Pike County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 December 1888 — Page 1

: J. L. HO VOLUM — i® tiOhfeit t)evotio:i to Princip ;s of Rj^ht. OFFICE, « PETERSBURG, INDIANA, TIIURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1888.

PIKE CO0NTY DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY TKBMS or WKCKimOM i gar on* rear. .... Forsli month*. .<1 I For three month*....", y invariably in advanceEcv advertising bates I Sqnam (»line*), one insertion.t| no k addition*! insertion. U A liberal reduction made on advertisements Monlna three, all, and twelve months. *|5**1 *nJ transient advertisement* must b* •aid for in advance.

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT JOB ‘WORK OF AI<L KIKES Neatly Xlxeouted -ifSEASONABLE BATES. NOTICE) N'*** receirlnir • copy of this paper wttfe )hl» notice crtwed In lead pencil are notified that tbe time of their aubaenpliou haserptve*.

FKOKKSSIONAI, CARDH, a A. ELY. Attorney at Law, 1’EtKRSBURO, IND. Ofllce: Over J. R. Adams A Son’s Pros Store. (It it also a member of the United 8tales Col* lection Association, and giro* prompt attention no every matter in which be is employed. S. P. Kirnahu:ion. A. U. T.uu'a RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. Trompt nitentlon given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the olOce. Ufllet In Carpenter Itulidlng, Mil and Main. Attorney at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. UF“OfHrc: Over J. It. Young A Co.’s Store. U GAiu.rros. 1. II. 1-aMar. CARLEfON & LaMAR, Physicians & Surgeons < ]-bikhkduiu>. mn, Will practice In Pike and adjoining counties. Ofllce: Rear room of Hank budding. Offlce ..hour* day arid r ight. CAT*Diseases of women and children a specialty. Chronic and dlOlcult cases solicited. ARK L CASK M. 1), * Physician and Surgeon VEBPEN, IND. \Yi;: practice In Pike and adjoining counties. Calls promptly attended lo, day or night. Otlloe hours day and night. W. F, Townskso. Mtitt Fl.r.KNEB. KliwiN flmtli. TOWNSEND, FLEENER & SUITE, Attorneys at Law . ADD REAL ESTATE AGENTS, PETERSBURG, - - INDIANA Of!lce. over Dos Frank's store. Special at. trillion given tuCollections.Buyingn#d sell lug ijhi.Is, Examining Titles and Furnishing Abstracts. , . R. R. K1MK M. I).. Physician and Surgeon PfcTERSBURa. IND. Ofllee. over llatrvtt A Son** store, rcriBence on Seventh Street, threesuiiar-rs south of Mein. Calls promptly atteuded to, day 01 night.' _ J. B. DUNCAN,, . Physician ani Surgeon PETERS BU *cO, . I>D. on f * ,i tor ('irpentor llulMIng. la. J. HARRIS,

,Resident Dentist, PETEHSBU BG, IN'D. ALL WORK WARRANTED. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. K. TURNER. Proprietor. PETERSBURG, - IND. 1'ailf * wishing work Aon* at their r - i , tfoncea will lean- (ir*-t( a* I hr >h to Hr A dam.’ now l u.Idbt t. roar or Adams A .'•on a drug ilor CITY HOTEL Dmdw New Mnnngrmrnt. It. A. MoMl’KRAY, Proprietor. Cor. Eighth and Main me-, opp. Courthouse, PKTF.1CSRUBO, INP The City Hotel la cenlrally located, Jr-t (lass In all Its appointments,and tho best and cheapest hotel In the city.

* Sherwood House, rmlcr Ni>*X«iue>m«it. BISS ELL & TOWNSEND. Prop’rs. First and Docust Street*. / ^ EvanstlllCi : : Indiana. RATES, $2 PER DAY. Sample Rooms lor Commercial Moo. HYATT HOUSE, Washington. lad. Centrally laical rd, and Accommodation* First-class. HENRY HYATT, Proprietor. NEW GRIST MILL! - MAKE MEAL AND CHOP FEED. Grind* Erery SATURDAY at A. E. Edwards’ Farm. ■albtutlN Guaranteed. Tsar I'alraaafs Solleitrd. A. E. EDWARDS. When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. . Mas. Lana* H*nt) and Autos Hotuu Proprietors HOTEL ENGLISH, Xorthweat Mde Circle Park. Beat ko«*4 beildin* la Indianapolis. OM et ha hast kept hotel* for the pr-eca charted In HB

THE WOULD AT LAltGE. Suuunory of tho Dolly No wo

WASHINGTON NOTES. How. Micmu U»nry Herbert, British charge d'affaires at Washington, was task* I lied recently to Miss Beile Wilton, a rich ! New York girt. I'K!«S10N.,C.)!Mlt8«50NKR Bi.ack has prepared a statement showing that otihe 18,000 estimated eases where widows under tbs act of June 7,1S8S, were entitled to arrears of pensions from the time of their husbands’ deaths, 11,502 cases have been Bled and settlod. BxtT.tTARY WniTNKT, fdlloWIttg hit usual custom since be hhs been at the head ; °* ,ho Navy Department, presented to I each of the employes of the department a : *Jno Hwkey for their Thanksgiving day dinner. It took 100 to go around, 1 hb President attended union services at Assembly Church, Washington, Thanksgiving minting. t'CcHtniiv Waitxtt’l annual report un the condition of the navy has been presented to the President. I A Mtntnof I’ost-othce Department officials, anticipating the expected orders of I dismissal after March 1. are making arrangements to engage In other business. A contract has been signed with Commissioner Black for the use of ths pension I budding in Washington for the inaugural A i'Rcnkbn man recen'.ly fired a shot at ! tho pugilists Kilrniu and Mitchell while tl.ey were attending Kiernan'.s Theater, " ashington. No one was hurt, llts object could not be ascertained. • THIS EAST. Enert S. Tcrnkr, a noted Western swindler, recently from Cortes, Cal, has been ones ted in Bostou. after a chase of over three thousand miles by dotertive*. James K. Kilmi, ex-chief of police of I Setv Vork City, and chief of detectives at Cie time of the Nathan murder, died re- i cently. | By the explosion of a keg of powder In Georg* Palmer’s store at Scranton, Pa., the other4evening, Bertha Palmer, aged ten, was killed aad her father fatally injuied. % Bcrueon Nihon, of the United States steamer Bostou, in quarantine at New York, died on the 27th of yellow fever. The two other patients were steadily- improving, and the rest of the ship’s com*>any were in good health. Inx New York i»>lice have proof that q duel with pistols was fought iu Central Park the other night; that one of the combatants was wounded; that the affair was about a lady, aud that the lady tried to warn the jiolice that the due) was to be fought, l«ti her letters were received too late to prevent the meeting. The names of the parties were unknown. sThe ale and porter brewer* of New York and New' Jersey have decided to lock out all their union men because of the continued boycott on Stevens* brewery iu New York City. Tnt; regular ticket of the New York, Cake Erie & Western railway was elected wjeUout opposition in New York City, 1 hk steamship Allentown foundered in the recent gales off Coha'setl, Msss. The crew of eighteen men were drowned. Tlfe vessel belonged to the Philadelphia aud Heading Coal and Iron Company. The brunts bust of John McCullough, tho dead tragedian, was unvailed at Mount Moriah cemetery, Philadelphia, on the 2$th in the presence of many noted actors and others. Tux proposed lockout of the nle and porter brew ers of New Jersey has been avoided, the men having agreed not to contribbute in anv way to a boycott A case of .yellow fever in the person of a recent arrival from Jacksonville, Fin., was found on tfae'jsth' in a crowded tenement house in New York City. \j a moving of the directors of the> Keely Motor l\ mpany in Philadelphia all differences were said to have been settled 7 he wife of llenersl W. T. Sherman died at New York on the 2Stb. Garpxxr, the chief of the opium smugglers of Ogdensbukg, N. Y., has been found guilty on six counts. A form a i. tender of the petition of chief marshal of the inauguration parade at Washington on the 1th of March has been made to Uoveruor Beaver, of Pennsylvania. The Insurance suit against (ieneral Daniel E Sickles by a widow named Cave was tried in New York on the T*th. The jury> found that under the contract tho widow was entitled to $2,258 more than bad been paid her, which verdict Sickles was willing to accept. - A story wa* current In New York that the trunk line rate cutliug troubles, which have occupied so much attention of late, were merely a Iduff to scare the railroad men from a projected movement for an in • ITNII9 Of Mahy Co.wxtx, aged forty-two, fell’or w as thrown from n fire escape of the tenement house, lul Greenwich street. New York, and wss instantly killed during a general fight w hich followed a Thanksgiving orgie among a number of her relatives and friends at that nlacet The dismasted vessel Amanda Morrison has been towed into Provincetewn, Mass., and run aground ou thrflats. The body of n man about sixty ycSrs of age has been taken from the wreck, and has been identified as Captain Daniel Morrison, of Jordan’s Fisrry, Nova Scotia. The officers and crew of the Maytien Republic have arrived at New York, having been sent home by the American Consul Dcrixu Thanksgiving celebration , by the Hudson Guards at Manhattan Fark, New York, the explosion of a can of powder caused severe injuries to three men and resulted in a fire which deetroyed the shooting pavilion, lonii Mudhauk was badly wounded by the accidental discharge of a musket. The Boughton acid work* near Titusville, Pa., was destroyed by fire on the 30th. Loam, *75,000. The New York .Sirs U authority for the statement that prominent Democratic veterans in va’rious parts of the country are well satisfied with the Grand Army and will not join the Indiana revolt. Six men were buried in n trench while working on a sewer recently In Philadelphia. One was killed and another fatally .injured. The rest escaped. Selunoer & Co., dealer* ia glassware and owners of the Mutual Glass Company of New York and Pittsburgh, have been closed up. Their liabilities are said to be $150,000. The coal mines along the Monongahela | river in Pennsylvania were shut down for an indefinite period on the 1st

TBS WEST. Gbobgk Giuirt and Glen Blodgett, boy*, were drowned near Charles City, Iowa, the other day while skating. Tit official canrass of the Presidential rote of Indiana has been completed. The total rote for the highest Elector on each of the four tickets, is 636,MS. as follows; Highest Republican Elector, 90.381; highest Democrat, 981,013; Prohibition,e9,Sil; Labor, 9.(194. Republican plurality, 9,348. Genera! llovey’s plurality for Goremor was 3.900; As epidemic of raging at and churches ha' was reported $.the schools has assigned *40.000 nomlna I C. W. IVami Mich., who fle ago, has retur pal creditors ' ?* Mil 11ft1 <

tilled. that a combination of rail* Chicago has been formed in »of a clearing; house The com* bination j;ret» out of the recent New York conference between the roads. BtJESft I’n UtDonrr tobacconists of Chi* eago. healgutd recently with fM.OOi liabilities and}il,000assets. Cause, stow collections. Bakvei. H Cathcart, atlas H. F'. Harris. alias Btnith, alias Carpenter and alias Blissert, A astcd forger wanted all over the country las been arrested in Chicago. The itepublican plurality for Governor In Michigan 'va* 1713X" The pluralities on the rest of tiieBUt - ticket were from 21,

to •-'■V'-ii. The Anarchist Turner* of Laketiuw, 111, deny that at their recent entertainment they trampled on the American flag and flaunted i.he red banner. DT the exp osiou of a -hotgun near Jeffersonville, lad., the other day an unknown man was killed and William Arnjdaleand bis non and a young wan named Middleton were badly hurt. The round-house of the Omaha road, at Spooner, 5(Pis., was destroyed by fire the other dt.iv, seven engines being destroyed. Losii. Minister Iacob T. Child sailed fiom San Sratietoeo for Siam on the -bth. The dead body of Anna Ellen Neal, aged nineteen, who disappeared from CummintiviU s O., Novemlier 0 has been found in a creek near Cincinnati. She bad probably committed suicide. The total vote in Iowa (oftkial) was 104,13b, divided as follows: Kepublican, 211,518; bemociatlc, 179,ST7; Union Labor, 9,10ft; Prohibition, 3,lint. Harrison's plurality, 31,721 Diphtheria was reported prevalent to an alarmiug extent in and about Hoopestown, near 1 anville. 111, THE great Sibley will contest closed with >f the Supreme Court at Lantho decision i *ing, Mich., in favor of Mrs. Anna Louisa | Fisk, of Detr $•>>0,000 and ney’a feet. ItuAcarc! ot, whereby she will receive $20,000 allowance for attorlists celebrated Thanksgiving day at Thaluv. Hall, Chicago, by d nouneing tlod for jH-rmitting social misery on the earth. A Dt'irr explosion at Siengleiivfii. furniiure factory. Saginaw City, Mich., recently, caunid the serious injury of two snett. Another man eras reported liuricd in the ruins, j Loss, $2n,000. The eleTajior ut Oreen’s siding, on the Northern FaMflc railroad. Cas-elton, Dak., bunted the other night. Loss, $40,000. The Htenglin furniture factory at Saginaw Cilty, jlich., was destroyed recently by an explosion of wood dust and the ow ner and his fireman were-badly turned. l-osa.JM.000 A ctuxK signing himself ‘'Knife Stab” and cla tiling to be it pal of ‘'Jack the Kipper*1 has been writing to the police in Minneapolis, Mum, that he wilt serve the diseolnte women of that city as they were served In Whitechapel. Mrs. A x.- ik Jester and her grown ilnughter were taken out and whipped the other night by White caps near Sardinia. Ohio. A COR HESTON DENT at Columl lit, lud., telegraphs hat Will Schrieber, teller of the Find National Dank of that city, has lied to Canada after rubbing the bank of jB.SM. Another iisastrous fire broke out in the Calumet and Hecln mine, Michigan, on the morning of the SJth. Eight miners were in the part reported on fit o, of w hose escape n<> hope existed. A careless boy caused an explosion of natural gas iu Wabash, Ind., [recently and wsa bally hurt The mains wore injured and great excitement created iu the town. One man was fatally and another badly burned am, the business portion of the Village of lairabelle, III., destroyed by tiro recently. Loss, $25,000; iiuurance small. August Links and John Albin, miners, were ciush<d to death in a mine at Utney, IIL*recently by a cave-in. The ITisconsin otHciial vote for President waa 351,081. an merest© of St 776 over lest. Harrison's plurality was 21,271, a gain of «,r« over BlatneV Governor Hoard’s plurality eras 91,2®. as against 8,718 for Kusk lit fiSfh The Prohibition vote was 11,277, aga list 7,656 in 1-M. The Labor vote was 6, >'2, against 14,51“ in 1-NI. THE Electoral vote of California, as an* n nun cod by the Secretary of hit's was as follow *: . Harrison, 124,808; Cleveland, 117,729; Fisk, 5.716; Curtis, 521. TfeB Day1 on tO ) Flow Company has assigned witli til'.OJO assets and unknown T*E canvass of the Oregon vote ■ show* the i oliowing as the official figure*: | Kerris on, »2X»; Cleveland. 26 574; Fisk, t.MTjKtreeter. *3; scattering, 6L. llarriilty was 6,769. while at the last tint election Blaine's plurality !K& Miinry Metier, who robbed and Ebtuatt John Lowell last March, waa hsagod at PlacerviCe, Cal., on the

TUS SOUTH. The expect*! motion tor an injunction in the West Virginia cues was not made in it ha State flupreme Co urt on the 27th. Kiluso frosts are roported from Westen florid » and Southern Alabama. 1 (1ST took place recently on an attempt of Sb*.police to quell a negro disturbance noah, Ga. Two policeman and man were iwriously hurt and a id. ' s Sl’TTOX, awaiting execution at He, Va., for the murder of Peter IlfitfiBr,. ’*as rescued by an armed band tth'.illher night. There was some preAn that he was innocent, another the escaped, sending a letter that committed the crime. If* new cases of fever were reported Itscnrilie. Fla., on the 29th, of which erii white and two colored. There in deaths. isi atch from Little Pack aays: i Bee Inspectors Nelson and Petterave arrested J. H. Snowden, depitti taster at Center Ridge, for systeillj robbing the mails. His peculaan back severid months and amount (OK Lee of Virginia has issued a lion offering $1,000 fair the arrest tsked men who rescued tVaymen he condemned murderer, from the lie jail the other night Bern) vote of Kentucky was: d, U3.SOO: Harrison. 135.131; F.sk. bar, tC2; Bellva Lockwood, A Government has protested by Roninania of two i f i on tier. i Papal rescript the Irish Bistiops is ooo

. Tttk British Ship ftodgids, Captain Bet«) h-bm Mirtin’s Island Jttno S3, for Hamburg; hat fwiriciehwl 48 U)e Island ok TeiiU hi )he Sorth Sea. Two ok the CreW ware droWned. Hkxhv Geokob lectured in London on the STth. He said that the grasping (or land In America waa rapidly making that country similar to England. He wanted to utterly abolish landlordism. Ttt«,Village of VaUbecbUrti near ftancjr, frame, has bsen totally destroyed by Ore;, Thousands of pefeoda Wert without shat

ter. A lifeboat WAS upset oft Whitby, England, during the recent galea and twelve persons were drowned. r Joux Bright, the noted English states* man who has been critically Ul recently, wtls reported better. It is feared that nine fishermen have Starved to death off the Donegal coast, Ireland, the recent heavy weather having prevented their return to the mainland. Baron Hihsch, of Vienna, lias made a donation of $8,000,000 for schools for Jew* In Galicia and Butorina. The report that a lifeboat had been upset off Whitby, Eng., and twelve persons drowned proves to be untrue, the boat having reached shore in safety. Count Bexoha'r, late Spanish Minister to Germany, is to be called to strict account for his actions after his recall. It Is reported that the Hussion Govern-^ mrnt has decided upon another great loan.' Tub Italian Senate ha* rejected the bill for the extension of political suffrage to women. Thirty-five foreign Jews who failed to leave Kieff, Russia, after the general edict of expulsion, have been arrested. This charge against them was that they demoralised the townspeople. The prescription ware and flint bottle manufacturers are working to got up it syndicate or pool similar to that of the window glass manufacturers. The high price of butter is rumored in certain quarters to be due to a combine to force the sale of oleomargarine. Newspapers in the Cuban sugar districts report that the prevailing drought is injuring the cane. The anticipated crop, It is expected, under the circumstances will be decreased considerably. Toe steamer Nova Scotian reported a stormy passage from Liverpool to Halifax. The Canadian Earliameut will meet January 31 next. The British House of Commons hss passed the Ashbourtie Extension act by a vote of 302 to 111. , The French steamship Panama reports an unknown vessel lost one hundred miles off the Delaware coast during the recent gales. ArrEit a conference with CarJInal IUmpolls and the Raasian envoy, the Pope proposes to establish diplomatic relations with Russia,-a Russian Minister being sent to the Vatican, nut no Nuncio to 8U Petersburg. At a recent council meeting cf the British Medical Society nresolution was passed deprecating the publication of the details of the late Emperor Frederick’s sickness as a violat on of professional confidence In consequence of this resolution .Sir Horell Mackemie sent in his resignation. W. E. Owes*, the well known horse trainer, died at Toronto, Ont.. recently of inflammation of the lungs. His name was familiar on every race course in America, R. G. Davis, member of the BriftstrPmrliament for Kennington, London, has been arrested for maladministration of hia uncle’s estate. Tns strike of the coal miners in various districts of Belgium has ended. The Russian Government is about to create a department of railways to fix tariffs and classify freights. The prosecution of D pu'y Nums Gilly for libelling members of the French Budget Committee has been authorized by a committee of the Chamber of Deputies. It is said that the Emperor Frederick’s original diary iatn the possession of Queen Victoria. The Spanish Cortes was opened on the 3)th by Premier Bagasta. There was no speech from the throne. It is rumored in Berlin that the N vs Guinea Company has offered to sell its territory to the German Government for 4,000,000 mark*. Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended November 28 numbered 2 *2, compared with 21*» the previous week and 244 the corresponding week last year. Jay Govld recently endeavored to induce President Cable, of the Rock Island, to enter the railroad trust which iie was forming. Mr. Cable said be was afraid the trust would fail of the object intended and possibly might provoke another outburst of animosity against the roads. He, however, promised to give the matte; further consideration.

IBS LATUT. Gisxrai. Oudwat, chairman of 1h« inaugural romaittw on military organizations, haa been instructed to confer with the member# of the Cabinet to the end of securing the department buildings for quarters for visiting State troops at the coming inaugural. Mr. Him econo*, speaking at a banquet given in his honor in London, on the 1st, said that the first thing to do was to secure land values for public use, the establishment of which system would open the vista to possible reforms. He was opposed, he said, to a peasant proprietary system. Mr. George’s audience was a large and enthusiastic one. Joan W. Alum, son of B. F. Allen, a prominent banker of Des Moines, la., who is wanted in Ban Francisco for robbing the Wells Fargo Express Company, iras captured, on Ike 1st, by Chief of Police Gerald of Montgomery. Ala. Allen will be taken to 8aa Francisco. Tnc pro peter Michigan took fire near Sandusky, O., on the 2d. She was sighted by a tug and towed into that port, where the local fire department extinguished the flames. Her satire upper works were consumed. Caros Littlx, of England, arrived in Sew York, on the fid, for a six weeks’ tour of the country. Couxtt Pktsicias Coswat of Hew York held an autopsy, on the 1st, on the body of Mrs. Hon©rah De Fledde, who was believed to hMnheen murdered. The result of the autopsy revealed the fact that the woman died from heart failure, and not from vtotenee, and Wm. Campion,-who was held tor the murder, was discharged from custody. Mr. Cam. Hearns has accepted the American agency of the Hamburg- AimerHavigation Company, of the Vulcan Company ican Berlin, as pre Ths which a case of from Liverpool, York, on the Sd, had M among the steer•’s packing-house Hein, on the 1st, to the the inaugural comon the 1st, it was subscriptions tc the mted to **5,000. r. Hade, who had long

THE NA if;

Au feiliuMtive Report lij ww!«tj WHItTlte KxYcar and i i»jr of the Xavjr Dcpa t lire* for the l'»K ihwrtl Years 1'reTlum IVashin gtox, Dec. 1.-1 ecretary Whit a< y, in his annual report fter presenting a >rief review of the eon 6t it will exist On the itli1 bi njparison with the san M irch, 1885. says that licin Of the navjr f next llai'ell in on the 1th of far as armored fl ills are concerned the i bjeet is yet to b< treated in a broad wa • mant and Congress. 1* licy adopted and by the departA! a result of the ; 1 out during the p tsl three years, the - aditioas at the pi esent time are such B eOssary to a first-class b i produced and furnish > Kent in this country i e< nrse of construction f< ature is desired: but h Totofore until the p ■ ti ue, and therefore the Uat everything ghtiug ship can to the depart* • soon as in the ■ ny element or i.his has never sent time been •onsideration of ti e subject has been necc arily postponed b ■ the department until ; e present time. T ie efforts of the dep? tment in ship o instruction have ni < ?ssarily, since li areh, 1*85, been devot > > to uuarmored v ’ssels. and as to thes • the department is able to report that w n the ships in course of construction, i id those authoriied, shall have been completed, the C nited States will rank i cond among the n it ions in the possess! t i of unarmored c uisers or “commerce estroyers,’ having the highest charm t risties of sizea QQil Urns and upward Rud jwssessing s >eed of nineteen knots i d upward. The importance which has i cn placed upon tliis branch of naval 11 mainent will be appreciated from the s tement that England and France posaOt sixty-five vessels of the class kuo < t as tmarmored cruisers. The attention of the • i >rld was attracted to the destructive elf > t which was produced upon the commet e of the United 8 tates by the cruisers fi t h! out under the auspices of the coufedei i fierebelion. The total t intered vessels of the risen year by vear until, e d to 2,«i2.628 tons: and •y in the war of mage of the reglited States had > 1*81, it amountetween 1861 and 1856 it was reduced to 1,! 3,126 tons, or in other words to the poi t which we had r ‘ached in 1819, from i hieh decline we t ave never recovered. } he insurance war risk upon American v: sels during the varrose in exceptional cases to as high as twenty-five i>er cent. Discussing the prodtn t on of power by I hitney says that condition of the s respect, led to e machinery of •e so designed as machinery, Secretary sn examination of th< c epartment in 1885 in t t he conclusion that i aval vessels ought to In produce teu-horso Jjs£er for each ton < f machinery, and ip • j is determined to i nake that the standard and to enter into no contracts that were i >t based substantially thereon. Plans ii machinery were purchased abroad, whi • upon trial had approximated that resi It. Bidders were authorized to hid upon plans thus submitted to competition, oi cere permitted to submit their own plans but wore obliged :ogtirantee the result! determined upon >y the department, und s1-severe penalties :or failure, and with i >mj>ensating premiums in case of attai i i ng better results, A11 the contracts for 11 construction of jhips which have been e ntered into since March, 1*85, call for I iie production of powcf by machinery e< al to the highest dandyrils. The efforts f the department in this matter have bet i cordially seconded by the bureau chief and it is believed that at the present ti i e the department has reached the point there entire reliance can be placed ups 11 itfor the production of war vessels eq> i 1 in character to those of any other eon i ry. Referring to a red' i tion of expenses during the past three ears, it is claimed that the savings of the i partment are paying for the new nav; and on this topic the Secretary says: It is gratifying to be al to report tbat notwithstanding the large xpenditnres for the new nnvy in the last thru > rears, the reductions in other directions has tr i !e the total expenditure less for the three ye i s than for the three yearsending June *>, Ji t, the ordinary expenses of the depart men I laving been reduced over twenty per cent. A table is included i: the report which shows that the expem : ures for the years ending June 80,1*82, ! 83 and 1*81 were $17,979,397, and for th i years ending June 30, 1886,1887 and 1888, ! 4,830,(530, The fiscal year ending Jun ■ 36,1S88>, is omitted from the table as not i ving been whoUy in either Administrat i a. Discussing coast ai i harbor defenses, Secretary Mmitaey st: s: In the last annual rep< considerations were givi of this department leadng to theconclusion that it would be iwisefortbe department to follow the co -e of the European powers in building and in the present unc impract cability of suba retod torpedo boats, tainty regarding the •me boats, and while watting the practical tri i of the dynamite gunboat. it has been deemed rise for the department to build one 14 1 -draught, heavily armored harbor-defense I sting battery or ram. for which designs have ! • in prepared. Considerable space is i 'voted to a discussion of the business metho 1 of the departmept, and to the efforts be i j made to simplify, systematize and impr e them. Upon this subject the Secretary s s: Daring the years of IBM and IBS orer 11(1 ' pee coat. In value of the supplies ot the de; : tment wore obtained by open purchases witl *t competition During the last year the oportion of such pur chases was lest than ’veo per cent., and In the course of the next (■ al year It Is believed

tbit the ooen abcul lie per cent, for the most part sponsible dealers are ton tor these Impossible to ply of coal. It was some advantage rut Investigation delivered to er of the coal barge load, and it The gentleman department ftom that dence of fraud on readily be drawn. counts for the nnal report, since July 1. ter shows that it Is dimculty in keeping the largest stations. The lug of cers to w^ch greatli procured, the■ that on the items est and ^ of $103,493 ten months ending -three years gain of $703 Alluding to abroad during the tarysays bers of fast for purposes can be reduced to naval brokers havo and regular remore eontraca time it seemed them. They would notably for the sapevident they had not appear. Carequality ot the coal The reeelvat the Brooklyn taken by another suspicions was deface r was detailed, veigh personally a sixteen tons short, as a bidder for the There waa no evibut Inference can property aeto in the last unsuccessful operation of the first qaarthat there is no with current work at commerce, or by careful watch* on foreign staof pay offltheir drafts, by rates have been able to report commission, intera net loss the two years and 24,1883, for the 30, 1888, a net and the Are and ships to at home and the 8ecreeruisers, whether or destroying a fleet as of cruisers, it of the recent the armored fleet, in England, is armored date. In

sfa-uctitcness of high explosive shell fire against unprotected, sides, omphvsiies the peculiar advantage's of the monilof type for coast-defense service. i he Secretary considers the subjects of improved po wder, projectiles and torpedo boats, saying in regard to Hie latter tlint recent naval maneuvers abroad hove Shown that they hiust still be regarded as iiiost useful for Coast and harbor defer so. The estimates for the Navy and Marine Corps for the next fiscal year Is $26,767.07'?, and includes $9,711,000 for increase of the navy, construction and armanent: $2,2)4.348 for improvements at uavv-yards, end $240,000 for a new naval observatory. The appropriations for the current fiscal year aggregate $!9,043,401.

INTER STATE COMMERCE. Annual Report of the Inter-State Comlrrrre I'omiiiU.lim-Tlie R-tUruatl Mile* »«o of tho Country. Washington, Deo. 1.—The annnal report of the Inter-State Commerce Commission places the railroad mileage of the country on the :s)th day of June, 1HSW, at 1«Y>,781, of which 2,312 miles hail been completed and brought into oik rat ion within the six months preceding that day. The railway construction inl888 was R 4TI miles; in 1887 it was 12,(«88 miles. The number of corporations represented in the mileage is 1,251, but by reason of leases or other, contract arrangements, many corporations hold control of and operate one or more roads owned by othor corporations, and the whole number making reports of operations on the day named was 6,«7.">. A summary of, the formal complaints brought beforo the commission during the year is us follows; _ C-isesheard and decUSeij...50 Cases heard, not yet dcci-tej. t> Cases, hearing, not completed. 9 Cases withdrawn or settled. -! Cases suspended by request....... in Cases assigned for hearing....... 9 Total.... ... .to; Upon the subject of the operation of the lav,* the commission slays: To what extent, it at nil. the administration of the aet has teen hares rut to the carriers, is a subject upon wh'ch the-views of railroad managers have from time to time been public)} expressed; sometimes to the effect that the damage has been verv considerable. Tho eommiss‘on is possessed of no evidence showing h it the general result has been otherwise than beneficial. Unquestionably the railroad t usiness of the country has suffered many unit cry severe losses during the past year, lint these hare not been due to the aet to regulate commerce. Discussing railroad trusts, the commission say: Aoy thing equivalent to consolidation ol ail the roads of the country.fender a single head.or even those of a considerable section, whether by merger or by the formation of a confederation which should have powers of legal control, or by the formation of what is now technically denominated a trust, could hardly be supposed possible, even if the parties were at liberty to form at pleasure. If the parties eouhl como Into harmony oa the sttbjcct.au arrange merit of the sort would be so oveirsha lowlag.so i-owcrful in its control over the busiueas interests of the country, and so susceptible of being used for mischievous purposes in many ways, that public policy could not for a moment sanction it. at least unless by statute it were held, in closo legal restraints and ntider effectual public supervision and control. The voluntary arrangements of the kind in other lines of business are already suOlciently threatening pnolio inter est, and the most nrdent advocate of the concentration of railroad! authority can not reasonably espeal that any thing of the sort to control the transportation of the country will be provided for by legislation. Without legislation to favor it, little can bo done beyond the formation of consult ng and advisory associations, and the work of these is not only necessarily defective, bat it is also limited to circumscribed territory. In tho absence of any such concentration of authority, tho carriers by rail have It in their power to do very much toward establishing better relations with the public at large, and toward performing better service for the pufc.ie by first establishing better relations among themselves. The seed of this is very imperative. Tao first requisite to the est iblishment of better relations among the carriers by rail would seem to be a recognition on their part of tho fact that they seem to the public to constitute a class, with, to some extent, at least, common interests, and likely to be controled by the same motives. The commission sums ui> its conclusions on the subject of uniform classification by saying: Uniformity in class ulcaton. as fast ami as far as it can be accomplished without senous mischief, is desirable. There is gratifying Rrogrcss in the direction of unification, and it as been very marked within the last year. So long as the carriers appear to be laboring towards uniHcation with reasonable ailigence and in good faith, it is better that they should be encouraged and stimulated to continue their efforts, than that the work should be uken out of ihetr hand*. The eommiss'on recommends: That home place of greater capacity than Castle Harden be provided for the reception of immigrants, located Somewhere upon New York Harbor, that all regular lines of interior transportation be allowed to Imre agents at the place so provided, who may sell tickets uader regulations prescribed to secure equal privileges to ail. and prevent abuses: that the payment of commissions for the rooting of immigrants, and for procuring the shipment of immigrants from foreign countries, be declared illegal and be made punishable, and that the commission be authorized to prescribe fares for the transportation of this class of passengers. * ENGLAND AND GERMANY. A Sensation Crated in London by the Pub. tieatlon of a Semi-Official Note l a Iterliu Newspaper.. London, Dec. 1.—Quite a sensation has been caused in political circles, both here and on the continent, and wide attention attracted generally,by a semi-official note published by the Berlin press. The note contains a protest against the opposition of England to the efforts of Germany in Zanzibar. It asserts that anti-German tendencies prevail in England, and the co-operation in African schemes that might be given to Germany, is through their influence. “Germany is forced to conclude,” says the note, “that England does not (need Germany’s friendship.” Then follows what may bo looked on as a warning to tho insular power. “It is true that situations may arise in the immediate future in which England may feel the want of friendship from a Continental power; but such a condition of affairs is not impossible.” The note is hot the legitimate outdjine of a feeling that has long existed in Germany oyer the hesitation of English politicians to commit the British Government to the doubtful policy of assisting Germany to help herself to whatever benefits- the East coast of Africa may present. The ostensible object of the desired copartnership is to root out the slave trade and to make Bast Africa and Zanzibar safe for Europeans.

WILL NOT MARY FREDDIE. Mr. .Fersf j Langtry Will Not Allow l lit. 14ty to Secure » Divorce. Kbit Yoke. Dec. I.—Mr. Langtry has decided to play the part of Anna Karpina's husband. He does not want i divorce from his wife because she wants it so bad. Mr. Langtry left the Ashland House last Saturday and sailed for England. While here he became very chummy with proprietor Broekway, to whom he revealed hie identity. The two gentlemen found a bond of sympathy in the fact thntthey were Masons. Mr. Langtry was also quite friendly with two or three gentlemen with whom he “took in” several theaters. Ho made an excelent impression and, to quote the words of one who saw him, he had “perfectly lovely side-whiskers.” Mr. Langtry declared that he had no intention of permitting his wife to obtain a divorce. He thought she was far too anxious to get it. He said that he had never received one single dollar oi his wife's earnings. In fact, he conveyed the inqprassion that he had “

OiiATH OP MRS. SHERMAN.

The Wife of WGTi Sherman Fsuu Aw»T •Sk«tck of ftn Eventful Life. New York, Ifov. 29.—Mrs, FJJlen Ewins, Sherman, wife pt General W, T< Sherman, who had been^eriousiy ill a* her residence, Jig. 73 West Fifty-first street since Sunday last, died at half-past nine o’clock yesterday morning. She hiid been com* [ plaining Of Cardiac affection for tho past five years, And about three weeks ago serious symptoms began to develop. Ellen Ewing Sherman was the daughter of Hon. Thomas Ewing, who for many years represented the State of Ohio in the United States Senate, and held the offices of Secretary of tile Treasury under President W. H. Harrison and Secretary of the Interior under President Zachary Taylor. Hts daughter. Ellon, was horn at her father’s home iin Lancaster, O., in the year 1821. At an e#rly ago she made the acquaintance of William T. Sherman, and the two were constant playmates. In the year 18.17 young Sherman entered the military academy at West Point, and Miss Ewing, then a child, accompanied her father to Washington. After young Sherman had entered the army, he found opportunities of meeting his old playmate during his leaves of absence, and in 1813 . they became engaged. The marriage was to have taken place in 1819, but the outbreak of the Mexican war caused the artillery regiment in. which Sherman held a commission ns Lieutennut to be ordered to California, where he was detained by duty until 1830. In that year he obtained a leave of absence, returned in Lancaster, O., and the long-delayed marriage was celebrated. Mrs. Sherman afterwards resided in California, Louisiana and St. Louis, and during the absence of her husband with his command (luring the rebelion made her home with her father. Mrs. Sherman, since the close of the war, has resided both in Washington and St. Louis, and three years ago, after the retirement of General Sherman, the family removed to: New York, where they have jiuce made their home, first at the Fifth Vvenue Hotel,land afterward at their present resideuce. When General Sherman was appointed to the Oeneraley of tho army, he made his home in W askington, but in 1873 transferred his headquarters to St. Louis, where the family resided until 1878, when they returned to Washington. In 1880 Mrs. Sherman returned with her family to this city, re-occu pying the house No. 012 Garrison avenue, which was presented by the citizens of St. Louis to General Sherman at the close of the war. In 1883 tho family transferred their resideneo to New York, where they hare since lived. Mrs. Sherman was noted throughout tho country for the ardor and intensity of her devotion to the Roman Catholic Church, the faith to which all of her children adhere. Although suffering from ill-health for the past twenty years, she was untiring in her charities, and was recognized as one of tho best organizers of Catholic educational institutions to bo found in the country. In acknowledgment of the great services performed by her for the church, the Pope bestowed upon her the order of the Holy Rose, a distinction never before conferred upon an American. Although prevented by ill-health from taking an active part ini society, Mrs. Sherman had a host of frienkls in this city, and will be universally mourned. In spite of ill-health ,from which she has suffered for ;the past twenty-five years, Mrs. Sherman found opportunity for much literary effort, and is well-known as a writer on historical, religious and social questions. She has published a life of her father, Hon. Thomas Ewing, which is admitted to be a most valuable contribution to the history of Ohio, iu which Mr. Ewing took a very prominent part, being the acknowledged leader of the Whigs and afterwards of the Republicans. Some eight years’ago she published a brochure upon a book written by Willian Herrmann entitled “The Dance of Death,” indorsing the views expressed by him in regard to round dances, which Mrs. Sherman always strongly reprobated. This pamphlet excited widespread attention, and was ro published in England and translated into French. Mrs. Sherman was often a contributor to Catholic magazines, and her articles were widely read. She also furnished much assistance to her husband in the compilation of his meifloirs. Her interest iu politics was Very keen, she being a Republican of, the most radical type, and a dreaded antagonist in controversy. THE OYSTER WAR. The Maryland Aulhorlltol are Uulag to Prosecute It (a Real Earnest. Raltimour, Md„ Nor. 30.--War in earnest will begin on the Chesapeake Bay iu a day or two. The Board of Public Works intend to use the most vigorous measures in [suppressing illegal dredging and the consequent despoiling of the oyster beds in the waters ia this State. The dredgers have had the upper hand this season. Their boats bristle with arms and munitions of war, and the State nary has been routed several times. Last week one of tho navy vessels suffered most inglorious defeat,, and after the battle the dredgers threw her arnis overboard and cooped her seamen up in the hold. This late humiliation aroused the State officials to the necessity of sjwedy action. They held a council of war and it was determined that tlhe dignity of the law must be upheld at any cost. Yesterday Governor Jackson and L. Victor Baughman calk'd upon Secretary Whitney of the United States Navy at Washington, and invoked Federal assistance. The Secretary promised to give them cannon in. sufficient numbers to arm all the sloqps ia the ’State navy. The three State steamers which are already supplied with heavy guns will saii from this port early this morning under sealed orders. That they are going to fight it taken for granted, but their objective point is, of course, a matter of speculation. It is believed., however, that when the seals are broken it Will be found that they are directed to proceed to- the Choptank river where the pirates are gathered in great force.

The Ste inner Tanrou»r S»f» In Vart. Halifax, N. 8., Nov. 29.—The steam Vancouver, from Liverpool, for whose safety alarm has been felt, arrived yesterday. Comxbenoable Zeal. New Yoirk, Nov. 80.—A n ember of copies of Kola’s book, “La Terre and Nana,” consigned to New York publishers, were seized by the customs authorities yesterday as obscene literature, and therefore forfeitable. A lurgo consignment of obscene cigar-holders and finger rings was also seized. Senator Morgan Montgomery, Ala.. Nov. 29.—The Legislature in joint session yesterday, declared John T. Morgan re-elected to the United States Senate for She term beginning in March next. Banning the BSe«Jt*«Ir nt Pori-no-Prlne*. Washington, Nov. 39.—The Secretary of State has received a telegram from CapeHaytien, stating that in spite of tho blockade dleclared by the provisional government at Port-acPriuee against that port, several ships have entered, among others the Golman steamer HoLatia, on the 22d host., which loaded ten thousand bags pf coffee, and the German steamer Creman, which entered on the 87th, and landed a cargo from Europe.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL* —Education must embrace a knowledge of God and a knowl. dge of his law, which teaches all that is known of truth and justice.—School Journal. —By desiring what is perfectly good, eron when wo do not quite know what it is, and can not do what we would, wo are part of the divine power against evil, widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.—George Eliot. —A clear head, a keen penetration enriched with the stores of an ovorflow. ing memory; a happy way of putting things, rising at times to sheer brilliancy of statement; a poetic insight, a gifted imagination—these mental graces crown and clothe our personality with strength

ana power. —Read the Bible when you are fresh and wide awake; wljen the brain is clear and you are not pressed for time. Head it as the only book on earth that has dropped down from Heaven, as, your directory for life and your guide to immortality, and it will becomo a new book to you altogether.—Jtec. J. 'Ttutin Davidson. , ‘i} —Bring thy children up in learning and obedience, yet without outward austerity. Give them good counte- v nance and convenient maintenance ao ' cording^tQ thy ability; otherwise thy life will seem their bondage, and what portion thou shalt leave them at thy death, they will thank death for it, and not thee. —Lord Burleigh. —Sin is a very simple word, but it is a very awful thing. . A little child could spell the word; but no one, not even tho angels that dwell in Heaven, could explain tho thing, or tell the evils it haa wrought. It is a deadly-tree, whoso fruit and whose shadows have filled tho world, and from which everybody haa suffered.—Our Young People. —Tho man who has a good round income and fares sumptuously every day, and clothes himself and family in tho finest material, and spends hundreds of dollars annually in recreation and pleasure, and then gives only #5 for benevolent purposes, calling it tho widow’s mite,” by way of apology, must bo sadly lacking in self-respect, .to say nothing about religious principle.— Christian Advocate. -Our public schools are organizQil—_ and maintained to fit the child for tho fulfillment of his duty as a citizen. But duty is founded on obligation, and obligation on justice. Now, justice is tho basis of morality, and, joined with truth, gives us all that is known as religion. Society depends for its existence on truth and justice. 4 Education must therefore embrace both, if civilized society is to exist and civilized government to endure. —Wo all have our weak points, but there are few of us who have not also our strong points. God has not overlooked any one of us. There is no personality framed entirely out of weaknesses. We all have been given our talents. It is those in which our main strength lies. Whatever of power and influence—whether for good or evil—wo ayquire over our fellows, is by the use 1 of our personality. And tho strength of our personality is its gifts and graces.—& £. Times. Jj WIT AND WISDOM. —A man of sense finds much less diffleulty in submitting to ono who is wrong-headed than in attempting to set him right —Don’t despise systems of thought that other men have elaborated because you can not place yourself at once at their point of view. —Men get into grooves of working and thinking so.that they bocomfc almost automatic. And the tendency is, when a habit is formed, for one to yield more and more to its influence. It is specially true of a bad habit. —Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and tho brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.—Colton. —Perfect freedom is perfect knowledge of and perfect obedience to perfect j law. There can bo no freedom without J law, without obedience to law. Evl habit takes away freedom. Conditions J surround us that make freedom of the body possible. Remove these conditions and freedom is no longer ours.— The Advance. i

—Our accomplishments are an element of personal strength and power. There is a measure of truth in the assertion: “Give a boy address and aoconhplishments, and you will give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them; they solicit him to enter Times. -A life and earth would have under their feet; a clerk’s desk; a life spent in the narrow shop; a life spent in the^ laborer’s hut may yet be a life so ennobled by tiod's mercy that for the sake of it a king might gladly yield hi* crown.—(kso* Farrar. —The besetting sin of most impatience; unwillingness to wait their experience bears fruit, or L thought has traversed the whole of fact, before arriving at a final elusion. This has always been the setting sin of men. They have constituted themselves arbiters and sat in judgment on the universe wh~ knowledge included only a and very small field.— —I hold that every rich bring his son up to a trade business training as he hims ed. 1 count it as one of the of demoralization in civ young men going down morning (if noon may I tog) in their* door of to play, T*