Pike County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 September 1887 — Page 1

=========== PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY’ i or lOcBirnuRi Eomjw .... .fl *•* month'. thrm Vdotbs...“111""'" INVARIABLY IN ADVAHCSAI>VERTin!«A RATEBt 9 !!.»«<..*n^irr^rtion.fl «» l»cb inHin.'ii ........ se A Hbcnl rtNlm f i -n matt* on M rnt'iRiwnU VMnincIlirpp, *i*. inn!)Mr<*!Ytr mwitb* t*t»\ »n ! Iran* aOvuiU . mem* nunt U» 9*MI (or to idrtoc«. J. L. MOUMT, Proprietor. OFFICE, over VOLUME XVIII. ' PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. ■ . »■ - ----,- 15, 1887. NUMBER 17. County PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRiT JOB WORK OF ALL KINDS greatly Eaceouted SEASONABLE BATES. NOT1CK1 Pfrwia rwefTiwr * copy at thte pnpwr wttfe rtfenoticcrrswdtatari pencil nre notified U.-at the time of tbeir autaecptMMi hasettpired.

V - WBFlMWWAt MRM k. i aoanccn. POhET * HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW ! , WB practtr* fa all thecourta All f_ promptly adffipded to A Notary Public < Maotiy u iR office OBoa orar Prank A Rorahroofc's drug new*. B. r. Ricaaacaoa. A. n UTUIk j RK'HAUDSON * TAYLOR. ^ Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG, DVD. Promt* nttrotlon kIt*ii to all fruslne.**. A Nolarr ruh/wron-t «r»ily in OtBce In < »rp^#r Buiidiag. Hh atul Main. K. A. ITLI. I. *. wiuja ELY & WILSON. Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, ‘’mD. Wl >tti<ja- in tli^ Itnnk Uuililins-Nit ~ T . & ft F~ SMITIL f * .(aMcaasoca to Doyle A Thompson) Attorneys at Law, Real Estate, Loao times Alts. Uflm, wold Booe Bank Building. Petersburg. Ind * The b-sl Fire and l.ire lrluirsnre rompa■le, n pn-rriot Mon-y to loan on ft rat • anortmuo * at « tra and eight per rent. Prompt attentl ti to collection*, and all lair lined to at. _•_. W. KIUHW,SoT MABT rUKkNEB. KoaiN SwnH. i TOWHSEND, FLEEJIER k SMITH, Attorneys at Law t AND REAL ESTATE AGEKTS, _ PETERSBl RO. INDIANA. BfRee, t.rrr u«. Frank'* More. Special attention given to i ’©llectii - nr. Huy Ini and ''*11Ins UFlt. Flamming TUles and » nrnisbln* Abstract. K. R. KIME. M. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG. IKD. office. oivr'IUmfi A s- a*, store, residence on 'to-nia "treet. three — oiih of Main. I alls promptly attended to, day or night. _ » / J. a DI M AS. Physician and Surgeon j/' PETERSBURG, k. IND. <NMf on firn floor ( Ariwnter Rnlldltag. C. B BLACKWELL, IM. D., ECLECTIC Physician and Surgeon, Office. Main street, between *th and 1th opposite Model Drug Store. PETKKNBUBCi. : INDIANA. W ill nrs. lt.-e Medicine. Surgery and obstetric* iffiown and country, and will \tsit any part of the country in oonsattatioii. i tamnto disease,, aurorae fully »r B. J. TE

Resident Dentist, PETEKNBrRK. INK ALL WORK WARRANTED. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, i a J. K.' TURNER, Proprietor PETERSBURG. IND. rutn sMitnc -work done at iknt pr* »Ul iMvif onlw* si tfcp *h >p. ia Dr Anew bu Ulm#, rear of Adam A ^oa'S 4nif *tr» r> __- ' CITY HOTEL f D*<*r Hew !!»■«<»■»»*■ IiBWIS KATTj. Prop. Tor; t-ixbth »a-t Main S«». opp. Court-honee, KKTKKSBCRt!. INK. Tbt niT Half! t* centrally located, first fl„, '.a ail it. •piiiiliiim.nu. amt li* beat an t (iinimt hotel tn the city. Sherwood House, Coder New Management. BISSEI.L & TOWSSEND.^ Prop*r». First and Locu-t Mnrfi .s Evanttillr, : : Indiana. RATES. S2 PER DAY. Sample Rooms for Commoreial Mon. HYATT HOUSE, Washington. U4 Centrally Located. and Accommodation* Iim-clas* HENRT HTATT. Propriator. PETLRsm kg. - - Indiana. CHARLES SCHAEFER, Proprietor. located l« the boalr.c. part of town.. Trim. rca«ona»>»e A n*od Bar. choice Oirnw*. tohuxa and: cigars. comer-Sw-eat . and Walnut streets. When at Washington Stop fit the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. Una Lieu II a hi. and Alttot Hon kau 7 Fropnetort. Gao, e. Js*»« J. Mono an. Late of on tnaatl Late of JAaahlncton.Ind. HOTEL ENGLISH, BOSSETER & MORGAN. Leasees. Indianapolis., lnd. Boom Decant. Table. Sertrlee aad Genera Keep sapel lor L-catton beat la the city— •a the Circle. Great Reduction 2UU, juSEriK.IR

NEWS IN BRIEF. MEBSOKAl AJTO POtlTICAfc D*. Waterloo (111.) physician who tail off a Baltimore & Ohio I'trafn On the way to Washington, is considered in a critical condition now. Dm. Gioboi B. Vum, an allopathic physician, known to the profession all ttrer the Union, died at Evansville, Ind.. on the 8th from the effects of a surgical operation. He Whs in the eightieth year of his age'hnd had practiced for fifty-two yean. Tbs Prince of Wales, accompanied by his son. Prince Albert Victor, arrired at Heisingoer, Denmark, on the 8th and was sainted by the men-of-war in the harbor. On landing the Princes were received by the Danish royal familV and the Czar and Czarina of Russia. They were afteqfihard •acnrted to Fredelsborg by a guffi-d of honor. Assists NT Secretabt or State Porter is to resign on account of Us eiffs Illness. : Hennas that Prince Ferdinand is about to abandon (tl Bulgarian throne are denied. Ex.Governor Aiken of South Carolina, died on the 7th. at Flat Rock. S. C. 'Hecrrtart Jokes of the London Peace Society, is soon to start for the United , States on an official mission. Mu. Randaul left Washington on the 7th, without conferring with the President on the tariff question. The Tory papers of London severely criticise the Philadelphia committee for inviting Mr. Gladstone to be present at the Constitutional centennial. Mas. Cleveland declines to jresent the flags to the Sew York ffre department, as invited by Mayor Hewitt, on the gronnd that the President has no part in the ceremony. Martin Kterkon. the well-known Chicago millionaire, died suddenly in Roeb ton on the 8th of neuralgia of the heart. Mr. Blaine has concluded to remain another week at Hotnborg. His movements thereafter are uncertain. Bt the decision of Judge Brannon at Davenport, la., on the 7tb, James M. Patrick obtains control of his child, which has been contested so bitterly by Mrs. Pat

rick’* nolW. The Acting 8*crtUry of the Interior ha« re^ueited the Attorney -fGeneral to in*|i tute suit against the following parties in Montana for unlawful fencing of the public lamia: tleorge Wat km a. Geo. H. Godwin. Ji hn Baringer, Sidney Padget, Carpenter & Robertson, John S. Bean, Siohrarfc Cattle C«m|«»r, B. B. Bishop, Columbia Land and Cattle Company, Coni'* vd Cattle Company. Green Mountain Ranching Company, Rail Mountain Cattle Company, Samuel Coffman, J. R. DUwortb and David J. Kennely. CoLn.xEL Sa iTtus, Chief of the Bureau of Statistic*, has prepared an important report on wool. jtmwns Davis has written a letter, in which he declares in favor of local optbss. CoaoaasMia* P«nnv Bsutorr. of New Yen , is one suggestion for successor to Governor Porter as assistant Secretary of State. Tan Queen has conferred the order of knighthood on Dr. Morell Mackenzie, the em nent surgeon, who is attending the Crown Prince of Germany on his journey to the Tyrol. OwWBMOStl OKM.T, of the CivilService Comnt. sioa. has written an important letter concerning the appointing and dischagging Srvarnai. meratiers of the International Medical congress with the ladies accompanying them, called on the 9th at Oak View, hr spec al invitation, to sea the President and Mrs. Cleveland. MrcH interest is felt in Ireland and England at the trial to taka place at Mitcheltown. Ireland, of Willtam O’Brian, for alleged violation of the Crimes act. The grand jury at Montreal. Can-, has found a true bill against Boodler McOancle, Detective Pinkerton and Colonel

Hickey, of l hicago, for conspiracy. The, only witness •iiniaM was James Baxter, who made the charge. Mom Dosabue, aged eighty, chaplain »f St. Mary’s Hospital at Milwaukee. ' Wi*„ celebrat-d the fiftieth anniversary at his priesthood oa the 9th.. The religious exercises were held in St John's Cathedral, where for thirty years he was pastor. t Mb. Uiadstove, m replying to the invitation of the Philadelphia coiiuui-.um, finally announo-s that he can never visit this country as his remaining days are to be devoted to the cause of Irish home rule. Tax West Meath (Ireland) magistrates, sitting at tslassan. hare sentenced Editor Hayden of the West Meath i./rwiW/ to three months' imprisonment for obstrwrt- i mg the police during the recent evictions, ! Mr. Hayden l as appealed and has teen relca»-d on tail. AbchbIsH'O- Walsh of l»nb!in. in alette. published on the Mb. says the Irish laud question is a commercial and not a (aditicml matter. He declares Ism) Ashbourne’* scheme t»> le the most suitable one that has yet been passe.!. Tug Socialistic sec -•jer* from'the United ; Labor party met in Sew. York on the night Of the ftb and agree.! to cal! themselves i he Progressive Labor party. William Penn Rogers presided, and about two hundred delegates from want associations were present. The old Central Labor j luion platform was adopted. j ‘Kl-C.iNCRBs-iJias TaI-butt, of Kentucky, died on the 9th at Chestnut Hill, Pa. Tub report comes from Homburg that Mr. Blaine told Banker Keligman that he would not accept the presidency as a gift. Btsitor Ibbi.avd says the Catholic Church has ceased opposition to the Knights of Labor. Stbakeb Cuutu says he has made no I answer to Thoehe because the latter has 1 presented no rase. ! A CaWnmsiA* uamed Bedstone trie! ' to enjoin the Cnited States Treasurer i from haying any more United States ] bond.. * Williau O’Brikv failed to appear in the mm;istrateV court at Mitchellstown, Ireland, on the 9th, in obedience to the government summons, and a warrant for his arrest ha* been issued. Jat 8oru) says he has left the street, but' if he has to, he will go in again and “hang somebody’s hide ea the fence.” The court-martial which sat on Lieutenant Weber’s case at Washington has adjourned sine die, but the finding has not been made public yet. Coui.vbl Lahoxt has returned to Washington from his vacation in New York State, and was at the executive mansion on the afternoon of the 9th. Judge V a x Bar at has refused to release Mrs. Fanny B. Roberta without baiL She is held oo a charge of receiving (10,090 of the money stolen by Teller Scott, of the Manhattan Bank. Russia informs the Powers that Prince Ferdinand most quit as ruler of Bulgaria as his ruler-ship is in violation of the Berlin treaty, or else she will disregard the entire treaty and take her own way in removing the pretender. _

Robert James Rctr, aged fifty, fertilizer merchant of Sew York City, commit* ted suicide ia Baltimore, MIL, on the 6th, by taking eight ounces of laudanum. While a big gUd was being east at the vtrkefs foundry in Sheffield. England, on the 6th, the easting exploded, kilting four mdn on the spot and injuring many others. The buildingis of the establishment were more or less shattered. , The residence of Cardinal Gibbons In Baltimore, Md.. was robbed on the 4th of two valuable rings, one of which was a present from Pope Leo, They were stolen from a drawer in the library, the lock of which the thief cat oat. No clew to the thief has lieen obtained. Five men were killed by an explosion of naphtha eta the schooner War Eagle at Boston, on'the 7th, Dae hundred and sixteen of the victims of the theater fire at Exeter, England, were buried on the 7th. * Near fcredo. W. Va.. on the night of j the 6th, an old roapte named Bosh were shot by three assassins for purposes of robbery. . The machine ships! of the Barren Fork j Coal Company at Somerset. Kv., were burned on the 7th. Loss will exceed $106,rnn. A rtma started in a residence in Newburg, Oat., on the fith, and spread to the business (sortion of the village which was soon entirely destroyed. The loss will reach $ffis,000; insurance not’known. Hr. J. Weils was probably fatally burned. Fire started on tbe morning of the 7th in Joseph Jackson's saw mill, a part of the Grant Locomotive Works’ building at Paterson, N. J-, and soon communicated to every port of the building. Of the Grant Works nothing remains bat the erecting shop, the foundry and part of the new machine shop. The loss is estimated at f150,000, and sixJmndred bands are thrown out of employment. 1 At three o'clock on the morning of the Sth Jacob Albiec, a Well-tivdo citizen, of, Omaha. Nel>., shot his wife and then killed j himself. The wife seas shot in the right breast, the ball goin^through her U sly and lodging unde* the skin below tbe right shoulder. She was alive at last account*. Jons Oalx, aged forty, was struck on the temple by a base ball while crossing a | field in the suburbs of Brooklyn, on the sth, j where some boys were playing and died | the same night. Charles Miller, who batted the ball, has been arrested. The Hotel Arlington, at Saegertown. j Pa. six mites north of Meadville, erected j last spring at a coat of fiVl.OOO, was en- j tirely destroyed by lire on the morning of the 6th. The fire bn*e out in the kitchen. The guests, twenty-five in number, barely.! escajeel. saving nothing. The house contained sixty-fiTe rooms. brvs« th-* tornado in the^ hoharie Talley, 5. Y., on the 7th* several persons were injured. Hop yards were devastated, crops were ruined and some stock killed. Fifty barns were unroofed, and Alfred U. Gilford's bouse at Bhnthborne was de moiisheil. A dispatch from London, Ont., says: “Israel Lucas, the defaulting treasurer of WM^nin* Count v. who nbscouded August 27 last with $21,600. is sunposed to be ia thi* city with his second wife, who Bed with him to Canada and Iietective John T. Norris is here on their trail.” Heskt Hacker, aged serenty. was shot and fatally wounded at Shenandoah, Pa, on the fit hi by Nirablas Knelels. The tatter had been paying unwelcome attention to Becker’s daughter, and was ordered out of the house, but refused to go, and daring a scuffle Becker was shot. There is not much hope of Becker’s recovery. Joust Tromas Ross, known as the black “burker." was hanged on the 9th at Balti

BK»», SUL A < < Nri^jT HTiimd oa the 9th between a lergtt number of tiiUkmeii and constabulary mi Mitchell-town. Ireland, and several persons were killed and many wounded. All the Bald Enobbers at Jefferson City, Mo., except one, who jumped his bond and fled went into court on the 9th and submitted to a Verdict of guilty. CoLOVXL Tli*‘Mas O. Sl'LLT, aped seventy. for many years chief Inspector of the Ned Orleans Cotton Exchange, committed suicide on the tith drowning. Jvs. H r rmis. a German, aged fiftyeight years, shot himself in the temple on the 9th at his home in Broom street, Newark. N. J. He had been in New York far two days on a spree. The physicians say he can not lire. Tn coroner who investigated the death from poisoning of Mrs. McIntyre, of Chill, O., has entirely exonerated her' Imsband from blame, as be also came near dying from drinking from the same pot of coffee. The verdict was death from poison administered by nuknownpastiia. Srsnx SrsAmss was hanged at Table•piah, 1. T.. on the 9th in the National prison yard. He was convicted of tb« murder of Ir*ng John in the Sequoyah district last Christthas night. He showed mi sign of fear and was nsfvr to the last. A ring starting in this cellar of Timothy Brothers' dry good* store on the public square of Nashville, Tena.. on the 9th. destroyed both buddings, each three stories high. The stock of goods, valued $!?>,**», was half destroyed, ami the remainder hadlv damaged bv lire and water. Insured for*n>..«H. . f Wat lb Peter Rents, a stonecutter, formerly a resident of ht. I . mis. was at work in an excavation in Kansas City on .the 9th. a stone weighing several tons fell from above on him, crushing him into a shapeless mass and killing him instantly^ Thomas Kkllt, Michael Crowe and another man samel Walters were buried alive on the evening of the 9th. in the new aqueduct at North Yorkers, N. Y. The earth above caved in op them. . They lie under 199 feet of earth, and their is no possible chance of their having escaped instant death. Wmiilc ascending n flight of stairs in the hotel M Hurricane, a small town in Putnam County, W. Va., on the 9th, Rev. William Tally fell. A pistol in his pocket was discharged, and lie was fatally shot. The ballet entered the body near the heart and die died in a few minute*. He was thirty years old. Tn* railroad shops, store-rooms and machinery of the Chicago, St. Paul & Milwaukee road alt Yankton, Dak., were burned at midnight of the 9th, flames catching from an engine that was being denned. Two locomotivee were damaged to the extent of *1,000. Total toss. *88,000: insured. , Littlx credence is placed in the reported collision of Bosnians and Chinese on the frontier, aear Kashgar. AT n meeting of Catholic Church dignitanies, at the residence of Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore, II, on the 7th. it was determined to at once build the propoeed Catholic university at Washington. Tub railway switchmen of Indianapolis, lad, have presented a number of demands to their employers, the principal of which j are an advance of pay to the wages cur- ! rent in Chicago, and an addition of one man to each of the switching crews as now organised. Tub Spanish. authorities have discovered the existence of a well-organised and extensive Anarchist plot, and have, in consequence, made several arrests in Madrid, Salamanca and Cadis of persons whose connection with the conspiracy is beyond question. Til recent importations into Boston from Ireland of five remale spinners by Rom, Turner A Co. manufacturers of twine, thread, etc, has resulted in a suit by the United States against the Arm for violation of the United States statute prohibiting the importation of foreign labor. W-oax has been resumed on the Lexington sad Jefferson City branch -if the His

Schedcles in the assignment of Henry 8. Ires A Co. have been filed to the Seer York Court of Common PleAs. Ikey showt Liabilities, $11,686,173.16; nominal assets, $26,1*4466.37. Their equity amounts to $400,000. Their assignment bend is for $360,000. Papers nri placed in the bands of the sheriff at MUvaukee, Wi*,. on the 7th, in h Suit for a large amount, begun by the Third National Bank of New Tort against John E. Burton, the Gogebec iron king. The exact amount invoiced is not known, as the papeini could not he served.. Mr. Burton is in New York City. The New York Workingmen's assembly convention mot at Rochester ca: the 7th. ThE trouble between the Italian dele* gates to the International Medical con* gress at Washington has been amicably settled. The thirteenth anuual con rent ion of the United States Railway Mad Service Mutual Benefit Association began a tluree days’ session in Detroit, Mich., on the 6th. A LETTER has been received at the Treasury Department from General Beveridge, president of the International Military encampment At Chicago, stating that certain troops from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Belgium will arrive at New York per steumers_ Ideckly. Christiana and Rotterdam about the 28th inst., en route to Chicago, and they will leave New York October 52 on their return horn-. . Ax attachment for $300,080 *K placed upon the mills and property of the Woonsocket (R. I.) Rubber Company, on the 7th, by Thomas John Shipman G reen, of New York. The attachment is the last of three which have been issued within twenty days by the same person, and the company’s property in New York. Boston and Rhode Is, and is now under the care of the sheriff. The recent report of a revolution and an outbreak of troops iu Madrid arose from a row among the soldiers in the Montana barracks. Tfce men were forbidden to go out before th? regulation hour and they threatened to do violence to the officer who prevented them from leaving. The mutineer* have been punished. A fete in honor of the centenary of the American Constitution will be held at the Crystal palace at Sydenham, England, on | September 17. The doctors at Washington are indignant at reporis which have been sentout of their differences. The anniversary of the Battle of Chapuitepee was observed at the City of Mexico on the 8tli, with the usual ceremonies on the gallantry of the unfortunates who fell in the buttle against the American troops. A St. Johxs( Newfoundland) special of the Sth says; “Reports daily arriving from all parts of the country go to show that the gale of the 23th of August was one that will long be remember for the loss of life anl the extent of damage sustained from ii” i The bank examiner investigating the affairs of the Biddleford (Me.) Savings In^tuation, which was robbed by young McNeilly. states that he will make an official statement of the bank’s condition by September 17. He considers thnt the bank will haTe a surplus of $500,000. It is stated semi-officialty that the Russian Government, not obtaining the assent of the Powers to t he proposed mission of General Ernroth, will endeavor to gain the adhesion of the European powers to other plans for the settiemeat of the Bulgarian question. The Guion steamer Wisconsin landed at New York, mi the 8th. 416 Mormon passengers, nil of whom left immediately for Utah. They were iu charge of John Isaacs Hart,, of Utah, who has brought over - three like parties before.. In the present lot are 171 English, 178 Scandinavians and it s nail number of Germans The next International Medical Congress will be held in Berlin in 18WX Jerky Coiuxs, who is serving a life sentence in the Missouri penitentiary for wife-murder, has been recommended for pardon by the State prison inspectors. Reports have been received at the Department of State from Chili to the effect that cholera is spreading rapidly in that country. The Se#ei:ary of the Interior has suspended the restoration of the indemnity lands along the Bayfield brunch of the Chicago, St. Paul. Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad Company, pending tin* adjustment of their selections, now before the department. The casting of the stem of the new United States cruiser Charleston, now being built at Ban Francisco, has been successfully accomplished. The steel turn poet was cast June S3, but the casting of the stem was a greater feat, the latter weighing fully 10,880 pounds. It is said to be the iWgest casting ever mude oa this continen t. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

A nun of systematic customs bands b being investigated in New York. Tint International Medical congress adjourned sine die on the 10th, after a general exchange of compliments. Most of the delegates went oa a trip to Xt VerA soldiers* room Braddocfc, Fib,' on it wan tin Tailed at the 10th, with imposing Tux report of the master in the Pena Bank matter at Fittabnrgh, Fit-, states that President Riddle and those acting with him robbed the bank of {l.iSW.OOO. Tux French Gorernment is highly elated brer tee success of the recent army mobilisation experiment. Gmtm Ticmass, treasurer of the Tillage of Reading. Hamilton County. O-, is short in hi i account* f7,#0. Mis bondemen wilt mails tee town good. Tns committee of arrangements for the constitutional centennial eelebratioa in Philadelphia hare organised a medical and surgical service in view of possible casualties. The Austrian Consol at Boratmy reports teat 31,3» deaths from (Masoccurred in the province of Onde during last Hay. Tag International CTemathm congress wifi asset at Darmstadt on the HTth. Delegate* boa Boston, Cincinnati, New York, Chicago, IgfltduB’ Hamburg, Frankfort and many o< h*r cities will attend. At the cksie of the sreek ending the Mth the Detroit* found themselves in the position of a most sure winner* of the League basil ball championship, Chicago holding second; place yet, bat “by the skis of her teeth.” The gt. Louis Browns have already woa the Associatioa pennent, and the contest is now for second place. Captain Ooaaiakey of tlie Browns, broke his thumb at Philadelphia on tee 10th. Fit* saw mills were burnetii at Minneapolis, Mina., on the night cf tee Rite. Loss ; insurance unknown. Tbs statement of the Canadian politic debt, inst is used, shows the total net debt oa August 31 to have been t2K.tM.tel. as increase sines Jane 30 of Porteb & Satasb’s tannery and boot and shoo factory at Montreal, Can., were boned oa the 10th, involving a loss, of over $XK>,00Ci. Three hundred hands are thrown oat of employment. Tost Beit, tee famoas Irish comedian, s afflicted jiaralysis of tbs glosaodabinl caused, it Is said, by the sensed in the “make-up” of his _He hasn’t had much luck siuce ie left Ned HarriganPbomixkxt Fenians of Now York, Booon and Paterson, N. J-, denounce CKDonvam Rosa for having reveal ed secrete of he order, which were pabUshed in one of he New Y ork dailies las n farmers’ meeting , Cwt-.o» the 10th.

INDEMNITY LA IDS. Cireds - I 1H store*! I Mil* railb4«n%LH4i-Tt> H«kl>«rAn Parties to be Cmreiully GW« led. \V4sHrF0T0x, Sept. 7.—i ding Secretary Muldrow of the Interim Department yesterday- issued a circular in answer to many inquiries about thsi lection ef indemnity railroad lands, run* ltly motored to the public domain. The secretary, in this explanatory circular, ays: ,4The order of revocation and r storatioi includes all the lands within 1 e indemnity limits of the grants, except =ueh lands as may be covered by approve* selection, by which is meant selection- wl '.'ll hare been examined and approved b the commissioner of this odjlce, and tty Secretary of the Interior. It is provk -d, howover, that the ofder of restore tioi shall not affect rights acquired by gr xtees within tbe primary or granted Urn i of any other Congreesioaal grant. A s t v ands rovered by -unapproved selectio s, applicattous to make filings and entries, may be received, no* 1 and held subject to the claim of th comp ary. of which claim the applicant must be distinctly informed and menu anda thereof entered upon the {taper. 1 henever such application to file or ente is presented alleging upon sufficient pri ■* facie s howing that the land is not fr a any cause subject to the company’s 1 ght of selection, notice will be given *> the proper representative of the cw pany, which will be al lowed thirty day alter service of tbe notice. with: which to present objections to till allowance of filing or entry. Should the company fail to responds or show <1 -ise before the district land officers why t- se application should ,no* be allowed, the pplication for filing or entry will be adn Wed. sel the selection held for cancel la: n; but should the company appear and tow cause, an investigation will be orvb ~ed under the rules of practice to deterns se whether the lan*l is subject to the rig ts of the company to make selection of I :e same-, 'which will be determines! by the 1 gister and receiver, subject to the rig * of appeal in either party. When appeals are take from tbe decision of the register and receiver to this office in the class Of cases ibove provided for, they will be disposed ' withou t delay, and if the decision should be in favor of the companv and no ap>eel taken, the land will be certified to III e Secretory of the Interior for approval 1 >r patent without requiring further actio • on the part of the companv, except the | ayment of the required fees. It the dec don should be adverse to the company, a td no appeal be taken, tbe selection will b cancelei and the filing or entry allowed subject to compliance with law. Lands which have not 1> en select'd will be subject to settlement and rntry as other public lands and n< dice to the company will not be required. The secretary's order revoking said ftylenmity withdrawal takes effect from the date of the i ssue. so as to open tbe >nds to settlement, but filings and » dries of these lands will not he receives: until notice of the restoration shall ha - t*een given by public advertisement for s period of thirty days it being the intend n of the order of revocation that, ns .gainst actual settlement made there :ftor, lit* orders of the departrn at withdrawing the lands shall no lo fger he. an obstacle, Sights both of til > company and of settlers attaching pri > to the issue of the secretary’s order, will be determined by the farts in each case The restoration as ordered is to entry nw *r the C eneral land laws relating to sett "ment-’* THE TARIFF CONFERENCE: Efforts In Progress at Ms clow to Iferfcvt a Tariff Measure to ITS* at to degress in Deeembar. WiSHiviTOV, Sept. 7.- The tariff con ference at Oak View is sa d to be still it progress. Secretary Fai r ihild and RepresentatTe Scott, of Penn? Irani*, arrived here Sfoudav and joined t se President and Speaker Carlisle yesterei y. Mr. Randal arrived in town last niglc : but whether he I will participate in the o uference or not : is not known. In an int< view yesterday ; afternoon, when asked if be came here to I attend the conference, he said that: he had ' uot come here on any m:.* ion, and that he I intended to return to Phi vdelphia as soon as he placed his boy in « bool. Ho spoke of the recent Pennsvlvanii Democra tic convention with manifest gin tification. and is pleased with the platfcr sa and with the spirit of harmony and 1 iergy that pervades his part v in the St *.e. The Star, speaking * the conference says: “The Administrati x plan is almost complete, and when it its vadv it will contain every point of cos ession tltey are

willing to make. Thu* • ui oe anwith Mr. Randall, and w it* it is iwesible that sons* slight change light be made at bis suggestion, if theeeb; they w »re sure of securing his ceop«n -ion. It is likely that in the main, the phu will be adhered to, and he will be put £ the atti ude of opposing the Admiaist den if he at* tempts to block their p liey in tl is matter. It is a patty mergence that witt require all their . statesmanship to meet. The situation is anomalous, and just s hat attitude Mr. Raadall may assume is i matter of doubt. The bill as mapped oot certain!? makes a considerable concessi > t to him Irons the attitude of the majority of the p».rty last winter, the question is ‘ ' bet her he wiil be content to accept the e» i promise. There is a poesibilitr that *a underslanding between him sailfr.Sttt was reached at the Pennsyirania cc Tention, bat this is a matter about whk* nothing can be learned at thia time. Tw he Made al Pwst-O Wamuxgto.t. Sept. 7.--Acting I'ostma*-ter-6eneral Stevenson as directed that the following twentTs.; fourth-c!saw jjoatoOces be made Presides ini on October I: Anaheim, Cal.: Hana ad, Ind.: Kingslev, la.: Ammondale, O ghtou. Eltiiawood, Meade Center, Sees f'Sty, Scott, Smith Center and Syracuse, K;«s.;Fox Cfot,Me.: Manchester, Mass.: AI*in, Charleroi* and Komar. Mich.; Chari wton. Mo.; Bay Strings and Nelson, Helvj Homes toad and SharpsTiUa, Pa.; Johnson City, Tran.; Texarkana. Tut.; Maa theater and Pocahontas, Va^ and Hurley. Wis. Pt-TOtAT, (X, Sept. T.—-A U jMtWtoea special from Rawson, a Tillage line miles from here, says; Fire started in Rose baugh & Crossley** m mill about eleven o’clock yesterday mom ig.nnd ay read rapidly until it seemed as i f the entire Tillage would be destroyed. Tndlay ’res telegraphed to for help, aad sent a steamer, and about four s’dod; the Sre was got* under control. Among the boil fugs destroTed were the post-office aid a large grain elevator contain ng over i vro thou- ■ • hels of wheat- There were ten and Jwelm dwelling looses de- * loss of .180,000; — to Tato ea Isn l Lxxitgton, Mo., Sep*. k-ITus the County Court convened yesterday the petition praying for an ebictioa onthe LocalOption measure was pr -sented. The court “ matter 1 rows both 1 making any deciThfe action was end whether it will be ordain id fused is hard to determine. Th> ad askod only, as a far the city, » the ms aott. Ths is <1 (erred tie weeks,

WEATHER AND CROPS. Ml signal Office Weet hcr-C.-op It title tin*rmu Ktportml tat North Carolina and Killing tnnts in Central Mlraaota. Upper Michigan amt Northern Vermont. Washington, Sept. 12,—The signal office weekly weather-crop bulletin issued yesterday, says: During the week ending September 10, the weather has been slightly colder than usual in the ILake region. Middle Atlantic and South Allan tic States, and warmer than usual in the Missouri, Central Mississippi and Lower Ohio Talleys, being from 19 to 40 deg. above the normal. The daily average temperature (or the season from January 1 to September 10, differs less than 1 deg. from the normal for all the sections excepting that' in Colorado, Kansas, Indian Territory, Northern Texas, Southern portions of Missouri, Indiana and Illinois, and in portions of Kentucky and Tennessee it varies from 1 to S deg. above the normal, and along Lake Superior from 3 to 3 deg. below the normal. During the week the rainfall has been slightly in excess of the normal in Northeastern New York, Southern Michigan and portions of Kansas. Nebraska Dakota and Colorado; otherwise there has been slight deficiency, amounting to one inch or more along the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Deficiency for the season exists from the upper lakes to the Lower Missouri valley. Gulf States and Soutli Atlantic States, and continues greatest— • little above ten inches—in Iowa, southern portion of Illinois and the Lower Mississippi Talley. During the past month over one hundred percent, of the usual amount of rain has. fallen in the northern portion of Ness England, New York, Central North Carolina, Southern Michigan, Northern Illinois, and ftom the southern portions of Dakota and Minnesota southward to Eastern Texas. Less than fifty per cent, of the usual amonnt of rain has fallen along the South Atlantic coast, in the Eastern Gulf States, Lower Mississippi valley. Southern Ohio, Central Illinois,' Eastern Missouri and the northern port ions of Lower Michigan. During the past week the weather has been reported as favorable to growing crops in Massachusetts and North Carolina, and unfavorable in Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama abd South Carolina. In the corn growing region the crop is reported to have been harvested and the low average in Nebraska, as out of danger from frosts in Minnesota,and more rain needed for late corn in Central and Western Kansas; cutting in progress in Michigan. The weather is reported to have been too dry in the cotton region of South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi and damaged by worms in Mississippi. In the tobacco regions of, Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio the deficiency in rainfatl is reported to have been injurious, while in North Carolina the weather has been favorable. Pastures are rejiorted good in Nebraska, as improved in Minnesota, Michigan and Northern Illinois, and as dried up in Southern Illinois. Light frost is reported to have injured sweet potatoes in Northwestern North Carolina on the 2d. and as having occurred in Northern Illinois on the 8th. Killing frosts were reported on the 10th from Central Minnesota and I'pper Michigan, and on the morning of the 11th from Northern Vermont. c AN EMINENT SUCCESS. PresMent Davis* Opinion of the Recent International Medical Congress—The Work Considered hjr Eminent foreign Delegates of Great Scicntitie Value. Washixgtox, Sept. ill.—Dr. Davis, of Chicago, president of the International Medical congress, which adjourned yesterday, speaking after the adjournment of the work of the congress, said the meeting had proved an eminent success. “In point of numbers.” he said, “it has exceeded all past congresses except that at London in 1881. It has more than doubled the number of delegates of any of the other seven. It is the ninth congress. Of the other eight five had less than a thousand delegates. The sixth had 1,200. The seventh, which was that of London, had a few ovei *,000. The eighth, at Copenhagen, had 1,224. The number of delegates to this congress, as ascertained from the register to* day, is 2,750, with the possible difference of half a 'dosen either way. Tims, in point of numbers, you see, it is only second out of nine. But another thing is to be considered, which will show that there were more delegates from abroad here than at any previous congress, 'London not excepted. Of the 3,000 in London LW0 were of that great city. Could Waslungton have furnished 1.100 local delegates the number here would hare greatly exceeded the number at London. T» judge definitely of the success from a scientific standpoint the records must all be compiled; the whole matter Is so scattered out in

But the presidents oi tne sections assure tne that the amount ol business before them was immense. They haul acre, actually, than they could handle. and manv of the papers were of great ralue. It might be possible that these men were prejudiced in favor of their own sections. But I hare other Terr competent testimony. Many of the most distinguished of the foreign delegates, men who are competent to judge, hare come tc me and said that the work of this congress has been of great scientific ralue. Among those who hare thus voluntarily expressed this opinion I might name Sir James Grant, of Canada: Dr. Martin, of Berlin; Dr. Hewitt and Prof. Phillips, of “There will, of course.” he added,‘Hie a rest amount of work preparing for the publication of the proceedings. But we hare a eery competent committee on publication. and they hare already begun well on their work. The president and secretaries of the rerioas sections hare to assist them. They hare men among them who are profteent in French and German, and they hare the authority to employ competent persons to assist in reading the proofs in the different languages ’to guard against errors. Still it will tales some time to complete the publication. It was ore# two years before the proceedings of the Copenhagen congress were out, and over a year before these of Imadlon were issued. But our contracts are ill made androodpromisew assured, ami I shall he greatly disappointed if we do not hare “ ^mblicaiiou read y to delire, within _Swteeford'ft Alleged Ktoflcit. Drrnorr, Mich.. Sept. li-Tho suit of the State against Gorernor. A. P. Swineford, of Alaska, will be brought on in the Circuit Court at Marquette this r eek, testimony haring been taken tt Grand Rapids the past few days. Swine ford was one of Michigan's commissioners to the Raw Orleans Exposition and had ths handling of the funds. It was alleged by certain parties that ha failed to account for som of the moneys, and AttorneyGeneral I- Taggart brought soil for the amount of thealleged deficit—$750. Swineford and his friends claim that it rs simply an attack br Republican State officials tc make political capital. A Swindle la Chips. Visbcictos, Sept. 12.—While the i cal congress was here last week,* non her at alleged guides who congregated agpund the Washington monument, drove a thriving business, and made considershie money, selling pieces of marble to the visitors in the city with the re]>resentatbn chips were pieetn of the These mementoes., which probably beat picked ip front round, sold readily at fifty cento When the strangers exhibited their to the local doctors, the latter a swindle had ' tt»

IMPOTENT WRATH ill Epiiode Dm to tko Distoval Tmlfc of Tattio u« fankw. A Wheeling editor, daring the recent meeting of the Grand Army of West Virginia, flung to the breeze a banner with the pious motto: “God bless our President, Commander-ia-Chief of the army and the navy.” Tire loyal if perfervid sentiment, accompanied by vrhat passed for a portrait of the present Chief Magistrate, was the signal for rebellion uj*on the part of certain Foraker-led members of the Grand Army who were parading the streets. To avoid passing under the flaunting banner they executed a Sauk movement, and the better to emphasize their dissent from the proposition that the President be blessed they trailer! the colors which they had sworn by the God of Battles she,aid never mingle with the dust. Other marching hosts having, it may be fancied, different party associations, piressed straight on, lifting their helmets in token of loyalty under the counterfeit, the very poor counterfeit, | no doubt, of the President of the | U liited States. i The episode is distinctly disgraceful, yet it would serve little. purpose to waste epithets upon its blameworthy actors, for manifestly it but anticipates, tire inevitable in a Presidential campaign precipitated by the particular politicians who profess themselves guardians-in-chief of veteran interestT. Am oiganizalion designed for beneficent ends, social and benevolent, becomes, under the leadership of selfseekers, a rampant propaganda of partisan aims. The better to assure asceudency over the membership the directory does not hesitate to appeal to sordid and degrading passions by promise of general aid to every soldier regardless of the length or merit of his “service. Uumindful of the fact that, as in duty bound, the President has given full effect to liberal pension laws, lie is charged by the manipulators of the organization as a foe to veterans. Self-respecting members of the Grand Army of the Republic, whatever their yiolitical affiliation, may resent the obvious making of the organization a cat’s-paw to rake politicians’ chestnuts from the fire, bat the fact remains that as an organization west of the Ohio the army is in the grip of officehunters using it for their own ends. The episode at Wheeling was the outcome of Tuttle preachments, and is | the forerunner of the noisier demon- • st rations of detestation of the President which will be made a feature of ithecampaign next year. Abler manipulation of this class—a mere fragment, by the way, of the great body of electors, who are innlfned to honor the veteran only as he respects himself—would have maneuvered to assign a more respectable motive for opposition to the President than his veto of a pension tjpysure. l'he piresent management has sue-’ ceeded in giving the petulant exhibitions of hatred for a vetoing President the aspect of malignancy from baffled mendicants. To this ignoble pass mischievous political management has led the Grand Army. From iguoniiny such as this the organization, if it possess the strength it claims, may find relief: by entering polities with a vengeance. Three years ago some of its members proposed the nomination of one of themselves for the Presidency. The plan was thwarted. A civilian who, like Cleveland. had sent a substitute to the war, became the nominee of the party with which the bulk of ’ the Grand Army membership allies itself If they would now demonstrate a power to make and unmake Presidents, to be masters in politics instead of tools, they may inspire a respect which their present subserviency to tuppeny schemers forbids by compelling the party of their choice to make a veteran its candidate. There would be virile force in such a programme. When they will have made a candidate of their own they may have, more heart in assailing Cleveland, and, possibly, a better method than the impotent and puerile demonstration at Wheeling.— i Ckteago Htral>i.

THE POPULAR PARTY. Am h«i>u Kdltar r»l>» Why Dnnmatf Ww Viciw.us In 1S7S uhI 1SS4. Since its-—under the circumstances— overwhelming defeat at the polls nearly throe years ago, the Republican, party has been trying to convince itself and the outside win'd that that defeat was the result of an accident, or accidents. and as a consequence the merest incidents, unimportant either in themselveS or their rotations, hsre been marshaled together and paraded as the causes of fhe party’s disastrous defeat In this way Brother Burehawt’s unfortunate alliteration ©a the eve of the battle in New York has been made to do duty as one of the principal causes of Blaine’s defeat There are other incidents equally as trilling that have been used in the same way and fat the same purpose. The closeness of the vote in certain localities like New York and New Jersey makes this theory seem plausible, ami yet never was there a theory so unfounded. The history of this country from itsi beginning shows that the sentiment of its people, when in a normal condition, is favorable to the principles underlying the Democratic party. If accidents have played a part in politics at all the Republicans have been the gainers by them rather than the losers. The abnormal has always boon the benedeiarj* of accidents, not the normal Had it not been for accidents and Wanders the Democratic party would not have lost power in I860, and had B not been for the abonual condition of affairs following the suppression of the rebellion the Democratic party would hare been returned to power yearn before it was. The talk about accidents defeating the Republican party is the sheerest nonsense. The people had been ready to restore the Democrats to power long before Blaine’s defeat, and were only prevented from doing it by systematic misrepresentation on the part of the Republican.. The wkr had left the public mind in an excited, airnormal condition that was easily affected by pectdeittei «r *w#e»tel

causes. Thera to bo doubt that at tha dose of the war the Northern people feared to trust the Democratto party with power. IL was but a natural fear considering the abuse of that power that some of tha party’s Southern leaders, urged on by State pride, had but just been guilty of. That fear in the excited state of the public mind was augmented by the monstrous falsehoods concocted by the Republican press which invested incidents of Southern life, that now pass unnoticed, into outrages horrible, and new treasons. The Democratic party lived through it all, however, because it was founded upon principles that were undying, and lived down the errors of its leaders. ■ The people, though they feared some influences in it, never wholly lost confidence in the Democratic party. The people were inclined to trust it long before the Tilden campaign and did trust it in some States, but blunders by some of its leaders Mage rated by the old fear, which was kept alive by Republican falsehoods, succeeded in aiefeating it in Presidential contests until 1878. Titden’s well known wisdom and conservatism allayed doubt and fear and restored faith in the party. That he was elected and defrauded of the prize he had won is known to the whole world. Eight years later Cleveland’s conservative cominou sense banished the fear and do ubt of Democracy that yet remained in the public mind and be carried his party to success. -The people believed he was stronger than any evil influence that might still reside in his party and they trusted him. Neither Brother Burchard nor Roscoe Conkling elected him. The people did it because they believed that the Democratic party, under a wise leader, was the best party to trust with the future of this Republic. The Republican party, apparently blind to the fact that it has been repudiated by the people, is laying its plans for 1888 upou the theory that the defeat of ’81 was the result of accident. That that is not true seems evident to us; but it is probable our Republican friends will not realize the falseness of their theory until they have once more tasted of defeat—Watikuh (lml.) Times. ___ I A MERITED COMPLIMENT. 4 Loyal Unuut Army Men Celt* in Hoanrtag a CaaaciMliaaa «Mcial. Among the officials of the Government who have distinguished them- ■! selves by the magnificent record they have made in improving the efficiency of the servtec and introducing much needed economy in management is j General Join C. Black. Commissioner of Pensions. Since he has been at the head of the Pension Bureau, more work has been done than ever before in the same length of time; appliea- : turns have been more promptly considered and acted upon, anil notwithstanding the great addition to the labors of the bureau the clerical foree has been materially reduced under the present Commissioner. It is the fashion on the part of the Republic in organs and stay-at-home patriots generally to sneer at the work done by General Black; but it is very warmly appreciated by the soldiers.

A pleasant exunwition oi tne aeeung of the soldiers toward the Commissioner was showa in Brooklyn the other evening on the occasion of a reception given to Gsneral Black, under the auspices of the G~and Army of the Republic. The veterans gave three rousing cheers for him, at the suggestion of the chairman, as “the man who always gave the soldier the benefit of the doubt.*’ In his speech the General spoke of the fact that even in foreign countries veterans to the number of 1,70© are drawing the reward for their service to this country, and said that the Republic does not ask where a veteran goes, but what he may suffer.. “If the time has come,” continued General Black, “for rewarding those who had fought and escaped injury, then the laws must be passed in moderation. I do not, however, believe that the Republic would reward persons who had obtained honorable discharges on mean grounds, or those who had been considered as bounty jumpers. The Grand Army of the Republic is received everywhere with honor, and their organisation iia a church teaching the truths of a comnon religion. in which all the virtues had typromimnt place.” Noteworthy speeches were made by General Daniel E. Sickles and Corpora! Tanner. The former said: “Hts (General Black’s) presence hero calls to'my mind the fear that 1 had when there was a change in the Administration. Three years ago this was brought about, and not only myself but others feared that the pension laws would not be administered with that sympathy or cordiality which had been previously done. I have been thoroughly convinced that whatever party may be in power the claims of the veterans will always be recognised. It is gratifying to know that the party in power to-day has just as much sympathy with the veterans as its predecssaor. I do not believed that any name should be placed on the pension roll—the roll of honor—unless he has done faithful service.” Corporal Tanner, whose Republicanism will not be questioned anywhere, showed by his remarks how silly the Republican organs are who carp at the commissioner. Said he: “1 am glad to ho one of the persons to welcome John G. Black to the city of Brooklyn. I' honor him as a soldier, his work as a man and his record as a Commissioner of best we ever hr* ”