-examined. John Vaxoekbilt, one of the three men who were arrested on the charge of attempted embracery in connection with the Jake Sharpe trial in Mew York, wan discharged on the 14th, as was also Warner, another of the men so charged. The cane of Ijtrh will oome up oa the 17th. Tar Dominion Senate has decided, against the wishes of the government, to allow Chinese women to enter Canada without paying poll-tax. Documents are displayed in the Morse department of the American Exhibition at Loadoa with the object of showing that the continent of America was discover'd in W5 by an Icelander named Leif KrikSoa. Loris acne harbor, Move Scotia, Is said to be full of American schooners loaded with maokeroi,all taken within the threemile limit. Twenty passed Ingoist northward bound oa the 14th. One 'trawler took over MO quintals of cod-Osh on ths river banks from knit procured at Magdalen. Hannons, Con., oa the 14th, observed the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes ns the MaUon’a emblem. Flags were displayed from the principal buildings. At two o'clock the statue to Nathan Hale, the "martyr spy,'* was nnvailed at the CapitoL Charles Dailey Warner making the address of presentation to the State, Ox the Uth St. Mary's Episcopal Church at Boston.was gutted by Ore. Loss, $10,0001 The -Ore is belisved to have bosn of Incendiary origin. Two recently-completed sections of the Cascade branch of the Northern Pacific railroad In Washington Territory, aggregating thirty-four miles, have been accepted by the President. Coloxists returning from Topolobambc, 1 Mexico, bring accounts of terrible suffering endured, and shameless imposition* practiced oa their dope* by promoter* of tlM fyjffBJ

fa* L»idotl police report ttM diaoolrdtj ota jubilee dynamite pldt. , Os bie 13th the jury in the Sharpe bribery trial at New York, was completed. Mr. Sharpe was committed tn the custody of the sheriff, but was—permittel to go to his home under guard of a deputy. Twenty-000 talesman were summoned before a jury was secured. Ox the 15th the members of the New York Press Association and their ladies, who went to Boston on the occasion of their annual excurs ion, visited, in dompany with the local editors of (Jimbridge, the principal objects of interest in the city. Ox the 15 h the White Star Line steamer, Brittaiic, Which was la collision with the Celtie of tbs same line, sailed for Liverpool Her officers were the same as when the disaster occurred. The Inter-State Commerce Commission heard the complaint on the 16th of tbs Chicago * Alton against the Pennsylvania Company. Tu* backbone of tho groat coke s trike in Pennsylvania was broken on the 16 h by the Hungarian strikers at the Stirling and Jimtown works of Schoonma'lter & Co. returning to work at the old wages. Tnc Washington Manufacturing Company at Philadelphia, cotton and woo’en goods, has suspended parment. Liabilities. 15i0,000; as* its, »1,SM. 144. The suspension is attributed to loss of confidence censeque.it upon recent failures. The influx of visitors to London to participate in the jubilee festivities lias already exceeded the most extravagant estimates, and tbe fl Mds of arrivals continue unabated. Tbe hotels hav. long sine: ceased to receive guests, and the lodging houses are fllied to overflowing. The Canadian tug International “coaled up” at Cleveland, <>., ou the 16th. and was about to leave port; when ahe was seized by the authorities at the instance of W. J. Murphy, of Detroit, Who has a claim of tl3,tk» against the owner of the tug. Advices from Burmah state that the Dacoits are unusually active and troublesome. They have committed a nuai ber of outrages. A band of these marauders entered the house of a policeman at; Dhattan and butchered the entire lamil;-. The drift of debate iu tbe French Chamber of Deputies On tho 16th, indicates that no money will be sp»nt yet awhile on the schemes to make Paris a seaport or to connect the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean sea bv a canal.

H. E. Lee Lamp Confederate Veterans arrivei in B>ston on the 16th. Th«v were the guests of Post No. 15. G. A. R They were met at Fall River br a dele gation, and on their arrival in Boston a procession was former! consisting of the First Regiment Infantry, the National Lancers, Post No. 2, G. A. R-- and Post Nc. 15, G. A. R. The boys in gray received an ovation. *■ Advices from India say 530 men of the garrison at Herat mutinied on the 9th inst A short, sharp fight ensued, in which thirty loyal and fifty rebel troops were killed. The mutineers fled, but most ot them were captured. The leaders of th« revolt were sent to Cabal. lr the dispatches from places along the Cape Breton coast can be relied upon, ha'f the American mackerel fleet are in imminent danger of being captured. Colorado has partially raised the quarantine against Missouri cattle. A soldiers’ and sailors’ monument waa dedicated at New Haven, Conn., on the 17 th. Samcel Meters, superintendent of the Miami County (tnd.) asylu m for the poor, is uuder arrest for brutality. The Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission hat made a decision., reducing freight rates on coal from thi rteen to forty per cent The German Government is alurraed at the rap d spread of socialism throughout the empire an 1 is taking steps to check it. Tue Winnipeg (Man.) Frte Prtu warns the Canadian Government at Ottawa that if the present policy is pursued toward Manitoba a revol ution worse than Canada ever knew will lie the result The Mormons at Balt Lake City have issued a call for a constitutional convention to moet on June 33 for the purpose of arranging to apply for Statehood. The arrival of two hundred Americanised Cx at Prague, Bohemia, who have returned to the fatherland, has been ’celebrated with the greatest enthusiasm and rejoicing. A large reception was held on the 17th in their honor. Tue Andiver (Mass.) board of visitors and the Andover Theological seminary on the 17 h voted to dispense with the serv ices of President E. C. Smith and Prof Woodruff a* the outoome of Ute recent trials for heresy. Jons W. Smith, a white man. and leader of a gang of desperadoes, was hanged in Heard County, Oa., on the ITth, for tho murder of Bonner Barker, a former con- | federate. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. XoGaeigle and McDonald, the Chicago boodlers. vrere found guilty by t.ha jury in the Criminal Court ot the city by the lake •n tho 18th, and their punishment was assessed at three years in the penitentiary. Highwatmbk held up and robbed an express train on the “Sunset" route near Pistonia. Tex., oa the night of the IS'.h, going through express, mail and passengers. Tax first Civil-Service elimination under the new ruled of promotion was held at Washington on the ISh. George Wimmbr met Charles Shelly on the public road near Roanoke, W. Va, on the 18th, and without provocation shot him through the bead, killing.him instantly. Sara brasnARDT, pot tig er .and all, mailed for Europe from Sew York on tho 18th. . Mrs. Cleveland attended the reception and banquet Of the Ft mnix Society in honor of the graduating class of Weils College, at Aurora, N. Y.. on the 18th. Being an ex-member, she waived all ceremony and went in as “one of the girls,’* and had a good time. Th* New York World and 8t Louis Post-Duf-elt* balloon, with the party who started eastward in it, have all been returned to Sl Louis, and promise to try it again later on. In their short trip their attained the greatest altitade ever known to have been made in this oouatry—nearly 16000 feet—and made one of the must

rap a ubwjbb ua rocuru. Unofficial reports received on -the evening of the 18lh announce that tlteBupremeCourt, of Missouri have agreed upon a decision sustaining the lower court in the case of Brooks alias Maxwell, the murderer :fC A. Preller in St. Louis. Thb floods it Hungary are subsiding, but great distress exists among the inhabitants of the inundated districts The Dominion Cabinet haTe under consideration n proposition to appropriate (900,000 to aid French Canadians now residing la the United States to return Caned*. Tax steamer Ailcides en route to Hew Fork front Glasgow, has on board twenty, flve champion draught stallions includ mg the Gairnbrogie Kier, that has won every prise entered for in Scotland. Tub Dels cits still stood at the head of the national Base Ball League, the Beetons being n close second and Chicago up to fourth place at the close of the week ended the l»th. The St. Louis Browns hold the lord in the Association, but their per rentage diopped n little during the week. Tnx general term cf the Hew Yrrk Supreme Court handed down a decision on the 18th sBrming the conviction of John O'Beil), ore of the Hew Yorh -boodle” aldermen,, new seivicg n sentence at Sing Bing prison. Beni a v Mexlow, a farmer, residing near Independence, la., wan gored to death by ahull on the 18th. Hisbcd;r was found in the barn yard terribly mini

I tHOSE BATTLE FLA i& i Tfcs Pr*ii.lrnt, in Ihe Uekl of I. estiaa-H-n. iriiKiInn Verbs! Axsr tlotM IXurti of apt a red Confederate B»U!e> tier* te the Several Southern jtmter1 he Pxcttement SulMldiDf. Wuamiot, Jn le 16 —Th; f do wine statement concerning tbe resto at ion or t be rebel battle flags was made * i a nip resent atve of the United Pre a at the White House to-night: ‘ ‘When tbe question of retnr tag certain flags to the States was men! oned to the Pres id out by the A-ljutant-G- neral of the army, the important feature seen .si to be tbe return to toe loyal Stat s of the flags which had been capture* by ha Confederates and retaken by-out army at the time of tho collaps; of the - sbeilion. They, *ith some of the Coofede- ite Hugs aptuphl from the enemy by ou troops ■md bean for a loag time uncare for and neglected, puke 1 - away in boles, and going to decay n the ce lar of the War Dei irtment,. imd had lately been removed to he attic, a better place for their safe reepisg. i'he disposition of the flags, whic seemed o be answering uo good purpo; > where ; they were, was the main point: and the consideration was presented to - ie Pi'Wi--ient that some flags had been re urno! to yal Slates upon their reque it in inriduol cases, and the rest, if desiied, tight as well all be returned ogetlmr. the return of ihe Confeder? e fls.gs. wb eh were, with the others, i the department, was suggested, butt tere was not the slightest thought of inte fering in any way with the captured flags now held byatirSta ■>. The feet, apparent! received with favor by the country, tha la'ely in one or more cases Northern tre ps visiting their late antagonists at ' le South had returned to them flags t iich had teen captured in battle from th se whoso hospitalities they were er jc -tag; the further fact that Northern tr ops who, within a very short time, had t -en v siting Southern battle fields, hrd poke 1 iu the warmest terms of the kind and hospitable treatment they had rec red from Confederate soldiers, and the fact, too. itaat s ldiers from the North nd South were just gathering at the National capital, to meet in friendly cow etition at the National drill, seemed to in< ioate that if the Union flags' were rctoirr d to tbs loyal States which had lost th- m in battle, it would r.ot be inconsisteu with the fraternal sentiment which se med to lw prevalent to offer at tbe same me to tLe 'Governors of the States form lily in rebellion a return of tho flags vhich had been captured from their sol* era. The right of the department to mak these returns being questioned by the ’resident, it was distinctly asserted and reccdentt illegcd. and thereupon his ve oal assent was given to the proposed or don. The matter was disnrssed from hb mind until comment within the last « ly or two brought it again to his attent on, when, upon personally examining t! i law and considering th© subject more carefully, he satisfied himself that no dis osition of these flags could be made wi hout Congressional action, whereupon fc > directed , a suspension of further proc tdinp i iu the matter in the following 6rt >r:

KXECVTIVS M l 411™. I Washikut»>s. June «, 18»'. f .Toths Secretary or War: li »re t>-day considered with more care th»o wi en thi sub|ect was orally presented to me. t • action of yonr department directing letter? to be addressed to the Governors of all the Stat ss, offering to return, if desired, to the nyal States the Union flags captured in the virof the rebellion by the Confederate force? and afterward recovered by Government tr ops: itd to the Confederate States the dags sptnred by the Union forces, all of which, for »any years, have beep packed in boxes and ? or ed in the cellar and attic of the War Depart: ent. I am of the opinion that the re' irn of these Sags in the manner thus contemp ited. is not authoriz-<1 by existing law. nor ji stifled as an executive act I request there£> e, that no further steps be taken in the matt r, except to examine and inventory these flay and adopt proper measures for their preset ation. Any direction as 11 the final disposi on of them should original 5 with Congress. Tc rs tre iy, [Signed] Grover C evelssd. An intimate friend of the Executive said last evening that the Pre.- dent sanctioned the return of the fly ja without giving the subject serious co sidei ation, and upon representations tha the natter was not in any way govern d by law. The Pi esideht’s understands r wan that the flags had •been from time to time relume i whcn'appiied for, and sat no new or Important question was in" lived. Immediately upon examining tt 1 law, however, and learning that there vaa 1 large number of Confederate flay 1 involved, and that none of them had ver befo been returned, the President amec.iatelv decided that his approval of ie plan had been “inconsiderate and mist ken.” The excitement here over t' a pr oposed restoration of the fliga is n balding as rapidly as it fomented. Earl: in the dsy. after Adjutant-General Dru i’a c rcular letter to the Governors profte ing the return of the flags became gene ally Unown, rand Army of the Repub.i met were up in arms, and were loud u their denunciation of the proposed re torn’ ion. General Boynton, at the t ggestion of Governor Foraker, of Ohic proceeded promptly to take legal proce dings) to restrain the Secretary of W ir from returning the flags captured >y triops of that State. There was to be war—in the courts at least, and the F esid< at was criticised harshly for appr ring the restoration of these trophies Of course, the President beard of f d this, and promptly looked into the at tor, and put an end to the excitement nr 1 the threatened legal proceedings an im]rending war, by directing the Seer iapy »f War not to restore the Saga. / General Boynton’s legal proceedings, which he intended to open n thu courts this afternoon, but which v ire t nevoidably delayed, will now* » dropped. Adjutant-General Drum » d Secretary Endicott, on whom it is y esuned the President depended for n t irreci knowledge of the law governmy the custody and control of these war optuoa, came la to-night for moat oriticis 1 In mialeadmg, or misinforming, the Pi eideitt about his authority to dispose of them in the ptnnsr proposed. Fair-mi led men applaud the President for his rompt action in the matter, and for in ting n legal proceeding and public dis< issiou, which would have done more t arouse war animosities and sectional pr judiues than the exhibition of these ill a for a hundred years.

AnwM oa Hla On Salem. 11L, Jane 1&-A « name as Casper Stum beck at Inks, this county, Mond fession he had made to Jot German blacksmith. He m confession in Oermvn, tel the murder of a young woe way, R. J., on March SR f photograph of the girl, anc aa unknown accomplice, about live feet two inch weighs 125 pounds, has t heavy auburn hair, and Tears old. He came to thfc Germany about fire year tnis county June & M giving his was arrested y, on a Bowman, a de a written if tU about in near Kah- > identified a said he had 8turn beck is » it height, ue «<yee and i twenty-five country from ago, end to •WasnntoTOtr, June 17.—r te troubles of the American Telephone C upany appear to thicken. The Bell peop non say the Tropical American aod In r-Ccntiuental Telephone Companies ha' » covered the entire ground in Venesoe i, and should the American Telephone Cowpany attempt to establish an ex hanjre where the Bell Company operate i, they would he enjoined by a civil a it. A circular letter was prepared yester Ay signed by Benjamin Butterworth, p said* at of the American Company, sta i stockholder could have J stockholder couia nave is mouey refunded within the next te days oa are testation and surrender if hit *‘«ck te the treaatrer.

Here's another. T«xmi TrmlM Bobbers Aram—The Advent of Fmak Jsraw Into The Lode NtJ.r State Seems to Have Fired the Tenia Heart to Deed* efUwhu Oaring. Ban Antonio. Tex., June 19.—One of the most thorough and accomplished pieces of train robbery ever perpetrat'd in this part of Texas was that which recurred one mile east of Flatonia, on tine Sunset route, between 1 and 9 am. yesterday. The train held up was the eastbound passenger. No. 19, which left tlte City at 8:55 Friday evening. The journey was without incident until Flatonia was reached, which is in Fayette County, about sixty miles from San Antonia At this point seven men boarded the train as passengers, and as it pulled out two of the men went forward, and clambering over the tender threw their pistols down on the engineer and 11 reman and told the latter to do as they were told and they would not be hurt. When a few miles from the station the train was stopped for business Then the actual work of the robbery began. Frank Folger, the young express messenger for the Weils

rargo company, seeing tneir movements, threw sway the keys to the safe, and no sooner had he done this than two stalwart robbers confronted him with the demand to open up. Foiger hesitated and told them he did not have his keys, whereu)ion they dabbed him over the head and threatened to kill him, but he was helpless and they felled him to the floor itnd cruelly split his ears with a pocket-knife. They then„ went through the safe and secured about I8.0OJ belonging to the Wella-Fargo Company. While this was going on the other robbers were busy going through the passengers, slighting no one, even robbing the newsboy of (3 One old gentleman, s'eepiug in his berth was awakened, and, reaching under his pillow for his valuables, was struck senseless by a pistol in the haeds of a robber. The robbers then searched under the pillow and found a neat roll of bills amounting to fl.003. together with a watch and some diamonds, probably worth $00 more. All the passengers were gone through as easily, mo it of them kindly getting their valuables out to prevent any inconvenience to the robbers. Oee lady was struck on the head for being a little slow, and a Mr. Hopenthal, a comrair rial man of this city, was relieved of $25) in cash. The robbers were very cool and determined in their work and delayed the train more than an hour. When thev had finished they mounted their horses, in waiting near by, and galloped off. The train proceeded to the next station where the wounded expressman and passengers were given medical attendance. Conductor Lyons, in charge of the train, says the captain of the gang had no m isk on and was called Dicit by his companions. He also described the clothing and personal appearance of the three who did the work in the conc ies, that there will be no trouble in identifying them when caught. The sheriff and deputies are now out in all directions with strong hopes of making a capture. Railroad officials here are of the opinion that the men who engaged in this work are the same who did a similar robbery in Austin and also in North Texas. WEATHER-CROP BULLETIN. The Signal Service Weekly Weather-Hnl-letln. Showing the Conditions for the Week Ended June 18—Favorable for Staple Crops. W^suixgtos, June 30i—The Signal Service weather-crop bulletin for the past wetek reports that during the week the weather his been wa-mer than the average, except at stations on the Atlantic and gulf coasts, in the West Gulf States and on the Pacific coast north of San Francisco. In the wheat aud corn regions of the North the excess of temperature for the week has been from twenty-five to seventy degrees, and average daily excess above the nominal of four to ten degrees. The greatest excess of temperature occurred iu the 'Northwest, and the weather conditions of the week are re ported as especially favorable for corn and wheat, except in sec

tions of Illinois, Iowa aud Eastern Missouri, where all crops except corn hard been more or less injared by the drought. In the cotton regions the temperature has differed but slightly from tho normal, except in Arkansas and Texas, where the dailT average h is been from two to three degrees cooler than usual. In the tobacco region, west of the AHeghenys the daily exc-esi of temperature ranged from three to four degrees, while to the eastward it has differed but slightly from the normal for the week. The temperature for the season from January 1 to June, 1S8T, in the cotton and corn regions has been in excess of the daily average, ranging from one to two degrees, while on the Houth Atlantic and North Pacific coasts and in Northern California, the temperature for the season has been slightly below the normaL During the week there has been a deficiency of rainfall generally throughout the ancultural regions east of the Rocky Mountains, except in sections of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas, where slight ex-esses are reported. The greatest deficiency of rainfall occurred in the Southern States, the Lower Ohio and Central Mississippi vallevs. This deficiency in the cotton region has not probably as yet affected the crop unfavorably, owing to the numerous and well distributed showers of the previous week. Reports generally show that more rain is seeded in that section. Slight deficiencies of rainfall are also reported in New England, but generally throughout the Northers States numerous and well distributed showers have occurred, except in Illinois, where rain is much needed. The large seasonal deficiency of rainfall in the Southern 8tales has been increased daring the week anil now ranges from ten to Hixteen inches ia the cotton region. The sensennl deficiency in Iowa, Illinois and Southern Wisconsin exceeds five inches, while mn excess of fire inches is reported from the North Faciflc coast and the Upper Ohio valley. The week has been generally favorabk for the staple crops. There has been more than the average amount of sunshine in the central valleys, and the weather has been especially favorable for harvesting; which has been largely completed for wheat and hay in the Southern States. L Susut Fuu, N. Y., June 30.—About half-past four o’clock yestepdiy afternoon a party of visitors who ware viewing the scenery from the Three Sisters Islands observed a middle-aged nun apparently bent on sight seeing like themselves, standing on tho third bridge that connects the islands. Looking back a few minutes later the man was seen to have his hat and coat off, and urns in the act of leaping from the bridge into the water. The party were at too groat a distance to do nnght but stand and witness the fatal leap. The body sank at once and passed over the Horseshoe Fall. He proved to be F. Trigg, of Washington. Jubilee Choral Services la New keck. New Yonx, June Ml—Jubilee choral services to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the ascension of Her Majesty’ Queen Victoria to the British throne were held in Trinity Church this afternoon. The great edifice was filled and several thousand persons war* turned away. Measlier played the organ, and Rev. Jos. W. Hill ooodneted tho entire service. lev. Dr. Daoost, one of the <—,- if St. George’s Society, read the first __ ReT. M. Truner, of _ ihe second, and Bishop Fetter Brooklyn, r read tho ng BOCguu, via disuuu a dotting collect and pronounced the benelieitioo. The' feature of the servioe was i of Rev. Dr.-„— - , pf the heavenly

THE . PEOPLE’S HERITAGE. j tta Depletion Stepped fir the First Tim* M a Quarter of a Ceatotf. W'hatever may be laid ip President Cleveland's charge by his partisan opponents, he will upon one ground be long held in grateful remembrance by the people. . During his Administration and under his direction the depletion and robbery of the public domain has for the tint time in a quarter of a century received a check; aud future generations finding that Unele Sam still has land to give them a farm will look back to President Cleveland’s time with heartfelt gratitude. A good deal, has been done in Congress toward restoring to the public the lands (unjustly and unlawfully turned over to or claimed by the landgrant railroads, but the most important step in the direction of reform is .that which has been taken by the Secretary of the Interior in respect to the revocation of the orders withdrawing railroad indemnity lands from settlement The decision of the President in the Guilford Miller case paved the way for this action; and the wonder is, in the light of that decision, that action was not taken long since. The fact that it has not been can only be accounted for on the theory that those interested In the indemnity lands, so called, exercised too much influence over Congress and the Administration at Washington. The whole business of withdrawing these lands was a disgraceful piece of subserviency to the railroad corporations. They had theiir grants and the land they took up under them was at all times, as the event has shown, largely in excess of ainy amount which they had actually earned by compliance with the terms of their grants.

Congress has been compelled to forfeit millions of acres because of the failure of the corporation*! to comply with those conditions. And vet at the same time enormous tracts of land were withdrawn aud witiield from sale and settlement to “indemnify” these; corporations against any shortage in the grant. There was no provision even in the eases where “indemnity lands” were actually earned, compelling the corporation to make selection so that the rest of the withheld territory might be thrown open to settlement; and the companies very, naturally and thriftily posponed their seSection so that it might be ascertained which lands were most valuable, or, ill some cases, which lands had been enhanced in value by settlers. And th» monstrous injustice of discriminating ' against the settler in favor of railroad companies, whose claim was! at best incomplete and in many ease* had no legal existence, has been persisted in for years, while the public domain available for settlement grew narrower and narrower every year. The putting am end to this rank injustice. this gross favoritism in behalf of railroad corporations stamps President Cleveland's Administration i*s the first real friend the people have had in power at Washington since the war. It may be thought, perhaps, that we are too sanguine in speaking of the injustice as ended- Future administrations. it may be urged, will undo the work which that of President Cleveland has begun and 5s evidently determined to complete. We think not. It is not unlikely that ih the vicissitudes of politics there mail be eras in the futu re of corruption and robbery like that which began during the war and was only . terminated 1# the triumph of the Democracy thre)ie years ago. But if there are they will take some other form than that off] attack upon the public domain. There is an aroused public sentiment in that behalf which will make it imipossible for many a long year to inaugurate any snch raid upon the people’s iand as that for which the robbers are now being brought to judgment—Detroit Free Press. DEMOCRATIC GROWTH.

Wkr tb« People W1U Be *»•«• to * Political Chance Next Year. It is a ewious illustration of American politics and at the same time a significant tribute to the conservative spirit of the Democ racy that the most potent argument three years ago in favor of keeping the Republican party id power is becoming one of the most potent arguments in favor of the continued ascendancy of its antagonist. When the Republican organs and leaders had exhausted even, other reason for making Mr. Blaine President in 1884, they crowned the discussion with this supreme consideration: that it would be unwise and hazardous to make a change. Republicanism was safe; it had been in power for six quadrennial terms, ami the country knew what it was. The Democratic party had been out of power so long that it had^forgotten how to govern; it was raw, clumsy, ignorant, inexperienced! and somewhat revolutionary—and it would be unmfc to intrust the finances, the revenues, the army and navy and the Indian and public lands bureaus to such a party. Let the Government remain in tho hands of those who have administered it so welL Who world have thought that in less than three years this same consideration would become a bulwark of the party it whs employed against and be a chief reason for keeping the party that employed it out of power! And yet the Republican organs themselves are recognising the contented condition of the public mindunder the Democratic Administration as the most formidable impediment In their way in the next content. The very papers that vainly attempted to m»w> tbs country believe it would be hazardous and unwise to make a change in 1884, are forced to confess that the country believes if would he hazardous and unwise to make a change in 1888. One of these paper* admits with unconcealed chagrin that “there are multitudes of timid, easy-going people who are already saying that Cleveland is good enough President for them;” and another says “it must be admitted that there aire not a few Republicans who take bull little interest in polities, and who express mild approval of the Democratic President,’

mind under a Democrat! c regime will be an important element in the contest of next year. It is a feeling of sat' isfaction almost universal, and it is deepened ly the contemplation of the stability, method and public order that mark the Democratic Administration— so different from thedisorder, derangement and iuin which the Republican organs falsely predicted. It is an inert force hard to overcome. When even large bodii-s of Republicans declare that “Mr. Cleveland is good enough President for them.” it shows that the authority of Republicanism is broken, anil the Democracy is in power as long as if behaves itself well The per pie desi red a change, three years ago, but tliey, are averse to a change now.—St Louis Bepttblican. -- m •*- REACTIONARY TALK. A Fair Criticism of John Sherman’. llpringfield Speech. The statesman whp, a fpw .months ago, asked the business men of Cincinnati to for nulate an economical and financial piliey for the politicians, on the ground that the latter were up a stump and were incapable of extricating the Government from the difficulties surroundin g it, found words and time at Springfield, in this State, to discuss all the ancient history that he is familiar with, a ad to air as much of his contemptible partisanship .as the occasion would adn.it of. Unable to suggest a remedy for auy evil of to-day, the politician who presumes on the ignorance and prejudice of his hearers goes back over they jars and comes out strong on questions long since settled forever. No man in America is more formidable in this rol s thanr John Sherman. Nu man in America is weaker, more useless and more dumb in the presence of the prodigious questions now confronting the Nation, every one of them important ii its way, than John Sherman.

Senator Sherman presumes to assert that there is something in the; “tendencies” of oae party which makes it preferable to another, anti, to sum np hit evidence an this momentous point, ha declares that in the first place Cleveland was elected by fraud, and has characterized lus Administration by appointing rebels to office and treating - the Union veteran with ignominy. In this is to be seen the same old assumption of personal, moral, patriotic and intellectual superiority by one party over ano ther without a. shadow ol basis, and, in fact, contradicted by every event of importance in the last century. For every Republican patriot, wise mar:, good man, handsome man, well-dressed man or clean man, a Democrat of equal standing may be producec. For every “rebel’’in place under Cleveland a “rebel” can be found who was in place under the Republicans. For every "Union Aoldiei” smittenjiy Cleveland one can be found who wa> smitten by a Republican. These things are conceded everywhere in life save in the political stump or in the columns of the editorial swashbuckler. It is liscouraging beyond measure to see a man who has long been conspicuous in public life and who aspires to high things pitching his canvass for the Presidency on so low and wretched a plane. The time has come for somt thing better. The people seem to be r emanding something betterThey hive something immeasurably better a". Washington already. If the John Shermans can not rise to the level ret ched by the present clean and progressive Administration and take issue with it, not on questions with which it has and can have nothing to do, bat upon the' issues in the solution of whicijit is nbw engaged they will cut a sr rrv figure next year. The reactional y is never popular in a fro# country In the coming Presidential election the Rep iblican candidates will not be asked whether they will fight the Souther 1 Confederacy or not. Thej will not be questioned as to their stamh ing on t he Missouri Compromise or o» the Sal sas and Nebraska question. They w 11 not be catechised with reference to the reconstruction of the States lately in rebellion. It will make no difference whether they fought as Union soldiers or stayed at home, as John Sherman did. What they will have to meet will be the record oi an hone: t, painstaking, patriotic Democratic A dministration. They may prefer some: hing else, but that will be the thing wb ich will confront them.—Chicago Bertld.

DRIFT OF OPINION. -Jo in Sherman ought to be ashamed to make a speech like that at Springfie d to people who are in- the habit of thinking with their heads. He’s too far West, evidently.—Chicago Herald.. -It i i all right for Senator Sherman to tr r to win over Illinois, bnt he should firi t make sure of Ohio, which has nevei yet heartily supported hii President! il aspirations.—SL Louis Sepubiicat. ■-It w Quid be as well for the National Rep iMican convention to nominate Jay Gould as John Sherman. The pri’sc pal would make as formidable a cat didate as his agent— Iks Moines Le ader. —*-Gen ral Gatlin, who ran as the Republics! candidate for mayor of Brooklyn : n 1886, has announced his withdrawn' from the Republican party and his purpose, of unhang with the Democratic party.—St Louis Rcpub---The fact that Inter-State Commissioner I ragg, of Alabama was the man who i s State Railroad Commissioner com: wiled the railroads of that State to gisnt equal accommodations to white an 1 biac k for the same money answers cclumna of John Sherman’s hum hug alont the “Confederate ascendency." —Springfield Republican. -Sens tor S herman says that the Americas teople demand “a free ballet, a fair < ount and correct returns.’' True, and t tese are precisely the things the people could not get when poor Hayes rati’ sd round in the chair *hich Mr. TBden would have lilted. A fair count? Of. yes, that is what we ’ and what v e shall have under a T Vfldfa wgfc ON—*' T. Herald,