Pike County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 39, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 February 1888 — Page 1

VOLUME XVIII. 16, 1888i > NUMBER

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVERY THU BSD Al. ram or wHcnnirat .—......r........91 m IpBKNnW.............. Q three monthly. u L INVARIABLY IN ADVANCBADraraiMQ KATES i * ltae*». one insertion.tl «* V ss A liberal reduction made on adrertteementa (•ulnar three. aU, and twelve months. teral and transput adveiUttmenu must be pati for la advance.

mrtniom card*. (.Rtowr. A. I ’V.rPOSEY * HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW ' wimummiittieoiBti. i._ MOBBtir UMM to. A Notary Public cor>Maatly la tha office Office or«r Prank A Horanrook’s drugstore. m. r. aicuAKoao.t. A. I. TATLOR l RICHARDSON * TAYLOR. ^ Attorneys at Law - ■ petemburo, im Prompt attention circa to all boslaess. A Polar v l*abllc constantly ta tbe office. Office la Carpenter Building, Wb and Main. K. a. ELY. i. w. wiuos. ELY ft WILSON, Attorneys at Lawf PETERSBURG, IND. AWOWc ■ in the* Dank Huililirva.-W T. & ft E. SMITH, I' (successors to Dojrla A Thompaoa) Attorneys at Law, 1 Heal Estate, Loan & Insurance Acts. Office, second Boor Bank Build las. Pateraburjr, lad * The best Fire anti IJfe Insurance Companies represented. Mon- y to loan oa first tnortit• s at a «n and etrbt i>er cent. Prompt attention to collectiona. and ad busin.-s InjfunsJ u> ua. W. V. iOWKSBXP- SlAET FLEKESA , Huwin Sunn. ’ TOWNSEND, FLEENER ft SMITH, Attorneys at Law i AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS, I’ETKllSBUHO, INDIANA Office, oyer Gas Frank's store Special at • lentioa given to Collections. Buying aad selling lands, Kxammiug Titles and Furnishing Abstracts.

, K. It, KIMK, M. D„ Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG. IW>. * Offiee., over ftarritt A S'B'i More: mi* rirncc onseventh Street. three r|tt«h-»south x ot Mein, t elle promptly attended to. Jay or ,, night. _ J. B. DUNCAN. Physician and Surgeon j , PETERSBURG, - IND. I Office on lire! floor Carpenter BnUdlng. C. B. BLACKWELL, M. D., ECLECTIC Physician and Surgeon, Office, Main afreet, between eth and 7th opposite Model Drug More. PETEItSIKBU, : INDIANA. 'Vill practice Medicine. Surgery and Qbatattie* in I own and oonatry, end wQ: visit any part »f the country In consultation. Chronic disease. anceeaefully treated. HI T t

i Resident Dentist, 1 PETERSBURG, 1ND ALL WORK WARRANTED. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E. TURNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, - IND. Parties wUhln* work don. kt tholr re*tdonor* will leare order* at Ik, ,k*p. >a I'r Adam,' iw« building. mar of Adam* t ida'l dru* »to » CITY HOTEL Under New Management. XiEWIS ttatt.. Prop. «or. Eighth and Main SU-.opp. Court-house. PETERSBURG, IND The rtty Hotel ts centrally located. flrstctas..» all Its kpi>olRtmcot*,and the beat and cheapest hotel in the city. *, Sherwood House, Under New Mititp noot. B1SSELL a TOWNSEND. Prop’ra Pint and Lociut Mrcets, Evansville, : : Indiana. RATES. $2 PER DAY. Sample Rooms for Commoreiol Moo. HYATT HOUSE, Washington. lad. Centrally Located, and Accotamodatioai Jlnt-cloe* I HENRY HTATT. Proprietor. j lVrERSM ru, - - Indiana. CHARLES SCHAEFER, Proprietor. * located In the business part of town. Term, rca-onable A good Bar. choice Liquor*. Tobacco and t'tgsrs. l amer hCVaoth and Walnut etreeta Wbca at Washington Stop at tha MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Reapeota. Hu Uvu Hunn end Albion Romania Proprietor*.

6CCV K SOMBTBI, JtMli Late of Cincinnati. Lot* ot W aohtn*t on,ln4. HOTEL ENGLISH, * MORGAN. Indianapolis, Ind. ■ Klf«oot.Toblo. S*»TI0* and 0*n*r» iixtHor. Loco!ton wa. . Reduction Om prie* ct aiBBLES. HAfiHlSS. KTC, ETC. at by no low than ornr ooM to. If jroo ***» oartklo* ia ItaoaU oaatoM an I osar> RCUtSi

NEWS IN BRIEF. CmpiM firm Tarim Sauce* . cosuKBssiwm nwcnnfw la fee Senate, on fee Mb, Mr Hoar submitted a partial programme fprlh* aaMmfem at fee eentnurtat it fee Constitution. Mr. Riddlebcrger attempted to bring ap kis reuoluw* tor consideration of fee Britteh extradition treaty in open session which resulted tn • verj worn debate between toe Senator from Virginia, Senator Sherman and Senator Ingalls. Mr. Platt addressed fee 8enute on the President's message_ In the Honse n large number at bills were introduced, among which was one to divide fee fhrp'us among the several States sad Territories tor the benefit of fee public schools, which wss-tntrodueed by Mr. Henderson. of North Carolina. Captain White, of Indiana, waa gtven his seat by a rote of IK Vo It*. Speaker Carlisle resumed his nttlclal duties. lathe Senate on the Tfe n resolution was adopted instructing she committee on commerce to Inquire Into fee right and expediency of Congress assuming control of the erection of bridges orer nsngsble waters wlthln State limits. Mr. Platt concluded his speech in criticism of the -President's tariff message. In fee House u largely-signed petition fevering fee passage of the Breckinridge Wool bill waa presented. A resolution was adopted railing on the Secretary of fee Treasury for information us to whether fee circulation of United States notes hoe been kept at fee legal limit, and whether there has been any loss of said notes since W3S. A number of bills were reported from the various committees and referred, and n bill to amend the Revised Statutes, providing punishment for defaulting or negligent bans officials, so os to include bonk examiners. Also n bill to provide for the recovery of internal revenue taxes and penalties erroneously paid tn certain eases. Ia the Senate on fee Sta the bill appropriating tl.sno.oou for the erection of o public building ut Kansas City was passed. Mr. Rldiileberger tried agate to force action on his resolution anent the British treaty, but was choked off by fee Senate going into executive session. It was decided to act finally open fee Blair bill next Wednesday at three o'clock.In the House fee ^111 making bills of lading eoncluslve evidence of reeetpt of goods by the carrier was rused. la the Senate on fee tfe Mr. Edmunds reported a bill to Incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua. A long discussion was bad on fee question of expenditure on public buddings, and Mr. Riddleberger succeeded tn letting out fee fact that action on the British extradition treaty had been postponed until next December Mr. Tormney tn the House reported the bill foe the odiustment of accounts of laborers arising under the Right Hour law. The House passed the bill to discontinue coinage of three oenl piecev and then considered the bill compcitog the Union and Central Pacific railroads to maintain their own telegraph systems, which waa laid over. Ia fee Honse on the 10th, the bill granting right of way through the lndtun Territory, to the Choctaw Coal A Railroad Company was passed: also, the resolution directing fee Post-msster-General to inform fee House, niter Inquiry. of the cause of the complaints made by— a newspaper regarding fee western mail service. In committee of the whole, the bill for fee relief of Nathaniel McKay and the executors of Donald McKay was taken up sad discussed at length srlthout arriving at a vote, and the House adjourned until the life. PERSONAL AND POUTICAJOa the Tib the Diplomatic bill was reported to the House, appropriating $I,-tO\N»Y The Military Academy bill reported on the same day appropria'es $314,007. Tag Reading railroaders’ and miners’ strikes have been formally inddrsed by Mr. Post derly and the general executive board ef the Knights ut Labor. Aid for the striker! is rapidly pouring in. Spg aker Carlisle has appointed Messrs. Tillman, Chiptnan and Stone a committee to investigate the Reading strikes,’and thay left for Pennsylvania ou the 8th. They wfll be abeent about oae month. A Cawchis monk. Very Rev. Father Francis Haas, of Detroit, has been raised to tbs dignity of definitor, the first member of the order in America to be so honored. He will reside in Rome. Iris stated that consideration of the British extradition treaty by the Bennie has been postponed until December. This •s regarded ns equivalent to its rejection.

A PUSIXFOtUt (». J.) dispateil UTi that the heir* of the late John Roach are tleat to sue the United States to - OCX) damages resulting from the Government's refnsal to accept the ships built for it br Mr. Roach. Ox the 8th Rt. R»v. Innocent Wolf. Ab* butt of Atchison, Kas., eras chosen ArchAbbott of the Benedictine order of monks, to succeed ; Arch-Abbott Wlmmer, de ceased. Ox the 10th the Prince and Princess of Wales will celebrate their stlTer wedding. Already presents are .finding their way to Mat thorough House. At.Vs* York Richard K. Fox, proprietor of the troref/c, was arrested, on the 7th, charged w ith riolating the penal code,, by encouraging prise-fighting. Thk assent of the Caar of Russia has been secured to the morganatic marriage of the Grand Puke Xichoalvitch. lx Paris the prosecution of M. Wilson for the military decorations frauds has been set for February 18. Ox the 8,h the bucketshop carried on in the corridor of the House of Representatives. for the accommodation of speculative members, was broken up by order of Speaker Carlisle. It is reported that the difficulty which the Crown Prince of Germany has lately experienced in breathing is iscressi^ and it is yud that the operation of tracheotomy wjl be resorted to. Ox the #:h Mrs. Charlotte 8. Prince, daughter of ex-Governor Collms of Rhode Island, granddaughter of Governor Bradford of the same State, end mother of B. Bradford Prince, ex-Chief Justice of Sew Mexico, di<d at Flushing, U L, aged eighty-fire years. , Ox the evening of the 9th the anniversary of the birth of Samuel J. Tilden was celebrated by the Kings County (X. Y.) Democratic Club by a banquet given, nt the Academy of Music. Ox the evening of the 9th the Boston Home-Trade Club gave a banquet to Senator Sherman. VxivtnsAL surprise has been created by Lord Dutferin resigning his post as Viceroy of lnd a- His action has no political significance, Lord Lansdowne has been appointed hie successor, who in turn is to be succeeded by Colonel Frederick Stanley. Ox the 9th Speaker Carlisle's order removing all telegraph wires from the corridor of the Hxns was carried into effect AT Washington on the 9th memorial services to dedicate n tablet to the memory of the late Senator John A. Logan were held in the Metropolitan Episcopal

On Um Mk the operation of tracheotomy tm hastily performed upon the Crown Prince by Dr. Rramann and afforded the royal sufferer immediate relief. Mis* Buxom K. Taoaxs. the ••Rachel” of GiUett'* "‘Held by the Enemy” compane, and Mr. Darid a Johnson, of Applebey te Johnson, the well-known turfmen and boot mater*, were quietly married at the Southern Hotel, St. Louis on the tth, the eyeat being a surprise in theatrical circles. In CieTeiand,0.,achange of Judge* lathe Probate Court gives rise to hopes for the release of Mrs. Josephine Ammon, eonr fined tor contempt in refusing to .reveal the whereabouts of the persecuted Joeie UltOQ. In the suit of A Howard Heukie against Mrs. Jeannettes M. Thor her tor *«.*» tor money advanced to Manager Locks of the Amsricaa Opera Gnupaey, at Hew York, the Jury failed to agree. In Canada, on the fith, Israel Lucas, the defaulting treasurer of Auglau* County, Ok, wft discharged trom custody,

■ 10th Balfour mud* • ipwcb in tha House of Common*. Soma hoi crossfiring was indulged in by Irish members. On tha 14th Ci.ptain Saliaski delivered n 1 actors in tha War Department library «r Washington oa his in rant (on of tha pas* malic torpedo gun, its shells and fuses. It is said that Dr. HoGlyaa, tha mM from tha Henry George land movement His withdrawn!, it is claimed, will great It strengthen the George party. Ox the Kith the English police capture*!; Ur. Pyne in London. Ur. Pyne is the Irish commoner who fortified himself in his castle and then dared the police to come and take him. Hkkk Kai rr, the great German founder. has received orders from Austria for ISO henry guns, to cost 130^000 florins. The guns ordered by Turkey and not paid for will be at I'is Ml to filllhe first installment of the order. *3 , CKIMZS iLND CAtCAlTIBt. Cx the 6:h firs men were buried in tbe debris of a falling planing-mitt, at Pittsburgh. Pa One of tha yictibU, Patrick Conroy, will die. Baser Hiss Louise Koyoe, a Nebraska school-teacher, t ttree of whose pupils died in her arms during the recent bltsxard. will loose bath feet and a portion of one arm as the result of expos ore. Ox the <th Mrs. Hill and two children perished in the Barnes, and her husband. Geo. D. Hill, wns badly Injured, by the burning of their home in Bolivia, N. Y. It is thought the fire was caused by natural gas by which the house was heated. Ox the 6th the second trial of Hrs. Robinson, tbe alleged wholesale poisoner, commenced in Boston.

Ur. STarHRX and his wife, and Hr. Robertson. Americans, were being driven to the Centra! depot to catch a train at Glasgow, Scotland, on the 8th, whoa the horses attached to their ear' riage bolted and threw the occupants on*. AJI three were injured._ tl is. iiStman. a prisoner in the Medina County ((X) jail, awaiting transportation to the penitentiary to terra a sentence of seren years for shooting with intent to kill, committed suicide in epeculiar manner on the 6th. He tore hit handkerchief in two, rolled the pieces into balls, arid poshed them down his throat, choking himself to death. Os the 7th Kent on C. Rogers wae killed and Mrs. T. M. Morgan critically burned in a natural gas e xplosion at tha residence of the letter in Anderson, lnd. Ox, the 7th Jake Fuller, a farmer of Bolivar County, idist, shot and killed his ton tor attempting to interfere when he was beating his wife. Ox the 7th an unknown man, a boat fifty-five years old, committed suicide at the Forty-second street station of the Third Arenue (Jf. Y.) Elevated road. Just as a train was approaching he jumped on.the track and placad his head on a rail and wan instantly killed. The engine and two cars passed over his neck, and liis blood was sprinkled oTer doaens of (»ople passing on the sidewalk below. Ox the 7th James Dodson, a notorious counterfeiter, was arrested in Cumberland County, Tenn., and committed to jail. The evidence against him is very strong. lx Southern California an Indiana fugitive from justice ran into a cactus thicket while suffering from delirium, recently, and met with a horrible death. Ox the 8th John Weitser, a wealthy farmer near Pittsburgh, Pa., committed suicide by banging. The deceased was worth at least f1)0,000, and the verdict ot the! coroner’s jury was that his mind became impaired on account ot his having too much money, At Woodbury, S. J.. George Dunham, who was convicted on the 6th. of the murder of his mother-in-law. Barbara Kcndle, has bees sentenced to be banged on Thursday, March It is learned from later news of the wreck of the Aborcorn near the mouth of Columbia river, Washington Territory, on the night of the 6‘b, the number of the lost is piaceed at twenty-two, A rew days ago Charles Stewart, alias Tate, a Kentucky murderer, was sent to the penitentiary from Owensboro, Ky., for stealing hogt. Ox the lhh John Hopp, bis daughtar, aged fifteen, anil a sou aged nine years, were burned to death in the destruction of their home at Kutatown. Pa. Ox the 9th the wife of Clarence 8. IX Bowers, a worthiest character living near Greenfield, S. H.. died of starvation and exposure. On hearing of the death of his wife, Bowen went off and hanged

i mmseir. Os the ldth Morris B. Cougden we* c®nj vieted of manslaughter at Court!and, N. j Y, for killing hi* daughter's child. Os April 5 next Edward A. Deacon* will j be bang for the murder ofMrs. Ada A. | Stone, al Rochester, N.Y., last August. Os the 10th tbs north-bound freight ! from ETan*viH«, lud., p cked up an uu- | known man near St James. He was -noseless when found and was taken to l Evansville, whew his injuries were pronounced fatal. The cause of his injuries I is unknown. It it supposed. however, that he tell off the midnight train. Os the f)th tho powder ml!* at Wapwallopen, a few miles from W ilkosbarre. Pa., blew up wtih terrible force, killing four persona and injuring forty others, many of whom will die. The concussion | was felt for forty mile*. nsciLuston. Os the 7th a cbuveutioa of deiogate* ! from ererr Western mining district met 1 at Helena, Mont, to consider tha question j of railroad proprietorship of mineral lands, and to in Test i gate the methods of the Northern Pacific road in acquiring I title to this class of property. Os the 7th au adjourned meeting of the American Horticultural Society was hold at Riverside, Cat. Ross Lewis, of Nevada, read a paper o«i “fruit Growing ia Nevada.” U A. Goodman, of Westport, Mo., read a paper on “Practicable Land-cape ^Improvement for Country Home*.” W. |H. Ragan, of li reencastle, lad., secretary j of the society, read a paper on “Our Neglected Native Fruits." Is California the State Board of Trade has adopted a circular concerning the condition of tho laboring cl asms* ia that State, which will be sent East for distribution. The circular recites that work D assured all, nod that higher wage* are paid than for the same character of work east of the Rockies. The circular also states that tha prosperity of the people is attested by the fact that while Califocnia has but oae-fiftieth of the population of the United States, the people have one-twentieth of the total savings deposits At Kenwood. W. Ye. the Knights of Labor and Amalgamated Association are preparing to nuke a strong fight fur possession of another large mill—the Wheeling Steel plant. - lx Louisville, Ky., the sexton of a Presbyterian church has been dismissed for conducting a pi ker-room ia the tower of the church edifice Ox the 8th tike working contract between the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company and the Wester* Union Telegraph Company was ratified at the month ly meeting of tha directors of the road. Os the lRh three additional individual collieries in th..'Reading district started upOx the 8th three feet of snow fell ia Constantinople competing tho complete suspension of business. At Wai t Gardiner. Me, Thomas Stevens, his wife nad tw o daughters have become insane ia tho delation that a lot of mornkeva infest tha neighborhood- The parents hare boon mat to the insane hospital and tho daughters to the industrial school at Balhmilk Me* ’ - ■ ■ ■ -f*:. ‘

Ox tli* 9th the House committee on the liquor traffic gar* a hearing to a large number of temperance advocates from all parte of the United States in favor of a commission to investigate the traffic. It is said that owing to dissensions among the native tribes, and the defection of the Aitet chiefs, the advance of the Abyssinian troops toward Saati and Ifassosrah has been suspended. On the 9th the German Military bill was passed by the Reichstag without change. At Toledo, five* cases of trichinosis have occurred in the family of Wm. Han. a German resident, embracing himself, his wife, two children and the wife's brother. The disease was contracted from eating the flesh of a young hog purchased January 8, of a butcher. All five are in a dangerous condition. It is reported that Italy claims not to be bound by the treaty of the triple alliance to act against Russia if the latter invades Bulgaria. - At Guanajuata, Mexico, a wealthy and eccentric Englishman proposes to build a $6,000,000 palace, lx Hungary leading papers combat the position taken by Bismarck in his speech that Russia has a privileged position in Bulgarian affairs. Tn Secretary of the Navy has issued telegrsphic orders for the United States steamer Alert, now at Panama to proceed to Callao, Peru, to look after the American interests in thut vicinity, reported to be in danger by reason ot local dUturtances. Tbs special committee appointed to make an examination nnd conn! ot the j internal revenue stamps in the vaults ot j the Commissioner of Internal Revenue at 1 the close ot business January 14 last, has j submitted its report to the Secretary ot j the Treasury. Every stamp was found to j ! be pro)>erly. accounted for. A h<P»mn has been sent by the King of the Belgians to Tangiers as a ! present to the Sultan of Morocco—a i singularly inappropriate gift, consider- j ing that there is not a yard of railway or tram line within the dominions ot the lat- j

ter. Ox the 10th a resolution was introduced in th« Virginia State Senate to investigate the affairs of the Chesapeake Sc Ohio railroad, in which the State holds over one million and seven hundred thousand : dollars in stork. General W. C. Wickham, t he receiver of the road, bttlldo*-d the Senate tnto voting down the resol a-' lion. Ox the 10th nothing of importance was deveioped in the tally-sheet investigation : at Col umbus, O., bat highly-sensational testimony was said to be forthcoming. Ox tlie 10th a writ of habeas corpus was granted in the United States District Court at Louisville, Ey.,for the members of the Hatfield gang. The llreight-rate war between Chicago i and M issouri river points continues. The St. Peal ordered another drop of four , cents to the 10th. which was promptlv j [ met by the Burlington, Rock Island Sc Northwestern. Brsixtss failures during the last seven . days sa'reported by R. G. Dun Sc Co.: for the United States, 3S7; for Canada, ; 52; total, 289, as compared with 267 for i the conresponding week last year. j It has been decided by the Senate com- j rnitlee on ngricultnre and labor to report ; favorably a bill to provide for a commis- j sion to inquire into the alcoholic liqnor t raffle. Dcniso January cotton exports from the United States aggregated 542.474 bales, valued at $26,0711.431; against 682,S54 bales, valued at $30,910,048 in January, 1887. Ox the 10th the marble-cntters of Boston demanded a reduction of hours at full pay, which precipitated a lockout, involving eight hundred men. At the EeV1** R““ (P*-) *»ino» further trouble is feared when the company at- ■ tempts to resume operations, but the leaders are confident they can hold the men in ebeclu. Ox the 10th William M. Donaldson Sc Co., dealers in pictures and frames So. 113 Main street, Cincinnati, assigned to Howard. Douglas Their liabilities are placed lit $75,000; assets $41,00). Preferences were given to the amount of $24,000. : Ox the 10th the Odessa University was j reopened. The university at Kasan new j is the only one in Russia that remains dosed. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Dm P4TTOS, president-elect of Princeton college, preached on the 11th in Marquand chapel, Princeton, S. J. The sermon wan. a strong defence of faith against materialism. No allusion was made to his election, except in a prayer asking guidance in the dedsion of the momentous quest ion of the present hour. The r ha pel was crowded. The tedy of a Russian, named Lorenxe, ! was found two miles north of Huntington, Ind, on the 12th, withn bullet-hole in the beck of his head. The pockets of the dead mt.n had been rifled of valuables. Jacob Kalleuheck was placed under arrest on suspicion of having committed the Gexkhal preparations for war appear to be going forward with unabated i.»al on the frontiers of oontinential Europe. The latest reports from the German Crown Prince are of a most favorable character. TwExrr-EtoHT men arrested,In New York oti the 11th on charges of maintaining anil running buckets hops were arraigned at the Jefferfua Market Police Court oit the 12th. AU but Arthur Coleman mud Andrew R. Hammond waived cxnminstioo and were held each in $100

At TImmum, lad., on the 11th, Larry McCaffrey a as shot aad killed by Georgs Hartman. The men quarreled oyer dies and women. McCaffrey insulted Hartman and drew a knife, when the latter fired three shots, instantly killing McCaffrey. Hartman fieri and has not yet been arrested. Mas. Sanaa J. K©Biases, charged with the poisoning of her be other- in-1 aw. Prince A. Freeman, was found guilty of murder in the first degree, at Boston, on the Utt- She is supposed to haTe poisoned seven persons, all relatives, for their life-insurance. Tan Kansas Pacific bondholders who failed to make a rase against Messrs. Gould aad Sage, have brought suit against a number of alleged receivers of embraced Denver Pacific stock. Tub Central Labor Union of Sew York, at its meeting on the 13th, protested against the pending Tenement-House bill; denounced the sugar trust, etc., and opposed the repeal of the Saturday HalfHoliday law. gcuvot Cctxwt was the principal speaker at the anniversary celebration of the birth of Abraham Lincoln by the Republican National League at Washington on the ISth. Fred Douginas, Simon Wolf and Captain O’Ferrali also spoke. THC b irthday of Abraham Lincoln was celebrated with a banquet by the Sew York Republican Club on the evening of the UtlL Senator Rvarts w'as tire principal spelter. Tu fortitude, cheerfulness aad recuperative power* of the Crown Prince, after undergoing the painful operation of tracheotomy, challenges IM aotimtioq of •11 who urenbout him,

f’ALMABE’S SEE [ON. _ Bad Ailvh. from Xfl n to Hubuxk. lit the sixth discourse ot hi serial to thii Woman of America, <1 Urered at Brooklyn Tabe-nacle, Rot. T.' »Witt Tilnuige took for his subject: “H ifely Amtitio s. Good and Bhd.“ His tax : was: Arise,and eat bread. sad let tit ne heart l« merry; 1 will give thee the vinej-i (ofNabolL —1 Kings. xxL. T. Hr. Telmage said: One day King Ahah. looking out of tha window of his palace at Je» el. said to his wife, Jezebel: “We ought t< hare them royal gardens enlarged. If at xtuldouly get that fellow, Naboth, whc owns that Tineyard out there, to trade r sell, is could make U e kitchen (ai- in for ear Sermon of the 8erl s to file Women of Arnerii u tsx: S=2 1*'

pailaoe." “Fateh in Naboth."says the an*tow* of his servants.. The gardener, wondering wi ' ha shoo'd be called into the presence of i is Msjestr, cewnes in a little downcast in I is modesty and with very obsequious ir nner bos s to the Kin*. The King says: “Naboth, 1 want to trade vineyards with yon. I want tout Tin yard for a kitchen garden, and I will -ira yon a groat deal better Tineyard in dace of If, or, if you prefer money for it, " will give you cash.” ‘“Ob, no,” says Naboth, 1 can not trade off my little place, nor in 1 sell it. It is the old homestead. I rot it of my father, and ha of his father, a id I can nut let tbe old plate go out of my mads.” in n grant state of petu ncy, dig Al ab weal Into the bouse an . flung himself on the bad, and turned b face to the wall in a great pout. His v fe Jeaebel comes in and she says: “Whs is tbe matter with you? Are yon sick?” *Oh,” he says, “I feel rery 1 ue, “I ha’re set: my heart on getting that tchen garden, and Naboth will neitb trade nor sell, and to be defeated by a • mmongardener is more than I can stan ” '“Ob, pshaw,’* says Jezebe> “don’t go On that way. Get up and et i your dinner and stop moping. I will | *t for you that kitchen garden.” Then Jezebel borrowed he husband’s signet or seal, for then, as me 'v, in thoue lands kings never signed the! names, but had a ring with the royal nai i engraved on it, and that impressed or a royal hitter or document was the tig iture. Site stumped her husband’s m ne on a proclamation, which resulted in getting Naboth tried: for treason gainst tie King, and two perjured wit rsses swore their souls away with the lii of Naboth, and he was stoned to death a id his property came to the Crown, am so Jezebel got for her husband and herself tie kitchen garden. But white tiie wild street dogs were rending the dead body of j nor Naboth, Elijah, the prophet, tells th n of other canines that wilt after awhile lave a fme banquet, saving: “Where digs lick the bl ood of Naboth shall dogs litthy bioed, even thine.” And sure enough, three ears after, Aliab wounded in battle^ s carriage dripping with the carnage, dogs sto>d under it dapping his life’s hi od. And a little afterward his wife, Jez: el, who had been his chief adviser in crin % stands at her palace-window and se< s Jehu, the enemy, approaching to take ossession of the palace. A nd to make he self look as at tractive as possible and q >enty to the very last, she decorated he person and according to oriental caste i. closed her eves and ran a brush dipj d in bla.-k powder along the eyelasht . and then from the window she glared ter indigz ation upon Jehu. As he rod. to the gales in bis chariot he shouted to he slaves in her room: “Throw her dor si!* Bat no doubt the slaves halted an >ment from such work as assassination, at, knowing Queen Jeaebel could be no sore to them and the conqueror Jehu wi said be every thing, as he shouted again: “Throw her down.” They u zed her and bore her struggling and cut ing to tbe

window casement and nm d Her rottn until she came tumbling t> the earth, st riking it Just in time to le: ehu’s hort.es trample her and the charit wheels roil over her. While Jehu is iside at the table refreshing himself aft i the excitement, he orders his servei: I to go and burr the dead Queen. But it! > wild street dogs had for the third time appeared on the scene, and (they had rest Ted all Iter body except those parts whi h in alt ages dogs are, by a strange insti ct or brutai superstition, kept from tc ching after d ath—the palms of the ha Is and soles of the feet. Alt this appaiing scene of ancient history was the result of a w Vs bad idTice to a husband, of a v :Vs struggle to advance her husband’s in rests by unlawful means. Ahab and Jh tebel sot the kitchen garden of Naboth, tut the dogs got them. Thu trouble all wgaa when this mistaken wife aroused oat of hie melancholy by tl text: “Arise end eat tareaci heart he merry1 will give yard of Naboth.” ear hatband srords of the end let th ine tee the rite- ; The influence suggested b} this subject is an iniraenc nee yon never bsl re heard <lscoureed on, and may never li nr again, Irak a most potent and sen -omnipotent influence, and ilecides the « are# of tmllvi duals, families, nations, imturies and eSernKiu. 1 speak of wli y arabiti on, go;d and bad. How import! it that every wife have bar ambition- a tolerated, righteous and divinely-ap ored ambition. And here let me say, whi I am mist anxious for is that woman not wait lag fur the rights denied her < r postponed, promptly and decisively employ 'the rights she already has ft possession. Some say she will bs In fai way to get all her rights when she get the right to the ballot-box. I wish the ths expiriment might be tried end set led. I would like to see all women vote li d then watch the result. Ido not know bat it wo old change any tiling for the ntter. Most wires and daughters and stars would rote as their husbands ant fathers itad brothers voted. Nearly all the families that I know are solidly J8 publican or Democratic or Prohibition, boss fatal les alll voting would make moir Totea, hat ap difference in the result. It tides that, as now at the polls men are I night op by tlie thousands women worn I be bought up by the thousands. The tpors tins more opportunity for p tical tllon. We hare several t voters now than are tor pat co nr upIIions more le good. that to ale saffmge We ere are told would correct (two and the insufflciency of w«i an’s wages. About the that multitudes of do unusual thing to restaurants so overpos and beer tha'; they can while there are many restaurants where they their champagne end ho* Mighty tempei WM would make! Beside tlie ruin-selleni would interest of their have a time the Besidei that, millions of refined women in a bly not vote at alt, w ant to go to the

and history are full of instances of wifely ambition gloriously triumphant in righti directions. All that was worth admiretion in tha character of Hsnry VI. was a reflection of tha heroics of his wife liar-' garet. William, Prince of Orange, was restored to the right path by the grant! qualities of his wife Vary. Justinian, tho Roman Emperor, confesses that his wise laws were the suggestions of bin wife Theodora. Andrew Jackson, tho warrior and President, had hi.i mightiest reinforcement in his plain wifev whose inartistic attire wan the amusement of the elegant circleii in which she was incited. Washington, who broke the chain that held America ia foreign vassalage, wore for forty years ti chain around his own neck, that chain holding the minature likeness of her who had been his greatest inspiration, whether among the snows at Valley Forgo «r nmid the honors of the presidential chair. Pliny’s pen was driven through all iti poetic and historical dominions by his wife, Calpornia. who sang his stansas to the sound of Ante and sat among audiences enraptured at herhnsbaad’s genius, herself the most enraptured. Peri eles said he gotall his eloquence and statesmans; hip from his wife. When the wife of Groliai rescued him from long imprisonmenlt a'i Lo Teste in by means of a bookcase that went in and out, carrying his books to sncl fro. ha was one day transported, hidden among the fotioe, and the women of bebesieged Weinsberg, getting permission from the Tictorions army to take with them so mneh of their valuables as they could carry, under cover of the promise shouldered and took with them as tho most important valuables their husbands —both achievements in a literal way illnsitrated what thousands of times has bee J done in a figurative way, that wifely ambition has been the salvation of men. De Tocqueville, whose writing* will be potential and quoted while the world lasts, ascribed his successes to his wife,

aim says: “Of all tli* blessings which God has given to me. the greatest of all in my •yes is to have lighted on Maria Motley.'* 'Martin Lather says of his wife: “I would not exchange mv poverty with her for all the riches of Crcesns without her." Isabella of Spain, by her superior faith in Columbus, put into the band of Ferdinand, her has baud, America. John Adams President of the United Stalls!, said of his wife: “She never by word or look discoura^i tna from running all hasardt for the nailration of my country** liberties” 0 woman, what is your wifely ambi - tion, noble or ignoble* Is it high social position? That will then probably direct your husband, and he will climb, an 1 scramble, and slip, and fall, and rise, and tumble, and on what level, or in wha t depth, or la what height he will idler awhile be found I can not even guess. The contest for social position is the most unsatisfactory contest in all the world, because it is so uncertain abor t your getting it, and *o insecure a posses - sion after yon have obtained it, and »o unsatisfactory even if yon keep it like whisk of n lady’s fan may blow it cut The growl of one bear or the bellowing: of on* boil on Wall street may scatter it Is the wife’* ambition the political preferment of her husband? Then that will probably direct him. What a God-for-saken realm la American politics tbw« best know who have dabbled in thins After they have assessed a man who is a candidate for office which hadoesaot get, or assessed him for some office attaiaml. and he has been whirled round, and room and round, and round among the dri lag, smoking, swearing crowd who of get control of public affairs, nil that left of bis self-respect or moral st< would find plenty of room on a geon rtcal point which is said to have aeit: length, breadth a or thickness. Many wife baa not been satisfied till her h«| band went into politics, but would aft ward ha vs given all she possessed to him out, 1 knew n highly moral man, useful the church and possessor of a fari home. He had a useful and prosper business, but bis wits did not think genteel enough. There were odors at the business nod sometimes they wouli adhere to bis garments when he return at night She insisted am his doing aomi thing morn elegant although be qualified for no business except that

which a* wns engaged. to pimm no changed hi* bosmems, and, in ordar to g»t on taster, abandoned church attendance!, saying attar ha bad mad? a certain mintbar of hundreds of thousands of dollars ha would return to the church and its a*rrices. Whore is that family to-dsy? Obliterated. Although succeeding in buninaaa for which he was qaalifiad, ha undertook a style of merchandise tor which lie had no qualification, and soon went “ bankruptcy. His now style of put him into aril association, morals as wall aa hie money, np not only his own another man’s home, and kind, pure, generous, morel mai of you who sit hare to-day, has.l libertine. His wif into this He broke broke tip blighted their only child, nppoeo now there '

thongs every thing should tare eat different from what wo koto calculated, yoa may always coast on two who aim going to help yon, and God is Otis and I am tko other.'* That man may have feeble health, and may meet with many obstacles and business trials, bat ho is coming gloriously through, for ha is rein forced, and inspired, and spurred on by a woman’s voice, as much as was Barak by Deborah, when Sisers. with nine hundred iron chariots came oa to crash him and his army, and Deborah shouted in the ear of Barak: “Dp! for this is the day in which the Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine hands.” And the enemy fell back and Sisera’s chariot not getting along fast enongh|in;the retreat, the General jumped out and took it afoot, and ran till be came toa place where a woman Bast gnvo him a drink of milk and then sent a spike through his skull, nailing him to the floor. Some of us could tell of what influence upon us has been a wifely ambition con* secrated to righteousness. As my wife is out of town and will not. shake her head because I say it in public, I will state that in my own professional life I have often been .salted of God, as I thought, to run into the very teeth of public opinion, and all outsiders with whom I advised told me I had better not, it would raw me end ruin my church, end at the sense time l was ireceiving nice tittle letters^ breateuing me with dirk and pistol and poison it I persisted in attacking certain evils of the day, until the commissioner of police considered it his duty to take his place ia our Siabbath services with forty officer* scattered through the house for the preservation of order, hot in my home there has always been one voice to say: “Go ahead, and diverge not an inch from the straight I ine, Who cares If only God is on our side?” And though sometimes it seemed as if 1 was going out against nine hundred iron chariots I went ahead, cheered by the domestic voice: “Up! for this is the day in which the Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine hands.” A man is no better than hi* wife will let him to. O wives of America, s« ing your scepters of wifely influence for God and good homes! Do not urge your husbands to annex Naboth’s vineyard to your palace of success, whether right w wrong, lest the dogs that come out to destroy Naboth come out also to devour you.. Bight- i eousness will pay best In life, will pay beet In death, will pay best in the judg- j meat, will pay best through all eternity. ; In our efforts to bare the mother of every household appreciate her influence , over her children we are apt to forget the ■ wife’s influence over the husband. In many households the influence upon the husband is the only home iuBueroe. In a great multitude of the best and most important and most tateuted families of the j earth there have been no descendants. There is not a child, or a grandchild, or : any remote descendant of Washington, or Charles Sumner, or Shakespeare, or Edmund Burke, or Pitt,- or Leri Kelson, or Cowper, or Pope, or Addison, or Johnson, oruLord Chatham, or Grattan, or Isaac: Newton, or Goldsmith, or Swift or Locks, or Gibbon, or Walpole, or Caning, or Dryden, or Moore, or Chuuc9r, nr Byron, or Walter Scott, or Oliver Cromwell, or Garrick, or Hogarth, or Joshua Reynolds, or Spencer, or Lord Bacon, or Macaulay. Multitudes of

tea nnest inmutes oi toe sarin in extinct. As though they had done enough for the, world by their goutus, er ttif, or patriotism, or iavsntiou, or consecration, Q6d withdrew them, la multitudes of cases «U woman’s opportunity for usefulness is with her cotemporeries. How important that it be ns improved opportunity I While the French warriors on their way to Rheims had about concluded t« give up attacking the castle at Troyes he- | cause It was so heavily garrisoned, Joan of Arc entered the room and told them they would be inside Ute castle in three days. “Wa would willingly emit six days," j said one of the leaders. “Six!” she cried out; “you shall be in j it to-morrow." And, under her leadership, on the morrow they entered. Oa a smaller scale every man has garrisons to subdue and obstacles to level, and every wife may be an inspired Joan of Arc to bar husband. What a noble, wifely ambition, the ds- ; termination, God helping, to accompany her companion across the stormy sea of this life and together gain the wharf of | the Celestial City! Coax him along with yon! Yon can not drlTa him there. You out not nag him there; but you cau coax him there. That is God’s pirn. He coaxes us all the way—coaxes us out of our sins, coaxes ns to accept pardon, coaxes us to Heaven. If we reach that blessed place it will bo through a prolonged nud divine coaxing. By the same process take your comjpanion, and then you will get there as well, and nil your household. Bo just the opposite to your neighbor. Her widely ambition it nil for this world, and a dis appointed and vexed and unhappy creature she will be all the way. Her residence may be better than yours for the few years of earthly star, bet »hs will movs out of it as to her body into a house about five and one-half feet long and about three feet wide and two feet high, and concerning her soul’s destiny you can make your own prognostication. Her hustiand and her sons and daughters, —*— llt- *-■»- liw

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MWiRpinv^iirnirTB)rar and the Prince rod*, in * magnificence of sleigh and robe and canopy laever sur« pasted, followed by two thousand sleighs lade n wttt the Bret people of Rossi*, the whcle length of the distance i lluminated by lamps and dusting temple* built tor that one night, and imitations olt mosques and Egyptian pyramids; and peopla of all nations in alii atyilee of coatume standing on platform*! along the way and patching the Ware at the pyrotechnics. At the palace the laxnries ef kingdoms were gathered and spread, and at the tables tbe guests had bat to touch the center of a pis ta, and 'ey magical machinery it dropped and tusothisr plate came up toadsd with still richer viands. But all that scene of the long ago shall be eclipsed oy the greater splendor* that will be gathered at the banquet mode by the Heavenly King for those osuacrated women who esms in oat of the winter and snowy chill of their earthly estefleno* into the warm and illumined palaces of Heaven. With the King hima»if «d all the potentates, yourself robed and cro wned, yon will sit at a table compared with which all the tenets at Ksuil north and. St. Cloud and the Alhamltra wore a beggar’s cruet. And the piaster s* ona royal satisfaction touched at the center shell disappear, only to make room for the coming of come richer regi*—*** **

OUR CALIFORNIA LETTER. SACBAMKKO Cr«, JOMMy B, tML [Special Corre*poa leine.l (kifoznU, the largest State latte Union excupt Texas, la 700 nilst lour with aa axe age width of 830 mile*. The Sierra N«vuda and Coast Ran,;e 01 mountain* run par lid, northeast and »ot hwast, the Karras haring aa iftlttdi of from 8,000 to 14,000 feet; the Coast Barge from 2,500 to 4,000 feet, and ther ar t divided by a nomber of Talleys and rivers, the principal one being the Saenmeato Talley, 200 mil) a in length and 43 miles average width, through which runs the Sacrameatc riTer, a navigable riani for about 150 miles from its entrance Into fiuiaun bay, a sm all bay at the head of he bay of hen Ftnncieca Sacramento Talley proper includes tta counties of Sacramento,'.Yuba, Butte, To. hums, Colusa, Sutter, Yolo and Solans, these beiDg bordered by the mountain counties of Amador, El Dorado, Placer, Nevada Sierra, Plumas, Shasta, Trinity, Mendocino, Lake and Naim, affording a great variety of soil and cl imate, owing to the difference in elevation. The soil of the valley counties bordering upon the Sacramento river Is principally a dark, rich adobe and alluvial roil, and well adapted to the growth of oereafe. Along the foot h&ia varieties of soil from black adobe to light sandy soil! appears The lower elopes of the mounta ins contain different soil, some being sane is, of light color, others light clay, and much a deep red clay. The summits are more roelry and volcanic, and the soils vary, some l:«tng day bills, sandy ridges, loamy meadow s and deep, rich valleys in the very tops of the mountains, being the favorite resort of Urge herds of sheep and cattle during the summer months. Along the foot-hills there is more or lees a dense growth of fuel timber, principally oak. The mountain sides are covered with a growth at pint dr and oak abounding in game. The climate of the valley is warm in summer, and not cold, the thermometer rarely dropping beloW 30 degrees above tero in winter. In June. July and August the mercury frequently rises to 100 and occasionally 110 degrees, but owing to the };iecullar dryneea

ox lira uc ana consigns c.roaisuon w un * winds, which take off all perspiration and cool the body, the heat in not oppressive, and business in the town,' and harvesting in the fields go on as usuul, a ease of aimstroke being very rare indeed. The mineral belt js to the foot-hills and mountains, the told once aboundin g in the beds of all the (reams in ravines and j-niches, on the —' i airfare of gravelly l lama, a the day hillu. ca the tope of the mountains and in the g eat veins «' the w> iky riilges. Much stilt it mains and thooaan is of miners yet derive remunerative emplo.ment digging it out, cm-, the old miners vow caution the new cotter with the pro verb: "(told is where yon fiat it* Si retching along the foot-hills and up the mot atain sides to the iltit ide of 2,500 feet la w hat is known as the * thermal belt* It is in Iris twit where the warm air lingers when the sun goes down, anti to which the warm air riaes when the first ray* of the morning sun are thrown upon the valley. Tender plants and semi-tropical fruits are grown in profusion, *a was fully demonstrated at the Citrus fair held in OrorlUe, Butte County, in December last This ‘ thermal belt * is also noted for Ms wonderful curative qualities in lung end asthmatic complaints But very little good Government cm railroad land near Ute railroads or rlvein remain. land is worth from $5 to $300par note according to location and improveminta. In the foot-* hill region laud is selling from $5 to *50 per acre. In the valley bordering oa th Sacramento river large ranches of frou 1,000 to 60,000 acres have been the prevailing feature. As population comes in these will be subdivided ind on their rich alluvial soil thousands of small farms, the homes of thrifty families, will be established. but this can not be accomplished until the population intareasee and there is a demand. The population of this great State is about 1,500.000, but it is capable of supporting 10,000,000 people. All this vast region at soil, water and climate, unsurpassed by any other, now invites population—not laiy, shiftless, impecunious personal, such would soon starve or be found begging—but men with brain and muscle, and enough money to give them a fair start, enough to sustain them while Improving the lands, to make them produce that for which nature intended them—euch men. If with families so muoh the better, can find abumc ant opportunities to secure at moderate cost such a home se will be pleasant and profitable A man with a family willing to help him. If he baa from *1.000 to $3,000 in hand, to safe to make a beginning which, if he to judicious, should lead him to proepe rtty. There are mineral springs in the foot-hill

i plied nine-tenths of the fruit cent Eaat, and ! the “ Fruit Grower*’ Union,” an association of fanners, in the year 1887 sold their fruit in Sew York and Boston on the auction plan, and with gratuytnr success It wilt he fried in other cities ti n coming: season, with reduced rates of t ranspartattoa. «o that sixty mlUiou of people in the United Stores can afford to purchase these California fruits, and the pragiem and development of the fruit bnainesa will be something wobderM Fruit canneries Mid dsi eni axe being estabiiehed and thousands of tone of fruit are preserved in this ma nner. Good tana hands get from $25 to 530 per month by the year; harvest hands, ft 50 to $250 per day; mechanic*, from $2 to $4 pe* »: good house servants, from $15 to per month, and are scarce. Chinese are largely employed in house service, bat oonidbe easily dispiaeed hf bright American or German girls who would be willing to go into the country. The Celtic girls, as n rale, dlsake to leave the eltten jiaLroads now traverse the principal sailers. the rate of fare being three, cento per i»ii« on valley and tour casts per mile on mountain routes. Dry-goods, dotting, and. in fret. aUtha lighter cliasa of goods can be puehaaed at cheaply as tc tke Western States. Heavy goedaiwbare freight la an important item