Pike County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 November 1888 — Page 1

J. L. MOUNT, Proprietor. VOLUME XIX. ======== to jPrihci THURSDA ‘Out* Motto is iikjnOst ERSBURG, ======= Democrat ,les of bight," OITIOE, #.» r 0. B. MOHTQOMSBT’8 Son, 3Uin fitnab . NOVEMBER 8, 1888. ' NUMBER 25.

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDaI. TKRMS or SI'DSCKIPTIUXi Tor ox month*.t Vor fcknv months. .M * INVARIABLY IN ADVANCEADVERTISING RATES l 'One sonaro <* cn<* intertioo.Si M Bach additional insertion.. SC A HU-ral reduotlon made on ndrertlwmantt rtnnlrir three, ai*. and twelve mouths. •j**1 •™ tr>tn*K;Mt idratiMuieuu muat ba Rd for to advance.

PIKE COUNTY DE nn JOB WORK or ALL K1NE3 Neatly ocutod m. ■ * BEASOHABLE BATES. —; V”' • notices: Penom reeeirioir • eop^ of thle paper-with IBM notice croeeed in lead pencil are notified Utl i he time of their aubecnpttua bnsciptre*.

rnoKBsstosAt vmiM. K A. ELv! ™ Attorney at Law, 1'ETKRSBWRU, INI* OHIo- : Over J. It Adams A Ron's Drug Store. Hr is also a member of the United Slai- s Collection Association. and gives prompt attention to every matter in which be Is employed. K. I*. ltUIIAIIUSOJI. A. H. TaYUib RICHARDSON A TAYLOIt Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt attention given to all business. A Votary Public constantly in theotftoe. office tn Carpenter Building, 8th and Main. —_ ^ ^ JLSO N Attorney at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. IVOttee: Over J. IV Young ft Co.*S Store. B. Cakuros. J. H. I.vMar. CAULK I ON & LaMAK. . Physicians & Surgeons ^ PETERSBURG. IND., Will pnKllw in and adjofnmsj counts. f. OfBtv: Hear wni of Hank Mi tiding. * bourn diy and r<t};ht. of woimx an«t fhthHvu a ftpeclally. Chrotnc ami difficult cav's solicited. AI5K I* CASK M. 1).. Physician and Surgeon VELPEIt, IND. w,.: pntlK^ ti I*- ." and sdjo titng •' •unties. Palls promptly attended io, day or night. Office hours, day and night - w. r. towv-kviv MitrYiustt. hi.win hen ll TOWH.^END, FLEETER 4 SMITH, Attorneys at Law AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS, HtTKKKBU KG, * INDIANA Ofllcr, nvrrtiu» Knvnk’p store. special at t* nt ion give « ««• • <4lv« iiDti*. Boy in £ and >rll li»j» IsiuutR, Kutiinim. Tilk# »nJ 1 urnlitUitig ib&triuiH. 1L U. K1ME. M. 1>.. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG. IND. 1 Office. over-Barrett A - n*.» store; reslvfenev on Seventh Street, three ■sMiare* south of Main. Calls promptly attended to, day or f ulg^t. __ ' ' ___ ' j. a in m an. Physician andSurgeen PKTKRSBUKO, - IND. Office on Unit floor Carpenter Building. B. J. HARRIS,

Resident Dentist, 1‘KTKRSBURIt, 1X1). ALL WOJKK WAMUST8P. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E. TURNER, ITopnetor. PETERSBURG,„ IND. lVirL* :* wUhlnjr <i*w at r- <4* 4**n«vi will Itiiy onl**r» at the #»op. in l»r ldun' nrv btl klilU, Ittrof AdamtASm l dnw *toi* CITY HOTEL. Dader Now Management. U. A. M.MrUKAY, Drupriedor. l'or. Eighth tml .M ini ,--u..o|.i>, lourt lu.uoo, l’trgKKSKL'IUi, IND. The City Hotel I* centrally local0*1. HM clav. in all its appointments, an j tlic best au>l cheapest hotel m the city. Sherwood House, Vnder New Manse, ra ut. BISSKLL & TOWNSEND, Prop'ra, First nod Iscwt Streets, Evansville; : : Indiana. RATES. $2 PER DAY. Samplt Rooms far Commercial Mm. HYATT HOUSE, Washington. lad. Centrally Located, and Aerommodntlonk , Flm-clas* t HENRY HYATT. Proprietor.

HEW GRIST MILL! MAKE MEAL AND CHOP FEED. Orind* Enrr SATURDAY at A. E. Edwards’ Farm. MltoUctlon (iiUMtMd. Tour Sol totted. A. E. EDWARDS. Wbt a at Washington Stop st tbs MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. Mbs. Uciu Hjjumm and Aibwk Hoiiuu mprteton. HOTEL ENGLISH, Korthnett Mde Circle Park. Best hotel bolWm* Is Indinaapolu. Os the best kept hotel, for Um proe* charge the country Good location, room*. tore. >nd all Booerg rowt “ ■UiihH Y«T« as

THK WORLD AT LARGK. Surnmtvry of the Dally Now#, WASHINGTON KOtU. It i* contemplated to send the rtnan Thetl*. when she return* to San Francisco to the Arctic *en for the purpose of relieving the whaling vessel* imprisoned in the ice. Th« Kearsarge ha* been ordered to Port au Prince to protect American interest* and to inquire into the cause* of the *eisure of the steamer Haytien Republic. Chairman 'Randall ha* called for a mooting of the House Committee on Appropriation* JiovemberSl to begin the prepparation of appropriation bill*. Allan D. Brown wiii command the Kearsarge, detailed for duty in Baytian water*. A. C. Bkrkt kaN. First Lieutenant United States navy, uttached to the Enterprise, has been seal; home from Kurope under sentence of a <oui*t martial. A lxttkr has lieeu sent by the InterState Commerce Comtpission to the railroad and telegraph companies affected by the act placing the telegraph lines of the railroads which received Uovernment aid under the control of the Commission, callitig their attention to the fact that they have not complied with the provisions of the act reipii ring them to file certain information wit i the lnter-Stafe Commerce Commission. Thr decrease of the puhiic debt during the month of '.K-tober amounted to 619. Tb* President’s thanksgiving proclamation was issued on the 1st, appointing November Si for the purpose. lxninWATIot having l«een received at the Navy Deportment that the steel cruiser Boston had arrived at Kingston, Jamaica. Acting Secretary Hartuonv decided to revoke the orders sending the jsearsarge, now lying in dock at Portsmouth, Jf. H., to protect American interests In Hayti and to order the Boston there in hex stead.

TUK EAST. Thk corner stone of the big Spreckles sugar refiner} in Philadelphia was laid on the 2*th with ceremonies. Congressman Bingham dell rered the address. Thk Prohibition organ 1 Vice, of Sew York, states that General Fisk received a similar compromising letter of inquiry, for answering which Minister West got himself into so much trouble. »' Thk wire* in the underground conduits in New York City are rejiorted in bad con■iition ow ing to the extreme heat of the steam pines Inid in tlieir vicinity., Hekuy K. A i.bcrs. a prominent coal and lumber dealer of Buffalo, N. Y., has gone to Canada t» avoid arrb-d for forging Jacoli Bcheu’s name to Holes for #30,001. Til* case of (ieneral Adam Baleau against the widow of U. K. Grant for $10,for alleged services on (ieneral Grant’s memoirs, has been discontinued on consent of both parties. (ixoitoK L W*tXsca, a well known vocalist of Troy, Y., committed suicide recently by shooting himself. W. J. (V1U-OX A Cn., lard refiners of Sis York City, have lieen tiought out by the American Cotton Seed Oil Company. Au. the railroad miners in Western Pennsylvania are to receive fire cents per ton advance in wages. A atOT occurred at Twenty-sixth street and Sixth avenue, New- York,-on the 31st, between a colored Ueputdican procession and a Democratic mob. Several persons were seriously injured, one man having both eyes destroy**! While Amanda Montgomery and (ius Winrmau were out for an evening stroll at Ureensburg, Pai, in stepping off one track to avoid a train they were run down by another train coming in the optwaue direction ami killed. Thk seventh annual convention of the Woman’s Missionary Society was opened at Boston on the 1st, with n large attendance of delegates from all parts of the country. Mis. Uulherford li Hayes, of Ohio, occupied the chair. L lit khan, a New York money changer and banker, has <!isap|ieared with JA.U00 belonging to Polish Jews intrusted to his care to be sent to England. PaKD 1. Mj.rcv ft Co., jewelers, of Providence, U. 1., have assigned with $35,000 assets and fVSyOOO liabilities. Thk princiival part of the village of Durhamville, Vt, was; destroyed by fire the other night. Isvss, Ol.W W. B. Foriiks. president of the National Bank of Kedruiption, Boston, has made an assignment for the benefit of h?s creditors. He had been dealing heavily in real estate of late. Howard It. Gory, formerly publisher of the New York fcSrwj»Ai>, has made an assignment wi thout preferences. C. W. Di hast, a New York stock broker, bss failed with unknown assets and liabilitu*. Ts* boiler of a steam thresher exploded on the farm of Joseph Spayd. near Beading, Pa-, the other day. Five persons ; were instantly killed and two or three others shockingly injured. Hkkukrt L. Critchk t, aged thirtythree, of th« firm of Daniels ft Critchelt, real estate and auctioneers, Boston, has ; disappeared tearing a large deficit in his accounts with the firm amounting, it is said, to $35,0 M. Two men were killed and seven injured | by the wrecking of a hand-car near Hopewell, Pa., the other day. Five thounand dollars reward has been off ere, 1 for tie arrest of W illiam It. (\sler, Jr., late counsel of the gratuity fund of the New -York Produce Exchange, who disap|ieared recently with a huge shortage I_

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Thi four dynamite conspirators errwdDd during the recent Chicago strike hare been uncharged. im old (Santa Monico (Cal.) depot, occupied by ho U>< Angeles Compression and LunjWu- Company and the California Door Comp Ml V, *»* destroyed by fire the other night. lsMOi 1100,(1)9. Sohig tiuie nine® the rectifiers of St Lottie rebelled against tbe manipulators of the whisky trust and formed a company for the purpose of establishing tut indeiwndont distillery there. One hnndred thousand dollats eras subeoriberPlind paid In. Jiow the project has been abandoned. A msastrovs prairie fire swept the country ear'd of Harr. Dak., on the 1st, destroying thousands of dollars worth of property, including horses, barns, grain and hay. Tnti t>rak smell of the Santa Fe system of Southern California struck oh the 1st, the grievance Iretug promotion of new men orer old mien. General Manager IlcCool was endeavoring to settle the trouble. Tim milit ary academy at Highland Dark, lit., eras destroyed by fire recently. Loss, *sw,«a Tint Santa Ko has issued a joint commodity tariff to Texas junction point* from Kansas City, Leavenworth, Atchison and St. Joseph:. Tbe uew tariff makes very few changes from the old tariff, except that lit doeii not make a special rate on whisky in cat loads and less than car loads and t® ice. A roBXADO struck La|iorte, Iowa, the other night, demolishing Union Hall and i other buildings. Loss. 4*5,000. Robert D. Fowr.rn. the well known Chicago pork packer, has been held on a charge of perjury. He hail made contradictory stiltements with reference to the ownership of his pro|>erty in taro separate suits. c A HfKTnio party.lias returned from the mountains north of the Grand river in Colorado and reported the discovery of a wonderful waterfall hitherto unknown. Frio Assiiii.Ai;. now under sentence of death for I, double murder near Loe Angelew, Cal -has confessed a third murder and implicated George Steuger and Henry Border, f ltenger has been arrested.

nu SOUTH. Miss Asm* Oaki.ky. the champion wins shot, defeated Fred Kell, a local marksman. at Baltimore, Md., the other day in a pigeon1 natch. Each shot at % birds. Mies Oakley killed;21 and Kell 15. Jidue Ah.DKit. in the United States Court at ilSevr Orleans, has granted jjj,, application of bond and stockholders to restore th< Texas & Pacific railroad to the management of the company and relieve Governor Brawu of the receivership, the order to ta ke effect at once. Duck Korea alias K. G. Raymond, a noted spor ting man of Little Rock, Ark., pleaded gtiilty in the United States court there of attempting to set! counterfeit money, and was fined $500 and sentenced to ninety cays’ imprisonment. L B. CalXH, special depot officer of the Santa Fe railway at Temple, Tex., who was shot by W. W. Holmes, ticket agent of the Missoiliri Paciflic at that place, died later. Ho mes is out on $1,01*) bonds. The federation scheme was discussed at length by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers! at; Kichmoml, Va., on the 31st and finally, a co-operative plan was adopted Which expresses friendship for ami sympathy with and where practicable provides. f »r assistance to those organizations whore duties are closely allied to their own brotherhood. a There were fifty-six new cases of fever at Jacksonville on the 1st, sixteen white and forty colored and two deaths—Mrs. George Wetmoreund James Harris. By the liuruing of the old wooden jail at Grvensburg. Las, recently, a negro boy held for theft lost his life. JxxciMis HctciIixsO.n & Co., wholesale nations and whilte goods, Baltimore, ltd., har e gone into a receiver’s hands. Their assets are placed at $35 000. Tn* president and the secretary of the Georgia Board of Health positively deny that there has been any yellow fever in any portion of Georgia. UENERAI. F. x- PrismncxT Gouiales, of Mexico, has been fully exonerated of all charges against him by the Mexican Chamber of Deputies. A MVY1MY occurred among the convicts in n prisoin at Orbitello, Italy, the other day. Thirty prisoners and several jailers weire killed or wounded. Dxcisujn has been given at Winnipeg, Mau.. coittunuing the injunction against the crossi ng of the Canadian Pacific tracks by the local government until such time as the decision of the Supreme Court at Ottawa has keen given upon the constitutional point of the right ot Manitoba to charter the road in question. Anvtcis from the Bonny river, Africa, are that I ho Orrikian tribe invited a party ot Ogoub to a frieudly palaver and theu massacred them. A cannibal festival of the most horrible character followed. It s is estimated! that over 150 person-, including a i .men and children, were killed and eateln The Frsboh Government has ordered the seizure oil' idl political cartoons of Boulanger, the Count of Parts and Prince Victor Napoleon. The damage by the fire at Hueafeld, neur Catsal, Germany, is estimated at $500,000. Msskeiu robbers (Americans) boarded the Mex. ran Central train in Mexico^ near Ki Paso, Tex., the other night. They uncoupled the engine and express car and tunning ip.some distance got two packages of silver coin, valued at $2.«*> The express messenger managed to slip off with the key of the safe, so the robbers were balked of the main booty, about

I)it. Von SCHLOXSSIR, the Prussiau representative at the Vatican, has a*kel to he relieved from that (tost, T«a international Peace Arbitration Btt* riety met at Paris on the Silt. Many ilep* uties from the English House of Common! there present, it was resolved to organise an international congress to. meet to ite«, representing America, England; Prance and other countries favorable hi it After the reception of the news that the presence of Lord Sackville was distasteful to the President, it was announced in London that “urgent private business” necessitated Lord SackvUle’s departure from Washington. The Dublin Express, the leading Irish Conservative paper, has come out for peasant proprietorship for Irish estates— particularly those row in control irf the court*. SoffBAmm rebels attacked Suakiui recently and burned the sareba about I he water fort, but were repulsed by a heavy fire from the ships and fort. Efforts are being made by the Quebec authorities to induce the French Canadians who have left tor the United States to return to their Old homes. Viarmxt, a prominent bookseller of London, has been fined $100 by an English court for publishing immoral works of Emile Zola. A CabUMRaM from Port au Prince announces the capture by the Haytian uian~ of-war Toussaint L’ Ouverture, of the British schooner Alta, which left Sew York about October 19 with a heavy cargo of arms and ammunition, cleariug for werpAu. search for the three robbers who held up the Mexican Central train neai San Jose proved futile. It was thought th» robbers got about M. Ll Gusli, Minister of Commerce, has informed the French Cabinet that the expenses of exhibitors in the Exposition of l*s» will be less than they were in the Exposition of ItQt The Eiffel tower, built in connection with the Exposition will be j finished in January. Mi'NlciFAi. elections were held in Birmingham, Eng., on the 1st. Bet urns from ; nine wards show the election of seven j Unionists and two (MadstOuians. It is stated that the nobles in the Can- ; casus contemplate an emeute at the first opportunity, and that the official sicount* of the Csar’s reception on his tour were

noi true. The Manitoba legislature ha* bean called to meet to consider the railroad situation. The Chinese Exclusion bill is causing much suffering to Chinese who are detained at the British Columbia boundary line while on their way back to the United | States after visiting China. H. P. Stoke has been appointed second j vice-president of the Chicago, Bui-liugton I & Quincy system. E. P. Ridley succeeds ! Mr. Stone as general manager of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy east of the Missouri river. The changes took effect on the 1st. The condition of the King of the Nether- j lands has grown worse, and is declared to j be critical. A dispatch from St. Paul de Loanda says that the first section of the TrausAfrican railway from St. Paul de Luanda to Ambaca has been inaugurated. The demonstration of university students at Berlin in honor of Dr*. Kergmann and Gerhardt war held on the 2d. The medical students absented themselves, and only 300 of the others out of a total of 5,000 took part in the procession. News has been received lately of i the Stanley expedition in Africa. The j expedition had suffered considerably while crossing a morasis. Forty men were drowned while crossing a great river flowing east and west. One white man had di<d. The imprisoned whalers in the Arctic sea are reported all safe, a timely gale having dispersed the ice. The t'reuulenNatt, of Vienna, says the Vatican fully approves the Emperor’s censure of Bishop Strossmayer, whose letter to Mgr. K&mpolia, Papal Set-retary of State, has not removed the pa inful impression experienced by the Vat ican regarding the pan-8lavist message which the Bishop sent to Kieff. Bcsixess failures (Dun’s report! for the seven days ended November 1 numbered 275, as compared with 254 the previous week aud 345 the corresponding week last year. Dcri.vg a torchlight procession at Belgrade recently stones were thrown at the Austrian Legation and several windows were broken. A number of arrests were made. The authorities made apologies to the Austrian Minister for the outrage. .! The steam barge Sampson and the schooner Each Chandler have not been heard from since the recent storm in Saginaw bay. TOC LATEST. ■Woodcock and Henry, the American favorites of the King of Wmrtemburg, suddenly departed from Nice, Sardinia, on the 31. The Kang had located them In a pretty villa opposite his own hotel, paying ail their expenses. The London Times, of the 4 th, says: ‘-There is net the slightest reason to retort by dismissing Mr. Phelps, but we would adTise the government to show deliberation in choosing Lord Backville’s successor. James Hates. Henry Gormley and Wm. Sellan were drowned in Rochester Bay, near Boston, on the 4th, their sail boat having capeised. Charles Cogan, who was with the party, was rescued. Charlie Mitchell the “gentleman pugilist,” arrived in New York from Ragland, on the 4th. on the steamer Umbria. He says his visit is for recreation, but he will accept any suitable busine ss offer. Host. Mar lor D. Spapldixo. of Boston, one of the Californians of ibtS, widely known for his unostentatious charities, died, on the night of the 3d, nged sixtyone. Ha asp Mbs. J. G. Blaise took luncheon with Whitelaw Reid, at the latter's Madison avenue residence in New York, j on the 4th, snd left for Augusta, Me., vis Boston, on the 5th. It was reported, on the 4th, that Justice Stanlev Matthews, of the Supreme ‘ Court, who had been Ul for many weeks, and quite unable to attend to Ids judicial duties, wea beginning slowly to convalesce, and his friends think lie is ont of

Tbcm were ten new cases of yellow fever and two deaths at l>rnandina. Fib, on the 4th. Two of the eases were whites. One was Mead Htiot, acting agent of the Florida navigation Company. Tki Spanish schooner Bugraeia, of Havana, and the American schooner Legal Tender, were taken to Key West, Fla., on the 4th, by a prise crew from the revenue cotter W mu Crawford. Both vessels were seised, on the 1st, off Charlotte Harbor, smuggling mm and mbacoo. Tbs special passenger train over the Hew York, New Haven * Hartford road, chartered to carry campaign clubs from New Haven to Boston, on the night of the Sd,ran upon an open switch 'while entering Bridgeport, and the sleeper* were tom np and the oars badly damaged. On. Fun L. Wnun was awarded damages in the stun of 511,1)00 from the Union Horse Railroad Company of ON neyville, R. L, on the Id. for injuries received by being thrown from the platform of a horse oar. It was rumored in Washington, on the 4th, that a probable outcome «>f the Mnrchison letter incident would be the appointment of Lord Backvill* ns QovemorOeneral of Canada. Man Amman*. the fa arrived in Hew York fro* Ko, the steamer Umbria on the ith. 82112

THANKS 1VING. Th« I*resl Wot * Ft Apath Thitr*.! i|*, N* or Sfe.'tiMiat ntmk th.1 Herein. WtSHinniax, Mot yesterday afterioon PROCU, Constant thanksgivin from the American pec His goodness and mere them since the day 1 and vouchsafed to the With loving kindness in the tray of pi 05 pent: not visited with swift comings, but with grat us cl our depeudenc and has taught u< that law A the price ol acoi gifts. ta act now', God has done for and to the end that or .'Isolation Setting nattier as, as a Day vlnf to O01I for Ail i— The President isueil the following itioS: tnd gratitude are due e to AlmiKhty God for which have followed made them a Nation, a free government > has constantly led us nd greatness. Ho has anishmeut our shortus care he has warned upon his forbearance, bedienee to His holy dthtnce of His precious gment of alt that us as a Nation, appointed day the United prayers and prs 9 of a grateful country may reach the Thro of Grace, t. Grover Cleveland, President c the Uuited Slates, do hereby designate JOth day of Novembe thanksgiving and pro; served throughout the ail our people suspend occupations, and in tl worship, with prayer a thanks to God for 1 abundant harvests w toil of the husbandm has passed, and for th followed the labors of and their marts of t give thanks for 1 eace contentment witlun c advancement in alt th ness. And, mindful < tlon with which a port visited, let us, white v fore the power of Got in setting bounds to t lence; and let our he; pathy with our felle suffered and who m thanks for all we have received onr Heavenly Kail that He has enjoined this day of thanksgiv member the poor and of praise ami grat’.tuc 9t apart Thursday, the instant, as a day of *, to he kept and obind. On that day let teir ordinary work and r accustomed places of | songs of praise, render His mercies; for the eh have rewarded the during the year that irh rewards that have ir people In their sh ps ide and truth', le t us id for social order ana • borders, and for onr adds to national greatthe effective dispensan of our land has been humble ourselves bciieknuwledge His meref deadly march of pestis be ehastene t by sym* countrym-Hi who have rn. And as we return 10 blessings whch trom the hands of r, let ns not forget ipon us charity; and on tlet ns generously re* eody, so that our tribute r___„_ may be acceptable in the sight of the Tool Done at the City of Vashington, on the 1st day of November, (SI and in the year of into* States the oae hundred pendeace ssfyhe Unit and thirteenth. In witness whereof my name, and cans States to be atHi ed. By the President. c have hereunto signed 1 the seal of the United GHllVK.lt Ci.KVEI.ASU. T. F. BATARIk Secretary of State.

THE PUBL J FINANCES. Moithly Sl>t«m>r of the Condition of Kiimm-en—The li Inrtlon in the Debt, Receipts. £l|»u< urea. Ete. Washington, N> . i—The reduction in the vnblic debt <tn tig October amounted to £4,593,6(9, and I : the first four months of the fiscal yeai mSM.* The tie cash in the trcasu yesterday was £71,t91,9G9. against $ 441,913 on October 1. The gold-fund bt Mice in the treasury has decreased abo t £S,tWd,Ot» daring tho past month, and esterday amounted to £191.074,375; and t silver-fund balance, exclusive of £ti 00 900 Irade-dollar bullion, is £24,508,309. r £10,000,000 less than a mouth ago. Na mal Bank depositories hold £5t,f90i379, < about £3,003,003 less than on October 1 Government re1 Spts during Oc'obir were £31.930,323, a dnst £«,S « 172 in October, 1997. Cust« is receipts daring the past mouth were ! 1.933,361, or nearly oue million less than October a year agi; internal revenue ceipts were £11,303,033, or about a mUtior nore thnn in October. 1997; while the re ipts from miscallaaeous sources were 1,565,003, or oue hundred thousand les Shan in October a year ago. Receipts frt t alt sources for the first four mouths the pressut fiscal year reach £139. .V) >,030. vgaiuet £131,131.369 for the first four ana s of the preceding fis - ca! year, and as r eipts iu July, August, September and 0< )ber are usually a littirheavier than ii my four m >nths of a year, point to a ereuue of about £373,003,000 for the yea Expenditures to lie first four months of the current flsCa year amount to fIt V y*>,(XI0, against d for the first four months of tl prec'diag fiscat year. Daring October. t a past mouth, the department has pur iasod ,£29 65)093 bonds —£19 9!M.0)0 t'.s, and £0.763,00) 4s, at a premium of £I,51S 37. Report of the So -Itor of the Treasury. Washington, I r. £—The Secretary of the Treasury has istructed tho collector of customs at Ni r York that ou the exportation ot box shooks, manufactured wholly of itnpot ?d wood, and of the tame dimensions » shooks entering into the manufacture f bones used in exporting petroleu in tin cans, a drawback wilt be allot d equal in amount to the duty paid on■' tod used in the mauufacture of the e; orted shooks, less the legal retention ol en per cent The Secretory d -ides,in an appeal from a Now York impc or, on an assessment of forty per cen ad valorem on ‘•manufactures of flax.' in which it is claimed that it should be latiable at th rty-fivo per centum, tin I the merchandise in question, cotnmo y known as “scrims.’* is a coarsely wo’ n fabric composed of flax in its natnt color and fibre, exceeding sixty inc >s in width, and therefore properly ap -aised and assessed at forty per cent, ad alorem.

Tmaty l>* Washisqtox. f the Treasury, in! Attorney-Genera ment of the 'Uni suits of the litis* (luring the Use* 1888. It shows t! commenced was were against del (except post-offlc erjr of t53,®»7; 3 the reogvery of were iMta or for -he. recoi were units fc of fines, lorfeitar customs laws, a: were salts again? etc., for retun 1 were other suit States is a party f »1, making a tot A Differ WaSHISQTOX. min, a promise president of the! wly of this city, eoce to the Sack' “I think the ac British G.ivernm given more time action.” Ur. Benjamin that Ur. Dawson publican campa: Englishman, ap? President, as h to haTe been dts Gone ' Knr Yotut, H< Meter, the wel missionary, die Italy, aged sixt Meter was one Howard Mission ago, and as Us s on for twenty yr children from Chris inn homer country. It w» efforts that the * irtment Decision*. r. A—The Solicitor of i annual report to the gives a detailed state * aut, character and re* on under his direction year ended Jane 3d, t the number of suits ,*>!, of which sixteen ailing public officials officials) for the recovwere post-office, for ;.17iV>; twenty-three custom*house bond*, y of $13 100; 167 the recovery of ! and penalties. und*»r re rating JBo.MS; li«> collectors-ef customs, duties, etc-, an 11711 in wnich the Unit d the recovery of $1.6 W,sued for of $3,770,86$. CP of Opinion. JT. A—Mr. C. F. Benjaniemher and former George (English) So* aid yesterday, in refer!le matter: >n is premature. The it -ught to have been more opportunity, for emarked, incidentally, »h» prepares the Rett text-books, also an ives the course of the thinks Mr. West ought Used. His Reward. . 1.—Rev. Wm. C Van mown evangelist and yesterday at Rome, eight years. Dr. Van the founders of the » this city, forty years ermtendent he carried -a the work of res-niag a slums and finding • hem throughout the - his .'Five Points was ___^reFor the past i ea

THE HAYTIEN TROUBLE. Th« t»U«t HU(M Cruiser llosi.ou IntsrWptxUit Kingston, .limit*-.* mil Or. <l»re<l to fractwl to ttaytl to Look After American tntumtu WisHixGTOx. Nov. 2.—The tf-ivy Department is doing all i( can to last in the arrival in Haytieu Watejs of sUflicieUt force to protect the interests at American* there. Commander Harmony, Acting Reeretary ot the Navy* was seen by your correspondent- last night. He said the Kearsarge will be ready to sail in three or four days. In the meantime, the department has been trying to communica te by telegraph with the Boston, which recently sailed from New York, and which is now at Gray town or somewhere off the coast of Nicaragua. It is impossible to reach her, by telegragph direct, because there is no line to the city where ehe is thought to be living. But instructions will be immediately telegraphed to the United States representative at the nearest point, and he will forward them by tbe must expeditions way to ti e ship* “The Boston.” said the Commodore, “will go to Hayti. The Kenrsai-ge will go, too. It i* simply a quei ttou which will get there first, but one vessel will be equal to all needs ot the occasion. tVhat* ever American veseels have teen seised will be promptly taken back. The Haytien Government has done a verv stupid thing in establishing a blockade without giTiugauy notice of it.” t Information having been received at the Navy Department this mornin g to the effect that the steel cruiser Boston had arrived at Kingston last night. Acting Secretary Harmony decided t > revoke the orders sending the Kearsarg*. now lying in dock at Portsmouth, N. H. to protect American interests in Hayti, and to orders the Boston there in her stead. Accordingly, orders were sent to her commander tJ proceed to Port-au-Prince without delay and to do all in his power to preserve the safety of American residents there in case of trouble arising out of the Government’s recent action in seising the steamer Haytien Republic. The run from Kingston to Port-au-Prince will take about twelve hoars, whereas it would be at least a month before the Kearsarge could reach the latter port.

ANOTHER DEFAULTER. An EnnlMtlm of lb* Arr»nnt« of the City otcinflmia Show* I'p Another 1>« fault er. Who la Convenient I y Alant, Chicago, Not. i—A ZHInim special from Cleveland. U, says: A rather sensational side issue iin the Ai.worthy case has turned up. The examination of the city’s accounts shows a deficit of nearly *17,000 in the treasurer’s aoco unti; between 1880 and 1883. This involves 8. T, Everest, a prominent politician and vice* president of the Union National Bank Tie mayor has ordered the city solicitor to serve notice on Everett to make good the shortage. That gentlemen is. in New York on a mysterious errand, and it turns out last week he resigned the vicepresidency of the Union National Bank for the ostensible reason that tie was ou the Republican ticket as a presidential elector. cosy HIM HIS LIFE. The tnustul Act of an Ex-Chleaco StreetCar Urlver That Incidentally 'Duel Him ills Lire. Chicago, Nov. 3.—About 9:3) o’clock last night, as car No. 10 oi* tho Garfield* Avenue and State Street line was passing Center and Osgood streets. John Killer, a striker, wearing a driver’ badge of the North Chicago City Railway Company, threw a stoue at the car. The missile struck the driver, and glancing off went through the car-window. Officer Patrick Rice was on the car. and jumping off fired a shot after Miller, who started, to run away. Just after the shot was fired Miller disappeared, and was afterward found la a hole with his neck broken. When found he had a ballet wound in his right leg and his pockets were filled with stones. It is supposed he fell while making his escape from the officer. THE OYSTER WAR. Desperate Fight Betwesa the Illegal Dredgers and the Maryland llyster Nary — One Schoouer Saak and Several Men Wounded. Baltimore, Mil., Nov. 3—The police •loop Mary Compton discovered about four hundred boats dredging on the oyster bar near Swan Point Wednesday. She sailed down, and when within hailing distance the crews on the dredgers opened fire on the Slate boat. The Compton returned the fire and several of the schooners were dismantled, but they refused to move on. Reinforced by the steamer llcLane, the Compton again attacked the dredgers and they gave way. Yes ;erd xy morning they again appeared on the bar in force and the Compton once more gave battle. The fight lasted all day and rat the hotest that him yet occurred on the bay. One of the schooners was sank br » cannon ball A number' of dreilgers were wounded.

STRUCK BY A CYCLONE. A Sever© Vl.lt at ion la Un Form of a Cretan* at La port, Rovra. Lafort, la.. Not. 2.— A cycloue struct this place at nine o’clock last night, coming from the northwest. Union Hall was demolished and a large n umber of houses were unroofed and blows down, sections of the building being carried many blocks away. Great loss has been occasioned to ■ the merchants. I C hr ins, Boggs & Walker, C. H. Bruit, Walker & Ashler and L. Conrlght are all moving stocks, as their buildings are shattered and flooded. The residence of Banders Walker was blown to atoms and the children rolled about; on the ground. Tbe mother was seriously hurt. No other injuries am reported. The loss on property is $0,000. Reports of damage am coming from all section*; of the country. A Condemned Murder’s Confession. Lop Assess, Cal, Nor. 8.—Fred. Anschlag, who murdered Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock at Garden Gfove, some months ago, and who is in jail awaiti eg e secution. has confessed to the murder of Julius Feugh in September, 1887. Feugh was a neighbor of Antchlag. and at the time of the murder both men resided in Butte County. Anschlag states that he was urged to rill Feugh by two men named Steogor aid Border, in order to obtain Feugh’s money. Stenger was arrested in San Fraicisoo yesterday. No trace of Barder has beea found titular. Trip to Utopia‘sd. New York, Not. 8.--Mini. Locy Bartons,” the widow of ihe executed anarchist. of Chicago, sailed rrorn this port for London yesterday, She has gone them upon the invitation of the British Socialist Democratic Federation, tor the of taking part in the commemoof the llth-ol’ November, the ...uiiTersary of the Chicago executions. Mrs. Parsons, before leaving, said the executions would 1

RELIGIOUS) AMU EDUCATIONAL. —We dote upon, this world us if it wore never to huve an end; and we neglect the next as if it were never to have a beginning.—Ftnclon. —The Japanese Government has instituted a college fer women, with English professors, and put it under the Control of a committee of English women for six years, —The safest way to stay the progress of wrong is to advance the right. Every direct attack upon the wrong, by the right, imperils the right by Inviting a countar-attack upon itself. —No way has been found for making heroism easy, even for the scholar.’ Labor, iron labor is for him. The world was created as an audience; the atoms of which it is made, are opportunities. —Emerson. —t»octrine serves to gather humanity into the various folds, according to their individual convictions; but the actual worship flows from each through but one channel, finding equal acceptance From a loving God. —*T will give yon an orange, Willie,” said a famous English Freethinker to a little boy, "if you can tell me where God is." "And I will give you two,” replied the boy at onee, "if you can tell me where He is not."—Hirer's Young People. —The Ten Commandments were given to. the people some thousand years ago for their moral advancement, and the Sermon on the Mount is nearly S.000 years old; and still it is hard work for nearly more than half of the people of civilization to give them more than casiml

—"The form in which women shall taught anil the subjects that they shall study are of minor importance, and time will settle them. The great desideratum is that they be given the collegiate education when they need it, and that they can be the judges of their own needs.”—Arthur Oilman, in Century. —One of the most important things that the Christian can do, says the .V. T. Independent, for the culture of his* own piety is to acquire the habit of systematically and devoutly reading and studying the Bible. By this habit ho will “grow in grace” by growing “in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour’ Jesus Christ.” The more he reads the Bible the more precious will it become in his experience. —How lonely the mother feels when for the first time her boy shows that he feels too big to be kissed! As they begin to feel like little men. too many boys thing that any show of affection on their part is babyish; they are afraid of being called “girl-boys” or milksops. Just as if a man is ever more manly than when he loves and protects the mother who loved and protected him through so many helpless years Such a boy is sure to grow into the man who takes such good care of his wife.— Rural New Yorker. « WIT AMD WISDOM. --“One man’s conduct may lead a host, into a snare; beware how you follow man; the prudent man looketh well to his going.” ' „ — Why is it that, whenever you are looking for any thing, you always find it in the last place you look? The reason is because you always stop looking when you find it —Young man, don’t break in two in the middle if the world goes against you. Brace up and go against the world awhile, and see how quick you can knock it out.— Washington Critic. —The faults and weaknesses of others, instead of being woven into gossip. scandal and useless criticism, should be used as danger signals, to wain us away from the paths which have led to them. , —It is clearly an undeniable fact U»t mankind generally had rather remain actually ignorant of any certain thing not already known to them than to learn It in any way which will show and virtually acknowledge thoir ignorance.—Des Moines Leader. —If the right is not used as a weapon of offense, it is not ao likely to need to spend itself in its own defense. And if the wrong is busy neither with its own defense nor with the direct offense against the right, it is more fairly open to see the right as exhibited in the right It is better to draw one into the right than even to drive him out of the

wrung.—o. £>. jiiw* —Hardly any one can step out of hie own door without finding something that can be benefited by his good offices. If he sees it aright, and give his heart and hand to it, he will, then and there, be making a contribution to the world’s improvement. The talk we hear sometimes about the want of a “field” is proof either of insincerity or poor judgment_United Presbyterian. —If the problems of the time are properly dealt rriih, it would be found, at least in our own favored, land, that “Poverty and Progress” would not he used as correlative terms by any political economists. Thrift and economy among the laboring classes would go far toward the reduction of waste improvidence and criminal carelessness in regard to provision for sickness and old age; and go far also toward solving the labor problem.—Mr». M. J. Gorton. —The young men and women who can look poverty fairly and squarely in the face, are too few. We want more of the young men who can wear old clothes till they can pay cash for new ones, orwbo are willingto walk till they out afford to ride. We want more ol the young women who are willing to do their own work till they can afford to 4>ay somebody to do it and who will live uncomplainingly in one room till they can afford to furnish two. He Was Hot An Indian. Tramp—Could you give a bite to a floor man who hasn’t eaten any thing for— Lady of the House (shouting shrilly) —Tige! Tige! Come here, Tlgel T. (loftily)—You are calling yosi dog, madam. 1 want you to understand that I don’t eat dog. I'm no Indian. And he strode away in rilent dignity. . .

WHAT A CHILD Dlfe 4m Anwdott Illustrating Mr. LlawM Great Tenderness of Heart. ^ Will the world ever know what depths of tenderness there were in the heart of Abraham Lincoln? An anecdote, whieh has never been published, brings out one more instance in which his sympathies, awakened by a little child, nobly controlled his action. In one of the first skirmishes of the eivil war, a young Union soldier was so severely wounded in the leg that the limb ; had to be amputated. On leaving the hospital, the young soldier, by the aid of influential gentlemen, obtained a position a# Government weigher of; hay and grain. Not long after ho had entered upon his duties, his superior offi

cer said to him: “See here, Mr. M-——. this hay weighs so much on these scales; but t<J the Government it weighs so much more.” “I da not understand, sir, that way of doing business. I can enter but one weight and that the correct one,” answered the young weigher. . His superior walked away, muttering threats. The young man from that day suffered many petty persecutions for ■ his honesty, and it was not long before he received notice that the government had no further need of his services. The summary dismissal made him so down-hearted that when he told the Story to his family, he seemed a man without hope. “Father,” replied the eldest daughter, a girl of thirteen, “cheer up! I am going to see President Lincoln. I know he will make it all right.” Her father and mother tried to turn her purpose, saying that it would he useless to see the President, as he would not attend to such a petty matter as the dismissal of a weigher of grain. But her faith in the President's sense of justice was so strong that she went to the White House, and, after three days of patient waiting in the anteroom, was admitted to Mr. Lincoln’s presence. 'The hour for receiving visitors had nearly expired, and as she entered the room the President, throwing himself on a lounge, said, wearily: "Well, my little girl, what can I do for you?” She told her artless story. Mr. Lincoln listened attentively, and with a smile asked: “Bu/how, my dear, do I know that your statement is true?” ' “Mr. President,” answered the girl, with energy, “you must take my word for it” “I do," replied the President, rising and taking her hand. “Come with me to Mr, Stanton." “Stanton,” said Mr. Lincoln, as they entered the office of the great War Secretary, “I wish you to hear this child’s story.” “I have no time,” answered tho overworked man. “But you must,” replied Mr. Lincoln. “I have not a moment to spare today, Mr. President” •“Come again, my dear, to-morrow, and Mr. Stanton will hear you then,” said the President, leading her away. The next day she was admitted at pee to the President who took her over to Mr. Stanton's office. The, Secretary listened to the child’s simple story and was so moVed by it that he indignantly exclaimed’, before she had finished: “The infernal rascal!” He went to his desk and wrote an order for the immediate dismissal of tho dishonest official, and for the appointing the little girl’s father to the vacant place. Mr. Lincoln never forgot the child; he told her story to several Congress-' men. and through their influence her two brothers were enrolled among tho pages of the House of Representatives^ ^ — Youth's Companion. i FIGS AS A FOOD.

The Hnt Nutritions of All Fruits Kxeoi»* the Olive. One of the Persian Kings caused the celebrated Attic figs to be set before him whenever he dined, for one reason to remind him that the land where they grew was not yet his and that, instead of receiving the fruit as a tribute, he ; was obliged to buy it from abroad; andL for Another, that it was not only the emblem of health, but the most wholesome fruit grown. The fig is now pretty well known to be, especially at certain seasons, almost the common food of the Italian people; and for months they may be said to live entirely upon < them. It is not the superfluous, the luxurious; and thus, as Dr. Nichoto says, it is not only possible for a man to live upon figs, but that, sitting under his own vine and fig tree, a man would have plenty of food and no landlord. When eaten fresh, it is a medicine aa well as food; and they who eat them freely need no potions and n aperients. Full of nutrition and al! those properties that make it valua as an article of diet, we are confiden that the fig will take a prominent tion in the estimation of all who wor for and believe in food reform. For self, I would simply add that, again again, without liquid of any kind, luscious green fig, eaten with whole meal bread, has formed a dish at once simple but rich, and, like the Spaniard’s salad, fit for a king. The fig is not only very popular, but it is the most ancient fruit we cultivate. In many countries the failure of this crop also means starvation and famine. Travelers in Asia Minor and southern Europe provide themselves with figs and olives as provisions,,for long journeys, and not only live, nut grow fat on the diet. The fig has more medicinal properties and more nutriment th any other fruit with the ex the olive.—Interior. —The Fortland Oregonian tells of i peculiar sight witnessed the other day by passengers on the ferry from Vancouver. A seal was in pursuit of a salmon. The fish darted hither thither, and frequently le the water. The very much exeited in i Finally the fish darted up to and jumped on board. A the boat’s crew sold it