Pike County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 May 1889 — Page 1

HOUR 4 Hf K, Proprietors. 'out* Motto i© VOLUME XIX. PETERSBURG, IN tf ■t| 1 tfck / 1 1 1 ■ ^ m m*m JL ▼ JL ' \ s . • * *~ ,- v.~ -— ^ ■■ - .. •■ : otiori tb Principle bf Right.** (ii'iiufi* oter 0. E. H01f6CMSKf*S fltoro, Mata Stawft. ----- -—- THURSDAY. 1 IAY 2, 1889. NUMBER 30.

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POWDER Absolutely Pure. A uml of parity, •otrrorth uH Mon economical KAu the ordinary k indv uAcumiM told In »Uh the multitude of low-teal, ajuvt-wetcbt aium or phuapbale powdrra Sold oni* 1. cant. Royal Raking Powder Co.. * i WaU Urn-l. <<»« York. rBOmilOXkL CARDS. K A. ELT ~ Attorney at Law, lETERsBCRG, inr CWee: Orer J K. Aibw A Son * Drag Store. >« »t nlto a inemhcr of t»c Catted Stale* Col- *•*•*»• A**.-->ation. andgire* prompt attention to rterr utkr la which hr i» employed. t P. RuttKMOK. A. H. Tuuw RICHARDSON & TAYLOR. Attorneys at Law, PETkRsBCRO. 1NR Prompt attention riven to all bnalnena. \ Motarv p.i ‘•f»»*%ntl> m the outer, t ifltc* •n^tanwuirr lfityfTn*. *tli and Main. J. W. WILSON. Attorney at Law, I’ETERRBriUl. IMA *P itflt -r: Over J. A Yotti A (Vt Stom I. It I.aMAKR. and Surgetn IBTERSBCRU. ISO, in Ptkr ami adjoining eonn wmerya balding. iwne ttr‘l>!*ca»c of wotnei . Chronic and difflcu! HK.NKY FIELDS, Insurance & Real-Estate AliliN’T, PETERHBCRf*. INDIANA. Lrariog companies reprearnted. Prompt nt Sontn-n to basines*. N.tirr hoymea* attended :o K«aw.i*Mr rak* om.-e: llank Uoildtag. EDWIN SMITH. ATTORNEY AT LAW, —AXE*— Real Estate Agent PETEKBRCRU. - INDIANA. IMBee. over Gn< » rank * More. Special atMotion Riven to Collect on*, bay Inc and set; ■y iaa l., kxaDUH.n; Title* and formatting H. It 4 J. T. K1.MIL PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, PETERSBURG. DTD. Off.ce In Bank Baildmc residence on Seventh Jttreet, thice. squares ioiilh of Main, mil* promptly attended to. day or night. J. R DUNCAN* Physician and Sargana PETERS BCR a. . Isa Q0c« oa «rM door Carpenter Building

Resident Dentist, FKTKBSBVRi;. HU ALL WORK WARRANTED. | 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. K. Tt'RNER. Proprietor KTCRtBURC, IND. ftrtM wttiof nrt 4ow at ikHi rrattnwi wtK Iwn m4h< at Ibr *kop. a Dr. A4aK>' MW biiJdf**, rear of A*um a Kow’a OMtOlll.

HEWS AND NOTES. k Summary of Important Event!. Tw Bonk of France, «do the Stst declared o dividend of forty franc* par kora. Tn Empire Condensed Milk Comity of Bear York City and W. dohnsvillsv KY„ foiled an thetH, Kmu wilt send delegates to the marine conference which meets at Washington on October 1* next Ax explosion occurred io the Brancepeth colliery ot Durham, England, on the “tth. Five persona were killed. Ax Austrian imperial ilecree has bean Issued dissolving the Provincial Diets and ordering new elections to be held. Rmoourr Bros*, large bams at llodo Humboldt County, la., ware destroyed by ^fire. on thnitth. loss. $*,*»; insurance, * It is said in St. Petersburg that the Cxar Is in a state of extreme nervous excitement produced by his constant dread of at tempts upon bis life. Trix funeral of Btantou Blake took place from King's Chapel Boston. On the 35th. Rev. Prof. Francis ft. Peabody, D. It, of Harvard College, ottetating. Tw* land agent at Guthrie. Oklahoma Territory, says the telegr aph people there pay no attention to Government messages, as they get more money from com- ; mercial and press bus me is. Os* RvvDRKD Sioux 'Indians are en ' route to the Pari* Exposition with ‘Buf- j falo Bill's Wild West.** Red Shirt, llocky j (tear. So Seek and Medicine Horse are ; among the noted chiefs of the party. Mb. Aswwobt*. British View-Consul at j Castellamare. Italy, was found, on the j 53d. at the foot of the precipice overlook- I lag the Bay of Saples at Vico Equense. j It is believed that he committed suici de. Twa municipal council! of Vtentus on the 34th. decided that the tramway t streetcar) company must forfeit $31>tkW of its securities and $30.0*1 penalty each day , until uninterrupted traffic was resumed, j Twa semi-annual meeting of the Aster- j lean Antiquarian Society was held in j Boston on the 3«h. The secretary re- j ported the acknowledgment by RL Hon. ’ W. E. l^^tone of his election as a mem- ' her of th^mK-iety. Hiram W. Mills#, ex-county treas urer of Marion County. Ind.. Superintendent Williams of the poor farm and several others were arrested, on the ilth. chiirged with voting challenged paupers alt the presidential election. Mb. C*AMBXRL\tx, on nhte 34th. speaking at Btrmiughant. said he was confdent tbat the government, bef ore appealing to 1 the country, would develop its Irish ; plans, and it would doubtless obtain a fa- j vorable verdict at the polls. Omsitit's to the Canadian Pacific rail- j road has led to the formation, in British i Columbia.Berthe Trans-Continental Rail- I way CompfijyT with a capital of $30,l»iq^ «kl organised by prominent British Co- j lumbla and English capitalists. Ml R. F. Bt sn's schooner-yacht Cor- j onrl in which its owner left Sew York J . for a tour of the world about a year ago, j and for the safety of which some fears ; have been felt, arrived at home on the j 16th. and dropped anchor off Staten 1st- . “<*- '_t ■ , » | Pwilrtvs F. Donum, the celebrated . caterer of Fulton Market, Sew York. died. : on the 34th, at his summer hotel Dorlon | i Point. Conn. He was a prominent and ; active member of the Fat Men's Associa- j tion, and many times elected its presi- ; dent. _____ Mas. Gnovnn Clxvxlwd has rented 1 the cottage of Rev. Percy Browne, at Marion. Mass., for the coming season, j The house is a one-story Queen Anne, ; dnd is located next to the summer home : of R IV. Gilder, editor of the Century

Tat owner* of the steamer Missouri | wore, *>u the '34th. notified by the Jtew j York apsu of the Thingvalia line that { payment will be made for the cargo which was thrown overboard from the Missouri to make room for the Danmark1* passengers. Tu Lincoln (SeV) Branch of the Irish Xational League tendered a banquet to Hon. Patrick Egan, the newly-appointed ! Minister to Chili, on the 3Sth. Over three j handled plates were laid, and numerous responses to toasts were made by prom- j inent citizens. i Ctrrti!) Hsbiltoi Hrtuu of the j steamer Missouri, who gallantly rescued j •m human victims from the sinking •learner Danmark, was made the subject of a spontaneous o ratio a in Philadelphia on the 3*0. In the evening he was banqueted by the Sons of Hit. George. YntBTT-Two packages of prepared opi um, valued at found concealed in the steamship Oceanic, which arrived at San Francisco recently from China, were seized by customs officers on the :£hl Twenty thousand dollars* worth of opium was seised there during the mouth. Prase Milium, of West Union, la. tens convicted, on the 31th. in the United Suites Court at Dubuque, of using the mails for fraudulent purposes. His method was to write letters to part es, offering green goods at a discount, and, after obtaiaing the money, giving blank paper in return. ' ■£ . -aLoan tUsDouri Cii'acaax has writ•ten an angry letter to Mr. Chamberlain, in which he warns that gentleman that if the Conservatives choose to make a test of their strength throughout Birmingham, the contest will certainly result in the political annihilation of Mr. Chamberlain and his friends. Ttt recent letter of Prince Regent Luitpold to Dr. Yon Lutz, Bavarian Minister of Worship and Public Instruction, defining his understanding of lit status of Catholic educational institutions, has caused a great deal of annoyance at the Vatican, and will probably result in a protracted correspondence. fn members of the Farmers* Institute of Miami Couaty. Ind., have joined hands with the Pern (Ind.) Board of Trade in the erection of a Sax mill and landing' twine factory, the object of which is to awhs war on the Twine Trust The farmers will raise the lax from which the twine will be manufactured. Admiral Kiihut has forwarded to the Sivy Department a report from Chief Kagineer Kiersted. stating that the engine of the Nipaic has been tried and worked woB. The fntpeler is rsaotiirnbty bent and its elective force-, much reduced. The report says that the ship can bo moved by steam if reqniredA rtULUi of fourteen coaches on the Santa Fe railroad, crowded to the platform with returning boomers, palled into ih» Union depot ot Kansas City. Mo., on the morning of the 34th. Hondredsof otiBuGT means, having failed to secure n footing in the newly-opened Territory. At n meant antt-Wemitic meeting in Berlin, Dr. Starker, court preacher, delivered a tong speech. in the coarse el

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. A nncun me*lias of the Edinburgh Council wns held, on the 33d, on the qnes* tion of con ferring the freedom of the city *I«on Mr. Parnell A division was finally fa ken. resulting U the passage of, A resolution clferiug the freedom of Edinburgh W the Irish lender by n rot* of St t6 IA A Cask of yellow fever wa» reported at Sanford, fit, on the 31th. Thu Eastern alumni of Wells College, alwut fifty la number, had luncheon at Detmonico’*, In New York City, on the 23d. after which they held their annual meeting, and re-elected Mrs. Grocer Cleveland as president. The reports showed the college to he in a flourishing condition. Seyebal car-loads of supplies for the sufferers from the Dakota 8res hate been scut from Blaok Hawk CoUnty. la. OuS car was filled with seed corn nnd another contained smaller grinds etc. Thus* men were drowned in the lake four mites west of Grayling; Mich., on the fillet. Nobody knew who they were or where they came froth. They were fishing in the take when their boat capsized, and that ts all that is known. The bodies were not recovered. Patwck CAnn >ll. a shoemaker, aged twenty-si* years, jumped from, the Brooklyn bridge into the East river on the fiM. He was picked up by a tug, and oa reaching the shore was arrested and . taken to a hospital. A roRTn viT.by Menim of Chief-Justice John Marshall the gift of Mr. Justice Bradley, of the United States Supreme Court, was formally presented to the District Court at Trenton, N. J- on the 231 Gexebai. SraxADoar. a retired officer of the Bavarian army, died at Munich, oa the 23d. at the advanced age of ninety-one years. Mb. Jons Dhaox, ea route to Australia, (aid a visit, on the 231. to Arab! Pasha, the Egyptian rebel who is confined to certain limits oa the Island of Ceylon. TU National Socialistic committee have issued an address bearing a pan the celebration of the Washington Inaugural Centennial They point id various respects is which the ideals entertained by the founders of the republic have not been realized, and deprecate the prevailing tendency to snppress this side of the picture and to unduly emphasize the more obvious facts of increased population and wealth. Tun Supreme Court of New York, oa t he 331. appointed Mr. Augustus Stein, of New York City, receiver of the Tunawanda Valley A Cuba railroad, to succeed General Bird W. Spencer. resigned. Thu Minneapolis street-car employes’ strike was declared vilWually ended, on the 33d. by serious breaks in the rants of the strikers. At the fair for the benefit of Catholic orphans opened in the City of W ashingt<*n, on the night -of the 23.1 Cardinal Gibbons delivered the opening address. Colosel Da* Lamost eras, on the filth, elected secretary of the New York Loan and Improvement tjompaay, in place of Wo. H. Rockwell who resigned. Ishacl Fellows, of Peabody, Mass., felt in a fit from his wagon.at Taplcjnrille, ou the Stth. His horse became frightened. and kicked him in th» head, crushing his skull and killing him iustantly. A Mzm of Southerners residing in Harlem. N. Y., met, on the 331. and argunized a society under the name ot “The Harlem Southern Auld Lang Syne C lub.” The constitution provides, among other things, for the annual celebration l>y a banquet of January lit, the natal day of Gejteml Robert E. Lee. In the task two years the South Ms raised over fourteen million bales of cotton toTer one billion bushels of corn yearly a hundred million bushels of whealand a hundred and sixtv million bushels of oat*, the total value being over $1600,000.OOi>, which is far in excess of the value of the South’s agricultural products in any two consecutive preeeeding years. The Austrian peso has been adopted as the legal-tender of the province of Mosambique. Ax application by Anthony Comstock, of Brooklyn, for membership' in V. & Grant Bust. O. A- R-. was rejected, on the 331. thirty-seven black-baits being cask These is much excitement in Parkersburg, W. Va., over the refusal of the County Court to license liquor saloons. A toss of $3X000 a year in taxes wiU result. Forty saloons are aftec ted. James (let. charged with highway robbery, and James Smith, alias Morris, broke jail at Yoaugstown. (X, oa the night of the 2Uh. They cut their way thirough the roof and dropped into a garden thirty feet below. Albeet S. Holt, aged thirteen, of Lawrence Mass., was examining a gun. on the 3tlh. when the weapon was accidentally discharged, the ball passing completely thirough his head and killing him instantly.

T** Hew Hampshire S-Mis of toe Revolution effected a permanent organisation at Concord on the Itlh. Lmsint B. iUtuu. aged thirty* ••Tea, of Bangor, Mr-, was found dead on the tnurning of the SUh He had commit* ted euichle by strangulation. A note was found on his person saying “Rum did it-” Jobs Stars and wife and James M. Linderman. a boy of twelve years, were kil led at Newport, five miles south of Wilmington, I tel., on the 24th. by a train on the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore railroad. It is estimated that two hundred persons were injured in the street-car riots in Vienna, on the 34th. Kvi.l returns from ail cities and towns of Massachusetts show the majority against the prohibition amendment in the election, on the SSJ. to have been 41.4S:*. Bocuxau arrived in London from Belgium, on the 24th. and was received at the railway station with mingled cheers and hisses. Betook quarters al: the Hotel Bristol. Sicsi;taet Bum was suffering from lumbago, on the 21th, and was unable to attend to official business. Mi; sat Halstsad was much improved on the 24th. and ail fears of a fatal termination of his illness were allayed. Tax Vanderbilt toads east of Chicago on Hay 1 will abandon a great proportion of their Sunday freight business. Tns chief feature of,the Ohio Grand Army encampment at Dayt on. on the SUh. was the parade of the veterans, fidlowed by a number of carr iages of General offieiws of the war, the rear heing brought up hr ex-President Hayes and Generali Alger. It was a dang of hands, martial music and bugle calls, the column with difficulty working its way through: the streets packed with spectators. At the conference of Hie National Reform association at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Stub, n resolution was adopted requesting President Harrison to mention Christ in state papers, especially thanksgiving proclamations. The conference was attended by over one hundred prominent ministers and others from ail parte of the Vailed Staten. 8mm tie formation the Whisky Trust has paid oat in dividends, besides accumulating a cash surplus of $aORWO. Cnsjxxs Surra, son of W. J. Smith, of Moamoath. III., wan killed, on the 24th, by a kicking colt. He was a graduate of Abingdon College, and was recently licensed n Methodist minister. Tit great Rockaway Hotel, at Roekaway Beach, N. J., erected several years ago it a cost of over one million dollars, was sold on the 21th for K. L. WnrraEsn. book-keeper and ooaSoitJt & Conners, at Cleveland. O, ban been iimwted fee embers hag the flrnrtt money. The shortage fa v*W to he «U.

Tx* visible supply ot cotton 1$ 2,3*1,184 baton, agaiast 2,518,93* last year, an* 2,515,935 the previous Year, Crop ia sight M®M*t bales against 4.38T.«afi last year. W. F. DtruiiOg, crown timber iuspeetot at Rat Portage, Man., left town suddenly a few days ago. An investigatton shows Mm to be S3MX1Short in HU ac^onats. Tbs Rank, of Ron treat declared * straight dividend of five per cent without any bonus, on the 31th. A sic. oil well eras struck near Legiuuville. Beaver County. Pa., on the 25*a. tile oil gashed oat to n height of 115 feet Six hundred to eight hundred barrels is the estimated Sow. Tux King of Ronmaaia, on the 35th, ofAeially announced that his nephew, Prince Ferdinand, would be his heir, And that a residence for hint would be built nt Bucharest. Rsssns. Kassent Bank asd Fmrs, Ihe American commissioners to the Samoan conference at Berlin, departed from London for Berlin en the 38th. Tit Ohio Encampment G. A. R., la session at Dayton, on the 35th, elected General Samuel H. Horst, of ChilUoothe. Department Commander, and passed resolutions favoring a pension of eight dollars per month to every soldier, with one cent per day per month In addition tor over ninety days' service. SacnnTAUT Sofu. cm the 35th, directed an Investigation ot the reports that Government officials had used their authority as officers to secure entry to land' in Oklahoma Territory. Sivi.xtt-hvi ot the striking street-car men of Minneapolis, Mina., accepted the company’s terms, os the 35th. and went to work. Cars were ran on every tine in the city with n fall quota. Cbabccs A. Bexar. of Malden, Mass., whose foot was cut off by a train on the 24 th. died in Boston on the 25tQ. The deceased was employed as a drummer by John H. Pray & Boa. carpet dealers. Os the 35th, Secretary uf War Proctor visited the Watervliet Arsenal oa business connected with the building of n new gun foundry. Gcncral Mss coin Hickson of the Grand Trank railway, on the 35th. ordered that no freight brains be inn oa Sunday, except those carrying live-stock and perishable goods. It is stated that the Delaware & Hudson Railway Company is in j sympathy with the movement. Tan newly-appointed Minister to Spain. ! ex-Senator Palmer, of Michigan, was tendered a farewell banquet by the citizens of Detroit, irrespective of party, on the night of the 35th. It was a brilliant affair, and continued to a late hour. Tan funeral of Mrs. D. C. M. Pierce, the “big woman.” of Dover, It. H-. took Met* oo the 25th. It required eight persons to place the body in the casket, and alt the trimmings, handles, etc., had to he removed to allow the casket to pass between the doors. Manx Maovinu, familiarly known ns “Toppy” Maguire, the oldest reporter on the New York City press, died nt his home in Hartell on the 34th. He was sev-enty-five years of age. The cause of his death was a carbuncle, which first appeared a year ago on the top of his spine. He was born at sea August 1,1814. Daxibl A. Grosy*nor, of Ohio, was, oa the 55th, appointed chief of a division in the office of the First Comptroler of the Treasury Department. Mr. Grosveaor is a brother of Representative Grosvenor. Tnc acting Comptreler of the Currency, on the 35th, declared a second dividend of fifty per cent in favor of the creditors of the Lowell National Bank, of Michigan), which failed September U, 1888. This makes in all ninety per cent, paid to the creditors of the bank on claims proved amounting to f^.835. Exits Raw. seventeen years old, was buried on March a at Syracuse, N. Y. Her father believed that she had been buried alixffi, and a few days ago he opened the grave and discovered that his fears were true. The body was lying on the side, the hands were over the face, which was scratched, and a great quantity of her hair had been pulled out. The father is almost a maniac. Tux sixteen ladies who were determined upon to dance in the quadrille of honor at the New York Centennial ball were: Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mrs. Levi P. Morton. Mrs. Grover Cleveland. Mrs. Oracle King, Mrs. Alexander Van Reessaler. Mrs. W. Bayard .‘Cutting. Mrs. William Astor. Miss Cora Livingston, Mrs. Newbold Norris. Mrs. Etbridge T, Gerry. Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler, Mrs. Buchanan Winthrop, Mrs. Stuyvessant Fish, Mrs. William day. Mrs. 8. V. Bi Crager and Mrs. Alexander 8. Webb. It is said that the Stewart will case “wilt probably be settled by a compromise. Groror Francis Train stated, on the 35th, that he expected to fast one hundred days.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. _teum iutnluia the schooner George. were driven off Michigan Island daring the gale, «*• the 3-tth, and sank. Strut;eox-Gksmai. Hamuro* *ny* tha mseefMrs. Dmnt la the oat; one that has appeared at Bstlort. Vla^had he saee no danger of the yellow freer epiBeaaie recurring this year. A was supposed to he nearly murdered Mrs. Mullerago, was captured in Sewark, X J-, on the 38th, and nearly lynched by a Tan American. 8ai urired ia Berlin on —- Tan government of Switaerland has decided to try the Snrieh bomb-maker* In the Federal Forum and net in the Cantonal Court. A mtnu disease, whit* typhus fever, baa broken out In tea. Japan. Of sixty-four c coded fatally within twenty-four-after the first attack. Doctors attribute the disease to bad rice. Ox the 38th, Colonel Dudley received a dispatch from Mr. Van Felt in which the tatter says that the famous letter from Colonel Dudley to himself must have been opened in the poet-ol*ee at Anderson. Ind. Mr. Van Pelt states that no one in Anderson, outside of the post-offl ftcials, knew that he had received a from Colonel Dudley. Tint Supreme Court of Indiana, on the Stth. reversed the decision of Judge Howland, and held that the act authorising the temporary loan of $UfiM8» is coastitutioaial. Under this decision. it la believed there will be an dUteulty In tra session of the Legislature wUl not be ta Supreme Court ef the United States on the 38th, until May 13. rut nearly in two in a collision, in the (TilUBiette river, near Portland, Ora, on he 35th. with the British steamship Dantbe. So ttvea were leak A rj jontn of High Bint, * Mt«e settlenent near Winnipeg. Man, while Uafit Plymouth, Pa, operated by the Maw ft Wlaoa company, caved in, en toe Mth.

aistei areata by Schell Tn Mb iatbw robbed, ud Mokes aad to fMOO takSa. iunt Calv*st; years, son of Bn. Jesse nett bunkard minister. : end M. tre B at £ khart, ly killed Soar Cuth, aged eta tt a years, sea of ex-Sheriff b. K Cars, of County, was fatally injured with a companion. Two hogs belonging to Os tt ge Graven, a farmer Bear Milan, died fro hydrophobia In the asost violent form alrr day* ago Jon. Knur, a Head ct* County termer, white crosing a I Id was terioasly gorei hy a vicious bn !, tv K Kooxs, in jail at j ■ idem on, tried to commit saicide by cetl g his threat with a tia-typj picture. Jonathan Datm, who !i res tve Bailee northeast of Martinsville, iraa horribly crushed, |fae other mornin| thile loading a saw-log. He is^ast six and cannot At Attica Simon Honta i kot and k ited Us wife aad then killed himself. Ihe deed It supposed to have I i ta caused by jealoasy. ANCTAvpeLtmL Rv 11* says that the colored men of Crawfo isrilie can not ke mustered into tee India n t Legion, from the fact that Moatgamery >unty has bow two companies of iateatry A Mr* a A. R. poet hat ' ten erganised at Kuaellville, and is nan 1 Haslett Foot, la hotter uf a deceased sob i r. There are eeveateea charter rnembei s Cuajs. A Vmmoaxs, a fit ti :ht brakemnn, wee Mtdiy mushed while n iking a tep> ling at Ctawferdsvtlla Ills home m at Terre Uauta At Madidoa Vlney Sri* attteked baa Finnegan with a rater, aa !i Finnegan iM him. inflicting a danger* : t, though net fatal wound. A spectator anted McCullough was shot in tee arm Mas. Moxxiso.x, an t| 1 lady, living near Anderson, was att ked by three savage dogs brtongng to lames Betsea, the other night, aad wa very seriously injured. A short time agaa Nev fork Arm tent aa agent to bcottsbarg to irehase a large white oak tree, which m tared twentyseven feet In circumferam They bought the tree for JA aad set tc rork to get eat as large a board as p< tibia. The tree eras felted aad ripped n by menus of a crosscat saw. They get oat one board teat was 10 inches thick, i ■ feet 8*» inches widmat the top and Si ret long. This boara was loaded upo* a broad-tread wagon, to which two y e of cxen aad eight horse* were hitched tad It took one whole day to remove i one and a half miiea. This was pro bn y the largest white oak tree la the bait I States. _ . A FiKXttAX named Hew was kilted by cars, near Foitand. Tn* bortland Hind 1 gins Company has been organized, with capital at S®>Thx Supreme Court o cided teat tee act of th stature appointing a Supreme Cm it it Commission is

„ TQ AMERICAN BISHOPS. hpt t>M iOAnwi to tM An.rlrM Bisk op* Sotting Forttt Ik* KbNMMtW ■W 8m It* BdMtM t» Ik* CktkoiH t.W.mtr at Washington. Baltixoiix. Mi, April *L—'TJ» Catholic Mirror publishes tbs following: brief! addressed to the American Bishops by Tape Lao XUI., setting forth the grants and wishes of the Holy See in relation to the Catholic College at Washington: * I •stews to the preserrattouofOtheWeSetyTto I ■senate the interests of year dioceses. wet especially to supply safeguards by which provision Is made for the proper training of rtgrs* toed sad young laymen to sound doctrine id •wrj branch of Science. Sacred and profane, gores ns cause of great Joy. Wherefore eery wetcoaae were yenr letters sent tons toward the close of last year In which yeti state that toe MasHsnt work on the great tyceum eranteersityat Washington which yon were pcomotl^ had so tor progressed that all things are now ready for the teaching of theology this year. and we joyously accept your university taws and Statutes which you submitted to our authority and judgment. la which matter we judge your purpose most praiseworthy, that you hare resolved to aet up in the centennial year of the establishment of the eccles astical hierarchy there a monument and perpetual memorial of that aUspieious event by founding the University. Therefore, anxious to satisfy forthwith your just desires, we entrusted, ftkf university taws brought for examination and recognition to the Host Eminent Ordinals of the Pitijgmli. that they might give as their lodgment concerning them. Mow their opinions having been laid before us. gladly • sanction by these letters the statutes and laws of your university. and we fire to the same the proper rights of n toll and regular university. Therefore, we gnat power to your university to promote students whom knowledge shall have been tested to academic degrees of doetorship in theology, philosophy and canon taw. and to the other sciences in which tt is customary io cooler degrees and daetotship, when to coming years the teaching of them shall have been estate university. But we gish you. dearly beloved brethren, to jealous care over the direction ol yourselves or ■ whom you university to this Apostolic proved, and that of knowledge may' clerics and laymen (unity to satisfy the MS ■ wish of which benefits for tbs greatest law. times, we We exhort you all, furthermore, to antiate to your entversity seminaries, colleges and other Catholic seats of learning, as Is suggested to the statutes. safeguarding, however, the independence of each one. la order to derive fromthe varithe great university the number, it Is woUtontoalt particularly to those schools of act only those who those toadies as pointed oat by the Third Ft^hnCouaeilof Baltimore, but also even those wh^ggset ou beginning or prosecuting its cours Since the great university not^ht^redounda to the honor of your country, that assures the rich and salutary fruits belonging to the progar gattoa of sound doctrine, but the protection of Catholic piety, rightly do we trust the nobleminded American faithful will not permit anything to be wanting to you. to order to bring the work tea splendid completion. The Washington University being established hy then* our letters, we forbid the founding of any other such institution without consulting the Apostolic seo. What we have declared and appointed for those letters we judge will bo a dear proof of our desire and anxiety to promote to that region more sad more the glory and prosperity of the Catholic religion. Given to Rom*, at St Peter's. on the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, IWA in the twelfth year [Signed] ■ Leo r. P. xhl

HE DIO HIS DUTY. XamU of UM MMwr Missouri Ml oa Attaint of Hh «0*U»« > of lit* rtnMftn Crow of ffmwwiA. April it—Captain Ram. llton Murrell, the rescuer of the 730 ha* ana tires aboard the Danmark, was accorded an oration yesterday in the rotas* da of the Maritime Exchange such as has seldom beea gives before on the spur of the moment- The fact that there was so little preparation responded to by such as overwhelming impulse to honor the young commander, indicated pretty fairly the strong public sentiment of admiration and gratitude. The rotunda of the exchange was crowded with people long before the appointed hoar for the recop* ttontotake place. When Captain Morrell arrived at noon he was received with load cheers. clapping of and waving of hats. Soon he was presented with a sprig of ivy, from the Westminster Ah* bey, London, and a gold medal, handsomely inscribed, from the Humane Society, as a token of admiration for his brave acts. Tor nearly an hoar Captain Morrell received the congratulations of the crowd, all the while blushing like a school girl. Finally he made a brief address, in which he stated that he had merely done his duty. He slneerely thanked the people, in the name of his officer*, himself and crew. A subscription testimonial was started for Captain MarreQ, officers and new, and in less than Ere minutes was raised. This amount Is being rapidly augmented. When Captain Morrell called on Mayor Titler yesterday afternoon, some one re"There appears to be considerable talk about the cargo which was thrown over* board from the Missouri?” ‘That needn’t cause any trouble.* spoke up the mayor, before the captain had an opportunity to make a response. “I don’t think we would hare much trouble In getting forty thousand people to contribute one dollar each to pay for that lsaa." Last sight Captain Murrell was qnettdPT the Sons of 8*. George. April 34. — On Monday to battalion of cavalry at Ft. Meyer was going through a platoon of one of the oderstood an order and charging in upon the latter at a full gallop. Horses and riders were overone after another, and to add to the horses became t Quickly, however, the above the din. and after so of hard work, order was restored, ttm ' £ Reahard. was slightly, and the soldier. Private Crane, severely while the horse was killed. Four Worn, Iu. April Ml—Few some Urns past registered letters have been stolen on the Uulf. C dorado A Santa Fe railway between Fort Worth and Qalvcswith Postal Winkler he Junction he quietly loft the train and disw**r*4

BOGUS FEDERAL CENSUS. That *e are to harr a bogus Federal feiunfc ha* bees certified la the appointment by foe President Of Hobart P. Porter to superintend the statistic* of 189ft The figure* rf 1880 mutely ^enouate the war tariff; The remorseless effects of high taxes are there spread forth for all to see- Another and a still worse showlag would pain the tariff-masters- Accordingly, the hired man of proteettM, the delegate of monopoly, the private secretary of greed, ex tor ties and qgaekery—the man who for a decade has drawn no dollar that was not a part Of the tariff plunder, who has prepared no table of figures that did uotS aim to support a lie —this person has been foisted on the census itself. The Herald can not condemn General Harrison too harshly for an invasion so shameless of a domain that has hitherto enjoyed the confidence <rf the people. A bogus census of the United States is shocking in the idea. What ills. then, may not grow out of the thing itself? * Hebert P- Porter, the recipient of pay for all his tariff "arguments,” will proceed to build an array of figures; which will prove that the farmer soils in the dearest market and buys in the cheapest; that woolen mills prosper under a high tariff on wools; that navies grow wider a high tariff on shipping; that wages rise under the effects of immigration, and that immigration declines under the stimulus of war prices tor labor and goods. All of the failncieet overthrown in the census of 1880, will her carefully reinstated by the false figures of 189ft The free trader of 1892, delivering his speech in joint debate, must appeal for his facts to the other orator’s figures. The huge enginery of monopoly and tariff, capable of purchasing the election of a President and a Congress against a popular plurality of 1QM|0, “has laid sacrilegious hands oW» census. A cheap fellow, without love of his country, will now proceed to tabulate tor facto the impressions, delusions, snares and base fabrications of every respectable thief ip the Nation. The total will bo foe official enumeration of the people, their estate, their employment and their increasing prosperity. Carnegie. Jones and other old-time patrons of foe cheap nu may depend on a compendium which will exhibit a dwindling aristocracy, a tremendous growth of the well-to-do class, a country without tax. whose levy is a bagatelle. whose yeomanry and labor are constantly employed at fabulous hire, whose men and masters are bound to each other by the unbroken and unyielding ties of a home market. The miner wilt live in a palace; the operator will share foe hovel. The millworker will go to Europe end do the smuggling; foe mill-owner will reap a profit of sixty cents a day. with toag intermissions of loss. All fots infernal seouadrelbm foe low tariff orator must quote in 189% if he shall dare to appeal to the eleventh census-—Chicago Herald.

POLITICAL CORRUPTION. by th. ] If a down-trodden wbjeet of Great Britain, the son of a peers* e-riddea land, the blind worshiper of stare and purlers, were to ask a free-born American to point out the controlling factor in our political system; the power that brought men into prominence and gave them the chief places of the Government, how would the free-born American answer him? a “You hate no aristocracy of birth.'’ the Briton would say. “therefore tt is not social standing that puts men to the front in your country. Nor car, it he that your successful public men are selected from what you call the aristocracy of brains; for. according to the Recounts of your untrammeled press, many of your legislators and executive officers are ignorant esid incompetent They can not he selected for their exceptional probity, for this same untrammeled press imputes to many of them the most disgraceful sort of corruption, and they never punish their accusers, as would private citizens who were slandered. We understand, of course, that you have public men who am of good standing in the community, and who are both able and honest But ten are clearly in a minority your office-holders. Now, what is the power that lifts the others above the rest of your people, puts them in place and keeps them there?*’ The American, if he had to answer truly to such an Inquiry, would have no choice but to say: “Money. Some of Our public men get their places because they are rich and eon spend money to secure them. Others are able to induce their party to spend the money necessary to procure their election. Still others are elected because they are the friends, allies or servaato of rich Boon, whose interests are affected by legislation, and who are willing to hoy place or power for those who will he of service to them Very few indeed are elected solely tor their fitness sad without the use of money or its equivalent in petit would he hard indeed for an American citisen, with nay pride in his cHiaesishtp. to make this confession to an Englishman; hut he would have to make it. if he meant to toll the truth. We can understand that, under such circumstances, our fellowcountryman might he sorely tempted to prevaricate, or even to lie outright. But whether he lied or told the truth, the humlBattag tecta would remain the But perhaps the American citizen who roads this dose net believe that these arc the humiliating foots. -Perhaps he thinks these assertions are but gloomy, cynical, pessimistic generalities. If he does, let him think the situation over for himseH We will suppose that ha is a citizen of New York, how the

or ts elected fry the rote ot the whole town, and is. as a rule. » reputable mae To be elected, however, he must hare the nomination of his party, had. to alt intents and purposes, he must pay ffrr that nomination by giving office to his supporter*. About the board of aldermen nobody has any detaskuu. It is mainly composed of irresponsible men of no character— many *f them liquor-dealers. They buy their places with money and patronage. and they themselves, for the moat pa-t, may be bought singly like cabbages or in bunches like radishes. Passing to the State government, he will tod in the Governor and the Log- * islature a State mayor and a State beard of aldermen with two houses. ‘/There are plenty of honest &en in both houses; hut there is generally a good working majority of meu who have bought their places to sell themselves, and who, when they are not passing bills to benefit rich corporations at the expense of the people, are engaged in introducing hills designed to damage the same corporations—bills which disappear when their promoters are bought off. But there remains the National Government l And ean the citizen lay his hand on his heart and say that the Congressman horn hid district spent no money (over and above his legitimate expenses), either out of his own pocket or out of his party's funds, to insure his election? It he can, he is able to do more than the Congressman can. unless' be is a very remarkable and a very lucky Congressman. But who is it who sits in judgment on the acts of the Congressman. The Presi- ! dent ot the United Stales; the Chief Magistrate of the Nation. And in 1880 the party that elected the President openly boasted that it had bought the vote of the State of Indiana with ••soap.** In 1888 the same party announced, in advance, that it intended to buy the vote of the same State with ! “fat')—and did it. These may be Igoad and sweeping assertions; but any one who honestly seeks to verify them will find them specific enough—and the verification easy enough. This makes a bad showing, not for our system of government. but for our system of politics; and it makes >va worse showing for our people, in that they not only tolerate these things, but „ tolerate their being made matters of common report, without fouling the sense of personal shame and Individual responsibility. If the attention of an honest citizen is calhAo the digrace of our politics, he hapTwt one reply to make: “Oh, yes, 1 suppose there w a good deal of corruption in politics. But then you can't help ait It has always been so. And or course the repot ts are greatly exaggerated. A ad then, we seem to be getting along pretty well. I gues3 there’s no great harm doctor” } Yet there is a great harm done—in setting up an example that encourages dishonesty in commercial life and lowers the standard of citizenship and civic manhood. - Puck.

DRIFT OF OPINIOK. -The rush «t floaters to Ok lain Me, big blocks must comthe admiration of that estimable individual Colonel W. W. Dudley— Utica (N. Y.) Observer. -The office-seekers have forced Matthew Stanley Quay to hide. In other weeds, it is necessary to be saved from his Mends in order to save hie health— Harrisburg (Pa) Patriot. -A neglected politician in Washington says be has secured, without appointment, the position of “survey-or-general” He looks over the crowd —N. G. Picayune, te wrongs of American fishermen in Canadian waters, over which we shed so many tears prior to the recent election, been righted? Kh! Mr. Blaine? Shall our tears be dried? —N. Y. Herald. -First Assistant Postmaster-Gen-eral Clarkson has purchased a span of hearse horses to draw hf» carriage. As the head executioner of tho Administration, funeral trappings are decidedly appropriate for him.—Chicago News. •General Alger, of Michigan, h out surly with the announcement tgmt he will he a candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 189%. The General has taken time not by the forelock, but by the whole scalp— Philadelphia Press (Rep.). -The league Island Navy Yard .appears to hare been “reorganised * until there is scarcely anybody hut a Republican in it. and the ward bosses continue to read with oomplacect smile Secretary Tracy’s recent declaration that he is “unalterably oppose!” to mixing the nnvy yards np with i mlttfo*. —Providence Journal. -The operation* of the trust affect tie price or the supply of sugar in all parts of the country. The greed of the organisation will not permit the people to forget that the trust was formed by on unlawful use of corporate franchises, that the whole scheme is illegal and that the comhiaatioa is enabled to control almost the entire business m the United and to suppress competition in by the high duties on imported 1 sugar.— N. T. Times. Ifta Great Industrial Battle. \ V, Warner Miller declares that the battle for protectionism Is not yet ended. Warner Milter is correct. Tho striking acAoo-mUl operatives - of New England, the dismissed iron-workers of Reeding, the half-starved coal-min-ers and half-paid foundry men of Pennsylvania, the disappointed and disgusted wage-workers of alt industries, in all parte of the country, who have been told so often by the demigoRuos of protectionism that high tariff means high wagon are almost unanimously in ueord with the opinion of Warner Agd the agriculture of the