Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 2, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 May 1889 — Page 1

Pike County Democrat MOUNT ft FITTS, Proprietors. ‘Our Motto is Honest Derotion to Principles of Right. OFFICE, over 0. E. MONTGOMERY’S Store, Main Street. VOLUME XX. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1889. NUMBER 2.

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PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT JOB WORK Or iU KINDS Neatly Bzoouted, -ATREASONABLE RATES. NOTICE! Persons receiving a copy ol this paper with this notice crossed in lead pencil are notified that the time ot their subscription has expired.

POWDER Absolutely Pure. Tbli powder never rarie*. A marvel of purity, alrrti! th and wlKiliimuint***. Mott* economical tiian-^ie orti n n v kind*. and can-not be sold in competition with Ue multitude o! low-tct»t. nbort wHgbi.^Imn or phtM»phat.e powder* Sold oniy m can*. Koyul (taking Powder Co., KC Wiill *tr«**t, New York. PUOl KSSlOSAh I A It 114. K a. ELY, Attorney at Law, I KiElOMJIUi, INI). (ffli'c: Over J. R Attain. & Son'* Dm. Store. He U alwr B m«ml»er of lire Untied Htate, C'ot. If. lt.in A".-*- .aimn. tin.l :• ve, prompt attention to fvt-ry nutter ttt wt trh hot. employed. K r. llltHAUUrtOX. A. H. Tatioh RICHARDSON & TAYLOR. Attorney s at^Law, PETERS I1DKO, IND. Prompt attention ifivtvn* all ftiNlnc** \ Notary Public e«»n*»t‘ ntly in theofllot*. Oflkw In Carpenter fiuidmg. 'to and Main. J W. \\ JL.SON, Attorney at Law, I KTKKNUrmt, IND. t’f'Timo Over J. II Yonn? A i'o.'» Store. I H I.aMARU. Physician and Surgeon PETE US! tl? UO, IND., Will practice in Pike and adjoining noun Ur* ORIit: Montgomery** ba lding. < hour* day wid night {.iri)lMMi»i*i of women and rhil *r»'n a *pevial<jr< Chronic and difficult cave* aolu tteil IIKNKY FIELDS, Insurance & Real Estate AC 11: NT, PFTEUHHPUO; INDIANA. I>eadi»-g eotnpanie* teprcaeoU'd Prompt at Button to luisiii -** Notary ( mine** iHeaded .» l\'*a>o*'.ibir rat* * Office Hank Budding. EDWIN SMITH. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Real Estate Agent PETE UN HI’KG, - INDIANA. | «»mce. over Una Prank** atore Special at- -j lent ton given to Coll*' t Buy Ini and sal,. 1 i*g ijinda, Kiumlnin ; Title* an 1 Furniahlng \ bat rad*. 0 _ K. VtT.v .1. T. KIME PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, PETERSBURO. IND. Office; In it oik l»« Mo..: re.:.|o|te* «gs ' Seirnlh str.. t. rh . • >.)-.Are. «oullr of prom ft v .tut- '■* t to ‘tny or mirttt- ; \i , J. & I’ I N CAN. Physician und Surgeon PETERSBURG, • IND, Office on nv*t floor carpenter Pudding Ei. j. iiAnma,

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THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of the Dully News. WASHINGTON NOTES. The treasury accountant* bat** completed an estimate of the cash value of the currency, coin and securities turned over to Treasurer Huston l>y ex-Treasurer Hvatt, and And the total amount to bo *732,OOO.UOO. ATTORNEY-GeNERAI. Mu.LKn lias given an opinion that there is no provision oil ■law under which National banks can be established in Oklahoma at the present: tim“. One of the requirements of the National Hanking law U that three-fourth*, of the directors of a new National bank j shall have resided In the State, Territory or District for at least one year preceding' their election as directors. The wedding of Ex-Secretary Bayard with Miss Clynter has been Axed for June 13 # The United States Senators who are investigating trade relations with Canada have gone to Sitka, Alaska, to study the seal queation, tBE Chicago A Alton road, through Manager Chappell, has given notice to Chairman Walker, of the Inter-State Railway Association, that It must have a more equitable proportion of the live-stock and giain traffic from the Missouri river to Chicago or it will at once take the matter Into its own hands and drop rates lowenough to secure business. The Navy Deparlment has completed and soon w ill issue advertisements railing for proposals for the construction of the new cruisers slightly larger than the Yorktown, and of 3,000 tons burden. The limit of cost Axed in the appropriation act if }7.V> 000 for each vessel. The United Slates cruiser Boston has been ordered to ilaytlon a secret mission. Assistant Secbetabt Tichrxor has af- ! Armed the decision of the cofleetor at New York In assessing so-called vinegar as : wine. The importers claimed that the [ liquid, when shipped, was vinegar and ' must have changed to wins during the ! voyage. The Treasury Department has decided ! that knife sharpeners made of wood, steel. : and emery are dutiable as manufactures 1 In part of metal, and not as whetstones or 1 manufactures of steel. The President has appointed R. K. Gilkerson, of Pennsylvania, to b- Seconi Comptroller of the Trea^ry; R H. Holll- | day, of Pentisy]vania^B>e Commissioner [ of Customs of the Treasury Department, | and Davbl Martin to bo Collector of Internal Revenue for the Philadelphia district. Also Charles R 7. sue, of Utali, to l-e Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah. The celebrated Twiggs swords which ! have been in the custody of the Government since !*«2, have been delivered by Hecresary Wimloni to A. C. Mv or, executor ! of the Tw iggs estate. This it ill accordance with the piovisious of an act passed j by the last Congress and the decision of the Court of Claims establishing the owuersbip of the swords

THE EAST. William H. Derby, cashier of the District Messenger Company, of Boston, has been arrested on the charge of enitsi'isling HO.000 from tlie Western I'nion Telegraph Company hy overcharging them lor messenger service. Watu Gthrgt A Walters, of Harrison Valley, Pa., was working at his saw mill a stick fell in front of the saw, which Walters tried to remove, and in doing so was drawn within reach of the rapidly moving machine and had his head severed in half. Ho lived for two hours. Hxatt rains caused the upper reservoir of the Littleton (N. H-) Water and Electric Light Company, situated 330 feet above the Tillage, to burst the other night. The reservoir covered about eight acres, and the great body of water cams tearing djown Palmer brook, gullying it into a large river tied, uprooting trees hud doing considerable damage. Brooks A WKU.S, boot and shoe manufacturers of Westboro, Mass., have fa I *d with $*0,000 llabiblllties and *90.000 nominal assets. They ha<! attempted to do too lsfge a business for their capital. A general reduction of ten |>er cent, in wages hss l«>en made by the Shenango va1»y (Pa.) furnace operators Tha cut affects 2,000 men. Th* annual examination of the Government Indian School at Carlisle, Pa., took place on the SSd. The graduating class consisted of fourteen Indian pupils. Secretary Noble, Senator Colquitt and Governor Beaver spoke and Secretary Noble presented the diplomas. A disastrous rains'jorni and freshet occurred recently about Stillwater. N. Y., causing the canal to overflow and doing great damage to the crops. The Bourne mills corporation. Kail Hirer, Mass,, has decided after July I to adopt a pUn of protit-shnring with their employes. The grand council of the Reformed Episcopal Church met at Boston on the 22.L - The granite works at South ltiegate, Vt., have gone into a receiver’s hands The liabilities are $3ti,W0 and the assets HO,000. Till ex-convicts who arrived at New ' York recently from England, and claimed that they had been assisted out by the Prisoners’ Aid Society, of London, were sent back by the order of Collectoi Erhardt. The sash aufl door factory of George P. Cushman & Co-, of New York, was burned the other night Loss, $30,000. Three firemen were injured during the Are, The trustees of the Hartford (Conn.) Theological Setnlnaay have voted to open courses of the institution to women on the same terms as to men. The rnoider* who returned to work at Rathbone, Sard & Co.’a shops, at Albany, N. Y., pending arbitration of their difficulty; a proposed reduction of ten per cent, have quit work again because the firm wanted to withhold the ten per cent reduction from the men’s wages, pending the decision of the arbitrators. TI1E WEST. The mao Woodruff, who confessed some days ago to carrying away a body from a barn on th* night that Dr. Cronin disappeared, said later that the body was taken from a cellar under the t>arn. Detectives were sent to the p'aceand found the cellaras described and in it a bundle of bloodstained rags. Blood stains were also found in the barn. A PTE it two weeks’ investigation the Webster County, Iowa, grand jury failed to indict the seventeen Dee Moines river land cottiers charged with conspiracy by the land owners. GorBEES are causing so much damage to the crops in portions of Iowa that bounties of five cents for each scalp are being paid. In Boone County 18,0W) scalps have so fsr been presented. Fine in Howard City. Mich., recently destroyed the opera house, the bank, the Baptist Church, four stores and slsven dwellings. Loss, $30,000. Eighteen members of the 8u Louis Produce Exchange have been suspended for indulging in horse-play during the dull market All the railroad* entering Chicago having down town ticket offices have agreed to clot* the places on Sundays and sell only at the depots. Toro men were drowned in the Milwaukee river recently by th* capsixing of tha boat in which they were fishing. A disease, supposed to be hydrophobia, is epidemic in Trim Belle; Wit. School has been clo-ed in the district and the children are strictly forbidden to leave home, Men have been engaged to kill ail the stray dogs la town.

The body of Dr. Cronin,, whoso sensational disappearance at Chicago was attended with so much mystery,, has been found in a sewer at Lakeview. The head showed terrible wounds and the body was naked with the exception of a religious charm hanging to his neck. News from Ban Francisco Is to the ef- ■ feet that while there Is reason to believe that the new cruiser Charleston will ultimately succeed in fulfilling the contract requirements, much remains to be done upon the vessel, and probably at the Goveminent’* expense before this expectation Is realised. Ic* formed in pools and the" ground was frossn stiff in the interior oi Wisconsin the other night by a coM snap. The strawlierry cron, which promised to bi very large, is ruined. John Nkai. was instantly* kilted and Timothy Reardon fatally injured lu a stone quarry near Bheibyville. Ind., the other eveuing. In drilling holes fora blast the men struck an unexploded dynamite cartridge. J. It WnxtAMR, D.’mocrat, has been elected Congressman in the Nineteenth Illinois district, to succeed the late Mr. Townshend. T. 8. Ridgeway was the Republican candidate. This Indians held a bigcouncilat Standing Rock, Dak., recently and all agreed not to sign Ihe treaty unless paid {11,000,000 fot their land. Tut celebrated Carter divorce case ended at Chicago in favor of the husband, the wife being adjudged guilty of unfaithfulness. Thk National Association of Veterans of the Vicksburg campaign held its first meeting in Indianapolis, lnd., un the 22d, Governor Hovey presiding. Til* Governor of Michigan has issued a proclamation quarantining against Southern cattle until November. a Frank I- and Howard O. Loomis, and Edwui 8. Jewell, officers of the Century Book and Paper Cmppany, of Chicago, have been indicted by the grand jury for conspiracy to defraud. A man and a toy .were instantly killed at Dundee, Id., recently by the collapse of a barn which they were moving. Th* special meeting of the Transmis■ouri Association, which had been in session In Chicago for two days, resulted in a disagreement as to what the relative rates on bullion should be from Colorado and Wyoming. The matter was referred to arbitration. Girrono & Shimon's shoe factory and Mowers & Co ’s wholesale creamery supplies factory, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were destroyed' by fire the other day. Loss, {eo.ooo. Larch numbers of Mormons from Utah and Idaho are emigrating to British Columbia, where they have purchased several thousand acres of land. The we.t bound train on the St. Louis & Rati" Francisco railroad, which left 8t. Louis cm the night of the S3 I, was wrecked three miles west of Sullivan, Mo., sixtyeight miles west of St. Louis. Not a passenger escaped unhurt and forty-five were s-riously injured, though no deaths were reported. Investigation showed that the train bad been maliciously wrecked, spikes and fish-plates being letnoved froiuu rail. A Mon threatened a serious riot at Guthrie, I. T , qpvntly because of the eviction of a squatter in accordance with a decision of the board of arbitration. The presence of the military alone saved the city ball from attack. Th* Tangjade stage wns robbed of the United-States mails near Shawang, Wis., recently. Great damage has been done the corn and potato crops in the vicinity of Wabash. Ind., by freexing weather. A RON and daughter of John Bolter, of Fort Atkinson, Wis., were drosvned recently while returning from a fishing excursion. Gkorok Ct'TLCH and his team of horses were killed by lightning near Murdock, HI., the other day. - t^Ni: of the Milwaukee Chinamen accus^of outraging little girts and whose arrest led to noting has been found guilty nnd/wiil he sent to tho peuitentiary for thi/ty-five years.

TUK SOUTH. Tat passenger Steamer John's Hopkins, belonging to the Merchant! & Miners’ Transportation Company, was burned to the water’s ed;e at Baltimore, Md., recently. It was valued at |2.V),000. The tire originated by the explosiou.of a barrel of turpentine. 1;iE l.atonia (Kv.) Derby, valued at $3,(Mt, was won by Hindoorraft in 2:11V— rather slow. > A mTT*n war of rates has commenced In Alabama between the Louisville & Nashville and Kast Tennessee, Virginia ft Ueorgia roads which may involve several other Southern systems, (•heat damage was done in Harrlsou County, W. Va., the other day by a terrific hailstorm. A whece odturred on the Missortri, Kansas ft Texas the other night eight miles nor th < f Temple, Tex, The engineer, whose name was Davis, from Denison, was killed and tw o biaJrenien were fatally wounded. Beventeen cars were piled in a mas*. No cause was known for the wreck. Forest fires are- doing considerable damage among the flue timber about Plnqueiuine, La. The centennial celebration of the establishment of the Catholic Church of the United State* was beguu on lire 23d in the Carroll memoi ial church at Hyattsville, Prince Ueorge’* County, Md., by a memorial mass in honor of Archbishop Carroll, the first Komin Catholic prelate of the American hierarchv. The residence of Her. F. C. Clarke, near Virginia Beach, in princess Anne County, Va., was burned the other night and he, his two daughters, next to the oldest son and a niece visiting him were consumed by the fin me*. His w ife, Miss Ella Bidgood, the governess, and two small children escaped. Dick Hawes, charge 1 with the murder of hit wife and child at Birmingham, Ala, has been sentenced to lie hanged July 12. tlESKkJU. A trait runuing over the Canadian Pacific railway was stopped the other day by an army of caterpillars covering the track. The steamer City of Paris, which left New York Wednesday afternoon. May 15, passed Brow Head, Queen-town, at 10:15 p. m on the 31st; time, five days and twenty-two hours, beating her ow □ record on her previous westward voyage of five days and twenty-three hours. The Verugas railroad viaduct in Peru was swept away by a cloud burst recently. It cost <500,000. Arthur Mcset. a civil engineer, who came to this country to inspect beet sugar tanneries In the interest of French capitalists, was drowned at Montreal recently while bathing. President Cannot, of Franoe, gave a farewell audience to Mr. McLane, the retiring United Stale* Minister, on the 20th. A cablegram from 8b Pierre Miquelon states that two French fishing vessels, the Elk and the Four Brothers, which left France some time ago for the Newfoundland fisheries with 1T5 men aboard, have been lost and all hands drowned. Th* German Emperor and the Baresford, both British steamers, collided in the mouth of the Thames recently. The German Emperor sank immediately, eix of her crew being drowned. The Bereeford succeeded In reaching Gravesend. Advices from China report that eleven Chinamen were d<capitated in the province of Huper for having murdered a man who attempted to arrest some of them after ther bed broken into a store. A newspaper of Munich has been confiscated for publl bing a scandalous obituary. of th« late Queen Margaret of Barer i* y

Tee strikes In Westphalia, which wart said to have ended, commenced again ot the 21st It was said that the employer) had broken faith with the men, and frest troubles were expected. Yokohama papers give aa account ol the severe punishment ,pf two Japauess journalists who published with a sketch ol the new liberal constitution a picture of i skeleton on the Emperor’s throne Ou< was sentenced to three years’ Imprison' raent and fined, while the othir received one year in prison and was lined. HikkY Georoe addressed a large and extraordinarily enthusiastic meeting ol the Land Restoration League in Londor on the 220. A number ot German and colonial delegates were present Heriodh strikes "are being organised throughout Belgium and rapidly spreading. Nine hundred colliers struck worl at Kerning and Liege on the 22 d. The train conveying the Empress ol Austria from Wiesbaden to Vienna mel with an accident the other day. Whili the train was bein^shunted at Frankforl the last car left the rails and three ot then were upset The Empress and suite wer« shaken, bat nobody was injured but I footman. It is stated that the Csar has recalled the banished Grand Duke Constantine and that he will be reinstated in bis formei command. Parnei.l will visit Edinburg July 1 and receive the freedom' of the city. A m’Mber of Mrs. Gladstone’s admirer* have presented her with a bracelet. In which was Gladstone’s portrait set in diamonds. A colusion occurred on the river neai Montreal recently between the royal mai steamer Polynesian of the Allan line and the steamer Cynthia ot the Ponaldsoi line, resulting in the sinking cf the lattei vessel and the loss of eight of her crew. Yei.i.ow fever has broken out with terrific virulence in Vera Crux, Mexico. The bark Linde Williams, with a cargo worth $150,000, was wrecked off British Columbia April 22 and six Chinamen and two seamen were drowned. Right Rev. Pierce Power. Bishop ol the Roman Catholic diocese of Waterford and Llsmore, Ireland, died recently. The trial of General Boulanger by th« French Senate has been post)>oned until August Robert T. Lincoln, the new United States Minister to Great Britain, has taken a residence in Cadogan place, London. 2 he Spanish stenmer Etneliano, loaded with cotton, arrived at Liverpool, Eug., the other day with her cargo on Are. Th< flumes were extinguished only after i hard fight. The Aged Workmen’s Insurance bil has passed the third reading in the German Reichstag. The women employed In the rics field! at Medina. Italy, struck recently. Thej pillaged a number of baker shops. Troop! were ordered to the scene. A Pan-Servian plot has been discovered inTfosnia, and numerous Russian intriguers have been arrested. FirrYs.Nt.NE miners at Merthyr-Tydvli, Walesf Were entombed by the caving in of the roof of the colliery recently, bui ,ouly one was killed. The trial of Baussere, the chemist, foi poisoning fourteen persons, was begun al Havre, France, on the 23d. It is stated that the Pope will protesl against the erection of the proposed monument in honor of Giordouano Bruno the Italian philosopher, who was burned MM N llPfAlit* ill IHIKl

The late John Bright, the noted Englieh I leader, left his estate, valued at £80 181, to his children. .No public bequests were made. The deepening of the harbor of Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, has been completed and the largest vessels can now enter the port Two men, in Salvador recently stripped a coffee tree of its branches, sharpened its apex and then impaled on it an unfortunate woman, who died shortly afterward. John 1). Washburn, the new American Minister to Switzerland, presented hii credentials to the President of the Alpine Republic. Hi'sinks* failures (Bun's report) for the seven days ended May 2% numbered 228, compared with 252 the previous week and 225 the corresponding week of last year. I Because of the adverse vote on the I proposition to increase the tax on cereali front other countries, the Queen Regent of Hpain has dissolved the Cortes. The German Reichstag has adjourned. 1 he work of evicting tenants was continued On the Olpibert estate, Ireland, on the S4th. The evictors met with a desperate resistance, and during the struggle Inspector Duff was badly wouuded. The I-ord Mayor of London has presented Captain Murrell and the officers and crew of the Missouri, which rescued the lost Danmark’s people, with many testimonials and a laudatory letter from Prince Bismarck. T111S LATEST. The concert at the Academy of Mueic In New York City, on the night of the 26th, for the benefit of the family of the late civil justice, Michael Norton, realized 518.000. The Bellows Falla (Minn.) Times building and a number of stores were burned early on the morning ot the 26th. Loss, $30,000. Kino Humbert and the Prinoe of Naples started on their journey home froth Berlin on the 28th. There was a large crowd at the railway station to witness their departure. s i A rtRE at I.ubeck, Germany, on the 28th, dstroyed several extensive ware* houses filled with cotton and flax. The logs is estimated at £80,000. Mr. Robert MsLaihl the retiring American Minister to Franca, sailed foil New Y'ork on the 28th. His wife and daughter will remain in Paris for the present. Rev. James H. Hardino, formerly chaneelor of the Diocese of Connecticut died, on the 26th, at 8t. Francis’ Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, where he had lately acted as chaplain. He was eighty* one years old. Ax adjourned meeting for the purpose of completing the organisation, of a Noy England educational society was held a* Boston on the 25th. The report of the committee on organisation was read and an amendment adopted that the proposed association be made national in character. The Dominion Government announced, on the 25th, that an order in council bad been passed reducing the clearance fees charged on American vessels entering and leaving Canadian ports en the great lakes to fifty cento for vessels of any tonnage. Mb. Julian PAUscsroTE will return to England, in July, for the purpose of bringing Lady Faoncefote and daughters to \V ashington. It has been decided at the Navy Department that the remains of the inventor Ericsson shall be taken back to his native land in n National ship, and it to understood that the Chicago will be selected for the duty. Court Igxatics has been appointed assistant Minister of the Interior of Russia. A special from Pomona, CaL, says that Dwight W. Lord, cashier of a National bank at Omaha, who arrived at Pomoaa on the 26th, claims to have been robbed on the Santa Fe train between the Needles and San Bernardino of $1,300 In money and $5,000 in notes, which he carried in his sacheL „ The north-bound train on the Richmond & Petersburg railroad ran intothe rear end of a lumber train, on the “ six miles from Richmond. Va The I her train was on a side-track, and clearing the main track, the mail ( plunged into it Several tr*psa*e« injured, but no j

TALMAGE’S SERMON. A Discourse on Man's Seed of Spiritual Cleansing. W»rth Applicable to Tho<e who 8wk to Kxcnse Their Own Shortcoming* tr hjr Totaling to Those of Their Neighbor* »following sermon Was delivered by 'i T. DeWltt Talmage at the idrooklyu rnacle on tha subject of MJur Need iritualCleansing.” His text was: 1 wash myself with snow water, and should I clennso my bunds in alkali, yet shall Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.—Job ix„ 30-31, Alliert Barnes—honored be his name oh eartb and in Heaven—went straight back to; the original writing of my text, and translated it as I have now quoted it, giving s ubstantial reasons for so doing. Although we know bettor, the ancients had ah idea that in snow-water there was a special power to cleanse, and that a gar* ment washed and rinsed in it would be as clean as clean could be j but if the plain snow-water failed to do its work,’ then they would take lye or alkali and mix it with ail, and under that preparation they fejt that the last impurity would certainly be gone. Job, in my text, in most foroefml figure, sets forth the Idea that all his attempts to make himself pure before Hod were a dead failure, and that unless we are (diluted by something better than earthly liquids and chemical preparations, we are loathsome and lu the ditch. ‘‘It 1 wash myself with snow water, and should I cleanse my hands in alkali, yet shalt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.” You are now sitting for yonr picture. I tarn the camera obscura of God’s word full npoti yon, and I pray that the sunshine falling through the skylight may enable me to take von just as you are. Shall it be a flattering picture or shall it be a true one? You say: “Let it be a true one.” The first profile that was ever taken was taken three hundred and thirty years before Christ of Antigonus. He had a blind eye, and he competed the artist to take his profile so as to hide the defect lu his vlsiou. But since that invention, three hundred and thirty years before C hrist, there have been a great many profiles.

omul i to-uay (Jive you « onc-smvu view of yourselves, a profile, or shall It he a full-length portrait, showing you Just what you are? If God will help me by Hiu almighty grace, I shall give you that last kind of a picturtfr- When I first entered the ministry I usom to write my sermons out and read them^and rnu my hand along the line lest I should lose my place. I have hundreds of those manuscripts. Shall I ever preach them? Never; for in those days I was somehow over-mastered with the idea I■ heard talked all around about of the dignity of human nature, aud I adopted the idea, and I evolved it, and I illustrated it, anil I argued it; but coming on in life, and having seen more of the world and studied better my Bible, I Bud that that early teaching was faulty, and that there Is no dignity iu human nature until it is reconstructed by the grace of God. Talk about vessels going to pieces on the Skerries, ■off Ireland! There never was such a shipwreck as In the Ghion and the Hiddekel. rivers of Eden, where our first parents fituudered. Talk of a steamer going down with five hundred passengers on board! What is that to the shipwreck of ono billion four hundered million souls? Wear* by nature a mass of uncleantiess and puterfaction, from which it takes all the omnipotence and infinitude of God’s grace to extricato us. "If I wash myself witd snow water, and should I cleanse my hands in alkali, yet sbalt Thou plunge meiu the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.” . I remark, in the first place, that some people try to cleanse their soul of sin In the snow-water of fine apologies. Here is one man who says: "I am a sinner; I confess that; bat I inherited this. My father was a sinuer, my grandfather, my great-great-grandfather, and all the way back io Adam, and 1 couldn’t help myself.” My brother, have you not, every day in your life, added something to the origin si estate of sin that was bequeathed to you ? Are you uot brave enough to confess that yon have sometimes surrensdered to sin, which you ought to have conquered? I ask you whether it is fair play to put upon our ancestry things for which we ourselves are .personally responsible? If your nature was askew when yon got it, have you not sometimes given it an additional twist? Will tail the tombstones of those. who have preceded us make a barricade high enough for eternal defenses? I know a devout man who had blasphemous parentage. 1 know an honest man whose father was a thief. I know a pure man whose father was a waif of the street. The hereditary tide may be very strong, bnt there :is such a thing as stemming. The fact that 1 have a corrupt nature is no reason why I should yield to It. The deep stains of our soul can never be washed out bj the snow water of snch insufficient apolojfy. Still further, says some one: “If I have gone Into sin it has been throu jh my companions, my comrades and associates; they ruined me. They taugb me to drink. They look me to the gambling bell. They plunged me into the honse of sin. They ruined my soul.” I do not believe it. God gave to no one the power to destroy you or me. If a man is < estroyed he is sell-destroyed, and that s always so. Why did you not break awa; from them? If they had tried to steel yon - parse, you would have knocked them d< »n; if they had tiled to purloin your gol watch, you would have riddled them wi h shot; hut when they tried to steal your i i mortal soul you placidly submitted to it Those bad fellows have a cup of fire to drink; do not pour your cup into it Iu this matter of the soul, every man for himself. That tboee persons are not fully responsible for your sin I prove by the fact that you still consort with them. You can not get off by blaming them. Though you gather up nil! these apologies; though there were s great flood of them; hough they should come down with the 'ores of the melting snows from Lebanon, they could not wash out one stain of y< ar immortal soul. Still further, some perso: s apologise for their tins by saying: “We are a great deal better than some ] eople. Yon see ]*eople all aronnd about ui that are a great deal worse than we.” You stand up columnar in your integrity, and look down upon those who are prostrate in their habits and crimes. T hat of that, my brother? If I failed tb-oogh recklessness and wicked imprudence for ten thousand dollars, is the matt r alleviated at all by the fact that somebody else has tails 1 for one hundred thousand dollars and somebody else for »v® hundred thomand dollars? Oh, no. Jf I have the neuralgia, shall I refuse medical attendance because my neighbor hits virulent typhoid fever? The fact ths his disease is worse than mine—does not-cure mine? If L through my foolhardiness, leap off into min, does it break the f *11 to know that others leap off a high ;r cliff into deeper darkness? When he Hudson River rail train went throuf h the bridge at Epuyteu Duyvil, did it i lleviate the matter at all that instead of wo or three people being hurt there were mventy-flve mangled and crashed? Because others are depre ~nd, is that for my depravity Am I betthey? Perhaps the ' bad worse I have lu 1. Perhaps life were more Q au, if yoa

had been under the same stress of temp* tat Ion, instead of sitting here to-day yon would hate been looking through the bars of the penitentiary. Perhaps, O woman, if yon had been Under the saute power of temptation instead of sitting here to-day you would be tramping the street, the laughing stock of men and the grief of the angels of God. dun* geoned, body, mind and soul, in the blackness of despair. Ah, do not let us solace ourselves with the thought that" other people are worse than we. Perhaps in the future, when our fortunes may change, Unless God prevents it, we may be worse thau they are. Many a man after thirty years, after forty yearst after fifty years, after sixty years, has gone to pieces on the sandbars. Ob! instead of wasting our time in hypercriticism ‘about others, let us ask ourselves the questions: Where do w« stand? What are our. sins! What .are our deficits? What are our perils? What our hopes? lA)t each one say to himself: "Where will I be? Shall I range in summery fields, or grind iu the mills of a great night? Where? Where?" Some winter morning you go out and seo a snow bank in graceful drifts, as though by some heavenly compass it had been curved; and as the sun glints It the luster is almost lusulferable. and it seems as it God had wrapped the earth in a shroud with white plaits woven in looms celestial. And you sayi “Was there ever any thing so pure as the snow, so beautiful as the snow?” But you brought a pail Of that snow aud put it upon the stove and melted It; and you found that there was a sediment at the bottomj and eVery drop of that snow water was riled; and you found that the snow bank had gathered up the impurity of the field, aud that after all it was not fit to wash iu. And so I any it will be if yon try to gather up these contrasts and comparisons with others, and with these apologies attempt to wash out the sins of your heart and life. It will be unsuccessful ablution. Such snow water will never wash away a single stain of an immortal soul.' But 1 hear soma one say: "I will try something better than that. 1 will try the force of a good resolution. That will be more l^pgent, mure caustic, more extirpating, more cleansing. The snow water has tailed, and now I will try the alkaU of the good, strong resolution." My trear bro%er, have you auy idea that a resolution about the future will liquidate the past? Suppose I owed yon five thousand dollars and I should come to you to-morrow and say: “Sir, 1 will never run in debt to you again; if I should live thirty years I will never run in debt to you again’;’’ will you turn to me and say: "If you will not run in debt in the future I will forgive vou the five thousand dollars.” Will you do that? No! Nor will God. We have been running, up a long score of indebtedness with God. If for the future we should abstain from sin, that would be no defrayment of post indebtedness. Though yoii should live from this time forth pnre as au archangel before the throne, that would not redeem the past. God in the Bible declares that He "will require that which is past"—past opportunities, past neglects, past wicked words, past impure imaginations, past every thing. The past is a great cemetery, and every day is burled in it. And here is a long row of three hundred and sixty-five graves. They are the dead days of 1889. Here is a long row of three huudred aud sixty-five more graves, and they are the dead days of 1887. And there Is a long row of three hundred and sixty-five more graves, and they are Ihs dead days of 1888. It is a vast cemetery of the past. But God will rouse them all up with resurrectionary blast, aud as the prisoner stands face to face with jurof and judge, so you and I will have to come up and look upon those departed days face to face, exulting in their smile or coweriug in their frown. "Murder will out” is a proverb that stops too shot Every sin, however small, as well as great, will out. In hard times

iu England, years ago, it Is authentically stated that a manufacturer was on the way, with a bag of money, to pay off his hauds. A man infuriated with hunger met him on the road and took a rail with a nail in it from the paling fence and struck him down, aud the nail entering the skull, instantly slew him. Thirty years after that the murderer went back to that place. He passed into the graveyard, where the sexton was digging a grave, and while he stood there tlie spade of the sexion turned up a skull; and,, lo! the murderer saw a nail protruding from the back part of the skull; aud, as the sexton turned the skull, it seemed with hollow eyes to glare on the murderer, and he, first petrified with horror, stood in silence, but soon cried out: “Guilty! guilty! Q. 'God!” The mystery of the crimo was over. The maujras tried and executed. My friends, all the unpardoned sins of our lives, though we may think they are buried out of sight and gone into a mere skeleton of memory, will turn up in the cemetery of the past, and glower upon us with their misdoings. I say all our unpardoned sins. Oh, have you done the preposterous thing of supposing that good resolutions for the future will wipe out the pastf .' Good resolutions, though they may be pungent and caustic as alkali, have no power to neutralize a slu, have no power to wash away a transgression. It wants something more than earthly chemistry to.do this. Yea, yea,| though “1 wash myself with snow water, and should 1 cleause my hands in alkali, yet shalt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.” You see from the last part of this text that Job’s Idea of sin was very different from that of Eugene Sue, or George Sand, or M. J. Michelet,, or any of the hundreds of writers who have done, up iniquity in mezzo-tint and garlanded the wine cup with eglantine and rosemary and made the path of the libertine end in bowers of ease instead of on the hot flagging of eternal torture. You see that Job thinks that sin is not a flowery parterre; that it is not a tableland of fine prospects; that it is not music, dulcimer, violoncello, castanet and Pandean pipes, all making music together. No. He says it is a ditch, long, deep, loathsome, stenchful, and we are all plunged into it, and there we wallow and sink and struggle, not able to get out. Our robes of propriety and robes of worldly profession are saturated in the slime and abomination, and oar *soul, covered over with transgression, hates Its covering, and the covering hates the soul until we are plunged into the ditch, and our own clothes abhor us. I know that some modern religionists caricature sorrow for sin, and they make out an easier path than the “pilgrim’s progress” that John Banyan dreamed of. The road they travel does not stop where John’s did, at the city of Destruction, but at the gate of the university, and I am very certain that it will not come out where John’s did, under the shining ramparts of the Celestial City. No repentance, go. pardon. If you do not, my brother, feel that you are down in the ditch, what do you want of Christ to lift you oat? If you have no appreciation of the fact that you are astray, what do you want of Him who came to seek and save that which was lost? Yonder is the City of Paris, the swiftest of the Inmans, coming across the Atlantic. The wind is abaft, so that she has not only her engines at work, but all sails up. I am on board the Umbria, of the 'Cnznard Line. The boat-davits are swung around- The boat is lowered. I get into it with, a red flag, and cross over to where the City of Paris is coming, and I wave the flag. The captain looks off from the bridge and says: “What do you want?" I re- j ply: “I come to take some of your passengers across to the ether Teasel; I >

think they will be. safer and happier there." The captain would look down with indignation aud sayt “Get out of the way or I will run you down.” And then 1 would back oars, amidst the jeering of two hundred or three hundred people lookiug over the taffrail. But the Umbria, and the Citjr of Paris meet nnder different circumstances after awhile. The City of Paris is coming out of a cyclone; the life .boats are smashed; the bulwarks gone; the vessel rapidly going down. The boatswain gives his last whistle of despairing command. The passengers run Up and down the deck, and some pray, and all make a great outcry. The captain sayst “You have about fifteen minutes now to prepare for the neat world.” “Ho hope 1” sounds from stem to stern and from the ratlines down to the cabin. I see the dlstresy. I am iot down by the Umbria. I push off as fast as l ran toward the sink* iug City of Paris. Before I come up peoble are leaping into the hater in their anxiety to get to the boa t, and when I swing up under the side of the City of Paris, tho frenxied passengers rush througu the gangway, until! tho officers, with axe, and clubs, aud pistols, try to keep back the crowd, each wanting his turn to come next. There is but one lifeboat, aud they all want to get into it. and the cry is; “Me next! Me next?” You see the application before I make it. As long as a man going on in bis sin feels that all is well, and he is coming oat at a beautiful port, and has all! sail set, he wants no Christ, he wants no help, he wants no rescue; but if, under the flash of God’s convicting spirit he shall see that by reason of sin he is dismasted and waterlogged, and going dowu into the trough of the sen where he can not live, how soon he puts the ssa glass to his eyes and sweeps the horizon, and at the first sigu of help cries out: “I want to be saved. I want to be saved now. I want to be saved forever.” No sense of danger, no application for rescue. Oh, that God’s eternal spirit would flash upon ns a sense of our sinfulness! The Bible tells the story in letters of Are, but we get used to it. We joke about sin. We make merry over it What is sin? Is it a trifling thing? Sin is a vampire that Is nicking out the life-blood of your immortal nature. Bin? Ik is a Basilic that no earthly key ever unlocked. Sin? It~is expatriation from God and Heaven. Sin? It is grand larceny against the Almighty, for the Bible asks the question: “Wiil a man rob God?” answering it in the affirmative. This Gospel is a writ of replevin to recover property unlawfully detained from God. In the Shetland Islands there is a man With leprosy. The hollow of the fool; has swollen until it is flat on the ground. The joints begin to fall away. The ankle thickens until it looks like the foot of a wild beast. A stare unnatural comes to the eye. The nostril Is constricted. The voice drops to an almost inaudible hoarseness. Tubercles blotch the whole body, and from them thero comes an exudation that is unbearable to the beholder. That is leprosy, and we have all got it. unless cleansed by the grace of God. See Leviticus. See II. Kings. See Mark See Luke. See fifty Bible allusions aud

counrmauons. TJ>e Bible is not complimentary in its language. It does not speak mlnclngly about our stus. It does not talk apologetically. There Is 'no vermilion in Its style. It does not cover up our transgressions with blooming metaphor. It does not sing about them in weak falsetto; but it thunders out: “The imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth.” "Every one has gone back. He has altogether become filthy. He iabominable and filthy.and drlnketh in in iquity like water.” And then the Lord Jesus Christ flings down at our feet this humiliating catalogue: "Out of the heart of men proceed.evil. thoughts, adulteries, fornication, murders, thefts, blasphemy.” There is a text for your rationalists to proach from. Oli, the dignity ol human nature! There ts aa element ol your science of man that'the anthropologist never ha* had the courage yet to touch; and the Bible, in all the Ins and outs of the most forceful style, sets, forth our natural pollution, and represents iniquity as a frightful thing, as an exhausting thing, as a loathsome thing. It Is not a mere bemiring of the feet, it is not n mere befooling of the hands; it is going down, head and ears under, in a ditch, until our clothes abhor us. My brethren, shall we stay down where sin thrusts usf 1 shall not if you do. Wt can not afford to. I have to-day to tell you that there is something purer than snow water, something more pungent than alkali, and that Is the blood of Jesus Christ that cleanseth from all sin. Aye, the river of salvation, bright, crystaline and Heaven born, rushes through this audience with billowy tide strong enough to wash your sins completely and forever away. Oh, Jesus, let the dam that holds it back now break, and the floods of salvation roll over ns. Let the water and the blood From Thy side a healing flood. Me of sin the double cure. Save from wrath and matte me pure. Let us get down on both kfcees and bathe in that flood of mercy., Ay, strike out with both hands and try to swim to the other shore of this river of God’p grace. To you is the word of this salvation sent. Take this largess of the Divine bounty. Though you have gone down, in the deepest ditch of libidinous desire and corrupt behavior; though you have sworn all blasphemies until there is not one single word left for you to speak1; though yon have been submerged by the transgressions ot a lifetime; though you are so far down in your sin that no earthly help can touch your case, the LorJ Jesus Christ bends over you to-day and offers you His right hand, proposing to lift you up, first making you whiter than snow, and then raising yon to glories that jiever die. ‘‘Billy,” said a Christian bootblack to another, “When we come up to Heaven it won’t make any difference that we’ve been bootblaoks here, for we shall get in. not somehow or other, but, Billy, we shall get straight through the gate.” Oh, if you only knew how full and free and tender is the offet of Christ this day you would all take Him without one single exception; and If all the doors of this house were locked save one, and you were compeled to make egress by only one door, and I stood there and questioned you, and the Gospel ol Christ had made the right impression upon your heart to-day, you would answet me aa you went out, one and all: “Jesui is mine, and I am His 1” Oh, that thil might be the hour when you would receive Him. It is not a Gospel merely for footpadt and vagrants and buccaneers; it is for the highly polished and the educated and the refined as well “Except a man be born again, he can not see the Kingdom of God.” Whatever may toe your associations, and whatever yonr worldly refinements, I must tell yon, iis before God, I expect to answer in the Inst day, that ii yon are not changed by the grace of God yon are still down in the ditch of sin, is the ditch of sorrow, in this ditch of condemnation; a ditch that empties into s deeper ditch, the ditch ot! the lost. Ital blessed be God for the lifting, cleansing, lastrating power of His Gospel. The voice of free grace cries: Escape to tht mountain: For all that believe, Christ ban opened a fount ain. Halleluiah! to the Lamb who has bought u: our pardon; We'll praise Him igaia when we pass over Jor dan. -—- Wx must net be too fastidious about peo. pie forsaking their ugliness and correcting their faults, before our chirity goes out te ttoea.—bishop Hnntin^Ws,

STATE INTELLIGENCE. Charles Morris, aged thirteen, banged himself with a leather strap in the barn of his uncle, five miles frdm Terre Haute, the other evening. Captain Jons Field, of Jeffersonville, look off bis olothes to wade while flshiog, and the garments were chewed up by calves, includ ng <30 lu paper money and <1 in silver. Th^ Supreme Court of Indiana has decided that the Legislature of the State has the power to appoint officers for the benevolent Institutions. Conncrc#ii.lr has organised a cemetery association with <15,000 capital. Vioo County horses are dropping dead in harnoss from some unknown malady. Miss Ena Chandler, of Mooresvilte, an invalid, is reported to have passed twenty-eight days without taking any nourishment. Three prisoners escaped from jail at Franklin by sawing through the bars and scaling the walls of the yard. Fort Wayne gets thirty-eight miles of eight-inch natural-gas main laid from the Blackford Held for 170,000. Bin eloping couples were married at Jeffersonville in one day recently. One Jus-' tics married thtm all. His fees amounted to 421 The city council of Crawfordsvllle has passed an ordinance increasing the saloon license from 1100 to (230. The road supervisors In Montgomery, County are dissatisfied over the duties imposed upon them by the new laws, and some of them talk of resigning. A company is being formed at Martinsville for tbs pmposeof making necessary improvements for a health resort thers. A fine hotel, with park-, drives, etc, U likely to be constructed in the near future. Claris County grand jury men propose to indict people who treat newly married folks, in that county, to a charivari with pan-poundIn-* and bell-ringing accompaniments. v Jesse Smith and George Newcombs quarreled at Columbu-, and the latter wfei shot in the thigh by the former. John Griffis, of Goshen, while walking in his sleep, (eUown a stairway, sustaining serious an^Pbbably fatal injuries IN the Federal Court, at Indianapolis, H. G. Douglass, ex-postmaster at Plainfield, pleaded guilty to the charge of embesslement. Hon. George ff. Sheets, of Marion, and General Lew Wallace have l sen appointed on the Board of Visitors to the Military Academy at West^O'nt. At Indianapolis for several days ladies ha Ye been complaining of a vitriol-throw-er, who Is described as a nice-looking young man, dressei in light clothing. A number of fine dresses have been ruined in this manner, in nearly every instance the lady not discovering the damage unfit her return home. The first case has been traced back to Easter Sunday, but not until the 21st have the authorities been notified. _ ... .

A UUi.UKEU uuy iu i»rucnviiTuiw lowed a lead pencil. The pencil and the ■ boy were eared, but it took (our doc ora eereral hours to do it. The city council of Conneriville removed Jack McUrath and elected It B. Ball street commissioner. Joseph Hoorer was elected supcrinteudentof the water works and Chaa Rieman, superintendent of city cemetery. Oscar Logan commuted suicide In bis cell in the jail at Ft. Wayne, by hanging himself. Logan was serving a sentence for drunkenness. Thk President, a few days ago appointed the following postmasters: John Shaffer. at Laport; Wm H. Dryden, Martinswilier and Janies McD. Hayes, Greencaitle. Spencer proposes to sink three test wslls for natural gas and subscriptions arc being taken for that purpose A New Ai bant company has secured $23,030, in stock subscriptions, for the purpose of building a Masonic temple 7 A Bio rattlesnake, with twelve rattles and a button, Is being exhibited to Columbus people as a Brown County product Frank Young, member of the gang charged with passing counterfeit money at Rusbvllle, has been, arrested ui identified. Millions of fish are being destroyed by dynamite in Marion County, and the authorities are making no effort to stop the crime One hundred stalls on 1 he club grounds of the Trotting Association at Columbus, were burned the other night by an incendiary. liOss, $1,2)0; insured for WOO. The Luildings will be immediately rebuilt AT Indianapjlis, William, aged eixteen years, son of Deo. Pratt wai drowned in the free bath. Two-score of boys were In reach, tut none saw him disappear. Calker Monroe, a prominent farmer, near Shelbyviile. accidentally killed himseif while handling a revolver. He was fifty years old, and unmarried. While the ten-year-old chUd of Mrs. Dr. Drove, of Columbus, was hanging to the rear part of a delivery wagon, the wagon upset, and falling on the boy broke hia arm. j lx a quarrel at Richmond between John Bristow, an inmate of the Dayton Soldier** Home, out oil a furlough, and Dick Sines, Bristow's note was bitten off by Slnex. ►» 0 eoroe Mowert wes arrested near Morristown on a charge of passing counterfeit money. Charlis Corwin, an employe at a planing-mill at Winchester, was struck by a piece of timber on the left side of tho (***, being partially paralysed. John Hers, of Marion, who shot his daughter-in-law, was bound over for shooting with intent to commit murder. •> His victim's condition Is critical. >'* A son of Jacob Flyke felt from a tree south of Fort Wayne, crushing hit skull In such a manner that he died in afew hours. A few days ago John Heath, of Evansville, drew $899 out of a bank to pay for a bouse. During the night the money was stolen by burglars. The new pension board at CrawfordsTitle have organised as follows: President, Dr. J. N. Talbot; secretary. Dr. 8. L Ensmlnger; treasurer, Dr. W. H. Ristlne. Elizabeth McCarty has entered suit against the Madison Ship Yard Company for $10,099 damages for the death of her husband, who was killed in a shaft at the yard last winter. Brazil has the oil fever and Is organls ing a company with a capital of $100,00) to sink wells.. Marion will probably get the Lafayette car-aorka, which is about to remove from the latter city. * A fire of incendiary origin destroyed $100,000 worth ef property at Huntingburg, on tho 17th tnat At Indianapolis, Ferdinand Sobroadar, a saloon-keeper, cut his wife’s throat and tbaa kilied himself. He was insane, and imagined that hit family would starve to death. At Richmond a man named Parry was robbed of $375 and a watch and chain valued at $3WX Rurhvills was visited by a slick stranger the other night, who In a few hour* pnt In circulation about (000 In counterfeit bills of the tea-doilar denomination. He performed the work by visiting about fifty Jy executed. .— business houses, where he made smaupurolent Mils presented, The hill* wee* M*ti