Pike County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 27, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 November 1887 — Page 1

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[OKAS. CAUDA. A. 4 lOnTCIHT. POSEY * HONEYCUTT; ATTORNEYS AT LAW Fttonkwg, UL Will practice In all the court* Alibi_ jywnpuy attended to. A Notary Public eon- °*°* oT*rrrma,r * *■ *■ •'*«»*«oeos. A. n TATLOA <1 ^ RICHARDSON * TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG. IND, Prompt attention siren to nil business. A Notary l'ubjlceonitnntly In the office, office In Carpenter Building, mb and Bain. u. a. klt. . 4. nr. wils/im. ELY A WILSON. Attorneys at Lawf PETERSBURG, IND. •POftice in (he linnk Uuildlng.H , T. S. A E. SMITH f teaecessora to Doyle A Thompson) Attorneys at Law, • Real Estate, Loan & Insnrance Agts. Office, second Hour Bank Building, Peters- '■ burg. Ind The best Fire and Idle Insurance Comp* ■lea n pn'VDii d Money lo loan oil ISref ■ mortgain s at aeren and eight per cent. Prompt attention to colic.lions, and all busin gs Intrusted to us. If. r. fuwKtsMi. maet ruttu '< 1 , Kim is Sul in. / TOWNSEND, FLEEHER 4 8MITE, Attorneys at Law l AND REAL ESTATE A&EWTS, PETERHBURO, • - INDIANA. Office, orer Gas Frank'* store, Special attention given to Collections, Buy lo t and belling i-an*)*, Kxamiuing Titles and Farnletilng Abetrart*. y R. R. KIMK. M. D.. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG. IND. i Office, over'Barrett A Sen's store; reetstrn.e op Seventh street, three s-juarc* south of Main, t ails promptly attemted to, day or -night. I ' J. R DUNCAN. V Physician and Surgeon j. PETERSBURG, . IND. Office on first floor Carpenter Bolldlng. c. B. BLACKWELL, M. t>T, < KCLEOTIC Physician and Surgeon, Omc*. Main strwrt. between 6th and Tth Model Dm# More. . PETEUNlU’BG, : INDIANA. Will practice Medicine. Surgery an 1 Obstetric* la town nnd country. and wilt visit any part uf the country In consultation. Chronic diseases successfully treated. -

Resident Dentist, FKTERHBURW, 1ND. ALL WORK WARRANTED. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, f J. E. TURNER, Proprietor.. PETERSBURG, IND. Putld^ wUhtn* work ion* >1 IW, P* <*nort (ill l**r* order* at thfrifcif, la Dr Adam,’ new t n.ldmf. rear of Adaae 0 Son't inn Wore CITY HOTEL Under Hew Management. • XjHWXS WATTaProp. Cor. EteUtb and Mata Sta. opp Court - houee. I PKTF.R8BITRO. IND. The City Hotel la centrally located, flrattlaula all Ita appointments, and the bear and cheapen! hotel tn the city.

Sherwood House, i Vnder New Jiana*tjacnt. B1SSKLL A TOWNSEND. Prop're. . First and Ixx-aa btitfU Evansville, : : Indiana. RATES, $2 PER DAY. Sam»U Rootis for Co«morolal Mm. HYATT HOUSE; Waakiagtra. latb I Centrally Located, and >tnt-ctnas rXHRT HYATT, PsTitnuiciiU. • - Indiana. CHARLES SCHAEFER, Proprietor. Loral I tn the business part of town. Tn tn - r aaoaabte. A food Bar, ebotca Lkiuora. obacro and Cigars. Corner Seventh an<: -VaJnnt at recta. Wh n st Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE First-Class in All Raspaeta. Han. Lou Haebis and Auto* Hoanau Proprietors. Ban. K. RoasKTKx. Jini J. Mosoa*. tala of Cincinnati. Lata of WaablagtotMad, HOTEL ENGLISH, i BOSSETER A MORGAN. Learnt On tlie < ircie. Indianapolis, Ind. Elegant.Table. Servlee and Oe liertor. Location Croat Reduction tn tba pHaa at SADDLES, 1AMSS, ETCJTC.

NEWS IN BRIEF Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AMS POLITICAL. Plymouth CmiBCH, Brooklyn, at ■ mooting on the night of the 15th, voted to ektend a call to Ret. Charles Berry, of Wolverhampton, England, to All the vacancr canoed by the death of Henry Ward Beecher. His salary is $10,003. The once famous patent medicine king. Dr. H. T. Helrabold, was arrested in the street in New York, on the 15th, helplessly intoxicated, and at the request of his son was sent to Belleroe Hospital. , Caruthersi late pitcher of the 8t Louis Browns, declares he has qnit professional bell-playing forever, and that under no > circumstances will he again play with St. I-ouis, because of his unfriendly relations with Mr. Von der Ahe. ■ Ok the 15th Charles Cavanan, a porter, j died at the Chambers Street Hospital, ! New York, from a genuine case of hydrophobia He frothed at the mouth when water was offered him, and went into convulsions which were horrible to witnesa He was bitten bjfca dog October & Sink.’ Margaret Ekgel, living in Racine, tVia, claims to have been the lawful wife of Engel, the Anarchist. She claims to have recognised the Anarchist as her husband by pictures and by the published descriptions. Ok the 17th the Caar started on bis visit to St. Petersburg. Because of bribery committed by bis agents, Archibald Campbell, member of the Dominion Parliament for Kent County, Out., has been unseated. Ok the HUH a monument to General John G. Breckinridge was unvaiied at Lexington, Ky. Ok the 10th an indictment was returned by tbe United States grand-jury at St. Louis against C. C. Crecellus, cashier of the defunct Fifth National Bank. He is under $30,030 bond. The next House of Representatives at Washington wilt contain 180 Democrats, 153 Republicans and 4 Independents. On the 18th Ring Humbert opened tbe Italian' Parliament. In his speech be dwelt with much pride of expression on l the recent achievements of the Italian army and navy. Dispatches from San Remo say that on t he night of the 14th there as a discharge yellowish mnens from the Crown Prince’s larynx^ which afforded great relief. The swelling has subsided. Ok tbe 18th. Michael Davitt, speaking i at Limerick, said O’Brien’s life was far ! tab precious to be sacrificed in a dispute about clothes. If he died in jail his countrymen would know bow to avenge him. Ok the 18th Dr. G. H. Martin, a member of tbe revolutionary party that overthrew Ring Kalakua III Hawaii, was interviewed at Pittsburgh, Pa. He speaks hopefully of the Hawaiian outlook, A court-martial met at the New York ’ Navy Yard <>n the 17th for the trial of Lieutenant Kmeroy H. Tant on charges of absence from duty without leave, diso bedienoe of orders and scandalous conduct.

I MMDtvr Clevklahd ha* accepted the miff net ion of Lend Commissioner Sparks, accompanying tbs acceptance with a letter which is to be made public if Mr. Sparks chooses. Mrs. Elisabeth Smith, relict of Sol Smith, the actor, died in 8L Louis on the ITth. Prehideht CunuilD'i letter accepting the resignation of Land Commissioner Sparks has been made public. Ttrroo Tut is reported to hare been guilty of treachery toward Stanley in Africa. Oh the 17th Herr Moat was arrested and Jailed in Sew York because of bit fiery anarchiai utterances on the night of the llth A Hartford (Conn.) congregation is much agitated over an Anarchist sermon preached by the pastor. Her. J. C. Kimhall. Thr decoration of the Order of Osmanli hat been conferred ntion Prince Victor Emanuel, the Prince Royal of Italy, by the Saltan of Turkey. The decoration is aet i with diamonds. Cowatsoh, the man who was recently arrested at Greenock, Scotland, on landing from a steamer from America, because he had dynamite cartridges in hie possession, has been released. Oh the 17th William Saunders, the alleged London rioter, was released without prosecution, the Queen's counsel deciding that there was no case against him for hit conduct on the 11th. Grhrral Valrhtihk Baker, who in 1S73, while holding the appointment of ass is tan t Quartermaster-General at Aidershot. England, was competed to tears tike service on being found guilty of a misdemeanor, is dead. Hs was fifty-two years bid. > * Oh the 17th M. Henry Rochefort, the editor of V Tmtraatuttant, fought a duet with (words with M. Marmack, the editor of the Cri da JV«pie. The latter was wounded. The encounter was the result of a quarrel over General Boulanger. Ih his annual report to the Secretary of the Navy Commodore J. G. Walker, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, strongly urges the formation of a naval reserve, to be composed of men who have seen service from the. merchant marine, sea and lake coasting trade, fishermen, light-house and life-saving servioee, and from yachtsmen.

auk v mat ut nmvii wtitwi ovtiio un the 18th, end wet appropriately received, i SmTM FockVaIH H. KrrcBt'M, of 8L . Louie, was found guilty on the 18:h in the United States Ccurt of illegal registration. | Lord Lrrron has been elected lord rector of Glasgow (Scotland) University. Gxkkral Armstrong says Sitting Ball caused all the trouble with the Crows. Mr. Parxiu, has decided to make no speeches during the recess of Parliament. Th* Union Labor party of W isconsln | promptly tabled a resolution condemning I the banging of the Anarchists. W>. Cordon, a prominent nationalist, was sentenced at Uitcbellstown, Ireland, oa the 18th, to one month’s imprisonment at hard labor for intimidation. Pmor. S. P. UtouT has been elected secretary of the Smithsonian Institution nt Washington, to succeed the late Prof. & F. Baird. 3oXR J. Brrsijr, the well-known Irish i patriot, died at New York, on the 18th, of j disease of the liver. Job ass Most has been released on $L600 bail. When Most was arraigned la the Court of General Sessions in New York, on the 18th, the room was fairly 1 Ailed with Aaarchist sympathisers. The | case is set for the 38th. > Attorsits consulted are of the opinion {that Dr. Richmond, who escaped from 1 the St. #oe (Mo.) asylum, can not be taken back there after getting beyond the State lint. Tam Pope has nominated a commission to examine bis project to found aa extensive philanthropic iastitotioa for the benefit of the working classes, to eommem orate the jubilee. He propose# that the sum of **»e,0J0 be raised to start the iastitotioa. Tax oAoe of the first assistant Secretary of State has been tendere<Pbr Secretary Bayard, to G. T. Rives, of the New York bar, and accepted. Mr. Rives is of a Virginia family. His grandfather eras a Senator from Virginia and twice American Minister to Paris. Tax general term of the Supreme Coart at New York, on the 18th, refused to admit Hong Yen Chaag, a young Chinaman, as a member of the bar, he hating passed an examination. His appi cation was denied on |hp*Toax<S that fee was not a dti

Ppia returns of the recent election hi Virginia for member* of the General Assembly shows that the complexion of tho new body will be as follows: Senate: Democrats, 26; Republicans, 14. Honse: Democrats, 61; Republicans, SI; Independent, 1. Democratic majority on joint ballot, 34, Fresh alarm has been canted by the announcement that the German Crown Prince's malady’s is undoubtedly soft cancer, and that the pus discharged.contains cancer cells of the very worst kind. Ji the tumor continues to discharge a large quantity of matter its growth may be retarded, but the worst fears ars entertained. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. The Celestial Government has canceled the banking and other concessions made to Count Mitkiewics and an Americsm syndicate. Oh tbe 15th Joseph J. Segnsr, a German attending business college at Omaha, Net)., blew out his brains because his stepfather would not pay him $400 which he owed him. The young man s ente! money to pay college expenses and marry his sweetheart. The packing-house of the Hancock Chemical Works at Hancock, Mich., was blown np on ths 16th and six men killed. Tbe building was utterly demolished. The steamer Wah-Yeung was destroyed by fire recently in the Canton river. About four huudred persons are supposed to have been lost: Is the Lingg inquest at Chicago the coroner’s jury found thut he came to hit death by “the explosion of a bomb, said bomb being exploded by bit own band with suicidal intent.” UxJbe lG:h Mr. Jennings, foreman on the high bridge being built at Dubuque, la., while lifting a pin of iron on the top of the pier on shore, stumbled and fella distance of thirty feet, and was painfully injured. It is thought be will recover. Ox the night of the 15th a special through freight train ran into the rear end of the regular through freight on the Vandalia row!, near SeeleyviUe, lnd.,a.nd a caboose and four box-cars filled with merchandise were wrecked, and, with the special engine, were totally burned. The last fiscal year was marked by many casualties in the railway mall service. There were 534 derailments or wrecks of postal trains. Three postal clerks were killed, 45 seriously and 7! slightly injured. Ox the 17th a roost remarkable fight occurred near Seqnin island, off the At* lisntic coast, between seamen and a finback whale, three seamen being killed. Ox the 17th Mrs. J. T. Hastley, of Nebraska City, Neb., committed suicide by taking morphine. Cause, domestic unhappiness. By the falling of the walls of the Everson building at Syracuse, N. T., on the 17th, two workmen were killed and another is missing. Ox the 17th Dominick Massat feU 900 feet down the Hecla shaft of the Calumet and Hecla mine at Ishpeming, Mich., and was instantly killed. He leaves a large family in destitute circumstances.

V.l IBP IBIU VSpUliB VTrWB BUU iWU miners (ell (rom the topo( the shaft* house in the Anvil mines at Bessemer, Mich., to the bottom of the shaft. The two miners were instantly killed and Captain Green is not expected to recover. i Ox the l<th a fire at Bloomington, Neb., destroyed a targe dry goods and clothing store, the First National Bank building and oontenjts. a hardware store, drug store, post-oHies and, contents, and the Guard office and contents. Loss, $60,000; insurance, $15,000. Bt an explosion of gasoline at Phiiadel* phia, on the night of the 17th, in the building used by the Edison Electric Light Company as a storage house for tools and gasoline lamps, used by the workmen, fourteen men were seriously, and it is feared some of them fatally burned. ' i On the 17th n scaffold at the power* house of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Traction railway feiL Four men were thrown to the ground, n distance of about thirty feet, and two of them. J. Bvron and James Ogden, were fatally crushed. The others, J. Conrad nnd F. Zimmerman, sustained painful cuts and bruises. A D«*T*rcTlv« Ire occurred at Jmdlow, Ky., near Cincinnati, on the 18th, the loss amounting to $173,000. Lemma have come to light showing conclusively that Captain Mills, the Detroit (Mich) tug-master, first, murdered Mrs. Rising nnd then shot himself. A shootixo affray occurred in a sjiloou at Glenwood Springs, Col., on the 18th, between Frank Smith and Charles Baker, gamblers. Smith will die. Daring the shooting a bystander named James Mattisoo waa instant ly’ killed by n stray bailee Baker Is in JalL Ax engine ami. one coach jumped the brack on the South branch of the Vandalia railroad near Brasil, lad., on the 18th. The passengers barely escaped before the coach was consumed by fire. Engineer Tetton was killed and B'akeman Robertson seriously injured. The road is operated by the KvantVilie ft Indianapolis Company.

■ncnuition. Kitouti forest Ore* are r*i>or**d from Arluwa and Tnimsw. SpaIv has seised the island of fere jit, near Centa. oa whlrh the intiads to erect a 1 fgbthouaa. Tito Hoar* are excited orer the aeizore. Tax Farmers’ Alliance of Texas hare decided to at o>» begin the con* tract too of a *300,000 cotton mill at Marble Falls, Tex. Ti'tsut, November 16, eat ■‘divorce day” in the St Joe (Mo.) Circuit Court, and twenty casos were ground oat in an average time of fifteen minute* each. Os the 16th the anti-organ convention, with delegate* bom United Presbyterian churches in various cities of the country, opened at Dayton. O., with a sermon by Rev. D. 8. Lit till, of Allegheny City, Pa. Sivtu weather having set in at St Petersburg, vessels are leaving to avoid being ice bound. Tax New York grand-jury has indicted, for conspiracy, the members of the Shoemakers’ Assembly, Knights of Labor, for demanding and securing the discharge of a foreman in one of the shops. Well*, Faroo ft Co. have secured traffic arrangements over the satire Atchison system. The National pensloa committee Of the Grand. Army of the Republic lin New York, oa the 16th, at a meeting out;lined a pension measure to be presented to Congress at the next session, including a disability bill which will provide for the equalisation >sf disability pensions for veterans’ widows and severely-maimed Tbs statement Is published In New York that the heads of the police department have decided that hereafter the Anarchists erill hot be allowed Ho meet, and that the carrying of any banners or badges, or tbe playing of any music, should they undertake to parade, will not bs permitted. There are hints of jrobably sensational developments noon. Tax Minister of Justice hat resigned from the French Cabinet. Os the Ml;h the National W. C. T. U. met at Nashville, Tens. Os tbe 16th the American Fishery Association began its first annual meeting in New York. Os the 19»h the Springfield ft and the Indianapolis ft Weete< filed articles of consolidation ■ a polu. lad. Os the 16th a strike was inaugurated at Oliver’s nut and bolt factory nt Pittsburgh, Pa., against shorter bourn and reduced t sv. about m am and boys are Western railways

fim Of th® passengers from the cholera ships Ales is end Britannia who have shown no signs of sickness during several weeks’ observation at quarantine have been permitted to land. The Court of Queen’s Bench at Dublin has exonerated the police for the Mitcbelstown (Ireland) killings and quashed the verdict of murder found against them by the coroner. On the morning of the 16th, alter Jack McAuliffe and Jem Carney had fought’ seventy-four rounds, hear Westerly, R.L, I occupying nearly five hours' time, the j fight was broken up and the referee post- ; poned the finish to a day yet to be named. On the 16th a bank failure occurred at Toronto, Out.: liabilities, $1,000,000. Th* governments of England, France, ! Belgium, Holland, Germany and Den- ; mark have arrived at an agreement to stop the traffic in spirits among the fishermen of the North sea. Mail service was in operation during the last fiscal year upon lf),B0 miles of railroad and on .6,860 miles of water j routes. To handle the mails while in j transit on these routes 4,460 men were employed. They handled and distributed during the year 6,884,699,079 piece) of ! ordinary mail matter, besides 16.763.660 ■ registered packages and 930,616 registered j pouches. The superintendent of the Naval Acad- j emy at Annapolis, in his annual report, \ shows that institution to be in good con- j dition in all respects. A comprehensive j plan in the courss of all studies is recom- { mended, so as to make efficiency the first j idea in the training of, students. ' A Bt<y trike of street-car drivers and con- i doctors was precipitated at Cincinnati on i the night of the 17th. j The Cincinnati Base Ball- Club has become involved in litigation which threat- j ens to terminate in its forced sale. Th* Government receipts for the fiscal year ending June 69, 1S87, were $371,403,877: expenditures, $167,922,170. Son* difference of opinion as to the powers and duties of the Fisheries Commission seems to exist, which promises th affect the work of the commissioners. Th* tenants, including the leaseholders, of the County Down estates of Lord Duf- j ferin, have asked a forty per cent, reduc- ; tion of rapt* and an extension of the time j for paying them. \ The parcels post feature in the new I postal convention between this country j and Mexico seems to be working so much to the satisfaction of the Mexican people ; that they are very anxious for a considerable extension of its facilities. ,< It is said that the Royal Clyde Tacht Club will withdraw its challenge to com- ■ pete for the America’s cup on the ground that the conditions, as changed by the New York Yacht Club, are unjust and unsportsman! ike. Th* Western Association oj Architects, at their convention in Cincinnati, appointed a committee of five to act with a similar committee of the American Institute of Architects upon the question of a consolidation of all architectural associations. Officers for the ensuing year were elected and the convention adjourned to meet in Chicago next year.

Thk M. E. Church Extension Society vu in sees ion in Philadelphia on the 18th, Bishop Bowman presiding. Thk increase in the number of pieces of mail bandied by the postal clerks during the last fiscal year over the preceding year was S00l000,000. Thk National League and the Brother* hood of Ball Players came to an harmonious understanding on the 18th, and a modified contract for clubs and players was agreed upon. A vigorous boycott has been instituted against the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company by all the local assemblies of the Knights of Labor in the Lehigh and Schuylkill (Pa.) anthracite regions. Nearly complete returns of the G. A. R. vote on the proposed dependent pension bill have been received at the National G. A. R. headquarters iti Minneapolis, and it is practically unanimous ip favor of the bill. Q. Thk p-lrprietor of the Anarchist resort at Newark, N. J., whose license has been revoked, refuses to close his place, and there is a chance of conflict between the police and the Reds. Thk Milwaukee, Win., maltsters’ strike is likely to assume larger proportions. The brewers have decided not to handle malt made by non-union workmen, and as three brewing establishments have declined to yield to this stipulation, a strike of brewers employed in,. them is looked for. A* London the troops jHLve been sapplied with buckshot moil Woolwich arsenal and are prepared for any emergency that may arise resulting from attempts to hold meetings in Trafalgar Square. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. X. Goblet was summoned to the Hynes palace on the evening of the 20th, and requested to form a cabinet. He asked for time to study the situation. At 10 p. m. M. Clemency an was summoned to a conference, which foreshadows the resignation of the President. The main building of Barnuai Sc Bailey’s show at Bridgeport, Coam. was entirely destroyed by lira on the evening of the 90th. Hearty all the menagerie and all the paraphernalia of the great show were destroyed, involving a loss of $700,000, on which there was only $100,000 insurance.

the night of the 19th off Dover, England. A Dutch emigrant ship ere* run into sad sunk by an English vessel, end upward of one hundred lives were lost. Joint Ootnw, a private in Company K, Third infantry, committed suicide iu the quarters of the company at Fort Shaw, Moat., on the Hit, by shooting himself through the head with hi* rifle. Finn at York, Neb., on tip morning of the 10th, destroyed seven stores, including Union and Masonic blocks; loss, 1100,000. It is reported from St. Petersburg that the Russian* are massing 100,000 soldiers near the German and Austrian frontiers. Polish Jews are said to be'keeping Germany and Austria well informed regarding the more menu of Russian troops. P. A. Spout, a stucco worker, living at Allegheny City, Pa^ shot #i son, Adolph, through the bask and then attempted suicide on the evening of the 10th. Adolph died almost instantly. The cause of the tragedy wee domestic troubles. No ssrioos disturbances occurred oh the 10th, ia London, although at Hyde park 6,000 people held a meeting, and there were few exciting incidenU at Trafalgar Square. Empxkok William has conferred the order of the Black Eagle upon Count Schouvaloff, the Russian ambassador at Berlin. J. T. Kcrn.a decorative painter of considerable local reputation at Omaha, Neb, committed suicide on the l»tfc by blowing ont his brains. , Owns to the illness of the drown Prince, Prince William will, in obedience to imperial command, represent hie father at all future state ceremonies and receptions at Berlin. Tax Pi In cess of Wale* and bar children arrived at Qoeensborough, England, on the 19th, from Denmark. They ware met by the Prince of Wales, who escorted them to London. Aim three years of steady work on a section 6,000 feet long of the new Croton (N. Y.) aqueduct, the drills mat on the 19th, and so accurately had the surveys bmb mad* and ilia dr.Iliiug perforated, that the points of the drills actually came ia contact. SsoaxTABT asn Mas. Lamam win go to Kama Gk. about the middle of December, aad will spend the Christmas boll* days thorn.

=-=-—..... — POSTAL. MATTERS. F2*wr*» Derived From the Annual Rep i* of the Superintendents of the Free- >o llvorjr 8} stew and Honor Order Bo w or the Post-Odtee Department, W i»Hir<iTo»4 Nov. 19.—Colonel J F. Bates, superintendent of the free deli’ TJ serrllce of the post-office departmen In his annual report shows that the at delivery was in operation in 1,880 ctti; or Jnne S3, 1881. To do the work 6,810 w Tiers are employed, and the cost of h* serv ice is $4,481,962.07. The local pot gt collected was $6601,253.80, an ejtce O" S2.0'2,561.(13 over the cost of the ear se. The nnliir of mail letters delivered! as 677,854,128, an increase over the prev os year of 18.12 per cent.; mall postal o ds delivered. 132,888,276, an inci \st of 11.43 per cent.; local attors delivered, 206,088,135, an incr ;ts of 21X19 per cent.; registered letter! '!•- liverd, 3,7)6,846, an increase of 8.711 »e» cent.; newspapers, etc., delivered. B,361,(31, an increase or 14.06 percent; let* tors collected, 617,016,184, an Incise ol 1615 per cent; postal cards colhi ed, 170,079,552, an increase of 1682 per <: ;it; newspapers, etc., collected, 102,075^88 au increase of 11.15 per cent The v :«lt number of pieces handled was 2,234. 54,656 an inc-ease of 14.18 per cent Tli annua! cost per piece, in mills, to haudl- raj 2, a decrease of 9.09 per cent Ttvr Increase of the amonnt of postage colli :tod was 14.05 per cent At the following post-offices the cal postage exceeded the cost of the sei ice, and shows a net gain: Atlanta, Ga. 122.82; Birmingham, Ala,. $1,887.89; B-: :on, $1951.820.87; Brooklyn, $100,441-77; B tin, N. Y., $25,44650; Cheago, $102.50680 Cincinnati, $19,380.81; Denver, Col., $28 75.39; Detroit Mich., $5,7658; Duluth, I) an., $1,747.41; Kansas City, Mo., $14,1 iOB: Lincoln, Neb., $5,064.80; Milwaukee, iris., $12,915.18; New Haven, Conn., $124 .07; New Orleans, $52682; New York, $ US),50678; Omaha, Neb., $12620; Phi idelphia. $567,109,63; Pittsburgh, Pa., $1 14V 11; Providence, R. I.. $3,834.52; 8t mis, $86,587.96; St. Paul. Minn., $10,485.91! Ban Francisco, $50,19633; Savannah,' G , $1.290.58; Syracuse, N. Y. $61665; T ska, Kao., $268.78; Troy, N. Y„ $11629; V Ikesbar re, $1,83288. WiBHCtOTOW, Nov. 16—Dr. Mac! said superintendent of the money order 1: i-eau, Post Office Department, in his ann 1 re port for the year ended June 3 1887, states that that bureau was substci dally sel f-sustaining during the year. Tit total amount of money sent by domes! and international money orders and by «osta! notes aggregated $182,267,016 ( tbit amount $18000.000 were embraced 1 the international money order busines Th« increase dtiring the year in the no ser ol domestic money orders, compare with the preceding year, was about 16 pi! sent,; in postal notes about 5 per cent., id in international money orders a boo 34 per cent.

THE CROW EMENTIf: General Armstrong Lays the Reap «lWilly or the Present Troubles Luge! on the HMbalders or 8lttlng Bull—Preca lonaty Measures Suggested. Sr. Pawl, Minn., Nor. 18.—Genu i.l F. C. Armstrong, Indian inspector, e no has been located on the Crow resorrat m since th e trouble began which culmiua In the death of Sword-Bearer, arrived in Is. Panl yesterday. General Armstrong gave a detailed account of the canses thi led tc the recent disturbances on tit Crow reservation, which, he said, hsi :i been brewing for the past two yen ». The most of the mischief was done la spring, when Sitting Bull, with a it rty of Sioux warriors numbering abont ie hundred, came to the Crow reserve on and pitched his camp within almost stone's tiurow of the Custer monument an began to harrangue the Crows. He lade a strong impression on the young uen of the latter tribe, especially when i ■ began to recount his exploits in his ontests vrith the whites. Another we: :: point that he plaved upon with great si hi was the fact that the Crows did not r« live the same consideration at the ban of the Government that his warriors d After the fight in which Sword-Bei er was killed and other recalcitrants > iptured. Grey Eagle, one of the leading it » of the Crow tribe, said that Crazy E ad and Deaf Bull should be made an ax: uple of, for as long as they were in the t :» there would be Rouble, and subseque investigation proved this to be trus Consequently, in his report to th« I Secretary of the Inter! •, Gen* General Armstrong has re<: amended that Crazy Head and I) kf Bull l»e sent to some safe place, proh Ay Fort Pickens, Fla., where (Jeronimo at present, or be separated and sent to llfferent peaces. At any rate, they shook lie taken Wit of the company of the yon: f braves that they are now only co laminating by their talk and infill: toe. As (or the other Sioux fuel ns, ht thinks it will be adviaabl to put them at soma place where thi can be taught trades and kept away If m their tribes for several years at least. General Armstrong does not iticipate any further trouble on the Crou reservation, now that the disturbing a! mat has been removed.

WATER FAMINE Fort Wajrw, the Dire Kmalu of a Water Fob* Wayww. lad-. Sot. Mi -The city of Fort Warns, with a pop atioa of forty thousand, seems to ha « ut to experience the horrors of a wall famine. Beca use of the long drouth tli water in We supply basin, as wallas Its small streams that cootribote to it, hn so failed that not enough pressure Is |; en to the mains to operate the eleratom in hotels and other tall buildings, and tt ir ■ been abandoned. The local el* 'tr company has served notice upi' * the city that not eoongh water can be ad from the main* to sapply their en : we, aad the iaeonTaaienoe of complete v i “ darlcaaea at night is to be ad ! i4 to the m has i light II MWl a Ira or two would And I,: if de) meat crippled. The City Conn- " — * water-works Wustees are at bile. aad the Hew Tout, Hot. Amon students who applied before ■Veed Apt; Ik—Amon lib' the Its in general Ians of the Supreme Court yai w day foe to tho but ww • . of Yale Collage mi tad Hoag u All were admit: 1 except union' Legit Yen Chen. him, though he paesed the at: t end procured a special act of tli I ore authorizing the court to 11 Judge Van Brant said the 11 i constitutional, and as ho did i t < Chita a citizen, he would not; ote to admit him. Judge Brady, it is ‘ ' took a contrary view as to tha* cope aad I application of the Chinese Expulsion | A gaabad-TtaanaS-M: Fro. CURiSOOSi, Tenn., Hot. midnight a lire broke oat in i Joining Stoops Bros.' ‘ ■ ‘ to was amass of it. Itt

A LADY DETECTIVE. And Bow She Exposed a Man’s Duplicity. [Written lor thin Peper.}

1S» ALIl E UAK1B rang the. streetcar bell with a sodden and nerv- .. vous twitch. She k was not in the ' habit of looking k ont of the window ‘ when riding, but perhaps a kind

rroMUoncu uiwwaius wiuuguiy directed her to do it on this and a former occasion. Site alighted almost before the car came to a halt, so anxious was she to fully satisfy ' herself regarding what her eyes had seemed to see. She bound her thick blue Teil tightly around her face, and was glad she had worn her new fall suite, hat, wrap and Areas, for she must not be recognized. I), was the calm evening of a mellow October day, and Miss Garth was returning home from calls upon some friends in the suburbs of the city. The cars had Just made a curve, into Lewis street, which bore a rather unsavory reputation, on account its gambling dens, saloons and brothels, where her eye canght sight of Mr. Arlandt (at least she feared it was he) coming oat of a large and fashionable gambling house. ‘Still, a hundred persons might look like him,” came as an afterthought, sis she followed the gentlemau «lmost with a feeling of fear and shame. Cut she must know. Once before, as intimated, upon happening to look out tbs car window on this same street, she thought she had seen Mr. Arlandt entering one of these gilded haunts of vice, but she had dismissed the matter as unworthy the gentleman, and called it simply a case of striking resemblance. Bnt encountering the same thing again, she resolved to sift it It might hs vital to the happiness of her dear friend, Kate Weldon, and her niuch-lc-ved brother. Will. Ton see, Will and Kate had once b>en engaged—also Alice and Kate's brother, John—making quite an iuterfumily affair of it. The double wedding was to have transpired the coming Thanksgiving; for on that happy occasion more members of both households could be brought together than upon any other.

JLUV juuug uttu uwu uusj av their wardrobes during the early sampler, and many preliminary arrangements had already been made in anticipation of the joyous event, when ! there earns a break between Will and Kate. “I don’t knowhow it happened,” explained, or tried to explain. Will to Ilia sister Alice, with whom he always lalked over his love affairs and private matters, •* but I tbink Kate was a litids jealous at first, because I waited on Miss Mallby while she was away; and so, to spite me. she accepted the attentions of Mr. Arlandt to the theater, and some concerts. Of course, we talked it over; but, both feeling a trifle hurt, neither would hoist the flag of truce, and so it is.” “ 1 am so sorry. Will,’-’ said Alice, her sisterly eyes filling with tears. “ So am I,” acknowledged the young man most sorrowfully. “I haven’t had a good night’s rest since. I loved Kate, and it will kill me,” the voice husky with emotion, as he outlined figures on the soft brussels with his cane. •* But I don’t intend she shall know it,” a little proudly—“she is to blame. I waited upon Miss Mallby, who wan a stranger here, several times, just, out of politeness, while Kate went with Mr. Arlandt for pure spite!" u 1 know Kate is a little inclined to jealousy, and is also rather hasty and proud, but I am sure she loves you, and would be glad to bury the hatchet,” smiling; ** for it is making her sick, too—John told me so. And it is just going to spoil all our arrangements for the double wedding;” added Alice, gloomily, after a few moment’s silence. “Which to your mind is the worst of all?” laughed her brother, a little sarcastically.

vu, wui m wj, loving anns were about his neck in 11 jiffy, while she gave him a kiss. “Ton know what I mean." “Yes, let’s kiss and make upr” soil* tag the action to the word; “bat yon and John can be married just the same; bat I shall be away, I couldn’t stand it to be there simply as a witness, after all that we had planned." he said, bitterly. How Alice longed to bring the unhappy couple together—she saw where each stood, and knew that their trouta les were largely imaginary. But tie mending of engagements is not often the easy thing it seems, and seldom any one, though an intimate friend, undertakes the delicate task. Both families deeply regretted the break, bat while they took pains not to separate them further, they left it to nature, if she would, to heal the But weeks hsd gone into two months, since the rupture, when above talk between WUI end his sister occurred, end matters were no better. On the contrary, they seemed to 11m getting worse. Mr. Arlandt was i attentive end it was currently 1 that he and Miss Weldon weree Of oourse Alice knew

Will Garth bad devoted himself most diligently to business of late, but the week following the opening of out story he was expecting to go to a distant city. “1 can’t stand it any longer here,” he said to his sister. “I must see if new surronndings will not help me to forget.” Alice was vrishing and praying with all her heart that something would happen to right matters and keep her dear brother home, but there seemed uo prospect, and the matter was weighing upon her mind so heavily that upon the day in question she had forced herself to take si holiday, calling upon her W est End friends. As Alice now closely followed and carefully scrutinised the gentleman, she suspected she was certain, so far as a back view could identify him, that it was Mr. Arlandt. The electric lights were so clear and penetrating that, could she get but one glance at his face, she would be positive^. There must be no shadow of a doubt. But how do this? She might hasten ahead and then turn suddenly around as (hough she had forgotten something; but an innate delicacy forbade such a bold, nor to say doubtful, experiment. Fortunately for her, just at this moment, the gentleman met a friend, and wheeling, both arm in arin, came towards her; It was Mr. Arlandt And as if to doubly assure her, the friend spoke his name. “Hello, Arlandt,” he said; "going to have a good tiime to-night, or to see your girl?” eras the rather dubious inquiry. . "Can’t go too often or she would go baca me,” was the reply. ' “Plenty of money, ent”, “Plenty.” “Well, then, I advise yon to walk pretty straight or you’ll get left,” was the wholesome monition; “I hope you don’t go there in this condition, old fellow; and as Alice caught their breath in passing and glanced at their glazed eyes, she fully understood what the “condiition” was. “No, indeed; I don’t indulge only on off nights,” was the response, “and not very ranch then. Came near losing my place once on account of it, and since then been a little careful; but, you see,” with a burst of confidence, doubtless due to his intoxicated state, “I proposed to MissWeldou last night, and I’m so deuced afraid she'll mitten pie, I’m.taking a little to brace up. Of course, she isn’t the only one I’ve got in tovr. but she’s got the most cash, and if she accepts me I’ll let the other flicker; I’ll doubtless know to-morrow night” «

as sou11 as tu« geutieiuau uu» jc not a misnomer) had passed, Alice turned «|uickly and followed them again, closely enough to overhear their conversation. She was shocked and chilled. Could it be possible that her dear friend, Kate, was receiving the attentions of such a fellow—a gambler, drunkard, and quite probably a libertine?—and that a crisis between them was so imminent? The thought almost* stunned her! A few steps further the two chums entered one of the numerous gambling parlors on the street, and her detective work could be. carried no further. She now, for the first time, had an almost benumbing sense of its risky and perilous nature—on such a street, unattended and following two s^gh characters.'—and she shivered and blanched with fright as she quickly hailed a home-going car. (t would be difficult to portray Alice Garth's state of mind as she tried to make herself realize what she had seen and heard. Sometimes it seemed as though she must have dreamed it all— it was-so startling. Bat before she had finished the ride, she was in a more rational frame of mind. She knew there was no mistake about the matter, however terrible it appeared, and she had come to the sober conclusion that she bad a duty to perform in the matter—hard and difficult as it might be. “1 must see Kate; 1 must see her tonight," and, passing her own door, she rode a few blocks further down the avenue to Mr. Weldon'e. •‘JThr. Alice Garth!” exclaimed K^teT‘ how glad I am to see you. I’ve been sc lonely all the evening. Bat isn’t it late for you? Why how pale .saa » I

ALICE TUSKED QUICKIE you kok, and you are trembling," coming under the chandelier of the reception room. “Ha* any thing happened P" and she put her arm with oldtime fondness about Alice and led her to the lounge. "Ho, let’s go to your room, Kate, where there will be no danger of interruption, for I have something Tory important to tell you," trying to be com posed, ! She was glad Kate was so approach-1 able to-night, more like her oM self | for that was favorable. A* the gfcis, j or pei-bapa we should say. young iadfe* j sat on the bed, that place so sacred y| dedicated to youthful coofi&ipres, in spite of all maternal edicts—the sat't rays of the full moon falling ujx>0 then through the open shutters—Aii.ee Kate’s hands warmly in hers and said kindly, but with evident pais. "Kate, I saw and overheaid something tonight, that I think you should know, for it has to do with your 1he happiness. It is concerning Mr. Arkadi. " It was net difficult, though the moos had just then passed behind a deem

find paila , not to say oversprea l Kate Weldon's ty face, at the mere meatioi nhrer’s name, “ Aad 1 have faith in you to Alice eont nued, "that you will i case me ol wrong motives in atl ing this unpleasant task or doty.’ she diiclo;jed all that we have tc the reader. Long before the recital was Kate’s face was hot and burnin heat I mortification—her heart fast, and she wished sho out of sight forever. She waa with shame and surprise Soon Alice began, sho had dro pped ! on her shoulder b*t now fhe ton herself from her friends tender end r and buried h*y aching head vrt I throbbing temples in the pillow. “Oh. Alice,” she at lust brok< in sobbing agony. **I am beyond recoveiy—I wish I were < “Don’t aay that, Kate,” imp Alice, wish nnalfeeted sincerity , “for we are glad you are spared to> us— | doubly spared, we hope. ” Again there was silence, broken on- ! ly by the moans of poor Kate, in whose heart the varied and pent-up en of months weie now giving way. I have been so foolish,” she said, "I never spent two (soon mow wretched mouths in my itfe. What • i.'ir Iji i

"I HAvjs BEEN SO FOOLJ»II." terrible fare* I have acted, aiid Iwnfc for you I might1 have wrecked my whole life!” j ••Why, Kate, did you really flunk of accepting Mr. ArlandtP” was Ad almost breathless inquiry. •• I --did,’’she hesitated, •• have been so unhappy since , W—ili mnd I separated,! was ready to do any thing. Then he seemed a very nice young man and qui te fond of me, but oil—oh m and, discan —!” Still I have been so fooliiili and, I deserve my fate’” and tress was trjiiy pitiful. "Let me jiielp yon, Kate, all ’I said Alice w ith endearing tone “ It's all over now—it’s mo was the heart-broken reply. "1 don't Understand you. not still think of having morn lo do with Mr. —I—but a deprecating, re. coiling gesture from Kate pic onted Alice from repeating the already hate ful name. “No—ne'er!” "And tel! me truly, do you liM'l love brother Wi l?” something impel! sd her to ask. "After ail that I have done, f do not wonder yqu ask; bnt couki you look into my heart of hearts, yoiir wotddknow thal there I have dvi.n: been loyal to him—I have, Alice, -but it can never look him in the face again— never,” and the most vision«a;r projects of iiioiating herself from the world, filled her distressed mind. Alice’s heart beat light at Ala, fot she was sore a day of reconci liation wast not far distent—"brother WiB need not go away and the double Thanksgiving wedding comic! take place as planned.” But this happy climax wan main thought, as she tried and soothe her tempestthe genuineness of whose humiliation she could not doubt. Alice soon felt she ought not to leaveKate, and sending a note toy n servant to her parents, exp aining her absence, she remained with her.

As sne long signs wore on, poor Kate grew more und more iiii tressed, sad st lss« flighty and irnitkmaL Alice wan alarmed, and nnJturatly blamed herself. “Yet, if stm iUea tomorrow,” ahe found herself iwtsonlng, “it would be better than to ninety such a miserable fellow.” It Is not strange that quite ;u severe attsck of brain fever folic irod, for Kate had been living an unnatural, excited life for some time, and now came the reaction. Friends and relatives hung over her in prayerful, anxiety, and it Is hardly necessary to f l ute that her old lover, Will Garth, wan the most constant and taitbh!! ers by her bedside. And whim lirium was at its height no turn soothe her like him. When the sufferer one could have told when quietly bat surely does work, they found their 1 re-united. And on the coming Day. there wss the happiest weddings in the handsom e the Garth mansion. Both f were complete, a 1 itself, and all hearts were with gratitude—two in The happy couples stood 1 beautiful evergreen arches, choice flowers. While tti pronounced the solemn 1 ice and everything ait and executive ability of I the planning of the affUi n After congratulations, t the party to tee home of i where a moat ds supper was served, “And w« owe all Alke, it one of a&ely kissed her.