Pike County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 41, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 February 1889 — Page 1

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VKOrESSIONAL CARDS. E. A. ELY, Attorney at Law, PETERSBURG, I.ND. OBoe: Over J. K Adams A Son's Drat Store. He ls> also a member of the C elled State* Colleetion Association, and gives prompt attention to every matter tu which he la employed. C. P. RlCHARObON. A. H. TaVLO*. j RICHARDSON & TAYLOR. Attorneys at Law, j PETERSBURG, I.VR Prompt attention glvet^ to all business. A | Notary Public constantly in the oittce. Uflleo to Carpenter Bunding. ~«»i and Mala. 4. W. WILSON, Attorney at Law, j PETERSBURG, IND.

iVOflce: Orer J. 11 Voting & Co.’* Store. L II. LaMARR, Physicfan and Surgeon v i .1 PETERSBURG. ISP., Will prar-tice in Pike and adjoining roun »rra ilBIco: Montgomery'* budding. 0®c« *’ Jumr* day and night of women taJ children * apeclalty. I'hruDir un.l difficult raao» solicited 1IKNKV FIELDS “ Insurance & Real Estate , ACiKNT, PLTERSBURIi, : : INDIANA. j i Leading ccrmpunie* n;pr**entrl Prompt at . trutioa Notary hu*»tn<**«b attroiknl i ta K* ai^nabi*? ratrs. Oftk**: liank Hu>Mtnf. EDWIN smith. . 1 ATTORNEY AT LAW, • §A'"Real Estate Agent PETERSBURG. - INDIANA Office, over Uus^rMlX More. "p* t al ut •nation given to Coltortioo*. Buyln - an*l "Mill Ink E&amtmag Ulles an 4 Karnuiliing Abunicis. It It K1MK. M. L>., Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, IND, 'Office: In Hank Huiltlla* waklenc* on Seventh Street, thiee square* south of MaIq. ; Call* promptly ittouM t«. d*r or tftigut i J. 11. DUNCAN. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG. . IND. nmr* on Aral noor Cnrprotoc Building. El. J. HARRIS,

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THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of tha Dally News. CiUOtUUONAL Yr* Senate on the Hkh. After tending a nnutst to the House he return the Direct Tu trtlt. took up-Senator Halnirrs coacurrent raeoluttou IhatikitK; the Governor end peek#) of Michigan tor the statue of LeeiiSut. After eulogies of General Casa Vy several Senator* the resolutions *ert adopted unanimously. The credentials of Senator Colquitt for hla new term ween presented and Bled, and Senator Cufoto, from the Committee on Territories mported the House Oklahoma MU. A minority report was aubusitted by Senators Butler and Platt. The Senate then resumed consideration of the Texas Flection resolution, and Senator Odts concluded Ms remarks. The Sundry Civil Appropriation hilt »aa reported and the bill to provide for taking tko eleventh census passed. After transacttng routine ami unimportant business the House took up the California election contest e» frilUrmn against Felton. Ftlibosterir.^ immedi ately commenced and petu5‘f.g efforts to secure • quorum Um Rovsw »t1}ourn.cU. Is* thft Smtd on the 19Ui the credentials * of Senators Berry and Harris were present** •ltd fled. Senator Hoar, from the OuaffJWiJt on Elections reported seeera! (to he laid m tablet (w a gCheral inquiry Into recent O-‘tvens to t nutMaha and ether States and nn ortglniii iwolutlon making an inresttga lion of rteetioat to the Fifty llrsl Congreaa to report In December. Senator Saulsbury. fi r the minority, dissented. The Senate then eonatd ■ ered Senator Vests miloo to reconsider the vote on the conference report on the Direct Tmi bill, which did not prevail, and the Sundry I C.vtl bill was considered until adjournment... The House took up the FostofBc* App-opria j tlon bill but it was laid aside to receive the con- I terrace report on the Direct Tux bill. A dead lock ensued and the report was temporarily i withdrawn. An evenid?session was h»M tor considering buemesa reported bjr the Committee on Indian Affairs. After lh« disposition of resolutions nod motions of minor importance the Senate on the i Sith further considered tbo Sundry Civil bit* I l’endlag cooti-ltiaUpu the BOaftfahct report ; "O the Tarrltortat A dm is>K*e bill was presented I and dually agreed tu. As agreed to the wll ailmI is North Dakota. South Oskola Montana and Washington upon 1 tMditSu BieuiKvned. The Direct Tax bill was received from the House.

*igwa anil feta to me cresMcnl Wfiec the Houv met me roate«t ov»r the IVin-ct Tr.» bill »a» renewed. and after n tong debate the eonfrrence report w»» finally e-reed to. The ooa Terence report on the Territorial Admission tall ■ admitting North and South lukot* Montana anil IVashlhgtcmi »u* agree-1 uk T*e Post ofllee blit w»» further coesl.Ir rid. At the evening session the ealaeidr was cleared of a lar0--' j nutoberof le :*l ahd private bills, Iw the Senate on the -1 *t a resolution War introduced tor the arreet of Thotnks D. Plater, an employe of the Supervising Arch! ; tcct a office who had rvfw*td to answer certain . questions a* a wife*at before the Commute 1 on l*uj^e I .arils and Building*. It «m laid nver.^Pse Committee oa Indian Affair* re ported a bill to pay the Seminole Indiana Pl.Hlt 9** for aU their righia to landa In the Indlai Teirllory. The Texas Kiectioa tnvea ligation resolution was debate I awblw and the Sundry Civil bill taken «p, ia« debate being continued until id)>urtitteM In the House Mr RanuaU offered a resolution tor amending the ruler ir as to prevent filibuster : ing on ihe t.\»*tva bill i repealing the tag on i toh» ro. tt.', which w»a referred. The Poal- ! ofltee Appropriation bill wat further eonaidered : and final v phased The conference report on ! the I.<ygfs%,l.ve bill waa agreed to and the i DeSeloncy MU considered until adjournment. Artio iisdonfojf of business of littht I general tmtvrianre on th< «d the Scnaft again took up the Sundry Civil hill the pending quev [ Uon being on Senator Hiscock's amendment appropriating PSrvOi for the expenseaof thy ! relebrwltor, of the eenlennialof iheConsiSktion. Senator lloar offered a substitute. which waa i agreed to, declaring April 30, issimhe anmvers- | ary of the inauguration of Washington) a Na tiooal holiday and providing for the usaemblmg of Congress in the hall of the House of Representatives <* ihe second Wednesday in December !*-» to appropriately celebrate the event. The bill fin ally passed and the Agricultural Appropriation bill was taken up and passed. The ! Senate got into a tangle on Senator iloar a rr*-> j lutiun for an investigation of etecuoa outrages ■ in certain States and Snally found itself j without a quorum... In the House Mr. Mills : railed up bis resolution touching the conslitu- | uonal right of the Senate to amend the Tariff bill ! by way of a substitute bui the House refused to j consider It, and Mr. Randall, from the Commit- ! tee on Rules reported a resolution for amending the rules and it was adopted. The bill pen- i stonipg the widow of General Shcndan was ' amen »d so as to reduce the pension to »,*. v»> . and passed. The btll for the retire went of Gen- ; era! Rose-mas uith Ihe rank of Brigadier I Genera! occasioned a lively debate but pasted. IVndmg consideration of the Deficiency bill the House a fourued.

WASHINGTON N'OTKS. Tbe Court of Otiuit has (itsn juigment for tUWJ.SlT in furor of the Central j Paciftc Railroad Company in its suit ; iisinit the United States for withheld dividend*. Tbe House Committee on Indian Affair* ha* agreed to re|mrt favorably w-.thout amendment the Senate hill providing for the cession of Creek ludian laud* to the Government. Tar President and Mr*. Cleveland were entertained at dinner on the night of the l»th by Secretary of the Interior and Mr*. Vilas The occatiou marked the last of the handsome series of Cabinet dinner* of the present season. Thk Secretary of State has been informed ' that a supplementary tr eaty of coturner- : dal amity and navigation between the United S ates and Japan was signed in Japan on the 20th. WiluaE W a RRER. Commander-In-Chief U. A. H, was baui|ueted at the Hotel Normandie, Washington, on the 20th by the officers and mciuliers of, the Department of the Potomac. The affair «*i brilliant <utd largely attended. Thk President has signed tbe Nicaragua Canal bilk. Ji-PUE Grisham of tbe United Stater Circuit Court, has at>|K>inted a receiver for the St. Louis & Chicago and the Mount Olive Railroad Companies of Illinois. The Foreign Kelat.on* Committee has reported back the petition of Louis Schilling with a recommendation that it lie on the table. Schilling asserted that he had been thrust into prison and maltreated by tbe Mexican authorities. The effect of the committee’s recommendation will be tc dispose of the case entirety. LuratXAKT La* DOS P, Joe ITT has beep dismissed from the United States navy with one year’s pay. It was teported at Washington on thr ->:h that a demand would be made by Germany for tbe punishment of Klein, tbe newspaper correspondent whom the Germans asserted Id the Samoan* to attack the German forces last December. Tbe Secretary‘of the Navy has contract *d with M- E. Pickering & Co, of New York, for the delivery of 2.COO tons of coal at the Ujiited States coaling station at Pago Pago. Samoa, at the late of flSil per ton. Repkerextatite O’Doxrelu of Michigan, presented in the House recently an enormous petition against the Sunday Best bill, which bore the signatures of SfckOOO Seventh Day Adventists in nil parts of the country. Tee ITesident has vetoed the bill forth* relief ol! settlers oa the D< s Moines rivsc lands. Dr. D. W. Buss, who attended President Bard eld during his illness, died at Washington on i he 22 J. Tbe last reception of President Cleveland was given nt the White House on the night oit the 21st and was attended by an jmmhn»i» aMtll'b'tffC. The President on the 22d signed the bill admitting Washington, Montana and North and South Dakota as four new States into the Union. Cuxrumt of an unjust discrimination In rales against the city of Memphis have bean died with the Inter-State Commerce Commission by the Memphis Freight Bureau against the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railway Company and the Southern Railway and Steamship A'to

Wak east. UU. Sabah K HiraTif, of Newton, Mats., has obtained a verdict for 16.006 aKsiott irba Michigan Cent ral railway for injuries In Sh accident. . ,, dVsrix Joxita, ooco publisher of th« Cleveland Ueiald and later an editor an4 publisher of Boston, dfod at Cromwell, Conn., recently, aged seventy-four. esoaua Surra, aged sixty, foreman of a rang of laborers execrating for flats in Now York City, was blown to pieces recently by the explosion of fif .een pounds of dynamite lit the loot box. BLAXKKKhrhh ft OOs large importing hottse and oth er firms were burned Out dt Philadelphia on the 19tb. The loss foot el up to nearly half a million. I By the supposed eiplostou of the boilers of the Park Central Hotel at Hartford. Cefth., on the morning of tbe ISth tee building was wrecked. The ruins took fire and a disastrous loss of life occurred. Sliny hi* the bodies of the dead were recovered and eearch was continued for tbe missing. It was believed that twenty persons perished, about that nmmbCr being injured. It Is kflfBed that an intimation has Hen made to the members of the Brotherhood of Locomotire Eog.11.eers in the employ of the Reading Railroad Company that it was desired by the company that they should either quit the brotherhood or the company. Fum at Itiegelsville, Pa., early the other morning destroyed an entire block, ‘causing ilo.ox! loss. Edward Dhows, aged twenty-eight, and Alfred Hallman, aged eighteen, were Struck by a train and both Instantly kilted at Allentown: Fa , recently. Ji’hoa C.aUk JiLt-SOlf, of the First Southern Worcester (Mass ) district court, has closed his inquest on the body of I.illa Hoyle, begun nearly., a year and a half ago. His re turn is as follows: ‘‘BAe came *c bet death as the result of the unlawful act of some persou other than herself.” A DTXAxrnc bomb was thrown into the Weeleyan College building at NewMiddietown. Conn., recently by some foolhardy student Doors and windows were shattered end a son of ex-Congressman Hubbsrd, of West Virginia, Was seriously In

TIIK WIBSTi Tits tonventiou of the American Tariff Reform A-sociatloa began at th-> Madison Street Theater, Chicago, on the 19th. The secretary road a letter from President Cleveland. Thi election for the Ute Congressman Hornes' teat in ihe Fourth d strict of Mis* iohri came off on the 19th. Returns indicated the eloctioa of Booher and Wilson, Democrats, fot the short and long terms over Fosegate, Republican. Bisaor G 1. Bbpell. of the Protestant Rpiscopal diocese of Northern Ohio, who has bean 111 for over a year, has been stricken with paralysis at Nice, France, J. tt. BaCLSBCRT, a Chicago letter carrier, has been arrested and has confessed having opened a letter containing a draft, forged the layer’s name and secured the money. Congressman Laird, of Nebraska, expects to bo abls to go to Washington shortly, his illness having almost worn off. fLATHEAO Indians In Flathead Lake valley, above Helena. Mont, were reported threatening grave trouble because J. F. Clifford, of Demosville, killed one of their number. It was reported that Clifford and one other had teen killed. Thi Myers Opera House at Janesville, Via. the handsomest theater in Wisconsin ontalde of Milwaukee, was destroyed by Are. Lots, *<U,OUO; insurance, $5,<X*X. Fovn Sun Francisco policemen have been indicted for receiving bribes from keepers of Chinese gambling dens. A cable car containing scores of passengers Urns struck square in the middle the other night at Chicago by a locomotive amlc hurled at least oue hundred feet Only one person, a woman, was fatally injured. Charles J. Hclu a Chicago millionaire, left |i.is enjt-re estate to his housekeeper, Helen Culver. He had no direct heirs, but his next of! kin will contest the will. The Inter-State Commerce Railway Association (the ‘‘gentlemen's agreement”) was organised at Chicago on the SlsL Considerable skepticism existed as to its continuance. The membership is composed of eighteen out of twenty-two Western roads. t t While two girls. Millie and Winnie Peter si n. were returning from school recently in the northern part of Aitkin County. Hiun . they were attacked and completely devoured by timber wolves a few scattered i-mes and shreds of clothing alone remaining as the horrible testimony of the children's fate. A gen VINE blnssrd ragod in Dakota and Mirnesotn to as far south as Kansas and Missouri on the 21st and 221. Forty-eight children ranging in age from eighteen months to three years died in and about. Watmjhlnd.. in tbepisttwo. weeks fr- m iLplifherTS-'and membranous iroup. Not a victim • cap it James M. Lane, ccuuty treasurer of Pickaway County, U, has absconds i with defalcations reported, tuun n • a 1 the way up to llUti.M He wits a patron of bucket shop*. There will be no war between citizens and ha't-breeds iu Koliette County. Dak. The entire matter of taxing the half-biesds has been submitted to Ihe Government and both parties seem iudined to abide the decision. , A warrant was is ued at Indianapolis, lot. on Iks Id for the arrest of Colonel W. W. Dudley, of the Republican National Committee, Miss Minnie Marne ales » young lady of Norwalk, O , died in a dentist'.- chair the other day. She had taken chloroform pre paralloi y to having her teeth drawn, and it caused her heart to cease beating.

TUX SOUTH. It was rumorv ] on Os l'Jsh that the arrest of the persons srho plannej and aided in the assassination of Hon. John M. Clarion at F' ummervil'e, Ark., would toon be accomplished. One of tbe suspected parties belonged to a family whose reputation extends beyond the limits of Arkane sas. lying well known throughout the country. Tux New Orleans cotton palace, built by tbs Indies’ Charitable Aid Association, was opened to tbe public recently by Governor Nichols, Mayor Shakspeare and Judge C, E. Fenner. Tub special session of the Florida Legislature adjourned on the SJth, after having passed the committee substitute for tbe Senate bill instituting a Stats Board of Health. Tub Chattanooga and theGraat Memorial Universities will le consolidated, the Chattanooga University being made the main aud the Grant Memorial the preparatory institution, both under the name of the'Giant Memorial University. lx Webster Comity, Ky.. spinal meningitis has caused nearly titty deaths, and so far only two persons .have recovered, one totally blind nnd the other a cripple for life. TBS crisis in ths West Virginia Legislature ended on the 21st by the re-election of Kenua for the United States Senate, Dorr being Anally induced to forego his astipiibyFhue iu Norfolk. Vs., early the other morning destroyed two dry goods houses and a huge stock of lumber, causing *50,000 loss. D. H Surra, a negro who had been inducing hands to leave the vicinity of Artesia. Miss., for Arkansas, was hanged recently by unknown persons. Tn thirteenth anniversary of the Johns Hopkias University was celebrated at Baltimore, Md., on the 23d by addressee frem Prfsi.leot Gilman, Prof. Adapts aid Mr. ^ laa-Mcfcar* Jr,

—— *t!rt»Of»a« bayesAnHs despit* recent marked i tn Knights of Pythias calibrated the twenty-firth anniversary of the founding of their order on the 19lh with demonstration s ia moat of the cities of the country. Jay Gorus, on account of ill health, has retired from the directorship of the Dele* ware, Lackawanna & Western. Tn* Rothschilds propose to tom a list* lied liability company iq England to ifrurfc the great ruby niines in Bitrmah. The Effbl toner la Paris lit* reached A height of 989 feet And will be completed td 1,000 feet in a fortnight Tn* report that Herr Braadeis, the adviser of King Tamasese of Bamoa. has been recalled to Berlin has been confirmed. Gladstone left Cannes on the 19th for London with his health better than for a longtime. Th* reception given to Sir R. Dt Moriea, the British Ambassador, at St Petersburg was attended by the Caar and Cxarina, who were accompanied by imposing suites. Twenty Russiau Grand Outer and tho Grand Duke of Hesse were also present Puxiusn MaCDonalD, of Canada, de* tties positively that there is any Intention to Urge the British authorities to send a member of the royal family to Canada this summer to Counteract the annexation agitation Ir is talk among railroad employes that the Rock 1 -land will soon change the runs of conductors, and continue to db so at least four times a year, to prevent their becoming t» well acquainted with the traveling public. Th* Germans in Samoa were reported to be furious over the escape of the Atnericau (Klein' to Sun Francisco. It is claimed in Berlin the white book contains evidence enough to coaTict Klein of repeated acts of overt hostility to Germany and the naval forces at Sam 'sTus British ship St. Joseph, which left i England for New York October 8 last with twenty-six men on board, has been given up for lost. Lr*c W. Kherson, the Missouri hors* denier who recently whit* drunk shot into j a crowd in 1.onion, Eng., and killed a matt named Robinson, has been committed tn take his trial for murder. Ukrhan papsrs assert that Kten, the American who is charged by Germany with having led the Mataafaites in Samoa when the Germans were repul-ed in December last, Was, born at Lahr, and serve 1 as a sergeant in the German army during the Ftanco-Prussiaa war. He was, so it is stated, subsequently compelled to leave Germany and went to America. TH* Spanish mail steamer Isle de Cuba, plying between Spaih and Cuba, has been Wrecked off Corunna ahd Is a total lots. All the officers, crew and passengers were saved. M. Tirard has formed a new French Cabinet, with De Freycinet for Minister of War. Tn* British Parliament assembled on tbe 21st The Queen's speech contained nothing of especial moment Th* much talked-of Parnel l letters were produced in court by the witness, Richard Pigott. on the 2lst Cardinal Newman observed the eightyeighth anniversary of his birth on th* 22d by celebrating a Pontifical high mass. James C. Flood, the California millionaire, died at Heidelberg, Germany, on tho 23d. The Austrian Government has expeltev M. Fiiion, the correipoudenli of the Haras news agency, of Paris. The Emperor of Austria purposes to grant a general amnesty to political of* fenders as a tribute to the lake Crown Prince Rudolph. Avalanches in Switserland recently destroyed many houses and caused a number of dr aths. General Master Workman Powdkr.lv. of the Knights of Labor, has issued hi* second call within a year for per capita contributions from members of tbe order. Febrcart 2 a great fire broke ont ia Shidsnoki, Japan, extending dowu streets and destroying 1,009 houses, Including temples, schools and hospitals. On the following day fire at Yokosuka ruined 500 houses and burned to death three men. Oi the same day ten houses were destroyed at Joshuia and fifteen at Toklo. The birthday of \Vashington was celebrated on the 221 by * general cessation of business in financial quarters. At th* celebration at Chicago Henry W. Darling, of Toronto, advised against the agitation of any annexation schema bat spoke favorably of unrestricted reciprocity, i) Fot R German ironclads at Genoa hava been ordered to sail for Samoa immediately. Max Bernstein, a candidate for th* i flic* of Rabbi, has bee* sentenced in Berlin to imprisonment for thine month* fee drawing blood from a Chrisiian boy.

THE LATEST. Is the Senate, on the 33d, almoet the entire day was devoted to the discussion of the resolution for the investigation of election outrages in various States. Mr. Gorman moved that the resolution.which, he said, was purely political in its nature, and could accomplish no good, be postponed until Monday. The motion was rejected by a strictly party vote, and Mr. Daniel addressed the Senate in opposition to the resolution, taking the ground that since the exercise of State’s rights had restored the Republicans to power in spite of a popular majority for the Democratic candidates, they should be contented to leave the Sonthern States to the uninterrupted enjoyment of those rights. Mr. Hoar called attention to the recent assassination of a Republican contestant for a seat in Congress, and quoted Genral Sheridan as declaring that more Republicans had been murdered in the State of Louisiana alone for their political opinions than had fallen in battle on both sides in the Mexican war. The charge was not that Louisiana had dons wrong; but was suffering wrong..In the House, the day was devoted to a discussion of the Deficiency Appropriation bill and to eulogies on the lale James S. Barnes. It is probable that a new election will be ordered to fill the seat in the British Parliament left vacant by llr. GentDa vu, who was recently disqualified because of certain business irregularities. Father Btemuus, of Dublin, was again arrested on the 31th, for advising his heavers, in a sermon, to adhere to the nlan of camoaictko The Radical Congress held in Brussels, on the 34th, passed resolutions supporttng the scheme for military education and demanding the abolition of the conscript taws. It Is believed that additional documents possessed by Archbishop Walsh and others have been sent to London to he used in connection with the further crossexamination of the witness Piggott. Tan Chinese Minister and suite arrived in Washington from Havana by tfcs fastmall train of the Atlantic Coast line, on the 33d. Thebe was a meeting of prominent civil-service reformers in Baltimore, Md., on the 23d. A series of ringing resolution* expressive of their views on the subject were passed, a copy of which was ordered to be sent to Preeident-elect Harrison. The private train carrying Presidentelect Harrison and his party to Washington lsft Indianapolis on tbs 35th. Darr h, the robber and murderer, was guillotined at Hamburg; German^ on the *«h. , THE last of thp large castings lor the hail of the United States cruiser San Francisco—the portstrut, weighing $M,900 pounds—was completed on the {tth. We Biuaia, of Rockbum, ». T, was ^ Ida horygv' feet by the

TALMAGE’S SEE HON; —- The Impassable, the Unfa! ratable, the Insurmountable Questions Which Xeither Scleu* Nor IUsf rtiMlon (u Answer. But . It Will Be Made Clear Amid the II an* ttful Music of Hears i> ReT. f. Da Witt Tfilmage hi it for thS subject of a recent sermou at ‘ ic Brooklyn Tabernacle “Dark Sayiia: i oti the | Harp.’’ HU text was: I 1 will open my dark sayings if a harp.— I Psalm kite A t The world is full of the inexp cable, the 1 impassable, the unfathomable the insurI mountable. We can not go the e steps in | any direction without coming 1; 1 against a I hard wall of mystery, riddles, aradoxes, I profundittes. labyrinths, pro' ems that j we can not solve, hieroglyph’ 5 that we can not decipher, anagrams e can not spell out, sphinxes that will not speak. For that reason, Darid in »,* test pro* poses to take lip some of till sd sombef and dark things, and try to !t them to sweet music: “I will open m. dark sayings on a harp-.** Bo 1 look off upon society, at 1 find people tn unhappy conjunction f circumstances, and they do not kn w what it means; and they have a right ask: Why is thUf and why is that t A d I think I Mill be doing a good work by I! ring to explain some of these strange liiugs, and make you more content wi’ your lot; and t shall only be answeriu questions that have often been asked m or that we have all asked ourselves, <1 ile 1 try to set these mysteries to music 11 d open my dark sayings on a harp. Interrogation the first: W v does God

ful and whom we can not ape alive and in good Ubalth so at only a ntiisauce or a positive world? I thought I would be very toughest of alt the seer tables. Many of the most Us take ont of this world those v »o are nse- } and leave ny who are jjury to the ,n With the ng inseru* ul men and womeu die at thirty dr forty ’ars of age, While you often fiud useless at sixty and seventy and <? Careless wrote to Bradford, to l>e put to death, saying:: God suffer me and such othe to live that can do nothing the alms of the church, an so many worthy works Lord’s vineyard?” Similar often asked. Here are tw» i is a noble character and a C he chooses for a lifetime fro who has been tenderly rdflr-t worthy of him and he is wor merchant, or farmer, or pro* or mechanic, or artists, he to and rear his children; he is h he has not established for competency; he seems abpensable to that household, before he has paid off fthe his house, he U coming ho strong northeast wind, and through hbii, and four days end his earthly career, and children go into a struggle t food. His next-door neigh who, though strong and wel support him; he is round r store or some general loafl: evenings while his wife si are imitating his example and swagger, and swear: that man is in the house cause the coffee is cold wk i leople alive ;hty. John 10 was soon ‘Why doth caterpillars it cousume take away n in the •estions are ■w, The one istian man; pauiotl one , a ad she is y or her; as :sioual man, .8 to educate ■ceeding.but tis family a utely indisut one day, lortgagc on e through a chill strikes ' pneumonia hfr wife and shelter ani »r is a man lets his wife the grocery place in the s; his boys and lounge, all the nse s to rave be* he comes to a late breakfast, or to say itting things about his wife’s looks Whi: nothing for her wardrobe, that could happen to that'! that man’s funeral: bul die; he lives on. and on,: have all noticed that mac: are early cut off while the ciety have great vital ten: 1 take ttp this dark say and give three or four strings in the way of sum fill guessing. Perhaps t was taken out of the world his family were so constr could not have endured si perity that might have 6 and they altogether mighl in the vortex of worldlir ‘ year swallows up ten 13 holds. And so he wee. humble and consecrate, by the severities of lil Christ and fitted for uspJ: high seats in Heaven, an at last before the thro: knowledge: that, though t hot, it purified them, an for an eternal career of g for which no other kind fitted them. On the oth« less man lived to fifty, c: ty years, because all the have he must have in thi ought not, therefore, b earthly longevity. In a! has not a single loafer There is no place for hi) around. Sol in the ten full of the most Yigorou: turous worship. Not or for that is the place whe recline. Not in the gat ‘ are multit udes entering, that at each of the twe: an angel, and that cele not allow the place to In idlers. If the good and rejoice far them that tl: got through with hum best is a struggle. A and the tad stay, rejoii, be ont in the world’s many years before the!:: tion. Interrogation the se>: many good people have he furnishes The best thing nily would be e declines to d on. So we >f the useful rasites of so* ty. * on my harp irums on the iag and hope- » useful man jecause he and ted that they le great pros* ?n just ahead, are gone down 3 which every usand housewhile he was and they wero kept close to ness here and then they meet . they will afr- » furnace was prepared them try and reward life could have land, the useiixty, or sevenise he ever can vorld, and you rudge Mm his the ages there .tered Heaven, there to hang es, for they are ilert and raphe river bank, the conquerors . because there id we are told gates there is al guard would Hacked up with seful go early, j have so soon life, which at if the useless that they may reah air a good Inal incarcera- | sickness, bankruptcy, three black vultures i;H their fierce beaks into < nerves? 1 think now o; once had. He was a cor man, an elder in the d: ished a Christian gv walked Broadway. i: health gave out and he a cane, aa old iaa at ;£ paralysis struck him. health been compelet business., he lost what Then his beautiful dae son became hopeless other son, splendid <r man ding of presence would t ake care of his but under the swoop Fernaniina, Fip., he So you know good m. have haul enough trot las, you think, to crash fifty people. No orldly- philosophy could take such a ti ble and set it to music, or play it on riolin, or flute, oi dulcimer, or sackbut, it 1 dare to open that dark saying on s os pel harp. Ton wonder that v - consecrated pete pie have trouble? 3 l you ever knou id: Why do so o much trouble; ersecution, the uetimes patting > set of jangled a good friend I crated Christian ch and at polleman as ever at his general >bbled around on ty. After awhile Having by poor .uddenly to qnit roperty he had. ter died. Then a demented. Anmind and cornresolved that he xher’s household, ! yellow fever at uddenly expired, i and women who any very consecrated bad not had great tre or woman who >le! Never. It was through their trouble sancifled that they If you find any t who has now and were made very goc where in this city a n always has had perf ; health, and neve; lost a child, and has#.: ravs been popular, and never bad basic s struggle or misfortune, who is diet jnished for goodness, pull your wire senger boy and sen; drop every thing an look at him. There: r a telephone i ae word and I will go right away t« rer has been a man like that, and neve will be. Who an those arrogant, se! who move about w others, and who i Bernard dog, or ai a Southdown sb •hire pig than never had any >nceiled creatures ont sympathy foi it more of a St Alderney cow, oi p, or a Berka man? They le. or the troqjjU Who are those *y«i m

tell them of coffering anti who have a pathos in tlieir voice anti a kindness in their maimer, and an excuse or an alleviation for those gone astray? They are the den who have graduated at the Roiral Academy of Trouble, and they have the diploma written in wrinkles oa their own countenances. My! my! what heartaches they had! Wuat tears they have wept! What injustice they have suffered! The mightiest influence for purification and salvation is trouble. No diamond fit for a Crown until it is cut. No wheat fit for bread till it is ground. There are only tltree things that can break off a chain—a hammer, a file or a fire; and trouble is all three of them. The greatest Writers, orators and reformers get much Of their force from trouble. What gave to Washitj|toa Irving that exquisite tenderness and pathos which will make his books favorites while the English language continues to be written and spoken? An early heartbreak that he never ouce mentioned; and whou, thirty years after the death of Matilda Koffman, who was to have been his bride, her father picked np a jjjeoe of embroidery j and said l “That is a piece of poor Maj tilda’a workmanship,” Washington Irvj Ing sank front hilarity into silence and walked away. Out of that lifetime grief the great author dipped his pen’s mightiest reinforcement. “Calvin’s Institutes of Religion,” than which a more wonderful book was never written by human hand, was begun by the author at twentyfive years of age, because of the persecution by Francis. King of France. Faraday toiled for all time on a salary of eighty pounds a year aud candles. As every brick of the wall of Babylon was stamped with the letter N, standing for Nebuchadnezzar, so every part of the 'temple of Christian achievement is ' stamped with the letter T, Standing for ; trouble.

\t hen m olden time a man was to be honored with knighthood, he was struck with the flat of the sword. But those who have come to the honor of loaighthood in the kingdom of tied were first struck not with the flat of the sword but with the keen edge of the eimeter. To build his magnificence of character, Patti could not hare spared one lash, one prison, one stoning, one anathema, one poisonous riper from the hand, one shipwreck. ! What is true of iudiridmils is true of I nations. The horrors of the American i revolution gave this country this side of the Mississippi river to fade- | pendence, and the conflict between Ens | gland and France gave the most of this | country west of the Mississippi to the United States. France owned it, but JiapoleoUt fearing that England would take it, practically made a present; to the United States—for the received only £15.000,000—of Louisiana. Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, ] Minnesota, Colorado. Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and the Indian Territory. Out of the fire of the American revolution came this country east of the Mississippi, out of the European war came that west of the Mississippi river. The British Empire rose to its presen t overtowering grandeur through gunpowder plot, and t Guy Fawkes' conspiracy, and Northamp* j ton insurrection, and Waiter Raleigh’s beheading, and Bacon’s bribery, and | Cromwell's dissolution of Parliament, and the battles of Edge Hill, and Grantham, and Newberry, and Marston Moor, and Xasebv, and Dunbar, and [ | Sedgemoor, and execution of Charles j i the First, and London plague, and j London fire, and Loudon insurrection, and Kyehouse plot, and the vicissitudes of centuries. Bo the earth itself, before it could become an appropriate i and beautiful residence fur the human ! family had, according to geology, to be ! washed by universal deluge, and scorched ! and made incandescent by universal fires, i and pounded by sledge-hammer of ice* ! bergs, and wrenched by earthquakes that I split continents, and shaken by Volcanoes that tossed mountains, and passed j through the catastrophes of thousands of j j years before Paradise became possible j and the groves could shake out their | green banners, and the first gardeu pour I its carnage of eoior between the Gihon ' and the Hiddekel. Trouble is a good thing I I for the rocks, a good thing for nations, as j well as k good thing foy individuals. So j when you push against,me with a sharp | interrogation point. Why do the good suf* ferf I open the dark saying on a harp and, though 1 can neither play an organ, or cornet, or hautboy, or bugle, or clarionet, II have taken some lessou-rou the Gospel I harp, and. if you would like to hear me I will play you these: “Ail things work to* gether for good to those who love God.” “Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth all possible fruits of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby,” “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” What a sweet; thing is a harp, | ' and 1 wonder not that in Wales, the country of my ancestors, the i harp has become the national instrument, and that they have festivals j where great prizes are offered in thel | competition between harp and harp; or ! that weird Sebastian Eratrd was much of | his time bent over this (.-horded and viJ brating triangle, and was not satisfied until he had given it a compass of six ocI laves from E to E with all the s^ni-tones, or that when King Baal was demented the son of Jesse came before him. and patting his finger among the charmed strings of the harp.played the devil out of the crazed i monarch, or that in Heaven there shall | be harpers harping with their harps. So | I you will not blame me for opening the j dark saying on the Gospel harp: Your harps, ye treui tiling saints, Down from the willows take; Load to the praise o! love Divine Bid every string awake! j Interrogation the third: Whydidagoodl God let sin and trouble come into the world when he might have kept them out. My reply is, ho had a good reason. He had reasons that he has never given us. He had reasons which he could no more make ns understand in our finite state | than the father starting out on some great | and elaborate enterprise could make the. | two-year-old child in its armed chair i comprehend it. One was to demonstrate ] what graudenr of character may be achieved on earth by conquering evil. Had there been no evil to conquer and no trouble to console, then this universe would never have known an Abraham or a Moses, or a Joshua or an Ezekiel, or a Paul or a Christ, or a Washington or a John Mil1 ton, or a John Howard, and a million vicj tories which have been gained by the con- | secrated spirits of all ages wonld never have been gained. Had there been no battle there would have been no victory. Nine-tenths of the anthems of Heaven would never have been sung. Heaven could never have been a thousandth part ml the Heaven that it is. I will not sajr that I tun glad that sin mid sorrow did enter, but I do say that 1 am glad that after God has given all his reasons to an assembled universe He will be more honored than if sin and sorrow had never entered, and that the unfalien celestials will be ontdone, and will put down their trumpets to listen, and it will be in Heaven when those who have conquered sin and sorrow shall enter, as it would be in a small singing-school on earth if Thai berg, and Gottschalk, and Wagner, and Beethoven, and Rhein her - ger, and Schumann should all at once enter. The immortals that have been tinp ten thousand years before the throne will say, as they close their librettos: “Oh, it we could only sing like that!” But God will say to those who have never fallen and consequently hare not been redeemed: “Yon must be silent now; you have not the qualification tar thin anthem.” So they set with closed lip* «b4 folded bands, and sinners ##Tfd

by grace tare np the harmony, for the Bible says l “No man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand which were redeemed from the earth.-’' A great prima donna, who can now do any thing with her voice, told me that when she first started in music her teacher in Berlin told her she could be a good singer, but a certain note she could never reach. “And then,” she said, “I went to work and studied and practiced for years until I did reach it.” But the soug of the singer redeemed, the Bible says, the exalted harmonists who have never sinned could not reach and never will reach. Would you like to hear me in a very poor way play a snatch of that tune? I can give you only one b»r of the music on this Gospel harp; “Unto Him that hath loved Us and washed us from our sins in liis own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and the Lamb, to Him he glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.” But before leaving this interrogatory, why Go#let sin come into the world, let me say that great battles seem to be nothing but suffering and outrage at the time of their occurrence, yet after they have been a long while past we can see that it was better for them to have been fought, namely^ Salamis, lakerman, Toulouse, Arbella, Agincourt, rrafalgar. Blenheim, Lexington, Sedan. So now that the great battles against sin and suffering are going on we see mostly that which is deplorable. Bat twenty thousand years from now, standing in glory, we shall appreciate that Heaven is better off than if the battle of this world’s sin and suffering had never been projected. *

But now I come nearer home and put a dark saving on the gospel harp, a style of question that is asked a million times every year, interrogation the fourth: Why do I have it so hard while others have it so easy? Or. why do I hare so' much difficulty in getting a livelihood while others go around with a full portemonnaie? Or, why must I wear these plain clothes while others have to pnsh hard to get their wardrobes closed, so crowded are they with brilliant attire! Or, why should 1 have to work so hard while others have three hundred and six-ty-five holidays every year? They are all practically one question. I answer them by saying, it is because the Lord has His favorites and he puts extra discipline upon you, and extra trial, because He has for you extra glory, extra enthronement and extra felicities. That is no guess of mine, but a divine say-so: “Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.” “Well,” says some one, “I would rather have a little less in Heaven and a little more here. Discount My heavenly robe tea p^^at., and let me now put tt on, a fur-lined overcoat; put me iu a less gorgeous room of the house of many mansions and let me have a house here in a better neighborhood.” No, no; God is not going to rob Heaven, which is to be your residence for nine hundred quadrillion of years, to fix np your earthly abode, which you will occupy at most for less than a century, and where you may, perhaps, stay truly ten years longer, or only year, or perhaps a mouth more. Now you had better cheerfully let God have his way, for, you see, he has been taking care of folks for near seven thousand years, and knows how to doit, and can see what is best for yon better than you can yourself. Don't think yott are too significant to be divinely cared for. It was said that Diana, the goddess, could not be present to keep her temple at Ephn^us from burning, because she was attending upon the birth of him who was to be Alexander the Great. But 1 tell you that your God and my God is so great in small things as well as large things that he could attend the cradle of a babe and at the same time the burning of

And God will make it all right with you, and there is one song that von will sing every hoar of your first ten years in Heaven, and the refrain of that song will be; “lam so glad God did not let me have my onto way.” Your case will be all fixed up in Heaven and there will be such a reversal in conditions that we Can hardly find each other for some time. Some Of us who have lived in first-rate houses here and in first-rate neighborhoods will be found, because of our lukewarmness of earthly serviee, living on one of the back streets of the celestial city, and clear down at the end of it at No. SO*?, or 9tA or ISA, while some who had unattractive earthly abodes, and a cramped one at that, will, in the Heavenly city, be in a house fronting the royal plaza, right by the imperial fountain, or on the heights overlooking the River of Life, the chariots of salvation halting at yonr door while those visit you who are more than conquerors, and those who are kings and queens unto God forever. Yon. my brother, and you, mv sister, who have it so hu d here will have it so fine and grand there that you will hardly kuow yourself and will feel disposed to dispute yonr own identity, and the first time I see yon there 1 will cry out: “Didn’t 1 tell you so when you sat down there in the Brooklyn Taberitacle Sud looked incredulous because you thought it too good to be true?” And you will answer: “You were righti thechalf was not told me?’ So this morning I open yonr dark saying of despondency and complaint on my Gospel harp and give yon just one bar of music, for I do not pretend to be much of a player. “The Lamb which is in the mfds^of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” But I must confess I am a little perplexed how some of you good Christians are going to get through the gate, because there will be so many there to greet you, and they will all want to shake bands at once and will all want the first kiss. They will have heard that yon are coming, and they will all press around to welcome you and will want yon to say whether yon know them after being so long parted. But here I must slow up., lest in trying to solve mysteries I add to the mystery that we have already wondered at namely: Why preachers should keep on after all the hearers are tired? So I gather up Into one great armful all tho whys, and hows, and wherefores of your'life and mine, which we have not had time or the ability to answer, and write on them the words “adjourned to eternity.” I rejoice that we do not understand all things now, for if we did, what would we learn in Heaven? If we knew it all down here in the freshman and sophomore class, what would be the use of our going up to stand amid the juniors and the seniors? If we could put down one leg of the compass and with the other sweep a circle clear around all the inari-u tables; if we could lift owr little steelyards and weigh the throne of the Omnipotent:^ we could with oar serenday clock (pleasure eternity, what would be left for this heavenly revelation? So I move-that we cheerfully adjourn what is now beyond our comprehension, and as, according to Rollic, the historian, Alexander the Great, having obtained the gold casket in which Barine had kept his rare perfume, used that aromatic casket thereafter to keep his favorite copy of Homer in. and called the book, therefore, the “Edition of the Casket,” and at night he put the casket and his sword under his pillow, so I pot this day into the perfumed casket of yonr richest affections and hopes this promdse, worth more than any thing Homer ever wrote or sword ever conquered: “What I do thoa knowost not now. hut thon shalt know hereafter,” and that I call the “Editions Celestial.” V

STATE INTELLIGENCE. Tl>* Uflslatm Indian a pons, Feb. Senate—The Sea*' ate spent the entire day debating the bttl pieposing to create a department of geology and nathrnl resource?. It proposes to take from the Governor the power to appoint the geologist, the mine inspector and the oil inspector. It provides that the geologist shall be elected by the General Assembly, and the mine and oil inspectors shall be appointed by him. The mine inspector is given authority to employ an assistant The expenses oi the department are limited to $10,0 M annually. The bill finally was passed to engrossment. The election bill was read a third time, and will he passed tn the morning. House—Local option met its fate ia the House this morning. The majority report, ree omrarnding the indefinite postponement ot the bill, was adopted by a vote of fifty-five to forty-one, t wo Republicans. Covert and Nugent, of Evansville, voting with the Democrats. The , House passed the Senate bill appropriating $187.1X10 to b) used in constructing a Home far Feeble-minded Children. The deficiency appropriation bill was also passed, and a bill was passed under a suspension ot the rules, authorising the State Treasurer to borrow $2X>,000 to pay the expenses ot the General Assembly. The remainder of the day m the Houso was spent in considering bills on second reading, A great many were indefinitely postponed. and several unimportant ones engrossed Indiaxapoijs, Feb. 14.—Senate—The eleetion bill introduced by Senator Andrews passed to-day by a vote ot S3 to Id. Only one Democratic Senator opposed the bfiL while eleven Of more Republicans voted for it The bill now goes to the House, where its passage is virtually conceded. It embraces the principal features of lhe Australian law, previously outlined. The Senate then took up the Supremo Court commission bill, and after prolonged discussion passed it to its third reading. The bill baa already passed tbe House, and provides for the election by the General Assembly of five Commissioners to assist the Supreme Court in transaction of its business. The court is now two years behind on its docket. Several unimportant bills were introduced. House.—Langlofl s bill passed, making eight hours constitute a legal day's work for all classes of mechanics and laborers, excepting those engaged in agricultural or domestic labor. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of the act may be fined $300. A bill was passed making a separate judicial circuit of Clark and Floyd Counties. The bill fixing the Supreme Court Reporter’s salary at $4 000 per annum and depriving him of all ,feea was passed to engrossment. Heretofore this office has been estimated to net a compensation of $10,000 Ex-Governor Porter and General Harrison both held this lucrative office ia years past. Hon. John L- Griffiths (Republican), a leading young lawyer of this city, igas eleeted last November to succeed Ho t. John W. Kere (Democrat), and will assume the office in a few weeks. Several local bills were introduced. Indian a poms, Feb. 13.—Senate—The Senate passed a bill appropritaing $13,000 for the use of Purdue University. Several bills were introduced and referred. House—7 he Pleasant school text-book btll was discussed in the House, and referred to s select committee of seven, with instructions te report a school-book bill on Monday. A bill was passed providing for the election by the General Assembly of three Police Commissioners for . cities having more than £3,0A) inhabitants (ladianapoiis and Evansville). Indian a po t.15. Feb. Ik—Senate. — The Grimes-Bicfcowskt contested election case is still in the hands of the Senate committee on f elections. The reports were prepared three weeks ago, but for some reason have not been submitted. House—Bills introduced: To make appropriation for Insffimition tor the Education of ths Blind; to proviW for public highways; to appoint an agent for the claims for swamp lands. The following bills were ordered engrossed: To fix salaries of township officers; to appoinS ! a humane inspector; to provide tor the organl- ! ration ot inter-State fairs; to provide for tho 1 regulation ot insurance companies: to author- , • ixe school commissioners to levy tax tor library in cities of to create first lien tor labor performed ;to authorise board of commissioners to pay rewards: for encouragement of life-tlms convicts, and fixing the time at twenty-flvo years: concerning the duties of circuit court clerks: relating to feeble-minded children; to regulate the sale of drugs: to appropriate , money for the Deaf and Dumb Institute; concerning the taxation of dogs: to protect publio school teachers; to provide for the removal of drift-wood; to create a board of sinking fund commissioners; for the vacation of private burial grounds. Indianapolis, Feb. ia-Senate.-In tho Senate a civil servioe bill waa introduced. Also bills providing tor an extension of the Capitol grounds and regulating the conduct of foreign insurance companies!. A bill reducing the legal rate of interest from eight to six per cent. wa» indefinitely postponed. HOUSE-Bitls making it a misdemeanor to treat to drinks in a saloon, regulating deposit and trust companies and doubling the t$x on dogs were passed to engrossment in the House. Bills Introduced: Providing for a State Boiler Inspector; making general appropriations. A bill was passed creating a sinking fund for New Albany. i Indianapoma Feb. 13—Senate. In the Senate to-day the Mil to increase liquor license was defeated. This was a caucus measure or the Republican side, and contemplated a license ot $300 in cities and towns. House —After a sharp debate the House thin morning engrossed the bill fixing the salaries te be paid county officers. Clerks, auditors, treasurers and sheriffs are included. In counties where the population is 15,000, $1,300 ! per annum; fora population ot £5.000, $1,730: tor a population of 40.003, *1000; more than 40.000. and less than 100,000, $4,300: more than • IOOlOOO, *30X The recorders according te I the same grading, are allowed *1.004 ' fl,£30,11,300, $2,000 and I43C0. If fees are taken by the officers they are liable to prosecution for embexriement. Sheriffs are allowed forty cents per day tor boarding prisoners, ard there is the usual provision for mileage, deputies, etc., with the additional proviso that this biU shait not apply to any person now holdingoffioe. The school bill came up th‘s afternoon and was made the special order for to-morrow. Tho majority report was accepted, favoring establishing a State Educational Board, and providing tor the compilation and publication ot school books- The bill passed doing away with the office of President of the Board of Benevolent Institutions.

Ann a long fight the saloons gained a foothold in Sheridan. Mas. Naohi Lambeth, of Lafayette, ban brought suit again*'; William P. Kirkpatrick for breaeh of promise, claiming $*00J damages. Francis Mcrpht, the temperance worker, is haring a large attendance at hi* meetings in Anderson. He wtll make that place his headquarters for dome time to Lxox Leopold, a Jewish rabbi, drop pel dead at Vincennes, on the 15th. Sebeox Habteb got a fl,-JO verdict against the city of Franklin, for injuries sustained by falling into an open cellar Charles Harjus. of Elkhart, pleading itty before Judge Wools at Indianapoj at cutting open a mail-sack, was sentenced to two years la the penitentiary. George W. Spvrr, as eat of the American Soap Company, of Marion, is charged with em beast emenk Paul Hill, of Green castle, is charged with emUaxling which a woman gar* him to deposit in bank. Jons IL Sawter tiixl to mnrder hie wife with a butcher-knife at Marion. Mad dogs hare become eo plenty in certain portions of Morgan County that people have appealed to the commissioners t® adopt some method of relief. 3 Tex newly-appointed Cabinet officer, Norman J. Column, was for several years a resident of New Albany, where he eras enraged In the practice of law. A SEMATMWAL Incident occurreikjn a Terre Haute court the other day, when '* . prisoner was being identified. T. W. H urt, an attorney, and Deputy cutor Houston ware engaged in a w which led to an exoiitng fight, wh Judin stayed the fracas hy fining «