Pike County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 August 1887 — Page 1

X L. MOUHT, Proprietor. VOLUME XVIII. “Our Motto is liontest OfeVotion to Prijicij es of Right.’ =r:— — —.-.—rzr=~:-—r.— PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. AUGUST llv 1887.

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. tkhju or tvnscRimaMi For one j-rar ■ For «li monrtn. *1 For three mor.thK-.. INVARIABLY IN AOVANCBADTKKTISINO BATRSl Om aquare A lineal, oac tnaertloa.v...91 H Bach additional inaertioo ... SO A liberal reduet ‘cn made on >.'ird>inw5ti ranniniT throe, t.x. and twelve monthleral and tranaleat adveiteeucnu rnatt tw anal tor in advance. CdE

SEASONABLE BATES.

IIOMAX. tlKMi „ » •- A MBT, A. » BOS1TCBT*. POhET A HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW I Pttwdut, 111 ■Wffl prscti c (Tl all the court! All Pratnea |>r m.dly attended to. A NotArjr PubliceonrUnCy in the olbce 0«o» ora Prank A _ lioiubmok'i drugstore. *• p. «IC*lHMOS. A. H TtrtOA i - ri< haJiuson a taylor. Attorneys at Law • , PETERSBURG. IND. Piotupt attention given to «U buntnesi. A Moiary ruMle roiiatnntly in Hie ottlce. OWcB In Carpenter Building. Mli and Main. ML. A ELY. t. W. WtLSO*. . , ELY A WILSON. Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG. IND.ArOIBoK. in the> Bank Buil(llng.*tl * tT S. A E. SMITH, * (anceeasora to Doyle A Thompson) Attorneys at Law, ■ Rea] Estate, Loan & Insnrasce Aits. * idee, second floor Bank Building. Peters- . burg, Ind. The treat Fire snd life Inrursnee Compa»le* represented. Money to loan on first inortgag- s at seven and eight per cent. Prompt attention to collection!, and all trli*n -a tin mated to in. _ W. P.TuwXiBM). Mitt Fuisia ^ Fowl* San n. TOWNSEND, FLEENER A SMITH, Attorneys at Law ' AND BEAL ESTATE AGENTS, PETEKHBUKG, - - INDIANA^ Ofllrf. otwGii Frank-* store. Special atkencton given tot oHectlons, Huy Inc and Selling i.naita. Flamming TU)e* nnd Furnishing Abstracts U. R. KIMB, M. D., Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG. IND. offlcA. over Barrett *% St n*i "tow; rwwi-, drncv onx*veuih "trv^t. Hirw wouth of Main. « all* promptly attended to, day or __ I

J. a DUNCAN, Physician end Surgeon • f- PETFRSBURU, - I5D. Ofllce on Ural floor Carp«nt«r Building. C. B. BLACKWELL, M. D.y ECLECTIC Physician and Surgeon, OfTUw, Mufti *tr**%l between «th and Tih oppopltejilwlel Drug More. 1‘ETEHSHUbG, t> INDIANA. ■Will prvrtk-a Mrdirlne. Surgery nod •'•but#*rte» n iowii and owniry. and will visit any pjirt, f tar ooiintry In coii-uliaiton. t'hmuie ilim-aso* successfully treated.

Resident Dentist, PETERSBURW, 1SD. * , ALL work warranted. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E. TURNER. Proprietor. PETERSBURG, IND. P*rt»e* wtehlng work 4on« at th<*ir r* «• i 4*nry* wtll limvr ©rdor* at tke tkop, Ui Dr j x Adam*' new bu.idiaf. rear of Adtmi ISoo f drag ntorf CITY HOTEL; t»4«r Mew, Mae age meet. XjBWXS KATIj. Prop, tor. Ktdhth an<1 Main Su..opp. Courthouse, i . PKTERSBCRO.'lNU The city Hotel la centrally located, An*cla.«» ia all Ita appointment*, and the beet - and cheapest hotel in the city. Sherwood House, i Vnder Now Managintent BISSELL A TOWNSEND, Prop’re. First and locust Mrceta. Evansville, : : Indiana. RATES, S2 PER DAY, Somplt Rooms for Cooiimorelal Moo.

HYATT HOUSE' WuUagtn. lad. Centrally Located. end Accommodation, Flret-olaae. HENRY HYATT. Praprlaiter. • PrrERfSBrRO, - - Indiana. CHARLES SCHAEFER, Projrietor. Located In the Initnttt part of tows. Term* rraconable. A *<>od Bar. choice LK| nor*. Tob.icco and Cicaira. Comer Beeeath and Walnut ,<recta. When at Washingtoa Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. . First-Class in All Bespeots. Hu Uou Rabbi* and Albion Hobrau Proprieton. Gao. K E'lwntH, Jataa J Homis, late of Cinc-anatl. Late of 'Washlngton Ind. HOTEL ENGLISH, ROSSETER * MORGAN. Leam* Indianapolis, Ind. Houae Kli ..ant. Table. Serriee aad Genera Keep Bap-liar. Location bee* la tbedtpoa the Cirete. Great Reduction a* tbe price <HF SADDLES. HARNESS, ITU, ETC. FRED munis,

NEWS IN BRIEF. taiMIMTlltal Biuwfc 1'ERSOXAI, AKO WtUlitAL. Tbs New York Republican convention U called At Saratoga for September 14. In the Kentucky State election, on the let, the fall Democratic ticket was elected by large bnt somewhat reduced- me •■rH**’, the Republicans showing hcify gains-in some section* B*cfcter, tor OoTernor, ran ahead of Mt ticket. Local option was defeated in Loniaville. The Legislature will Vie largely Democratic, as usual. * ., A. W. Wilkins, editor of th* Whitehall (N.Y.) Times, and prsehUhl of the New York Press Amec ration, died on the Sd, after an Mtatii of only a few hours. CaEYThebs, the tit. Louis base ball pitcher, was reported eery ill at the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, on the night of the 2d. He was to be taken to his home in Chicago by a professional nurse engaged ! by President Yon dec Ahe to hake car* of him. PbESEk* indicat ions are regarded as lees favorable for Turkey Insisting upon Ferdinand assuming the rulership of Bulgarin. Another disorderly •‘incident” or curred in the British House of QmMNM* oil the 2d, in which Me- MHO! figured against a quartette of T*ies and the speaker. Accusations of falsehood were freely made. General Phil Sheridan ha* written that he will attend the reunion of the ■ Army of the Tennessee in Detroit, Mich. September 14 and 111. The original Idea of baring a prise drill of the crack companies of the country hare been abandoned, Emin Bet, the African anplorer, wrote from tVadelni. under date of February 10, 1WS7, that his pros|>ecta were hopeful, and that he was about to start far the Kshare- j gas country. < - Mas. Cleveland is eaM id be taking a gold deal of interest in the Vailed Prophet's bail at 8k Louis in October. Os the Sd George W. Nellis, Jr., arrived in Kan Francisco from New York, haring made the trip on a bicycle. He started May 24, lost fifteen days by rough weather, and lost twenty-three pounds in weight. He averaged fifty miles a day. He made the trip in the interest of sporting newspapers. Drill WO a portion of next month Colonel 8. J. TUden, of Columbia County, N. Y.. wilt entertain President Cleveland and | wife. Tits President, it is stated, will be entertained for a day or t*o the latter part of this month et the Democratic clutehouse, on Slide mountain, in the Catskills. The club men are Judge Alton B. Parker, Judge Maynard, Public Printer Benedict, and a score or more of other prominent Democrats.

-or.nl w* nwnr v iit, in., laboring under the delusion that some one was following him with malicious intent, asked to be placed in a cell at the stationhouse at Cedar Rapids on the night of the 2d. He was accordingly locked up. At fire o'clock on the morning of the 3d he shot his brains out while in a cell. He was a widower and about forty years of age. Ox the Sd Dr. D. E. Salmon, chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, left Washington for Delaw are and I'ister counties, S. Y„ to personally investigate the out tweak of contagious pleuro~pneum»nia among cattle In those counties, and direct the work of its suppression. Patmce O’Brien, member of the British Parliament from North Monaghan, has signified his intention to interrogate Mr. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, as to the reasons for placing Mr. Patrick A Collins, of Boston, under the snrveilance of detectives, and will direct his inquiries to ascertaining whether the government Is responsible for the outrage. Os the 8d George Bid well, the noted forger, was arrested in New York, by order of Inspector Byrnes, as be was landed from a European steamer. Bidwell was recently pardoned by the British Government on acconnt of ill-health, having served fourteen years la Dartmoor prison. He was subsequently released by Judge Duffy. IIenht M. Stanley has been beard from alive and well. The Virginia State Democratic convention was held on the tth at Roanoke. Ox the Sd Dr. McKensie performed another operation on the throat of the German Crown Prince. He has advised the Prince to sojourn for awhile in Scotland. Mr. LfAi'KitR, the new Liberal leader in Canada, is credited with desiring s more conciliatory policy toward the United States. >Onthetth Hon. Allen Fronds, United States Consul at St Thomas, Ont., died from injuries received by being run ' over by a hose carriage during the recent railway accident and resulting fire. A meeting of Litwral-Cnionists was held in London on the 4th to devise means for checking the increase in Giadstonian votes at elections to fill parliamentary vacancies. J rtKiE Craio. of the Illinois Snpreme Court, denies the report that he has staled that the court would refuse the condemned Chicago Anarchists a new trial. The press of New York City almost unanimously agree ijpth George William Curtis, speech that the Democrats are running the National Administration. Prohibition was defeated by an overwhelming vote in the Texas election on the tth. The returns so far are meager, but are mostly one way.

Lirot U. Brows, late Superintendent of Public Instruction of Ohio, ha* boon elected praaident df the State University of Nevada, at a salary of (J^OII a year and traveling expense*. He is thirty-eight vein old and a native of Ohio,? Kixo Kaukva of Hawaii signed the Constitution on Jnlv 10. This deprived Kalakuaof monarch]*', powers, and leave* only the power to draw salary and grant pardons. Ex-Premier Gibson escaped on a lark sailing from Honolulu, and is now on his way to San Francisco. Lord George Drunmoicd, grandson and heirof the Earl of Perth, died on the 6th at St. Luke’s Hospital, New York, of consumption. The deceased nobleman became alienated from his family before he came of age by contracting a marriage which his relatives disapproved. His wife and children are left destitute. A paom.xEXT Chicago gentleman, oa a pleasure trip, claims to have met McGarigle in Quebec on the 9th. A man supposed to be McGarigle, it is said, took passage on that day'oa a sailing vestal bound for Gibraltar, passing himself off as an invalid, although it was well known that be was in perfect health.. A dcel took place on the 5th below the slaughter-house, in 6L BeraanPParish, La., between Mr. Emile Revolve, one of the editors of L'Opinion, and Larrieu, Jr., president of the club de la Dcmocratique Franca is. The duel was fought with ■mall swords and the result of the combat waa that Mr. Larrieu received a alight wound in the chest. Pardaw W arblxt. the celebrated Union spy of the Shenandoah valley, is dead. He paaaed away at his hocae at Foster Brook, N. Y-, oa the Sd, aged sixty-seven /ears. not—l AND CASUALTIES. Tax malt boose and elevator of Frias* Ulrich, at Peoria, III., was destroyed by Are oa the 2d, the raealt, it is thought, of spontaneous combustion. Tim building was one of the oldest ia the city. Lose, about $*0,000; insured for $1S,<X». A rut an the Si destroyed the oabia of Phillip Little, situated ia California gulch, opposite the American smelter at LeadviUe,Coi. The oabin oontaiaed two sleeping babios that were homed to a crisp. The father had gone to his work aad the mother was at a nsighhnr’i

« n cnc.aria* coke drawer at Galllbren, Pa, went to wort on the Sd at the mines at UW Blair ^oa ,na Coal (Jtioipujjf-. 1*D* • erimtvrof By ecaPWlrlei, sought him *8$ wlardcfbC him for being a traitor to *t« cause of their strike. Several arrests have lieen made. Os the Sd several men were killed by the falling of a wall of the burned elevator at Himuepnlis. Minn<'n.;4Bg> l* tpoieiriiC ana very fatal at the Island of Malta, in the Mediterranean. On the Sd an explosion of dynamite occurred* in Bitiro, a suburb of Messjjna, Sicily, killing one person - and i'jutmg thirty, leople* much damage to preptriy. The occupants dt the house in which the explosion occurred were arrested. IDaioxl Desmond, a clerk for the dry goods firm of Le BouteUler Brother*. New York, was arrested oh the Sd, charged with having atnWtlsd durihg tto. hist year $l:MK«\ the proceed^ of tiles ot flctei Ok thd Sd ftwhols Panoliedo, a Greek, '-oMtRsd in the county jail In San FranCiiiou, murdered his cell-mate, George H. M arshall, who was awaiting trial on a charge of grand larceny. The weapon, used was a pocket-knife. On the *d Miss HcldC-s, Sate exchange ehwh 0* Hie todelity National Bank of Cintlitnaii, who has been in jail in default of be.il in the sum of $10,000 on a charge of aiding and abetting K. L. Harper in committing offences against the National Banking law, was released upon her own recognisance, upon the recommendation of District Attorney Burnet. She will squeal. Ox the ad, Augustas Darin, ft noted prd* fesslorial forger, wanted at Parker, Dak,, and Peoria, 111., was captured at Minneft]tolis, Mian. He had once beeri captured id Texas for the Peoria forgeries; but escaped while passing through Missouri by jumping from the mill Os the 4th Baltimore had a $500,000 Are, in which a fireman lost his life. Btx brewers were killed by the explosion of a beer kettle at Green Bay, Wls., on the 4th. . Tax losses by the collapse of the California wheat clique are estimated at about $0,000,000. Ok the 4th Georg* Forth, a notorious burglar aud diamond thief, was captured la Jersey City, 8. J> tin the 4th Mrs. Prajek’, a Bohemian woman, living hi the easterri kection of Baltimore, Md., drowned her twelve-months-old child in a bath-tub. After the child was dead she returned with it to her room and placed it on the bed, locking herself in. She then cut her own throat with a riuior. On the 4th a disastrous fire occurred at Bowling Green, O. The blase started in a saloon, and before it could be Checked two whole squares Were swept out and twentytwo hduses burned. Loes, $60,000; insurance, $30,000. f'ls. 4k. 14k - .!.4k vac

bum the Sew York Zritung office. This time but little damage wan done, and the dm was put out before the arrival of the Hitmen. A risRCX storm struck Sherman, Tex., on the 5th. doing considerable damage. Vioutrr shocks of earthquake have been felt at Laghoaut, Algeria. A number of houses were destroyed. The Chicago boodlers were all adjudged guilty by the jury on the night of the 5th. Seven were given penitentiary sentences and the rest fined. Wn. H. Wetherell, of Kansas City, Mo., aged thirty-six, committed snicide on the 5th. There were four new cases of cholera and four deaths at Malta on the 5th. Firrv tons of rock fell in the eastern end of the Cascade tunnel, now building by the Northern Pacific railroad, on the 4th, killing four men and wounding several others. It is thought none of the wounded will die. Til* jury in the celebrated Cnlbreath lynching case, at Columbia, 8. C., returned a verdict on the 5th of not gniltv. The defendants were served so that only two of the lynchers—William Parker and Wyatt M ulvnes—were on trial, and upon the announcement of the verdict the State’s attorney entered a nolle prosse as to the other thirty defendants. Tux New York police say that Mooney, who tried to blow up the steamer Queen, is an ex-Fenian and ex-member of the Clan-Na-Oael, and is believed to have had a hand in the attempt to blow up the local government building in London and the Parliament house in Quebec, besides the explosion on the steamer Guyandotte and the horning of the Cromwell line. Millbrook, Graham County, Kas.. was almost destroyed about sundown of the 4th by a straight wind coining from slightly west of north. The place contains shoot five hundred inhabitants. Only one house, a residence, escaped serious damage. Four poruona, one of them a boy three years old were killed. About twenty-five were injured. ^ MISCELI. A NEOCS. A coxvkxtios of German Catholics Is called to meet at Chisago, September 8. A statement prepared at the Treasury Department shows that during the month of inly last there wss a net decrease of (d,8S8,748 in the cash in the treasury and a net increase of $4.<M7,133 in the circulation. The decrease in the cash was mainly in gold certificates. The decrease in National bank notes amounted to 93£4S,<MU. IJrrcTT Laur, whose statement that General Boulanger had been asked by numerous generals of the army to head a mociarchial coup d’etat was denied by M, Be Caasagnac, will bring an action against M. 13s Cassagnac for libel.

The Comptroier of the Cwrucy has issued * call for a report of the condition of National banks «t the close of bosinees August 1. The report is (aUedYar nt an unusual season, owing to the importance on ascertaining to what octant the banks are prepared far the approaching demand for money to more the crops. The coinage of the mints during July was $1,963,000, of which $800,000 was in standard silver dollars. The limited coinage was doe to the fact that the mint at Philadelphia was closed during the month tor repairs. The deficiency in the coinage off standard dollars will be made good daring the present month. A UIUTIKO of citixens of Washington w as held on the night of the Id, at which resolutions ware pasaed calling on the President to remove the District Commissioners. It was set out that they had perms ted the laws, increased taxation, mixed up the accounts of the water office end proved their ineompetency by their official acts. The Secretary of the Nary on the id awarded the contract tor constructing new dry docks at the Sew York and Norfolk na ry yards to J. K. Simpson ft Cow, of New York, for $1,061,880. for disposing of n good « urv surplus. As important labor reform being agitated in Holland. Oca English cousins are exercised at price of tobacco. to ba much in the of Gen natation in the church ofreprse fi cialism in tUt country. Os the Sd the National Civii-Serrioe Mans League met at Newport, R. L After expressions of regret at the amount of straight-out Democracy that had been injected into the present National Adminiintratkm, Oeorge William Curtis waa roof the third and saeS in Cedar Rapids on the r. H. Williams, of Hechanicsrille, waa 1

Ijlioeu in New York harbor. He claimed the British insulted the American flag in Canada, and he proposed to avenge the The Board of Trustees of the Sew York Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home at a special meeting held at Bath; Si Yi, Oh the So Ciisted Treasurer Robie. An examination of his books showed him to be $9,000 short. Robin's friends will make the amount good. ... iS oTa man named Blward Beans, Uving at St. John, S, B., is investigating the merits of his claim to an estate worth $10,000,000, left in Texas by a man named Thomas Beans, who he ir confident is his long unheard-of brother- Thomas Beans divided his millions aiming the hegToeS oh his estate on rendition that ho heirs were found: . .... _ ...tSi great San Francisco wheat corner has ooliapeod, involving transactions to the extent of about $19,000,000. Some heavy failures arc expected. Ox the 4th general rains were reported from Kansas and Nebraska. The government Of Mexico it pteaend *t lih^iovei ontiooa lor increases in public revenues. The fugitive Boodier McGangle is alleged to have written out' a statement for a Chicago interviewer at St. Catharines, Out. Tcbuc sentiment in France seems to oe growing strongly against If, Ferre by reason of his failure to arrange a duel | With tree ere! Boulanger: Os the «h rumors were in circulation oh Wall street (that the ocean cable companies ; have compromised their differences and i formed a pool: , . . . , ! Pops Leo has decided that the Vatican shall take no part in political elections in Italy, and has appointed a commission to canvass the clergy of the country with a view of building up a strong party in the Chamber of Deputies and forcing the gov- . eminent into concessions. Miss Cls.ha Barton has published an interesting import of the work of the Red Cross Society of the National drill in Washington. The statistics show that eightythree patients werd nursed in the wards during the week of the drill, 198 cases were diagnosed and treated, twelve wounds were surgically dressed, forty-four cases of sun stroke treated and 808 prescriptions were prepared. A naval 0>urt of inquiry has been ordered to ms it at Port smouth, N. H., on August 9, to investigate alleged irregularities in the accounts of paymaster’s clerk Payne at the Portsmouth yard. The court will consist of Captain Stanton. Captain Kants and Pay-Inspector Kenny, with Lieutenant Marix as Judge Advocate. Joseph Tingling, a school tax-collector, at Allentown, Pa., died Jnly 34 last, and his accounts are now discovered to be short to the extent of $6,000.

UN the 4th the receivers or the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company gave notice that from August 1 the employes in the coal regions would be paid semi-month-ly instead of monthly, as hitherto. The change is made in compliance with a recent act of the Assembly. Os the 4ith news was received in St. Louis that Judge Hiller, of the United States Supreme Court, in chambers, had granted a writ of error in the case of Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, the murderer of C. A. Preller. A strike of street-car drivers was inaugurated at Memphis, Tenn., on the 5th. France and Germany are still retaliating in expding citizens of the opposite country. A severe drought prevails throughout Illinois, and farmers are very anxious. An assignment was made by the Kansas City (Mo.) Sirup Company on the6th. The family of Rev. W. T. A. West, the St. Louis prisoner, will leave Chesterton, lud., for Ixmdon, Ont. The Paris police, on the 5th, seized all the copies of the New York Herald of July 14, at trat paper’s bureau in Paris, containing the words and music of the “Boulanger March.” Kentucky tobacco : i are worked up against Commissioner * olman because of the Agricultural Department’s recent report on the condition of the tobacco crop. Ekihtt thousand Abyssinians are about to march on Massowah, and fears are entertained that the Italian garrison will be massacred. The Canadian Government is confronted with a Mormon problem in the shape of an emigration movement from Utah to the Northwest Territory. General Payne’s yaoht Volunteer gained a decided victory in the nee on the 5th few the (ioelet cap, showing the entire fleet a dean pair of heels and winning as the jockeys say, “hands down.” CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Tint Emperor* of Austria and Germany met at Gasteia on the 6th. The Irish Land bill passed Its third reading ou the 6th. By a fife near London on the 6th $1,350,000 worth of property was destroyed and fire live* were lost. THE Unionist leaden in Great Britain have determined on uncompromising hostility to Gladstone's Irish policy from this time on. The King of Holland is growing old and feeble, and, having no direct heir, the question of the succession is agitating not only the Dutch bat their German neighPewintf H lift

is short MTml thousand dollars in his accounts, owing to his allowing himself to be imposed upon by pretended friends. Gibson. King Kalakaua’s deposed prime minuter, who made his escape from Honolulu on the bark Spreckehtv arrived at Han Francisco on the 6th. Tbs German Government is confronted with the sariocu problem of how to check the enormous emigration movement in progress in that country, in view of the inevitable struggle, sosaar or later, with France. Tu* American messenger hpy who was seat to London by Messrs. Frohman and Kothern to distribute the souvenirs of “The Highest Bidder,” has been arrested for violation of Her Majesty’s postal laws. His employers will look after him. Wununn Vooucir, president of the Mormon apostles, has temporarily assumed the leadership of the affairs of the Latter Day Saints. Jean Dttttn, '?hoae father was a commodore in tlie early American navy, died in New York on the tth in abject poverty at the age oil over one hundred years, and, f.ilinC patriotic action, will rest in a pauper’s grave. * _ Thb relations of Germany with Russia do not improve. The press of Moscow and St. Petersburg make the death of M. Katkoff the occasion of fresh outbursts of hatred toward Germany. . . , At Milwaukee, Wis., on the 8th, during the launching of a vessel, two hundred people were carried down by a Calling roof, on which they had secured places of vantage to witness the launch. Many of them were either crushed to death or drowned, aid many mare were injured. AT the close of the week ended the 8th, the Detroit* were still in the lend iin the National Base-Ball league aeries, Ch icago t—inp three games behind and luiving pUjml one less than Detroit. In the Association, Louisville had passed Baltimore tor second place, 8*. Louis being still a good, long Sr»t- * Tas pitcher of the Albion (la.) bass-ball nine is a preacher, and at a game p layed on the 8th with the GrinnaU Club, it is mid, he preyed, preached to who was inclined to favor and pitched, such a good _ ware hardly able to touch

A GEORGIAN TRAGEDY n» Worst Crime that wr iUtmSi Right con M«4. ba Annals of the State—I bjraSaateKeepFee ityla the of HU Father"* First Community. Macok, (j(Lj Aiigi 7. spatiered with Mddd i bouse thirteen terday morning, denceof t*« most she tflhhinitted in Georgia, with blood wd doth hair, lay a long-handi the octuple crinpe had The lint news of the c this ci»y early yeste ttloon ted the flecked horse importance of to. MA , riddep. > through the city ana i with incredible rapi coroner and other co; thM I'-ity yehmm m mart ter *ro hallway, red with bndns and 1 axe wit% which sen accomplished, me was bought to ay morning by a Whose tiie scene fully three I':Hand peiple were ty official i reached awaiting their comb structure than that was liie. ■mass A more humble which the crime * difficult to tmagiftilltiflg with a long ▼eranda in front and i hallway running through the open four rooms. <r, The into house which is the property of Richarc F. Woolfclk, a respectable and well- -do whit* planter. On the right on enter g is a par or, in the rear of -whleh was occupii Mrs; West, ah hieh is a •eplng»recitn which led by th following perikntt: Star of Mrs- Woolfolk; Pearl; Annie an Rosebud Woolf oik, daughters of Mksi * »1folk. The Sleep-ing-room on the left f the entrance Was Occupied by Thomas. Wdolfolk, sons of. ty The rear room on t .ichard and Charles Mrs. Woolfolk, left wiis occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Woe ilk and their youngest child, aged eight n months. A ghastly sight confronted tlx » who And entered the house after the d orery of the crime. In the last room tt father, wtlnr and infant lay on the si le bed, each reeking with the blood of * s other. Ifhe bodies were almost lying i roes each other, and their position gars e of an agonising death; Across s three Corpses was Uuiig of ihgt Pearl, Wesleyan Of e oldest daughrecent graduate Je college, with her head beaten to p p, and her neck and body mutilated t blows iCrom the sharp Made of the i e. On the floor, in the tame mangled t ,te, lay the body of the eldest brother. It was evident that Pearl and her brothi had been awakened by cries during th> parents; slid had it learn the cause otti; On the bed in the < body of Mrs. West blood and her brs head, which, like tin butchering of their ledidtd the room to to share their fate, posite room 1 ty the soaked hi her own is oosing from her of the vict ims in the other room, was alar rushed into a shapeless mass. On the t me bed lay the body of Annie Woolf oik, ith her head cloven

in twain; by the wi an attitude of supp of Rosebud WoolfoT her ||pe and head r recognition almost I The sight made sick; even the ceilii spattered with blc here and there piec been flung from the the walls and wain was soaked with and on the floor formed. As.soon as the off senses steps to inv* -begun. T. G. Wool of the family, was • his replies were of s pieion quickly poll guilty of the crime, diately placed unde his innocence, but bespattered bodies composure that the riatod and clamori coroner and other e the prisoner and he the same time urgin en a chance to prov blf. These pleadinj the throng, and it v result of the coronei be held immediately ingly impaneled ( with the inreetigati LATKR AND from the scene of develop the fact the tiras instead of eigfc and Mrs. R. F. Woo! ranging in ages frt twenty years, ant of Mrs. Wool folk, The coroner’s jt murder against Th of the Captain’s ftn ing in the house. E some time before dr by groans and the (rom his parents’ rc Richard, ran into tt his, and, thinkir being committc jumped from { night clothes and b house of n negro t hundred yards di: arouse the neighbor afraid to return, ft would be murdered half an hour. No t ' went in to see if th dered. He found stepped in a pool O left footprints oo t stepmother lying • the floor and her raised her up and He then changed h tow, on the floor, in ation, lay the body with the left side of mangled tu to make possible. te strongest hearts > and wadis were be1 and brains, while of flesh which had plifted axe clnng to oting. The bedding te crimson life-blood, ckening pools had als could collect their gate the crime were >lk, the only survivor estioned closely, and ;h a nature that sueed to him as being Woolfolk was immesrrest. Ho protested viewed ike bloodvith such unnatural ■owd was soon infug feu his life. The cials ralli ed around the crowd at bay, at that the man be givhis innocence if possieventually impressed s agreed to await the i inquest, provided it The coroner accordjury and proceeded l. lUIB DETAILS te Woolfolk tragedy there were nine vices reported—Captai dk, their six children, t sixteen months to Mrs. Wesl, an aunt md sixty. 1 found a, verdict at mas G. W oolfolk, son wife, who was sleepi statement was that' break he eras aroused rand of blows coming m. His half brother, room which adjoined that murder was he (Thomas) window in his e feet and ran to the ree hundred or four rot to get them to ood. He lays he was ring that he himself but went back after ip had arrived, and he ’amily hao been murthem all dead. He ilood in passing and floor. Ho found his hat her head was on ody on tie bed. He laced her on the bed.

wj Hiio «uuv «• vj soon after he was t evidence before t ■tutisl throughou to grow in size, an< nd strongly to lyuc told the Jury to hoi <»uld get the priai: making an arrange oat of the honse an the afowd hail no ( part ore. The pri Macon and lodged of the crime cooll] siona. His motive to gain possession for himself and tw llrst wife. ten into custody. The > jury was circnm The crowd continue he indications pointng. Sheri ff Westcott their verdict until he er awny, and then, wt, slipped Woolf oik djove rapidly, so that ne to realize hia doner was brought to > jail, where he talked bat made no admitsaid to be the deeire his father's property listers, children at the J. c. Sag Fasscisoo, is made here that.' the Nevada Bank Mackay, is dying, to his bed far soon residence, ami is n from an flying train, but tending the straightening < by the recent whe ng. &—Tho a Flood, president of and partner of John 3e has beoa confined ays at his Menlo Park arted as getting worse his bead. Mackay ia ontinent <m a special r the par] lose of ate of his oartner or i complications caused ket. i here that Mackay into Nevada Bank, haa ink in the wheat marW.48H1MSTOX, A Oak View, with hi him, has had a week. The change life ia the suburbs The coming week last cabinet meeti Bayard is at Reho has gone to Arki October; General for a few weeks vi consia; Mr. Whin tier on Wedaesd month: Mr. Endic cation of two man Mr. Lamar will d t Dispersing. . A—The P resident, at cabinet ofllcers about ecidedly comfortable i the weather has ms do uite t-oler lble again, rill probably seethe of the season. Mr. Beach; Mr. Garland to be absent till is about to depart to his family in Wiswfll go to Bar HarThnrsday for a will soon begin a vas in New England, and btless lean the city. ]

TAlt IAGETS SERMON. A. Homil r on ImliindN! idfei; IW and Eternal. Principles Involvcd-lte-Up« to HU Rev.T. 1 « Witt Talmage’s fooith tor-' tnon at “T ie Hamptons,” was on an everyday topic: “Life and Fire Insurance; the Christian ] *rinciples Involved.” His text Let SIM 1 tipoict MBcers ever the land, and take ftp the fttth liariof the iand ot l%ypt la tirt.Ste»*'a i efit&nt* ielirf.—Genesis ilL, 94. _ These V ere. the tfatcls Of ibfeph; the president at the first life insuraitijd (?crtopany the the world ever saw.' Pharaoh had a di ?Cr* that distracted him- He thought h i stood on the' mSM of the river Nile, and saw coming up out of the fittf seven fat sleek, glossy cows, and they began to I rowss in toe thick grass. Nothing «gM hi about that. Bat after them, coming ot Ldf the •tonerlvei1. he saw seven cows to >t were gaunt kBi .Hhrredj and the w .net looking cows that ttad eVef been seen in the land, and in the ferocity of hunger they devoured their seven fat pndecess are. Pharaoh, the King, sent for Joseph to decipher these midnight hierogiyphito. Joseph made short work of it, ana idtimtied that the seven eowsthatcame ontof the river are seven yeafsWito plenty to eat, th< seven emacisted hows that fob lowed Ik s are saved years Vrith nothing to eat. •‘Now;* said Joseph; ‘‘let ns lake onefifth of ti e corn crop of the »Ven prosperOn* veart. and keep It u l provision for the seven years in *hich there shall be ini The King took the counsel and appointed! Joseph, becanse of his integrity and pub- ( lic-spiritedness, as the president of the undertaking. The farmers paid one-fifth oil their income as a premium. In all too towns and cities ot toe land tons went branch houses. This great iSgVptiao lift, insurance, company had .Millions <*! dollars as assets. After a while toe darl: days came, and the whole natiod Solid have starved if it had not been for the provisions they bad made for the future. Bui now these suffering families had nothing to do but to go up and collect the amount of their policies. The Bible put* it in one short phrase: In ell the land ot Esypt there was bread. I say this was tpe first lit* InsUlvtlles company. It was divinely Organised: It had in it ail the advantages of the “whold life plan,” of the “tontine plan,” of the “reserved endowment plan,” and all the other good plans. We are told that Rev. Dr. Anhate, of Lincolnshire.England. (Originated the first life insurance company in

1698. No! It is as old as the corn-cribs of Egypt, and God himself was the author and originator. If that were not so 1 would not take your time and mine in Sabbath discussion of this subject. 1 feel it iis a theme vital, religious and of infinite import, the morals of life and fire i nsurance. About ten or twelve years ago there was a great panic in life insurance, which did good. Under the storm the untrustworthy and bogus institutions were scattered while the genuine were tested and firmly established, and where does the life insurance institution stand to-day? What amount of comfort, of education, of moral and spiritual advantage is represented in the simple statistic that in this country the life insurance companies in one year pa d $7,000,000 to the families of the borefti had in five years they paid $300,000,000 to tlm families of the bereft; and are promising to pav—and hold themselves in readiness to pay—$2,000,000,000 to the families of the bereft! They have actually paid out more in dividends and death claims than they have ever received in premiums. I know of what. I speak. The lift insurance companies of this country paid more than $V 000,000 of tares to the Government in five years. So, instead of these companies being indebted to the land, the land is indebted to them. To cry out against life insurance because here and there one company has behaved badly is as absuird as it would be for a man to burn down 1,000 acres of hayest field in order to kill of the hulk. \ i - Bat what does the Bible sayjui regard to this subject? If the Bible favon the institution, I will favor it; if the Bible denounces it, I trill denounce it. In addition to the forecast of Joseph in the tent, I call your attention to Psul’s comparison." Here is one man who, through neglect., fails to support his family while he liven, or after he dies. Hers is another man who abhor the Scriptures iind rejects God. Which of these men is'the worse? Well, you say, the latter. Paul says the former. Paul says that a man who neglects to care for his household is more obnoxious than a man who rejects the Scriptures. He that; prgrtdeth not tor Ms ews. end especially those of Meow* household, ii worse than an lnfiOleL iw up a crowdt he purpose k the bottom preposter

to proviil* tor oar families after we ere gone; but, If we here the money to pay the premium and do not pay them, we hare bo right to expect mercy at the hand of God in the judgment. We are woree then Tom Paiine, wane than Voltaire, and woree than Shaftesbury. The Bible declares it— of death has been or sixty days he re of a Itfe insurance into the bereft household, and pays down the hard cask cu an ins urance policy, that officer of the company is performing a positively religions rite, uecording to the Apostle James, who says: Trns religion end undented before God end the Pother hi this: TO visit tbs fatherless and the widow he their aflUetioi. The religion of Christ propoies to take eareolluhs temporal wants of the people os well As the spiritual. When Hezekiah eras dying the injunction come to him: Set thy bouse in order, for thoe nhalt die lied not lire , , Thai; Injunction in oar day would mean: “Maks your wills; settle up your accounts; moke things plain; don’t dece re roar lairs with rolls of worth Less mining stock; don’t deceive them with deeds of Western lands that will never yield any crop bat chills and fevers; don't leave far them notes that have been outlawed, and second mortgages an property that trill not pay thereat.” “Set iky house in order.” Thai; is, fix up things, no that your going oat of the world may make at little osnstematiou as possible. See th< loon col tie devouring the fat cattle, and in the time of for the time of want. 11m ly is, when men think of their are afraid to think of it only in with their spiritail welfare, and nut of the devastation in the household which will come because of their emigration from it It is meanly sslfiah tor you to lie so absorbed ha the Heaven to which yon are going that you target wliot is to become of your wife and child) sn after yon are dead. You ms go not of tills world without leaving n doiliur and yet die happy if provide for them; yon can them in the hands of fin God who mill the harvests, and the hards, and the flocks; hot if youoonld p»,y the premiumii on a policy and neglect them, U is a moan thing for you to go up to Heaven while they go into the poor-boase. Yon, at death, move into a mansion, river into tw i rooms on *3 f

I s'fntcrf qw yew mn«as, ant be quartet tB*ty fdtic afei.fenr afigete in he organ loft,, bat j84r deslthr Will be 4 windle. You bad the mean* t& *#«*»« or the comfort of year hoosehoid weed rou left It, and you wickedly neglected it. «*0jp» 9 ay* *»» one. “I have more faith had you; i.Mfcwe When f go oat of this iZS/liwi ijZSZiri nreMtWW them,” *QTl<Z HlA jLiOTu wip primOT Go M fi lactra eitr« Island; gtf through *0 he poor Itousei! fif mi K&mrryy and 1 still how yon how often God t$**i(h* tor the leglected. children of neglected Jjftrehts.rhat be provide* for them trough pub.uif shari ty. As fqr myself, S would rather lave the Lord provide for my family in a orleate home, ,Sad ttewagl* toy own indwirr tad patetiM acd wSjtegai faithfnlA mad thinks the pfdperty I* worth $J.V 000j wider#forced selti it hfitigt fJ.000. The busineaf teta takes adrantage of.ttw crisis and he compel tb# wider-. of his deceased partner to sell out iO ciid at a ruinous price or looao all. The stock was supposed to be very valuable, bat it has been so “watered” that when the executor tries to sell ft he is laughed out of Wall Street, <ir the Administrator f» ordered by the Surrogate to wind dp the Whole affair. The Seriate' was roppoaad, at the man's death, to be worth $80,COO; but after the in* (learn, io oe wor*n wvj; wk debtedness had been hist,- and the bill of the doctor, and the undertaker, and the tombstone-caster base Ixen paid, there is nothing left!

That means Use enildren are to come home from school and go to work. That means the complete hardship of the wife, tamed oat with nothing but a needle to fight the greet battle at the world. Tear down the lambrequins, close the piano, rip up the Axmioister, sell out the wardrobe and let the mother take a child in each hand and trudge <tttt in* the desert of the world. A life insurant would have hinderedall that. “But** sari some one, “I am a man of small means, and I can’t afford to pay the premium.” That is sometimes a lawful and a genuine excuse, and there is nonnsWisr to it; bat in nine cases! oat of ten when e man says that he smokes np in cigars and drinks down in trine, and expends in luxuries enough money to hare paid the premium on a Ufa insurance polio;/ which would hare kept hit family fro?it beggary when he is dead, A man ought to put himself down on the strictest economy until he can meet this Christian necessity. Ton hare no right to the luxuries of life until you hare made such provision, I admire what was said by Her. Or. Guthrie, the great Scottish preacher, A few years before his death he stood if. a public meeting and declared: “When I came to Edinburgh the people sometime* laughed at my blue stockings and at my cotton umbrella, and they said I looked like a common plowman, and they derided me because I Used in a boose for which I paid EX> rent a year, and often* times I walked when 1 would hare been ▼ary giadto hare a cab; but. gentlemen, 1 did all that because I wanted to pay the premium on a life insurance that would ; keep my family comfortable if I should ! die." That I take to be the right expression of an honest, intelligent, Christian man. The otter indifference of many people on lost tools I gl iding unde-, die gaslight, In thin shawls? Ah, they are the victims of want; In many of the casss the forecast of parents and grandparents might hare prevented Ht, God <n'y knows how they straggled to do right. They prayed until the tears froie on their chocks, they sewed on the sack until the breaking of the day; bat they could not get enough money to pay the rent; they could not get enough money to decently clothe themseiree; and one day in that wretched home the angel of parity and the an get of crime fought a great fight between the empty breadtray and the fireless hearth, and the black-winged angel shrieked: this important I of the crime ai Who are the ch ingt with broke yon a penny as >ken broom, and begging of ns you go by I Who are the it subject accounts for much and pauperism of this day. children sweeping site crow

8*7* some men: “I believe what you nr; it U right and Ooriettsu, and I mean some time to attend to this Eieitor." My frioncUyott are going to Ion the comfort of you biousekold in the came way the sinner loses Heaven—by procrastination. I see all arotpmd me the destitute and suffering fanilitsa of parents who meant some day to attend to this Christian doty. Daring the prooses of adjtwaroment the man gets Us feat wet, then (Masse a chill and delirium, add the doleful shake of the doctor's head, and the obsequies If there be any thing more pitiable than a woman doUcatoiy brought up, and an her marriage day by ter indulgent father giren to a man to whom she is the chief joy and pridie of life until the moment of with helpless chfldrea a • her back to ttruggle for breed in a world where brawny muscle and pugged soul are necessary— 1 say, if there be aay thing more pitiable than that I do not know wvwtitis. And yht there are good r-jmen who are ■ to tiieir husband’s and ibsre are those thorn fc a life insura to same fatality, tods /a very poor a canty shop, who ke iitmimtee of h« lea application had offlC^80, she firm* oarer hare a docm impii«d.it was poesier to did. Or.* day,

4 ■artaaceoftitohrtnst,and chargstheasl miet that they bm< 4W»« gram to Mp Mm in their wort. 1« **» ia^\wh^ limmwmnjrinblM la your lime of Msteeee, yon will be tempted-to orm-tUX* ihs amount of assets and to* extort ofto# mrpfns, and you will b* tempted to ab*s* he franchise of the oompany and make op ike deficit of to* y**r by adding mm rf to* receipts of iinotoar ymr; and yoa sin tofcfflpted to send out mean, anonynous circulars d«TO|[ttoT to otoor comp*ii», forgetful of tfc«i fart that anonymous sommunicatiOB moans oflbr two toiajph•b* cowardice of ton author andtos Ineffi*sncyof to* polios in allowing a*** iking to he datod any where, an instde of «i penitentiary. Under the mighty Moa^ ■it itmij here gone down, and yoawffl follow theta W TOO have too mart otmflii>nce In yourself, and do no* appeal to toa Liord for positive help. Bat if aiiy of you belong to that miea out class of people who without any financial ability, organise thsmsetrso Into abut they call a liile iasoraroe <- otto a pretended, capital of _ m taOBjML then rote yourself kite lucrative pcwltton, and tort all to* premiums for yourself, and theft, at toe approach of to# State tuperintendeaf, drop all into the hands of those life Insurance ttnAiriakw* wkoee business it is to gather np the remain* of defunct organisations and bury them 5n their own vault—then, I nay, you had bettor get out rtf too business, and disgorge the widows' houses you hays swallowed. Sot »y word is to all those who are legitimately engaged in M13 business: Ton ought to be better than otoor man, not only because of toe responsibilities that rest upon you, but beease toe truth la ever confronting you that your stay on earth is uncertain, and your life a matter of s few days os years. Do not those block-edged letters that nome into your office make you think? Dose not toe do©tor'* certificate on toe death claim give you a thrill? Tour periodicals, your iidvsrtisem'mte, and eren toe lithography of your jwliciee warn yon that yon are mortal? Aocord'ng to yddfewa showing the chanoee toat. you will die this rear tiro at least two per oent lire you prepaid for toe tremendous exigency? The most eondemnad man In too judgment day w)U he «*• unprepared life insurance man, for the simp'?* reason that y* Whole buaineen was CMDfdw with human exit, sad he can not say: •*1 did not think " His Whote bminsas was to think on that is thing. Oh, tny brother, get insured r eternity. In Consideration of what Mist has done in your behalf, have the inmture this day made ottt, signed and died with thasredrseal of the epoee.

Bat I have woras oi anconragemcvs comfort for those of my hearers who are engaged Id the lire insurance business. You are ordained by God to stand between «• and the most raging element of nature. Vtt lire indebted to yon ftr what the Bar tional Board of Underwriters and the Convention of Chiefs of the Fire Department hare effected through your suggestions, and through yottr encouragement. We are indebted to yon for what Tpn hare effected In the construction of buildings, • find in the change In the habite flf our cities; so that by scientific principles orderly companies extinguish the fire, M* stead of the old-time riots which use* - to extinguish the d towns. An# we are indebted to you for the successful demands yon hate made for the repeal of unjust i.awe—for the battle you hare waged against incendiarism and ar* son-f» the fatal blow yon hare ginm to , to the theory that corporations bars no-* souls, by the cheerfulness and promptitude with which you luT'C ■“* losses, from \ which you might hare swaped through the technicality of the law. I do not know any class rf men tooor . more hlgh-iloned and worthy of son* j fidenoe than these men, and ye* I h*r* , sometimes fsarsd that while your chief business Is to calculate about losses on earthly property, you might without sufficient thought go Into thst: which, In regard to your soul, In your own perIanoe might he oallsd “haiards,* “extra hacarda,” “special haiards.” An unforgiven sin in the soul In more Inflammable and explosive then camphlns or uitro-glyeerins. Howerer the rates may be—yea, though the whole earth ware paid down to yon in one nolid premium—yonca® not afford to looeit your sold. Do not take that risk lest it bo said hen eftsr that while in thin world yon bad keen business faculty, when you went out of the world yon * out erarlastlngly insoirenl. The scienttfie Elitchcockn, and Bill end Mitchells of the world hare with the sacred writers-to ithat there is coming e sonflagration, to sweep across tine earth, compared with which that of Chicago In 1871, end that of Boston la 18TI, and that of Hew York lnl«5 were mwe nothings. New York os>, Aral Brooklyn on Aral Charleston on firel 3an Francisco on Aral Canton on firel Bt. Petersburgh on litre! Paris on fire! Igmion on firel the Andesoa firel the Apenines on first the Himalayas on Aral What ■rill be peculiar about the day will bn that the water with which ws pat our great Bres will Itself hike flame; and the Mississippi, end the Ohio, and toe 8t. Lawrence, and Lake Erie, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and tumbling Niagara, shall with rad tongues lick the heavens. The geological heats of the center of toe world will burn out toward the circumference, and the heats of the outside will burn down from the circumference to ton center, and this world will become, not. only according to the Bible, hot according to science, e living coni—the living coal afterward whitening into ashes, the eshae scattered by tho breath of toe last hurricane, and all that will he left of this glorious planet will be the flakes of Fallen on other worlds.

Oil* on that ds.y will you be .fire-proof, or will you be a total loe«? Will yon be rescued or win yon be ooaimmedf When this greet cathedral of the world, with the pillars of rocks, and its pinnacles of mountains, and its cellar of golden mir e, end its upholetiiry of morning cloud, and its baptismal font of the eea, shall blase, will yon get out ou the Bi-e-escape of toe Lord’s deliverance:’ Oh! on that day for which all other days worn made, may it be found that those life insurance men had a paid-up policy, and these fire insurance men bad given them instead of the debris of a eomsamed worldly estate, n house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens' Close economy le e better lessen to learn than bow to site a large expenditure wisely. But this is a leases that most bngin at home. U a father teaches his sob to be a spend thrift at home he most not oe surprised if he is a spendtlirift at college. The home laeoiia wtti be improved upon abroad, and this tiarveet of wind will be the whirlwind, ire may and do Maine teachers, at times, that they do not restrain their pupils, but the chief blame belong* totho parents who are “ extravagance t» their <. Tun young and ettger do not know i peaceful kappiuiSM the old expo ' the knowledge thirt passim is that vanity has