Pike County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 May 1888 — Page 1

?W\ POTIUS PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT IIED EVERY THURSDaI. foron#j-e*r. ..... rOr«x monrti. for l* roe nntbi .ft) INVARIABLY IN ADVANCERATI Ow equate 9 line*', oar Inrertloo. •aeh addition. I additional insertion A liberal reduction made on .MM » dvertlae raanlnr three, six, and twelve month*. Leaal and tranaleot adrertlaamenU r«aM for In i

i. L. MOmrr, Proprietor, ‘Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles of 01?IO£i VOLUME XVIII. ————— ^ A PETERSBURG,' INDIANA, THURSDit 3, m Pike County \ l ' i .? ¥

a PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT JOB WORK 07 All KINDS IsTeatly E xecuted REASONABLE BATES. NOTICKI Persons reeeirsnir a copy of this paper with this notice crossed In pencil sre notified that the time of their *ub*or»ptior> haseapns*.

UltJKKSSIONAL UtRIM. K A. KALY. Attorney at Law9 I ElER'BURG, IND. on «: Over J. R. A-hmi A Son's Drag Store. He <s also a m-m&er of the Unit'd States I'olaction \**w a to i. awl g,»e. prrimot attention w> -very m »tter iu which be it employed. K. P. Uh h inD*>.i. A. H. T»rui«, RICHARDSON & TAYLOR. Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, INDi Prom pi attention given to all baldness. A Voinrv in, idle constantly in tlieoftlee. iJSTc-c .in Carpenter Budding mb and Main. J. \\\ WILSON, ! Attorney at Law, PETERSBURG. IND. fSTOfflc*: Orir J. B. Young A Co-’e Store, il t'AUJcTo.a. J. H. UaMah CA RLE I ON * LaMAR. Physicians & Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND., trill practice in Pike and adjoining countie*. OtBce: Rear rodm of Hank budding. OIBce hour* day and night. ff^ntaeasos of women and children a specialty. Chronic and difficult cases not wiled. —u CASE. M. D. f Physician and Surgeon VEI.PEN, IND. Will practice In Pike and adjoinltp; counties. Calls prmnidlv attended to. day or night. OtBce fcour>. day and night S' W. P. Towasnsis. Ilin rucua Ki'ieii Swim. . TOWNSEND, FLEENER & SKITH, Attorneys at Law AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS, PSTEKKBl HO, - JND. ANA. Oflw, OTtr Gn« Frank** ntorp. Special at •bMoq given tot*oH««Atons Ituylnr »n«l Sell* Itiir ».nn<!». Lvammmg TtUee mi l P ui nij*aiti4 Aroimcta, J. L K«:it •. Frank 8< «rt KEITH & SCOTT, Abstraots of Title, INSURANCE, BEAL ESTATE. Collection* nn*l writlnx of dee**, etc,. carefully aai itrontpUr MUnlet to, A Notary Public constantly In the o31ct. Office in Carpantar IlulIUmtf. It It KIMK, M. D.. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG.. IlfD. office, over (Urn u A s* n** mow, resi* ttrn p on >even«n Struct, tuuee a iutrea »'»uth of Mam. t 'nii* promptly RitmleJ to, tiny or »U'm. ) J. It DUNCAN. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, . IND.' OfBcenn flrat lliwr Carpenter 11,Hiding 3D. J. 9

Resident Dentist, PETERSBURG, INDt ALL WORK WARRANTED. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E. TURNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, IND. Paittea wUhln* »ork done at Ih<-ir pHd>*nee* will leare order* at the -b-'tv in t)r AdaaiV new t u.M or, rear of Adam, * .'on a drur rto a _ CITY HOTEL. Uador Now Naaagtasat, Cor. Eighth and Main $ta.,opp. Court-boon, pkikrsbu.ro, INB. The City Hotel ta'ecntaally located. flr>t < Ian. In all It* nppolnirae.it*. and the hc,t an I cheapo* hotel In the city. Sherwood House, Under New Manag. meut. lUSSEI.L & TOWNSEND. Prop'rs. Firm and Locum Streeta, Eransvllle, : : Indiana. RATES, 82 PER DAY. Samplt Rooms for Commoreial Moo. HYATT HOUSE, VaaUactoa. lad. Centrally Located, and Aceo nmodattona Bin Mmi. ’ ' HENRY HYATT. Proprlator. PIKB HOTBLt, PETKRMU'Kii. - - ISIUANA. CHARLES SCHAEFER. Preprietar. Located la the boalne*. part of town To. at. rraaon.Me A *«Hl Bar. eho.ee Lhtnora. Tobacco and Cigar* Corner Serrath and W alnut street*. When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. ^Int-Glass in All Respects. la* Uru Harris and 'Albion Romu Je.sk J Morons, Lata of Waablngton.lud ENGLISH MORGAN. lad. J bmt m the city

NEWS IN BRIEF. GmbpIM from Tartan Snma CONT.KKNKIONAL flMCkESlNOti I» the Senate, M the 4m, a Joint rrsoluilor waa pa?ted providing that the public land* *r M'Xio !»;>'- Alabama ami Aric-.t«sa*. end Sub J-Tt to private entry, shaM W> disposed of ar s >r(llD( to the proMalohs of the homestead lava Only, until legislation aHectin* auch lands shall be disposed of,- or tttrfll the present session of Congress adjourn*. 0 inside ration of the Interaatkwal Copy , r *ht b 11 was proceeded with,,,,. In the House an Invitation to participate !h the celebration or the centennial anniversary of the mnogo ra* tionof 'icorse Washington, io We held In New l York. April IK IWft, was mtetvpd and referred Tiie River and liafhot bill was farther considered in commituss of the whole. H* the l**nr.te, on the ilth, consideration of th| International Copyright bill consumed al- > most the eatlre day*, and the matter went over without action ..lathe Rouse, the report of the contested election case of Frank vs. Glover, from the Ninth Missouri district. was submitted. It finds Glover entitled to the seat. The Tarilf bill occupied the remainder of the day In the Senate, on the»th. Senator Voorhees’ speech on President Cleveland's TariO message waa the principal feature of the day's proceedings..... In the House land speeches Were made by Messrs. Bynum. Brown and Dockery. The marked features i» the proceedings of the Senate, e*i the 8*th. were the notice of Mr. 1 rural I* that he would, on Tuesday next, reply to Mr. Voorhees' attack on him of the Hath, and the debate on the Land Forfeiture bill.In the House, the Tsrld bill was discussed at length by Messrs. Buchanan, Hemphill, Ore borne and Hudd. Th» Senate was not in session on the rrtn. tn the Honsr the debate on the Mills Tariff hill occupied almost the entire day s session. An evening session was held, devoted to private pension Wits. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. In an interview with a United Pres* reporter, on the 35th, Walker, son of James O. Maine, said that the reports so persistently circulated of his father’s illness were very annoying and positively without foundation in fact. Os the S'Ah, in New York City. Judge Patterson denied the motion to quash the indictment against Thomas A. Kerr, of the Broadway Surface railroad,"on the chargesvf bribery in connection with the boodle Hoard of Aldermen, and ordered the trial to proceed. 0 In Boston, on the 35th. John L. Sullivan was banqueted by his admirers. On the 35th the household effects of the late ex-Attorney-General Brewster, including expensive china, bric-a-brac and furniture, were sacrificed at auction, realising on an average bat about onetwentieth of their value. Invitatiors have beenpextended to the President and Mrs. Cleveland to attend the celebration of the opening of the new State Capitol at Austiu. Tex., in May. Os the 25th the House committee on ways and means agreed to limit the general debate on the Tariff bill to seventeen days and two evening sessions weekly, with an equal division of time between Democratic and Republican speaker*.

KOKWMX aiiJ.iR. general manager or the Chicago, Milwaukee & tit Paul railrow], was rlefird president of th« road, on the 35th, to suceeejllhe la*e Alexander M it< belt _■fpc? OK the tttfa 4|f -jfresMent vetoed billa limiting pension* to tShloe Quiggle, widnw-fMrWUlv Quiggle; William U. BrimnMsjw William P. Witt It is said the managers of the proposed Grand Army parade in Brooklyn on Decoration Day have secured President Cleveanil's consent to review the pared e. Ok the S8th Rev. Dr. Courtney, late of Boston, was consecrated Bishop of Nova Beotia Ox the 35th H»n. Seth L. MiUlken was nominated for Congress by the Third District Republican convention of Maine. Resolutions indorsing Mr. Blaine for the presidency were adopted with great enthusiasm. r • The approaching marriage of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain to Miss Endicott, who met the Birmingham statesman during his late visit to the United States, was announced by the London CkruxieU on the 36th. Ok the 35th a canvass of the delegates to the Republican State convention of Massachusetts in Boston showed Mr. Hlalne to be the first'choice for the Presidency by an overwhelming majority, with Senator AJllwm as second choice. Ok the 35th Queen Victoria visited the sick room of Emperor Frederick and spent a short time with her afflicted son-in-law. Thk Indiana Democratic State convention at Indianapolis, on the 26th, nominated Courtland C- Matson for Governor and W; R. Myers for Lieutrnant-Gov-ernor, and a full State ticket. The Maine Republicans met in State convention at Bangor, on the 3Cth, elected presidential elector*-at-large said dele-gatee-at-large to the Chicago convention, and In their resolutions heartily indorsed Mr. Blaine. Mr. Maxlst. of Bangor. Me., an intimate friend of the Blaine family, says that Mr. Shaw is mistaken about Mr. Blaine’s being ill. Mr. Manley shows letters from Mr. Blaine as late as April 13, stating that he is in excelent health. Tax New York friends of Mr. Blaine place little confidence in the editorial announcement by the New York Sum of the 36th, that the editor had information from an undeniable source that Mr. Blaine would again decline the nomination for the presidency, even if tendered him at Chicago. Ok the 36th the sentences of General Caff are 1 and Mnte. Lamoosln. who were eonvicted of selling medals of the Legion of Honor, were confirmed by the Paris Court of Appeals. Tag protective-tariff meeting at the Philadelphia Academy of Music on May 5 will be addressed by Senator William P. Frye, of Maine; Hon. Wm. McKinley, Jr., of Ohio, and Hon. Wm. D. Kelly, of Philadelphia. Ok the 36th the Emperor of Germany partook of solid food, which he greatly relished. Os the 46th Governor Gray, of Indiana, was indorsed for, Vice-President by the Indiana Butte Democratic convention at Indianapolis. * Hxsar George's paper, the Meadorsi, on the 26th, advocated as the Democratic ' ticket, Grover Cleveland for President and Roger Q. Mills for Vice-President. Jonx L. Bi i.i.tvaK, it is said, got drunk on board the Catalonia on his return voyage, insults# ladies, heat unoffending men. and generally acted like a brute, until the steward broke a soda syphon over his head, and the engineer threatened to tarn the hot-water hose on him and the captain to put him in irons. TO get a look at the Qneen of England it is estimated that between eighty thousand and a hundred thousand ]>ersona visited Charlottenburg, on the Sfifth. Ok the Sfilh General Mariano telegraphed from Massowah that King John had reopened negotiations for peace between Italy and Abyssinia. Os the 27th Mr. Blaine was enthusiastically indorsed for the presidency by the Seventh District Republican convention of MiIm* Ok the 31th Emperor Frederick hold a conference of an hoar’s duration with Prince Bismarck, and afterward gave audience to other visitors. On the 27th Hon. R. R. Hitt waa re

Ox the Alfred t. Phillips, the actor •lied at the Gilsey House, New York: of pneumouia, lie w*s thiitv-lonr ye*r»-U4d. aud well ku >wn |p the profession, havtug plhJT^d with the Henry Irving and Madison Square companies. Os the 8Tth Fred Carroll, Hatcher for the Allegheny BJLse-Ball Club, and Ed Williatlisuu, short-stop for toe Chicago*, were arrested in Pittsburgh, Pa., for “intoxication and disorderly conduct.” Carroll was fined $10 and costs, but W ill jams on forfeited his deposit of $80, Ox the fTth the election W fill the part<antentary vacancy in Mid-Lanarkshire, England, resulted as follows: Phillips, oisdsttmian, 3,H47; Bonsfleld, Conservative, 8.017: Hardie, Labor, 617. Ox the 27th General Boulanger, responding to a toast to his health at a banquet given in his honor at the Cafe Riche, said Be desired to protest in the most emphatic manner against the charge that he aspired to the dictatorship. Moreover, he declared If the question was raised in the u’oambcr, that body would vote to abolish the presidency. Ox the 87th a banquet was tendered to Miss Clara Barton, president of the organization, by the Red Cross Society of Philadelphia. At Herbertstogn, Ireland. oq,tbe 87th. addressing a large mooting, John Dillon maintained the justice of the “plan of the campaign,” notwithstanding the inhibition of the Pope. Dau it. P. Porrwu of .Bridgeton, Me., who lately returned from Europe, is quoted ns saving that he saw Mr. Blaine nr Naples, and he was looking finely and In the beat spirits. He spoke of the coming election, and said the Democrats could not succeed without New York. He showed no signs of ill-health. It is said that Claus Bpreukela will soon move his family to Philadelphia, which city he designs to make his future home. lx New York, Harry Cooke, the young man who recently disappeared on the eve of his marriage to Miss Jeannette Miluor, was found by his father, on the 87th. wandering aimlessly about the streets in a demented condition. Ox the 'Jttth Dr. Clemence Sophia Lozier died a« her home in New York. She graduated from the Syracuse MedionI College in tft'-S with high honors. Ox tile 87th funeral services over the remains of the late ex-Governor Hoffman were held in Grace Church, New York City,, after which the body was taken to fling Bing for interment. CRIMKI AXDCAlUtmSOx tine night of the 2»th the negroes of Bessemer, Ala., took possession of the town and attempted to burn the place, in revenge for the lynching of one of their people charged with attempted outrage. lx a fit of jealousy William Bailer, a ear inspector, of Newark. N. J., shot his wife and killed himself, on the 85th. AT New York the machine and pattern ; shops of the De la Mater Iron-works were I burned on the 85th, entailing a loss of MOO.flu.i.

Or the iMh N. B. Wells, the Senses Falls |N. Y.) bank defaulter, was jailed, in default of $5,000 bail. While President Carnot was laying the corner-stone of a new lycenm at Agen, on the 26th, twenty persons were injured by the collapse of a platform. At Dayton, Tenn., on the 26th. a piece of slale weighing ten tons tell on a miner, crashing his body into a jelly. At Denver, on the 26th, B. 8. Robbins, assistant United States district attorney for Colorado, cat his throat, bat will probably 'recover. He was despondent over ; private troubles. Mr. Robbins was for- ; merly a prominent politician in Ken* tuckjr. Os the 26th the Indiana (Fa.) town election officers were sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for election frauds. Shortly after midnight on the morning of the 26th General Abraham Merritt, of Nyacfc, N. Y.» committed suicide by swallowing a dose of laudanum at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Nea r Yardly. Pa, on the 26th, Conductor Wcetham ami a br ake mail were kilted in a collision between two ooal trains on the Reading railroad. Os the 26th Mrs. Julia Raynor,of Brooklyn, sraa thrown from her carriage, run over and killed by a train on the Atlantic Avenue railroad. Near O’Fallon, Mo., on the 31th, Ernst Kleeschulte shot and killed his wife and one of her sons, and desperately wounded the remaining son,at their secluded couni try home. The murderer soon after took his own life. The couple had lived apart for taro years. Os the Northern Pacific railroad over one thousand feet of snow-sheds were burmrd near Mullen Tunnel, MouL, on the 27th. The lire was started by sparks from a passing engine. Os the 27th three negroes were hanged at Fort Smith. Ark. j Os the 27th Herbert J. Horie, on trial at New Bedford. Mass., for the murder of his j infant child, was declared not guilt)- by i the ju ry. Os the 27th the Ft. Madison (la.) Lumber Company's saw-mills were burned, entailing a loss of (15,0)6. The fire caught from sparks from a locomotive. Neab Cooper, Tei.. Young Boyds ten, who recently shot Miss Lulu Frazier, and then committed suicide, left a letter in which he said it was desperate love and evil longues' that caused him to commit the awful deed. Os the 27th Jack Prater, colored, was hanged at Orangeburgh, 8. C- for the murder of Andrew J*?k-on. also colored. Os the 27th. in overruling the motion for a new trial in the Billings murder case, at Wavwrly, la.. Judge Rudirk said: “1 think the jury made a mistake in the verdict; it should have been murder in the tirst instead of the second degree." He 'than sentenc'd the prisoner to the penitentiary for life at hard labor. Near Orleans, Neb., on the 27th, one man was killed and five persons were seriously injured by the derailing of a sleeping car. At Anderson, 8. C.. on the 27th, Jasper Davis was hanged for the murder of his wife. He was undoubtedly insane before, if not at the time of committing the deed. lOSCELLAXEOOt. Os the 24th about fifty New York commission merchants met tor the purpose of permanently organising the Woolen Goods Association. At Alban)', N. Y., the brewers’ lock-oat was ended, on the 25th. by the bosses signing the agreement required by their employes. V, Os the 24th the Keystone Investment Company of Philadelphia, said to have been a big “bucket-shop" and backer for about twenty similar establishments in Philadelphia and neighboring cities, suspended business with liabilities placed at 22661)6; assets unknown. On the 21th the Ragle Consolidated Refining Company of Lima, O., commenced salt against the New York Tribune Association for libel, for alleged false Tepee-‘ , mentation of the business of the company. | Os the 33d the judgment of the Supreme ! Court of Kansas, awarding damages to Patr ick Mackey, an employe of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, for injuries received through the negligence of another employe, eras affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States. Tw o important victories were won by the striking flint-glass workers of the East on the 24th, the Gill & Company's works, at Philadelphia, mid Dnnningheinier’s works, at Brooklyn, starting up on tie workmen’s scale. Os the 23d a report from Paris said; “Fiance is in the direst danger at present, for all the esemtos at the Republic ere

A wmu&iM fepitfi Kras ordered by tk* House commerce committee on the bill authorising the Kentucky this Comp®*? to lay «, conduit under the Ohio river near Louisville. Ok the 24th the House committee on Indian affairs agreed to report with favorable recommendation a bill to pay tho Wahpetou and Sisseton Indians, in Dakota, $342,000 in one installment which la now due to them iu annual installment*. It is n»id that an imtnigvation assocta- , tlbh has been formed, with headquarters iu New York, the object of which ft to populate the South with Roman Catholic immigrants. A masiiesto to the electors, condemning the Boulangist movement, has been signed by a majority of the Deputies for the Department of the Seine. The Senators for that department have been asked to attach their signatures to the manifesto. Ok the 24th the colored people of the District of Columbia held a memorial meeting in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. Eulogies were delivered on the ! life of ex-Senator Conkllng. Frederick Douglas was the principal speaker. It was reported on the 25th that John Thornwald had discovered a deposit of silver ore within twenty miles of Bismarck, Dak. He refuses to divulge the location of the mine, hat exhibits rich specimens in proof of his assertion*. Ok the 25th the affair of the 8t, Johns (Jt. B.1 Building Society were reported to be in a chaotic stale, and the depositors, mostly mechanics and middle-class people, expected to lose about $100,000. Burrs have been brought, by direction of the Attorney-General, against the Western Union Telegraph Company and Union Pacific Railroad Company to recover Moneys claimed to have been illegally paid to the telegraph company on account of telegraph service over the subsidised lines of the railway company. Os the 26th Mrs. Amanda Cowan, a socalled materialising medium, was exposed as a fraud in Boston by the sudden lighting of candles by a party of gentlemen who attended the seance for that purpose. At Baltimore, on the 26th, the steamship Maine, from Bremen, with 1,100 passengers. was quarantined, having a case of small-pox on board. Ok the 25th the Crosby High-License bill was passed by the New York Senate. Thk block-tin output of this country, so says the American Tin-Plate Association, is now almost exclusively controled by a French syndicate working in harmony with the copper syndicate. Ok the 26th Jake Kilrain wired from London an acceptance of John L. Sullivan’s $10,000 challenge. Ok the nights of the 24th aud 25th Lynchburgh. You, was visited by heavy frosts, and it is feared that fruit in that vicinity is badly damaged. Ox the 26th G. Hall, a brakeman, obtained a verdict for $15,000 damages at Mobile, Ala., against the Louisville A Nashville Railroad Company for the loss of a foot by being knocked off of a freight traiu by a low bridge. Os the 27th five additional Newark (N. J.5 brewers, making fourteen in all, si gned the contract proposed by the jour

neymen. Ik Westchester County, N. Y., on the 27th, Jim Brockleman and Mike Dunn fought fourteen rounds to a draw. The purse was divided- .__ Ox the 27th the horses of the late «xSenator Conklins were sold under the hammer. They brought respectively, $1,2U0, $1,300 and *1,250. The Rome correspondent of the London Times on the 27th asserted that the Pojie’g decree against the plan of campaign had alreaijy been sent to the Irish bishops, and would be published in England and Ireland in about ten days. Cohmxxtixg on the late papal decree | against the “plan of campaign,” the Dub* lin Freeman's Journal of the 27th urges the people to exercise calmness and patience, and receive it with profound respect and loyalty to Rome. Os the 27th the statement that the Pope had Issued a decree condemning the ‘plan of campaign," afterward dented, was confirmed. At Atlanta, Ga., and other points. Confederate Memorial Day (April 27) was ob-K served by a general suspension of business. parades, addresses and decorations. At Washington, Ga., a beautiful monument to General Robert Toombs was dedicated. * lx Lyons, Prance, on the 27th, a serious riot occurred in consequence of strikers trying to intimidate those of their number trying to resume work. The latter were attacked with stones, and many severely wounded. The police interfered, and several of these, too, were hart, but the rioters were finally subdued, and six of the ring leadens arrested. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS, The Senate was not in session on the 88th__In the House, consideration of the Tariff bill was resumed, the chief feature of the debate being a colloquial discussion respecting the question of labor and the bearing of a revised tariff thereon. The Western Association (base-ball) championship season opened on the 28th. A nuisHTriL explosion, by which two men were instantly killed and others seriously Injured, occurred in a Delaware & Hudson company’s mine at WUkesbarre, Pa., on tho 2t*th. A srEciAL to the Butte (Mont.) Miner says the Mhllaa tunnel through the main range ef the Rocky mountains on the Northern Pacific, constructed at a coot of *2.000,000, will prove a total loss. PmsstDEXT Cxnaot to a speech at Bordeaux, on the 28th, urged union of the Republicans as the only way to raise the forces of the friends of the Republic to the height of their requirements, and to secure to the tolling people the prog ress i they expect Dn. Exit A. Kxostee, editor of the German edition of .Pmet, died to Brooklyn on the 28th. The French Chamber of Deputies passed the Panama Lottery bill on the 28th. It is stated that the action of the Pope and Propaganda of the Holy See regarding the Irish “Plan of Campaign,” was taken independent of the suggestion of any representative of the British Government. Cos on the Wes tern..Hew York dr Pennsylvania Railroad, containing forty passengers, were thrown from the track by the spreading of the rails near White House, Pa., on the 28th, and rolled i.lown an embankment into the ditch. Several of the passengers were seriously and some fatally injured. The Signal Office Weekly Weather Crop bulletin, of the 29th, reports a larg e deficiency of rainfall in the winter-wheat States of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.. The ladies of Washington, having lined of the tricycle, have organised a eluli and mounted the fiery, untamed bicycle. "Proposals for membership are so numerous that there is talk of limiting them to order to prevent fine club from becoming too large. Gexxsai. Joe K. JoHxaox says that to becoming an honorary contributing member of a G. A. R. post he has bat followed the generous example of Northern sol diers to contributing to the fund for Confederate soldiers some time ago. The Allen law was very generally Observed by the saloon keepers ef Ci ncin

TALMAUE'SJiERMON. A Homily o n the Wide-Spread Cvtrm «f Modem: .‘IpirittMOisni; The Birth and Pnmnaaa of the H sresy la America and the llanefnl InBuenee It Hat Kxerted Ijh Many HomeaA Christian Seance; had either slain ai l the witches or compeled then to stop business. A aerrant “Modern Spiritmi iism” was the snbjeet chosen by Rev. T. IloWitt Talmage for a recent sermon a<: the Brooklyn Tabernacle. His text wtis: Dr. Talmage announced his snbjeet: “Modern Spiritual!, nn.” He tool; for his text: Behold, there is a woman that hatha familiar Spirit at Endor. Ant Saul dissuised himself and put on other Moment. and he treat, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night; and lie said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the tamtUar spirit, and bring me him up. whom I: shall name unto thee.— 1 Samuel, xxvlii., T,l. 1 have recently t»ecome a Spiritualist. At least so some1 of the journals of that belief declare. Till is, together with the fact that “mediums” are now being tried in the criminal courts, setting millions of people to make ‘Inquiry in regard to communications V. 'tween this world and Ike next, leads me to preach this sermon. Trouble to the r iirht of him and trouble to the left of him, liaul knew not what to do. As a last rsiMtt, he concluded to seek out a spiritual medium, or a witch, or any thing that yon please to call it—at any rate, a woman who had com munication with the spirits of: the eternal world. It was a veiT difficult thing to do, for Saul itther ! them one day said to. King Saul: “I know of a spi ri tual medium down at the village of Endrcr.” “Do you?” said Ihe King. Night falls. Saul, putting off hill kingly robes and put-’ ting on the dress o I a plain citiien, with two servants, go* n out to hunt up this spiritual medium. It was no easy thing for Saul to disguise himself, for the tallwri people in the e: untry only came np to his shoulder, and chink from the strength of the man and tile way he bore himself, he must have beer well proportioned. It must have been a. li-ightful thing: to see a man walking alon z in the night eight or nine feet high. 1 suppose, as the people saw him pass, they said: “Who is that? He is as tall as th< King”-having no idea that in such a plni hi dress there really was passing the King. Sanl and his seir cants after awhile reach the village, and they say: “I wonder if this is the house!’” and they look in and they see the hagguid, weird and shriveled spiritual medium sitting by the light, and on the table sculptured images, «nd divining rods, and pt XHmoas herbs, and bottles, and vases They say: “Yes, this must be the place.1” One loud rsp brings the woman to the door, and as she stands there, holding th.t candle or lamp above her head, and pe t ring out into the darkness, she says: Kko is here?” The tall King informs bur that he has come to have his fortune told. When she hears that she trembles and almost drops the light, for she knows there is no chance for a fortune-teller it: spiritual medium in all the land. But Hnitl having sworn that no harm shall come to her, she says: “WelL who she II I bring np from the

dead?”. Sanl says: “Bring op Samuel.” That was the prophet who had died a little white feature. I see her waving a wand, or stirring np some poisonous heibs in a cauldr m». or hear her muttering over some in.'notations, or stamping with her foot, a*, the cries out to the realm of the dead: “S.tmuei! Samuel!” Lo, the freeiing horror' The floor of the tenement opens, and the gray hairs float up, and the forehead, the eyes, the lips, the shoulders, the anus, the feet, the entire body of dead 8ai cciuel, wrapped in sepulchral robe, appe«g to the astonished group, who stagger back; and hold fast and catch their breath, and shiver with terror. The dead prophet, white and awful from the tomb, begins to move his ashen lips, and he glares upon King Saul and tries out: “What did you bring me up for? Why did you break mr long sleep? What do you mean. King Saul?” Sanl, trying tl' compose and control himself, makes this stammering and affrightened uttenmce, as he says to the dead'prophet: “The Lord is igainst me, and I have come to you for help. What shall 1 do?” The dead prr ;;het stretched forth his Anger to King Saul and said: “Die to-morrow! Come with me into the sepulchre. I am going now. Come, come with me!” And lo! the floor again opens and the feet of the dead prophet disappear, and the'anns, and the shoulders, and the forehead. The flooi closes. Notliing is left in the room but haul and the two servants, and the spiritual medium, and the sculptured images, at i31 the divining rods, and the bottles, and he vases, and the poisonous herbs. Oh, :!iat was an awful seance ! I learn ftrst from this subject that Spiritualism is a ttry old religion. It is natural that pec pie should want to know the origin and the history ol a doctrine which is so widet pread in all the villages, towns and cities of the civilised world, getting new coirrerts every lay—a doctrine ‘with which ; nany of you are already tinged. Spiritualism in America wss born in 1847 in Hydesvillt, Wayne County, 24. Y., when one night there was is loud rap heard against the door of Michael Weekman; a rap a second time, a rap a third time; and all thiee times, when the door was opened, there was nothing found taere, the knocking, having been made seemingly by invisible knuckles. In that same house theie was a young woman who had a cold hand passed oier her face, end, there being seemingly no arm attached to it. ghostly suspicions were excited. After awhile Mr. Fox and his family moved into that home, and then every night there was a banging at the door, and one night Mr. Fox said: “Are you a spirit?” Two rips, answering in the affirmative. “Are yon an injured spirit?” Two raps, answering in the affirmative. And so they found out. as they say, that it was the ghost or spirit of a peddler wlho had been murdered in t hat house, many years before, for his five hundred dollars. Whether the ghost of the dead peddler had come there no collect his live hundred dollars or his tones I can not say, not feeing a Spiritualist, but there was a great racket at the doer, so Mr. Weekman declared, and Mrs. Weekman sad Mr. Fox and Mrs. Fox, tad all the little Foxes. The excitement spread. There was aa universal rumpus. The Hon. Judge Edwards declared in a book that he had

the spi rits everywhere had gone into the furniture business t Well, the people ♦aid: “We have' get hmetfata new tin this country; ii is a new religionOh, no,- my friends. Thousands (if years ago we find in our text a spiritualistic seance. Nothing in the spiritualistic circles of our diiy has been more strange, mysterious and wonderful than things which have been seen in the past centuries of the world. In all the agea there have been necromancers, those who consult with the spirits of the departed charmers; those who put their subjects in a mesmeric state; sorcerers, those who, by taking poisonous drags, see every thing and hear every thing and tell every thing; dreamers, people who in their sleeping moments can see the future world and hold consultation with spirits; astrologers, who oonlid read a new dispensation in the stars; experts in palmistry, who can tell by the lines in the palm of your hand your orifdn and history. From a care on Mount Fainassos, we are told, there was an exhalation that intoxicated the sheep and the goats that came anywhere near it, and a shepherd approaching it was thrown by that exhalation into an excitement in which he could foretell future events and hold consultation with the spiritual world. Yea, before the time of Christ the Brahmins went through all the table-moving., all the furniture excitement, which the spirits have exploited In our day; precisely the same thing over and over again, nnder the manipulations of the Brahmins. Now do yc>u say that Spiritualism is different from these! I answer, all these delusions I have mentioned belong to the same family. They are exhumations from the unseen world. Wliat does God think of all these delusions? He thinks so severely of them that he never speaks of them but with livid thunders of indignation. He says: I will be a swift witness against the sorcerer. He says: Tbon sbalt not suffer a witch to live And lest yon might make some important distinction between Spiritualism and witchcraft, Uod says, in so many words: There shall not be among you a eon suiter of familiar spirits, or wizard, or necromancer; tor they that do these things are an abomination unto ihe Lord. The Lord Almighty, in a score of passages, which I have not now time to quote, utters his indignation against all this great family of delusions. After that be a Spiritualist if yon dare! Still further, we learn from this text how it is that people come to fall into Spiritualism. Saul had enough trouble to kill ton men. He did not know where to go for relief. After awhile he resolved to go and see the Witch of Endor. He expected that somehow she would afford, him relief. It was his trouble that drove him there. And I have to tell you now that Spiritualism finds its victiths in the troubled, the bankrupt, the sick, the bereft. You lose your watch, and you go to the fortune-teller to find where it is. You lose a friend, you want the spiritu al world opened, so that you may have communi - cation with him. In a highly 'wrought, nervous and diseased state of mind yon go and put yourself in that communication. That is why 1 hate Spiritualism. It takes advantage of one in a moment of weairnass, which may come upon ns at anytime. We lose a friend. The trial is keer. sharp, suffocating, almost madden

ing. If we coaid marshal a lost and storm the eternal world and recapture our loved one the host wonld soon be marshaled. The house is so lonely. The world is so dark. The separation is so insufferable. But Spiritualism says: “We will open the future world, and your loved one can come back and talk to you.” Though we may not hear his voice, we may hear the rap of his bands on the table. So, clear the table. Sit down. Put your hands on the table. Be very quiet. Five minutes gone. Ten minutes gone. No motion of the table. No response from the future world. Twenty minutes. Thirty minutes. Nervous excitement all the time increasing. Forty minutes. The table shivers.^ Two raps from the future world. The letters of the alphabet are called over. The departed friend’s name is John. At the pronunciation of the letter “J," two raps. At the pronunciation of the letter “O,” two raps. At the pronunciation of the letter “H,” two raps. A t the pr»nunciation of the letter “N,” two rays. There you have the whole name s^elltd out J-o-h-n, John. Now, the spirit being present you say: “John, are you happy.” Tiro raps give an affirmative answer. Fretty soon the hand of the im-dium begins: to twits* and toss and begins to wri te out alter paper and ink are furnished, a message from the eternal world. What is remarkable, the departed spirit although it has been amid the illuminations of Heaven, can not spell as well as it used Iso. It hug lost all grammatical accuracy and can not write as distinctly. 1 received, a letter through a medium once. 1 sent it bade. 1 said: “Just please to tell those ghosts they had better go to school and get improved in their orthography.” Now, just think of spirits, that the Bible represents as enthroned in gloiy, coming down to crawl under the table, ind break crockery, and ring ten-bells before sop|>er is ready, and rap the window shatter on a gusty night. Is there any consolation in such poor, miserable worts compared with the thought that our depu ted Christian. friends, got rid of pain and. languishing, are in the radiant society of Heaven, and that we shall join them the re, not in a stifled and mysterious half utterance, which makes the hair stand on end and the-cold chills creep the bad. bat in an nnldndered and illimitable delight? And none shall murmur or misdoubt. When God’s great sunrise finds us out. Tea, my friends. Spiritualism comes to those who are in trouble and sweeps them into its delusions. Saul, in tbs midst of his disaster, went to the Witch of Kndor. The vast majority of those who have gone' to spiritual mediums have been sent there through their misfortunes I lean still farther from this subject that Spiritualism and necromaicy are affairs of the darkness. Why did not Saul go hi the day? He was ashamed to go. Besides that, he knew that this spiritual medium, like all her successors, perfumed her exploits tat the night, irhe Davenports, Hie Fowlers, the Foxes, the spiritual mediums of all ages, have chosen the night or a darkened room. Why? The majority of their wonders have been swindles, and deception prospers best in the night Some of the performances <*f spiritual mediums are not to be ascribed to fraud, but to some occult law that alter a while may be demonstrated. Bat I lielieve that now nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every one thousand achievements on the part of spiritual mediums are arrant and unmitigated humbug. The mysterious red letters that used to com» out on the medium's am were found to have been made by an iron penal that wont heavily over the flesh, not tearing it, but so disturbing the blood that it came up in great, round letters. The witnesses of the stances have lacked the door, put the key in their pocket, arrested the ot crater, and found out, by searching the room, 'that hidden levers moved the tables. The scaled letters that were mysteiiously lead without opening have been found to lave been cut at the side, and then afterward slyly pot together with gum arable; and tlte medium who, with a blanket over head, could read a book, has bee have had a bottle of phosphoric < .

the light of which any body w«^ * book; and ventriloquisav and leJPtOO' main, and sleight of lead, and optics* delusion account for nearly every thing. Deception being the main staple of .Spiritualism, so Wonder it chooses the darkYou hare ali shea Strange' and fewcountable things in ttfe night- Almost every man has ai some tUcie Sad a touch of hallucination. Some time ago, after 1 had been over tempted to eat something indigestible before retiring at night, after retiring I saw the president of ok- of the prominent colleges astride the foot of the bed, while he demanded of me it IdaS of fifty cents. When I awakened I had no idea it was any thing supernatural. And I have to advise you, if yOU hear and see strange things at night, to stop eluting hot mince-pie and take a dose of buidtt* medicine. It is an outraged physical or • ganism, enough to deceive the very elect after sundown, and does nearly all its work in the night. The Witch of Endor held her seances in the night; so do all the witches. Aw spooks. I indict Spiritu social and marital curse. The worst deeds of licentiousness and the worst orgies, of obscenity have been enacted under its patronage. The story is too vile for me to tell. I will not pollute my tongue nor your ears with the recital. Sometimes the civil law has been evoked to stop the outrage. Families innumerable have been broken up . by it. It has pushed oft hundreds Of young women into a life of profligacy. It talks about “electfiJtr affinities” and “affinital relations” and “spiritual matches,” and adopts the whole vocabulary of freelovism. In one of its pnkjte Journal* it declares “narriagp is tee snffiiister curse of -i-rillf tfjBk**’ “If is a source of 4tgjj bauchsry'' and intemperance.” ir Spiritualism could have its full swing tt would turn this world into a pandemonium of carnality. It is an *anclean, adulterous, damnable religim^^Bd the sooner it drops into the U rose, the better for botnteirth and Heaven. For the sake of man’s honor and woman’s purity. I say let the last vestige of it perish forever. I wish I could gather up all the raps it has ever heard from spirits, blest or damned, and gather them all on Its own head in one thu&deriug rap of annihilation ! I further indict Spiritualism for the fact that it is the cause of much insanity. There is not an asylum between Bangor and San Francisco which has not the torn and bleeding victims of this delusion. Go into any asylum, I care not where it is, and the presiding doctor, after you have asked him, “What is tha matter with that man?” will say: “Spiritualism demented him;”, or, “What is the matter with that woman?” he will say: “Spiritualism demented her.” It has taken down some of the brightest intellects. If swept off into mental midnight judges. Senators, Governors, ministers of the Gospel, and one time came near capturing one of the Presidents of the United States. At Flushing, near this city, a man became absorbed with it, f orsook his family, took his only >1\000, surrendered them to a spiritual medium in New York, attempted three times to pnt an end to his own life, and then was incarcerated in i the Sate Lunatic Asylum, where he its : to-day a raving maniac. Pot yourTrand in the hand of this Witch of Endor, and she will lead yon to bottomless perdition, where she holds her eWTlastiug seance. ay yrith this religion of alifri also because it is a

Many years ago the steamer Atlantic started from Europe to 1;hq United States. Getting in mid-oceau the machinery broke, and she floundered airound day after day. and week after week, and for a whole month after she was due people wondered, and Anally gave her up. There was great anguish iu the cities, for there were many who had friends aboard that YesseL Some of the women, in their distress, went to the spiritual mediums and inquired as to the fate of that vessel. The mediums called up the spirits, and the rappings on the table indicated the steamer lost, with all onboard. Women went raving mad, and . were carried to the lunatic asylum. After awhile one day a gun was heard off quarantine. The flags went up on the shipping and the bells of the churches were rung. The boys ran through the streets crying: “Extra! the Atlantic is safe!” There was the embracing as from the dead, when friends came again to friends: bin some of those passengers went up to iind their wives in the lunatic asylum, where this cheat pf infernal Spiritualism had put them. A man in Bellevue Hospital, dying from wounds made by his own hand, was asked why he tried to commit suicide, and he said: “The spirits told me tol” Parents have strangled their children, and when asked why they did ft, replied : “Spiritualism demanded it!” It is the patronixer and forager for the mad house. Judge Edmonds, in Broadway Tabernacle, New York, delivering a lecture in favor of Spiritualism, admitted,in so many words; “There is a fascination about consultation with the spirits of the dead that has a tendency to lead people off from their right judgment, and to instil! into them a fanaticism that is revolting to the natural mind.”. It,not only ruins its disciples, but it * ruins the mediums also, only give it time. The Gadaraean swine, on the busks of the Lake of Galilee, no sooner beciune spiritual mediums than down they went, in an avalanche of pork, to the consternation of all the herdsmen. The office of a medium is bad for a man, bad lora woman, bad for a beast. Spiritualism is adverse to the Bible in the fact that it has in these last tlays called from the f ntnre world Christian men to testify against Christianity. Its mediums call back Lorenso Dow, the celebrate d evangelist, and Lorenzo Dow testifies that Christians are idolators. Spiritaalisiti calls back Tom Paine, and he testifies that he is stopping in the same house in Heaven with John Banyan. They call back John Wesley and he testifies against the Christian religion which he all his life gloriously preached. Andrew Jackson Davis, the greatest of all the spiritualist#:, comes to the front and declares that the New Testament is but “the disnud echo of a barbaric age.” and the Bible only “one of the pen and ink relics of Christianity." They attempt to substitute the writings of Swedenborg, and Andrew Jackson Davis, and other religious balderdash, in tlie place of this old Bible. But I invite yon this morning to a Christian seance, a noon-day seance. This congregation is only one great- family. Here is the dioreh table. Come around the church table, take ;rour seeds for this great Christian seenw, put your Bible on the table, put your hands on top of the Bible, and then listen and hear if there are any voices coming from the eternal world. I think there are. Listen! Secret things be Ion* onto the Let* onnGed. but things that are revealed belong unto MaaC to our children. Insult not yew departed friends tar asking them to come down isaA scribble under an extension table. Remember that there is only one Spirit whose dictation yon have a right to invoke, arid that is the holy, blessed and omnipotent spirit of God. Hark! He i» rstpplng now, not on a table or the floor, bnt rapping on the door of your heart, and every rap is *n iavita- " to Christ and a warning of judgment -mm- O. grieve Him not away. Quench not. He has Wen all around you -*— He was all around you has bean arousd you alt , ,-i

IN FAVOR OF REFORM. grn*«*> ¥oorh»«» U Aw »o S»nW I1*« lo? T»' t«r K^S'lou BiKt Mw> H « Vuleo h> DficT'** “f UcC!»U<u> Md I*»ii«oelt— Sp.och.s i» «*• lla**° »“ AA»o««3r of *h* MiU* Bill. „ _ Washington. April aft—geaator Voorheo* (tad.) yesterday delivered art e.^u®D‘ “r paesiouute addrese. txgioa.ns ** »* * dlaeuer sHm at tho Milk* Tar

Ml Mil. He **« u»e tat*# Which (be two great fcwtoe *o*ld present to th* -Aiasrlean people next No♦ember were plainly hud 4o*n< CM (be principle prWlnfflrea by JeOerson Hint erfer was not to be feared so long as truth was left tree to control it, the pernicious ideas and ditbjAttoKe policy maintained bp the Republican Haiti'

might be looked upon without appreeattoii. MKAtor voohhbesl An extensive d.scuss on of the tar fl in tha Sente ud House left no doubt n loth* attitude of the Republican party on tm>* question, end it had at last been forced to thrf»y away masks and false-faces and to admit that taxation was dot to stop at the revenue line of Mt* Government, bat to be turned loose without Hint and wrttiodt shame on the labor of the people for tho purpose ■ *>» enrobing a favored few—n syndicate of devour.ng, insiittate monopolists. Tha Republican party leaden were going before tha people opposing every reduction of taxes except those paid by tobacco and alcoholic spirits. He did not intend that that issue should be dodged in the com.tjg campaign, at least In Indiana. The position of tho Republican party might be described thus: “ L Taxation not to be limited by the expenses of the Government, bnt lo Be left uacobdnsd with a view to the protection of man*,(Hearing monopolists. , JOl the protection given and nil its profits to contra to the further enrichment of capitnlits. but not n dollar of it to laboring men and women. "S. That if any reduction fcf taxes was to lake place It must be on liquo? and tobacco, and not on the necessaries of life.”Referring to the charges that the Democrats in Congress bare beer hostile to Union soldiers In tho matter of pensions, he insisted that Democrats had been liberal toward thejp in the extremes! s*nse, and gave figures to show the. increased number of pensions allowed under the present administration. He defended the President's record in reference to pension bills and others showing bin stttmle toward the Union soldier. The attempt to place the Democratic party in an attitude of unfriendliness toward the soldier wan without justldcation and most be w tljout sooc'ss. n waa only surpassed in mendacity by the attempts to st gmatixe the party aa disloyal. Referring tc the criticisms recently made in the Senate by Senator Ingalls (Kan.) upon Generals McClellan and Hancock, Senaatcr Voorhees reviewed the services of the two Generals during the war, and dwelt npon what he alleged was the injustice with which McClellan was treated because he was a Democrat. Senator Voorhees declared that at Anttotam McCleilaa saved the Union. He spoke of General Popeaa “vapid” and incompetent, and denominated those who now assail the memories and records of McCieUan and Hancock an “ clamorous kites tuid other ignoble scavenger birds ” Senator Voorhees then reviewed the history of reconstruction. ojtd denounced the Republican administration of Southern State governments. He justified the South fog it* refusal to affiliate with the Republican party, saying as well might the frontier settlements be expected to welcome another invasion of Tomahawk Sid scalbtag-knlr»s. Hc eoutd see nothing to wonder st in the Tb-iW Democratic majority given in Louisiana but n tew days ago. These people were alarmed at the possibility of a return to power of the party and tho men who had robbed them and left them overburdened with debt His only wonder was that the vote was not unanimous. The preoent prosperous condition of the South answered tho partisan charges sga nst that section. Senator Voorhees closed with the prediction that tho verdict of the people next November would bo that there had been honest, capable government for tho last four years and that It should be continued. TAKirr TALK Ut THE HOUSE. The tariff reform speech delivered by Mr. Bynum (lod.) wu the feature of yesterday’s proceedings in the House. Referring to the surplus, he said tie withdrawal of so large a sum of money from the channels of trade for any long period of time* would result In a con traction of the currency which would bankrupt and ruin our most enterprising business men. - The time had passed when the House could refuse to consider a measure for the reduction of taxation. Tho bill presented d d not meet with bis unqualified approval He beliered that duties on imports should he levied and collected at all times, to me«t the current ordinary expenses of the Government, and that extraordinary expenses should be met by internal . taxes. He would maintain the present in•ernai roveaue system of taxation until the last obligation of the war was discharged; hut he was willing to come to the consideration of the bill ta a spirit of co iCessicm and compromise. and join in ti c construction of a measure which yielded something to the productions of every locality. He advocated a reduction of duties on materials wli ch the laborers of the country worked and such reductions ns would give lttger markets in nTh'eh manufacturers could sell their products He adAitted that wages bad increased under the protective tariff, but he denied that thla waa on account of j the tariff, bees use the same increase had taken place in Great Britain under free trade. The great trouble with the country was the want of n. market. Give American labor a chance to bompete with foreign Ikbor, and it could t*|t« care of itself; it needed no other protection. Speaking of the wool industry, he said that under the high protection on wool the price had steadily fallen. He did not assert that the tariff was the sole cause of the decline in the price, but contended that it waa an important factor. The people of tho United States consumed eoo.iMMWO pounds of wool a year whteh cost them l*«,WM,U00, more than one-half of which had to be nurehawed abroad because the high

tariff had broken flown ail our wooien uiauatries. During th<> past ten years the United States had Imparted *168,000,000 of cotton goods more then ft had extorted. American labor had been robbed of the privilege of making that *l«,tOO,OXt of cotton goods During the same period the Imports of woolen goods had exceed!id the exports by 090.000,000. The American workmen had been robbed of the labor that was contained in the ©50,000.0)0 of woolen goods and yet gentletnen on the othet aide talked about protecting American labor. -t At the evening session Mr. Shaw (lid.) made a speech In support of the M ils MIL He argued that Congress had not the power to levy andeolleet taxes for any other purpose but that of revenue. He especially advocated the -> clause of the MU which places t n plate on the Dee list, urging that the continuation of the tariff upon that article unnecessarily enhanced the ivice of caansd goods Mr. Glsas (Terns.) also spoke in support of the MIL —** I don’t know about that young * Wabash. my dear,” said Mr. Breexy. ol Chicago,'to his beautiful daughter. *• Aie you really interested In him?” i ‘•Papah, I adore him!” *‘I hear tha’t he is semewbat fast.” went on the old man. dubiously. “ and -• I am very much afraid that your map- 1 ried life might not be happy. ’ “Don’t be foolish, papah,’’ said the r’^ girl twining her anna around his