Pike County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 August 1887 — Page 1

J. L. MOUUT, Pr^rielof. VOLUME XVIII. , PETERSBURG, II^PIANA, THURSDA f. AUGUST 4, 1887. ‘Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Princ ^>ltes *>f Right.

PIKE COUNT? DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY i W si'uscnirnoHi foKirurmr.. , « jcTii* month*.„.*. INVARIABLY IN AOVAHCK " ADfCBliimt RATES I Oor *o«*re (* n.iesi.rDsSM’rtloit.,,.. «1 Oft «**b a.lditl»n*l \n9L-rtio*?;,. |g A Htmrai reductw mate bn *.ivert<*em*nt» ntnnlnr 'hrce. m mo.ith* *5P«' ■dtreirtimxuei.u mart he paid for in *dvna»w. SIS*

rmmiiom CARD*. * i *• a. 4 lonicsR. POSET A HONEYCUTT. ATTORNEYS AT LAW F«UnW|, Ik A. win practice la »u the court* Al» fccaineaa promptly attended U». A Notary Public couJf*°tiy InI the oflice Odea orar Prank A Horn brook • drug store. *-T- Atranancoa. a. a. urtna j RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG. IXD, Prompt attention given to all bnalnesn. A \otnry Polit ic constantly Hi the office. OIBoe In Carpenter Bunting. all and Main. k. ST atv. j. w. WILSJS. ELY A WILSON. Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, ind. !**'< Mile i in the Hank Buililinc.fl T. S. & E. SMITH, (•ucceuora to Doyle A Thompeon) Attorneys at Law, ^eai Estate, Loaa ft Insnrance Acts. tiffee, tecend Uo- e Bank Building. Petcra hunt. Ind ' * The hen Flra and J.lfe Insurance C'ompamle- rrp-eeenied. Money 10 loan on Brat arortiiBji t al s- vu and eight per -ent. Promt;! aitentl m to collcctlnas. and alt tn:« ao-« intnmel to u». W.It lu«i»ub Mur rurvra i tnwiN Sunn. V T0WN8END, FtEENEE A SMITH, Attorneys at Law AE REAL ESTATE AGENTS, PST^KBBUIIO, - ' - INDIANA. i • Oflkf*. orer Got Frunk'i Mors. Special at* •»**m son jrtveft It* * 'oHi*t l‘on», Ho)In i ami liiia* lettni*. Lmratn «ng TIUcr sn l FurntsHlng . AbttnHu. It. 1L kimk. m. 1».. Physician and Surgeon t PETERSBURG. TTfD. Office, over Burntt A 8-n*» More; residence on seventh Mreet. tnree wiuares south ol Mam. t alia promptly attended to. day or night. . -

i J. II. DUNCAN. Pbjsisian and Surgeon | rETKRSBCHO. - IND. omc* on Itrst flpor Carp-utrr Hulldlnit. C. B. BLACKWELL, IN. D., ECLECTIC Physician and Surgeon, Office, Main *tre«t. between au<1 7th oppoaiie Alltel Drug Mort. : INniANA. Wl'l pr ink* MrJIHno. S-irgfr}’ utllbtlMr r. n own soil country, mil will \ Uli sup p 'lt • f tits o ‘Untry in Consultation. I brums utwas," ■ leceasfally trrstil. B. J. HARRIS

**. V Resident Dentist, PETERSBURG, ISO < j A 1.1. WORK IVAllltANTKlI. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, , 3. E- TURNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, - IND. Parties wtihlnc work done »t their r atd'tteee will teare order* at the *h *p. ia Dr Adam<* new tu.id.nf. rear of Adams 0 S>D t drur an e CITY HOTEL. Under New Management. XjBWZS KATti, Prop, tor. Eighth anil Main Sta.opp. Court-houaa, PETERSBURG, 1SU ,s The City Hotel t* centrally located. flr»tritwia alt Us appointment*, and the beat and clieaiieat hot.-I In tbe city. Sherwood House, Voder New Mtaiftn*ol. BISSELL & TOWNSEND, Prop* ra. First and Locust street*. Evan«vtUc. : : Indiana. . RATES. $2 PER DAT. Simula Rooms for CommorcialllM.

HYATT HOUSE, WiiUntn. 1*4. Oaetrally I<K»;rd. and Acro-nroodatioa* Flnt-claae. HENRY HYATT. Prafrlator. PTKB HOTEL, Fnasmte. - - Indiana. CHARLES SCHAEFER, Proprietor. * Umt»I In the hueinee. part of town. Tt m- r»'n*onable \ good Bar. cho.ee Liquor*. Tobacco anil I1|tn Corner Seventh and Walnut streeta. When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. ■ml Urn lltm* and A CHIOS Uoiuu rroprietore. —«• Gao. K. RoaMtran. Ja**a J MoMta. Un Of Clnt-innatC latte of Wuahla*»oa.Jnd. HOTEL ENGLISH, BOSSETER A MORGAN, Indianapolis Iwl. i Elecant. Table. Service aad Ge . Location Keep Snjv-lor on die Circle. Great Reduction ' ab Oft prft of SADDLES, H&BKESS, ITC., ITC. The para hceeto^ere«aai»eiU»ial_ajfll ah J5e£«.'rtx kept br ne lover tlten ever *oM talkie n»a?e before If roe *eet aaytbi «Mae.eoa*tf«U ocalloeatntali --ba-pUn* FRED REWFS, 4

NEWS IN BRIEF, OMMgflid bw Tirim Swmfc W3&05AI, AND POLITICAL Rib Hkxrt DaKUOint slid in ah Interview at Paris that he did not believe the diplomatic relations between England and Tsrkn would be disturbed because <*l the Sultan’s rejecton of the B^yptiau affairs treaty. The Pies ideal has accented ah in vita tioa to visit Kansas Cit>. It Is announced that John Taylon president of the Mormon Chiirel* died on the evening of the 8Mh. Ml-bh. VtOLa, a four-horse equestrienne of Parrett’s circus, fell from her horse at IVohpeton, Dak., on the SHh, and sustained serious injuries. It is said, being upbraided for carelessness by the manager, she took poison. She is reported dead. Gkvekai. J. M. CollELY, editor and pr» prietor of the Toledo (O.) CimmHvinl, died on the Siith of heart and lnhg trouble. He was a native of Perry County, O. He was bred a practical printer and afterward adopted the lawt entered the artrty ih Rutherford B. Hayes* regiment, the Twenty-third OfctA, rose to be Colonel, and was hrevetted Brigadier-General for gallant service on the held. » The wife of Wilson Barrett, the actor, died on the 17th. Joseph F. Smith, nephew of the prophet Joseph Smith, founder of Monuonism, will prohably succeed John Taylor as president of the Mormon Church, but the question of succession will not he settled for several months vet. I»H. Thomas L. Car*, who aliout ten Tears ago Was house surgeon of Belleville IS. Y.) hospital, is now an inmate-, of the insane pavillion of that institution from excessive use of opium. He is between thirty-five and forty years of age. Dr. Mrfitm is out in nn article on “the DM and New Know-Nothingism” in the Xurtk Ainrrirn* Jlrrirtr. <t Ox the -7th Elibu E. Jackson was nominated for Governor of Maryland by the Democratic convention. It is claimed the Crown Prince of Germany is improving. K. C. McMiu.k.v ha« been a)>|M>inte<l receiver of the Caited Carbon f"om|>anies, and this marks the collapse of the combinatioa. -THE Porte has dismissed the Turkish reserves which have for some time past been held in readiness to answer the demands of an emergency. Among the passengers who sailed from New York for Europe on the steamer Germanic on the 27th was Governor John 8. Marmaduke, of Missouri. Tvkeet has decided to reopen negotiations with England fur the settlement of the Egyptian question. ’ The object of the Porte is that the negotiations shall proceed without the other powers being •-onsuited.

I’l'AIUB OUKJIHAX P'l UIS inU'HKlUfUl from the Ohio Republicans at the State coiivrntiou without opposition. (it.ititAL Bovlaxuer wants to fight a duel with M. Ferry. British detect ire* searched the baggage of Congressman Collins and accnmjiauying friends at Dublin on the 2*th. The Americans were ■‘suspected'’ of being dyuamiteir*. Hrssja is massing troops along the Afghan frontier, aud the opinion obtains that she intends to swoop down on Herat and Cabul when an opportune moment arrives. F. L. Guts, of Chihuahua. Mex., was married at sit. Louis, ion the :ft<th, to Miss McLane, of Boston, author of “Cape Cod Folks.” Job* II. Guanos, of West Troy, If. Y., has tieen debarred from practice before the Interior Department. Rev. Joseph Parker, of the London City Temple, being about to leave for America, where he will deliver a eulogy of the late Henry Ward Beecher, made a farewell address to his congregation oa the 3sth. Guvxasoa Ksarr of Kentucky on the Sth ordered Adjutant-General Castb-iaan to get in readiness fifty soldiers to go to Bell County to preserve order. The sheriff of that county was killed on the Sftth, and war has been threatening since. More than 1*0 members of the British Parliament, including eight ministers, have signed a memorial addressed to President Cleveland and the Cnited Stales Congress in favor of the settlement of international dispute* by arbitration. Ji nuR A. K. Cou of the Rowan |Ky.) Circuit Court made formal application, on the 3*th, far troops to protect his court, which convene*.on August & Judge Cole and others feel certaiu their will be bloodshed unless troops are at hand. Friends of Craig Tolliver are already collecting in the neighborhood. The Secretary of State has reccieed a i dispatch from Consul-General Phelan at Halifax. N. 8., saying that he is investigating the recent seizures of American vessels in Canadian waters, and that he has instructed the Consul at Charlottetown, Prince Edward’s Island, to take measurement of the sea at that joint, where the seiruree were made, to establish the exact distance from shore. ■ Dr. Vo* Schloezkk. Prussian Minister to the Vatican, has presented to the Pope an exquisitely wrought miter, adorned with rubies, diamonds, sapphires and emeralds, and accompanied by an autograph letter from the Emperor of Germany, tendering the bejeweled offering as his jnbilee gift to the Holy Father.

nominated the following ticket on the 38th: Governor, J. B. Foraker, renominated; Lieutenant-Governor, W .C. Lyon; Supreme Judge*, long term, Wm. T. Spear: abort term. F. J. Hickman; Auditor, E. W. Poe; Attoraev-Generaf, D. K. Wataon: Member of Board of Public VVortsC. A. Flickinger; Treasurer, John C. Brown. OnnuL Brrutsu’t challenge for a duel has been sent to M. Ferry. Jobs Bright exhorts the electors of Bridgeton to vote against George Otto Trevelyan far Parliament. SxcRrraRT Whits ct announces that n contract has been entered into with the Hotchkiss Ordnance Company which insures the establishment of a branch of that concern in this country. Tttx Shah of Persia will start in April next upon a six months’ tour of the industrial centers of Europe. ! Judos Das is Quins, of the Supreme Court of New York City, died at Saratoga on the 29th. aged fifty-seven years. Pniscs Lons of Batten berg has been appointed commander of the British ironclad Dreadnaught, over the heads of scares of seniors. H is expected that the Radicals will criticise the appointment in Parliament. RjrrsRKSD MoTHxn tomwt M. B. LntCH died nt the Orsuline convent in Colombia, S. C-, on the night of the 38th. The deceased was the first mother superior of Ursnline nans in the Sonth. having become n nun in Cincinnati in 1M7. Tnm President has come to the conclusion that he can at easily answer a written invitation to visit a city as he c%n respond to long speeches of -visiting delegations conveying such invitations, and he has begged the Memphis citixens, who threatened a descent on the White House, not to make it. ton, alias Dick Crayton, at Baker City, Oregon the 37th, for a murder committed in Pike Coaaty, I1L, in IMS. The arrest was mads oa the requisition from Governor Oh the 37th m ed with s freight train Pm. tailing W. D. Jooee, of nod injuring several other pne

Sh* rwt MaTSox of Chicago has offered reward for the capture of Mefiarigle, who was Iasi heard of at Milwaukee, heading for Manitoba. Thi old Harriet Beecher Btowe house til Andover, Mass,] (d *hieB the nluicms ahthUTOeS wrote “'Cttcte Tom’s Cabin]’'was burned on the night of the sMth. A h» frsRiors murder ,lectured hear the fair grounds at Concordia, Kan., on the might of the 23th. The victim was VVjn. Terbush. son of a horse-trader who resides in Clay Center. N6 clew to the murderer, and no reasonable conjecture as to the motive: Ox the 27th boys at play in Clinton, la., set Are to a barn in a thickly-settled part of the city. The Baptist Church and tour residences were destroyed, aud half a dozen other structures were badly damaired. The loss is about $25,000, only partly insured. Fiat destroyed the block occupied by the Humphrey Bros’. Hardware Company, A, ff. Jansett, furniture, and others^at Lincoln. Neb,, on be 27th. Losses aggregate $-f,.noot partly insured, The Riverside Iron ahd Steel works at Cincinnati, W. P. Harris, superintendent, slid A. L. P. liasre, secretary, hare assigned to John 8. Conners. Liabilities, £>1*1,000. Ax accident on the Baltimore & Ohio railway, near Cumberland, Md,» on the 2s*h. killed an engineer and a fireman. Two pleasure yachts were capsized off the English coast on the 38th, and ten peo pi* were drowned. Okonos Adams, of Mexico, Mo., has sued the Wabash.Western railway for $39,000 for personal injuries. - Casualties by the Hopedal* (III.) disaster now foot up ten killed and twentytiro injured. A covered wagon was run into by a train on the Pennsylvania railroad at Ridgewood Station, Pa., on the 2-th, and four |arsons were killed. They were Amanda Fritz, aged thirty-two,and Hettie Fritz and her two children, aged eighteen and three months, respectively. The fire in the naptha spring storehouses at Ralachut, Russia, was extinguished, after burning for several days. One million poods of naphtha were burned. Charles Evans, a colored man, was charged in the police court at Washington, on the 28th, with grave-robbing, and was sent to the workhouse to allow the officers anjopport unity to investigate the matter further. He opened the grave of his dead sweetheart and cut off one of her hands. A wixd storm with rain, on the 39th, destroyed part of the grand stand, unroofed a portion of the stables, New down fences j and prostrated the telegraph and telephone wires at the 1.atoms race-track, at Cincinnati, causing $8,000 to $10,009 damages. No person was injured. A telegram was received at the executive department, at Harrisburg, Pa., on the 39th. from the city- marshal of Windsor, O., stating that he had arrested a man who was supposed to be McCabe, the escaped Wayne County murderer, who was under sentence of death. A description of McCabe was forwarded.

i nv vrs.r uuu vuuui v« *« v burned to death in a Chicago tenement tire on the 9th. Several others were badly injured, some fatally. Br an accident on the Baltimore & Ohio railway at West Newton, Pa. on the 39th, a lireman named Orfrin was killed and Engineer Gilland was fatally injured. C. Heninoer. aged eijrhty-seven, of Rrooklyn, suicided, on the 29th, by shooting himself through the head. He had been troubled with softening of the brain for some time. Kcroeon-General Hamilton received a telegram on the 39th from Passed Assistant Surgeon Guiteras, dated Key West, saying that there had been ITS cases of yellow fever and tl deaths to date. Daniel Sheehan, a nephew of Mr. Sheehan, a member of Parliament for Kerry, has been arrested at Ki Harney under the t'rimee act. He is charged with assaulting bailiffs. Daniel Lyons, the murderer of Athlete Quinn, arrived in New York on the 39th from Pittsburgh. Subsequently he waived examination and was held for the grand juiry. hr has been discovered that Calvin Rigg, a school-tax collector for the town of Consbofcocken, Pa., from 1SS3 to ltSSo, is short in his accounts for the years 18W-J to the amount of $10,WO. A daring and carefully-planned robbery was perpetrated at the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy passenger depot at Des Moines, la., on the 39th, one of the lightfingered gentry getting away with the money in the safe during the temporary absence of the ticket-seller. The Rockland cafe and large clambake pavilion connected with the Hotel Nantasket, at Nantasket Reach, Mass., burned on the evening of the 39th. The great hotel itself was saved with great difficulty. Loss, $£>,<»*>: insured. Three men were seriously injured by a permature blast at Burden furnace, Hudson. N. Y., on the 39th. They were still alive at last accounts, with faint hopes of rwMivory. The accident w&* the result of their own carelessness. An elevator in the Bremen shoe and slipper factory in 8t. Louis fell, on the evening of the 39th, with « load of passengers. Two of them. Alex. Farrar and Annie Moran, were fatally hurt. *- ilosara Rich, a farmer, returning boom from Richmond, lad., ea the 29th, in a wagon, together with his wife, baby and wife’s mother, attempted to cross the railrand track ahead of a passenger train. As a result. Rich, his baby and his wife’s mother were instantly killed and Mrs. Rich terribly mangled. _

MISCELLANEOUS. Tn Pope decides that there are no grounds tor ptfsl interference in Knights of Labor matters. J!t is said the Irish League will not be proclaimed until Parliament adjourns. Canasta* agents,who have investigated the matter, recommend the establishment of custom-houses on the Alaskian frontier. Tux Cotnptroier of the Currency, haring recsdred information that the Henrietta National Bank, of Henrietta. Tex., has suspended, has directed the State Bank Examiner to take charge of its affairs and to report promptly the result of his examination. 1st the case of the Traders’ and Trarele**’ Union against the Philadelphia ft Heading Raitroad Company, the Inter-State Commerce Commission decided that it had no jurisdiction and dismissed the complaint. The case inrotres tbs bee transportation of extra baggage. The Comptroller of the Currency on the 381b authorised the following-named bank to begin business: The National Bank of Commerce of Kansas City. Xo.; capital, $2,000,000. The Pint National Bank of Kinsley, Kas.; capital, $100,000. The First National Bank of Xilbrook. Kas.; capital, IBOyOOQ. Tax will of the late Wm. Siena, probated at Cincinnati on the 3*h, makes public bequests, meetly for religious and educational organisations, amounting to *asyx». The largest are $7,000 to the Ohio Wesleyan University, Wesleyan Female College, of Cincinnati, and St. Paul’s X. E. Church, of Cincinnati, for load missions. Ox the Sth the sixth anniversary meeting of the National Temperance Society opened at Ocean Grove, N. J., to con tin os Bre days. PluAuon gives Bt Joe the go-by i‘ Os the fltt the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce appotntodt committee to iotitf President Cleveland to visit Cincinnati during hit Western tour tbit fail.

Os Ui« XKh, at the Toledo contention, a resolution wu presented indorsing Sherman far the presidency, bat the Blaine men snopeoded in having ft referred to tilt fcominittee on resolutions. The Bulgarian regents hare proclaimed amnesty to Bulgarian offenders who hare taken refuge in Turkey, except those «M are charged with criminal acts. 05 the 27th k delegation from Lynchburg, V»:, headed by Senator Daniel; called on the President and invited him to attend the State fair to bo held at Lynchburg in October next. The President promised to consider the invitation, and said he would give them a decided answer at a later day. Oh the 27th the American Paper Makers* Association held its annual session at Saratoga, N. Y. Hon. Byron Weston, of Dalton, railed the meeting to order, And made ad address of welcome. United States Senator Dawes made an address on “Paper and 'the Tariff.** 05 the 27th the schooner Matthew Murray returned to Gloucester, Mass., from the bay fishing grounds without having been able to catch a fare of mackerel. She tore her seine and put into Maipeque to repair it, but was told by the collector that to repair the seine on shore would be “preparing to fish,” and therefore unlawful. It could not be repaired on board, so they bad to dome home. & Tbs board appointed by the Secretary of War, consisting of Inspector-General Farnsworth, Captain D. M. Taylor of tho Ordnance Department, and Mr. Tolrnan, chief of the division of requisitions and accounts, War Department, has completed a thorough examination of tho books and accounts of Disbursing Officer Tentman of thd War Department. The report of the board shows every thing to be absolutely correct. A coMiumx^has been appointed at Rome to elaborate a scheme to establish a Catholic university in America, and a conference will be held on August 7, to decide upon its location. 05 the 27th ninety-four members of the Paris police force handed to their superior officers silver watches bearing the engraved inscription, “Souvenir Boulanger, July 7th,” which had been delivered at their homes by unknown persons. The police department has ordered an inquiry. The United States war ship Ossipee was aground for over an hour off the coast of Nova Scotia on the 2Sth. She was not seriously injured. Tax site was selected on the 28th atChillicothe. Mo., for the State Industrial Home for Girls. 8ixtt longshoremen employed on the Rational Line docks, at New York, struck on the 28th because the company had employed non-union men to do night work. The company thereupon discharged all ita union emiuoyes. The chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry has just made a preliminary report to the Commissioner of Agriculture in reference to the progress of the work for the suppression of pleuro-pneumonia for the six months ending June 30,1887. The total number of herds inspected during the six months is 5,351, containing 45,095 animals; 298 herds and 11,828 animals have been placed in quarantine, among which were found 901 diseased animals. Post-mortem examinations were made on the carcasses of 4,861 animals, and showed that 1,014 of these hare been affected with pteuro-pneu

The longshoremen’s strike at New York is about broken. The whereabouts of “Boodler” McGarigle is still unknown to the Chicago of* fleers, although he is said to hare arrived in Canada. A Russian commission has been appointed to investigate with a view of extinguishing alien property-holding rights. The surplus in the Treasury of the United States increased during the month of July about $*>,(100,000. Governor Knott of Kentucky issued as order to the Adjutant-General of the State on the 29th, directing him to send two companies of State Guards and a gatling gun to Uorehead, Rowan County, to protect the Circuit Court against the Tolli writes. The imiimrts of dry goods at the ports of New York for the week ended July 29 amounted to $3,070,074, of which $2,384,706 were entered for consumption, and $&5Ji90 were warehoused. Withdrawals from warehouse for the week were jSfllJBfl, making total amount marketed $2^i6,0Kt. Georgs Grant, a fisherman at Gabrious, Cape Breton, hooked a codfish weighing thirty pounds on the 3$th. When hauling the fish into the boat, Grant was horrified to find in the fish’s month the side of a ■nan’s face, from the forehead to the chin, covered with brown whiskers, tinged with «r»yCONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Pa*nidi NT Cleveland has sent ten dollars to too East Aurora (N. Y.) Fair Association to be awarded aa a premium a* toe fair this fall for toe best set of triplate. After many years of litigation toe Bethnaee have been ordered by the court to surrender Blind Tom to a representative of his mother, and to pay 57,000 for tus past-services. The Bathoses have made a fortune out of the poor negro’s wonderful musics! abilities and have held him as a chattel.

it u reported tn*t eisnop umim Brooklyn has been ordered to Rome to explain why he has disobeyed a papal man* CwcnisiTl has organised a committee to invite 1'resident Cleveland to visit that city daring his tall tour. The flint-glass factories in Pittsburgh started up cm the 1st, giving employment to over two thousand men. Dwyee Boos.' “invincible” three-year-old, Hanorer, was beaten at Monmouth park on ttie 30th by Laggard, a rank outFok the week ended Mm 30th Chicago lost a little ground in the League bam ball championship series, Detroit maintaining the lead by two games. In the Araoeiation the 8k Loess Browns increased their lead soc sew hat. having taken three straight tram Baltimore. Wtue. the Scotch ex-sheep herder, and now the champion checker player of the world, hi is just finished an Australian tour in which he played ST games, won 223, drew 13 and lost bat oae-to Patterson, the champion of Victoria. Looms Dixm was killed and about a hundred persons injured daring the progress of a storm at David City, Neb., on the 30th. Property also suffered severely. The Columbian Bank at Philadelphia tailed to open Its doors on the 30th. The in attributed to the Ivee-Garrstt IhuBLdn is said to be enjoying himwit so well in Bootle ad that his visit will as all pro! lability be prolonged. Tnn plate-glass fronts of several plueei at business in Fort Dodge, la^ conducted ay leading Prohibitionists, were amassed jv unknown parties on the night of the 9th. A SEEiors famine is raging in Adana, rurkey, and the suironnding neigtlaoriood, occasioned by the drought that has are vailed luring the present summer. Mm. En-Locke, city editor of the Fittsanrgh (Pa.) CkroaicU- Teiefrapk. was nucome by the heat on the morning of the 30th, while at work at his desk, and ras reperled in a critical condition. Chabuhi F. Keep, one of the lawyers

THE PACSf C SLOPE. ttfr Stanford tl 6 Titn»»-t he Groat Wheat Corner at S a io-anctec 4—A Collapse, Entailing G«r nU Kuln, [nmintmt. San Fra!»cisco. At ; 1-—Two natters In particular bare engr sed the at tention of the public during t t past wee t—the investigation of Cent 1 Pacific affairs by the Pacific Railroad Hamissio i and the wheat deal, which hi reached a most remarkable position, si wing vast qualities of endurance by bot the longs, who are just now on top, anc the shorts, who are dally expecting a cr apse of tl«e clique. The Pacific Ilailroac Commission has as yet taken few trick; ted no honors in investigation of Cent 1 Pacific affairs in their relations wit the Government. Instead of ivsuhin in a profit to the Government it is ;ely to relieve the Government of an of its troublesome surplus, according t the ahowlng made by Senator Star ird, president of the Central Pacific n road. In ;be coarse of his examiriathm]| phniitted % detailed statement, which she ed that th» Government was indebted t the Centiai Pacific to the extent of nc tty $*8,001,000. Hr. Stanford is a man ev iently not easily excited or overawed, ' j questions whether their officers or ag its had paid any money or valuable c asideration, or done any thing for the pc »ose of influencing legislation, Mr. Stan ly replied thnt it ■rd quietly but firma matter which did not concern the Go rament, and, therefore, not its business. “Do you mean to a swer that with^regard to legislation,r isked Mr. Pattison, chairman of the com: ission. “That is my answ quietly observed the Senator, and no ing more was said on the subject. The thole matter of the investigation is look 1 upon by thinking men as one of the he est farces ever produced, and it: is the g acral opin ion that it will result in nothing >f materia] benefit to the dear people. It seems absolute.' absurd to suppose that if there was a v crooked less anywhere it could be br aght to light by the means adopted. Wi i the long notice the railroads had of thf proposed investigation, and the large f xe of men at their command, if fraud e sted it would be an easy thing for the ailroads to arrange matters so that it wc discover it. Again,' score or more of acct amine thoroughly ii counts kept for a » dreds of clerks. It is a curious fact Id be impossible to >w could a force of a utants possibly exi few wee ks the aero of years by hun,at two possible candidates for the pres ency of the United States have confront 1 one another in this investigation here Aland Stanford, of California. President 'f the Southern Pacific railroad, and R jert E. Pnttison, of Pennsylvania, chair States Pacific Railro tison, who was electc sylvania on the D years ago, is said t training for a presid* Stanford is also bein of tie United Is Commission. PatGovernor of Pennnocratic ticket five be now in active tial nomination, and talked about everywhere in the same cc section. Its is generally conceded thr if Pattison can sc contrive his question daring tie investigation as to damage r apparently damage Stanford, he will do 8 party a service for which he will be ent: ed to some reward. Hence the tnvestiga' m has considerable interest aside from t > mere facts elicited in the course of it. Is

WBKiUi rue. itri aiari^ is just at present wt ted by some people as badly as during famine. One week ago it was selling b; the bushel of silty pounds at Liverpool or $1.(4 8-‘i; at New York for 81 cents; hicago, ®* $4 cents, and at San Franc to, for $1.17. Since Monday considerable ariation has taken place here, and Satu av it sold at $2.161-1 per cental, or $1.29 a rnshel, while variations at the other pc its mentioned have been inconsiderable. That a strong clique is cornering the mar st here, vithout cooperation at any oth point, is now an un doubted fact, thong! arlier in the season it was supposed thr the bull movement here was in sc pathy or in cooperation with a e )ue at Chicago and other Eastern point It is ne w certain that it is a perfect!: independent scheme of Pacific coasters. he wheat ring start* ed ont to pinch tt shorts, and in this operation they have »d to take an enormous quantity of wi <at which has been hurled upon them f m all parts of the State. They have 1 -rowed money upon this wheat to the las dollar, and some ol the banks and priva* capitalists who have advanced the coir are now growing alarmed, for they re isethat the present market prices estahl bed by the ring are wholly fictitious, - d that n gigantic i bubble has bee inflate! which is liable to rliapse at any moment and entai general ruin similar to that which fol wed the 1 writing oi the great pool in t icago. H iving control of the board of irectors of the Call Board, the pool has een enabl'd to make such rules, and cot (ruction of rules as would aid it in its -aerations. That the syndicate is nearing its final d issolution, seems to be the gen ul opinion, as their only recourse now to call in margins while at the same ime they are being loaded up to the e -s with wheat. The money they obtain b this means they apply to run np pric , but it c*n not last much longer, as this Jure* of revenue will be soon exhausted.

lathe meantime • call board warehouses are tall of w sat, so that no more can be received in th a. Nearly all of this wheat belongs to the anbinatio 1, and was accumulated daring a fight against the shorts. This keeps v eat from coming forward from the conr 7. The dam which the ring has (fens stilt to keep back wheat ham complete! blockade. I railroads leading to princ d terminal points. Thousands of can re along the lines waiting to be unload and no i m can be procured to bring ijr more wheat forward. Steamers at barges upon the risen are in a si’ lar fix. Then are barges fall of v eat alongside the wharves at Port O la which hare been waiting ten days to * unloads d, causing no end of injury to utsportaton companies. Panne n all or r the Stat e are loudly cursing the combi ition for thus virtually cornering all th< might cam and preventing them front g« ing their wheat into market to deliver * vailing high prices. the pool st the preBanns, OnL, Aug gle, of Chicago, la Blake and Karsh v and while in Oriole, with Cliicaj the M steamed up to tiie the intentkm of hr Blake’s towline. A tton tin Blake tow-li-the same instant a jr with McGarigle for the Canarf at Point Kdwa once drove to miles down She river, L—Boodkr McOaried here yesterday mer Ed S lake. The 19 in the same tow, an waters the tag detective* aboard, ah appar ently with ing them drop the rashort conversawas let go, hot at d left tb> schooner landing gle iS twelve Philadelphia, J t A party of twelve, consisting of eminent :>ublic and river on ST*sloop y hi Miner ra at noon yesterday on a pleas » trip, the objective points being Hewpor &. L, and New London, Conn- When ? the lon er part of the city a squall cam up and cs paired the yacht A n umber o ags and s nail boats in sarin* til hot tiro^wlmse

TALMAGE’S SERMON. TM Hwrenly Existence Not a One 6t Occupations as Many mad Varied la the . Celestial World as Upon the Barth —A Beautll\il Word Pic tire of the Future. Iter. T. DeWitt Talmagfi took for the subject of his third sermon at The Hamptons the “Employments of Heaven,” his text being: Now it came to pass in the thirtie th year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chehar, that the Heavens were opened.—Ezekiet i.. t Ezekiel, with others, had been expatriated, and while in foreign slavery was standing on the banks of the royal canal which he and other serfs had been condemned to dig by the order of Nebuchadnei tar—this royal canal, in the text called the river of Chebar; the illustrious exile had visions of -Heaven. Indeed, it is almost idways so that the brightest visions of Heaven come not to those who are on mounts in top of prosperity, but to some John on desolate Patmos, or to some Paul in Mam rtime dung eon, or to some Ezekiel standing: on the banks of a ditch he had been compelled to dig—vea, to the weary, to the h art-broken, to those whom sorrow has banished. The text is very particular to give us the exact t me_ of the vision. It eras in the thirtieth year, and in the fourth month, and in tllie fifth day of the month. So you have h id visions of earth you shall never forget. Yon remember the year, you remember the month, you rem unber the day, you remember the hour. 1 thy may not we hare some such vision ti ls morning, and it be in the sixth month • ad in the fourth day of the month. The ■ nestion is often silently asked though ; erhaps never audibly propounded: “What t re our departed Christian friends doing m w?" The question is more easily answer, 1 than Vou perhaps might suppose. Though there has come no recent intelligence fr >m the heavenly city, and we seem depend* at upon the story of eighteen centuries a ;o, still I think we inav from strongei t inferences decide what are the present occupations of our transferred kinsfolk After Bod has made a nature' he never eradical »s the chief characteristics of its tempera aient. You never knew a man phlegnu tic in temperament to become sanguine in temperament. Yau never knew a man sanguine in temperament to become ihlegmatic in temperament. Conversion plants new principles in the soul, but Fa il and John are just as different from ea h other alter conversion as they were dil rerent from each other before conversion. If conversion does not eradicate theproi iinent characteristics of the temperamei t neither will death eradicate them.

You 1 ave, then, only by a sum in subtraction and a sum in addition to deeds what a w .the employments of your departed ’riends in the better world. Ton are to subtract from them ail earthly grossne s and add all earthly goodness, and the i you are to come to the conclusion that the y are doing now in Heaven what in their best moments they did. on earth. The reaion that so many people never start for Hea ren is because they could not stand it if they got there if it should turn out to be the rigid and formal place some people photograph it. We like to come to church., but we would not want to stay here to next Christmas. We like to hear the Hallelujah Chorus, but we would not want to hear it all the time for fifty centuries. It might been some great occasion it would bo possibly comfortable to wear a crown of gold weighing several pounds, but it; would lie an affliction to wear such a crown forever. In other words, we run the descriptions of Heaven into the ground while we make that which was intended as especial and celebrative to be the exclusive employment of the Heaven., Ton might as well, if! asked to describe the habits of American ' society, describe a Decoration Day or a Fourth of July, or an antomnal Thanksgiving, as though it were all the time that way. I am not going to speculate in regard to the future world, but I must, by inevitable laws of inference and deduction and common sense, conclude that in Heav en we will be just as different from each other as we are now different, and hence that there will be at least as many different employments in the celestial world as there are employments here. Christ is to be the great love, the great joy, the great rapture, the great warship of Heaven; but will that abolish employment? No more than loves an earth—paternal, filial, fraternal, conjugal love—abolish earthly occupation. In the first place, I remark that all those ofour departed Christian friemls who on earth found great joy in the fine arts are now indulging their tastes in the same direction. On earth they hid their gladdest pleasures amid*pictures and statuary, and in the study of the Haws of light and shade and perspective. Have you any idea that that affluence of faculty at death collapsed and perished? Why so, when there is more far them to took at, and they have keener appreciation Of the beautiful, and they stand amidrthe very looms where the sunsets and the* rainbows and the spring morningit are woven?

Are yon ao obtuse Ms to snppoee mat D»cause the painter drops his easel and the sculptor his chisel and the engraver his knife, that, therefore, that taste, which he was enlarging and intensifying for forty or fifty years, is entirely obliterated* These artists, or these friends of art, on earth worked in coarse material and with imperfect brain and with frail hand. Now they have carried their art into larger liberties and into wider circumference. They are at their old business vet, but without the fatigues, without the limitations, without the hindrances of the terrestrial stndio. -a Kapha<1 could now improve tkpon his masten>isce of Michael, the iur change!, now that he has seen him, and could improve upon his masterpiece of the Holy Family, now that he has viiiied \ them. Michael Angelo could better present the last Judgment after he has seem its flash and heard the rumbling battering-rams of its thunder. Exquisite colors hire, graceful linen here, powerful chiaroscuro hero; but I am persuaded that the grander studios and the brighter galleries are higher op by tlio winding marble stairs of the sepulcher, and that Turner, and Holman, and Hunt, and Bembrnndt, and Titian, and Paul Veronese, if they exercised saving faith in the Chrisi; whom they portrayed upon toe canvas, are painteni yet, but their strength of faculty multiplied ten thousand -fold. The reason that God took away timer eye, and! their band, and the ir brain, sros that he might give tliem something mare limber, more wieldy, more skillfnl, more multiplite nt. Do not therefore, be melancholy among the tapestries, the brie a brae, and toe embroideries, and tike water colors, and the works of art which your departed friends used to admire. Do no* say: “li am sorry they had to leave all these thing!-’’ Rathur say: “I am glad they have gone up to higher lutistic opportunity and appreds,tiam." Oer friends srho founder niahjof in the line arts on nirth are non luxuriat

the songs of Heaven. It Heaved had AO songs of its; own a vast saus’oef of those of earth would have been iad.ea up by the earthly emigrants. Sorely the Christian at death does not loose Ilia Memory. Then there must be millions of souls in Heaven who know “Coronation, ’ and “Antioch," and “Mount Pisgafc," and “Old Hundred.” The lead er of the eternal orchestra need only once tap hie baton t.ni all Heaven will be ready for the hallelujah. Can not the soul sing? How often we compliment some eatquisite singing by spying: “There Was so MKb soul in her music." In Heaven it will 1»; all soul * inti] the body after awhile conies up in he resurrec tion, and then there 'will be an .id* ditional heaven. Can cot the soul hear? If it can hear, then it can hear music. Bo not, therefore let ft be in year household when some member leaves' for Heaven, as it is in some households, that yoa close the piano and unstring the harp for two years, berceuse the fingers that used to play on thaw are still. Ton .must remember that tliey have better instruments' of music where they are. You ask me: “Bo they have real harps, and real traimpets, and real organs?" I do not know. -Some wiseacres say positively there are nc> such things in Heaven. I do not know; but I should mot be surprised if the God who made all the mountains, and all the hills, and all the forests, and all the metals of the earth, and all the growths of the universe—I should no* be surprise! if He could, if He had a mind to, make a few harps, unc, trumpets, and organs. Grand old Havdn, sick and worn out, was carried for th« last time into the music hall, and there he heard his own oratorio of the “Creation.” I History says that as the orchestra came to that famous passage, “Let there be Light,” the whole audience rose and. cheered, and Haydn waved his band toward Heaven and said: “It came from there." Overwhelmed with his own music, he was carried out in his chair, and as he came to the door he spread his band inward Idle orchestra as in benediction. Haydn was- right when he waved his hand toward Heaven and said: “It comes from there." Musk was bora in Heaven, and it will ever have its highest throne in Heavenand I want yon to understand that onr departed friends who were passionately fond of music here are cow at the headquarters of hainnony. I think that the grand old church tones that died when your grandfathers died have gone with them to Heaven. Again, I remark that those of our departed Christian friends who in this world had very strong military spirit 'Care now in armies celestial and cut on bloodless battles! There are hundreds of peoplej born soldiers. They can not help it. They belong to regiments In time of peace. They can not hear a dram or fife without trying to keep step to the music. They age Christians,and when they fight they fight on the right side. Mow when these, our Christian friends who had natural and powerful military spirit, entered Heaven they entered the celestial army.

The door of Heaven hardly opens bat you hear £ military demonstration. David cried out: “The chariots of God are twenty thousand.” Elisha ssw the mountains filled ■with celestial cavalry. St. John said: “The armies which are in Heaven followed him on white horses." Sow, when those who had the military spirit on earth sanctified entered crlory. I suppose they right away enlisted in some heavenly campaign: the volunteered right away. There must needs be in Heaven soldiers with a soldierly spirit. There are grand parade days when the King reviews the troops. There must be armed escort sent out to bring up from earth to Heaven those who were more than conquerors, There must be crusades ever being fitted oat for some part of God’s dominions—battles, bloodless, groanless, painless. Angels of evil to be fought down and fought hack. Other rebellions worlds to be conquered. Worlds to be put to the torch. Worlds to be saved. Worlds to be demolished. Worlds to be sunk. Worlds to be hoisted. But what are our mathematical friends to do in the next world! They found their joy and their delight in mathematics. There was more poetry for them in Euclid than in John Hilton. They were as passionately fond of! mathematics as Plato, who wrote over his door: “Let no one enter here who is not acquainted with geometry.” What arc they doing now! They are busy with figures yet. So place in all the universe like Heaven for figures Numbers infinite, distances infinite, calculations infinite. The didactic Dr. Dick said he really thought that the redeemed in Heaven spent some of their time with the higher branches of mathematics. Borne of our transferred and transported metaphysicians. What are they doing now! Studying the human miud, only under l»tter circumstances than they used to study it. They used to stsdy the mind sheathed in the dull human body. Now the spirit is unsheathed—now they are studying the sword outside the scabbard. Have you any doubt about what 8ir William Hamilton is doing in Heaven, or what Jonathan Edwards is doing in Heaven or the multitudes on earth who hail a pawsiou for metaphysics sanctified by the grace of God! Ho difficulty in guessing. Metaphysics, glorious metaphysics, everlasting metaphysics.

who are explorers doing: bow? Exploring yet, bat with lightning locomotion, with vision microscopic and teiaseopic at the tame time. A continent at a glance. A world in a second A planetary system in a day. Christian John Franklin no more in a disabled Erebus pushing toward the North Pole, Christian De Lang no more trying to ftre© blockaded Jeannette from the ice. Christian Livingstone no mors amid African malarias trying to make revelation of a dark continent; but all of them in the twinkling of an eye taking in that which was unapproachable. Mont Blanc seated without alpenstock. The coral depth! of the ocean explored without a diving b*U. The mountains unbarred and opened without Sir Humphrey What are the historians doing now? Studying history yet. but not the history of a few centuries of our planet only, bat the history of the eternities—whole millenniums before Xenophon, rar Herodotus, or Moeeu, or Adam was born. History of one wurlld, history of afi world. What are oar departed astomonwra doing? Studying astronomy yet, but not through the dull lens of earthly observatory, but with one stroke at wing going the sunov* borealis was, eoBldgww*. They know «®a out tnw* ta see for

(Ml the earthly laboratory. They an tin. other aid* «# the thin wall of -esaofericitv, the trail that seems to divide the physical the thin thin the It wen waif of spiritual world, electricity, so m that ever and he almost broken through—broken through from our side by telephonic and teieirraphic apparatus, broken through troni the other side by strange influences which men in their ignorance call spiritualistic manifestations. All that matter cleared up. Agassiz standing amid hi» student explorers down in Brazil commit across some great novelty in the rocks, taking off his hat and saying: “Gentlemen, let us pray ; we must have divine illumination; we want wisdom from the Creator'» study these rocks; He made them; let m pray," Agassis going right on with his studies forever and forever. But what ar« the men of the law, who in this world found their chief joy in the legal profession—whu.t am they doing now? Studying law in a universe where everything i» controlled by law from flight of humming-bird to flight of world—law, not dry and hard and drudging, bat righteous and magnificent law, before which man and cherub and seraph and .archangel and God himself tow. The chain of law long enough to wind around the immensities and infinity and eternity. Chain of law. What a place to study taw, where all the links of the drain are in the hand. What are our departed Christian friends who in this world had their joy in the healing art. doing now? Busy at their old business. No sickness in Heaven, but plenty of sickness oil earth, plenty of wounds in the different part* of God’s dominion to be healed and to be medicated. You can not understand why that patient ‘got well after nil the skillful doctors of New York and. Brooklyn had said he must die. Perhaps Abercrombie touched him—Abercrombie,who, after many years’ doctoring the bodies and the souls of people in Scotland, went up to God in 1844. Perhaps Abercrombie touched him. I should not wonder if my old friend, Dr. John Brown, who died in Edinburgh— John Brown, the anther of “Rob and His Friends”—John Brown, who was as humble a Christian as he was skillfnl a physician and world-renowned author--! should not wonder If he had been hack again and again to see some of his old patients. Those who had their joy iu healing the steknoss and the woes of earth, gone up to Heaven, are come forth again for benignant medicament. But what are our friends who found their chief joy in conversation and sociability doing now? In brighter conversation there and in grander society. What a place to visit in, where your next door neighbors are kings and queens. You yourselves kingly and queenly. If they want to know moire particularly about the first paradise, they have only to go over and ask Adam. M they want to know how - the sun and the moon halted, they have only to go over and ask Joshua. If they want to know hear the storm pelted Sodom, they have only to go over and ask tat. If they want to know more about the arro

va nauiou^ ua»o wuiv w over and ask Mordtecai. If they want to know how the Red Sea boiled when it was cloven, they have only to go over and ask Hoses. If they want to know the (particulars about the Bethlehem advent, they have only to go over and ask the serenading angels who. stood that Christmas night in the balconies of crystal. If they want to know more of the particulars of the crucifixion, they have only to go over and ask those who were personal spectators while the motmtains crouched and the Heavens got black in the face at the spectacle. If they want to know more about the sufferings of the Scotch Covenantors, they have only to go over and ask Andrew Melville. If they want to know more about the old time revivals, they have only to go over and ask Vrhitefleid, and Wesley, and Livingstcn, and Fletcher, and Rettleton, and Finney. O', what a place to visit in. If eternity were one minute shorter it would not be long enough far such sociality. Think of our friends who in this world were passionately fond of flowers, turned into paradise! Think of our friends who were very fond of raising superb fruit, turned into the orchard where each tree has twelve kinds of fruit at once, and bearing fruit all the year round! What are our departed Christian friends doing in Heaves, those who on earth found their chief joy in the Gospel ministry* They are visiting their old congregations. Most of those ministers have get their people around them already. When I get to Heaven—as by the grace of God I am destined to go that place—I will come and see you all. Tea, K will come to all the people to whom I have administered in the Gospel, and to the millions of souls to whom, through the kindness of the printing press. 11 am permitted to preach every week in this land, tusd in other lands —letters coming from Sew Zealand and Australia, and uttennoet parts of the earth, as well as from near nations, telling me of the souls I have helped-I will visit them all. I give them fair notice. Our departed friends of the ministry are engaged in that delectable entertainment now.

friends who, in nil departments of usefulness were busy, finding their chief Joy in doing good—what are they doing now? Going right along with the work. John Howard visiting dungeons; the dead women of Northern and Southern battlefields still abroad looking for the wounded; George Peabody still watching the poor; Thomas Clarkson still looking after the enslaved—all of thoee who did good oat earth hosier since delth than before. The tombstone mot the terminus, tat the starting post. What are our departed Christian friends,, who found their chief Joy in studying God, doing now? Studying .God yet No need of revelation now, for 'unblanched, they are face to face. Now, they can handle the omnipotent thunderbolts just as a child handles the swtord of a father come hack from victorious battle. They have no sin ,, nor*fear consequently. Studying Christ, not through a revelation, save the revelation of the scaurs, that deep lettering which brings it all up quick enoogin Studying the Cuirt of the Bethlehem caravansary, the Christ of the awful massacre with its hemorrhage of . head, <md hand, and foot, and side—the Christ of the shattered mausoleum—‘Christ, the sacrifice, the star, the sun, the man, the God, the God-man, the man-God. But hark! the b«U of the (athedrsl rings —the cathedral boll of heaven. What is the matter now? There is going to he a meeting in thetemtiM. Worshipers all come through the aisles. Hake loom for the conqueror, Christ standing in the temple. All heaven gathering around Him. These who loved the beautiful come to look at the Roe* of Sharon. Thom who loved mrasic eeme to listen to Hie. voice, who were mathematician come to the years off His reign. Those who were explorers come to discover the height and depth, and the Urngth and the breadth of His love. Those who tary spirit o the military spirit in to look at the captain to look at t mra off the law < > judge off q tad the slot The ingstar. at him who is The ■MPH at him who* wan